Genius Prince - Good anime, bad title
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- Since Realist Hero decided to throw away all logic and sense just within the first couple episodes in favour of mindnumbing fanservice, here is The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt to fill the anime nation management void. Not only does it do the nation ruling elements some justice, but it's keeps its light hearted tone all the way through. I only wish some sense went into its title which isn't a guide and I keep repeatedly reading it as raising a KINGDOM out of debt. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the review.
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The reason why anime/manga/light novel titles are getting so long is because people started getting too lazy to read the description on the back of the book, so they started putting the description as a title to catch more eyes when sitting on a display shelf
I heard a theory is that most LNs originate from WN authors rewriting their works. For WN authors who are competing for eyes on their works, they use long, elaborate, basically-synopsis titles as a clickbait. And since everyone there is doing it, everyone follows it. The title gets inherited to the LN and then the anime from there
If true, this is proof we failed as a society.
@@enricomassignani Dude it's just a trend, no need to get so serious about it lol
@@dandanthedandan7558which only proves his point
I love that you can point a lot of rights and wrongs, specially about the writing, so quickly. You got yourself another subscriber
Thank you.
Realist hero was so very disappointing, and that's keeping in mind my already low expectations due to it being an isekai. It left such a bad taste in my mouth that I honestly held off from watching Genius Prince because it just sounded way too similar when someone first described it to me, and I'm glad I watched it now. It was a way better experience, and actually enjoyable!
Realist hero doesn't even have a good reason to be an isekai in the first place, since most of the knowledge they brought with them was just proverbs that the protagonist happened to have encyclopedic knowledge of.
Anyways, great video, thanks for reminding me that this anime exists
Thing is, I liked the analytical way the mc in realist approached problems and that he wasn’t a super OP magical warrior. But I also feel that things went _way_ too smoothly for him, like there wasn’t a whole lot of challenge.
But the way things happen makes sense, I mean if that MC has his encyclopedic knowledge, he would be able to use it to solve problems.
@@kmmediafactory i was comparing veight to that, and I was like "it feels like he doesn't have too much trouble either"
but I just forgot some major story spoilers because the arcs _after_ those were comparatively much more calm and manageable XP
Absolutely agree and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
@@kmmediafactory The problem arises from the fact that the world makes little sense in Realist Hero and the solutions that Soama provides make just as little sense. Take one of the first problems, the food shortage in that we're told the kingdom was starving or facing severe food shortages. However, we're not shown anyone starving and inconsistently we were shown fishermen throwing away food (the squids they caught) because they didn't look appealing. Then the solution Soama provides is to show certain foods are actually edible without supplying said food to the populous, I guess they're just expected to hunt these uncommon food sources (that's without the problem of showing his inner circle scoffing down food while the people starve).
If you enjoyed Realist Hero, I'm not going to criticise you for it. I enjoy Rwby despite it being incredibly poorly written on every level. Everyone's allowed to enjoy anything and I wont berate anyone for enjoying Realist Hero.
@@dlfarmer7601 Yes, I see what you mean. Actually, I have to confess, when I first saw it, I was a bit puzzled by his solution. It made some sense, but it was debatable on whether it could be practically applied to the entire kingdom. Plus, I think there are some very convenient things, like a species which can see microbes? Eh, that threw me off.
I did enjoy it, and I appreciate you for the discussion, but there were definitely some poor points.
Atleast Someone has the balls to go after realist hero.
Why wouldnt they? Bad storries being written is what often encourages others to say - I can do a better job.
You ready for this?
My lover was stolen, and I was kicked out of the Hero's party, but I awaken in the EX skill "fixed damage" and became invincible, now lets begin some revenge
This is the longest one I have noted, it has THREE commas!
Oh good greif. I havent heard that one before.
Next up a title as long as a whole volume of a light novel.
There was an interesting conversation between Wein and Zenovia in one of the last episodes. It was about the root of royalty. I think its the most fascinating anime dialogue I can recall on this season.
This Anime's smart but a little stake-less but i still ask: Anyone knows a similar 'actually smart (not just Author thinking its Smart) kind of anime? Preferbly no harem-trash? Seperate question: anyone ever seen an anime other than Dr. Stone invent the Lightbulb?
@@slevinchannel7589 I had Dr. Stone in mind as well but I have not seen any other anime invent the light bulb either. I can recommend wholesome but not another politics "smart" kind of show with no harems.
@@ramirreyes6414 How depressing... they sure are that rare, huh?
Well, im glad for any kind of Recommendation
Btw, by any chance, can you explain to me the Vacuumpump Senkuu build that did NOT use Mercury?
@@slevinchannel7589 No, I can't explain the vacuum pump Senku made but I can recommend you a thriller named, 'Erased'. A crime and suspense type show 'Odd Taxi' that I enjoyed on the English dub and 'Natsume's Book of Friends' on sub, a masterpiece on the iyashikei genre and Mushishi, another masterpiece though only season 1 is available on dub.
Thanks for shining a light on this series (and thanks for calling out Realist Hero, a show which goes 'full isekai' about five times over in its first season). It's good, though not perfect
Pros:
-Wein and Ninym are excellent main characters. Ninym is the perfect foil to keep Wein in check and keep him sympathetic even as he delights in causing problems
-The show keeps a reasonable cast size of well-developed characters rather than overloading you with generic waifus
-Things don't always go Wein's way. It's so nice to see an isekai protagonist (I know it's not isekai but it's clearly designed to appeal to the isekai market) who can't just solve every problem in front of him with his crazy powers
-They bring up some interesting ideas about the nature of power and Wein's personal philosophies. Remains to be seen whether they do interesting things with this or whether it's just window dressing
Cons:
-While not the full generic isekai world (protagonist is from the world, no demi-humans and no significant magic that I remember), it's still got a lot of that going on
-Lots of big problems tend to be resolved quickly and conveniently, which can make things feel unsatisfying or like deus ex machina. While Wein's diplomacy often backfires, his battle plans always seem to work perfectly.
-In standard isekai fashion, the story meanders from arc to arc without a clear idea of where it's all going.
I would agree with most of the pros, though I would add that most of the comedy is well done and that I don't quite remember Genius Prince going into Wien's personal philosophies beyond that one speech he made with Zeno. As for the cons you mentioned, I think the world is just a generic medieval world as there's nothing that stands out at all (which might be more damning). I guess that makes it easier for the anime to explore, which admittedly they do quite well. I agree with the other two cons, though the satisfaction the viewer can get at the end of an arc would be diminished if he fails in battle. Could have solved this if they had a battle mid arc in which Wien fails.
Meandering between arcs is more a light novel disease than an isekai disease, really. Every 3-4 episodes is usually a new novel, usually with no planned end for the series in sight.
I don't actually have a problem with any of your opinions. Just one thing on your arguments that struck a nerve with me ...
"Demi-human", "Magic", "God/Goddess blessing", "Hero" and "Demon Lord", those are fantasy elements, not necessarily "Isekai". It just so happen that Post-SAO "isekai" are too lazy to use any other setting.
(I'd also say that "RPG stats window", although came to be with "video game Isekai", are perfectly usable in non-isekai stories, thus, aren't necessarily a isekai element)
Note: Not really a problem with your arguments. I'm just too annoyed with people equating Fantasy with Isekai. And also with the authors, who think putting "hero summoning" and "another world reincarnation" is everything needed to have a "Isekai Story".
Many anime these days do have long titles and I can think of good, mediocre and bad ones.
I found "What do You do in the End of the World... Bla bla bla" to have a compelling story but I can't even remember the title.
"I've been killing Slimes Past 300 years... Something" is not bad, not good but it's fun to watch.
The problem is how can I recommend good anime or warn people of bad ones if I don't even remember the damn TITLE! Maybe they should make a memorable Title and then put a subtitle, ex. Re:Zero - Starting life from another World Commonly known as *Re:Zero*.
WHY CAN'T THEY DO THAT?
because that's not how you get views on the web novel sites i _guess_ (???????)
maybe it's because the sites don't have good adv search functions [tag search, tag exclusion, etc] or something, though i could swear syosetu had tags...
the shortening of konosuba is a fan thing iirc, as is MuTen [mushoku tensei] and the various names for isekai'd slime [tensura/slimesekai/slime isekai]
korean names and slightly-more-self-respecting chinese ones tend to be better about this. [and garbage chinese ones occasionally have short title anyways just to piss you off when using that rule of thumb XP]
for japanese stuff i find that # of phrases/clauses in (main) title is inversely proportional to maximum quality
Remember this all comes from japan, and over there almost every novel has an abridged title, SukaSuka is the one of that end of the world anime you mentioned
to remember you just need to take the first 3 words from the title
For "What Are You Doing at the End? Are You Busy? Can You Save Me?" you can just type "WorldEnd" or "Sukasuka".
Regarding the 30,000 people thing, it is definitely rushed, yeah - but in the source material I recall it going into far greater detail with how exactly Falanya (With Wein, Lowellmina) leveraged the citizens assembly to act in defense of the city; it was written more as if a quasi-militia was organized, while also heavily betting on the somewhat rational decision that any army that decided to attack or impede the flow of refugees would force the others to unite in retaliation - at which point, the army attacking or attempting to stop the civilians would be out of position. It was a bit awkward, and maybe I'm pulling some mental gymnastics here to make it work in my mind, but I don't feel like that part was in any serious way stupid.
The problem is how to convince an entire population to go along with this plan. Even though it's via their own governing assembly, how do they tell their citizens to march out of defensive walls towards several armies that want to attack. From the citizens perspective, they'll be abandoning their homes to march out to their doom all because a foreign little girl said so. It's certainly possible that it was better handled in the source material, however, the anime must stand up by itself and the way it's presented makes is poorly written. I absolutely like Genius Prince but it isn't flawless.
@@dlfarmer7601 Completely fair, yeah. I might be leaning a bit too far into the territory of apologetics here because >.
Jokes aside, the long titles actually do serve a role TBH. And in the current light novel market of Japan, literally makes it almost impossible for authors who have no prior hit to prosper unless the title is a "clickbait".
I hope you do a recap of Realist Hero “season” (re: core) 2. It’s still a guilty pleasure of mine and I loved how you encapsulated nearly all my gripes with it in your first video.
Your channel reminds me of a mix between Zero Punctuation and Smudboy. You should do a review of Sabikui Bisco or Skeleton Knight in Another World.
I'm a big fan of Zero Punctuation but haven't seen Smudboy - I'll definetly check that channel out. While I do have quite a bit to say about Rust eater Bisco, my next video will be a double review of dragon pilot and dragon prince.
Also I should probably should at least watch the first few episodes of Skeleton Knight from another world. I was turned off by its description being a blatent copy of Overlord which I wasn't even keen on to begin with. I'll check it out and see what happens.
@@dlfarmer7601 I actually really enjoy Skeleton Knight. It’s only like Overlord if Ainz’s Momonga persona was a genuinely good person rather than a psyop. I just really love how genuinely good Arch is and the fact that he’s just having fun with the situation. Him weebing out under his persona is also pretty funny to me.
Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed both the series and this review.
This Anime's smart
Anyone knows a similar 'actually smart (not just Author thinking its Smart) kind of anime? Preferbly no harem-trash? Seperate question: anyone ever seen an anime other than Dr. Stone invent the Lightbulb?
This is a very good anime and i agree the leading 30,000 citizens out of the city is silly, however its used to setup an plot point later in the series so it does have a point.
😂Friend, i like your content. Good objective criticism, funny dialogue, great presentation too. Even though i enjoy the fan servicey and generic tropes in anime (i am still new to anime) i really like your sound criticisms and reviews of shows👍👍
Thanks, I hope to make a lot more of these in the future.
Welcome to Japan. Where we are so lazy that we won't even read a synopsis and would rather read a title as one.
Like those bad Mobile Games with looong names?
Oh, the title thing is easy. Some of these are coming out in magazines/formats where they aren't allowed to do descriptions of their work, as that would waste page space, so they basically put the summary of the story into the title.
This Anime's smart but a little stake-less but i still ask: Anyone knows a similar 'actually smart
anime? Preferbly no harem-trash? Seperate question: anyone ever seen an anime other than Dr. Stone invent the Lightbulb?
@@slevinchannel7589 Nah, though I've seen a few that reference it with Isekai stuff, mostly to point out the locals use another form of lighting, like crystals or some other kind of glowing stone to create light in the darkened areas.
As to the complaints, yeah, given he WANTS to fail, and can't is the whole narrative through line for the series. Heck, this same plot was done as an episode of the Addams Family cartoon in the 90s, mind there Gomez learned he failed at failing, which made him happy. Our prince her won't be doing that.
As to the lack of Harem, I certainly like that about this one. Wish more would do that.
@@SageofStars I can recommend Dr.Stone, Ascendance of Bookworm and Apothacian's Diary then,
who are all smart, but Concubines are unfortunatelly a big plotpoint and constantly mentioned in Apothecian's Diary and i hear Rumords that a damn-weird Age-Gap will be laterr introduced as a Romance in Ascndance of Bookworm
We live in harsh times so i unfortunately dont have more/betrter Recommendations
Do you?
@@SageofStars Believe it or not, i got so fed up with Isekai-Protags never using their Modern Knowlegde that i made an Isekai-Guide which doubles-down as a Motivational Tool so i can motivate myself to learn about dry Subjects
Its 14 Pages now
@@slevinchannel7589 Heh, I can recommend
Chillin in my 30s after being fired from the Demon Lords Army
Banished from the Hero's Party(This one HAS more than one woman, but not in a specific Harem way, more in the, we are living in the same town and support each other way.)
Oh, and Knights & Magic. There ARE three females interested in the MC, but only one is a real love interest, one is the Love Interests older sister who thinks he's adorable, and the final one is an elf, who is interested in his brain.
Mind, I write fanfics myself when something really bothers me. My top 3 niggles come from.
1) Saying the MC is 'weak' or has a vulnerability, when they don't(Shield Hero and Strongest Exorcist both have this in spades)
2) Extolling the 'virtues' of slavery...as the HERO(Shield Hero loved this one for a long time, though there are other examples).
3) Promising an Isekai into a non-human body, only to drop that plot point an episode or two in. At least Reincarnated as a Slime KEPT him as a slime, and it remains his default. Reincarnated as a Sword and a Vending Machine both keep them as those items. But stuff like Goblins, Orcs, and like 3 different manga/manwa's with dragons all drop it after maybe two chapters, and usually makes human their new default for some reason.
waiting for an anime to go teaching the audience about keynesian theory, the money supply and consumer behavior
Have you ever heard of "Spice and Wolf"? Although not a full course of economy, they get into some long talks around those topics.
@@VivioSaf i know about it havent watched it, probably will in the future, but i doubt it had gone quite as deep
i really like your videos! please more of the good stuff. You also got an awesome voice, but please do try to speak clearer :D its hard to understand sometimes
Dude I freaking love your videos!
Thanks. Will soon be releasing another.
No harem?!?!?! Bless our lord in heaven, for he is merciful.
4:04 those horses remind me of those scenes from madan no ou to vanadis where the enemy soldiers in episode 8 and 9 where just attacking thin air.
It's bad title because the title actually referred the first arc where wein try to sell the kingdom to the empire, which the anime unfortunately skipped
An anime that don't have a harem and fanservice is very rare
New viewers here. Big fan of your video type. I like how it's short and sweet, although sometimes I can't tell what you say with the way you speak and some images disappear on screen a little too fast. Otherwise your content is great.
oh hell no first you said realistic hero is bad now this shit is good
Yes. Yes I did.
Aside from a new anime recommendation of a genre that I would enjoy, I just appreciate hearing someone online saying how much they dislike the fan service in these shows. Not everyone has a moral stance on the topic, but the way anime does it is often just jarring, pointless, and overt, even if the show itself is good--just like our host pointed out!
ok but i need to rant about this for a bit, not really relevant to the video but i was reminded of it in a certain part of the video where you mentioned this
why do they no lock
why they have lock but they don't... use lock? are they is stupid? they're not even using japanese doors, they use door with LOCK! so why they no use lock? WHY GIRL NO USE LOCK WHEN DRESSING
Egalitarian Polyamory can be good.
Coupling & Hareming are definitely Not Conflictless Eternal Bliss Prizes like anime tends to portray, & especially not with the typical Prudish & Dragged-out Cliches.
Hmm, I really should give this anime a second chance. Didn't like the premise of an unmotivated main character but what you said about the show sounds quite nice.
Thanks!
I didn't like the premise too, and perhaps a bit skeptical for the first 2 episodes, then I just binged the whole thing. It's actually good.
The way the premise is presented absolutely shoots the show in the foot. He's not a lazy prince, he's the possible one of the most dedicated and almost definitely the most forward-thinking noble on the continent - just with a poor starting hand. The 'I just want to sell this kingdom and be done with it' is literally just played for quick laughs and I straight up forget it's even in the story at times lol
Stopped watching after the first episode back when it aired. Finally, I finished watching all episodes today! Would there be more episodes I would continue watching (maybe I'll try out the lightnovel).
But even though most of the villains have good reasons to oppose the prince, they like to act as if they are crazy maniacs... I just can't stand that evil laugh-trope, unfortunately, it's very common in anime :(
An anime without a harem? I bet that is breaking at least 3 laws in Japan
Mindless fanservice does keep the mouse away, I don't like it, but it does serve a purpose
Maybe fix up the audio mixing a bit but otherwise brilliant content!
Guess Ill watch it.
This is the kind of genre called "native isekai"
Budget is a common problem in isekais, and its always interesting to see where they cut corners and how they stretch the budget,tome it adds another layer of entertainment
What do you mean by "native"? You mean the main character was originally from the world of the story itself and that no one was summoned as a hero from another world? I think its brilliant. Does the term "native isekai" used yet?
@@ramirreyes6414 i saw the term "native isekai" being used by Gigguk first
The word you're looking for is regular "fantasy". How can something be an isekai without the isekai element?
I've never heard of native isekai before. Would it not just be fantasy?
Also I do indeed find where studios find interesting ways to make a scene engaging despite lower budgets - it really tests creativity.
@@nanaya7e433 Well the Japanese word "isekai" means "another world". If the setting of the story happens to be in another world, not the Earth, even if nobody from Earth gets summoned there, then I guess "native" isekai would be a good term.
Lovely, found a channel that's a near perfect crossbreed of writing advise, anime recommendations lol.
Thanks. You can look forward to more content soon
Single sad info, I might be mistaken but for what I know Genius prince further down the story starts to be harem. I'm not sure couse that was some time ago and I might misremember info but I'm pretty sure it becomes that and the only reason it's not in anime is becouse adaptation did not cover this part of the story yet.
Well I'm definetly not looking forward to that.
Thanks for the recommendation. I watched the first two episodes and didn't like it, but if it's better than "Realist Hero", I might watch it again.
Its light novels they have trended to long names so their adaptions such as realist hero or genius prince have gotten longer as well.
Came here from the realist hero video , I was gonna comment how genius Prince is just that without the isekai and is far better
have you tried reading Economics of Prophecy or Apothecary Diaries? [the latter is not isekai but still fun]
i'd love to hear your thoughts.
True mate, The anime is great indeed the problem is Title is not match what they do in story, its basically opposite
Also kinda disappoint its not romance, basically its good set up for romance for me, but still no romance, and i really sorry i gonna drop it.
This one i cant just turn off "brain" especially this anime play with strategy and politic
Also realist hero s1 part 1 was amazing, but s1 part 2 basically fall flat, its boring harem fest now
in short .. its just a 2 nanometers better than realist with smaller harem and less fanservice
People Who rewiev these animes always forget time period. In both animes you cannot just go say "no More slavery, because I say so", nobles would go againts that, even some slaves would go againts that. Realistic hero solved problem pretty Well by making Well cared slaves More valuable and slowly turning them To civilservants. This way Noble wont go againts it right away and skave system Will be demolished slowly
After episode 7 the quality drop so hard thou
I like how half the examples (fire force and my hero Academia) weren't even the fan service you despise. Fire force.... yeah, her "lucky" letcher power is basically a joke of that stereotype and is part of her character mainly being emotional distant from co-workers and self deprecating because her "power" makes any interaction with men into a hassle at best. As for the My hero Academia, that scene in particular was just Mineta being pervy only to have his expectations utterly destroyed when the girls showed up in almost full body swimsuits thus subverting (and deservedly so) his plan.
Though the other two, you got a point there.
The fan service having a flimsy in universe explanation still makes it fan service dude. The lucky letcher thing is just an excuse to get her naked in every scene that she’s in to the point where she’s an active hindrance in combat. MHA is full of fan service even outside that example, but the fantasy of a character is still fan service because we can see and “ogle” at the fantasy.
I almost not watch this due to Realist hero. This actually kinda good
Please do Skeleton Knight in Another World, i am new suscriber and i love your videos.
Thanks, I'll begin watching it and I'll add it to my list of videos to do.
i do like skeleton knight in another world, its a nice easy watch, but i feel like its not making much out of the concept.
that being said, In the last few episodes we learned that he has a lot of raw strengh but lacks technique and expierence, wich is a nice twist on the whole overpowered MC thing to get him a bit more grounded again.
It also feels like its an isekai just for the sake of being an isekai, you could cut the isekai part away and just let him start with no memory of his past and nothing would change, the isekai theme plays no role in the plot or his character.
Also i highly suspect it started as a fan fic of Overlord with the idea of “what if he was good all the time, like his hero alter ego momonga?“ and i dont know how to feel about that >.
yeah, that show did a better job of delivering what I wanted from Realist hero.
You have great ideas and ways of presenting them. I suspect you will grow to be quite a large anime TH-camr if you can fix some of your production problems.
To start, your audio problem is the biggest one. Your microphone is not the greatest, being very muddy, especially in low frequencies. And since your voice is very deep, the microphone makes it very hard to understand what you are saying. Add on the idea that there is a large American population that is interested in anime, having any sort of shortcomings in the audio department will make it that much harder to understand you (accents aren't hard to understand once one has gotten used to them, but not all Americans are used to a British accent).
The background music in this video is very loosely defined as background music. It is too loud in the video. Also, the background visual seemed odd, feeling like a Windows Vista background.
I am not very well versed many other areas regarding TH-cam production and making good videos, but I can tell that you do have the most important part, interesting content. Now you just need to develop the other parts of your TH-cam game and I suspect you'll find the growth you probably desire. In regards to this video, I really like what you've said about Genius Prince. I very much enjoy these kingdom builder-type shows like Dr. Stone or Maoyu (even though Maoyu was meh) and watching another like that would be fun!
If you are interested in investing in a microphone setup, I would gladly help you in that process. Having another anituber to watch is never a bad thing :)
Thanks for the feedback, I really do appreciate it in all my work (really helps my craft). The microphone is definetly the main problem. I've ordered some soundproofing which should help a little but I'll see what I can do about the mic itself (actually bought a new one on Ebay but I don't think it's even better than the webcam mic I was using). I tend to rush what I say when reading my scripts so I'll work on that too. I'll sort out the background music for future videos as well, probably is too loud. As for the background visual, I'll stick to it for now until I can sort out the other issues and once I find an appropiate animation that wouldn't be too distracting.
I'm very glad you enjoyed the video and especially the points I raised.
I’m curious what you think of Ascendance of a Bookworm
It's certainly not for everyone but I really like it. Will definitely make a video on it once the current season finishes.
@@dlfarmer7601 As a light novel reader, I’d say that’s a good idea to wait for the current season to finish airing. The current season will have some very interesting moments
Background music too loud or is it just your mic
Maybe i should give it ago again, but the first two episodes bored me so much, all it showed was a guy that is good at everything he touches and the parts that would have added some tension were either left out or cut down, it gave the vibe that it is another anime that doesnt understand pacing and wants to run as quickly through the plot as possible.
The world also felt really shallow (and dear good was the world map ugly, not part of my Judgment, but i need to say it).
Realist hero was ok for me because i very much expected a kinda slice of life-ish focusud thing from the art design and did get exactly what i expected while genius prince gave me alderarmin on the sky vibes (the whole lazy genius thing) and is not at all able to pull up to that expectation wich maybe was a reason i dropped it so quickly.
Either that or my anime taste is the oppsite of the mainstream since ppl are praising "demon prince reincarnated as a typical nobody" and i find it awful.😅
anime without fanservice = cartoons
*hw abt u stop crying
Slime season 2 next😍
Certainly got that one on my list. Next one will be a double review - Dragon pilot and Dragon prince.
This Anime's smart but a little stake-less but i still ask: Anyone knows a similar 'actually smart (not just Author thinking its Smart) kind of anime? Preferbly no harem-trash? Seperate question: anyone ever seen an anime other than Dr. Stone invent the
Lightbulb?
It definitely didn't have grand stakes or tension, as in I didn’t expect any of the good guys to get killed or them to horribly lose. Still the light hearted tone was consistent and almost all the strategies were well done.
A few other smart anime that delve into economics/politics:
Spice and wolf (combing economics and romance, and surprisingly making it work). Apothecary Diaries (shows incredible nuance and differing relationships between the factions of the Chinese inner palace).
Alderamin on the Sky (one of my favourite anime with incredible intelligence put into the battles. Alas it only has one season and wont ever get another).
High school prodigies might be the only other anime that invented the light bulb in an other world (as well as all other modern inventions including anti air missiles, power stations, cars and basically anything else). Unlike Dr stone however, High school prodigies is a horribly made show in every level of the word while disregarding every possible meaning that could make it any good. Despite how unbelievably badly made it is, I do enjoy it.
@@dlfarmer7601 I wanna praise your recommendations but at the same time cry because i know ALL of them already
...And yeah, 7 high school prodigies, if that's hte one you meant, is indeed bad
@slevinchannel7589 hmmm, maybe:
Izetta the last witch (quite good alternative ww2 anime and has some clever
moments)
Tearmoon empire was recent (a comedic light hearted affair about Maria Antoinette going back in time to save alternative France).
Ohhh yeah, High school prodigies is absolutely terrible. Really would enjoy tearing that one to shreds. Takes seven isekai protagonist ideas and throws them in a chaotic blender along with creepy scenes and plotlines with no connection to each other whatsoever.
@@dlfarmer7601 I just, JUST to remind me how bad it was, clicked on a random Episode i hadnt seen yet on a player thatt shows 10 Standing Pictures of the Episode and 1 had a Computer more modern than Mine and 3 others had naked-Teen-Girls
@@dlfarmer7601 I geuss Moonlit Fantasy is not bad but the anime is an Adaptation-Fail and i almost süit my Drink out when last Season, at the very End, i realized they had, for Cheap Drama, SKIPPED 50 CHAPTERS
Whoever animates this hinks they are smarter than the Manga-Author
i woud conseder myself somwhat competent in isekai and the 2 of the best stories that i read are chinese and finding your chanel i wanted to recomend you but the beter one it kinda got f**** by the ccp so i will recomend Soul Land/Douluo Dalu (1) it has a animated adaptation and while it has its problems it doesn't have or glorify harems the mc is dose get a op talent but its never to a point that he is the most powerfull preson alive.
Thanks, I'll add Soul Land to my watch list. Haven't yet seen an isekai from china before so I'm kinda interested and I look forward to it.
Hey, I think u need a mic upgrade :)
"what the hell is with the series that have entire sentences as a title"? This will be an intense over-simplification of the trend but to make it as short as possible,
This is a marketing thing, that only happens in light novels. It happened because of a couple unrelated reasons all piling up at once:
- companies learned that longer titles sold more books, because of some bad statistical analysis, so their poorly thought out solution was to stuff as many words as possible into a title. This began as a bad corporate decision, but before long the actual writers got into it too, and started competing for the most cumbersome and ridiculous title they could, full well knowing how stupid it was.
- Light Novels were becoming so incredibly similar to one another that they increasingly had to spell out their gimmick in the title just to get people to pick up the damn thing, let alone actually read it. This led to sentence-length titles becoming the norm, if only by sheer necessity.
- The fans found those titles kinda funny... You know, back before the market was saturated with them.
- Now that the market is saturated with sentence length titles, it's become kinda hard to sell a light novel with, you know, a normal title, since it's now suddenly outside the norm.
And you know, a load of other factors. It was one of those "perfect storm" things, where something really stupid came into being purely because of the timing of it all. And now we're kinda stuck with it, since it's here.
Yeah, that's a pretty good explanation. I just hope these industries actually learn to title their shows properly.
While I like Genius Prince, it definitely has its problems. For example, Wien is a textbook example of probably my least favorite MC trope ever: Uber Talented but Lazy. Dude is some kinda prodigy, as the name suggests, but all he wants to do is fuck around. His entire goal is literally to get rid of the kingdom so he can fuck around more. And this is contrasted by his assistant Ninym, who reached her position through hard work and diligence.
Then there's the romance. Despite the general plot being about Wien ending up in a political marriage, this anime is not a harem, and he doesn't really like any of the possible princesses he can marry. Instead, he is pretty clearly in love with Ninym and she is also in love with him. BUT, marrying her would cause a lot of problems, namely that she comes from a "lower class" race and it wouldn't benefit the kingdom in any way. In fact, he and Ninym's goals are the opposite. He wants to ditch the kingdom, she wants to help it as much as possible. So much so, that when Wien's sister makes a comment about them liking each other, Ninym literally says she will kill herself if Wien marries her, despite it being what both of them want. So now we have this pointless angst between the two characters and it doesn't add anything to the story because it's based entirely on flaws of the two characters. Ninym won't agree because she's too hardheaded about what's good for the kingdom. Wien won't agree because he's too lazy to step up and make it work without a political marriage.
I may be taking too many assumptions to reach this conclusion, but ...
To me, it looked like that scene implied that, the reason they got together in the first place, was related to whatever is her objective (I assume he promised to do something about the situation of her people), and him abandoning his standing to marry her, would mean he given up on that.
Also ... his "I wan't to ditch this country" talk, feels like that trope where the nonsense the mc talks now and then actually has a deeper meaning from their past.
I always read into it that at least part of the reason he wanted to ditch the kingdom was so he could eventually marry Nynim legitimately.
Don’t you dare shit on realist hero
I think he already talked about that show, here’s the link? th-cam.com/video/FIXgVA-wkxs/w-d-xo.html
i don't need to shit on it when it already is shit, do i?
I won't criticise you for enjoying Realist Hero, everyone's allowed to enjoy whatever they like. I for one enjoy Rwby but I acknowledge it as terribly written (and then there's the animation quality). If you enjoyed Realist Hero, I mean really enjoyed it then my video(s) won't take that feeling away, all I'm doing is objectively reviewing it.
Don't sorry the realist pero shits on himself
By the way, Realist Hero doesn't condone slavery. To say slaves, er, existing therefore means a series condones slavery is kind of an objectively bad take. It's like saying Attack on Titan is an inherently fascist work because... Some characters, mostly bad guys, happen to be fascist. You know, in spite of the text explicitly defining this ideology as bad, even when believed in by a supporting hero.
But in Realist Hero, Soama not only allows slavery in his kingdom but makes it far more profitable, even going out of his way to make slave owners public servants. He is the king, he has total control over his kingdom and can tell everyone not to own slaves anymore. In the same season he brutally murdered a dozen officials for being yes men so he has extraordinary powers and no rival force that can change them. He already has the support of a couple duchies and many other nobles so he has the power plus he won the kingdom's own civil war in the first season so his rule is now completely undisputed. He can end slavery in a heartbeat without any danger of resistance
Also the slaves would be picking cotton as we learned in the first episode, that crop is the kingdom's main export so there's that. Only a handful of slaves will be educated and thanks to Soama more people will be brought into slavery as it's suddenly become very profitable.
By making the slave owners public servants gives them authority and will make it really difficult for Soama to speak out against them in the future.
I suspect this was added just to make Soama look good and possibly add another type of fanservice to the mix without actually considering the ramifications of it.
I’d say it’s not as bad as Shield Hero, which actually has written into it magical mechanics that make slavery beneficial and desirable to have even more than emancipating (xp sharing) and now up to *three* cute girls willingly becoming his slave in whole or in part for that very reason.
I want you to review thise shitty ass isekai that recently dropped like that skeleton one. We atleast will get some humour out of them. Haha
I'll add that one to my review firing line.