So I was watching Initial D and there is this girl in there who is basically a Creepy Stalker... She is so creepy I was surprised no one pointed it out.
I originally blamed it on the shows lack of self-awareness that somehow it thought the creepy girl was somehow endearing or that her obsession based only around a single look and having the same car was really enough to base a relationship over.
THEN however I started to remember the vast majority of anime where the male protagonist will feel irrevocably tied to the female lead because she said a nice thing that one time, even to the extent where he will give up his wellbeing because someone said a mean thing once.
This sort of seems like the vast majority of it tends to be geared towards the sort of people who would watch it... Immature people who don't understand the subtleties of the human relationship but instead want to jump straight into the "have a relationship" portion. Like the movie Enchanted except where it being a clear parody isn't known by the writers.
It is actually pretty funny because I am watching the Initial D dub and it is clear that the voice actress clearly read the script and realized how stalker obsessed she really is and thus gave her the voice and inflection to match (because that makes sense), thus actually managing to shake me out of my stupor long enough to sort of realize how hallow the relationship is and how much it actually treats it without any awareness of what it is.
It kind of makes me want to see an anime that involves a growing relationship that is actually mature and flows well... Yet of the two animes I've seen that do that one is too boring for its own good and one is my favorite anime of all time.
I think what hurt my love for animes the most is that when I started it was with the GOOD ones... I havn't even seen a mediocre anime. So whenever I watch one now I keep looking for it to grow beyond its stereotypes or to give us deep emotional resonance. Yet most anime, like most videogames, are lowest common denominator affairs that just use the bare minimum formula flaunting to get by.
It is probably why I talk about this so much, Initial D actually sort of reached a point where it kind of became boring and typing this is more entertainment then when I watched the show. The major problem with the anime is it became a bunch of Tell and not show. Where everyone is said to have supernatural megacar driving skills, yet the race somehow looks exactly like the one before it... and where the main character who's original pull to watch his races was the fact that he had an inferior car and thus each race was really tight, but now has, by all means, a professional racing car.
Thus I am so unengaged that even the insane ramblings of a girl who probably should be given a restraining order is actually the only thing of note I can even think of for the last 10 episodes.
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