Why is everyone sucking this show's feminine dick so hard? I swear, every single fucking death in it could have been prevented if the characters weren't specifically made to make retarded choices. It's like Mitsudomoe's "lol misunderstandings xD", but grimdark
Forced drama, the anime.
Not even bait
You would be right if you neglected to mention that Squealer did nothing wrong and therefore any choice he made couldn't be considered retarded.
Because it's genuinely intelligent.
Enough to make you overlook the shoujo tropes.
Yeah it's often overrated by those who haven't watched much anime. Still not that bad by any means though.
>often overrated by those who haven't watched much anime
Very true. Only the third act deserves the praise the series gets. Everything before that was just world building and establishing the characters.
This desu.
I fucking hate most of the characters.
Third act made the whole series for me. That's probably why it is thought of so highly today.
>Forced drama
Well they just took the Ghibli/Disney's style and added maturity to it. It was really good.
>muh 4st drama
It surprises me, that no one mentions the manga even though the artstyle is a lot better there.
The third act was fucking amazing. Everything before that I just watched because there was nothing better to do, but when the third act came along I was actually extremely entertained.
Very solid show.
The manga is just fanservice. I only look at it just to fap to the yuri scenes.
Haven't watched the anime. Is it a 1:1 adaption?
It's anything but a 1:1 adaptation. It's still worth trying out though.
It needed more flashbacks to past historical events, maybe even a 2-3-episode miniarc detailing one of the major events. All of the flashback stories were more interesting than the main story's first 2 arcs.
>only some slight differences
>"anything but a 1:1 adaptation"
Fuck you. It's still a solid adaptation.
Anime is really different from the manga. The anime is more like the novel, since it's the source material.
>autism
>why is "everyone"
>"lol xD"
>forced drama
True but still couldn't cover up the flaws. Direction and animation quality were pissed poor as well
Everything up till the snowboarding part is terrible. I also find it extremely stupid how the kidnapped kid doesn't realize she is human and diff from the rats until the plot needed her to die.
I agree the main characters were bland and behaved pretty much in whatever way was convenient at the time, but the story is largelly about the world, and it is in the construction of the world where the author knits all the criticisms he has for social norms and human nature in general. The characters exist to provide a camera to the world and to generate pathos at certain points.
I can see why people who like character driven stories would dislike the show, but they are people who wouldn't be impressed either by things like Well's Time Machine, Orwell's Animal Farm and Huxley's Brave New World, pretty clearly the main sources of inspiration of the story.
She NEVER realized she was different from the rats, and she probably had never seen a human until she arrived to the town and started vaporizing the other espers.
Third act was definitely the most enjoyable for me. I think if the first two acts had gotten the same attention the third did, it could have made the show more solid.
I would actually disagree completely. The first two acts were by far the best parts of the series. It is just world building and establishing characters, but it some of the best world building science fiction anime has to offer. There's a good amount of science to made up piece of fiction. The world feels pretty drastically different on the surface, but in truth its quite similar to our own society. Its a great example of how science fiction should be constructed. Too often do we get a story that simply try to create a world that interesting, different, futuristic or whatever, but once you get past the fact that it might be obtainable someday, its no different from say a fantasy story.
As for the characters, this user puts it nicely.> they exist to provide a camera to the world and to generate pathos at certain points.
This is what characters should be. I feel like someone who enjoys characters driven shows should enjoy this. Saki is a great character even as a stand alone. But everyone else exhibits very human qualities as well. Especially when you look at them as a group, you get a very genuine response to the themes each arc brings up
I actually think the 3rd part is the weakest because a lot of the world building and to a smaller extent the characters are put on the back burner for the sake of proceeding with the overarching plot.
He did do a couple retarded things, though.
>animation quality were pissed poor as well
No.