Contradiction feat. Tyler Carter is the opening to The God of Highschool, an anime adaptation of a manhwa from Webtoon that’s been funded by Crunchyroll and marketed as a Crunchyroll Original Series. Tl;dr, the OP sucks big balls and it’s really hard to explain why in one word. Be it the annoying song, the way the visuals are put together, that those same visuals are all ripped from the show itself, or that the OP tells you nothing about the show itself, it really is just a microcosm of everything wrong with this adaptation of a manhwa that I really like.
And no, this won’t be the last time you hear me talk about it.
There are many videos that talk about this idea that you can judge an anime from just one episode, an idea that is prevalent among many in the community. Not just with videos but in the community as a whole. While the 3 episode rule is prevalent, there are still those who adhere to this belief that one episode is all you need to gauge a show’s quality, and this problem extends into the greater critical sphere of YouTubers and critics trying to make points about the whole with only the first episode in mind. So I thought I would attempt to debunk that.
Since Re:Zero is coming back for the Summer 2020 anime season with its long anticipated second season, I decided to do something I’ve been meaning to do for years: rewatch this show that I once hated so much that I gave it a 1 out of 10. Re:Zero is now a show that I currently have at a 9, but what caused such a big shift in opinion? Why did my thoughts on Re:Zero change so much?
In short, I didn’t understand it. And I think that’s a problem with most series people come to dislike, and I think that needs to change.
Bleach was once one of the most popular and regarded anime series of all time. It was a member of the prestigious Big 3 Shounen Jump series and was talked about by everyone in the community. Many of us grew up with Bleach, but as the series ended in 2017, many of us also fell out of it. I was one of those people. But, thinking back on it, I realized how important Bleach was to me, how it led me into the world of anime and how it changed my life.
So I wanted to tell everyone why I’ll NEVER stop Loving Bleach.
My Hero Academia is a series with a lot of memorable moments, but easily the best moment to come out of the whole series came from Season 4 during the School Festival Arc, because the performance of Hero Too is a moment that gets me emotional every single time. But why is that?
Today I talk about some anime concert scenes that I believe highlight just why these sorts of scenes always end up being some of my favorites: Love Live! School Idol Project and μ’s performance of START;DASH, Your lie in April and Arima Kousei’s performance of Love’s Sorrow in episode 13, and of course, Class 1-A’s performance of Hero Too in episode 23 of Season 4!
Does Uraraka from Boku no Hero Academia do something different from the rest of the Shounen crowd? No, but I might as well tell you why.
Gatekeeping has become prominent in the discussion of fandom and especially the anime community as of late, with many fans arguing over who deserves and who doesn’t deserve to be an anime fan. Is it good? Is it bad? Or is the discussion far more nuanced than just that?
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