I don't understand this at all. Why would you have to come from a perticular country in order to critique a piece of entertainment? It's not as if shallow underdog stories are an ostensibly japanese concept (it's kind of the opposite, actually).
You're not wrong, there's just as much bad old anime as there is bad modern anime, but the way you talk is simply too aggressive. Calm down dude.
Definitely. But it's generally easier to dislike a current trend than an old one simply because it's current. I wasn't alive in Japan during the late 70s/early 80s so I don't need to see a trillion mecha shows plastered everywhere in the same way. For me, it's not the setting/isekai ruleset in and of itself that makes it boring (because every subgenre definitely has something good), it's mainly how they're written.
These threads ought to start off with everyone being required to put on this hat:
I'm completely fine with the tone of @Generic-name 's post, though I disagree with the last point saying it's pointless to complain about something because capitalism doesn't care. I've never seen this argument add anything fruitful to any discussion. If we feel like expressing our feelings towards a work of art, we should do it regardless of circumstances.
I Think Hunter x Hunter is better than Yu Yu Hakusho but i agree that it peaked at the Dark Tournament arc.
HOT TAKE: I liked this era. :’( I’d take a billion Highschool DxD-style battle harems over one more episode of BUGGERING AROUND IN A FANTASY WORLD… WITH MY AUNT!!!?????
Fair. There are probably modern Isekai that are well written and does something good with the ideas but are buried between the sea of mediocre slop that paint this kind of story in a bad light.
- Another hot take: The Three Kings arc is probably my favorite
Me too, it was peak waifuism.
Adaptations of VNs, games or Mangas used to be more common.
Probably. It likely doesn't help when it's generally more difficult to find interesting stuff as a westerner unless you're extremely in-the-know, so we just see stuff like Shield Hero on the front page of a streaming service and think that's all there is. I'm guilty of that too, but I still have issues not pertaining to the setting itself.
This being one of the main ones, for me.
That's also true.
It's a problem I believe is related to what I brought up: over-reliance on Light Novels. Those stories tend to get milked to death, so of course they end up meandering and direction-less.
I agree with you, but still I wish the Light Novel format was more popular in the west (meaning not only as imported japanese works). It feels like a neat way to work. Like novellas mixed occasional artwork.
I know, I hate it too — it always seemed like a fat lot of pseudo-intellectual post-modern deconstructive insufferably-pretentious garbage made by an egotistical idiot to me. Small wonder it was an inspiration on Undertale.
THERE'S the Gorse I know and love!I know, I hate it too — it always seemed like a fat lot of pseudo-intellectual post-modern deconstructive insufferably-pretentious garbage made by an egotistical idiot to me. Small wonder it was an inspiration on Undertale.
