That one scene in the first episode where the female protagonist is forcibly strapped to a chair spread eagle and has her clothes ripped off and we spend like a solid 5 minutes doing gratuitous fan service while she convinces aliens not to rape her, completely ruining my ability to recommend the show to people.
I'll take "99% of Shonen" for $500, Alex.
I've been feeling this way, too. Most shows with dumbass teenage main characters are a pass for me, nowadays. I think it's mainly because I'm getting older and they aren't very relatable anymore.
Eh, I might getting older but the old stuff still hits better. Sure there will be a genuinely good show here or there, but standards have never been lower and slop has never been this popular.
Very much this. Now people go 'it's pretty good' and it's the worst shit I've ever seen.
What is it with all the short-tempered screaming MCs in shonen?
I honestly wish Japan would split their genres a lil more. Shonen feels like such a default "anime" genre, and yeah most of it is just generic drivel. Then something actually wild and interesting comes along like DanDaDan or Gachiakata or SANDA, but you basically have to find them through word of mouth or knowing the animation studios.
That’s attack on titan for me. Never could get into it.
I was the same. Watched the first season as soon as it came out and thought “It’s a little murder-porny but I’m kind of intrigued to see where the plot goes.” Then after the first season the plot got worse instead and I lost interest. People seem to love it though.
Yeah, I personally found season 1 to be the weakest one.
Oh yeah. On my first viewing, I felt like season 2 was weakest, but on rewatch it hints at so many things coming up. It feels weird to say, but I honestly agree that season 1 is the worst of the lot
Mob Psycho.
Just couldn't get into it.
My Hero Academia. I got too annoyed by the main character.
MHA is praised as peak? In what universe?
I thought people liked it, or maybe there just loud.
I think peak is confused for being shoved down our throats
Notable absence of Cowboy Bebop,
3,2,1 Let's Jam...
Because absolutely nobody dislikes Cowboy Bebop. It's, like, the perfect anime.
I never cared for it.
But I don’t dislike it, I’m just indifferent.
So you’re still correct.
One Piece
I love the universe and characters to bits, and still keep up with the manga.
But at some point the anime became utterly unwatchable for me.
Even the admittedly amazing recent improvement in animation, is ruined by the sfx work.
I heard One Pace fixes the pacing, I just haven’t had the drive to start it over.
One Pace is certainly the best way to watch it.
But the pacing isn't the only issue that crops up over the series.
One Piece.
I feel like I might have gotten into it if I started watching it when I was 10. But I didn't.
It's complicated, cause there is a good story there, you just won't see it until like 100 episodes into the show. Really slow start to it. Also doesn't help that alot of the early seasons are pretty dated now in animation style, and there's a ton of filler and recaps. I can't even watch the show myself, but I've been reading it since the beginning.
Hoping they go through one day when the show's done and make a condensed & updated version. You could probably remove half of the episodes as it is, no joke.
For those interested, "One Pace" is a fan edit that removes a lot of recap and shit. I just got my GF caught up not too long ago using one pace and I think it is the way to go if you insist on watching it and not reading it. One pace isn't caught up, but it will get you through a lot of it.
Neon Genesis Evangelion for me. The original ending where everyone was clapping around Shinji was so weird. It's at its best when it's about giant robots fighting the angels but gets really strange once the characters are out of the cockpit.
I like Evangelion specifically because most of it wasn't intended to have a meaning. Anno just put it in the show because he thought it looked/sounded cool.
This is similar to why I like games from Hideo Kojima. Its just filled with stuff he thought is cool. It doesn't always have to have a meaning or explanation.
To me it always felt like people were trying to justify the plot and setting as some sort of grandiose idea, when it's just a shit idea with random words and images.
It's angels, that why they explode into crosses, also the children experience trauma, that's why the mechs...
Fuck off. I've watched deep dives of episodes, with frames explained down to pixels, and it's still random shit for the sake of shock, nothing more.
Death Note, couldn't get past like 5th episode. Still, second opening is fire
You and me both. The main character is supposed to be smart but keeps doing dumb shit.
Violet Evergarden. It stinks of "Born sexy yesterday".
Shield Hero 🤮🤮🤮
I like shield hero but anyone describing it as peak has shit taste.
I’ve found I usually don’t like the ones with the most fans, for whatever reason. Specifically I don’t tend to like ones in high school settings or ones where the author just really enjoys murdering characters in gruesome ways. That really limits my options.
as a rule of thumb, more often than not, if an anime is being "mainstream" and having a lot of people interested in it is a safe indicator that it's boring and not watch-worthy
everything interesting and watch-worthy is so edgy that the majority of the population can't handle it; though that's essentially why it's watch-worthy in the first place. it gives you some nice and much-needed mental gymnastics. :)
Memes related to anime. Animemes.
