I've mentioned it before in comments a few times, but my entire interest in the show as a whole started and ended with the fact that Mori Calliope sings the ending theme (and it's good as hell), but I didn't really have much interested in the actual setting of the show mainly because I checked out of American hero stuff with Endgame, but if any of y'all have seen what's available right now, what's your opinion on it?
Edit: posting the actual animation with the opening and ending themes for the sake of posterity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI9rO8qebx8&pp=ygUKZ28gZ2V0dGVycw%3D%3D
It's ok. 3.6 roentgens.
But I think in 10 years we'll look back and say this is one of the more notable events in the fall of anime. This show has a very strong "corporation trying to replicate what the kids are into these days" feel. Cue Dr. Malcolm's "slap it on a plastic lunchbox" rant. Isekai has always been charming to me, even the terrible ones, because they're unabashedly just fantasy fulfillment for teen and early 20s guys. Even with all the over used tropes and repetitive story beats that are so well known they're memes of themselves, I still like the genre because at the bottom of it all, it's some 23yo Japanese otaku cranking out a light novel in his tiny apartment and just saying "what if I could suddenly be transported to a totally different world that can be anything I want and I can be anything I want too?" And one of the most obvious answers that would probably come naturally to most of us is it would be awesome to suddenly be in a world of magic and monsters and comfy inns and taverns with honorable knights and heros, and of course we're gonna be super attractive, fawned over by a dozen impossibly attractive women fitting every kind of taste, who are also actually loyal and kind and decent and honest and not manipulative branch swinging sociopaths, and we're the badass hero who can step in and beat any bad guy, and we live happily ever after with our waifu of choice. The whole thing is terribly juvenile of course, but it's so open and unashamed about just being straight up wish fulfillment. The whole genre is not at all embarrassed about just admitting that a lot of us would fucking love to be a really popular and hot guy who has smoking hot women throwing themselves at us after a day of slaying monsters with our magic sword. And even if there are already a hundred animes copying the same thing, and a hundred light novels that never got adapted for every one of those animes, it's popular because the core premise is still something that speaks to guys who are fed up with the modern real world on a basic level.
The Suicide Squad Isekai I think will be remembered as one of the big moments where Western Corporate suits got their claws into something we loved with the singular goal of analyzing it, tearing it down and distilling it to its fundamental ingredients, and trying to replicate and mass produce a goyslop version they can shovel down as many unwitting throats as possible. The need for the 23yo otaku on his laptop in some Shibuya internet cafe thinking "I wouldn't want to be a warrior though, I'd want to be a farmer.... Let me write about that" is gone. Now all they need is some algorithm created by California blue haired faggots to shit out something that looks close enough on the surface to be a marketable product. And that's a shame.
Bro, 14 years ago there was a huge marvel push into anime space, mostly done by madhouse - for example, Sato Yuzo, one of their best, followed his phenomenal Kaiji-One Outs combo with this: https://myanimelist.net/anime/6875/
Anybody remembers that, lol? Has the sky fallen yet?
And there was more of that with all the usual suspects. Nobody cared, nothing changed.
I'd agree with the premise, except for the fact that even if they could accurately identify and craft a fitting world and story to try and garner attention, the sheer lack of effort and talent from them would leave a under baked, underwhelming product. We've seen their efforts to try and make appealing games and guess what, they fucking suck, to the point where the big name studios that have fallen under their banners are failing dismally compared to a guy or three in their garage pumping out a passion project.