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So anime should always stand up by itself and never rely on its source material. I'm not saying the answers won't get answered in future seasons but as it stands there's a lot of questions still raised. I have heard the manga is incredibly well written but at the time of writing I won’t be reading it. Nothing against manga at all, I just haven’t dived into the medium. Also it really isn't a nitpick when I explain these intelligent, free thinking creatures who live for centuries (and who get bored and experiment) never bothered to think about their mortal enemy. All long living species will experience time the same way, how they perceive themselves and their future prospects would be different. For instance, elves wouldn't really consider dying of old age an issue anywhere near the same way as humans. It doesn't mean they see everything around them at twenty times the speed which would be so if they experienced twenty days passing as a single day (it also means they would move twenty times slower). Three years to elves or gem folk is equivalent to three years to humans, only the percentage of their lives is different. Incidentally, our protagonist gets bored within a few days of recording notes not years and needs to be explained who the poison one is and why she's all by herself when that should be common knowledge.

Without exception anime is supposed to stand up by itself, not be propped up by the source material. I heard the Eragon books are very good but the film was utterly abysmal. The last airbender film (live action) was also abysmal yet the series it came from was great. From what I heard Deadman wonderland horribly butchered its source. Terrible anime adaptations do not undermine their source material; if this is the case here then the same applies. Also, I’m afraid I don't review light novels or manga in general (haven't actually read any). Nothing against them at all, it's just I have never dived into that medium.

Or perhaps remake the ninth season and then do a follow up season (not that they will considering the mess behind the scenes).

@@dlfarmer7601 If that's the case, they should just remake the show from V3 or V4. There is a lot of issues that helped create the mess in writing for the later volumes.

Also, they can't afford it currently.

@DocMicrowave There are quite a few issues with volume 5 (particularly with the fight with lionheart) but I'm curious what problems you're referring to as volumes 6, 7 and 8 are overall very good.

@@dlfarmer7601 Ooo you don't want to fully open that door. I have quite the laundry list. And it isn't clean. But to quickly sum up: - To be honest with you, on rewatch I have come to accept some of V5 as ok. Shocking as it may. It was about 50/50 on hits and misses. I started ranking volumes by the ratio of hits vs misses per volume. (imo of course). And despite the terrible ending arc (fight with Leo), I appreciated some of the character and world building that took place earlier in the volume. - V6, first half I thought was probably the best writing since V3. I quite enjoyed it. But then the second half happened. Starting a decline in the writing that only accelerated after that. It began the era of Team R/W/BY as always right, righteous and wise, despite their very grievous errors. Starting with the Argus arc. Maybe 55/45% on hits/misses. - V7 really began the death spiral as logic went out the window. Replaced with Lore bending/breaking, character switchups. All meant to force through narratives. What I call "they were there, now they are here" situations and depictions when the writers know they had no way to explain the journey. Fanservicy scenes meant to pander to parts of the fandom, resulting in cringy and nonsensical depictions and actions. And yes, I am in the "What the did to Ironwood was a crime" camp. The volume had a lot more misses than hits. - V8 was more of the same, on steroids. It had almost no hits. (Except for the one scene of Watts calling out Cinder. That was mildly entertaining to see.). - V9 was mainly filler. Did little to nothing to progress the main story. With the only goal seeming to be fanservice and flipping Neo. Most everything was reset by the end of the volume. Even though the volume was cut short by a couple of chapters because CRWBY ran out of money, I doubt the missing chapters would have made a difference. Again, more misses than hits. Despite being visually interesting. At the end of the day, I blame the writers for dropping the ball and going for the low hanging fruit. imho of course. (I really tried to make it short.)

What ever it was, they need to get their money back.

Honestly I can't imagine what would happen if Ruby chose to transform into something else. Would her mother suddenly be in her place or would she would have her mother's abilities or personalities. The whole thing is incredibly poorly thought through. In this season, everyone's character is screwed over so I have no idea what their reactions would have been.

@@dlfarmer7601 The writers intended everybody to be pretty much reset to what they were by the end of V9. (With the exception of the predicted flipping of Neo. And some teasing of a STRQ flashback in V10.) Hence, a filler volume.

Yeah pretty much. No doubt the Author heard about the problem with the previous king giving away his entire kingdom to Souma for no reason so threw in time travel to solve it. One problem solved, a thousand created.

In this season, very much so. Before this not so much.

But but everything was planned since the very beginning!!!! - Crwby and the fandom

@@brookeneeley396 Just because the series wasn't planned from the *very* beginning, doesn't mean they made up stuff as they went along. If you have any contradictions or contrivances within the plot of the first eight seasons then I would love to hear them.

@@dlfarmer7601 well the first red flag was when Miles admitted during a commentary video of vol 4 or 5 that they don't have a timeline because they want to avoid plot holes (it still made plot holes). Miles also admitted he "not good remembering important plot points" as if he's incapable of rewatching previous volumes or revisiting Monty's notes

@brookeneeley396 Honestly there were all kinds of nightmares behind the scenes and I can imagine they hadn't planned out the series from the outset and no doubt changes made throughout the process. However, the end result is a very well done plot with a mostly solid cast. It's definitely not perfect by any means. The battle of Haven was packed with contrivances, the scene where the ace ops leader dies was god awful, Mercery, Emerald and Hazel were blindly naive about Salem and Cinder was immensely 2D (I highlight these in my video on rwby 1 through 8). Do you have any other problems in mind with the series (outside season 9 of course)? Getting back to the original point. The end result is all that matters, what happened behind the scenes or what the creators said about it doesn't matter. Back to the Future was a nightmare behind the scenes and due to a sudden lack of funding they cancelled their original ending of a nuclear blast sending them back to the future and changed it to a lightning strike (as well as many reshoots and changes during filming, including changing the main actor half way through). Yet the end result was great. Likewise Dr Strange 2 and Ant Man Quantum mania were both written during filming with constant changes and both are abysmal. Point is, the end result is what matters when judging a series/film and is why I rarely speak on the background.

Amazed that I missed that. Your right, all her friends should have quickly noticed her depression and I'd also agree that's definitely character assassination. Especially after she blanks out after learning Penny died. I guess this season was so overflowing with crap that I missed it.

Karma, for what Ruby (and those same friends) did o Ironwood. imho

While the second season wasn't marvellous (honestly I'd agree with your sentiment about that), the first had quite a lot of promise and utilised many effective strategies to kill goblins. Including elements from fantasy that have never been used. Had they used the first season as a means to introduce the world and characters in order to kickstart a far greater plot, Goblin Slayer would've remained incredibly memorable. As it stands however, the series is meanderingly going in circles.

Yeah, that would've been a neat idea. After learning how the world works, her plan could have been to try and use it kill ruby for good. How her plan fails is a different discussion but I would much prefer that plan for her.

Ummm, I hope your comment was a troll as I wracking my brain over what you said. Grammer is important bro. "we got to know something if there wasn't this kind of stuff like that like without magic, we'd just have another anime I would not call out" Really struggling here. Are you saying Realist hero is a fantasy anime without magic? Because it does have magic and the parts that don't involve magic is moronic. "and they were adding tension by them not realizing the was at their fort" Okay, assuming you meant "not realising _Souma_ was at the dragon fortress". Couple things. Adding tension for tension sakes is not good. You could've strapped nukes to every character and that would have added tension. It was a massive contrivance that he knew about secret entrances into the dragon capital and that he managed to get through undetected. Besides what tension. The protagonist just turns up and wins. "they tell us about the reason why he brought that big ass boat" The reason was obvious - to use it as a distraction to lure out the dragon air force. The means of strapping giant wheels to a massive flagship, of arranging giant beasts to pull it, and the impossibility to drag it across the continent is a serious problem. Another issue I've just realised is that the race of flying creatures at war with Souma only spotted the massive ship when it was on their doorstep. Also they sacrificed their flagship when they already had the means of sneaking undetected into the Prince's chamber. Could've just had a dozen warriors bust into the room and quickly make him surrender.

As far as I know, RWBY did not get new writers. Kerry is still in charge. (And according to the Viz website, only he is attached to RWBY for now.) Viz is just a licensing and distribution company. It is still on Kerry and ..... to find a production house, and some (a lot) money to restart production. Else, for now it is just a place for the license and V1-9 to live. As well as any other things they come up with like those cheesy slide show animations. V10 ain't happening anytime soon.

You liked that scene? I'm glad you have better ideas than the piss poor one we got but I'm almost fascinated by your comment. Was it the concept itself; you wanted Ruby to be tortured? If so why?

@@dlfarmer7601 Well Despite Having The Title "hero" She wasn't Good at Earning That Title. Like With Theodore, Yes He's a Coward, But He was Not Only At The Mercy of Salem, But Imagine The amount of Fear with That, While Also Trying To Manage a School For Mercenaries. I Would Have Him Fight Ruby alongside Emerald's Horrific Copy of Salem, In Haven Academy, Theodore Would Tell Ruby How He Died, The Terror Of Salem, The Terror Of Betraying his Friends, The Horror of Being Left Behind, His Corpse Being Used as Weapon By The Salem Copy. With Ironwood, She And her Friends Broke The Trust That They Had with Ironwood, Then Became Hypocrites as They Blame Ironwood For Not Trusting Them afterwards. They Pushed him over That Edge. I Would Have Him and Ruby in a Flooded Version of the Atlas Academy arena where Ironwood Fought Watts. And Yet Ironwood is Covered in Flames From Burning in The Fire That Cinder Created. Ironwood Would Call Ruby out on The BS he had to Go through The Logical Errors That was Made By Her. And Both Burn and Freeze at The Same Time. Penny... Ruby was one of Penny's ONLY True friends, And Despite this, Penny Died as A robot, Then was Rebuilt, Became human, Then DIED a Second Time, And Ruby Couldn't Save Her. I would Have Her Switch Between Both areas where Penny Died. Fake Penny in Volume Three Would Call Ruby Her Best Friend and Fight her, Playing with Ruby as if The Fight was a Game. Flash Back and Forth from That To the Time and Place Where Jaune Kills Her, for the second Time. Fake Penny02 would Fight With The Furoscity of Someone in Pain from Dying Twice, Fighting Ruby With the Power of a Pissed off Winter Maiden. With Pyrrha, it's as She Said herself, She Sacrifices herself so That her Friends Can Live. And She's Trained Her Whole Life for That. I would Have Ruby Fight in a Montage of all The Arenas that Pyrrha Has fought in, Ending in The Fight that Pyrrha got Killed. With Clover, Of it Hadn't Been for Qrow's Bad Luck, Then He'd Still Be Alive. I would have Ruby Be Caught By Clover's Fishing Rod, And Reel her into The Next Area, Blaming Ruby For Bringing Qrow and His Bad Luck Semblance as Clover Does This. Clover Reels Ruby into his Chest, Where Qrow's Sword Piercing Through the Chest, via A Mad Tyrian Laughing his Head off as he Does it, And Clover's Laughing with him Ozpin is One Manipulative old Man, Sure. But Ruby, After Knowing This Continues. Let's Ozpin Do Stuff Like Slowly Take over a Child's Brain. I Would Have Ruby Be in The Room Where She First Met Ozpin, But Instead of Offering Cookies, Ozpin is There, Beating Ruby With a Kane, Telling Her That The Only Reason He Had Ruby Join Beacon, was Because of Her Silver eyes. Telling Ruby That's She's Not Made out to Save Anyone. After about 30 Hits with The Kane, Ozpin Leaves, Saying He's Disappointed. Ruby's Alone in The Darkness, Bare I Lying on The Floor, Almost Broken, Then Ruby Sees Herself from Volume 1, V1 Ruby Tells Her to Get Up and Be a Hero, And Fight, V9 Ruby Can Barely Keep up with her Past Self, As V1 Mocks and her Like a Child, Playing Make-Believe, as the Fight Goes From the Volume 1 Dust Robbery, To the Forest from The RED Trailer. And Volume 1 Ruby Wins. But Before Ruby Falls, Her aura Shattered, Roman Torchwick Grabs Ruby by The Hand, The Scene Turns to When Roman Died, He goes " Been Waiting For a Long For Time for This" And Lets Go of Ruby who Then Gets Swallowed By The Bird Grimm That once ate Roman. In The Darkness, Ruby Starts Drowning in The Tea That Neo Wanted her to Drink to Descend. (Bit Dark, but it's a Dark Scene, Like When Luke Told Yoda he's Not Scared, Then Yoda says simply " You Will Be" And if She Has to Stop and Think about it, Then She will Fall and Cry about it.

​@@PositiveNihilism. Apologies for the late reply, been hectically busy on my end. Anyway… Ruby never had an official title of hero, she became the leader of her team and later became the sortof leader of the whole group (along with Juanne). She has many heroic traits and has consistently tried (and several times succeeded) to save people so I’d happily call her a hero. Your ideas are certainly a lot better than what we got as these ideas actually involve utilising these different perspectives to challenge ruby in different ways. However, like the scene we got, it raises the question of how neo could possibly know any of this. I’m certain she has never met any of these people (with general ironwood and Penny only in passing) so she would never possibly know what relationship they had of Ruby. Now the fun bit, your alternative scenes with reference to the fact this is neo’s attempt to discourage/break Ruby. For each one this is where I would have ruby strongly argue against each point (if we are keeping this god awful season) as that would reflect what she thinks of each person/decision. I assume you meant Lionheart than Theadore. Anyway, I like the setup of your scene - showcasing the fear he felt along with his depiction of Salem - but I would probably include him arguing exactly where has Ruby’s courage has lead to, perhaps even suggesting submitting would lead to less loss/pain. Ruby could argue back to submit is to allow Salem to spread misery everywhere to everyone. She must continue to fight against all who cause evil. This neatly leads to Ironwood who could argue something like “and if your actions cause more evil?” I agree Ironwood would try to argue ruby’s plan was flawed, that her team had gone behind his back. However, ruby would rightly argue she had no other choice and from her perspective she had saved all the civilians (as there’s no possible way for her to know what happened in Vacuo’s desert). Incidentally, her plan was by far the best. It was only undone because Cinder used the very powerful lamp to figure out exactly what they all had planned, not that the character would argue that of course. I like your scene with penny though she wouldn’t have the winter maiden power. Perhaps she could try and argue ruby should have gone along with ironwoods plan or something. Ruby could become less aggressive but argue it was the right thing to do, that ironwood planned to destroy mantle. I think it would be better if Pyrrha didn’t fight Rwby and instead, after the penny fight, she would explain her sacrifice as you said but then be depressed and kill herself. Saying her sacrifice was meaningless. Clover should not be involved in any of this. He never had a personal connection with ruby and his death both had nothing to do with Ruby and was profoundly moronic. Easily the worst scene in Rwby before season 9 but I’ve broken that down in a different video. So after the Phyrra section this would be ideal to bring in Ozpin and have him explaining his dastardly actions (at least what Neo would want to show her). I wouldn’t even have him beat ruby at all and instead a montage of him manipulating people throughout the centuries leading to each of the previous examples. He would then explain ruby was just another naïve child he easily manipulated. Ruby would then argue against neo herself, saying none of these people felt this way and she (through Oz or someone else) can she actually argue against these points to which she would. Ruby would put her trust into Oz, believe to keep fighting no matter what happens. Neo could then get furious with her and then perhaps have each of them fight her all at once. Much prefer your ending where torchwick throws ruby into a pool of the tea rather than her drinking it herself (especially quite like the similarity with his ending). I truly despise this scene as it utterly destroys her character as with frankly little effort Neo got ruby to kill herself. I understand and agree your idea of using a similar scene to challenge her in different ways would have been far better. Difficult to implement but would’ve been far better than the insultingly terrible scene in a mire of abysmal writing.

@@dlfarmer7601 Ok, Then we'd Do a Puss in Boots, And Do a Montage of Neo Always Being There. Either That Or Neo and Salem Just Talked about it. Yea MisRemembered Lionheart's Thnx on That. I was More So Planning a Fight Scene. Both Physically And Mentally. She Fights Lionheart and The True Fear of Salem, She Fights Ironwood Who Calls Her out on The Hypocrisy Of Calling him Untrustworthy, When They Lied to Him Tenfold, Questioning Her Very Flawed Logic. Ruby Fights Pyrrha, a Huntsmen Ruby Might Never Live up to, Ruby's Fighting Penny, A Friend She Left Behind Twice, Both Before AND after Penny Gained Maiden Powers, Ruby Fights Clover, Who Uses Ruby's Love for Her Uncle Against her, P Blaming Qrow's Drunkness on Ruby. She's Down and Almost Broke on Aura, But Ozpin Comes around a Beats Her with his Cane, With Each Strike, Ozpin Changes Between Each Version of Himself, Breaking That aura, Explaining all The Manipulating He's Done To People Like Ruby for Over a Million Life Times, In The Same Room They First Met. The Reason For The Locations of Each Fight, Was So That The Opponents Could Interact With The Environment Differently. Neo Stands Still, Waiting for Ruby To Shoot At Neo, But The Bullet is Deflected By Wiess's Sword, And Ruby is Forced to Fight Her own Team, plus Herself, Real Ruby is Able to Defeat A Everyone But Her Self. The Fake Ruby Then Turns into A Grimmified Version of Herself, Similar to The Hound. Real Ruby Eventually Loses, And Ruby is Left to Grovel at The Feet of Roman Torchwick, Where She's Yanked into The Air, By Roman And Ruby is Forced to Watch The Fall of Beacon aThen Dropped,Made To Fall into The Jaws of The Bird Grimm. It Doesn't Need to Make Sense or Not Because Neo's Semblance is In Control of This Nonsense Reality, Powered By Her Hatred Alone. She Can Copy anyone, anything, any Power, She Can Materialize All The Maiden powers Just Because She Can Think it, But All She Does think of, is Getting Vengeance on Ruby, And Thus once Gets That Vengeance, And Ruby Drowns in a Sea of the Tea That Makes her Descend. Neo Mind Stops, Because Now She's Done it, Neo Has Nothing Driving her anywhere, And Her Semblance, Like her Mind, Shatters The Mansion Because of This. The Rest is History.

@PositiveNihilism. Well the puss in boots example doesn't work as Neo isn’t nearly as omnipresent as the reaper. And Salem wouldn't bother to speak of ruby to Neo (and they only met briefly in the whale). At a stretch, Cinder might've talked about it, or at an even bigger stretch neo found this information out herself (the spiders and her own investigation). Anyway, your visuals are far better than what we got and not only does it allow unique fight scenes but unique character interactions. The dialogue and arguments I suggested could have been happening during the fight scenes (Phyrra and Ozpin being the exception). The purpose of this scene is characterisation over everything else. It needs to establish why Ruby would fall into despair. It cannot be understated just how badly the original scene and season failed at this. Anyway, couple points: Ruby being seen as a grim version of herself is a neat visual but it would only convince the real Ruby to fight instead of giving up. Ruby definitely wouldn't grovel at Torchwick's feet. She would almost certainly argue back at him but if she was somewhat broken by the experience she would likely softly apologise (more to everyone than just Torchwick).

Profoundly disagree. An anime all about kingdom management/politics/geopolitics isn't aimed at incels and "unsociable weeb gamers", it's aimed at a particular undeserved niche. Realist hero was just made by incredibly moronic writers. As for the growing harem in the show, that was merely there because thats been done in many other anime. If it was aimed at incels then surely there'd be more fanservicey stuff. So far we only had two of the girls sleeping in his bed with him. Isekai is primarily done as a form of escapism. It doesn't matter how sociable or insociable someone is, there are many people who enjoy the genre. Most Isekai are simple light hearted entertainment (quality very much questionable) but I strongly argue it still has enormous potential for incredibly great and unique stories.

Indeed. All we are left with is the results of crappy writing. RT dead. RWBY in Limbo.

RWBY is now being backed by Viz Media. So it'll return.

Umm, yes and No. Viz is just a licensing and distribution company for the most part. Not a production house. Kerry made the deal as soon as the contract with CR expired (they were Not going to renew) to try and keep RWBY visible and the license secure. Basically RWBY will be back to were it was 4 months ago. Pushing old merch, cheesy side story slide shows, promises of V10 around the corner, and eventually begging for support.

@@ShogunPlasma RWBY is not quite back. Viz is not really a production company. Mainly distribution. Kerry is still looking for money, investors, and a production company.

1 month later. Still not aging well.

I vaguely remember an anime that had a girl summon a human from our world as her familiar although that was in a high school setting and was mainly a romance thing (I remember dropping it after one or two episodes). So yeah, if done well, that idea has quite a bit of promise and certainly can be very unique. What kind of genre were you going for?

@@dlfarmer7601 ether Pure fantasy or a fantasy/steam punk combo. And for how he gets to the other world, he basically falls into a comma do to a brain tumor and his mind forces itself into another reality as a last dich effort at self preservation.

@Totallynotacrab7828 I'm interested what you mean by pure fantasy. Would it be a typical anime fantasy trope of many races mingled together, a Tolkienesque like fantasy where there are different factions of the different races or something like Game of Thrones where its all humans but with fantasy elements in there. A fantasy, steam punk world sounds very interesting. Like a fantasy world going through its own industrial revolution. Unique way of isekaing. Could even add a theme of self reflection, new beginings, surviving at all costs or if you want something darker, perhaps the protagonist could refuse to accept his/her inevitable death. The protagonist could even question whether this world is real or simply his dying imagination. Of course it would massively depend on what kind of tone you'll be going for.

@@dlfarmer7601 I think I would like to go for a darker tone if I ever put it on paper. I imagine the humans would make up the lower class with the fantasy races being farther up in wealth and status, the protagonist and his master are pretty much at the bottom do to the fact that the sorcereres is human.

1) At the time of this video came out, this plothole wasn't filled and I said in my video on Realist Hero S2, that it was solved. The solution however cracked open a hundred other plotholes as it involves literal time travel. 2) Missing the point? They said the population was starving then had the leaders scoff down all the food they wanted. The anime is supposed to be about kingdom management but was so stupid it didn't realise this obvious problem. Yes the creators wanted a food scene but failed to realise this anime isn't suitable for that. Also they had supposedly starving fishermen throw out edible octopuses because they looked funny. When people starve they will eat anything, from sawdust to soil. 3) So the kingdom has a professional army (well several but I digress) yet relies on random people to train to become adventurers? Why not have special squads of teams delving into dungeons. Game mechanic rules simply do not fit with this setting is my point. 4) So for 500 years the kingdom was carved up between four distinct areas with their own armies, priorities and racial makeup. This is a recipe for disaster. Didn't think I need to explain why but oh well. 500 years is an incredibly long time which means there’s plenty of successions for all four rulers who each have powerful armies and reasons for expanding their territory. This kind of system would always cause friction among these different factions and lead to unrest. All it would take is one or more corrupt or ambitious rulers during a time of weakness to start a civil war. Having four standing armies loyal to their respective ruler is something horribly dysfunctional. There’s a good reason why there has never been a kingdom that has had multiple armies controlled by different rulers. 5) In any kind of sane world, what happened in this show would've made Souma deeply unpopular in many parts of the kingdom. There was a civil war where he killed hundreds if not thousands of soldiers, each with their own families and such. Not to mention every person in the corrupt nobles and dragon people territories would feel Souma was a tyrant king. The corrupt nobles would have spread all kinds of stories of his cruelty while the dragon people would see him as an usurper. Carmine's plan to intentionally spark a civil war has catastrophic consequences that the anime fails to grasp. 6) So Souma is from modern society so he should have a solid understanding of the importance of Police, Auditors, Banking systems, Export/Import Duties and Judicial oversight. And more importantly he is the king. He has the power to enact these changes. To create a police force, start with soldiers on patrol with specific tasks with trustworthy people made to be inspectors. For a banking system, they have these adventurer guilds across the kingdom (for goodness knows what reason) so they would be ideal to use them as connected branches of a bank (the first paper money were IOUs which could be cashed in at any branch of bank in the country). Export/import duties are pretty much common throughout any kind of society but here it could target goods to/from the enemy kingdom. Judicial oversight requires a solid code of law and respected individuals to enact; given what happens in this show, they have both but Souma could give them more power/oversight to clamp down on bad nobles. In any medieval society there are solid institutions to keep a society functioning. There are always groups looking for corruption, a law code to enforce rules and systems of managing goods. These may not have been as effective as systems in the modern world but they kept their societies functioning. Medieval people were not stupid. Yes, the seven nobles were corrupt and were lending aid to an enemy state but the way to deal with them is not to unite them with more enemies in a full blown civil war, it is to cut of their money supply, find evidence of their wrongdoings and lock them up one by one. A civil war is perhaps the absolute worst thing you can do in any kind of kingdom. By the way, later on it is discovered Carmine and the former king knew exactly who were the corrupt ones so this whole mess could’ve easily been avoided. Still I'm glad you agree Realist Hero has many problems.

@@dlfarmer7601 1) Yet it was clear that there was more to the king than just being a stupid monarch. It would've been better for you to delay judgement instead of jumping to the wrong conclusions. 2) The point being to show the population new recipes for ingredients they already had access to but didn't know how to cook it or if it was even edible. Showing important people eating the new food shows the population that it is safe. Again, really simple stuff. The part of "When people starve they will eat anything" is just your personal incredulity, nothing more. 3) Also simple stuff really. The army is for defending the kingdom or attacking another. Meanwhile the adventurers specialize in hunting monsters and doing odd jobs. The kingdom can have its army that they need to maintain and train, and when they need it they can contract adventurers to do other kind of jobs. The army has dicipline and a fit purpose meanwhile the adventurers are adaptable. I really fail to understand what's your poblem with this 4) 2 of those rulers are from long living races. Castor has been alive for 160 years and Excel since before the kingdom's founding. Expanding their territory would be nuts because the other rulers would stop them. It would require all 3 rulers to stop being loyal to the kingdom for one of them to get funny ideas. "There’s a good reason why there has never been a kingdom that has had multiple armies controlled by different rulers." my dude, that's literally most medieval kingdoms 😂😂 centralized military was almost not a thing for feudal societies 5) Not really, their strategy was on point to make Souma look like the good guy. The improvement of the kingdom's management and progress against the famine already gave people a good impression of him. Him getting approved by the princess that people already liked and also using the artifacts for entertaiment purposes made him popular. 6) "He has the power to enact these changes" is not that simple, that's why he had to get rid of the nobles. You might be really confused but being a king doesn't really give you all the power. The power of the king comes from being recognized by the nobles. If the nobles are against the king, that king is completely fucked. Noble society is way more complex than what people think. A king doesn't have power by just existing. Just because the mc became king doesn't mean he can install all of those systems in a day, this has to be a gradual process and most nobles would need to approve it. "the way to deal with them is not to unite them with more enemies in a full blown civil war" Seems like a really simple solution to me. Make them come out to light, take them all out at once. Easy. No need to try to investigate every single noble for evidences that might not even exist taking into consideration they are probably good at hiding it. Instead make them think they can win first. For me the problems with realist hero are (from reading the novels): 1) The harem is bad. I like harems, this harem is dog shit. Even smartphone isekai might have a better harem 😂 I don't feel any love between the mc and the wives apart from the singer/ninja/marine one. All others feel like forced political marriages, the princess is probably the fakest of them all. 2) The characters are too cartoonish, I don't believe they are real. Their desires, strenghts, flaws, etc are too simple. They all can be described in a single sentence. 3) Resolutions to conficts are really simple too. Is basically X guy dies we win, or we killed X monster, or we save X place, and that's it, there are not really greater repercutions or issues after the conflict is resolved 4) Lack of creativity: Everything always feels the same. We need to solve X issue, we made X development, we made relationship with X country, etc... compare that to Release that Witch where we have a constant development of technologies and industries, but also we keep getting reveals about the mysteries of the world. Also thanks to the theme of the series (the witches) we keep getting twists on the development of the nation, similar to scientific progress 5) The 2 final arcs are boring af. There are no stakes anymore. The conflic is between people that are not really enemies... Hell, to be real, it really never felt like the mc could ever actually lose or even take hits... In all of its faults, it was a great journey. The world building was on point, the development of the kingdom was great. The characters of other kingdoms really surprise me multiple times. I said that I didn't like how simple the characters were, but at the very least all of them made sense on their behaviour, views and alliances. When you know their strenghts and weaknesses, you can predic how they will act. When you undertand the politics of the world, you can predict the nations that will be in conflict, the nations that will take a hit, the nations that will get anexed by others, the purges that will happen, etc. The fact that the mc delegates work makes other characters shine instead of just being the mc solving everything. I didn't like the harem but at least the mc is not the only dude with multiple wives 😂. The main antagonist in particular was a great character, but bad antagonist

Soooo the first season with its literal discussion of polygamy wasn't meant to be harem show? Afraid the plot was always lost with this one.

So I don't think I talked about fan service in this video but while I agree its overused, bad fan service (because it can be done well) doesn't necessarily have to be in bad shows. Heavy Object is a prime example, half great and half the most obtuse fan service possible. It doesn't distract from bad writing, it distracts from good writing.

Let me just err...*cracks fingers*...reply to your comment step by step. "Analysing anime is dumb" Either you believe breaking down any piece of media, films, books, anime, films, etc is dumb or you believe specifically anime is the exception for some reason. From a writer's/creator's perspective, seeing various story analysis is not only useful, it is vital. One cannot create a good story if they don't know what a good story is after all. From a viewer's perspective, story analysis lets people appreciate good media better and incentivises people to search out better forms of media. Not to mention it is both fun to watch and write analysis of good/bad anime. "...the writer skipped those minor details on purpose..." So those minor details are the story. It's called how a realist hero rebuilt the kingdom so when I break down how terrible the steps the 'hero' took to rebuild the kingdom, that cannot be considered minor. Its emphasis is on economics and politics after all so there is no alternative timeline where these can be considered minor. But even if my video was on every minor detail in the show, there's nothing wrong with that either. What is a story if not a plethora of minor details coming together to make major details. Also if the writer did skip these details then he/she is a bad writer. "many kids won't bother looking for these kind of stupid minor details" Anime is not just for kids (and this anime specifically talks about polygamy, slavery and deep economics as well as geopolitics) and almost all "minor details" come together to make a show. I’m currently making a video on Legend of the Galactic Heroes and that is filled with a plethora of background details to fit with the empire's and Alliance’s aesthetic. If the animators/ directors/ producers didn't bother (your words) to include such details or include similar stuff then they are bad at their jobs. You can't adapt everything but it’s vital to get across the purpose of world, plot and characters. "but the overhall baseline story is amazing" If the light novel follows all major events in the anime then it would also be terrible. "with this you're trying so hard to underrate the anime who has great potential" I'd agree it certainly had great potential, there are very few anime about kingdom management after all and I was very eager to watch it. So when it horribly failed in every regard in its kingdom management that potential went sailing merrily away. "I still love this anime no matter how many critics it gets" Fair enough, I can't change how you or anyone else feels about any piece of media. This video was to objectively break down this anime. You can like bad things and can hate good things. I don't like Princess Mononoke despite acknowledging it is a very well made film while I really enjoy high school prodigies despite it being terrible on just about every level. "you should read the lightnovel , so you can get a clearer understanding before criticizing the anime" Anime should always stand alone from its source material. You wouldn't tell someone not to review the hobbit trilogy until they have read the book. "it's anime in the end no need to analyse it that thoroughly" Why? Are you suggesting anime is a lesser form of art to live action. "you're preventing many kids who may find it enjoyable to watch ..." If that's the case, excellent. If I can reduce the audience for crap like this and steer them toward decent anime like Genius Prince, all the better.

Certainly can't blame you. And there may never a V10.

I'm sorry but what? When did I say using new characters to show how the characters are feeling is bad. Where does that appear in the video? What character are you referring to? I did not argue that Ruby should be happy all the time and not be depressed. I argued shouting with her friends, being bitter, rejecting her weapon, not fighting to save her friends and above all, committing suicide is against her character. Ruby would not do that. Minor point but "fully set the tone"? The tone constantly flops between cartoonishly absurd to horrifically depressing. The tone of this mess was truly abysmal.

@@dlfarmer7601 yeah in another comment i said the vol 9 was terrible, it was dragged out and did too much. It was supposed to be a season of character depth for the final last few seasons in head for RWBY i'll do timestamps but u mostly portrayed that idea as bad gimme one sec baby girl

@@dlfarmer7601 6:16 10:30 these scenes where made to foreshadow to upcoming event of Ruby committing one dangerous of a hell act to herself, wasn't executed good at all but with past seasons of us seeing Ruby losing and digressing constantly because she's still just a teenager with no one to really hold her hand through the series this was supposed to be the season where she changes before the endgame but they made it shit

@PrincessTokn Ah okay now I understand. Perhaps I could've have worded it better but my point was this is a really terrible way to write character arcs. There was not a shred of subtlety and the powers of the racoon and caterpillar was specifically made for these scenes. It came across as the writers directly telling the audience what our protagonists are feeling. The Racoon essentially says ruby lost all hope and Yang is thinking about her love for Blake while the caterpillar has each of the protagonists confront a mirror version of themselves with Ruby failing. This is perhaps the bluntest method of portraying character arcs outside of the protagonists saying it themselves. I would agree that the idea of introducing a character solely to show the audience how the protagonist is feeling isn't bad by itself. It entirely relies on how it's done. If it fits with the world's rules (or believable for the character to be there) and how natural it is for the protagonist's feelings to be brought up. The world is so unbelievably broken in season 9 that nothing comes across as believable and with how contrived the scenes were nothing about them came across as natural. The racoon randomly auctioning something precious to Ruby (or at least was supposed to be) for "enough hope to fill this jar". That was a bad scene. The protagonists following the caterpillar into his home to have magic smoke blown into their faces so as to confront them with mirror versions of themselves isn't a natural cause and effect. As for the arc they put Ruby on, it is exceptionally terrible. While I agree it was executed very poorly, the idea itself, of having ruby of all people be so depressed and disheartened that she kills herself is absurd. She has been through many many hardships and has confidently led people time and time again. Everything she does in this season is entirely opposed to her character.

So absolutely agree. The potential for this story was incredible but the writers had all the knowledge and insight as a toddler with crayons up their nose. Clearly there was not a shred of research done into societies / economics / politics / characters / stories or indeed anything whatsoever when they made this. I can really picture if these writers made the Martian they would've had Matt Damon take off his helmet and hold his breath when stepping outside. If you're looking for a show with a similar premise but actually good, I'd suggest Genius Prince. Alderamin on the sky is also a good shout.

I have, it was on the waterstones website and my own website, it was called Fractured Weapons. It is now in the process of being remade. I thoroughly re-edited it, improving the wording, grammar, and dialogue. There was quite a plethora of small things that needed to be better written and I have finished that step. Soon I will hire an editor to go through it again. Once that is done (expect several months) I will publish it under a new title and cover. It's new name...*teasing soundeffect* ...I will reveal in a future video. So excited to announce it. Also, I'm about halfway to finishing to the sequel.

I mean... he was great, really great, but the final war was boring as fuck 😂 too simple, extremely unnecesary. But he was good because like Souma he knew his limits, and that's why he got smart retainers

@@ShiNijuuAKL the only smart retainers were hashim and lumiere, the rest were mini fuugas

@@ShiNijuuAKL at least we agree the final battle sucked, I wanted fuuga to pay for all the destruction he wrought.

@@ghostofwolfmoonmani3877 yeah the fact that the only thing that united his people is him conquering stuff is crazy and sad, the fucker was not meant to lead a nation. A "hero" is not supposed to be the king

Honestly, I don't know. Always say writers (plural) as there will be a whole team behind any anime. The one who wrote the source material, the anime director, the studio behind it, and to a lesser degree the animators, script writers, voice actors, etc who would make an impact on how its translated to the screen. I wouldn't like to put the quality of an anime on the writer of the manga it's sourced from as that could be entirely different. I also purposely don't do research into the background of any of these shows cause when I make these videos I purely look at the end result. Sometimes difficult if not impossible such as Rwby and Rooster Teeth but it's important to be fair.

What?

I agree, what?

It just makes it really really odd. They could have had the dragon use any other kind of attack but chose the one that it was weak to probably because they simply want the shot of the fire breath being split by the large shield and didn't think about what was set up. Would've been better had they said it was weak to ice or lightning or something and actually used those attacks. I've never played pokemon so can't be sure but I hazard a guess that its unusual if not rare for monsters to use attacks they're weak to.

@@dlfarmer7601 - I would say it's closer to uncommon than unusual.

@@thesacredlobo ah okay, fair enough. I really don't know much about pokemon.

I never actually thought about that but you're right this has been in quite a number of anime and your explanation makes sense as to why. Yeah the three isekai is great, all three did things that were unique in the isekai genre and each were entertaining. I was completely taken aback by Ishura. The tone and worldbuilding was shockingly bewildering. I don't think I could bring myself to continue that one. Didn't know whether Frieren was a part of this season or the last so I left it out but after watching more of it, I can safely say it is very well made. Easily could make a video on it. And for delicious in dungeon I watched a couple episodes but know I need to go back to it (it didn't really grab me). Yep, looks like it'll be almost all fantasy this year.

Thanks, I really like deep analysis of media (films, books, shows, etc) and find it important to do that with anime. Very glad I can make this videos and moreso that people enjoy them.

Sorry... I read "Breeding the weakest Tamer...", just like Palworld.

@@absolstoryoffiction6615 rofl

Sometimes I want action packed battles/duels, sometimes I want deep philosophical shows, sometimes I want gripping tension, sometimes I want romance. And sometimes I just want to sit back and watch something simply pleasant. I do feel like that. Every time I suggest anime to my friends, I almost inevitably come out with something obscure. No promises I'm afraid. At the very least might be another month.

@@dlfarmer7601 life is short, When are you going to propose to me?

oooph. I actually watched two episodes and the first was the worst tonal clash I have seen in a long time, while the second was perhaps the worst worldbuilding I have ever seen. The first started with a peacful city with optimistic characters then suddenly the robots appeared tearing apart the main character in grusome detail. That was then followed by the isekai guy turning up and joyfully destroying the giant robot. I have no idea what the show wants me to think about this show. The second had an unending gatling gun of names, places and terms leaving me hopelessly confused while on top of showing places I have no clue of understanding where they could possibly be.

@@dlfarmer7601 I think you should give the show a second chance, It's pretty great. It's just the storytelling style is a bit unorthodox. The first episode serves as an introduction to both the world and the anime as a whole, with three main takeaways. 1. The world is full of powerful beings, capable of widespread destruction 2. Regular people are trampled because of said powerful beings 3. These powerful beings appeared largely because of the "true demon lord" These themes get explored as the shows goes on. Second episode can be a bit jarring, because the show shows only a glimpse of important characters. Their backstories and motivations do get explored more later on, and the show doesn't reveal everything about them just from the introduction. Overall the show tries to hype up the characters, each of them being powerful enough to stand their ground against eachother, while padding out the rest of the time with drama and world building. There are several amazing, meaningful fights later on, each employing tactics, foreshadowing, and suspense. You don't know who will win, or even who will fight.

I agree that Ishura is at the same time a very weak story with animation that while decent is nowhere the peak of the season. That said, it ticles to the little boy in me to see who will win, the skeleton that moves faster than sound or the swordsman that can see the weak points of anyone or the lady in a spider mech. If it had Ufotable levels of action it would be among the best since it is basically smashing action figures against each other. But there are better series even for that.

Oh i gave up on that one very quickly. I still think strongest tank is dumber but Unwanted Undead Adventurer certainly made a good show for the gold.

Does seem to trend that way these days. At least the Genius prince has a somewhat accurate title (wouldn't really call it a guide and it is stupidly long). But that one was really good. How a realist hero rebuilt the kingdom however is unbelievably stupid (made a couple videos on it). It can even understand starving people equals sad people, or how the slave trade works, or border agreements, or rebellions, or kingdom management, or anything at all. I do really hope they make a third season as tearing apart all its idiocy is incredibly satisfying.

I am sure many have mentioned this before but the long titles is because these stories often started in a famous japanese website for webnovels. Many famous and infamous novels that later became anime originated there like Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei and even non isekai bad stories like Mahouka. Mahouka was famous as a novel for walls of texts interrupting action and character dialogues explaining every detail of the magiv system. I hate the manga and anime but I like how well thought out the magiv system was and how it followed it's rules and still allowed the MC to be the most OP thing in the world. Back to long titles, because of how the site worked amateur authors put a full on synopsis of their works in the title to hook readers that may be interested. The problem is that when editors contancted the authors about publishing the novels and making money they did't change the titles and later on people saw how popular those long titled stories were and put long titles to their stories even if they mever published them in the web. Sort of like how Disney often shortens titles to a single word even if the movies had longer titles origibally like Onwards but i recerse.