okay hear me out okay what if we made this rock protagonist no no no this has to end I knew these
guys were desperate but this is going too far and with Japanese anime companies moving into the 27
billion dollar business because of this thanks Demon Slayer for keeping our country's entire
economy afloat we couldn't have done this without you these companies would have been working out of
a cardboard box at this point if not for this but because of the seemingly normal anime becoming a
global success companies are feeling the need to keep up with the demand and by that I mean what
you'd normally do in your girlfriend's parents come to visit and go overboard like back in
the day we would only have 30 new animes for the entire year but now we have 30 Animes in the three
month period and I'm up to my ass in the amount of anime I still need to watch by the end of the year
do you really think I have enough time to watch this the far away Paladin a show that teaches
you how to live life to the fullest like did any one of you watch this when this came out or have
you already forgotten about this [ __ ] another problem is these shows are being forcibly pushed
out are great with so much great anime coming and going it's hard to really form a real attachment
and grow a fan base that can last but I can't say there has been one anime my friends are having to
convince me is different a show that's gonna stand the test of time reincarnated as a sword and I'm
just like you gotta be kidding me this [ __ ] you're telling me this is gonna last the next
five years the show about a guy turning into an inanimate object who's not even the main guy you
know this is the problem with the genre you're telling me all these companies here on the screen
spent around a combined total of four million and two hundred thousand dollars when they can't even
make season three of Magi or season 5 of DxD you know what I must be the problem why are we letting
these questionable job title characters become the protagonist of the newest pop cultural genre
what was once the sub genre is now on its own category there's isek highs about the guy who's
a wrestler the guy who has a smartphone with them a guy who owns a damn near bed and breakfast the
Assassin the programmer all the same characters look like Kirito a shitty reincarnated story
about an apple isakai the fact that some of you don't know if I'm joking about that last one is
the problem I'm talking about and don't even get me started about the vending machine anime that's
coming out soon it's starting to become more about your pre-existing job title and not the
actual journey in the anime but I can say after watching this anime I was wrong because anime
made me ask questions like what happens if you get the powerless power should you really give Mercy
to someone who wouldn't give you the same kindness and what does it mean to be someone's Guardian so
the plot goes like this a 30 year old man salary worker is walking home from work when stop if
you've heard this before is hit by truckoon the true antagonist of all your Walmart isakais and
now he's reincarnated with limited memories and he's a sword appearing as a legendary Excalibur
stuck in stone only able to be wielded by the next legendary King but instead of that story
he levitates around acting like a cursed sword and quickly becomes addicted to carving of goblin
flesh and breaking their crystals going on a crazy one man or one sword killer Montage of eliminating
all the strongest creatures in the demon Wolf's Garden earning dimensional magic resistance and
nullification skills other Magical elements and self-enhancements but even with all power the
sword feels like there's something missing like there's someone missing yes the sword is actively
seeking out a master or owner he's no longer a person that needs food sleep or air he wants to
go on a journey with someone meanwhile the real main character fron is being beaten around by her
slave masters having a deep resentment for being mocked about being a part of the black cat tribe
that's now nearly extinct there have been be skin characters in fantasy before but they've always
been reserved to being one of the girls in the main guys Karem and that's it the closest they've
ever come to being a main character is raftalia so no I don't like this show because it's an isakai
I love it because it's a fan fiction about what happens if you may ref Talia the main character
what got me invested into Shield hero was the idea of this perfectly innocent man being framed for
a crime he didn't commit losing any support and told he had to still fight in a war for people who
just want to see him dead with his only form of backup coming from a slave girl who isn't treated
like such but a real companion despite his own misfortunes he makes sure his take care of her
raphtalia is able to overcome her own deep rooted trauma by fighting being one of the last from her
Village still alive hoping to restore her Village Under The Shield Hero's Banner Franz from the
Black Cat tribe 100 years ago the leaders of the tribe went against the gods and because of that
they became encouraged and able to evolve and were then hunted down to the point of Extinction her
parents wanted to change her fate and became hired Warriors traveling the world as adventurers hoping
to evolve but unfortunately they were killed while they were working but frond sings all
this as a child sold into slavery repeatedly told that she wouldn't evolve and become something more
day after day she would repeat the same similar phrases like I want power I will become stronger
sort of how like Aaron Jaeger kept saying he was to kill all the tides you know something similar
so when these two Collide it makes a wonderful pairing Fran wants to evolve for herself parents
and wants to be able to bring hope to the remaining few black cats the young child
eternally grateful to the sword are her guardian she thanks teacher for Lending her power and the
sort of happened to finally have a purpose or something to protect fighting monsters and
training with their Newfound power doesn't this sound awfully familiar the show takes enemies
and tropes from popular isakais the way teacher levels up is like how they do it in slime or so
I'm a spider the various monsters visually look very similar to the other shows with the spiers
looking from Soma spider the Goblins of the show have intelligence like in Goblin Slayer and use
in various ways this anime takes Inspirations from Plenty of sources next let's talk about the idea
of them having less supporting characters for one it's cheaper to make an anime that way but
it's also better because you're not adding in too many different voices to take away from the main
story or the main characters which should be fron and teacher well this is actually going
to the aspect of the character where for the entire story they only trust each other with
Fran not telling anyone teacher's secret like when the goddess of children Amanda tries to waltz her
way into Franz live the girl doesn't accept her it takes her six episodes to then decide hey I
can trust this person and tell teacher's secret to her now let's talk about the Spider Girl the
show adds in a final antagonist Trope in the final episodes you know the final boss of fantasy anime
is where they like the focus the last two episodes on acting as if everything was leading up to this
moment or this fight these episodes always tend to feel rushed and pour the done they're poorly
done because they expect us to have an attachment to this boss or just find them Super Evil but if
Thanos is hot as anything people want more than a commercial villain or a villain with no purpose
but this character is different because the show doesn't try and act like this is the main villain
who's given a big monologue speech where they say they're evil for the sake of being evil no but
she's nothing more than another dungeon monster on the bump the road the last episode felt more
like the congratulations scene from the interview evangelia revealing to the audience that all along
Amanda who's been begging Fran to call her mommy is in fact her extended grandmother who's raised
Franz parents whether being slightly the reason they're dead now and the how fraud became a slave
because she didn't teach them how to fight when they were young even though they were begging
for her to teach her so when they became older and they got married they still decided to be
adventures and learn on the way as well as the end of the anime where we cut to frond meeting
that her next teacher John duvix knowing how this is how they ended the anime makes me more
intrigued into what is left that they could do learning that this is how they ended the anime
gets me really interested into seeing season 2 because Fraun isn't the typical op one hit QC
the anime girl frond has three different sides to her the emotionless mute girl who doesn't accept
people easily the cutesy Maui girl that can sell anime merchandise and the Child Soldier sociopath
who is out for revenge and restoring her people frond doesn't play around like how she just cut
this man's ankles off once he made a threat about putting her back into slavery or slowly killing an
enemy Beast kin that enslaved members of her race just to make him suffer and teacher is begging for
her to stop and she does it so yeah teacher good luck trying to deal with her when the time skip
hits eventually teacher acts of the overprotective parent who gets him out of gallius when too much
of her belly button is exposed wanting to protect her from the world but over time she develops her
own path and chooses to fight when she wants to not really rebelling but still wanting to
prove herself Fran is going to be choosing her own morals slash her willing to finish off a
kill herself and put herself into danger at times she's truly using him as a weapon not asking for
his recommendation also another aspect of the show is Knights and guilds don't really matter
especially if people can be casually sold into slavery by traitors and no one you can just stop
them case in point the black hat Race For example you are really out here on your own like it's
the Wild Wild West even the people that really want to help can't help if they're not in the
certain region that you're in it's kind of like that town mentality of you only hear about what
happens around your town but the moment you leave you're on your own Anything could happen to you at
any point Fraun had to kill a giant bear monster that killed all of her slave companions deal with
jealous money-hungry Adventures who threatened to take her to a slave trader if she loses save
weaker adventurers become a goblin Slayer and kill 100 plus goblins pushed to her limits and
kill different bosses a greater demon kill one of her Clan's Immortal Enemies and a spider [ __ ]
all before the age of 13 but still a lot of the power is borrowed and she knows it the show even
plays with this idea like how edema she finds tries to steal her skills only for it to fail
since she technically doesn't have any skills of her own she's not gonna outwardly confess to her
contemporaries that she doesn't deserve what she's been given because she's still willing
to put in hours and push herself to the limits to practice but she knows her gains are are Amplified
by having teacher around but they're unable to use magic or skills without him making their bond
that much tighter constantly reminding teacher and anyone who listens to her how much she loves
the sword because she's indebted to his wisdom power and security that he gives her the scene
where the girl finally gets to lay her head in a bed for the first time says a lot something that
was once normal was reminded how it's a luxury a vast majority of the isakai power-ups don't feel
earned but rather the main character cheating and you know I'm not making this up when the isakai
titles themselves have the name cheat in the title but this is the reason why I don't watch boruto is
because the movie where he openly takes the easy way out and cheats his way to the finals makes me
feel like Naruto having to disapprove all these isakais something the anime has at this moment
is a proper power scaling that keeps the battle scenes more interesting Amanda is stronger than
her and so is practically everyone in rank a as well as bosses and other people without teacher
most the casts are stronger than her a lot of these new anime titles are repetitive and
wacky for the sake of shock value but some turn these tropes on their heads and actually add a
little to what is is fairly a generic formula making some of these shows worth your time