Kindness is the new Punk rock status?
I'm glad anime is in a place where it can do this well, but I don't get Demon Slayer's popularity. The characters are all really fucking one note and annoying, especially that yellow fucker. And I want to say it's style over substance, but there are already a bunch of anime that look just as good as this. And it also has designs like this cunt that'd make the edgiest Naruto character blush.
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>>150705914I thought punk by definition isn't the dominant media.
>>150705979It's just one of those things that's popular because it's popular, like One Piece or Undertale, rather than any inherent qualities This is basically social media's doing, when you artificially get the ball rolling it's hard to stop it
>>150706650The Japanese are just that good at marketing and getting their products out. When you’re stuck on an island filled with so many people, and you’re competing with others for the markets, you have to get aggressive. Meanwhile, here in the states, everyone gets comfortable and complacent when they reach a certain point of success, then they get lazy, the quality goes down hill and then they lose ground, panic, do radical changes that alienate costumers, and start of cycle of decline.
>>150705914Tanjirou represents that more than Gunn's Superman ever could.
>>150706825Eh not really, they're getting turbomogged by Korea in music and manga lately as K-pop and manhwa overtook J-pop and manga ridiculously quickly as the popular youth things in the westDemon Slayer and One Piece's success is a remnant of the hype era brought on by social media
>>150705914In fairness, Tanjiro is also an goodie good, itsbjust the killing of violent demons is treated more as releasing a troubled spirit instead of killing someone.
>>150706901I really hate the format of trauma dumping every demon's backstory the moment they get their heads cut off.Like holy shit, I don't care now. You're no longer an active player in the story, this emotional baggage is of no use to me.
>>150705914Maybe we could get ANYTHING other than regurgitated endless iterations of capeshit?
>>150706880Honestly, the desperation of Koreans to seem more relevant outside of their music is a major ick.
>>150705979Pretty colors and nice effects
>>150707000Yeah, I hate sounding like the edgy "lol it's a demon who cares" person but there's genuinely no difference whether or not Demon man #3 only became a demon so his little sister could live or became a demon cause he liked the idea of shooting blood out of his eyes. The only time it'd have relevance is if you're planning on redeeming that character.
>>150705979The plot is basic and easy to understand, very short compared to other series, and the anime has god-tier animation, those are the main reasons.
>>150705914>Caring about box office>East vs West shitPiss off
>>150705979Japan loves it because it's a straightforward japanese story about good and evil. International audiences like it because it's Ufotable animators doing their magic on a popular shounen manga.
>>150705914This film is a few years old, of course it made more then this year's Superman.
>>150705979>The characters are all really fucking one note and annoying,Zenitsu is less annoying in the manga
>>150705979>>150705914It's a show for children, like 10 to 14 yo of age. It being simple, one-note, or repetitive is a good thing for the target audience.
>>150705914Superman needed a good movie back in 2013 back at the height of Superhero mania to regain culturally relevance.He was never going to get it by releasing a new movie that skips the origin story and has a preachy message, in 2025. After everyone in the general public is over Superheroes.
>>150708022Stfu retard
>>150705914Great, so weebslop is going to be the new capeslop.
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