Opposite take to Adam there, Ken has done a lot of positive things for the industry. He's been staunchly anti-censorship, anti-copystriking and unfair copyright practices, and even been a force for un-monopolizing the manga/anime industry.
Like or hate Love Hina or Negima, like or hate the "violent tsundere" archetype, he's a force for good.
After a multi decade long campaign of personally hating the man for the irreparable damage he not only did to the harem genre, but the entire industry as a whole with Love Hina, maybe he will turn around and be a force for good.
Tenchi Muyo and Ranma 1/2 were the biggest two of the 90s before Love Hina. The genre hadn't really taken off yet and Ranma was basically the "blueprint" series that Love Hina took to its extreme, and then the 00s were flooded with copycats.
Love Hina, the series pictured in the thumbnail here is basically the "peak" point for the harem genre, and in a way the entire industry never recovered from it.
Nearly every insufferable trait you can think of from anime was popularized to its overuse from Love Hina. A harem that just pops into existence with one of each cliche checklist girl possible, the most inoffensive MC who is so bland that they all fall for him because he is "nice" and he has no other personality to speak of, a winning chick who is so obviously the winner from the start it removes all stakes from the series, nearly all the gags happen because "guy exists, main girl overreacts, jumps to conclusions, beats him," the MC suffers continuous violence and abuse to a level it ceases to be funny for little justification but any time he stands up for himself he is the bad guy.
I could go on but you get the point. All that stuff that seems to old and cliche now became the "mainstream norm" after Love Hina's popularity. It existed before, but this codified its exact dynamic and it has since then been a plague on the entire industry. Even he clearly saw it was a problem because his next, and arguably more popular, series Negima kept all those dynamics but improved on them dramatically.
Opposite take to Adam there, Ken has done a lot of positive things for the industry. He's been staunchly anti-censorship, anti-copystriking and unfair copyright practices, and even been a force for un-monopolizing the manga/anime industry.
Like or hate Love Hina or Negima, like or hate the "violent tsundere" archetype, he's a force for good.
Ken Akamatsu deserves hate? This comment section is weird.
After a multi decade long campaign of personally hating the man for the irreparable damage he not only did to the harem genre, but the entire industry as a whole with Love Hina, maybe he will turn around and be a force for good.
what did he do?
Turn all harem genre main girls into hyper violent tsunderes? (maybe?)
That's it? That's the great damage he caused? And even then it's a maybe?
Wasn't that already a thing? What are some Pre-Hina harem anime for context?
Tenchi Muyo and Ranma 1/2 were the biggest two of the 90s before Love Hina. The genre hadn't really taken off yet and Ranma was basically the "blueprint" series that Love Hina took to its extreme, and then the 00s were flooded with copycats.
Love Hina, the series pictured in the thumbnail here is basically the "peak" point for the harem genre, and in a way the entire industry never recovered from it.
Nearly every insufferable trait you can think of from anime was popularized to its overuse from Love Hina. A harem that just pops into existence with one of each cliche checklist girl possible, the most inoffensive MC who is so bland that they all fall for him because he is "nice" and he has no other personality to speak of, a winning chick who is so obviously the winner from the start it removes all stakes from the series, nearly all the gags happen because "guy exists, main girl overreacts, jumps to conclusions, beats him," the MC suffers continuous violence and abuse to a level it ceases to be funny for little justification but any time he stands up for himself he is the bad guy.
I could go on but you get the point. All that stuff that seems to old and cliche now became the "mainstream norm" after Love Hina's popularity. It existed before, but this codified its exact dynamic and it has since then been a plague on the entire industry. Even he clearly saw it was a problem because his next, and arguably more popular, series Negima kept all those dynamics but improved on them dramatically.
There is no redemption arc for that man.
Laws were changed because one woman wouldn't shut off her computer.
Heh, I know a guy named Ken Akamatsu. I don't think he's a manga artist, but I'll ask him next time I see him.