No sooner have I started enjoying something it's like the world conspires to take it all away from me. There have been some 'okay' anime lately that are at least watchable but it's remarkable how even by anime studio standards the amount of utter shit that's being pumped out by the people looking to milk isekai anime in particular for all it's worth as if there aren't a myriad of other genres for them to at least try and see if something sticks.
At least I can instantly dismiss the ones with awful animation that look like it was hacked together by an intern or worse an Indian in a couple of months in blender but what's more surprising is there have been anime with good quality artwork that gets flushed down the drain due to shitty unimaginative writing and it's pissing me off.
Anime often operates on tropes don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting that much from them. However the tropes lately aren't even subtle and are being smacked in your face repeatedly as if you're supposed to enjoy it, it's so bad even the obvious die hard anime fans who spam the comments pages are bitching about it all.
We're used to the 'MC is a loser' tropes, but now it's very much like they're picking out a bingo card of extremely shit MC tropes like 'MC is OP insecure loser and constantly doesn't know his own strength' even people with a single IQ point can see it's a retarded plot point. Or worse they try and use it as a gag but it falls flat when they repeat it every five seconds.
It's so bad now that I will watch anything as long as the male character featured isn't a massive retard. Even Kazuma from Konosuba the king of insecure virgin tropes gets some degree of confidence and can deal with women who give him shit. You don't drag the whole thing out several episodes because it's complete cringe and prevents character development.
Am I missing something here? Is it some asian thing about saving face so they can't ever have MCs that have any kind of degree of confidence in themselves? Or are things really that bad in Japan now all the mangaka are suffering severe depression which would make sense unfortunately.
It depends as you might be looking at the low hanging fruit Isakai area than the ones that stand out more. I'm reading a lot of Manga and Manwha nowadays and Anime is at least 1-2 years behind that and that trend for the 'weak MCs that have no backbone' has run out and we've gotten more what I like to call 'the quiet kid MC Isakai'
By that I mean they're actually nearly psychopaths that have a 'well you tried to kill me so fuck you' mentality. Current one I can think of is Failure Frame: I became the strongest and Annihilated Everything which I've also read and by end of episode one he's gone full no mercy and pretends to be a weak MC just to lower guard and mercilessly kill someone.
If you don't want to deal with that at all you're best off with Manga and Manwha at the moment as they'll eventually get adapted as Omniscient Readers Viewpoint is getting an adaptation so it'll only be a matter of time till Mercenary Enrolment/Teenage Mercenary gets an adaptation plus Season 2 of Solo Levelling is coming soon.
Not a bad idea, I think I'm going to start doing some animation autism though of my own to keep me occupied these days as at least I'll be able to rely on that for consistency while I work on my main project. Yeah, when it comes to the other stuff it seems it's better to watch the anime that is deservedly going to be getting new seasons because they're watchable and solo levelling is one of those.
The next season of anime looks a bit more promising, I've just found it remarkable the absolute crap that's come out of the industry lately. By comparison reincarnated as a vending machine was downright wholesome and well written even though it contained quite a few shameless Isekai tropes at least the MC wasn't massively cringe and they somehow managed to make him being a vending machine work surprisingly well.
It does really depend on the writing quality of the authors, I've seen so many that have a good premise go to shit because they just don't make it interesting enough.
While I've seen literal meme shows keep my interest because of the writing quality, like I'm enjoying My Deer Friend Nokotan just because both the author and studio KNEW which direction to take the show.