Anime is the most retarded brainrot shit ever

[Single Action Army]

I don't know how it got so prolific in the west. Sure maybe 4'9" scrawny asian virgins were lost causes from the start, but you have to be especially pathetic to get into it over here.

It's so childlike. Some admittedly good art and music wasted on the most kindergarten anemic storytelling possible. There are somehow 85,000 animes and they all regurgitate the same 12 tired tropes... worst of which being "the wimpy boring effeminate protagonist who's actually the chosen one and has all the women into him."

That's what it is: wish-fulfillment id candy for fucking losers and spergs after their 12-hour soulcrushing day at the Toyota factory. Constant bombardment of annoying little mascots and ludicrously sexualized pornslop. And don't even get started on Japan's disgusting relationship with children and their nonstop sexualization in their media.

If you asked a chink to watch the Sopranos or Mad Men, their brain would explode from the characters communicating and interacting like humans instead of making all their dialogue as autism-digestible as possible.

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

If you asked a chink to watch the Sopranos or Mad Men, their brain would explode from the characters communicating and interacting like humans instead of making all their dialogue as autism-digestible as possible.

>Italians
>human

 

[aRTie02150]

Have you ever heard of TikTok?

I don't care what anyone says, that application is the ultimate source of brain rot.

Anime people can at least show interest in something for more than 20 seconds.

 

[Dog Eater]

@PogromStallone comment?

 

[LiberalPussy]

Are you saying that the main character winning the fight against the bad guy through nothing more than guts, a new transformation, and the power of friendship isn’t deep and compelling storytelling?

 

[BUBBLER]

Meanwhile in Vatican City

 

[Fuck]

American artstyles in children's cartoons from around the time anime started getting popular in America:

So, kids were fed that goyslop, but they also grew up with Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z. They wanna be Goku, not autistic loser Doug Funnie, and then they hit their teen years and realize how much they wanna pork Android 18, and absolutely not Didi Pickles, who is supposed to be 32 but looks 80.

Yeah, no fucking wonder people latched onto anime so hard. It's too bad that the writing is universally terrible. I'm down with mocking modern Calarts beanfaces and shit, but those are charming compared to Klasky-Csupo. That artstyle is straight up fucking shit and it doesn't get enough shit because we all grew up with overexposure to it. (Though it did work in Duckman, matching the show's cynical tone)

 

[LiberalPussy]

American artstyles in children's cartoons from around the time anime started getting popular in America:
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So, kids were fed that goyslop, but they also grew up with Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z. They wanna be Goku, not autistic loser Doug Funnie, and then they hit their teen years and realize how much they wanna pork Android 18, and absolutely not Didi Pickles, who is supposed to be 32 but looks 80.
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Yeah, no fucking wonder people latched onto anime so hard. It's too bad that the writing is universally terrible. I'm down with mocking modern Calarts beanfaces and shit, but that Klasky-Csupo artstyle is straight up fucking shit and it doesn't get enough shit because we all grew up with overexposure to it. (Though it did work in Duckman, matching the show's cynical tone)

Another point is it was cheaper for networks to license an already completed Japanese series than to produce (yeeesssss) one whole cloth. It was often just to fill in time slots.

 

[PogromStallone]

@PogromStallone comment?

Utterly moronic.
First of all, anime is a medium, not a genre. It's like saying "music is the most retarded brainrot shit ever". You can have a point if you point out specific parts of music but not the entirety of it.
It's pretty obvious from the OP that @Single Action Army has only watched the most mainstream shonen bullshit. That's like only watching the MCU and thinking that's all movies are.
There's a reason anime and manga is so big. There's actual storytelling in a shit-ton of different genres.
Data came out recently that showed that one anime piracy website had more monthly visitors than Disney+. The piracy site had 331.6 million visits while Disney+ had 157 million. That doesn't just happen if all of it is "childlike" or "kindergarten anemic storytelling" like OP said.
I struggle to think of many western shows, animated or live action, that's as deep and thought provoking as something like Revolutionary Girl Utena. What western show or comic compares to something like Berserk?

 

[The Prophet Mohammed]

It’s written for socially inept shut ins and autistics. If you’re unable to understand the complexity of adult interactions and social cues, you’ll probably like anime

@CuntFucker comment? 5’6 with an attitude lol

 

[LiberalPussy]

 

[UnPRePared]

For the most part, I can't stand anime. I joke that it ruins the masculinity of men, but I'm only half joking when I say that. I kind of believe this is true.

However, I've been genuinely impressed with a few of them, really just Miyazaki. They tend to be unique and rather clever. I would have never sought them out, but such is what happens when you watch neighbour kids, you sometimes get surprised.

The Ghibli films overall are actually pretty good. Grave of The Fireflies absolutely fucked me up for a week, I can't ever watch it again.

That all being said, not a proponent of anime. Give me Film Roman era Simpsons and Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny any day.

 

[Fuck]

I struggle to think of many western shows, animated or live action, that's as deep and thought provoking as something like Revolutionary Girl Utena. What western show or comic compares to something like Berserk?

sopranoz

 

[Harry Tasker]

I’ll go to bat for anime from the 80s-late 90s.

At the time, animation in the USA was for kids only with so few exceptions they’re not worth mentioning. Meanwhile you had actually interesting sci-fi and horror anime coming over from Japan. At age 13 in the 90s, I was 100x more interested in the stories and themes the japs were exploring in anime than anything animated in the west.

With that out of the way, I haven’t followed anything since the 90s except for Attack on Titan which was fucking perfect to read with my son who was 11 at the time. I also think the manga for Chainsaw Man part 1 was very good. Actually everything that dude has written is pretty spectacular.

Edit: I’m gay

 

[Niggerotchi]

I’ll go to bat for anime from the 80s-late 90s.

At the time, animation in the USA was for kids only with so few exceptions they’re not worth mentioning. Meanwhile you had actually interesting sci-fi and horror anime coming over from Japan. At age 13 in the 90s, I was 100x more interested in the stories and themes the japs were exploring in anime than anything animated in the west.

With that out of the way, I haven’t followed anything since the 90s except for Attack on Titan which was fucking perfect to read with my son who was 11 at the time. I also think the manga for Chainsaw Man part 1 was very good. Actually everything that dude has written is pretty spectacular.

Edit: I’m gay

Attack on Titan was so good. Not sure how it faired outside of the first season, but I highly enjoyed what I have seen.

 

[PogromStallone]

Attack on Titan was so good. Not sure how it faired outside of the first season, but I highly enjoyed what I have seen.

Yeah. I wasn't that big of a fan of the ending but as a whole it was amazing.

sopranoz

Not really.

 

[Harry Tasker]

Attack on Titan was so good. Not sure how it faired outside of the first season, but I highly enjoyed what I have seen.

Fuck dude! You only watched the first season? Don’t read anything about it. It’s a legitimate masterpiece. He planned out his whole storyline for the entire thing before he wrote it and it pays off so big. The characters you wind up caring about, where the plot goes, it gets fucking nuts.

I enjoyed reading it and watching it as much as I enjoyed Game of Thrones books 1-3. It’s that good in how he sets up plot elements and character arcs.

It does fall apart a little bit in the final act, but I think that’s a consequence of him setting a deadline to finish the story and meeting it, as opposed to faggot George Martin letting his bullshit sprawl so far that the story can’t be concluded.

Edit: to be clear, it IS a story for boys age 10-15, but in that arena and within its genre it’s almost unmatched.

@PogromStallone i have a lot of thoughts about the ending as well, but I forgive them all because it was a great ride and at least he committed to ending it and did so.

 

[You Bummers]

It’s gay as balls. That is all

 

[PogromStallone]

He planned out his whole storyline for the entire thing before he wrote it and it pays off so big.

There were parts that you can tell were changed because of his editors and he did say that he changed what his planned ending was after watching Guardians of the Galaxy which is why the ending isn't as great as the rest of the story.

 

[Cleo's Dad]

I'm not an anime watcher or fan but I think like most things you can blame it's rapid decline due to mainstream western acceptance and popularity.
When something loses its niche and becomes more accepted/popular it has to change rapidly or risk losing its new foothold.
You see the same shit happen with music and movies all the time.