First off, yes not all manga/anime is like this. But there's a huge amount of them that will plod along following the rules of common sense and logic but then just go completely off the wall and have characters act in nonsensical ways and exhibit bizarre motivations. Think of all those endings to an anime/manga where you went "eh? the fuck just happened?". I don't really care if it's a shit way to end something or a good way, but it's very weird and something I've noticed specifically with Japanese media. Why do they do this? Why do they go full schizo with their stories?
World War 2 had a "what the fuck just happened?" ending for them so I guess it infected their writing.
Julian Parker
japanese excell at creating settings and suck at writing endings
Julian Brooks
>It's weird because I don't understand it
Ayden Jones
Attack on Titans ending was the ramblings of a crazy man
Christopher Long
>Think of all those endings to an anime/manga where you went "eh? the fuck just happened?" I can't think of a single one that did that except for fma 03 and that's because they had not wing it because fma was a monthly manga.
Matthew Peterson
Its because you don't understand their culture and what influenced them, their past works and their history. So to you it is out of left field.
Josiah Hernandez
I got news for you: the homo sapiens ending was the ramblings of a crazy man
For me it's infuriating. Especially the kind where attempted murder is quickly forgotten/forgiven because it failed.
Ryder Martinez
>Why is Japanese writing so weird? because JP to ENG translators aren't worth jack shit, learn japanese
Gavin Cruz
for anime and manga, it's because it's all manga adaptations, and manga is serialized. serializations get hacked endings if they didn't plan for the series to end. additionally, japanese mythos is pretty fucking weird, so think of it like they're following from that. this too, the really fucking weird manga barely get translated, let alone animated. AoT's ending was because he realized he had captured the attention of people he didn't like.
You need to watch more anime. Holy shit, didn't even see Eva
Joseph Taylor
you can't even read his fucking post
Henry Brown
they were warned numerous times.
Leo Nelson
video games?
Lucas Johnson
You think the average citizen has any control over what their government does?
Chase Ramirez
Japanese people make video games. Pretty good ones too. It's kind of exceptional that one random country is so influential in video games.
Leo Perry
A lot of the time it's just because they want to have a strong thematic ending and they're willing to fuck with the literal characters and events of the story to fit it. That seems to be more important to them than bringing closure to the literal events of the story, most notable example being the ending for evangelion
Lincoln Carter
That's a pretty poor example since most people think of the aptly named End of Evangelion as the ending, not the last televised episodes.
Liam Howard
I don't take anything written by a jap seriously. They have military bases of the same country that nuked them. They're into tentacle sex and cuckholding and working 14 hours a day and all sorts of weird shit. Forget it, it's Japantown.
Jackson Taylor
OP specifically mentions anime and manga multiple times and doesn't mention vidya. I almost thought I was on wrong board when I saw thread.
Owen Bailey
A confusing combination of traditional Japanese storytelling, American modernist post-war influence, and cultural norms that make no sense to anyone not from Japan.
Tyler Price
Why would you hold a cuck?
Luke Nelson
and you got below high school level reading analysis levels
you are not reading something japs wrote, you are reading something angloids with bad japanese skills adapted for the angloid tongue
David Parker
Could you elaborate on how traditional japanese storytelling comes into it?
Grayson Ramirez
My biggest problem with Japanese writing is how interactions between characters feels so artificial, like everyone is always reading lines from a script. I was really surprised when I played Catherine because Atlus had finally written a story where characters talk to each other like real people, but unfortunately they stopped at that one game.
Noah Gonzalez
>OP specifically mentions anime and manga multiple times and doesn't mention vidya. I almost thought I was on wrong board when I saw thread. I made the original thread on Any Forums, but it got deleted for some reason.