Anime that you hate (or dislike immensely)?

Manaban said:

Somewhat, because I really don't feel like sitting here and writing a wall right now or arguing with anybody because I'm tired as shit :P Past couple of days have been up until 5 doing clubwork for something we're working on rolling out soon and waking up at 8 to get ready for actual work.

I'll just give brief stuff, though, sure.

Oregairu - Hachiman. The rest of the characters suck too but Hachiman is in a league of his own. The whole show starts feeling that much worse because the narrative can bend to his delusions and projections of character and intent to those around him almost seamlessly. Haven't watched the second season, heard it was just more of the same tho so I won't be picking it up, but the first was vomit inducing to me in that regard.

Basically, Hachiman is a very believable character in the sense that he's that cringy, arrogant teenager who seems to believe that he has the inner mechanisms of how the whole world seems to function around him entirely figured out. Things don't really work like that unless you're outright delusional about reality, but it's something a lot of people his age or around his age can really get into, or at least I can recall feeling like that sometimes.

Though instead of actually making something good with that, Hachiman gets his dick sucked by the narrative to the point where I find laughable that people complain about other LN protags yet can so often have him in their favorites - instead of being just a normal kid who's got his troubles and negative view of the people and world surrounding him, he's basically fucking edgy teenage batman jesus. He's the only one willing to suffer and he'll put himself in bad situations just to help all of these terrible, shallow, fake people around him. He's the only good one, and nobody understands. I don't like describing things like this, but it's kind of the actual case here - I found it legitimately cringe-inducing how the narrative unironically presented this as being the case by and large.

The series had nothing really going on for elsewhere aside from Hachiman's constant inner monologuing about how terrible everybody was, and some shallow self-depricating bullshit about how scummy he was even though he'll jump in front of a car for a goddamn puppy and it's everybody else who is the asshole.

Fuck OreGairu. Fuck Hachiman most of all, though.

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