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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • It has consistently gotten worse with each season. I could barely pay attention to season 3, and I dropped it after that, which I’ll explain below:

    Season 3 spoilers

    At the end of season 3, with effectively no buildup, they announce that Raphtalia is actually a princess in exile. And of course she was completely unaware of this the entire time due to being a slave for her entire life. And because Naofumi gave her a specific kind of clothing to wear, that had mistakenly announced her intent to compete for the throne.

    I personally find this to be extremely poor and lazy writing for what I hope is obvious reasons. Combining this with the increasingly boring seasons makes me think this series is irredeemable at this point.


  • Nah, Anno is a hack of an author, and the studio even admitted that most of the Christian imagery included was just put in because it looked cool.

    The series lucked out by appealing to the neckbeard stereotype at exactly the right time, and with enough vagueness to let the viewers go full HS english teacher mode and convince themselves that the story was extremely deep and complex when it was really paper thin.

    As I’ve already said, unless you’re just looking for a show that tickles the “woah giant robot fight” itch, NGE is just plain bad.









  • The Shibuya arc was more jarring than bad. The culling arc is just stupid. Lots of random nobodies popping out of the woodwork with no leadup and stomping all over the main characters. It felt completely undeserved.

    It falls into this very general “cuckold fetish” that some anime and manga have, and for the record that’s my temporary name for it. It’s not limited to NTR, but rather that it’s a fascination of some Japanese storytellers to build up a protagonist only to undeservedly tear them down by nobodies. Nowadays, whenever I get a whiff of that I’ll drop a series because I know it just gets worse feom there