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Jan 23, 2022 11:31 PM
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What's a moment in anime that really confused you as to what the author was thinking when writing it? And how did you react?
Jan 23, 2022 11:48 PM
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Probably The Promised Neverland S2. I was laughing hysterically in the final few episodes. I still can't comprehend the shift from horror to peak comedy.
Jan 23, 2022 11:59 PM
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The entirety of The End of Evangelion. I had to do a little bit of research to figure out what it was supposed to mean. Still not a fan though.





Jan 24, 2022 12:44 AM
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Those periodic rape scenes in SAO, like it's there in each season so far.
Jan 24, 2022 12:47 AM
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I know it still hasn’t been animated but for me it would be the last arc of Attack on Titan
Jan 24, 2022 12:51 AM
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The entirety of Boruto.
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Jan 24, 2022 2:57 AM
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Kansen Sodom.

idk wtf the creators were smoking, but okay.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/38031/Kansen_Sodom
Jan 24, 2022 4:24 AM
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Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari.

The MC sais I'm not going to meet with the other heroes and leaves in one episode. Then in the next episode we see him sitting at a table with the rest of the heroes.

The hero plans to go all over the world where waves are causing destruction. However at the end of s1 he ends up becoming a lord, with a domain and people to govern.

Just these two moments confused me more bthan any other anime ever did.
Jan 24, 2022 5:04 AM
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The ending of Oreimo. Not the pair itself but the relationship they built till then. That's the first and last time i wanted to send a D@#h letter to the author.
Jan 24, 2022 5:59 AM

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elnino02 said:
And that one
Jan 24, 2022 6:01 AM

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Redo of Healer for.... obvious reasons.
Jan 24, 2022 6:15 AM

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Higehero for all those dumb character choices spread throughout that series which made no sense
Specifically the reason given behind the suicide of girl MC's friend was one of the most dumbest thing I ever encountered in any anime

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Jan 24, 2022 6:20 AM

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I never understood what the white-haired boy in "Kamisama ni Natta hi" had to do. I mean, I understood everything else in the series, but I never knew what the white-haired boy had to do with it.


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Why the MC in Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious
Jan 24, 2022 6:35 AM
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Redo of Healer for.... obvious reasons.

The author actually gave an interview on this and explicitly shared his gameplan! And it was hilarious in a kind of dark way. He pretty much openly admitted to making a series to try to generate controversy to draw attention, because as he put it, if 100 people all like something, they are less likely to want to financially support a series than 50 people who like it having to deal with 50 people who hate it and everything it represents.

This can be interpreted as "Piracy is such a thing with this type of content around the world that generating conflict to make people who enjoyed it more supportive of my series and therefore put more cash in my pocket was my goal," but that's not explicitly stated. I just kind of got that undertone from it.

You can watch it here.

The dude also says something along the lines of "There are some passionate writers who create the trends the rest of us follow, and I think that's great, but my passion is making money." He also does the interview in a fursuit. Redo put me off entirely of even considering watching it because of the premise, but the interview itself was funny as hell to me, ngl.

Jan 24, 2022 6:36 AM

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that moment in shadows house where the story build up to a certain possibility and rather then the characters finding it out in some grand reveal the anime literally has the villain walk into a room full of villains and one of them pretty much says " pls exposition that thing that you already know and we already know "
and then he literally expositions the mystery.
and after that the characters dont even find it out . one of them just guesses it correctly in very specific detail .
Jan 24, 2022 6:47 AM

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Spoiler from Shingeki no Kyojin

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Jan 24, 2022 7:23 AM

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Everything after season 1 of the Tokyo Ghoul anime made me ask myself "buy why?" It's been a while since the anime has been finished and I still think about the fact that it is so awful and different from the actual manga.
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Jan 24, 2022 7:32 AM

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Dragon Ball Super re-adapting the Battle of Gods and Ressurection F films. It felt like they were just padding for time and wasting my time and it honestly killed the momentum a new entry in a long running franchise should have for me.
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Jan 24, 2022 7:36 AM

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schnoz in berserk


i also saw a episode from "why the hell r u here teacher" or smethn and one of the girls bikini line got bit by a crab and the guy had to suck it out to save her??
i was very confused
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Jan 24, 2022 7:39 AM

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The forced melodrama in Love Live. It was a perfectly fine show up until the end when it derailed itself for a completely needless and abysmally executed conflict.

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Jan 25, 2022 10:32 AM

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Plenty of stuff in Kyo Kara Maoh, notably:
1. When Yuuri bitch slaps Wolfram for insulting his mother and everyone starts congratulating them because slapping equals getting engaged in the other world. Like how dense can you be!? Read the situation for goodness sake!
2. Later when Yuuri says that the only reason he doesn't break the mistaken engagement is because he feels bad for slapping him without knowing about the custom and doesn't want to hurt his pride by dumping him so he'll instead wait for Wolfram to break up from his end. Like wtf, it was totally Wolfram's fault, he deserved a tight slap for the way he was behaving, it's a really stupid excuse the author came up with just for shipping purposes.
3. Demons age 5 times slower than humans both physically and mentally but for some reason 16 years is considered an adult and 16 year old demons basically have the physical body and mental capacity of 3 year old and they are perfectly legal to fuck and marry! What was the author even thinking!?
Jan 25, 2022 10:36 AM

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Every time some random ass girl cuts her hair and develops her character tenfold

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Jan 25, 2022 10:41 AM
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Every week i read this piece of trash called Rent a Dustbin and I question myself, but why though? Why am I reading it knowing that it's trash?
Jan 25, 2022 10:43 AM

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irina shooting koro-sensei down with regular bullets. like bro werent you fucking told that only bb pellets work. i mean i get it the anime cant end like 4 episodes in but why like cant you make the assasination fail in some other non-retarded way instead
also hiling saving everyones asses in ousama ranking ep 14. the author is way too afraid to kill off some characters
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Jan 25, 2022 10:49 AM
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do manga count? then the ending of prison school. and the majority of chainsaw man too
Jan 25, 2022 10:54 AM

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Whenever a female character cuts her hair to show "Character development".
It's as if the Author does not trust it's audience's ability to understand a female's character development.

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Jan 25, 2022 11:05 AM
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Jan 25, 2022 11:13 AM

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TheFireNinja said:
elnino02 said:


Debatable, but a fair point nonetheless. However, the reincarnation bit still bugs me and I think that had no business being there.

Erebus_Akeldama said:
Every time some random ass girl cuts her hair and develops her character tenfold
If you're talking about Sakura, her character didn't develop at all after cutting her hair, all she did was scream a little and take a few harmless swipes before having to be rescued again (or something like that, I don't exactly remember).
Jan 25, 2022 11:18 AM
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When they decided to adapt 100+ chapter in god of highschool anime. It was just so weird.
Jan 25, 2022 11:23 AM

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When Lain does her stuff, like what is lain anyway?
Jan 25, 2022 11:38 AM

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When I’m reading a really good fight scene with gripping buildup that happens to include a a female character and said female character loses her clothes and it’s made a big deal out of. No better tension killer. I’m looking at you, Kenichi.
Jan 25, 2022 11:42 AM

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The incest in The Irregular of Magic High School. Like...was there no other way to depict family loyalty and devotion other than an annoying brocon/siscon pair? I like the premise of this series so much and the story is good so far, but this one aspect is killing my enjoyment of it.



Jan 25, 2022 12:25 PM

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Everytime I’m treated to an unfunny fanservice scene qualifies.
Jan 25, 2022 1:09 PM

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Mai Valentine Vs. Marik. She has him on the ropes, one attack away from winning. And inside of going for the win, the writers make her stupid and lose the duel.
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Jan 25, 2022 1:54 PM

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a lot of the self cockblocking moments. Stuff like "wait for me until xx happens" as if starting a relationship is suddenly an end all and you can't develop as a person after.

or "i don't know why you're dating me, I'm not attractive so I'm going to completely ignore you from now on" which is something very common in shoujo. But it's like bitch who tf are you to say who he should or shouldn't fall in love with lmao


I know the authors use them as cheap ways to say "hey guys look, a completely good reason to insert pointless drama/halt development" but geeeeeeeeeeez




but the biggest "why though" moment is when naked girl walks in on ML or the such, and the other girls attack him like bruh tf
Jan 25, 2022 2:07 PM
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Why levi not let one of his mates who got turned into pure titan, eat zeke after defeating him.
Why give thunder spear to that chaotic monke.
Why do a half assed job of taking down marley after starting a war(just squish everything with collasal).
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Code Geass. Suzuka was so against Lelouch for using violence to reform Japan instead of Suzuya who... also was a fighter except he was fighting for the bad guy. He even got to the top position he could as a soldier. Did he use this position to help the Japanese? No. And he still gets mad at Lelouch for fighting and never gets any comeuppance.
Jan 25, 2022 2:27 PM

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The entirety of Erased. I even started asking myself similar questions as to why I continued to watch it.
Jan 25, 2022 4:44 PM

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Though black Clover and one piece are my favourite but

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Jan 25, 2022 4:45 PM

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In anime there would be many
For example the end of Eva or light killing L

But i got one specefic one in the mangas,in ao haru ride when futaba choses kou instead of toma who treated her 100 times better than kou did brrr
Jan 25, 2022 4:47 PM

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Literally the Kaguya plotline in Naruto.

Jan 25, 2022 4:47 PM
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Near1267 said:
In anime there would be many
For example the end of Eva or light killing L

But i got one specefic one in the mangas,in ao haru ride when futaba choses kou instead of toma who treated her 100 times better than kou did brrr
welcome to shoujo romance where the girl chooses the guy who treated her Luke shite. It's like their version of guy choosing Tsundere over the nice girl next to her.
Jan 25, 2022 4:53 PM
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but the biggest "why though" moment is when naked girl walks in on ML or the such, and the other girls attack him like bruh tf
thank God this cliche is pretty much dead. Guy walking on girl bathing or naked.
Jan 25, 2022 5:00 PM
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That one scene from Haruhi, where it zooms in on a mole on Kyon's neck.

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