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I had an anime recommended to me. The MC sells two people into slavery in the second episode. (hexbear.net)
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The world's most notorious "talker" runs the world's greatest clan

Should've known from the light novel ass title dead-dove-1 dead-dove-2 dead-dove-3

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I watched executioner recently, and yeah the anime didn't feel baity but more like the clear romance thread doesn't need to be explicitly spelled out. I get where the phrase yuribait comes from (fuck you, sound euphonium!), but unless you're willing to call the same thing but with a characters gender changed to man heterobait, idk.

it was a fun watch though, seeing menou struggle and not be an overpowered girl who wins without any help is fun to see, and Akari in general is left in a place where she might be interesting to watch. also free momo from the curse of not having requited feelings

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm going off the first seven novels (I haven't read the eighth yet and the others aren't translated and/or released yet), which you might want to read for the rest of the story since I'm pretty sure the anime will never get another season let alone the 4-5 seasons it would take to finish it without huge cuts. The prose isn't great, whether that's a translation issue or a problem with the original text, but it's not terrible either.

    I think Momo is the only character who remains 100% unambiguously gay, while Menou continues being kind of ace and blob-no-thoughts who's baffled by the attention she gets and never displays any sort of attraction towards anyone, and Akari is kind of inscrutable even to her own inner monologue for plot reasons. Even after all the spoiler stuff happens they're still textually "very good friends." There's a reason I'm calling it absurd and egregious: Menou and Akari so obviously have a romantic relationship and are literally soulmates that when we see their internal monologues where they textually don't see it that way it's jarring to the point that it seems like parody.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    sad :(

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Ok, so I went ahead and read the eighth novel, and while there wasn't and really couldn't be, for spoiler reasons, any change to what I said about it, it did remind me that it is a genuinely good series. Which is why it's so annoying that between that and how incredibly gay it gets and how explicitly romantic some of the dialogue is that it then draws back from that with Menou/Akari.

    Like Menou is completely oblivious to a lot of basic human things to the point that she's basically Fem!Agent 47, like she does not know what "fun" is and is confused by the concept, she has never "played" in her life, and she thinks anyone expressing attraction to her is making a joke she doesn't understand. That all goes right along with not understanding the distinction between a romantic relationship and normal friends, but I think it could all be handled so much better than it is and I don't know if it will ever actually textually admit to what it is very intentionally portraying and alluding to.

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