Negima was good, though the cast was a little too large and it felt a lot of them got less time than deserved. I haven't seen his other stuff to have an opinion.
Love Hina is just a particularly egregious thing because of the sheer extreme it goes to with the "man breathes, the girl who 'loves him secretly' breaks his fucking spine." So much so that the only thing seperating it from Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro, a series made to parody that exact thing with over the top violence, is the lack of gore.
And unfortunately the reverberations of Love Hina are still felt in most harems, and plenty of regular shows too. Naruto being a famous example of trying to pull it off with Sakura, but people being so sick of it that they literally bullied the author into picking a different girl in the end.
Ranma was particularly bad about it with her. And with it being the big named cliched harem series everyone copied it reached its ultimate head with Love Hina was is nearly unwatchable with the extent it goes with Naru.
Its pretty typical across the genre in general, but Akane is one of the examples where its an already extreme case made more blatant because the series is 95% filler and as such she never changes or cuts back on it.
It would be like if in Inuyasha, Kagome continued to use the cursed Sit command for the entire series as much as she does in the initial dozen episodes. As she doesn't, it does seem even Takahashi realized you can't keep that same dynamic going forever, regardless of both series having little other plot development.
Very true, but the issue is how many of those fillers are actual throwaway using bit characters who lack any of the fun of the actual retards we love from the main cast.
It suffers very much from the "ugh its another X chapter" while some of its better characters languish in obscurity. And unfortunately Akane, the main heroine, is one of those characters you groan at being the focus.
Those are the ones who tell you to just keep throwing hands
Well of course they do. I'm assuming that since you brought it up the guy in your example was a heavy leftie. Which means he is likely very responsible for getting his friend hurt by contributing to the climate that helped make Black Panthers feel both safe doing and avoid consequences as well.
They are telling you to throw hands to assuage their own guilt at seeing the nightmare they've created, and hoping that if they get you hyped enough to destroy it it will absolve them.
Because, as I said, it never comes with a repentance. They don't swap and then try to right the wrongs they've made personally. Heck most won't even acknowledge it, and if so will just be "was a Leftie." Its just about further destruction of the "bad guys," just like a Leftie is, but now the bad guy is new.
Its no different than a Christian who spends all day ranting and raving about the evils of sin in everyone else, but refuses to go to confession himself.
Considering it involves a guy saving himself from his troubles and not a mystical prince coming to save him/her, I think its far from a chickflick.
It certainly has the misery porn aspect of most chick movies, but the way it goes about it could only happen to a man because if it was a woman people would have lost thier minds about how evil everyone is.
Instead you get people arguing that Arthur was "evil" and "creepy" for standing up for himself.
She has the Krillin situation of being better than every normal person and absolutely useless against any actual character in the cast.
Regardless, he takes an incredible amount of abuse from her throughout the entire series without much fighting back, because he usually gets in trouble for doing so. Its slapstick taken way too far, which is why she is the least popular girl in the harem to a point of having actual Hatedoms.
The original game went out of its way to find one of a single digit number of masters of a niche, weird Japanese instrument to come on stage to announce the game.
This sequel was announced with a "genderfluid" Asian woman screaming about being the Ghost of Yotei all over.
Much like these two pictures, those gap between those two shows where the priorities lay. The first was more respectful to Japan despite being a white guy (who was a certified master by the actual Japs) compared to the Asian thot they have now, enough to get them a lot of honorary awards from the Island they portrayed.
This sequel will be very unlikely to receive the same. Heck its lucky that Ubisoft is taking all the Japanese's attention and hate off it.
Even as a fan of the series, the old manga is 38 volumes which is 34 volumes of filler and an ending designed to infuriate you. While great for its time, everything it had going for it has been done better since unless you have nostalgia for it.
For what its worth, dub for the original series is actually quite good for its time, and I think holds up surprisingly well for a dub from before anime took off in the West for a show that was never going to be aired (aka home video only). Even kept the nudity intact.
But from what I've seen the Japanese version of the remake is also censored to hell all over. From erased barbie chests to adding more clothes to random costumes.
Probably the only thing this remake will have of any value is actually adapting the second half of the manga, that the original series ended before reaching. But that might take years at the rate they seem to be going (and its the worst half anyway).
Its a manga that has a literal gender transition as its main premise and gag, with its main heroine being an angry raging proto-girlboss who beats any man that tries to woo her and has an army of simps chasing her. That's actual premise before any localization gets involved.
It never stood a chance from the moment people were reminded it existed.
Gonna have to disagree with you on that one chief, as someone who has been MeToo'd (to get out of paying rent and hide a cheating triangle I wasn't even a part of) and was stuck with a Hardcore Feminist school counselor in Middle School, there is absolutely plenty to fear in many of their sleeves. Especially in the places and times you are most vulnerable (as in, not online).
Which is why I find all the "former Lefties" that make up our ranks so insufferable. Because most of them "come to Jesus" and act like they were victims for being brainwashed and manipulated for so long. Without an ounce of repentance for their contributions or outright damage to those of us who weren't as easily duped that them.
And as we see with IMC and basically everyone on KIA1 these days, "former Lefties" might swing the hardest but they are also the least reliable to stay the path after time. Convert Zeal only lasts so long.
You can assume its either lack of hygiene standards or hiding a weak chin for 90% of them.
Its also heavily dependent on climate. Where I'm from in the South all the hardest of manly men are clean shaven or mustached with beards being reserved for those aforementioned Lefties. But where I live now outside the Swamp beards are much more common in the working class and ranchers, with the Lefties going full clean or gay mustached.
They always assume they are the "cool guy" that everyone enjoys hanging around and tolerates/loves their "lovable antics." And failing that, they often consider themselves powerful enough to win any he said/she said debate (forgetting the hard evidence they leave behind).
Its honestly the same mindset that gets guys caught saying nigger in public.
While I find the shift from "hardcore feminist" to "somewhere on the Right" ironic, considering the previous one is hugely responsible for the people he hates now, I can't deny he goes hard these days in a way few are willing.
We are at the inevitable end of the Leftist order when all the intelligent Leftists are basically all out of the game or dead
And no new generation can come up because the current crop refuses to even budge slightly to let them begin to sit at the table and grow their own powerbase. You can see it most clearly with Pelosi vs AoC, but also in how big the gap is between the actual Power in the Leftist order (many of whom are well over 70 and even up to the 90s) and the dancing monkeys they parade around to be replaceable distractions.
In fact, I wager AoC was meant to be one of those throwaways, but she managed to get an actual "fanbase" that made it too risky to do so and now they just keep hoping she goes away.
Does she think Biden won't intentionally try to cut her throat and throw the election for crossing her?
I think she, and everyone, is banking on Biden being too braindead to put up any actual threats and what little he has left to be controlled by his wife. Which seems to be working so far, as he continues to be nearly out of sight completely. If they continue to dance around attacking him directly they can probably run out his wrath.
No doubt. Centrism became a meme because of how many people artificially try to make both sides seem bad.
Because to pick a side requires commitment, and that means a possibility of being wrong and taking the good with the bad in an imperfect world/system. That's scary to a lot of people, so they just tear down everything instead to keep from ever being associated with anything that isn't vetted 900 times to be perfectly milquetoast and non-controversial.
Its all about appearances and optics, not principles and morality.
Honestly, its just someone whose likes anime above a casual level, as in regularly consumes it. Weeaboo was just a made up word from a random webcomic in the mid 00s that the 4chan admins used to word filter "Wapanese" because it annoyed them.
It just stuck so strongly that now weeb is mostly used by weebs to describe themselves.
He's not perfect, but the other guys are much, much worse on the issue
Literally every "ackshually Trump is also bad for us" idiot ignores this portion.
Like Trump is flawed, he fucked up a lot last time and his Israel stance is fucking retarded. But the alternative is so much worse in so many avenues more that its a no brainer to staunch the flow and try to reclaim some ground.
When they make this kind of argument, they reveal themselves to be Single Issue Voters. Who will let this entire country burn on everything except their one little pet issue. No different than the pathetic women who consider abortion the single most important factor why they want Harris.
And truthfully, most of them wouldn't even vote for someone who was on their side on the issue. They'd just increase the purity level needed until its actually impossible for them to clear the bar. Because they don't want someone to represent them, they just want to Be Smug and talk down to somebody.
As in, its just them being 2000s era atheists. The same people who were proud to have no beliefs and considered sincerity to be "cringe."
While normally I think the elites are playing off a completely different ideology than their retarded followers, the Muslim thing really feels like even they fell for the "everyone will come together to hate and destroy White Christians."
Maybe it working with the Mexicans and Blacks had them feel invincible in it, but those are groups defined by selfishness and not having much history, while the Muslims have over a thousand years and a willingness to die for their beliefs. Which makes them much harder to fully subvert.
In practice the "gender" thing isn't very egregious. Its a gag story about Chinese curses around transformation. The gender one is just a service to allow the MC to compete in every single form of martial art around, including ones that only girls do like Rhythmic Gymnastics.
In fact, it spends a lot of time pointing out the gender differences (like lack of muscle) and with him abusing the fuck out of female privilege to get away with shit like the piece of shit he is. In a way, its very anti-tranny.
But like any good "modern fanbase" all the little details get scrubbed away to turn him into an uncertain guy who wants to actually stay a girl because uwu flowers.