#Failure Frame I Became the Strongest

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The new manga i started reading is Fucked up

Failure Frame I Became the Strongest, getting an anime adaption. i read the whole thing, It has 50 chapters.

Similar to Arifuta, but it the goddess who was evil.

Go give it a go if you like weak to strong trope

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Today’s anime cat of the day is:

Eve Speed from Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells!

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“Hazurewaku no ‘Joutai Ijou Skill’ de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made” The First Promo, Summer 2024 Premiere

The Memorial Festival on the Tenth Anniversary! Overlap The first promotional video for the television anime Hazurewaku no "Joutai Ijou Skill" de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made (Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells) was unveiled along with the opening theme. The adventure fantasy light novel by Kaoru Shinozaki will be adapted into an anime series that will debut in July 2024.

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Let's Name 224 - Tiny Pocket - Summer First Episodes - Part 1

Welcome, welcome! We don't actually have a part 2 planned, but we'll have a part 2. It's a big ass summer first episode for you, we've got like 24 shows to talk about or something close to that.

Here's what's covered: 2.5 Dimensional Seduction, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools, Dungeon People, Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells, I Parry Everything!, Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season, A Nobody's Way Up to an Exploration Hero, The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible, Plus-Sized Elf, Pseudo Harem, Quality Assurance in Another World, Ramen Akaneko, Senpai Is an Otokonoko, SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary, The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human, Suicide Squad Isekai, Tower of God

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First Impression: Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells

As a little kid, Toka Mimori would be kicked around by an abusive adult who laughed and laughed like the Joker. Meanwhile, his mother just looked at the TV, her back to them. Time has passed, but Mimori’s world still plays by the same rules: in the present, his classmate Oyamada (who looks a bit like the Joker himself) has taken away the novel the bookish class rep was reading, and is goofing off in the school bus. The teacher is looking elsewhere, and Mimori’s classmates are silent—perhaps a whispered comment or grunt here and there, but nothing more. Despite himself, and despite fully knowing that his chances aren’t good, Mimori gets up and intervenes. He gets lucky this time: Kirihara, the class king, is tired of all the fuss: from the last row, surrounded by the cool kids, he declares that enough is enough; Mimori doesn’t interest him at all. But with a title this long, reader, you won’t be shocked to know that they all suddenly find themselves in the presence of the self-proclaimed, half-dressed goddess Vicius and some robed monks in a fantasy world. You know how it goes: demon king, desperate times, summoned heroes, videogame stats. But when Mimori happens to be an E-rank hero, the lowest of the low, he discovers that his classmates, his teacher, and the goddess herself are all more despicable than he ever knew.

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Hazurewaku no "Joutai Ijou Skill" de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made (Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells) - Blu-ray Volume 3 Illustration. Release: 20 November 2024

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"Look Me In The Eyes" , FFIV, ~1600 words. Why is Kain an even bigger weirdo after the Giant of Babil? General admission, e for everybody, but mild cw: transformation and body horror.

Kain knew he behaved differently after the Giant of Babil.

This was not unexpected, although how he changed surely confused them. Many things, like flinching when offered a hand, were understandable. But now he never took his armor off in front of others, not even his helm. Before, it had been on him near-constant anyway - the armor's boots and gloves were critical for absorbing impact. It took a few days for them to notice he bathed and changed privately, no small feat in close quarters, and moments before sleep. He even wore a low-fitting cap and gloves in his bedroll, no matter how warm. Just as often he slept in his armor.

As they hurtled towards the Red Moon in the mechanical whale, they told him it was conjured up from beneath the Mysidian bay. Now that he was free, perhaps, of Golbez - no, Zemus - Kain could tell them of Golbez's odd fits and starts that had increased whenever discussing Cecil, even before Zot. Kain had either dismissed these, or, when lucid but still under control, been forced to forget. This being all the useful information Kain had for Cecil, Kain retreated from the conversations.

He heard them talking about him, of course. They would either trust him, or must needs be ready to kill him, so what was one more oddity. Kain sat and thought about what had happened to him during his brief second time with Golbez.

"I had but slackened your friend's leash, waiting for the proper moment to pull it taught."

He could do this. He would have to do this. He was now one of the strongest people on Earth - the Blue Planet, as these Lunarians called it. And Zemus had done this to him, and to a ten-year-old child that became Golbez. He couldn't stand aside. He had spoken truly when he said his mind was his own again.

There were complications. Had he revealed anything, when they met Lugae? He didn't think so. His revulsion for the mad doctor was for cowardice, at first, until they had stumbled upon the . . . the remainders of Edge's parents. He had forgotten something, something important about the holiness he once felt in the frame of a healthy human body. Of the long, waking dream that kept him just a bit asleep in Golb- Zemus's thrall, the eyes of the King and Queen of Eblan had almost shocked him out of it.

Almost.

And now before thinking he had told Edge to kill him if he betrayed them, and so it was not only Kain's own cowardice that kept him from revealing the full extent of his betrayal. Compassion had returned to Kain's heart and head, and ruined him. He did not want Cecil or Rosa to have to kill him, and now he added Edge to that list. What would Kain's eyes look like, if he had to beg for death?

His mind was his own again.

Golbez loomed over him. "I have no others. No one is here but you, Kain. You returned to me. I would reward such loyalty. No matter what failures from before. I . . . I failed you too, did I not? What have I . . ."

Golbez shook his head and his drifting attention snapped back to Kain.

"Did I not promise you power, even that to rival the dragon-knights of old? And I have one scale of the shadow dragon. My oldest friend. Now I have no others. No one but you . . . "

Before they plunged into the lunar subterrane, Kain's focus drifted towards the eastern lunar horizon. He could not say why. "What is in that direction?" he asked.

Among all the lunar marvels was something that had astonished even this intrepid group. They talked over each other.

"I still don't believe it-"

"We turned a corner and he was just, there, Kain, it was amazing-

"Oh buddy, you have got to go see this after we're done here-" Edge said, and Rydia smashed her hands across his face to keep him from ruining the explanation of something important to her. Edge licked her hand. Rydia ignored him. They had settled along the way into annoying each other like siblings.

"Bahamut," she said. "Bahamut lives in the Cave of the Father, over there. I'll take you after-"

"No! No," said Kain, his vehemence surprising even him. He had only ever spoken softly to Rydia.

The four turned to him, Rydia shocked and a bit hurt, Edge at once suspicious, Cecil and Rosa confused.

Kain stammered. "I don't - I don't want to go is all. I apologize for raising my voice." Edge scowled. He needed to give more explanation. "I . . . I don't want to face him," Kain said. "I can't."

They winced and after a moment, even Edge nodded in sympathy.

In the furious, terrible days that followed, his comrades thought perhaps Kain had horrible scarring, from punishment for betraying Zemus. Or perhaps an aversion to touch because that was how Golbez ensared him to begin with. He was lucky Rosa could heal him still, and heal him through armor.

Kain was thankful no one pried. Not even Edge. He showed it as best he could. Sometimes he whispered or croaked and it was not because of awkward contrition. Would his voice leave him, too?

Rydia a few times frowned at him, not with what would be judicious suspicion but with plain curiosity. She was the shortest, and at times could see under more of Kain's helmet than he was comfortable.

They won against Zeromus.

Kain felt less jubilant than just relieved and tired. His friends and his world were safe. Now his personal battle would begin.

Baigan passed Kain in the hallway of Baron. The dragoon noticed the smirk and thought, with good humor that surprised him, that at least Baigan had not changed. Then Baigan's arm brushed Kain and Kain shivered before he even knew to think something was wrong.

Turns out Baigan had changed quite a bit. His smirk grew. "Lord Golbez is sure to reward those truly loyal," he said.

His mind was his own again. His mind.

Golbez asked Fusoya, "Might you permit me to accompany you?" and Kain, pitiful creature that he was, panicked for a moment that Golbez had forgotten him. Forgotten to help him if he could. Or perhaps hated him, for taking the last piece of Golbez's one true companion, the dragon that stayed beside him without mind control.

But then Golbez said, "I cannot return. Not after all I've done," and he looked at the five Earthlings. His gaze hesitated on Kain for a moment, so quick no one noticed. In Kain's thoughts, in the hole at the back of his mind, he felt an awareness of Golbez, hesitating to contact him like this at all. This time though it was as . . . equals in contrition.

He gave the bizarre feeling of agreement in keeping their privacy, wordless, more like a curtain falling, which was why he was touching Kain's thoughts at all. A gift from sinner to sinner, a chance to sort out thoughts alone without revealing how far they had fallen by asking for help out loud.

And Kain had the sudden knowledge Golbez could do nothing to help him.

He had expected this. It was not as disappointing as it might have been. Kain's attention snapped back in time to help convince Cecil he should say goodbye to Golbez.

Very little important to Kain happened while they returned and celebrated. He stayed alone until he escaped from the love and concern of his friends and a thankful world. He climbed Mount Ordeals and looked out over a sacred, isolated cliff, and took off his helmet.

His hair, his one remaining vanity, was still long and blond and - human. It felt good in the wind. So too did the sensitive nubs of bone and frill, growing from the crown of his brow. He had started worrying he would need to file them down. Scales grew along his forehead and were soon to reach to his eyes, crawl down his nose, and bloom where all could see.

Their victory couldn't have come any later. He almost hadn't made it.

Sometimes his eyes hurt, and felt strange focusing, and he knew they had turned to slit pupils. He had not brought a mirror. Were they still his natural color?

Perhaps because he kept his mind, and somebody answered his prayers, the lower half of his face remained unchanged the longest and his outline human. Perhaps it was somebody on this very mountain - it was holy to Bahamut and others long before KluYa's spirit rested here. But under the armor there were no parts of him without . . . spottings of scales. Ridges and spines growing. Aching bones of limb anatomy preparing soon to stretch or shrink into digitigrade. He wondered if he would start walking on his toes.

His tailbone and shoulders hurt.

Golbez had kept his promise about power to rival the dragon-knights of old.

Yet dragons were not evil, not like the monsters that moved among animals and that others had been turned into. If the pain in his shoulder blades was an indication, he was not becoming the literal shadow dragon. It had no wings. And Baigan had been able to change form at will.

His mind was his own again, and after everything, Kain still had hope.

On the day of the wedding he spoke into the wind, wondering if it mattered. "Cecil . . . Rosa . . . I have no right to bear witness to your joy. Not like this.

"I will temper myself here, on Mount Ordeals. And then, when I've become an even finer dragoon than my father- perhaps then I can return. Until that day comes, I can but wish you well."

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Manga the Week of 10/23/24

SEAN: Psst. Halloween’s behind you. Creeping ever closer. Step by step. ASH: Wait, behind me? What month is it?? SEAN: Airship has print releases for Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City 3, Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells 11, Modern Villainess: It’s Not…

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Checklist of Isekai Anime I've Watched

Last month, I'd fallen down the isekai rabbit hole. I've now reached a point where I'm having a hard time keeping track of what I've already seen and what I haven't yet watched. I've also been mixing up one anime for another, or worse I've completely forgotten what happened in it after some time has pass.

I originally wasn't going to put this in any particular order, but decided to list down the ones that I enjoyed watching the most to the least. For me, the least doesn't necessarily mean that it was bad. Just that it was not as memorable, or had a few things about it that bothered me enough to get in the way of my enjoyment of it.

The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent

7th Time Loop [1]

The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits

Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers

Reincarnated as a Sword

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

By The Grace of The Gods

In the Land of Leadale

Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious

Ascendance of a Bookworm

Handyman Saitou in Another World

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1

The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen

Restaurant to Another World

Fluffy Paradise

Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy

Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss, but I'm Not the Demon Lord

Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion

I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too

The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs

The Great Cleric

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom

I'm in Love with the Villainess

Doctor Elise

Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Farming Life in Another World

The Faraway Paladin

Reborn as a Vending Machine, Now I Wander the Dungeon

So I'm a Spider, So What?

Parallel World Pharmacy

Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash

My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me

As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World

Skeleton Knight in Another World

The New Gate

Wise Man's Grandchild

The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody

Am I Actually the Strongest?

Kemono Michi: Rise Up

No Longer Allowed in Another World

Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring

My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World

I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level

Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

The Aristocrat's Otherworldly Adventure: Serving Gods Who Go Too Far

Log Horizon

Uncle from Another World

Black Summoner

Demon Lord, Retry!

The Dungeon of Black Company

Sweet Reincarnation

The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases

The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated as an Aristocrat

I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince, so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest

The Rising of the Shield Hero

Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells

Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

I Shall Survive Using Potions!

She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man

Notes:

[1] I didn't know at the time, but 7th Time Loop isn't an isekai. It's actually more of a fantasy with time looping in the protagonist's own world, rather of them being a person from the modern world isekai'd to a totally new environment. I stilled enjoyed it, and would have overlooked it if I didn't check out all the Villainess tagged anime.

After Thoughts: I seem to like the slice-of-life, light-hearted, and wholesome types of isekai a lot more than I thought I would. They're so enjoyable, but a part of that is probably because I was more in the mood for them. For example, the last isekai I've watched was Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash. I put it low on my list, not because it was bad, but I just wasn't in the mood for it. I was actually pleasantly surprise that it went through the realistic, grimdark and serious route instead of the usual way.

Other reasons (besides not being in the mood for it) that I may put an anime low on my list is because there were things in it that I didn't like. For example, The Rising of the Shield Hero does an excellent job at provoking the audience reaction of outrage to the shield hero's poor treatment, but I just don't like how it handles a couple of things.

One of those points is slavery, which I didn't realize was such a common occurrence in isekai. The protagonist comes from the 21-century Earth, so they know slavery is wrong. Despite this, they never do anything about it, or even try to fight against it, or worse they actually contribute to it. Of course, they're not under any moral obligation to do something, but it's disappointing when it's set up as an afterthought or used as a gimmick to support the protagonist.

I get it. It would be difficult to stop slavery because it's a systemic issue that would require the dismantling of laws and regulations by those in power. But it makes me wonder why do so many isekai authors even include it at all? If slavery can't be treated with the gravity it deserves given its historical role in destroying millions of human lives, then don't add it into the story. More so, if it has no bearing on the actual main plot, or when it doesn't make much sense to see in lighthearted and wholesome-centric isekai animes.

I also don't care for loli-like and shota-like protagonists. It's adorable when the anime is actually sweet and pure, but not when they're sexualized, or put into fanservice situations and whatnot. What comes to mind is Lloyd from I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince, so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability. It's not a typical isekai because the protagonist is reborn into the same world again, but his character design in the anime weirds me out. Worse is when Ren shows up.

Another example is I Shall Survive Using Potions. It has an interesting premise, but I dislike the protagonist. It's just so off-putting when all the character designs look the same because of the chibi-style. Plus, knowing that a 22-year-old office lady was 'reborn' into a child body, and plans to find herself a husband in that form (or that she isn't phrase by teen boys or men asking to marry her/pretend to be their fiancé) is disturbing. The entire time watching, I was also wondering when will she use her potion power to age herself up to be physically older. Seriously, the thought cross her mind to disguise herself by changing her hair and eye color, but not her body's age?? She even pointed out that it was such an annoying hindrance for when she wanted to start her own business. Oh, and it's not like it's impossible either because she unintentionally de-aged one of her companions too.

I also don't mind harem elements because some do it well by developing their characters and making their story be more than just pandering. Even if it's not a harem, a lot of the anime I've seen has a lot of female supporting characters surrounding the protagonists. It's not always a bad thing, but most of the time it's not done very well. They tend to feel more like ornaments to complete a chartacter-type checklist (or just to fawn over the protagonist) than genuine companions.

Other times, the anime was confusing, too boring or took me a while to finally get into it. For example, So I'm a Spider, So What? It took me a bit to get into because I wasn't interested in the going on of her classmates. Every time they appeared I was like, no, go back to spider girl because I wanted to follow her journey the entire way, not these people who I have no interest or real attachment to.

Hmm, I'm not going to remember all the reasons I listed an anime low on my list, the few I do is because they were the ones I recently watched. Of course, over time this list may change because some anime have only one season so far, and could have something in it later on that could make me like it less or like it a bit more.

I know I won’t be able to keep up with every new isekai release, so I won't be making another list like this in the future.

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Series Review: Failure Frame

The full series name is Failure Frame: I Became The Strongest And Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells.

I'm gonna admit up front that I put off touching this series because the title alone was such a turnoff. Happily, it turns out the title has almost nothing to do with the actual story. This is a good series, people, and worth giving time to.

Let's get into it.

First, you may legitimately ask, if the title's deceptive why is it there and what is this REALLY about?

The title is there to give you a beginning. Because yes, this is how it starts; Our Hero is isekai'd with his whole class to another world, and Our Hero is quickly separated from all the others because he's "too weak", having only a few debuff/DOT spells to his name (which in this world almost never work, and when they do, don't work long). But lo! Of course, Our Hero's version is nothing like that, and So Our Journey Begins. Our Hero will take revenge on everyone that cast him aside!

...So that's what you'll see in probably most reviews. It's true, that's basically the first few episodes. Touka (our Hero) is isekai'd, cast aside, left to die, and is justifiably pissed off about it and swears revenge. And women fall for him through the storyline, including The Most Beautiful Woman In The World.

But as with any story, it's not the pieces but how they're put together that really counts. Let me tell you about those.

Firstly...this story is ABOUT abuse. It's about what abuse does to you, what it makes of you (and doesn't make of you). It's about toxic people and how even the best kindest people can be twisted by them. It's about how people get broken, and how some get better and some get worse. If you got into Bungo Stray Dogs because Atsushi or Akutagawa's backstories tugged at your heart, this is very much a story for you.

Touka is a survivor of hellish abuse. His parents didn't want him and did their best to kill him, until neighbors saw what was happening and Touka was placed in the care of his aunt and uncle. From them he learned kindness, and trust, and caring...but he is damaged, as anyone would be. In Touka's case, he's internalized that he is a 'bad person', a cruel person. His parents were both cruel and he is their son, and when they beat him and hurt him he wished them dead. He's very good at spotting abusive/toxic people and he thinks he's like them. This is a constant through the story; Touka 'performs' kindness, or at least thinks he does. He 'performs' being a good person. The story's told from his pov in the light novel, so you can see a lot of his rationalizations about how self-serving his 'goodness' is.

You'll also see a lot of characters tell him he is, in fact, kind. There's a good reason for that, too, that isn't entirely to do with Touka himself.

See, this isekai world is, to put it mildly, FUCKED UP. Top to bottom, it is ROYALLY fucked up.

The Goddess of this isekai - the one that pulls people in, trains the heroes, dictates policy, grants favor, etc? She is the very epitome of a toxic, abusive personality. She's hateful and manipulative and yes, a goddess. Nobody can touch her. Nobody outpowers her. The entirety of this isekai world is stuck between this abusive goddess and "the root of all evil", the demon king that Touka's class was sucked into this to deal with.

Now, most of Touka's class are...not great people. They're mostly not utterly awful, at the start, but they're mostly not great people. (There's like...one or two exceptions. But only one or two.) They're flavors of neglected, of cracked, of hurting. But they get isekai'd straight into this hellworld, where their only real guide is this toxic goddess...Touka is disposed of early on as an example to the others, really. The goddess chooses him (as the apparently weakest summon) to basically make it clear to the rest of the class that this can and will happen to them, too, if they don't pull their weight. That's the kind of world this is.

In a world like that, where power to get away with what you want to do is ALL that matters...there's a lot of very horrible, very powerful people.

The STORY is about how the isekai'd class responds to that world.

Yes, the whole class. Not just Touka. Character development for everybody!

Of course, Touka is Our Hero, so we get a lot of his pov. And how he proceeds, what he sees. Yes, he does wind up with the Most Beautiful Girl In The World (tm) - but man, I love how the story dealt with this.

I mean. Think about it. You're in a hellworld where the local deity rewards the idea of the powerful taking what they want. And you're a beautiful, kind woman.

Life expectancy should be around 0.5 seconds, y'know?

Seras Ashrain is the female lead here. She is so beautiful that anything belonging to her has significant black market value. WARS have been started over her, and over who gets to 'possess' her. She's a prize in the eyes of many. A trophy.

She's also a very sweet young lady, kind and true, and before you go bwuh - think about every twerp of a boy you've ever seen when he's confronted with a beautiful girl. They stutter. They're shy. They Just Want To Talk. Seras Ashrain is a walking catalyst, but spends a lot of the story unaware of it because things happen AROUND her and BECAUSE of her, but almost no one tells her anything to her face. They just want to be liked by her, and be her friend. Except for the ones so powerful that they feel they can skip all that and go right to the rape, but even then she doesn't really see why they're after her.

Touka gets through all this because he's so damaged by events that he flat out does not have time for this bullshit. He takes her in because she's a superb combatant and he needs the fighting skill. And because Seras is a magnet for powerful assholes, he also gets a lot of training in his skills by helping her protect herself.

She falls in love with him because he doesn't try to get in her pants, letting her try to get into his instead. Yes, that's how low the bar is for 'goodness' in this isekai. He's not a rapist, he's not an abuser. Therefore he's a Good Guy.

It's probably important to remember that context. The story doesn't shy away from the fact that Touka can be really ruthless, manipulative, and cold. His survival is on the line and he never, ever forgets that. He can and WILL use everyone around him in service to the greater goal of a) Not dying, b) revenge on the goddess that put him in this spot, and c) getting home. But there's lines he won't cross, and having those lines (at all) is what makes him the better option for a lot of the cast.

I think the best example of this I can give is this: at one point in the story, Touka is seeking a specific witch. They've never met, the witch is in hiding for good reasons, and he knows she's a dark elf. Along this route, he finds out there is a possible guide to the witch, who is connected to a dark elf child, currently enslaved. Pragmatically, sight unseen, he decides to kidnap/free the dark elf child because this will make the witch look more favorably on him after tracking her down. That said, when he MEETS the child, he realizes she's being physically and mentally abused by her owner. (The owner is doing this because the local lord has taken a shine to the slave and wants her broken before teaching her to be a sex slave, but while the owner's doing this under orders it's pretty clear they don't MIND doing this either.) The guide is a good person and doesn't want Extra Trouble. Touka has his own views on the matter. Firstly he is Very Gentle with the slave girl, and very careful of her trauma. Once the slave is removed from the abuser, and safe off with the guide, he kills the owner slowly. (I should point out that owing to the nature of Touka's magic, he doesn't have much choice about that. Some, but not much.) The slaveowner of course uses the time to plead for their life, including "if you kill me you'll go to hell with me, but if you spare me you'll go to heaven".

Touka just laughs. Because of course he's going to hell. There was never any doubt in his mind about that. The slave owner cannot be trusted, therefore cannot be spared. He kills her and tries to make it look like a robbery.

Like I said. This is about abuse, toxicity, and the ways people do or do not survive that. Because not everyone does. Several members of Touka's class don't make it to the final chapters. A few others turn bad, twisted by the way the world around them works. Quite a few wind up pretty damaged.

I started with the anime, and was intrigued enough to go to the light novel. I'd absolutely recommend the series. The anime, being released over time in smaller chunks, might take more patience.

[erikaalexi]

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“Hazurewaku no ‘Joutai Ijou Skill’ de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made” The Second Promo

The second promo for the television anime Hazurewaku no "Joutai Ijou Skill" de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made (Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells) was revealed on the official website. The TV anime will debut on TBS and IBC at 12:59 a.m. on July 5 and then on BS11, AT-X, and Tochigi TV.

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summer anime recs

whats up it's ya girl the isekai scholar. here's what's coming up this summer in the anime sphere

probably good

isekai shikkaku / no longer allowed in another world: the manga is legitimately fun. a depressed writer commits suicide with his lover and wakes up in another world with one goal: to find a perfect place to die. the studio behind isekai ojisan, AtelierPontdarc, is doing this one; i didn't like isekai ojisan but that might be a selling point to those who did!

suicide squad isekai: it's the suicide squad from DC and they're in an isekai. not much to say about this one. lots of heavy hitters on the design side of this one, with Wit Studio (spy x family, vivy) as well as writers Eiji Umihara (vivy) and Tappei Nagatsuki (original creator of re:zero, vivy) attached to it. i'll probably watch it even though i disagree with the choice to have mori calliope do the ending theme

also probably good (not isekai): oshi no ko season 2 (doga kobo), tower of god season 2 (the answer studio), atri: my dear moments (TROYCA), dungeon no naka no hito (OLM), tensui no sakuna-hime (P.A. Works)

probably skip

hazurewaku no "joutai ijou skill" de saikyou ni natta ore ga subete wo juurin suru made / failure frame: i became the strongest and annihilated everything with low-level spells: yeah the manga for this one is just kinda boring. it's the kind of isekai that's the template for a lot of modern isekai; guy gets summoned to another world with his class and gets skills but ohhh noooo he's got the bad skills so he's kicked out!! but his skills are the strongest actually! if you like that sort of thing you'll probably like this one. it's better than arifureta at least. studio seven arcs (tonikaku kawaii, mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha) is doing this one.

maougun saikyou no majutsushi wa ningen datta / the strongest magician in the demon lord's army was a human: another one that's essentially explained by its title. i wouldn't consider this one bad based on the manga per se, but i don't think i'm inclined to watch the anime based on it since i thought the manga was fine, i guess. in fact, i'd probably recommend against it given how Studio A-CAT fucked up the kenja no deshi wo nanoru kenja adaptation. yeah i'm still mad about that!

surprisingly slim pickings on the isekai front despite it being summer! lots more happening next season with that for sure. thank you for reading. read destiny unchain online!