Why do people shit on this series when it's easily better written than 95% of KyoAni's works, while having their top notch animation?
The directing is much more thoughtful/unique compared to their usual as well, and the character designs are very distinct and gorgeous compared to their usual sameface/samebody crap.
But no one shits on it. We all know that PW it the one of their greatest work, on the same level of popularity as Haruhi or Key works, maybe even more.
Jeremiah Green
Why do you keep making this thread? Are you just trying to make everyone hate Phantom World?
Jason Lewis
Lack of character development Useless characters like Kurumi Poor pacing Weak storyline Weak ending
Kayden Hernandez
Go fuck yourself
Blake Edwards
It's basically a cowtits-centered ecchi with beautiful animation.
Zachary James
and that's all it needs to be a masterpiece
Anthony Diaz
Because it sexualises young girls and this triggers Anitwitter.
Evan Johnson
It's sad because you're right but Sup Forums will never admit it.
Logan Jackson
I don't think it's better written than 95% of KyoAni works. However I do think this show received a lot of undeserved criticism. It had characters, wich is something most harem shows can't brag about, it had the usual top-tier Kyoani animation and the direction was really good. In terms of visuals it was much more creative than most shows in the same genre. But people have that weird perception of Kyoani, where if they do a more "normal" show then the show is suddenly garbage even though it's usually at least good. Kyoani is stuck between Kyoanifags (worst offenders are mainly outside of Sup Forums), shitposters, and people who have waaaay too much expectation out of anime studios.
Kind of remind me of Trigger's Inou Battle. It was decent and fun enough by itself, but since it was made by Trigger it suddenly became hot garbage because everyone expected them to be GAINAX's second coming. Funniest part is that GAINAX made a lot of normal ass shows like Mahoromatic.
Camden Peterson
Because it's all anime original.
Adam Watson
I enjoyed this more than KnK.
Oliver Anderson
False. It's mostly faithful to the novel it's adapting.
Hunter Morales
Ruru is original, there's a lot of filler and the only similarities between Enigma in the anime versus the novels is the name.
Christian Lee
It's not the worst show ever but it's still shit.
Cameron Sullivan
>someone came up with this ugly chara-design How is this allowed?
Thomas Hernandez
KnK takes itself super serious 90% of the time even though it's unintentionally funny. PW is basically an episodic anime Ghostbusters with lewd here and there, really great visuals and extremely good storyboarding. Quite creative monster of the week/scenario as well. It's great fun and absolutely underrated but as user already said, the majority of the people are following the "It's a KyoAni show scheme".
Luke Fisher
What was good about the storyboarding again?
Camden Williams
That is the worst opinion I've ever heard.
Hunter Stewart
I wish, but after episode 1 the ecchi dried the fuck out. Episode 1 was god tier, it grabbed everyone's attention, we had threads everywhere, every artist did their take on the limbo scene, it was awesome.
After that, it was just fucking boring. Literally nothing exiting happened until the very end, and even then it was nowhere near the first episode.
Liam Butler
>pink to blonde gradient hair whoever thought up this idea should be given a medal
Chase Roberts
Not enough ecchi.
Kevin Fisher
>ugly
Asher Hernandez
>someone can be this much of a faggot How is this allowed?
Anthony Ortiz
>PW is basically an episodic anime Ghostbusters ah yes it's basically what everyone wanted bleach to be but people still complain
Andrew Moore
>sameface/samebody crap But this is sameface/samebody crap, user
Easton Russell
>samebody Nope. All the main girls have their own body types.
Brandon Torres
>it's easily better written than 95% of KyoAni's works Like that's a fucking high hurdle to clear
Caleb Garcia
The episode with shota MC and mom Mai is pure kino
Leo Barnes
The premise is so batshit, that's the only thing I don't like about it. I can't get over how stupid it is
Ryder Green
mommy mai is pure kino
Gavin Torres
To be fair, it's shit.
Jonathan Smith
The only thing that I liked was phantom bus-san. -salutes-
Brayden Garcia
only if you're gay
Justin Price
this what a horrendous design
Lincoln Ramirez
Because KyoAni attracted an unnecessarily large following of fujoshits/landwhales who complain about not being pandered to.
Luke White
How in the hell is it even remotely like bleach? Literally the only thing they have in common is a"supernatural" setting
Luis Carter
The animation is beautiful and the girls are cute. But like with most harem anime, it tanked because bland self insert MCs are shit.
Jeremiah Hall
Also, it should be considered that it's not shit.
Adrian Thompson
>Why do people shit on this series >high school battle harem LN adaptation These magical words are all you need to know. Don't get me wrong, I liked the series (Koito a best), but high school battle harem LN adaptations are literally viewed as bottom-of-the-barrel.
Jace Evans
They are both shit.
Andrew Bell
I am Koito.
Benjamin Hernandez
>it tanked because bland self insert MCs are shit Except for the part where anime with non-bland self-insert MCs generally do even worse.
Daniel Anderson
It was too good for today's KyoAni audience which mostly consists of fags and fujoshits.
Daniel Sanders
The hot springs monkey episode was pretty damn ecchi.
John Jackson
> even worse That's because they can't compete against the already established super kings like Ash, Naruto or wanpiss.
Camden Rodriguez
>Why do people shit on this series is just one guy. the show is pretty good.
Jaxon Gutierrez
You can dislike PW without being a fujo, Jesus Christ. Most people recognize that the studio peaked with K-On!!, the perfect television anime, and has since declined.
Jackson Smith
They don't compete with those.
The point is: the target audience of harem anime watches them in order to get an impression of what it would be like if they had a harem. If the protagonist is someone who is completely unlike them, it wouldn't deliver that experience, so they wouldn't bother buying anime like that.
Kayden Davis
>the perfect television anime kill yourself
Liam Perez
It was terrible.
Nobody would care if it was made by any other studio. there are still threads just because it is a kyoani's work.
Brandon Bell
>since declined Not with Nichijou and Hyouka coming right after.
Though they've been pretty bumpy TV-wise after Hyouka.
Joshua Sullivan
No, you can't, because PW is at worst mediocre. There are a million worse anime out there, and KyoAni themselves have made some of them.
Kevin Butler
There's 7 different fucking colors randomly vomited all over her. It's a mess and it looks awful and anyone who likes it may as well wear a giant "I have no artistic sense or taste and will just eat up anything with big tits" sign on them at all times.
Joshua Morgan
That user referred to it as anime ghostbusters which was basically what people used to refer to bleach as before it went full battle shounen.
Alexander Campbell
Hyouka was utter garbage. One of the worst shows I've ever watched. Nichijou was good though.
Cameron Adams
shut up gay boy
Hudson Turner
I think it's more that you're a tasteless degenerate. Mai's design is perfect.
Aaron Smith
>m-muh artistic integrity off yourself along with that K-on fag
First off, Harem is shit. No exceptions. Secondly, MC retained a cool and collected relationship with all his girls. That isn't lewd enough for haremshit.
Anthony Phillips
The characters are supposed to be colorful though the rest of the characters manage it without looking tacky like Mai.
Leo Wilson
People shit on it because it's fucking awful, even for Kyoani standards.
Isaiah Parker
>I have no taste and will eat up anything with big tits
Gabriel Peterson
Degenerates like yourself will be shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau on the day of the rope.
Nolan Gonzalez
welcome to mai's fanbase
Christian Young
>Though they've been pretty bumpy TV-wise after Hyouka I dunno what exactly you mean by "bumpy," but they've been fine in terms of production values. Chuunibyou, Tamako Market, ABP and PW were all rife with examples of classic KyoAni pizazz.
Landon Nguyen
>Hyouka Shit.
>Amaburi Easily one of the worst pieces of shit they ever made.
>Hibike Mediocre.
Xavier Barnes
If you're going to pick a shit formula, at least shit it right. MC screwed up because the relationship with his harem was the gay boyfriend(girlfriend)
Austin Gonzalez
I wouldn't call a mustard colored sweater vest particularly tacky
Jacob Nelson
Mai is liked for things other than her breasts. Anyone who watched episode 11 would agree she has a likable oneesan personality.
Gavin Jackson
Then you don't know what tacky means.
Jace Powell
It's supposed tp be something that tries hard to grab peoples attention but why would anyone be pay attention to an ugly vest?
Mason Johnson
>pay paying
Jaxon Price
>ugly things don't draw attention
Jackson Harris
Her sweater vest is stated to be unfashionable. There is nothing wrong with her design otherwise. It's even worse to be unable to look past a sweater vest.
Jackson Stewart
...
Camden Davis
Literally 2deep4em
Adam Morris
It's not better than anything else KyoAni, because all that they make is garbage. Unappealing slice of life and garbage virgin pandering.
Julian Taylor
So same shit as anyone else?
Mason Walker
Sure, hibikek was better right tripfag?
Christian Lopez
I thought Phantom Warodu was a solid 6.
Eli Reed
>168cm Why are even the tallest anime girls so tiny?
Jayden Carter
Am I the only one who finds her sweater vest appealing? it's ugly sure but there's just something about it... Might be one of those cases of it being so ugly it's actually kinda cute.
Juan Moore
This wasnt even a harem, the girls didnt like the dude romantically Could have been watchable if they did though
>the girls didn't even like the dude romantically What're you on about? Every girl except the loli had at least some degree of romantic interest. Mai was the main girl, but the LNs had Haruhiko shipped with Reina a lot.
Michael Fisher
Mai and Koito have some romantic feelings but overall they see him as family. Only Reina has mostly romantic feelings towards him. The climax of volume 3 made this pretty explicit.
Cooper Wilson
>Why do people shit on this series They have working brains, user
Jaxon Sullivan
This is very true.
Jeremiah Russell
Still liked truck-san alot.
Luis Garcia
What an annoying voice, couldn't get past 30 seconds.
Nicholas Roberts
well it is his sex fantasy
Isaac Johnson
>what's the point So you can only enjoy Phantom World if you have seen more than 100 anime, this solves the mystery, only newfags/normalfags hate the series, this explains a lot.
Jack Adams
He's seen 900+, maybe it's just shit to anyone with a brain