The Shibuya arc was more jarring than bad. The culling arc is just stupid. Lots of random nobodies popping out of the woodwork with no leadup and stomping all over the main characters. It felt completely undeserved.
It falls into this very general "cuckold fetish" that some anime and manga have, and for the record that's my temporary name for it. It's not limited to NTR, but rather that it's a fascination of some Japanese storytellers to build up a protagonist only to undeservedly tear them down by nobodies. Nowadays, whenever I get a whiff of that I'll drop a series because I know it just gets worse feom there
Ok, you can like different things 😭 I didn't say it was the pinnacle of story telling. For me it went downhill after the
::: spoiler spoiler
MeguKuna body swap
:::
but I liked my two favourite characters getting a lot of screen time, and Yuta finally entering the main story for the CG arc.
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Vegeta@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y
Yeeeesss I'm so pumped.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Ugh, time for the crappy post-akihabara arc to start
bob_lemon@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
Is that one even worse than the Shibuya arc? Because that made me stop watching.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 364d
The Shibuya arc was more jarring than bad. The culling arc is just stupid. Lots of random nobodies popping out of the woodwork with no leadup and stomping all over the main characters. It felt completely undeserved.
It falls into this very general "cuckold fetish" that some anime and manga have, and for the record that's my temporary name for it. It's not limited to NTR, but rather that it's a fascination of some Japanese storytellers to build up a protagonist only to undeservedly tear them down by nobodies. Nowadays, whenever I get a whiff of that I'll drop a series because I know it just gets worse feom there
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
No, the culling game was terrible. Both me and a friend separately dropped the whole series becauae of it
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 1y
Ok, you can like different things 😭 I didn't say it was the pinnacle of story telling. For me it went downhill after the ::: spoiler spoiler MeguKuna body swap :::
but I liked my two favourite characters getting a lot of screen time, and Yuta finally entering the main story for the CG arc.