| The least importan aspect for me is the music. A show can have very shity music and still be enjoyable to me and i think that most anime OST is generic anyway. |
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| Depends on the show, but maybe voice acting. For me, the story, characters, animation, and OST are more important. And I'm talking about the main aspects, not some random background characters, hair styles, etc. |
SerafosMay 11, 10:16 AM
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The least important aspect of anime is background character designs. |
| For me, it will be the presentation like the outfit and hair style. Characters can be wearing the same clothing and having the same hair style throughout the entire series is fine with me. |
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| Least important is everything I don't care about. |
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| I guess it's the animation during the action scenes, since they usually amount to less than 10% of an episode even in action-packed anime (Japanese limited animation exists because the bulk of an episode is made of characters standing still and talking, after all). If the remaining 90% is boring and/or ugly, a well animated 10% won't matter. I could have said voice acting, but its impact might be not so obvious. I mean that a character's likability might depend on voice acting more than it seems, even if just subconsciously. Spunkert said: most anime OST is generic anyway. That's exactly why the few OSTs that stand out can make a big difference for me. |
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| Manga it's based on. I don't care about source material if the outcome is great. |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
| Least important aspect is easily diversity and representation. |
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| it’s between character design, art-style, and OST—probably character design most of all though all are still important but if one was lacking I could still find a show to be top tier based on how the characters are written, the story, the pacing, and the voice acting |
| Probably fanservice. I enjoy it, but I don't need it...mostly. No wait...cutesy characters is a better answer. I don't need characters to be obnoxiously cute to enjoy something. |
| For me it would have to be the studio, as the director and staff are much more important and even "bad" studios may have some great directors that can save some shows |
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| I love anime openings and endings, but they are probably the least important in the overall scheme of things. |
Reply to FanofAction
Probably fanservice. I enjoy it, but I don't need it...mostly. No wait...cutesy characters is a better answer. I don't need characters to be obnoxiously cute to enjoy something.
FanofAction said: Probably fanservice. I enjoy it, but I don't need it...mostly. No wait...cutesy characters is a better answer. I don't need characters to be obnoxiously cute to enjoy something. ^Most likely this as everything else is like equally important aspect TBH. |
| music, except if it is a musical anime ofc |
| Anime openings and endings if they aren't really used or integrated into the story of the show. It's nice to have and it helps with building a playlist, and can even show off animation very well to build a lot of hype but I don't think they are that important to me when looking at whether a show is really good or not. If a show has a great opening and the actual anime is very boring, I don't really give bonus points for the opening that don't add much to the actual anime itself. When it comes to OSTs though present in the actual episode, that does matter to me a lot more. I don't need every good anime to have an elite soundtrack but it should be immersive enough with the kind of show it is used for and compliment it well to not be a distraction. |
| The least obviously is the story, if an anime has good animation and good music, it's an instant 8/10+ |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| voice acting for me since even the most shitty voices (as per complain by fans) is still good enough for me like i even watch dubs as long as its available first |
| Characters generally speaking. Even the ones that tick me off the most like Frieren characters and the Zenitsu-Inosuke combo everything else about those two shows simply prevent me from hating them as well as enabling me to complete them still. Another one's the music as long as it isn't the generic vocals especially the moany ones (mostly with modern anime). |
| Opening and Ending, because I skip them anyway :) But representation is still the most unimportant one tho~ |
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| You can come up with any number of totally important aspects. Like the total number of blue pixels. |
| Anime is just another low-quality, mass-produced junk of industrial civilization. Sold for profit just fyi. |
| music. it can contribute significantly if done right during particular scenes but it's also like a double edged sword. mha movie battle music was a miss for me. |
| I would have to say that the moral intergrity of the MCs is the least important aspect of an anime show. So degenerate perverts--like Issei Hyoudou from Highschool DxD--are perfectly fine for me. |
Reply to leonardobarba
Anime (and manga) do not need to be politically correct.
| @leonardobarba why do you make that assumption? Censorship laws still apply to anime btw. |
Reply to Luchipher-Zen
It's music for me as well.. opening and ending songs or OSTs in anime dun matter at all for me... only OST's I ever cared for were the ones in video games..
| @Luchipher-Zen and how can you ignore something as important as music in an anime show? That sounds downright unbelievable. |
| Least important aspect for me is hairstyle. They can have any |
Reply to leonardobarba
@DesuMaiden Censorship and political correctness are unrelated.
| @leonardobarba no, they are totally related. Politically incorrect stuff is regularly censored on the Internet. |
| Probably ADR direction... since I don't watch anime dubbed, for personal reasons. |
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| Voice acting, at least for a sub watcher like myself. For the most part, I rarely pay it any mind, even when the voice acting is average or mediocre. Then again, maybe OPs and EDs are the least important aspect of an anime for me, since I opt to skip them entirely when possible. Even when I do notice particularly exceptional OPs/EDs, I only make the effort to listen to them on YouTube, rather than sitting through them in each episode of a series. |
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Reply to leonardobarba
@DesuMaiden 1984 followers are commonplace -- not only on the Internet -- but being politically incorrect per se should not cause censorship.
| @leonardobarba that is a bold-face lie. Anyone, who tells the truth about capitalism being a scam and Near Term Human Extinction being an inevitability, is automatically censored online. Those elites cannot handle the truth being leaked out because they are cowards. |
| Probably the ending. I just skip all endings (except in Anime movie where they lack openings). Reasons: 1) I play AMQ so my brain don't have space for more songs especially when many Anime has more endings than openings. 2) Not a fan of most endings songs. 3) The opening represent the Anime better than the ending. |
| All weebs creatures of the galaxy, hear this message. Those of you who listen will not be struck by western animation. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Anime have come to lead you now. Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper. However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their western animation ways… For you, there will be great wrath. |
| Aspect ratio. Black bars or not, makes no difference to me |
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colours from our sight Red is grey and yellow white But we decide which is right And which is an illusion. |
| for me, tbh, audio language. I'll read subs, enjoy dubs, one time I think I watched an episode of an anime in Spanish to help me learn, whatever |
| "Dreams are worth fighting for" Backloggery | YouTube | Heatmap |
| A desire to appeal to all kinds of people. Everyone is an annoying contrarian who doesn't even have morality sorted out for themselves or has ridiculous double standards that contradict their own moral compass so it makes no sense to appeal to wide-sweeping audiences. Anime should continue to appeal more to niche groups. |
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| Opening songs. They are just there to make the episode longer so they need to animate less content. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| Anime is like a popular dish. You leave one least important thing out and it's inedible.. |
| Obviously the plot never mattered. Duh. |
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