| I was wondering why this series is not more popular. It's ranked #57 but is only ranked #458 in terms of popularity. The main reason I can see is the seinen setting and general dark feeling. |
| Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... and my arm... even my fingers. The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past." |
| Also that it has a realistic setting. |
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| It just doesn't appeal to a wide audience. It's also not a very fun or entertaining anime. It's engaging as all hell, don't get me wrong, but it's not something a normal person can get excited over, especially when the show is all about fighting your way out from the depths of society. |
| The second part of the series |
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| The second part was just as good as the first half. |
| Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... and my arm... even my fingers. The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past." |
Praland said: The second part of the series I'll say this though: the show really went out of its way to make the main characters' lives suck. |
Praland said: Agreed. The 2nd half got boring and the narration just got annoyingThe second part of the series |
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G_Spark233 said: Maybe but that doesn't matter cause of the last episodePraland said: Agreed. The 2nd half got boring and the narration just got annoyingThe second part of the series |
| Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... and my arm... even my fingers. The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past." |
| I don't know, I only found about it by chance, and was surprised that I never heard about it, since it has an interesting premise. TheTragicPrince said: It's not popular Because its not Moe Or some fanservice crap. Plenty of anime, that don't fall into those are a lot more popular. It's just about exposure and word of mouth. |
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| Its the characters. The good guys are the good guys, and the bad guys are over the top bad guys. Kinda like SAO. Im not really a fan of anime where they make us the audience pity the main characters and demonize the evil characters all in one. Kinda my main problem with Anohana. |
| Probably because it's dark theme and setting puts off a lot of people. Plus the second half keeps it from being higher in the rankings. |
"You either die an Ashita no Joe, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Naruto."  |
| I don't think this anime is that unpopular. I heard a lot of good things about this anime and probably too much for what the anime actually deserve. The seinen tag would never put off the mass because as I noticed, edgy anime and those anime that want to be mature attract to a large degree the western viewers. Things like Hellsing, Parasyte, Tokyo Ghoul and such became extremely popular in the west and probably a lot more than ecchi and harem anime. G_Spark233 said: it has a realistic setting. You're totally right. Plus it has a historical setting. Those are such unpopular settings, but at the same time they usually make an anime vastly more overrated. |
| I cannot understand too. If not for MAL I would never know the existence of this anime. I don't wanna believe that "to be an anime that is in an old time, doesn't call attention." Animes like this that really messes with "feels" beats most listed in the top 10 of popularity and top 50 overall... |
ooo333 said: Its the characters. The good guys are the good guys, and the bad guys are over the top bad guys. Kinda like SAO. Im not really a fan of anime where they make us the audience pity the main characters and demonize the evil characters all in one. Kinda my main problem with Anohana. LOL anohana really sucks, is not even comparable with Rainbow. I believe here they put really emotions in the way it is, anohana is just a lot of people crying because a fucking ghost that one person can see????? |
| i only found this anime randomly and im so glad for that. yes it might be becaouse of the name partly that it aint that popular. absolutely nothing got boring for me only the first ep did. maybe people think their friendship started off too fast or maybe their soul just cant take raw violence. this is the only time when it comes to an anime that i will say "i just dont understand why people wont like this" and when it comes to a show like cowboy bebop "i dont get why people says its good" |
| Sonic X is basically an isekai |
| The time in which it takes place along with the brutality limit its appeal a bit. The most popular anime on MAL are preteen-friendly mainstream titles like Death Note, SAO, AoT, Shippuden, etc. |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
CatSoul said: The time in which it takes place along with the brutality limit its appeal a bit. The most popular anime on MAL are preteen-friendly mainstream titles like Death Note, SAO, AoT, Shippuden, etc. That would make it appealing to those pre teens lol. Death Note and AoT have more brutality in them, they are just not as melodramatic. |
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| No cheap "cute" waifu's, no Shounen stuff etc. instead its dark and very mature. Of course its not very popular |
| It's not on any legal streaming sites. It doesn't have a dub or even a DVD/blu-ray release in English |
Aardwolf94 said: No cheap "cute" waifu's, no Shounen stuff etc. instead its dark and very mature. Of course its not very popular When a cute waifu shounen stuff anime is better than a dark and very mature anime then it says a lot about how bad this anime is. |
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