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Yeah. Naruto made me think that level of quality was the standard, so I quickly latched on to the next big series like Fairy Tail and Nanatsu no Taizai, and then I found out the truth. By the time MHA got big I wasn't expecting much. Now I don't even care what's on the front page of WSJ because I know they'll all flop.The amount of fuckery from his editor, good and bad, makes me far more sympathetic of late Naruto Kishi. He just wanted it to end at that point and wrote himself into a corner trying to be too epic while juggling a bunch of themes. For most of its run, the series was great. It had a bit of a sour taste at the end, but it was still satisfying regardless.
It was cathartic seeing that happen in real time. So many people hyping up these new series that can't even contend with Naruto's Wave arc when all is said and done. JJK fags go on about the mess that was Shibuya, MHA fags wondering how they fell off so hard, and Demon Slayer fags realizing it's average at best.
One thing I'll say about Demon Slayer is that it seemed to know what it was from the start and just steadily chugged until its ending, which was much better than I expected. I was actually surprised it ended so quickly after the anime came out, because it could've easily been milked for a decade at least.
JJK is an average-below average series created by an unoriginal hack. Anyone who couldn't see that by the end of the 1st volume deserves the disappointment they're feeling now. Man couldn't even invent his own power system. He just copy-pasted Nen, wrote up some dumb rules to make it seem different and then ignored those rules and went full Nen despite how little sense it makes in their world.
Shibuya was what fags think Yorknew was. And this current arc is just the author trying to outdo Shibuya. He and his fans think confusion is a synonym for depth or (meaningful) complexity.
Shibuya was what fags think Yorknew was. And this current arc is just the author trying to outdo Shibuya. He and his fans think confusion is a synonym for depth or (meaningful) complexity.
Fair. He also might've been trying to do that with Gabi but he botched the fuck out of it if he was.Oh, I agree that AoT isn't that kind of series, and that Eren definitely isn't that kind of character.
My issue is just that no one tries this approach outside of Hange that one time, and while Eren could never really be saved, having someone at least try to use empathy on him would've been worth seeing.
This series had so much potential
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Talk no Jutsu meme is just another sign of how influential Naruto became. I think the reason it got criticized is because the stakes got raised beyond a point where talking should not be a real solution. It's easier to talk down a Gaara-level threat who is a child. When you escalate it to a grown man who has the equivalent of 64 Gaara-level threats in his statue back home and has committed atrocities Gaara can only dream of, it gets harder to believe. When you get to Obito with the power of a god being talked down it's even more ridiculous.
I do get what Kishimoto was trying to do, which is why it really helps having access to the author notes, but he could've written it way better than he did. The man is hopeful and optimistic to a fault.
That being said I'll gladly take his world view over that of some retarded grimdark GOT-loving hack.
I do get what Kishimoto was trying to do, which is why it really helps having access to the author notes, but he could've written it way better than he did. The man is hopeful and optimistic to a fault.
That being said I'll gladly take his world view over that of some retarded grimdark GOT-loving hack.
And FWIW my memory of the last part of Toriko was less "this is so bad it's entertaining" and more "when will this end?". The last chapter had some good insanity though. Everything before that was just draining to go through.
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