Well, the anime was announced in 2020, so that's why it's so damn out-of-place.
The anime was announced in 2019. The LN also won top spot in the BookWalker 2018 "Next Big Hit" poll, which was a poll for series whose first volume was just published a year prior.
The anime was announced in 2019. The LN also won top spot in the BookWalker 2018 "Next Big Hit" poll, which was a poll for series whose first volume was just published a year prior.
Well, let's see how long it will be able to air on free TV. Since it took 3 weeks for Japanese to took down the much more tamer Interspecies Reviewers.
Well, let's see how long it will be able to air on free TV. Since it took 3 weeks for Japanese to took down the much more tamer Interspecies Reviewers.
You have a problem with revenge rape? Maybe the problem with Interspecies Reviewers was more the prostitution than the sex. Wonder which is worse, paid sex or forced sex?
Jokes aside, the anime seems to excessive to me, I don't really like the theme. And with the amount of sex an all, it could be a hentai work and keep the same story.
Yeah, sometimes I look at some of these light novels and wonder why the author didn't just make straight up porn.
Well, we can understand part of the equation. They push the content to the limits so they can still sell to the teenage market, getting a wider range for sales.
It's not like this series started out as a LN, the series started out as a web novel first (like a bunch of other series nowadays). It'd have been the publishers that decided who they could market it to.
Well, we can understand part of the equation. They push the content to the limits so they can still sell to the teenage market, getting a wider range for sales.
Well, I wonder what's the definition of "wider" customer base? The anime is straight up censored hentai being aired on free TV. Even thought there's countless amount of hentai and doujinshi with rape content, it's at least restricted to a specific sites and saw somewhat limited distribution, unlike this mess. It's no surprise that many people find it offensive, since it's on the place they are not supposed to be, and on top of that, it tried to "glorifying" the decision of the MC to rape the villian that it's totally justified to rape a woman you don't like.
There's some example of these "softcore erotica" anime with sexual themes in mind being aired on free TV (Masou Gakuen H x H, or Interspecies Reviewers, to name a few), the main difference is that although H x H is rather mediocre-to-terrible anime overall, it doesn't use forced sex as "fanservices", or the much debated Interspecies Reviewers that, although covered the topic of prostitution (which itself is pretty divided topic), it does at least does not treat women like the MC's sex doll or featuring a super edgelord, extremely unlikeable Kazuma doppelganger.
I'm surprised that the outcry wasn't made since the announcement of the adaptation, but you can see why even some of the most hardcore anime fans find it offensive.
It's not like this series started out as a LN, the series started out as a web novel first (like a bunch of other series nowadays). It'd have been the publishers that decided who they could market it to.
Important to note that it was also banned on the web novel site for this theme.
I agree the story is just your average rape fantasy that like Goblin Slayer, just capitalizes on the "controversial" nature of otherwise tropes that already has been overdone to death in doujins and hentais for easy publicity for the surface market who are still easily shocked by these tropes. Otherwise it doesn't really have any unique ideas or messages it wants to say and is an even worse version of your average power fantasy.
Well, I wonder what's the definition of "wider" customer base?
I dunno how it works for the anime, but a porn novel can only be sold to adults, while a light novel can be sold to teens. There is a wider market when you add the teen market.
Nonetheless, it's a work in bad taste, I don't really understand how a rape power fantasy was even published.
