Urasekai Picnic

[mmosimca]

@vp787: This is the biggest problem with many text to video adaptations. It's handled in a lot of different ways. Some add internal narration voice sections, some slightly alter the dialogue in order to express internally-narrated thoughts in conversation, some try to express the feelings and thoughts through visual means such as emotional expressions and body language, and others do none of the above and omit the internal dialogue. It is more common to see the first solution in series with small casts like this one, especially when based on 1-2 main characters.

I think it will happen in later episodes at least. It may be that this first episode was already exposition heavy enough that they didn't think it was necessary to have Sorawo think things like "I'm scared" or "She is beautiful" when they can simply show terror or a blush visually.

I guess we'll see.

 

[Flabbergasted]

Alright here's my simplified review without any of the in depth psychological stuff other people are talking about

Its Japanese stalker and it's gold

I mean we've got:
Stashes
Anomalies
Artefacts
Loners
The military (was gonna say they were the ISG because they're americans)
And Monolith with some sort of social skills

I'll fight tooth and nail for duty now.
Maybe the cheeki breeki bandits too

Also I just realised this is based off roadside picnic after taking a glance at the cover art thing and seeing it was called otherside picnic in the top left

Still keeping the stalker stuff though because I haven't read roadside picnic and know virtually nothing about it except the basics

 

[Samadhi_Overdrive]

Thats not what im saying @yurirei, there’s no sexual aspects to the relationship in this manga, at least not yet. Therefore, it is not technically yuri. It is however, most def shoujo-ai, with all the emotional development that follows.
EDIT:Looking it over, it could be tagged shoujo-ai + ecchi, which would be most accurate.

 

[I_am_nemo]

@Samadhi_Overdrive so far as I know, that distinction is considered outdated in the anglosphere, and never existed in Japan (where "shojo-ai" apparently has connotations of pedophilia, rather than romance). It's also not terribly useful for tagging, since you need to 1) define "sexual," and 2) revise tags as things develop. Yuri in common usage is romantic and/or sexual relationship, and applies just fine here.

Edit: sorry, this sounded kinda shouty. :/ But yeah, yuri really is the better (and official, on the publisher's website) term here.

 

[Samadhi_Overdrive]

@I_am_nemo
That’s alright, I think was sounding a little conceited in my previous post
Maybe mangadex’s definition should be updated to reflect our understanding of yuri.
Right now it is a definition from animeplanet, which says we use the West definition, which fit my understanding of shoujo-ai.

 

[I_am_nemo]

@Samadhi_Overdrive ah, yeah, that's fair. I want to say MD is planning to eventually merge both tags into "yuri," so maybe they'll update the definition then?

Wiki breaks it down more or less the same way I've seen others explain it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_(genre)

 

[yurirei]

@Samadhi_Overdrive
Why two women have to fuck each other in order to get yuri tag -_-
I think mangadex should have yuri-baiting and merge shoujo-ai with yuri. Two terms with so similar meaning is getting more and more confused in here -_-

I mean if you want to distinguish from hentai then we already have hentai mark for it. What is the point to set a whole new tag like this? What a waste.

 

[mmosimca]

Shoujo-Ai is sort of falling out of use in the West (especially on manga aggregators). It's used primarily for some kind of 'soft yuri' or 'intense friendship'. Many yuri fans (myself included) resent the term. Any yuri without romantic or sexual feelings isn't yuri and doesn't need its own genre. Call it 'drama' or 'slice of life' or create your own CGDCT genre (which is mostly what anyone looking for Shoujo-Ai but not Yuri wants).

Shoujo-Ai doesn't deserve to exist as a genre tag anymore.

 

[Samadhi_Overdrive]

I agree @yurirei. Ive only been going by the definitions mangadex offered, but you are right that they are socially backwards. Especially since shoujo-ai seems to be more of a pejorative, yuri can and does encompass all relations between women.
@mmosimca I’ve only recently dived into yuri with Bloom Into You (which is marvelous, btw), so my metaknowledge of terminology is limited.

 

[yurirei]

@mmosimca
I disagree with your opinion. Shoujo-ai or Yuri is yuri. What about het? Is a het relationship only considered as het relationship when they fuck or having romantic (right from the start, do you understand what romantic is?). And by saying so, a het couple must holding hand every second to be seen as a couple? How does that make sense? And so does yuri. Romantic or sexual feeling aren't everything in a love relationship. People should stop judging thing in the horny way. Those kinds of relationship will end soon because it's getting very boring, that's why we call it thin book (nothing much to tell).

@Samadhi_Overdrive
Now we are speaking the same language )

 

[Norman1]

Where Next chapter 31

 

[immortalartisan]

It’s Japanese stalker I want more!

So would it be the Fukushima zone?

 

[Kabeidon]

The arabato part in the anime is shit too , ._.
People with "jApAnEsE sTaAlKeR" should gtfo.

@MaKi7 oh so it is based on another thing , that is very important info! Wish they would have checked the manga though ...

 

[mmosimca]

I quite liked the new episode that came out today. I'd also like more suspense, but both of these first arcs are too short for much of that.

@yurirei: I was mostly referring to tagging completed series in my original post. It's fine if a series is slow and a relationship starts as friendship for a long time. Heck, that's how this manga is. If it is eventually yuri, then it should be tagged yuri. If it is unknown, I guess Shoujo-Ai is fine under Mangadex's current system.

Dynasty Scans uses a tag called 'subtext' in place of Shoujo-Ai. This is 10000x better. It is descriptive and useful. It is saying "maybe it will be yuri eventually, idk, but there are some hints for now". Shoujo-Ai has so many different meanings to different people that it is pointless and should die.

As for the comment on het series, I'm honestly confused because it helps make my point. If we're talking platonic life partners, that's fine to be called Yuri. What bugs me are the things that lie in-between, like manga where two girls are friends in a club and there's a heavy focus on their friendship, but it never becomes more and then it just ends. That would probably get tagged Shoujo-Ai, which is why the genre is often called "yuribait". Those are the type of series that drive me up a wall, especially when miscategorized as yuri.

 

[HeartfeltFancy]

Even the light novel itself goes more indepth with the description of Abarato (camo, leaves on his coat, smelling like he'd been out for 30 days). The anime makes it look like he just decided to jump into the Otherworld on a whim with no prior thought or planning whatsoever, completely ruining his character. Many details are missing from the episode that would form an otherwise well-flowing and explanatory sequence of events. I'm convinced that the people working on this either really love cutting corners and being unfaithful to the source, or don't have much a choice given how rushed this is going to be/has been. If that's the case, why even attempt doing an adaptation if you can't get shit right? What a disappointment.

 

[yurirei]

@mmosimca
> Dynasty Scans uses a tag called 'subtext' in place of Shoujo-Ai. This is 10000x better
I do totally agree with you about this part. For on-going manga, I think subtext plays a significant role. And we can add yuri tag later when the relationship come to light. Or yuri-baiting when it comes to the end but characters still do some ridiculous friendshit.
> ...like manga where two girls are friends in a club and there's a heavy focus on their friendship, but it never becomes more and then it just ends...Those are the type of series that drive me up a wall
I think I know what you were talking about. And you ain't alone pal. I got pissed off as well. To me, those are just a mean for author snatches away amount of readers' pocket money. That's very jerk in my opinion.

Well I'm glad we found a common point.

 

[Vivewe14]

This is so amazing. Things is getting more and more exciting, goddammit this is gonna be my favorite.

 

[MaKi7]

The chapter will be delayed a bit because of the lengthy translation process. We apologise for this.

 

[MaKi7]

The chapter will be posted tomorrow, 17th.

 

[feroes68]

6/10