So like when I started watching anime, anything that'd get me hyped up I'd instantly like and easily put on a pedestal, considering I didn't have much let's say "emotional exposition" through entertainment (books, tv series, movies). Actually I did have a lot, but less in the "adrenaline/hype" department, and usually that emotional exposition would make me totally immersed into the entertainment (anime, in this case) and I wouldn't realize the problems with it. This is what happened with me when I watched Mirai Nikki already a year and a half ago when I didn't have much experience with anime. I wouldn't mind all the plot holes and stupidity of it's character as long as it kept me wildy interested and thrilled to see what would happen next. I remember like a month after finishing the series (which was my favorite at the time, like every show I'd be watching at the time lol) I saw reviews of it explaining everything that was bad about it and it totally made sense but I couldn't just decide to stop liking it just because if I watched it with a different perspective I'd consider it bad, the emotions I've felt while watching the show were true and not erasable. So now I just now it's not as good as I thought it was, but don't want to confess it's bad nor rewatch it because I'm sure that I'd be totally blasted by the stupidity of some of the things mentionned in the reviews of it. Also saying Mirai Nikki is bad just because MC is a whining bitch isn't valid criticism, imagine if I said X show is bad because MC is cheerful and can deal with the shits that happen to him properly. Not trying to brag or anything like that but like it makes years I haven't cried, last time being after finishing Firewing (great book trilogy) already 4 years ago (I'm 16), and having some problems in personal life + some kind of existentialism crisis (wonder if anyone had one when they were young) I'd usually cry myslef to sleep for a solid two years. So i feel like because of this anything relying on it's sadness doesn't hit me (examples: Anohana, Our happy hours, Silent Voice). This emotional exposition concept, I feel like, hasn't been touched a lot in some people, making them give automatically good scores in sad stories that makes them cry. At the end of the day, it's good for them if they were touched by something, and it made them like it more because a thing we don't have to forget is entertainment is entertainment, it can be art but what it is first and foremost is entertainment and even though something might be complete trash without it's emotional investment, the more people are happy with an entertainment the better.
Highly went off topic, but I like expressing myself with those kind of chunks of texts. Hope it makes sense and I'm not saying some high level shitpost, also those concept thingies aren't absolute truths, I just feel like they are concepts that are appliable in real life.
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