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"Returner's Magic", is a "Solo Leveling" type Mangwa. Meaning its a power fantasy. With the Protaganist acquiring permanent injuries, to himself and to his mission. a lot of "power of friendship too".
About your sponsor slot, Jeff. I don't know who made the graphic of all the languages saying "hello", but the top-left square (the one in Arabic) is spelled... backwards. Like, "olleH". Obviously nbd if it was your team, easy mistake. But if it was Rosetta Stone, that's kinda funny but also they would probably want to fix that ASAP Arabic is written right-to-left (and also in a cursive, not as individual block letters)
Sorry, but I have to say this. The rarest thing of them all happened, an anime youtuber actually mispronounced a character's name by trying to pronounce it too japanese XD Sunraku, from Shangri-la Frontier, is actually pronounced like the english word "Sun", because his surname, Hizutome, has the first character Hi that means Sun in english. So the correct pronounciation is Sun-Raku, or Sanraku if you want the japanese phoenetic.
Nothing has signaled to me that an author actually plays MMOs like making your protagonist's MMO avatar be a shirtless, shorts-wearing bird man. THAT is the kind of character I see in Limsa every day.
@@QueenofBrambles Also true! Sadly more rare than the birbs or froges in my Limsa plaza, but they do appear sometimes alongside the moogles, the elephants, the rabbits, and the snowmen. lol
Important reminder that the author of The 100 Girlfriends who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You has said that if he knew this would be the work of his to make it big, he would have gone with a different title, specifically because his mom has read it, loves it, and insists on using the full title every time she mentions it. W anime, W mom
Ahh, so "Garbage" is just... bad, while "Trash" is stuff that makes you chuckle to yourself and say "This shit's fucking stupid," as you click on the next episode.
The idea that in an entire player base of an MMO, not a SINGLE person would have geared their entire build towards potion making or cooking? Absolutely foolhardy. Now, that a protag-kun would be a game-breaking kusoge hunter in a bird head? That I believe without question.
100 Girlfriends asking the bold question of “what is the most harem manga/anime ever?” While also deciding to not suck is a power move of the highest trash order.
I like how the most unrealistic thing about Shangri-la Frontier isn't that "Full Dive MMOs might exist some day", but that "Companies will still be releasing physical copies of bad budget games when they do"
Well, they will. Yes, the digital storefront has some extreme depths of trash. But games like all star fruit racing, Clive n wrench, the fantasy friends games, the my universe games...those all came out physically. 😅
Ig the sheer filesize of these games would require a unique futuristic 80tb SSD and that at that point you might as well just buy and click in a physical copy instead of trying to download the bastard?
It's a refreshing change from a lot of other harems where the guy either doesn't want the girls chasing after him, or is so oblivious he doesn't even realize he has a harem.
I like that (so far) the death on failure curse isn't even brought up. The girls just like him because he does stupidly devoted things for them. Which is kinda how it works in real life honestly.
@@nathank2289it is because he dont want his gf to worry and also he dont want this kind of reason as a catalyst for him to fall in love with his gf...he just want to feel and give real love to her gf...and yeah he is a true Chad
Man, this season has such novel concepts. A harem anime where the characters actually care about each other, and a game anime that’s actually about playing games. Where do they come up with this stuff?
And then there's the game anime where the guy makes a stealth archer trying to be underpowered, like he doesn't know that stealth archer is overpowered in every game where stealth archer is an option. But yes, the other one is the real shit. Underwear and a bird mask, looking like the world's weirdest luchador? Just regular behavior of real life RPG players. And I mean the his unironically.
@@SaganTheKhajiitYeah its like there's this secret character type called 'ninja' who have all these secret never heard of skills like stealth and archery.. 🥷🥷🥷 [Look there is even a secret ninja emoji]
Shangri-La Frontier is so good that "the main character gets press-ganged into the rabbit yakuza" doesn't even get mentioned here despite it being something that happens in, like, the second or third episode.
A true man of the gamer culture... The show even lacks all the immature sexual degeneracy/P2WIN Capitalistic drivel found in the mainstream. Feels like home.... -EvE Online bittervet
@@ynraider Capitalistic drive ah ha ha ha wait till u get to best terrorist girl revealing her goals in a few eps. But rly most is after where this season will end.
Who knows? may I could go through that and maybe not. Though don't ask me to show those details nor the actual part on here along with social media not can I stay around for that. For that ask in some people or organizations that deal with that and it's not all revealed on social media since that can also be bad had to quit that part I can say about a week ago. Anyway may want to look into that yourself or ask those groups I mentioned make sure they're into this or show signs of it.
@@kellychuang8373I think I have a lot of the time to get a new one of the best things I can do to help with the job but I don't know what to do with it but I don't think I can get it done before I get back to work and I don't think I can get it done before I get back to work and then I can get it done before I get back to work and then I can get it done before I get home and then I can go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store
Didn't he mysteriously appear in the last Larian conference as well pre-BG 3 release? That was a pleasant surprise seeing his waistcoat in the audience.
As a manga reader, I can say that no one even knows the awesomeness they're missing out on-though I have no interest in the anime because there's a lot of blood, and I can bear it in black and white, but I don't like blood when it's in color.
@@kaijuge6934 Not that I know if it´ll work, but have you tried looking for chinese-censored versions? They turn blood into white goo, although I don´t know if it´s for all/most anime or just too violent ones
The idea that only one person in an entire game would try the in-depth cooking system is absolutely laughable to me. As a former chef, if a full-dive VR game came out that included cooking, literally the first and only thing I’d do in that game is open a pop-up restaurant for fun, and knowing MMO players like I do from FF14, I would clean up. We all love novelty stuff like that.
Yeah. As someone whos NOT a good cook id be toying with that cooking system for hours on end. Hell, if it were elaborate enough id maybe use it to practice without worrying so much about wasting ingredients
Yeah if your MMO has a detailed crafting system that isn't completely pointless, you'll have people who're ride-or-die on that aspect of the game alone. End of the day errybody wanna be a blacksmith
@@CrispBaker even if it was completely pointless you would have people doing it. Speaking as an SWG Image Designer(before they where "fixed")/Droid engineer(before battle droids).
I want to watch 100 Girlfriends solely for Shizuka. Holy crap, they made a nonverbal character that uses quotes she memorized. How much more relatable can you get??
The girl and her guard dog one is for the kinky girlies and it escaped containment. I apologize for this oversight, I shall approach the counsil with ways to avoid further spread.
Yeah… This premise definitely feels like it’s for a niche audience; though it’s debatable how niche since it’s popular in Japan. Guess a high schooler dating a adult is a kink in East Asia media? As there are so many age gap romances out there (that sometimes address the problematic elements of dating a teenager, but still hand waves it away, cause ROMANCE), it has to be some sort of ‘forbidden desire’ (teens (or kids😰) wanting to date adults and vice-versa, going into groomer/pedo territory).
@@trika91 yeah it def isn't for everyone lol although if it lessens your worries, I have yet to meet a person that takes their preferences in these sorts of stories to reality
In recognition of the heroic past service that fujoshi, and other horned-up disaster girls have done for mankind -- specifically their role in supporting various legendary Japanese franchises through their early years, before dudes took them, and pretended that *they* were always the core audience -- I am willing to overlook this clearly unintentional breach. In return, I would consider it a good faith gesture if you could ask the council if they'd mind joining us in pretending that Inukai-san never happened.
The best thing about Ragna the Bloodedge is that you expect him to be super edgy but he’s the most normal guy annoyed by a world full of anime characters.
because people don’t know what “edgy” means anymore, they just throw the word around with no actual relevance to what their talking about mfs see a guy who’s basically trying to save the fucking world and calls him “edgy” like dawg what?
@@hendeyjagger7489nah kirito is quite edgy, he chooses to wear all black and chooses to be a loner, levelling up alone and becoming op on his own until he meets Asuna.
Honestly, 100 Girlfriends had me worried about what would happen once we reached an unreasonable amount of girlfriends but I'm glad the author was just as able to develop the main character's relationship with the girls as much as their own relationships with each other. Although, we're not even halfway there and I'm definitely curious how the author plans to make another 70+ characters. Considering the absurdity of it all, I would not be surprised to see monster girls eventually.
Part of me hopes the author had a plan for each of the hundred girlfriends before the first chapter was published, just in case. A larger part of me hopes he had to wing it starting somewhere around girl 13.
@@timothymcleanshe probably makes it up as she goes or has rough outlines of characters that she develops as the series continues. I don't see how you can plan out an entire 100 unique characters that get full development before you even start writing your story, i actually wouldn't even want that as it sounds like a bad idea to start with all of your characters and only then start building your story, it makes sense that she would continue to make new characters as she continues working, it's hard to think of 100 things at once, its better to develop your characters 1 at a time and guve them the attention they need, and once you are done with them move onto the next rather than leaving things half empty. I don't expect every girlfriend to be as good as the initial 5 either, there's gonna be some duds, not everybody can be shakespeare and she has 100 individual characters to deal with, I'd challenge tolkien to write that many characters flawlessly.
There's a story that early Spider Man stories were developed so quickly that often Stan Lee would just drop a note like "rhino themed villain", then Steve Ditko would draw the story with blank bubbles, and finally Lee would fill in the bubbles. I really hope that's the creative process for 100 GF too.
@@HaganeNoGijutsushi Not just Spiderman, that's called the 'Marvel Method' for a reason. Basically writer roughly plots it out, artist draws from that outline, writer fills in dialog. It's how you get wild shit like Silver Surfer being introduced with a narration box saying 'and who's this character flying through space, he seems interesting'
At first I hated 100 Girlfriends. Then I loved it. Editing that section made me realize… maybe… I… am the trash… for not realizing such pure writing artistry!!!
I'm sad you didn't mention all of the delightfully terrible names in Returner's Magic. The fact that the Big Bad is named "Boromir Napolitan" and the love interest is literally "Romantica"...
Been reading Shangri-La frontier for ages, it's a great story. There's definitely moments where the game world stuff feels messy, but it comes much closer to accurately capturing gamer culture than any other story I've seen. Sunraku's quest to take his talents for playing jank-ass trash games to conquer a mainstream MMO is a ton of fun, as is his regular diversions into other games he likes playing (because that's a thing that happens in this story, the MC just... decides to take a break and play something else from time to time, crazy concept I know). Also the closest thing the MC has to a love interest plays as a 10 foot tall armored behemoth with a greatsword, she'll be a real keeper if he ever figures out who he's talking to.
@@nbkarkatShe's also a part of the strongest guild and one of the highest level players we've met. Also, finally has a guy player that literally plays as a girl lol.
That Rei-chan/Psyger-0 has not made it into either of Geoff's reviews is a crying shame as she is probably the most delightfully pure shygirl I've seen in a while. (Her doing the finger thing and her celebration dance in that 9' Armor getup after Sanraku accepts her friend request are peak gap Moe). Additionally the game store owner Nana was working to sell Sanraku on SLF to help Rei hook up with him and she's in the guild focused on taking down the Nightwolf that is our Hero's nemesis so neglecting her seems like a major oversight.
One correction on the returner show. I rewatched the first episode. And it wasn’t 3 years. It was almost 14 years. 3 years was how long until the monster they fought spawns. They fought it for 11 years after that. And he got sent back to before it all. It doesn’t change any of your points. But I think it makes the context just a little sadder because of just how much time he just lost of his life.
It's also a story that is really hurt by its adaptation. From the terrible animation to the weird name changes to the not great sound design. I read the original for a long time(until the phone I was reading it on broke and I couldn't remember where I was reading it), and it's actually pretty good. I've seen the first three episodes of the anime and so far it's been a huge let down.
@@casteanpreswyn7528 The manhwa is pretty fantastic, yeah. They're also not cowards who refuse to give women muscles, either. Adjest is fucking ripped and it rules
@@zUJ7EjVD the fact you had to add in the lack of power, because otherwise him bring over 18 and her being under 18 would specifically make it illegal in Japan otherwise, kinda shows how its...close to the line. And let's be honest, those rules don't cover "my thoughts are beamed into her brain unwillingly" 😅
please do not use the age of consent to justify the fanservice in sussy isekai anime, even if it is just fiction or whatever, it makes you look like a creep
Hang on. If a 14 year old boy gets isekai'd into the body of a guy in his 30's, then gets into a romance with a woman in her 40's who's been isekai'd into the body of a 16 year old girl... ...which one's the pedophile?
if someone has to preface their explanation to any piece of media with the sentence "remember Usagi Drop?" i am instantly both delighted and terrified based entirely on which half you're talking about
Okay, but that bit about the nonverbal autistic girl is actually kinda heartwarming. She's cute, endearing, and treated as a positive person, albeit one that's awkward to work around sometimes. How did the horny show about literally 100 girlfriends manage to do a decent job of making an autistic character? PS; don't think I didn't see the LycoReco art and acrylic figures in that one bit with the tome travelling erotic VN show.
Ikr? Genuinely some of the best representation I've seen in a long time. Especially from an anime, where covering stuff like that tends to be more taboo.
one bit of credit I can give 100 Girlfriends is that despite being a series that is extremely horny and also being a series that includes many girls who look like and/or are small children, it is shockingly rigorous at keeping those two things separate. It ain't perfect and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone I know in real life but... it gets a lot closer to a clean bill of health than I thought it would.
Ikr. Honestly, I will never be able to recommend this to anyone I know, but I can appreciate how despite playing some potentially problematic bits for humor, it doesn't often make me feel uncomfortable like other anime and manga using the same bits.
Any other anime would make a whole arc about her speaking up. However, with Shizuka her method of communication is never villified by the series. Rentarou even helps her by transcribing the book series into a TTS app, letting Shizuka communicate in a way that's clearer yet still comfortable for her. It's a brilliant way to handle that sort of situation and shows a very friendly and careful mindset.
Jumping to "autistic" is a stretch. From episodes already animated, we can see she can speak, and she stuttered there. Minor spoilers for the series, she is able to clearly sing, and she CAN speak, but she doesn't not out of a mental difference, but due to the fact that she had a stammer since birth and she was berated so much for it that she now has trauma that skyrockets her anxiety if she tries speaking. She's a traumatized character, not autistic, and it's really nice seeing a character that is able to live with their trauma. Honestly surprised I keep seeing people say Shizuka is nonverbal autistic (when the nonverbal has already been quashed), and ignoring the potential of Eiai having high-functioning autism.
The best tidbit about Shangri-La Frontier's plot hook is that at any time Sunraku could have the wolf's curse removed by a cleric. All the negatives he suffers for having it (can't wear armor on his arms, chest, or legs, enemies weaker than himself flee so no grinding on low level creatures) can be undone at any time, so he's only affected by the curse because he WANTS to be affected by it. Considering the kinds of games he normally enjoys playing, he's definitely a game masochist.
I did notice the bit about being cured by a Saint. But is it an easy service to find, like getting curses cured at a church in Dragon Quest games? Or would finding a healer be a giant quest itself?
@@enlongjones2394 The description sounds like getting the curse undone is the kind of thing you could get at any church. Shangri-La Frontier is supposed to be a "god game," so a player who gets cursed but can't handle the debuffs should be able to get the curse expunged pretty easily. Because that's good design for an MMO.
@@BaoHadir that sounds reasonable. But I’m also wondering if that angle comes up in the story, since it hasn’t yet in the anime. Preferably without major spoilers, if possible (in case anybody who knows is reading this) It would be funny if he finally meets up with the Psyger clan and learns he could’ve just gone to a church and not had to throttle his build into a glass cannon.
when i look at him, all i imagine is a Dark Souls player, naked and only armed with a stick, and proceed to a lvl 1 no hit run on all the nightmarish bosses of the game
@NinthSettler yes the families are great mostly. I'm looking at you Shzuka's mom. Kusuri's is all "children" physically. And Karane's are all super tsundere's
Butareba suffers guilt by association with Inukai's Dog from a couple seasons ago, but it waves off both the echi and isekai stuff after a couple of episodes and turns into a straight-up dark fantasy with some very interesting world building. I'm legitimately more engaged with it's story than anything else I'm watching this season.
I have seen a few shows where it seems like the writer has a genuinely interesting story to tell, but they add the isekai and echi stuff to try to make the show/manga sell better (whether by their own choice or forced to by the company they work for). A lot of the time it actually turns me off from what would be a fun read as it feels so blatantly and awkwardly shoved in as to make it unenjoyable. Mieruko-chan is a good example where the story gets way better once the fanservice finally tones down quite a bit.
yeah, I think it's surprisingly good, and am convinced the shit rates in anime sites are just from people who for some reason rate stuff they haven't watched. Not to mention the MC might be the pig, but his VA is the goat holy shit.
@@toddclawson3619 it's nothing remotely like that, and I'd definitely recommend it based on what we've seen so far. Not sure if they'll stick the landing, but I get some Madoka Magica or Promised Neverland season one vibes from it as it goes on.
Am I the only one who's been shocked and pleasantly surprised by how respectful a lot of this latest trash has been? First we had the vending machine anime that actually talked about periods in a respectful way, then we have a ton a weirdly respectful stuff towards women and disabled people in 100 Girlfriends, and now we have a horny pig anime that calls out the slave girl trope and doesn't have a possesive protag, even if he's a total creep... It's honestly a little scary that this evolution is happening so quickly and unevenly with trash specifically, but I'm here for it.
I’m in a figure drawing class rn and listening to it in the background. And I am trying hard to not die. I’m writing this comment after the class ended. I couldn’t look at my phone to pause it
Usagi Drop hurts me so much. It could have been salvaged had the last chapter been "Look, you are going through kiddy love, and that is cute, but I am your dad and want you to be happy with someone your own age" instead of "If you still like me in a few years, sure, we can be lovers". It's just baffling. Like, whyyyyyyyyy I know this isn't a new take, but every time I am reminded of Usagi Drop, my heartache explodes and must be vented.
My problem with it is that it was a twist, unwanted by most of its audience because that wasn't the point of the story. I'd be down for a story where that's the clear *premise*, and it would go over much better because that's what the audience is there for.
3:29 THANK YOU!! I've been unfairly called out for calling some piece of media trash before and had to explain, it's absolutely *_not_* inherently an insult... I'm so glad you get it!
Trash is trash, garbage is garbage and there's a key difference. Trash is the stuff you pull out and save because it makes great crafting materials or maybe it's waste material that can be composted or recycled. Garbage is useless and gross and needs disposing of ASAP. lol
@@RenAsterion precisely, people say "one man's trash is another man's treasure" *_not_* "one man's _garbage_ is another man's treasure", because garbage is garbage is garbage the world over
100 Girlfriends is a series for people who love all of the different types and flavors of women period. It’s why Rentaro is so likable - not only does he get it, but he also appreciates the friendship/personalities of women just as much if not more (female friendships aren’t a terrible runner-up prize for him!)
real talk, that last God App one, at least visually, is like... almost really good. The movements look pretty fluid, the character designs are gorgeous, and the lighting looks really solid. That studio has some real potential, there's just some je ne sais quois missing that makes it all look jank. I genuinely hope they get more opportunities to make more stuff because I wanna see where they go from here.
Yeah I thought it didn't look too bad at all. Maybe there's something wrong with the plot or storytelling (havent seen it) but based on first impressions it isn't "terrible CG"
I didn't know people were having these issues being able to watch it. Very sad to hear because it's my favorite manga and the anime has been absolutely everything I have wanted it to be so far. I wish everyone would be able to enjoy it. Here's hoping they get that sorted eventually.
I'm kinda mad Geoff attacked my entire experience with the Canadian school system and its ability to teach me French by naming the one phrase I still know how-to say in French.
I love the part in kingdoms of ruin where someone says "these really are the kingdoms of ruin" and the protagonist cuts someone's face off and wears it like a mask and laughs like the joker (yes all these things happen all in the same episode)
Honestly I loved the 100 Girlfriend Manga because the writer is actually surprisingly good at making the girls stand out even though they are already close to over 30.
I would definitely rage quit the MMO in A Certain Guy's Playthrough if the devs seemingly go out of their ways to nerf everyone but shower the titular Cerain Guy with special treatments
Bless you for covering Fridging: The Anime ... I mean Kingdom of Ruin. I don't recall ever seeing anything so devoted to the type of misogyny that denies women have any reason to exist beyond advancing a man's story. And I completely agree about how funny 100 Girlfriends is. I laugh out loud at least once per episode. Kudos to the sub translators who do an amazing job.
Exactly why I hated Kingdom of Ruin as well. Any good female character is killed off minutes after they are introduce. (Sure, the reason why becomes apparent later on, but it doesn't make it good) That and it tries a bit too hard to be edgy so it ends up not being enjoyable.
Beserk of gluttony is such a rip off that the main love interest is LITERALLY an asuna recolor. Her armor is literally one-to-one except with blue and not red.
I need to tell a story of my hatred for "Berserk of GLUTTONY". One time i i recomended my friend to read Berseark and he got to shop and bought 1 volume. Next day he asked me why did i recommend him and edgy isekai, i was confused at first and told him Beseark is not an isekai, he then started explaining the plot what he read so far and i told him again thats not it and then pulled it out of his bag and showed me. After that i borrowed him my first collection of Beseark volumes for reading and bought from him that stupid volume which i promptly ducted taped and wrote with marker "DO NOT EVER READ IT". I think "Beserk of GLUTTONY" is one of the reasons why there arent more Beseark fans out there and did more damage (they should sue publisher of **** of GLUTTONY for lost revenue and blatant copyright).
30:10 Ironically, despite how edgy looking Ragna from BlazBlue is, he's genuinely a chill dude as long as you're not on his bad side or you're not named Terumi and Jin. And I'm a BlazBlue fan myself.
yeah basically all his actual edge comes from how he got dealt the absolute WORST possible starting hand out of any of those characters (also the murder he did to get to the first batch of cauldrons because you don't get that good at that with that high of a bounty while having "actually evil Nine Tailed Fox times ten" inside you without at least a little murder)
Yeah, a big part of BlazBlue comedy is that the dude you would assume is an edgelord is actually the straight man, especially in comparison to the rest of the cast (who are a bunch of total weirdos)
This is only tangentially related to the topic of the video, but the big irony of Ragna the Bloodedge of BlazBlue is that far from being a super edgelord, he's actually the only normal person in the entire series. Half the comedy is just him being bewildered by the sheer insanity of the rest of the cast.
I’m so sad about how botched the release of Undead Unluck has been. It is such a fantastic series, and it just gets better the deeper into the world building you get. And the anime is great too! It’s release has just be an absolute mess.
@@triggerfairy4070 More like hilarious, genre-savvy masterpieces that subvert all of the tropes of the genre they're parodying while simultaneously embracing those same tropes (kind of like konosuba) while also going overboard in terms of the ridiculous nature of the genres they're parodying, while also not going so far overboard that it ruins their surprisingly well-written plots.
@@triggerfairy4070 No? I just like peak fiction when I see it, and 100 girlfriends comes close. If you don't jive with the comedy of the series, then that's understandable, but to label it as self-aware "crap" is a massive slight against good writing.
Honestly, I was surprised that 100 Girlfriends wasn't trash. It makes fun of harem anime, while actually taking the concept seriously, and presenting a strangely authentic, collaborative, and non-toxic complex of relationships.
Josh in this video makes everything better! I’m listening to this while take a shower and as soon as you said his name I was like… what??! And then heard his voice and had to turn off the water and go back a min! This is the crossover I never knew I needed so bad! And yeah seriously, his videos are freaking AMAZING!!
The audacity to drop a 40 minute video at 11 pm. I mean. I'm going to watch it right now. And enjoy it very much. And I wasn't going to sleep yet anyways. But the audacity /j
@@Mark_o_Helmsame here. Video got uploaded directly one hour before my psychology classes started. Perfect background noise for waiting/physically and mentally preparing myself to take notes
@@Mark_o_Helm Serious answer: Not yet. I‘ve only started college last month, so I’m still at the most basic of basics. Stuff like „What’s the Id, Ego and Super-Ego?“, „How do emotions effect the way we learn things?“, „How do we react to certain stimuli/How do reactions work in general?“, and „How does our upbringing effect the way we act?“. The most advanced topic we’ve managed to cover up to this point was why people with autism struggle with „understanding other‘s emotions“ (sorry, not the best wording. I am VERY tired right now). So I can only give you the most basic of advice (that you‘ve probably heard hundreds of times before): Be nice, get to know the people around you, and don’t be too pushy. Unserious answer: You… really shouldn’t ask *me* about that sort of advice. I mean, if I actually knew what I was talking about, and I actually practiced what I preached, I wouldn’t be sitting here, alone, in the back of the room, „surviving“ off of 2 hours of sleep, a single candy bar and a LOT of water bottles, only half-consciously listening to people around me talk about their day, instead of actually talking with them. Also, I am EXTREMELY dense when it comes to any and all social situations, to the point where I’d genuinely put the average harem protagonist to shame. In pre-school, my crush literally told me, TO MY FACE that she was in love with me, and my first thought was „She just sees me as a friend. She probably doesn’t even like me all that much…“ Same thing happened in middle school as well, but this time with a love letter instead of a direct confession. I even danced with her at our highschool prom, yet I still thought that our relationship was purely platonic until, I kid you not, literally one week ago. So, yeah, as I said, you really shouldn’t be asking me about that kinda stuff.
Ooh thanks for the info on 100 girlfriends. I dropped it after episode 1 because it felt like it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be garbage trash or trash with a diamond in the rough. Good to know it kinddddd of picked a lane and did it well
Of the ones mentioned, 100 Girlfriends is an A-Class comedy, do not miss out on it, just incredibly funny. It somehow pulls off the premise by being utterly sincere about the emotional stakes of the relationships and EVERYTHING OUTSIDE OF THAT is absurd comedy based off the premise of "what if god dictated this sweet boy was going to have the BIGGEST polycule???" Shangri-La Frontier is also pretty solid action if I disagree about the creator knowing games all that well--at least modern game culture, and certainly MMOs.
+1 for being the first comment to mention it's a proper polycule and not just polyamory. Some of the girlfriends form basically lesbian relationships within the harem despite still being head-over-heels for Rentarou (my personal ship is Mimimi and Meme). Also, Geoff doesn't touch on how MUCH of a chad AiRen is. The stuff he does and goes through for his girlfriends at times borders on the supernatural.
Sorry but harems are just a MASSIVE turn off for me, no matter how good the quality of the story is. Glad people like it and are enjoying it but I'm just gonna skip this one out. I've pretty much grown to despise the genre on principle after so many awful pieces of work.
This is my first time seeing your content and it was a little intimidated clicking on a 40min video but you are hilarious and that was a very entertaining 40mins that felt like 10. One video, one sub. Keep up the good work.
That is some mighty high praise. Thank you! If you’re looking for another video to enjoy, I personally think this is my best one to date: ua-cam.com/video/FVPPaWQ-l4s/v-deo.htmlsi=iIdAZbPdedUmxxGX
The 100 girlfriend's anime surprised me because the title had me writing it off my list when i first heard about it. I have not seen the anime, but the scenes in just this short analysis of the show did an amazing job of illustrating why it works. The MC isn't a quivering ball of nervousness all the time, he brazenly declares his intentions with the girls, but unlike 90% of harem protags actually takes the time to be a good boyfriend rather than treating them like gacha items.
@@nightfears3005you know its not really brainwash, the girls still has sanity and sense of reason, for example a later gf who slap rentarou because of (spoiler) and another gf trying to attack rentarou because of (spoiler), youll know when your read it, but when rentarou does something wrong the girlfriends still has a free will to criticize him for that, he does not brainwash the girls to loving them its just that hes destined to all of them, albeit he still has to work hard
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special also has an excellent plot point, which is that the monsters appear by dimensional rifts that can only be closed by entering a parallel world and completing quests that bring the story of that world to a conclusion... which makes it straight-up Fantasy Reboot. It's also great in that Desir, while quite competent, is not the strongest member of his own team and his goal is mainly to strengthen his companions as they have way more potential than he does.
100 girlfriends is one of the greatest animes ever. The references and the modern humor is so good and perfect. I have never laughed so hard in a long time. A show where the girls are enjoying themselves and the main character is a chad.
The 12-yo-boy-with-hot-ladies magical anime is making me wish Geoff would do a retrospective of Negi! Ma, after all he did Love Hina. I think I need closure on that wild ride of a manga that I shouldn't have been reading at 13.
So I actually read a decent bit of the Manhwa for Returner's Magic so I was quite looking forward to this one, and I am mostly pleased with how it's turned out, although the Manhwa definitely did a better job of portraying the somewhat unique MC struggle that Desir faces: He knows that he is incredibly OP, but he also knows that being that his OP just isn't enough to make a difference on it's own and that he needs to bring other people up to his OP level if he wants to have a chance at real success.
Getting an A on your highschool midterms really doesn't matter when the world is going to end and the only way to stop it is for people to _work collectively for once in their goddamn history._
9:29 Just the intro song alone makes 100 Girlfriends worth watching. I never skip that intro, never, it is the pure manifestation of happiness in anime form.
100 Girlfriends is the only trash anime I've REALLY enjoyed in a long time. I don't know how they made such an insane premise so wholesome, or how all the girls work so well, or how the protagonist of this would-be disaster is so endearing. I can't believe protag-kun is actually my favorite part most of the time. His sincere and immense capacity to love his escalating harem is DERANGED. Truly peak.
Guard dog is grooming holy grail lol. Grooming 101, how to groom the sequel. aka the grooming manifesto. Someones grooming fantasy; grooming: the fanfic 😂😂
A Girl and her Guard Dog gave me a flashback of when I looked up UchiMusume's light novel to see where the story goes...well, calling it Fantasy Usagi Drop basically sums it up. Honestly, it makes me wonder just how many iterations of this plot are out there in Anime
God damn it and here I was kinda remembering the Uchimusume manga being good and somewhat hype to watch it... Can't unread that tho. Sometimes it's hard to love this media T-T
I have three words to describe my love for Shangri-La Frontier: Hot. Bunny. Daddy. A few more words? It opens with the most wet looking kick to the face I have seen in animation.
I don't know how anyone can excuse A Girl and Her Guard Dog. It's just blatantly and irredeemably problematic. And I like Domestic Girlfriend so it's not like my sensibilities are morally perfect. Team Hina btw.
@wadewilson6628 It's a fairly gentle and nonspecific criticism, but I also modified it with the terms blatantly and irredeemably. If you need someone to break down the plot further than Geoff did and someone to describe to you where the moral issues arise, then you need help you won't find in a youtube comment.
I think I have finally understood the rating system. the amount of things is related to the concentration of the quality (100 GFs gets 5 because its very itself) while the actual contents of things indicate whether that quality is itself good (shakespear vs shit). if it is burning then that indicates that it is iffy/creepy
5:50 I never never never never never expected a hotel Transylvania comparison or a joke like this but I really really really really really enjoy it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
100 girls who really really love you is my favorite trash anime right now. It's the ultimate harem anime, and it's hilarious. Great video from mothers basement. 🎉
I saw a video analyzing karane and hakari’s personalities and the amount of depth in their character and the creativity to subvert their tropes is beautiful and I don’t read the manga but if he keeps on doing this for every girl then this is not only not “trash” but will be the best harem anime to exist.
I don't even remember how I found 100 girlfriends but it has become my comfort series. It's so freaking amazing and the way they can make so many unique combinations with the characters is the best part. In one chapter protag goes on a date with 3 of the most tsundere girlfriends and it's amazing how they interact. I still have the screenshot of the crazy face protag makes in that chapter
A Returner’s Magic should be special, has a pretty good Light novel that I’d recommend reading. The later bits and world building have some geniunely good moments between many of the other less good scenes. It’s also less focused on romance as you implied in your review of the Anime. Do give it a go, it get’s hype sometimes, especially late stage.
Sorry, but I have to say this. The rarest thing of them all happened, an anime youtuber actually mispronounced a character's name by trying to pronounce it too japanese XD Sunraku, from Shangri-la Frontier, is actually pronounced like the english word "Sun", because his surname, Hizutome, has the first character Hi that means Sun in english. So the correct pronounciation is Sun-Raku, or Sanraku if you want the japanese phoenetic.
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"Returner's Magic", is a "Solo Leveling" type Mangwa. Meaning its a power fantasy. With the Protaganist acquiring permanent injuries, to himself and to his mission. a lot of "power of friendship too".
As a trash connoisseur I have to say, keep feeding us the trash Basement Daddy!
Steam my hams.
About your sponsor slot, Jeff. I don't know who made the graphic of all the languages saying "hello", but the top-left square (the one in Arabic) is spelled... backwards. Like, "olleH". Obviously nbd if it was your team, easy mistake. But if it was Rosetta Stone, that's kinda funny but also they would probably want to fix that ASAP
Arabic is written right-to-left (and also in a cursive, not as individual block letters)
Sorry, but I have to say this.
The rarest thing of them all happened, an anime youtuber actually mispronounced a character's name by trying to pronounce it too japanese XD
Sunraku, from Shangri-la Frontier, is actually pronounced like the english word "Sun", because his surname, Hizutome, has the first character Hi that means Sun in english. So the correct pronounciation is Sun-Raku, or Sanraku if you want the japanese phoenetic.
Nothing has signaled to me that an author actually plays MMOs like making your protagonist's MMO avatar be a shirtless, shorts-wearing bird man. THAT is the kind of character I see in Limsa every day.
...Completely true. And if it's not a birb man, it's a froge man. I love Limsa. lmfao
The best are the giant catfishmen
@@QueenofBrambles Also true! Sadly more rare than the birbs or froges in my Limsa plaza, but they do appear sometimes alongside the moogles, the elephants, the rabbits, and the snowmen. lol
When I saw that character design I said out-loud "Well, someone's AFKed in Limsa". I'm glad this appears to be a universal thought.
Absolutely. True MMO players wear dumb looking shit all the fucking time. It's perfect.
Important reminder that the author of The 100 Girlfriends who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You has said that if he knew this would be the work of his to make it big, he would have gone with a different title, specifically because his mom has read it, loves it, and insists on using the full title every time she mentions it. W anime, W mom
Mom approved😂
Does she do it with the opening song in the background now xD?
That's so sweet!
I heard the author and the mangaka are women.😁
It's funny 'cause the tittle suppose to be jokes, but nobody get it and make author just want to burried his head 'cause it make him feels embrassed 😂
Ahh, so "Garbage" is just... bad, while "Trash" is stuff that makes you chuckle to yourself and say "This shit's fucking stupid," as you click on the next episode.
trash is the feeling I get at the end of every Eminence in the Shadow episode lol
@@TheAmericanBRIt is truly the HOTTEST trash. But then it has to contend with 100 girlfriends
Oh I literally hear the sentence in many 100 gf reactions,truly peak trash
PRECISELY
Guilty pleasure, much?
The idea that in an entire player base of an MMO, not a SINGLE person would have geared their entire build towards potion making or cooking? Absolutely foolhardy. Now, that a protag-kun would be a game-breaking kusoge hunter in a bird head? That I believe without question.
Monster Hunter Buff body and wiggler head combo comes to mind
I spent my first 30hrs of WOW obsessed with the fishing mechanics so yeah. The idea that none of them looked at it is insane. Cooking gives buffs.
100 Girlfriends asking the bold question of “what is the most harem manga/anime ever?” While also deciding to not suck is a power move of the highest trash order.
Author clearly just decided to take it to its logical conclusion, and just go by that. But the man can actually write, and so it's good.
@@buddermonger2000 author is apparently a woman which somehow makes it better
@@KazeAizen nah author is a guy, artist is a women who made doujins
@@azrizhafran9077 I swear, there's one so fucking similar to the manga that I wondered if the original artist itself was making it
You must have extremely low standards if you think this incel anime is good.
I like how the most unrealistic thing about Shangri-la Frontier isn't that "Full Dive MMOs might exist some day", but that "Companies will still be releasing physical copies of bad budget games when they do"
Maybe digital storefronts were banned? About the only thing that could explain it.
Apparently Japan's pretty big on physical copies of games, so that could be an explanation as to why.
Well, they will. Yes, the digital storefront has some extreme depths of trash. But games like all star fruit racing, Clive n wrench, the fantasy friends games, the my universe games...those all came out physically. 😅
I mean, is it unrealistic tho? Considering what kind of stuff is released to this day, it's honestly horrifyingly real
Ig the sheer filesize of these games would require a unique futuristic 80tb SSD and that at that point you might as well just buy and click in a physical copy instead of trying to download the bastard?
I was so deeply surprised by 100 Girlfriends. It's not that they love him, HE loves THEM because he's actually a friend to all women everywhere.
You is more of a god of love than the actual god
And this guy said nothing bad about the anime😂
It's a refreshing change from a lot of other harems where the guy either doesn't want the girls chasing after him, or is so oblivious he doesn't even realize he has a harem.
I like that (so far) the death on failure curse isn't even brought up. The girls just like him because he does stupidly devoted things for them. Which is kinda how it works in real life honestly.
@@nathank2289it is because he dont want his gf to worry and also he dont want this kind of reason as a catalyst for him to fall in love with his gf...he just want to feel and give real love to her gf...and yeah he is a true Chad
This is genuinely the thing I look forward to most every broadcast season.
Aw, thank you! It's probably my favourite thing to work on each season too... at least when there's more trash than garbage...
Same here honestly
I agree, while I don't agree with everything he has to say these have never missed!
@@mothersbasement whats the difference?
Mood
Man, this season has such novel concepts. A harem anime where the characters actually care about each other, and a game anime that’s actually about playing games. Where do they come up with this stuff?
Big ole hits of DMT
And then there's the game anime where the guy makes a stealth archer trying to be underpowered, like he doesn't know that stealth archer is overpowered in every game where stealth archer is an option.
But yes, the other one is the real shit. Underwear and a bird mask, looking like the world's weirdest luchador? Just regular behavior of real life RPG players. And I mean the his unironically.
@@SaganTheKhajiitYeah its like there's this secret character type called 'ninja' who have all these secret never heard of skills like stealth and archery.. 🥷🥷🥷 [Look there is even a secret ninja emoji]
@@Lucien86 That made absolutely no sense to me.
I wouldn't consider those who are only in each other's company due to magical influence to actually "care about each other".
"Surprisingly feminist softcore bestiality doujin" is a great band name
That's just a Will Wood song title, just add some parenthesis
Shangri-La Frontier is so good that "the main character gets press-ganged into the rabbit yakuza" doesn't even get mentioned here despite it being something that happens in, like, the second or third episode.
The rabbit mafia stuff is so good. Emul and Vash are a joy on scren
A true man of the gamer culture...
The show even lacks all the immature sexual degeneracy/P2WIN Capitalistic drivel found in the mainstream.
Feels like home....
-EvE Online bittervet
@@ynraider Capitalistic drive ah ha ha ha wait till u get to best terrorist girl revealing her goals in a few eps. But rly most is after where this season will end.
Who knows? may I could go through that and maybe not. Though don't ask me to show those details nor the actual part on here along with social media not can I stay around for that. For that ask in some people or organizations that deal with that and it's not all revealed on social media since that can also be bad had to quit that part I can say about a week ago. Anyway may want to look into that yourself or ask those groups I mentioned make sure they're into this or show signs of it.
@@kellychuang8373I think I have a lot of the time to get a new one of the best things I can do to help with the job but I don't know what to do with it but I don't think I can get it done before I get back to work and I don't think I can get it done before I get back to work and then I can get it done before I get back to work and then I can get it done before I get home and then I can go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store and then go to the store
Josh Strife Hayes was the perfect guest for the Shangri-la Frontiers rating. Truly the crossover I never knew I needed.
I did not expect this crossover, but I love it
I loved seeing him pop up in the adventures of Galactichad. I am all for the Josh Strife Hayes everywhere system
My name is Josh Strife Hayes and I was reincarnated in a thousand UA-cam channels to try to find the Mug of Truth
Didn't he mysteriously appear in the last Larian conference as well pre-BG 3 release? That was a pleasant surprise seeing his waistcoat in the audience.
@@LudwigVaanArthansI'd watch that
Undead Unluck flying under the community's radar because of Disney is a fucking crime. This shit is gold.
Disney jail also killed Summertime Rendering
im fucking furious that show is SUCH a good time
As a manga reader, I can say that no one even knows the awesomeness they're missing out on-though I have no interest in the anime because there's a lot of blood, and I can bear it in black and white, but I don't like blood when it's in color.
@@kaijuge6934 Not that I know if it´ll work, but have you tried looking for chinese-censored versions? They turn blood into white goo, although I don´t know if it´s for all/most anime or just too violent ones
Every time it says disney has the anime I can't find it. I'm in the us
The idea that only one person in an entire game would try the in-depth cooking system is absolutely laughable to me. As a former chef, if a full-dive VR game came out that included cooking, literally the first and only thing I’d do in that game is open a pop-up restaurant for fun, and knowing MMO players like I do from FF14, I would clean up. We all love novelty stuff like that.
Yeah. As someone whos NOT a good cook id be toying with that cooking system for hours on end. Hell, if it were elaborate enough id maybe use it to practice without worrying so much about wasting ingredients
Yeah if your MMO has a detailed crafting system that isn't completely pointless, you'll have people who're ride-or-die on that aspect of the game alone. End of the day errybody wanna be a blacksmith
@@CrispBaker something something innate human desire to create
@@CrispBaker even if it was completely pointless you would have people doing it. Speaking as an SWG Image Designer(before they where "fixed")/Droid engineer(before battle droids).
This game lets you make potions.
HOW IS THERE NOBODY DOING THAT TO SAVE PETTY MONEY?
Because people would totally do that out of spite.
I want to watch 100 Girlfriends solely for Shizuka. Holy crap, they made a nonverbal character that uses quotes she memorized. How much more relatable can you get??
A nonverbal character that communicates solely by using their favorite memes, all of which they have saved to their phone. =P
I lost it when she used a LOTR reference. "fly you fools"
The 100 girlfriends author said she is fully commited to making it to the actual 100 count
100 Girlfriends has two people working on it Rikito Nakamura he's the author and Nozawa Yukiko she's the artist.
She? Really?
There’s absolutely no fucking way a woman would write this lmao she’s the artist
As she should. She’s going for a fucking Guinea’s world record
she's a legend.. she's my new idol
100 Girlfriends is that one specific anime of the season that qualifies as both as the Hottest anime and Hottest Trash for all the best reasons
Well, it's a parody of harem genre, so that's why you have this feeling.
Would it be accurate to describe it as the Durarara of Harem Anime?
It’s so bad it’s so good
@@gadlicht4627It's not bad at all though
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740its the gintama of harem anime
This trash is so hot that I somehow found this video while it was still unlisted because it was in a playlist
Omg!! And i thought i was early for getting here 20 seconds after release
The trash called out to you. It calls out to all of us.
The girl and her guard dog one is for the kinky girlies and it escaped containment. I apologize for this oversight, I shall approach the counsil with ways to avoid further spread.
Yeah… This premise definitely feels like it’s for a niche audience; though it’s debatable how niche since it’s popular in Japan.
Guess a high schooler dating a adult is a kink in East Asia media? As there are so many age gap romances out there (that sometimes address the problematic elements of dating a teenager, but still hand waves it away, cause ROMANCE), it has to be some sort of ‘forbidden desire’ (teens (or kids😰) wanting to date adults and vice-versa, going into groomer/pedo territory).
@@trika91 yeah it def isn't for everyone lol although if it lessens your worries, I have yet to meet a person that takes their preferences in these sorts of stories to reality
In recognition of the heroic past service that fujoshi, and other horned-up disaster girls have done for mankind -- specifically their role in supporting various legendary Japanese franchises through their early years, before dudes took them, and pretended that *they* were always the core audience -- I am willing to overlook this clearly unintentional breach. In return, I would consider it a good faith gesture if you could ask the council if they'd mind joining us in pretending that Inukai-san never happened.
@@Niffoni we accept the offer
@@trika91 Unfortunately not only East Asia, literally everywhere else too
The best thing about Ragna the Bloodedge is that you expect him to be super edgy but he’s the most normal guy annoyed by a world full of anime characters.
because people don’t know what “edgy” means anymore, they just throw the word around with no actual relevance to what their talking about
mfs see a guy who’s basically trying to save the fucking world and calls him “edgy” like dawg what?
@@d2soloLike Kirito. Dude's not edgy. He took all of the beta testers attention on him tf they mean?
@@d2soloTo be fair, his name is literally Ragna the Bloodedge, so it's an understandable first read.
@@hendeyjagger7489nah kirito is quite edgy, he chooses to wear all black and chooses to be a loner, levelling up alone and becoming op on his own until he meets Asuna.
@@NaThingSerious oh no, he likes black. Do you realize how many people like black? That is no indication of being edgy. Going solo is edgy now?
Ok.
Honestly, 100 Girlfriends had me worried about what would happen once we reached an unreasonable amount of girlfriends but I'm glad the author was just as able to develop the main character's relationship with the girls as much as their own relationships with each other. Although, we're not even halfway there and I'm definitely curious how the author plans to make another 70+ characters. Considering the absurdity of it all, I would not be surprised to see monster girls eventually.
Part of me hopes the author had a plan for each of the hundred girlfriends before the first chapter was published, just in case. A larger part of me hopes he had to wing it starting somewhere around girl 13.
@@timothymcleanshe probably makes it up as she goes or has rough outlines of characters that she develops as the series continues.
I don't see how you can plan out an entire 100 unique characters that get full development before you even start writing your story, i actually wouldn't even want that as it sounds like a bad idea to start with all of your characters and only then start building your story, it makes sense that she would continue to make new characters as she continues working, it's hard to think of 100 things at once, its better to develop your characters 1 at a time and guve them the attention they need, and once you are done with them move onto the next rather than leaving things half empty.
I don't expect every girlfriend to be as good as the initial 5 either, there's gonna be some duds, not everybody can be shakespeare and she has 100 individual characters to deal with, I'd challenge tolkien to write that many characters flawlessly.
There's a story that early Spider Man stories were developed so quickly that often Stan Lee would just drop a note like "rhino themed villain", then Steve Ditko would draw the story with blank bubbles, and finally Lee would fill in the bubbles. I really hope that's the creative process for 100 GF too.
@@HaganeNoGijutsushi Not just Spiderman, that's called the 'Marvel Method' for a reason. Basically writer roughly plots it out, artist draws from that outline, writer fills in dialog. It's how you get wild shit like Silver Surfer being introduced with a narration box saying 'and who's this character flying through space, he seems interesting'
I've only watched the anime, but I saw a comment saying the manga is currently at 26 girls.
At first I hated 100 Girlfriends. Then I loved it. Editing that section made me realize… maybe… I… am the trash… for not realizing such pure writing artistry!!!
"Anime is trash. And so am I." Gigguk 😁
@@Mark_o_Helm I mean, he was talking about taste in the segment.
I believe we have found our next guest for the podcast.
I love how "getting sukunad" is the new expression for characters chopped to bits
Mimiko!
@@nobody4248 k/a/s/h/i/m/o
@@nobody4248 Mimiko was beheaded, Hanako was the one chopped to bits. Sheesh, people.
They'll bury her in a lunch box.
@@Mepharias thats why i went with kashimo instead
I'm sad you didn't mention all of the delightfully terrible names in Returner's Magic. The fact that the Big Bad is named "Boromir Napolitan" and the love interest is literally "Romantica"...
Thats horrible but try watching Frieren as a German.
@sciohermetikum3902 oh dear...
Hehe the main character is named Desire her man.
BOROMIR!?!
@@sciohermetikum3902FF16 if you know Latin
Fire Science
Sword Friendship
XD
Been reading Shangri-La frontier for ages, it's a great story. There's definitely moments where the game world stuff feels messy, but it comes much closer to accurately capturing gamer culture than any other story I've seen. Sunraku's quest to take his talents for playing jank-ass trash games to conquer a mainstream MMO is a ton of fun, as is his regular diversions into other games he likes playing (because that's a thing that happens in this story, the MC just... decides to take a break and play something else from time to time, crazy concept I know). Also the closest thing the MC has to a love interest plays as a 10 foot tall armored behemoth with a greatsword, she'll be a real keeper if he ever figures out who he's talking to.
okay the last part REALLY fucking sold me. i'm hooked
@@nbkarkatShe's also a part of the strongest guild and one of the highest level players we've met. Also, finally has a guy player that literally plays as a girl lol.
That Rei-chan/Psyger-0 has not made it into either of Geoff's reviews is a crying shame as she is probably the most delightfully pure shygirl I've seen in a while. (Her doing the finger thing and her celebration dance in that 9' Armor getup after Sanraku accepts her friend request are peak gap Moe).
Additionally the game store owner Nana was working to sell Sanraku on SLF to help Rei hook up with him and she's in the guild focused on taking down the Nightwolf that is our Hero's nemesis so neglecting her seems like a major oversight.
At least she's talking to him! We need to manage our expectations on this one.
@@PastorImhotep We all know that sometimes girls get better hitboxes. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
One correction on the returner show. I rewatched the first episode. And it wasn’t 3 years. It was almost 14 years. 3 years was how long until the monster they fought spawns. They fought it for 11 years after that. And he got sent back to before it all. It doesn’t change any of your points. But I think it makes the context just a little sadder because of just how much time he just lost of his life.
It's also a story that is really hurt by its adaptation. From the terrible animation to the weird name changes to the not great sound design.
I read the original for a long time(until the phone I was reading it on broke and I couldn't remember where I was reading it), and it's actually pretty good. I've seen the first three episodes of the anime and so far it's been a huge let down.
@@casteanpreswyn7528 The manhwa is pretty fantastic, yeah. They're also not cowards who refuse to give women muscles, either. Adjest is fucking ripped and it rules
@zeph769 one of my favorite things about it. There are a few muscle women. They aren't all that one single "woman in a manhwa" style of body.
@@zeph769 the manhwa had a much more unique artstyle, which the adaptation butchered. This is why i really fear for Solo Leveling
@@roostworks well, Solo Leveling is being done by A-1, so we'll see. They have a pretty mixed track record.
Butaneba is fan fic of animal farm that nobody wanted but everyone deserved.
As it goes "Loli corrupts and absolute loli corrupts" absolutely
ii think that you should move quotation marks
@@zUJ7EjVD the fact you had to add in the lack of power, because otherwise him bring over 18 and her being under 18 would specifically make it illegal in Japan otherwise, kinda shows how its...close to the line.
And let's be honest, those rules don't cover "my thoughts are beamed into her brain unwillingly" 😅
@@zUJ7EjVD 💀💀💀
please do not use the age of consent to justify the fanservice in sussy isekai anime, even if it is just fiction or whatever, it makes you look like a creep
@@zUJ7EjVDBro wtf
Hang on.
If a 14 year old boy gets isekai'd into the body of a guy in his 30's, then gets into a romance with a woman in her 40's who's been isekai'd into the body of a 16 year old girl...
...which one's the pedophile?
You.
@@lylemcdermott2566 Wrong.
The author and the woman if she doesn't cut things off after learning about the boy's situation.
if someone has to preface their explanation to any piece of media with the sentence "remember Usagi Drop?" i am instantly both delighted and terrified based entirely on which half you're talking about
Okay, but that bit about the nonverbal autistic girl is actually kinda heartwarming. She's cute, endearing, and treated as a positive person, albeit one that's awkward to work around sometimes. How did the horny show about literally 100 girlfriends manage to do a decent job of making an autistic character?
PS; don't think I didn't see the LycoReco art and acrylic figures in that one bit with the tome travelling erotic VN show.
Ikr? Genuinely some of the best representation I've seen in a long time. Especially from an anime, where covering stuff like that tends to be more taboo.
one bit of credit I can give 100 Girlfriends is that despite being a series that is extremely horny and also being a series that includes many girls who look like and/or are small children, it is shockingly rigorous at keeping those two things separate. It ain't perfect and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone I know in real life but... it gets a lot closer to a clean bill of health than I thought it would.
Ikr. Honestly, I will never be able to recommend this to anyone I know, but I can appreciate how despite playing some potentially problematic bits for humor, it doesn't often make me feel uncomfortable like other anime and manga using the same bits.
Any other anime would make a whole arc about her speaking up. However, with Shizuka her method of communication is never villified by the series. Rentarou even helps her by transcribing the book series into a TTS app, letting Shizuka communicate in a way that's clearer yet still comfortable for her. It's a brilliant way to handle that sort of situation and shows a very friendly and careful mindset.
Jumping to "autistic" is a stretch. From episodes already animated, we can see she can speak, and she stuttered there. Minor spoilers for the series, she is able to clearly sing, and she CAN speak, but she doesn't not out of a mental difference, but due to the fact that she had a stammer since birth and she was berated so much for it that she now has trauma that skyrockets her anxiety if she tries speaking. She's a traumatized character, not autistic, and it's really nice seeing a character that is able to live with their trauma.
Honestly surprised I keep seeing people say Shizuka is nonverbal autistic (when the nonverbal has already been quashed), and ignoring the potential of Eiai having high-functioning autism.
The best tidbit about Shangri-La Frontier's plot hook is that at any time Sunraku could have the wolf's curse removed by a cleric. All the negatives he suffers for having it (can't wear armor on his arms, chest, or legs, enemies weaker than himself flee so no grinding on low level creatures) can be undone at any time, so he's only affected by the curse because he WANTS to be affected by it. Considering the kinds of games he normally enjoys playing, he's definitely a game masochist.
I did notice the bit about being cured by a Saint. But is it an easy service to find, like getting curses cured at a church in Dragon Quest games? Or would finding a healer be a giant quest itself?
The Chad Lunatic Ultra-nightmare player
@@enlongjones2394 The description sounds like getting the curse undone is the kind of thing you could get at any church. Shangri-La Frontier is supposed to be a "god game," so a player who gets cursed but can't handle the debuffs should be able to get the curse expunged pretty easily. Because that's good design for an MMO.
@@BaoHadir that sounds reasonable. But I’m also wondering if that angle comes up in the story, since it hasn’t yet in the anime.
Preferably without major spoilers, if possible (in case anybody who knows is reading this)
It would be funny if he finally meets up with the Psyger clan and learns he could’ve just gone to a church and not had to throttle his build into a glass cannon.
when i look at him, all i imagine is a Dark Souls player, naked and only armed with a stick, and proceed to a lvl 1 no hit run on all the nightmarish bosses of the game
I see 7 deadly sins has reached "shall not be named" territory for Geoff 😂😆
He's gone through so much for our sake.
Not only is Karane is literally tsundere to everything her ENTIRE family is
super tsundere family deluxe!?
@NinthSettler yes the families are great mostly. I'm looking at you Shzuka's mom. Kusuri's is all "children" physically. And Karane's are all super tsundere's
It's not like they're all a super sweet and caring family that I really enjoyed reading about understand!
Lol, reminds me of the mc of D-Frag, where the entire family is Tsukkomi.
Butareba suffers guilt by association with Inukai's Dog from a couple seasons ago, but it waves off both the echi and isekai stuff after a couple of episodes and turns into a straight-up dark fantasy with some very interesting world building. I'm legitimately more engaged with it's story than anything else I'm watching this season.
I have seen a few shows where it seems like the writer has a genuinely interesting story to tell, but they add the isekai and echi stuff to try to make the show/manga sell better (whether by their own choice or forced to by the company they work for). A lot of the time it actually turns me off from what would be a fun read as it feels so blatantly and awkwardly shoved in as to make it unenjoyable. Mieruko-chan is a good example where the story gets way better once the fanservice finally tones down quite a bit.
So you mean I should give it a try? I stopped after the first episode, I really don't need another Harem in the dungeon or what this was called...
@@toddclawson3619 Writers know you need to hook the viewer in with a good quality bait.
yeah, I think it's surprisingly good, and am convinced the shit rates in anime sites are just from people who for some reason rate stuff they haven't watched. Not to mention the MC might be the pig, but his VA is the goat holy shit.
@@toddclawson3619 it's nothing remotely like that, and I'd definitely recommend it based on what we've seen so far. Not sure if they'll stick the landing, but I get some Madoka Magica or Promised Neverland season one vibes from it as it goes on.
Am I the only one who's been shocked and pleasantly surprised by how respectful a lot of this latest trash has been? First we had the vending machine anime that actually talked about periods in a respectful way, then we have a ton a weirdly respectful stuff towards women and disabled people in 100 Girlfriends, and now we have a horny pig anime that calls out the slave girl trope and doesn't have a possesive protag, even if he's a total creep... It's honestly a little scary that this evolution is happening so quickly and unevenly with trash specifically, but I'm here for it.
This reason why all country should make their own anime. Because japan would gone!
@@user-SanderBrockwhat
The pig one took quite the dark turn
Basic human decency is praiseworthy now?
Ok. I burst out laughing at Dracula singing the 100girlfriends OP... and now I must explain myself to my coworkers. 😂
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I’m in a figure drawing class rn and listening to it in the background. And I am trying hard to not die. I’m writing this comment after the class ended. I couldn’t look at my phone to pause it
Usagi Drop hurts me so much. It could have been salvaged had the last chapter been "Look, you are going through kiddy love, and that is cute, but I am your dad and want you to be happy with someone your own age" instead of "If you still like me in a few years, sure, we can be lovers". It's just baffling. Like, whyyyyyyyyy
I know this isn't a new take, but every time I am reminded of Usagi Drop, my heartache explodes and must be vented.
I respect the author for slapping the audience in the face like that.
My problem with it is that it was a twist, unwanted by most of its audience because that wasn't the point of the story.
I'd be down for a story where that's the clear *premise*, and it would go over much better because that's what the audience is there for.
3:29 THANK YOU!! I've been unfairly called out for calling some piece of media trash before and had to explain, it's absolutely *_not_* inherently an insult... I'm so glad you get it!
Geoff came dangerously close to explaining how his rating system works. Hopefully people get what's going on now.
Trash is trash, garbage is garbage and there's a key difference. Trash is the stuff you pull out and save because it makes great crafting materials or maybe it's waste material that can be composted or recycled. Garbage is useless and gross and needs disposing of ASAP. lol
@@RenAsterion precisely, people say "one man's trash is another man's treasure" *_not_* "one man's _garbage_ is another man's treasure", because garbage is garbage is garbage the world over
Important note about Returner’s magic, the main love interests name is Romantica, a truly unique and extremely nuanced name
100 Girlfriends is a series for people who love all of the different types and flavors of women period. It’s why Rentaro is so likable - not only does he get it, but he also appreciates the friendship/personalities of women just as much if not more (female friendships aren’t a terrible runner-up prize for him!)
real talk, that last God App one, at least visually, is like... almost really good. The movements look pretty fluid, the character designs are gorgeous, and the lighting looks really solid. That studio has some real potential, there's just some je ne sais quois missing that makes it all look jank. I genuinely hope they get more opportunities to make more stuff because I wanna see where they go from here.
I was thinking the same thing, it's one or two little tweaks from being probably great. The way the colours pop really works.
Better than all cartoons in this list.
Yeah I thought it didn't look too bad at all. Maybe there's something wrong with the plot or storytelling (havent seen it) but based on first impressions it isn't "terrible CG"
Honestly, some of those on the list are geniuenly good shows. Especially Undead Unluck, which is directed by Monogatari Series director and it shows.
I imagine the distribution problem with Undead Unluck is to do with the frequent full frontal male nudity.
@@platykurtic5510but didn't zom 100 do the same thing?
@@platykurtic5510it's just how Disney does it 👍
Xd, it's not available in the Hulu equivalent of my country too xd
I didn't know people were having these issues being able to watch it. Very sad to hear because it's my favorite manga and the anime has been absolutely everything I have wanted it to be so far. I wish everyone would be able to enjoy it. Here's hoping they get that sorted eventually.
I'm kinda mad Geoff attacked my entire experience with the Canadian school system and its ability to teach me French by naming the one phrase I still know how-to say in French.
But can you go to the toilet?
I remember nothing. My teacher was extremely good, but a bitch.
I love the part in kingdoms of ruin where someone says "these really are the kingdoms of ruin" and the protagonist cuts someone's face off and wears it like a mask and laughs like the joker (yes all these things happen all in the same episode)
owns
Whaaat 😂😂😂😂
Wait, is that actually not a bit? Is this genuinely not a Morbin' Time snowclone?
@@FelisImpurratornope
Honestly I loved the 100 Girlfriend Manga because the writer is actually surprisingly good at making the girls stand out even though they are already close to over 30.
I would definitely rage quit the MMO in A Certain Guy's Playthrough if the devs seemingly go out of their ways to nerf everyone but shower the titular Cerain Guy with special treatments
100 Girlfriends is to Harem/Romance what Eminence in Shadow is to Isekai.
Bless you for covering Fridging: The Anime ... I mean Kingdom of Ruin. I don't recall ever seeing anything so devoted to the type of misogyny that denies women have any reason to exist beyond advancing a man's story. And I completely agree about how funny 100 Girlfriends is. I laugh out loud at least once per episode. Kudos to the sub translators who do an amazing job.
Exactly why I hated Kingdom of Ruin as well. Any good female character is killed off minutes after they are introduce.
(Sure, the reason why becomes apparent later on, but it doesn't make it good)
That and it tries a bit too hard to be edgy so it ends up not being enjoyable.
I agree with you on Fridging, I feel like the author hates woman or something due to the what the witches go through
I immediately went to check out Shangri-La Frontiers after your endorsement, and how dare you not mention how fire the OP is
Beserk of gluttony is such a rip off that the main love interest is LITERALLY an asuna recolor. Her armor is literally one-to-one except with blue and not red.
I need to tell a story of my hatred for "Berserk of GLUTTONY".
One time i i recomended my friend to read Berseark and he got to shop and bought 1 volume. Next day he asked me why did i recommend him and edgy isekai, i was confused at first and told him Beseark is not an isekai, he then started explaining the plot what he read so far and i told him again thats not it and then pulled it out of his bag and showed me. After that i borrowed him my first collection of Beseark volumes for reading and bought from him that stupid volume which i promptly ducted taped and wrote with marker "DO NOT EVER READ IT".
I think "Beserk of GLUTTONY" is one of the reasons why there arent more Beseark fans out there and did more damage (they should sue publisher of **** of GLUTTONY for lost revenue and blatant copyright).
30:10 Ironically, despite how edgy looking Ragna from BlazBlue is, he's genuinely a chill dude as long as you're not on his bad side or you're not named Terumi and Jin. And I'm a BlazBlue fan myself.
Yeah, Ragna's just a really solid guy, man got a SHIT deal handed to him, but he's tryin'!
yeah basically all his actual edge comes from how he got dealt the absolute WORST possible starting hand out of any of those characters (also the murder he did to get to the first batch of cauldrons because you don't get that good at that with that high of a bounty while having "actually evil Nine Tailed Fox times ten" inside you without at least a little murder)
the man is just a guy stuck with a bunch of crazy prople lol
Yeah, a big part of BlazBlue comedy is that the dude you would assume is an edgelord is actually the straight man, especially in comparison to the rest of the cast (who are a bunch of total weirdos)
Yeah, Ragna is mostly just a bit grumpy, which, considering the absolute shit of a lifetime he's had, is nothing less than a fucking miracle.
Undead Unluck's manga is amazing, I love how it transitions from comedy to more serious over time
This is only tangentially related to the topic of the video, but the big irony of Ragna the Bloodedge of BlazBlue is that far from being a super edgelord, he's actually the only normal person in the entire series. Half the comedy is just him being bewildered by the sheer insanity of the rest of the cast.
Having Josh show up to rate a MMORPG anime was brilliant!
I’m so sad about how botched the release of Undead Unluck has been. It is such a fantastic series, and it just gets better the deeper into the world building you get. And the anime is great too! It’s release has just be an absolute mess.
totally never happened *cough* before! *cough* jjba p6 *cough*
Sword Iseakai being the other major entry in the 'Not at all chill about slavery' club.
100 girlfriends is to harem what imminence in shadow is to isekai and I will die on this hill
So self aware crap?
@@triggerfairy4070 that’s exactly right
@@triggerfairy4070 More like hilarious, genre-savvy masterpieces that subvert all of the tropes of the genre they're parodying while simultaneously embracing those same tropes (kind of like konosuba) while also going overboard in terms of the ridiculous nature of the genres they're parodying, while also not going so far overboard that it ruins their surprisingly well-written plots.
@@altrivotzck6565 let me guess you like Rick and Morty too.
@@triggerfairy4070 No? I just like peak fiction when I see it, and 100 girlfriends comes close.
If you don't jive with the comedy of the series, then that's understandable, but to label it as self-aware "crap" is a massive slight against good writing.
I laughed way too fu(king hard at professional murder pedo! LMFAO God that was a great line! I literally almost spit out my coffee!!!! 😂❤
Honestly, I was surprised that 100 Girlfriends wasn't trash. It makes fun of harem anime, while actually taking the concept seriously, and presenting a strangely authentic, collaborative, and non-toxic complex of relationships.
Josh in this video makes everything better! I’m listening to this while take a shower and as soon as you said his name I was like… what??! And then heard his voice and had to turn off the water and go back a min! This is the crossover I never knew I needed so bad! And yeah seriously, his videos are freaking AMAZING!!
The audacity to drop a 40 minute video at 11 pm.
I mean. I'm going to watch it right now. And enjoy it very much. And I wasn't going to sleep yet anyways. But the audacity
/j
What do you mean? It dropped 8:00. Perfect time for it.😁
@@Mark_o_HelmNothing better than learning about the hot new trash while drinking my tea 🍵 in my Detective Pikachu mug.
@@Mark_o_Helmsame here. Video got uploaded directly one hour before my psychology classes started. Perfect background noise for waiting/physically and mentally preparing myself to take notes
@@KeDe1606 psychology ey? Any tips how i can be a Chad like Rentaro?😁
@@Mark_o_Helm
Serious answer: Not yet. I‘ve only started college last month, so I’m still at the most basic of basics. Stuff like „What’s the Id, Ego and Super-Ego?“, „How do emotions effect the way we learn things?“, „How do we react to certain stimuli/How do reactions work in general?“, and „How does our upbringing effect the way we act?“. The most advanced topic we’ve managed to cover up to this point was why people with autism struggle with „understanding other‘s emotions“ (sorry, not the best wording. I am VERY tired right now).
So I can only give you the most basic of advice (that you‘ve probably heard hundreds of times before):
Be nice, get to know the people around you, and don’t be too pushy.
Unserious answer: You… really shouldn’t ask *me* about that sort of advice. I mean, if I actually knew what I was talking about, and I actually practiced what I preached, I wouldn’t be sitting here, alone, in the back of the room, „surviving“ off of 2 hours of sleep, a single candy bar and a LOT of water bottles, only half-consciously listening to people around me talk about their day, instead of actually talking with them.
Also, I am EXTREMELY dense when it comes to any and all social situations, to the point where I’d genuinely put the average harem protagonist to shame. In pre-school, my crush literally told me, TO MY FACE that she was in love with me, and my first thought was „She just sees me as a friend. She probably doesn’t even like me all that much…“
Same thing happened in middle school as well, but this time with a love letter instead of a direct confession. I even danced with her at our highschool prom, yet I still thought that our relationship was purely platonic until, I kid you not, literally one week ago.
So, yeah, as I said, you really shouldn’t be asking me about that kinda stuff.
Ooh thanks for the info on 100 girlfriends. I dropped it after episode 1 because it felt like it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be garbage trash or trash with a diamond in the rough. Good to know it kinddddd of picked a lane and did it well
100 gf is absolute peak, hope it'll stick for you on your second try
Dropping it definitely was a mistake, you have to pick it back up. The manga has a chokehold on me and has become one of my comfort series.
Of the ones mentioned, 100 Girlfriends is an A-Class comedy, do not miss out on it, just incredibly funny. It somehow pulls off the premise by being utterly sincere about the emotional stakes of the relationships and EVERYTHING OUTSIDE OF THAT is absurd comedy based off the premise of "what if god dictated this sweet boy was going to have the BIGGEST polycule???"
Shangri-La Frontier is also pretty solid action if I disagree about the creator knowing games all that well--at least modern game culture, and certainly MMOs.
+1 for being the first comment to mention it's a proper polycule and not just polyamory. Some of the girlfriends form basically lesbian relationships within the harem despite still being head-over-heels for Rentarou (my personal ship is Mimimi and Meme).
Also, Geoff doesn't touch on how MUCH of a chad AiRen is. The stuff he does and goes through for his girlfriends at times borders on the supernatural.
Sorry but harems are just a MASSIVE turn off for me, no matter how good the quality of the story is. Glad people like it and are enjoying it but I'm just gonna skip this one out. I've pretty much grown to despise the genre on principle after so many awful pieces of work.
This is my first time seeing your content and it was a little intimidated clicking on a 40min video but you are hilarious and that was a very entertaining 40mins that felt like 10. One video, one sub. Keep up the good work.
That is some mighty high praise. Thank you!
If you’re looking for another video to enjoy, I personally think this is my best one to date: ua-cam.com/video/FVPPaWQ-l4s/v-deo.htmlsi=iIdAZbPdedUmxxGX
The 100 girlfriend's anime surprised me because the title had me writing it off my list when i first heard about it. I have not seen the anime, but the scenes in just this short analysis of the show did an amazing job of illustrating why it works.
The MC isn't a quivering ball of nervousness all the time, he brazenly declares his intentions with the girls, but unlike 90% of harem protags actually takes the time to be a good boyfriend rather than treating them like gacha items.
Errr, you do realize this is about him catching 100 women who become brainwashed by a divine power to like him right??
@@nightfears3005 Yes, they are divinely pushed to like him, but he can still anger them to the point they can ditch him
It's a harem, regardless of how developed they are. They are still Pokémons, that need to be catched, from the narrative perspective.
@@nightfears3005you know its not really brainwash, the girls still has sanity and sense of reason, for example a later gf who slap rentarou because of (spoiler) and another gf trying to attack rentarou because of (spoiler), youll know when your read it, but when rentarou does something wrong the girlfriends still has a free will to criticize him for that, he does not brainwash the girls to loving them its just that hes destined to all of them, albeit he still has to work hard
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special also has an excellent plot point, which is that the monsters appear by dimensional rifts that can only be closed by entering a parallel world and completing quests that bring the story of that world to a conclusion... which makes it straight-up Fantasy Reboot. It's also great in that Desir, while quite competent, is not the strongest member of his own team and his goal is mainly to strengthen his companions as they have way more potential than he does.
"professional murder-pedo"
Geoff, you never cease to amaze me with your descriptions, I love it
100 girlfriends is one of the greatest animes ever. The references and the modern humor is so good and perfect. I have never laughed so hard in a long time. A show where the girls are enjoying themselves and the main character is a chad.
The 12-yo-boy-with-hot-ladies magical anime is making me wish Geoff would do a retrospective of Negi! Ma, after all he did Love Hina. I think I need closure on that wild ride of a manga that I shouldn't have been reading at 13.
So I actually read a decent bit of the Manhwa for Returner's Magic so I was quite looking forward to this one, and I am mostly pleased with how it's turned out, although the Manhwa definitely did a better job of portraying the somewhat unique MC struggle that Desir faces: He knows that he is incredibly OP, but he also knows that being that his OP just isn't enough to make a difference on it's own and that he needs to bring other people up to his OP level if he wants to have a chance at real success.
Getting an A on your highschool midterms really doesn't matter when the world is going to end and the only way to stop it is for people to _work collectively for once in their goddamn history._
gojo satoru plotline (its a great plot)
100 girlfriends getting popular makes me so happy. It’s so good.
For incels perhaps.
9:29 Just the intro song alone makes 100 Girlfriends worth watching. I never skip that intro, never, it is the pure manifestation of happiness in anime form.
100 GF's is the only harem anime I can think of which has a pool episode with a good plot to go along with the good "PLOT".
100 Girlfriends is the only trash anime I've REALLY enjoyed in a long time. I don't know how they made such an insane premise so wholesome, or how all the girls work so well, or how the protagonist of this would-be disaster is so endearing. I can't believe protag-kun is actually my favorite part most of the time. His sincere and immense capacity to love his escalating harem is DERANGED. Truly peak.
Guard dog is grooming holy grail lol. Grooming 101, how to groom the sequel. aka the grooming manifesto. Someones grooming fantasy; grooming: the fanfic 😂😂
"Somebody stop this brainrot epidemic."
My general response to the world at this point.
A Girl and her Guard Dog gave me a flashback of when I looked up UchiMusume's light novel to see where the story goes...well, calling it Fantasy Usagi Drop basically sums it up. Honestly, it makes me wonder just how many iterations of this plot are out there in Anime
I don't think any of us really want to know the answer to that question.
God damn it and here I was kinda remembering the Uchimusume manga being good and somewhat hype to watch it... Can't unread that tho.
Sometimes it's hard to love this media T-T
As somone who had seen so many mostly naked no hit runs on twitch, Shangri La Frontier makes me so happy. It is peek Gamer in the best way.
I'm loving this trend where the animes that made it on "The Best Ones To Watch" also make it on "The Hottest Trash Animes" 😁
“So… don’t judge a book by its cover! Or it’s other contents, for that matter.” Made me laugh my ass off.
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XD
I have three words to describe my love for Shangri-La Frontier: Hot. Bunny. Daddy.
A few more words? It opens with the most wet looking kick to the face I have seen in animation.
And if you read ahead in the manga. The scene where you know who decides that while you were playing chess she was playing dominoes. _FANTASTIC._
14:30 They are WOW vets. They definitely don’t expect the devs to fix such a problem.
I don't know how anyone can excuse A Girl and Her Guard Dog. It's just blatantly and irredeemably problematic. And I like Domestic Girlfriend so it's not like my sensibilities are morally perfect. Team Hina btw.
@wadewilson6628 It's a fairly gentle and nonspecific criticism, but I also modified it with the terms blatantly and irredeemably. If you need someone to break down the plot further than Geoff did and someone to describe to you where the moral issues arise, then you need help you won't find in a youtube comment.
I think I have finally understood the rating system.
the amount of things is related to the concentration of the quality (100 GFs gets 5 because its very itself) while the actual contents of things indicate whether that quality is itself good (shakespear vs shit). if it is burning then that indicates that it is iffy/creepy
And the sharpness of the objects indicates how "edgy" the series is.
5:50 I died here LOL!
5:50 I never never never never never expected a hotel Transylvania comparison or a joke like this but I really really really really really enjoy it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Geoff, what do you mean you can't watch Undead Unluck because it's not on Disney+ in Canada? It sounds like you need _this video's sponsor, _*_Nord-_*
Tried it, contiguous US only, saw through my proxy and vpn...
@@CORV3TT33Wow, seriously? Wonder how they managed to pull that off...
100 girls who really really love you is my favorite trash anime right now. It's the ultimate harem anime, and it's hilarious. Great video from mothers basement. 🎉
When it comes to anime, I'm like a homeless person. I love dumpster fires, they keep me warm at night.
JOSH STRIFE HAYES CAMEO OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE LET'S GOOOOOOO
Legend of the legendary heros mentioned, my year has been made.
I saw a video analyzing karane and hakari’s personalities and the amount of depth in their character and the creativity to subvert their tropes is beautiful and I don’t read the manga but if he keeps on doing this for every girl then this is not only not “trash” but will be the best harem anime to exist.
I don't even remember how I found 100 girlfriends but it has become my comfort series. It's so freaking amazing and the way they can make so many unique combinations with the characters is the best part. In one chapter protag goes on a date with 3 of the most tsundere girlfriends and it's amazing how they interact. I still have the screenshot of the crazy face protag makes in that chapter
That thumpnail is PURE gold! You truly are a man of culture Jeff! 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
never have i ever been this early
L skill issue
A Returner’s Magic should be special, has a pretty good Light novel that I’d recommend reading. The later bits and world building have some geniunely good moments between many of the other less good scenes.
It’s also less focused on romance as you implied in your review of the Anime.
Do give it a go, it get’s hype sometimes, especially late stage.
Sorry, but I have to say this.
The rarest thing of them all happened, an anime youtuber actually mispronounced a character's name by trying to pronounce it too japanese XD
Sunraku, from Shangri-la Frontier, is actually pronounced like the english word "Sun", because his surname, Hizutome, has the first character Hi that means Sun in english. So the correct pronounciation is Sun-Raku, or Sanraku if you want the japanese phoenetic.
Shangri-La Frontier has a hot rabbit man and that alone elevates it above most VRMMO anime