Are they annoyed that it’s catering more and more to creepy isekai slave harem and loli shit?
On a side note, most modern isekai give me the impression of catering to an ever increasingly capitalism fatigued society. People are so desperate to escape and I see isekai taking advantage of that in a rather unhealthy way, whisking the self-insert protagonist away to a world where he is the dominator of others. I find myself disliking most modern anime that people recommend to me because a lot of it has leaned hard into the worst tropes of the genre. That’s not to say that all modern anime is bad and that old anime didn’t have the same problems, but I’m finding the ones that get popular seem to all be shit I hate lol.
Cells at Work looks cute tho
I think in Japan more people read manga, and a lot of isekai anime are light novel adaptations. So a manga reader might not have that isekai fatigue
Cells at Work looks cute tho
I watched a chunk of this one on some streaming site a while back, it was decent.
i’ve tried asking Japanese people at bars about anime during the times I’ve been to Japan. And at least from the situation of some random foreigner with broken Japanese in a bar asking them what shows they like, the answer was universally “Yeah I used to watch some when I was younger.” Most people were surprised I even knew what anime was, they didn’t seem to know it was popular overseas. When I asked what they used to watch it was almost always Doraemon, Dragonball, and Sailor Moon. If they’ve seen anything newer it was Attack on Titan or Demon Slayer. They were surprisingly mainstream in their tastes.
One person just laughed, said anime is for kids, so I gave them a “oh, wakarimashita.” (understandable)
I had a feeling that was the case. Interesting. I guess Otaku are the Japanese equivalent of Disney adults lol
5 years ago it was creepy isekai magical battle school. This time it’s slave harem (althought no as much as it seems like, there’s only like one of those each season).
This is just a trend, it will pass and we will get some new creepy incel fantasy.
I’m watching another isekai tonight instead of sleeping because I can’t sleep ever and I just wanna say the next greatest crime in anime is CHEAP, SHIT CGI. I’m watching Arifureta and while it’s by no means the most problematic thing here it’s just. So. Bad. Most of the monsters have been animated so far but then there’s a giant scorpion that just looks like dogshit. Then the next Big Boss is a huge hydra that would be pretty menacing if it didn’t look like a child’s first attempt at rendering something in 3D.
What the fuck goes through someone’s head making it look like this (if you think it doesn’t look that bad, it looks 100x worse in motion)
Yes I know the answer is “it’s cheap and profitable” but my fucking god.
I almost wonder if it’s some weird aesthetic thing because every anime now seems to do this. Decent to beautiful animation for characters and backgrounds, and then suddenly unholy early 2000s videogame monsters come stomping through.
yeah idk but it is such a shit, stupid decision
:geordi-no: spend a little more, make something that stands up and looks good now and forever?
or
:geordi-yes: make a moment that’s supposed to be a tense battle for survival into a farce because the big bad looks literally worse than a gen 1 Playstation could muster because it will save a few bucks?
