Why do shonenshitters and anime-watchers in general think something like “moral complexity” is something worthy of high praise? In any other art medium this would be considered a basic of good writing.
Why do shonenshitters and anime-watchers in general think something like “moral complexity” is something worthy of...
Landon Ross
Ethan Robinson
Filtered.
Jordan Green
For a lot of people, talking and "analysing" anime/manga is the only form of literary discussion they will ever do. That's why
Jose Flores
because moralfags are boring
Christopher White
Most shonen watchers are underaged, you're literally trying to make sense of childrens thought process
Logan Lee
Because anime/manga/cartoons/comics/games sets an exceedingly low bar for "good" writing. In series like hxh or fma or whatever, you'll hear praise for how morally complex the characters are (even though they're not, Meruem, Chrollo, etc are all unambiguously the villains) or how it avoids friendship tropes, but these things are all basic expectations in any kind of writing that would be considered middlebrow, let alone highbrow. A random side character in War and Peace has more depth and moral complexity than the entire cast of hxh, fma, and op combined. And I'm only being a little hyperbolic when I say that. In fact, discussions about good literature is never about how good the writing is, because good writing is a basic expectation. It's the default. Instead you discuss the world view of the author, the themes, the narrative techniques, how the human condition is explored, and so on. If you have to praise something for having good writing then your standards are already at rock bottom.
Blake Rivera
Is this the Hunterchad thread?
Alexander Wood
Lmao he thinks War and peace has good writing and complex characters.
HxH shits on almost all shonens and majority of seinen.
Brandon Collins
>hunterchad
kek
Ryder Cook
So you're saying... literary analysists never read any books but the ones that have good writing? If that's so how did they find the good ones in the first place? They just stumbled in the good ones accidentally? I'm just saying, if you don't read at least 1000 books a year you aren't a good analyst.
Kevin Ross
I mean, SnK got people agreeing with global genocide and killing kids. Eren was nominated for both best antagonist and protagonist. That's way more morally complex than anything HxH does. Nothing about Meruem or the Phantom Troupe killing random people is morally grey. You're off your meds to think otherwise.
Andrew Walker
>SnK got people agreeing with global genocide and killing kids
because the worldbuilding was nonexistent and people made dumb decisions for no reason
Colton Jones
Why are Chrollo and Hisoka on that pic twice?
Adam Ross
That pic didn't age well
Joseph Morales
Attack on titan is meant for dimwit niggers having double digit IQ, even the ending was hated by the aforementioned targeted group of people. It starts okay but falls off very fast whereas the opposite is true for HxH, although the Chimera Ant arc feels like a bore midway but it regains its beauty later on.
Aiden Foster
>So you're saying... literary analysists never read any books but the ones that have good writing?
Yes, if you major in English the prof is never gonna intentionally make you read a book with bad writing.
>If that's so how did they find the good ones in the first place?
What makes good art will forever be subject to debate, but for literature it's generally things like how interesting the characters are, how much plausibility is in the story, how consistent everything is, how much it gets human psychology correct, how intellectually challenging it is, how original it is, and so on. But essays are never going to be about how original the book you're reading is, or how interesting the characters are. Those are all expected. Lucky for us, we have a western canon that already decided all that.
Jacob Nelson
>Hisoka,Chrollo, the ants
>moral relativism
This is why no one takes huntertards seriously
Anthony Lewis
>“moral complexity” is something worthy of high praise?
Only kids that watch nothing but kids' cartoons think that.
>In any other art medium this would be considered a basic of good writing.
Not really, moral complexity is neither necessary nor sufficient for writing to be good.
Lucas Wood
>HxH shits on almost all shonens and majority of seinen.
No.
Eli Jackson
>The deconstruction of Goku is more retarded than Goku
Even Goku knows letting murdering psycho's go isn't moral, he just has priorities. Gon just pretends it is ok because they dindu nuffin lmao
Jonathan Cox
>the majority of people in the pic are antagonists
So HxH is praised for..... villains not thinking killing people is bad? What?
Sebastian Foster
Fucking Naruto is unironically more morally ambiguous than SnK and HxH combined. Not for intentional reasons, of course, since Kishimoto most likely himself didn't realise what exactly he is implying by deepthroating the likes of Itachi and asking us to root for the authoritarian shithole that is Konoha, but still, no one is pretending like Naruto is some deep shit because characters there kill