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Topic	Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 173: Someone had to
tazzyboyishere 09/30/17 7:35:42 PM #302:	SUMMER 2017 RANKING TIME: THESE WRITE-UPS WILL SPOIL SHIT ~~tl;dr Everything I watched was terrible and made me want to die.~~ 6. Kakegurui Huh, from first to worst. When Kakegurui started, I thought it had loads of potential. Sure, it didn't set itself up like a traditional gambling anime would, as it showed the main character is clearly batshit insane and better at gambling than all these phonies who need to cheat to win. But it holds onto that style for the entire show. Every episode seems to have a different gamble, barring maybe 2 cases that went for two? I don't quite remember. Either way, the formula gets tedious by the halfway mark. It's reliant on tactless eroticism and over-the-top vocal delivery, which can't carry a show (This is the part where I say hi Monogatari and everyone gets sad). And honestly, the worst part is just how damn pointless everything feels. Yumeko loses one gamble in the entire show. One. And you know what happens? She gets put into the slave social status like everyone else who goes into debt. But whereas this always creates issues for other, Yumeko just embraces that shit and uses it to her advantage. She is unphased by any of the things she puts on the line, so her long-winded rant about what gambling truly means are directly countered by her inability to show any form of despair. When Yumeko is winning, she's happy. When Yumeko is losing, she's happy. It's so bad, that at one moment, a girl is literally betting her life on Yumeko winning a gamble, and yet I never feel tension. The show does it's absolute best to pretend tension is there, but it's so forced that the end result is predictable, and Yumeko obviously wins. The final episode is anticlimactic garbage in a gamble that felt like it would have no actual stakes, and then proceeded to have no actual stakes because it was a draw. I actually had this ranked as a 6 before writing out my thoughts, but I don't know why I did that shit. This is a bad show. Do not watch it unless you like fapping to non-hentai and bad writing. 5. Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul Before starting this season, I was somewhat hyped for this, since I remembered enjoying the original, despite not remembering much about it. So when I looked at the first season's page and saw I scored it a 6, I was a bit confused. I remember it starting off strong with it's character interactions and worldbuilding, but every part of the climax is a blank. And through watching Virgin Soul, I remembered why I forgot everything actually important to the plot. MAPPA was good at introducing stories, but bad at finishing them, at least in the instance of RoB. I really liked multiple characters, and the little bit of romance that acted as a driving force of development in the main character was top notch. But the story just fails to grip me. It's a pretty generic fight against ancient evil thing, and by the end I couldn't tell you much about what actually happened. The cast became so bloated with different factions and armies that try to have presence, but vie for attention because it's only 24 episodes. Really, this is just an animation spectacle by the final third. It always looks pretty fucking cool, so that's neat. It also gave us two BANGIN' EDs so I can't say I hate it too much. --- http://i.imgur.com/l7xxLh1.jpg PSN/Steam - RoboQuote ; NNID - TazzyMan <cite>tazzyboyishere posted [p:887575171] in Anime &... [t:75792810]...</cite> <quote>SUMMER 2017 RANKING TIME: THESE WRITE-UPS WILL SPOIL SHIT tl;dr Everything I watched was terrible and made me want to die. 6. Kakegurui Huh, from first to worst. When Kakegurui started, I thought it had loads of potential. Sure, it didn't set itself up like a traditional gambling anime would, as it showed the main character is clearly batshit insane and better at gambling than all these phonies who need to cheat to win. But it holds onto that style for the entire show. Every episode seems to have a different gamble, barring maybe 2 cases that went for two? I don't quite remember. Either way, the formula gets tedious by the halfway mark. It's reliant on tactless eroticism and over-the-top vocal delivery, which can't carry a show (This is the part where I say hi Monogatari and everyone gets sad). And honestly, the worst part is just how damn pointless everything feels. Yumeko loses one gamble in the entire show. One. And you know what happens? She gets put into the slave social status like everyone else who goes into debt. But whereas this always creates issues for other, Yumeko just embraces that shit and uses it to her advantage. She is unphased by any of the things she puts on the line, so her long-winded rant about what gambling truly means are directly countered by her inability to show any form of despair. When Yumeko is winning, she's happy. When Yumeko is losing, she's happy. It's so bad, that at one moment, a girl is literally betting her life on Yumeko winning a gamble, and yet I never feel tension. The show does it's absolute best to pretend tension is there, but it's so forced that the end result is predictable, and Yumeko obviously wins. The final episode is anticlimactic garbage in a gamble that felt like it would have no actual stakes, and then proceeded to have no actual stakes because it was a draw. I actually had this ranked as a 6 before writing out my thoughts, but I don't know why I did that shit. This is a bad show. Do not watch it unless you like fapping to non-hentai and bad writing. 5. Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul Before starting this season, I was somewhat hyped for this, since I remembered enjoying the original, despite not remembering much about it. So when I looked at the first season's page and saw I scored it a 6, I was a bit confused. I remember it starting off strong with it's character interactions and worldbuilding, but every part of the climax is a blank. And through watching Virgin Soul, I remembered why I forgot everything actually important to the plot. MAPPA was good at introducing stories, but bad at finishing them, at least in the instance of RoB. I really liked multiple characters, and the little bit of romance that acted as a driving force of development in the main character was top notch. But the story just fails to grip me. It's a pretty generic fight against ancient evil thing, and by the end I couldn't tell you much about what actually happened. The cast became so bloated with different factions and armies that try to have presence, but vie for attention because it's only 24 episodes. Really, this is just an animation spectacle by the final third. It always looks pretty fucking cool, so that's neat. It also gave us two BANGIN' EDs so I can't say I hate it too much. --- http://i.imgur.com/l7xxLh1.jpg PSN/Steam - RoboQuote ; NNID - TazzyMan</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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