Garnt does this thing where he’ll say “in my opinion” and then state a fact and he’ll say “objectively” and then state an opinion. It is completely wacky and backwards.
"Shonen should write more downtime" That aligns with what I have been thinking a lot lately: Instead of writing character backstories, how about write them to be likable, so people will organically get upset when they died?
it sucks that we need 150 episodes of something like hxh to get that to happen. I dont see it happening in the modern era lowk but I really hope im wrong
To show that a character is likable, you need to show them outside of life or death battles. And the average social media poisoned teenager won't stick around for that long. So it's easier to first show them being badass fighters and *then* show their backstory or whatever.
@FafliXx great point made that immediately gets crushed by boomer sounding "kids these days" nonsense. Those teens you're talking about will he the upcoming writers and artists soon, let them cook ya goober.
1:48 And here you can see Garnt -subtly- shifting into the Ad-Read Dimension where audio quality doubles, cameras become cinematic, and natural human speech becomes impossible!
Rent-a-Girlfriend is one of greatest phycological torture manga of our time, I truly think the author wants to see how far they can push the fanbase... Saying that I read every new chapter to have a look if Chizuru will allow Kazuya make the beast with two backs with her.
Considering the author’s currently running incest harem, I think the guy is just incapable of writing anything that isn’t insufferable and is accidentally creating a new form of torture. He’s also perfected in creating the most punch able MCs of all time. Resisting the urge to punch the manga every time the MCs make a stupid face should become a part of a monk’s training to reach enlightenment.
I have two hot takes for anime rn: 1. The best media MHA has ever put out is MHA: Illegals, until that point the author didn't understood what makes a good hero, then with Illegals he could experiment with more mature ground-to-earth MC, a simpler history and powers but using it in more creative ways, the ending but must importantly the lenght is perfect. You care about this MC and you look him thrive and fail multiple times, becoming a Spiderman/ Avengers type of situation. Spiderman more interesting beacause the stakes are not that high and he can growth better. 2. Everyone can enjoy romance anime, but instead of trying to become more cartoonish or human like relationship there must be organic. The best romance anime in my opinion are all about chemistry, a soyjack MC or a superchad donothingwrong type of MC as well can't be a romance MC. They must be feel alive, and you as a person dont think 24/7 about sex or even love. They trying to become better together is what makes a good couple, that the shit I want to see. B**bs and ahh are everywhere but if there are attached to truly good character is doesn't matter to me they are bait. But you need chemistry. See 86, even if the world is interesting, the main couple is what sells is for me. Isekai troupe could be as excuse, I just want to see that connection.
EXACTLY, Re-watching Naruto would be a breeze compared to One Piece. Not only because of the filler is contained within episodes in Naruto but because One Piece would slow the pace of the canon episodes down to a crawl in certain arcs.
@@Jorem_K My advice if you wanna continue, just skip dressrosa and wano cause two of them are too dragging. I like whole cake island more than those two combine.
Garnt's "Your Name" story reminds me of how I got to watch "Summer Wars" at a convention venue for the first time. Loads of people in the cinema and I actually didn't know much about the movie. It was just plain incredible to me and made it an unforgettable experience for me. So yeah, watch "Summer Wars", "Your Name" and of course "A Silent Voice", too!
The shonen downtime thing, in film language, is sometimes called a "pillow shot". But because of One Piece, my friends and I call them Boat Episodes, cus it's the episodes where the crew hardly leave the boat - and they're great.
Bro One Piece episodes where they were just chillin were great. Bits of Luffy 'fixing' the Merry or Brook trying to figure out what he needs to do on the ship were nice
I feel like this would be such a good way to contextualize the recap episodes they’ve been doing recently. Idk how they do it currently because I skip them, but I’d be down to watch like Robin telling the crew her backstory, because that’s something we’ve learned she’s done recently, and see their reactions to it. Same with like recounting stuff about the revolutionary army to the rest of the crew, talking about other pirate crews as if they came up in the news, etc.
@ yeah perfectly said or imagine the straw hats just talking about techniques they have just learned and I’ve always wanted to know what the straw hats opinion on what the one piece is.
"Highschool of the Dead deserves a second season." Unfortunately Gigg missed my take but its true. HOTD is actually good. Madhouse Animation most notable project, the LEGEND Maon Kurasaki debut album, and is the stand-alone KING of fan service memes.
Highschool of the dead is a very nice anime, I remember when it was airing but the sad thing is the creator of the series passed away a long time ago because of a health complication but the art style is still going strong in the series "Triage X" cuz the creator of triage x is the same guy that helped out with the art work of highschool of the dead.
@@SilkSonic-c9zI think the manga is still ongoing so that is a good thing to me but the author was diagnosed with eosinophilic disorder unfortunately a long time ago, hope she haves a come back because her Manga is a good read.
Totally agree with the mid anime take. People have different preferences, and I might think a 9/10 is kind of boring but a 6/10 is right up my alley so I'd rather watch that. I don't really care if somethings trash if it's entertaining and makes me hype 🤷♂️🤣
I don't even know anime MAL score when I watching it. I add anime to my watchlist in like two weeks before new season starts, then watch them when they are finished airing about three months later, then go to MAL to give my number. And most of the times I'm surprised how low scored some of the anime I love with all my heart and soul. In summer 2024 season I enjoyed four different shows to the maximum amount - "Dungeon People", "A Nobody's Way Up to an Exploration Hero", "A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring" and "I Parry Everything" are all in my personal opinion deserve a 10 (and I'm usually don't give out a 10 score left right and center, I'm usually grant 10 to just one anime per season, sometimes not even one. The last time I gave many anime 10 was winter 2023 and there were three, not four. So summer 2024 is my favorite anime season right now). But on MAL they have 7.10, 5.82, 6.67 and 6.92 scores. If I was a kind of person who chooses anime based on MAL score of 8 and higher, I would not have watched those four masterpieces and it would be really sad :-(
@@Kostyurik I agree, I definitely don't try and take too much stock into the score before I read/watch it if I enjoy the synopsis. Especially when it comes to BL/Romance, which is what I read/watch more than anything else it's highly subjective, so I think scores matter a bit less than stories with intricate plot lines lol
@swimmingbird1 totally respect the show, and I've seen it in its entirety, but it just wasn't my thing at all. If I were to watch a SciFi Mecha it'd definitely be Eureka7 or Gurren Laggan, which are objectively worse shows, but just more my type of show I'd enjoy lol
I feel the same. For example, 86 and Beastars are among my top 10 and I was surprised by all the negativity I heard about them. But I still love them both.
food wars is actually good. the concept and story is good. maybe not execution towards the end, but it would still excel without fan service. i’m here for the plot.
I started watching School Days while unaware of it's infamous ending, and I stopped watching 2 or 3 episodes in because I thought it was boring. And this was during my "ravenously devour every anime you find" period.
Chibi Vegeta is pretty funny in Daima- last ep he beat up some punks in a cyberpunk nightclub, not your typical DBZ battle arena lol. BTW will we ever get a US release/stream of Dr. Slump/Arale-Chan?
That Keijo take was cooking. It is shameless and cool at the same time, because only pure passion for butts could make animators truly sakuga for this kind of show.
This is what the anime community was all about back 2007-2014 then authentic group of fan groups being Loyal to their favorites ❤😮💨im glad this person brought that topic back🥹 16:10
What are your favorite without mentioning the popular anime? Taste says you have personality is the testing question. Mentioning the popular ones basically says about you that you have no personality and yes death note is one of the popular one people like to mention…
I feel like I'm the only one who dropped off Darling in the Franxx in the first 2 episodes back when it aired. everybody talks about it dropping off right at the end when aliens show up, but I just remember not understanding all the praise it was getting even during the first few episodes. all the worldbuilding, character writing and dialogue felt so on the nose and cliche. not to mention all the ripping off ideas from other more successful stuff, which everyone else seemed to accept as "homage"
yup I dropped it after ep 2, was like "What the Fuxxx?". For some reason I just don't "get" the appeal of top hyped seasonal anime like Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei and recently DanDaDan. OTOH I loved Frieren, Kaiju No 8 and Oshi No Ko.
17:07 I completely agree with your statement, Gigguk. I find many animes like that more appealing to me and my personality. Not everyone is the same. Darling in The Franxx, Domestic Girlfriend, etc, they all resonate with me very well. Are they perfect? No. Does that mean I don't enjoy them? Absolutely not.
I know the editor is trying to make zooms in and out cuts to make the video more alive, but you are cutting the chat out and personally i would rather see the chat. Chat is part of the content. This is my hot take XD
My hot take is, If you want to enjoy anime, don't listen to people, enjoy what you enjoy, because once your mind gets deluded by a community and such, you would not enjoy what could be enjoyable to you.
"If you combine the downtime and character writing of MHA with the fight choreography and pure hype of JJK and demon slayer you would have the greatest fkin modern anime ever made" So Hunter x Hunter?
missed the your name in cinemas in 2017, watched it 7 times before it finally re-screened this summer, watched it in the cinema, and it HITS SO MUCH HARDER THAN THE PC SCREEN. I love it and imma watch it all over again
Utawarerumono is the most underrated anime based on game to be made Story is complex and has many twists, characters are well written, fleshed out and entertaining, openings are 9-10/10, music is great, and story as a whole (all 3 seasons) is good from start till end
@uryjamesponce915 the new ones "Mask of truth and mask of deception" are a continuation of the first one but with completely new cast, but later they link to characters and themes of the first one, I will not say more, enjoy
School Days is rly good from the start, and saying it's generic? I can't remember a single romance anime where the MC became bored of the FMC and start doing shit in the first 3 episodes. Everything about School Days is unique
Old hentai covered so many bases with just one series. Taking bible black as an example, the genres it covers are futanari, vanilla, rape, gangbangs, anal, bondage, anemia, NTR, even fucking necrophilia. Hentai these days dont even cover half of that in a series and they also usually dont last more than 3 episodes. Those that do are vanilla or NTR. So yea, 90s and early 2000s hentai was peak
he is kind of right thou. RAG and Mushoku Tensei mc are both bad people that is a fact. And people hate RAG because it didnt do the redemption part that MT is known for. if RAG mc did get better as a person would it be better than MT? no. would it be more watchable and appreciative? yes
Manga reader will call a moment in the manga that is a bit more down to earth and quieter filler, even tho it shows you a lot of new things of the character. It happens so often.
Index anime (especially s3) aren't as bad as people thought they were. The major plot points was done beautifully and the only bad parts was a slightly worse quality than railgun and even then it's not shit.
one of my major pet peeves is people calling everything a plot hole. you didn’t understand the plot? plot hole. character acted irrationally like an actual human being? plot hole
Same goes with plot-armor "This character won a fight because of the plot" no shit, the power system clearly shows why he won this fight but because you didn't like it, it's just "bad plot armor" because you didn't understand the power system of the show.
Here’s my hot take: Redline is better than Akira. My reason: I think the story and characters are better in Redline than Akira. The only reason why Akira is significantly bigger than Redline is because of its age and cultural impact. Redline is the middle child nobody even knew existed. Watch Redline, it’s incredible. (Akira is still a phenomenal anime movie, it’s just that I prefer Redline over Akira)
The worst tournament arc is in Seven Deadly Sins. They barely even have tournament matches before the whole thing breaks down. Check that, make it plural.
My hot take, Rudy is not a terrible person. He is flawed, no doubt about that. But he hasn't done anything actually bad. He even understands it'd be wrong to hook up with syphlie while they are kids, and despite knowing he could, actively chooses not to. He has flaws, he is attracted to kids to a degree, though he seems to grow out of that too. He was a shut in in his previous life, and he is very fake in the beginning of his new life. But he doesn't do anything really bad. Even his sexual harassment is limited to those he knows are mostly OK with it, just not always at the time and place he chooses to do it. By the time he marries sylphie, he is in all ways a good person. Still realistic and flawed, but actively and undeniably a good person doing his best He doesn't always make the right choices, but he tries to, and makes them with good intentions. Rudy gets too much hate from people who don't actually watch/read, or didn't pay attention.
The MHA anime was so disappointing for me, just like you said. It had an interesting premise and I was very invested in what's gonna heppen her and stuff. But then 3rd season and then 4th and 5th and I was already annoyed with it. My take is that the 6th season should have happened by s4 more or less. Because I believe it could have done that while still having the well executed downtime. And yet the author made a successful shōnen, which tells a lot. I am genuinely looking forward to what they do next, since I believe they can learn from MHA and make something truly great.
two sports anime came out during autumn 2016 and i vastly preferred keijo. unironically such a funny and creative show. gate of bootylon forever goated
I watch anime when I'm getting ready for bed, so I love mid anime, which is the perfect balance between being entertaining enough for me to want to keep watching, but not hyped enough for me to lose sleep. so even 6/10 anime has merits that if all anime were 10/10 we would have
25:53 Yeah I don't think Kaguya-sama was the best example of this. Animus like Nisekoi or School Rumble have suffered way more from this than Kaguya-sama, who knew how to stay funny even as the drama was happening and the tension was building.
I bloody love a tournament arc, training arc, or any combination/approximation of the two. If a story gets too invested in a single fight, I get bored, but give me multiple shorter ones with different combatants and I'm hooked. Naruto's Chujin Exams and later the team trying to stop Sasuke from leaving, YuYu Hakusho's Dark Tournament arc, MHA has a tonne of them, the final third of One Piece's Alabasta arc is basically a tournament, and they're all great!
Honestly, I think Darling in the Franxx was actually quite overlooked in terms of story. There's so much that is hinted at as far as society and what happened in the latter half of the show (before the aliens twist, spoiler btw) and how decedant and dystopian society had become during this time. People are growing testtube babies to fight in robots cause everyone just gave up on reproducing to live longer but they're also stopping these kids from experiencing anything it means to be human on the deepest levels.
The way mecha anime is treated by a lot of the wider anime community is kind of infuriating. It feels like a lot of people look down on it just because of the robots when they're one of the main appeals of the genre. The statement "Unlike other mecha, this one focuses on the characters" is complete nonsense and falls apart when you think about it for more than a second. There are some exceptions to this like Code Geass and Gurren Lagann, but they're treated as exceptions rather than the norm for the genre. A lot of people don't seem to realize or understand that mecha is something of a foundational genre for the medium and treat it as either meaningless fluff or something that was supposed to die years ago and is struggling to survive. It's a big blind spot for a lot of large Anitubers too. There are some genuinely great stories in that genre and it's so disheartening to watch people either write it off or just blank it entirely. Also, this is semi related, but more people need to know that Garzey's Wing is a spinoff of Aura Battler Dunbine and actually talk about it.
How dare this show about giant robots feature giant robots and giant robot fights in it? If anything, most mecha anime is usually specifically about characters and politics. People who haven't watched a Gundam show in their lives think Power Ranges fighting on the Megazord counts as mecha anime.
Your Name is my favorite movie of all time. I hate that theres so much hate towards something so beautiful just because they don't feel it. A Silent Voice is fantastic but im sick of seeing the two compared. As someone who was bullied and would love to see people change and become better people, Your Name still hit me more
My hot take: JJK is objectively a bad story, with a few good ideas hidden within. Aside from the few exceptions, the story makes numerous nonsensical twists, with characters eating the idiot ball just so they can die, to things they absolutely should not have died to. It outright insults the readers/watchers, by "killing" a character, then kinda-sorta telling us that they aren't quite dead, and then not mentioning them again for over a hundred chapters, only for them to show up at the 11th hour to solve a huge problem, with literally no forewarning. Its approach to big fights is also borderline nonsensical, with new abilities and moves pulled out of the author's ass with no preamble, of which the fight with Sukuna towards the end of the manga is the biggest perpetrator. Flashback to show plan. The plan fails. Flashback to show new plan. The plan fails. Flashback to show a third plan. The plan fails. Rinse and fucking repeat 10 times. The animation is really the only good thing about it, and most everything else is just bad...
I think this is really just a final arc issue I haven’t read the manga but for the 2 seasons of the anime i don’t really notice these problems. For the final arc I’ve seen spoilers and can say that I’ve seen these issues with what I’ve seen of the final arc. Idk if these problems are in the manga before that point.
1. What characters died by doing something stupid? The deaths make as much sense as any other shonen imo. 2. Saying that it's insulting to leave a character's status unknown is a reach, that's also the least offensive scenario. Do you want the series to tell you that they are dead and then bring them back with no explanation? 3. What new abilities and moves were pulled out of the author's ass other than in the final fight? I can't name any times this happens other than the final fight with Sukuna, and it only really starts after Sukuna kills Gojo. JJK fights are really good at introducing skills and then using them in different ways. In Gojo vs Sukuna we see Domain amplification, RCT, simple domain, falling blossom emotion, mahoraga and black flash, all techniques that were shown earlier in the story. 4. Just the animation? Not the choreography, abilities or music? You don't think those aspects are good when it comes to the fights? 5. Also basically everything you're complaining about happens in the final fight. Your hot take pertains to the exception, not the overall story. I will say that the story is really basic but the fights are great
Agree, the fights and animation carried this anime. Other than that, story went downhill quick after shibuya arc. And another hot take. Demon slayer is much better than jjk. Having a linear story and crazy animations. The better turn off your brain anime.
Garnt thinks OG Naruto is so unbearable that he skips half the episodes and then says its great because he can skip it. Bro is deluding himself. - My hot take, lol
The big thing with OG Naruto is that it actually doesn't have that much filler at all interspersed with the main plot. There's a grand total of 8 filler episodes from the start to the battle with Sasuke, some of which are actually worth watching since they're just one-off comedy episodes. It's that after the main plot stuff is over there's around 100 episodes of filler, but just knowing "hey I can stop watching here" is a godsend.
18:48 - I agree. I don't know if I'm the right person to ask though because my favorite JJK arc was the HIdden Inventory arc and maybe I'm just hanging out with the wrong people but I have not found too many others who agree.
@pitifulboyrottenboy1479 I can't say for sure because I mostly read old books. There is certainly a shift towards appealing to niches (make the story around the niche) instead of having niches as an organic part of the story. Movies for example are pretty good nowadays. Once you escape from Hollywood movies, you will realise that there's actually a pretty healthy amount of new unique movies, this comes from someone that won't watch anything post 2005. Games are also doing better than ever considering the indie scene. Again books I have no idea about new releases.
"Your Name" is JJK for Anime Nerds. They always talk about the beautiful animation and how it's so integral to the experience and if you just saw it in theaters you would get it. Then they turn around and make fun of JJK fans for liking the show for the amazingly animated fights because the plot is mid.
Shonen is the only genre that matters in any significant way. I watch other genres, and try to experiment, but without Shonen, anime would still be a weird niche subculture that you'd be getting beaten up at school for watching. It broke international boundaries, which no slice-of-life or harem would've ever done in 100 years.
23:54 it's same for Demon Slayer too. When someone takes a premise soo good, writes a great beginning and then falls down in storytelling long-term, it becomes a problem. And when it falls down soo badly than even an average audience can find a better way to progress the story than how it actually progresses, you get a huge bunch of disappointed audience. And a show that gives hopes and disappoints gets way more hate than a show that never gave enough hope.
I will rate an anime higher even if the plot is basic if i enjoyed watching it, similarly i will rate an anime lower if i get bored while watching it even if it has a great story because at the end of the day im here to have fun not analyze the plot.
"Isekai is overdone" is not a hot take
Based and true
Isekai is overdone, but that take made me angry. Re:Zero is peak 10/10 fiction. It is the best anime and only Berserk and Tokyo Ghoul manga beat it.
@@noahg4083 The first sentence was great, but then you ruined it with the second part
We are about 3 years away from the meta to shift for liking isekai to become cool and quircky again so I guess its a hot take for the future!
@@noahg4083bro had us in the first half then had us in the second half
the transition to sponsor segment and transition back is sooo smooth and brilliant. W editor
Garnt does this thing where he’ll say “in my opinion” and then state a fact and he’ll say “objectively” and then state an opinion. It is completely wacky and backwards.
Internet brainrot innit😅 words like "literally/objectively" just isn't used correctly anymore
Always keep em guessing
Wackwards one might say
@@alphakowaclips literally.
@@OAKE178 it's totally wackbards
"Shonen should write more downtime" That aligns with what I have been thinking a lot lately: Instead of writing character backstories, how about write them to be likable, so people will organically get upset when they died?
it sucks that we need 150 episodes of something like hxh to get that to happen. I dont see it happening in the modern era lowk but I really hope im wrong
To show that a character is likable, you need to show them outside of life or death battles. And the average social media poisoned teenager won't stick around for that long.
So it's easier to first show them being badass fighters and *then* show their backstory or whatever.
@@daniel-ix8wx It already exists and is called Dandadan.
@@Randomman992that anime literally does the same backstory thing
@FafliXx great point made that immediately gets crushed by boomer sounding "kids these days" nonsense. Those teens you're talking about will he the upcoming writers and artists soon, let them cook ya goober.
1:48 And here you can see Garnt -subtly- shifting into the Ad-Read Dimension where audio quality doubles, cameras become cinematic, and natural human speech becomes impossible!
He broke the 4th wall using the same shirt and with Sydney just to ad-read.
I was to distracted to him saying Nuclear as Nucooler /Nucular 2 second before that
Miku can beat Vegeta
Yes
i mean
I agree
His arms are made out of cookies
Where's the lie? 🤷♂️
Joey doesn't make a Let's Fight video in ages.
Garnt: Fine, I'll do it myself.
Also Dungeon Meshi is a fantastic example of a comedy/slice of life show that turns into a Drama as it u folds.
It's still keeps it's comedy and cooking premise though
@@Ash_Wen-li it stops being about cooking and goofs for the last conflict and climax, but it goes back for the resolution of the story
Love is war goes fluently from 20% drama and 80% comedy to the opposite. Thanks to that the story was good and made sense.
just because an amine is trash, doesn't mean I am not going to re-watch the series 5 times
He's just like me fr 😭
me when rent a girlfriend :
If you like it, you like it.
Unfortunately I'm guilty of this treacherous act.
Fr😂@FalconR200
Rent-a-Girlfriend is one of greatest phycological torture manga of our time, I truly think the author wants to see how far they can push the fanbase... Saying that I read every new chapter to have a look if Chizuru will allow Kazuya make the beast with two backs with her.
Considering the author’s currently running incest harem, I think the guy is just incapable of writing anything that isn’t insufferable and is accidentally creating a new form of torture. He’s also perfected in creating the most punch able MCs of all time. Resisting the urge to punch the manga every time the MCs make a stupid face should become a part of a monk’s training to reach enlightenment.
A peak psychological horror manga
I made it like 10 episodes i to season 1 and I was already a broken man. My mental anguish at an all time high. I could not continue
Keep making excuses
A 10/10 masterpiece
My hot take is that "sizzling" should mean very hot not warm like Garnt meant in this video.
That's a sizzling take right there
I think simmering would've been a better choice for the 2/5
@@Dervalanana yeah that's what he probably meant to say but English not being his best language is probably why.
His best language being gamer-otaku speak.
I have two hot takes for anime rn:
1. The best media MHA has ever put out is MHA: Illegals, until that point the author didn't understood what makes a good hero, then with Illegals he could experiment with more mature ground-to-earth MC, a simpler history and powers but using it in more creative ways, the ending but must importantly the lenght is perfect. You care about this MC and you look him thrive and fail multiple times, becoming a Spiderman/ Avengers type of situation. Spiderman more interesting beacause the stakes are not that high and he can growth better.
2. Everyone can enjoy romance anime, but instead of trying to become more cartoonish or human like relationship there must be organic. The best romance anime in my opinion are all about chemistry, a soyjack MC or a superchad donothingwrong type of MC as well can't be a romance MC. They must be feel alive, and you as a person dont think 24/7 about sex or even love. They trying to become better together is what makes a good couple, that the shit I want to see. B**bs and ahh are everywhere but if there are attached to truly good character is doesn't matter to me they are bait. But you need chemistry. See 86, even if the world is interesting, the main couple is what sells is for me. Isekai troupe could be as excuse, I just want to see that connection.
EXACTLY, Re-watching Naruto would be a breeze compared to One Piece. Not only because of the filler is contained within episodes in Naruto but because One Piece would slow the pace of the canon episodes down to a crawl in certain arcs.
I had to stop after dressrosa. It just never ends
except naruto also has a ton of bloat and padding within the cannon episodes
@@Jorem_K My advice if you wanna continue, just skip dressrosa and wano cause two of them are too dragging. I like whole cake island more than those two combine.
@@Jorem_KIt’s better to read manga for dressrosa
@@Jorem_K Yeah I had to take a break during Dressrosa, waiting a week for nothing to happen each episode really soured the whole anime for me.
Garnt's "Your Name" story reminds me of how I got to watch "Summer Wars" at a convention venue for the first time. Loads of people in the cinema and I actually didn't know much about the movie. It was just plain incredible to me and made it an unforgettable experience for me. So yeah, watch "Summer Wars", "Your Name" and of course "A Silent Voice", too!
I like Summer Wars better than Your Name, I think. Wish I had seen it in theaters!
The shonen downtime thing, in film language, is sometimes called a "pillow shot". But because of One Piece, my friends and I call them Boat Episodes, cus it's the episodes where the crew hardly leave the boat - and they're great.
I love those episodes of one. I think we need more of that currently
Bro One Piece episodes where they were just chillin were great. Bits of Luffy 'fixing' the Merry or Brook trying to figure out what he needs to do on the ship were nice
I feel like this would be such a good way to contextualize the recap episodes they’ve been doing recently. Idk how they do it currently because I skip them, but I’d be down to watch like Robin telling the crew her backstory, because that’s something we’ve learned she’s done recently, and see their reactions to it. Same with like recounting stuff about the revolutionary army to the rest of the crew, talking about other pirate crews as if they came up in the news, etc.
@ yeah perfectly said or imagine the straw hats just talking about techniques they have just learned and I’ve always wanted to know what the straw hats opinion on what the one piece is.
@ if luffy confirmed my headcannon that the heat from gear second was specifically to counter kuzan I’d fucking scream
If you think about it, Squid Game is just one big tournament arc...
"Highschool of the Dead deserves a second season."
Unfortunately Gigg missed my take but its true. HOTD is actually good. Madhouse Animation most notable project, the LEGEND Maon Kurasaki debut album, and is the stand-alone KING of fan service memes.
Highschool of the dead is a very nice anime, I remember when it was airing but the sad thing is the creator of the series passed away a long time ago because of a health complication but the art style is still going strong in the series "Triage X" cuz the creator of triage x is the same guy that helped out with the art work of highschool of the dead.
Can't do it mate the creator is dead gone reduce to atoms
@@kamachan6170
What about gangsta ?
The creator has been sick since almost a decade now
>Madhouse most notable project
Objectively false lmao
@@SilkSonic-c9zI think the manga is still ongoing so that is a good thing to me but the author was diagnosed with eosinophilic disorder unfortunately a long time ago, hope she haves a come back because her Manga is a good read.
just watched your "The Biggest Regret of my 20s" video and all i got to say is thx :).
that and his "why i left the bbc video" are up there with my favorite gigguk videos
@@Jazzimus ya u were right i just watched it :)
Totally agree with the mid anime take. People have different preferences, and I might think a 9/10 is kind of boring but a 6/10 is right up my alley so I'd rather watch that. I don't really care if somethings trash if it's entertaining and makes me hype 🤷♂️🤣
I don't even know anime MAL score when I watching it. I add anime to my watchlist in like two weeks before new season starts, then watch them when they are finished airing about three months later, then go to MAL to give my number. And most of the times I'm surprised how low scored some of the anime I love with all my heart and soul. In summer 2024 season I enjoyed four different shows to the maximum amount - "Dungeon People", "A Nobody's Way Up to an Exploration Hero", "A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring" and "I Parry Everything" are all in my personal opinion deserve a 10 (and I'm usually don't give out a 10 score left right and center, I'm usually grant 10 to just one anime per season, sometimes not even one. The last time I gave many anime 10 was winter 2023 and there were three, not four. So summer 2024 is my favorite anime season right now). But on MAL they have 7.10, 5.82, 6.67 and 6.92 scores. If I was a kind of person who chooses anime based on MAL score of 8 and higher, I would not have watched those four masterpieces and it would be really sad :-(
yeah like my fav anime is Evangelion (8.55/10 on MAL btw) but i can totally 100% understand if it's not your type
@@Kostyurik I agree, I definitely don't try and take too much stock into the score before I read/watch it if I enjoy the synopsis. Especially when it comes to BL/Romance, which is what I read/watch more than anything else it's highly subjective, so I think scores matter a bit less than stories with intricate plot lines lol
@swimmingbird1 totally respect the show, and I've seen it in its entirety, but it just wasn't my thing at all. If I were to watch a SciFi Mecha it'd definitely be Eureka7 or Gurren Laggan, which are objectively worse shows, but just more my type of show I'd enjoy lol
I feel the same. For example, 86 and Beastars are among my top 10 and I was surprised by all the negativity I heard about them. But I still love them both.
food wars is actually good. the concept and story is good. maybe not execution towards the end, but it would still excel without fan service. i’m here for the plot.
True. You take out the fanservice and it’s still a very unique anime
Yeah. Its fun to watch. Just like Yakitate Japan
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Yeah it just became strange when they fought some bandit group with cooking
I thought it was strange when suddenly random inmates beat everyone and that was the final arc
can't believe I've been tricked into watching a scripted ad about afk arena twice now, what the hell man
I started watching School Days while unaware of it's infamous ending, and I stopped watching 2 or 3 episodes in because I thought it was boring. And this was during my "ravenously devour every anime you find" period.
Watched school days and my reaction afterwards was like meh.
"ravenously devour every anime you find" LOL its the best feeling as an anime fan
i think I did the same too with school days
I enjoyed when Arale beat up vegeta because I love that they can take the piss out of such a serious character once in a while.
Chibi Vegeta is pretty funny in Daima- last ep he beat up some punks in a cyberpunk nightclub, not your typical DBZ battle arena lol. BTW will we ever get a US release/stream of Dr. Slump/Arale-Chan?
Absolutely hilarious that when the topic of “Mid Anime” comes up, Tokyo Ghoul is displayed.
It had such potential though 😔
I strongly agree with the Keijo take. It knows what it wants to do and does it well.
That Keijo take was cooking. It is shameless and cool at the same time, because only pure passion for butts could make animators truly sakuga for this kind of show.
This is what the anime community was all about back 2007-2014 then authentic group of fan groups being Loyal to their favorites ❤😮💨im glad this person brought that topic back🥹 16:10
What are your favorite without mentioning the popular anime? Taste says you have personality is the testing question. Mentioning the popular ones basically says about you that you have no personality and yes death note is one of the popular one people like to mention…
I feel like I'm the only one who dropped off Darling in the Franxx in the first 2 episodes back when it aired. everybody talks about it dropping off right at the end when aliens show up, but I just remember not understanding all the praise it was getting even during the first few episodes. all the worldbuilding, character writing and dialogue felt so on the nose and cliche. not to mention all the ripping off ideas from other more successful stuff, which everyone else seemed to accept as "homage"
yup I dropped it after ep 2, was like "What the Fuxxx?". For some reason I just don't "get" the appeal of top hyped seasonal anime like Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei and recently DanDaDan. OTOH I loved Frieren, Kaiju No 8 and Oshi No Ko.
Your not alone
Based.
By the end I also thought I lost my time. lol
It was enjoyable but not “Great” like its predecessor Evangelion but after ep 15 everything was a fucking botched curve ball with no build up.
Great to hear from Dee again after all these years
17:07 I completely agree with your statement, Gigguk. I find many animes like that more appealing to me and my personality. Not everyone is the same. Darling in The Franxx, Domestic Girlfriend, etc, they all resonate with me very well. Are they perfect? No. Does that mean I don't enjoy them? Absolutely not.
26:18 Gintama. Assassination Classroom. Those are two off the top of my head.
I know the editor is trying to make zooms in and out cuts to make the video more alive, but you are cutting the chat out and personally i would rather see the chat. Chat is part of the content. This is my hot take XD
“This isn’t a plot. This is a scenario” is so funny and painfully true.
My hot take is,
If you want to enjoy anime, don't listen to people, enjoy what you enjoy, because once your mind gets deluded by a community and such, you would not enjoy what could be enjoyable to you.
That's not even a hot take, i do the same
Fax
12 year old seinen elitists on their way to call you illiterate
@@argy7526How dare you have an opinion?
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"If you combine the downtime and character writing of MHA with the fight choreography and pure hype of JJK and demon slayer you would have the greatest fkin modern anime ever made"
So Hunter x Hunter?
imo the 2011 version shouldve designed gon and killua to be in their late teens
Its choreography is not in par with jjk
Maybe power complexity is similar to JJK, but not fight choreography.
@@Deode-d4hstill
If only the anime continued or the manga wasn’t in constant hiatus. 😞
missed the your name in cinemas in 2017, watched it 7 times before it finally re-screened this summer, watched it in the cinema, and it HITS SO MUCH HARDER THAN THE PC SCREEN. I love it and imma watch it all over again
Utawarerumono is the most underrated anime based on game to be made
Story is complex and has many twists, characters are well written, fleshed out and entertaining, openings are 9-10/10, music is great, and story as a whole (all 3 seasons) is good from start till end
even the new one?
@uryjamesponce915 yes I recently finished the second part of new one and it was perfect, ending was great and fateful to the game itself
@ Imma try it out
@uryjamesponce915 the new ones "Mask of truth and mask of deception" are a continuation of the first one but with completely new cast, but later they link to characters and themes of the first one, I will not say more, enjoy
School Days is rly good from the start, and saying it's generic? I can't remember a single romance anime where the MC became bored of the FMC and start doing shit in the first 3 episodes. Everything about School Days is unique
Himmel is incredibly based because he was willing to wait as long as it took and didn't get angry that Frieren didn't understand immediately
Old hentai covered so many bases with just one series. Taking bible black as an example, the genres it covers are futanari, vanilla, rape, gangbangs, anal, bondage, anemia, NTR, even fucking necrophilia. Hentai these days dont even cover half of that in a series and they also usually dont last more than 3 episodes. Those that do are vanilla or NTR.
So yea, 90s and early 2000s hentai was peak
Comparing Mushoku Tensei to RAG is criminal
As someone that has read the LN. RAG is not even on the same playing field.
RAG is hot garbage compared to MT
Dear Animezone, you can like RAG without having to resort to outrageous mental gymnastics
he is kind of right thou. RAG and Mushoku Tensei mc are both bad people that is a fact. And people hate RAG because it didnt do the redemption part that MT is known for. if RAG mc did get better as a person would it be better than MT? no. would it be more watchable and appreciative? yes
@@dragon-kun199 even anime onlys will see that Rudeus is indeed growing up already, Kazuya on the other hand...
Symphogear is really underrated magical girl anime. Same goes with Princess Tutu.
Princess Tutu kinda slaps, i started watching it for shits and giggles and actually got invested
That MHA x JJK combo is HxH 🚶🏾♂️
DxD
Title: “Your”❌
“Most of my influencer friends” ☑️
Meanwhile title: "I asked streamers for their worst Anime takes"
Huh
@@ametozukumazu6073 he changed it
27:50 See: Doctor Who: The Lone Centurion
If there is character development in an episode it's NOT filler .
Manga reader will call a moment in the manga that is a bit more down to earth and quieter filler, even tho it shows you a lot of new things of the character. It happens so often.
I'll be captain obvious and say that the last take doesn't really apply to most sports shounen cause those shows revolves around tournaments
goddammn that intro for the AFK ad was too convincing 😂
The outro feels different today
it feels better
Index anime (especially s3) aren't as bad as people thought they were. The major plot points was done beautifully and the only bad parts was a slightly worse quality than railgun and even then it's not shit.
"can we gatekeep gooning" took me out 😂😂😂💀
17:48 That's just chainsaw man.
one of my major pet peeves is people calling everything a plot hole. you didn’t understand the plot? plot hole. character acted irrationally like an actual human being? plot hole
Same goes with plot-armor
"This character won a fight because of the plot" no shit, the power system clearly shows why he won this fight but because you didn't like it, it's just "bad plot armor" because you didn't understand the power system of the show.
18:00 grant describes naruto
I don't care about the video but seeing a skit of Garnt and Sydney after a while was heartwarming 😭
Here’s my hot take:
Redline is better than Akira.
My reason: I think the story and characters are better in Redline than Akira. The only reason why Akira is significantly bigger than Redline is because of its age and cultural impact. Redline is the middle child nobody even knew existed. Watch Redline, it’s incredible.
(Akira is still a phenomenal anime movie, it’s just that I prefer Redline over Akira)
One of the longest running fighting game series is just a non stop tournament arc
The worst tournament arc is in Seven Deadly Sins. They barely even have tournament matches before the whole thing breaks down.
Check that, make it plural.
"We know, we just don't care"
Wins agains every opinion
My hot take, Rudy is not a terrible person. He is flawed, no doubt about that. But he hasn't done anything actually bad. He even understands it'd be wrong to hook up with syphlie while they are kids, and despite knowing he could, actively chooses not to.
He has flaws, he is attracted to kids to a degree, though he seems to grow out of that too. He was a shut in in his previous life, and he is very fake in the beginning of his new life. But he doesn't do anything really bad. Even his sexual harassment is limited to those he knows are mostly OK with it, just not always at the time and place he chooses to do it.
By the time he marries sylphie, he is in all ways a good person. Still realistic and flawed, but actively and undeniably a good person doing his best
He doesn't always make the right choices, but he tries to, and makes them with good intentions. Rudy gets too much hate from people who don't actually watch/read, or didn't pay attention.
The MHA anime was so disappointing for me, just like you said. It had an interesting premise and I was very invested in what's gonna heppen her and stuff. But then 3rd season and then 4th and 5th and I was already annoyed with it.
My take is that the 6th season should have happened by s4 more or less. Because I believe it could have done that while still having the well executed downtime.
And yet the author made a successful shōnen, which tells a lot. I am genuinely looking forward to what they do next, since I believe they can learn from MHA and make something truly great.
two sports anime came out during autumn 2016 and i vastly preferred keijo. unironically such a funny and creative show. gate of bootylon forever goated
3:07 Video starts here
i love finding niche obscure anime mid anime is fine and there is a ton of gems as well
I watch anime when I'm getting ready for bed, so I love mid anime, which is the perfect balance between being entertaining enough for me to want to keep watching, but not hyped enough for me to lose sleep. so even 6/10 anime has merits that if all anime were 10/10 we would have
25:53 Yeah I don't think Kaguya-sama was the best example of this. Animus like Nisekoi or School Rumble have suffered way more from this than Kaguya-sama, who knew how to stay funny even as the drama was happening and the tension was building.
28:36 Unc reminiscing on the days of good gooner material
My hot take: Inferno Cop is a masterpiece.
26:36 this is kinda old, but school rumble is a good example for this
I bloody love a tournament arc, training arc, or any combination/approximation of the two. If a story gets too invested in a single fight, I get bored, but give me multiple shorter ones with different combatants and I'm hooked. Naruto's Chujin Exams and later the team trying to stop Sasuke from leaving, YuYu Hakusho's Dark Tournament arc, MHA has a tonne of them, the final third of One Piece's Alabasta arc is basically a tournament, and they're all great!
Honestly, I think Darling in the Franxx was actually quite overlooked in terms of story. There's so much that is hinted at as far as society and what happened in the latter half of the show (before the aliens twist, spoiler btw) and how decedant and dystopian society had become during this time. People are growing testtube babies to fight in robots cause everyone just gave up on reproducing to live longer but they're also stopping these kids from experiencing anything it means to be human on the deepest levels.
is it me or garnt balls finally dropped on that outro? the voice change was craazy ;)
The way mecha anime is treated by a lot of the wider anime community is kind of infuriating. It feels like a lot of people look down on it just because of the robots when they're one of the main appeals of the genre. The statement "Unlike other mecha, this one focuses on the characters" is complete nonsense and falls apart when you think about it for more than a second. There are some exceptions to this like Code Geass and Gurren Lagann, but they're treated as exceptions rather than the norm for the genre. A lot of people don't seem to realize or understand that mecha is something of a foundational genre for the medium and treat it as either meaningless fluff or something that was supposed to die years ago and is struggling to survive. It's a big blind spot for a lot of large Anitubers too. There are some genuinely great stories in that genre and it's so disheartening to watch people either write it off or just blank it entirely.
Also, this is semi related, but more people need to know that Garzey's Wing is a spinoff of Aura Battler Dunbine and actually talk about it.
How dare this show about giant robots feature giant robots and giant robot fights in it? If anything, most mecha anime is usually specifically about characters and politics. People who haven't watched a Gundam show in their lives think Power Ranges fighting on the Megazord counts as mecha anime.
21:34 PaperKev took the words right out of my mouth
the editor *KHM HKM* totaly giguk, at the end was hilariouse
Your Name is my favorite movie of all time. I hate that theres so much hate towards something so beautiful just because they don't feel it.
A Silent Voice is fantastic but im sick of seeing the two compared. As someone who was bullied and would love to see people change and become better people, Your Name still hit me more
Sydney coming in clutch for the sponsored segment 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
My hot take: JJK is objectively a bad story, with a few good ideas hidden within. Aside from the few exceptions, the story makes numerous nonsensical twists, with characters eating the idiot ball just so they can die, to things they absolutely should not have died to. It outright insults the readers/watchers, by "killing" a character, then kinda-sorta telling us that they aren't quite dead, and then not mentioning them again for over a hundred chapters, only for them to show up at the 11th hour to solve a huge problem, with literally no forewarning. Its approach to big fights is also borderline nonsensical, with new abilities and moves pulled out of the author's ass with no preamble, of which the fight with Sukuna towards the end of the manga is the biggest perpetrator. Flashback to show plan. The plan fails. Flashback to show new plan. The plan fails. Flashback to show a third plan. The plan fails. Rinse and fucking repeat 10 times.
The animation is really the only good thing about it, and most everything else is just bad...
Demon slayer plot is better than jjk.....but jjk gets more flare due to the character design and not character writing.....
I think this is really just a final arc issue I haven’t read the manga but for the 2 seasons of the anime i don’t really notice these problems. For the final arc I’ve seen spoilers and can say that I’ve seen these issues with what I’ve seen of the final arc. Idk if these problems are in the manga before that point.
1. What characters died by doing something stupid? The deaths make as much sense as any other shonen imo.
2. Saying that it's insulting to leave a character's status unknown is a reach, that's also the least offensive scenario. Do you want the series to tell you that they are dead and then bring them back with no explanation?
3. What new abilities and moves were pulled out of the author's ass other than in the final fight? I can't name any times this happens other than the final fight with Sukuna, and it only really starts after Sukuna kills Gojo. JJK fights are really good at introducing skills and then using them in different ways. In Gojo vs Sukuna we see Domain amplification, RCT, simple domain, falling blossom emotion, mahoraga and black flash, all techniques that were shown earlier in the story.
4. Just the animation? Not the choreography, abilities or music? You don't think those aspects are good when it comes to the fights?
5. Also basically everything you're complaining about happens in the final fight. Your hot take pertains to the exception, not the overall story. I will say that the story is really basic but the fights are great
Agree, the fights and animation carried this anime. Other than that, story went downhill quick after shibuya arc.
And another hot take. Demon slayer is much better than jjk. Having a linear story and crazy animations. The better turn off your brain anime.
Garnt thinks OG Naruto is so unbearable that he skips half the episodes and then says its great because he can skip it. Bro is deluding himself.
- My hot take, lol
true, also the problem with og naruto is that it really isn't just the filler episodes, the pacing is in general extremely slow
Let's be real here any sane person would skip filler episode's cuz cannon is what we all care about.
Filler are not part of the story in the first place, they only exist bc of scheduling
The big thing with OG Naruto is that it actually doesn't have that much filler at all interspersed with the main plot. There's a grand total of 8 filler episodes from the start to the battle with Sasuke, some of which are actually worth watching since they're just one-off comedy episodes.
It's that after the main plot stuff is over there's around 100 episodes of filler, but just knowing "hey I can stop watching here" is a godsend.
Damn, i got mixed. That ad transition broke my ankles. A+ stuff
Obligatory, "you've got rice on your face!"
Alright, that's all I wanted to say.
18:48 - I agree. I don't know if I'm the right person to ask though because my favorite JJK arc was the HIdden Inventory arc and maybe I'm just hanging out with the wrong people but I have not found too many others who agree.
Hentai used to get creatively freaky, nowadays hentai are just a collectathlon of tags or a recolouring of an existing hentai.
Well it's hard to surpass classics like the man who NTR'd himself or the boy who loses his dick and turns into Bobby "the beast" Sapp
tbh, that also applies to most media out there, especially books. Nowadays people won't tell you about the plot but some tags and tropes in it
@pitifulboyrottenboy1479 I can't say for sure because I mostly read old books. There is certainly a shift towards appealing to niches (make the story around the niche) instead of having niches as an organic part of the story.
Movies for example are pretty good nowadays. Once you escape from Hollywood movies, you will realise that there's actually a pretty healthy amount of new unique movies, this comes from someone that won't watch anything post 2005.
Games are also doing better than ever considering the indie scene.
Again books I have no idea about new releases.
I will say, despite knowing the thumbnail is supposed to be like jokes, thinking OG Naruto is worse than the other two is a CRAZY take
"Your Name" is JJK for Anime Nerds. They always talk about the beautiful animation and how it's so integral to the experience and if you just saw it in theaters you would get it. Then they turn around and make fun of JJK fans for liking the show for the amazingly animated fights because the plot is mid.
Shonen is the only genre that matters in any significant way. I watch other genres, and try to experiment, but without Shonen, anime would still be a weird niche subculture that you'd be getting beaten up at school for watching. It broke international boundaries, which no slice-of-life or harem would've ever done in 100 years.
This made me angry and agree at the same time
17:49 THIS IS JUST WORLD TRIGGER MAN, I STILL DONT KNOW WHY NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT THIS SERIES
Garnt wastes no time in justifying liking Domestic GF and Rent-a-GF😂
Fr😂 i agree with garnt take with DGF but trash rent a girlfriend🗑️
24:41 lol I'm dead 😂😂
Love the Va-11 Hall-A Outro.
23:54 it's same for Demon Slayer too. When someone takes a premise soo good, writes a great beginning and then falls down in storytelling long-term, it becomes a problem. And when it falls down soo badly than even an average audience can find a better way to progress the story than how it actually progresses, you get a huge bunch of disappointed audience. And a show that gives hopes and disappoints gets way more hate than a show that never gave enough hope.
Love the ending, good job dee
The soundtrack for Darling in the franxx goes hard. Change my mind.
I believe there is nothing wrong with having a headcannon but you should keep it to yourself .
Talking about it is fine in certain spaces but a lot of people will take their own headcanons way too serious
It goes to show that people nowadays really have high standards on their anime.
I will rate an anime higher even if the plot is basic if i enjoyed watching it, similarly i will rate an anime lower if i get bored while watching it even if it has a great story because at the end of the day im here to have fun not analyze the plot.
I hate when people simplify the plot of silent voice to just a bully learning his lesson and becoming a better person.
VividlyVivi being called a Joey alt was not on my 2024 bingo card
Where is baldy's nuclear hot take essay? 😂😂😂