Poll of the Day > "Believe in the Me who believes in you"

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Never could get into that anime, but that line goes hard

Good anime. Don't know what I would rate it now if I watched it.

I just have a real hard time with shonen anime tropes and that one was filled with them. Otherwise would have probably loved it.

Salrite posted...

I just have a real hard time with shonen anime tropes and that one was filled with them. Otherwise would have probably loved it.

I rated it a 10 but I'm much harsher on ratings now than I was in 2008 or whenever it was that I watched it.

The only one I know I would never lower from a 10 is Legend of the Galactic Heroes. I rarely use MAL now anyway.

Salrite posted...

I just have a real hard time with shonen anime tropes and that one was filled with them. Otherwise would have probably loved it.

I feel like it almost managed to transcend the shounen tropes to enough of an extent as to make them more ironic than played straight, but it didn't quite achieve that. Broadly, you can look at it and say that the fact that it goes from a robot in a hole in the ground to robots kicking galaxies at each other is so absurd as to be poking fun at shounen power creep, but plenty of other tropes are played pretty straight and that makes it hard to call it a deconstruction or anything like that.

In general, though, the theme of "if you don't have enough confidence in yourself, trust in the confidence I have in you" and supporting Simon's character growth with that was enjoyable.

Man, it was totally like that with Konosuba. It's clearly meant to be a parody of all the tropes and where the comedy is meant to be derived from, but it's so egregious that it really turns me off. There's only so many times when then masochistic chick begs to be spanked where it stops being funny and gets real old.

Ironic overuse of tropes walks a very fine line and takes quite a bit of nuance to avoid falling into actual overuse.

Salrite posted...

Man, it was totally like that with Konosuba. It's clearly meant to be a parody of all the tropes and where the comedy is meant to be derived from, but it's so egregious that it really turns me off. There's only so many times when then masochistic chick begs to be spanked where it stops being funny and gets real old.

See the trick is that watching a masochistic teenage girl get spanked is peak

Believe in me and send no money
I died on the cross; that ain't funny
But my so-called friends, they're making me a joke
They missed out what I said like I never spoke
They choose what they wanna hear, they don't tell a lie
They just leave out the truth as they're watching you die
They're saving the souls by taking your money
Flies around shit, bees around honey

Holy smoke, holy smoke
Plenty bad preachers for the devil to stoke
Feed 'em in feet first, this is no joke
This is thirsty work, making holy smoke, yeah
Making holy smoke

I believe in the me that believes in me.