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May 14, 6:39 PM

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The most common misunderstanding I see is people thinking Subaru from Re Zero is poorly written self insert for expressing pride. Not only does that pride, make him such an intriguing character. His sins tie into the story and plot heavily.
May 14, 6:54 PM

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People who think Jotaro didnt care about Jolyne.

He wasnt the best father but stating he straight up didnt care for her is just incorrect
May 15, 2:05 AM
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Wrathberry84 said:
but i dont know, i actualy think that people who seriously call moshuko a "pedo show" are just too stupid to understand any of that anyway, so i kinda gave up trying to explain it..

Perhaps I'd understand it more easily if you were capable of math.

Wrathberry84 said:
disregarding that he is 12 by himself mentaly (which is okay, because it doesnt matter if he is 12 mentaly, he still cant go for 12 year old girls obviously, i dont think i need to explain the reasons).

but his physical age is gone after he got reborn, and at this point people need to remember why pedophilia is bad and forbidden. it is to protect underage people from harm adults would cause them with such acts.
but exactly that is not happening anymore if a 14 year old rudeus sleeps with a 15 year old eris. he is not taking advantage of her, she is hurting him more, than the other way around. it absolutly does not matter if theoreticaly his mental age is 40 or something at this point, especialy mental age und physical age are not correlated 100%. Just because you are 40 physicaly you are not 40 mentaly automaticaly.
so its utter bullshit to have any talk of rudeus as a pedo after he got reborn.

If he was mentally 12 in his past life, he'd be 26 after 14 years in his next life. Not 40. That's assuming he really was mentally 12 and you didn't make the entire thing up.
@Lucifrost

and you still didnt understand that only because he is 16 at some point physicaly, does not mean that he also aged 16 years mentaly...
when he first had sex with eris, he was physicaly and mentaly younger than her.

May 15, 3:22 AM
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@Absurdo_N I'm not surprised to hear that, since it can really fly over some people's heads that a piece of media they're watching is critiquing something that applies to them, and homophobic people like queerness more than they like to admit (or sometimes they're too loud about it such as homophobic men going on about how much they like two girls together), but that would be a very perplexing situation to unsuspectingly find yourself in nonetheless.

Your mention of the series reminded me of my own encounter with a bewildering Utena fan that I almost forgot about! I once came across this Utena fanfic where Anthy was searching for Utena and when she reunited with Utena, Utena had a job that made me immediately stop reading. The writer had Utena working as a cop. I couldn't believe that they could watch an entire series about Utena struggling to be a prince, only to discover that being a prince upholds a system that damages everyone in it and does not do the good that it claims to do - and then turn around to have Utena become a cop after all that. This fan even had Utena saying that "a few bad apples" line. I was stunned. All these stories clearly only is "just fiction" for some people and they don't take away anything that they can apply to the real world. Let alone consider that the story might've been created as a commentary on a real world thing.

Absurdo_N said:
I think it's acceptable for women of any sexuality or straight men to draw or enjoy shota characters, but I find it very uncomfortable to see a gay adult man drawing shotacon manga or enjoying shota characters, when I talked about it they called me homophobic and changed the course of the conversation ;_;

There is the harmful stereotype that gay men prey on young boys, which is why a gay woman drawing artwork of lolis would likely not elicit the same response.




EDIT: The more that I think about it the more bewildering this Utena experience becomes. Definitely more than my original example and I would've used this instead if it'd occurred to me then.
bucciest said:
Your mention of the series reminded me of my own encounter with a bewildering Utena fan that I almost forgot about! I once came across this Utena fanfic where Anthy was searching for Utena and when she reunited with Utena, Utena had a job that made me immediately stop reading. The writer had Utena working as a cop. I couldn't believe that they could watch an entire series about Utena struggling to be a prince, only to discover that being a prince upholds a system that damages everyone in it and does not do the good that it claims to do - and then turn around to have Utena become a cop after all that. This fan even had Utena saying that "a few bad apples" line. I was stunned. All these stories clearly only is "just fiction" for some people and they don't take away anything that they can apply to the real world. Let alone consider that the story might've been created as a commentary on a real world thing.

Honestly even outside of police corruption and such it feels very weird to think of Utena as a cop, it really doesn't fit her character
Maybe an attorney if they wanted to relate to the legal system but even that is a stretch
May 15, 3:47 AM

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@Absurdo_N almost as if shoujo manga for women are filled with "problematic" shit but it's okay because the target audience is women or something.
with something like mushoku tensei, we have women who feel the need to condemn everything men like, insecure pickme men who feel compelled to signalboost female criticism of fiction for men, feminsit and evangelical puritans who hate sex unless they can profit from it with porn or something, and finally hoodweebs who can only engage in anime made for toddlers ie shounen and think everything else is weird.
@zoomerReviewer That's funny... I don't see a single Shoujo on your watchlist?
May 15, 3:54 AM
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@zoomerReviewer That's funny... I don't see a single Shoujo on your watchlist?
@LuxuriousHeart he have 338 shoujo in his list. You should check more throughly with a big list like his.
May 15, 4:19 AM

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@zoomerReviewer That's funny... I don't see a single Shoujo on your watchlist?
@LuxuriousHeart surely the women who spend all day crying about mushoku tensei and fairy tail actually watch them
May 15, 4:25 AM

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@zoomerReviewer you go from "japanese people are fascist barbarians" to "koreans are rapists" in the same fucking yapfest holy shit
@WeaponArchitect you defended isayama being fascist by saying "erm that's just dey culcha" allduing to japanese people being generally sympathetic to their fascist history...................
so what is a good response to that aside from pointing out how that doesn't remove any credibility from the accusation and in fact supports the idea that AOT has fascist elements owing to who the author is and what race he is.
you must be s*uth korean if you think propaganda only comes from china and north korea. arguably the most anti japanese sentiment in the west comes from korean americans who don't know about their own warcrimes but are perfectly happy to justify nuking japanese as if they are a unique evil. as if what the japanese did was not mirrored by the koreans after 1945..........
May 15, 4:40 AM

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@LuxuriousHeart surely the women who spend all day crying about mushoku tensei and fairy tail actually watch them
@zoomerReviewer I actually like Fairy Tail. I took a hiatus because it was long and I acquired a backlog. But I like the show. Strong and well written female characters, good art style, magic and guilds, etc.

I have no interest in Mushoku Tensei at all. Nor do I care for it. Plenty of actually good fantasy anime around. And I don't even speak on Mushoku Tensei, other than calling out the hypocritical fans. The ones that say legit anime fans would watch and accept Mushoku Tensei, meanwhile they write off entire demographics (Shoujo and Josei). Y'all are the literally the most closed-minded fans in the community, but project that onto others. I'd somewhat respect your closed-minded nature if y'all acually had good taste, like the old elitists. New crop of elitists are either in the Shounentard camp or in the trash isekai ecchi slop camp. Sad.
May 15, 8:17 AM

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@Lucifrost

and you still didnt understand that only because he is 16 at some point physicaly, does not mean that he also aged 16 years mentaly...
when he first had sex with eris, he was physicaly and mentaly younger than her.

Wrathberry84 said:
when he first had sex with eris, he was physicaly and mentaly younger than her.

You led me to believe he was mentally 40 with your last post. Please try to be clearer next time.
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May 15, 10:56 AM

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@WeaponArchitect you defended isayama being fascist by saying "erm that's just dey culcha" allduing to japanese people being generally sympathetic to their fascist history...................
so what is a good response to that aside from pointing out how that doesn't remove any credibility from the accusation and in fact supports the idea that AOT has fascist elements owing to who the author is and what race he is.
you must be s*uth korean if you think propaganda only comes from china and north korea. arguably the most anti japanese sentiment in the west comes from korean americans who don't know about their own warcrimes but are perfectly happy to justify nuking japanese as if they are a unique evil. as if what the japanese did was not mirrored by the koreans after 1945..........
@zoomerReviewer except what Yams said wasn't even particularly Fascist in the first place that was my point

not gonna bother engaging with you considering you're braindead and say stupid shit on purpose
May 15, 7:01 PM

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bucciest said:
Your mention of the series reminded me of my own encounter with a bewildering Utena fan that I almost forgot about! I once came across this Utena fanfic where Anthy was searching for Utena and when she reunited with Utena, Utena had a job that made me immediately stop reading. The writer had Utena working as a cop. I couldn't believe that they could watch an entire series about Utena struggling to be a prince, only to discover that being a prince upholds a system that damages everyone in it and does not do the good that it claims to do - and then turn around to have Utena become a cop after all that. This fan even had Utena saying that "a few bad apples" line. I was stunned. All these stories clearly only is "just fiction" for some people and they don't take away anything that they can apply to the real world. Let alone consider that the story might've been created as a commentary on a real world thing.

Honestly even outside of police corruption and such it feels very weird to think of Utena as a cop, it really doesn't fit her character
Maybe an attorney if they wanted to relate to the legal system but even that is a stretch
@Guilmon1 I've been thinking about this more and it makes sense to me that this fan would believe that Utena being a cop would be a natural fit for her. They've either clearly bought into all of the copaganda or haven't critically examined the reality of the police force, which is why it would lead them to write that if Utena can't be a prince, then a "realistic" alternative is a cop because she'll be able to do what she wanted to do as a prince in that job instead. Maybe I shouldn't have dipped too early and given them the benefit of the doubt, because maybe they were going to write that she'd realized that a cop is another falsely glorified knight-in-shining armor, but the context of the fic didn't lead me to believe that that was what would happen. Also, it would feel redundant and dismissive as if Utena had learned nothing from what happened before.
May 15, 7:17 PM

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People who think Jotaro didnt care about Jolyne.

He wasnt the best father but stating he straight up didnt care for her is just incorrect
@RyosAudi I've had my criticisms of Jotaro's parenting, but he's certainly one of the better fathers in JJBA. I believe him when he says that he cares for Jolyne and in his own mind, his distance was his way of protecting her from the dangers of the stand user world.




EDIT: Now I've got "Distant Dreamer" playing on repeat in my head lol
bucciestMay 15, 7:27 PM
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