Trash Thread

Un-fucking-watchable. I was waiting until the moment it would pick up. Seriously, no matter how much you love Hello! Project, no matter how much you like Buono! and how much you hype for their comeback, don't pick this up.
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KyoAni has a trend on releasing well animated stuff with horrible plots. I mean, fanservice is cool... when the series is good enough to gather actual fans. Blow this.
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Now let's be honest. The first half of the first season was good. Then it all went to shit, i picked it up being real hight right where i lefted off and bam... Plot keeps getting more bland and tasteless. It would have been fine if they ended it at episode 12 with "Ok, game's dangerous. Helmets confiscated, game banned. Kirito meets Asuna years later married, pregnant and completely forgot about a loser dude who only plays videogames. End."

yumiyacchi wrote

Un-fucking-watchable. I was waiting until the moment it would pick up. Seriously, no matter how much you love Hello! Project, no matter how much you like Buono! and how much you hype for their comeback, don't pick this up.

Cripes, for a second there, I thought it was that shitty Negima! anime by XEBEC. That's a whole 'nother can of worms that deserves its own post in this thread.

yumiyacchi wrote

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KyoAni has a trend on releasing well animated stuff with horrible plots. I mean, fanservice is cool... when the series is good enough to gather actual fans. Blow this.

Here's hoping they don't become the XEBEC of this decade. On that note, Digi made a video on this one too.

yumiyacchi wrote

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Now let's be honest. The first half of the first season was good. Then it all went to shit, i picked it up being real hight right where i lefted off and bam... Plot keeps getting more bland and tasteless. It would have been fine if they ended it at episode 12 with "Ok, game's dangerous. Helmets confiscated, game banned. Kirito meets Asuna years later married, pregnant and completely forgot about a loser dude who only plays videogames. End."

SAO is the worst kind of anime, in my opinion: It's the show that had incredible potential and chose to throw it all away. I hear Log Horizon is way, way better tho.

5 days later
lewdygaga wrote


There she goes, and more more more that I wil post

I haven't watched Re:zero but know you're in a lot of shit for saying that lol

floattube wrote
lewdygaga wrote


There she goes, and more more more that I wil post

I haven't watched Re:zero but know you're in a lot of shit for saying that lol

Same.

What were you thinking, insulting the internet's newest darlings?

8 months later
Backlash wrote

How on earth did this get a second season?

via Crunchyroll

Beats me. I feel like peoples time would be better spent looking at Google image results for "Garbage" and "Trash can" for 22 minutes than watching an episode of Retarded Hamster Sister.

a month later
yumiyacchi wrote

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Now let's be honest. The first half of the first season was good. Then it all went to shit, i picked it up being real hight right where i lefted off and bam... Plot keeps getting more bland and tasteless. It would have been fine if they ended it at episode 12 with "Ok, game's dangerous. Helmets confiscated, game banned. Kirito meets Asuna years later married, pregnant and completely forgot about a loser dude who only plays videogames. End."

I could never get behind the concept of SAO. I dont know if it was suspension of disbelief or what, but I couldnt 'get into' the whole universe or shake the initial 'so this is an anime about playing WoW' judgement. The second they said 'beater' at the end of the second episode I dropped it.

Impulsive wrote
yumiyacchi wrote

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Now let's be honest. The first half of the first season was good. Then it all went to shit, i picked it up being real hight right where i lefted off and bam... Plot keeps getting more bland and tasteless. It would have been fine if they ended it at episode 12 with "Ok, game's dangerous. Helmets confiscated, game banned. Kirito meets Asuna years later married, pregnant and completely forgot about a loser dude who only plays videogames. End."

I could never get behind the concept of SAO. I dont know if it was suspension of disbelief or what, but I couldnt 'get into' the whole universe or shake the initial 'so this is an anime about playing WoW' judgement. The second they said 'beater' at the end of the second episode I dropped it.

TBF, I think SAO could be interpreted as a deconstruction and partial reconstruction of extreme escapism. I've never seen it myself, but I know from friends and The Abridged Series that several of his newfound friends die within the first dozen or so episodes. But Kirito lives, and through his exploits he (presumably) not only liberates his fellow players from the confines of the game, but ends up with the girl of his dreams, met through the simulation.

That said though, I feel as if the overarching romance plot was the biggest disservice to SAO as a series. Yeah, I get it: Most people who're gonna watch this are virgin highschoolers who want nothing more than a badass MC and a cute chick to hook up with. But the concept itself is brimming with potential. Drop Asuna and Kirito, and you've got fertile grounds for examining if and how order arises from complete anarchy, how different people cope with life in a lawless and unforgiving world, and how people act online when nobody's looking. (On that note, I feel as if the baddie's enforcement that everyone look like their real selves was another great disservice to the concept of the show. To quote Oscar Wilde: "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.")

But no. Instead what we got was a decent love story in a half-assed virtual world featuring two-bit characters aimed at appeasing horny teenagers. The act of wasting this much potential oughta be a crime.

Shoot man, I feel like I shoulda written a review. But then I'd hafta actually watch this drek. Sadly, wasting potential seems to be a bad habit of this author; I watched an adaptation of his previous series, Accel World, and it made me want to chuck the jewel case across the room for how just how little he actually did with the characters. In a similar vein though, I hear Log Horizon is leagues better, so I'd totes check that out if you're lookin' to scratch SAO's itch.

Backlash wrote
Impulsive wrote
yumiyacchi wrote

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Now let's be honest. The first half of the first season was good. Then it all went to shit, i picked it up being real hight right where i lefted off and bam... Plot keeps getting more bland and tasteless. It would have been fine if they ended it at episode 12 with "Ok, game's dangerous. Helmets confiscated, game banned. Kirito meets Asuna years later married, pregnant and completely forgot about a loser dude who only plays videogames. End."

I could never get behind the concept of SAO. I dont know if it was suspension of disbelief or what, but I couldnt 'get into' the whole universe or shake the initial 'so this is an anime about playing WoW' judgement. The second they said 'beater' at the end of the second episode I dropped it.

TBF, I think SAO could be interpreted as a deconstruction and partial reconstruction of extreme escapism. I've never seen it myself, but I know from friends and The Abridged Series that several of his newfound friends die within the first dozen or so episodes. But Kirito lives, and through his exploits he (presumably) not only liberates his fellow players from the confines of the game, but ends up with the girl of his dreams, met through the simulation.

I think you are right about this, but I feel that the whole point of having this kind of commentary is defeated by the kind of demographic that SAO is appealing to. Its likely that the exact kinds of people that this series is talking about are also anime fans. Its a step above say, Jack Thompson creating a video game, but its still on the spectrum.

Eva did it the best I think because they pretty much directly challenged the kind of self-defeating attitude that leads people to continue seeking out new escapist fantasies. More importantly, It didnt opt for a reconstruction of the fantasy in the 'real-world' which still does not ultimately reflect the reality of the audience (ending up with the girl of your dreams at the end of the anime).

I feel like if you want to make a criticism of extreme forms of escapism in an anime, you really need to go all out for it to keep people from looking over your message and further indulging in that fantasy.

I was watching Kemono Friends.
How do you sell anime made on MMD and get away with it? Kemono Friends it's like the Fidget Spinner of anime, it's a low quality, cheap thing that everone seems to love.

yumiyacchi wrote

Kemono Friends it's like the Fidget Spinner of anime, it's a low quality, cheap thing that everone seems to love.

You shut your whore mouth.

Backlash wrote

You shut your whore mouth.

Lucia is asking you to watch your tongue and refrain from acting hostile, or I'm reporting you.

LucianDreamer wrote
Backlash wrote

You shut your whore mouth.

Lucia is asking you to watch your tongue and refrain from acting hostile, or I'm reporting you.

Don't worry friend, it's just a joke.

I guess intonation doesn't really carry well over the internet. Sorry 'bout that.

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yumiyacchi wrote

I was watching Kemono Friends.
How do you sell anime made on MMD and get away with it? Kemono Friends it's like the Fidget Spinner of anime, it's a low quality, cheap thing that everone seems to love.

Imagine if someone made some cheap machinimas of something like, I dunno, Halo and sold collections of episodes on blu-ray for full price and made a boatload of money off of that venture despite the episodes being free online. Wouldn't that just be ridiculous?

Also, if that's the Fidget Spinner of anime then what's the Emoji Movie of anime?

Emoji Movie? I dare to say everything PreCure.
Now if we could find the "Bee Movie" of anime...

Girl: "Where's dinner?"
Lucia: "Come out of there, you!" kicks trash can
This poor soul doesn't deserve a high rating from me.
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4 months later

Never in my life have I encountered such a cut-rate, low-effort, detestable excuse for animation. Forget "generic", everything about this show feels fake. The conflict is nonexistent, the villains are evil for the most retarded reason, and every character has the depth of a cardboard cutout. Shoot, aside from a few handpicked gifs here and there, even the fanservice was half-assed!

Literally the only scene that made me laugh was when our MC unconsciously started playing with his friend's hair. Not gonna lie, I'm kinda jealous.

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It's pretty telling when the Funimation dub couldn't eke any life outta this one. I feel sorry for anyone who worked on it.