#The Fruit of Evolution

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Happy birthday, Corey Pettit!

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Shin Shinka no Mi: Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei (The Fruit of Evolution 2) - 1/7 Saria Figure by FuRyu. Release: December 2023

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Shin Shinka no Mi: Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei (The Fruit of Evolution 2) - Episode 2 Preview. Premiere: 20 January 2023

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Saria [The Fruit of Evolution 2: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made] 1/7 scale from FuRyu coming December 2023.

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

Okay but I genuinely love the idea that as this guy's trying to invent new magic to break enslavement collar magic and he doesn't know what he's doing and tries visualization he accidentally summons a fucked-up ghost of Abraham Lincoln and that works, so from now on in this isekai the spell for breaking enslavement collars summons a fucked-up ghost of Abraham Lincoln as part of its activation. And the people who live in that world have no cultural attachment. To them it just summons a pale, bearded (but not mustachio'd) besuited 6'4" man-ghost (sometimes with a hat, sometimes without) who speaks cryptic words and breaks the collar.

There's something really fun about an isekai that plays that fast and loose with its worldbuilding rules.

[wernher-von-brawny]

”Absolute Death has been absorbed, and ultimate skill ‘Say You Love Me In This Loveless Age, 2023′ has been acquired.”

Shinka no Mi: Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei (The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made) S02 E12 (Series Finale)

I was cringing through the first half of this ep., but stuck it out for sake of "completing the set", if you will.

And then, after all the perfunctory "Everything Falls Apart" setup, they kicked off "The Hero’s Comeback" with the classic "Power of Love" twist, an original "Power of Love" theme song, and an "Everybody Lives!" revival of all the dead characters.

Total bullshit -- I loved it!

IDK if it made up for the whole "emo villian and his annoying catch phrase" arc of this last season. It was such a boring slough, I skipped a bunch of episodes.

I'm just so fucking tired of edgelord villains. And edgelords in general, y'know? I wish the world was as well, but as long as there are pre-pubescent boys in the world, I suppose there will always be a market for them.

Especially in politics! (Ba-dum-Dum!) 😃

It may be a false impression, but season two was missing the wacky hijinks of the first one. Or at least had a significantly lower percentage of them. This show was never smart, but it was the fun kind of stupid. Like Adam Sandler movies, and that bitch just got the Mark Twain prize!

But at the last moment, in the last half of the last episode, they went back to stupid and fun. Yay!

Hyper-Kawaii Seichi? Yay!

Muscle? Yay!

Interspecies romance? Yay!

And now that it's over, I realize I'm kinda gonna miss it.

Bye-bye My Kawaii Gorilla Wife. You were never a great show, but you made me smile, so arigato.

And MUSCLE!!!

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The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made

[velarixion]

This has been on my mind for a while now. I have a pretty nuanced opinion on this specific anime, but I hoped I could spark some degree of a discussion on this topic. I tried something new, so it might feel a bit weird for those of you that watch my content.

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I recommend Infinite Apostles and Twelve War Girls (although there's only eight girls at the moment), Being Able to Edit Skills in Another World I Gained OP Waifus and The Fruit of Evolution.

Ohh, I haven't heard of any of these before!

Infinite Apostles seems to have a few different titles? It's listed as The Limitless Apostle and The Twelve Battle Maidens on WebNovel, but Apostle of Infinity and the Twelve War Maidens on Bilibili Comics...I don't know what title is the "correct" one lol. The art looks very pretty based on the covers!

"This is a story of the strongest single man in history's quest to find a wife." He is the strongest being in existence as he stands at the pinnacle of the world. Wealth? Reputation? Power? All of this is worthless in his eyes. The Strongest Apostle has escaped to the human world for one reason, "Please do not misunderstand! I am here to find myself a wife!"

OP Waifus (Isekai de Skill wo Kaitai shitara Cheat na Yome ga Zoushoku Shimashita: Gainen Kousa no Structure in Japanese) has both a light novel and manga, but I'm not sure either has been officially translated into English. The sites I visit often also don't seem to have updated this title in quite a while.

When a whole transport of individuals are brought to a different universe, Souma Nagi doesn't oblige being a Hero like the rest. Subsequently he leaves the royal residence and starts his life in a different universe with his capacity to rebuild abilities. 

The Fruit of Evolution seems to also be listed as The Seed of Evolution on some sites, but I assume Fruit is the correct version since that's the English name they went with for the anime's translation.

Hiiragi Seiichi is an ugly, revolting, dirty, smelly fatass; these are the insults hurled at him one after another about his appearance. Such was Seiichi's daily school life of bullying, then for some reason, one day when school was out, a voice claiming to be a God said over the PA system to prepare to be transported to another world. What's more, not Seiichi alone, but the entire school. A fantasy world where game-like elements such as as levels, stats, and skills exist. However, the God still had preparations to complete for the transfer, and would send them over as soon as the hero summoning ritual was ready. The classes all formed groups to wait for the transfer, but Seiichi alone was left out and as such was summoned to a different area. After being transported the first thing Seiichi ate was the "Fruit of Evolution." This would come to greatly change his life… This story is about how Seiichi went from being severely bullied by his classmates, even not being recognized for his accomplishments, and despite all that staying positive and surviving in this new world. As a result, he somehow becomes one of the champions. (Also the first heroine is a Gorilla?!)

Thanks as always for the recommendations! I have so much to look into!!

[toonabby]

Happy double birthdays, Jalitza Delgado (28) and Gianni Matragrano (31)!

[theanimeg]

Watch "The Fruit Of Evolution Season 2 Episode 10 (Review) Muscle Vs Muscle! Devil Power!" on YouTube

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Shin Shinka no Mi: Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei (The Fruit of Evolution 2) - Blu-ray/DVD Box Illustration. Release: 26 May 2023

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Let's Anime 179 - I'm Going To Bottle That Up And Release It Later In Life

Dustin Cabeal and Lindsay Mallard

Youkoso, Youkoso!! Well our opening is much longer than usual as we stroll down memory lane and found out how terrible Dustin is... will he grow and self-reflect or just double down on who he is? As for Anime, we're covering High Card, Chillin In My 30's After Being Fired From The Demon King's Army, The Fruit of Evolution 2 and Tomo-Chan Is A Girl. (Sorry I posted this late, I was sick -Dustin)

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

Checkbox Writing

In the final act Fruit of Evolution gets really trashy, which isn't a surprise but is still disappointing.

Probably the best running joke in the series - though individual jokes vastly outshine it - is the idea that the protagonist has gone past usable force and is telling his status window, "No! Stop! Quit it!" as it gives him new skills and power-ups. There's a scene where he reads a book about spells (Not "a spellbook," just a book about the kinds of magic in general") and gets visually buried in skill icons.

Possibly as a direct result of this, the worst of the story is where the plot has contrived a situation where his vast OP nature is useful. This jumps ship from what the series is good at - a goofy rules-lite self-aware comedy - to a bog-standard trash isekai playing it straight. The hero solves the problem nobody else can, in a non-amusing way, and everyone praises him for how wonderful and kind and talented and special a boy he is. Credit where it's due, there is a joke I appreciate in the midst of his casting his big super-spell to save the day. It's not like it drops from goofy to serious 100%, just...more than 60%, which is too much for my tastes. YMMV.

But the other part that really fails is the same thing that made the OP such a failure: They get to this point in the writing and they feel like they have to include everything on a checklist. And then they just...start going down the list, checking boxes, with no sense of pacing or of whether scenes have been earned. Oh yeah, we needed a chance for each of the perverts from the adventurer's guild to defeat monsters with their individual perversions. Here's a clip of the guy with a milking fetish throwing baby bottles at an ogre and then they're apparently just grenades. We literally haven't seen this guy since protag-kun was introduced to the list of perverts when he first arrived at the guild. I liked the idea of the adventurer's guild being full of people who were actually good at their jobs, either in spite of or because of their perversions. But some of these ideas needed more time baking in the oven, and all of them collectively should have been a series of jokes that took a total of one minute. I'm pretty sure they got a minute each.

Also one of the pervert teams is a trio of - and I really don't think there's a nicer way to say this - rapist gays. I feel like this could in theory have been a viable joke, if the series had included any non-rapist gay representation. But it doesn't. This puts the series in company with heavily sexualizing child-coded characters, or treating an instance of incest as "pure love." I got through the scene with them when they first showed up, prayed they'd never show up again, and then they were back for the finale and it was so fucking needless.

Completely opposite this, the other deeply disappointing thing in the story is the "other students" subplot, which kept cutting to a nothing plotline about what happened with all the other characters who got isekai'd. And like, trying to write Arifureta as spare scenes in the middle of their comedy. But it's a bunch of scenes about characters we don't know or care about and - most damning - it's never funny. In our self-aware goofball comedy series. Imagine how much worse KonoSuba would be if it included 5-minute clips of an unrelated high school drama with no jokes in them in every episode. Fruit of Evolution does this.

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Crunchyroll Adventures to Anime Frontier with Panels and Premieres, Including the World Premiere of Revenger

Crunchyroll Adventures to Anime Frontier with Panels and Premieres, Including the World Premiere of Revenger #anime #animefrontier

Crunchyroll has wrangled up the most wanted panels and premieres for Anime Frontier this December 2nd – 4th. Fans can check out the World Premiere of Revenger, as well as get a headstart on the simulcast winter season with early looks at The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague!, The Fruit of Evolution Season 2, and more! Additionally, the Crunchyroll Industry Panel will be in town to announce…