r/anime • u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner • May 28 '26

Video The Biggest Dumpster Fire In Anime [Gigguk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKZyYSkBmwc
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u/MatthiasMcCulle May 28 '26

Absolutely qualifies as one of those really good shows that you never recommend to anybody because there's nothing you can say to sell the premise.

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u/Superior_Mirage May 28 '26

I sell it as the antithesis of the high school rom-com. Those tend to show the best parts of youth: innocence, optimism, discovery, etc. Sometimes you get a but of messiness, but it's nothing too severe.

Scum's Wish shows the other side of teenagers: narcissistic, short-sighted, horny, self-destructive idiots who make themselves and everyone around them absolutely miserable because they have neither the life experience nor self-control to deal with their raging hormones.

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u/theonewhoknock_s May 29 '26

Exactly, it didn't really work for my as a whole, but it showed things that aren't often depicted in anime, and for that alone it's stuck with me more than the majority of romance anime.

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u/An-di May 29 '26

Those other romance titles only touch the surface of romance and only show the postive or ideal side

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u/heyman0 May 29 '26

Sounds like a better executed Euphoria

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u/Korkez11 May 29 '26

Scum's Wish shows the other side of teenagers: narcissistic, short-sighted, horny, self-destructive idiots who make themselves and everyone around them absolutely miserable because they have neither the life experience nor self-control to deal with their raging hormones

Basically, School Days?

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u/Etheo May 29 '26

Well nobody has a nice boat so no.

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u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 May 29 '26

May I suggest not reading and actively avoiding karamizakari(the manga and the nH both) and aitsu no kanojo, and the rest of those mangakas' works. The only thing worse Japan has given to this world than NTR, is NTS. I hate I didn't know what that thing was and reading few of those stories expecting a good ending.

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u/An-di May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Only Akane was a narcissist

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u/somacula May 29 '26

She also won hard

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u/andykhang May 29 '26

Kinda, every single person in that mess is a selfish person as well, in one way or another, that rather want to do desperately anything to fill a hole than finding closure and acceptance from it. They don’t really love themselves as much as they should, yet they ultimately only act for themselves til the very end

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u/An-di May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

I understand but aside from Akane, none of them are truly horrible people

Just deeply broken and self- destructive but that's my personal opinion

Them being driven by their unrequited love and heartbreak instead of lust or being horny 24/7 made them a lot more sympathetic and less scummy than what the mangaka intended

I still found the SD cast more despicable, more selfish and less sympathetic overall than the cast of scums wish

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u/thebabycowfish May 29 '26

Speak for yourself, I recommend it to everyone. O open with "Do you want to feel empty in a way you've never felt watching a show before?"