HOTTEST TRASH Anime of Fall 2023
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- From the Haremest Anime EVER, to the Bleeding Edge of Edgelordery, get ready for the biggest and Hottest Trash menu yet!
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Chapters:
0:00 Our Biggest Trash Menu Yet
3:03 The Haremest Anime
9:41 Usagi Drop But Worse Somehow
12:17 The Dark Souls of Trying to Stay Awake
15:32 The Dark Souls of VRMMOs
18:52 Disney is Trash
19:45 Generational Trash
22:23 Don't Judge a Book By Its Contents
24:54 AP Tournament Arcs
29:27 Ragna the Bloodedge Award For Edgecellence
38:03 NIERai Nikki
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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.
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
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.
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 😂
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?
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 was legitimately impressed by 100 girlfriends. I always hated harems where the guy just lets his harem fight all the time as if he enjoys seeing them upset. Nice to have a harem where the guy actually LIKES the girls in his harem.
You should check out My Next Life as a Villainess - All Routes Lead to Doom
True! I thought this would be some dumb show where the MC would try to avoid certain girls. But he actually wants to save them all!
Yeah and who knows maybe I could try that or not. Though I can't keep around nor is it a guarantee to stick I really have my hands full and for that look into people or organizations that take the risk nor can I reveal or get into detail about getting the actual anime either real dangerous times I tell you and social media isn't all helping either.
@@mothersbasement The bakarina situation is a bit different as she's basically clueless about the whole situation
but it never feels obnoxious or forced because she's sort of a (very) well-meaning dumbass
@@mothersbasementso true bestie
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
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
What truly elevates Shangri-la is the fact that at multiple points the story actually LEAVES THE GAME. You actually get to see the trash games and other. The recent arc is literally an e sport fighting game tournament and it rules. it isnt just peak trash. its the Mount Everest of trash, nay the ISS of trash
"Surprisingly feminist softcore bestiality doujin" is a great band name
That's just a Will Wood song title, just add some parenthesis
the line "good thing this professional murder pedo was here to make sure no crimes happened!" made me laugh so loud that it woke up the house! omg that was insane!
Time spam now !
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@@sabrookchi Add it to the out-of-context compilation!
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
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".
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"
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 TH-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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
@@dantestryderLike Kirito. Dude's not edgy. He took all of the beta testers attention on him tf they mean?
@@dantestryderTo 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.
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
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
I'd like to award A Girl & Her Guard Dog the special award of being the first anime on this series that sounds worse than i tought from the title
I saw the title of the anime and was like "Oh so like a bodyguard romance? That could be fun." And the flash of realization that came afterwards....
Why can't we just have a nice bodyguard romance without all the creepy bullshit? Why? Is it too difficult to make a bodyguard romance were the other half of the main couple isn't a child?
@@aino-kaisav5504 Yeah like they could play out how both even being the same age they had different views of life thanks how they were raised, could make her someone that don't care for human life because chief yakuza daughter and start caring for her bodyguard and he being too repressed to think he could be loved, but no let's make something quite creepy and disgusting great...
@@aino-kaisav5504 true, I wanted to try it out thinking it would be like full metal panic 😭 two seconds later (it was premier-ing vid in the middle of ep 2 i think? Where he's late/middle 20s and insists on disguising to her highschool _specifically to 'protect' her from boys crushes AND she had clearly expressed she doesn't want him to do any of that_ ) I was like "nope"
@@aino-kaisav5504 Because HongKong already did in 90's with Jet Li as the protagonist.
I see 7 deadly sins has reached "shall not be named" territory for Geoff 😂😆
He's gone through so much for our sake.
$1200 a month for an alley in Vancouver? Damn what a deal, you must have one hell of a grandfathered rate.
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
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.
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
100 girlfriends genuinely is so much fun. I didn't watch it for the first few weeks because it's not my usual thing, but I'm so glad I picked it up. I especially love how supportive, and kind all the girls are to each other. I feel like so often in harem shows the girls are just mean, or argue a lot, but in 100 girlfriends they all like each other, and are actually friends, rather than just acting like rivals.
The comedy and horror are also top notch lol
Belong to the tra-
yeah they are a family. Rentarou's family
Well, because any writer can do that? Making an unrealistically positive story is perhaps one of the easiest things a writer can do.
100 Girlfriends asks the question, "What if the harem protagonist _wasn't_ just an indecisive tool, but instead was a polyamorous playboy?" and I love it for that.
Too bad he dates little girls and his own cousin later in the manga
More like wholesome
School days already did that and the answer to that question was not a good one. I assume 100 girlfriends will go a different way though.
@@toddclawson3619 _Polyamorous_ playboy. The jerk in School Days was just a playboy. He didn't go after girls who'd be okay with sharing him.
He's not a playboy, though; he genuinely really, really, really, really, really loves them all.
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.
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.
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.
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
Shangri La Frontier is the perfect representation of all those gamers who go "lets see how far I can get in this while completely ignoring the main quest" and go up against mobs 5 times their level for the funsies. There's a bit that aims to evoke That One Ranged Boss When You Have a Melee Build, and I mean, I have never seen other media *get* gaming like that.
Enemy: Toxic Eagle
“You’ll pay. Oh you WILL pay.”
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
Ive played skyrim since release and have never finished it.
Us Shoujo fans are dying Instead of getting Yona S2 we get Epstein: The anime 😭
"Trash heaps has peaks too" words to live by
As an enjoyer and scholar of Campy media, watching Geoff try desperately to differentiate 'trash' to an nonspeaking but presumably increasing befuddled audience is both funny AND induces empathetic little winces. I really do love these videos every season, I don't think I've ever been so early to one! Keep up the good work, and don't worry, I'm sure you'll explain good bad taste vs. bad bad taste to your viewers one day, because you sir have VERY good taste =)
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.
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.
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!)
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.
@@haxgamer0918 We all know that sometimes girls get better hitboxes. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
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
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"
“Trash heaps have Peaks too”
Goated quote
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.
Hakari is the only reason 100 girlfriends is here. I can’t watch that show around anyone, and it is almost entirely her fault
And i love her for it.🤣🤣🤣
it get tone down a bit later on due to the focus on other GFs ... she still rizz tho...
The hell does rizz mean
wait until you see her mother 💀
In fairness even without her the most recent episode has two more almost uncomfortably intimate makeout sesh's, and thats before the similarly almost uncomfortably intimate lesbian makeout sesh
I got a good laugh when you said at 14:08 "Skyrim's Most Basic Archer Cheese Strat"
I've played Skyrim for a good few years and heard all about that basic strat for archery and it takes it another notch when the anime outright is making this basic strat seem super unique 💀
i have over 1000 hours i skyrim and i cackled when that bit came up lmao
It's older than that. It's at least as old as WoW vanilla
@@DKNguyen3.1415 Wait until you learn what the original use of a bow was in human pre-history. The stealth archer build is literally older than the concept of language.
I immediately went to check out Shangri-La Frontiers after your endorsement, and how dare you not mention how fire the OP is
100 Girlfriends is to Harem/Romance what Eminence in Shadow is to Isekai.
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
It wasn't until you were discussing 100 Girlfriends that I realized that we are due to eventually get a hot goth anime gf AND a hot tomboy gf. Also, why tf is the production value SO HIGH for this show!?
The only people that even considers that 100gf is good are Self Inserters or
basement dwellers
because it is a really good series
Watch Nana and read Berserk
Wouldn't Iku and Kurumi suffice as tomboys? Uto has some tomboyish features too tbh.
12:07 The "smells like pork, not beef" joke is great.
(Human meat is said to look like beef but taste like pork.)
Thanks, Sukuna!
havent watched anime in years but I love these videos bc it gives me answers about the questionable manga I’ve been looking at for years when shelving at work. Finally explains why we can’t keep 100 gfs on the shelf 😭
as a girl, rentarou is one of the few male harem protagonists i'd love to date myself, because he's such a sweetheart! i've found myself wanting to drop the manga a few times after they introduce a girlfriend i'm not a fan of, but i inevitably get reeled in by my love of rentarou. he's just-he's so silly. silly guy. love him!
Rentarou is best girl
Then you never saw Goto taicho! Manliest character in anime
Lmao at falling for an anime character😂
Rentarou is the best boyfriend material,he'll literally kill for you
16bit Sensation is genuinely peak you can tell the author loves VNs and that love comes through
it goes a lot deeper than that because the staff are some of the same people who made the games featured in the show. the original manga is autobiographical about Mitsumi Misato and Amazuyu Tatsuki's experience working at Cocktail Soft, then the screenwriter for the anime worked for Leaf and wrote Kizuato and To Heart. most of the voice actors were also picked because they played an important character in a VN (the protags for Kanon, Clannad, and Fate are all in there).
Amusingly enough, my Mom is one of those who keeps getting offended every time you call one of her favorite animes trash. Even after my sister and I have informed her that trash does not equal bad in this case, and that she has very clear preferences for trash isekai. What's even funnier is when people around us try to call bullshit on the 70 year old lady hobbling around with a cane liking anime, only to end up in a very lively discussion about the latest iskeai or shojo. Mom's current favorite is a tie between Eminence in Shadow and Campfire Cooking in Another World.
Best mom
@@ProfessorBuge She really is.😁
@@ProfessorBuge That's not surprising, in many ASEAN countries, everyone born in the 60s until now has never had the term "I've never watched anime" even for the generation born in the 60s, their favorites are 80s shonen shows. But it cannot be denied that they call anime as Japanese cartoons.
Important note about Returner’s magic, the main love interests name is Romantica, a truly unique and extremely nuanced name
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
Sword Iseakai being the other major entry in the 'Not at all chill about slavery' club.
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.
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.
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.
You and Gigguk are the only sources I can trust to give me the run down on every worthwhile thing to pay attention each season, no one else does it better. Thank you.
5:50 I died here LOL!
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If I had a coin for every anime series I've watched where the main character turns into a pig to do some DDR and that suddenly escalates into a full on adventure in another world with a bunch of girls... I would have 2 coins. Which isn't a lot, but speaks volumes about my anime taste.
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?
The dart board for choosing the isekai plot was GOLD!!
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!!
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.
Having Josh show up to rate a MMORPG anime was brilliant!
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.
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.
So glad 100 Girlfriends finally has an anime, I've been so hype for the concept of "what if healthy polyamory, actually" but never quite got around to getting the manga
It's great and fun. Until it drifts off into the inevitable clusterfire that is too many characters, too many gimmicks and too much crazy for my taste.
healthy polyamory HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, gross
@@yarion4774does it tho? I can still comfortably name all 27 girls, so we can go higher for sure
It's not polyamory. These girls are not dating each other - they date him. When one partner gets all, but the others only allowed to be with one, it's a harem by all definitions.
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
1200 a month is cheap for an alley in Vancouver. You must have been living there for a while.
100 girlfriends getting popular makes me so happy. It’s so good.
For incels perhaps.
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
Undead Unluck's manga is amazing, I love how it transitions from comedy to more serious over time
Never stop Jefè ~ Without a doubt some of the best dry, sarcastic humor mixed with clear & thoughtful insight among all YT creators beyond just anime/manga.
Coming from another anime/manga fan stuck between Millennial/Gen-Z age range (28) your content always kills it bro! Glad you’re growing like you & your content deserve, keep it up OG!
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
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!!!! 😂❤
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.
The throwing darts bit killed me! Thanks for all that you do. Love all your content.
A Josh in my mother's basement video?! We love to see it :D Also genuinely surprised by my 100 girlfriends, the style is so cute and the MC being likeable? Sign me up!
That hotel Transylvania edit fit way to well
Edit: Undead Unluck is thrash FIRE. The What if deadpool could use his body parts as projectiles and blood sorcery that is Undead and the “my life was terrible till i met you” and “i want to help people who were kind to me” tragedy of Unluck is kinda awsome. Its a better love story than i would have thought, a great premise with some serious twists and some hilariously dumb over the top humor. To use a Geoffism, i’d give it 4 newer dumpsters filled with odd fluids, ecchi manga and clothed but sexy body pillows that are somehow burning way too hot.
Can concur, undead unluck bangs way too hard, worldbuilding is intriguing, action never disappoints, it gets surprisingly poignant at times where my eyes teared up a bit.
look the story won me when it had the male protag marry a zombie girl so he could lead her and the other zombies into fightign back against the demon that killed them all
@@sarafontanini7051unluck is just domino she steals the luck of those around her
@@sarafontanini7051Did that hsppen?
@@AA-bj5bboh, it absolutely did.
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.
The baddies in Ragna Crimson are all incredibly fleshed out. Huge fan of the manga.
Has the manga explained yet how nukes led to vampire-rules dragons yet, or are we still waiting on that explanation?
Just above average I would say.
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.
I love Ragna Crimson, the dynamic between the main characters, cunny edgy genius and all powerful edgelord, is amazing!
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*
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!
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I have been for you to talk about the 100 Girlfriends for years! Finally someone who understands true art!
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).
I think we’ve actually hit Peak Geoff Thew, and for my personal brothers and sisters, just watch the “100 Girlfriends” pool episode so you can survive a few more months for the “Tsundere with chum gutters” niche
Such a shame Undead Unluck has only gotten a couple mentions with no details so far - its my favorite anime of the season right now and by the looks of it its just gonna keep getting better.