Is this show any good or is it just more soulless chinkslop?
Not anime or manga
>>283231377pretentious try hard garbage made for low iq posser ass zoomoids
>>283231436where tf am i gonna ask about this bro, /co/? nah
Pacing wise is just crazy. Animation / music / lore is good.The novel has like 100 secret orgs and societies, a football team of gods, 9 levels of superpowers for 22 pathways, sealed artifacts, charms, other magic items with pros and cons. It is just crazy that they attempted to fit the 1st volume into 13 episodes.
>>283231377Rather than soulless, you might need high IQ to actually understand it, otherwise it's good to watchAt least the first half is much better than TBHX
>>283231377if you enjoy classroom of the elite you will enjoy this
>>283231550>It is just crazy that they attempted to fit the 1st volume into 13 episodes.Did they cut a lot/rush the pacing? Is it better to just read the source novel then?
>>283231377Read the novel.
>>283231648Not necessarily. Personally I was filtered hard by the writing style, despite reading several danmei before. Hated it, but I found the show fun and engaging.Honestly the anime is an illustrative, animated companion of the novel more than an adaptation. Zero care was put into synthetizing plot points or easing secondaries into the dense ass story, and especially not secondaries who have never engaged with chinese media and its tropes before. You can still enjoy it if you don't mind not understanding everything you see though. Just enjoy the vibes, understanding will come after a while. Or not, of so just ask around after you're done watching.
>>283231648They didn't cut much because the 1st volume is the weakest. The novel takes a lot of time to explain everything and this cannot be done inside 30' of animation.The novel is very good if you like fantasy.
>>283231377The show is good, but the webnovel is amazing. Be careful of spoilers because everything (any mystery) can be pretty impactful for plot twists and similar
>>283231659Who is this
>>283231377Its fun outside how much genderbending there is, does the vampire get gb'd in the sequel?
>>283231585I enjoy CotE for the SakuraXAyanokoji and the occasional Kushida would you still recommend this
>>283231436fpbp
>>283231550Just because there's a lot of them doesn't mean that they're any good or add anything to the story.If anything it feels like it's a copout where every new adversary is part of some new secret society. Like sure thing bud, knock yourself out.
>>283231377Good animation and music, the plot is kinda good too but everything happens incredibly fast.Heard that the novel is much slower with more emphasis on the mysteries than fighting, at least in the 1st season and the coming 2nd one.Would love some more explanation on the powers tho's, the extra mini-episodes were kinda shit with how it infodumped you so much in like 3 minutes.
>>283231377Isn't this a webnovel? I'm poor, should I try to write a hit webnovel
>>283231377Fujotranny slop
>>283233940No, he made the comparison because the main character is smart
(requires thinking)
I thought the animation was good enough,but as a novelfag I was disappointed at the reveal at the end, I thought they botched it.That said they did a good enough job hitting the other story moments and the things they chinged were fine.On the whole it was a good animation and a good adaptation.Maybe a it's too much at once for people who haven't read the books, but I can't judge.
>>283235191Why not? Anyone can do it and there are some stories that get fewer than 50 chapters written that get picked up for adaptation.
>>283235191trying is free
>>283233364I don't think Emlyn is mentioned in the sequel.But if he is, he hasn't become a girl. I'd remember that.
>>283235191Do people even read webnovels originally written in english?
>>283237216I'm not sure if Shadow Slave is in English initially or Russian, but I read that.
>>283236955Also a novelfag, I actually think they did the reveal at the end quite well assuming you're talking about InceReally yeah, the pacing is breakneck and it IS good, it's just too much crammed into 13 episodes, which is why they caved and let season 2 have 30 episodes, though frankly I'm not entirely sold on that being a good idea either. Season 1 really needed 25ish episodes.
>>283237285It puzzles me why Tencent can greenlight 5 seasons at one go but not 25 episodes for one season to adapt it properly
>>283237318I think it's because there's a difference between promising 5 seasons and actually paying upfront for 24 episodes.One you can easily flake on if interest dies out...
>>283237285I'm glad they're giving S2 more space.Yea, I meant Ince, to me that sequence is all about the back and forth of telling the story and then crossing out the text and having to change it because Klein fucked it up.I though that it did a fine job of presenting the hidden current, but not of that plan-redaction dynamic which left a strong impression on me in the book.It could be an issue of me not understanding chinese and not being able to pick up the intonation and dramatic representation.I tried to look for an english version of the sequence, but my cursory search came up with nothing.
>>283237379>spoilerfair critique, I feel the anime reveal itself introduced a different element that was well implemented in Klein's genuine surprise and bewilderment at Ince showing up and killing him. The look of pure shock on his face when he drops dead was really good, which felt like what a lot of anons who had trouble following would have felt at that point as well. The lead up was also pretty good.I do for the most part agree with your critique though, I just found something anime-original to be impressed by, i suppose.
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>>283237216>Go to webnovel>All those ai coversAt least try to hide it by adding some extra effect or something holy shit
>>283231377It's like watching Eminence in Shadow. Expect the MC is background character unironically.
>>283237484This wouldve improved tEiS tremendously
>>283237426I was especially happy with the loss of control episode.They got the emotional stuff right across the board.
>>283235191Yeah why not, check out >>>/lit/wng for a bucket of crabs
>>283237216You can pay artist to read and make fanarts of your work, that's how web novel gets popular in china
>>283231377I enjoyed the animation.The music was cool, a bit over the top sometimes, sometimes it seemed straight out ripped from skyrim or bloodborne lol.Story is hard to grapple I believe, you can't watch it like a brainless zombie and then get annoyed that you didn't understand it. If understanding is even possible at this point.The "magic system" is cool and dare I say creative. But they got a few fine details wrong I think, like the fool card being numba 1. It's 0.Anyway, I had more motivation to watch this than isekai slop #112123213213213
>>283237984The fool card is 0. It's just that in Loenese numerals 0 looks like our 1. Or rather it's the numeral for 10 with nothing in the tens place.https://lordofthemysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Languages?file=Loen_Language.png
>>283231788>1st volume is the weakestThe Detective arc is the shitiest. None of you faggots can even articulate why the 1st volume is worst beyond some vague notion of it being slow. Fuck you.
>>283238788Vol 2 has Sharon, so there's no way it's the weakest.
>>283239243>simping in broad daylightAwful.
>>283231377It's so deep that those working on it need to pass exams on the worldbuilding
>>283231377kino
>>283231377It's genuinely good but a bit too fast. At least the seasons from now on will be longer.
How the fuck will they animate The Fool's Gambit?
>>283231377>>283231377Arc 1 in the novel was good, but they sloppified season 1 so you won't get anything unless you read the story. >Is it just more soulless chink slopTurns into that after the first arc. The author seems to just gave up and go through the chink cultivation progression and all the tropes that comes along with under the Victorian coat of paint. Good guys inexplicably wins because a Deus ex machina descends down to wipe his ass whenever he soils himself Meanwhile the story progression becomes>Klein runs into plot>Because I'm so smart, I can predict he will betray me/I will be ambushed/attacked/need persuading so I better be ready!>Because he is so smart and had anticipated the betrayal/attack/right words, Klein survives while every else fails or dies>And when they don't, the author uses it as an opportunity to aurafarm Klein with how awesome he is through the point of view of side characters.>Also he gets to see where the fool tarot card is right after bypassing a deathtrap despite being half a dozen sequence below the ones who's casting it and clearly knows he's there because as this point who gives a shit anymore, might as well squeeze it inI get that you need to align certain plot elements and jumble them together to get the ball rolling, but the author does this so egregiously it feels like post arc1 Klein is going through a themepark where he's the protagonist who stumbles into Intel and shit he needs whenever he needs them. The writer must've felt this too since he had to try and handwaved it with a big twist of Klein being groomed to be a god therefore all the plot contrivances are totally ok please don't look into it.
>>283231550>The novel has like 100 secret orgs and societies, a football team of gods, 9 levels of superpowers for 22 pathways, sealed artifacts, charms, other magic items with pros and cons.This would be interesting if it weren't for the fact that only one matters. Evernight Goddess is such a fucking invincible unbeatable Mary Sue that the rest might as well not exist. Obviously the weird AGP author's personal waifu, he just can't help himself.
>>283243942>a fucking invincible unbeatable Mary SueThat's __Adam__ though.
>>283243707>so you won't get anythingThat's complete horseshit. It's not about whether it's comprehensible & digestible or not, because it totally is where it matters (so you retards look retarded bringing it up as a critique), it's that the story telling is dogshit & it's DOGSHIT by not building up a single fucking thing. At no point did it lingers on something or lets it simmer. X happens and then Y happens and then Z happens. Also fuck the lore breaking fights. Haven't hated anything as much in recent time as I do this LoTM adaptation. It fucking sucks.
>>283231788It was important I think, it tried to keep down to earth the initial powers that they got, a nice contrast when they encountered the horrors and powers beyond their levels, anime made it a bit too fast and exagerated which removed the suspense with the shiny super powers.
>>283244101>Gigachad that literally loses>Invincible bitch sue that literally never losesDisingenuous
>>283244163>a bit too fast and exageratedThat's being too polite about it.
>>283231550>The novel has like 100 secret orgs and societies, a football team of gods, 9 levels of superpowers for 22 pathways, sealed artifacts, charms, other magic items with pros and cons.Why does Chinese stuff always take the fantastical and mysterious and turn it into hundreds of pages of Excel spreadsheets? It's like the story is its own wiki. It's more like doing homework than a story. It makes isekai look tame.
>>283244512What kind of person writes something like this?Most retarded drivel I've seen in a while. An actual proof that some people are born peasants.
>>283244701Imagine being so autistic you have to categorize the supernatural into "9 levels for 22 pathways" like a fucking business report. You'd start screeching watching Lord of the Rings because you don't know whether Gandalf is a 6th level theomancer on the Night Raven path while Saruman is a 9th level sonicrafter on the Shrieking Squirrel path.
>>283244927All you need to know is the author simultaneously wishes he could fuck the Evernight Goddess and BE the Evernight Goddess so she will always win. In the end, everything leads to author appeal.
>>283244927>22 pathwaysThe Master Builder, c'mon.
>>283244327>turning forcing sleep into a full blown Reality MarbleShould've known, really, chinese anime-wise really love that 2000-2010s chuuni vibes on their shows
>>283245314I've really only seen S1 of both the gay Demonic Cultivation and King's avatar, both seemed OK, for the most part. ̄\_ (ツ)_/ ̄
Can't believe I read 10000 pages of this only for it to end on a cliffhanger and be picked up by a sequel which treats the main characters as a side note
>>283245667>first series protagonist is a gamer words chud chessmaster>sequel series protagonist is a brainlet unga bunga trannywhy
>>283231648They cut daily life content, involving many of the volume 1 characters aren't featured later, and changed some plot points and the order of some things that happened. It's still the same story at the core.>>283243942I feel his self-insert/waifu is Fors. It's hard to articulate exactly why but it's one of those gut feelings I just trust.
>>283245817I wish sequel never happened. Was totally fine with the ending of the first book:>shit is grim and will get worse, but MC did wrestle for the seat of a big dick player and won, so his muppet club has the best in-universe backing & thus a chance to make something from itI mean, Klein didn't really have a goal after discovering that he didn't transmigrate, so by sacrificing himself he gave hope to others. The hope he himself got denied. Or something, idk.
>>283231469>>283231436
>>283231436lol this is 100% weeaboo trash
>>283231550Wow it's just like bleach!
>>283246089weeaboos like Japanese stuffKoreaboos like korea stuffThis Chinese >>283246074
>>283236943The Rick and Morty of anime
Finished the first series, I did really like it but it seems like its best if I wait on the second one?Ngl I'm just not a fan of mtf genderbending (the other never happens and when it does its just waved off so its whatever ig) so dealing with more of it right after finishing the first seems like a pain.
>>283246160>The Rick and Morty of animeHow?
>>283244512Every generic JP isekai is DQ. Every Japanese played DQ, they don't need to do any research on it.
>>283231377I expected soullessness but the mc actually seems to have emotions and cares about people. I enjoyed it cause I like wizard battles that feature magical fumbles like with the mirror.
>>283246164If you think trannies are the issue just wait until you learn about the west continent. Or that nobody from the good side dies in the apocalypse. CoI is a PhD in hackery.
>>283231377Watched the first episode and it looked like soulless chinkslop.
>>283237879I swear, every single place on 4chan that's dedicated to creative hobbies is a bucket of crabs, except for AI slop threads funnily enough.
>>283246501I almost dropped it after the first episode cause a lot of the animation looks like ai.
>>283246398>If you think trannies are the issue just wait until you learn about the west continent.Oh god an entire continent of mtf witches?
>>283246735Worse. It's actual cultivation slop.
>>283246804Oh damn. Yeah, guess its better to backlog it for now.
>>283231377>more soulless chinkslopthat's exactly what it isThe first episode is one of the most chinkslop things I have ever seen.They clearly had a ton of money and tried to spend a lot of it on things, but they didn't really understand why certain things were good.
>skipped 75 chapters early onlol
>>283245817Lord of the Mysteries has smart characters written stupidly.Ciel Dubois from Circle of Inevitability is a smartly written smart character. When Ciel kills a hotel room full of three people he books the room next door so he can examine it, finding which walls he can stab and shoot through, what flammable materials there are, whether there is enough space to break-dance, etc. This is a smart thing to do because Ciel is a smart person who is written by another smart person who understands how smart people think.If Detective Sherlock Moriarty from Lord of the Mysteries were to kill a hotel room full of three people. He'd enter using a secret door in the hotel he found via divination. He'd throw a mystic item infected by True Creator ravings near one guy causing him to lose control. The second person would then immediately die, as planned, as it's a "reasonable development" for the woman to be torn to shreds by the first guy who turned into a mad monster. As for the third man, why Sherlock doesn't kill him at all. It's a reAson.b!e devel0pmenT fOr tHe 3rD mAn to di3 fRom A heArt aTta--- After turning around counter-clockwise, the third man removes his disguise to reveal he actually WAS Sherlock the entire time. But Sherlock just entered through the secret door and killed two people, how can there be two of him? The first Sherlock removes his disguise to reveal that he is actually Lanevus attempting to frame the detective. Sherlock however anticipated this, the two dead people stand up, they're Sherlock's friends, Maric and Sharron, their deaths were just an act. "But Sherlock!" Lanevus cries, "The two of them looked like they clearly lost control or died, the woman even lost her head, how do you explain that?" Because I am better at using the thing behind my glabella, Sherlock inwardly Lampoons, the end.This is retarded because Sherlock is a smart person written by a stupid person to whom smart people are indistinguishable from wizards.
>>283246961>Trust the planThere is no plan, isn't there? :(
>>283247011Ok having finished COI i dont get the hate for it, the ending was a solid 8/10 and Lumian really is not that insufferable. Also the Western continent hate is overblown, its like 15 chapters to retrieve the City of Calamity and thats it, also wheel of fortune pathway beyonds remain unbeaten as jobbers
>>283245992You mean the author's self insert is, an author?
>>283249117The bon vivant author, not the godlike (demeanor) author. The one with the type of powers nerds cream themselves over too.
>>283249451>powers nerdsHolly copium... That's like distinguishing people who can do basic addition as math nerds.
>>283246941>They clearly had a ton of money and tried to spend a lot of it on thingsits literally the genshin impact of anime
>>283231377Overhyped Good novel, shit adaptation
>>283246941>spend a lot of it on things,>Gives their actual good shit like of Ravages of Time, Feng Shen Ji and Song of the Long March ugly 3DCG anywayEast Asians are all the same
His anime when?!?!?
>>283254616Best xianxia ever desu.
>>283238788Detective arc is where Klein stops acting like a little bitch
>>283255151>AIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE BODYGUARD-SAMA TASUKETE!!!!!
>>283255500>AIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE MESSENGER-SAMA TASUKETEand that doesn't change ever.
>>283254616My FUCKING hero!
>>283255151I actually liked that, him calling the cops and running away was funny.
>>283243942>>283244282So I wasn't the only one that thought this
the animation is eye cancer. swirling around for no reason doesnt make good animation or direction. its like someone watched good animation, copied it on a technical level, but no actual thought to the viewer went in so its a pain to watch.
>>283231377(show only, ignore manhua fags)it is absolute trashthe pacing and plot are absolute garbagei was hoping for intrigue and secret dimension meeting shenanigans, but its just shitty fightsthe animation is bloomblur high res textures cinematic flying through streets for no reason and it's just so obviously cgevery ep was worse than the one that came before
>>283231377The novel is sovl. The anime adaptation is total soulless dogshit that cuts important scenes in order to extend or even flat out invent anime-only fight scenes because the director wanted to turn a mystery novel into the next solo leveling for some retarded reason.
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