>Self-insert anime like SAO are bad.
>>283449051I'd insert myself in that elf if you get my meaning
>>283449051SAO inspired a lot of them, but it is not one of them.
>>283449106>>283449051I'd self insert my BIG FROG into a few of those chicks in Kusuriya if you know what I mean.
>>283449123Frieren being “inspired by SAO” is such a lazy take. SAO is a video game deathmatch with a power fantasy wrapped around tech drama. Frieren is a post-heroic road trip about grief, time, and learning how to understand people who don’t live as long as you do. They’re operating on completely different wavelengths - SAO is about surviving in an artificial world; Frieren is about existing after a real one has already ended. The only thing they share is “fantasy + magic,” which is like saying every isekai owes something to Dragon Quest. If anything, Frieren feels closer to Mushishi or Kino’s Journey than to any MMO story. Calling it “SAO-inspired” just tells on yourself for not knowing how to tell vibes apart.
>>283449051That's like saying SAO was inspired by LotR. OP is a faggot as usual.
>>283449051I want so have sex with Maomao for the purpose of procreation.
>>283449153I said "a lot of them," I didn't say Frieren.
>>283449153All of this is not really wrong but still retarded for engaging with the retarded bait premise of this thread to begin with
>>283449051>Frieren>self-insertWe are reaching new levels of retardation.
>>283449153>isekai owes something to Dragon QuestBut they do
>>283449051OP once again being butthurt that people like Frieren and Kusuriya and mock SAO
>>283449254SAO isn't that terrible It's not great, hell I'd say it's pretty darn stupid, but it's actually got something decent going onI don't get the hateI don't get the Frieren hate either
>>283449254sao is far better than those two try tranime
>>283449391*tryhard
>>283449391What's wrong with Frieren
>>283449106Himmel...>>283449146Jenshi-sama...
>>283449051Only ironic weebs says something like "SAO IS LE BAD!!!"
>>283449051Frieren is boring but SAO sucks dick
>>283449153Good bait on several levels.
>>283449051Neither of these are self-inserts
>>283449391SAOfags are the exact kind of "people" I expect to say tranime
>>283449471but the right one is such a shameless self inserts for foids with rape fetish and shit
>>283449491NTA, but aren't these two anime liked a lot by trans people?
>>283449051It wasn't made for trannies like you, anon
>>283449391no its not, its just been so long you think the criticism can be avoided.It's mid and it took the concept of dot hack.
>>283449497>shameless self inserts for foids with rape fetish and shitPeople still get memed by innitposting in 2025? He's been around for at least a decade at this point.
>>283449051wait who do we self insert as in Frieren? Himmel? I don't think that's the case because we only really get to know him through Frieren's romanticized and 80 y/o memories.
Frieren is literally me.
>>283449548>comparing anime with a gaymeare you retarded, faggot? by this logic every single anime will get mogged by gaymes
>>283449523>aren't two of the most popular anime this decade liked a lot by trans people?I don't know. Why don't you ask them since you seem to be thinking about them so much? I certainly don't give a shit.
>>283449372I loved how SAO started with Kirito as the relatable and likeable self-insert and Asuna as the trophy girlfriend, but now Asuna is the bland self-insert for fujoshi and Kirito is the trophy boyfriend. What caused this?
SAO is really bad and it kick started the whole isekai trend we have to suffer from. But I sort of respect it when I learned that the original light novel started in 2002 when MMORPGs weren't a thing. So the author had no idea what he was writing and that's why it's bad.
>>283449850He always had more personality than half of the slop characters patterned after him
>>283450172lmao, how can you blame sao for isekai when it's not even isekai? did kirito die to get isekai'd? what a fucking joke. which eceleb of yours told this to you, retard?
SAO was always good.
>>283450225it also have infinite rewatch value unlike slopren
>>283449153This.SAO is an isekai while Frieren is a native isekai.
>>283450211SAO is basically isekai and it started the whole boom of shitty isekai adaptations because it was popular.
>>283450372>muh isekai because i'm a retardstop watching ecelebs, faggot ass redditor. sao mogs your top 3 le try hard anime
>>283450397I hope you're just drunk and not unironically writing this crap.
>>283449434>weebs says>>283450249>it also haveSAO defender is an ESL
>>283450464how about you do me a favour by slitting your throat and leaving /a/ forever?
>>283449051Apothecary Diaries was so disappointing.>expect historical crime drama>it's shoujo slop
>>283450937Apothecary Diaries is not shoujo
>>283450980>here comes the faggots defending this shit
>>283450937It gets really boring because Yuuki Aoi is a literal Jesus who knows everything.
>>283450988All I did was correct a factual mistake
>>283449153A good post like yours is wasted upon the swine of /a/.
I love catcat
>>283450980Why not?
>>283451153Its seinen/josei, not everything with a girl mc is shoujo (frieren, for example)
>>283451871The target audience is women
>>283449146This but with Lihua only
>>283449051I'm so tired of Frieren getting spammed on this board because of that autist who thinks that if it's not perma-spammed an anime Is "forgotten".
>>283451871Can you prove in any way that it is no intended for teenage grils?
>>283452796It has two different manga adaptations, both of which are in seinen magazines
>>283449229The idea is half-correct in that the game is very influential, yet ignores every other game ever made and how they influence isekai, up to, for example, games before or adjacent to DQ, or modern game references in isekai. It's therefore reductionist.Worse of all, SAO is an mmo. DQ is a single-player game. There are other series that followed the mmo craze along SAO and it's crazy to believe it's somehow reduced to DQ when that received one MMO years later-seemingly *after* the wave started. It's evidenced that the idea is merely a hasty generalization.
>>283452636seethe more
