Well deserved
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I briefly considered listing Wotakoi in my comment, but then
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like you said, Hirotaka was assertive only when it comes to games. After the first episode, he just went with the flow and as such, Narumi was taking the lead 90% of the time.
Being a parody, it subverts most tropes of isekai anime. Its humor is exactly my type too.
Honorable mentions:
Most other isekai anime have the same cookie-cutter plot, making them so predictable and boring. Or they have an interesting premise, but waste it with poor writing and dumb characters.
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai is a good choice
best romance animes with an assertive male protagonist
Since the question used "animes" (though I've heard plural of anime is "anime"), looks like it's fine to list multiple shows😈 In no particular order:
- Cherry Magic! - Adachi can be assertive sometimes; Kurosawa is pretty assertive.
- Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai - Azusagawa is simply great throughout.
- Skip and Loafer - Not very romantic just yet and can't remember it well at the moment but I believe Shima is assertive.
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You - Rentarou is pretty assertive.
In fact, my top favourite romance anime tend to have an assertive male protagonist. I can't stand wimpy, indecisive, weak-willed male protagonists.
This really is a good time to add to this counter, Subaru.
By now, he should have a good idea of how his restarting ability works.
Makes me wonder why he doesn't keep a weapon for ease of suicide with him like the MCs of Edge of Tomorrow and Webtoon Character Na Kang Lim.
The simplest guess I have is that he is too dumb to realize it.
Just binged season 1 of Attack on Titan.
IMO it is overrated.
- Besides the scenes where they are swinging around with their mobility devices, the animation is completely a slideshow.
- There's way too much narration and exposition.
- The scriptwriter / original writer tried to make the characters sound cool, but they just ended up with stupid dialogue.
- The recaps are as long as the ones in Undead Unluck, taking up close to 10% of each episode's runtime.
Thankfully, the story and world-building is good, which is not surprising considering it is Gundam but with meat robots.
So I'm going to give it a 8 / 10
Also, now that I watched AoT, Kaiju No. 8 feels like a dumbed-down knock-off.
Watched GUNDAM: Requiem for Vengeance and enjoyed it. The messaging behind the show is very typical Gundam (i.e. war is bad).
The animation style (?) isn't like the usual anime style which is a nice change of pace. It makes it look like a live action show.
Last week, I have only been watching anime that are airing this season.
Just want to point out that Murai In Love is the unexpected hit of the season for me. I haven't laugh so hard from an anime in a while. If the story doesn't become dogshit towards the last few episodes, there's a pretty good chance this would be my top anime of the season and become one of my top favourites.
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