| - Liking Solo Leveling is more counter-cultural than liking Frieren. Frieren is the amalgamation of all the years of people complaining about shit "anime" do, distilled into one bland, sterile anime. - Diamond is Unbreakable is one of the worst JoJo parts (6th out of 8, only above JoJolion and Phantom Blood imo). Still good but overrated - The fact that City has a higher score than Urusei Yatsura, Azumanga Daioh, PSG, and Ranma 1/2 is absolutely criminal |
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| Not all protagonists always have to be helpful or friendly to random people. It's nice to see some that don't get involved with things that don't concern them. |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas |
Reply to MelodyOfMemory
I'm only interested in talking to anime fans if they watch things other than anime.
| @MelodyOfMemory You got a point ngl |
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Tropisch said: The amount of hate Elaina got for not helping some random girl when her show was airing was ridiculous, especially since anime fans have liked characters who've done far worse things than simply not helping some random stranger in trouble.Not all protagonists always have to be helpful or friendly to random people. It's nice to see some that don't get involved with things that don't concern them. |
| Darling in the FranXX is not just good, it's better than Evangelion. I believe this is my hottest take yet considering how people love dissing the former and worshipping the latter, even saying that DitF is a "cheap copy" of NGE. |
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| Dragon ball sub is night and day difference in comparison to dub Direction is far more important than sakuga animation quality (even though it's always welcome obviously) Most older manga series with existing adaptation does not need a reboot but continuation Not every manga should and can be adapted to anime but can be perfectly adapted in to live action instead Good fanservice doesn't have to show skin all the time but can be done in a different way like having well fit suit will do it's job |
| Greatest shitposter under the heavens. |
Reply to jacobPOL
Dragon ball sub is night and day difference in comparison to dub
Direction is far more important than sakuga animation quality (even though it's always welcome obviously)
Most older manga series with existing adaptation does not need a reboot but continuation
Not every manga should and can be adapted to anime but can be perfectly adapted in to live action instead
Good fanservice doesn't have to show skin all the time but can be done in a different way like having well fit suit will do it's job
Direction is far more important than sakuga animation quality (even though it's always welcome obviously)
Most older manga series with existing adaptation does not need a reboot but continuation
Not every manga should and can be adapted to anime but can be perfectly adapted in to live action instead
Good fanservice doesn't have to show skin all the time but can be done in a different way like having well fit suit will do it's job
jacobPOL said: Most older manga series with existing adaptation does not need a reboot but continuation I really hope these words reach the cosmos. |
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@BilboBaggins365 at being the dark series? Absolutely, zeta has some dark stuff but Usso's viewpoint makes stuff so much darker to the point I had to stop watching
| @Guilmon1 Okay...I think that is a bit overstated. Victory ends on a more hopeful note, than say Zeta for instance (it's still pretty somber but hopeful). I just think Victory is better written than Zeta, and it doesn't deserve the MAL rating it currently has. Guilmon1 said: Don't diss Mahler......that said, honestly yeah, like while I think the original OST is very thematic, I respect it when shows, create their own soundtracks. IDK, just using Western classical music instead of creating your own stuff, just felt kinda cheap, even though it fits. Also while I think the remake OP is pretty good, I still like the OG first 3 OPs more. The op of LoGH's s1 reboot is better than the og soundtrack for the show Guilmon1 said: Eh...it depends. Anime/manga LGBT rep is sure better than the typical overly woke works out there, it's still not that great, usually though. Western stuff overly focuses on activism, and certain "queer" aesthetics which aren't always actually appealing, and then Japan is just overly fetishistic/purity, when it comes to depicting those relationships, which kills any sort of actual believability, and it can be irritating. Anime is way better at diversity than Hollywood As always, no matter Western or Japan, it's better to look for nicher content, if you want good "diversity". If we are talking Western media vs Anime/manga overall, again I think both are pretty mixed, in their quality. |
Reply to Stanis150
@Supersonic_Pain Lol, you're not new to the site and still don't understand how the ratings work here? Comparing score something that came out before the site was created (or its first years of existence) with current ongoing simply doesn't make any sense.
| @Stanis150 Azumanga Daioh is one thing but I suppose I should clarify While it's a disgrace that City's above the old ones too, I meant the 2022 and 2024 remakes of Urusei Yatsura and Ranma 1/2 (PSG S1 was during the time of MAL but even if you wanna DQ that one, S2 is also below City) (Bonus hot take:) Nichijou isn't an all-time great comedy anime like its reputation portrays it as but it sure as hell was funnier than City |
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Reply to Nirinbo
Rent-a-Girlfriend > Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku
| @Nirinbo Kaoru hana, while too safe and idealistic, mogs that cuck bull. |
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Reply to jacobPOL
Dragon ball sub is night and day difference in comparison to dub
Direction is far more important than sakuga animation quality (even though it's always welcome obviously)
Most older manga series with existing adaptation does not need a reboot but continuation
Not every manga should and can be adapted to anime but can be perfectly adapted in to live action instead
Good fanservice doesn't have to show skin all the time but can be done in a different way like having well fit suit will do it's job
Direction is far more important than sakuga animation quality (even though it's always welcome obviously)
Most older manga series with existing adaptation does not need a reboot but continuation
Not every manga should and can be adapted to anime but can be perfectly adapted in to live action instead
Good fanservice doesn't have to show skin all the time but can be done in a different way like having well fit suit will do it's job
| @jacobPOL I want to agree on your fourth point, but I need at least 1 example that comes to your mind. |
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jacobPOL said:
Good fanservice doesn't have to show skin all the time but can be done in a different way like having well fit suit will do it's job
Good fanservice doesn't have to show skin all the time but can be done in a different way like having well fit suit will do it's job
After "anime doesn't has to japanese" now I also have to deal with "Sexual fanservice doesn't has to be sexual"
| @Captain-577 @MichaelJackson here is an example of what good fanservice is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425suicslao |
jacobPOLOct 5, 11:49 PM
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| 99% of the time comedy in anime just doesn't work. Or rather, it doesn't work for non-native speakers. So much of comedy relies on timing and wordplay and without that a lot of the jokes in anime just fall flat. The only time it really has a chance is with visual comedy, but a lot of anime seems to rely on slapstick or "lol XD so random" which has very much fallen out of style with western audiences. Cultural tastes definitely play a part. Even between 2 countries who speak the same language - I'll use my own country England and the US as examples, which have very different styles and tastes when it comes to comedy. A great article if anyone is interested in translation with comedy (which don't get me wrong it's exceedingly difficult to do well for translators and I don't want it to seem like I'm shitting on them - just it's very very hard to do right): An Introduction to the Principles of Translating Humor |
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@BilboBaggins365 I think almost every Gundam fan agrees with you on this.
| @Scyfher Ah okay, I think I phrased that incorrectly. Yeah I think most people, would agree Victory is the darkest, show, however, I think of the two big UC "dark shows" it's better written than Zeta, which I don't think is very popular. |
Reply to Zarutaku
My hot take is that there should be more asshole protagonists, like https://myanimelist.net/character/12903/Ryuuichi_Kaizu
| @Zarutaku Agreed. One of the reasons I love Desert Punk is that Kanta is one of the biggest asshole protagonists in anime. |
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Tropisch said:
Not all protagonists always have to be helpful or friendly to random people. It's nice to see some that don't get involved with things that don't concern them.
The amount of hate Elaina got for not helping some random girl when her show was airing was ridiculous, especially since anime fans have liked characters who've done far worse things than simply not helping some random stranger in trouble.Not all protagonists always have to be helpful or friendly to random people. It's nice to see some that don't get involved with things that don't concern them.
| @LeonhartAugust Feels like some people just hate her as a bandwagon thing to, sadly. I liked her perspective, what reason did she have to help random people when she was simply traveling? |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas |
| 1.Anime would be improved if they took a note from other countries animation and just changed a couple of times the semi realistic artstyle that’s in literally every single anime. 2.Kyoto animation is beyond overhyped both story and animation wise. 3.female anime fans are usually more versatile in what they watch than male anime fans. 4.Waifu and husbando are defiently the worst things to survive this long in the anime fandom. 5.Only shounen anime is mainstream not anything else |
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Reply to LSSJ_Chloe
Dragon Ball GT is better than Dragon Ball Super as I was at least able to bloody finish and sit through it with a lot of enjoyment. A lot of Super felt like a waste of fucking time with long stretched out retellings of the movies, and focusing way too much on fanservice by bringing back characters like Future Trunks and introducing an evil Goku just to sell more merch. The retcons in Super were also pretty atrocious and actively shit on the weight of some of the decisions made in the original run of Dragon Ball, with the retcon to the Potara earrings being probably the most egregious as it makes Goku and Vegeta's decision to fuse into Vegito the first time feel utterly pointless with the new knowledge that it was never actually going to be permanent. It also just makes Metamoran Fusion less unique by having the one drawback to Potara Fusion removed and basically making it "Metamoran but better". With the permanent restriction being gone, literally why wouldn't you use the Potara earrings given the option when Metamoran is way more difficult to set up and has more factors that can go wrong for a less powerful end result? God I hate Super so fucking much, at least some of the new forms were cool and it led to us getting FighterZ which is definitely to this day one of the best licensed fighting games I have ever played.
| @LSSJ_Chloe erm saying super bad cuz fanservice is crazy. have you not seen dragonball and its early chapters? and GT has Pan............ |
| Miura heavily implied Casca enjoyed it on the basis that it was Griffith and did not understand the response he got from the fanbase. Miura was on hiatus for half his life because he was obsessed with idolmaster. Hayao Miyazaki hates otaku because he felt superior to them because while they liked loli he liked the "real thing" which makes him worse imo. Older anime with gay characters had homophobic depictions of them and the inclusion of them does not make them woke and does not make the chuds owned or whatever. Using his work to "own" the weebs is retarded and shows you are a tourist. Virtue signaling about creepy anime when even basic shounen like Dragonball and Naruto have it engineered into them the same things or worse just reveals you are retarded and an instigator. His work is inherently anti feminist on the basis of his predatory relationship to girls but that doesn't matter to his fans considering the fathers of THEORY were almost all pedophiles who wanted to remove the age of consent. It is notable that during Miyazaki's entire life pretty much the age of consent was comically low and that 'p was legal for the japanese and that many of his coworkers were with it. When creatives are MUCH older they tend to rewrite history to make themselves look better. This applies outside of animanga such as people like Stan Lee so it makes sense it would also apply to Japanese people. Actions speak louder than words and what they do and say during their prime is what actually matters in defining their works as such interviews taken years after the fact should have little to no value. Art can't be seperated from the artist. Writers have done things such as take out their divorces on the female characters they havae written by killing them off or worse. Writers have taken out their feeling of being rejected by a female voice actress by punishing the anime girl they voice. etc One Piece like LEGO is for toddlers but the money is milked from manchildren. |
| Ghibli movies arent as good as people say they are |
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| Yuuri x Wolfram is not representation, it's simply an abusive relationship that's been romanticized by the fujoshi author. |
| Anyone actually involved in the animanga industry deserves public backlash and mocking if they do something a sizable portion of their fanbase finds offensive. It is fine as long as it is not doxing or gore/porn spam on their socials. Death threats are fine if they are only that. They should take the heat, as it is all part of the entertainment industry. Getting adoration should be equalized with getting hate when warranted. I won't mock them, cuz I'm lazy and a hypocrite, but I will never pretend that I believe people dogpiling on a public hate train are wrong. |
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