This show is all of my guilty pleasures slapped together and turned up to 11. I just love the fact Cid in Shadow mode is LITERALLY thinking at any given moment, "What is the edgiest thing I can say right now?" and then says just that.
When Cid has a detailed monologue in episode 1 detailing how wonderful weapon a crowbar is, where the whole point is "I learned I can punch through armor by hitting them with the pointy end," I knew this series was for me. And it didn't disappoint.
This show completely took me by surprise. I started watching it when the season was 5 episodes in ( I like to give new anime time to air 5 episodes before I start in) and after that, I watched it week to week. Every episode left me eagerly waiting for a week to pass so I could jump back into the madness. If I were to rate all the anime that has released over the last year based on how much I anticipated each episode week to week, this would be number 1.
to be fair a crowbar is a really fucking good improvised weapon, shit could be a blunt weapon, stabby stabby, hell Arnis with crowbars is fuckin terrifying
Yea, episode 1 hooked me almost immediately, I got super hyped during the crowbar fight, and was completely blindsided when the episodes ends with "surprise, it's an isekai!" (i don't read summaries ahead of time). The fact they show the actual death scene as him not accidentally dying but in fact intentionally running into traffic screaming at the top of his lungs ISEKAIIII really set the tone to 11, and I was there for it every week!
The Eminence in Shadow was one of the most hilarious and self-aware shows I've seen in a while. Definitely hyped for season 2. I really appreciate a show that purely embraces the cringe and OWNS it. Regarding the MC, Cid is definitely a breath of fresh air. Absolute gigachad energy, doesn't get flustered when talking to women, doesn't pretend to be a "moral" or "good" person, just runs around doing a little bit of trolling (and nuking) in pure Chuuni style.
Some writers think making the character aloof and detached is how you make a show self aware, but that's wrong. This show only works because of how deeply committed Cid is to the LARP.
My favourite part was when Sid heard an ominous line after being "saved" so he dedicated the entire fuckin' night to running around a vampire infested town saving people while repeating the exact same ominous fuckin' line to the people he saved while having 0 fuckin' clue what ANY of it means.
I think one of the biggest selling points from this show as well, is just the VA work for Shadow. Dude nails every corny phrase, while exuding some pure badassery and terror when it calls for it, then jumping back down to sounding like your common redditor. And it works, to a shocking degree.
Haven't watched it yet, but felt like gigguk was overselling the show from what I remembered feeling when reading it. It was fun, sure, but in a very mediocre way and I ended up dropping it in the abandonment arc. The he showed the full clip of "I am _ATOMIC",_ and I realized why he loves it so much. The sound design is, as you put it, godlike. This seems like one of those adaptations that is clearly superior to the source material. *At least if I can extrapolate the rest of the show from that one scene (like I said, haven't watched it yet).* Honestly, fairly much alike 'reincarnated as a sword' in that way. Soundtracks and voice-acting and overall cool animation for the magic and combat scenes carrying and synergistically enhancing what was a rather mediocre comedy otherwise.
My theory is that MC is in a coma ever since getting hit by that truck. It's the only thing that makes sense - and explains how his random made up plot immediately becomes real.
Oh man, i was shocked by the way the animators went for the fight, a single movement of muscle was instant death and she stepped back. Her confidence and self esteem was shattered and he couldn't care less
Man, I loved that episode when the eminence in the shadow said: "Yes, I am the eminence in the shadow" and eminenced in the shadowed every enemy on screen, truly an eminence in the shadow moment.
Honestly the first Atomic hit so hard and funny and they did it really nicely. 2nd one's line was a bit more cringey and less cool. Third one was cool because he was just playing around and not actually using it. Man EIS is the best isekai I've seen. Sure Mushoku is art, Rezero is great but isekai is only captured by the fun you have along the way.
This is honestly one of the most enjoyable anime that I've watched in years. Ultimately, it also proves Garnt's theory in the stages of weebdom. I am back where I started, which is not watching highly sophisticated plot heavy series but simply enjoying dumb and fun shows.
@@fieryelf I have always preferred more lighthearted shows because of that reason. Especially because a lot of the drama / heavy plot twists in a lot of shows feel like their only reason for existence is to be exactly that, and not to fit into the story.
The funny part is, the show has a TON of actual story and deep shit to it... its just hard to see because every time you get close to it Cid just kinda... Shadows all over it? I am glad Gigguk said it reminded him of One Punch Man because that is what I have been telling my friends the whole time since it feels so similar to me. All the other characters have all this deep, intricate interactions between one another. They fight desperately against a foe they have no hope of truly beating. As they reach the end of their ropes and you expect some bullshit plot device to get pulled out of their ass like friendship or something to defeat the baddy... Saitama shows up and kills the bad guy no problemo. Eminence in Shadow has the EXACT SAME ENERGY to that and I love it.
@@fieryelf that is the most known secret ever. Obviously an over saturation is bad too but entertainment that is cheesy and dumb sells, every time. Like know one thought the expendables was "good" as a deep story, it was fun tho. same with the Fast movies
@@hughmungus4730 Honestly, Danmachi has the best sound design I've ever heard in an anime next to Made in Abyss. Just to be clear, I'm talking sound effects and design, not music. Kevin Penkin did the music in MiA and it's pretty hard to beat.
well, he got kinda screwed by the princess knowing/realizing what he was actually doing and bull shited him with accepting. the funny part came when somehow the princess wanted the whole thing to continue/be real relation and he refused in the most BadA$$ way.
Honestly for the first two episodes I was thinking of dropping it but somehow couldn’t. Then I realised that even though I am way, way past 13, this show embodies everything that I had ever dreamed of as a child. This show is avenging my lost dreams. Not only that but I feel it brought back the 13 year old in me and I love it. Plus the openings are fire
Same, I couldnt find myself enjoying in the first episodes and thought of leaving it be but thought Id keep going and it ended up becoming one of my all time favorites.
the piano got me in tears, other anime will just put the piano in the sewers, eminence went: "but how did it got there?" and show us, and then in contrast of the ridicoulnes of stealing a piano they just went with the most edgy scene ever... man i love this anime
I fucking loved that part so much! The police going over the scene like "it was here, then it vanished" like who the fuck steals a full ass piano in the day time? Brilliant.
The best part for me is how much that scene meant to Princess Rose and to him its just like "Damn I've always wanted to play piano in a moonlit underground chapel-like part of the sewers."
is the dumb idea of “i’m trying to not be serious so it’s funny” BUT FAILS AT THAT REALLY HARD! there is an skill involved in trying to be a parody! and this anime and manga ain’t one
@ERMER Yeah which sucks. the Manga has insanely funny moments that almost made me shard. also some of it actually makes sense in the manga. like in the very first ep. Since he aspires to become the Strongest obviously despite being a teenage boy he has a RIpped AS FUCK body.
It actualy don't make sense specialy when you realize that cid is intelligent(although insane) and sophisticated at what he does. He won't make himself that buff that will make him stand out, and standing out is something his avoiding specialy on earth because the thing that he does is technically criminal(vigilantesism) and he knows it.
The start of the manga was hilarious, he is SUPER macho and is like "I blend in perfectly, COMPLETELY inconspicuous" while looking like the incredible hulk.
Honestly I'm glad you said it because I randomly think about that scene. Like damn bro, you're going to kill that many people for CLOUT? the only one who witnessed it already knew you were strong!
I think this is a good description but it's hard to imagine. I would just say it is an Isekai that is self-aware it is a trash Isekai and executes all of the Tropes intentionally so unashamedly that it becomes an overpowered comedy. I'd say it has more in common with One-Punch Man than Overlord but superficially it pretends to be an Overlord ripoff.
I just woke up, saw a RUclips short of the very first "I... Am... ätœmîç", binged all 20 episodes and now I'm here. I'd never even heard of this show before this morning and now I don't think I'd be able to live without it.
You and me both, i know it's cringe but it's the first cringe that rolls with the cringe so well it ain't somehow cringe..... SOMEBODY HELP ME MAKE THIS MATHEMATICALLY SENSE!!!! I'm stuck in an ever changing labyrinth in my own head, Trying to figure this shit out, also i'mma beg for at least 8 seasons
Dude when he says "Atomic" I feel like my ears got most definitely indecently and inappropriately touched. They perfectly recreated the feeling you get when that creepy person whispers in your ear. I loved this show and I want more.
This is probably one of the only a handful "harem, OP, Isekai" that I found super fun to watch as a female. If I was in Cid's world, I'd certainly hope I have invisibility and shield magic so I can just watch everything he does and carry popcorn with me.
@@matthewdunsby304 he was splattering his brains across a rock and your concern was that he jumped out on the road (and proceeded to get hit by a truck)?
I think the best way to describe eminence in shadow is using an integer analogy: Eminence in Shadow cranked the cringe up *so high* that it caused an integer overflow and became cool again
It actually gave me so much dopamine, that I repeated a few times, before pulling out my keyboard from my cupboard to play it. I am a slave to my edgy teenage self.
@@azfar188 yeah compared to any light novel eminence in shadow had the most episodes for any light novel volume. For one volume they had 9 episodes while me an overlord fan are anime have 3 to 4 episodes a volume with 12 episodes a season.
@@kinglightning5256 the worlds finest assassin gets reincarnated in another world as an aristocrat took the whole first season to cover the first light novel.
@@kinglightning5256 danmachi season 4 part 2 is 11 episodes for volume 14 and its been paying off well. Although god damn I found myself laughing a shit ton at this anime, tempted to go and read the light novel now.
you mean perv ashat the prince. i first heard that and thought that it was a nickname. nope it was his real name, yep no fuqs given by the anime to give a main villian a completly ridiculous name.
@@LaKingLuck NO, it will get some more seasons. Season three will have even more fucking crazing cinge 10x scenes. He will go back into his old world, and now magic had come to exist in old world and he will do some crazy shit and will bring back the girl who he saved in his original world with him to his current world. Apparaently he told beta to take useful things with him and beta along with the things picks up the girl as an instruction manual as to how to use those things.
Going in blind it started as like a normal isekai but with very fluid fight animation. The first time witnessing the glorious atomic line will not be forgotten. Ep19,20 is so well done. What a bang it ended on. And S2 is announce immediately. The studio is so confident and gets it.
They deserve to be confident, I knew the source material and this still blew me away. The studio put out a better anime than I could have ever expected from the sources material.
19 was great, but 20 for me was stretched out. The fight didn't really need to go everywhere in the city; also Iris, someone who determined to protect the country, was causing collateral damage everywhere just trying to catch someone she can't beat.
@Aruim I think that was sort of the point. It was expanding on the same idea as her using an artifact despite finding them shameful. Doing everything she could, throwing everything she had at him, even to the degree of damaging what she swore to protect and throwing away her pride, and it was all useless.
S2 ended. sadly the production is off. Alpha and Beta looks very diff. the fights looks less badass. But but the last 5min of ep12 back on earth is good again. Guess the A team came back for the send off. When 'highest' started for the end credit chef kiss. Hope team A works on the movie.
@@Insorainity they're probably having fun honestly. most VAs got into voice acting by watching different types of shows and among them are those who enjoys anime more than anyone
Yep. Rather than OPM, I think it draws a lot from Gurren Lagaan. It just turns all the dials to eleven and doesn't look back. It doesn't care about character arcs or third acts or cliches. It's like seeing someone dance like nobody is watching.
If the show wasn't self-aware, I highly doubt it'd be this successful. The jokes hit way harder because of this trait, and generally makes me more invested in watching more. I just hate shows or games that do stupid shit and don't AT LEAST acknowledge how dumb what just happened is. A good example of another great self-aware game is Hi-Fi rush, and how the world (Magically) is in rhythm with your character, they poke fun of that then dismiss it.
@@wolfboos Being self-aware doesn't necessarily mean pointing it out specifically within its own context. I actually kind of find that "meta" stuff a bit annoying. It 's better if it's self-aware in the sense of not giving a fucking shit and doing it in full confidence that despite it being silly, over the top, or otherwise ridiculous, you WILL enjoy it. Gurren Lagann as mentioned before is the perfect example of this. Most Trigger animes are. Completely over the top, and leans into it so much that it's hard not to love.
@@64-96 Oh yeah, being self-aware alone is not enough for sure, though since this was the topic of this comment, I just thought about that. But yeah, I agree with what you said.
The final episode's fight scene was so beautifully done and felt so cool to watch it unfold while everyone is looking in confusion as everything falls apart around them in a instant.
God the best part is how he fucking trolled EVERYBODY including the damn audience with his blue-balling us on one final epic "I am atomic" scene. Truely a sigma male gigachad moment.
As someone who have read the manga and light novel before watching the anime, the first episode really told me that who ever made the adaptation were fully committed in doing it.
At this point in our culture, "I am The Eminence in Shadow." line feels similar to "It`s Morbin time!". A definite add-on to our bucket list to watch. Edit: Thank you everyone for the 1K Likes!
This was unironically an amazing show. I laughed so hard so many times. It's deliciously self aware and almost breaks the 4th wall a couple times. The mc just debates with himself what the best plot would be. It's also amazingly animated and the sound effect are so on point all the time. The production value is higher than I first thought after watching this video. Thx gigguk for giving shows like this more attention.
"The mc just debates with himself what the best plot would be." I'm in. Was wondering what yall meant by self aware but if they pull that off its gatta be pretty slick
@@ashutoshkumar12a46 I don't care, I have never watched konosuba and I'm not even interested in watching it. Now The Eminence in Shadow? That's some shit I wanna watch
This anime is one of my favorites. The best part is the fact that he's hyper-aware that what he's doing is an act and bullshitting some fake story. He isn't even aware that the story he's weaving is actually true. He also thinks that everyone around him is well aware that he's putting on an act and goes along with it just to humor him. He doesn't even know he's legit got a harem of shadow assassins at his beck and call and I find all of that supremely entertaining.
This contributes to a lot of the comedy too in my opinion, because there's a lingering anticipation and curiosity of "what the hell would happen if something happened in just the right way to either make cid realize that all of this is real or expose to his shadow garden comrades that he thinks they're all just larping together for fun, how the hell would they think of him and all the work they've done so far", because that could be a pretty goddamn hilarious scene in itself. Instead, the man has a script running in his head translating everything he experiences into the common sense of his past life, meaning "there is no shadow organization hellbent on world domination even though I wish there was, there's no way girls would have feelings for me" etc since that's what his last life was like. Baddies with swords and magic kidnap your sister? Must be bandits that your larp friends made up a fun story for to enjoy kicking their asses more. A princess talks to you about love and your future together with you for hours on your way to vacation? (don't remember how much of this was shown in the anime but it went into good depth in the manga and novel, and the princess in question was Rose, not Alexia). She must be trying to push some strange religion or cult on you, better shut up and feign acceptance until you can get away. Pretty much all of shadow garden idolizes him and definitely all of the main female characters save for like Iris, Beatrix, and maybe his sister would either marry him (whether that's as "Cid" or "Shadow") the second he asked or if he asked after dating for two weeks, but he always has some internal explanation for why their adoration and affection must instead be some loose attachment from shared hobbies or gratitude at best, finding him convenient somehow at worst. He constantly thinks he's just enjoying larping out what he wishes his dream was like and having a good time doing it while also internally lamenting that the real thing doesn't exist, completely oblivious to the fact that he is literally living his dream. He isn't larping, but he's the only one who doesn't know it isn't larp. He's literally living his dream but is too dense to realize it. He's also drowning in all the female affection from women (of such high quality as to have no right existing in such a ridiculous comedy) that a man could possibly want, but ironically Cid himself probably has less romantic desire than 90% of MCs out there and possibly wouldn't think much of it even if he knew beyond just thinking "of course a real eminence in shadow would be brimming with allure and mystique that captures the hearts of women simply because of how goddamn cool he is, they have good taste, a shame this is just larp and not the real thing" even if I myself think one or many of these women deserve to end up happy with him despite himself lmao. The humor in this, especially in the manga and light novels, just has so many layers it's ridiculous. It may be simple and stupid in some regards, but on closer inspection the framework that constructs that stupidly straightforward cringey edgelord humor is actually a bit complex and layered. It's a masterwork of pushing something to the extreme to maximize the comedy. The author is a genius and he better keep the novels coming.
@@trevorthompson6825 Cid/Shadow really are the epitome of "fake it till you make it" Alternatively they're also what happens when you do something for ironic humor long enough, after a while it becomes genuine, like how I said "pog" ironically and then it became part of my vocab.
Cid knew about the Cult , just that he think of them as some weak flashy pushover organization which ,so far from his point of view, he is totally right. He believed there are a more secret organization behind the Cult, think that his 2 friends are part of it, call to spy on him. Also, Cid is actually very knowledgeable about ancient legend and history and went around finding them.
I'm older and enjoyed the heck out of this series. I hope we get more episodes than one piece IF they could keep it going this good but won't hold my breath on that ever happening.
When i fooling around and don't take anything seriously in a multiplayer game. Finishing the game I'm the MVP... Receiving hate messages from the other team for not stopping running around. And myself still wondering how I'm first place.
I genuinely love this show so much. From the fact that the first episode was such a bait and switch, introducing you to side characters only for Cid to just fugg off to a new world and completely forget his past life, to the fact that Cid himself doesn't even realize that all the stuff he made up is actually real and not just a fanfic. Actually great show, highly recommend it.
The funny thing is the fact that the studio goes so hard on some of the animation 😂. The batte scene is wayyyy to good. Also the VA is having too much fun doing Cid
My favourite part of this was in like episode 4 or 5 or something where shadow garden returns to him and starts talking about how they have over 100 members and are storming the evil cult and this dude is just like “wow they’re still going along with this fantasy for me, did they hire extras or something?” And even after nuking a whole city, and killing dozens if not hundreds of cultists he is just like “wow these guys really commit to the role”
I love this show SO FRIGGEN MUCH. like...the idea he just has a checklist of "cool lines to say" is glorious. being a chuuni in an ACTUAL magic world...and then still acting like a secret chuuni and just...somehow thinking the girls are just playing along with his fantasy,lol
The greatest part of this checklist is that HE SPENT LIKE FOUR HOURS IN HIS CHAIR FACING THE WINDOW PRACTICING "I've been expecting you" and just hoping for someone to walk in as he's saying it. Shadow ignores his harem because he's already in a dedicated relationship with The Bit
my absolute favorite part is that cid doesn’t even know he’s getting the story shit right, he just thinks the girls he saved are going along with his role playing because they feel bad for him. like they are wholeheartedly devoted to him and built this empire for him and he just thinks they’re being nice because he saved them. but also the scene where he takes a step and vanishes just to reappear behind the person he’s fighting, implying he was so fast not even the air noticed that he moved was honestly cold af. one of the few anime scenes, next to scenes like the hanami fight from JJK, that made me jump up and down like a little kid.
It wasnt that he was so fast, in the ln it said something like, his swordplay is natural, like the falling rain or flashing thunder, you dont pay attention to natural things like droplets of the rain so it slips out of one consciousness. Basically his swordplay becomes one with nature itself and the mind stops to take notice of him.
well he IS very fkign fast, but he also has tricks , like in the manga he wanted to cheat on a test as was planning to move to fast to see but manipulate the wind so he wouldnt create a shockwave
it's true though xD I was thinking about the same from the beginning of the season while recruiting elfs as his shadow guards xD and asking " HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?! "
It'll be funny if he somehow has heirs and children, even though he NEVER SLEPT with any of his women. The girls are down bad for him so badly, I wouldn't be surprised if they are crazy enough to 'try' anything, like making a child clone of him using his dna or something?
lol how can you get it wrong when the clip is right above the comment section :D "the man fucks without losing his virginity, because he never looses" .. but i agree on one thing ,that line got me as well :D
I am ａｔｏｍｉｃ Is literally one of the most memorable parts of anime for me. Me and my gf laughed so hard when we heard it but were also so flabbergasted because how cool it was
I am over 50 and I love this anima, I have been reading the Manga since it came out and have waited for someone to turn it into a anime. Long live Cid!
preach on man. i followed this since it was a web was overjoyed when it went light novel, then watched it soar into this insane anime. i knew everything that was going to happen and STILL had fun watching it. long live cid
Honestly I just love how much fun they clearly had making it. The scene where two of the harem are arguing over their boob size and the camera slides away to a random gardener playing with a cat while the argument completely fades into the background is great.
That's part of the fun, we already know the cliché conversation they're going to have, in fact the show knows it so well that, just like Cid, instead of watching something cliché and boring, it does something better with its time like watching a gardener play with a cat, and that's magical
or how the girls are helplessly thirsting over cid and then u have the usual clueless but like permanently stunlocked cringe mc but not cid , he has NO CLUE in the slightest and also not a shred of lust in his eyes and thats what makes it funnny, even when delta is litteraly grinding against his crotch he doesnt even bat an eye
@gamingyoshi2280 I also think the main reason he doesnt notice these things is simply because he doesn't care. He has no interest in that since to him it wouldn't make sense for any of his characters.
Alright but for real though. That very first "I am atomic" scene is so bad it's good. I absolutely love that scene and it still gives me goosebumps when he says "atomic." What a bomb ass sound mix.
It was the combination of the buildup, the cringy but somehow perfect French way of saying atomic with light reverb followed by complete silence. Then blam. Masterfully executed dumpster fire.
I think what really makes Eminence in Shadow so great is it really nails that balance between making a super OP, power fantasy protagonist; while also having that self awareness where they're not afraid to make him the butt of a joke for being a dorky-edgelord
@@evoke97 Oh, he's a dork. He's just a very skilled, very dangerous dork who has no self-awareness and even less care what YOU think of him. It's HIS power fantasy, and you're living (or dying) in it.
@@segevstormlord3713 i really don't think dork is the correct word at all. he literally has a harem of gorgeous girls and is the most powerful being in existence, not socially awkward or anything and doesn't do the typical mc thing of blushing with beautiful girls. literally a gigachad instead of a dork lol
In general, He used Atomic at the end, but the direction was towards the sky. He, like Saitama, dispersed all the clouds in the sky (Fight against the Sea King, The rain ended immediately)
One moment in the series where it just clicked with me how self aware this show is, is the moment where it shows HOW he got Isekai'd. It shows him being all cool and stuff throughout the series, but how he got there: He's in the forest, LITERALLY bashing his head against a rock and screaming "MAGIC, MAGIC, MAGIC, GIVE ME MAGIC" and then proceeding to run into the road attempting to fly like a fucking psycho crazy person with an appropriately unhinged expression to match, _because that's what he actually is at the end of the day._ Realistically, no other kind of person could commit the way cid does to the things he does. All that training, all that talk about trying to become able to withstand a nuclear blast, and he gets undone by truck-kun like a normal ass ordinary isekai protagonist because that's what would happen to someone like cid, its almost kind of an affirmation to you without outright spelling it out of "Yeah, we know this is stupid, and our protagonist is mentally unwell, is there a problem?" and then proceeding to post a gigachad image next to the entire premise of the rest of the series.
Yah i feel like that moment isn’t talked about enough, the mc is borderline insane and would spend his life in an asylum in our world but in the fantasy world that insanity translated to power and influence.
I like to think that yes, he is insane but id specially laser focus on his objective. Once he wants to do something he does the absolute best to achieve it either if that's been a magic user, a sword fighter, an NPC, literally anything that he wants to be he will train to the absolute limit and beyond. And at the same time he is so far remove from anyone and anything around him like him not wanting or caring to have anything with any girl (either shadow Garden members or not).
Apparently him running in front of the truck was an accident - he though those lights were gods or something coming down to give him magic due to the concussion he gave himself from bashing his head on that tree. Which makes the whole thing absolutely hilarious. Look at his face when he realizes it's a truck. "It's at that moment he knew. He fucked up".mp3
Yeah he is definitely insane but tbh.. If i could master any martial arts there is and train my body to absolute perfection and I still cant win against an atomic bomb, I would go insane too....i mean the absolute only thing that could possibly make him more powerful in Rl is a concept that doesn't even exist there lmao
Eminence in Shadow is like when you just stop off for some fast food, and end up getting a fresh, well made burger that actually makes you happy you thought about stopping.
The DnD metaphor is so on point it's crazy. I thought that Anos Voldigold was the king of self aware isekai parody until this show came out and showed me something I didn't know I needed to watch. And I need more. I need more dumb, edgy, hit or miss self aware isekai.
I have an easier time watching eminence because at least the side characters arent stupid, misfit just bothers the hell out of me because it feels like anos is the only likable character in the show, lay is fine but even then i dont care much for him, i just dont feel anything towards all the friends, while i love how distinct the shadow garden and even cids friends at school are, maybe its just eminences more comedy focused story makes it easier to pallete like konosuba but man unless isekai goes all the way with its bits they feel too samey
This anime, and especially the second season, is just middle school syndrome amplified by a million and I will die on the hill that it's simply the MC's coma fever dream after he barely survived the truck accident.
Eminence in Shadow is the first anime that made me binge 5 episodes in a row since GinTama. Also, a show that includes the lines "I am atomic!" and "How did I get on the rom-com protagonist route?" needs to be praised night and day. What a great show!
This show is so unique 😂. Remember the first episode where the story seems to introduce the girl as a main character, but the show just brutally switch and she was never seen again. I love it 😂 Edit: yeah I know she reappears. As I posted that comment I wasn’t at that stage in the manga. Actually I was right before her reappearance. But yeah, now I know
The sound design of this show is the unsung hero. They are so crisp and add incredible depth and detail, but are perfectly layered to be in the background except when it matters. It's truly a masterclass in the anime world.
"Gaslighting The Isekai Anime" is an all time great for me. The fact the main character gaslights so hard his bs comes to reality is so trashy it's great.
Thing is even when everybody says it's trash, it is actually extremely well made. The style is very deliberately all over the top. And I am always looking if an Anime achieves what it wants to invoke in a person. And I think it really knocked it out of the park. I don't think I will forget it so fast since it is a extreme outlier within Isekai.
Right. I think most people miss the part where this is a very clear parody of the genre - but does it so well that on the surface it looks like just a high quality isekai trash, which is exactly the point.
@@Ragalya Not really a parody, but more like a super aware of itself show that roll with its own absurdity. People saying that Cid is cringe for example completely miss the fact Cid is a Chuuni and roleplay constantly as a cringe anime trope. It's exactly like One Punch Man with Saitama being completely unaware of his impact and the hero society. But you don't see people saying that Saitama is cringe for having his attacks being named serious punch, or that he beat an opponent while screaming he is late for sales.
Because it's not trash, it's a good Isekai, the problem is that people expect to compare them to famous animes, like action shonens like Demon Slayer (to give an example). Another great example of people being like this is my brother, he loves animes like Evangelion, but always says he would like to see a protagonist like Rimuru from Tensei Shitara Slime, however, he doesn't watch it because according to him, he wants something more like Evangelion (complicated plot in a modern world), even though Slime is almost literally the anime he's been looking for in years.
It's absolute peak of trash isekai and cringe executed in a way which only could be read as masterpiece. It's entertaining, it's stupid beyond reason and the whole story is absolute shit. But boy, I have so much fun with that.
I love how it fully immerses itself in cringy chuuni fantasy. That the MC is fully aware of it and decides to go 110% into it simply because it's his passion is something I can respect. He knows people wont be impressed by it, but he doesn't care. He loves it and it's all that matters.
The best part is that the cringe stuff doesnt "just happen". The MC goes out of his way to make them happen. He prepares the scene, he sets up the lightning, he waits for the perfect dramatic moment, he probably learns cool lines to say late at night. All for both the MC and the background character roles. And he always goes to aboslutely ridiculous lenghts for it.
MC always wanted to be a "Hero" so there is nothing chuuni about it, he's not Imagining that he is a Hero, he was actually trying to become one. Also don't be like Gigguk and say anything that is anime related cringe, times have changed, something that was cringe before now is just normal deal with it.
Cringe is as cringe does, people who narruto run will always be being. Anime cons will have variety of cring. And this protagonist is mega cring, but the results and his passion for it are commendable. Not sure if I’d call him a hero since he does good or backstabs his own allies is he thinks it’s “cool”
@@Immerteal Not really, he makes stuff up which coincidentally happens to be true which sets up the scene that he stumbles upon. The Order of Diablos for example.
@@notroddy not every possible way , it's comedy is 10/10 and exactly my kind of humour but it sometimes favours humour over it's source light novel , whereas anime is trying to make the story seem serious , dark which it really is if not looking from cid's pov and has a good amount of comedy but even when the show is not trying to be that funny it's still very good compared to most comedy anime we get today.
I fucking loved these episodes. When that vampire girl first said that I thought something like: "Hey finally Shadow has found someone that can be his shadow eminence friend. I bet he wished he came up with that line." and then he started imitating it 😂
the difference with actual trashy isekai and Eminence in a Shadow, is that Cid was actually stupidly powerful IRL for the sake of being the "Eminence in a Shadow". he just happened to get hit by a truck in persuit of "power to rival a nuke". the added magic is a huge buff for him because of his dedication and FUCKING GRIND
@@belugashorts3727 yea but that’s like a different genre of isekai. His story is about growth. Eminence is about op dude getting magic to get more op while not knowing how much shit he’s caused
A missed oppotunity to note a few things that I think should have made in the video: 1. The anime adapted only 2 volumes of the LN. 10 episodes per volume. This is rare - they are kind'a going for a 100% complete run with this one and it's freaking amazing. 2. Animation quality when it counts. Especially the last episode has some demon slayer fight levels of attention to details and quality. 3. Sound design + visuals. The "I Am Atomic" still sends shivers down my spine and I have watched that scene more than I care to admit. I had shivers again while watching this video. 4. I have a distinct nagging feeling that parts of the show flew over your head on this one. I know, I know... You have no time, so others are probably gonna be the once who do a more in depth dive on the show. But it would have been nice if you were able to have one of your deep dive videos on this one.
@@ploopysnoof4468 never said it did. I said some parts show have an evident BUDGET applied to the scenes and when a studio and animators do that, we should celebrate it :) They did amazing work on the important scenes.
@@ARCNA442 it's kinda amazing that he compared it to OPM, which is exactly correct. Comedy with serious serious underlying plot just like OPM. But somehow gikguk missed it and considered it "stupid but fun" Really disappointing for an anime tuber tbh.
This show is all of my guilty pleasures slapped together and turned up to 11.
I just love the fact Cid in Shadow mode is LITERALLY thinking at any given moment, "What is the edgiest thing I can say right now?" and then says just that.
Gotta love him for that.
"This show is all of my guilty pleasures slapped together and turned up to 11", I'm with you on that
It's so dedicated to the bit in such high quality with emphasise on the the ridiculous perfomative nature of Cid, it's just plain fun.
@@yarion4774 Cid Died, isekai'd, and lived again for the bit
Anyone know the name of that song that he uses a cut from at 7:02
When Cid has a detailed monologue in episode 1 detailing how wonderful weapon a crowbar is, where the whole point is "I learned I can punch through armor by hitting them with the pointy end," I knew this series was for me. And it didn't disappoint.
The whole time he was having that monologue, I was getting really intrgued at how wonderful a crowbar was and also just how skilled he was
This show completely took me by surprise. I started watching it when the season was 5 episodes in ( I like to give new anime time to air 5 episodes before I start in) and after that, I watched it week to week. Every episode left me eagerly waiting for a week to pass so I could jump back into the madness. If I were to rate all the anime that has released over the last year based on how much I anticipated each episode week to week, this would be number 1.
to be fair a crowbar is a really fucking good improvised weapon, shit could be a blunt weapon, stabby stabby, hell Arnis with crowbars is fuckin terrifying
Yea, episode 1 hooked me almost immediately, I got super hyped during the crowbar fight, and was completely blindsided when the episodes ends with "surprise, it's an isekai!" (i don't read summaries ahead of time). The fact they show the actual death scene as him not accidentally dying but in fact intentionally running into traffic screaming at the top of his lungs ISEKAIIII really set the tone to 11, and I was there for it every week!
Doctor Freeman would be proud. So wake up Cid, wake up and smell the ashes.
The Eminence in Shadow was one of the most hilarious and self-aware shows I've seen in a while. Definitely hyped for season 2.
I really appreciate a show that purely embraces the cringe and OWNS it. Regarding the MC, Cid is definitely a breath of fresh air. Absolute gigachad energy, doesn't get flustered when talking to women, doesn't pretend to be a "moral" or "good" person, just runs around doing a little bit of trolling (and nuking) in pure Chuuni style.
Some writers think making the character aloof and detached is how you make a show self aware, but that's wrong.
This show only works because of how deeply committed Cid is to the LARP.
it was entertaining, and I do want to see season 2, but damn, so much unexplained stuff lol
eyy, being like 666 seems fititng
can't wait for the financial crisis ark
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My favourite part was when Sid heard an ominous line after being "saved" so he dedicated the entire fuckin' night to running around a vampire infested town saving people while repeating the exact same ominous fuckin' line to the people he saved while having 0 fuckin' clue what ANY of it means.
Definitely 😂😂😂
The moon is red
Run if you value your life. The frenzy has begun. The moon is red. We're out of time.
Bro I just watched s2 today and I found that so funny
Hes the goat for sure
I think one of the biggest selling points from this show as well, is just the VA work for Shadow. Dude nails every corny phrase, while exuding some pure badassery and terror when it calls for it, then jumping back down to sounding like your common redditor. And it works, to a shocking degree.
The va is good, the sound design is godlike.
ATOMIC
I... AM... ATOMIC
The VA for shadow is good,songs are awsome(escepially the battle themes,reminds me of games like gow or dmc),edgelord.
Haven't watched it yet, but felt like gigguk was overselling the show from what I remembered feeling when reading it. It was fun, sure, but in a very mediocre way and I ended up dropping it in the abandonment arc.
The he showed the full clip of "I am _ATOMIC",_ and I realized why he loves it so much. The sound design is, as you put it, godlike. This seems like one of those adaptations that is clearly superior to the source material. *At least if I can extrapolate the rest of the show from that one scene (like I said, haven't watched it yet).*
Honestly, fairly much alike 'reincarnated as a sword' in that way. Soundtracks and voice-acting and overall cool animation for the magic and combat scenes carrying and synergistically enhancing what was a rather mediocre comedy otherwise.
"Cid is a man who LARP'd so hard it became reality." I love this line so much.
His delusions are reality. He will make his cognitive dissonance your problem in its entirety
He's the guy you will see LARP-ing LOTR or something at the park
450 years after Don Quijote. Japan decided to make a parody.
My theory is that MC is in a coma ever since getting hit by that truck. It's the only thing that makes sense - and explains how his random made up plot immediately becomes real.
@@XIIchiron78 well,The theory canbget debunked,SPOILER ALERT!!!!
He reverse isekai in vol 4
Mundane Mann vs Iris was insane. When your fighting instinct is so intense it causes your opponent to hallucinate THEIR OWN DEATH.
Oh man, i was shocked by the way the animators went for the fight, a single movement of muscle was instant death and she stepped back. Her confidence and self esteem was shattered and he couldn't care less
Yeah it was top notch
@@XaviXDJoR i dont think he even knew what was going on so how could he care?!
i heared in the manga he actually killed her and revived her for her to halucinate that
Yeah ngl,the animation(imo)is pretty.
Man, I loved that episode when the eminence in the shadow said: "Yes, I am the eminence in the shadow" and eminenced in the shadowed every enemy on screen, truly an eminence in the shadow moment.
"Fucks without losing his virginity because he NEVER LOSES" is an amazing line, bravo.
Shadow is the Chuck Norris of anime.
I laughed so hard at that. He's still got it.
Shit had me dying 🤣 😂
You are 13 year old who thinks the "I am a gamer" line was an amazing line lol
👏👏👏Caught me off guard, repeated the line right away.
The "I am atomic" scene gave me goosebumps while laugh way too hard.
16/10 critical hit
I love when shadow says "its atomic time" and proceed to nuclear the area. Pure gigachad energy
Best attack in this season ngl
They nailed it so much, that scene encompasses the show lolll
Honestly the first Atomic hit so hard and funny and they did it really nicely. 2nd one's line was a bit more cringey and less cool. Third one was cool because he was just playing around and not actually using it. Man EIS is the best isekai I've seen. Sure Mushoku is art, Rezero is great but isekai is only captured by the fun you have along the way.
frrr bro
Cid Kagenou is the definition of character to say "who needs plot armor? Here I am the plot and you need the armor"
Yess inm stealing this
Truuuuueeeee
Don’t click the clips.
I am the author -Cid probably
Dude he totally would say that
"The frenzy has begun..the moon is red, we're out of time!" Has to be peak eminence in shadow moment.
This is honestly one of the most enjoyable anime that I've watched in years. Ultimately, it also proves Garnt's theory in the stages of weebdom. I am back where I started, which is not watching highly sophisticated plot heavy series but simply enjoying dumb and fun shows.
People try to be way too deep with story telling nowadays. It just needs to be entertaining to get me to watch really.
But hey, that's just a theory, a Grant's theory. Thanks for watching.
@@fieryelf I have always preferred more lighthearted shows because of that reason. Especially because a lot of the drama / heavy plot twists in a lot of shows feel like their only reason for existence is to be exactly that, and not to fit into the story.
The funny part is, the show has a TON of actual story and deep shit to it... its just hard to see because every time you get close to it Cid just kinda... Shadows all over it? I am glad Gigguk said it reminded him of One Punch Man because that is what I have been telling my friends the whole time since it feels so similar to me. All the other characters have all this deep, intricate interactions between one another. They fight desperately against a foe they have no hope of truly beating. As they reach the end of their ropes and you expect some bullshit plot device to get pulled out of their ass like friendship or something to defeat the baddy... Saitama shows up and kills the bad guy no problemo. Eminence in Shadow has the EXACT SAME ENERGY to that and I love it.
@@fieryelf that is the most known secret ever. Obviously an over saturation is bad too but entertainment that is cheesy and dumb sells, every time. Like know one thought the expendables was "good" as a deep story, it was fun tho. same with the Fast movies
The sound design for this anime is euphoric. Its unfair how good it sounds
That last bit of music he put at the end of the video reminded me so much of Berserk type music, it scared me
The sound director is the same guy who did the sounds in fire force
Anybody know of any anime with sound design like this? (not feet force)
@@hughmungus4730 Honestly, Danmachi has the best sound design I've ever heard in an anime next to Made in Abyss. Just to be clear, I'm talking sound effects and design, not music. Kevin Penkin did the music in MiA and it's pretty hard to beat.
@@hughmungus4730 JoJo's has pretty goat tier sound designing.
This man meticulously PLANNED the best rejection method and instead got a "yes" from a princess. Cid's magic and rizz is atomic indeed.
He got that 235 rizz
well, he got kinda screwed by the princess knowing/realizing what he was actually doing and bull shited him with accepting. the funny part came when somehow the princess wanted the whole thing to continue/be real relation and he refused in the most BadA$$ way.
atomiq*
@@Pyracyntrix Unstable Rizz 🥶🥶
And now the princess won't leave him alone.
Honestly for the first two episodes I was thinking of dropping it but somehow couldn’t. Then I realised that even though I am way, way past 13, this show embodies everything that I had ever dreamed of as a child. This show is avenging my lost dreams. Not only that but I feel it brought back the 13 year old in me and I love it.
Plus the openings are fire
💀
Same, I couldnt find myself enjoying in the first episodes and thought of leaving it be but thought Id keep going and it ended up becoming one of my all time favorites.
I was so locked i watched both seasons in 12 hours nonstop
This show is literal crack for my brain and I will never get tired of it.
agreed
Mostly the fight scenes are pick animation and sound edit.
The show was bad but the enjoyment factor was too good to pass up
Try the manga it's even more funny
Same
the piano got me in tears, other anime will just put the piano in the sewers, eminence went: "but how did it got there?" and show us, and then in contrast of the ridicoulnes of stealing a piano they just went with the most edgy scene ever... man i love this anime
I fucking loved that part so much! The police going over the scene like "it was here, then it vanished" like who the fuck steals a full ass piano in the day time? Brilliant.
@@jabzilla21 bro im laughing my ass again remembering that scene, peak entertainment
This and the hamburger trading scene were my favorites
@@jabzilla21 yeah lmao
The best part for me is how much that scene meant to Princess Rose and to him its just like "Damn I've always wanted to play piano in a moonlit underground chapel-like part of the sewers."
The fact that the anime doesn't try to take itself super serious is what makes it so much better.
It's important to be serious about not taking yourself too seriously.
is the dumb idea of “i’m trying to not be serious so it’s funny” BUT FAILS AT THAT REALLY HARD! there is an skill involved in trying to be a parody! and this anime and manga ain’t one
@ERMER Yeah which sucks. the Manga has insanely funny moments that almost made me shard. also some of it actually makes sense in the manga. like in the very first ep. Since he aspires to become the Strongest obviously despite being a teenage boy he has a RIpped AS FUCK body.
It actualy don't make sense specialy when you realize that cid is intelligent(although insane) and sophisticated at what he does. He won't make himself that buff that will make him stand out, and standing out is something his avoiding specialy on earth because the thing that he does is technically criminal(vigilantesism) and he knows it.
@@marclenraymagdaraog691 Yeah the manga is by far the best version of this story imo.
When John Eminence in Shadow said "I am the Eminence in Shadow" I stood up and clapped, because I knew I had witnessed peak cinema
The start of the manga was hilarious, he is SUPER macho and is like "I blend in perfectly, COMPLETELY inconspicuous" while looking like the incredible hulk.
Yes! That was what really told me I was in for a rollercoaster of a story
I was disappointed anime didn't Hulk him up in that episode 1, he should have looked like in the manga :D
He wasn't actually a buff. The manga just made him like that.
I love how first episode girl has a flashback with him looking like Bane when he saved her in the manga.
@@thamor4746 it's because it's more based off of the light novel, the manga is quite a bit more exaggerated
The Eminence in Shadow is like if there was a very skilled and imaginative artist that ultimately turned everything they painted into a phallus.
I know an artist like that but instead, he can't paint anything serious except if it is for a meme. Then he'd go Michaelangelo mode
Basically like Spongebob when he tried to work at another restaurant and whatever he tried too cooks ended up being krabby patty
Show me a painting without hidden genitalia, I triple l dog dare you.
Definition of a incel show lmao... wtf
Or Zima Blue
The civilian casualties from Cid displaying his op moves in the middle of cities is incalculable
For the Honor, they will be remembered.
worth it
He's atomic. And bombs do not forgive
Honestly I'm glad you said it because I randomly think about that scene. Like damn bro, you're going to kill that many people for CLOUT? the only one who witnessed it already knew you were strong!
@@jrspringston for clout? You mean for LARPing lmfao, thats much wilder
cid isn't the worst main character, HE IS THE BEST BACKGROUND CHARACTER 🔥
When I describe Eminence in Shadow, I just say: "It's like Overlord, but if Ainz had even less of an idea of what he was doing"
*when overlord being a parrot who says stuff he hears seconds before
I think this is a good description but it's hard to imagine. I would just say it is an Isekai that is self-aware it is a trash Isekai and executes all of the Tropes intentionally so unashamedly that it becomes an overpowered comedy. I'd say it has more in common with One-Punch Man than Overlord but superficially it pretends to be an Overlord ripoff.
Like ainz ever had any idea about wtf was happening
And it’s actually good and doesn’t have a creepy genocidal Nazi fan base
@@strygwrAinz is aware that he's conquering the world he was isekaid into. He just has no clue how he's pulling it off.
I just woke up, saw a RUclips short of the very first "I... Am... ätœmîç", binged all 20 episodes and now I'm here. I'd never even heard of this show before this morning and now I don't think I'd be able to live without it.
@@kidarufilms6345 make sure you close any tabs that open on their own, maybe use a vpn, I don’t I never have any problems
@@kidarufilms6345 beurocratic BS says you can only watch it in some countries
You and me both, i know it's cringe but it's the first cringe that rolls with the cringe so well it ain't somehow cringe..... SOMEBODY HELP ME MAKE THIS MATHEMATICALLY SENSE!!!! I'm stuck in an ever changing labyrinth in my own head, Trying to figure this shit out, also i'mma beg for at least 8 seasons
@Julius Moe-nstar cringe is a negative thing. - + - = +
@@Iamlurking504 that puts things into perspective, thanks
Dude when he says "Atomic" I feel like my ears got most definitely indecently and inappropriately touched. They perfectly recreated the feeling you get when that creepy person whispers in your ear.
I loved this show and I want more.
Thanks for that description, I've been looking for this since I first heard the scene
Shit reminded me of Re:Zero S2
first time ASMR ?^^
Shadow is playing bingo while the rest of the world is stuck on chess.
I'm surpirsed at how incredibly accurate this is
-barges into hot spring
-it's the girl's hot spring
-does not acknowledge the girl
-flexes his PP
-refuses to elaborate further
-leaves
Yes it is normal.
Absolute madlad
This is probably one of the only a handful "harem, OP, Isekai" that I found super fun to watch as a female. If I was in Cid's world, I'd certainly hope I have invisibility and shield magic so I can just watch everything he does and carry popcorn with me.
It's very normal
@@eggsnspam Is it even harem, he never really does anything with the girls they kind of just exist
Shadow is the definition of Chunibyo but he actually has the powers.
dose no one realize he jumped in front of that truck to get transported
@@matthewdunsby304 he was splattering his brains across a rock and your concern was that he jumped out on the road (and proceeded to get hit by a truck)?
that’s literally what the whole series is about
@@KleinesStein nah I swear he is so craved for power that he jumped in front of a truck to get isekiad. But I might be remembering it differently
@@KleinesStein he thought the headlights were mana and reached for it
I love how absurd and fun this series is, "I am atomic" managed to be both badass and cringe.
Cid reminded us that "presentation is key"
Whenever I hear that I get chills and fo
"Damn that's so cool"
And two seconds later
"God fucking damnit I did It again didn't I"
Like junk food
it was bad... ngl
@@tortilla7221 terrible even
it reminded me of maou sama retry,
somewhat got people's attention
by having just an unique MC
Oh you’re a villain alright, just not a super one. “What’s the difference?” Presentation!
I think the best way to describe eminence in shadow is using an integer analogy:
Eminence in Shadow cranked the cringe up *so high* that it caused an integer overflow and became cool again
It's not bad. It's beautifully self-aware.
I liked scamboli's take on it, "the story is dead set on moving whatever direct the author felt like farting that day".
It doesn't take itself seriously and I love it. Being a veteran and seeing a story that doesn't have an serious plot and good animation is gold.
the show was enjoyable the fights have no tension
Is it though? Just because they wrote the mc as an oblivious fool doesn't make it "self aware"
@@HuyNguyen-kc6qd Then it's not for you. Not every fight needs tension, it's not a fucking drama, it's a self aware comedy.
That single note on the piano of Welcome to the Black parade when Shadow plays the piano was a masterpiece edit
It actually gave me so much dopamine, that I repeated a few times, before pulling out my keyboard from my cupboard to play it. I am a slave to my edgy teenage self.
Its funny how that song is so ingrained in me that a single note is enough to make me recognize it
Fax
It instantly cracked me up. Full belly laugh. Got me good.
I knew something unlocked inside me when I heard it but I couldn't remember what xD
Any Anime that uses 9+ episodes to adapt a single LN volume deserves respect.
WAIT WHAT!?
@@azfar188 yeah compared to any light novel eminence in shadow had the most episodes for any light novel volume. For one volume they had 9 episodes while me an overlord fan are anime have 3 to 4 episodes a volume with 12 episodes a season.
@@kinglightning5256 the worlds finest assassin gets reincarnated in another world as an aristocrat took the whole first season to cover the first light novel.
@@mrxfoodxman8055 Yeah but it was doo doo
@@kinglightning5256 danmachi season 4 part 2 is 11 episodes for volume 14 and its been paying off well. Although god damn I found myself laughing a shit ton at this anime, tempted to go and read the light novel now.
I'm convinced the show is actually Cid having a fever dream in the hospital after being hit by the truck.
Let’s not forget the character names in this show. 10/10 hilarious
you mean perv ashat the prince. i first heard that and thought that it was a nickname. nope it was his real name, yep no fuqs given by the anime to give a main villian a completly ridiculous name.
@@gregorturner9421 There's also Mundane Mann and Imatry Nottaloose.
@@gregorturner9421 His npc friends were Skel Etal and Po Tato, one of them was a farmer, guess which one
Either they were high while writing the names or they simply didn't think much and went on whatever came to their mind
@@n9s3nse10 It's a parody show so the characters get parody names.
"Everyone's playing Game of Thrones while Cid's playing Dungeons and Dragons."
Bro, that literally sums up this anime to a tee. 🤣🤣🤣
My favorite part is how he keeps casting nat20s on all stats except wit lmao
More like Exalted...
What sells it is the absolute sincerity.
He's so committed to the bit that it becomes unironically good.
"I am Atomic" is one of the coolest lines .
Yo is it getting a final movie?
@@LaKingLuck NO, it will get some more seasons. Season three will have even more fucking crazing cinge 10x scenes. He will go back into his old world, and now magic had come to exist in old world and he will do some crazy shit and will bring back the girl who he saved in his original world with him to his current world. Apparaently he told beta to take useful things with him and beta along with the things picks up the girl as an instruction manual as to how to use those things.
more like cringe and stupid
@@easytutorails8845 Back to earth arc will be in the movie, while the next volumes will get seasons.
cringe
Going in blind it started as like a normal isekai but with very fluid fight animation. The first time witnessing the glorious atomic line will not be forgotten. Ep19,20 is so well done. What a bang it ended on. And S2 is announce immediately. The studio is so confident and gets it.
They deserve to be confident, I knew the source material and this still blew me away. The studio put out a better anime than I could have ever expected from the sources material.
Honestly my fav isekai ever
19 was great, but 20 for me was stretched out. The fight didn't really need to go everywhere in the city; also Iris, someone who determined to protect the country, was causing collateral damage everywhere just trying to catch someone she can't beat.
@Aruim I think that was sort of the point. It was expanding on the same idea as her using an artifact despite finding them shameful. Doing everything she could, throwing everything she had at him, even to the degree of damaging what she swore to protect and throwing away her pride, and it was all useless.
S2 ended. sadly the production is off. Alpha and Beta looks very diff. the fights looks less badass. But but the last 5min of ep12 back on earth is good again. Guess the A team came back for the send off. When 'highest' started for the end credit chef kiss. Hope team A works on the movie.
respect to the voice actor having to say all of his lines
How they can say all of their lines and not burst into cringe laughter is beyond me…
@@Insorainity they're probably having fun honestly. most VAs got into voice acting by watching different types of shows and among them are those who enjoys anime more than anyone
@@Insorainity its not even cringe lol, edgy sure but real cringe is the stuttering virgin mc's who squeal whenever a woman gets close to them
@@evoke97 not knowing the difference between shyness and cringe is indeed *cringe*
@@dubbyplays no, the stuttering blushing mc's that have harems they don't utilise are the definition of cringe
"Everybody's playing Game of Thrones and this dude's playing Dungeons and Dragons"
Sold. Gonna go watch this this weekend.
What’s your opinion on it?
Cid manages to roll a nat 20 EVERY TURN when he’s in shadow mode he’s so unbelievably lucky it’s funny
how did u like it?
That quote from Gigguk sums up this series pretty accurately. I was using "parody MC in serious story" but this is better 😂
I just love how shadow has 5 identities over the 2seasons
And he manages to get more in the LN lmfaoooo
This show is very self-aware and knows what it is and embraces it fully
Yep. Rather than OPM, I think it draws a lot from Gurren Lagaan. It just turns all the dials to eleven and doesn't look back. It doesn't care about character arcs or third acts or cliches. It's like seeing someone dance like nobody is watching.
If the show wasn't self-aware, I highly doubt it'd be this successful.
The jokes hit way harder because of this trait, and generally makes me more invested in watching more.
I just hate shows or games that do stupid shit and don't AT LEAST acknowledge how dumb what just happened is.
A good example of another great self-aware game is Hi-Fi rush, and how the world (Magically) is in rhythm with your character, they poke fun of that then dismiss it.
@@wolfboos Being self-aware doesn't necessarily mean pointing it out specifically within its own context. I actually kind of find that "meta" stuff a bit annoying. It 's better if it's self-aware in the sense of not giving a fucking shit and doing it in full confidence that despite it being silly, over the top, or otherwise ridiculous, you WILL enjoy it. Gurren Lagann as mentioned before is the perfect example of this. Most Trigger animes are. Completely over the top, and leans into it so much that it's hard not to love.
@@64-96 Oh yeah, being self-aware alone is not enough for sure, though since this was the topic of this comment, I just thought about that.
But yeah, I agree with what you said.
Anyone know the name of that song that he uses a cut from at 7:02
The final episode's fight scene was so beautifully done and felt so cool to watch it unfold while everyone is looking in confusion as everything falls apart around them in a instant.
God the best part is how he fucking trolled EVERYBODY including the damn audience with his blue-balling us on one final epic "I am atomic" scene. Truely a sigma male gigachad moment.
9:30 is is so entertaining because you see, hear and FEEL how passionate the team is about the show and how much fun they had.
As someone who have read the manga and light novel before watching the anime, the first episode really told me that who ever made the adaptation were fully committed in doing it.
BRUH WHEN MAN SAID "ATOMIC IN TIMES NEW ROMAN" I frsugy9iiiiiiiiiiiiiii
i mean its a nice touch as an effect in the anime BUT STILL BRUHHHHHH
Nice
Anyone know the name of that song that he uses a cut from at 7:02
"And so everything he ends up doing effects the world around him"
Key phrase: The world
Love how it doesn't effect him in the slightest
“Why did he say ‘atomic’ in times new Roman” that had me dying wheezing
He said it because earlier in the show he said he wouldn’t be able to survive a nuke in his last life but now he can so he says I am atomic
At this point in our culture, "I am The Eminence in Shadow." line feels similar to "It`s Morbin time!". A definite add-on to our bucket list to watch.
Edit: Thank you everyone for the 1K Likes!
"Jesse I am the breaking bad"
You mean (spoilers)
"I am atomic"
@@mytube25988 Don't you mean?:
"𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐"
EXACTLY LMAAAAAAAAAAO I COULDNT FUCKIN BELIEVE HE ACTUALLY SAID IT
10/10 WOULD WATCH AGAIN
@@MotoCat91 😂
This was unironically an amazing show. I laughed so hard so many times. It's deliciously self aware and almost breaks the 4th wall a couple times. The mc just debates with himself what the best plot would be. It's also amazingly animated and the sound effect are so on point all the time. The production value is higher than I first thought after watching this video. Thx gigguk for giving shows like this more attention.
And it’s so funny when the things that bro comes up with just happen to be real
"The mc just debates with himself what the best plot would be." I'm in. Was wondering what yall meant by self aware but if they pull that off its gatta be pretty slick
I love good meta commentary. This show nails it to a great level.
can somebody give me the music theme that starts from 0:44 [i forgot its name]
@@kartikgupta9117Sonic the Hedgehog OST - Green Hill Zone
"I am atomic" is one of the coldest lines in anime history
The "stop staring at my Excalibur" part had me dying of laughter for a good 10 minutes
Copied from konosuba.
@@ashutoshkumar12a46 no one cares, let people enjoy it like they did in konosuba.
*whipping sound instensifies*
@@ashutoshkumar12a46 I don't care, I have never watched konosuba and I'm not even interested in watching it. Now The Eminence in Shadow? That's some shit I wanna watch
Bro laughed when the video ended 💀
Ok but "I am 𝔄𝔱𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔠" gives me literal chills every time
It's so cringe yet so amazing😭
its so corny
Cringe chills but chills yeah
I love it, but also laugh my ass off every time he says it😂
It's soo cool but it's soo cringe
This anime is one of my favorites. The best part is the fact that he's hyper-aware that what he's doing is an act and bullshitting some fake story. He isn't even aware that the story he's weaving is actually true. He also thinks that everyone around him is well aware that he's putting on an act and goes along with it just to humor him. He doesn't even know he's legit got a harem of shadow assassins at his beck and call and I find all of that supremely entertaining.
So he's also fulfilling the trope of the clueless anime protagonist, incredible
This contributes to a lot of the comedy too in my opinion, because there's a lingering anticipation and curiosity of "what the hell would happen if something happened in just the right way to either make cid realize that all of this is real or expose to his shadow garden comrades that he thinks they're all just larping together for fun, how the hell would they think of him and all the work they've done so far", because that could be a pretty goddamn hilarious scene in itself. Instead, the man has a script running in his head translating everything he experiences into the common sense of his past life, meaning "there is no shadow organization hellbent on world domination even though I wish there was, there's no way girls would have feelings for me" etc since that's what his last life was like. Baddies with swords and magic kidnap your sister? Must be bandits that your larp friends made up a fun story for to enjoy kicking their asses more. A princess talks to you about love and your future together with you for hours on your way to vacation? (don't remember how much of this was shown in the anime but it went into good depth in the manga and novel, and the princess in question was Rose, not Alexia). She must be trying to push some strange religion or cult on you, better shut up and feign acceptance until you can get away. Pretty much all of shadow garden idolizes him and definitely all of the main female characters save for like Iris, Beatrix, and maybe his sister would either marry him (whether that's as "Cid" or "Shadow") the second he asked or if he asked after dating for two weeks, but he always has some internal explanation for why their adoration and affection must instead be some loose attachment from shared hobbies or gratitude at best, finding him convenient somehow at worst. He constantly thinks he's just enjoying larping out what he wishes his dream was like and having a good time doing it while also internally lamenting that the real thing doesn't exist, completely oblivious to the fact that he is literally living his dream. He isn't larping, but he's the only one who doesn't know it isn't larp. He's literally living his dream but is too dense to realize it. He's also drowning in all the female affection from women (of such high quality as to have no right existing in such a ridiculous comedy) that a man could possibly want, but ironically Cid himself probably has less romantic desire than 90% of MCs out there and possibly wouldn't think much of it even if he knew beyond just thinking "of course a real eminence in shadow would be brimming with allure and mystique that captures the hearts of women simply because of how goddamn cool he is, they have good taste, a shame this is just larp and not the real thing" even if I myself think one or many of these women deserve to end up happy with him despite himself lmao. The humor in this, especially in the manga and light novels, just has so many layers it's ridiculous. It may be simple and stupid in some regards, but on closer inspection the framework that constructs that stupidly straightforward cringey edgelord humor is actually a bit complex and layered. It's a masterwork of pushing something to the extreme to maximize the comedy. The author is a genius and he better keep the novels coming.
@@trevorthompson6825 Cid/Shadow really are the epitome of "fake it till you make it"
Alternatively they're also what happens when you do something for ironic humor long enough, after a while it becomes genuine, like how I said "pog" ironically and then it became part of my vocab.
Cid knew about the Cult , just that he think of them as some weak flashy pushover organization which ,so far from his point of view, he is totally right. He believed there are a more secret organization behind the Cult, think that his 2 friends are part of it, call to spy on him.
Also, Cid is actually very knowledgeable about ancient legend and history and went around finding them.
@@trevorthompson6825 who tf is readin allat💀
I'm almost 50 and Eminence is one of my all time favorites 😂
I'm older and enjoyed the heck out of this series. I hope we get more episodes than one piece IF they could keep it going this good but won't hold my breath on that ever happening.
Damn unc
53 here and same!
We're getting a movie!!🎉@@thebaron512
Knowing older people still watch anime makes me happy idk why
This make "you must confuse yourself to confuse your enemy" to another level
they cant figur out what your plan is if your only making shit up as you go :D
When i fooling around and don't take anything seriously in a multiplayer game. Finishing the game I'm the MVP... Receiving hate messages from the other team for not stopping running around. And myself still wondering how I'm first place.
I genuinely love this show so much. From the fact that the first episode was such a bait and switch, introducing you to side characters only for Cid to just fugg off to a new world and completely forget his past life, to the fact that Cid himself doesn't even realize that all the stuff he made up is actually real and not just a fanfic. Actually great show, highly recommend it.
LOL YEAH! That girl who seemed like such a big part of the show was easily forgotten by episode 5!
spoiler that girl is indeed important in the story🤣 man i wish i could see beta's grin when she took her
@@jabzilla21 lmao i dont wanna spoil anything so i wont but...
@@sorakirisaki5330 do it , spoil it for me
@@sorakirisaki5330 what girl are we talking about because ive seen the entire anime
The funny thing is the fact that the studio goes so hard on some of the animation 😂. The batte scene is wayyyy to good. Also the VA is having too much fun doing Cid
The sound effects goes crazy as well
You know a studio loves a series when they give it 20 episodes for a 2 volume adaptation
My favourite part of this was in like episode 4 or 5 or something where shadow garden returns to him and starts talking about how they have over 100 members and are storming the evil cult and this dude is just like “wow they’re still going along with this fantasy for me, did they hire extras or something?” And even after nuking a whole city, and killing dozens if not hundreds of cultists he is just like “wow these guys really commit to the role”
I love this show SO FRIGGEN MUCH.
like...the idea he just has a checklist of "cool lines to say" is glorious.
being a chuuni in an ACTUAL magic world...and then still acting like a secret chuuni and just...somehow thinking the girls are just playing along with his fantasy,lol
The greatest part of this checklist is that HE SPENT LIKE FOUR HOURS IN HIS CHAIR FACING THE WINDOW PRACTICING "I've been expecting you" and just hoping for someone to walk in as he's saying it. Shadow ignores his harem because he's already in a dedicated relationship with The Bit
Chuuni as in chuunibyo??
@@growingoaks yes
it got old around episode 15 tho, should've been a 13 episode series imo
parody like OPM towards the superhero genre, remember OPM when it was called trash cus the MC can simply one punch everything.
my absolute favorite part is that cid doesn’t even know he’s getting the story shit right, he just thinks the girls he saved are going along with his role playing because they feel bad for him. like they are wholeheartedly devoted to him and built this empire for him and he just thinks they’re being nice because he saved them. but also the scene where he takes a step and vanishes just to reappear behind the person he’s fighting, implying he was so fast not even the air noticed that he moved was honestly cold af. one of the few anime scenes, next to scenes like the hanami fight from JJK, that made me jump up and down like a little kid.
It wasnt that he was so fast, in the ln it said something like, his swordplay is natural, like the falling rain or flashing thunder, you dont pay attention to natural things like droplets of the rain so it slips out of one consciousness. Basically his swordplay becomes one with nature itself and the mind stops to take notice of him.
@@alizainal7180 ahh gotcha. that’s just as cool, but since i’ve only watched the anime my head canon is that he’s just fast af
He did the exact flash step like Toji did in Shibuya Arc
well he IS very fkign fast, but he also has tricks , like in the manga he wanted to cheat on a test as was planning to move to fast to see but manipulate the wind so he wouldnt create a shockwave
Maybe his real power is reality bending after reading another comment that sparked this idea.
"the man who lost his virginity without actually losing it because he NEVER LOSES" That got me 😂
frfr
it's true though xD I was thinking about the same from the beginning of the season while recruiting elfs as his shadow guards xD and asking " HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?! "
God
It'll be funny if he somehow has heirs and children, even though he NEVER SLEPT with any of his women.
The girls are down bad for him so badly, I wouldn't be surprised if they are crazy enough to 'try' anything, like making a child clone of him using his dna or something?
lol how can you get it wrong when the clip is right above the comment section :D "the man fucks without losing his virginity, because he never looses" .. but i agree on one thing ,that line got me as well :D
Dude. I just finished season 1 and I had soooo much fun but man this video made this series an 8/10 to a solid 9/10 for me. Thanks Garnt!
I am ａｔｏｍｉｃ
Is literally one of the most memorable parts of anime for me. Me and my gf laughed so hard when we heard it but were also so flabbergasted because how cool it was
No spoilers, but this aspect is even more funny and ridiculous at the last episode. You know what I mean when you watch it and totally expecting it :)
yeah, especially with headphones, i was laughing so hard that i began to cry XD
I am over 50 and I love this anima, I have been reading the Manga since it came out and have waited for someone to turn it into a anime. Long live Cid!
preach on man. i followed this since it was a web was overjoyed when it went light novel, then watched it soar into this insane anime. i knew everything that was going to happen and STILL had fun watching it. long live cid
Take your meds granny
Everything he said gonna come true 🤣 that what I looking for in tried of plot armor
@@masterofalltrades_ bite me. Was enjoying this stuff when I got the chance to see it in Japan many moons ago.
Same here, the first time I read the manga years ago, I knew that it was gonna become something BIG
Honestly I just love how much fun they clearly had making it. The scene where two of the harem are arguing over their boob size and the camera slides away to a random gardener playing with a cat while the argument completely fades into the background is great.
That's part of the fun, we already know the cliché conversation they're going to have, in fact the show knows it so well that, just like Cid, instead of watching something cliché and boring, it does something better with its time like watching a gardener play with a cat, and that's magical
Yeah cringe
or how the girls are helplessly thirsting over cid and then u have the usual clueless but like permanently stunlocked cringe mc but not cid , he has NO CLUE in the slightest and also not a shred of lust in his eyes and thats what makes it funnny, even when delta is litteraly grinding against his crotch he doesnt even bat an eye
@gamingyoshi2280 I also think the main reason he doesnt notice these things is simply because he doesn't care. He has no interest in that since to him it wouldn't make sense for any of his characters.
The ending of the season 2 is the biggest WTF I ever seen in the anime.
Eminence in Shadow is the greatest satire of the typical power fantasy isekai. It is absolute brilliance
From what I understand it is to Isekai as Bayonetta is to action games? Is that a fair comparison?
it's not so much a satire as simply those tropes taken to their natural extremes. Sort of like JoJo, in a way.
well, it zigzags. Some of the tropes are subverted or parodied.
the line “run? who’s running? running where? and why?!” is so fucking cold 🥶 I love this show
and he actually ran
@@xploregasm after flexing his power ofc
@@xploregasm after he damn near became god
real
_EMINENCE IN TROLLING_
Literally watched this show with an entire server of people and only positive reactions after binging 6 eps. yes please more and more and more
What server? I’d like to get on board for season 2 that sounds really fun😊
Drop the server!
Everyone playing game of thrones while Cid rolls nat 20s in DND. yep.
This was indeed the most atomic show ever, can't wait for season 2
In the manga, Cid purposefully gets hit by a truck because he believes being sent to another world can make him more powerful. He was correct.
in the light novel he still doesn't realize it was the truck that hit him and still thinks it was some magic lights
Same in the anime.
Alright but for real though. That very first "I am atomic" scene is so bad it's good. I absolutely love that scene and it still gives me goosebumps when he says "atomic." What a bomb ass sound mix.
I didn't even think it was bad I thought it was badass and it's not like they weren't self aware.
Every time I hear Cid speak English I see myself and I cringe so hard I threw my phone.
Buddy, i have that 6seconds 4K I am ATOMIC. As my alarm clock now. It gets me pumped up for the day. And I'm old.
It was the combination of the buildup, the cringy but somehow perfect French way of saying atomic with light reverb followed by complete silence. Then blam.
Masterfully executed dumpster fire.
I.
Am.
*𝔸𝕋𝕆𝕄𝕀ℂ.*
ok but still the EXCALIBUR hot spring scene is best of every single goddamn show ive seen
Wait wait wait...! His towel slap after he gets out... And the fact that Alexia continues to do the same towel slap throughout the rest of the series!
@@Netraven001she does? In what episodes?
I think what really makes Eminence in Shadow so great is it really nails that balance between making a super OP, power fantasy protagonist; while also having that self awareness where they're not afraid to make him the butt of a joke for being a dorky-edgelord
Wouldn't call soneone that beats up motorcycle gangs with crowbars before he even got isekaid 'dorky'
@@evoke97 until you realize he literally only did it for the memes.
@@evoke97 Oh, he's a dork. He's just a very skilled, very dangerous dork who has no self-awareness and even less care what YOU think of him. It's HIS power fantasy, and you're living (or dying) in it.
@@lordadamant8182 that makes him less of a dork and even more cool, if he was doing it for some cringe reason like 'fighting evil' then he'd be a dork
@@segevstormlord3713 i really don't think dork is the correct word at all. he literally has a harem of gorgeous girls and is the most powerful being in existence, not socially awkward or anything and doesn't do the typical mc thing of blushing with beautiful girls. literally a gigachad instead of a dork lol
I genuinely sat there like "HE WOULDN'T" when Cid faked out using his nuke in the last episode
I fr thought he went insane that last episode. I was very thankful he didn't haha
I was kinda same , I told myself " He's so cringe because ... for sure he won't do it ..; all he wants is to show off "
In general, He used Atomic at the end, but the direction was towards the sky. He, like Saitama, dispersed all the clouds in the sky (Fight against the Sea King, The rain ended immediately)
@@luckytabler2520 it was a very "I guess he is the baddie" moment.
@@FamouShinya Yeah, near the end I even felt that the show gives vibes very similar to OPM (in a good way)
And here I am just surprised Gigguk didn't put the infamous 'towel slap' in the video. God that moment was epic.
Yea ikr! WACHAK! Had me do a spit-take because of how unapologetic Sid is in everything he does.
The long neck running gag is one of my favorites
One moment in the series where it just clicked with me how self aware this show is, is the moment where it shows HOW he got Isekai'd. It shows him being all cool and stuff throughout the series, but how he got there: He's in the forest, LITERALLY bashing his head against a rock and screaming "MAGIC, MAGIC, MAGIC, GIVE ME MAGIC" and then proceeding to run into the road attempting to fly like a fucking psycho crazy person with an appropriately unhinged expression to match, _because that's what he actually is at the end of the day._ Realistically, no other kind of person could commit the way cid does to the things he does. All that training, all that talk about trying to become able to withstand a nuclear blast, and he gets undone by truck-kun like a normal ass ordinary isekai protagonist because that's what would happen to someone like cid, its almost kind of an affirmation to you without outright spelling it out of "Yeah, we know this is stupid, and our protagonist is mentally unwell, is there a problem?" and then proceeding to post a gigachad image next to the entire premise of the rest of the series.
Yah i feel like that moment isn’t talked about enough, the mc is borderline insane and would spend his life in an asylum in our world but in the fantasy world that insanity translated to power and influence.
I like to think that yes, he is insane but id specially laser focus on his objective. Once he wants to do something he does the absolute best to achieve it either if that's been a magic user, a sword fighter, an NPC, literally anything that he wants to be he will train to the absolute limit and beyond. And at the same time he is so far remove from anyone and anything around him like him not wanting or caring to have anything with any girl (either shadow Garden members or not).
I just love how they rolled the credits right after the news of cid dying on Earth in ep1 even though there was more left to the episode.
Apparently him running in front of the truck was an accident - he though those lights were gods or something coming down to give him magic due to the concussion he gave himself from bashing his head on that tree. Which makes the whole thing absolutely hilarious. Look at his face when he realizes it's a truck. "It's at that moment he knew. He fucked up".mp3
Yeah he is definitely insane but tbh.. If i could master any martial arts there is and train my body to absolute perfection and I still cant win against an atomic bomb, I would go insane too....i mean the absolute only thing that could possibly make him more powerful in Rl is a concept that doesn't even exist there lmao
Eminence in Shadow is like when you just stop off for some fast food, and end up getting a fresh, well made burger that actually makes you happy you thought about stopping.
It feels like when you post up to 7-11 at 3am after a long day at work and the taquitos just finished
The DnD metaphor is so on point it's crazy.
I thought that Anos Voldigold was the king of self aware isekai parody until this show came out and showed me something I didn't know I needed to watch.
And I need more. I need more dumb, edgy, hit or miss self aware isekai.
Anos is just a fucking gigachad. Cid is a gigachad cosplaying as a beta cosplaying as a gigachad.
I have an easier time watching eminence because at least the side characters arent stupid, misfit just bothers the hell out of me because it feels like anos is the only likable character in the show, lay is fine but even then i dont care much for him, i just dont feel anything towards all the friends, while i love how distinct the shadow garden and even cids friends at school are, maybe its just eminences more comedy focused story makes it easier to pallete like konosuba but man unless isekai goes all the way with its bits they feel too samey
Read FFF class trashero
Cid isn't the asshole player. Cid is the asshole DMPC. "Oh, but I'm totally not metagaming it, you guys."
@@An_Actual_Kiwi This comment is brilliant yet gave me a migraine at the same time.
This anime, and especially the second season, is just middle school syndrome amplified by a million and I will die on the hill that it's simply the MC's coma fever dream after he barely survived the truck accident.
Eminence in Shadow is the first anime that made me binge 5 episodes in a row since GinTama. Also, a show that includes the lines "I am atomic!" and "How did I get on the rom-com protagonist route?" needs to be praised night and day. What a great show!
thinking about it does has the visual comedy and humor as gintama parodies.
the "rom-com" line i loved that, it came so unnexpectedly :D
I fucking love this show and the fact Moonlight Sonata is in there makes it 100x better
if only I got to see it
@@Eulogist92what do you mean?
@@blillelam8798probably didn't know where to watch, I guess. It can be a problem, as far as I've heard (I'm just glad I found it online)
sorry but that rushed moonlight sonata was painful to listen to XD
@@katsuki9454wasn't that bad thb, I liked it
This show is so unique 😂. Remember the first episode where the story seems to introduce the girl as a main character, but the show just brutally switch and she was never seen again. I love it 😂
Edit: yeah I know she reappears. As I posted that comment I wasn’t at that stage in the manga. Actually I was right before her reappearance. But yeah, now I know
She will, in season 3 atleast
@@rikoalfiez6291 that’s funny cuz I literally stop reading the manga right before she is reintroduced
I thought she became his sister in the new world. Or are they two completely different characters, they look so similar
@@rikoalfiez6291 who is she? Ploxxx explain
@@RuinsOfTheUnknown classmate from before isekai
The reality of things people call "edgy" is that people enjoy it but think they're too mature to, so they pretend not to.
Fax
This show is on point with the audio! The sound effects are amazing from the conversations all the way to the "I am... atomic..."
The sound design of this show is the unsung hero. They are so crisp and add incredible depth and detail, but are perfectly layered to be in the background except when it matters. It's truly a masterclass in the anime world.
You can tell somebody told the VA to make it as cringy of an accent as possible. Times New Roman indeed.
@@9f81rsd00 it's actually just the exact same audio for every language, that's just what the japanese va sounded like making the line
"Gaslighting The Isekai Anime" is an all time great for me. The fact the main character gaslights so hard his bs comes to reality is so trashy it's great.
It's not that his bs comes to reality, is that he thinks he gaslighting everyone, and he only ends up gaslighting himself.
@@Skelethin Even then, he still thought everyone figured out that it was bs.
You are using gaslighting incorrectly.
Thing is even when everybody says it's trash, it is actually extremely well made. The style is very deliberately all over the top. And I am always looking if an Anime achieves what it wants to invoke in a person. And I think it really knocked it out of the park. I don't think I will forget it so fast since it is a extreme outlier within Isekai.
Yeah, I don't get people saying it's trash or bad or whatever other nonsense. It's a genuinely good show.
Right. I think most people miss the part where this is a very clear parody of the genre - but does it so well that on the surface it looks like just a high quality isekai trash, which is exactly the point.
@@Ragalya Not really a parody, but more like a super aware of itself show that roll with its own absurdity. People saying that Cid is cringe for example completely miss the fact Cid is a Chuuni and roleplay constantly as a cringe anime trope.
It's exactly like One Punch Man with Saitama being completely unaware of his impact and the hero society. But you don't see people saying that Saitama is cringe for having his attacks being named serious punch, or that he beat an opponent while screaming he is late for sales.
Because it's not trash, it's a good Isekai, the problem is that people expect to compare them to famous animes, like action shonens like Demon Slayer (to give an example).
Another great example of people being like this is my brother, he loves animes like Evangelion, but always says he would like to see a protagonist like Rimuru from Tensei Shitara Slime, however, he doesn't watch it because according to him, he wants something more like Evangelion (complicated plot in a modern world), even though Slime is almost literally the anime he's been looking for in years.
It's absolute peak of trash isekai and cringe executed in a way which only could be read as masterpiece. It's entertaining, it's stupid beyond reason and the whole story is absolute shit. But boy, I have so much fun with that.
i don’t give a shit if it makes me an edge lord, but shadow’s “i am atomic” is like a top 10 anime moment for me
I love how it fully immerses itself in cringy chuuni fantasy. That the MC is fully aware of it and decides to go 110% into it simply because it's his passion is something I can respect. He knows people wont be impressed by it, but he doesn't care. He loves it and it's all that matters.
In the manga, the cover called it "Misunderstanding Manga!" which is basically the whole eminence in shadow series lol
The best part is that the cringe stuff doesnt "just happen".
The MC goes out of his way to make them happen.
He prepares the scene, he sets up the lightning, he waits for the perfect dramatic moment, he probably learns cool lines to say late at night.
All for both the MC and the background character roles.
And he always goes to aboslutely ridiculous lenghts for it.
MC always wanted to be a "Hero" so there is nothing chuuni about it, he's not Imagining that he is a Hero, he was actually trying to become one. Also don't be like Gigguk and say anything that is anime related cringe, times have changed, something that was cringe before now is just normal deal with it.
Cringe is as cringe does, people who narruto run will always be being. Anime cons will have variety of cring. And this protagonist is mega cring, but the results and his passion for it are commendable. Not sure if I’d call him a hero since he does good or backstabs his own allies is he thinks it’s “cool”
@@Immerteal Not really, he makes stuff up which coincidentally happens to be true which sets up the scene that he stumbles upon. The Order of Diablos for example.
I am one of those people who absolutely loved this show and enjoyed every episode. For me this was peak anime
w rizz
Same
totally
The anime i looked forward to the most from last season
Bro had me more hyped for this than for chainsaw man
The best part about the show is that I get to hear Cid's VA say I NEED MORE INFORMATION to reveal the Season 2 trailer.
They already announced season 2 a week after the show ended
Just read the manga it’s better in every way possible
@@notroddy not every possible way , it's comedy is 10/10 and exactly my kind of humour but it sometimes favours humour over it's source light novel , whereas anime is trying to make the story seem serious , dark which it really is if not looking from cid's pov and has a good amount of comedy but even when the show is not trying to be that funny it's still very good compared to most comedy anime we get today.
I can't wait for the econ arc.
bro thx for sneaking in my favourite anime LOTGH's clip so few poeple seem to know about it
The frenzy has begun. The moon is red. We are out of time.
I fucking loved these episodes. When that vampire girl first said that I thought something like: "Hey finally Shadow has found someone that can be his shadow eminence friend. I bet he wished he came up with that line." and then he started imitating it 😂
@@ArchmageEmperorTheChosenOne man i understood straight the he needed the new punch lines lol
Bro says that after ending the person who started the frenzy😂
He stole her whole flow, drip and style 😂
every time! every video on this series has this line!
the difference with actual trashy isekai and Eminence in a Shadow, is that Cid was actually stupidly powerful IRL for the sake of being the "Eminence in a Shadow". he just happened to get hit by a truck in persuit of "power to rival a nuke". the added magic is a huge buff for him because of his dedication and FUCKING GRIND
Exactly! People seem to gloss over this for some reason
the Difference is other Isekai seriously tries not to be cringey while Eminence in a Shadow knows its going to be cringey so we'll just max it out.
The martial art choreography is great, only iris can't grasp it due to being an amateur
the real fucking grind is of rudeus greyrat from jobless reincarnation. so far story is far better than Eminence in shadow.
@@belugashorts3727 yea but that’s like a different genre of isekai. His story is about growth. Eminence is about op dude getting magic to get more op while not knowing how much shit he’s caused
A missed oppotunity to note a few things that I think should have made in the video:
1. The anime adapted only 2 volumes of the LN. 10 episodes per volume. This is rare - they are kind'a going for a 100% complete run with this one and it's freaking amazing.
2. Animation quality when it counts. Especially the last episode has some demon slayer fight levels of attention to details and quality.
3. Sound design + visuals. The "I Am Atomic" still sends shivers down my spine and I have watched that scene more than I care to admit. I had shivers again while watching this video.
4. I have a distinct nagging feeling that parts of the show flew over your head on this one.
I know, I know... You have no time, so others are probably gonna be the once who do a more in depth dive on the show. But it would have been nice if you were able to have one of your deep dive videos on this one.
I agree that the last episode was greatly animated, but it doesn't contest demon slayer.
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@@ploopysnoof4468 never said it did. I said some parts show have an evident BUDGET applied to the scenes and when a studio and animators do that, we should celebrate it :) They did amazing work on the important scenes.
I have to agree with point 4 - this review really felt that it missed the fundamental point of the show as a comedy.
@@ARCNA442 it's kinda amazing that he compared it to OPM, which is exactly correct. Comedy with serious serious underlying plot just like OPM. But somehow gikguk missed it and considered it "stupid but fun"
Really disappointing for an anime tuber tbh.
6:18 I’m watching after the Jake Paul vs mike Tyson fight so yea