Do any of you ever have to restrain yourself from interjecting your dislike of certain series any time someone mentions them?
Not lately, but my rage can be infinite where Claymore is concerned.
Usually if something's going to be bad, it's going to be bad and that's that; in fact, usually you're going to have so little interest in the genre or type or whatever that it won't even register beyond evidence that the category is awful by definition.
So to
really ignite your rage, what a thing ideally wants to do is
nearly be good, then swerve hard at the last second into complete shit. It's similar to the uncanny valley effect, in that to really get under your skin, something has to look close enough to register as one thing, but then also be close enough to another to just not fit right.
So for me, that's Claymore. Imagine Berserk + DBZ + some all-girl fighting fanservice thing, only it manages to inherit all of the problems and not a great deal of the awesome from the first two, mutate some additional problems in the process, and then instead of normal porn mostly go for how dark and doomed the poor girls are. Add to that that it's pretentious as all fucking fuck regarding how noble and doomed and teamworky and the most human of us all the titular characters are despite not actually having the balls to kill off any named not-villain characters after the first few chapters since they were introduced, and that the author is a complete fucking hack who EVERY time he tries to explain a previously established mystery confirms the wisdom of that infamous quote about being thought a fool versus opening your mouth and removing all doubt.
Naturally, you've then got the cherry on top of people who actually like it for some reason; every time I hear about it, which is thankfully extremely rarely, it's about how awesome and "underappreciated" the thing is. My jimmies are
still rustled about finding "Anybody Can Die: One of the defining tropes of the show!" on TVTropes, and I'll spare you all the page and a half rant I've got as to exactly and with page citations why.
So yeah. Normally pretty cool, but there's at least one I can go fully incandescent on.
I straight up despise a lot of shows people consider fantastic, usually if they are loved because of how "dark" they are. Edgy gore and violence is both not hard to do, and not impressive.
There is this subtle line between being understandably dark, and being a tryhard.
Some examples of badly written shows that I honestly cannot fathom why they have gained the fandom they have include such wonderful gems as: Elfen Lied, Aldnoah.Zero, Mirai Nikki, Akame ga Kill, Tokyo Ghoul, Chaos;Head, Gantz.
To deepen my own hole here, some shows I have a specific upset with but can still understand why others can like them: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Another, Fate/stay Night, Steins;Gate.
What's some shows that you all hate?
In the "contempt and/or hatred but not enough that I've seen them twice and can deliver entirely too detailed analyses as to why" category, I actively hate Highschool of the Dead and have some contempt for what I've heard of No Game No Life.
I'd probably have your support of HSotD from the tryhard gore thing, but what really irks me about is it how goddamned
well-done it is for something so utterly base and pandering. It somehow managed to be solid porn in multiple different ways, but also
built in a very convincing manner. It's like if you're not fond of fatty foods, and then somebody manages to make a grease, butter, and lard souffle that blends all of the ingredients well and is of course massively popular. God damn it.
NGNL I'm just sort of an elitist prick on. The implied message I got of "it's alright that you suck because here suddenly what little you do have makes you a god" just strikes me as distastefully pandering. You couldn't at least have the guy need to learn to use a sword or something, had to go straight for "check out our new nerd god-king of harems?"
On your end, have you seen PMMM? I'd be curious what you don't like about it. I haven't seen the movie yet, though. :x
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