4 seconds into first anime, high pitched squeal coming from female lead
10 minutes in, realize the main character is 15, girl phobic, and being put in charge of serious military equipment nobody has the right to touch until they undergo a year of training and are willing to follow orders; starts wondering if the person giving the child multi-billion dollar military equipment is more incompetent than the main character…it’s really a close call
15 minutes in, bitches like the child they are for the rest of the episode
episode ends
I love anime, but boy are some of the tropes really annoying and is a massive part of why so many people just turn it off shortly after it starts.
Get in the robot
🔫 Now.
I mean… I like anime myself but there are so many animes out there that feel like carbon copies of each other.
As you type this, you’re suddenly transported to a fantasy world where all anime is imaginative and original! Also the world is full of buxom maidens ready to serve your every will.
Also the world is full of buxom maidens ready to serve your every will.
This is what I am talking about. Where are the twinky femboy harem animes? I need balance!
Sturgeon’s Law states that 90% of everything is shit. This applies to anime just as much as it applies to every other medium.
Just watch the 10% that isn’t shit.
Not all anime is good, a lot is straight up shit. Not all things that aren’t anime are shit some are quite good.
Edit: some recommendations for good live action TV that’s neither a police or medical procedural:
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I May Destroy You - an analysis of consent and modern dating
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The Sopranos - one of the first shows to really smash the episodic format apart with its sprawling, long running narrative
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The Wire - while it does involve some elements of the police procedural format, it’s really a novel about a decaying society in TV form
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Freaks and Geeks - spawned it’s own sub-genre, possibly the most influential teen drama ever
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Deadwood - framed as a western but it’s really about how you build a society, crying shame it got cancelled before the conclusion but some of the best characters and dialogue ever written
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Battlestar Galactica (2003) - the perfect series to capture the paranoia and changes in society following 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan
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Chernobyl - just incredible
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Band of Brothers (honourable mention to The Pacific) - suffers a little from some American Exceptionalism but an incredible look at the effects of war on ordinary people
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The Deuce - an unflinchingly honest look at the sex and porn industry in 70s and 80s New York
You’ll never convince OP of that. In fact, I’m shocked that several rabid amine fans haven’t shouted you down already
…because it’s true? That’s why the really good anime is seen as really good
I never said that, but you’re certainly proving my point, weeb
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I wish more anime focused on adult characters instead of highschoolers.
A few recommendations with that in mind (Boy does that one restriction really just nuke the list! Common Japan!):
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Spice and Wolf (2008 series, I have no clue if the 2024 series is good)
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
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Gate: And Thus the JSDF Fought There
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Crest of the Stars
(Roughly in that order, too)
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This so much, I’m tired of shonen and kawai nonsense, most of the mainstream Anime plots and characters are generic, and I’m too old to related to 14 year old protagonists, I’ll take something like Arcane over another Anime any day
It’s slop. It’s all slop.
Post non slop for me to check out below please
- Akagi
- The Apothecary Diaries
- A Silent Voice
- Azumanga Daioh
- Bocchi the Rock!
- Cowboy Bebop
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War
- Kaiji
- Little Witch Academia
- Spy x Family
- Steins;Gate
- Takopi’s Original Sin
- Violet Evergarden
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
- Casshern Sins
- Monster
- Ergo Proxy
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Haibane Renmai
- xxxHolic & Tsubasa Chronicles
- Gintama
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