So I've recently discovered that I have a skewed view of gateway anime. For years I've told people fma. It's story is solid. Doesn't have cultural confusion. Action is great. However i may have not considered the gorier aspects of it.
My solution? I started suggesting demon slayer for its simplicity and purity of characters with great action and amazing visuals....yeah that's not any better. I may have a problem.
Does anyone ever think about the Wayfinder trios trauma?
Ventus i slept for 12 years after fracturing myself
Terra I let an old dude possess my body, attacked my friends and killed my dad
Aqua I jumped into basically hell to save my friend, fought for 12 years constantly, until surrendering to oblivion, only to have to get up and fight again, finally win, only to literally walk back into hell to help someone else.
Like please, if anything bad happens to these three in the next kh game we will be having issues
Did anyone know that the shark in kh1 can appear in areas other than the sunken ship?!! I've played this game so many times and I've never encountered him elsewhere before. I did not think kingdom hearts could surprise me anymore.
I just lost my best friend to insanity. This is entirely how I feel right now
Why don't more people freak out about the fact that Rukia's zanpaktou's powers are the opposite of Yamamoto? When I read about the true nature of her zanpaktou I was so hyped and freaked out. Obviously she has a lot of work before she reaches that level, but her potential is there to reach Yamamotos level and that is so incredible.
Everyone's always like oh SessKag would be such a power couple. And I get the appeal, I do, but Kagome would murder that man so fast.
Like he would try ordering her around and she would purify him. He would not survive Kagome in an extended period of time.
I don't know why, but hearing people compare attack on titan and fullmetal alchemist brotherhood gets on my last nerve. Don't compare the characters. Edward is not even. Lan Fan is not Mikasa. Mustang is not Levi. I could go on a rant because it got on my nerves that much. It wasn't just a time or two. This person compared them every other sentence. Characters from different shoes can be their own characters while having somewhat similar traits.
I've been playing fe3h lately and it made me think who my favorite character is. It's Petra. But it's kind of unfair to not think about any other characters, so here's my top 5.
1. Petra
She's driven, forgiving, and uses a sword. Her appearance is great and I love her so so much. She's literally in a hostage situation and is focusing on helping her people and moving forward.
Claude
He's a schemer with a heart of gold. That's literally my weakness. I love his look. The fact he uses a bow makes me way too happy and I love him. He's the lord that feels the most like an equal to byleth and I love his playthrough.
3.Hilda
Something about a girly girl slacker wielding a large axe and decimating people just makes me happy. I love this girl.
4. Marianne
I vibes so hard with this girl. I am an introvert that struggles with depression who likes horses more than people as well.
5. Felix.
I like swordsmen. This includes grumpy swordsmen. His devotion to his one interest is a mood. Plus his interactions with cute small girls show that he does have a soft sude which I love.
Don't get me wrong, I love dimitri and edelgard. They are great characters, I just don't love then like I love these characters. I actually chose edelgard first because the story seemed centered on her and I loved it. I was actually really impressed with how three houses made you like even the most unlikable characters...except leonie. She is far too annoying with her jeralt worship.
Does anyone else think about Nami and Iranus as being connected? Like her supernatural ability to feel weather, and the weapon being sky related mean something right? I'm currently of the opinion Nami will be able to sense it's presence and either destroy/ control it. Maybe just defend by causing a backlash. H9nestly the idea I like the most is Nami destroying Uranus. It honestly depends though. The other weapons have other purposes that they were created for. We haven't seen that role for Uranus, but I imagine it 2 serves a major purpose for joyboy. Maybe Nami wrests control over it for that purpose before destroying it, or maybe it's secondary purpose is good enough to keep it around. I still have so many questions that I've barely touched and I really look forward to the true purpose of the weapons.
You'll know the only time I thought time travel was done well was fire emblem three houses. It's done in a way that is finite, and yet is still the power of a goddess. It's definitely my favorite time travel related story.
Me and friend recently got into an argument about who is a better character between Hancock and Noelle Silva. We ended up agreeing to disagree, but it still baffles me. Yes Hancock is physically strong but comparing her to a main character with amazing growth and development just isn't feasible.
Noelles growth is an amazing journey, and it's not even fair to compare her to characters like Hancock with minor roles. Also comparing how traumatic someone's past is isn't comparing their character. Like congratulations you were extremely traumatized and get a sticker for your suffering. Like no. You compare them for their role in the story and their character growth. If you wanted to compare merreoleona and Hancock that would be more feasible. (Merreoleona would win, but that's besides the point)
Besides that what's with the response of me saying I'm not super fond of Hancock triggering this? It's not like I said I hated Hancock. She serves a purpose, I just am not very fond of her character. This somehow triggered a response of my friend stating how Hancock is better than Noelle????
I wasn't trying to start an argument and didn't mean to offend. I was just stating that I wasn't fond of Hancock due to her puppy/kitten kicking nature. Just accept that I have different views than you please.
She even tried using some of my own real life issues to bash Noelle. Like excuse you, I told you that in confidence, why on earth do you think it's acceptable to use it against me to bash a fictional character? Obviously she apologized when she realized how out of line it was, and it's what ended the conversation, but I'm kinda just really agitated.
When people compare Sakura and Nami it really makes me mad. No Namis role is not compatible to Sakuras role. Yes they are both females of their series who don't compare strength wise to their counterparts. But that is where the comparisons end.
Namis role in One Piece is critical. You can not remove her from the story because her importance is that great. She's the glue that makes the straw hats operational. She is the navigator I every single way.
Nami says we need to get a chef before heading to the grand line? They get a chef. Nami says we need information before going to skypeia? They get information. Nami says we need to help these kids? They end up with momonuske and luffy connecting. Nami says we need to remove Ceasar so do flamingo can't get him in order for our larger plan against kaidou to work? Luffy says ok. When it comes to planning how luffys goals will be met Nami plays a huge role.
Meanwhile you take Sakura away from Naruto and not a whole lot changes. Sure there's slightly less emphasis on getting Sasuke back, but Barutos so obsessed it doesn't really matter.
Nami is one of the greatest written female characters in anime and her importance never diminishes. At the end of the day Luffy needs Nami both on the day to day basis and the long term goal basis.
Does anyone else think about demon slayer Nezuko vs Daki and think about how that was probably the first time Nezuko realized her family is dead? Like she was hypnotized to see humans as family, so she sees these dead humans, thinks they're her dead family and just loses it. She crushes the demon fighting her brother because she assumes that's who killed her family. Then when tanjiri sings to her and she remembers her mom, she bawls because her mom and her siblings are dead.
It honestly makes me really excited for the next season and her character going forward.
I get loving Katara. She's my favorite character by far, but her in politics? Just no. Katara is bulldozer. She sees a problem and acts. She doesn't wait and discuss pros and cons of acting immediately unless sokka pulls her back. Is she brilliant? Of course. She has great ideas, but there's a reason Sokka is the chief. Katara acts. She goes along with her brothers plans because she recognizes that he's better at strategizing and planning than her. Sokka is the one who wants to be chief, and who is best for the job. Katara doesn't want her brothers job. She cares about helping the people, helping the world. I'm all about female empowerment, but not in putting down solid male characters. Sokka may have started as a misogynistic idiot, but his development into a capable leader shouldn't be dismissed.
And yes I recognize that Katara is much better at public speaking, that doesn't take away Sokkas gift for planning and leading.
You know, we see a lot of fight theories in avatar. One I would live to see is toph vs bumi. I think it would be awesome.
A friend told me to watch Korra as if it's not a sequel series...and I admit it is more digestible. It's definitely not something I enjoy much, but I'll admit it's not as painful if I imagine that it's not trying to massacre everything I loved about avatar. None of the characters really seem enjoyable to watch still, so I still don't see what he enjoys about this show. He watched this before avatar so his take on it is very different than mine.
I'm a sokai shipper. So no, I don't like soriku, or the toxic energy kh ships have. As a kid wherever you go I'm always with you was peak feels. As an adult I realize Kairis magic heart powers only work with Sora because of feelings and support it. I also want real friendship moments between riku and kairi. We know Sora loves kairi. We know kairi lives Sora. We know riku and Sora are amazing friends who can summon a magical dual summoned keyblade. What I want is Kairi and Riku working together. Give us more friendship moments like Kairi seeing past ansems face and recognizing riku. Please
Rewatching Avatar is hilarious. Villain music cues as the ship attacks the north pole, and out walks zuko. ???? Like sorry no, Where's Azula. That was boss music. Then Zhao gets the music and I'm like I don't even remember you. Also like, the southern water tribe was taken down by a total of 5 fire nation soldiers. None of which were iroh. It's hilarious.
Someone asked if there was a sequel series I actually liked. The answer was no. None. Zero . Zilch. Nada. They apparently were expecting me to like Korra. Korra. One of the worst examples of the sequel syndrome I have seen.
Let me phrase it like this. You enjoy a show because of its character growths, interesting world with distinctive cultures. The power systems interwoven with certain ideals and mindsets. The build up excellently done with a sort of comedic timing on point showing the characters being whimsical and fun. Villains powers and ideology making perfect sense in scaling and having major events that impacted these powers. The main antagonists becoming corrupted by said ideals until they are twisted to unrecognizable forms. Character redemption that are powerful and believable.
Now imagine 2 generations go by. The world is unrecognizable. The powers no longer used in innovative ways interwoven eith functionality in favor of technology. The cultures are gone. The mindsets gone. The main character comes from a culture that is all about adapting and using things around you is now impulsive and unaware of her surroundings. The story takes place in various locations but lose the magic that surrounded them in the first series. The lovable characters from the past are unrecognizable. They apparently were awful parents, and are now mainly used for name drop power and dues ex machinas and pulling things out of thin air.
That is what Korra did wrong. In what way is Korra a waterbender? Every other Avatar we know of was distinct. They came from their own cultures and mindsets and had to sacrifice a part of themselves to be Avatar. Kyoshi was an earthbender. She was comfortable with confrontation and cared greatly about her people. She was shown to be stubborn and believe her way was the correct way. Roku was passionate and driven. He spent most of the series steering aang on fixing his mistakes. He was quick to push forward despite aang not being ready.
Aang was first and foremost an Airbender. He didn't like violence and tried fixing things with various angles. He was evasive and had a lot of trouble with letting go of that aspect to face things head on.
And you're telling me, Korras water tribe? Not to mention what they did to the water tribe was offensive on so many levels. Sorry no, korras from earth kingdom. You can't change my mind.
What they did to bending and spirits was even more offensive. If your going to introduce a character who can remove bending there better be a whole lot better of an explanation than oh he's just an amazing waterbender. Excuse you, no, you'd better bring the lion turtle into it. He better have killed the lion turtle and discovered the power or something involving the lion turtle!!
Also the evil spirit vs good spirit was stupid. No that's not how the avatar was created. No I don't want to know how the avatar was created. Spirits aren't good or evil. They are spirits!! The avatars whole shtick is being a bridge between their world and the physical world. Make Korra work on that!!!
I won't even get started on character assassinations because we'd be here all day.
Amon was just ridiculous. Army of chiblockers, yes! He's secretly a waterbender who can bloodbend? Absolutely!! He can take away someone's bending. Wait. What? I've already stated this once, but I'll say it again. If you're bringing spirit powers into it, there had better be a good explanation. There wasn't, so I refuse to accept it.
Also. Korras friends don't feel like friends. At all. I hate tophs kids. I hate aangs kids. Toph and aang may have had faults, but no way would they neglect their kids.(especially with Katara and Sokka right there)
Things weren't built up in a believable way and honestly making the bending just do whatever was infuriating. The ideology of bending was just completely lost and it made me very sad.
