Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense., Vol. 1 (manga) (Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, So I'll Max Out My Defense. (Light Novel))

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Season 2 of Bofuri is disappointingly mediocre, with it feeling like it was more fun for the writer to imagine and write it out than for the audience to watch. Bofuri essentially discards, or perhaps more accurately does not develop, a core part of its premise of being an MMO. Instead, it favours only dealing with aspects within the game itself, making it feel dangerously close to a banal isekai. While the first season barely factored in happenings in Maple's real life affecting her gaming, Season 2 somehow omits this even further. Instead of expanding on elements that would help genuinely differentiate it from an

I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, So I’ll Max Out My Defense

And to add to all of this, the 2nd season also fails us in terms of animation and action sequences as it lowers them by almost 10 folds and you can't help but wonder when will all this be over. And while it may have a solid storyline for future seasons, I can say that if this is what's getting delivered, it is better to probably skip it. With season 2, we get functionally more of the status quo, which was already wearing thin by the end of season 1. The finale already long overstayed its welcome, spanning over a quarter of the season. Yet the guild-on-guild clash was still passable as a climax to the growing escalation of power then. The problem that is now glaringly obvious is that there is almost nowhere to go from there in terms of spectacle. A core part of Bofuri's identity and its central joke is Maple breaking the game, albeit unintentionally. To the point where scenarios meant to be gripping, edge-of-your-seat battles are reduced to either comedic encounters or overpowered in hilariously over-the-top ways. This means that Bofuri does not have the option of drawing on the outcome of its battles for its dramatic tension. The core narrative of season 2 opting to be nothing but continued combat encounters makes its entire run feel meaningless. With how incoherent, poorly explained, and frankly broken the game's systems are, there is no way to make battles feel like they are following a sense of internal logic. It is all reduced to feeling arbitrary or adhering to what the writer thought would be the most entertaining conclusion. This being a video game does not help things since failure, or even success, is largely a trivial matter without inherent stakes.Anime Adaptation of Light Novel All Points are Divided to VIT Because A Painful One Isn't Liked. in The Works". Crunchyroll. December 6, 2018 . Retrieved January 20, 2020. a b Sherman, Jennifer (August 6, 2019). "Itai no wa Iya nano de Bōgyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu. Anime Reveals Video, Staff". Anime News Network . Retrieved August 6, 2019.

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Poor game admins, always trying to stay one step ahead of Maple! And she’s always trying to figure out new ways to make things interesting. The pacing of S2 of Bofuri can feel fast-paced at times, especially at the beginning when the show switches to a new level within a short span of two episodes or less. Despite this, the show remains engaging and entertaining throughout. Although the season can become repetitive in the challenges that the characters face, the show's unique and unconventional approach to problem-solving keeps it fresh and interesting. Additionally, the animation quality improves significantly as the season progresses, although the early episodes suffer from poor CGI usage that can be distracting. Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense., Vol. 1 (manga)". Yen Press . Retrieved January 2, 2021.

Have you ever played an MMO where boss rooms are just randomly strewn across the map with hordes of protective minions nowhere in sight? No? Then maybe you understand why some light novel and manga readers are criticizing the anime. is something most people don't understand. There are countless problems in both seasons, namely: having too many people, abilities and places. With a more concise story, it would be much easier to see everything good about this show. The best parts of the show for me are two things which many similar action manga fail at. First is the power scaling. Throughout the show, it never feels like the main character or any other characters are completely out of reach. Yes, it is clear that the main character is undoubtedly the best player, but the show repeatedly poses challenges to the characters which show the main character is not invincible and not much better than everyone else. The primary example of this is in the dynamics with the second main character (voiced by the best VA ima), where the main character is consistently outperforming her, but on many occasions, a threat, battle or challenge is shown to both of them which is only completed because of either the teamwork of each of their strengths or one of (either of) their strengths.

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Mynavi News (in Japanese). March 21, 2020. Archived from the original on March 21, 2021 . Retrieved July 11, 2021. Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense., Vol. 12". Yen Press . Retrieved October 26, 2023. One of the best things about this Anime is that it never treats itself with simplicity. Everything is grander, colorful, and sometimes hilariously weirder, but never spiritless or generic. Maple, our OP cinnamon roll, is just that cute girl who found about the wonders of the gaming world, and fun exploring that world with found friends. But she doesn't want to get hurt soo... She wanders around and finds the most demonous & outright unfitting abilities. Like I would be pretty weirded out if I see an Anime girl getting a hand full of tentacles, and that's not even the weirdest moment of the Anime. Like once Sally said, we can never predict what Maple is about. As of the last update, Silver Link or any company related to the production of the BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense anime has not officially confirmed the exact BOFURI Season 2 release date. However, the BOFURI sequel has been confirmed to be coming out in January 2023.

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Aside from nerfs, the devs should stop using impossibly difficult bosses to prevent Maple from progressing. If I were playing New World Online, I would honestly give up if the bosses were nearly impossible to defeat. This is not a good game design. I also don't understand why Maple is allowed to use any ability without any requirements. Aren’t all her stats, aside from defence, at one? It seems foolish for the devs to make a literal tank do more damage than the actual DPS. Have they not watched videos of playing WOW? Another improvement would be to introduce a cooldown when switching abilities simultaneously. It doesn't make sense for Maple to turn from a literal Touhou mechanical boss to a demon from hell in a span of a few microseconds. Like holy crap, the amount of constant DPS Maple can produce isn’t fair man. Another thing that doesn't make sense is why every single side character has a total max HP of 1. None of them has improved in terms of gear or skills in the past 2 seasons, and they all seem like glass cannons in clans that we as viewers don’t know how many there are besides for the big three. So cute! Maple is an amateur just playing the game for fun, creatinga character with extremely skewed stats (putting 100% of feir stat points toward defense). Feir play style is counterintuitive and slow, anddraws the attention of a chat board because fe was seen peacefully meditating in the forest whilemonsters swarmed over fem. Fe's adorable. The chat board, who just want to support fem from the shadows, are also adorable. The admins, even though they're jerks who constantly wish to nerf fem, are also adorable in their own way.