I remember being a kid and reading the manga because the art looked interesting. Each chapter was only a couple pages. But it was chapter after chapter of this dude being a tool and a doormat for some popular girl who just pretends he doesn’t exist in public and I stopped because I figured it was just gonna be pathetic the whole time.
Have some god damn self respect.
I think what bothers me about Komi is that she veers into the "my pet girl" territory a bit too often rather than being an actual human being depicted from watching and seeing how human beings behave.
A lot of anime does this. They turn girls into pets rather than people. It bothers me from time to time.
Otherwise it's a reasonably ok show about crippling social anxiety making someone basically a mute.
third picture is the absolute territory
JAPAN YOUVE DONE IT AGAIN
I mean it's a pretty typical wish fulfillment "the girl who is so pretty she intimidates everyone is actually extremely shy but she opens up to ME" so I can't get too chuffed about it. I only sat down to read it once for about an hour and never went back.
The one that made me feel the way you describe is Nagatoro. Like my god man grow a fucking spine.
I think I saw like half of the first episode of the Nagatoro anime and just turned it off, I almost feel like that was the first time I ever quit an anime mid-episode, something I've only done like twice since then. Honestly I don't even remember why I wanted to try Nagatoro to begin with, cause I went into it already thinking it looked like it was gonna be bad. Columbam mortuam ne ederis.
You probably just got put off by the overwhelmingly bad vibes of that show. The artist is a pedo porn artist and Nagatoro is only different from the rest of his garbage in that it's less explicit. It's just pedo fetish porn that went mainstream, which happens all the time with anime
I don't even remember what happened in the first twelve minutes, I just vaguely remember that it was some blend of off-putting and tedious. Like, at least with the other anime I've quit mid-episode, I can recall what specific thing made me go "Nope, I'm out!" — not Nagatoro, though! Hell, did I even see 12 minutes of Nagatoro, or was that just a weird dream I've convinced myself was real?
I guess it's a very specific fetish? But if so it's extra gross because the character is like fourteen.
On one hand, its written for children. On the other hand, most of its ‘popular culture’ will involve almost exclusively adults
The anime is ok. Mostly liked it for Najimi everyone else is a side character.
Show
But high school romance anime are generally just kinda shit. Love is war had a solid first season and fell off massively.
I remember quite liking My Little Monster but it can also be quite cringe.
Actually i remember i want to eat your pancreas and your lie in april are goated
Love is war had a solid first season and fell off massively.
Sometimes I wonder if everyone else just has way higher standards than me, because I didn't notice any real drop in quality in Love is War. I thought it lasted just long enough and came to a satisfying conclusion.
I have very high standards and tend to rip apart most media but my bf can happily enjoy any old slop. I envy his abilities
agree, it's oe of my favourites. the anime to movie run so far is basically a 10/10 for me
Love is war had a solid first season and fell off massively.
I read the entire manga and it felt around 80 chapters too long.
But it was chapter after chapter of this dude being a tool and a doormat for some popular girl who just pretends he doesn’t exist in public
I feel like either the anime is wildly different from the manga or we watched different shows, because Komi never ignores Tadano and is very appreciative of him
I remember being a kid and reading the manga
Wdym kid, this is... 8 years old. Damn.
But yeah, it's not really interesting and drags on forever.
Maybe it’s a hot take but as a grown ass adult I have little interest in romance stories about high schoolers.
That's a very cold take, the real hot take is that many people misidentify the reason they dislike high school romance anime as being "because they [the dislikers] are adults" — i.e. that they're too old to relate to the characters — rather than because of any number of legitimate grievances with the genre as it stands, that they've just noticed more with time or age, probably mixed with some performative adulthood age-related brainworms or whatever.
Like, if the problem is just the ability to relate to the characters, then it would follow that people would complain more about romance stories with characters considerably more alien than high schoolers to their own lives, yet it is only ever high school romance anime that people seem to complain about. And if the problem is the ability to relate to the characters, then even for the teenagers watching HS romance anime, if they aren't from Japan then they're still watching a romance show set in a radically different corner of the world, with a different culture valuing different things and with different norms for communication — sometimes the shows are even set in a different time period or have fantastical elements et cetera. Is all of that, everything about the setting and characters aside from the characters' ages, just supposed to be a complete non-factor for relatability?
keepin it a buck the last time I even found this genre engaging I was watching Ouran High, and I think I was 15
yeah genuinely I don't understand how anyone over the age of 20 who isn't in highschool can find this stuff interesting
The first two seasons are fine, pretty cute even. However, the author is at a point now where they don't want to make any of the shippers unhappy, so it is stuck in a perpetual 'will they, won't they' holding pattern between the main guy and the two main girls (though I always shipped the main guy with another dude, if you know you know), at least when I stopped reading it about two or so year.
Maybe it has changed? It was certainly a vibe at the time.
Also you are wildly misreading the series imo if you think the main dude is a 'door mat'. He is almost preternaturally good at the vibe check. It's not 'unreasonable' to despise it, though, just a little too intense feeling to mostly forgettable media, outside of the art style, which is still great imo.
I remember thinking it was alright but got bored of it after a bit.
It made decent enough second monitor viewing while playing minecraft but I never felt the magic where other people were super into it. It just felt like pretty generic high school love comedy stuff with a different approach to it. I have to assume the social awkwardness just resonated with a bunch of people.
Social awkwardness was one part, I also liked Najimi "the Nadge-meister", who is, as always, at it again with the white Vans.
Now of course when I watched Komi the only other high school love comedy I'd seen was Kaguya-sama, so even in the ways that Komi was generic it probably wouldn't have seemed as generic to me.
i don't think anyone is weird for (dis)liking anything, i think it's just a matter of proportionality, how much do you (dis)like it in ratio with how "big of a deal" it is
Well it’s not a big deal because I haven’t thought about this series for like a decade until now
I dropped it when they had a Japanese character who brown faced as an Egyptian.
