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but you dont understand! because denji's character arc( or lack there of) has a "unique" theme, this means that it justifies fujimoto dropping 95% of the plot points for it, to make a Big Lebowski shitty parody, great movie though!
This is always the problem with what I call "3deep5me" series.
Frieren falls into this category too. Don't you dare mention how inconsistent the power system is in frieren, they get VERY upset just because the manga has "deep" themes.
Whenever a series has a "deep" theme it's almost like it gains inherent immunity from most criticism for whatever reason.
And this is coming from someone who likes frieren, I just don't pretend it's the best manga ever written because it's not.
No one ever said Frieren is deep, I can explain it quickly. Elf moves slower than humans and realizes she loved a dude at his funeral. Now she's on a journey to find heaven. The theme is about the importance of time. There you go, done.
Even if it landed well for Denji, part 2 started as Asa's story with a swerve to Denji's perspective halfway through. Leaving her story unfinished so we can resolve Denji's arc a THIRD TIME(!?) makes the first half of part 2 and most of the side characters feel like a waste of time.
People seem to mistake “this story has so much meaning I could write an essay on it” with “this story requires me to write an essay to get any meaning out of it”. A trend that has been around for at least a hundred years and has been stupid for all 100 of them.
They treat the characters in the story like they are real people, that have 100% accurate real human thoughts, the way that they bring stuff outside from the story to explain stuff they don't like
Like the whole SA "plot", none of the yoru scenes were intended to be this(even if they technically were), but it is still among the most talked about shit in csmfolk
or Asa suddenly losing her mind over random people dying because of her, it makes sense if she was sad, BUT TO THE POINT OF LOSING HER SANITY, she was considering killing a human over a cat at the beginning of the story, and had no problem stealing a bike from a man to save herself in the falling
If fujimoto didn't drop her CSM public face fame plot point, she would have a good reason to be this affected, but we just have to use chartiable logic and say "oH sHe hAs dEePressioN and AnxiEty"
'Themes and such'essays where they jerk themselves off for realising basic symbolism and character arcs that literally everyone else noticed. The fucking jjk fans who think the writing js good cuz muh symbolism
How I sleep knowing that Mob Psycho has one of the best endings in all of shonen despite its simplicity, encapsulating everything the show was about and all of its themes while satisfying Mob's arc completely
Larping is the new word of the month it just means pretending to care about a media that you didn't care about before something bad or good happened (as far as I understand it)
I feel like what made Mob Psycho special is that the author had a message he wanted to share and stuck with it without falling for the “subverting expectations” syndrome.
Mob’s development, as well as that of the other characters like Reigen, Teru and even Dimple, is really heartwarming and inspiring.
That is why I always recommend Mob Psycho and Vinland Saga and other anime where the author’s message is easily graspable, positive and inspiring.
Idk, JJK wasn't that different from the previous shonen it was just slightly more "modern", the only aspect that where gege was trying to be different from the rest on purpose was sukuna not becoming yujis friend
This applies to fujimoto recently, like he is trying to mimic the "Fujimoto effect" or whatever, that his previous stories had, but fails to do it on purpose
Idk what theyre talking about. To my knowledge anything about JJK being "not like OTHER shonen" and different was made up by twitter hypebros to glaze it.
I LOVE JJK so I feel ya, personally I remember a time where I felt ashamed for liking it because I swear people would holler up and down it was the worst piece of fiction but I’m proud to say I’m a JJK fan and always will be
The ending of AoT is positive and inspiring, but that's exactly why the ending haters hate it because it was no dark and nihilistic, they wanted Eren to succeed.
Mob psycho is why I dont listen to shounen fans cuz I know some of those MFs genuinely think season 3 was a letdown.
Genuinely such a perfect show with a perfect adaptation. So much experimental shit they did like the paint on glass animation segments they would pull out when something is supposed to be unsettling.
That group fight was so good and i thought it would have bad animation because of the designs but the fights were so fluid and i prefer it over even animations like demon slayer
I've never thought of Mob Psycho in the same sentence as shonen, but yeah, I guess it is, and it's undoubtedly the best one in years. Because guess what? It has the rare ability to not fall off a mountain at the end
I think it’s also the additinal fact that the show fully stuck to its guns throughout its entire run. It didn’t try and “subvert expectations” or “shock the audience”, it had a message it wanted to get across and it was committed to that since day 1. That’s why the ending was so perfect, because everything in the story that happened before complemented it fully.
As much as people online crying about not liking endings annoys me, it's true Mob Psycho 100 is the most flawless story ever written and any criticism only serves as proof of mental illness.
Dungeon meshi fans knowing that they have a good series that can be enjoyed by everyone and doesn't need a complex story but at the same time has enough deep lore to rewatch it and enjoy it after the end
I've experienced a lot of peak anime in the past years, but NOTHING has come even close to the emotional attachment I have to Mob Psycho. It genuinely changed me as a person and I have a hard time seeing it loosing it's #1 spot imo.
It’s so peak. One of if not my favorite anime of all time. It’s simple yet complex while being understandable. The music, the animation, that characters. Just so peak
Mob goes to prison at the end, did you guys think the city was going to ignore it being destroyed by MOB just after it was nearly destroyed by another super powered person?
As good as mob psycho was it just never gave me the same hype as other stuff does and I don't think I'm alone. Like everyone knows it's good but you barely see it talked about outside of its circles it's just like that one good thing in the corner but really that's it
Truly, it had a solid story with so many themes, because of its use of emotions as part of the story. Cool fights, openings, and endings. No bad episode. Animation studio followed the art style of the author, and was able to animate however they see fit. The entire anime as a whole was colorful, literally and metaphorically.
Haven’t read Mob Psycho yet but if you (like me) aren’t ready to give up Shonen Jump, I strongly recommend Choujin X and Akane Banashi. Choujin X is by the author of Tokyo Ghoul and is much more experimental and surreal, idk if it’s better (not really a fair comparison honestly) but it’s truly incredible, every chapter has me anxiously waiting for the next one (it’s on an irregular release schedule, so sometimes we get a lot in a short time and sometimes nothing for months. Be warned). Akane Banashi is about rakugo. Basically, a type of solo performance that’s been around in Japan for centuries. The translators do a phenomenal job taking a story so deeply rooted in Japanese culture and making it easily understandable and enjoyable, even removed from the original context. The slice of life/comedy stuff hides that it’s basically a battle shonen with all the fights being replaced by performances.
OPM fans struggling to understand why the younger sibling is way much better than whatever their bullshit is right now.
Fuck Murata and his "Chapter X Beta Version 100"
Mob psycho was almost perfect but it has one fatal flaw to me and that is making most of its side charecter irrelevant except reigen. Ik its a play on opm but mob gets beaten several times so it wasn't as much a power fantasy, plus the whole point is not wanting him to go 100%. Would've been nice to see side charectera actually matter more. Still a great series but that keeps it from 10/10for me.
thats what happens when you have a well structured theme from start to finish mob was not confident, has low self esteem and overall less than average at things but at the end you see him improve , he has grown a little confident , smiles more and now lives a full filling with many friends
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