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Nov 9, 2023 3:21 PM
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There are many anime universes that otakus would like to be in, but there must also be anime universes that they don't want to know personally.
What anime would you not like to be in?

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Nov 9, 2023 3:27 PM
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I think apocolyptic or post-apocolyptic ones (such as FotNS) would be close to, if not the top of any list.

Me personally, I don't think I'd want to be in FMA's world. Yes, I liked the show, but not a world I'd like living in.
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Nov 9, 2023 3:32 PM
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I think apocolyptic or post-apocolyptic ones (such as FotNS) would be close to, if not the top of any list.

Me personally, I don't think I'd want to be in FMA's world. Yes, I liked the show, but not a world I'd like living in.
@Fleeting_Dream

It makes sense, I don't think anyone wants to be in SnK or FotNS, but why FMA? I haven't watched the entire anime, is there anything apocalyptic in it?

Nov 9, 2023 3:53 PM
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@Fleeting_Dream

It makes sense, I don't think anyone wants to be in SnK or FotNS, but why FMA? I haven't watched the entire anime, is there anything apocalyptic in it?
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Nov 9, 2023 4:01 PM
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@Fleeting_Dream Thanks for the info, maybe one day I'll try FMA again.

Nov 9, 2023 4:06 PM
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Theres no way id wanna be in the aot world
Nov 9, 2023 4:07 PM
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I feel like any world that's not modern or somewhat futuristic would suck to live in. Or if you go to a fantasy like world and don't have magic or something you're kind of screwed. If I were just a regular person in The Twelve Kingdoms, I'd probably die immediately to demons or bandits.
Nov 9, 2023 4:09 PM
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Any battle shounen
One Piece,
and anything about salarymen walking around like chumps doing all the work for everyone else late into the night while everyone else goes home.
Fuck that shit. Why do I want to watch salaryman when I already am one. And Im not stupid enough to be such a patsy so no thanks
Nov 9, 2023 4:18 PM
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The UC Gundam universe is a terrible place to live at for everyone. Earth is irreversibly polluted, war and terrorism is rampant, space colonies are easily damaged targets and unethical human experimentation is commonplace.
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Nov 9, 2023 4:29 PM

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Anything but Attack on Titan for real.
Nov 9, 2023 4:35 PM

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Made in Abyss, at least the abyss part, the overworld seems fine.
Nov 9, 2023 4:36 PM
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The easy choice would be Attack on Titan but also Blame!, God Eater and Gantz.
Nov 9, 2023 5:21 PM

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The world of Classroom Of The Elite. I'm an underachiever so I would completely get obliterated in that universe. I probably won't even be able to enter their high school in the first place. XD
Nov 9, 2023 5:38 PM

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everything supernatural ^_^ i guess
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Nov 9, 2023 5:39 PM

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Nobody in his/her correct mind would love to be in Attack on Titan world.
Nov 9, 2023 5:42 PM

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Naruto's verse seems particularly dystopian and evil. It seems like you couldn't survive in that world without becoming very dark, violent, un-trustworthy and killing lots of people in acts of ruthless ninjutsu...
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Nov 9, 2023 9:37 PM
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Something too dangerous, like Shingeki no Kyojin.
Nov 9, 2023 10:32 PM

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Anime world of the anime set in the real world, amirite otaku bros ;)

Nov 9, 2023 11:41 PM

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Evangelion after 2nd Impact, its kinda shitty everywhere in the world, only to come to a worse end after 3rd Impact. Honkai and Genshin Impact is good enough for this world.
Nov 10, 2023 12:14 AM

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'Chaika, the Coffin Princess' world can be pretty dark/scary at times for sure, so would not exactly want to go there.
Nov 10, 2023 1:55 AM
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Attack on Titan no doubt. I value my life and so, I don't wish to be there.
Nov 10, 2023 1:57 AM

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I think an obvious one would be Evangelion lol
Nov 10, 2023 2:15 AM

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The world's in Casshern Sins and Wolf's Rain is just to bleak for me to want to live in.
Nov 10, 2023 2:43 AM

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Texhnolyze immediately comes to mind. I honestly can't think of a more dark/depressing setting.
Nov 10, 2023 2:43 AM

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Attack on Titan Man That`s More Cruel Than Real World Even It Was Shonen
Nov 10, 2023 2:47 AM

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Any post-apocalyptic anime for obvious reasons.

One Piece with its slavery/human trade/corrupt government/Celestial Dragons treating normal people like playthings.

Actually most shounen series, there's usually these villains that can at least level cities or worse, nothing you can do anything against as a normal person who isn't the protagonist.
Nov 10, 2023 3:07 AM

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Nov 10, 2023 3:40 AM

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Aot, KnY, One punch man, etc first come to mind.
Nov 10, 2023 5:25 AM
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Akame ga Kill and Takt Op. Destiny came to mind, and the very obvious apocalyptic or destructive worlds as well.



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jujutsu kaisen,straight up.Shit lowkey is hell for npcs
Nov 10, 2023 8:47 AM

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Gundam's of course. If you're a random civilian chilling, your likely to be vaporized in the situations where space colonies slam into Earth or getting wrecked by the countless battles taking place in civilian centers. If you're a pilot, you're chances are better but you still have the chance of getting betrayed, getting vaporized by beam swords, or getting blown to bits with almost no chance of escape.
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Nov 10, 2023 11:31 AM
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Any world that isn't ecchi, harem or hentai world, because you know you will have a hard time.
Nov 10, 2023 4:34 PM

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The Dragon Ball world would be absolute hell. Like the amount of times Earth has had threats in the series is absurd.
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the dying world from Now and Then, Here and There comes to mind first, no hope left, everything is a scorching desert, only a few people are left alive an those who have survived are the worst mankind has to offer

Nov 10, 2023 5:15 PM

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Pretty much all of them are death traps I wouldn't want to live in, other than comedy, romance, ecchi, or vanilla hentai worlds.
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Nov 10, 2023 5:42 PM

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I think the worst wouldn't just be post-apocalyptic - I wouldn't necessarily mind living in certain post-apocalyptic worlds. For example, the world of Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou/Girls' Last Tour. If it was all that unpleasant and unbearable to picture yourself in and immerse yourself in, it wouldn't be an iyashikei in the first place. It's stark and bleak, but in a way that could be made both comfortable and freeing if you were lucky and resourceful enough to secure a continuous source of food and warm enough shelter.

Some post-apocalyptic worlds, presumably taking place some time from the initial apocalyptic event, where small communities have managed to survive or start for the first time in its wake and are living a more primitive lifestyle bereft of some technological advances, conveniences, and societal practices which existed previously, like Sora no Woto and Humanity Has Declined, arguably aren't all that bad and could even be seen as desirable comparatively to the current world.

I think more in line with the very worst would be something post-apocalyptic + apocalyptic. In other words, one where the main setting is post-apocalyptic, because an apocalypse of some form has already occurred prior to the events of the series, but a new apocalyptic event is on the verge of happening in that already destroyed and ravaged world. Apocalypse imminently about to happen to an already post-apocalyptic world. Something like Ergo Proxy. Plus (in EP), air is poisonously polluted outside of some small restricted spaces and the small restricted space you're in is ruled by an AI dictatorship council encouraging mindless consumption until your mind turns to mush.

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Any that are set in western countries post 1999!
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I've only seen a few clips, but probably HxH because wtf is even going on in that universe why are the monsters built like that
Nov 12, 2023 1:03 AM

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any world where you dont have any powers makes you dead meat so any of those.
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Any apocolyptic or post-apocolyptic series are the most obvious. Later, you have sci-fi series with universes living in constant civil wars/galactic wars/terrorists attacks which its worse if mecha robots exist in such worlds. Then, medieval setting since even with magic or supernatural elements, people have a hard time living there. Finally, SOL non-supernatural worlds which they are not very different from the irl world except maybe characters with multicolour hair, so it will be pointless to live there. I'll add any series with racism between species/beings especially if both or one of them have powers like Hametsu no Oukoku, people who even don't have nothing to do with such conflicts are going to die anyways just for being human/non-human, also its quite easy to be branded as a traitor and you're going to be executed due to paranoia.

I won't mind living in such worlds if I have OP powers or at least immortality.
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Probably not the Universal Century. It would be stressful having to live in fear of colony drops and colony gassing, and generally being collateral in the war. The Correct Century or the Regild Century would be fine, though. I also wouldn't be very thrilled to be in the Leijiverse since there's so much poverty, you're at risk of being killed by machine men, and the government just doesn't care to protect you.
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You don't want to be in the worlds of any anime that's good. If you could choose, you'd want to be a Gary Stu with a load of harem girls to choose from with unexplainable power and plot armor. Where even when people die they do it in the mildest way possible, then they get reincarnated. Any anime with a plot that's actually interesting probably has stakes, which means that if you're a powerless NPC, you'd have a hard time surviving. You'd want a world with no stakes, no villain to up the ante, no shortage of resources to compel you to work. You could be one of the background lizards in Slime-kun's camp and do basic scavenging as "work" and get by the rest of your 300 years of life easy-peasy.
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The world of Madoka Magica immediately came to mind for me.
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The AOT world would be shit, same for SAO.
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Any anime set in pre-modern digital age, for the same reason I would never wanna live in pre-digital period of Earth´s history.
Most cyberpunk settings (love the aesthetics, but hate the worlds and how miserable they can get)
Most Gundam settings. If it aint Build universe, you will probably die by some random Mobile Suit ruining everyones day.
Chainsaw Man universe, or any universe with secret demons, devils, magic, and supernatural metaphysical nonsense.
Post-apocalypses, similar reasons as pre-modern and cyberpunk settings.
Settings with constant wars, terrorism, and mass destruction cause protag kun got into the mech.
A world without anime or one with only bad anime.
Any setting with super buy-eyed alien looking humans.

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Texhnolyze and Blue Gender seem like the biggest shithole worlds. I want no part of either one.
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The Promised Neverland or Attack on Titan...I am for sure getting eaten no matter what.

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I think AoT was the most mentioned... I think.

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