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No. 433431
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I hate this fucking show.
>What don't you like?
Too much focus on Raegan's personal life. The side characters are all plain and unfunny, trent sucks. Raegan is too whiny. Ugly af artstyle. Never laughed once.
>How would you fix them?
Make it more action focused, completly ditch the comedy or make the comedy less referential, make Raegan cynical instead of a whiny teenager with daddy issues, give raegan a cool sidekick instead of an annoying normie one, completly kill off Raegan's dad, make the side characters have actual personalities instead of being lolsorandum filler.
Basically, less Bojack/Rick and Morty/Netflix influence and more Venture Bros/Adult Swim influence. What a waste of an amazing concept and cool female protagonist design, i will never forgive the writers but fucking up such a cool concept with their milennial faggotry.
No. 433436
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I actually do like Camp Cretaceous, but it's one those shows which would be better if the main characters were allowed to ACTUALLY be at risk. And if they didn't have to put obligatory "it's okay to have feelings" lessons in some of the episodes.
No. 433438
>>433437I always feel this when shows feature
abusive/dysfunctional parents who spell out exactly which flavour of narc they are and their entire thought process behind being evil kek
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I know this is extremely old news but god, such a cool premise ruined by its own writers.
No. 433443
>>433442I mean, "demons who infiltrate human society to kill targets" DOES have potential for black comedy in and of itself. It's just
everything else about it which sucks, which is why it's in this thread.
No. 433448
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The Man in the High Castle. I had such high hopes for this as a WW2fag who also loves alternate history. It had such a good premise. But the show was so fucking boring and they did nothing with good with it. The finale was so underwhelming too. I was like "That's it? That's what I wasted hours on?" I want
>more focus on John Smith's story
>more alternate reality switching because it's fun seeing the contrast
>epic fight/war scenes
>a good conclusion to the show I wanted John to defeat the Nazis and save America
No. 433449
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Now to mention slop that’s no better than the other slop in this thread kek. This one is a great example.
>keep the very idea of homeworld being an oppressive regime but play the tone of this very straight and serious
>it wasn’t intended for children but for young adults+
>it played more into the horror/sci-fi elements than the comedic/magical girl elements
>it was animated by people who actually know how to draw and animate
>completely different art style, maybe more detailed?
>a lot of the designs and characters would have to be scrapped because they’re offensive to the eyes
>no more bean mouth noodle arm style find something else
>honestly just remove steven from the entire show and rename it, it would’ve been soooo much better and way more interesting if it was solely focused on the three female characters and their relation to rose and homeworld
>rose plot would’ve been good as a murder mystery tbh
>better voice actresses, especially for garnet get an actually talented black woman to do it
>better writers (apparently they didn’t have much writers on this show and it was storyboard driven which shows)
>gendie/tranny pandering kept to a minimum or left out completely
No. 433504
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Frozen 2 is full of incredibly stupid decisions and it makes me so upset because the frozen franchise had so much fun potential… it's been a while since I watched it but here are things I remember letting me down
>Elsa's entire development arc in the first movie is removed, she's back to page 1 so we have to watch her learn the exact same shit she already learned in the first movie about not pushing people away
>Kristoff is turned into a bumbling fool comic relief character
>The voice calling Elsa was disappointingly boring and entirely pointless
I heard they didn't even decide what the voice really was until late in the development which checks out because it seems like they put 0 thought into it.
>The entire "water has memory" bullshit, that's so fucking boring and makes no sense
>The elemental spirits are so random. Elsa is a human with ice powers but also a bridge between all the powers (what?), there is a horse made of literal water, a normal tiny lizard with fire powers, and a wind spirit that is just… actual literal invisible wind. And giants made of rock.
Missed opportunity to make them all into interesting human characters with powers like Elsa, they could even have made dolls and costumes for all of them making it so you have a "fire Elsa"-character and "wind Elsa"-character. People would go wild for toys and costumes and fanart etc… Or even just make them all into cool magical animals so kids can imagine they have magical pets like them. If they had turned them human they could have explored Elsa meeting people with powers like her, finally giving her people to relate to. Maybe one of them thinks having powers make them superior to others, maybe one is ashamed of their powers too, maybe one is trying to get rid of the powers… there's so much they could have done with it.
>The northulda/whatever they were called people are just… offensive
Now I'm not usually one to call "racism reee" but these people are super obviously meant to be Sami people, a white native group of people in Northern Europe. Except they turn them all browner and treat them as sort of "native American" people. It's like they literally cannot grasp that there are white native people unrelated to other native groups in the world.
>They retcon Elsa and Anna's ancestry into being part of this native group, for obvious woke points. But only because they forgot that the real native group is actually also white and they're just double-white now.
>Oh and Kristoff was also a reference to Sami people so now they have made 2 separate bad representations of their culture that aren't even related in-universe
>The plot overall makes no sense AND is boring.
Elsa's power being explained as "she is the bridge between magic and humans" is so lackluster and means nothing. Like literally what does it mean? There's nothing that unlocks, no new missions for her to do. And also the "magic" consists of… a horse made of water and a lizard on fire and those boring guys. There is barely any magic to bridge to to begin with! Creatures like the trolls already have magic, and the humans were fine talking to them already as established in the first movie. It means nothing!!!
No. 433560
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>kills only criminals - he's just a more effective cop and judge than the real cops and judges
>doesn't kill VIPs to suit his political vision
>status quo was never threatened
Can't expect much from shounen manga.
No. 433561
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I don't even have to explain this one.
>How would you fix them?
By removing Gal Gadot and her shitty self insert,That was just so random and it didn't add anything to the plot and also the princesses.this entire movie was basically a very long commercial and I feel bad for anyone who wasted their time and money watching this.
No. 433568
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Wasted character potential. Casca becoming insane after the Eclipse was just Miura's mindbreak fetish. There, I said it.
No. 433601
>>433504Frozen 2 had the opposite problem to the first movie: it needed a villain. Like, REALLY needed a villain. I legitimately can't remember what the characters did for 70% of the runtime. And their decisions made no sense at all.
>Elsa hears a voice, decides she isn't happy anymore for some reason, and everyone just goes along with it>Elsa abandons her sister AGAIN (in a strange land full of dangerous magical creatures?)>Anna decides that the right thing to do is put literally everyone in danger by destroying the dam>Kristoff is angsty about his relationship??There should have been a physical, ominous or manipulative presence to drive the story along and cause the conflict.
No. 433610
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>>433560Misa's entire character is wasted potential too
No. 433621
>>433610she always should have been the one to kill Light. An awakening arc from pickme to awakened would have been amazing. especially after Light kills his first innocent (the detectives)
Also bonus: the black haired female detective was killed off in a dumb way because the author admitted she was smarter than Light and he needed to figure out a way to get rid of her
No. 433638
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This cartoon…
What a shameful.
No. 433639
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>>433621yes to both Misa and Naomi… I used to like Death Note but never liked the way the authors handled the female characters
picrel sounded good as a concept but just turned out to be generic horror trash with cheap jump scares. and it was boring. at least the monster was scary
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>>433424You're talking about this shit? (it's official art).
No. 433666
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I think MHA would've been an enjoyable super hero shounen series but this slop has way too many flaws that I had to drop the anime. I don't read the manga but feel free to add anything else. Here are some of my reasons and changes to make it better:
>do not sexualize the female characters
Shounen has always suffer from this and it's so tiring, unnecessary, distasteful and done to death. Instead, write them better or give them interesting backstories other than fanservice eye candy to horny moids. Might as well sexualize the guys too.
>remove Mineta
He doesn't add anything to the series but being an insufferable sex pest for the "comedy", an annoying cry baby and somehow got into one of the top classes of the school. Also he has a retarded diaper costume. I fucking hate him. It be more tolerable if he was girl perving on hot guys instead.
>Ochako falling in love with Deku was unnecessary and out of nowhere, same with the whole "fighting to be Deku's gf" shit with Toga
Ochako used to be fine as Deku's friend but having a crush on him felt forced like as if he's a self-insert for dweeb loser moids to have girls all over him. It had my eyes rolled since moids can't resist having a female character falling in love with the mc or involve lust in their shounen. It sucks because she was interesting at first on becoming a super hero so she can earn money and help her parents to take it easy since they're kinda poor which I find that sweet of her. Also, her battle with Bakugo was cool too since the audience find it as an unfair match but she kept going until she's out of it. Unfortunately, they had to ruined her as being the stupid love interest for the mc like Hinata from Naruto. Heard that she doesn't get any better later in the series.
>Toga's transformation quirk doesn't make sense
I don't understand how her clothes can transform too and melts away even though she uses blood? They should've stayed on unless she has an illusion quirk but no. It's just a way to see her naked whenever her quirk wears off since she's a waifubait yandere. I hate her.
>redesign Yaoyorozu's hero outfit
Even though she's one of the brightest students in her class, she has a retarded coomshit outfit that's impractical to her object creation quirk by pulling things out of her skin. As seen during the villian ambush in the training grounds, she created a protection sheet from her back which tore her outfit but to also show her boobs by the end of it as fanservice. Ugh, why not give her a sports bra instead of that stupid boob belly window yet her sides and back are being covered? Retarded design.
>Hagakure
Ok I think the whole invisible girl thing is a funny concept but it's weird that she actually goes around naked and of course revealed to be a beautiful 10/10 girl. She could've gotten a suit made with her hairs or cells similar to Mirio's and have it work with her quirk but no. It's another one of those dumb bs just to see fanservice of the girls which is fucking stupid. Yaoyorozu could've gotten a suit made with her hairs or cells too. Also how could Hagakure be so pretty if she can't see herself?
>Bakugo lacks personality other than just being pissed and angry all the time
I know he's the rival to Deku and has an explosion quirk but come on. It's seems like there hasn't been any character development on him at all.
>the anime shouldn't change the girls' bodies
In comparison to the manga, the anime made the girls thinner with less pudge and enlarged Nejire's boobs. Basically further sexualizing them which is so disappointing.
>add more mutant or unconventionally attractive female characters
Compared to the male characters they have a variety of designs but the females are all made to look attractive and fuckable. Even that one giant mutant girl with the pointed nose. Cowards. Recovery Girl was the only good one who's different from the rest.
No. 433711
>>433666Imo the author shouldn't have made the class so large in the first place with a crap ton of adult superheroes on top of the mess if he couldn't commit to adding characterization for all of them.
Giving the mc seven quirks was the biggest mistake over all though, the mc was already too OP, the story should've pushed the "power is too strong for him to handle" and had him use more strategy to fight villans.
The villians were also a problem, the hand guy wasn't much of a magnet on his own and he's just pushed around for the most part. There was no agency and little charisma.
Slimming the story down and putting more effort into character development and progress, also
while Deku becoming a teacher isn't a problem, it really should be foreshadowed earlier, have him enjoying teaching others, chatting with Almight in that direction, helping people out, that sort of thing. No. 433720
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Five Nights at Freddy's, William, Henry, and Michael's story had so much wasted potential. The story became too complicated to hold the attention of its fans by creating a 'mystery' to lead on its followers while Scott made the story as he went, turning it into a cash cow.
The fans are what makes Five Nights at Freddy's enjoyable, and although I'll gladly eat up anything released by this franchise, I choose to believe the story ended with the sixth game. Security breach would have been a great addition to the franchise if it didn't add the Afton ending as well as the whole VR aspect; it should have been a story about a girl (Vanessa) who grew an unhealthy obsession with the killer's crimes and became a copycat killer.
The story of two business partners working towards making their dreams become a reality only to be struck by tragedy due to their own creation makes for an amazing story.
I would depict William as a father who spiraled into madness following the death of his son due to not only his business partner's creation but also his eldest son, which drives him to seek revenge by targeting his son's bullies using the mascot suit to lure, and murder them because he believes that murder will bring him solace.
If I could change a detail from the story, I would change the random children who William killed to the children from the party who had a part in helping Michael lift his brother to the animatronic. I would also make Charlie's death come later after the events that happened possibly being his last child he murdered, being the only body that was found while the others were stuffed in the suit.
I would also explain that the animatronic experienced a failure in the pressure system, which caused its mouth to shut and not release.
I don't think it would have made sense for William to just go forward with rebranding and reopening the restaurant after what happened to his son, so I'd like to imagine Henry, his business partner; refused to let their shared dreams and hard work crumble and decides to continue the restaurant's operations despite the grim circumstances, hoping to both honor their initial vision and provide a sense of normalcy for the community, which causes William to seek revenge, sabotaging and framing him by carrying out the murders by preying on each bully, one by one.
Then lastly William, In a drunken state becomes consumed by jealousy towards Henry, whose life seemed unaffected while he suffered not only losing a child but the destruction of his family life drives him further into madness, convincing himself that Henry's family is somehow responsible for his downfall, and he believes that by taking away someone Henry cherishes he can finally inflict the same pain that he felt.
I like to think that William became who he is because of that event that happened and the aftermath being that his eldest son had a part in his child's death as well as his best friend and business partner.
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It could have been a toku/gang fight show or it could have been a music anime. Instead it's some road trip with boring cut-outs for characters travelling from place to place, the songs suck and the setting is totally wasted. CGDCT = not even once.
No. 433737
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It's a wasted potential as a drama/romance. The trope of an average girl catching the eye of the prince is so overdone. I liked it much better when it was still a story about a nobody (turns out she isn't really a nobody) working in the shadows and romancing a eunuch, with such a union having few future prospects. There is much more tearjerking and drama potential in the latter. I guess it takes too much effort, so let's fall back on the tried and tested trope.
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>>433601>Frozen 2 had the opposite problem to the first movie: it needed a villain. Like, REALLY needed a villain.Yes! How about instead of the voice nonsense a person with fire powers appears to threaten the peace, Elsa can't protect everyone because her ice just melts from the fire. Make the fire guy kinda hot and mysterious. At the same time they fight she realizes they're similar, she's torn between wanting to protect people from the fire guy being evil but it's the first time she's been able to relate to another person with powers so she wants to know more and to "save" him. This guy doesn't even have to end up being a love interest for Elsa, but just put some vague romantic tension there and fans will go wild with speculation and begging for a new movie to see the development between the two. It's a pretty stereotypical route to go, I'll fully admit that, but I think it could work and for most kids who haven't seen/read as many stories yet it still will feel new and exciting.
This way Anna and co would be upset that Elsa has compassion for the evil guy who is trying to kill them all, without Elsa having to be the one to yet again push everyone away like in the first movie. Elsa says she understands what it's like to be seen as the villain, while Anna is angry and says it's different because Elsa never actually was a bad person unlike this guy. There's just so much obvious good and natural tension to be written this way!
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>>433720Like you said, the reason fnaf sucks is all because of Scott, he doesn't know how to properly manage his franchise and lets it all get taken care of by Steel Wool who releases kiddie-slop based on it so he can get dem shekels while he does nothing, my eyes rolled so hard with the newest game trailer and into the pit was a snoozefest. I haven't played any of the new games, there hasn't been a singular decent fnaf game after fnaf 6 and it's sad because the premise of a haunted pizza place with animatronics and a batshit-insane serial killer with a son who tries to undo the shit he caused later in life while suffering throughout all of it (which makes for good whump material) is perfect, but nothing good gets done based on it.
No. 433821
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Sad that they could've had a cute shapeshifting star boy and a villain couple.
No. 433823
>>433821What makes Wish even worse is the fact it was supposed to be a celebratory movie for Disney's 100th anniversary. Such high stakes AND high budget and
that was the best they could do?
No. 433824
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I know this wasn't really the showrunner's fault, but the pairing still counts. It skeeves me out that they were both fighting over the same guy at some point.
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Anything involving him tbh, I'm glad he's public domain now. I love how most of this thread is just Disney fumbling the bag
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I'm surprised no one's mentioned this one yet
>make it actually an open world choose your own adventure type of game like promised i.e. battle gym leaders, titans, team star bosses in any order with proper level scaling
>improve the horrible graphics, animations and glitches
it had the potential to be one of the best pokemon games ever made, but because of time crunch and penny pinching on game freak's part it turned out shitty
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>>433833He is, and his relationship with his wife and children in epic mickey is quite cute too. I hate how they never let artists do anything with him after epic mickey, not even in the european comics, I kinda wish universal still had him because atleast they were using him as a cute japanese mascot while Disney doesn't do anything at all
Also Epic mickey has tons of wasted potential as well kek No. 433838
>>433834Me neither. And I really dislike how you can't customize the MC as much as in the previous 3D games because they have to wear uniforms and all the uniforms are ugly.
>>433832The game is so bad I didn't play online once in case the game would crash even more often than it already did.
No. 433841
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>>433838I just don't get it! I'm pretty sure they made the default protagonists as bland as possible to encourage players to customise them, and yet you're stuck wearing those basic unflattering uniforms no matter where you go! The customisation in SwSh was pretty good and they still put some effort into making the defaults look appealing.
No. 433919
>>433832On one hand yeah the potential was indeed wasted, on the other I still really really loved the game lmao
>>433841>I'm pretty sure they made the default protagonists as bland as possible to encourage players to customise them, and yet you're stuck wearing those basic unflattering uniforms Nah, they went the opposite route and tried to make everyone look the same so we'd all feel like we went to school together. They just made the fugliest uniforms to ever exist, but they want us to look back and feel like there was a universal "look" to the protagonist while giving us the illusion of looking how we want. Sword and shield forces you to wear the challenger uniform in all important battles for the same reason.
No. 434150
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It becomes a mediocre series after season 1.
>inb4 SAO never had any potential
There is plenty you can do with a virtual world if you try.
No. 434273
>>434182I disagree. She
is happy to being seeing as nobody than to say who's her real father and she never used her "status" to be important inside the palace, specially knowing it would bring her more problems than pro.
And about the freckles I found it smart. Is sad she has to do it
otherwise she would end in a burdel against her will, but is Ancient China so… No. 434274
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To me it ended after the Arrancar arc. All the pointless plot and rushed ending to make Bleach for 30 years or so, according to Tite.
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Everything that has to do with Naruto
No. 434379
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>>434307Back in the Arrancar act, there was an interview that Tite said (paraphrasing) that he intended to draw Bleach for at least 30 years. Of course this was when Bleach was already quite popular and one of the many strong cards of SJ. But it seems like he regretted the idea or SJ made him quit the manga (hence the rushed ending) because it made Bleach end in 2012.
No. 434409
>>433747>>433594It's even worse for Vanellope because she's the
ruler of Sugar Crush, and is most likely an important/popular character (she's even painted on the console!) The first movie showed what happened if a main character went turbo when Ralph almost got his game unplugged. Yeah, Sugar Crush seemed to be doing alright when she was made a glitch, but now that she's returned and players enjoy using her because of her glitch powers, aren't they gonna notice?
No. 434412
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>>434409Samefag, I just reminded myself of picrel kek.
No. 434543
>>433824I get why Korra was such a retard, she was shut away from everyone her whole life and it makes sense that she'd make major social fuck ups, but Asami? She's a socialite who's definitely been around enough guys to know better than to fall that hard for Mako.
I'm still mad that there was no relationship development beyond a handful of scenes. Yeah, the showrunners couldn't do much more than they did, but it's weird that they apparently wanted Korrasami as endgame from the start and still decided to focus on the retarded love triangle instead of Korra and Asami's friendship/budding romance.
>>434150It's a whole Redditor-makes-an-anime bingo card.
None of the characters act like humans. They're flatter than paper and there's literally no reason for them to be stuck in the game. I'd like the story a lot more if there was some reasoning behind that, even if it was a weird social experiment run by some glasses-wearing billionaire genius 12 year old psychopath or another typical anime villain. Or if the game was a scam and the developers ran off with the money and now everyone's stuck in the game because the headsets are fucked up but there's a team somewhere trying to figure out how to fix that, and the only fix they found so far is reaching level 100. There are ten thousand people stuck inside a game and I'm supposed to believe that the only thing that's happening IRL is everyone wringing their hands and making no effort to find a way of fixing this outside of shoving people into hospital? Come on. Even if the government don't do shit there'd be multiple forums dedicated to finding a safe way out, by working on patches for the game to give the players extra lives, making the monsters less dangerous, upping the efficiency of weapons and armor, or just by messing with the people behind the game until they caved. You'd think that a moid writing about vidya would know this, but apparently not.
The premise is great, but a scrote with no life wrote it, so now we're stuck with this slop instead of anything decent.
No. 434699
>>433449The poster child for wasted potential in modern cartoons. I let a lot of it slide, but even I have to admit that corrupting Steven in future and completely forgetting to include Centipeetle/Nephrite at all was such a missed opportunity considering their history.
I have to disagree with changing the actresses and removing Steven, I personally enjoyed his character, especially how the decision to have him completed Rose's arc and in turn how Rose's legacy effected him. Everything else is pretty on-point, for example at least a better art and animation style would have explained the long hiatuses.
No. 434701
>>434543Eh, playing devil's advocate, is that the case for the anime or also the ln?
It can be the case, but I've compared enough ln to anime adaptions to know that they have the tendency to cut out chunks of the story without thinking of the consequences of doing so, and changing the mc to be much more of a nice guy/blank slate so they can be more relatable to the audience.
That being said, there's more than just this vrmmo anime. Though, series like Log Horizon has its own problems.
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Scrapped idea of having chico live in mgsv phantom pain. Would have made more sense to have him hunting venom snake than the shoehorned volgin/psycho mantis cameo. Especially considering the Paz subplot, I dont know why they didnt include him. They could have even had him as a stand in for quiet or have him team up with venom against skull face.
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I don't care what anyone says, the remake is fucking trash. Bryan O'Malley really whimped out over the years. How can he make a story about Scott reflecting on his mistakes if he never gets to make those mistakes in the first place. Retconning the story destroys all of it's impact.
I loved the original SP graphic novel back in the day. It was the first time I saw the self-insert male protag actually having his main-character attitude challenged. It was important to see his world collapse and how he effected his friends. The last two volumes were incredible and gave Scott a lot of growth.
The only saving grace is some more screen time and backstory for Ramona and the exs, but that could have been done without nerfing the original story.
No. 434795
>>434794SAO Abridged. It's been
years since I've seen this but I remember thinking it was much better than the original show kek
No. 434814
>>434699The entire steven universe future arc ruined the show for me. I let SO much slide in that show but Steven going through the entire series including stopping space genociders with "friendship and love uwu" just to then grow up into a boring moody teen was the final straw, they ruined all the magic of the show and I turned into a hater instead.
>>433449I agree with most of this too.
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>>434408Yes, but MaoMao
Doesn't even like when Jinji touches her, and Jinji is only amused that she doesn't react like a fangirl next to him or uses his charms to get a picrel from her. I would even say the author would be quite stupid if she writes that MaoMao ends marrying the prince, is obvious that Jinji respects that she wants to be more like her "father" rather than being a consort or something. So for her status
I would say she has more access to medicine or poison that she couldn't find in the wild, but that is.
No. 435292
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No, I'm not one of those fans who is mad they're not pandering to older audiences kek, but the new gen is objectively a huge downgrade because the writing doesn't seem to respect kids' intelligence like gen 4 did. Also, I feel like they shot themselves in the foot by tenuously linking the continuities together, like of course that's gonna invite comparisons and make the creepy older fans stick around.
No. 435295
>>435294I know! The token male character looks especially horrifying. And that's another thing,
why would you have a token male protagonist if you're trying to distance the franchise from bronies?
No. 435297
>>435290>I would even say the author would be quite stupid if she writes that MaoMao ends marrying the princeWell, she is stupid then. Lots of LN authors are stupid. Calling them stupid won't make them stop writing stupid things. Just wait until the writer introduces her fetishes in the next season, like
Mao Mao getting choked by Jinshi. I've stopped reading after that.
>but that isNope. She gets protection from Lakan. She could only save Jinshi in time, because Lakan was there.
No. 435301
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>>435295nothing mlp makes will ever be cuter than the original ponies. these were what little girls liked. these were what repulsed moids because they couldn't be sexualized.
No. 435308
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>>435294Already made this comparison in another thread, but…
No. 435370
>>435290NAYRT. i really liked the concept of her character and enjoyed how attractive the art and backgrounds were, but i loathe Jinshi and how he reminds me of the creepy moids IRL who sexually harass women who clearly aren't interested and i couldn't enjoy the manga each time he appeared because of that. but this is ancient china in an inner palace setting where authority abuse et cetera could be expected.
it was disappointing to see Maomao get attracted to him later? i've seen spoilers from the novel where he talked about how he wanted her as a concubine, but do the light novels have them actually get together? forcing her to be a concubine would be stupid and would make me loathe Jinshi more because isn't it Maomao's desire to have the freedom to go about her hobby, and making her a concubine would limit her freedom to do that? it lines up with his forceful character and never respecting her boundaries though. i don't typically like CGDCT because it can get boring and forced, but in a setting and plot like kusuriya it could have worked and would have been so much better because the male characters that i remember made me disgusted. it didn't seem like they had a purpose outside of harassing Maomao
even with Jinshi's plot of being the prince. it doesn't have to be CGDCT because if Jinshi wasn't the coercive type then it would be okay.
No. 435403
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>>433419Obscure dutch show Ongezellig had so much potential as a webseries. Too bad the creator was only aiming at his dutch fanbase and didn't exploit the support of internationals
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-tt2ZmH-3uc No. 435406
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>>435292God I hate them! Allow me to rant, I'm an autist (obviously) who loved mlpfim so I was ready to give G5 an honest try. But they look like shit, their human faces are freaky and why do they have fucking eyebrows?!
Even the names are shit! When you give character names lesson no.1 is to NOT give them name that are too similar in sound, but they clearly slept in on that lesson because the main groups names are Zipp, Pipp, Hitch, Izzy. And Sunny. Out of the entire main cast they
only vowel used is the "I" sound, apart from Sunny having the U.
The names aren't even fun/pretty like MLP names usually are, nor do they tell us anything about them. Applejack is obviously the apple horse. Rainbowdash is clearly about going fast and dashing around, Fluttershy is shy and soft like a butterfly. But what the fuck is Pipp?! They took the magic and meaning out of the names AND made them all sound too similar. It honestly feels like someone who had never interacted with MLP ever before stepped in to name them because it makes no sense at all.
Fuck them for adding a boy to the main cast. This is a show for girls. They KNOW the damage bronies did to the show by creating porn of it, adding a boy pony is just pandering to them. Little boys who watched the show liked it without a boy in the main cast, so they would still like this gen too without a boy in the cast. Leave him out and let girls have their own thing for once.
The color choices are bad. While the colors in
>>435292 have adjusted saturation to stand out more, they typically look more like picrel. The yellow and the orange are too close in color, and the pink and purple are too close in color. So their names all sound the same AND they look the same. It's both boring and confusing. And I feel like the colors clash too. The magenta hair on an orange horse is just not very appealing. And disregarding the design, they put them all in a modern city instead of a fantasy country like the last gen. So they again sucked the magic out of the show. It's like they did everything they could to kill the show.
No. 435435
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>>435406>The namesI knew something else was bothering me about this generation kek. It's not even just FiM, every generation of MLP has had very descriptive names for the characters while the new one just…doesn't. The one which comes closest is Zipp, but that's still boring. Agreed about the colours too, there's
far too much purple in particular this generation.
>MagentaPicrel quite possibly has the worst colour scheme I've ever seen. This is supposed to be the
main villain. No. 435445
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>>435441Especially since they gave her goddamn Instagram eyebrows kek
No. 435514
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>>435301I saw you discussing mlp and let me tell you those are not the first ponies, those are g3, the very first ponies (g1) are even chubbier and cute. And men hate them even more kek
No. 435541
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>>435523Neither are actually isekai tbh.
Vrmmo is different enough to be it's own thing, .Hack was before the isekai craze too.
When it comes to actually mmo isekai then it's Overlord and Log Horizon.
No. 435544
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Just cut out Jabberwocky and the chapters after it, the plot twists and forced incest moeblobs in it are so shit.
No. 435550
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>>433621It's just misogyny all around, Ohda can't have a female character be heavily involved in the plot past sucking off Light because 'girls aren't supposed to do that'
No. 435552
>>433832>it had the potential to be one of the best pokemon games ever madeEh, even ignoring everything you mentioned the mons themselves are still mostly dogshit and the human designs are extremely hit or miss (definitely worst protagonist designs in the franchise…)
Game freak just isn't good at 3D games and should go back to 2D.
No. 435558
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>>435301>these were what little girls likedEh, I see more little girls into the G4 designs
I agree with the meme but stuff like the pink cat is popular with most little girls for a reason.
No. 435560
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>>435559They've been slightly less shit lately ie: some of the sweaters they're selling at boxlunch are cute but basically yeah kek.
No. 435564
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>>435562I think it's just a reflection of current toy trends, kids like big ass eyes (also I don't see kids give a shit about G5 despite it being current)
No. 435566
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Can we put down most western sanrio merch as wasted potential actually kek
No. 435576
>>435575Idk
nonnie the Samantha Thavasa bags and reflem hoodies are pretty cute
No. 435584
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>>435583He doesn't like gays either.
No. 435590
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>>435587The thing is some mangaka should just draw and let someone else think for them.
No. 435599
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>>435590He didn't do the art for Death note or any of the other series though, Takeshi Obata (who doesn't seem to hate gays judging by his litchi art) did.
No. 435600
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>>435595I don't think he was ever good at writing, I think he just had really good editors on staff for death note, if you read the original draft he wrote for death note there's a bunch of retarded shit like a 'death note eraser' which brings people back to life.
No. 435604
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This ugly fucker being the evolution of dunsparce, it's like the pokemon creators spat in the fans faces and laughed
No. 435608
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>>435601Biggest compliment you can give it is that a lot of the angels are hot as hell.
>>435603Honestly just read the DN pilot if you want to see how shit his writing is without bothering with platinum end/bakuman.
DN itself has a lot of flaws (killing off Naomi probably being the biggest) but at least there's some good concepts in it and some interesting trains of thought (the whole part with the death note inside of the fake desk insert is really interesting) but I genuienly wouldn't be surprised if it came out that most of those were the editor's ideas.
No. 435618
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I think it could've been better.
No. 435631
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>>435564Talk about wasted potential. Lol dolls are so cute design-wise but those big eyes…I wish the dolls had a similar face that rainbow high.
>>435567That's because most of her face is covered by the glasses kek
No. 435633
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>>435631the eyes would be fine if they had any depth. they're flat and lifeless they look creepy. rainbow high did it right.
No. 435634
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>>435631also the eyebrows remind me of this kek (jumpscare image warning)
No. 435645
>>435548NAYRT but that sounds like a much more fun story! And it'd be a great way to bring in the sequels, Kirito not being able to handle real life and escaping back into vidya to deal with his PTSD.
I'd love an Asuna as MC story too, it'd be cool to see a total noob become a powerhouse without being surrounded by a harem of 0 IQ booba waifus. Asuna knows jack shit about games and the scrote culture around them, we could have had a refreshing story where the MC was kind of retarded and needed to learn her way around the game really fast before she got herself killed. And then we could see her hunt down her creepy scrote orbiters and wannabe rapists IRL and destroy them.
>>435550Why is the marriage rate going down in Japan? It's a true mystery. I wonder if Ohda could use his galaxy brain to solve it.
No. 435671
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This entire movie,what a collosal waste of money it was.plot didn't make any sense to me at all at least the animation was nice I guess but seriously what were they thinking??
No. 435701
>>434150I hatewatched SAO after my normie friend who was just getting into anime recommended it to me, at the peak of SAO's popularity. IIRC the first episode was the only one that showed potential, the first two at most, and it all went downhill after that. Extremely boring setups that didn't deliver, obvious haremshit teasing, the cringe-ass "daughter" shit, and don't even need to mention the absolute trash that was the "resolution". I think my friend was just impressed by the action and animation and the "epic" cinematic shots, which I admit were kinda cool, but it's a dime a dozen when you're not new to anime.
Surprisingly, I liked the second season better, in spite of the perverted Asuna rape shit and the cousin incest. I liked that they stopped pretending they were in any real danger (except for Asuna) and it just became a normal fantasy video game war story with them forming alliances and preparing a big army, it was infinitely more fun. Not to say that it was actually good, I just enjoyed more of it than the first season.
No. 435706
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>>435558The G4 designs are fine, they were made by Lauren Faust, after all.
It's the extra sparkly shit that the toy companies keep shitting out and forcing onto the cartoons that's the problem. I don't think girls prefer all those pony toys where they have 10000 extra accessories and hair colors and clothes on them. Do those actually sell well?
>>435552>Game freak just isn't good at 3D games and should go back to 2D.They should finish XY first because
that one could've actually become the best Pokémon game ever. If only they hadn't rushed Gen 6 to move on to the next and even more underdeveloped generation ASAP.
No. 435909
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>>435595>BakumanOh yeah, the "manga is only men work, women cannot draw nor understand men's goals " manga.
No. 435914
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>>435659>understated and for adultsThey're nearly exactly the same just in pastel colors and frills, neither reads as adult and we all know adult japanese women don't go out wearing lolita brands on the casual either. If anything the western clothes having a print slapped on a plain t-shirt is a more adult and understated look than having a full print pastel dress
No. 435915
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>>435605pokemon is very much related to
>gamesAs it's been pointed out the whole ass game is nothing but wasted potential, adding to the discussion isn't allowed now? And since the 90s people have been wanting a cool evolution for it, tons of cool fanart like picrel on how to expand on both the lore and design, and we get the laziest most boring thing possible. Nobody liked dunsparce but everyone saw the massive potential in it's evolution which made people like it. Now it just double sucks.
No. 435958
>>435659I wouldn't say dolls kill is aimed at teens, fair enough on the others though.
>>435914Eh, stuff like Liz Lisa is targeted more at women in their late teens and 20s.
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>>435941IIRC Koyoharu Gotouge also asked the "They/them" for extra anonymity but people think she did because "omg non binary artist!". But that's a different matter.
Can we also add the "Demon Slayer" as wasted potential too?
No. 436142
>>435550>>436135this is so funny to me because the admission score standard for women is actually higher than men's in some schools, and some in japan were even caught intentionally lowering women's scores and elevating men's scores so they could admit more men.
and men ask why women don't get into male fields more? because men do everything they can to gatekeep and even when women make it in they make the environment as hostile as possible so they quit.
No. 436170
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>>435406ignoring the obvious problem of their hideous emoji movie faces i hate zipps stupid fucking ellen the generous mane so much, i want to redesign her with a proper mohawk mane like picrel…
i just cant believe how badly they mishandled a reboot while having an active fandom (im not talking about br*nies, im talking about young women who grew up with FiM or autistic older longhaulers) who have written countless thorough analyses on what worked, often really deliberately focussing on what made it good CHILDRENS media.
No. 436193
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>>436138It seems the "I now identify as non-binary" came from a Twitter mishap, but is obvious that she's using the they/them for anomity, not for being NB.
>>436127IIRC Japanese laws allow trans people to transition, but at cost of spray themselves. But knowing they're still in the "women must stay at home while men work", I don't think they'll follow the cult of making their kids transition if they hardly ever speak to them at all.
No. 436443
>>436170I'm an adult autist fan so I'm not against women enjoying the show. I'd almost go as far as to say men can enjoy it too, but I would only count it if they genuinely do not see it as coom in any way which takes out at least 90% of them, but I'm sure there's like a few gay twinks and dads who enjoy it sincerely too.
>i just cant believe how badly they mishandled a reboot while having an active fandom This is so baffling to me, they had struck gold and had the opportunity to make a shit load of money by building onto the empire of a fandom and they just fumbled it all away so hard. I really hope they learned their lesson so the next gen is better, but I doubt it.
>i hate zipps stupid fucking ellen the generous mane so much, i want to redesign her with a proper mohawk mane like picrel…I'd love to see that! And I agree that the haircut is stupid, something about it feels super off but I can never say exactly why…
No. 437643
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>female mc with animal companion
>cute characters
>dreamy atmosphere
But,
>bad writing
>awkward voice acting and dialogue
>jokes didn't hit, tries to be quirky
>lots of changes and cut parts in the Netflix reboot
No. 437771
>>437208Death Note has a sequel? MAL only shows this light novel (written by somebody else)
https://myanimelist.net/manga/102569/Eiga_Novelize_Death_Note__Light_Up_the_New_Worldwhich is a 'Novelization of the Death Note: Light Up the New World live-action movie'.
No. 437886
>>437771>>437779AYRT
Yeah, I meant this one, the a Kira-hen story. It sucks.
No. 438539
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>expected space pirates and adventures
>got yet another school SoL with a 'piracy for show' gimmick
>the cast sucks
No. 438547
>>437643The Netflix reboot is one of those shows which was made
purely for rebloggable gifsets on Tumblr. That's the only explanation.
No. 438548
>>433621>especially after Light kills his first innocent (the detectives)Well I'm not sure that would've made sense since Misa was more than willing to sacrifice innocent bystanders too, in fact it's how we're introduced to her. I think her turning on Light and renouncing her wicked deeds would actually kind of be cliche. I liked how she basically stayed terrible for the entire story lol. Though yeah it would've been cool to see her have a bit more agency and stand up to Light more
>>433731I disagree that it becomes a power fantasy, I mean you basically have Light's own team gradually turning against him behind his back when the whole time he thinks he's in control. I think Near not putting up with any of Light's bullshit and not being impressed by him kinda renders Light as more weak, for lack of a better term, it makes him mad that his new competition just finds him flat out disgraceful. But I know Near's character and the whole second season barely got fleshed out cuz they just didn't have enough time, so I can see why people found it rushed and that things barely made sense and was getting pulled out of thin air. One thing I'd change about Death Note is getting more insight into Wammy's house and how the children there were treated, and a bit more on the relationship between Near and Mello. Probably more into the worldwide consequences of Light's rule over the population too.
No. 438579
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>>438575It's the ENGRISH translation by the Japanese staff. In Japanese it's
Mooretsu Uchuu Kaizoku.
Attack on Titan (
Shingeki no Kyojin) doesn't make sense in English either, yet the American publishers never dared to correct it.
No. 438581
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I got baited by the premise and expected Japan's take on Harry Potter. Instead I got another harem anime, a shitty tsundere and no magic action worth writing about.
No. 438704
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Not really a bnha fan (I dropped it years ago back when it had like 50 chapters) but art of the timeskip really makes me mourn the fact that Horikoshi wanted to make it about adults but SJ made him change it to highschoolers. Maybe he should’ve tried for a seinen magazine, I wonder what that’d be like.
No. 438718
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>>438704>Horikoshi wanted to make it about adults but SJ made him change it to highschoolersI would have read something like this. I'm not interested in MHA at all as it is and won't give it a try though, especially with how long it is. Every single time I hear about WSJ editors forcing artists to change things before starting publishing recent series it's always for the worst, I wish they'd give artists more freedom instead of shoving school settings down everyone's throats. Even when I was a kid I hated this except in Harry Potter and it's because the school itself is interesting and plot relevant and not just a marketing thing.
No. 438727
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I first watched this anime right when starting my own first job and it was very similar to my own life so I'll always have a very big soft spot for it. I love 95% of it, love the characters, the slice of life plot lines, the aesthetic and the fact that there are no male characters.
But of course… they had to make the last 5% gross moid pandering coom shit. The rest of the show is so perfect, then boom it's a close up of one of the girls genitals in underwear. It makes me so mad because it's so nearly a perfect show that I would wholeheartedly openly share with everyone, but because of that last 5% I instead don't want to even tell anyone I've seen it. I hate that men can't create anything without making it coom. I sometimes consider downloading it all and editing out all the coom bits for my own enjoyment and so I can show people the show without them having to see those parts.
No. 438729
>>438718>>438704Seriously, what
is the chokehold that schoolshit has on Japanese media companies?
No. 438788
>>438730right, it genuinely confuses me. either these anons have zero familiarity whatsoever with anime or they are just absolutely incapable of discerning target audience
>>435406 I’ve seen background ponies with better designs
No. 438820
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>>438730>How do you anons see imagery like this and not think it's going to be for coombrained moids. We know, but the vast majority of the show is still isn't coom and it's paced and written near identical to female created media for girls. It's usually just a handful of moments thrown in to keep the moids watching to pay their salary. Not to mention older female centric media did the same, so many female created shoujo mangas/shows show naked girls, have them talk about their boob sizes and such so we've been groomed from a young age to accept it as natural. Even more innocent kids shows like pokemon had characters talking about boob sizes and looking sexy.
It's also not like it's just a Japanese thing, as a teen I was recommended some older horror and fantasy movies from the 70s-90s and I shit you not every single one had at least one topless young woman in them at some point. I asked about it and the person who recommended them didn't even realize or remember it. Granted those were usually aimed at an older audience of teens, but it's still everywhere. Females being annoyed by it isn't something that should surprise you, we know it's there, we just still prefer watching something over staring at a blank wall.
No. 438826
>>438730I like being reminded anime coom is abnormal by seeing nonas here complain about it, since I've become inured to it myself. Being disappointed in it might be naive but they're not wrong.
I'm more on the Go Nagai philosophy side of things that all anime and manga is degenerate but you might as well have fun with it. These cute shows that slip lewd shots into an otherwise harmless show are way creepier than a straight up ecchi comedy
No. 438834
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>>438831>The manga was published in seinen magazine.That's not really a sound argument. So were K-ON! and Golden Kamuy.
No. 438840
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>>438837K-ON was popular with the female demographic though.
No. 438979
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>>438842You must not know a lot about moe. The way the characters are drawn tell you exactly what audience it's made for and who is more likely to like it. Moe style ≠ shoujo style. Otaku men are attracted to anime girls that look like
>>438727 not to mention the emphasis on the characters' thighs, or breasts in the case of two of them, their tiny hands, huge alien heads and eyes, tiny dot noses and mouths and retarded ~cute and girly~ poses they're doing.
>>438842>99% of it still mimics female shows for girlsYes, that's what moeshit is about. They steal the basic aesthetics and plots from shoujo manga created by/for girls, and then add coomer elements to it that pedotaku will enjoy. See picrel. I don't blame you for liking the non-coomer stuff in moe anime, it makes perfect sense, but these shows weren't made for you in the first place, they're made for the kind of male that wants to fuck (or become) the little girl characters in magical girl shows for actual little girls. A lot of shows like these are made, and that's a lot of wasted potential because they're all focused on providing a sexual fantasy for moids instead of doing something more interesting and ambitious with its premise.
>>438834>>438857GK was not originally made for women. It just happened to get a large female fanbase like Prince of Tennis which wasn't for girls at first, either, but when the publishers realized they could profit off the female audience they started to pander to them (which I support). Regardless, these manga aren't the rule, they're the exception.
Usually if a moeshit show has subtle enough coomer elements, it can attract a female audience as well if it's well-written (often because it has a female writer or director). But this isn't always the case.
No. 439002
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My autistic ass wished Cinnamoroll was a bunny. Like he doesn't even look like a dog or puppy and it be a missed opportunity to make a cinnamon BUN joke. Still he's cute though.
No. 439012
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>>438979The Japanese My Little Pony.
No. 439087
>>438856>Isn't it more that they're worried men might get bored and leave so they add fanservice in case to keep them interested?That's the odd part to me about this topic. If you as a man make a series for men, why do you make something that bores them so much they'd stop watching unless you put in some irrelevant sexual shots here and there. Why not just make sexy shows then?
Given that men for some reason love life sim games (without coom in them) like truck driving games, realistic farming games and they love those boring ass shows like men digging for gold in alaska or building some shit and such makes me think there really is a market for slice of life content for men too.
>>439002I didn't know that wasn't a female bunny, that's a male dog??
No. 439117
>>439087Yeah, cinnamoroll is a boy and he’s a puppy. I knew this since he first came out. Some people headcanon him as a female bunny though. I think going off his show, he definitely acts like a cute puppy.
Sage for no1curr but people also headcanon kuromi as being a cat when she’s canonically a bunny.
No. 439631
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When I first watched this anime as teen, Tomoko is one of those very few female characters that made me feel seen and strongly relate to since she's a socially awkward loser who has done cringey things but also likes otome and hot guys. The thing is, my biggest gripe is the yuribait shit since the writer is a scrote unfortunately. It felt out of place and I honestly find it more cringe than the other embarrassing things that Tomoko has done. Of course a scrote wouldn't understand how women would behave around other women even when they're friends or socially awkward. Why can't they just make it as a normal female friendship instead of seeing Tomoko as a yuri harem protagonist? And the whole thing with her being predatory towards her middle school friend was fucking weird too. Like can it not be sexual and just have Tomoko admire her friend's glow up and maybe inspire to be like her instead of wanting to grope her if Tomoko was ever a dude? Also a little nitpick but maybe make Tomoko less "loli-looking" in way? I know there are skinny and petite women out there but anime girls like her attract degenerate moe lolifags similar to Konata. I just want a relatable female character and see her self-development and slowly improve herself.
No. 439641
>>439087From what I've gathered by asking guys about it, they find the sexual fanservice stuff either eye-roll-worthy or outright uncomfortable (they didn't mind subtle or humorous stuff though). Granted, these men were all turbo normies with healthy relationships towards media and, as far as I can tell, sex, which makes me feel as though the majority of horny fanservice in non-sexy shows is there for a specific male audience (eg obsessive, horny otaku), rather than men or boys as a whole. Some people are just such rancid little cumbrains that they cannot engage with anything without it either possessing scenes designed to titillate them, or forcing it in via fan content when it doesn't exist. This also ties into merch and trying to cash in on waifuism, which is also something most of an audience won't ever really engage with, but the few that do can be dedicated enough to basically bankroll a franchise (often leading to an increase in said fanservice if that's the part that's motivating these fans).
No. 439711
>>439087I know normal (noncoomer, nontranny) men that like nonsexual cgdct because of how comfy and nonviolent they are, but getting that audience is a high risk so they add fanservice to lower that.
Iirc, with New Game I've heard complaints that later seasons have less fanservice since they were assured that they didn't need it as a crutch to get people to watch.
No. 440230
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I hate Fonzi so fucking much, he should have stayed a side character.
No. 440827
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I love how this anime looks but its just boring ecchi trash, not even so bad its good like kill la kill
No. 440830
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>>440827I refuse to ever watch this cause it's ecchi for moids but the girl on the left's design is so cute, I've seen her before and I wish she was from a different anime
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>>440830agreed, i watched it purely for her
No. 441323
>>439649it is lolishit
>>439631the artist is a woman but the writer is a male. I agree with all your points too. it was great at first when it was just cringey humor but I agree that the yuri harem going on now is shit
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