I was the same. Watched the first season as soon as it came out and thought “It’s a little murder-porny but I’m kind of intrigued to see where the plot goes.” Then after the first season the plot got worse instead and I lost interest. People seem to love it though.

You never got into it even a single time?!! Surprising to hear but okay 😶‍🌫️

I heard One Pace fixes the pacing, I just haven’t had the drive to start it over.

The pacing dropping to 1ch = 1ep ruined it for me. And yeah, not a fan of the sfx use we keep seeing specially in Zoro fights.

I'll contend that pre-TS legitimately can stand with the absolute best of the genre, but recommending OP to people feels like a trap. It's like "hey here's 500 episodes of peak to get you hooked, now you get to watch 500+ episodes of mid because you just wanna know how it ends."

I got too annoyed because they couldn't shut up about what "One For All" is. They kept repeating that god damn flashback over and over...

MHA is praised as peak? In what universe?

Lol

I've been feeling this way, too. Most shows with dumbass teenage main characters are a pass for me, nowadays. I think it's mainly because I'm getting older and they aren't very relatable anymore.

I honestly wish Japan would split their genres a lil more. Shonen feels like such a default "anime" genre, and yeah most of it is just generic drivel. Then something actually wild and interesting comes along like DanDaDan or Gachiakata or SANDA, but you basically have to find them through word of mouth or knowing the animation studios.

The pirate cut of Naruto is good. All filler removed, some edits and subtitle changes to make it in line with the manga.

You still may not like it but that's what came to my mind for quality shonen.

That's surprising to hear but okay

Cause you aren't the audience.

Because absolutely nobody dislikes Cowboy Bebop. It's, like, the perfect anime.

It's complicated, cause there is a good story there, you just won't see it until like 100 episodes into the show. Really slow start to it. Also doesn't help that alot of the early seasons are pretty dated now in animation style, and there's a ton of filler and recaps. I can't even watch the show myself, but I've been reading it since the beginning.

Hoping they go through one day when the show's done and make a condensed & updated version. You could probably remove half of the episodes as it is, no joke.

for real. it's just....not good, as a new adult viewer.

I'm sure plenty of people feel the same about DBZ, but I saw my first episodes as a young teen and loved it.

took me till episode 3 till I was hooked. But for me it was Steins Gate. Tried it 4 times over 6 years or so, never got beyond episode 2.

I loved Frieren, but I get that it's not for everyone. It is a story about grieving, building relationships, passing wisdom on to a next generation. Because of that I think it appeals to people that have experienced loss and are older.

Frieren was an upper mid anime for me.

I like shield hero but anyone describing it as peak has shit taste.

The first season was kinda bearable, and then it just turned completely shit

Relatable

I read almost all of the novels and you cannot imagine how much worse it gets

You and me both. The main character is supposed to be smart but keeps doing dumb shit.

I mean, to each his own.

Let me guess... you watched Angel Beats or Danganronpa and didn't like it?

While there is a lot of school themed anime, there are plenty of scifi and fantasy themed anime as well. Options become less limited the farther back in time you go, because the 80s and 90s seem to have more scifi and fantasy than school themes, as they were more popular at that time. Unless you like slice of life, in shich case you have like, three shows tops and they're all from the last 4 years.

I like Evangelion specifically because most of it wasn't intended to have a meaning. Anno just put it in the show because he thought it looked/sounded cool.

This is similar to why I like games from Hideo Kojima. Its just filled with stuff he thought is cool. It doesn't always have to have a meaning or explanation.

To me it always felt like people were trying to justify the plot and setting as some sort of grandiose idea, when it's just a shit idea with random words and images.

It's angels, that why they explode into crosses, also the children experience trauma, that's why the mechs...

Fuck off. I've watched deep dives of episodes, with frames explained down to pixels, and it's still random shit for the sake of shock, nothing more.

I dont wanna be mean but you might enjoy this.

I still enjoyed it, but maybe a quarter of the way through you can really start to tell that it was based on a visual novel dating kinda game and a lot of that stuff turned me off.

I also hate that it gets recommended as a great time travel anime. It's a terrible time travel anime, it doesn't even count as time travel. It's a monkeys paw anime!

Relatable. Never really expected to see another person who thinks the same

It has around 3 absolutely peak scenes, that are on Youtube.

But that's mainly it.

I like edgy stuff but I'm ootl on current anime. Can you recommend anything in particular?

Chainsaw Man is simple. All the characters are awful and I hate watching them.