What things are considered "taboo" to talk about in the anime community?

Soupisekaitrash said:
The pedomonogatari moments probably should be discussed since its really not ok

Adimus_prime said:
+1!!!!! I will never understand most MAL users insane hatred of anitubers. I am not even saying you have to like anitubers but I think a lot people on MAL genuinely hate these anitubers as people for committing the "crime" of making content on YT that they don't like.

dertasso said:
You did it, i did it, you didnt get it, i rest my case, pm me, we'll talk on discord if you want to get it

Armados said:
Stuff like saying that the idea behind the concept of waifus is freaking stupid is pretty taboo. People are so obssesive over anime girls even though most of them don't really exist as characters, and instead are just blankets of fanservice.



The hatred of anitubers is kind of justified. For the most part, the most popular ones don't review anime, all they do is review porn/hentai, hype train already hyped animes and create this fake sense of "everything is going great". I've seen so many times that Trash Taste and others keep on saying "how great the anime industry is at this day and age, with so many great animes yada yada yada" even though you get like a bajillion isekais that all feel the same, harems that go nowhere, shounens that well... don't feel any different than those from the last century and so on. They always avoid controversial stuff because all they care about is making money off youtube instead of actually serving as actual reviewers, they affect the minds of many through dumb quotes about popular animes, such as "who the hell doesn't watch AOT its perfect we aren't going to talk about all the flaws this series has" for example, and so on. If they actually cared about their content, instead of talking about which waifu they'd like to fk for the 10th time on the same video, people might have seen them differently.

Armados said:
Stuff like saying that the idea behind the concept of waifus is freaking stupid is pretty taboo. People are so obssesive over anime girls even though most of them don't really exist as characters, and instead are just blankets of fanservice.



The hatred of anitubers is kind of justified. For the most part, the most popular ones don't review anime, all they do is review porn/hentai, hype train already hyped animes and create this fake sense of "everything is going great". I've seen so many times that Trash Taste and others keep on saying "how great the anime industry is at this day and age, with so many great animes yada yada yada" even though you get like a bajillion isekais that all feel the same, harems that go nowhere, shounens that well... don't feel any different than those from the last century and so on. They always avoid controversial stuff because all they care about is making money off youtube instead of actually serving as actual reviewers, they affect the minds of many through dumb quotes about popular animes, such as "who the hell doesn't watch AOT its perfect we aren't going to talk about all the flaws this series has" for example, and so on. If they actually cared about their content, instead of talking about which waifu they'd like to fk for the 10th time on the same video, people might have seen them differently.

IrrelevantGuy said:

Oh god, blaming it on me for not getting it, huh? Ever realized that your own phrasing is very poor?

Btw, I did understand your argument in the end (despite your poor wording), and I also debunked it. And I don't know how you assumed I didn't get it. Ah well, maybe you just don't understand simple logic.

So, let me debunk your argument again~

It should be obvious, being a "fanservice" show doesn't excuse you from including pedophilia. And Mushoku Tensei isn't a fanservice show to begin with. It does have an underlying plot that is very, very serious. So why use the "fanservice" argument only when it's convenient (although the argument is awful)? And I wouldn't even have any issues with Rudeus' actions if the anime presented in a derogatory manner, but as I said earlier, it's depicted in a comedic manner, which it shouldn't be.

I don't think you will get any of this considering you can't seem to understand the simplest of things.

dertasso said:
bruh its not like seriousl fanservice shows exist bruh and its not like rudeus is portrayed as the perfect nibba bruh and its not like its an interpretative show like monogatari where you dont take everything for granted bruh

god this is so pointless and you dont want to get it bc you still havent pmed me

IrrelevantGuy said:

When did I ever imply Rudeus is potrayed as "the perfect nibba"? I actually appreciate flawed characters in anime, as long as the flaws are presented appropriately, which aren't in Mushoku Tensei.

Your phrasing and your arguments have all been poor. So I don't think there is any point in messaging you. You wouldn't be able to explain yourself anyway (although I have already understood your points). And no, it's not my fault. It's because of how poorly you phrase your words.

dertasso said:
nah we'll voicechat, thats always better than typing

IrrelevantGuy said:

I'm not interested tbh... And that's not because I don't want to understand your points, but because I have already understood your points. So it would basically be like saying the same thing again and again.

There's another reason why I don't want to do this. I live with my family and they speak only Bangla (my mother tongue), so it would seem weird if I suddenly started talking in English. I won't be able to go outside either.

Note: I know that it looks like I'm acting like I'm the superior one here, but I really don't want to. I'm just pissed off since it seems as if you are implying that I didn't understand your arguments, when I actually did and made my own arguments against them.

Scordolo said:
When someone rate "objectively"
It is usually frowned upon by the community and I can perfectly understand why.
Even I hate when they say "It's objectively good/bad".It's like saying their opinion is right and others are wrong.

You are generalizing too much.Anitubers like Forneverworld give their honest opinion instead of "going with the trend".Of course if you leave out unique shounen and isekai you'll feel they are all the same.Shounen like Mha and Black clover have really changed.

IrrelevantGuy said:

Don't know about others, but you are completely wrong on the Trash Taste part. They have indeed talked about controversial things about the anime industry (stuff like piracy) many times on the podcast. And they are just expressing their own opinions regarding the shows they watch; there is so obviously no "affect" or "influence" bullshit here. Just because they think AoT is perfect doesn't mean that we have to think so too, and that's not their intent either. So why let yourself be affected by such a simple quote like that?

dertasso said:
kay its easy to pretend youre a smnartass on forum typing tho, but its not taking us anywhere (and no one wants to read this), for personal stuff pm is better

Armados said:


Forneverworld just serves as a hype train aswell. Where exactly is he different? He just hypes everything up, calls everything "greatness" and so on. I've yet to see him talk about how it makes absolutely no sense that Deku just gets constant powerups even though All Might was a better OFA user, yet he never received any additional quirks because "reasons", nor the fact that All Might was considered to be an anomaly in terms of what he was capable of doing throughout his symbol of peace days, while suddenly people are capable of surpassing him with a couple of quick surgical changes aka "afking in a tube". Black Clover isn't a unique or a special shounen. It copies alot of elements from other shounens, its only difference is the speed in which stuff happens.




I am personally not affected by their claims and opinions, but so many others do. Connor, Joey and Garnt (alongside his fiance) always talk about hentai, about porn, about waifus, or other random crap that has nothing to do with the animes they are so-called "reviewing". They essentially serve as yes-men, they don't talk about blatant flaws in animes, they don't admit that the anime industry, other than gaining more attraction, is heading nowhere, as its overflowed with alot of uncreative writers that publish the same exact stories with what I would define as "different skins", that they don't really think or plan ahead of time before publishing their creations, and instead are just trying to make some quick bucks. They will refuse to admit AOT is insanely flawed, its essentially a zombie flesh-mecha anime with WW2 elements that Isayama clearly had no idea what to do with said series, and its especially noticeable with how horrible the manga's ending was. They talk about how Fate, JoJo or other popular animes are just "insane and amazing" without talking about obvious downsides of said franchises, and they pretty much feed people with dumb stuff of said franchies like "Ohohoho Astolofo is a female with a dick haha let's reuse the exact same joke forever". A reviewer should use their position to talk about both the good and the bad of what they are reviewing, instead of recycling the same content over and over, especially since their content's focus is "Holy shit I got addicted to X, let's argue who is the best girl this time!", because that's more or less all they do, and pretty much nothing else.

Chandela said:
The biggest sin is y'all not fucking with Aikatsu!

How many times I gotta say it?

If you would watch it, you would get what I'm going on about.

Then I could shut the fuck up lol.

IrrelevantGuy said:

They aren't pointing out AoT's flaws because they think personally it's amazing? What you are saying about AoT is clearly subjective. There are a lot of people who think Attack on Titan is a masterpiece and they can justify their claims (although I haven't watched it). You should realize that just because you think it's very flawed doesn't mean others have to as well. A podcast is supposed to be a medium for people to express their honest thoughts and Trash Taste are doing just that. They are trying to be casual and friendly, and there's nothing wrong with that. I don't know how that equates to "negatively affecting" people. And what's with people equating anitubers to reviewers? Most of them are doing this simply for fun and what's wrong with that?

And have you even watched the podcast properly? They don't even talk about anime that much, probably because they know how toxic some people can be even though what you are doing is simply expressing your thoughts.

ohohohohohoho said:
The main thing I can think of that people don't want to hear and most people genuinely don't realize is that the anime industry treats the fans like babies and idiots. Even though artists openly talk about how the industry (manga industry too) restricts the type of narratives they are allowed to create.

You often see people deride abstract/nonlinear narrative and use of symbolism as "trying to be smart" or "fake deep," when they're just normal elements of serious fiction. No one likes to accept the possibility that they didn't like an anime because they didn't get it, because there's no such thing as misinterpreting fiction when it's all "subjective." So if an anime makes them feel uncertain about its meaning they just say the meaning is not as deep as its trying to be and its stupid. ambiguity is not an attempt to deceive the viewer about how smart or deep a story is, its just a way of letting the viewer decide things for themselves. But apparently viewers hate that so the industry responds in kind by spoonfeeding all the answers and only providing clearcut narratives.

These are all things that you won't find much support from other users when you say. you can't say things like this without being accused of "elitism."

Scordolo said:
@Armados lmao did you even pay attention?It perfectly makes sense why Deku gets 6 more quirks.
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/my-hero-academia-manga-izuku-how-many-quirks/
This websites explains it.Also,have you heard "The quirk singularity theory"?The reason why Deku gets 6 more quirks ties in with the theory.
If Forneverworld just went with the hype he wouldn't have said that he liked Record of ragnarok.

Armados said:


I mentioned Trash Taste as a name because its quicker than saying CDawgVA, TheAnimeMan and Gigguk. I don't really care about their podcast, even though they do talk alot alot of hentai, porn and other crap when they refer to animes there, but let's leave that thing aside.

If you'd watch some of their videos on their original youtube accounts, you'd see plenty of videos that match my claims. I don't mind if they genuinely like something I don't (just like CDawg actually likes JoJo for whatever reason), but there is a difference between liking something and attempting to give an "objective" review regarding said thing. Giving a false premise of something like "Wow there are so many good shows every season to the point we don't have time to watch everything (when they barely watch stuff at all because I doubt they even believe what they are trying to imply in their videos at this point) is just harmful to the industry itself. Their fans believe their words, because they are fans for a reason, studios take their fake insight seriously because they have alot of viewers, and we end up with alot of repetitive garbage on each and every season. I don't think most Japanese viewers care about their ideas and claims, but since money does speak, and you can easily tell how most authors don't really create a series out of passion or desire for something meaningful and interesting, and since they have hundreds of thousands of viewers, I kind of doubt they don't have some sort of an effect on the industry, even if its just slighty.

For instance, when they "reviewed" Rent a Girlfriend, all they did was talk about Chizuru, because they apparently think she is a "good waifu". Kazuya is one of the worst MCs to ever exist, he does alot of complete bullshit that no person in real life could get away with, but nada, you hear nothing about that. You don't hear anything about how the series itself goes absolutely nowhere, that all Kazuya does is cry, complain, or try to avoid his responsibilities because his entire character is just being a miserable simp, or the fact he gets REWARDED for his atrocious personality because the girls in the series start falling for him for absolutely no justified reason.

You can defend them all you want, the hate they receive is absolutely justified and they do that specifically because they get very easy money out of that.

Gyroe said:
177013, 215600, 230053, 228922…. Maybe

IrrelevantGuy said:

I don't have the courage to check them out on nhentai, but are those some fucked up eroguro?

IrrelevantGuy said:

I don't have the courage to check them out on nhentai, but are those some fucked up eroguro?

Gyroe said:

Btw, are you that dude from Bangladesh? I think i read one of your reviews.

Gyroe said:

177013 is actually nice but everything else is fucked up. Like there’s too much torture and shit. Blood and gore isn’t enough to classify it.

DancingTheBa said:

I watched it, it was aight'... Congrats you can shut the fuck up now.

Chandela said:
Nah man, you gotta do the whole thing. Quitting after 6 episodes is like walking out on the OG Star Wars right when C-3PO and R2-D2 crash land on Tatooine and saying you watched it.

DancingTheBa said:

With that logic, does that mean nobody watched One Piece yet? You need to watch the whole thing to say you watched it?

Armados said:


I mentioned Trash Taste as a name because its quicker than saying CDawgVA, TheAnimeMan and Gigguk. I don't really care about their podcast, even though they do talk alot alot of hentai, porn and other crap when they refer to animes there, but let's leave that thing aside.

If you'd watch some of their videos on their original youtube accounts, you'd see plenty of videos that match my claims. I don't mind if they genuinely like something I don't (just like CDawg actually likes JoJo for whatever reason), but there is a difference between liking something and attempting to give an "objective" review regarding said thing. Giving a false premise of something like "Wow there are so many good shows every season to the point we don't have time to watch everything (when they barely watch stuff at all because I doubt they even believe what they are trying to imply in their videos at this point) is just harmful to the industry itself. Their fans believe their words, because they are fans for a reason, studios take their fake insight seriously because they have alot of viewers, and we end up with alot of repetitive garbage on each and every season. I don't think most Japanese viewers care about their ideas and claims, but since money does speak, and you can easily tell how most authors don't really create a series out of passion or desire for something meaningful and interesting, and since they have hundreds of thousands of viewers, I kind of doubt they don't have some sort of an effect on the industry, even if its just slighty.

For instance, when they "reviewed" Rent a Girlfriend, all they did was talk about Chizuru, because they apparently think she is a "good waifu". Kazuya is one of the worst MCs to ever exist, he does alot of complete bullshit that no person in real life could get away with, but nada, you hear nothing about that. You don't hear anything about how the series itself goes absolutely nowhere, that all Kazuya does is cry, complain, or try to avoid his responsibilities because his entire character is just being a miserable simp, or the fact he gets REWARDED for his atrocious personality because the girls in the series start falling for him for absolutely no justified reason.

You can defend them all you want, the hate they receive is absolutely justified and they do that specifically because they get very easy money out of that.

Chandela said:
I'm constantly told that I haven't really seen One Piece until I hit Water 7 at least LOL - so maybe! Nah but that is airing tho so it's different.

DancingTheBa said:

Isn't there a season of Aikatsu airing right now? The one with the live acton peoples.

Overthinking_ said:


I entirely agree, the moments monogatari is good makes me really want to talk to my friends that also watch anime about it but with all the little sister loving and the child molestation makes it really impossible to recommend it

Kaasfondue said:

If that was supposed to be a burn it sucked ass, most people being immature and antagonistic online is a fact of life at this point, especially on platforms where most are of young age.