Shangri La Fronteir

Between bouts of writing false starts and dubious porn, I've continued to watch anime. Just wrapped up 'Shangri-La Fronteir' season one and about to dive into season 2. The show is genuinely interesting and has moments that are funny as hell. The main character, Sunraku, is a VR player whose avatar is a shirtless dude wearing a bird mask. Events happen in the game that prevent him from wearing any kind of armor, so he's basically stuck wearing the bird mask and relying on his game stats to survive. This isn't really as big a problem as you'd think, since Sunraku has spent years playing trash VR games and learning to compensate and exploit bugs in those games to win, which makes him a brilliant strategic gamer.

I suppose the show falls into the isekai genre, since it involves a different, albeing digital world. But the brightness of the dialogue and the character iinterractions make it a nice change of pace from most of that genre, which, I must admit, gets really repetative, really fast.