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I will always contend that it was a case of "Right place right time." Boys entering puberty watching a show about a bunch of hot alien wanting to fuck a teenager's brains out? Where the women were clearly portrayed as sexual? This was so radically different from other cartoons at the time that it was no wonder teens and tweens took to it.

Bottom 10: 10. Paranoia Agent - Dull, pretentious and overall boring. A show that thinks it's smarter than it really is, like a teenage otaku who thinks shit like this makes him "deep". Deeply stupid maybe. 9. Reign. Alexander the Great forgets what pants are and stumbles through a plot that much like Alexander's actual foray into Asia, falls apart at the end. 8. One Piece - This is the show that never ends (or moves). Yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started watching it not knowing what it was, and people just want DeMarco to cancel the fucking thing just because this is the show that doesn't end... 7. SD Gundam. Proof that humor does not translate across borders. Well, most of it (the original SD shorts can actually be really funny at points). 6. Hiatus x Hiatus. DO SOMETHING! Gon is also not very interesting or likable. 5. Parasite. No special spelling for you bad show. Collapses near the end, and just a slog. 4. Dimension W. Show, don't tell! This is the worst kind of writing. 3. Wolf's Rain - Shitty nature Aesop that ends with a magic reset button. A shaggy dog (or rather shaggy wolf) story that ends with nothing being accomplished. 2. Moribito - Offensively boring. Sleep inducing. Anger inducing. Everything wrong with ASA. 1. Sword Art Online. This show would have escaped the bottom 10 if not for its continued insistence on tackling subjects it lacks the tact and nuance to address. Rape. Isolation. MOTHERFUCKING AIDS. A real and horrible disease reduced to a boogeyman to make us feel sorry for the littlest VR player. And even then it's a small miracle that the thirst of the countless women in this show for Kirito (TWO YEARS WORTH) didn't magically cure her because the Gary Stu can do everything else. If the show was 13 episodes it would have been average. As it stands it's not only bad, but offensive. Well beyond how a boring show like Moribito or a show you want cancelled like One Piece is. This is genuinely offensive to anyone who doesn't want their abuse reduced to making them a damsel, to anyone who saw a relative suffer from AIDS and have it reduced to a fictional boogeyman. This is a shitty power fantasy for geeks and gamers who like the idea of their mad gaming skills getting all the single ladies and saving the day. Shame on them! And shame on the author for trying to reduce people's trauma to a way to drive women into Kirito's arms. If you deal with real issues, use some goddamn tact!

You're the one who flips their shit whenever people bash OP. IBO was better on Hulu, disguising its pacing issues (action, setup, action, setup), while Toonmai made it much harder to watch. It wasn't a flop but that did hurt it. Better than Hiatus anyway.

Some films like anything Miyazaki you can justify as being an art house connoisseur, but this? This is gonna flop like a fat dude off a high dive.

The OP hate will continue until morale improves (in other words, when it's cancelled). As for the thres, GXP and its fail will ensure this never airs on Toonami. Given how many circles this plot goes in (does anyone give a shit about the convoluted goddess plot? I don't think so) that's a good thing.

And immediately stop watching. We all knew Phantom Blood was going to be rough. The problem is now that it's over will people care about the good part?

And you rage when you realize that One Piece will never be popular in the US. Ever. No merch, no references, no SNL skits, NOTHING.

One Piece is on Toonami because DeMarco views it the same way Vince McMahon views Roman Reigns, not aware both are about equally as popular with live audiences (i.e.: not at all).

Why is this still alive and Gunsmith Cats never getting anything past 3 episodes? Why is this still here and we don't have a Cannon God Exxaion anime? Why? Why? Why?

And hopefully they'll get rid of One Piece. Everything sucks, everything fails, except Netflix.

No, not the same. The OP marathon wasn't Christmas Eve. One Piece still loses. In the US One Piece ALWAYS LOSES.

It was Christmas Eve. Aggregate ratings don't even count this week because of the shifts in population activity. UFC 206 rerunning on Fox apparently outdid It's a Wonderful Life, so who knows?

It's that crappy drawing parents put on the fridge to be nice to their kids.

No.

2016 can go fuck itself. With a cactus.

That is horseshit.

He also pined for a woman since Chapter 3. You'll receive no argument from me that the ending was bullshit (If Lionsgate changes the ending, it might just make the story a lot better, and wouldn't that be the fucking day?) but he was always about the women. Or rather, the woman. The woman who he was retconned into not liking to satisfy annoyed fanboys. God that show was awful.

It's coming, it's just a matter of when. Still remember the vague rumors about real networks having been interested. Good times.

I think there's a lot of gross simplification in media from fans that any attraction is automatically sexual in nature. There's a book on writing from way back by CS Lewis (yes, the Narnia guy), called the Four Loves. Short version, the 'loves' include empathy and a familiar bond, Storge, friendship, and that bond, Philla, the obvious bond of sexuality, Eros, and unconditional love, which he described from a spiritual/religious perspective. The book goes on to note that there is a lot of confusion in media about how people confuse Eros, or the sexual love, with the others. Thus, the discouragement to use Storge between two men or two women in media because everyone has to assume they're gay. Which is bullshit.

Kill La Kill is a bit different, although it isn't as overt as Panty and Stocking, which was a statement about fanservice and the requirement of a lot of otaku for "purity in female" characters. Kill La Kill was more or less a blunt critique of people angry about fanservice. Also yeah, dude jerking out to another dude's skating routine...eh, disgusting. Although this explains why figure skaters IRL have a very macho posture to deflect the endless "You ghey" criticisms they get.

No, not really. Both are pretty shameless in how they attract the gaze of their respective gender targets.

It's not saying you can't like a show, just pointing out the dichotomy. Also I can say I like Keijo but think it's hella stupid. Because it is.

I would counter the plot and the appreciation on both ends is affecting by the sexual preference of the viewer.

Doesn't a guy literally orgasm watching a routine in one episode? That's pretty damn vulgar.

I wonder why. Probably the same reason I have absolutely no interest in Yuri on Ice.