gamer5 said:Kaioshin_Sama said:rederoin said:TheLivingVirus said:letswrok said:
just watch episode 6
recreated the scene perfectly from the book
the absurd settings and the details of the world is really well done
Yeah, that absurd that they broke their own rule within the show and took around 33 seconds because they had to include moaning naked girls.
The match should have already been over. It has been over 30 seconds.
It's as if the writers themselves don't even care about this shit anime.
Its written by 1 person, genius.
Takuan_Soho said:Kaioshin_Sama said:
It's pretty clear that the show is primarily over the top wish fulfillment empowerment stuff for NEET otaku where you're along the ride with the main duo that represents said demographic and which never loses and always gets it's way in the end.
Actually our demographic is: "those who enjoy shows that cause posers to work their panties into a bind trying so hard to prove that they are too enlightened to enjoy just mere entertainment and wish that all shows were as bold and wonderful as 'Aku no Hana'".
Granted the show itself is a lot of fun, but the complainers are like the frosting or exactly the cherry on top.
Pretty much.
I do want to add that this show is clearly not aimed at NEET, because they don't have any fucking money.
It just shows that somebody is trying to come up with baseless insults towards the target demographic.
Ofcourse, if this was made by Sunrise, he'd be praising it into the high heavens.
Nope. For example I currently have this rated the same as Love Live. Both shows have their strengths and weaknesses. I'm not some studio fanboy for Sunrise, I just think they have a better track record than most.
@Caleb: That's true but if I do that which I'm admittedly kind of trying to it kind of excludes it from that ZOMG Masterpiece reaction that a lot of people are having. Basically as I keep trying to explain I'm weighing strengths and weaknesses here and the show just kind of comes out kind of average. Also I think part of the problem here is some people can't tell the difference between criticisms and insults. Too some people any sort of criticism of some shows is seen as insulting the audience For example when I call something otaku pandering I'm basically saying I can't see any other purpose to an element in a show or what its doing than just trying to appeal to otaku sensibilities and reflex reactions. To others maybe they don't see at that way I don't know but for me those aspects and sometimes entire episodes just arent working for me.
I cloud argue about the fact that most of the shows that you ranked as masterpieces in your list are far less attractive, at least to me, then other shows. I meant they are mostly old shouen-styled heroic anime or mecha, personally I find mecha shows to be nonsense from the standpoint of military science and the probable engineering issues of making such mech (are the people making this trying to insult my knowledge of military and engineering I wonder when I see mechs), the future is at least for the few next few decades in RC and advanced battlefield integration, not mechs usually armed with non-realistic weapons for their size, or bluntly idiotically big ones.
On the other hand the only newer things high in the ratings are retro-styled anime or mecha shows ... so I am wondering how objective can one be when he is almost clearly a nostalgic b*****d which to me looks like he would like that anime making remained stoned in the last decade of the previous millennium. (So nostalgic that he actually uses a Dragon Ball character's name for his nickname).
It is the good old "things were better when I was a child" non sense I hear from all the people older then me. If you are one of them and if things were really so much better in the past then why don't you just leave us, the generations of today and tomorrow alone and sit quietly in a corner together with your nostalgia.
The comment that Takuan quoted sounds like a freaking insult to me - it shows that you think that the show is something that is not.
1. Yeah a nice portion of people watching this are Otakus - but most Otakus watch this kind of shows. I am an Otaku so what? Otaku is just a word describing someone with a strong interest in something. I am an anime Otaku, a manga Otaku, a tank Otaku, a science fiction Otako ... all at the same time. Otaku is just a Japanese term roughly equivalent someone that due to an especially strong interest in some part(s) of the world is taken as a an abnormal existence by the rest of the world.
So you are incorrectly using the term Otaku to insult someone which might not even have any connection to the show and might even not watch it. By using the term Otaku as an insult you are even insulting yourself since you are an Otaku too.
2. NEET is an English acronym for "Not in Education, Employment or Training". By using this term you are attacking all those which are unlucky enough not to be able to get a job due to economical situations, recessions and so on. At the moment I am an NEET but only because that due to financial reasons I was unable to continue college and my papers got stuck half way to the other side of the country in the university I was going to.
So: "Apologize to the Unemployed of the World! Baka!"
3. My youngest brother is enjoying NGNL! He has no idea what Otaku or NEET and is definitely not a part of any of those extremely wide social groups you mentioned. He also doesn't get any of the references but he still enjoys watching it. So you argument about it being a "targeted" anime is, by my opinion, invalid since I think that pretty much anyone can enjoy NGNL.
4. "The exception proves the rule". That are you rare haters to NGNL. Exception(s) that prove how good the show is.