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Jun 23, 2017 11:55 AM
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When you really stop and think about it, it's kinda true.

People want THEIR best girl to win and if she doesn't the anime is trash.

This feels like a huge joke, but it's not.

I'll admit, I ship, but honest to god I always try to not let it affect me...

HOWEVER, I also believe that the "pick" is integral to the story (if the story revolves around romance)...

You can't drag the audience along and then pull a wild card outta your ass...

Still, it's becoming quite toxic.....anyways your thoughts?
Jun 23, 2017 11:57 AM
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Best girl don't win = 1/10
Fuck every anime who keep teasing sinking ships

Is not a stupid reason
Is a part of the plot

Thx God visual novels exist
Jun 23, 2017 12:00 PM
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I've never seen people unironically get heated about waifu wars or their best girl not winning.

I've only people meme about it.
Jun 23, 2017 12:00 PM
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tragedydesu said:
Best girl don't win = 1/10
Fuck every anime who keep teasing sinking ships

Thx God visual novels exist

I can't be that cold hearted.

Hell, I still gave TWGOK (manga) a great score despite the bad (IMO) ending.

The story was so great and so many memorable moments.
Jun 23, 2017 12:03 PM
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ItsXolo said:
I've never seen people unironically get heated about waifu wars or their best girl not winning.

I've only people meme about it.



+1

I've never actually seen it either...



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Jun 23, 2017 12:03 PM
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Loving one character/ loving whole show.

Those who cant sepparate those terms honestly i dont even consider their opinion worth analyzing.

Also outright hating anime you watched and possibly enjoyed initially just because waifu wars disturb you or bore you is just.. oposite of what effect they should bring good laugh those threads are amoung most hilarious type too read.

If something is great no amount of dirt can change that.
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Jun 23, 2017 12:06 PM
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it's never really an issue if pretty much none of your best girls have a chance of winning to begin with

hard to get one's hopes up when everything was hopeless from the start

Jun 23, 2017 12:07 PM
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JustALEX said:
tragedydesu said:
Best girl don't win = 1/10
Fuck every anime who keep teasing sinking ships

Thx God visual novels exist

I can't be that cold hearted.

Hell, I still gave TWGOK (manga) a great score despite the bad (IMO) ending.

The story was so great and so many memorable moments.

sorry , but i have no pity for that kind of anime

Twgok could easily be one of my favorite anime of all the time if it wasnt for this disgusting ending
out of 999999 girl he chose the worst one in the whole cast ...
seriously ... what the hell the author was thinking when he was writing the ending
Jun 23, 2017 12:07 PM
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I do enjoy shipping but I definetely agree that some people take it waaaaaaay too far. Like the infamous triggerydesu

ItsXolo said:
I've never seen people unironically get heated about waifu wars or their best girl not winning.

I've only people meme about it.
the person right above your post is definetely serious about it and I mean SERIOUS like dead serious to the point when it is kinda scary.
Jun 23, 2017 12:09 PM

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the anime was always trash, ships make it redeemable until they sink
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Jun 23, 2017 12:10 PM

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I ship a lot but it never fails to amaze me, how seriously people can take it. Girl loosing won't make me sperg about how shitty the show was.
Jun 23, 2017 12:10 PM

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If the character that best girl likes is shit, then I don't want best girl to "win" romance wise. Why would you? Any sane individual would want the best girl to not end up with a shit partner.

Also, best girl not winning doesn't make an anime trash unless she died and would never come back to "life" ever again and the only positive thing about the anime is that particular character
Jun 23, 2017 12:11 PM

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>People want THEIR best girl to win and if she doesn't the anime is trash.
The main reason why OreImo is good because it follows as what the title says.

>I'll admit, I ship, but honest to god I always try to not let it affect me...
I think we're now done here OP... You've said something that sums-up every waifu wars you see... Because it affects them... :/

Jun 23, 2017 12:12 PM

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I'm not a retard that would say a show is bad just because my preferred character didn't win the romance. The thing is a lot of these shows that people complain about have garbage main characters with no real personality traits for the sake of self insert so it's literally just a matter of "I like my waifu not this other girl".
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Jun 23, 2017 12:15 PM

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MechKingKillbot said:
If the character that best girl likes is shit, then I don't want best girl to "win" romance wise. Why would you? Any sane individual would want the best girl to not end up with a shit partner.



Because 9 out of 10 times writers never bother too write any non mc romance that involves other characters. So basically if that best girl that someone picks doesnt end up with MC she will be left with nothing/no 1. Second factor is that usually fans that take shiping seriously most of the time think of other non best girls as piece of trash that should have been deleted from source. So if those trash girls steal mc from best girl no mather how worthless he is, then it is loss for the one who ships.
Jun 23, 2017 12:17 PM

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the anime was always trash, ships make it redeemable until they sink

Hmm...that's almost poetic, I like it!
Jun 23, 2017 12:19 PM

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Shipping culture in general is quite toxic (and I say that as a person who likes to ship from time to time). The way people get obsessed over a couple, makes tantrums if their ships ends shinked (like what happened with the end of Naruto or in the 18th episode of Re: Zero) and ends insulting others or sending death threats to other persons (or even the author of the very series they adore) because they don't agree with their OTP is honestly sad. Those people have some serious psychological problems.

And I can understand that in a romance series (who is still stupid, but, well), since that is the main plot of the series, but in series when romance it's just a plus and not the very core of the series, it can get pretty obnoxious.

That is why Amagami SS is master race.
Jun 23, 2017 12:23 PM

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BTW....I forgot to mention but, MANY anime don't actually have a waifu war scenario even if most conditions are met...

For example Steins;Gate.

When I made my famous "Japan hates Best Girls" thread, a lot of people said "But Alex, Best Girl won in Steins ;Gate and that was a great anime!"

^No, that doesn't count.

There was no waifu war there.

Kristina was literally the only candidate.

That's like saying Coke has a legit competitor, they don't....There's no such thing as the cola wars when one is far superior to literally everything else.
Jun 23, 2017 12:23 PM
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liking anime is a lot easier when you're pretty much only looking at the girls and you never ship lol
Jun 23, 2017 12:28 PM

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Exowave said:
MechKingKillbot said:
If the character that best girl likes is shit, then I don't want best girl to "win" romance wise. Why would you? Any sane individual would want the best girl to not end up with a shit partner.



Because 9 out of 10 times writers never bother too write any non mc romance that involves other characters. So basically if that best girl that someone picks doesnt end up with MC she will be left with nothing/no 1. Second factor is that usually fans that take shiping seriously most of the time think of other non best girls as piece of trash that should have been deleted from source. So if those trash girls steal mc from best girl no mather how worthless he is, then it is loss for the one who ships.


Although it's stretching things, there's an extreme likelihood that there is another (nonterrible) character introduced that is of the same sex as the character that the best girl is interested in. Since the idea of shipping is just a preference, you can pair that best girl with that other character as long as those two characters have at least interacted with each other before. Best girl doesn't have to show/reveal actual romantic interest in that character for people to ship whoever they want.

Jun 23, 2017 12:29 PM

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this is why everyone should have a harem ending

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Jun 23, 2017 12:36 PM
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I don't tend to go to waifu wars because I find them just like the disagreements on anime series, depending how it goes it can take to the degree of pissing both parties off, which... compared to disagreements (where in some degree its just different ideals and thoughts about a series), this is actually even more fucking retarded (you are just arguing and shitting on other people for characters... I mean sure you can debate but most of the time it's just insults) And if I go to a waifu war thread its only for mere entertainemt. I just kind of find it amusing for some reason.

In all honesty when it comes to a character that I consider my waifu but the main male character decides the other character, eh honestly? depends. But most of the time I wouldn't hate a show simply because a ship didn't ended the way I wanted to. Especially if a series has things that I like that out-weights the stuff that... to put it simply, makes me feel "sour" than "butthurt". Just the best way to describe it.

Jun 23, 2017 12:42 PM
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romagia said:
this is why everyone should have a harem ending

make love not war

harem endings are inherently communist in nature and since the fall of the soviet union we can only have choice endings though, comrade

pls lern waifu war history

Jun 23, 2017 12:51 PM

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I like to ship from time to time too and it's a nice feeling to see when your ship gets canon. I can also understand if someone gets disappointed over an outcome that didn't meet his expecations, up to this point everything is ok, but when people start to rant about a show for weeks, months or even years and insult others who aren't with them on this matter, that's where I think it gets retarded and I'm just like, "Doesn't this person have other problems ?"

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Manaban said:
romagia said:
this is why everyone should have a harem ending

make love not war

harem endings are inherently communist in nature and since the fall of the soviet union we can only have choice endings though, comrade

pls lern waifu war history
then i'll call the sultan and let's make a new soviet union

with waifu harems and vr
Jun 23, 2017 12:56 PM

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Isn't the waifu war thing just a meme? Those who actually takes waifu wars seriously are probably some serious noobs..

Whenever I see any "Rem best girl" comments, I always make sure to reply with a Who's Rem or I love Emilia comments just for the lulz.. Or trigger the Fatefags by saying Sakura best girl.. But in the end of the day who gives a shit anyway.. Waifus and waifu wars are as forced as they can get. As long as they don't ruin the entire story I'm cool with any of them.
Jun 23, 2017 12:58 PM

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the supposed waifu wars are the discussions i like to maintain a safe distance from,since i can not for the life of me to find any point on that,so i would never say it managed to hate anything because of it
Jun 23, 2017 12:59 PM

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Symphyon said:
I don't tend to go to waifu wars because I find them just like the disagreements on anime series, depending how it goes it can take to the degree of pissing both parties off, which... compared to disagreements (where in some degree its just different ideals and thoughts about a series), this is actually even more fucking retarded (you are just arguing and shitting on other people for characters... I mean sure you can debate but most of the time it's just insults) And if I go to a waifu war thread its only for mere entertainemt. I just kind of find it amusing for some reason.

In all honesty when it comes to a character that I consider my waifu but the main male character decides the other character, eh honestly? depends. But most of the time I wouldn't hate a show simply because a ship didn't ended the way I wanted to. Especially if a series has things that I like that out-weights the stuff that... to put it simply, makes me feel "sour" than "butthurt". Just the best way to describe it.

Well just curious, do you value character chemistry? For example there's a harem anime where I like girl A the most but plot and character personality wise protag-kun fits better with girl B and ended up with her. What's your reaction? I personally okay with that.
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If your show exists for the sole purpose of parading around wiafus to be picked by the audience, there's a high chance it's trash regardless of whatever harem female character design INSERT HAIR COLOR HERE INSERT X-DERE.PERSONALITY.PDF HERE -chan "wins".
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You said:
Symphyon said:
I don't tend to go to waifu wars because I find them just like the disagreements on anime series, depending how it goes it can take to the degree of pissing both parties off, which... compared to disagreements (where in some degree its just different ideals and thoughts about a series), this is actually even more fucking retarded (you are just arguing and shitting on other people for characters... I mean sure you can debate but most of the time it's just insults) And if I go to a waifu war thread its only for mere entertainemt. I just kind of find it amusing for some reason.

In all honesty when it comes to a character that I consider my waifu but the main male character decides the other character, eh honestly? depends. But most of the time I wouldn't hate a show simply because a ship didn't ended the way I wanted to. Especially if a series has things that I like that out-weights the stuff that... to put it simply, makes me feel "sour" than "butthurt". Just the best way to describe it.

Well just curious, do you value character chemistry? For example there's a harem anime where I like girl A the most but plot and character personality wise protag-kun fits better with girl B and ended up with her. What's your reaction? I personally okay with that.

Hmm good question.

I think this is one of the examples of "depending" since I referenced it but I didn't expanded it upon, and I may butched up my example since I ain't good in English structure. If a main male character and the character that I like (girl A) have some good chemistry or character interactions to where it seemed like it would do well in a relationship, but then the main male character decides (which is girl B) otherwise that would be... kinda questionable to irritating. I guess.

But that also depends if girl B is fine to good on my books, as in I don't mind the character or don't necessarily hate girl B either. The biggest and well, the most recent example would be Fuuka... which is a show I hate btw.

The series built up this sort of chemistry between the main male character and girl A (albeit average at best but I digress), but then until a certain point in the series, the MC then decides to move to girl B out of nowhere. Not only that means that the relationship was not only thrown but also forced as hell, girl B isn't even a character I can even support or at least be fine with. That, along with the plethora of things that show has would actually make me dislike the show even more than it should because it then built up this false buildup to where in the end it seemed wasted.

And as I've said, that would tick me off, but if the show had some sort of decency I wouldn't have mind it much. I guess.

This MIGHT sound contradicting but this is why I'm trying to word my things out.
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If your show exists for the sole purpose of parading around wiafus to be picked by the audience, there's a high chance it's trash regardless of whatever harem female character design INSERT HAIR COLOR HERE INSERT X-DERE.PERSONALITY.PDF HERE -chan "wins".

One question, and what if it isn't the case of the show being shit and its just the audience building up on this themselves? Just curious on this.
Jun 23, 2017 1:13 PM
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romagia said:
Manaban said:

harem endings are inherently communist in nature and since the fall of the soviet union we can only have choice endings though, comrade

pls lern waifu war history
then i'll call the sultan and let's make a new soviet union

with waifu harems and vr

a noble goal if i've ever seen one

i will support you during the revolution comrade

Jun 23, 2017 1:47 PM

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I ship a lot but it never fails to amaze me, how seriously people can take it. Girl loosing won't make me sperg about how shitty the show was.


Always nice to see cultured people.

OT: Shipping is just a fun gimmick. Just don't take it seriously.
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Shipping itself isn't bad but lately it's been worse somehow. People be burning their merch and harassing authors over some damn fictional characters smfh.

Jun 23, 2017 2:11 PM

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I used to think it was just a memey thing, but then you look at recent things like the reaction to one of the Tokyo Ghoul : re chapters where the author is being called homophobic and receiving death threats.

May these weebs never breed.
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I never took shipping seriously. I just do it for the fun it, but it's stupid to get salty over who's best girl and sinking ships.
As for the weebs who do actually take it seriously, hey at least if your best girl loses, you can ship yourself with her .... It's a win-win situation lol
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I used to think it was just a memey thing, but then you look at recent things like the reaction to one of the Tokyo Ghoul : re chapters where the author is being called homophobic and receiving death threats.

May these weebs never breed.

Shipping is serious business!

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liking anime is a lot easier when you're pretty much only looking at the girls and you never ship lol

As always, you're right.

Thankfully for a shipper like me, I never get too angry cuz in the doujins best girl ALWAYS WINS!

Take Rem for example...as soon as the show was over we got tons of doujins with Rem.

Almost none with Emilia.

There's a good reason for this.

Artists know what the people want.
Jun 24, 2017 12:14 AM

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Waifu war? I thought it was just a myth? I'll try joining today::
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WaifuBuilding? Tsk

Characters can't be just treated in a lovey dovey situations with no personal traits -_-

It disappointed and had no flaws

Plus Shipping is just big fandom in the community, you could to pick set of random characters to shipped

And The Crowd goes Wild and frustated as they predict the ending on a series/manga

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Jun 24, 2017 12:24 AM

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Zaphkiel_El_Rem said:
Waifu war? I thought it was just a myth? I'll try joining today::

It doesn't really matter tho...

Rem was by far the most popular character in that series.

And us Rem shippers get a ton of quality doujins that will show Rem in ways the source material will never do for any girl period!
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The anime community is just as polarised as any other community honestly. No one is really unironically having waifu wars, you don't need to take the stuff people say online so seriously.
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Zaphkiel_El_Rem said:
Waifu war? I thought it was just a myth? I'll try joining today::

It doesn't really matter tho...

Rem was by far the most popular character in that series.

And us Rem shippers get a ton of quality doujins that will show Rem in ways the source material will never do for any girl period!

How about those guys who hates doujins? What's their salvation?
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The anime community is just as polarised as any other community honestly. No one is really unironically having waifu wars, you don't need to take the stuff people say online so seriously.

Every day I tell myself the same thing...

And yet, I'm always left wondering if it's really true...
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JustALEX said:
Every day I tell myself the same thing...

And yet, I'm always left wondering if it's really true...


It's really the same thing as any other form of extreme speech online. Be it their declaration of their love of their waifu or racist comments online, I cannot say for certain that those who truly feel that way do mingle in the crowd. However I know for certain that more people online are just here to trigger some response rather than simply state what they feel.
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JustALEX said:
Maz said:
I used to think it was just a memey thing, but then you look at recent things like the reaction to one of the Tokyo Ghoul : re chapters where the author is being called homophobic and receiving death threats.

May these weebs never breed.

Shipping is serious business!

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liking anime is a lot easier when you're pretty much only looking at the girls and you never ship lol

As always, you're right.

Thankfully for a shipper like me, I never get too angry cuz in the doujins best girl ALWAYS WINS!

Take Rem for example...as soon as the show was over we got tons of doujins with Rem.

Almost none with Emilia.

There's a good reason for this.

Artists know what the people want.


lol well you know me.. im all about the official content.. or it becomes a borderline turn off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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