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A comment I left in rachelmanija's recent post on portal fantasy, in response to one wondering if portal fantasy is coming out of Japan these days:

A quick trawl through the most recent four seasons of anime on Crunchyroll shows nothing I'd immediately recognize as classic portal fantasy. There are three shows that involve going through a portal into an another world, but that world is a video game (Digimon Xros Wars [an iteration of a long-running property], Hunter x Hunter [ditto], Sword Art Online).

There's one or two which are more time-travel than true portal, although the time may not be quite real history.

There are TWO, count 'em TWO anime in which historical Japanese Great Men [tm] are somehow highschool girls. THEY HAVE WRITTEN THEIR OWN AU FANFIC OF HISTORY. Never change, Japan.

It's almost an anticlimax to see the one about an elementary school boy who looks like an adult paired up with a highschool girl who looks like an elementary student or the one where a teacher starts work and discovers his students are all anthropomorphized assault rifles.

ANTHROPOMORPHIZED ASSAULT RIFLES, PEOPLE.

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[inkstone]

Dude, have you heard about the new Shounen Jump series about the class of kids that are trying to kill their teacher, who is a tentacle monster?

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!!!

No, I hadn't!

[inkstone]

Assassination Classroom! I think the teacher's an alien who plans to destroy the earth? Something like that?

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I don't know why I'm surprised anymore.

[yhlee]

anthropomorphized assault rifles???

I'm not sure I even care whether this is good, I kind of have to see it!!!

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If your bandwidth's good enough for video streaming, you've got 10 episodes of entertainment coming your way!

I look forward to the Yoon complaining about the awful tactics.

edit: THEY EVEN HAVE THE TRADITIONAL SUMMER-BREAK BEACH EPISODE

[yhlee]

I will have to wait to watch until the lizard's abed, just in case this is super-inappropriate (with this premise, who knows!) but I promise to report back. =)

Mind you, I know basically nothing about firearms, so I'm sure I will mostly not know anything about the relevant tactics! I should ask Joe.

ANTHROPOMORPHIZED ASSAULT RIFLES?

[emceeaich]

And this is why I need to make a "WAT?" icon.

Re: ANTHROPOMORPHIZED ASSAULT RIFLES?

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I don't even know why I'm surprised anymore.