Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su Episode 7 Discussion

A pet peeve I have with some stories, is setting up a series of seemingly tough challenges, but then the story just glosses over most of them anyway. Why not just have 2 or 3 obstacles to clear and end up at the same result?

The only way it can be justified is if the monsters here will be encountered later on in the story, otherwise it was just a bunch of needless explanation.

@_Banky How terrible that anime didn't let us watch how he got anihilated by pooping bird 127 times! Considering how many he died, it wouldn't make difference between having 3 challanges or 9. It still would gloss over 99% of whole thing. As for "needles explanation", yes that's absolutely true it isn't relevant to story... but it's relevant to gaming and this is literaly playthrough the anime.

Oh, the part in Japanese was translated too! Literally it means "Journey to hell together with you".

I wonder if stretching in the game actually does something lol.
What level is Sunraku currently again? If he can beat all those enemies that have much higher levels than him, he is really damn skilled.
The animation was quite good this episode!

@Tenzen12 It's hardly about the numbers involved, it's more about the unnecessary nature of it. MMORPG or not, it's still a story that's being told. That point of the episode was so irrelevant even MC himself pointed it out - that's what I'm saying. The early fight against the single Vorpal Bunny was way more engaging than setting up an arena of 9 or 10 obstacles when in reality, only the final one matters.

Please understand, I'm not taking a dump on this show in particular, many other shows do stuff like that (hence, the pet peeve), I'm still enjoying the anime and all that.

It's probably just following the source material, no point changing source material from 10 to 3 when they can just speed it up like they did. If this was an original story I would understand what your saying, but I'd rather them follow source material even if it's abridged version. No it wouldn't really hurt story if they changed it, but at end of day they were just gonna show what they could and setup next episode for the final boss fight.

There's also he gained 2 levels after all those high level fights with his collar restrictions, gaining 2 levels with 2-3 fights with same restriction might seem off.

@_Banky Again this is game and game does game things. If it didn't, it would SAO. I am glad you enjoy show, but at least in this particular episode you are missing point of these consecutive fights. Which is

a) show its game nature
b) hammer that Sunraku isn't OP but that he develops various tactics through repeated try and error method and of course never giving up (though we already knew that.)
c) show how he fare agelainst different kind of enemies. Which he is strong against and which he can't deal with well.

All that buildup for the last 3 episodes to just solve it by using Psyger-0 as a trampoline and call it a day? What a scam.

For a show that allegedly works on agility tactics and pretty much real time blows, it awfully relies so often on large infodumps during the real action, such as Bestgirl throwing a long monologue on how her curse works, it feels more like a turn based RPG than an actual MMORPG. The author could have been more subtle and give her so time on the spotlight after the fight while she ponders on how her abilities work (that would also had served as proper background info about her).

A show with no stakes, no plotline, no character driven narrative that it's only praised for it's sakuga, it's now even reduced to being great in the 1 minute sakuga per episode that doesn't get padded with tons of worthless info (such as stalker girl repeating the same soliloqui) nor cheap animation recycling used as flashbacks/recaps.

@Tenzen12


For better or worse, SAO has left it's name in the anime world with several sequels and even spinoffs. This show won't be even remembered once it's over, specially seeing how each episode just gets worse and worse in terms of content.

I think having Psyger-0 end that particular set-piece was okay. It'd practically been setup since the first episode and to me it was a fitting conclusion.

@_Banky Are you saying that she's been a doormat or a trampoline from the very beginning?

First of all, why doesn't Rei have the players killer symbol beside her username?

Also why tf she's happy he stepped on her head 💀 that shi is halrious.

@Tenzen12 after this ep I think that Sunraku is not that OP, he kept getting killed over and over again, but still a pro skilled player compared to other beginners.

EMUL is so cute as usual especially when she was drinking that magic drink she looked cutewaewe af 😍😖

@uchiha_yasso I don't know the answer for sure but I assume Rei didn't get the PK symbol because she killed other PKs. Presumably PKs are fair game for anybody to kill.

First of all, why doesn't Rei have the players killer symbol beside her username?

Also why tf she's happy he stepped on her head 💀 that shi is halrious.

@Tenzen12 after this ep I think that Sunraku is not that OP, he kept getting killed over and over again, but still a pro skilled player compared to other beginners.

EMUL is so cute as usual especially when she was drinking that magic drink she looked cutewaewe af 😍😖