ITT unpopular anime and/or manga opinions (in great detail if possible, just curious about anons' takes)
>>284599683modern kodomo is often more sexy than modern normal anime
>>284599683One Piece is good
Isekai is cancer, but that's not necessarily an unpopular opinion. Most good isekai are of the older kind, have a female MC and remarkably, the main character wants to return to earth.Self-inserting is garbage and if you self-insert, you are a sub 80-iq monkey.Panty shots are overrated.There should be more normal relationships and sex in anime and manga. Just a normal amount, like people do. The fetishism of virginity goes too far and drastically reduces the amount of ways how characters and their interactions can be written.Danmachi is legit great and not because of the harem elements. It celebrates heroism and adventuring like no other anime. Whoever reduces this show purely to its waifus does it a massive disservice.Flat girls are great, but lolis are garbage.
>>284599824>Panty shots are overrated.> The fetishism of virginity goes too far and drastically reduces the amount of ways how characters and their interactions can be written.> lolis are garbage.Now these are terrible opinions. Are you sure you aren't baiting?
>>284599683Character development haircuts are the best and anime girls should have short hair by default.
>>284600006And by short I mean quite short. Too often I see medium-length hair tagged as "short", which really tells you where peoples' limits are.
>>284599915It's an ugly 3DPD female seething
>>284599915panties are disgusting
>>284599683NTR is fine, I don't particulatly care whether a series includes it or not.
>>284599683Anime for children (actual kodomo, not shonen) are more profound than anything made for "adults."
>>284599915no virginity bullshit is actually so fucking lame, at some point you gotta get over the "promised perfect highschool love forever" shit, like you are not gonna be 17 forever, at some point you want a more mature relationship dyamic
>>284600298people who hate NTR self-insert as the cuck instead of the bull
>>284600094>women on /a/It's more likely that the apocalypse happens tomorrow than that any real females post here. Maybe a tranny.>>284600268You are disgusting. A real trash opinion you have there.
>>284599284>>284600360Kill yourselves.
>>284600378>the bullspoken like a true homosexual cuck
>>284600903takes one to know one
>>284600298only yuri ntr is fine
>>284599683we need more isekai manga
No one seems to care about it or talk about it Anymore but I still think about this series all the time, especially the hive mind controlling society aspect
>>284599683The 2010s was the best decade for anime. The 2000s was ok and the 2020s is a downgrade compared to both.
>>284599683After consuming every piece of Negima media there is I can safely say that the manga is kind of shit, it ain't the worst thing ever but it is pretty bad, the early volumes which focused on comedy were great but as soon as it turns into generic shonenshit it goes downhill REAL BAD, Ken Akamatsu was just better at writing comedy/gags than he was at action scenes/drama, a gag or comedy bit can be cliche but it can still make you laugh if the pacing is right or if the gag is subverted or done in a creative way, his shonenshit stuff was too by the numbers even for someone like him, the characters from the later half of the manga don't even look like they're from the same series, they're too overdesigned compared to the OGs cast and to make matters worse most of them were male, you can say "B-But Ken always wanted to make a shonen from the start, his editor forced him to make it a comedy at first!" but even then it doesn't excuse how poorly the first few volumes and the rest of the manga go together, there's so much "early weirdness" to take the rest of the manga seriously, the biggest example of this would be Eva, Negi and Asuna beat the shit out of her very early on in the manga, Asuna catching her off guard and kicking her head in a silly cartoony way was sort of a running gag, yet the later half of the manga tries to make you believe that this was always this almost all knowing unstoppable force that is above all the main cast and cannot be beaten by Negi or Asuna, you can argue that "she was le holding back or she didn't had her full power yet", but that doesn't make sense given what she could do later on even in her loli form and what she knew from the start (unless she enjoyed the kicks to her head THAT much), like any other OP character in shonenshit Ken had to come up with convoluted reasons for her not being able to help over and over and over so the fights would last, which got old fast...
>>284601198...Honestly both anime series were far, far, FAAAR better and more enjoyable than the manga IMO, they might have less fanservice than the manga, but as much as I love fanservice it can only do so much to elevate a boring generic shonenshit story, like I said characters who get beaten up with easy during the early comedy volumes are somehow supposed to be "le strongest all along" and shit, there's way too any things from the early volumes that don't make sense in the later half of the manga and the only way to excuse them is going "it was just a gag, bro", but that's just poor planning and writing (even then you have some weird stuff from the later manga like a regular fighter jet somehow being raked as having a bigger powerlevel than most of the series' cast), both anime series had a more clear planning on the story they wanted to tell, Eva was consistent to how she was in the early manga and a lot funnies and I liked SHAFT's decision of excluding almost all the male cast from the manga and making Anya the main antagonist, that was a cool and interesting choice and doesn't feel that out of character for someone as possessive as she was in the manga, both series also have way better endings than the manga and the OST for both was great (they even reused them in the OVAs alongside the first opening which also plays as musical cues), it is telling that once Ken doubled down on his generic shonenshit in UQ Holder it never caught on like Love Hina and Negima did (even when the anime used the NEGIMA 2 subtitle) and only got a single anime season of 12 episodes
>>284599683long fights are trashthe time should be spent on training and preparing, with the actual fight lasting an instant (at most 30 seconds or 2-3 pages)
>>284601244>(at most 30 seconds or 2-3 pages)I disagree that they should be that short but they should be no more than one episode or at most 2-3 not 26 Goku vs Freezer episodes.
>>284601198>>284601224Based
>>284601244>>284601315Imo ideally fights should take 3 episodes: one for the intro, one for the bulk of th fight and then another for the conclusion.
>>284601198>>284601224Agreed >>284601244Also this, some anime/manga fights drag on for way too long
>>284601508>>284601554Yeah, no fight needs 10plus episodes
>>284599824>Panty shots are overrated.>Flat girls are great, but lolis are garbage.Explain, because this is a lot of shitty opinions (even by /a/ standards) in a post.
>>284601197It's late 00s to early 10s for me
>>284601585It's a filthy normalfag, there's nothing to explain.
Loli isn't pedophile.Pedophilia implies a victim.Fight me.
>>284601244Fights are only good without the constant powerup asspull bullshit that so many shounen have.
>>284599683Murata Punch Man became better when the story went in a new direction and it stopped being an inferior version of the original.
>>284599824All of these are normalfag tier takes
>>284599683Mint is cutest when she's a tree
>>284601197Idk, the early 2000s were meh but the late 2000s had stuff like Code Geass, Gurren Lagan, Haruhi, K-On... I feel like the quality went until the early 2010s
>>284599824>There should be more normal relationships and sex in anime and mangaLiterally only romcoms aimed at a male audience are afraid of advancing the relationship beyond a kokuhaku. Josei romance manga don't have a problem with advancing to the stage of having sex, yuri manga don't have a problem with sex either.
>>284599714Somehow regular anime cut out fanservice outside of late-night try-hard ecchi series but kodomo anime gets away everything. We don't see Doraemon characters bare ass naked anymore but then we have stuff like Puniru which is mind bogglingly horny. It isn't even casual fanservice that slime is aggressively purposely sexual. I dislike that. Kodomo anime exists to sell sex and expensive toys to viewers who don't understand what's being done to them. Yet somehow boobs in a battle anime are considered immoral.
>>284599683Kadokawa and Sony are the worst things to happen to the anime's industry.
>>284602501Sony is the worst publisher of anything. How many publishers can we say malware on all their CDs for a while? It's a short list. More people should hate Sony. They used to make some decent electronics at least but as a publisher they're cancer.
>>284602443Puniru is not a kodomo anime. Do you think MahoAko is also kodomo because it's a magical girl show?
>>284601169The Promised Neverland of its time. 1 amazing season it could never follow up on.
>>284604016mahoako isn't a mahou shoujo, but i get what you are saying. it merely uses the aesthetics of mahou shoujo as a story gimmick.its baffling how many people dont know what an actual mahou shoujo anime is like.
>>284604016MahoAko doesn't run in CoroCoro.
>>284605493great point. that anon is eternally btfo'd and cannot refute this post.
>>284605493It should
>>284605433To be fair, that's because the only non-subversive non-parody mahou shoujo that even gets made these days is Precure and occasional one and dones like how presumably Princession will end up.And even then, it seems like a lot of the time they're still more aimed at the adult demo.
>>284605701exactly, i agree. mahou shoujo is virtually dead aside from precure. unfortunately it died in the early to mid 2000s.
>>284605701Precure was literally made as a subversion.
>>284600378>Can't understand things without self inserting
>>284605792You either die subversive or live long enough to become the new status quo.
>>284599683I think shonen is dead, what was the last heart pumping adventure filled with testosterone with no subvertions that doesnt pander to women?Did you ever wonder why we are getting so many returns of old shonen in recent years? (Hoku no ken/saint seiya/dragon ball, bleach, etc) because shonen now panders to women a completely different demographic while failing to capture the male fans, is now mostly yaoi baiting with mediocre looking girls and slop battle system that wont matter anymore in a couple of chapters since it will go back to a shittier version of big numbers wins.I feel waaay more excitement from a stare down betwen kenshiro and the bad guys, from seiya and his friends going up the 12 houses in a time limit, from goku becoming the legendary warrior putting down the emperor of the universe in a dying planet than whatever the fuck is going on with modern shonen.Old shonen felt like a tribute to masculine adventures like heracles or conan or the action movies of bruce lee/arnold, new shonen feels like a romcom with yaoi baiting and super powers, its fine if you lile that but it doesnt feel like shonen anymore, i feel shonen is going out the same way as mecha did.Men now only care about harem/yuri shows.....
>>284605792it's a 50 episode episodic "introduces new main cast members incrementally" monster-of-the-week targeted-at-children toy-selling mahou shoujo anime through and through.
>>284605879Herbivores don't eat meat
>>284599683Anime and manga the same as anything else, there's nothing really special about it.
>>284605792Subversive in the sense that it was given an overall direction similar to the tokusatsu it shared a programming block with, so it had more physical action scenes. Structurally it's still played straight.
>>284599683I hate this over correction culture we have now since old fans who did reviews back then were really prudish about anime and wanted it to be accepted by normies for some reason, we have to act like fanservice or anything sexual is good no matter if it fits the show or not and any time you criticized it you get called buzzwords even though sometimes the shit just doesn't work. I'm no prude but like I don't want Weird fetish shit in my regular ass non-ecchi marketed anime. I also hate the over correction of anything retro = good when lot of those old ovas were throwaway trash but since older reviewers were harder on anime we over corrected and are too positive to everything.
>>284599683Even if manga gets more eyes on it due to the weird nature of ownership like a mess of hands in pie usually and if you are indie almost no one sees it and deadlines, I feel like being a comic creator is more freeing in the west because the ownership is simple you own it or the company and you create whenever you want and live a comfy life waiting even years between books. Also becoming rich and not having to do anything after off a comic feels more like a west thing, like yeah Oda rich but he also has to work nonstop vs Todd McFarlane. I mean a dude can make a dumb comic like Flaming Carrot live a decent life no deadlines get published by big company like Dark Horse, own it all and have come out when he wants. The JP system is fucked and maybe creators have a movement one day but I doubt it also it sucks assistants aren't usually credited.
>>284606031Everyone wants to think they've found a hidden gem and old OVAs often have good enough animation to act like they are. It's okay to enjoy something that's average or a little above average but some people need everything classified as classic or shit.
>>284606164Aren't a lot of old OVAs more animation showcases then actual stories
>>284599683I have a bizarre mix of normie and contrarian opinions, so some of these would be generically unpopular and some only here, but nevertheless:>Most people online don't even like animeThey like the "aesthetics" or find the girls hot and jerk off to them. Maybe they watched some shows while they were younger, but they don't actually enjoy it anymore. They don't have anything else going on in their lives, so they just performatively consume to feel like they have a sense of identity. It's always funny to see the "anti-fandom" critics (even if they have a few good points) since a lot of anime culture is about celebrating the communal fan experience, only in this case it;s just a bunch of atomized loners who need to consume in order to get a sliver of dopamine. >Ecchi is complete dogshitMost people who say this just want "Persona in college" because they feel bad about masturbating to teenagers, but it is true. There's a few good ones but that alone - contra this site - is not enough to carry a series. The reason you're seeing less of it isn't censorship but rather because gacha PNGs are more profitable.>More studios need to change elements of the source materialYou saw a lot of this in the 2000s and early 2010s. It's decreasing, but I think this is also part of the reason why there's less interesting anime original shows as well. Even though these anime original arcs or changes to existing stories usually ruin the show or make it plain worse, the fact is that it gives younger directors and writers more experience for writing and planning out original content, which gave them a stepping stone to make interesting original work later down. It may ruin more shows in the process, but it's a worthwhile sacrifice to find a couple geniuses to make masterpieces.>Less animeThere's too much. Thirty years ago you'd have as many shows in a year as we get in a season. Bad for quality. And finally, I genuinely do think liking loli is immoral.
>>284599683I think anime needs more black characters but no DEI checklists and no over abundance of black MCs.Ironically, Gundam would be the best franchise for black MCs.
It's sad they don't really make regular anime for women/girls anymore. At most I just see BL trash or Precure which feels more for lolicons these days.
>>284606515Gundam has an anime with a black MC, Turn A.
>>284606515>I think anime needs more black charactersWhy do you even want that?
>>284599683old good new bad
>>284605879>reads slop for 10 year olds to "affirm his masculinity" You're a low IQ meathead manchild
>>284605879>Saint Seiya>doesn't pander to womenI've got some bad news for you, anon.
>>284606515for what?anime is japaneseyou already have enough darkie characters in hollywood
>>284600006Its not as good when a short hair girl cuts it a little shorter. They got to start with hair down past their knees. So much better.
>>284601198>>284601224It helps that both anime series had a clear vision from the story they wanted to tell from the start, if you rewatch Shaft's Negima you'll notice that they had clues for Anya's being the one behind all the weird stuff since episode 1 so once the reveal happens it doesn't feel like an asspull, you cannot say the same about the manga since on top of falling for the same cliches every shonen series does: >"X character that was previously defeated was actually the strongest all along" >"X character that was previously defeated was actually a decoy and not the real deal" >"X character you fought was actually working for X character who was much stronger" >"Powerlevel rank that doesn't make much sense" >"Rushed ending" you could tell the author was making shit up as he went rather than having a clear outline so you ended with lots of contradictions and a rushed ending, something similar happened to Dragon Ball since Toriyama and Toyotaro gave so little of a shit about planning ahead or continuity than nowadays the """canon""" is a fucking mess...if there even is one
Mint is a miracle of the universe
Harems and incest are garbage.
>>284599683I love shonen tropes
>>284599683I like Metallic Rouge
>>284599683Lain is shit and is easily the worst part of the 'ABe trilogy'
>>284599824>There should be more normal relationships and sex in anime and manga. Just a normal amount, like people do.So zero for me, which is the way I like my anime. I don't want to feel bad by feeling like everyone else is having sex except me.
>>284611743>I don't want to feel bad by feeling like everyone else is having sex except me.What reason is there to feel bad about that?
