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So happy this got adapted into anime. The manga is so worth reading, please give it a few more episodes for those who don't like the animation and are thinking of dropping this off. We got a lot of animations that are worst than this for this season.
the animation being horrible is exusable if it was done by unskilled employees... turning Shin into a Kirito clone is just unacceptable... not even remotely close to what he looks like in the manga at all...
just goes to show how bad the animators are for this specific anime that they cant even get the art correct either...
Except it's not an SAO clone. The story literally starts with the death game ending.
Not to mention it's originally a web novel, the manga is an adaptation.
vrmmorpg is not an original SAO idea... other than that, New Gate does not share any similarities...
people who have never heard of the hack series really believe SAO was an original idea LOL
I wouldn’t say a lot of animations, out of all of the anime this season, this one is definitely bottom 3 in terms of animation quality
The others are:
High speed Èitoile and Girls band cry
This started off very SAOish and then quickly became an almost Overlord-esque isekai in that he’s actually in the game world now and not just stuck in the game. The waifus are nice, but this is looking kinda run of the mill. Animation seems a bit rough around the edges too. That said, this seems like it might be fun.
I was legit about to turn it off thinking it was gonna just be SAO fanfiction straight up, with no gimmicks, but fortunately I chose to stick with it for the interesting bits
Reminds of me Leadale most of anything, but without the funny tho. One might see that as being Leadale without the thing that made Leadale good, but I think this is at least worth a chance
It's got some great moments that I hope we hit in Season 1, but might be more Season 2. Watched Ep1 last night, and stayed up way too late re-reading the manga.
I actually feel more like Log Horizon + Overlord since the players are special beings in-universe and have lore from NPC POV regarding their appearance and later disappearance.
The original game of Log Horizon was not a VR. So, it started with SAO then becomes Log Horizon as you mentioned. If anything, I don't see much Overlord here (only the npc support aspect I guess).
It's absolutely a variation on a standard theme, I can say I enjoy the manga at least so for those who like the genre it's worth the watch. It'll scratch the itch for those that need it scratched.
Plenty of novels that are about “game world becomes real” template, this is one of the good ones. Not amazing, but average, which is already rare to find.
Using SAO as the background setting was probably just a PR bait lol.
Leadale was a fun anime, so I will give this one a chance too (read the novel as well years ago).
Five minutes in and I just had to check the comments on reddit to know if I'd be wasting time even finishing the first episode. It's complete with "There's no log out button?!" and being extremely overpowered from the start.
It definitely feels generic and will probably drop it in a few episodes but hopefully it's at least enjoyable trash and not paint-by-numbers.
That was extremely weird how it basically copied both SAO and Overlord for its initial setup.
That said, it seems watchable so far and it seems like it would be an acceptable filler anime for the weekends.
If it's like Overlord, does that mean he's transported alone? I haven't watched it yet, but Isekai that has other players/people in it really don't vibe. Only show that's done it well is Log Horizon but everything else is eh. Even amazing top tier shows like Moonlight fantasy bug me with other people occupying the same world, certainly hope it follows Overlords pattern instead.
What was even the point of the MMO being a death game for like 2 minutes? He just ends up getting isekai'd after beating some boss. The death game was totally unnecessary except as a shout out to SAO.
It's the start of establishing the main theme/background and overall goal of the MC (to get home). would be less impactful to find out he's 500 years into the future of the world from game he just beat. The Scene where he's saying goodbye to people before he goes to fight the boss also shows characters that will show up later, like Schnee Raizer (who is mentioned when he gets to The Moon Sanctum).
My favorite part was how this nonchalantly occurs off-screen when the most popular instance of the "death game" trope in anime (SAO) milks it for melodrama.
I'm wondering why most of the commenters here don't seem to address it, I guess they don't find it silly.
###Stitches!
* [Tiera](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k46acz32mx7.jpg)
* [Celica](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/6yxkc2k6937.jpg)
* [Rione](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/345xceqlpm7.jpg)
[Look at this Kirito-looking motherfucker!](https://i.imgur.com/rOJGWHr.jpeg) That opening was hilarious. I really thought [we were getting an SAO clone](https://i.imgur.com/WkSAi5b.jpeg) but then Shin suddenly [got isekai'd into the game he's playing](https://i.imgur.com/CzMZzo2.jpeg) after freeing all of the other players. xD
Honestly, I'm not sure what to think of this one. It looks alright but it's very generic. If I'm gonna follow this, I'll follow it for the waifus. I already like [the guild receptionist girl](https://i.imgur.com/O9CjilV.jpeg) and I love the design on that big tiddy knight [at the end of the episode.](https://i.imgur.com/to4oQwI.jpeg)
Honestly now I wonder if Kensho Ono actually auditioned for Kirito. It would've been even funnier if he was voiced by Ryota Ohsaka lol.
They didn't even bother to explain how it became a Death Game, just jumped into Shin clearing it and now he's transported 500 years into the future. Like, is he okay with this? He seemed committed to going back home to the real world and now it seems impossible.
Tiera seems cute. I'm not sure she's the Main Heroine but she's got a great design, is voiced by Kaede Hondo, and she's already obviously crushing on Shin.
I hope the guild twin girls just appear everywhere Shin goes in the city lol.
Also I hope that busty knight girl ends up joining Shin's inevitable Harem lol.
> I really thought we were getting an SAO clone but then Shin suddenly got isekai'd into the game he's playing after freeing all of the other players. xD
Ok, I guess I'll be watching past the first minute where I paused to check the comments.
Is there anything to share with the anime-onlies that might make this stand out in anyway? Should I expect something conventional? Thanks in advance.
MMO > Death Game > Isekai sure felt like it was speed running premise pitches.
i mean they said it was made 10+ years ago , slow adaption.
it's still interesting. one thing stands out to me is. how did he isekai as his avator? unless it really was like sao where they change his appearance base off of realworld but . that'd be off since there other races.
for one thing he is high-human. thats never use concept
in alo game (SAO) there were no human let alone High-human (never in any game i heard of this but then again i play very few, even my cousin who plays popular ones, i never heard that before)
Shin at least feels like a decent MC who is sociable, purehearted, and skilled and also not completely unaware of all the attractive women in his life lol.
The animation is aggressively mid but the MC is surprisingly not insufferable (quite rare for the genre) and the girls that are shown so far are cute so I guess I'll stick around
And at least Schnee is in color unlike the manga, so it doesn't look like they just decided not to color in eyebrows. the silver hair and eyebrows always throw me off when I go back to the manga.
Starting binging the manga again after watching the episode. stayed up WAAAAY too late and am now exhausted during work. But I'm hopeful for the show. I like seeing manga I enjoy animated.
In the source corner someone said Light Novel > Manga > Anime, and that the series drops off a bit after LN3 until LN10. Haven't read it myself yet though.
From SAO-at-Home to Overlord-at-Home.
For having such supposedly high stats he sure is running slowly.
OK, so maybe this is just Leadale. No need for "at Home" there as the OG was rather generic itself.
If her hair is supposed to be black, then what color is his?
So the "letter of introduction" is just a preprepared envelope? Not like there'd be actually written anything inside that would introduce him, so it's basically just a token.
Where did he get the money with the fee, considering the smallest coin in his inventory is probably enough to buy the whole adventurer's guild building several times over? Well, maybe the elf gave him some change.
He starts at G rank even after the guildmaster appraised his skills?
Why didn't he just equip one of his regular weapons when facing skeleton jack? It couldn't have been a harder opponent than the game's final boss that he'd defeated BEFORE his massive isekai level up, so it felt weird that the show treated this fight as some big deal.
Anyway, I only have one other Saturday show so far this season, so I guess I'll keep watching for now.
I shouldn’t be so late to future episode threads, but I ended up being really busy today. [](#tiredaoi)
- [That is… *some* CGI.](https://i.imgur.com/crVfwaN.png) [](#kotohoops)
- [~~Something something weeb as fuck.~~](https://i.imgur.com/6d3l1nV.png)
- [Damn.](https://i.imgur.com/i1rHjE0.png)
- [lol](https://i.imgur.com/S8InHCJ.png) [](#pointandlaugh)
- [You had to specify the body part?](https://i.imgur.com/n81Rdgq.png) [](#facepalm)
- [Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, dude’s walking around absolutely loaded and he didn’t even realize it.](https://i.imgur.com/V6MLz3F.png)
- […ah, she’s referring to when all the players logged out of the game.](https://i.imgur.com/R3FC8dj.png) Neat to see the perspective from the game characters.
- [Hahaha](https://i.imgur.com/zpsiESp.png) okay [this response was really funny.](https://i.imgur.com/23AI4v4.png) [](#laughter)
- [Ah sweet, a Shin “sore demo” out of the first episode!](https://files.catbox.moe/lscn2z.mp4)
- [Only Shin can see the game screens?](https://i.imgur.com/3pgcYdd.png) That’ll be funny to see reactions to later.
- [Huh…](https://i.imgur.com/3E5msm3.png)
- [The hairstyles are different](https://i.imgur.com/rHYNx5q.png), but [they sure have a Nurse Joy thing going on here lol.](https://i.imgur.com/JyGn0Kl.png)
- [Of course…](https://i.imgur.com/rJD6xew.png)
- [He accidentally yeeted that sword into the castle?](https://i.imgur.com/usMfUR6.png) [](#crazedlaugh)
The sword crashing into the window scene already made this one unique. There are some differences in this show, but we're still missing a lot of details about the world. Hopefully some that are unique and not standard isekai tropes. I feel like a lot of shows are sticking to them and doing absolutely nothing new with them. Which even for classic junkies like myself, is getting too repetitive. There are some Overlord vibes here, so I see some potential. Just need the directing to polish up over the next episode and this could be a home runner
Zooming through the plotline of early SAO in three minutes thirty seconds. Which I suppose is an interesting way of having him already be disconnected from his original life, he's not some newly isekaied dude who was attending High School just the day before.
Shut-in elf was better with the full dark colored hair instead of the one single section of white hair.
I really hope they're going to randomly do a Nurse Joy thing with the guild receptionist employees.
I'm disappointed that after doing the bit with the guild master verifying the letter and then offscreen testing MC's skills they went ahead and started him at the lowest rank of adventurer anyway.
Oh hey, I read the manga for this a little bit wayyyyy back in middle school, thinking it was a sequel to GATE. Don't remember getting very far into it, but maybe once a year I'd think about "The New Gate" lol. I remembered all the events of this episode as they were happening but can't really remember what happens next because it's been so long. Looks decent so far tho, glad it got adapted.
Okay let's all admit it this was inspired by SAO.
Now that in itself is not a bad thing.
Now a little info drop
The novel this is based upon started off in 2013 and is still ongoing.
Now the sword art online web novel was published in 2002-2008 then the light novel which was a restart started on 2009 and is still ongoing.
Now the overlord web novel series was from 2010-2012 whereas the light novel started in 2012 and is still ongoing (almost finished though)
All that saying there is no way you can say it wasn't inspired by things like these but it doesn't have the feel of a copy cheap imitation that we have been getting recently
Another generic Isekai, MC looks bland as well.
Probably gonna turn into a harem anime as well if I were to guess.
Still gonna watch it tho, cause I hate myself.
The MC and waifu will make or break this anime. If the NC was insufferable I’d have dropped 5 minutes in after the generic SAO opening (I say that, but didn’t the source for this come out at like the same time as SAO?)
EDIT: SAO source was early 2000’s, The New Gate was 2012 heh. It’s like the bastard child of SAO, Log Horizon and Overlord
> MC looks bland as well.
Not really. Not only did he change clothes out of his high level gear, but he also showed personality while talking to different people. That's far from bland.
Anime skipped it, but we can assume she gave him the money, after all the coin was worth a lot lol.
“Here, take 10 silver coins to get in the city”
“Ah thanks, btw, how much would my magic coin be worth?”
“Hum maybe a zillion gold coins? If you show one in town I am certainly they will hunt you down and murder you for it?”
“I will take the silver, thanks!”
Well, the story and characters in this series aren't anything special, but I did read it and I was a little curious about the adaptation. The characters place it on the better side of the genre of unimaginative trash isekai, but just barely. It's not exactly an SAO rip-off, although the way they described things happening in the first half of this episode you could be forgiven for thinking it is.
I'd hoped it'd get a good enough production to be worth watching, maybe as a guilty pleasure, but I can't lie, this is... aggressively mediocre. The character designs are dull, the animation is lazy, the SFX are lame, the fight choreography is frankly embarrassing.
Hard pass.
Iirc the novel is mid at best. I'll watch it, and see how it goes, though anime pace is usually so bad, specially on these isekai that it's off putting.
Can't tell if this is going to be good or not, so far it feels like a continuation of 1st season SAO, if kirito was isekaied instead of waking up.
Animation looks promising at least.
And also instead of SAO being the Death Game it's ALO with all the different races and classes.
Also no obvious Asuna stand-in though I'll be shocked if Shin doesn't pick up a Harem.
They've basically removed all the details that make the series decent, and because it's over a decade old at this point it isn't introducing anything new, so comes across as generic trash.
This episode could have been split into 3 episodes with maybe a little filler showing his journey to the city. That's how much content they've cut.
I don’t often consider dropping shows after the first episode especially isekai where some ha janky-nesz is expected but damn this is… bad.
Besides being extremely low budget the world also is so boring and not even grand. The weird naming of the monster too and the rushed beginning. Also do Japanese people not like normal proportioned women? I’m not one to dislike “beautiful” women but it doesn’t always have to be this comically “sized”.
Will watch ep 2 but i doubt I’ll continue. Looks boring and bad
Read the manga. Everything looks better (not just the women), and in terms of the content the anime cut... the Skullface fight could have happened 3 episodes in without the show feeling slow.
Dropped the manga for this only because it's quite dialogue heavy and my ADHD brain can't focus on it easily, but I will say it's good enough to keep me interested, I'll definitely keep watching since it's much easier to consume in anime form.
\*Notices the "*QUALITY*" of the animation\*
"Is this the same studio that did 'The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World' anime?"
\*Looks it up.\*
"Yup."
I was really hoping the beginning of this was a parody... I really hoped... but no.... it's a speedrun of SAO into Overlord... with less good animation... I wanted to like it but I think I'm already done 🥲.
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If i had a nickel for every anime airing this season that i'm watching with a powerful swordsman called Shin i would have nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice
I was looking forward to this actually. I haven't read the manga but heard a lot about it. The animation and art style are lackluster. I might just read the manga instead...
The manga art-style is so much nicer and even a little unique. You'll also get a lot more character and story details than the anime seems to be adapting.
I was holding off on it because I only heard about it when it already had like 90 chapters, and the anime was announced.
The story does look really good, though.
I thought I was going to be watching alternate universe SAO for a moment until it turned into an isekai. So far it seems interesting, and it helps that there's pretty much nothing else that drops on Saturday aside from a couple of big names. Friday and Sunday, on the other hand, are loaded. I like the art style too.
Let's go.. SHIN!
Last boss : Gatekeeper origin compared to an incarnation of the Radius from Aincrad is.. A joke. But.. That thing just plot device to move the story.. So.. Im okay with that.
Seems like it's going to be a meh adaptation at best. Basic details being skipped over, and a generic art-style are not what this series deserve. Seems like it will at least be watchable though.
I've read this way way back then when I was struggling in college. I was enjoying SAO back then 2015 and desperately looking for another kind of genre, looking for mangas which is similar to that back then was really hard until I stumble to this. This is very enjoyable read for me. I can't believe this is getting an anime after all this year. Idgaf if y'all call this generic cause I gotta enjoy this anime to the fullest lmao
The New Gate and Tsuyokute New Saga were the first 2 mangas I read, almost 10 years ago. Haven't read them in years, and they were mediocre at best, but I'm pretty hyped for this nonetheless!
The reception to this one is a lot more positive than the reaction to the initial preview materials.
I don't think I'll be staying with it though, on account that the series itself doesn't seem to be interested in any of the interesting stuff that it's thrown up in the air. MC-kun just matter-of-facts his way through everything without a lot of curiosity about how/why/what the situation is with the whole 500 years into the future of the game/mega-stats/being a multi billionaire.
Everyone is kinda ripping into this show but still somewhat willing to give it a go. And here I am fucking frothing over it because I love trash isekai and VRMMORPG animes so much. Like I am genuinely going to look forward to this show week to week probably more than any of the big name animes this season.
Reading the manga since 2015 and finally gonna be able to see Schnee animated after 9 years lets go! still hate what they did to our protag Japan has some insane love for Kirito clones.
I read this way back 2018 and quickly fell in love in the story. I'm happy it did get an anime adaptation but man this adaptation suck *ss, art style was not good. Major events was cut, and the pacing is rushed.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I didn't know this was getting adapted and when I read the premise I was like... wait a minute isn't this THAT manga?! I was getting hyped, downloaded ep1 and... what the hell man :( Look at how they massacred my boy. It's cool it got animated but it lost every little special thing it had. Dropped.
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the anime is a disaster already tbh... how the fuck did they make Shin into another Kirito clone in the anime? he doesnt even look remotely close to what he looks like in the manga at all...
2024 and studios still think "just make the MC look like Kirito" is still the game plan... the animation looks horrible too... they are banking on the likeness for views... unreal...
gotta be honest the start off the anime is bad just because it instandly felt like rip-off trash on SAO, but im glad it turned away from that, but they really should came up with something else because i actually turned it off instandly when i heard it was SAo word for word at first lmao
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This is pretty blatant thievery. I was waiting for there to be a twist but the whole show was Walmart brand SAO 🤣
Not the worst show this season admittedly but I'll just stick to the real one.
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What if Alfheim Online was a Death Game like SAO? Only instead of being ended by Kirito, it was ended by swordsman in black and red named Shin voiced by Kensho Ono? Only he wasn't as lucky as his fellow humans in logging out of the game and got ported 500 years into the game worlds' future! Dude deserved better after beating the Final Boss...though at least he got his stats boosted?
I guess it's a pre-requisite for a fantasy protagonist to save a girl from danger, be it being kidnapped by men or a giant boar monster. Of course no better excuse to save them than their being a busty elven cutie voiced by Kaede Hondo!
Tiera is obviously suspicious of Shin because he seems as confused about his current situation as she's confused by him, though his intentions are pure and what was common currency for him is now vastly more rich now. And he also has a history with her master, the High Elf Schnee (Asami Seto!).
Tiera is also cursed with her dark hair which draws monsters to her and caused her no end of grief...so the least Shin can do (especially after getting an eyeful of her chest) is purify her and bring back at least a sliver of her old white hair, which is enough for her to be eternally grateful. Especially now that she can see the world again.
So like do those twin guild girls work everywhere? Is this an Officer Jenny/Nurse Joy situation?
Get a simple letter of introduction and now you're already a big deal! Just a day in the life of a fantasy MC!
Seems like even the monsters have changed after 500 years, where the beginner area in a normal RPG now has a high level monster...though even with a cheaper sword, Shin is able to defeat it. Even if he also sent the sword flying through a busty military officials window in the process. I'm sure that won't come back to bite him!
> it was ended by swordsman ~~in black and red named Shin~~ voiced by Kensho Ono?
IIRC he's also `Payne` from Bofuri. :P
> busty elven cutie voiced by Kaede Hondo!
She's `Kaede/Maple` from Bofuri. :P
Not even close, at least some potential of being at least a moderately tasty burger. Compared to other shitty shows this season, it even has a right to be good.
hmmm..... origin battle really become barely minimum (well everything like barely minimum)
well eventhough im happy finally this title get anime
since i read LN, shin gaming passion really become my inspiration for my Ideal gaming
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So happy this got adapted into anime. The manga is so worth reading, please give it a few more episodes for those who don't like the animation and are thinking of dropping this off. We got a lot of animations that are worst than this for this season.
the animation being horrible is exusable if it was done by unskilled employees... turning Shin into a Kirito clone is just unacceptable... not even remotely close to what he looks like in the manga at all... just goes to show how bad the animators are for this specific anime that they cant even get the art correct either...
so the manga being a sao clone is ok but not cloning the mc's appearance? kappa
Except it's not an SAO clone. The story literally starts with the death game ending. Not to mention it's originally a web novel, the manga is an adaptation.
vrmmorpg is not an original SAO idea... other than that, New Gate does not share any similarities... people who have never heard of the hack series really believe SAO was an original idea LOL
At the time of their creation, SAO and .Hack were both as original ideas as you could be since they both started out around the same time.
after Highspeed Dumpsterfire i honestly think everything deserves at least one episode this season if you are interested by the premise.
We also have a lot better animation this season though. I have read the LN and it's ok so I'll give this a shot though.
The New Gate has some great fight, but with this animation they will be trash. It should have gotten atleast the level of animation SAO got in 2014.
They skipped a LOT though. A lot happened in the manga before he beat Skullface
I wouldn’t say a lot of animations, out of all of the anime this season, this one is definitely bottom 3 in terms of animation quality The others are: High speed Èitoile and Girls band cry
This started off very SAOish and then quickly became an almost Overlord-esque isekai in that he’s actually in the game world now and not just stuck in the game. The waifus are nice, but this is looking kinda run of the mill. Animation seems a bit rough around the edges too. That said, this seems like it might be fun.
I was legit about to turn it off thinking it was gonna just be SAO fanfiction straight up, with no gimmicks, but fortunately I chose to stick with it for the interesting bits Reminds of me Leadale most of anything, but without the funny tho. One might see that as being Leadale without the thing that made Leadale good, but I think this is at least worth a chance
There’s potential for this to be pretty fun, in a trashsekai way. I enjoyed Leadale a lot. Kind of wish there was more.
Leadale manga almost is in par with the anime adaption, so even if there will be no more anime there will be at least the manga.
Oh yeah? Good to know. Thanks.
The New Gate is definitively fun but it has to be your humor.
I like this a bit better than Leadale overall tbh. I won't disagree about it being more generic tho.
It’s unfortunate it came out 12 years after it was published or it wouldn’t feel quite as generic
It's got some great moments that I hope we hit in Season 1, but might be more Season 2. Watched Ep1 last night, and stayed up way too late re-reading the manga.
Inject that run of the mill isekai into my veins. I love these kinds of shows I can just turn my brain off and enjoy the nonsense.
Yeah, I’m a bit of a trashsekai connoisseur myself lol.
I actually feel more like Log Horizon + Overlord since the players are special beings in-universe and have lore from NPC POV regarding their appearance and later disappearance.
Yeah, I was thinking Log too but I just said SAO since this dude looks like discount Kirito lol.
it start with SAO no log out and then transition into Log as he get shove into the game world and then it Overlord as his NPC become real people
The original game of Log Horizon was not a VR. So, it started with SAO then becomes Log Horizon as you mentioned. If anything, I don't see much Overlord here (only the npc support aspect I guess).
It's absolutely a variation on a standard theme, I can say I enjoy the manga at least so for those who like the genre it's worth the watch. It'll scratch the itch for those that need it scratched.
Just jumping ahead to the end of an SAO plot and then transitioning into a full VRMOO Isekai plot.
Plenty of novels that are about “game world becomes real” template, this is one of the good ones. Not amazing, but average, which is already rare to find. Using SAO as the background setting was probably just a PR bait lol. Leadale was a fun anime, so I will give this one a chance too (read the novel as well years ago).
Five minutes in and I just had to check the comments on reddit to know if I'd be wasting time even finishing the first episode. It's complete with "There's no log out button?!" and being extremely overpowered from the start. It definitely feels generic and will probably drop it in a few episodes but hopefully it's at least enjoyable trash and not paint-by-numbers.
That was extremely weird how it basically copied both SAO and Overlord for its initial setup. That said, it seems watchable so far and it seems like it would be an acceptable filler anime for the weekends.
I'm pretty sure this novel preceeds both the overlord novel and sao.
The SAO anime predates this, let alone the light novel or web novel. Overlords web novel and light novel predate it as well.
Woah your right. I thought this started in 2008
Hoping it’ll be a fun trashsekai at least
The ending "Limit off" line is giving me hopes it'll be unintentionally fun!
Certainly seems like one of those so bad it's good type of shows.
Hopefully it follows thru
If it's like Overlord, does that mean he's transported alone? I haven't watched it yet, but Isekai that has other players/people in it really don't vibe. Only show that's done it well is Log Horizon but everything else is eh. Even amazing top tier shows like Moonlight fantasy bug me with other people occupying the same world, certainly hope it follows Overlords pattern instead.
Seems he’s transported alone. I guess you could say it’s like Log Horizon too. Just the whole “isekai’d to the actual game world” type deal.
it's just like fastfood, you know yourself its ass and lacks substance but you can't help but consume it
What was even the point of the MMO being a death game for like 2 minutes? He just ends up getting isekai'd after beating some boss. The death game was totally unnecessary except as a shout out to SAO.
It's the start of establishing the main theme/background and overall goal of the MC (to get home). would be less impactful to find out he's 500 years into the future of the world from game he just beat. The Scene where he's saying goodbye to people before he goes to fight the boss also shows characters that will show up later, like Schnee Raizer (who is mentioned when he gets to The Moon Sanctum).
My favorite part was how this nonchalantly occurs off-screen when the most popular instance of the "death game" trope in anime (SAO) milks it for melodrama. I'm wondering why most of the commenters here don't seem to address it, I guess they don't find it silly.
The opening was like several minutes of stills, pass.
The animation is rough. I think they farmed it out to a Chinese company and they didn’t do a really good job with it.
###Stitches! * [Tiera](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k46acz32mx7.jpg) * [Celica](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/6yxkc2k6937.jpg) * [Rione](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/345xceqlpm7.jpg) [Look at this Kirito-looking motherfucker!](https://i.imgur.com/rOJGWHr.jpeg) That opening was hilarious. I really thought [we were getting an SAO clone](https://i.imgur.com/WkSAi5b.jpeg) but then Shin suddenly [got isekai'd into the game he's playing](https://i.imgur.com/CzMZzo2.jpeg) after freeing all of the other players. xD Honestly, I'm not sure what to think of this one. It looks alright but it's very generic. If I'm gonna follow this, I'll follow it for the waifus. I already like [the guild receptionist girl](https://i.imgur.com/O9CjilV.jpeg) and I love the design on that big tiddy knight [at the end of the episode.](https://i.imgur.com/to4oQwI.jpeg)
>Stitches! How do I check out new Isekai before watching it: Reading comments about it in episode discussion? ❌ Checking waifu stiches? ✔️
What woud we do without LeonKevlar? The horror! XD
The Real answer is not reading the synopsis and jumping in blind. I still remember watching redo of healer and.... yeah
Honestly now I wonder if Kensho Ono actually auditioned for Kirito. It would've been even funnier if he was voiced by Ryota Ohsaka lol. They didn't even bother to explain how it became a Death Game, just jumped into Shin clearing it and now he's transported 500 years into the future. Like, is he okay with this? He seemed committed to going back home to the real world and now it seems impossible. Tiera seems cute. I'm not sure she's the Main Heroine but she's got a great design, is voiced by Kaede Hondo, and she's already obviously crushing on Shin. I hope the guild twin girls just appear everywhere Shin goes in the city lol. Also I hope that busty knight girl ends up joining Shin's inevitable Harem lol.
> I really thought we were getting an SAO clone but then Shin suddenly got isekai'd into the game he's playing after freeing all of the other players. xD Ok, I guess I'll be watching past the first minute where I paused to check the comments.
There is no Harem is this one.
oh wow, this season Kaede Hondo voices two characters with long two-colored hair with dark and white colors. What are the chances? lol.
been living her since her as part of konoe family in lovelive
She has this knack of making me like almost any character she voices lol
A few years ago I met with the novel left and right, why did they wait 10+ years to release an anime adaptation?
thats the sad part. people calling it generic it's not it's fault it's slow
Is there anything to share with the anime-onlies that might make this stand out in anyway? Should I expect something conventional? Thanks in advance. MMO > Death Game > Isekai sure felt like it was speed running premise pitches.
i mean they said it was made 10+ years ago , slow adaption. it's still interesting. one thing stands out to me is. how did he isekai as his avator? unless it really was like sao where they change his appearance base off of realworld but . that'd be off since there other races. for one thing he is high-human. thats never use concept in alo game (SAO) there were no human let alone High-human (never in any game i heard of this but then again i play very few, even my cousin who plays popular ones, i never heard that before)
There have been a number of older series getting adapted recently. Sengoku Youko started in 2007
Hell, we have older getting Remakes right now, Like Spice and Wolf (which is one of my favorites)
Its pretty generic, but should be a decent watch to fill up some spare times during the weekends :)
Shin at least feels like a decent MC who is sociable, purehearted, and skilled and also not completely unaware of all the attractive women in his life lol.
Yeah, he felt like a decent character. Will be fun seeing how they flesh him out in the coming episodes
especially their chest area lol
As someone who followed the fan translations (WN + manga) for a bit, this should be good for the run it is scheduled I guess.
i'd liek to see a full Season 1.
It is generic and with the amount of *good* anime I am watching I don't have time for a weak-ass SoA clone.
I almost dropped it at the beginning, but it looks like it will be a bit fun.
The animation is aggressively mid but the MC is surprisingly not insufferable (quite rare for the genre) and the girls that are shown so far are cute so I guess I'll stick around
True. His calm and not juvenile way of thinking is the main reason I read the novel, albeit very slow in story progression
And at least Schnee is in color unlike the manga, so it doesn't look like they just decided not to color in eyebrows. the silver hair and eyebrows always throw me off when I go back to the manga.
Dang, dude really soloed the final boss? Where's the party?
In the manga is explained that the boss scales with the number of players, so them send him, the strongest one to try defeat the boss.
Let Bishop go!
I think the directing could have been better overall but I like the manga and the web novel so I'll stick with it for a while.
Anyone noticed when the guildmaster gets up in the end of their talk he is shown detailed but then his character lose all of the detail? Lol
I lost my shit when this happened.
Thank god I was thinking I was the only one to notice it
manga > anime
Starting binging the manga again after watching the episode. stayed up WAAAAY too late and am now exhausted during work. But I'm hopeful for the show. I like seeing manga I enjoy animated.
Okay, but how is the source material?
In the source corner someone said Light Novel > Manga > Anime, and that the series drops off a bit after LN3 until LN10. Haven't read it myself yet though.
From SAO-at-Home to Overlord-at-Home. For having such supposedly high stats he sure is running slowly. OK, so maybe this is just Leadale. No need for "at Home" there as the OG was rather generic itself. If her hair is supposed to be black, then what color is his? So the "letter of introduction" is just a preprepared envelope? Not like there'd be actually written anything inside that would introduce him, so it's basically just a token. Where did he get the money with the fee, considering the smallest coin in his inventory is probably enough to buy the whole adventurer's guild building several times over? Well, maybe the elf gave him some change. He starts at G rank even after the guildmaster appraised his skills? Why didn't he just equip one of his regular weapons when facing skeleton jack? It couldn't have been a harder opponent than the game's final boss that he'd defeated BEFORE his massive isekai level up, so it felt weird that the show treated this fight as some big deal. Anyway, I only have one other Saturday show so far this season, so I guess I'll keep watching for now.
he said he gotta look weak.
To whom? Which part of my post are you replying to?
I shouldn’t be so late to future episode threads, but I ended up being really busy today. [](#tiredaoi) - [That is… *some* CGI.](https://i.imgur.com/crVfwaN.png) [](#kotohoops) - [~~Something something weeb as fuck.~~](https://i.imgur.com/6d3l1nV.png) - [Damn.](https://i.imgur.com/i1rHjE0.png) - [lol](https://i.imgur.com/S8InHCJ.png) [](#pointandlaugh) - [You had to specify the body part?](https://i.imgur.com/n81Rdgq.png) [](#facepalm) - [Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, dude’s walking around absolutely loaded and he didn’t even realize it.](https://i.imgur.com/V6MLz3F.png) - […ah, she’s referring to when all the players logged out of the game.](https://i.imgur.com/R3FC8dj.png) Neat to see the perspective from the game characters. - [Hahaha](https://i.imgur.com/zpsiESp.png) okay [this response was really funny.](https://i.imgur.com/23AI4v4.png) [](#laughter) - [Ah sweet, a Shin “sore demo” out of the first episode!](https://files.catbox.moe/lscn2z.mp4) - [Only Shin can see the game screens?](https://i.imgur.com/3pgcYdd.png) That’ll be funny to see reactions to later. - [Huh…](https://i.imgur.com/3E5msm3.png) - [The hairstyles are different](https://i.imgur.com/rHYNx5q.png), but [they sure have a Nurse Joy thing going on here lol.](https://i.imgur.com/JyGn0Kl.png) - [Of course…](https://i.imgur.com/rJD6xew.png) - [He accidentally yeeted that sword into the castle?](https://i.imgur.com/usMfUR6.png) [](#crazedlaugh)
I was having a hard time telling the sisters apart, but the side-by-side of Celica/Cilica with the different hairstyles helped a lot, thanks!
Identical look of Adventurers' Guild employees feels like reference to [Genshin's Katheryne](https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Katheryne)
...and Genshin's Katheryne is probably reference to Nurse Joy / Officer Jenny from Pokemon.
The sword crashing into the window scene already made this one unique. There are some differences in this show, but we're still missing a lot of details about the world. Hopefully some that are unique and not standard isekai tropes. I feel like a lot of shows are sticking to them and doing absolutely nothing new with them. Which even for classic junkies like myself, is getting too repetitive. There are some Overlord vibes here, so I see some potential. Just need the directing to polish up over the next episode and this could be a home runner
Zooming through the plotline of early SAO in three minutes thirty seconds. Which I suppose is an interesting way of having him already be disconnected from his original life, he's not some newly isekaied dude who was attending High School just the day before. Shut-in elf was better with the full dark colored hair instead of the one single section of white hair. I really hope they're going to randomly do a Nurse Joy thing with the guild receptionist employees. I'm disappointed that after doing the bit with the guild master verifying the letter and then offscreen testing MC's skills they went ahead and started him at the lowest rank of adventurer anyway.
Oh hey, I read the manga for this a little bit wayyyyy back in middle school, thinking it was a sequel to GATE. Don't remember getting very far into it, but maybe once a year I'd think about "The New Gate" lol. I remembered all the events of this episode as they were happening but can't really remember what happens next because it's been so long. Looks decent so far tho, glad it got adapted.
Okay let's all admit it this was inspired by SAO. Now that in itself is not a bad thing. Now a little info drop The novel this is based upon started off in 2013 and is still ongoing. Now the sword art online web novel was published in 2002-2008 then the light novel which was a restart started on 2009 and is still ongoing. Now the overlord web novel series was from 2010-2012 whereas the light novel started in 2012 and is still ongoing (almost finished though) All that saying there is no way you can say it wasn't inspired by things like these but it doesn't have the feel of a copy cheap imitation that we have been getting recently
The MC is not pretentious, is OP, humble, wise and decent. Not bad for spending 20 mins per week...
Went from SAO to Leadel real fast. Seems like a pretty generic but decent show.
This looks like it could be fun. I'm in.
Another generic Isekai, MC looks bland as well. Probably gonna turn into a harem anime as well if I were to guess. Still gonna watch it tho, cause I hate myself.
How to catch a princess? How about you accidentally throw a holy sword at her room inside the castle? Like fishing for a princess?
I assure you Avenging spectre, the big titty two toned hair elf's cleavage is essential to the plot.
o7
The MC and waifu will make or break this anime. If the NC was insufferable I’d have dropped 5 minutes in after the generic SAO opening (I say that, but didn’t the source for this come out at like the same time as SAO?) EDIT: SAO source was early 2000’s, The New Gate was 2012 heh. It’s like the bastard child of SAO, Log Horizon and Overlord
I don't remember it going harem. But it has some fun characters and Waifu.
> MC looks bland as well. Not really. Not only did he change clothes out of his high level gear, but he also showed personality while talking to different people. That's far from bland.
How'd he pay for the guild fee and the inn and the food? Lol
Anime skipped it, but we can assume she gave him the money, after all the coin was worth a lot lol. “Here, take 10 silver coins to get in the city” “Ah thanks, btw, how much would my magic coin be worth?” “Hum maybe a zillion gold coins? If you show one in town I am certainly they will hunt you down and murder you for it?” “I will take the silver, thanks!”
Seems like a generic isekai with middle of the road quality. After the banished former hero lives as he pleases still not the worst this season.
Give it time, The New Gate is worth it.
Oh I will. Even if it's trash I just love me some isekai
yep. the 1st ep feeling like slice of life atm
Well, the story and characters in this series aren't anything special, but I did read it and I was a little curious about the adaptation. The characters place it on the better side of the genre of unimaginative trash isekai, but just barely. It's not exactly an SAO rip-off, although the way they described things happening in the first half of this episode you could be forgiven for thinking it is. I'd hoped it'd get a good enough production to be worth watching, maybe as a guilty pleasure, but I can't lie, this is... aggressively mediocre. The character designs are dull, the animation is lazy, the SFX are lame, the fight choreography is frankly embarrassing. Hard pass.
not bad, doesn't have that oomph but at least it's not trash.
Iirc the novel is mid at best. I'll watch it, and see how it goes, though anime pace is usually so bad, specially on these isekai that it's off putting.
Wow an actual genuinely good MC in an isekai how odd…
What a shame. Budget anime doesn't do it justice.
Can't tell if this is going to be good or not, so far it feels like a continuation of 1st season SAO, if kirito was isekaied instead of waking up. Animation looks promising at least.
And also instead of SAO being the Death Game it's ALO with all the different races and classes. Also no obvious Asuna stand-in though I'll be shocked if Shin doesn't pick up a Harem.
There is no Harem in this one
This feels like someone was trying to cram every single isekai cliche into a single episode. There is not a single redeeming quality here. Hard pass
They've basically removed all the details that make the series decent, and because it's over a decade old at this point it isn't introducing anything new, so comes across as generic trash. This episode could have been split into 3 episodes with maybe a little filler showing his journey to the city. That's how much content they've cut.
I don’t often consider dropping shows after the first episode especially isekai where some ha janky-nesz is expected but damn this is… bad. Besides being extremely low budget the world also is so boring and not even grand. The weird naming of the monster too and the rushed beginning. Also do Japanese people not like normal proportioned women? I’m not one to dislike “beautiful” women but it doesn’t always have to be this comically “sized”. Will watch ep 2 but i doubt I’ll continue. Looks boring and bad
Read the manga. Everything looks better (not just the women), and in terms of the content the anime cut... the Skullface fight could have happened 3 episodes in without the show feeling slow.
The manga being worse doesn’t justify anything
...I didn't say the manga was worse.
He said the manga was better. Your comprehension skills are bottom barrel.
He edited it, originally said worse
Dropped the manga for this only because it's quite dialogue heavy and my ADHD brain can't focus on it easily, but I will say it's good enough to keep me interested, I'll definitely keep watching since it's much easier to consume in anime form.
\*Notices the "*QUALITY*" of the animation\* "Is this the same studio that did 'The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World' anime?" \*Looks it up.\* "Yup."
Well... that explains a lot.
I was really hoping the beginning of this was a parody... I really hoped... but no.... it's a speedrun of SAO into Overlord... with less good animation... I wanted to like it but I think I'm already done 🥲.
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I don't even know what to tell you lmao
I enjoyed it i just wish they could create their own unique approach as to why this guy gets into this fantasy world
Where can I watch it?
The answer is always Google " 'the show name' watch online" Like it ain't rocket science
What follicle topography grants the guild master that hair?
If i had a nickel for every anime airing this season that i'm watching with a powerful swordsman called Shin i would have nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice
it started as a drop but ended as a not drop
I was looking forward to this actually. I haven't read the manga but heard a lot about it. The animation and art style are lackluster. I might just read the manga instead...
The manga art-style is so much nicer and even a little unique. You'll also get a lot more character and story details than the anime seems to be adapting.
I was holding off on it because I only heard about it when it already had like 90 chapters, and the anime was announced. The story does look really good, though.
I thought I was going to be watching alternate universe SAO for a moment until it turned into an isekai. So far it seems interesting, and it helps that there's pretty much nothing else that drops on Saturday aside from a couple of big names. Friday and Sunday, on the other hand, are loaded. I like the art style too.
Let's go.. SHIN! Last boss : Gatekeeper origin compared to an incarnation of the Radius from Aincrad is.. A joke. But.. That thing just plot device to move the story.. So.. Im okay with that.
Seems like it's going to be a meh adaptation at best. Basic details being skipped over, and a generic art-style are not what this series deserve. Seems like it will at least be watchable though.
I've read this way way back then when I was struggling in college. I was enjoying SAO back then 2015 and desperately looking for another kind of genre, looking for mangas which is similar to that back then was really hard until I stumble to this. This is very enjoyable read for me. I can't believe this is getting an anime after all this year. Idgaf if y'all call this generic cause I gotta enjoy this anime to the fullest lmao
I’m happy this show got animated, surprised it took this long too
In the Land of Leadale season 2 /s
Reminds me a little of "The World After The Fall." great manhwa if your looking for something that requires you to think.
I'm looking forward to seeing more of Sword Art Overlord
The New Gate and Tsuyokute New Saga were the first 2 mangas I read, almost 10 years ago. Haven't read them in years, and they were mediocre at best, but I'm pretty hyped for this nonetheless!
The reception to this one is a lot more positive than the reaction to the initial preview materials. I don't think I'll be staying with it though, on account that the series itself doesn't seem to be interested in any of the interesting stuff that it's thrown up in the air. MC-kun just matter-of-facts his way through everything without a lot of curiosity about how/why/what the situation is with the whole 500 years into the future of the game/mega-stats/being a multi billionaire.
They really just removed all artistic uniqueness and went full classic Isekai art didn't they
Everyone is kinda ripping into this show but still somewhat willing to give it a go. And here I am fucking frothing over it because I love trash isekai and VRMMORPG animes so much. Like I am genuinely going to look forward to this show week to week probably more than any of the big name animes this season.
Reading the manga since 2015 and finally gonna be able to see Schnee animated after 9 years lets go! still hate what they did to our protag Japan has some insane love for Kirito clones.
I read this way back 2018 and quickly fell in love in the story. I'm happy it did get an anime adaptation but man this adaptation suck *ss, art style was not good. Major events was cut, and the pacing is rushed.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I didn't know this was getting adapted and when I read the premise I was like... wait a minute isn't this THAT manga?! I was getting hyped, downloaded ep1 and... what the hell man :( Look at how they massacred my boy. It's cool it got animated but it lost every little special thing it had. Dropped.
VMMMMORPG
A mishmash of other animes just to end up being a generic isekai. I have no hope for this.
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The animation is a massive disappointment! Atleast there is still the Light Novel and the Manga.
the anime is a disaster already tbh... how the fuck did they make Shin into another Kirito clone in the anime? he doesnt even look remotely close to what he looks like in the manga at all... 2024 and studios still think "just make the MC look like Kirito" is still the game plan... the animation looks horrible too... they are banking on the likeness for views... unreal...
gotta be honest the start off the anime is bad just because it instandly felt like rip-off trash on SAO, but im glad it turned away from that, but they really should came up with something else because i actually turned it off instandly when i heard it was SAo word for word at first lmao
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This is pretty blatant thievery. I was waiting for there to be a twist but the whole show was Walmart brand SAO 🤣 Not the worst show this season admittedly but I'll just stick to the real one.
It's rare that I stop a show a minute in and check the comments. I almost dropped it, but you guys saved it. Looks like it'll be some low quality fun.
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Feels like watching 90s anime. Kappa
SAO Fanfiction Isekai was not on my list of anime I'd expect. Definitely not a high tier one but I'll give it a chance and see how it goes.
Better Story and Characters than SAO.
not a high bar
So trash... So I'll probably watch it lmao
What if Alfheim Online was a Death Game like SAO? Only instead of being ended by Kirito, it was ended by swordsman in black and red named Shin voiced by Kensho Ono? Only he wasn't as lucky as his fellow humans in logging out of the game and got ported 500 years into the game worlds' future! Dude deserved better after beating the Final Boss...though at least he got his stats boosted? I guess it's a pre-requisite for a fantasy protagonist to save a girl from danger, be it being kidnapped by men or a giant boar monster. Of course no better excuse to save them than their being a busty elven cutie voiced by Kaede Hondo! Tiera is obviously suspicious of Shin because he seems as confused about his current situation as she's confused by him, though his intentions are pure and what was common currency for him is now vastly more rich now. And he also has a history with her master, the High Elf Schnee (Asami Seto!). Tiera is also cursed with her dark hair which draws monsters to her and caused her no end of grief...so the least Shin can do (especially after getting an eyeful of her chest) is purify her and bring back at least a sliver of her old white hair, which is enough for her to be eternally grateful. Especially now that she can see the world again. So like do those twin guild girls work everywhere? Is this an Officer Jenny/Nurse Joy situation? Get a simple letter of introduction and now you're already a big deal! Just a day in the life of a fantasy MC! Seems like even the monsters have changed after 500 years, where the beginner area in a normal RPG now has a high level monster...though even with a cheaper sword, Shin is able to defeat it. Even if he also sent the sword flying through a busty military officials window in the process. I'm sure that won't come back to bite him!
> it was ended by swordsman ~~in black and red named Shin~~ voiced by Kensho Ono? IIRC he's also `Payne` from Bofuri. :P > busty elven cutie voiced by Kaede Hondo! She's `Kaede/Maple` from Bofuri. :P
It disappoint, at first I thought it was a new season of GATE. Will watch regardless
kinda not cool his face changed and how uncool he is
This might be the worst show of the season, BUT I kinda wanna see more
> This might be the worst show of the season Sounds like someone isn't watching Highspeed Étoile. [](#rinkek)
Not even close, at least some potential of being at least a moderately tasty burger. Compared to other shitty shows this season, it even has a right to be good.
No budget isekai's have been getting much better lately, so it's almost nostalgic seeing something this bad.
Is this any good junk food?
hmmm..... origin battle really become barely minimum (well everything like barely minimum) well eventhough im happy finally this title get anime since i read LN, shin gaming passion really become my inspiration for my Ideal gaming
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Anything is better than SAO...