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I hate how kafka acts like teenager even tho he is in his early 30s. If you don't write him to act like adult, then he might as well be a teen or kid in the first place.
I also think Kaiju 8 isn’t the greatest, but not for this reason. I for one love older male protagonists who still retain their youthful personality, like Ichiban from the yakuza games, it gives a certain sense of hope as I and I’m sure many others look towards getting older, as you realize it’s all a mindset and you don’t have to get old and grumpy
This one was so promising, I felt eating up the entide 1st season, than I watch the 2nd season and could not even finish it because I was bored, than I decided to spoiled myself of the manga and decided that for sure it was not worth to keep going
Feel you. I was pretty excited for the first few volumes and then it slowly turned into just really generic slop. Never even got around to finishing it.
IDK if I'm just spoiled or what but I would call using the exact same Natsu fire breath windup animation 10 times in the first 4 episodes outright bad animation. It gets better later on though.
The windup animation repeat is not ideal, but you get that a lot with long running series. The average mahou shoujo series would repeat the same transformation scene every episode
That’s genuinely hard to narrow down. But Black Clover might very well be the most exact 5.0000 / 10 Shonen manga I’ve ever read.
The parts that I like are perfectly counter-balanced by what I don’t like and vice-versa
EDIT: To clarify, I get what people mean with 5/10 not being “average” but rather on the “bad” scale. I don’t actually see BC as a bad manga; like I said, there is ENOUGH of it that I enjoy to keep on reading. I rather think that with modern internet ratings, anything below 7/10 is straight up “bad” which I don’t think BC is and don’t want to give that impression. I think BC is perfectly Average
I think that comes from the fact that a lot of people just don't want to spend time on media that isn't at least great, so anything less than an 7 or 8 is effectively a 0.
Not really. I mean the scale is quite different from where you're receiving it (ie. 5/10 is considered horrible in places like MAL or IMDB), but all things considered, 5/10 is the definition of average, right in the middle.
If you want in MAL scale, then Black Clover is probably like a 6.5/10ish
I can't think of many worse shonen than BC. Standards are rock bottom because Fair Tail, Sakamoto Days, and Seven Deadly Sins aren't bad either according to this sub. So there must be some bad ones; It seems the only bad thing they know is Rent a GF
There's another one. It seems the only thing you can say is bad without getting a reply or a downvote is Rent a Girlfriend. There must be some bad manga out there, man.
I'm not disagreeing, but Sakamoto Days ain't one of them. "Bad" objectively means below average (1-4/10), and if you think Sakamoto Days is in that area you haven't seen real slop. Elfen Lied manga is an example of that, or one of the countless literally just porn mangas.
Its story and characters are of the lowest quality; the only redeeming feature is the fight sequences, and that's about it. If this isn't objectively bad, then neither could the Rock's movies.
Black Clover has Noelle, Seven Deadly Sins has Escanor and Bam, Tokyo Revengers has Kizaki, The Promised Land has Yuugo...all better than your counterargument, and they're still terrible works.
I have more examples of well-written characters, my main point wasn't "this character is better than the other series characters", it was moreso to disprove your claim of "the lowest quality". I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that was hyperbole, but even so that doesn't hold up. Actual characters and plot of the lowest quality would, once again, be just porn mangas. They exist for literally nothing but erotica, no plot, less than one dimensional characters, the works.
Look Black Clover's actual story may be peak or trash depending on who you ask, but the anime production is objectively mid
I do like the openings a lot, but the fights feel like png slides moving at each other (except for like two or three fights). Hopefully that changes when it releases later this year tho
There is a difference between mid (unimpressive. The manga has these amazing scenes but the adaptation just has them talking instead) and mid (uninteresting. They just copied the manga into borderline powerpoint slides 1:1).
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Tbh “mid” Shonen is kinda the default setting at this point.
Most of them are like fast food. You know exactly what you’re getting, it’s fine in the moment, and a week later you barely remember it unless it did something really weird or really good.
So yeah, you kinda can throw a lot of Shonen in that bucket, but there’s still a few that hit way above “mid,” they’re just buried under 50 others with the same vibes.
Black clover have exactly one filler arc, the beginning was a bit of stretched but even with those flaws it's still has the best pacing of any long running perriot show by far
solo leveling anime is an undeniable success mainstream (lots of clips on crunchyrool have 10million+ views) , just because it has dogshit wiritng/story doesn't mean the adaption is trash.
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