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Does anyone dislike OP characters? Like it happens with One Punch Man and Mob Psycho (same writer I believe, go figure).

And boy do I love japanese-psychic/spirits stuff, but this was one of the worst things of the anime, that Mob is OP. That, and the simp behaviour.
 
Does anyone dislike OP characters? Like it happens with One Punch Man and Mob Psycho (same writer I believe, go figure).

And boy do I love japanese-psychic/spirits stuff, but this was one of the worst things of the anime, that Mob is OP. That, and the simp behaviour.
You got to have fun with being overpowered or you get superman syndrome where it becomes about moralfagging and shit. Sometimes it's just fun to have a character wipe out a fucking army like a badass.
 
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Does anyone dislike OP characters? Like it happens with One Punch Man and Mob Psycho (same writer I believe, go figure).

And boy do I love japanese-psychic/spirits stuff, but this was one of the worst things of the anime, that Mob is OP. That, and the simp behaviour.
context matters I guess but something that irks me deeply even if on a surface level I can dismiss it, is that there's nothing truly at stake, MC can just solve it with one punch. I prefer somewhat capable MCs that have setbacks here and there but keep pushing forward. That said, I did enjoy reading a bit of "eminence in the shadows", guy is hella OP but also delusional as his followers, I never got to learn if he faced any real struggle though.
 
Does anyone dislike OP characters? Like it happens with One Punch Man and Mob Psycho (same writer I believe, go figure).

And boy do I love japanese-psychic/spirits stuff, but this was one of the worst things of the anime, that Mob is OP. That, and the simp behaviour.
I dislike OP characters when all the story has going for it is just fights and no greater meaning because otherwise it's just spectacle with zero stakes. At the end of the day the MC is probably going to win every fight but when you take away even the possibility of losing then who cares.
If Mob was about how cool being OP was it would be absolute shit and the fact the story deals with greater themes is why it's good.
 
I'm reading Witch Hat Atelier, and it's incredible how it had a nice start before becoming shit. The mangaka being a PC warrior who admits that political correctness is what drives him to draw was a warning I shouldn't have ignored. It's a repeat of Yukimura and Vinland Saga at this point.
Vinland Saga is politically correct bullshit? From what I saw it didn't seem so, does that pop up in the manga or something?

From what I've watched, Mob is solidly mid. It has peaks, sure, but it's very middle of the road for me tbh. Fire Force is what I consider peak Shonen shit. Batshit plot, good fights, and engaging enough to make me read the manga.
I only watched one episode of Fire Force, the whole fireman thing just irks me. Seems very one-note/gimmicky.

I do not view the world through the lens of Andrew Tate's and Matt Walsh's manosphere culture. Not everything is about status, prestige and power.

Earning things and authenticity has value. Friendships earned through virtue have value
Don't know about Andrew Tate, but if he's as based as Matt Walsh then he's on the right track because Walsh doesn't make everything about status, prestige, nor power; he makes everything about responsibility, morality, and justice (arguably to an unreasonable degree at times). And he actually seems to push for humbleness, not prestige. As for status and power, that's normal for men to want within reason, and abnormal not to want at all.

Earning things does have value, that's where status and power ideally come from, though corruption can attain them as well. Authenticity is obviously valuable too, who contests that? Friendship comes in many ways, sometimes unexpected, you shouldn't have to earn friendship but you do have to work to keep it.

Does anyone dislike OP characters? Like it happens with One Punch Man and Mob Psycho (same writer I believe, go figure).

And boy do I love japanese-psychic/spirits stuff, but this was one of the worst things of the anime, that Mob is OP. That, and the simp behaviour.
At least the simp behavior is a mild step above cowardly characters who literally run from women (it was only ever funny when Yamcha did it).
 
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Does anyone dislike OP characters? Like it happens with One Punch Man and Mob Psycho (same writer I believe, go figure).

And boy do I love japanese-psychic/spirits stuff, but this was one of the worst things of the anime, that Mob is OP. That, and the simp behaviour.
Depends on the story mostly. If it's something dumb but cool like say DBZ it doesn't bother me. If it's something that's supposed to be more serious and grounded, it does because it usually contradicts the latter part.
 
Maybe originally, but by the Garo arc it's 95% generic Japan super hero, and the remains 5% where Saitama actually appears and does his thing.
c'mon man the entire reason for garo fighting the heroes is to save an ugly ass-faced retarded kid (and I mean literally ass-faced)
you're not gonna say that's not a gag are you
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that there's nothing truly at stake, MC can just solve it with one punch
there's nothing at stake for Saitama. The other characters have plenty at stake. And this is not a state of being that Saitama enjoys. He finds it boring and the series is about him filling his empty days.

I dislike OP characters when all the story has going for it is just fights and no greater meaning
the series cannot possibly be both a story where nothing is at stake and the MC can solve everything with one punch but also also a story where it's just fights with no greater meaning. It would not be a story at all if that were the case, it would be a one page "oh the monster is dead now"

King is the best part of OPM
 
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c'mon man the entire reason for garo fighting the heroes is to save an ugly ass-faced retarded kid (and I mean literally ass-faced)
you're not gonna say that's not a gag are you
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It's just weird for weirdness sake. I don't remember a single scene with the kid that was funny. Wouldn't be surprised if the entire joke is an untranslatable pun.
Does anyone dislike OP characters? Like it happens with One Punch Man and Mob Psycho (same writer I believe, go figure).

And boy do I love japanese-psychic/spirits stuff, but this was one of the worst things of the anime, that Mob is OP. That, and the simp behaviour.
It's a gag that overstayed its welcome. Though at least with Mob the spiritual aspect means it's not as shonen-y. At least for th most part.
 
Vinland Saga is politically correct bullshit? From what I saw it didn't seem so, does that pop up in the manga or something?

Read the thread, you'll find several posts discussing the subject at length. I presume you're anime-only, and anime adapted two arcs that pre-date the brainrot of the author (prologue is shonen-lite and Farmland Saga is about THE EVILS OF SLAVERY AND GOVERNMENT, but it's still decent).

Vinland proceeds to introduce random female characters that are perfect because they're female, viking Japanese deliquents, viking trannies and after a lot of confusing useless chapters they go to America where the plot tortures itself to preach absolute pacifism and how the Injuns are magical and did nothing wrong as they're slaughtering you but it's inhumane to resist. The author himself on post-scripts preaches how he's so horrified by the brutal, savage vikings and how they're a terrible culture and how Strong and Brave should have been their women or something.

He also time-skipped Constantinople and that's the last straw, the last fucking straw.
 
Read the thread, you'll find several posts discussing the subject at length. I presume you're anime-only, and anime adapted two arcs that pre-date the brainrot of the author (prologue is shonen-lite and Farmland Saga is about THE EVILS OF SLAVERY AND GOVERNMENT, but it's still decent).

Vinland proceeds to introduce random female characters that are perfect because they're female, viking Japanese deliquents, viking trannies and after a lot of confusing useless chapters they go to America where the plot tortures itself to preach absolute pacifism and how the Injuns are magical and did nothing wrong as they're slaughtering you but it's inhumane to resist. The author himself on post-scripts preaches how he's so horrified by the brutal, savage vikings and how they're a terrible culture and how Strong and Brave should have been their women or something.

He also time-skipped Constantinople and that's the last straw, the last fucking straw.
I already didn't like the direction of season 2 but wow, that's worse than I expected. Horrifying to see such a thoroughly libtarded manga author. And what was Constantinople again?

One more thing, looking back there were early anti-Christian themes too, a favorite pastime of libtards.
 
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While "Drama Queen" hasn't been subtle, this is even less subtle than usual for it:
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I keep running across clips people post of foreign streamers who mistake Japanese politeness for passivity and assume they can behave like dicks in public, including on subway trains, without getting into trouble. Note how they don't try that anywhere else, or if they do, it ends up like when Johnny Somali's sidekick tried to take his obnoxious idiot streamer act to Thailand and was beat up for his efforts.
 
I did read a collection of Kamen Rider ZX manga today, the last artist really reminded me of Shotaro Ishinomori's work. Even as an adaptation of TV show, it was dunny to see how each author used the same element and characters in different ways.

Even more when ZX has a crossover with all 10 kamen riders in the early 1980 of all places. The idea of the character crossover isn't modern at all

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Anyone watching Lazarus?
Man that shit sucks. Watanabe gave Adult Swim his scraps and b-side ideas so they could do Gay Cowboy Bebop. The pacing is slow as balls, nothing happens 3 episodes in. The entire world is going to die from the Fauci vaccine, but they're acting like nothing happened, no riots, desperation or anything.
The animation is made for normies with no higher function to gawk at. It has a ton of shaky cams and rotoscoped fights that look impressive in the same way AI art looks good. The characters are insufferable and invincible, there are no stakes to anything. It sucks so much ass it's likely to cause a prolapse, and the normie niggercattle are eating it up. If you like this shit, you have a double-digit IQ and have no qualia.
 
Anyone watching Lazarus?
Man that shit sucks. Watanabe gave Adult Swim his scraps and b-side ideas so they could do Gay Cowboy Bebop. The pacing is slow as balls, nothing happens 3 episodes in. The entire world is going to die from the Fauci vaccine, but they're acting like nothing happened, no riots, desperation or anything.
The animation is made for normies with no higher function to gawk at. It has a ton of shaky cams and rotoscoped fights that look impressive in the same way AI art looks good. The characters are insufferable and invincible, there are no stakes to anything. It sucks so much ass it's likely to cause a prolapse, and the normie niggercattle are eating it up. If you like this shit, you have a double-digit IQ and have no qualia.
I heard Watanabe wanted to do another comedy like Space Dandy but Adult Swim told him no it had to be serious, which is a big mistake since correct me if I'm wrong since its been years but Bebop wasn't that serious aside from a few small moments or some of the later episodes. I think I remember seeing spike fight some guy in a giant sombrero and poncho in episode 1 and episode 2 was 90% chasing Ein around, and wasn't that episode whey they all get high on mushrooms in the later half of the series
 
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