Chatterbox - Anime & Manga

Say, I've been noticing something frequently used by several isekai manga/anime that are set in fantasy worlds with RPG Mechanics 'Verse in full play: The titles that can be earned by a character can actually give a passive bonus to said character's stats and abilities (e.g. bonus damage to a specific type of attacks). Is that an actual thing in some real role-playing games, whether Western or Eastern? And what's the logic behind it, both from the Watsonian and Doylist perspective?

Edited by MarqFJA on Jul 8th 2018 at 8:30:29 PM

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I´ve seen it in a few Asian MMORPG. The benefit is usually very minor.

As for the logic, I dunno man. Someone did it first, everyone followed suit for whatever reason, and now it´s one of those "game logic" things that nobody really questions.

You know, maybe I'm thinking about it in the wrong way, Watsonian-wise. Maybe instead of the title conferring a benefit, it's that the title is being granted in recognition of a trait that the character has exhibited; for example, a character that manages to luck out in the RNG rolls for surviving the experience of eating poisonous food multiple times can be said to exhibit an unusual resilience to poison, making the character worthy of a title like "Poison Consumer" (with the gameplay effect being, of course, improved resistance to poison and similar conditions). In other words, we are to assume that succeeding those RNG rolls to the point of earning a title with such gameplay-relevant benefits is supposed to represent that the character had been in possession those traits all along, and it's just that they're being made "tangible" for us players now.

Am I making sense?

PS: In at least one case, the effect of the titles typically does start as a very minor benefit... but the titles themselves can be levelled up by repeating the same thing that led to acquiring it until you hit the requisite XP limit.

Edited by MarqFJA on Jul 8th 2018 at 8:40:26 PM

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Apparently there will be a couple of new Strike Witches anime released in a couple of years.

Strike Witches: Road to Berlin will be out in 2020 while 2021 will see Ongakutai Witches (Idol Witches) released that: "centers on a unique squadron of "Witches who don't fight." Instead, the squadron sing and perform music to protect the smiles of those who have been driven out of their hometowns by the Neuroi". An idol group based on the new franchise will debut in 2019.

Okay, I think idol animes have officially gone too far. There'd better be some serious yuri, otherwise that sounds like a kinda pointless show.

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Damn! Just how many Fairy Tail spin-offs r we getting!?!?

And another Strike Witches anime has been announced (can you tell it has been the 10 year anniversary of the series), an adaption of the Strike Witches 501 Butai Hasshinshimasu! manga a series following the everyday lives of the members of the 501st unit, as they cook and clean and do other everyday tasks when there's a lull in the Neuroi attacks.

Considering many of the best episodes of the series were twists on that I am quite hopeful it will turn out pretty decent.

I am rather shocked to see new Strike Witches stuff after Brave Witches pretty much hit the wall but I guess it’s the old unit this time instead of Expies.

Yuuna and the Cursed Hot Springs anime is enroaching like a poisonous fog.

Is it a safe bet to say this will strike gold with the horny degenerate crowd? It's a by the numbers harem story with good art, the hero is the bestest at literally everything, it covers its bases with girl archetypes throroughly and the fanservice is cranked up a notch or 7 from the shonen norm so I feel no reservations puttong my chips on this horse.

Won't be as good...Ok won't be as enjoyable as the manga though because anime censorship. The manga often devolves into basically being hentai and that's the only reason I bother with it (no shame).

Edited by mrsunshinesprinkles on Jul 10th 2018 at 10:42:35 PM

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So, I finished watching episode 7 of Golden Kamuy. That was a really good episode. I really like the developing relationship between Shiraishi, Asirpa, and Sugimoto. I also like the fact that Retar has a family.

Edited by pointless233 on Jul 12th 2018 at 6:17:14 AM

So I just finished Kill la Kill. Goddamn, what a ride. I'd previously sort-of dropped TTGL since the episodic format of the first few episodes didn't grab me (sure as hell gonna take it back up now, though), but KLK kept me hooked all the way through. I was pretty much constantly entertained, and the OVA epilogue was a pretty nice sendoff.

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Yeah, Kill la Kill I think is an alright Trigger show. Mind you, that’s the only one I’ve watched besides Darling

KLK is an experience. I feel winded afterward.

TTGL does get a main plot not too long in. Personally I think it's thematically stronger than KLK, but I'm a bit biased because I originally saw TTGL when I was most liable to enjoy it. By the time KLK came out I was a lot more jaded so it didn't resonate with me the same way.

Edited by Draghinazzo on Jul 13th 2018 at 12:03:37 PM

Personally I watched KLK before TTGL and liked GL better. But I guess that's just me.

It’s probably a lot of people. More coherent themes, more coherent character arcs, and the second half isn’t largely bound around an extended incestuous rape subplot.

What's precedent ever done for us?

Unless you count the Anti Spiral to be related to Nia by proxy in lagann-hen...

Watch Symphogear

I wouldn’t subscribe much depth to Kill la Kill. Never watched TTGL

I’m just entertained by the show

KLK and TTGL are coherent?! On the other hand...... maybe I am wrong about that.

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TTGL was insane but had a pretty solid plotline throughout. KLK... I'm not so sure.

More solid than Darling heyoooooo

Sorry. Kill la Kill is not that hard to follow with a more clearer idea on what it wants to say.

Darling has a more troubled production so maybe that’s why things may have felt disjointed

I’d say that Darling actually had a more coherent (if unpleasant) message. Kill-la-Kill pokes at various morals, but the only one that sort of sticks is ‘irrationality is good’.

What's precedent ever done for us?

Darling went off the rails due to Trigger having to take a more hands off approach and cloverworks at a-1 took over more because Trigger disagreed with the messages that Atsushi Niigori was trying to convey with the show (the eerily Heteronormative Crusader esque ideas were written 10 years ago by him).

Watch Symphogear

Pretty sure that’s an unfounded internet rumour. Episode credits show Trigger personnel playing a part all the way to the end, with a small pullout later on as they began to move staff onto Promare. Plus, they never had much involvement in the writing process (again, nobody ever seems to read the credits), so the only meaningful effect was that the action scenes degraded in quality a bit.

What's precedent ever done for us?

"Time waits for no one."

(Studio Chizu, the personal studio of Mamoru Hosoda, has recently launched a countdown website themed around Hosoda's anime film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. What it means is anyone's guess, but the countdown ends on July 18th at 12:00 p.m. JST, or if you're in the eastern side of the world, July 17th at 11:00 p.m. EDT, so we won't have to wait long to see what happens.)

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Jul 17th 2018 at 5:01:33 AM