What are your anime hot takes?

I think Madoka was boring and I don't like Shaft's quirky animation style.

And since you have Gintama in your favorites (just because this is a spicy thread and not because I'm trying to offend or anything), I think Gintama's story arcs (especially those belonging to the latter seasons) suck balls and Gintama the Final was terribly overrated. However I do really like Gintama when comedy is the focal point of the story. Gintama actually used to be my favorite anime.

My hot take is that people don't know actual hot takes.

People ask for unpopular opinions and they will just say stuff like "One Piece is overrated" or whatever.

That's not a hot take, Nagatoro is pretty widely hated in the internet.

Fairy Tail is a popular show, saying you liked it or disliked isn't a hot take.

Nobody thinks that's an unpopular opinion or a hot take.
Most people would just agree with you or they don't care at all.

@MadanielFL I bet you're really fun at parties...

Oh sorry for spoiling the party.

This is like the 100th thread I've seen on MAL telling people to list their hot takes, and 90% of it aren't hot takes at all...

I don't know, most of these threads are "popular series is bad" and "unpopular series is good", so I'll do the same.

My hot take would be "anime piracy is bad" most people here on MAL would burn me for this.

Pretty much everyone agrees with that.

I have one that's pretty controversial

Kimetsu no Yaiba AKA The Demon Slayer is carried by the animation

@MadanielFL I'll hit you with another one then. I really liked fairy tail. It was the power of friendship at its best and that's exactly what I came for

Hardcore anime fans on MAL and on AniTwt who are anti-sjws and hates westerns and all their virtue signaling, are strongly against companies like Cr or Funi since they are "woke" or made up of "sjws"

And these are the type of people who listen to guys like Hero Hei and Rev, who are your classic anti-sjw "triggered feminist compilation" youtubers, the type of guys who build a career of covering twitter drama.
And also most people wants to feel good with themselves for pirating anime, so they will make a number of lists why they hate everything from dubs, official subs, streaming services, and everything that goes with them.

It's pretty much a never ending debate...

@BananaGod34 The first 51 episodes of fairy tail are peak shonen. a hot take would be if you still like fairy tail because buddy that shit's still goin.

@Jonas-K Imo, it's basically budget Saiki. Deadpan overpowered guy who just wants a normal life and is obsessed with some type of sweet. Just replace psychic powers with ridiculous strength and add less interesting side characters. It's ok for what it is, but I agree it's not that funny. Comedy in anime rarely is for me though.

@Jonas-K Imo, it's basically budget Saiki. Deadpan overpowered guy who just wants a normal life and is obsessed with some type of sweet. Just replace psychic powers with ridiculous strength and add less interesting side characters. It's ok for what it is, but I agree it's not that funny. Comedy in anime rarely is for me though.

@Curdiss I liked everything except achnologia and the final fight. That mf had no reason to exist other than to spark a time skip lol

@FanofAction My problem with Mashle is that it's a comedy anime that didn't make me laugh at a single scene, even a stupid anime like Boku to Roboko can be 100x funnier, at least for me obviously. (⁠◔⁠‿⁠◔⁠)

I don't think piracy is something that's really bad and will ruin anime.

More like, it isn't as good as some people make it out to be.
Some people say you have "a moral obligation to pirate anime" because anime licensors are "evil"
Others just say it is better than legal services, and I fail to see how besides the whole library thing.
They say it has better subs, when in reality pirate sites have for the most part, the exact same subs as legal sites.
They also claim it has "better quality", when the video quality is the exact same if not a little worse on pirate sites.

And saying that it helped make anime popular is true, but this isn't 2001 anymore.
In the past, there simply was no way to watch the shows legally, but now pretty much every new popular show is licensed globally.
Pirating may have helped get anime popular in the past, but now anime gets popular from people sharing it on social media and so on...

instead of saying it's a bad show, it is boring, it is mid, it is shit, it sucks etc.. try thinking of it as that it is just not for you. you don't get its appeal and you don't find it fun or relatable in any way. the issue isn't with the show it is with you. you cannot understand the show and it is not targeted towards people like you. it doesn't interest you.

@TsutanaiFuun Naw. You can understand a show and why others might like it and still find it bad or boring. It not being for you specifically doesn't mean you can't criticize it. That just sounds like the mindset of someone who can't accept others don't like what they like.

@FanofAction what i said above can be applied to most of the people and what you're saying is correct and i agree with that. but when you look at people hating most of the time they are hating on something that they don't understand or aren't even interested in that genre.

what i said in my earlier post doesn't apply to criticism, proper objective opinion about how an anime is. it applies to the people who just blindly hate something without even knowing what it is about or what kind of people it is targeted towards.

exactly which could mean it is not targeted towards you and not relatable to you. that doesn't make the show bad just makes it unsuitable for you to watch and enjoy it. like i didn't like banana fish that doesn't mean it is a bad show, many others liked it. this just means it wasn't for me.

@TsutanaiFuun Naw. You can understand a show and why others might like it and still find it bad or boring. It not being for you specifically doesn't mean you can't criticize it. That just sounds like the mindset of someone who can't accept others don't like what they like.

My hot take is: Kaibutsu > Yuusha >>> Idol

-Byousoku 5 centimeter>Your name≒Suzume no Tojimari>Kotonoha no Niwa>Tenki no ko

-Hataraku Maou-sama! and Blue exorcist are kind of boring overall

-Monster and Ousama ranking's second half are kind of disappointing