Do Natsume Yuujinchou haters make you want to commit suicide?

WONDERLESS169 said:
dont you think its a little flawed to be judging shows on one scale its like a restaurant reviewer comparing how good the food at a burger place is to how good another restaurant's sushi? It makes no sense compare slice of life to slice of life to shounen or other sorts of stories with an overarching plot. Some people want a relaxing episodic show it has nothing to do with not having a brain. I mean heck Im an A student studying literature at a university level and i love this show? Cause different genres have different purposes and audiences.

WONDERLESS169 said:
I dont wanna commit suicide but these neagtive reviews make me very upset. Like dont watch this expecting it to act like demon slayer or something. Its called Natsume's book of friends this is clearly not the same vibe. I hate how shounentards act like the only way to write a story is like any typical shounen does. It really makes anime look one dimensional if we start treating the medium like that.

Kyotosomo said:


Entertainment is entirely subjective so all that really matters is how much one personally enjoyed a show and personally I found it mostly boring. So in that sense it's silly to propose we only rate shows based on the context of their genre. HOWEVER yes if one were to try to "objectively" rate a show you can either [A] rate it based on how enjoyable it will be to fans of its genre or [B] rate it based on how enjoyable it will be to the broader (in this case anime consuming) audience. Which is why I specifically mentioned all three stating that if you're a fan of the Iyashikei and Yokai genres it's probably a masterpiece but if a broader audience was exposed to this show most would not enjoy it and its score would drop significantly. And whilst I can applaud what it does well, it doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day I was not entertained the majority of the time I watched this show.



Shounen is a minority of avid anime viewers (especially the kind of people who would use this site) and ironically the majority of people really into the shounen genre usually don't watch a lot of anime outside of it (just a few ongoing shonen shows at any given time maybe the occasional action heavy one/two cour every now and then). That's not most people who negatively reviewed this show. The people who gave negative reviews did so because it's a genuinely boring show for your typical person. This show would have a FAR lar lower score and FAR more negative reviews if a broader audience had at all had decided to watch this show. But for the most part only fans of its genres knew it existed and bothered to watched it so the score ended up being super hyper inflated.

And whilst personally I'm more of a fan of shows with strong characters and strong plots, that doesn't mean I can't enjoy a "chill" / "supernatural" / "storytime" type show like this too. Beautiful semi-similar shows with a foot planted in this one's genres (instead of both) of like The Ancient Magus' Bride or Restaurant To Another World or Violet Evergarden were all great to me even though they're definitely not my typical kind of show. But this one just really leaned WAY to far into trying to be "cozy" to the point where unless you're REALLY into this kind of show; it's going to end up being pretty boring for your typical viewer who needs at least some level of stimulation from their entertainment. There's a reason the Iyashikei genre is so extremely niche.