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Within its audience-conscious asides, it attempts to fashion a fantastical story of Cid Kagenou, a fashions-himself-as-the-ultimate-warrior man who attempts to make the best of both worlds, so to speak. Treating his reincarnated situation as the chance to live out his ultimate fantasy, he adopts the moniker of the background everyman archetype on one hand and the “Eminence in Shadow” in the other. Getting involved, investigating, and dispensing his own form of justice when he sees fit, he treats his new environment as a playground rather than being full of actual people with consequences.
Therein lies its initial draw, and its first real gag; take the common thought that many isekai protagonists have (that they’re either dreaming / don’t take their new situation seriously enough), and have it last for the entire show. This gag quickly devolves into overreliance; *The Eminence in Shadow* spends so much of its time with Cid making jokes about the isekai world, drawing upon his knowledge of its conventions and general structure. But the show is confusing its meta remarks for comedic cleverness. Cid is seemingly incapable of going ten minutes without making a remark akin to, “At a time like this, X would happen!” or “Doing Y would be so awesome!” These moments are meta humor at its most flaccid, requiring no creativity to make its point. The goal is to be funny and double down by committing what’s tantamount to beating a dead horse, when being unfunny and doubling down only succeeds in compounding the problem.
The show’s insistence on its meta humor tries to function both comedically and dramaturgically. In having Cid make all these remarks, it attempts to paint him as being more keenly aware of what is transpiring, both in the heat of the moment and in the overarching saga that plays out in the overall world, bolstered by his sheer magical and physical power. In emphasizing the brooding aesthetic, punctuated by its dark colors and mood lighting, as well as the
occasional action phrase (I will indeed
give props to the line “I am atomic,” as it was as grand and dumbly epic as Cid himself thought it to be).
[32] Broadcast The first two seasons were released on Cartoon Network channels in over 126 countries, with the third season rolling out through 2014. [33] The series debuted on Cartoon Network UK on May 2, 2011, one day before the US premiere. The show aired on Boomerang from December 1, 2014, to October 23, 2015, its second run from
February 1, 2016, to April 2, 2017, and its third run from May 2, 2022, to October 31, 2022. [34] Reception Ratings On May 3, 2011, the series premiere of The Amazing World of Gumball was watched by 2. 120 million viewers in the
United States. [35] "The Goons" is currently the highest viewed episode of the series, with 2.
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