"except all the women he's going to marry someday and his daughter" I appreciate that these are two separate groups, but I have zero faith that this series will keep them that way.
@@seandelacruz3792 and don't forget that myu said that she want to married her father as well even tho he said to stop that and she said That’s why……eventually, Myuu will eat up Papa nano. Even her mother supported that and said ‘if there is an opening then take it!’ And Don't mind me I'm just a big fan of arifureta
At some point this ceased being a roast and just became a run-on sentence where you didn't have to tell any jokes because you'd get more laughs just reciting the plot. That point was very early in the video.
Me: "No my high school tastes weren't cringy edge-boy fantasy. I promise they were sophisticated" *watching this episode and realizing this is EXACTLY something I would have watched when I was 13* Me: No it is okay. It's ok to let that phase die in the burning landfill fire that it is
I'm well past 13 and I still watched it. Yes it's cringe, but it's the kind of cringe that's like junk food where you eat it even though you know it's bad for you.
I was cringing so hard when he was describing the main character because I know in my heart i would think of something like that but probably worse when I was 13.
I remember reading the early chapters, where Hajime was actually struggling to survive, he was barely getting by, he lost his arm, he had to resort to altering his own biology (which I hoped would eventually be revealed to have caused some drawbacks), and even when he could fight back it was a close thing, and it seemed like as time went on it'd never get easier for him. And I was interested, I was onboard. I wanted to see where it was going, god was I disappointed. Also, has anyone here read Dungeon Seeker, it's pretty much this story minus harem, add some horror, and is in my personal opinion much better, at least the manga, haven't read the novel.
I've read Dungeon Seeker before, but it was most likely fan translation, not the official one, which somewhat has lower quality IMO from what I usually read, standstill at vol. 4 only.
If you read the afterword of the author, he's incredibly self-aware about what he's writing. And I'm not going to lie, reading this thing set my youthful soul ablaze. Despite being absolutely aware of what I am reading, I can't help but have fun with this series. It's kinda special that way.
Yeah... The tongue in cheek, cheesiness to the point of self parody is kind of the thing that really sells it for me. It feels like every element in isolation is annoying or bad but in a way where when put together they all counterbalance each other to dumb hilarious results. Everything is turned to 11 and noone has a filter.
Well that's good to know at least. I listened to an audiobook of it for a while because I heard it was way better than the anime. I dropped it after a while but got some enjoyment out of the earlier portions and I'm not going to begrudge anyone a so bad it's good thing even if it's not to my taste. Hell, even the author can get a pass if they're self aware about it. I enjoyed Cat Planet Cuties once I realized how much of a completely self-aware self-parody it was, so I've no room to judge anyone for finding a slightly different comedic style of the same basic idea of going so over the top that it becomes entertaining again, because that kind of comedy will always be a matter of taste.
I haven't read the LN so I can't comment on that, but the anime didn't do enough to show that it was self-aware of it being overly edgy, it was reaching Assassin's pride levels of cringe
@@TheChrosst Nah, nah, let him consume his trash in peace, I promise it's not as drastic as it looks, speaking as someone who brings M.D. Geist back out yearly.
@@TheChrosst I watch it as a parody, abridged in my mind. Such as how much edgelord somebody can channel (imagine the MC speaking in Batman's voice). MMO made by EA (such restrain by not including lootboxes, only limiting with bad design).
I got into Arifureta through the manga. When Hajime gets pushed into the first dungeon there is a massive tone shift and the art changes to reflect that. I thought "Hey is this a revenge story twist that specifically goes against the cookie cutter power fantasy harem isekai garbage? Hell yeah!". Like it was over the top edgy but I can get behind that. But literally the second they make it out of the first dungeon (where I thought most of the series was gonna take place) they drop all of that, the tone shifts again and it just becomes like every other power fantasy harem isekai garbage. Seriously, I could write a multi-page essay on the tone shifts alone and why the first one works and the second doesn't. Hell even the manga's artists seem to think so. There is clearly more effort in that first dungeon then anywhere else in the manga.
The one that im most dissapoin are when the hero are shown in the manga he look like someone that you dont want to mess with while also have a relyable aura represent by him being a class presiden and at the time the manga show the ace of the class he literaly look like a veteran adventurer when the anime just go "oh yeah here the idiotic class presiden with his stupid looking golden armor"
Thank you! Like as soon as he made it out, tbh when he discovered his first waifu at the end of the dungeon I should have guessed but it was so good I didn't notice until it was too late, by too late I mean like the second or third episode literally
Tbh, I never cared for the anime or manga, I always thought that stuff was kinda shit (besides hajime in the 1st dungeon which was pretty cool.) what really got me was the LN, and WN, which I found out from ani news, and tbh, was one of my top favorite Ln I have read (sadly.) due to how it could build a world, and build character development, showing growth of interpersonal connections between hajime and the rest of the cast, and personal growth, which imma be honest: when I 1st started reading arifureta, I was expecting it to be a meh Ln, and at the beginning, it was, with most of what I stated being hard to find in earlier chapters, with most of the building, and connections occurring close to the end of the main story, and mostly in the afterstory to build out more character, with the rest of the story being mostly comic relief, and cringy one-liners, but it was when the Ln, is able to pull through, that’s when it was great, and due to that, gave me a good time, but that was rare, and it would only come once in awhile, but when it did, it was nice, as well as the subtle world building, the building of side characters, and the ability to make rational decisions, which really helped make a better foundation on a show that was founded on gags.
@@heilamwether8911this review is like you're arguing with yourself 😂😂😂 I'm just imagining the internal debate every time you turned a page was like this.
I actually really love the idea of an entire class getting isekaied. Could have been a survival horror or an edgier digimon adventure. Sucks that had to be another trashy harem.
So I'm A Spider, So What? is about a whole class getting isekaied and basically is a survival horror. So I don't know if you've checked that one out yet or not and that's what you're referring to, but you might give that a shot if that's what you're into and haven't seen.
“Lonely Attack on a Different World” is a non-harem manga where an entire class gets isekaied, and despite the name, the main character actually does meet groups of his classmates and interact with them pretty often. Unlike 99% of these class isekais, he doesn’t get personally betrayed by the entire class and he wasn’t bullied back on Earth; he was just a loner by choice. It’s the kind of story where instead of becoming overpowered from getting one really good “cheat” skill, he survives by synergizing a a bunch of weaker skills. Since he’s not edgy or whiny, it’s a lot less infuriating when he interacts with other people. I recommend it.
The sad thing about Tio is that she's never fully developed as a character until post-game--erm, post-story where she gets her similar chapter like the other girls did. Also, Aiko/Sensei was in that town because her powers involve raising plants and that town was an agriculture town. That's why people there call her the Goddess of Harvest or something of the sort, and why the demon side wants her dead (she's the boon to human side's food logistics in the war). The anime sucked at even basic exposition though.
That's so dumb. Anyone who knows the first thing about pre-industrial military logistics (which admittedly isn't very many, but hush) knows that armies will starve if they can't steal enough food from the countryside as they pass through. Sure, it benefits the enemy too, but you can't march an army through impoverished countryside without supplies being shipped by river or rail, and it doesn't seem like this part of the world has much of either. Also, more obvious: Maybe kidnap the harvest goddess instead of murdering her? Still evil, but more _profitably_ evil.
The first arc of this show where he and Yue were struggling to get through the labyrinth together was interesting and I saw so much potential for this show. Then when the bunny girl was introduced there was suddenly this huge and unexpected tonal shift in the story and it turned into a massive dumpster fire... yet I couldn't stop being curious about what the show would do next and continued watching. and by the end of the first season I wanted a second season even though I was fully aware of how terrible and very rushed this show was and how overly edgy the main character is. It's an oddly entertaining dumpster fire and this video pointing that out was really funny
The light novel quite literally has the exact same trajectory. The first dungeon is great and Yue is an acceptable waifu, but as soon as the harem elements come in it turns to (still enjoyable) garbage real quick. It's one of the stories that really show why Harems have a bad name, if they all handled it as well as Mushoku Tensei does I don't think anyone would have an issue with the format.
Yeah... the first arc was the best the show ever got for me. Decent drama, pacing, and character development only to then take a huge left turn and devolve into a really generic harem power fantasy.
@@GonnaDieNever I think if they actually do the first arc over and over again without making the protagonist so OP, basically making exploring dungeons the focus, it can actually be quite enjoyable. it is also harder to execute, the dungeons need to be interesting, to make it more interesting, you probably need other dungeon explorers. when I read the first arc, i hoped that the rest of the arcs would be like the first arc, but I was so wrong then I quickly lost interest
@@existenceispain2074 I made it to the second dungeon because I was hoping it would be like the first arc, but when they finished it in like four chapters I quit.
RIGHT? I was so excited for the cute love adventure revenge story and then the second they left the cave it just turned into garbage dumpster fire harem and it was the saddest thing. I love harem but this, because of how it started, just left me bitter and disgusted because it had so much potential.
Dubious quality aside, I got mad respect for any harem anime to have the tiny girl in the show NOT be a waifu and stay as NOT a waifu. I actually kinda like Shield Hero but it is very guilty of having alot of a certain character archetype
Which tiny girl? The first one he encounters that is magically 300 years old despite looking 12 and is his wife? Or the second one he encounters that is not magically 300 years old and calls him daddy?
@@DanBennettUltra it's mostly child daughters. 2000 year old dragons aside, it's nice to have actual father/daughter relationships without making them wierd
You know, I fully expected that little girl to go from calling the hero guy onii chan to papa to husband so the fact that didn't apparently happen was a huge sigh of relief at least.
Hajime's tendency to kill his enemies is much like Tarzan's attitude (in his novels) -- "But every time I show mercy, they just come back to trouble me again. Best to kill them when I have the chance and be done with them." Also, the author in every one of the afterwords for the novels proclaims himself a big fan of chuunibyo, so yeah -- his protagonist is seriously OP and every woman's dreamboat.
I was at work when I binged this show. Maybe it was the mixture of sleepy delirium or the three cups of coffee I drank, but that dragon scene made me laugh like a frickin maniac for like ten minutes straight.
I now feel slightly disappointed and betrayed when girls are brought in to a harem anime without the character’s introductory anal spiking scene. It’s like, are you guys even trying anymore?
Did anyone else laugh that time when Tio in dragonform had the rod up her you know what and thought to themselves ... "okay maybe I'll watch another episode"?
I only laughed when he said she took a giant 20 foot rod up her ass while she was still in dragon form as I watched her moan. It was fucking stupid as shit and hilarious.
This show was the dumpster fire I couldn't stop watching. Weird that the music is so good when literally everything else blows, but I'd equate that to the perfume blocking the smell of burning garbage just long enough to get you to finish watching it burn.
@@morganqorishchi8181 yeah, same with SAO. Story goes to shite after a while, but the music is great (which makes sense, as I believe the composer also did the music for AoT)
@@yuvalgabay1023 yeah, it’s easily the strongest arc of the show (until Mother’s Rosario, which was pretty good on account of Kirito barely showing up… Haven’t watched past that though). It has its problems - some of them quite egregious - which have already been addressed on this channel, but still pretty strong until the infamous “Uh, well, I forgot.” Now, what happens AFTER it… oh boy
That first dungeon is better in both the manga and novel, iirc... but that's about it, the quality after that drops about as much as Hajime does right after being betrayed in the first dungeon
Shirou: I can create weapons Ive seen before. Ed: My alchemy can create just about anything as long as I have materials. Hajime: I can craft ANYTHING with Alchemy.
I had no clue going into S1. It had just finished it's run, and I was looking to binge some isekai. I was horrified at how episode 1 looked, but I was committed to the 3 episode rule. By the end of episode 2 I knew I couldn't stop watching.
Every time I'm reminded Arifureta exists I spiral into an hour's worth of half-composed seething rants on how asininely it was written and how wasted its initial premise of a guy getting isekai'd and discovering he's locked into a crafting spec is. Hajime could have made anything and so he made Gun? No wonder the writer loves chuunibyo nonsense. He's too unimaginative to think of creative solutions or anything more interesting than "this guy can't fight so he makes a gun and suddenly is the best at fight." It's as nuanced as a toddler falling over.
I would honestly love to see some ideas of what he could do. my only knowledge of this series is from this video and some memes, so I really have no clue what his limits are. what do you think would be a creative application of his powers?
@@alucard347 I imagine literally any alchemist in FMA is more creative than GUN. They focus on his gun so much you forget this dude is suppose to be an alchemist.
@@davidashton3671 fair enough, I guess fma really is the go to in that scenario, although for the majority of time they simply do earth bending into simple shapes. when push comes to shove they use their powers in very creative ways (looking at you Ed with your ammonia bombs), but I am curious for more creative utilization of alchemy.
So... Hajime's character writing just made me realize Kirito looks "complex." Ugh. Was the goal of this anime to retroactively elevate mediocre past titles?
I mean............I was laughing the entire video because of how fucking goofy this was. SAO just.........well it made me angry the whole time. I'd argue that makes this better than SAO.
The difference is that Arifureta knows what it is and delivers on dumb fun, action, and comedy, whereas SAO is a fast-food restaurant that gives you a happy meal and acts as if it were a 5 course fine dining experience. I would have enjoyed SAO far more if it didn't waste my time stretching out simplistic BS while pretending as if it was so deep and thoughtful.
Sao wouldve been fire if they did more instead of rushing the 1st season couldve gone through so more floors had some more connections with characters made kirito actually likeable n have real skills
At about halfway through i have to agree with basically everything he said so far. Especially that the novels do expand on the characters more to flesh out their relationships. Most notably the fact that Yue is ok with Shea joining her and Hajime, but isn't so open to allowing just anyone (read Tio/Kaori) in, that Kaori has actually been stalking Hajime since back in middle school (ever since she saw him save that old woman in the incident she mentioned early on) including dragging Shizuku around to try to find his middle school and to find what eroge he's into/has helped develop, and that the first ancient magic they find in the Orcus labirynth lets him make ORES, not magic devices. he figures that out by doing some old fashioned studying with books. You know, the hard way.
Stop trying to use sense with LN stuff, it's arifureta bashing time on a video from someone that didn't read the source material, i mean we gotta give SAO a break and find another bad anime to criticize with pandering comments.
@@10tailedbijuu Well, the books have so many more details. the anime is legit hot trash, but the books are much less hot trash. they are kinda trashy, but they are at least somewhat better.
Funny thing about Tio that was completely left out of the first season is how intelligent she actually is. She is arguably the smartest member of the party and unlike Darkness who loves to be abused by anybody Tio will only act that way towards Hajime and his party. She actually gets pissed when anybody else insults her. She's not a deep character or anything but the first season didn't do her or the others justice.
I'll be completely honest Arifureta is definitely a guilty pleasure for me, i was almost completely up to date with the webnovel which is on like part 500 or the afterstory and iv read the ln and manga, and like the author and most fans of the show know exactly what it is and why were watching it. Both to go "look cool op black cloaked mc gets all the girls" while also laughing at how outwardly and purposefully "chuunibyou" it is. Besides the awful cg monsters and low buget the first season didnt do that bad a a job, not as good as the manga, but still not bad, its just meant for exactly who its meant for.
Even Geoff can't bring himself to hate on Arifureta too seriously. I am embarrassed to admit that Arifureta is exactly the kind if Isekai dumpster fire that gets my heart thumping. As such I've watched the first season all the way through at least four times and I can confirm that season two is just as wonderful and shitty as season one (so far... Two episodes in). I'm enjoying it tremendously. Let's hear it for a season three!!!!
The one positive thing I can say about this anime is... I admire the freedom and, shear lack of giving a fuck, the original writer has shown us. It's amazing, really...
Whenever there is an anime like this, someone always writes a fanfic that’s better. But the thing about Arifureta is that it never happened. I’ve read a few fics and they’re all the same. Mc is a second Hajime. He gets betrayed, acts like he’s a badass who doesn’t care about anything, and gets really op for bullshit reasons without any training, while following hajime around and stealing a few of his lines. And honestly, when I turn off my brain I enjoy it a little.
Lol you come from Wattpad, right? Even some ended up stealing the spotlight. While other characters way too accepting toward OC. What do you expect from middle schooler writer?
@@hteteaindraykyaw996 can’t really blame them. For fanfics The point is to have fun. And when you see an anime you think you’d do better with you probably would wanna humiliate them or show them up. Which is exactly what the story did with hajime and the hero. (While also seeming so cool as you did it cause they pushed you and not because authors decided to do it) I do agree its fun dumb turn your brain off or laugh together with your friends. One of my favourite moments of watching bad anime is pretending the jealous rival is in love with the ancient weapon on the main characters arm. I’d just yell out “you can win that weapons heart! I believe in you!”
@@kingdoppelganger8951I can't turn my brain off due to my dark history. They I was also on their levels when l was a high schooler. Right now, I found myself very grateful for not publishing my stuffs back then on fanfic net😂.
@@hteteaindraykyaw996 oh I’m with you. Dark history of writing. The embarrassment is real. But now I’m wondering. With time having passed and emotional maturity now in view. Could you write better now? Do you think you can rewrite the original idea? Have you already done it? If so what was the original concept? What changes were made or what changes would you make
@@kingdoppelganger8951 The whole concept and plot itself is cringey enough to rewrite. It was beyond saving. My stories centered around OP mary sue OC who can do everything and make every characters awe at her. Just rethinking of my stories make me so🤢.
When hajime falls into the abyss and gets he's hand eaten in front of him, he remains inside the cave he made for 7 days feeding only on ambrosia which kept him alive but didn't satiate his hunger. It was during that period he went through mental breakdown and only reached on a conclusion on 7th day of 'returning to his home no matter what and killing those who interfered with his goal' and loosing the last bit of humanity with that mentality. Then he decided to eat monster meat knowing fully that it might kill him, just to satisfy his extreme hunger. That's how it all started. The conquering of each labyrinth is in a sense a journey of returning of his human nature while finding the way home. The reason why his goal is to return home was totally skipped in Anime which is- his mother is a shoujo mangaka and his father is president of eroge developing game company. The 3 of them often discussed on the scenario of getting isekai'd for example having a harem of vampire bunny girl etc and always concluded on 'whoever gets isekai'd shall return home no matter what'. All of the character in development pre summoning was skipped and the summoning event was showed in opening giving very less information Of their circumstances. They even completely removed many characters which were somewhat significant in their respective arcs like the princess which got debut in season 2's 1st episode and also skipped many events and scenes which helped in understanding the transition to Next arc. They didn't gave any explanation of the skills, The lore, POVs of other characters Where it was necessary, And many other things such as : they took 2 months after defeating the hydra to recover and hone their new found skills to perfection before leaving the labyrinth. And it took around 10 days to Conquer 2nd labyrinth. And myu was with him for almost 2-3 weeks which made him close to her and got him to becoming A father figure for her. Season 1 literally felt collection of scenes which the author wanted to be animated.
Wait are you serious? Why didn't they include all that?? This could have been a much funnier show if his parents were in it, plus we'd know way more about the literal main character.
@@itsmefm pre summon hajime was actually a great person to have fun and very likeable but he made a persona of your typical introvert who had the typical MC seat in class ( back row beside window) and slept through almost every lecture cuz he would pull an all-nighter almost every day to play games and eroges. This was because he had his future goals set which was inheriting his father's company and he even worked part time there learning various things about work and so his academic education was not much necessary and his parents would also not force him to study. Rather this is a side story of his parents meet with aiko sensei about his behaviour during lectures but they pulled up uno reverse card and asked her if she is single, any relationship experience, if any interest in hajime etc. Cuz both became very excited after seeing "legal loli" and wanted to "collect/protect" her via hajime 😂😂
@@itsmefm "Why didn't they include all that??" White Fox likely did because they had the time for it. Asread and the original writer killed that version, burned the remains and shit on it for good measure.
@@pranavwadodkar7690 Your explanation of the original story really shows why fans were excited for an anime adaptation. Despite 2 months of training, it still took the characters 10 days to beat the next labyrinth, which gives the idea that the characters can still become stronger and thus the story can still have that progression. It also gave Hajime the time to actually figure out how to make his own world's technology in the isekai world and thus feels like a reward he still worked for, and thus the 2nd labyrinth taking 10 days shows that the isekai world can handle it. Whereas the short summary we got from Geoff shows nothing but everything breaking at the seams as Hajime does whatever he wants because he can.
TBF, Yeah, the LN REALLY does it better. The pacing is done a LOT better, and there's a LOT more characterization for all the characters, their motivations, and the REASONS for everything their doing. Also, over the volumes, it's REALLY hammered in how Hajime and Yue are in a somewhat unhealthily codependent relationship, and Yue isn't REALLY into letting others in to their relationship either. She's almost as slow in actually letting Shia into their relationship as Hajime is into it, and it's roughly half the volumes after they meet her that it's actually hinted that she'd probably be fine with HER, not anyone else actually being in a relationship with Hajime as well. Also, yeah, Tio is REALLY horny all the time, and EVERYONE is uncomfortable with it, EVERYONE. It does help with the juxtaposition when she DOES get serious, and by that point it's a surprise to everyone else that she can do that as well. To be fair, you're not WRONG in that it's totally intended to basically be fairly well written edgy chuuni boys fantasy schlock. It just helps that the LN at least does the characterization and justifications FOR that schlock pretty well.
It knows that it's edgy. Hajime knows perfectly well how chuuni he looks and is not happy about it. How he looks is due to circumstances and not by choice.
Underrated comment tbh. The novel even manages to characterize the other classmates well, the reflection labyrinth trial being the moment that comes to mind with that. The author is a self proclaimed chuunybio and it shows, and its fun when it does. In the novel at least
Yeah, I remember reading the first novel and being incredibly disappointed by it. It started off so promising. Then, halfway through, it suddenly turned into one of the most cliche self-indulgent books I've ever had the misfortune to come across. The protagonist started off barely above okay but was thrown into a ton of situation where he could've developed a lot, but instead he regressed into a largely monosyllabic cliche teen bad-ass that couldn't help start a harem with every pretty girl he came across. So, yeah, just no. I took a chance on the first light novel and was so disappointed that I permanently deleted it from my Amazon account. There was never any way I was ever going to give the anime another chance to disappoint me.
See, every time I see stuff like that, I remember that I could see better drawn, actually bare anime breasts with decent action and plot, and go rewatch Grisaia or High School DxD.
Yeah this anime had me laughing with the absurdity, went from useless guy, to over powered edge lord in 2 full episodes. His character went from a friendly guy to murderous edge lord in probably 15 mins, so fast it left me with whip lash. As for the story/plot, its basically a mix of "So I'm a spider, so what?" Mixed equally with "Magi, and the labyrinth of magic", but with a constant ever growing harem of women.
This looks like the sort of show that, when people say they don't like anime, is specifically what they have in mind. The fact that it genuinely exists is kinda heartbreaking.
@@cptKamina And? A better adaptation would meant it was received better. Plus, the premise behind it sure doesn't sound all that good when you summarize it down to it's smaller details, but when done this way it does the characters a disservice. Tio doesn't really love Hajime early on, it's mostly out of a desire for revenge that she initially goes along with him, yes it's disguised by her pervertedness. Shea fell in love with Hajime over the course of actually talking to him, rather than just two weeks of being around him like in the anime. Hajime is way more adamant about being only Yue's lover in the novel. In the novel it's revealed Remia isnt actually in love with Hajime, well not until his last two days in the city. There are so many details that are missed when you just look at the story as a bubble. How many Isekai can say their MC actually plans on going home and can achieve it? Arifureta isn't good because it's a well thought out or engaging story, it's good because of how bad it actually is. We like that it (the novel at least) doesn't try to take itself seriously and when it does, it does it at moments when it truly needs to be serious.
@@cptKamina ehh whatever.. I like it just fine... and it got a season 2, so imagine plenty of other people like it just fine as well.. Its cool, you dont have to like everything..
Personally, as someone who reserved one of his very last brain cells for my inner 12-year-old, I'm confident in my choice to read the light novels. They are very good. Shame about the anime. A proper adaptation could have had the same level of quality and self-aware charm as Demon King Academy
Jesus, Demon King Academy was so god damn funny. When dude just yeets an entire castle in the second episode, I knew it was gonna be something special.
Arifureta is one of those hows where I imagined better pitches than the source. Example, Hajime isn't the protagonist (Kaori is) but a villain who went nuts from being abandoned in the labyrinth.
The best part of these videos, since I started watching them with my mom/she started using Geoff as a guide to anime, is getting to see what random line of his she latches onto and turns into a meme in our house. This time the new memes Geoff blessed our household with are "Or never! I like never" and "breastuses", the latter of which had her laughing so hard when he said it that I actually grew concerned she might fall out of her chair. When the entirety of the black dragon bit happened, she just gave up trying to stay composed and just grabbed a plushie and laugh-cried into it.
I'm not gonna lie, this is definitely one of those anime where male mcs become tsunderes, and all of a sudden I'm beginning to admire this franchise. I can't wait for the third and final season to be released next year or so
Arifureta was actually the anime that made me get into light novels if you can believe that. I saw the first two episodes when it was new and I wanted to know really badly what happened next since episode 3 wasn't out yet. At first I tried reading the manga, but it didn't go any further than episode 2. So that's what finally pushed me over the edge to read the light novel of arifureta to find out what happened next! I even got to the end of the story at chapter 196! Now I can't stop reading light novels and Web novels! My favorite one right now is Epic of Caterpillar on Webnovel! I'm currently on chapter 1150 and eagerly waiting for more chapters to come out!
I kinda wonder how many people had their first light novel be something an anime they watched which they learned was a terrible adaptation of its source material. Idk how you'd go about getting those numbers, but I'd be _very_ interested to see them.
@@dynamicworlds1 It's simple, I just write down in notepad on my phone what chapter I'm currently on for what light novel or web novel. That way I can pick it right back up where I left off when more chapters come out after I've caught up.
@@ardi08 Nope, I typed in the correct number. 1150 chapters. You wanna know the crazy thing? The author, PancakesWitch said that around chapter 1000 was just the end of volume 1. So volume 2 is just getting started. And judging by the content and scale of the story there might be at least 3 volumes before its over. That's crazy!
This all is basically exactly on point. Arifureta was an edgy dumpster fire that was so targetedly "cool" that it was basically impossible to fail, even if (and when) it both lost all the stuff aside from the "cool"ness, as well as made the "cool" stuff look abysmally ugly. I haven't even read the LN, just the Manga (only about as far as I think the daughter fish girl joining), and I found it mediocre and vaguely "cool." You did mention how Arifureta was possibly at least the worst adaptation of all time (or maybe you said "one of", I can't remember exactly), but there is one thing out there I am *confident* is worse adapted than Arifureta, or even the hypothetical second season of TPN. Noblesse. The full anime was.... fine, but that isn't what I mean. Noblesse: Awakening, the OVA that came before the anime, that the anime FOR *SOME* REASON decided to be set after, was the worst adaptation I've ever seen. In the span of that one thirty-minute OVA, they raced through legitimately 100 chapters of the webtoon. One. Hundred. My friend who hadn't read the webtoon who I watched it with didn't even realize that they were supposed to be vampires. It was so awful. Also, you should give the Genius Prince anime its fair shot, since it is actually solid and was gypped.
@@TSH425 the only reason I started watching the anime of god of highschool is because I wanted to see obama as an anime character, but I was disappointed.
I genuinely LOVE the light novels, they're so well detailed and the author does a pretty good job at world and character building. He's also VERY self aware about how edgy it is and Hajime is even aware of how he looks like an edgelord and is initially quite ashamed at his appearence by the end of the first novel. The manga has its issue with pacing but has really good art to make up for it, also they completely cut all of the sex Hajime and Yue have seemingly at any chance. I have heard nothing but bad things about the anime and havent watched it yet due to everything I have heard lol.
I read the manga and I literally had to stop. It was just too over the top edgy and with barely a shred of self awareness. At first it seemed ok. Just maybe generic. Then he pulled out a gun and I thought ok that’s a bit silly. Then the unironic eyepatch came and I facepalmed.
It's a matter of perspective, I'm personally EXTREMELY exhausted by all the dark edgy wish fulfillment self insert crap. It's incredibly boring. And the dragon butt spear scene only confirmed my complete disinterest in the series
I almost dropped the first season after like, episode 3, but then I kept going and the more I watched the more I kept asking myself "wait... do I... like this show?..." Now I'm watching season 2. Also the dub is hilarious. Also, also considering how bad the animation and cgi is, it is a miracle that it SOMEHOW still looks and feels better to watch than Seven Deadly Sins Season 3.
I just want to point out that when he gives mouth to mouth to the teacher: She wasn’t drowning, and was in fact poisoned. She was still fully conscious; and instead of letting her drink the antidote like a *normal person*, he decides to put the antidote in his mouth and administer it by kissing his teacher. Why? Because even if she doesn’t travel with him, no female is safe from becoming part of the Hajime Harahm (Harem).
What I found funny about this anime is that I actually found the whole underground survival arc rather interesting and unironically cool. And then comes the tone shift of it becoming a murder hobo harem anime with a 3cool5u protagonist trying to kill God.
I was so hype for arifureta. After the first few episodes I couldnt have been more excited about an mc, betrayed, trying to survive and escape with one arm and using alchemy to create rudimentary firearms. vampire gf? kinda wish she was a bit older looking but thats fine, I can see a good trauma bond dynamic. honestly, everything kinda went to shit once he built a new arm, I would have loved a disabled MC + vampire gf. Basically I had hoped for angst and got edge instead.
I'd love to see a version of this story where the only difference is that the "create anything" powers need to be hyper-specific and exact, to the point that you need to be able hold all elements of what you want to make in your head The first timerotag kun takes the power for a spin, he just imagines a car or a gun in the general sense, and what he gets looks like it on the surface, but it turns out to just be an empty, functionless shell
If you don't mind skipping some story of how the party got together, I suggest going straight to season 2. The animation is still bad, but season 1 animation was torture.
Honestly, it's a scuffed show but you can feel the author had enjoyed making it and put efforts into making it somewhat fun to read (which you can really see on the novel counterpart). But maybe that's just me being isekai dumpy
I got to be honest, I unironically love Arifureta. Yes, it is edgy. Yes, it is poorly animated. Yes, it is as generic as it gets. But I absolutely love it for those reasons. Arifureta is like if one of the notebooks I would scribble in back in middle school became an anime.
I'm with you brother. People fail to realize that him being overly edgy is the whole point. His classmates call him edgy and call his clothes cringe in the manga, and Kaoris friend even fucks with him revealing his named moves come from manga and anime he's seen. 👌 It's not a well written show, it doesn't need to be. It's just dumb fun. He's excessively chuuni.
Tbf, in the light novel, it was explained that the corrupted wizard kid from his class showed no remorse and Hajime saw it in his eyes; to spare the teacher from feeling responsible for his death, Hajime chose to end the wizard kid personally. And for the hot demon lady he kills, the hero kid actually would’ve beaten her if he didn’t hesitate on the coup de grace. The hero kid has always been an insufferable buffoon who was so convinced of his righteousness that it never came to him he could be wrong in any shape or form.
@@kryzethx yeah the light novel is really good. I mean not every story has to be deep and meaningful, sometimes you wanna watch MrCoolDude run around and totally beat the shit out of his adversaries like a total badass. It’s a very fun read.
@@DONUTDONUTDONUTDONUTDONUT my biggest problem with it is yue crushes the nuts of any dude that talks to her so many times, and then some come back later and some of them thank her for some fucking reason.
Here is the thing Geoff, you are right about it being a 13-year-old Chuunibyou's fanfic written in that pleather bound silver spiked diary. Counterpoint though: you do not need to call me out like that for enjoying it.
I have to say, completely unironically, I really enjoy the extended periods of silly sound effects over the fights and the long stream of consciousness word-salad that are in this episode. Shits real funny. Haha
Y'know, I 100% forgot I watched season 1 in full. All of this video was me going, "Ooooh yeah. I remember that episode now." until we got to the point where they drive off into the sunset.
This anime is actually a guilty pleasure of mine. I actually didn't know it had a sequel and I wanted it to get one! I honestly couldn't even tell you why it is. I just like it. I enjoyed each episode with maybe a few being skips but still watchable. I'm actively writing my own science fiction/fantasy novel and consider myself an anime fan. Granted I am by no means on your level; I grew up in Detroit in the 90s. My main exposure was Toonami, Adult Swim, and going to my Grandparents to watch what I could on Comcast. So my opinion is probably mute, but I just like it haha.
It’s also my guilty pleasure, but I know why. Besides what this guy says, Hajime’s powers actually make sense which this guy completely failed to understand and Hajime’s powers are also different from most isekai hero’s powers. He’s a technician not just this dude who was born into this world stronger than the rest of his classmates. However I will say they failed to explain how tf his cyborg arm works
@@jaredevers6459 THAT'S IT!! I couldn't put my finger on it but after what you said I completely agree. Hajime's powers are like any skill tree from a game. It reminded me of Shield Hero. The way the show uses alchemy and makes it one of the best magic systems for a main character is amazing. I have always loved it when a MC is more technical than Brute Force. I love that Hajime has to think, has to craft, and actually has to work for his items instead of just having them or being gifted to him or even finding them just lying around in some dungeon. He legit has to make everything he uses and it makes the show more engaging because I am always curious what tech he built and will have to use.
Cause of this, I think I finally realised why Banished From The Hero's Party felt like such a breath of fresh air last season. It may have still been completely schlocky, and the MC may have been a fairly generic protag, but it was just a normal fantasy anime with a single romantic love interest whose relationship actually progresses past "lol I like you I'm horny" Which is a very low bar to have to get over and yet so few fantasy anime seem to cross it.
A lot of show initially sell on just that. Banished From The Hero's Party, Arifureta, Chivalary of the failed knight and that weird show about animals evolving into waifus all had in coming that right of the bat, the protagonists gets into a relationship or at least very clearly is getting into one. And in the case of Arifureta and the last one, while there is a harem it is lead by one MAIN girl, Yue ruling hers with confidence and an iron grip. People are just so very sick of relationships not developing even when the MC is aware or even worse the oblivious mc that just having an actual relationship happening is enough to get you viewers.
Right now I'm cautiously optimistic about Realist Hero. They outright say that polygamous relationships aren't uncommon, and the king having a harem is okay. While I was wary at first, I think it's worked out well. All the girls are okay with the arrangement, so we don't see them fighting to get his attention. It give Souma a chance to interact with each of them casually. The male characters have been pushed to the back, but they've still played a role in the developing story. It's like, while it's there, it's not the main focus. Although the second Tomoe tries to become anything more than an adopted little sister, I'm out.
@@jardex2275 I have been enjoying it also. Usually not a fan of multiple wives in stories but this one is just really interesting guess it hits on my strat/city builder gaming love seeing him grow the kingdom and deal with the political problems. P.S. I did get curious about who his wives would be. Tomoe isn't one so you are safe on that. 👍
I really like how he just casually get strong because he ate casually Wolf, he actually basically Kaneki-ed himself because he was starving, and needed to eat the Wolf, but also the Wolf is poison, so he had to drink a magic healing potion to watch it down and heal himself His body was getting melted and healed at a molecular level, which is basically super Kaneki tear weight lifting Because ya know, you tear your muscles to rebuild them when you lift weights. It’s just like that
please do not compare kaneki and arifureta, Tokyo Ghoul is an actual masterpiece and whilst the author isn’t a fan of it sue to his own mental issues and stress from the anime a lot of people see it as such
Arifureta clicks 3 boxes that I love reading, even if they're underdeveloped tropes. I love revenge stories where the MC is dismissed as useless and comes back more powerful that the people who looked down on him, I love zero to hero power fantasies, and I love MCs who are given a weak power and turn it into an unbeatable skill. The only things I don't like are how quickly he becomes op and how little his revenge subplot matters. He tells the guy that betrayed him that he knows he betrayed him, but walks away. And then his magic items. There's a huge difference between creating a fantasy railgun and creating a motorcycle. The former is ingenious and only works because he's isekaid, the latter is just ridiculous and doesn't even pretend to make sense.
Ranking of kings would be your fav, it fit all the boxes and is also a good story with good characters and good progression, you can really feel Bojji growing up a lot in just a few episodes. Bojji can beat this stupid ass motherfker, without needing an op power.
I read the light novel and actually enjoyed the plotpoint that he is giving up on revenge. The LN does a great job portraiing the "good guy heroes" as naive, ignorant and judgemental but not actually evil (of course except for the feew guys who actually pushed Hajime over the edge... I liked it because it didn't follow the usual trope and was writtten belivably
@@gilroyscopa I do understand that, and despite liking revenge plots, I never wanted Hajime's primary goal to get back at the people that wronged him, but it seemed weird that he warned the teacher that healer girl might be in danger because a classmate is the one that caused his fall, but he doesn't make any other effort, not even warning the girl. If they were going to dismiss him getting back at the classmate, it seems pointless that he worried at all about her when he was just gonna leave her behind had she not decided to join him.
I honestly love his approach to a villian. No long speech why he's a more moral individual. No convoluted plan that goes wrong. Just fuck it, what do I have that would be overkill.
I really hate the main character in this show. He only shows interest in the girl who looks like she's 7, but he gets a pass because she's actually 300, ugh. He's a dick to everyone for no reason but when he finally sees the classmate who betrayed him he does nothing to him, not so much as an evil stare. But he will treat someone who is nice to him like shit.
12:57 this reminds me of light novel readers saying stuff like "had the anime been better adapted, the entire first season would have taken place soley in the dungeon, and first episodes would have properly set up things better". as in, having hajime at first look like he will hook up with his healer classmate, only to later subvert the audiences' expectations and throw him into the dungeon to meet yue
The fist dungeon was the best part of the novel imho. If you liked the first dungeon of this anime/novel/manga, try Dungeon Seeker. It's a whole manga of that ... to the extent that the Arifureta author successfully sued the Dungeon Seeker author. It's edge to edge edgy, more edge than you can edge an edge full of edge at. It scratches that itch to completion. Even after getting sued, the Dungeon Seeker guy finished the story (only feels a bit rushed) and didn't leave us hanging. Arifureta does eventually have good simple world building, but ya gotta squint past a lot to get there.
@@aristizle8797 I mean, the sue might have been succesful, but the way Geoff puts it about how the author was an ass to whitefox´s team (the same whitefox that animated the two seasns of Re:zero mind you, I have no doubt of their potential talent) it´s perfectly possible that the dungeon seeker author didn´t desevre to get sued, and the arifureta author just sued him for a technically legal, yet ultimately petty reason.
@@zandromex8985 Nah, nah. There were descriptions in the web novel that were straight up copy/paste. IIRC the Dungeon Seeker guy was disappointed of the direction the arifureta guy took their story. Wanted to do it better. And they did. The early chapters were closer to fan fiction than an original story, if that puts it into perspective. Note: I'm getting most of this from forums, I never actually read the Dungeon Seeker wn, and I would be reading both through translators and would have trouble directly comparing them myself if I did. The author can both be an ass, and legally correct. The fact that they are an ass just gives me another reason not to read/watch his stuff.
What infuriates me the most about the Arifureta anime is Tio’s dragon form...WHY THE FUCK IS HER MOUTH FLAPPING? In the light novel, it specifically states that when she’s in that form, they’re hearing her talk directly into their minds...if they had merely read the few chapters of her introduction, they could’ve saved themselves some money, and everyone else the trouble of having to watch that terrible animation. Ugh.
This seems like the kinda show I’d love legitimately as a teenager, love ironically as an early 20-something, and love legitimately now were it better animated and had an ounce of self-awareness of how stupid it is.
I really want to see an isekai story after they save the world and get brought back to Japan, but then they realize that they just can't just pew pew slash slash their problems away and actually have to grow as a person. ...wait didn't SAO already try that?
funny enough the author actually wrote the after story for arifureta in web novel form and still being updated. so imagine this dude being super OP af with his wive~~s going back to japan with his classmates intact. SPOILER THE GRAND SAGA OF ARIFURETA IS ACTUALLY JUST A PREQUEL TO THE MAJESTIC AFTER STORY OF ARIFURETA WHICH SPANDS THROUGH MANY UNIVERSE AND HELL ALSO EARTH IS NOT AS SAFE AS IT WAS THOUGHT TO BE
@@VierzheTsuu I really love after story. It doesn't just show the story from Hajime's perspective, it also shows the pov of other character as well. Like how they show the story about the hero got transferred into a different isekai. He had a good character development. I hate him, but after I read this I hate him less. His chemistry with Hajime after that is really funny. And then there's other story, like how Shea got a reverse harem or Hajime and his harem stopped a global terrorist attack, and many more. But I can't fit all of them in this comment
Imma be real, I actually like Hajime's design in the anime more than the LN. Something about the edgier and messier hair makes him look more unique than the clean, generic look in the LN.
He could honestly pass a little test I thought of for characters-you put the main leads from various shows in a line up and be able to not only remember the show they’re from but their full name. It shouldn’t be that much but it’s had surprising results with friends!
The anime designs feel closer to the early manga designs, which work really well. Especially in the first novel hajime looks way too "clean" despite fighting for his life every day
IIRC, the character designs are partly what Shirakome shafted the White Fox production team for. From what little I saw of their design, Hajime was more on the generic end, and it was Asread that more or less captured Shirakome's vision of him as _the_ teenage edgelord.
Arifureta started out the dungeon-delving work that never was, then had a huge tone-shift into yet another OP protag harem isekai. The moment they left the Labyrinth it was all downhill and I couldn't enjoy it anymore.
I just felt progressively more shame that I enjoyed the manga for this with each passing minute. I started with "well yeah, its dumb when you put it like that!" and with each passing description of a plot point I just started shaking my head and wondering how I reached this new low in standards...
@@KeyboardKlutz_0 the art is one is one of the big factors that has kept me around for the manga... and the art is why I didn't even make it halfway through the first episode of the anime.
Same I read the manga and it’s way better then the anime, I still gotta read the LN but one thing I’ll give the anime is that it’s hella entertainingly funny bad.
The first 10 minutes made me laugh incredibly hard... basically, because one friend of mine actually liked it... and he kinda fits the edgelord teenager bill, at over twice the age you'd normally expect that to happen xD
I won’t pretend I didn’t set my standards a bit low on this one, but all in all I thought it was entertaining. The other characters I will be honest could afford more character development, but as I said I lowered standards. I genuinely did like the dynamic between Hajime and Yue and even though I won’t necessarily complain about certain scenes I did think to myself “this scene could afford a bit greater seriousness… here are some pants and a shirt.” I think the utter carpet bombing that happens along the way is rather bemusing though and I will be frank it feels like a couple scenes I watched of a Charles Bronson movie where he proceeds to unload 30 shots from a 6 shot revolver never once reloading in the process. Anyhow though, even if I hated it tomorrow, I’ve gotta say that intro theme was good.
"Still no Spice and Wolf" seriously this. Having another season would really be a great idea. Now imagine if Kyoto or another big budget studio would adapt it for another 2-3 seasons and condense the approximately 23 light novels into a cohesive story. A man can dream.
@@darkpixel1128 That also doesn't include any of the full book length side stories (which I think there are 5), or the sequel spin-off series with 6 volumes already.
For anyone in this thread that has time restraints on reading or just rather listen Spice and Wolf is going to get the first LN on audio book later this year, hopefully end up doing at least the main series. I have trouble finding time to sit down and read so listen to books while working (Night Shifter here). Just hope they have a good narrator for it.
Great video Geoff! This and your roast of Master of Ragnarok helped me think of a couple small clips to include in my video when I mention bad isekais / generic anime protagonists haha.
This show had so much potential. If they had just kept it as a survival love story with Hajime and Yue at the center, it would've been great. Their scenes together honestly melt my heart. But NOOOOOO, they had to turn it into another mediocre harem series!
This was the first real anime disappointment I ever had. I read the light novels for this, and was really excited when the anime was announced. And then I watched the first episode and truly disgusted, because it was absolute DOGSHIT. The LN was actually really specific with what yui was trapped in, which was basically a giant stone rectangle with her tiny head sticking out, and they hung her from the ceiling with weird magic chains. Shit sucks.
See, I kept reading Arifureta not because Hajime was "edge" but because, from what I had understood thus far, Hajime had essentially gone Crazy. I was reading for the experience of watching the drive of a broken man, who would go to lengths that no sane man would go to. The alchemy was a plus, but when reading, I never visualised the guns as basically exact copies of our tech in style; I saw it as a pistol-shaped mass of rock with a gun chamber; a very rough outline. I loved the story because it f e l t unique because I had misunderstood it XD
too be fair, hajime did go crazy, thats the whole point of his character. the crudeness of his weaponry is your misunderstanding, but he did go crazy, and the edge is part of that, his geeky side being used as his personality since when he didnt use it as a defence he basically got betrayed and almost died. he uses the edgy delusions that he formerly kept locked up because he understood that they were just edgy delusions to defend himself and keep himself sane after a long time of being in total darkness suffering great physical pain. he simply doesnt care about most life, and is only convinced to care about anyone at all because of yui.
@@hhsdhhsss1522 literally what he was saying and admitting. And I agree with him honestly. I enjoyed the manga until they got out of the cave, after that it dipped for me. Though never could figure out why, perhaps i felt much of the same
@@dustypaladin9216 Yep and throught the story, at least in the LN, the girls or even some of his classmates make him get back to his old self while maintaing his new personality
@@noahboddie3482 For me, it was when they introduced Shia and the other "wives". To me, what made the story special was the relationship between Hajime and Yue and how they were essential to each other's mental state. Together, they seemed normal, but the second they were separated the madness returned. They were one mental organism, compensating and filling in each other's shattered Psyches. It was them and only ever them against the world. To me, they should not have been capable of stronger emotions towards people, as their emotions for each other involved being two broken parts of one slightly functional whole. But I always saw this as a closed system.
This series is the embodiment of how "and also" ruins things. You had a great start, dude trapped in a cave with the power of minecraft (mining and crafting). But then it and alsoed its way in to giving him every power that crosses his mind up to supermans magic friendship rainbow (actual super man power in a golden age comic) and alsoed a series of interesting plot points presented perfectly to make them boring.
I find it hilarious thinking about what manga creators find edgy and cool. "Let the protagonist in a world full of magic use guns, who cares that we established him to be able to gain all abilities of the monsters he eats. no use for them", "let's get him a harem that he is too cool to care about, he's so cool that he gets angry at their attempts to get intimate", "having no redeeming qualities is edgy and it makes him look cool to be completely void of empathy". It's time for the entire globe to collectively write an angry letter to Japan claiming that chuunibyo is not edgy and cool, it's a mental disorder that should be treated asap.
My compliments on the writing and delivery for this episode. These roasts are always fun, but this one was particularly snappy and enjoyable to listen to.
I remember reading the LN and dropping it after the bunny girl joined. Like, nothing really worked for me. The MC got way too powerful way too quickly, to me it felt like he was edgy just for the sake of being edgy and him being able to bring modern technilogy like guns and cars into a medieval world simply broke any emersion I had left for this show.
It would be fine for me if he was able to bring cars and guns to that particular fantasy world *if* it was clearly established before that he had intricate knowledge of the inner workings of such devices. That crafting skill of his should be completely worthless for him if he weren't also able to make those things by hand if given enough time.
I never understood the immersion argument You’re already reading an isekai, the most logical way of doing things would be to bring advanced weaponry in or at least create hybrid systems. Because you’re in an unknown world trying to survive its unknown dangers, giving yourself the best chance of survival would be logical
@@dylannix4289 Using everything he has to his advantage alone doesn't make for a bad story. But giving the main character like all the technological knowledge as well as the magic capabilities to create all of these things with no real hindrance or limitation is. Like, why is this LN even called "from commoner to world strongest" when he reaches that state already at the end of Volume 1? Having someone be reincarnated into a new world and having to learn to live with the limitation of said world is interesting. Having the MC break these limitations of said new world because "reasons" (and yes, Hajime has many of these, like how he is a weapon's expert) immediately in Volume 1 makes for a boring story for me.
So before my anime stop in the year I was on a mass anime binge (like watching almost everything that came out) I watched this on x3 speed and this video made me aware of a lot of parts that actually slipped my attention as I watched this on the busride to and from school and just was interested in the betrayal premise at first but as said I watched everything and I wonder how I didn't notice that stuff probably because back then I was still writing and studying but I feel reluctant to continue watching it now. Then again thanks for recap I don't have to rewatch it now XD.
I watched the first 3 episodes of this anime with my bf and I went "homie this is garbage" as we were laughing at it but like,,,, he just kept watching it,,,, and then later on he said it was good??? But I just looked at him like he was crazy
based and accurate. I like watching great shows with depth, but also ass, 1 dimensional shows like this when i want to turn my brain off. I just gotta be careful not to drool on myself
My first introduction to Arifureta was season 1 of the anime and i actually like it. I even rewatched it recently. I think the problems start to become more evident after he escapes the Orcus Labyrinth, and after watching the first couple episodes of season 2 it just confirms it. See what i enjoyed was watching him learn, grow and experiment with his powers. He pretty much became god and went on fun antics after that and from what i'm hearing all of the stuff i enjoyed from the Labyrinth has been cut from the manga. Why? It was probably the coolest part. The fun antics only hold up so long and i can't take any of it seriously if he just has new powers pulled from his ass with no setup. Basically, he doesn't earn any of his powers, by which i mean, we are never shown him gaining them anymore. He just has them whenever the plot demands it.
My only concern is that in getting a second season and changing studios, the producers are going to decide to "get serious" and take the edge off the dumpster-firey goodness that made the first season something special.
The overall story, assuming you go through the whole narrative at some point, is actually fairly interesting. The lore got better as it went along and Hajime's overall role became more interesting as well. He even works as a likeable harem protagonist, which is one helluva trick to pull off in any medium.
I will say this: After watching the first season in it's entirety the animation quality, especially the 3D monsters, improved drastically in the second season. Its literally night and day but we obviously haven't seen everything yet. I still hate the 3D BS the animators seem dead set on unnecessarily injecting into everything but the they're palatable in the second season rather than whatever the hell they did in the first. Story is still hot garbage and horny as hell but as a trash connoisseur I will continue to watch unrepentantly because its just comfort food for the eyes and the brain, like a hamburger and fries. Regarding the classmate he executed in the first season. He didn't kill him because he's a merciless, edgy try-hard. He executed him because he's a merciless, edgy try-hard who knew his corrupted classmate wasn't sincerely asking for mercy and would simply try to kill their teacher again the moment he left. It's fairly obvious he has no sympathy or mercy to give to liars, betrayers or any of their ilk which to his credit is an actual character trait despite his power fantasy type character. It certainly makes him less bland than someone like Kirito although that's not setting the bar particularly high.
I’d like to add that his reason to kill his classmate in the first season was actually a badass antihero (I think antihero is the right term) move. He refused to save his classmate because he doesn’t want to leave enemies that will cause problems later, which you said. BUT he kills him himself in that edgy act to take credit for the students death, that is, so that his teacher didn’t blame herself for her students death (considering he was corrupted under her care, and died for failing to kill her). Even though she really wasn’t responsible in the first place, he prevented her from experiencing the usual self hatred arc that comes from this. In regard to the 3D animation, they had to , to fit the time constraint they were put under. =P (even though that was already stated in the video)
The CGI in the second season is far from the worst I've ever seen(which would be the first season lol). And it's absolutely tolerable if you seen few 2010's anime CGI.
I mean the dude DID lead an army to attack innocent people with, I don't think hajime thinking of murdering the dude is exactly unwarranted. Could have jsut imprisoned the dude but I can see the sense in it, though the fact he can do it to a classmate is kinda spooky.
the fact is that if a story like solo levelling gets an adaptation like this then it would be shit as well if arifureta had gotten an amazing adaptation then who knows how much we would likee it
@@flipkiller8521 the story is mediocre but the art is just amazing which makes solo levelling a really good and entertaining read if the anime can does a good job showing that then it will be realy good
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As the great philosopher Gigguk once said: “Isekai will never die; they just get reincarnated into another show.”
Wise words
He always has the best quotes
“Isekai will never die”
Someone needs to make a meme of this using Cobra Kai posters as the template.
That should be inscribed on the bumper sticker of Truck Kun.
We're gonna need a whole fleet of trucks for this one.
"except all the women he's going to marry someday and his daughter" I appreciate that these are two separate groups, but I have zero faith that this series will keep them that way.
Not with the way Tio is handling... Parenting?
you dont have to worry about that. it stays that way
It definitely feels like they'll pull an Usagi Drop with the daughter
@@carbodude5414 worse hajime even married myu's mother...😂😂
@@seandelacruz3792 and don't forget that myu said that she want to married her father as well even tho he said to stop that and she said
That’s why……eventually, Myuu will eat up Papa nano.
Even her mother supported that and said
‘if there is an opening then take it!’
And Don't mind me I'm just a big fan of arifureta
At some point this ceased being a roast and just became a run-on sentence where you didn't have to tell any jokes because you'd get more laughs just reciting the plot.
That point was very early in the video.
That point was very early in his career.
All he does "roast" anime and nothing else as that is all that he is known for.
@@TheDapperDragon all from ripping on SAO which Jumpstart his career.
@@itsblitz4437 it is pretty entertaining tho, but i don’t watch anime or anime critiques outside of MB so whatever
Made rewatching so much fun.
Me: "No my high school tastes weren't cringy edge-boy fantasy. I promise they were sophisticated"
*watching this episode and realizing this is EXACTLY something I would have watched when I was 13*
Me: No it is okay. It's ok to let that phase die in the burning landfill fire that it is
I'm well past 13 and I still watched it. Yes it's cringe, but it's the kind of cringe that's like junk food where you eat it even though you know it's bad for you.
"Do not kill the part of you that is cringe, kill the part of you that cringes."
Let yourself have fun, be happy, see what happens
Yeah… same.
I was cringing so hard when he was describing the main character because I know in my heart i would think of something like that but probably worse when I was 13.
From "The Problem with NFTs" to shoving a pile driver up a dragon's ass. Thank you, Geoff
Haha I got recommended those two videos together too, TH-cam is good sometimes
Sounds like a BS video title.
"A Problem with NFTs" would work.
"Some Problems with NFTs" would work.
But there isn't just 1 problem with NFTs.
same, except I watched this first LMAO
@@dynamicworlds1 having watched the video, I would say a more accurate title would be “Every problem with NFTs”
@@Noddarappa quite the ambitious claim!
I remember reading the early chapters, where Hajime was actually struggling to survive, he was barely getting by, he lost his arm, he had to resort to altering his own biology (which I hoped would eventually be revealed to have caused some drawbacks), and even when he could fight back it was a close thing, and it seemed like as time went on it'd never get easier for him. And I was interested, I was onboard. I wanted to see where it was going, god was I disappointed. Also, has anyone here read Dungeon Seeker, it's pretty much this story minus harem, add some horror, and is in my personal opinion much better, at least the manga, haven't read the novel.
The drawbacks being his sense of humanity and compassion tbh
I've read Dungeon Seeker before, but it was most likely fan translation, not the official one, which somewhat has lower quality IMO from what I usually read, standstill at vol. 4 only.
From my memory, I believe that is ’cause dungeon seeker was a straight ripoff a fan of arifureta made, or it was the otherway around, can’t remember.
Yep, I was super on board with it until they left the dungeon. it was a good start, after which it took a sharp left turn into a wall.
Same, once the harem started I dropped it. It was so disappointing
If you read the afterword of the author, he's incredibly self-aware about what he's writing. And I'm not going to lie, reading this thing set my youthful soul ablaze. Despite being absolutely aware of what I am reading, I can't help but have fun with this series. It's kinda special that way.
Yeah... The tongue in cheek, cheesiness to the point of self parody is kind of the thing that really sells it for me. It feels like every element in isolation is annoying or bad but in a way where when put together they all counterbalance each other to dumb hilarious results. Everything is turned to 11 and noone has a filter.
'Tis a beautiful train wreck of the fascinating and highly entertaining variety.i really enjoyed the first season the way I enjoy Monty Python.
Well that's good to know at least. I listened to an audiobook of it for a while because I heard it was way better than the anime. I dropped it after a while but got some enjoyment out of the earlier portions and I'm not going to begrudge anyone a so bad it's good thing even if it's not to my taste. Hell, even the author can get a pass if they're self aware about it. I enjoyed Cat Planet Cuties once I realized how much of a completely self-aware self-parody it was, so I've no room to judge anyone for finding a slightly different comedic style of the same basic idea of going so over the top that it becomes entertaining again, because that kind of comedy will always be a matter of taste.
I haven't read the LN so I can't comment on that, but the anime didn't do enough to show that it was self-aware of it being overly edgy, it was reaching Assassin's pride levels of cringe
The LNs are ridiculous, unnecessary, and a lot of fun.
Me: "man every single thing he said is right. This show is OBJECTIVELY bad."
Also me: "I wanna rewatch Arifureta"
The anime is bad. I won't argue the manga is great, but it's OK to good. The animation physicaly hurt me to watch.
Do... do you need someone start an intervention for you? Because rewatching this abomination isn't something a healthy person should ever do
@@TheChrosst Nah, nah, let him consume his trash in peace, I promise it's not as drastic as it looks, speaking as someone who brings M.D. Geist back out yearly.
@@TheChrosst I watch it as a parody, abridged in my mind. Such as how much edgelord somebody can channel (imagine the MC speaking in Batman's voice). MMO made by EA (such restrain by not including lootboxes, only limiting with bad design).
@@petrsevcik5044 The novel is really dope, too. A lot of content got left out of the manga.
I got into Arifureta through the manga. When Hajime gets pushed into the first dungeon there is a massive tone shift and the art changes to reflect that.
I thought "Hey is this a revenge story twist that specifically goes against the cookie cutter power fantasy harem isekai garbage? Hell yeah!". Like it was over the top edgy but I can get behind that.
But literally the second they make it out of the first dungeon (where I thought most of the series was gonna take place) they drop all of that, the tone shifts again and it just becomes like every other power fantasy harem isekai garbage.
Seriously, I could write a multi-page essay on the tone shifts alone and why the first one works and the second doesn't. Hell even the manga's artists seem to think so. There is clearly more effort in that first dungeon then anywhere else in the manga.
Right?? The first dungeon was so much fun!!
The one that im most dissapoin are when the hero are shown in the manga he look like someone that you dont want to mess with while also have a relyable aura represent by him being a class presiden and at the time the manga show the ace of the class he literaly look like a veteran adventurer when the anime just go "oh yeah here the idiotic class presiden with his stupid looking golden armor"
Thank you! Like as soon as he made it out, tbh when he discovered his first waifu at the end of the dungeon I should have guessed but it was so good I didn't notice until it was too late, by too late I mean like the second or third episode literally
Tbh, I never cared for the anime or manga, I always thought that stuff was kinda shit (besides hajime in the 1st dungeon which was pretty cool.) what really got me was the LN, and WN, which I found out from ani news, and tbh, was one of my top favorite Ln I have read (sadly.) due to how it could build a world, and build character development, showing growth of interpersonal connections between hajime and the rest of the cast, and personal growth, which imma be honest: when I 1st started reading arifureta, I was expecting it to be a meh Ln, and at the beginning, it was, with most of what I stated being hard to find in earlier chapters, with most of the building, and connections occurring close to the end of the main story, and mostly in the afterstory to build out more character, with the rest of the story being mostly comic relief, and cringy one-liners, but it was when the Ln, is able to pull through, that’s when it was great, and due to that, gave me a good time, but that was rare, and it would only come once in awhile, but when it did, it was nice, as well as the subtle world building, the building of side characters, and the ability to make rational decisions, which really helped make a better foundation on a show that was founded on gags.
@@heilamwether8911this review is like you're arguing with yourself 😂😂😂 I'm just imagining the internal debate every time you turned a page was like this.
I actually really love the idea of an entire class getting isekaied. Could have been a survival horror or an edgier digimon adventure. Sucks that had to be another trashy harem.
The only harem i like is highschool dxd
So I'm A Spider, So What? is about a whole class getting isekaied and basically is a survival horror. So I don't know if you've checked that one out yet or not and that's what you're referring to, but you might give that a shot if that's what you're into and haven't seen.
@@winja2109 well, the class is separated without even being aware the others are there because people got reincarnated all around the new world.
“Lonely Attack on a Different World” is a non-harem manga where an entire class gets isekaied, and despite the name, the main character actually does meet groups of his classmates and interact with them pretty often. Unlike 99% of these class isekais, he doesn’t get personally betrayed by the entire class and he wasn’t bullied back on Earth; he was just a loner by choice. It’s the kind of story where instead of becoming overpowered from getting one really good “cheat” skill, he survives by synergizing a a bunch of weaker skills. Since he’s not edgy or whiny, it’s a lot less infuriating when he interacts with other people. I recommend it.
Watch "So I'm a Spider, so what?" if you want a class reincarnation that is not a harem
I love how seriously Geoff says "double vegeta mickey mouse"
It makes me cry laugh every time
Sounds like a new Super Saiyan transformation.
@@BrognusBelgen "For you see, you're not dealing with the average Vegeta anymore."
@@idoganor100 I'm not sure whether to read this in Vegeta's voice or Shadow's.
@@blarg2429 That fact that anyone can easily see both of them saying that says a lot 🤣🤣🤣
Sonic's the same except he's Spiderman.
The sad thing about Tio is that she's never fully developed as a character until post-game--erm, post-story where she gets her similar chapter like the other girls did. Also, Aiko/Sensei was in that town because her powers involve raising plants and that town was an agriculture town. That's why people there call her the Goddess of Harvest or something of the sort, and why the demon side wants her dead (she's the boon to human side's food logistics in the war). The anime sucked at even basic exposition though.
Yeah, very true
That's why i just read the Web Novels instead buy Sometimes watch a New Season of the Anime too see if they improved or not
That's so dumb. Anyone who knows the first thing about pre-industrial military logistics (which admittedly isn't very many, but hush) knows that armies will starve if they can't steal enough food from the countryside as they pass through. Sure, it benefits the enemy too, but you can't march an army through impoverished countryside without supplies being shipped by river or rail, and it doesn't seem like this part of the world has much of either.
Also, more obvious: Maybe kidnap the harvest goddess instead of murdering her? Still evil, but more _profitably_ evil.
Tio can get VERY one note but the LN and after story definitely make her more of a character instead of sex joke one note character
The first arc of this show where he and Yue were struggling to get through the labyrinth together was interesting and I saw so much potential for this show. Then when the bunny girl was introduced there was suddenly this huge and unexpected tonal shift in the story and it turned into a massive dumpster fire... yet I couldn't stop being curious about what the show would do next and continued watching. and by the end of the first season I wanted a second season even though I was fully aware of how terrible and very rushed this show was and how overly edgy the main character is. It's an oddly entertaining dumpster fire and this video pointing that out was really funny
The light novel quite literally has the exact same trajectory. The first dungeon is great and Yue is an acceptable waifu, but as soon as the harem elements come in it turns to (still enjoyable) garbage real quick.
It's one of the stories that really show why Harems have a bad name, if they all handled it as well as Mushoku Tensei does I don't think anyone would have an issue with the format.
Yeah... the first arc was the best the show ever got for me. Decent drama, pacing, and character development only to then take a huge left turn and devolve into a really generic harem power fantasy.
@@GonnaDieNever I think if they actually do the first arc over and over again without making the protagonist so OP, basically making exploring dungeons the focus, it can actually be quite enjoyable. it is also harder to execute, the dungeons need to be interesting, to make it more interesting, you probably need other dungeon explorers. when I read the first arc, i hoped that the rest of the arcs would be like the first arc, but I was so wrong then I quickly lost interest
@@existenceispain2074 I made it to the second dungeon because I was hoping it would be like the first arc, but when they finished it in like four chapters I quit.
RIGHT? I was so excited for the cute love adventure revenge story and then the second they left the cave it just turned into garbage dumpster fire harem and it was the saddest thing. I love harem but this, because of how it started, just left me bitter and disgusted because it had so much potential.
"He's his own kind of kirito" made me laugh my ass off.
Dubious quality aside, I got mad respect for any harem anime to have the tiny girl in the show NOT be a waifu and stay as NOT a waifu. I actually kinda like Shield Hero but it is very guilty of having alot of a certain character archetype
Which tiny girl? The first one he encounters that is magically 300 years old despite looking 12 and is his wife? Or the second one he encounters that is not magically 300 years old and calls him daddy?
@@DanBennettUltra it's mostly child daughters. 2000 year old dragons aside, it's nice to have actual father/daughter relationships without making them wierd
You know, I fully expected that little girl to go from calling the hero guy onii chan to papa to husband so the fact that didn't apparently happen was a huge sigh of relief at least.
Well he does eventually meet the girls' mother, and the dad's dead so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also she's absolutely a milf. Like, she makes Yue look like a noob in the way she holds herself and her ground.
Hajime's tendency to kill his enemies is much like Tarzan's attitude (in his novels) -- "But every time I show mercy, they just come back to trouble me again. Best to kill them when I have the chance and be done with them."
Also, the author in every one of the afterwords for the novels proclaims himself a big fan of chuunibyo, so yeah -- his protagonist is seriously OP and every woman's dreamboat.
JoCo
big fan of chuunibyo
I literaly died when i read this lol
@@waskithonugroho3955
And from what I read, Ryo Shirakome wrote the original web novels under the pseudonym "Chuuni Suki." No, really.
The fact he shamelessly embraces the chuunibyou makes him much more respectable
I wonder if White Fox's versión of the anime wasnt Chuuni enough for him and hence why the fit 🤔
I was at work when I binged this show. Maybe it was the mixture of sleepy delirium or the three cups of coffee I drank, but that dragon scene made me laugh like a frickin maniac for like ten minutes straight.
I must be a total degen because I kinda wanted to hear more about it. Full bonk.
my dad was in the room while i was watching that episode, nothing too crazy that episode till that point (surprisingly), then boom, A N A L
Yeah.
I now feel slightly disappointed and betrayed when girls are brought in to a harem anime without the character’s introductory anal spiking scene. It’s like, are you guys even trying anymore?
Did anyone else laugh that time when Tio in dragonform had the rod up her you know what and thought to themselves ...
"okay maybe I'll watch another episode"?
This except I decided to read the entire light novel.
I only laughed when he said she took a giant 20 foot rod up her ass while she was still in dragon form as I watched her moan. It was fucking stupid as shit and hilarious.
I actually saw a clip of that scene and was like "aight, I guess I'll add it onto the 'to watch' list"
Yeah .. imean i saw that in the manga...And um... Yeah for whatever reason i was like BWAHAHAHA the heck.
I happily binge watched the show and read all the light novels.
This show was the dumpster fire I couldn't stop watching. Weird that the music is so good when literally everything else blows, but I'd equate that to the perfume blocking the smell of burning garbage just long enough to get you to finish watching it burn.
Music is probably the only thing they didn't have to scrap when changing studios...
Weirdly, even a lot of bad anime I genuinely don't like have good music. Some composers in the industry are just really good at their jobs like that.
@@morganqorishchi8181 yeah, same with SAO. Story goes to shite after a while, but the music is great (which makes sense, as I believe the composer also did the music for AoT)
@@jordinagel1184 and the first arc idea is kinda cool for it's time. Like it's literally way it becam so popular.
@@yuvalgabay1023 yeah, it’s easily the strongest arc of the show (until Mother’s Rosario, which was pretty good on account of Kirito barely showing up… Haven’t watched past that though). It has its problems - some of them quite egregious - which have already been addressed on this channel, but still pretty strong until the infamous “Uh, well, I forgot.”
Now, what happens AFTER it… oh boy
"The Manga was better!"
To those people I can only say, no... it's really not
Yeah, tbh it didn’t give that much insight, but tbh I feel like the light novel gave more info, if not at least a little more context.
They completely skipped the gang war in the 1st town
That first dungeon is better in both the manga and novel, iirc... but that's about it, the quality after that drops about as much as Hajime does right after being betrayed in the first dungeon
Shirou: I can create weapons Ive seen before.
Ed: My alchemy can create just about anything as long as I have materials.
Hajime: I can craft ANYTHING with Alchemy.
Archer: i can create world of swords. Get on my level!
@@Asphyx12 Gilgamesh: I Own all of the world treasures weapons included
Too bad he wasn't able to create a budget.
My alchemy dad beat your alchemy dad so hard
@@Asphyx12 Shirou: So can I, so catch up to me!
This show is a prime example of so bad it’s good. As long as you go into this knowing it’s bad you’re going to have blast
thats the ecxat sensation i have, sometimes we just want to see some bad shit
I had no clue going into S1. It had just finished it's run, and I was looking to binge some isekai. I was horrified at how episode 1 looked, but I was committed to the 3 episode rule. By the end of episode 2 I knew I couldn't stop watching.
yea, I went in expecting a bad show, so I kinda enjoyed it
Manga is better than anime
I've seen so many people that unironically think this show is amazing
Every time I'm reminded Arifureta exists I spiral into an hour's worth of half-composed seething rants on how asininely it was written and how wasted its initial premise of a guy getting isekai'd and discovering he's locked into a crafting spec is. Hajime could have made anything and so he made Gun? No wonder the writer loves chuunibyo nonsense. He's too unimaginative to think of creative solutions or anything more interesting than "this guy can't fight so he makes a gun and suddenly is the best at fight." It's as nuanced as a toddler falling over.
Tell me your ideas, I beg of you. This sounds amazing
I would honestly love to see some ideas of what he could do.
my only knowledge of this series is from this video and some memes, so I really have no clue what his limits are.
what do you think would be a creative application of his powers?
@@alucard347 I imagine literally any alchemist in FMA is more creative than GUN. They focus on his gun so much you forget this dude is suppose to be an alchemist.
@@davidashton3671 fair enough, I guess fma really is the go to in that scenario, although for the majority of time they simply do earth bending into simple shapes. when push comes to shove they use their powers in very creative ways (looking at you Ed with your ammonia bombs), but I am curious for more creative utilization of alchemy.
@@alucard347 They use earthbending mid fight because it's efficient. As you said with Ed, they cooked up some crazy shit when they have prep time.
So... Hajime's character writing just made me realize Kirito looks "complex." Ugh. Was the goal of this anime to retroactively elevate mediocre past titles?
I mean............I was laughing the entire video because of how fucking goofy this was.
SAO just.........well it made me angry the whole time.
I'd argue that makes this better than SAO.
Trust me. The first season does a piss poor job developing all the characters. All other forms of media for Arifureta do a WAY better job
The difference is that Arifureta knows what it is and delivers on dumb fun, action, and comedy, whereas SAO is a fast-food restaurant that gives you a happy meal and acts as if it were a 5 course fine dining experience. I would have enjoyed SAO far more if it didn't waste my time stretching out simplistic BS while pretending as if it was so deep and thoughtful.
Sao wouldve been fire if they did more instead of rushing the 1st season couldve gone through so more floors had some more connections with characters made kirito actually likeable n have real skills
@@halo25assassin45 Lmao no the manga is horrible aswell.
How to solve your problems:
A. Murder
B. Explosions
C. Edge
D. All of the above
Lol my series especially against all these things.
At about halfway through i have to agree with basically everything he said so far. Especially that the novels do expand on the characters more to flesh out their relationships. Most notably the fact that Yue is ok with Shea joining her and Hajime, but isn't so open to allowing just anyone (read Tio/Kaori) in, that Kaori has actually been stalking Hajime since back in middle school (ever since she saw him save that old woman in the incident she mentioned early on) including dragging Shizuku around to try to find his middle school and to find what eroge he's into/has helped develop, and that the first ancient magic they find in the Orcus labirynth lets him make ORES, not magic devices. he figures that out by doing some old fashioned studying with books. You know, the hard way.
Stop trying to use sense with LN stuff, it's arifureta bashing time on a video from someone that didn't read the source material, i mean we gotta give SAO a break and find another bad anime to criticize with pandering comments.
@@10tailedbijuu Well, the books have so many more details. the anime is legit hot trash, but the books are much less hot trash. they are kinda trashy, but they are at least somewhat better.
The comma makes, everything.
yep
Let's eat will!
Oops I forgot my comma. Let's eat, Will! I'm boutta make the best mav and cheese ever.
@@guhbruhmaste4557 😑
@@ChosenHeroLink why you annoyed? You're boutta get sum mac n cheese too!
Funny thing about Tio that was completely left out of the first season is how intelligent she actually is. She is arguably the smartest member of the party and unlike Darkness who loves to be abused by anybody Tio will only act that way towards Hajime and his party. She actually gets pissed when anybody else insults her. She's not a deep character or anything but the first season didn't do her or the others justice.
She's only in it for about 5 eps, and at least 3 of them are too busy with the violence to have time.
Tio act like that to fool Hajime and the rest. She was using Hajime for her own benefit.
Hopefully we get to see "Super Tio Mode" in S2
@@marivelarmitage5244 yeah but she changed after volume 10
@@geralt7144 sadly there's no way in hell they'll get to the sea of trees labyrinth in one season too bad
I'll be completely honest Arifureta is definitely a guilty pleasure for me, i was almost completely up to date with the webnovel which is on like part 500 or the afterstory and iv read the ln and manga, and like the author and most fans of the show know exactly what it is and why were watching it. Both to go "look cool op black cloaked mc gets all the girls" while also laughing at how outwardly and purposefully "chuunibyou" it is. Besides the awful cg monsters and low buget the first season didnt do that bad a a job, not as good as the manga, but still not bad, its just meant for exactly who its meant for.
Even Geoff can't bring himself to hate on Arifureta too seriously. I am embarrassed to admit that Arifureta is exactly the kind if Isekai dumpster fire that gets my heart thumping. As such I've watched the first season all the way through at least four times and I can confirm that season two is just as wonderful and shitty as season one (so far... Two episodes in). I'm enjoying it tremendously. Let's hear it for a season three!!!!
Exactly this. It's terrible. It's slock. But slock that itches a place in my brain I didn't know existed
I LOVE IT
If World Trigger can get 3 seasons, I don't see why Arifureta shouldn't
It's the kinda dumpster fire that other isekai wished to be.
It's premium garbage. So bad it's good
The one positive thing I can say about this anime is... I admire the freedom and, shear lack of giving a fuck, the original writer has shown us. It's amazing, really...
The shamelessness is pretty amusing
Every time the hummer comes out i audibly crack up
@@Robert-iu2ou I know, right? Why doesn't he just make an air fortress and, call it a day?
Whenever there is an anime like this, someone always writes a fanfic that’s better. But the thing about Arifureta is that it never happened. I’ve read a few fics and they’re all the same. Mc is a second Hajime. He gets betrayed, acts like he’s a badass who doesn’t care about anything, and gets really op for bullshit reasons without any training, while following hajime around and stealing a few of his lines. And honestly, when I turn off my brain I enjoy it a little.
Lol you come from Wattpad, right? Even some ended up stealing the spotlight. While other characters way too accepting toward OC. What do you expect from middle schooler writer?
@@hteteaindraykyaw996 can’t really blame them. For fanfics The point is to have fun. And when you see an anime you think you’d do better with you probably would wanna humiliate them or show them up. Which is exactly what the story did with hajime and the hero. (While also seeming so cool as you did it cause they pushed you and not because authors decided to do it)
I do agree its fun dumb turn your brain off or laugh together with your friends. One of my favourite moments of watching bad anime is pretending the jealous rival is in love with the ancient weapon on the main characters arm. I’d just yell out “you can win that weapons heart! I believe in you!”
@@kingdoppelganger8951I can't turn my brain off due to my dark history. They I was also on their levels when l was a high schooler. Right now, I found myself very grateful for not publishing my stuffs back then on fanfic net😂.
@@hteteaindraykyaw996 oh I’m with you. Dark history of writing. The embarrassment is real. But now I’m wondering. With time having passed and emotional maturity now in view. Could you write better now? Do you think you can rewrite the original idea? Have you already done it? If so what was the original concept? What changes were made or what changes would you make
@@kingdoppelganger8951 The whole concept and plot itself is cringey enough to rewrite. It was beyond saving. My stories centered around OP mary sue OC who can do everything and make every characters awe at her. Just rethinking of my stories make me so🤢.
When hajime falls into the abyss and gets he's hand eaten in front of him, he remains inside the cave he made for 7 days feeding only on ambrosia which kept him alive but didn't satiate his hunger. It was during that period he went through mental breakdown and only reached on a conclusion on 7th day of 'returning to his home no matter what and killing those who interfered with his goal' and loosing the last bit of humanity with that mentality.
Then he decided to eat monster meat knowing fully that it might kill him, just to satisfy his extreme hunger. That's how it all started.
The conquering of each labyrinth is in a sense a journey of returning of his human nature while finding the way home.
The reason why his goal is to return home was totally skipped in Anime which is- his mother is a shoujo mangaka and his father is president of eroge developing game company.
The 3 of them often discussed on the scenario of getting isekai'd for example having a harem of vampire bunny girl etc and always concluded on 'whoever gets isekai'd shall return home no matter what'.
All of the character in development pre summoning was skipped and the summoning event was showed in opening giving very less information Of their circumstances. They even completely removed many characters which were somewhat significant in their respective arcs like the princess which got debut in season 2's 1st episode and also skipped many events and scenes which helped in understanding the transition to Next arc.
They didn't gave any explanation of the skills, The lore, POVs of other characters Where it was necessary, And many other things such as :
they took 2 months after defeating the hydra to recover and hone their new found skills to perfection before leaving the labyrinth.
And it took around 10 days to Conquer 2nd labyrinth.
And myu was with him for almost 2-3 weeks which made him close to her and got him to becoming A father figure for her.
Season 1 literally felt collection of scenes which the author wanted to be animated.
Wait are you serious? Why didn't they include all that?? This could have been a much funnier show if his parents were in it, plus we'd know way more about the literal main character.
@@itsmefm pre summon hajime was actually a great person to have fun and very likeable but he made a persona of your typical introvert who had the typical MC seat in class ( back row beside window) and slept through almost every lecture cuz he would pull an all-nighter almost every day to play games and eroges. This was because he had his future goals set which was inheriting his father's company and he even worked part time there learning various things about work and so his academic education was not much necessary and his parents would also not force him to study.
Rather this is a side story of his parents meet with aiko sensei about his behaviour during lectures but they pulled up uno reverse card and asked her if she is single, any relationship experience, if any interest in hajime etc. Cuz both became very excited after seeing "legal loli" and wanted to "collect/protect" her via hajime 😂😂
@@itsmefm "Why didn't they include all that??"
White Fox likely did because they had the time for it. Asread and the original writer killed that version, burned the remains and shit on it for good measure.
@@justinalicea1590 quite possible actually 😭
@@pranavwadodkar7690 Your explanation of the original story really shows why fans were excited for an anime adaptation. Despite 2 months of training, it still took the characters 10 days to beat the next labyrinth, which gives the idea that the characters can still become stronger and thus the story can still have that progression. It also gave Hajime the time to actually figure out how to make his own world's technology in the isekai world and thus feels like a reward he still worked for, and thus the 2nd labyrinth taking 10 days shows that the isekai world can handle it.
Whereas the short summary we got from Geoff shows nothing but everything breaking at the seams as Hajime does whatever he wants because he can.
TBF, Yeah, the LN REALLY does it better. The pacing is done a LOT better, and there's a LOT more characterization for all the characters, their motivations, and the REASONS for everything their doing. Also, over the volumes, it's REALLY hammered in how Hajime and Yue are in a somewhat unhealthily codependent relationship, and Yue isn't REALLY into letting others in to their relationship either. She's almost as slow in actually letting Shia into their relationship as Hajime is into it, and it's roughly half the volumes after they meet her that it's actually hinted that she'd probably be fine with HER, not anyone else actually being in a relationship with Hajime as well. Also, yeah, Tio is REALLY horny all the time, and EVERYONE is uncomfortable with it, EVERYONE. It does help with the juxtaposition when she DOES get serious, and by that point it's a surprise to everyone else that she can do that as well.
To be fair, you're not WRONG in that it's totally intended to basically be fairly well written edgy chuuni boys fantasy schlock. It just helps that the LN at least does the characterization and justifications FOR that schlock pretty well.
It knows that it's edgy. Hajime knows perfectly well how chuuni he looks and is not happy about it. How he looks is due to circumstances and not by choice.
Underrated comment tbh. The novel even manages to characterize the other classmates well, the reflection labyrinth trial being the moment that comes to mind with that. The author is a self proclaimed chuunybio and it shows, and its fun when it does. In the novel at least
The Manga does a pretty good job of this to i found.
lol, it sounds like the LN is a lot different from the anime. Guess the author should have stuck with White Fox.
holy shit you write like a person with down
Yeah, I remember reading the first novel and being incredibly disappointed by it. It started off so promising. Then, halfway through, it suddenly turned into one of the most cliche self-indulgent books I've ever had the misfortune to come across. The protagonist started off barely above okay but was thrown into a ton of situation where he could've developed a lot, but instead he regressed into a largely monosyllabic cliche teen bad-ass that couldn't help start a harem with every pretty girl he came across.
So, yeah, just no. I took a chance on the first light novel and was so disappointed that I permanently deleted it from my Amazon account. There was never any way I was ever going to give the anime another chance to disappoint me.
5:25
After seeing you showcase this scene, I can't help the fact that I need to watch it now
You will not regret, it's amazing. Just wait untill you get to the dragon
The first few episodes are really good it goes downhill fast
Nah, that's like way too generic.
The dragon scene though, now that's unique, in a really bizarre way.
@@NaughtiusMaximu5 Never thought CGI would be needed to show a dragon discover a fetish
See, every time I see stuff like that, I remember that I could see better drawn, actually bare anime breasts with decent action and plot, and go rewatch Grisaia or High School DxD.
Yeah this anime had me laughing with the absurdity, went from useless guy, to over powered edge lord in 2 full episodes. His character went from a friendly guy to murderous edge lord in probably 15 mins, so fast it left me with whip lash.
As for the story/plot, its basically a mix of "So I'm a spider, so what?" Mixed equally with "Magi, and the labyrinth of magic", but with a constant ever growing harem of women.
So I'm a spider had an ever growing harem of spider minds/spiders instead
Magi is the shit frfr
Edit: I mean VERY technically Magi also has a constant ever growing harem of women just not for Alibaba
@@FFKonoko Hmmm, you're not entirely wrong.
I'm kinda offended you compare arifureta with magi with their depth politic, worldbuilding, and character..
But atleast i've got ur point
I also found it as funny how after he went to murderous edge lord, he went to guy who gives no shit shortly after as his default state.
I swear I spend more time watching Geoff talk shit about anime than I actually do watching anime.
This looks like the sort of show that, when people say they don't like anime, is specifically what they have in mind. The fact that it genuinely exists is kinda heartbreaking.
the epitome of "anime was a mistake"
Season 1 definitely wasnt the best adaptation.
@@aubreyhuff46 No you don't understand. The whole premist is horrible. Even a perfect adaptation would have been dogshit.
@@cptKamina And? A better adaptation would meant it was received better.
Plus, the premise behind it sure doesn't sound all that good when you summarize it down to it's smaller details, but when done this way it does the characters a disservice. Tio doesn't really love Hajime early on, it's mostly out of a desire for revenge that she initially goes along with him, yes it's disguised by her pervertedness. Shea fell in love with Hajime over the course of actually talking to him, rather than just two weeks of being around him like in the anime. Hajime is way more adamant about being only Yue's lover in the novel. In the novel it's revealed Remia isnt actually in love with Hajime, well not until his last two days in the city.
There are so many details that are missed when you just look at the story as a bubble. How many Isekai can say their MC actually plans on going home and can achieve it? Arifureta isn't good because it's a well thought out or engaging story, it's good because of how bad it actually is. We like that it (the novel at least) doesn't try to take itself seriously and when it does, it does it at moments when it truly needs to be serious.
@@cptKamina ehh whatever.. I like it just fine... and it got a season 2, so imagine plenty of other people like it just fine as well.. Its cool, you dont have to like everything..
Personally, as someone who reserved one of his very last brain cells for my inner 12-year-old, I'm confident in my choice to read the light novels. They are very good. Shame about the anime. A proper adaptation could have had the same level of quality and self-aware charm as Demon King Academy
Jesus, Demon King Academy was so god damn funny. When dude just yeets an entire castle in the second episode, I knew it was gonna be something special.
Yeah no anime was a joke the light novel is awesome tho
i like to imagine geoff sitting in a dark closet making the gun sounds and laughing to himself as he does so
Arifureta is one of those hows where I imagined better pitches than the source. Example, Hajime isn't the protagonist (Kaori is) but a villain who went nuts from being abandoned in the labyrinth.
Who also wants nothing more than to kill his entire class because he came to the conclusion that they were all in on the betrayal.
Someone needs to write that
Sympathetic antagonist works. It's something a lot of stories lack or fail with.
The best part of these videos, since I started watching them with my mom/she started using Geoff as a guide to anime, is getting to see what random line of his she latches onto and turns into a meme in our house. This time the new memes Geoff blessed our household with are "Or never! I like never" and "breastuses", the latter of which had her laughing so hard when he said it that I actually grew concerned she might fall out of her chair. When the entirety of the black dragon bit happened, she just gave up trying to stay composed and just grabbed a plushie and laugh-cried into it.
I'm not gonna lie, this is definitely one of those anime where male mcs become tsunderes, and all of a sudden I'm beginning to admire this franchise. I can't wait for the third and final season to be released next year or so
Arifureta was actually the anime that made me get into light novels if you can believe that. I saw the first two episodes when it was new and I wanted to know really badly what happened next since episode 3 wasn't out yet. At first I tried reading the manga, but it didn't go any further than episode 2. So that's what finally pushed me over the edge to read the light novel of arifureta to find out what happened next! I even got to the end of the story at chapter 196! Now I can't stop reading light novels and Web novels! My favorite one right now is Epic of Caterpillar on Webnovel! I'm currently on chapter 1150 and eagerly waiting for more chapters to come out!
Lmao no way u also read epic of caterpillar
I kinda wonder how many people had their first light novel be something an anime they watched which they learned was a terrible adaptation of its source material.
Idk how you'd go about getting those numbers, but I'd be _very_ interested to see them.
1150? You mistyped it right
@@dynamicworlds1 It's simple, I just write down in notepad on my phone what chapter I'm currently on for what light novel or web novel. That way I can pick it right back up where I left off when more chapters come out after I've caught up.
@@ardi08 Nope, I typed in the correct number. 1150 chapters. You wanna know the crazy thing? The author, PancakesWitch said that around chapter 1000 was just the end of volume 1. So volume 2 is just getting started. And judging by the content and scale of the story there might be at least 3 volumes before its over. That's crazy!
This all is basically exactly on point. Arifureta was an edgy dumpster fire that was so targetedly "cool" that it was basically impossible to fail, even if (and when) it both lost all the stuff aside from the "cool"ness, as well as made the "cool" stuff look abysmally ugly. I haven't even read the LN, just the Manga (only about as far as I think the daughter fish girl joining), and I found it mediocre and vaguely "cool."
You did mention how Arifureta was possibly at least the worst adaptation of all time (or maybe you said "one of", I can't remember exactly), but there is one thing out there I am *confident* is worse adapted than Arifureta, or even the hypothetical second season of TPN. Noblesse. The full anime was.... fine, but that isn't what I mean. Noblesse: Awakening, the OVA that came before the anime, that the anime FOR *SOME* REASON decided to be set after, was the worst adaptation I've ever seen. In the span of that one thirty-minute OVA, they raced through legitimately 100 chapters of the webtoon. One. Hundred. My friend who hadn't read the webtoon who I watched it with didn't even realize that they were supposed to be vampires. It was so awful.
Also, you should give the Genius Prince anime its fair shot, since it is actually solid and was gypped.
The Umineko adaptation is also terrible sadly. Granted it's a VN adaption and not a LN one
Ex arm is the worst😂
God of high school as well the only good webtoon anime was tower of god which is the only one that got a ok/good anime adaptation
@@TSH425 the only reason I started watching the anime of god of highschool is because I wanted to see obama as an anime character, but I was disappointed.
You mean the realist hero the manga is great tbh
I genuinely LOVE the light novels, they're so well detailed and the author does a pretty good job at world and character building. He's also VERY self aware about how edgy it is and Hajime is even aware of how he looks like an edgelord and is initially quite ashamed at his appearence by the end of the first novel. The manga has its issue with pacing but has really good art to make up for it, also they completely cut all of the sex Hajime and Yue have seemingly at any chance.
I have heard nothing but bad things about the anime and havent watched it yet due to everything I have heard lol.
Being self aware doesn’t make it okay. Just makes it cringe
Your not making the anime seem terrible, your making it seem unintentionally funny, I might have to check it out now.
Another lost soul to this abomination.
@@themajesticspider-man6116 S1 was ok but they really improved it in s2 so far so go watch it
I read the manga and I literally had to stop. It was just too over the top edgy and with barely a shred of self awareness. At first it seemed ok. Just maybe generic. Then he pulled out a gun and I thought ok that’s a bit silly. Then the unironic eyepatch came and I facepalmed.
It would be a fun watch if it actually looked any good. It being this over the top edgy and looking awful just ends up making it hard to watch.
It's a matter of perspective, I'm personally EXTREMELY exhausted by all the dark edgy wish fulfillment self insert crap. It's incredibly boring. And the dragon butt spear scene only confirmed my complete disinterest in the series
I almost dropped the first season after like, episode 3, but then I kept going and the more I watched the more I kept asking myself "wait... do I... like this show?..." Now I'm watching season 2.
Also the dub is hilarious.
Also, also considering how bad the animation and cgi is, it is a miracle that it SOMEHOW still looks and feels better to watch than Seven Deadly Sins Season 3.
Easier to watch arifutreta then season 1 of seven deadly sins too.
@@Zer0cul0 I'll have to strongly disagree with you there.
That is sad
I just want to point out that when he gives mouth to mouth to the teacher:
She wasn’t drowning, and was in fact poisoned. She was still fully conscious; and instead of letting her drink the antidote like a *normal person*, he decides to put the antidote in his mouth and administer it by kissing his teacher. Why? Because even if she doesn’t travel with him, no female is safe from becoming part of the Hajime Harahm (Harem).
What I found funny about this anime is that I actually found the whole underground survival arc rather interesting and unironically cool. And then comes the tone shift of it becoming a murder hobo harem anime with a 3cool5u protagonist trying to kill God.
I was so hype for arifureta. After the first few episodes I couldnt have been more excited about an mc, betrayed, trying to survive and escape with one arm and using alchemy to create rudimentary firearms. vampire gf? kinda wish she was a bit older looking but thats fine, I can see a good trauma bond dynamic. honestly, everything kinda went to shit once he built a new arm, I would have loved a disabled MC + vampire gf. Basically I had hoped for angst and got edge instead.
I'd love to see a version of this story where the only difference is that the "create anything" powers need to be hyper-specific and exact, to the point that you need to be able hold all elements of what you want to make in your head
The first timerotag kun takes the power for a spin, he just imagines a car or a gun in the general sense, and what he gets looks like it on the surface, but it turns out to just be an empty, functionless shell
You’ve never done a better job at convincing me to watch an objectively bad show, and I feel like you weren’t trying to do that 😂😂😂 this was excellent
If you don't mind skipping some story of how the party got together, I suggest going straight to season 2. The animation is still bad, but season 1 animation was torture.
Honestly, it's a scuffed show but you can feel the author had enjoyed making it and put efforts into making it somewhat fun to read (which you can really see on the novel counterpart). But maybe that's just me being isekai dumpy
Actually reading the Author's Notes, the dude obviously loves what he was writing.
I got to be honest, I unironically love Arifureta. Yes, it is edgy. Yes, it is poorly animated. Yes, it is as generic as it gets. But I absolutely love it for those reasons. Arifureta is like if one of the notebooks I would scribble in back in middle school became an anime.
As someone who really tried to like this series and failed, I applaud you. It makes me happy that someone was able to enjoy it despite its flaws. 🥲
I'm with you brother. People fail to realize that him being overly edgy is the whole point. His classmates call him edgy and call his clothes cringe in the manga, and Kaoris friend even fucks with him revealing his named moves come from manga and anime he's seen. 👌 It's not a well written show, it doesn't need to be. It's just dumb fun. He's excessively chuuni.
Tbf, in the light novel, it was explained that the corrupted wizard kid from his class showed no remorse and Hajime saw it in his eyes; to spare the teacher from feeling responsible for his death, Hajime chose to end the wizard kid personally. And for the hot demon lady he kills, the hero kid actually would’ve beaten her if he didn’t hesitate on the coup de grace. The hero kid has always been an insufferable buffoon who was so convinced of his righteousness that it never came to him he could be wrong in any shape or form.
Wow, I think that only makes him even cooler. Feels like I might need to read this light novel, since I remember enjoying the anime
@@kryzethx yeah the light novel is really good. I mean not every story has to be deep and meaningful, sometimes you wanna watch MrCoolDude run around and totally beat the shit out of his adversaries like a total badass. It’s a very fun read.
@@DONUTDONUTDONUTDONUTDONUT my biggest problem with it is yue crushes the nuts of any dude that talks to her so many times, and then some come back later and some of them thank her for some fucking reason.
@@hamyman35 yeah it gets fuckin weird sometimes, but looking past the weird shit I liked it.
@@hamyman35
They thank her because they realize our disgusting their sperm are and want to thank her for destroying it lol /j
Here is the thing Geoff, you are right about it being a 13-year-old Chuunibyou's fanfic written in that pleather bound silver spiked diary. Counterpoint though: you do not need to call me out like that for enjoying it.
You know what would transform this show from a dumpster fire into an actual masterpiece?
A Ghost Stories dub.
HELL YEAH GHOST STORIES
😆
Ahhh yeah
This is _The_ Edgy Outcast Isekai Power Fantasy. What's not to love?
I have to say, completely unironically, I really enjoy the extended periods of silly sound effects over the fights and the long stream of consciousness word-salad that are in this episode. Shits real funny. Haha
Y'know, I 100% forgot I watched season 1 in full. All of this video was me going, "Ooooh yeah. I remember that episode now." until we got to the point where they drive off into the sunset.
This anime is actually a guilty pleasure of mine. I actually didn't know it had a sequel and I wanted it to get one! I honestly couldn't even tell you why it is. I just like it. I enjoyed each episode with maybe a few being skips but still watchable. I'm actively writing my own science fiction/fantasy novel and consider myself an anime fan. Granted I am by no means on your level; I grew up in Detroit in the 90s. My main exposure was Toonami, Adult Swim, and going to my Grandparents to watch what I could on Comcast. So my opinion is probably mute, but I just like it haha.
It’s also my guilty pleasure, but I know why. Besides what this guy says, Hajime’s powers actually make sense which this guy completely failed to understand and Hajime’s powers are also different from most isekai hero’s powers. He’s a technician not just this dude who was born into this world stronger than the rest of his classmates. However I will say they failed to explain how tf his cyborg arm works
@@jaredevers6459 THAT'S IT!! I couldn't put my finger on it but after what you said I completely agree. Hajime's powers are like any skill tree from a game. It reminded me of Shield Hero. The way the show uses alchemy and makes it one of the best magic systems for a main character is amazing. I have always loved it when a MC is more technical than Brute Force. I love that Hajime has to think, has to craft, and actually has to work for his items instead of just having them or being gifted to him or even finding them just lying around in some dungeon. He legit has to make everything he uses and it makes the show more engaging because I am always curious what tech he built and will have to use.
Cause of this, I think I finally realised why Banished From The Hero's Party felt like such a breath of fresh air last season. It may have still been completely schlocky, and the MC may have been a fairly generic protag, but it was just a normal fantasy anime with a single romantic love interest whose relationship actually progresses past "lol I like you I'm horny"
Which is a very low bar to have to get over and yet so few fantasy anime seem to cross it.
A lot of show initially sell on just that.
Banished From The Hero's Party, Arifureta, Chivalary of the failed knight and that weird show about animals evolving into waifus all had in coming that right of the bat, the protagonists gets into a relationship or at least very clearly is getting into one.
And in the case of Arifureta and the last one, while there is a harem it is lead by one MAIN girl, Yue ruling hers with confidence and an iron grip.
People are just so very sick of relationships not developing even when the MC is aware or even worse the oblivious mc that just having an actual relationship happening is enough to get you viewers.
Right now I'm cautiously optimistic about Realist Hero. They outright say that polygamous relationships aren't uncommon, and the king having a harem is okay. While I was wary at first, I think it's worked out well. All the girls are okay with the arrangement, so we don't see them fighting to get his attention. It give Souma a chance to interact with each of them casually. The male characters have been pushed to the back, but they've still played a role in the developing story. It's like, while it's there, it's not the main focus.
Although the second Tomoe tries to become anything more than an adopted little sister, I'm out.
@@jardex2275 I have been enjoying it also. Usually not a fan of multiple wives in stories but this one is just really interesting guess it hits on my strat/city builder gaming love seeing him grow the kingdom and deal with the political problems. P.S. I did get curious about who his wives would be. Tomoe isn't one so you are safe on that. 👍
@@jardex2275 I doubt that Tomoe ends up that way as she barely spends time with Souma, being the adoptive kid of the former king and queen.
@@yamiq2996 tomoe interest is in another boy souma pick up way later. dont worry
I really like how he just casually get strong because he ate casually Wolf, he actually basically Kaneki-ed himself because he was starving, and needed to eat the Wolf, but also the Wolf is poison, so he had to drink a magic healing potion to watch it down and heal himself
His body was getting melted and healed at a molecular level, which is basically super Kaneki tear weight lifting
Because ya know, you tear your muscles to rebuild them when you lift weights. It’s just like that
please do not compare kaneki and arifureta, Tokyo Ghoul is an actual masterpiece and whilst the author isn’t a fan of it sue to his own mental issues and stress from the anime a lot of people see it as such
Arifureta clicks 3 boxes that I love reading, even if they're underdeveloped tropes. I love revenge stories where the MC is dismissed as useless and comes back more powerful that the people who looked down on him, I love zero to hero power fantasies, and I love MCs who are given a weak power and turn it into an unbeatable skill. The only things I don't like are how quickly he becomes op and how little his revenge subplot matters. He tells the guy that betrayed him that he knows he betrayed him, but walks away. And then his magic items. There's a huge difference between creating a fantasy railgun and creating a motorcycle. The former is ingenious and only works because he's isekaid, the latter is just ridiculous and doesn't even pretend to make sense.
Ranking of kings would be your fav, it fit all the boxes and is also a good story with good characters and good progression, you can really feel Bojji growing up a lot in just a few episodes. Bojji can beat this stupid ass motherfker, without needing an op power.
Don't worry (spoiler alert)
Hajime will eventually kill that guy anyway
How about a plane? XD
I read the light novel and actually enjoyed the plotpoint that he is giving up on revenge. The LN does a great job portraiing the "good guy heroes" as naive, ignorant and judgemental but not actually evil (of course except for the feew guys who actually pushed Hajime over the edge...
I liked it because it didn't follow the usual trope and was writtten belivably
@@gilroyscopa I do understand that, and despite liking revenge plots, I never wanted Hajime's primary goal to get back at the people that wronged him, but it seemed weird that he warned the teacher that healer girl might be in danger because a classmate is the one that caused his fall, but he doesn't make any other effort, not even warning the girl. If they were going to dismiss him getting back at the classmate, it seems pointless that he worried at all about her when he was just gonna leave her behind had she not decided to join him.
I honestly love his approach to a villian. No long speech why he's a more moral individual. No convoluted plan that goes wrong. Just fuck it, what do I have that would be overkill.
I really hate the main character in this show. He only shows interest in the girl who looks like she's 7, but he gets a pass because she's actually 300, ugh. He's a dick to everyone for no reason but when he finally sees the classmate who betrayed him he does nothing to him, not so much as an evil stare. But he will treat someone who is nice to him like shit.
This is true.
Can’t see him without thinking “shadow the hedgehog”, edgy.... xD
12:57 this reminds me of light novel readers saying stuff like "had the anime been better adapted, the entire first season would have taken place soley in the dungeon, and first episodes would have properly set up things better". as in, having hajime at first look like he will hook up with his healer classmate, only to later subvert the audiences' expectations and throw him into the dungeon to meet yue
So, the Goblin Slayer intro then?
The fist dungeon was the best part of the novel imho. If you liked the first dungeon of this anime/novel/manga, try Dungeon Seeker. It's a whole manga of that ... to the extent that the Arifureta author successfully sued the Dungeon Seeker author. It's edge to edge edgy, more edge than you can edge an edge full of edge at. It scratches that itch to completion. Even after getting sued, the Dungeon Seeker guy finished the story (only feels a bit rushed) and didn't leave us hanging.
Arifureta does eventually have good simple world building, but ya gotta squint past a lot to get there.
@@aristizle8797 I mean, the sue might have been succesful, but the way Geoff puts it about how the author was an ass to whitefox´s team (the same whitefox that animated the two seasns of Re:zero mind you, I have no doubt of their potential talent) it´s perfectly possible that the dungeon seeker author didn´t desevre to get sued, and the arifureta author just sued him for a technically legal, yet ultimately petty reason.
@@zandromex8985 Nah, nah. There were descriptions in the web novel that were straight up copy/paste. IIRC the Dungeon Seeker guy was disappointed of the direction the arifureta guy took their story. Wanted to do it better. And they did. The early chapters were closer to fan fiction than an original story, if that puts it into perspective.
Note: I'm getting most of this from forums, I never actually read the Dungeon Seeker wn, and I would be reading both through translators and would have trouble directly comparing them myself if I did.
The author can both be an ass, and legally correct. The fact that they are an ass just gives me another reason not to read/watch his stuff.
What infuriates me the most about the Arifureta anime is Tio’s dragon form...WHY THE FUCK IS HER MOUTH FLAPPING? In the light novel, it specifically states that when she’s in that form, they’re hearing her talk directly into their minds...if they had merely read the few chapters of her introduction, they could’ve saved themselves some money, and everyone else the trouble of having to watch that terrible animation. Ugh.
It's why white fox got replaced... You don't get the sense of how much she's enjoying the pole up her rear end...
This seems like the kinda show I’d love legitimately as a teenager, love ironically as an early 20-something, and love legitimately now were it better animated and had an ounce of self-awareness of how stupid it is.
I really want to see an isekai story after they save the world and get brought back to Japan, but then they realize that they just can't just pew pew slash slash their problems away and actually have to grow as a person.
...wait didn't SAO already try that?
Not really. They just jumped into the next game. Although, a spinoff focusing on the SAO survivor school could fill that role nicely.
funny enough the author actually wrote the after story for arifureta in web novel form and still being updated. so imagine this dude being super OP af with his wive~~s going back to japan with his classmates intact.
SPOILER
THE GRAND SAGA OF ARIFURETA IS ACTUALLY JUST A PREQUEL TO THE MAJESTIC AFTER STORY OF ARIFURETA WHICH SPANDS THROUGH MANY UNIVERSE AND HELL ALSO EARTH IS NOT AS SAFE AS IT WAS THOUGHT TO BE
Aesthetica of a rogue hero kinda did that
@@VierzheTsuu I really love after story. It doesn't just show the story from Hajime's perspective, it also shows the pov of other character as well. Like how they show the story about the hero got transferred into a different isekai. He had a good character development. I hate him, but after I read this I hate him less. His chemistry with Hajime after that is really funny. And then there's other story, like how Shea got a reverse harem or Hajime and his harem stopped a global terrorist attack, and many more. But I can't fit all of them in this comment
@@gabrieltangkawarouw8641 Sounds fun to me but sadly anime may not ever reach there
Imma be real, I actually like Hajime's design in the anime more than the LN. Something about the edgier and messier hair makes him look more unique than the clean, generic look in the LN.
He could honestly pass a little test I thought of for characters-you put the main leads from various shows in a line up and be able to not only remember the show they’re from but their full name. It shouldn’t be that much but it’s had surprising results with friends!
The anime designs feel closer to the early manga designs, which work really well. Especially in the first novel hajime looks way too "clean" despite fighting for his life every day
Too bad that doesn't extend to the side characters. Say what you want about Naruto, but I still remember what most of the side characters look like.
IIRC, the character designs are partly what Shirakome shafted the White Fox production team for. From what little I saw of their design, Hajime was more on the generic end, and it was Asread that more or less captured Shirakome's vision of him as _the_ teenage edgelord.
I do not like his LN hair. You have this aesthetic and personality you give him and you go with shota-bait?
Arifureta started out the dungeon-delving work that never was, then had a huge tone-shift into yet another OP protag harem isekai. The moment they left the Labyrinth it was all downhill and I couldn't enjoy it anymore.
I just felt progressively more shame that I enjoyed the manga for this with each passing minute. I started with "well yeah, its dumb when you put it like that!" and with each passing description of a plot point I just started shaking my head and wondering how I reached this new low in standards...
the manga is alright, but it still felt trimmed down compared to the LN. The art is fantastic though, some of those panels are hauntingly detailed.
@@KeyboardKlutz_0 the art is one is one of the big factors that has kept me around for the manga... and the art is why I didn't even make it halfway through the first episode of the anime.
Absolutely love this series. But having read the manga and LN, the anime physically and mentally pains me to watch.
Same!
I remember watching the first ep and having to stop.... and check to see if I hadn't missed an episode.... or trhee
I read the manga (not the anime) but I’m in a similar situation as the video lol
Same I read the manga and it’s way better then the anime, I still gotta read the LN but one thing I’ll give the anime is that it’s hella entertainingly funny bad.
The first 10 minutes made me laugh incredibly hard... basically, because one friend of mine actually liked it... and he kinda fits the edgelord teenager bill, at over twice the age you'd normally expect that to happen xD
As someone who genuinely loves this series, looking at this from his perspective, I can 100% agree with this.
I won’t pretend I didn’t set my standards a bit low on this one, but all in all I thought it was entertaining. The other characters I will be honest could afford more character development, but as I said I lowered standards. I genuinely did like the dynamic between Hajime and Yue and even though I won’t necessarily complain about certain scenes I did think to myself “this scene could afford a bit greater seriousness… here are some pants and a shirt.” I think the utter carpet bombing that happens along the way is rather bemusing though and I will be frank it feels like a couple scenes I watched of a Charles Bronson movie where he proceeds to unload 30 shots from a 6 shot revolver never once reloading in the process. Anyhow though, even if I hated it tomorrow, I’ve gotta say that intro theme was good.
"Still no Spice and Wolf" seriously this. Having another season would really be a great idea. Now imagine if Kyoto or another big budget studio would adapt it for another 2-3 seasons and condense the approximately 23 light novels into a cohesive story. A man can dream.
there are fucking how many light novels of spice and wolf now? Well, my wallet is going to take a damn hit.
@@darkpixel1128 That also doesn't include any of the full book length side stories (which I think there are 5), or the sequel spin-off series with 6 volumes already.
@@shayne7843 Don't forget two VR games.
For anyone in this thread that has time restraints on reading or just rather listen Spice and Wolf is going to get the first LN on audio book later this year, hopefully end up doing at least the main series. I have trouble finding time to sit down and read so listen to books while working (Night Shifter here). Just hope they have a good narrator for it.
Great video Geoff! This and your roast of Master of Ragnarok helped me think of a couple small clips to include in my video when I mention bad isekais / generic anime protagonists haha.
This show had so much potential. If they had just kept it as a survival love story with Hajime and Yue at the center, it would've been great. Their scenes together honestly melt my heart. But NOOOOOO, they had to turn it into another mediocre harem series!
Honestly, without the harem wouldn't be nearly as fun i think.
At least in the LN i had a blast reading the interaction between Hajime and the girls
mi en sina sona e sama
This was the first real anime disappointment I ever had. I read the light novels for this, and was really excited when the anime was announced. And then I watched the first episode and truly disgusted, because it was absolute DOGSHIT. The LN was actually really specific with what yui was trapped in, which was basically a giant stone rectangle with her tiny head sticking out, and they hung her from the ceiling with weird magic chains. Shit sucks.
You had us at "she realized she's into ass play" lmao!! You just give this anime a boost in viewership lol!
See, I kept reading Arifureta not because Hajime was "edge" but because, from what I had understood thus far, Hajime had essentially gone Crazy. I was reading for the experience of watching the drive of a broken man, who would go to lengths that no sane man would go to. The alchemy was a plus, but when reading, I never visualised the guns as basically exact copies of our tech in style; I saw it as a pistol-shaped mass of rock with a gun chamber; a very rough outline. I loved the story because it f e l t unique because I had misunderstood it XD
Lol it’s not that deep
too be fair, hajime did go crazy, thats the whole point of his character. the crudeness of his weaponry is your misunderstanding, but he did go crazy, and the edge is part of that, his geeky side being used as his personality since when he didnt use it as a defence he basically got betrayed and almost died. he uses the edgy delusions that he formerly kept locked up because he understood that they were just edgy delusions to defend himself and keep himself sane after a long time of being in total darkness suffering great physical pain. he simply doesnt care about most life, and is only convinced to care about anyone at all because of yui.
@@hhsdhhsss1522 literally what he was saying and admitting. And I agree with him honestly. I enjoyed the manga until they got out of the cave, after that it dipped for me. Though never could figure out why, perhaps i felt much of the same
@@dustypaladin9216 Yep and throught the story, at least in the LN, the girls or even some of his classmates make him get back to his old self while maintaing his new personality
@@noahboddie3482 For me, it was when they introduced Shia and the other "wives". To me, what made the story special was the relationship between Hajime and Yue and how they were essential to each other's mental state. Together, they seemed normal, but the second they were separated the madness returned. They were one mental organism, compensating and filling in each other's shattered Psyches. It was them and only ever them against the world. To me, they should not have been capable of stronger emotions towards people, as their emotions for each other involved being two broken parts of one slightly functional whole. But I always saw this as a closed system.
This series is the embodiment of how "and also" ruins things. You had a great start, dude trapped in a cave with the power of minecraft (mining and crafting). But then it and alsoed its way in to giving him every power that crosses his mind up to supermans magic friendship rainbow (actual super man power in a golden age comic) and alsoed a series of interesting plot points presented perfectly to make them boring.
It started off as a cute romance adventure revenge story thing and then it just turned into garbage harem the second they left the cave and I'm so sad
I find it hilarious thinking about what manga creators find edgy and cool. "Let the protagonist in a world full of magic use guns, who cares that we established him to be able to gain all abilities of the monsters he eats. no use for them", "let's get him a harem that he is too cool to care about, he's so cool that he gets angry at their attempts to get intimate", "having no redeeming qualities is edgy and it makes him look cool to be completely void of empathy".
It's time for the entire globe to collectively write an angry letter to Japan claiming that chuunibyo is not edgy and cool, it's a mental disorder that should be treated asap.
My compliments on the writing and delivery for this episode. These roasts are always fun, but this one was particularly snappy and enjoyable to listen to.
I remember reading the LN and dropping it after the bunny girl joined. Like, nothing really worked for me. The MC got way too powerful way too quickly, to me it felt like he was edgy just for the sake of being edgy and him being able to bring modern technilogy like guns and cars into a medieval world simply broke any emersion I had left for this show.
It would be fine for me if he was able to bring cars and guns to that particular fantasy world *if* it was clearly established before that he had intricate knowledge of the inner workings of such devices. That crafting skill of his should be completely worthless for him if he weren't also able to make those things by hand if given enough time.
I never understood the immersion argument
You’re already reading an isekai, the most logical way of doing things would be to bring advanced weaponry in or at least create hybrid systems. Because you’re in an unknown world trying to survive its unknown dangers, giving yourself the best chance of survival would be logical
@@dylannix4289 Using everything he has to his advantage alone doesn't make for a bad story. But giving the main character like all the technological knowledge as well as the magic capabilities to create all of these things with no real hindrance or limitation is. Like, why is this LN even called "from commoner to world strongest" when he reaches that state already at the end of Volume 1? Having someone be reincarnated into a new world and having to learn to live with the limitation of said world is interesting. Having the MC break these limitations of said new world because "reasons" (and yes, Hajime has many of these, like how he is a weapon's expert) immediately in Volume 1 makes for a boring story for me.
So before my anime stop in the year I was on a mass anime binge (like watching almost everything that came out) I watched this on x3 speed and this video made me aware of a lot of parts that actually slipped my attention as I watched this on the busride to and from school and just was interested in the betrayal premise at first but as said I watched everything and I wonder how I didn't notice that stuff probably because back then I was still writing and studying but I feel reluctant to continue watching it now. Then again thanks for recap I don't have to rewatch it now XD.
"Still no spice and wolf" *words could not be more true* even bleach came back....lul
I watched the first 3 episodes of this anime with my bf and I went "homie this is garbage" as we were laughing at it but like,,,, he just kept watching it,,,, and then later on he said it was good??? But I just looked at him like he was crazy
You call your bf "Homie"?
based and accurate. I like watching great shows with depth, but also ass, 1 dimensional shows like this when i want to turn my brain off. I just gotta be careful not to drool on myself
My first introduction to Arifureta was season 1 of the anime and i actually like it. I even rewatched it recently. I think the problems start to become more evident after he escapes the Orcus Labyrinth, and after watching the first couple episodes of season 2 it just confirms it. See what i enjoyed was watching him learn, grow and experiment with his powers. He pretty much became god and went on fun antics after that and from what i'm hearing all of the stuff i enjoyed from the Labyrinth has been cut from the manga. Why? It was probably the coolest part. The fun antics only hold up so long and i can't take any of it seriously if he just has new powers pulled from his ass with no setup.
Basically, he doesn't earn any of his powers, by which i mean, we are never shown him gaining them anymore. He just has them whenever the plot demands it.
My only concern is that in getting a second season and changing studios, the producers are going to decide to "get serious" and take the edge off the dumpster-firey goodness that made the first season something special.
The overall story, assuming you go through the whole narrative at some point, is actually fairly interesting. The lore got better as it went along and Hajime's overall role became more interesting as well. He even works as a likeable harem protagonist, which is one helluva trick to pull off in any medium.
Yes it’s a ridiculous power fantasy but I still really enjoy the show. I hope it gets another season.
Man so many of these videos are just straight gems! Love all the hard work you and the team do!
I will say this: After watching the first season in it's entirety the animation quality, especially the 3D monsters, improved drastically in the second season. Its literally night and day but we obviously haven't seen everything yet. I still hate the 3D BS the animators seem dead set on unnecessarily injecting into everything but the they're palatable in the second season rather than whatever the hell they did in the first.
Story is still hot garbage and horny as hell but as a trash connoisseur I will continue to watch unrepentantly because its just comfort food for the eyes and the brain, like a hamburger and fries.
Regarding the classmate he executed in the first season. He didn't kill him because he's a merciless, edgy try-hard. He executed him because he's a merciless, edgy try-hard who knew his corrupted classmate wasn't sincerely asking for mercy and would simply try to kill their teacher again the moment he left. It's fairly obvious he has no sympathy or mercy to give to liars, betrayers or any of their ilk which to his credit is an actual character trait despite his power fantasy type character. It certainly makes him less bland than someone like Kirito although that's not setting the bar particularly high.
I’d like to add that his reason to kill his classmate in the first season was actually a badass antihero (I think antihero is the right term) move. He refused to save his classmate because he doesn’t want to leave enemies that will cause problems later, which you said. BUT he kills him himself in that edgy act to take credit for the students death, that is, so that his teacher didn’t blame herself for her students death (considering he was corrupted under her care, and died for failing to kill her). Even though she really wasn’t responsible in the first place, he prevented her from experiencing the usual self hatred arc that comes from this.
In regard to the 3D animation, they had to , to fit the time constraint they were put under. =P (even though that was already stated in the video)
The CGI in the second season is far from the worst I've ever seen(which would be the first season lol). And it's absolutely tolerable if you seen few 2010's anime CGI.
@@Pumciusz honestly at this point it is charming in a stupid way. This is “shadow the hedgehog-- the isekai” and it is great for it lol
@@theglitchcounter264 I want to see it's opening with "I Am All of Me" in the background.
I mean the dude DID lead an army to attack innocent people with, I don't think hajime thinking of murdering the dude is exactly unwarranted. Could have jsut imprisoned the dude but I can see the sense in it, though the fact he can do it to a classmate is kinda spooky.
I think the funniest part about Hajime's weapons and powers is that he based them off of his favorite manga
the fact is that if a story like solo levelling gets an adaptation like this then it would be shit as well
if arifureta had gotten an amazing adaptation then who knows how much we would likee it
Don't expect it to be good since Solo Levelling is mediocre and nothing new when it comes to bringing stuff to the table.
@@flipkiller8521 the story is mediocre but the art is just amazing which makes solo levelling a really good and entertaining read
if the anime can does a good job showing that then it will be realy good