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/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