Daily Anime Thoughts

DAT: All this trash talking of harem anime is making me want to watch one. I actually don't mind them if I like the characters and there's somewhat of a plot, which a lot of them don't have. I'm actually surprised that the Grisaia franchise isn't tagged as a harem, since that was kind of my impression of it, but I guess VN adaptations where you romance a different girl on every route don't strictly speaking qualify. Anyway, I think Seiren looks interesting, so I'll see if it actually is. I vaguely remember thinking it looked rather uninteresting and dull when it came out, but, hey, you never know.
 
Gens said:
DAT:


Pretty bois rap battling? Fuck it, I'm watching dis. Also, I always love silly cheesy rapper nicknames like "Ill-doc", "45 rabbit", "Crazy M".

These guys better be dropping some hard ass bars, hip-hop music is very ever rarely used in anime.
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A rap anime with no rapping in a PV and some generic J-rock song playing in the background. Mkay.
 
ZetsubouKaiji said:
A rap anime with no rapping in a PV and some generic J-rock song playing in the background. Mkay.
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I was scared there wasn't going to be any rapping either, so I checked them out on youtube later, and oh no, these guys actually do in fact rap. This is a huge rapping franchise in Japan:


I just dunno really why they didn't just feature the guys rapping in the PV, that would have been a lot better.
 
Gens said:
I was scared there wasn't going to be any rapping either, so I checked them out on youtube later, and oh no, these guys actually do in fact rap. This is a huge rapping franchise in Japan:


I just dunno really why they didn't just feature the guys rapping in the PV, that would have been a lot better.
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Never mind this is going to be the greatest anime of all time. Those rap names are dope.
 
Regarding least favourite and favourite genres...

I don't like ecchi. I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with ecchi, though imo even of the ones I've seen a lot of it is uncreative. But even creative ecchi (which can exist!) is just not to my taste because I'm a more story oriented person and ecchi.... tends.... to put the story on the backburner for obvious reasons.

I think regarding ecchi, I just feel like I'd rather either read/watch an actual story or porn, and it sits in this weird middle ground.

Not huge on m/f romance either, but I can dig some of it, especially if the female lead is just as developed as the male lead and the same in reverse. My main issue in m/f romance is 1. gender tropes, esp taming an unruly woman or 'becoming a real man' for drama's sake 2. the demographic of the romance being skewed in such a way that they'll have 'this is self insert and this is the actually interesting character'

As for favourite genres, I looove drama especially if it isn't romance-focused drama ('but Claptrap so many series are tagged drama' 'TRUE but most things i truly end up loving are character-focused interpersonal dramas'), psychological series and sci-fi. you know, typical pretentiousness. gay stuff too, but I find manga is more rewarding for that usually. there's themes I like too, but that gets more specific...


also I know hypmic is already HUGELY popular (especially doppo lol), so i'm sure a lot of fans will be very very excited
 
DAT: After a lot of chapters, I think I'm figuring out why I can't bring myself to completely like Kimetsu no Yaiba.
Its the opening chapter, where Tanjiro's family gets off-screen deaths. Typically when you're setting up the story, the author has to leave like this sort of good first impression. And its pretty clear that Gotouge was rushed into completing the first chapter of the first series. And I get it, the manga industry is still cut-throat today, perhaps even more so than the past.

But I still think there are series in Shonen Jump that planned pretty well when it came to opening chapters. Take The Promised Neverland for example. You see the children going about their daily lives and being happy overall. And yet there's something about their daily lives that feels off. And by the end of the chapter, when Emma and Norman find out the truth about their home, it devastates the characters. Now its a question of how they can avoid the same fate that befell Connie and is what drives the series forward.

Now I may have said good things about the opening chapter of TPN, but I never said that it stays consistent throughout the story. Much to my depressing disappointment if I'm being honest. There have been dark fantasy series that started on strong notes and for the most part did pretty well to stay consistent throughout the story, like with the Berserk and Claymore manga. Plus the prologue to Tales of Berseria felt pretty on point with how Velvet's story began.

And maybe the Kimetsu no Yaiba manga did do better, in regards to the story and the characters. But I cannot deny the fact that the opening chapter and the later part during season one with the Pillars/Captains felt forced and unsubtle. That is not a good first impression to your readers and its proof that Gotouge is still an inexperienced writer. Since the manga is almost finished I'll more than likely finish it, but I don't think I'll recommend it to other people.
 
Ebonyslayer said:
DAT: After a lot of chapters, I think I'm figuring out why I can't bring myself to completely like Kimetsu no Yaiba.
Its the opening chapter, where Tanjiro's family gets off-screen deaths. Typically when you're setting up the story, the author has to leave like this sort of good first impression. And its pretty clear that Gotouge was rushed into completing the first chapter of the first series. And I get it, the manga industry is still cut-throat today, perhaps even more so than the past.

But I still think there are series in Shonen Jump that planned pretty well when it came to opening chapters. Take The Promised Neverland for example. You see the children going about their daily lives and being happy overall. And yet there's something about their daily lives that feels off. And by the end of the chapter, when Emma and Norman find out the truth about their home, it devastates the characters. Now its a question of how they can avoid the same fate that befell Connie and is what drives the series forward.

Now I may have said good things about the opening chapter of TPN, but I never said that it stays consistent throughout the story. Much to my depressing disappointment if I'm being honest. There have been dark fantasy series that started on strong notes and for the most part did pretty well to stay consistent throughout the story, like with the Berserk and Claymore manga. Plus the prologue to Tales of Berseria felt pretty on point with how Velvet's story began.

And maybe the Kimetsu no Yaiba manga did do better, in regards to the story and the characters. But I cannot deny the fact that the opening chapter and the later part during season one with the Pillars/Captains felt forced and unsubtle. That is not a good first impression to your readers and its proof that Gotouge is still an inexperienced writer. Since the manga is almost finished I'll more than likely finish it, but I don't think I'll recommend it to other people.
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The series got nicknamed Kimetsu no Cancel early on. It's one of the impressive turnaround stories of Jump.
It managed to stabilize its decline around when Muzan was introduced probably earlier than originally intended, and it only started to really gain some decent traction when it reached the story parts the anime has not adapted yet. It's funny how the part of the anime that set the anime world on fire was, like, a page. Not even that good from anaction perspective. No wonder Gotogue said she started crying(of happiness) when she saw the anime's take on it.
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People talking about most and least favorite genres?
Worst is isekai, obviously.

I don't need my power fantasy to be some loser that's supposed to represent me, and I prefer my porn to be actual porn. Why settle for less?

Most favorite is fantasy. A large part of why I hate isekai is how it cheapens what could be fantastic fantasy settings without the isekai element in it, and I hate how it adds "game" features to fantasy without even trying to make it more organic 99% of the time. And there's creepy cultural imperialism brought into so many of them. Some more blatant than others.(fuck Gate)
And I have hardly seen any isekai series where the other world has something to offer that ours doesn't have something better of(besides escapism for the protag).
Neither culturally nor even materially.

I'm reminded of a Norwegian YA fantasy that has an isekai element to it, albeit from a very different angle.
It surprised me when the protag, entering our world, is one day horrified that despite all our generally superior medical technology we can't even fix dementia, which is treated by an easily made poultice from some common and not even magical plants on their world.
I realized I had hardly ever seen something like that in isekai anime where it was not basically some major plotpoint, and typically very magical.
Isekai settings almost never have anything to offer besides "magic", plot convenience, and handy sex slaveswaifus readily available.
They are otherwise culturally and technologically inferior to great nippon near universally.
 
BrainBlow said:
I don't need my power fantasy to be some loser that's supposed to represent me, and I prefer my porn to be actual porn. Why settle for less?

Most favorite is fantasy. A large part of why I hate isekai is how it cheapens what could be fantastic fantasy settings without the isekai element in it, and I hate how it adds "game" features to fantasy without even trying to make it more organic 99% of the time. And there's creepy cultural imperialism brought into so many of them. Some more blatant than others.(fuck Gate)
And I have hardly seen any isekai series where the other world has something to offer that ours doesn't have something better of(besides escapism for the protag).
Neither culturally nor even materially.

I'm reminded of a Norwegian YA fantasy that has an isekai element to it, albeit from a very different angle.
It surprised me when the protag, entering our world, is one day horrified that despite all our generally superior medical technology we can't even fix dementia, which is treated by an easily made poultice from some common and not even magical plants on their world.
I realized I had hardly ever seen something like that in isekai anime where it was not basically some major plotpoint, and typically very magical.
Isekai settings almost never have anything to offer besides "magic", plot convenience, and handy sex slaveswaifus readily available.
They are otherwise culturally and technologically inferior to great nippon near universally.
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This, so much. Fantasy is definitely my favorite genre too, and it's been so disheartening in recent years seeing it be supplanted by these knockoff wannabes that have the veneer of a fantasy world, but no depth and nothing to make them compelling. I mean, it's not easy to do a fantasy well, but relying on reincarnation and video game gimmicks as a template for your fantasy does not a good story make.
 
Akishima said:
This, so much. Fantasy is definitely my favorite genre too, and it's been so disheartening in recent years seeing it be supplanted by these knockoff wannabes that have the veneer of a fantasy world, but no depth and nothing to make them compelling. I mean, it's not easy to do a fantasy well, but relying on reincarnation and video game gimmicks as a template for your fantasy does not a good story make.
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I agree, fantasy should be honest and straight-forward. Its for that reason why I think fantasy is my favorite genre, though I have Redwall to thank for being that major influence.
 
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