Fans Scared of Analyzing Anime?

Namae_nashi said:
Analyzing anime like Psycho Pass is one thing but doing the same with a comedy series will only ruin it, maybe not for you but for other fans if you are being too pushy about your analysis being right. Secondly, people can easily interpret the same thing in many ways depending on their interests and other series they have watched, etc, etc... But unfortunately some people will only use their brains where it will give them a reason to fangirl/fanboy over.

A very good example of over-analyzing unnecessary things would be the Kyo Kara Maoh fandom. Red four-eyes and cirlcle fan have made a complete mess with their "read between the lines" interpretations on tumblr and created a huge army of their very own zombie copy bots infected by fujo virus.

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TheBrainintheJar said:


I don't see how analyzing a comedy ruins it. I analyzed plenty of comedies. A comedy doesn't mean it can't be intelligent. In fact, satire and comedy are often ways to explore ideas deeply.

Namae_nashi said:

I was hoping I wouldn't have to explain but oh well...
Kyo Kara Maoh has one of the shittiest fandoms ever. Even though the author has said that her main focus was boys gag and not boys love all the fujoshis always turn even the most comedic situation with Wolfram and Yuuri in romantic ones by over analyzing it. They even consider the anime as "wrong" or "invalid" because it didn't follow the LNs have enough "Yuuram" fujo pandering saying that it's something not from the author and ironically they still like the manga adaptation despite so many plot holes just because the editor did her best to please fujos by abandoning the plot in the end which again was not by the author but they still consider it to be "valid" and "correct". A very basic example would be from the very beginning of the series when Yuuri slapped Wolfram for insulting his mother. Yuuri only did it because he was completely unaware of the traditions of the other world where a slap actually meant proposing marriage, but fujos say that he's completely gay and it was love at first sight, he just needed a chance to do it. Even when Yuuri tries to avoid Wolfram's advances fujos just analyze that Yuuri hasn't realized his "true feelings" because he was born and raised in the homophobic Japan. According to them there are subtle hints which obviously implies Yuuri loving Wolfram, even having married him behind our backs "but the author doesn't want to tell us" and they are having gay sex. I'm like wtf!? are we even talking about the same series!? The gags were more than obvious with a comedic bgm and all but fujos....
I have read the novels myself, the Japanese ones but I didn't find any such implications and the anime didn't really misinterpret the jokes till it followed the LNs.

Of course that doesn't apply to all comedy but most comedy stuff I've watched was straight forward without hidden implications in the gags part at least.

opheliakc said:
I know I am. I know if I analyse kiseijuu I will love it less and less and maybe hate it.

TheBrainintheJar said:
You take a single series but that doesn't prove anything. If analyzing comedy is bad, what about Catch-22? That was a comedy and it went deep in its satire.

Namae_nashi said:

Haven't watched it, like I said most comedy series I've watched were pretty straight forward.

TitanAnteus said:
A lot of the times these devices don't serve to understand the work but just to broaden your understanding of it.

For instance, you can understand the main point and some messages of the anime psycho-pass without any understanding of it. Being able to analyze the show through different lenses, though can improve your respect and most importantly enjoyment of the show.

Using Psycho Pass as an example, let's talk about the Dominator really quickly.

In Psycho-Pass the Dominator is a symbol. It's a gun that connects to the Sybil system which is the governing system/society. A police officer using the dominator is someone that works within the system. It's a symbol that you adhere to the way society does things, so when the dominator doesn't fire at Makishima that's the same as society not being able to judge a criminal.

If that's the case then what about Kogami's revolver? The person who decides when it's fired and who it kills is none other than Kogami himself. That means that the action of abandoning the dominator and deciding only to use the revolver is the same thing as abandoning society's precepts and choosing to take justice into his own hands.

That extra bit of information, most people who watched the show gleamed helped them better appreciate and improve their enjoyment of Psycho Pass.

Some shows require you to analyze it in order to even enjoy it like Yuri Kuma Arashi.

Lots of anime users on this site, however, are afraid of taking that extra step of looking deeper into their shows. It's sometimes a required step for other works.

My question is, why is it that people don't want to take that extra step? Also, when does it stop being the case of something being buried a little deeper in the show and just become pretentious? If you think it's pretentious please give examples because I'm really curious about those thoughts :)