Holy crap, hahaha
I just finished watching the first episode of the new anime Master of Epic.
It is basically a theatre of MMO (and many WoW-specific) in-jokes that only someone who plays would really get.

Some examples:

• There’s a young girl (played by a boy) named Collon, who has to go get some spider silk for a quest.
• There’s someone yelling out for a rez (’rizu’).
• There’s a knight who kills a dragon to eat dragon steak.
• A bandage that when wrapped, miraculously, all the wounds go away (and the clothes reform).
• When enemies die they disappear and turn into a bag of loot
• Someone’s giant elephant pet blocks the door to one place in town and no one can go through the door.
• Two characters fishing off a pier.
• A public service announcement to beward of great white sharks (suck my diiiiiiick) when fishing
• There’s a tiny warlock girl who is hungry so she eats her bat-summon (it’s described as a sacrifice move that regains hp and mana) - but it’s apparently terrifying to watch.
• A bunch of emotes are shown and then explained (including dance, cheer, etc) including the message bubbles above that says “boss dances”
• Someone needs seaweed for a quest they’re on and they have to go to another area for it (their quest is to make norimaki, because they’re a chef).
• “but if we get defeated that’s it. Two of our items will be taken away” (by the other faction)
• A five-color all girl gnome sentai team saves two characters from being ganked/robbed (one of them turns into a feral-type form to do this - gnome druids?) …(anyone want to form a waragecha five guild?)
• A big mouse is described as ‘easy for beginners to hunt’

Glad to see we’re way past the time when this can’t be considered ‘mainstream entertainment’. Most of it isn’t really even that ‘funny’, though I am curious as to how many years until the ’situation comedy’ distinctions wear off and it just becomes another sitcom genre like ‘guy with only women in family/household’.

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