I Parry Everything, Dahlia in Bloom, & Vtuber Legend Anime
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@pcj Oh I completely understand how it probably happened, it just still amazes me that it happened
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Vtuber legend reminds me again why as an Indie Vtuber myself, I can totally relate to the characters... Though I do find a few things annoying...
Like my Live2D model is over 3 years old now and it has more movement than they give the characters when they show them as if in 'Live 2D' (basically when they appear on stream). Heck, I don't even use an Iphone (I use Nvidia PC face tracking) and I get more expression than they use when in 'Live 2D mode'.
@Outinthegardener said in I Parry Everything, Dahlia in Bloom, & Vtuber Legend Anime:
- The Vtubers/Voice Actors always appear as their Avatars, not in regular clothing.
This is actually something I expect in a Japanese anime related to vtubers... And something I find annoying. In Japan vtubers aren't meant to show their real selves, though outside Japan in the Indie space in particular 'RL vs Vtuber' is a common thing and many stream as both. I'd actually like to see them look the same, but dress in more casual clothes when their 'real' selves. In fact they go a step further and avoid even mentioning iRL names which the LN didn't shy away from.
- Awayuki is questioning her personal sense of value as a Vtuber. Is her drunken Shuwa-chan state more valuable than her pure state? Which state is closer to her authentic self? If her authentic self isn't what sells, is it valuable to be authentic?
In Vtubing (& all content creation really) there is an actual term for peoples self doubts (which I'm totally blanking on as I write this). So it's very relatable.
- Is the mask of performance any less exploitative than the black company she previously worked for?
Depends... This feels like it's meant to be a bit like Cover Corp/Hololive which isn't that bad (these days anyway)... Though the other big Japanese Vtuber agency AnyColor/Nijisanji is widely seen as being a Black Company these days (it's nicknamed 'kurosanji' in the community). Though that's mostly from when they fired Selen/Dokibird earlier this year and a lot of stuff about how they treat their vtubers came out...
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@NakamiJun are you perhaps thinking of Imposter Syndrome? Or is it a term I'm not familiar with?
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@PuckGoodfellow00-0 Yes, that was what I was trying to think of. My brain is a bit mushy post-stream and I couldn't get my brain to spit up the term. xD
I'm sure some egotists don't get it... But 90% of us tend to. Combined with the ups and downs of things like the youtube algorithm and Twitch metas it really leaves you feeling uncertain about everything. xD
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@NakamiJun said in I Parry Everything, Dahlia in Bloom, & Vtuber Legend Anime:
@PuckGoodfellow00-0 Yes, that was what I was trying to think of. My brain is a bit mushy post-stream and I couldn't get my brain to spit up the term. xD
I'm sure some egotists don't get it... But 90% of us tend to. Combined with the ups and downs of things like the youtube algorithm and Twitch metas it really leaves you feeling uncertain about everything. xD
I've been writing blogs for years, and started writing fiction last year. I'm still really reluctant to call myself a writer (personal reasons). One thing that helps me out is Neil Gaiman's Neil Story. (I'm aware of the recent allegations about Gaiman. I'd prefer this to not turn into a debate though.)
I've still got to check Vtuber Legend out. I started the first book since it's on Catch-up, but I've been too busy with other things to get very far yet. I'm also waiting for the dub before I start the Anime. Although I've been watching I Parry Everything and Dahlia in Bloom (no dubs announced for them yet).
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@Lily-Garden said in I Parry Everything, Dahlia in Bloom, & Vtuber Legend Anime:
@pcj Oh I completely understand how it probably happened, it just still amazes me that it happened
It probably helps that Bennet Foddy is a real human you can just ask and not a corporation with legal and IP departments.
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So uh... I Parry Everything episode 3 is out... It's as cringy as I recall form the LN... Literally everyone talks passed each other having completely different understandings of the same events.
MC is amazed by their high level skills, they are amazed by his simple abilities... Neither sees eye to eye because they don't tell each other what they are thinking. x.x
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@NakamiJun ok I will stay as not watching this. I did pick up VTuber's after the comments in this thread though.
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@NakamiJun to be fair the novels came out like 3 years ago so I suppose they are trying to imitate the style of like ... Hololive 1.0 live2d models.
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@NakamiJun said in I Parry Everything, Dahlia in Bloom, & Vtuber Legend Anime:
So uh... I Parry Everything episode 3 is out... It's as cringy as I recall form the LN... Literally everyone talks passed each other having completely different understandings of the same events.
Yeah, the only reason I'm still watching it is because I have read the novels and I know it gets better. But those first 2 novels were really hard to get through, and of course the anime is adapting them all.... So much cringe.
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DH is watching Dahlia with me (he never read the LN), and was noticing that after she dies in Japan, Dahlia doesn't seem to show her isekai-ness. In the LN we get internal monologue about "that would have cost ¥x" and occasional "we have/could make Y in Japan" sort of thing, but in the anime with no internal monologue the isekai flavouring seems to be gone... other than the great resemblance of the hair dryer to modern hair dryers...?
Reading Bookworm, Bibliophile, and Dahlia. Also, Girl Genius, xkcd, Witch Hat, Harpy Gee, and Suitor Armor. Looking for suggestions.
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@arghc She does take inspiration from Earth tech in many of her inventions. Hairdryers, etc. But she also adapts it to magical tool tech. It's less about "superior Nippon everything" and more about Dahlia's character. She loves magical tool creation, which she learned from Carlo.
I guess it's more subdued. Less "Modern world instantly overpowers primitive isekai" and more "growing into yourself in the isekai." Which rules, tbh.
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Dahlia episode 3 is out!
It's pretty depressing though as it involves her fiancé betraying her for that receptionist girl. They also shorten up a good bit of it, so it fits into a single episode. I'd have liked a bit more of the reaction from those she knows, though we do get to see a bit of Irma and Lucia!
Also at the end we meet Volf (or 'Wolf' as the translation I saw calls him). But um... He doesn't really look like he does in the book...? He's not all that pretty of a guy and (to me) comes off very... um... normal...? Volf is meant to be a total Bishonen hottie that gets some much wild attention from girls that he reacts poorly on meeting women... I just can't see the guy in the anime being that at all... o.0
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@NakamiJun said in I Parry Everything, Dahlia in Bloom, & Vtuber Legend Anime:
Dahlia episode 3 is out!
It's pretty depressing though as it involves her fiancé betraying her for that receptionist girl. They also shorten up a good bit of it, so it fits into a single episode. I'd have liked a bit more of the reaction from those she knows, though we do get to see a bit of Irma and Lucia!
I’m hoping to get their reactions when we meet them next episode with the setting up the company, since those people are the guarantors. Those next episode might be only the crafting and the one after may be the company formation.
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@sorvani Since the next episode is entitled 'meeting with a knight' (roughly), I expect it will focus on the food Dahlia makes for Volf, events on their return, and then them meeting again while she's out in the city...
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@NakamiJun I guess he's as hot as every other anime guy, making him generic normal? It depends on how hot the fan-service in his portrayal gets. Will there be a sexy shirt-off moment when he washes the blood off in the river, or something?
I do think that the character animation and movement is good, not outstanding. They feel a bit stiff. But the background paintings are excellent, and the dialogue is excellent. I hope we get some Sasuga for the key moments!
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I'm enjoying all three. Anime's and light novels. My kind of silly on two of them and Dahlia is nicely complex and a pleasant slow burn.
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@NakamiJun said in I Parry Everything, Dahlia in Bloom, & Vtuber Legend Anime:
He's not all that pretty of a guy and (to me) comes off very... um... normal...?
Keep in mind that he's wearing his armor and covered in blood. I recall him being described as looking pretty horrible when she first met him in the novel. We'll have to see how he cleans up next week before making the call that the anime isn't making him look pretty enough.
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Vtuber Legend episode 3 is out now! Much comedy ensues! Meeting her genmate and getting a new mic, sleepover and collab stream, monetization stream... Oh and StroZero outfit!
@admin said in I Parry Everything, Dahlia in Bloom, & Vtuber Legend Anime:
@NakamiJun to be fair the novels came out like 3 years ago so I suppose they are trying to imitate the style of like ... Hololive 1.0 live2d models.
I can kinda get that... But... It seems weird to show how vtubers were and not embrace how they are... Heck my model is over 3 years old and looks better than their corporate vtuber look. xD
Though with their desire to not show the RL existence of any of the vtubers (they don't even name their RL identities while they do in the books)... I guess it helps make them more different between 'on stream' and 'RL' when they otherwise look the same...
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@Outinthegardener I don't wanna be that guy but I think you mean "sakuga".
Sasuga = "as expected of",
sakuga = "animators giving it their 110%"
