Demon Lord, Retry! R Discussion (2024)

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Sep 28, 11:20 AM

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runec

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Demon Lord, Retry! R Discussion (2)

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Plot Summary

The Demon Lord continues his adventure in this revamped series! After encountering the mysterious entity in the lowest level of the Bastille Dungeon, he sets out for Hellion Territory, where Grand Devils vie for domination of the realm. With the addition of a new advisor—the (seemingly) hopeless optimist Akane—the Demon Lord's army grows even more colorful, and their hijinks even wackier.

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Type: TV
Episodes: Unknown
Status: Not yet aired
Aired: Oct 5, 2024 to ?
Premiered: Fall 2024
Broadcast: Saturdays at 22:30 (JST)
Previewed: Sep 28, 2024
Producers: None found, add some
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Gekkou
Source: Web manga
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Theme: Isekai
Duration: Unknown
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Sep 28, 11:21 AM

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runec

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Rejoice! For the absolute pinnacle of trash anime has returned.

Sep 28, 12:53 PM

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I managed to make it all the way through the first season, although I rated it 4/10 at the end. The first episode of the second season wasn't helpful in improving my opinion.

I've decided to be more lenient to shows this season, though, so I'll give it a little time to give me a reason to watch. From what I remember, the action and adventure aspects of the show were pretty much nonexistent in the first season, and the main character spent most of his time building a resort spa.

Sep 28, 6:14 PM

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marklebid

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What in the hell is with this massive style change. Even switching characters' genders (the statue).

Sep 29, 6:39 AM

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I kept hearing conflicting information about whether this was a second season or a complete reboot. The first 20 minutes of this episode made it feel like a reboot, and I was thinking the whole time "this is worse than the first version". I liked the first version, it was low budget, but it was a decent parody.

I'm not sure why they did this little flashback episode, other than to tell more about his background, may as well have just done a recap of season 1 though...but I assume that MIki guy or whoever he is must play a big part in season 2.

Sep 29, 3:01 PM

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I don't remember the first season being as ecchi.

The director was the real hero of the first season of this. They knew how to work with a low budget and still make the animation as dynamic as possible within those confines.

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Sep 29, 6:48 PM

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Some web searching the first season was an adaptation of the light novel and that style, but now they're trying to 'continue' the story using the manga version.

Sep 30, 9:06 PM

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Episode 1

And now, a remake of a rather forgettable show that I'm surprised is getting a redo. It begins with a flashback as the MC remembers how he made his game one of the most-played games ever and how he had to pull a lot of strings to make it happen. And then comes the time when the game's popularity is well past its peak and is ready to shut down, but he gets isekaied into the world of the game as his demon lord avatar. And there he meets a couple girls, then goes to take a soak at the hot springs where another girl walks by having not read the signs that she was on the men's side. While this show at least gets off to a better start, it isn't doing it for me at all.

Oct 1, 1:04 AM

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Xuhybrid

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Eww, why reboot it. The first season was good as it was i just wanted the rest of the story...

Oct 1, 2:04 AM

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zkeleton

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Reply to Xuhybrid

Eww, why reboot it. The first season was good as it was i just wanted the rest of the story...

@Xuhybrid It's not actually a reboot. The first ep does a good bit of recapping, but also adds some stuff we hadn't seen before, then ends up where the first show left off.

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Oct 1, 11:53 PM

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@Xuhybrid It's not actually a reboot. The first ep does a good bit of recapping, but also adds some stuff we hadn't seen before, then ends up where the first show left off.

@zkeleton Oh that's a relief. Thanks for the update.

Oct 5, 5:14 AM

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It's too polished, I want my janky show back!!

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Oct 5, 9:51 AM

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It's too polished, I want my janky show back!!

@borderliner This is polished? Have you looked at the art and pacing?

Oct 5, 10:00 AM

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Trivia-man-Frank

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Ok, so after getting adjusted to the new art style and character designs (am I crazy or do some of the characters actually look worse or simpler compared to their season 1 designs? Killer Queen definitely has a simpler hair style compared to last season)- I think I finally realized this is picking up from where last season left off.

I do remember season one wasn’t spectacular but it was enjoyable, so I’m setting the bar there for this season.

It’s definitely better than mid, just not five star material. Looking forward to next week, since I think we’ve finally reached the point where “we’re done getting oriented and recapping from last season, no we can go forward with new stuff”

Of course now the question is- when the dub comes around how many of the original cast will return; something tells me not everyone will be reprising their characters

Oct 5, 7:35 PM

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@borderliner This is polished? Have you looked at the art and pacing?

@marklebid Gotta agree, this looks worse than the first season, these first two episodes have just been bad recap episodes.

Oct 5, 8:32 PM

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Ohayotaku

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I absolutely HATE the new character designs & artstyle. Season 1 was trash, but at least it was entertaining trash. I’ll stick around for 1 more episode since Yukikaze will apparently be part of it, but if they nerf him like everyone else so far (Killer Queen & Yu in particular 😭), I’m done.

Demon Lord, Retry! R Discussion (14)

Oct 6, 6:25 AM

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@borderliner This is polished? Have you looked at the art and pacing?

@marklebid I was being half ironic

I enjoyed the story and pacing in season 1 but the animation was an afterthought.

so far this season the art seems on par with all the other crap out there but the story is MIA

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Oct 12, 8:17 AM

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Episode 2:

At the end the line about wishes was mistranslated.

He said if anyone was going to 'grant' a wish, he'd be enough to do the granting (without the ring).

Oct 12, 10:44 AM

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RMikami

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Gah. I was trying to give it every opportunity, but the show seems to be firmly embracing its trash status. I can't get any immersion. I'm giving up on it.

Oct 12, 8:47 PM

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zkeleton

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That was an OK episode but I have no idea why he's even at this place.

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Oct 13, 6:30 AM

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That was an OK episode but I have no idea why he's even at this place.

He's afraid of magic, his game body has no resistance to it unlike physical things. He's hoping to farm magic protection items.

Oct 14, 6:50 AM

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He's afraid of magic, his game body has no resistance to it unlike physical things. He's hoping to farm magic protection items.

@marklebid That's what i remember from the last season. Does it not even bother explaining that much?

Oct 14, 5:18 PM

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@marklebid That's what i remember from the last season. Does it not even bother explaining that much?

@Xuhybrid I think I remember him saying something about being vulnerable to magic in the first episode. There are so many things they are jumping around between right now though, that they really should have reiterated some things in the last episode. Like why he went to this dungeon and who the heck this bad guy noble is and how is he entangled with demon lord. I think the recap episode could have been used better than it was too.

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Oct 19, 7:47 AM

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@Xuhybrid I think I remember him saying something about being vulnerable to magic in the first episode. There are so many things they are jumping around between right now though, that they really should have reiterated some things in the last episode. Like why he went to this dungeon and who the heck this bad guy noble is and how is he entangled with demon lord. I think the recap episode could have been used better than it was too.

@zkeleton I just binge rewatched the first season. You're right about the magic thing. He went to this dungeon to find gear to protect from magic. The bad guy noble is the rival of the goiter lady but he was pretty minor in the first season.

Having rewatched the first season then gone right into this again.....my GOD is the season 2 art terrible compared to season 1. Which is really saying something given season 1 looks like it had a budget of $50 an episode.

The character redesigns are terrible and even most of the VAs are different. The Demon Lord's VA is basically the only one that came back for season 2. So nobody looks right or sounds right. Since season 2 decided to reanimate a number of season 1's scenes you can make direct comparisons and season 2 looks awful.

Season 2 seems to have its own unique style as it doesn't match the novel or manga either. But on that note season 1 doesn't really match either. The manga, novel and novel reprint all have different artists, styles and character designs. Why season 2 couldn't have just at least follow the manga or novel designs if it didn't follow season 1's I have no idea.

Nov 2, 10:31 AM

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runec

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Well, that was more of a goofy shitstorm of wtf than usual with this show.

That was just straight up Blanka from Street Fighter.

Also, why were a bunch of the Satanists stealing apples from a market stand? Is that really the priority?

Nov 2, 12:27 PM

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Also, why were a bunch of the Satanists stealing apples from a market stand? Is that really the priority?

Their evil knows no bounds.

Nov 2, 7:01 PM

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This show is a damn hot mess....this episode was just a bunch of random jumping around and it wasn't even trashy in the "we are embracing the trash" sort of way that season 1 did.

Nov 3, 7:29 PM

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The music in this show is awful. It makes every scene worse. The times in this show where there's a halfway decent scene gets totally undercut by the bad music.

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Nov 9, 1:13 PM

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runec

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This show is just devolving into "whacky" comedy skits.

Nov 10, 1:39 AM

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zkeleton

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Oh man they are doing a seriously horrible job of telling this story.

runec said:
This show is just devolving into "whacky" comedy skits.

Yes, and you can tell by the music. I guess they think they have to put that in there so the audience knows when the scenes are funny. Ha freakin' ha. It would be nice if we got some inner monologue from demon king acknowledging how ridiculous this is to let us know the show is self aware like it was the first season, but there's none of that.

One of the things I liked the first season was his interaction with his harem, but there's been almost none of that this season.

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Nov 10, 2:25 AM

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Xuhybrid

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Having watched the first episode, even this early i can tell the music is very out of place and misused. Not to mention the awful art and half assed voice acting. I think i'll just take all your feedback at face value and spare myself from this mess early.

Nov 10, 7:01 PM

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HOOfan_1

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I wished for a season 2 of this, and this shows "be careful what you wish for" This studio sucks

Nov 16, 3:25 PM

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It feels like the Story is being inflicted on the main character without him being an active participant in it.
He just kind of shows up and the story happens around him until he says "enough of this nonsense" and then slaps everything and everyone

Nov 16, 4:18 PM

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It feels like the Story is being inflicted on the main character without him being an active participant in it.
He just kind of shows up and the story happens around him until he says "enough of this nonsense" and then slaps everything and everyone

@Greylurker It's being inflicted on us too.

We're down to still frames and what in the world was with the music?

Nov 16, 5:21 PM

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I think someone decided the horrible music wasn't bad enough so they made it so loud it almost drowns out the dialogue. Whoever made this show appears to actually hate the material and wants to make sure another season of it never gets made.

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Nov 16, 6:20 PM

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I think someone decided the horrible music wasn't bad enough so they made it so loud it almost drowns out the dialogue. Whoever made this show appears to actually hate the material and wants to make sure another season of it never gets made.

@zkeleton This has happened to a number of anime i've liked or at least enjoyed passably. I think the last one was season 2 of Fruit of Evolution now i'm not saying it was anything special but you could feel the malice and hatred of the people making S2 like they were being forced to make it.

Nov 16, 8:44 PM

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I think someone decided the horrible music wasn't bad enough so they made it so loud it almost drowns out the dialogue. Whoever made this show appears to actually hate the material and wants to make sure another season of it never gets made.

@zkeleton The director has also brought us other fine shows like The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases, Temple and The Dreaming Boy Is A Realist. He has directed 1 or 2 decent shows so he is capable if he tries and doesn't loath the source material.

Nov 16, 11:55 PM

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HOOfan_1

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All this jumping around...the director must have taken lost his ADHD medicine

Nov 17, 6:13 AM

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@zkeleton The director has also brought us other fine shows like The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases, Temple and The Dreaming Boy Is A Realist. He has directed 1 or 2 decent shows so he is capable if he tries and doesn't loath the source material.

@runec If he made the Banished Former Hero, he should be suspended from making anime for at least 5 years.

Nov 23, 10:25 PM

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runec

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Every aspect of this show is eroding episode by episode. The story is eroding, the animation is eroding, the music is eroding and everything is going off model.

Final episode is just going to be still frames.

Nov 23, 11:32 PM

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Just when I was going to say the main reason the story is so hard to follow is because there's been almost no exposition they go and have a scene with some actual exposition. Still, I think that was maybe only the third time all season since the first episode.

All of a sudden we get an upskirt panty shot? Awfully late in the season to throw in something like that out of nowhere.

Every time I start watching this I feel like I missed an episode.

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Nov 24, 10:02 AM

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Just when I was going to say the main reason the story is so hard to follow is because there's been almost no exposition they go and have a scene with some actual exposition. Still, I think that was maybe only the third time all season since the first episode.

All of a sudden we get an upskirt panty shot? Awfully late in the season to throw in something like that out of nowhere.

Every time I start watching this I feel like I missed an episode.

@zkeleton Art style was wildly different. Seems like a completely different studio. Panties and nipples through clothes all over this episode.

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