re: life in a different world from zero
The characters are established as capable of being morons whenever the story demands it, and combined with the awfully constructed premises from which the games operate, the show is just
hard to take seriously in general. Explaining the context for further lapses of intelligence would take forever, but I assure you they exist. By the way, this review was written as a
team effort between two people. One of them is fluent in Japanese, and the other is not. In other news, both of them thought all the gameshow rule sets were either completely fucking retarded or totally impenetrable and way—WAY overly verbose. What’s worse is the characterization is effectively nonexistent, and you very quickly get the feeling that when I gave you that little factoid about squids being friendly creatures, I might’ve actually been full of shit. The introduction of each character is literally an on-screen text box that disappears after barely one second has time to pass, and while the thoughtlessness of this presentation speaks for itself, reading the text and actually trying to see these characters as people, let alone as friends, is completely disastrous.
Riveting personality traits such as, “seems to like anime and stuff,” are detailed within. I mean, holy fucking seriously?!?! There’s no way this is supposed to be from God Yuichi’s perspective, right? Was this a description of his best friend, or one-third of the nation of Japan?! Not only are these depictions inane, but they’re simply unnecessary, because there are absolutely ZERO relevant personality traits you need to know about any character to actually watch the show. These people are not friends nor are they people; they’re stock character templates whose job is to stand around passively while getting used or manipulated by God Yuichi without the slightest hint of having any agency of their own, completely sapping the conflicts of any excitement or worthwhile drama, all the while only committing to expressing themselves in the most generic mannerisms that their archetypes allow. I suppose the point is to make God Yuichi look cool so the viewers can use the series as some sort of sadistic self-insert power fantasy to get off on the
idea of themselves being this much of an edgelord (please, get real, no one is as godly as God Yuichi), but this has the same effect as seeing LeBron James dunking on blind, deaf, disabled, amputee toddlers.
^ Ohba, Tsugumi; Obata,
Takeshi (2008). Death Note 13: How to Read. Viz Media. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-4215-1888-6. ^ a b "Death Note Manga Spawns Movie, Crime Wave". Wired. May 19, 2008. Archived from the original on August 9, 2013.
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473"A Sword
from Over 300 Years Ago"
Transliteration: "Sanbyaku-nen Ijō Mae no Katana" (Japanese: 300年以上前の刀)Ken NakazawaHideki HosokawaApril 23, 2023 (2023-04-23)6. 4% To Tanjiro's and Kotetsu's disappointment, the sword is tarnished. Hotaru arrives, now extremely muscular from solitary training in order to improve himself. Intending to restore the ancient sword, he gives Tanjiro a
spare blade. Tanjiro later attempts to befriend Genya but is rebuffed, though he notices Genya had regrown a lost tooth. Unbeknownst to all, Gyokko and Hantengu have infiltrated the village. Hantengu battles Tanjiro, Nezuko, and Muichiro, who beheads him. Two new demons then grow from the severed body and head; one of them, Karaku, blasts Muichiro away with his wind-based uchiwa, and the other, Sekido, shocks the siblings with his khakkhara. Genya arrives and beheads them with a sawed-off shotgun and a Nichirin wakizashi. However, the demons to split again, now totalling four demons. The winged Urogi carries Tanjiro away from the group and hits him with a sonic shriek, while Nezuko tries to defend Genya from Aizetsu, who wields a yari.
