Illustrator Reacts to "The New King of Bad Isekai?"

[@WassupWeebTaku]

Have you watched eminence in shadow?

[@kujis98-_-46]

Of course it was so good and fun watch and i really liked it but even if its isekai it doesn't automaticly make it bad same for slime and i recommend both but you do you👍👌

[@WassupWeebTaku]

​@@kujis98-_-46 for me, I actually want to get into the genre.I just have yet to find a show that really captures me. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@ntlucke6722]

I enjoyed it. It's one of those I'm a dude that plays a dude disguised as another dude

[@lazgilaz]

Yes and this is good!

[@ilmaripajola4387]

Its rare when every chapter of manga makes me laugh and desire more, and when i heard that this series will get animeadaptation i was automatically worried about quality, and it ended up decent (specially in sound department, not visuals).

[@whothou9154]

One of the most unique MCs we've had in anime ever tbh. He can go from NPC to "I'm him" in the flip pf a switch

[@WassupWeebTaku]

Kinda sounds like Subaru Natsuke? 😂

[@whothou9154]

@@WassupWeebTaku him ? nah that's just an L mans 24/7 lmao

[@Re_Zero_Fan_Edits]

@@whothou9154L take

[@gabodee]

Cid is just HIM. He spend 15 minutes just saying he's him.

[@Deadim._.09]

Not him😭

[@MarcelJ.]

Setting everything else aside, this show has an insane production value. Animation, effects, choreography, soundwork, music and voiceacting are on point. Further ignoring the story, the world building is some of the best you'll find everywhere, just enough for you to know exactly what's going on and what consequences each and every action has and not so much that you get that boring lore dump many stories call world building. The world also feels incredibly alive, because there's always something going on in the background and the world doesn't stop for the main interaction we're watching, making it feel incredibly dynamic. Consequences always feel real, cause yes, this building was destroyed in episode 8, so it's still destroyed in episode 20, but there's construction equipment lying around and noone even mentions it at all. Yes, this person was killed, their loved ones are gonna change. Yes there was a disaster, so relief equipment and personnel will be there. Still ignoring the story, the characters are great and unlike many other anime, this one doesn't try to stamp the character with a personality type and be done with it, until it does so deliberately and for a specific purpose. The goals and motivations of every character are clear and understandably influence their actions. The story is good as well, though that is always a matter of preference, so I won't try to explain why it is good (I'm also bad at that). It's not just the king of bad isekai, it's also not a cheap fastfood thing (though there isn't another story I've heard of in which fastfood has such a profound meaning as in this one). It's simply a great anime. It's still filled with tropes and doubles down on many of them, but that never detracts from the story, because they are believably intertwined with the world and make sense. It's also always good to pay attention to characternames in this show. As anyone who ever tried writing a story knows, coming up with names for your characters is a hassle. The author of Eminence in Shadow decided to make it into a joke. There's the MC's best friends: Skel Leton and Po Tato, one of the antagonists Perv Asshat and lots of minor characters like Toppe Batterius or Immatry Nottaloos. I could go on and on, but I'm seriously not good at recommending stuff. It's not the greatest anime of all time. But, if I'm completely honest, it's one of my favorites. EDIT: It's also better than Slime, by the way. Slime's a great manga, but the anime was always a little meh. Not sure about Re: Zero, I dropped that one after two episodes cause the lack of consequences bothered me (heard it's real psychological and everything, it just didn't grip me)... I just don't deal with timeloop stories well. Mushoku Tensei's great, if I were objective I'd probably rate it around the level of Eminence in Shadow, but the music is just a bit too forgettable for me to consider it a top show.

[@OxygenC2]

MT's writing also gets worse later on imo. Ofc MT fans will disagree but that's just me. EDIT: Not talking about lore, MT got that on lock. I'm talking about character writing and not side but main ones like Sylphy and Eris.

[@danielantony1882]

The music is forgettable? Now that’s an atrociously arbitrary statement.

[@MarcelJ.]

​@@danielantony1882 Nothing arbitrary about it? Can't expect musical masterpieces like HxH 2011, One Piece, Bleach or Code Geass out of every show, but if I can't recall a single piece of the soundtrack after watching the show, then it's forgettable. That's my standard as a musician.

[@danielantony1882]

@@MarcelJ. I mean, if you didn’t pay attention, then that defeats the purpose. I know a lot of them. Black Heart, Pathos, Unparalleled Magic, Arrogance, Eerie Fog, A Tear Fell Down Someone’s Cheek, The Path of Awakening, Ritual Act, Theme of Cid Kagenou. 　These just aren’t something you forget if you actually paid attention and enjoyed the show, because the show wouldn’t be the same without them.

[@MarcelJ.]

@@danielantony1882 ...It's understandable with the long comment, but you misread: I wrote that Mushoku Tensei's soundtrack was forgettable. Eminence in Shadow has a great soundtrack.

[@kohrya]

Best Isekai. Definitely worth a watch.

[@WassupWeebTaku]

Best? Woah, ok!

[@gabodee]

I have this as second favorite anime of all time. Number one will always be Code Geass

[@Filimaua13]

This was a solid watch. Sure it prob wouldn't get you as it would for an isekai junkie.. but as someone who also doesn't watch alot of isekai (but knows enough of anime tropes in general), this was still entertaining for me. I just allowed myself to enjoy the cringe cheesy epicness of it all. That's what it all comes down to, really. Its just really refeshing to me, to find an op isekai protag who has reason and motive to be as strong as they are. Typically these isekai protags would be unhealthy neets and weebs, so it just feels weird seeing them be op for no reason. So to see a protag who actually has training his whole life in his original world with every reason to be as strong as he is in the new isekai just ticks that box for me. It also helps that Cid is one entertaining yet scarily insane character to follow. He's a chuunibiyou, but his dedication to the act is crazy. Guy gives no fks about the world around him and is only interested in looking cool and acting out all his anime power fantasies. His passion towards achieving his dreams is admirable... but damn.

[@danielantony1882]

Passion towards dream and chūnibyō is an oxymoron. Chūnibyō is an archetype of 8th graders who act out delusional fantasies and have no power to back them up, not to mention, they give up on their aspiration for heroes when faced with the reality. 　Examples of chūnibyō archetypes are ones with “The Evil Eye,” who use eye patches to “seal away the evil within.” There is also the one with the “Left Arm of The Devil,” where they once again, “have a devil sealed in their arm.” 　In actuality though, those characters have no real or practical power, and their trope in Anime consists entirely of folly and false grandeur. And as the saying goes, “they are all talk, no bark.” 　Kágeno Minorú is the polar opposite of that archetype, and even the name of his original hero-like persona, Káge no Jitsuryokúsha, is a reference to that fact if you pay attention to it. His entire point as a character relies on the fact that he believes in the supremacy of real and practical power-Jitsuryokú. That is what makes his words carry weight while the chūnibyōs’ words carry none. 　His story is a direct thematic continuation and in-depth immersion into the entire topic of “the aspiration for heroes,” while most other stories with chūnibyō end on the chūnibyō phase itself.

[@angelsambition2179]

I’m not much of a Isekai fan and that’s because you’ve seen majority of them all and it’s only a small batch that are really good and original. Watching Eminence in Shadow was a great experience because it was so self are of itself in its tropes in what felt like a real world going through real things. It was a great watch

[@maxorcg]

i think overlord it's a pretty good isekai story but sadly the anime isn't the best, it's more like an epic bonus for the fans that read the light novel

[@WassupWeebTaku]

I nearly watched that a couple weeks ago

[@Syllaren]

​@Wassup, WeebTaku! It's still worth a watch season 1 is definitely fire. 2 and on kinda lose the momentum.... especially thanks to some really poor cg usage. Season 1 had cg but they actually kinda utilized it somewhat well(sounds impossible but it happened)... the same can't be said for later.

[@ilmaripajola4387]

3:20 Thats the main reason so many people dont enjoy something, theyr simply tooooo lazy to even think while watching something and too eager to drop something or just assume that something is bad without even checking it out!

[@WassupWeebTaku]

Not even remotely true when it comes to me. My favorite anime and stories are usually very psychological (psycho pass, id: invaded, death note, steins; gate ect) I love to think when I watch. I drop shows when it just simply does not peak my interest. I always finish an entire season before I drop an anime. So I push through and gave the show multiple chances before deciding to spend my time with another show instead. There's just too much anime out there too "hate watch" something imo.

[@ilmaripajola4387]

@@WassupWeebTaku Well i also have a genre that is absolutely not for me and that's Mahou Shoujou. And since you enjoyed great titles like Psycho pass and id: invaded im sure you will accept a challenge of understanding atleast 50% of content in 10 movies of Kara no Kyoukai, and since animation was done by Ufotable, you dont need to be worried about animation quality XD

[@daniloapostolov-dacatv1536]

If one isekai is bad doesn't mean all of them is bad.

[@WassupWeebTaku]

Of course, I never go into an anime expecting it to be bad. I was just joking around in the video. Even the ones I have seen are not bad. They just haven't won me over like other genres.

[@daniloapostolov-dacatv1536]

@@WassupWeebTaku Ok. I recommend misfit of demon king academy is you didn't saw it. An there is second season. And my favorite anime is your lie in april.

[@kamijoutouma5362]

Mushoku Tensei is a really good story but not something I would openly recommend to anybody. The story is the godfather of all isekai stories because most of them are inspired by Mushoku Tensei. It really has good world-building and character development but I know some people will be rightfully justified to feel uncomfortable with the series' first arcs for reasons relating to the personality of the main character. It really is a great story about actually redoing your life and becoming a better version of yourself. The story started with the main character at their lowest and you'll see his growth throughout the series as a person. It is good because you can tell that the story and the anime itself are filled with passion as Studio Bind, the animation studio behind the series adaptation, was solely created to make an adaptation of the novel of Mushoku Tensei.

[@WassupWeebTaku]

This actually sounds interesting 😆

[@danielantony1882]

There were Isekai before Mushoku Tensei, you have no clue what you’re talking about. Visions of Escaflowne, The 12 Kingdoms, and so on and so forth-all of them came before Mushoku Tensei.

[@yoheyo5780]

Wow, I'm also illustrator and "isekai hater", the genre just never really click to me. I've only watched Mushoku and Overlord before i finally give Eminence a shot. I watched it just out of boredom bcs why not (even i hate harem). In my surprise, this anime really entertaining and become one of my favorites. The edgy is intentional, i cringe at some part but still found it funny and cool. The anime is aware of the edginess. The final episode is amazing. I'm surprised by the direction of this anime. It kinda like One Punch Man where the MC is OP and just goofing around while the side characters have serious lore. Hype for the next season! After i finished it, i try to watch another isekai (bcs they said Eminence is kind of a parody of the genre) but still cant get into it, just not my thing i guess :/

[@danielantony1882]

Well, because they are lying to you. Eminence in Shadow is not a parody. People can call it a parody, but once you ask them to explain what it’s parodying, they’re not gonna be able to explain anything to you ’cause it’s not parodying anything. There is no anime in existence like The Eminence in Shadow.

[@elmichellangelo]

We are talking about an MC that has watch pretty much every anime(and i mean it. Just watch ep 10). So him knowing the plot is pretty understandable.

[@danielantony1882]

Well, I mean… Cinema is kind of his thing.

[@G.Bfit.93]

Officially a reverse isekai now hahaha

[@danielantony1882]

Omnisekai, actually.

[@AJT1289]

Cid has to be like the harem king... He got.. he literally for a while secret organization with hundred, literally hundreds of females, absolute 0 men other than himself

[@danielantony1882]

You know, you can’t really blame the dudes in the show, ’cause any possessed dude cannot handle the overload of the Diablos Cells. Only females can handle it ’cause the OG heroes were all female, and Diablos herself was female, so you can’t really insert cells of someone with XX chromosomes into someone with XY and expect them to be able to handle that.

[@ilmaripajola4387]

Simplest thing to fix anyone's problem with isekai series, just forget that MC got into another world and then anime will automatically become just a simply fantasy. No matter what you think or say, there will be total trash series in every genre like shounen or mahou shoujou or whatever, but same goes for great series too. First watch, then judge, and soooo many forget this simple fact.

[@BalrogQuote]

But like, one of the biggest issues with a lot of isekai is the fact that the whole `another world` thing rarely matters, and it ends up just being fantasy, making it almost entirely pointless that it's an isekai.

[@ilmaripajola4387]

@@BalrogQuote But complaining about amount of isekai series wont fix anything now will it huh. My point is that there are good series that work and bad ones that don't, and the amount of series in a genre shouldn't be a factor to decide that the whole genre is bad.

[@BalrogQuote]

@@ilmaripajola4387 Where did the amount thing come from? That wasn't in your initial comment or mine. I just think most isekai don't make the best use of their setting, which is all isekai really describes. It's less a genre, and more a tag. Like, it's just, if you're going to make it about a person going to another world, make that matter beyond an excuse to exposit, which is all it amounts to for a good amount. Some certainly do, and within those, there are certainly still bad ones, but at least it's doing SOMETHING with the setting.

[@ilmaripajola4387]

@@BalrogQuote Nah, its something Wassup, WeebTaku! was mentioning in video. But yeah Isekai is just like any school setting stuff or mechs or something else that should elevate show, but not always it does so.

[@Stonehawk]

5 eps. give it 5 eps. if you aren't hyped and hooked by the end of ep 5, you can stop.

[@vascofernandes295]

14:48 It is dumb until you know the whole story...

[@ahzayamackie8881]

You should watch it at some point. Though if you think it sucks thats what they want you to think. But ya yoy should watch it at some point

[@hifty7779]

i feel like you would understand the jokes, just cuz its super obvious on what is happening, so give it a shot!

[@charlesredd5383]

Yes its awesome

[@justsomeone-ok6jx]

11:03 I don’t blame you 😭

[@vp7877]

Lol you should watch giggiks video "Isekai is great actually"

[@fardiansyahaing7785]

For me konosuba is number 1

[@Yamato3000x]

have you heard of No Game No Life? if you're not into isekai and want to watch anime of that genre, this is what i recommend.. not sure if it'd work tho

[@WassupWeebTaku]

😂 yeah tried that one too. But I'll rewatch that one. I really like the art style!

[@lunarbat6009]

10:11 Good question *They don't*

[@bookofmoon]

To me, The only masterpiece isekai anime is Twelve Kingdoms

[@omargoodman2999]

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks; but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee Eminence doesn't do something new to distinguish itself from other Isekai. It takes one thing that most Isekai have already done to death, then does it _so hard_ that it loops clear back around to awesome again. Bullshit Power Fantasy is the "one kick" that Eminence has practiced not just 10,000 times, but 100,000 times. It's not a _parody_ of Isekai so much as it's a *satire* of Isekai (Konosuba is a parody).

[@danielantony1882]

Satire? In what way?

[@G.Bfit.93]

If you like One Punch Man or Konosuba you'll like this

[@OuttaContrlKay]

The other three shows he talked about a good shows just don’t go into it overhyped because it’s gonna damp in the experience

[@icecp6532]

As someone who dislike pretty much every isekai except Frieren. Eminence in Shadow is amazingly entertaining. Probably some of the best comedy I've seen alongside Nichijou and Kaguya-sama.

[@ExpertContrarian]

You don’t know what isekai is

[@icecp6532]

@@ExpertContrarian Yeah no I was just being an idiot. I know Frieren isn't an isekai and just a fantasy. I just have anime brain rot and see every fantasy as an isekai.

[@w1she.d]

you seen re zero?

[@icecp6532]

@@w1she.d Yes

[@Siennamerdein]

All I can say is Isekai is a genre built for people who can laughs and appreciate idiot things when they are clearly made to be idiot things It works well for people who accepts what ever the plot gives them But to be honest Isekai is one of the best genre who can actually write a great world development And character development But some is lost from it's source material to it's anime adaptation Also Isekai is mostly not for people who watch a show to see if it's good or not for people who see the bad stuff before the good stuff People who see the show to see all the bad things to hate on it Majority of people who actually hates on Isekai is their based opinion is becoz they say it's overly saturated same show but different sprite But they are shounen lover who doesn't realize that shounen genre is the most over saturated genre for decades now 😂 even romcom is overly saturated genre almost all have same premise and plot development What they don't realize is If they just watch Isekai for what kind of show it is they will appreciate it all the more Watching your over powered protagonist eradicate all the villain that thinks they are unbeatable Is so satisfying that's why one punch man is one of the most love shounen of recent years

[@Flame-uo5mp]

i completely agree with you saying shounen and other genres has been way oversaturated than the isekai genre since the start. it really is just people nitpicking the bad things in it only. and you wonder why you see so many people are like that compared to the other genres that has been oversaturated as well? that's because isekai is fun and has so much potential that people would find enjoyable is why people are hating so much on the trash isekais. like you dont see people trash talk about the tens of recent subpar shounen or romcom that came out the past few years and thats mainly because the isekai genre came out on those years and became popular. so in conclusion people are really just overhyping themself in expectation of a good isekai and just get disappointed with a subpar one. which shouldn't actually be a surprise as it happens with the other genres also, just people dont talk about them. also btw, one punch man is a seinen and not a shounen just to let you know.

[@Flame-uo5mp]

and also i dont really watch shounen shows that much anymore, since most of them are just subpar to me after watching the big three and the more mainstream shounen like my hero academia and black clover. which weirdly enough i prefer watching the isekais that came out recently these past years over the shounens that came out. which is probably why isekai is consider the junk food of anime cause you can just watch them for fun without taking them seriously compare to these shounens that came out recently.

[@MarioHernandez-zm9gc]

Go watch this Glorious Trash please

[@ExpertContrarian]

Immediately hating on ReZero is a good way for me to not bother with your videos. Here’s the engagement you wanted.

[@crowcoregames1785]

watch welcome to demon school thank me later