I mean, its not that terrible bad, but come on, its in the top 20 on MAL and was in top 30 after only two episodes. And before you say something like "wahh, MAL and /a/ aren't the same people", yeah, no. Everyone here has an account on MAL.
And the show wasn't exactly mind blowing to begin with. The MC is nothing special compared to all the other popular tropebuckets these days, bleeding edginess out their assholes. The artwork is unimpressive and on top of that it hurts your eyes just to look at these characters. The plot had some potential when it began, but then when it's finished, you realize absolutely nothing of significance or interest has happened. The foundation the story is built on is flawed.
The murderer is revealed to be an adult male, there are only 3 or 4 and one of them is confirmed not to be guilty, so the killer is easily guessed from around episode 4 onward. Not only that but the murderer isn't interesting as a character in the slightest, he's just some psycho who gives edgy smiles in a suit and fedora. What stimulates the rewind? Sometimes it just happens, while at other times it happens at his will, the length of time at which he can rewind isn't specified either, so the viewer is left just taking the author/directors word for it that it's within Satoru's abilities.
What rules of time travel does the story follow?
This isn't even including times where characters became incredibly stupid for the sake of the plot's progression, like how Satoru red flags Sensei, and tells him he has his memories back, only to make himself be seen as a threat to a man who can easily best his crippled ass in a fight.
Did I mention the widescreen, faux-film aspect ratio is super pretentious? Come on, you can't fool me into thinking I'm watching this in a theater.
A few seasons ago it was Shigatsu and Shinsekai Yori now it's this. It blows my mind how quickly garbage can climb the MAL rankings.
I just don't get it/
Popular shows currently airing shoot up on MAL all the time. I just want to point that out because I'm tired of apes using its place on the list as evidence against MAL. As if more proof is needed.
Personally I thought it was well directed and the writing never dropped below "decent" outside of the ending. I can see why people feel it stands out for them. It's a compelling story with characters you genuinely root for. Also it's grounded in reality which is a major plus for people tired of fantasy/game-like premises.
Literally TL;DR
Protip: MAL doesnt define anime rankings
>>139248436
Wow, I've never seen someone be this upset over people enjoying stuff
>>139248687
>with characters you genuinely root for
You mean the relateable characters like the thats-how-10-year-olds-act blond kid?
He came across like a total psychopath.
It was not trash, but not for the reasons you wrote.
>>139248780
>trump supporters salty over worst girl losing to best the post
>>139248853
You're either a liar or just found 4chan an hour ago.
>>139248877
Mostly the main character, mom, and girl they sought to save.
You picked one of the least relatable characters.
>>139248436
>Everyone here has an account on MAL.
But that's wrong, you delusional MALfag.
>>139248925
What Bakemonogatari episode is this from?
>>139248436
I don't have a MAL account. I can tell you do considering you wrote a fucking essay on why people shouldn't like an anime you don't like.
>>139248436
>ERASED
Fuck off.
>>139248436
Kill yourself and your shit taste.
>>139249276
>S**T
I love you.
Honestly, ERASED is a 6/10 show at most. Could have been better if not for the 3 last episodes.
But people on MAL are just retarded, they're not just entry-level faggots as many of them have seen hundreds of shows, yet they still give ERASED (and many other mediocre shows) ratings of over 9/10. I'll never understand them.
>>139249372
The 'out of ten' rating has lost all meaning, as it really does not have any quantifiable standard.
Even worse, since it's been used by shit heads for so long, anything below an eight or a nine is considered trash, when those scores should be considered a solid gold.
You're right about ERASED, though. Carry on.
>>139249372
They have a liberal rating system, what's so hard to understand?
>>139249372
Nah mate it's a 7/10 show at the minimum. Only episode 10 was the bad one but 11 and 12 saved the show from becoming a complete trainwreck.
>>139248436
This is /a/ you fucking idiot not MAL. You want to complain about some stupid thing like a ranking? Go do it over there.
>>139249372
It's actually a 9/10 show
>>139248436
These are the same people who give 6/10 the show they didn't like one bit
>>139249727
That's so dumb.
Komeiji had the best MAL ranking system, a true genius.
>>139248436
tldr
does anyone know when the soundtrack will be released?
>>139248687
>grounded in reality
>>139248436
Well,I think that it's because all the hype surrounding the show. Unlike /a/, MAL has that silly "community" feeling to it, so hyping up shows is pretty common over there, and it obviously has an influence on the way people perceive the quality of a show. Couple that with Erased's intriguing plot and its cliffhanger endings for each episode and you have a good formula for MAL-overrated show.
>>139249372
Eh, I'd say that it's a 7/10; the first few episodes were pretty damn good, but the show really became a trainwreck in the last three episodes.
>>139249539
Those two were rushed as fuck anon, c'mon.
>>139250010
Fuck you.
>>139249906
He was a faggot with awful taste
>>139248995
>thinks that makes him special in some way
>>139250195
There was nothing in his statement that implied that.
>>139248436
>A few seasons ago it was Shigatsu and Shinsekai Yori
>Shinsekai Yori
Excuse me?
That show is criminally underrated.
>>139250315
Not when it was airing.
>>139248436
Wasnt Aldnoah.Zero overhyped after only one episode then it crashed and burned?
>>139248436
Shows like Shigatsu and Boku Dake are like the anime equivalent to YA novels. After that it shouldn't be hard to figure out why it pushes the right buttons for teens.
>>139250527
Nah, shows like Boku Dake are the equivalent to Stephen King books. LN adaptations are the anime equivalent to YA novels.
>>139250527
What about Shinsekai Yori?
>>139250315
I still remember the massive dropping when the gay episode aired...
>>139249997
its already out, first part
The first 4 episodes were AOTS and then it shits the bed.
Wasted potential.
>>139248436
I tried to wait until it’s over before shitting it properly, but the damn thing didn’t let me. It kept piling up bullshit, the fantards keep excusing them with more bullshit, it got all the way to no5 on MAL and no1 on Anime-Planet, and the topics I made on Reddit and MAL about its problems were deleted immediately, so nobody can have an opinion that differs from the damn circlejerk. This piece of shit that the anime community considered better than Legend of the Galactic Heroes was plain offensive on so many levels and I am here to tell you why.
1) TIME RESETS MAKE NO SENSE.
Just look how there is absolutely no consistency amongst them.
First & Second resets:
- Trigger before someone nearby gets killed
- The protagonist doesn’t need to know about the eminent death for the reset to happen
- The protagonist has no control over when it happens
- The reset sends you 5 minutes into the past
- If the protagonist fails, time moves on as normal
Third reset:
- Triggers after someone nearby gets killed
- The protagonist needs to know about the death for the reset to happen
- The protagonist has no control over when it happens
- The reset sends you 20 years into the past
- If the protagonist fails, time reverts to present, and he can try again until he succeeds
- Let’s not overlook the time paradox of managing to chance the day of death but everything else remained exactly the same, something which is impossible because of the butterfly effect. Also, we are supposed to believe when he returned to the present, his old self magically forgot everything, life went back to normal and played out in exactly the same way. Bullshit.
>>139250899
Fourth reset:
- Triggers when everybody is fine.
- The protagonist wills it to happen. The fan boys were defending the show before this, saying it was great how he had no control over this power, since he can’t use it to his benefit and the tension is tenfold because of it. Well, so much for that. But the fan boys still defended it, saying the protagonist could always control time travel but was too afraid to use it consciously. Excusing bullshit with more bullshit.
- The reset sends you 20 years into the past but not at the same moment the third reset did.
Fifth reset:
The problem with this one is that it doesn’t exist. We get to a point where the protagonist is in grave danger and yet no time reset triggers. Why is that when it fits several criteria from previous cases? I mean, yeah, he says that the fourth reset would be the last, but how did he know that? Did he read the script for what happens next? If he knows he lost the power, how does he know that???
Sixth reset:
Despite the protagonist reassuring us that there will not be another reset, he contradicts himself in the last episode by willingly going back in time and warns everybody of what to do so he can expose the killer. And guess what, he was in grave danger when it happened. Why didn’t it happen in the previous life or death situation? Why didn’t he go all the way back to the car scene, so he won’t lose 15 years of his life? Because shitty writing, that’s why.
>>139250756
>not using the rating makes a 9 the equivalent of a 10
?
>>139250950
And once again, the fan boys said it was no time reset and that he used a super amazing mind game to do everything right. Sure man, he just regained his memory and figured out of a plan that involved the killer taking him to the roof, while his friends would be waiting on ground level with a huge cushion. He would know that the killer was going gay for him too and that he would be fine if he jumped down the roof, with the power of friendship saving his ass and making the killer admit his crimes. Sure, it was all an amazing mind game by a guy WHO WAS A RETARD DURING THE WHOLE SERIES.
2) THE PROTAGONIST HAS NO STEADY MOTIVATIONS.
They change in every episode with no rhyme or reason, something the fan boys didn’t notice because he is a bland self-insert who can be anything and anyone at any given moment. I mean did you even see how generic his face is? Take all faces A1 Pictures animated from light novels and compare them. They are the exact same one, featureless face!
First & Second reset: He saves kids because he is altruistic
Never explained why he is, he was magically born that way.
Third reset: He wants to save his mother by manipulating the emotions of a little girl
A selfish reason, now he is magically no longer altruistic.
Fourth reset: He wants to save the little girl
He no longer cares about saving his mother, which by the way was never hard to save. He had 20 years of time to simply be around her when the fateful night arrives.
>>139251018
3) PLOT CONVENIENCES.
Many events happen seemingly by chance and end up affecting the plot considerably. No proper mystery or thriller should be so reliant on chance because it cheapens what it’s trying to accomplish.
Episode 1: The mother gets killed exactly when she finds out who the killer is. How nice for the killer to wait until he is revealed before deciding to walk in the house.
Episode 1: The reason the protagonist panicked so fast when he saw his dead mother, was because at that exact moment a neighbor came in and the police arrived outside. There is no way for the killer to have arranged it that way, since the neighbor was just passing by. Therefore, it was darn luck and not incrimination that made the protagonist panic, turning the whole thing into stupidity instead of an elaborate scheme.
Episode 3: The protagonist has birthday the exact same day as the girl he is trying to save. This is way too convenient and lazy writing for the sake of cheap feels. He already wants to save her; there is no reason to hammer it even further with more drama.
Episode 5: Airi appears out of nowhere and helps the protagonist when he is hunted by the police. The reason? She just believes he is not a killer. Ok…
Episode 5: Airi’s house is set on fire immediately after she finds out who the killer is. Again, the killer is waiting to be revealed before making his move.
Episode 6: The manager appears out of nowhere to help out the protagonist. The script just wanted him to be there for the sake of plot armor.
Episode 7: The protagonist is about to kill someone when a friend of his appears out of nowhere and stops him before it’s too late. The script just wanted him to be there for the sake of ruining tension.
>>139249203
This
>>139250818
Pretty much, everything outside of Satoru's youth was mediocre. The ending was offensively bad with him "falling" off the roof.
>>139251000
If you never rate a 10 on principle, 9 becomes the new top of the scale.
>>139249276
>newfag
>MAL cancer
Kill yourself
>>139251049
Episode 8: The girl was hiding from her mother in the exact same bus that the person who wanted to kill her was hiding his equipment. From all the places in this universe, what are the odds of the target running to hide into the killer’s base?
Episode 11: The killer knew that the protagonist is alive but in a coma for many years, yet didn’t do anything to kill him, despite having the political power to do anything he likes. He just reappears when the protagonists wakes up, does his best to make him remember what happened, and THEN tries to kill him.
Episode 12: The killer out of nowhere is not only unable to kill the protagonist but he is also willing to save him and commit suicide if the guy he wanted to kill just a few seconds ago is not alive. And all that were well known to the protagonist who had regained his memories just a few minutes ago. What the frack???
Episode 12: Airi appears out of nowhere under the bridge and is super friendly with a guy she just sees there. Dumb girl is dumb. Also, this was a sappy ending just for forced feels.
4) THE PROTAGONIST’S REASONING MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE.
He runs away from the police, thus incriminating himself for no reason. The fan boys excuse it as him panicking because of the murder of his mother, thus he wasn’t thinking reasonably. If that is the case, why is he STILL running away from the police after he returns to the present? He is calm now, and thinks reasonably. Hell, he spends half the episode playing with children out in the open for everybody to see, and then goes to chat in a public cafeteria full of people. Seems like he is not afraid of being seen, right? But when police officers arrive, he is running away again. What is this bullshit?
>>139251083
Yeah, I'm one of those people.
>>139251132
He assumes that he can save his mother by saving a little girl, the two of which have absolutely nothing to do with each other, just because he is at the time when the murders began. Well, thank goodness nothing else happened in the world that year, or he might have arbitrarily assumed he would have to do something completely different.
The fan boys excuse it as, if he stops the killer, he will save both at the same time. But how is this going to work? Just look at how no matter what he does, it will never have a positive outcome.
- He is not intimidating to keep a child killer away by spending time with the girl (in fact, this makes the killer double as motivated)
- He is not strong to beat up the killer in case he shows up
- Even if he scares the killer, this will not stop him from killing other children or his mother in the future
- Even if he saves the little girl, it will not prevent her mother from beating her all the time
- He is not trying to tell anybody about it, which over-complicated things for no reason. The fan boys tried to excuse it like nobody would believe him if he talked. Yet in later episodes pretty much EVERYBODY believes EVERYTHING he says and helps him out.
• His fellow students agree to hide the girl in a bus by simply believing his story.
• They leave her there in the cold for three days, only for eventually telling his mother about it. She believes him as well, and lets her hide in their house thereafter.
• He then tells child support to come check out the mother, something nobody was doing for years. They also believe him and turns out it was easy to prove the girl’s mother was a bad parent.
• The mother’s mother is also magically thrown in the story and is the one that revels what a terrible mother her child is. All the protagonist did, was to tell her to go there when child support is talking to the mother. Something nobody thought of doing for years.
>>139251174
• So basically, he could have resolved the show’s entire conflict by episode 2 if he simply told everybody what is going on right away.
- He then moves to protecting other kids after the first is saved, which again makes no sense. He has no reason to assume the killer would go after the same people, in the same order, and in the same dates. He changed his actions for Pete’s sake, he could have gone after someone else with completely different methods or schedule.
5) THE MYSTERY ASPECT OF THE SHOW IS COMPLETE GARBAGE.
- The protagonist is doing absolutely nothing to find out who is the killer. He prefers to spend his time in a cringy romance between a 10 year old girl and a 30 year old man.
- Whatever the author thinks that can count as clues, is nothing more than hints dropping on the protagonist’s head by complete chance (the bus Hinazuki is hiding just happens to be the killer’s hideout) or through someone’s convenient infodumping (the meeting with the old man, or the teacher in the car). This destroyed any sense of mystery, since the protagonist didn’t use deduction to find clues. They were thrown at him with ridiculous convenience.
- There aren’t even many possible suspects for who the killer could be. It can either be someone from the cast we see all the time, or a complete stranger which would make the revelation BS (thankfully this is not the case). Now try to count how many people look like the guy we see in the first episode (male adult with no beard). There, it can only be THAT guy. What kind of a mystery is this where you know right away who the killer is?
- 10 year-olds in the 80s are somehow masterminds. They can psycho-analyze the protagonist (Hinazuki) and deduct he is hiding something (Kenya). He on the other hand can do nothing but stare like an oaf despite living in the freaking internet era. He is so useless, even little children are better detectives than he is.
>>139251224
- The killer was not revealed because of a mistake he did. He exposed himself and even went as far as soliloquize his evil intentions, like a Saturday morning cartoon villain.
- A mystery story is supposed to give you answers at the end. Yet you don’t get any explanation for why the protagonist has the power to travel in time. Magic space Jesus gave it to him just because. The story never explains anything regarding time travel; it just throws it out there and then expects you not to give a damn when it’s vital to the plot. The fanboys kept saying that you should disregard it entirely, and focus on the mystery instead. Which is impossible since without time travel you have no story. No, really, the story would end in the first episode without it. Also, as proven above, the mystery was also shit.
6) FAKE TENSION WITH CLIFFHANGERS.
Every episode ends with a cliffhanger that makes the average viewer wanting to find out what will happen next. The problem here is that what follows the cliffhangers is a dud. It is always something anti-climactic or completely stupid. The show systematically tries to undo consequences or hide its plot conveniences with cliffhangers that are too obvious to spot when you marathon the show.
- Every time something horrible happens to the protagonist (fails to save the girl or gets captured by the police), a time reset occurs in the beginning of the next episode to undo all the tension.
- When the protagonist is clueless or about to do something really stupid, another character appears out of nowhere as an ally and helps him out with not much justification.
- When the killer gets in the bus where the girl is hiding, is followed by him leaving without even trying to find her because it was conveniently his lair, and not because he knew she was there.
>>139251270
- And of course, the last episode where the protagonist is about to be killed again, but out of nowhere he becomes a mastermind that has planned everything to happen exactly as he hoped.
7) VICTIMIZING GALORE.
A one dimensional evil parent hits while laughing her own child for forced drama.
- No fan boys, saying this happens all the time in real life does not make it any less forced.
- Let’s have the girl being bullied at school as well. No reason to assume the more victimizing they throw at you, the more absurd it becomes.
8 ) PLOT INDUCED STUPIDITY.
Episode 3: Everybody is either too dumb to do anything about it, or too blind to notice the domestic violence. Because a child full of bruises, the testimony of teachers and students, as well as a mother who is constantly running away from inspection, or swings shovels at people, is clearly not evidence.
Episode 5: People lose their jobs, ruin their marriages, and leave town because of a chocolate bar. But people who beat their children every day while laughing about it are left to do as they like.
Episode 5: Only complete retards open the door to a room they know it’s on fire.
Episode 10: You see someone getting in a room but never coming out, despite you standing right outside the whole time. How stupid do you need to be to actually believe the person teleported away?
Episode 10: A little child can’t slip through a jammed seat belt, when it’s easy even for an adult to do it.
Episode 10: The protagonist yells to the killer that he knows his future, something that the killer believes. Which is bullshit because if Satoru knew it, he would know the killer would try to murder him.
Episode 11: The killer does his best to make the protagonist remember he is the killer instead of killing him right away.
Episode 12: The killer magically changes his goal from trying to murder the protagonist, to saving his life and then killing himself.
>>139251320
9) PEDOPHILIA, AS THE PROTAGONIST IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO A LITTLE GIRL.
No fan boys, just because his body is 10 years old, does not make his brain not 30 years old. And nobody knowing he is not really a child does makes him not pedo. Pleading ignorance does not pass in court.
Oh, sorry officer, I thought I could have sex with 10 year olds because I’m a time traveler.
10) ONE DIMENSIONAL EVIL CHARACTERS.
- The manager lusts over Airi, and betrays the protagonist just so he can have her for himself. The fan boys try to excuse it like he did what he thought was right, but all we see is him being a jerk who laughs idiotically and saves Airi because he wants to impress her and get in her pants.
- Letting us know Hibazuki’s mother was mistreated by her husband does not excuse her actions. She is one dimensional because her husband was one dimensional, the end.
- The killer loves to kidnap and murder little children, just because. He is also presented as a mastermind for half the show, always magically teleporting to people that find out who he is, and managing to throw the blame for what he did to someone else. But towards the end, he turns into a laughably incompetent idiot who monologues his evil plans to the protagonist and has no alibi for what he does. He also changes his reason for killing people, from making sure nobody will find out who he is, to magic spider webs only he can see being the reason he needs to kill certain individuals. Also, he does his best to be caught by making the protagonist REMEMBER he is the killer and not killing him while he is vulnerable.
>>139251018
>Hating a character design so much you create such a retarded image of a series.
>Everyone here has an account on MAL.
>>139251369
11) AWFUL TIME SKIP.
Any hints of logic the show had, are completely gone when a time skip takes place in the last episodes.
- The protagonist falls in a coma and wakes up with amnesia, two of the most bullshit tropes only lazy soap opera writers would be using. Not only that but they are also completely meaningless. They are both dealt with in the same episode they appear in.
- The only major change made during the time skip was the kids he saved getting married, and everything else remained exactly the same. Because that’s how time travel works. Why would his mother be living in a different place when she is taking care of a comatose man, or the killer having a different lifestyle when he ran away from town and didn’t kill anyone?
- Why the hell did those kids marry each other? There was no damn chemistry between them! Three quarters of the show were spent on building a relationship between the girl and the protagonist, and the result is her getting married to a minor character she didn’t care about that looks like a girl? How did that happen?
- Every fantard was yelling netorare in the episode discussions for not getting the pedophilia ship they were hoping for. In fact, the show began decreasing in average score only because it made the fandom very butthurt.
- Not only the killer did not try to kill the protagonist while he was defenseless in a coma, but also does his best to make him remember. Where did his ingenious plans to keep his crimes hidden went to?
12) UNDEFINED FOCUS.
This show has no idea of what it’s trying to be about, leading to a complete lack of identity. This is evident in how the fanboys were gradually changing their opinion of the show, every time something was disappointing them.
- First, they said it was a time travel type of story. Something I proved it was very bad because it made no sense.
>>139251420
- So, they switch their opinion to, no it’s not about time travel but a mystery story about trying to uncover a killer. Something I also proved wrong, since there was absolutely no deduction made by the protagonist and the killer was obvious right away. I mean, yeah, the fanboys were still surprised with the obvious revelation because they were refusing to believe it would be so obvious. They still pretended it was amazing writing because it made it seem it was too easy to be him. This was self trolling caused by people who didn’t want to accept it was so easy after all.
- Then they say it was never a mystery but rather a thriller, where the protagonist is rushing to save kids from a killer before it’s too late. Again, I proved this was a lie since the constant time resets and the plot conveniences were destroying all sense of tension.
- Desperate to excuse it somehow, the fanboys were then saying it was a drama about people living miserable lives by being mistreated by their family or not getting what they want in life. Something I also proved it was the result of being stupid and not simply talking about it.
- Oh, and let’s not forget the usual double standards they were using all the time, saying how real the characters are, how the show makes them cry, and how amazingly interesting the mystery is. But when I proved the time resets are unexplained bullshit, they immediately say it is just a cartoon and you shouldn’t take it seriously. If that is so, why do you find them real and cry about it??? Why do you call the mystery amazing when it makes no sense???
See? They can’t even defend the show as something done right.
>>139251461
SO WHY THE DEVIL WAS THIS SHOW SO HYPED AND ADORED BY EVERYBODY?
Erased fails in everything besides emotional manipulation. It had a premise where a good hearted man tries to save his mother and a cute girl the viewers feel sorry for. As soon as both these issues were solved in episode 9, the interest in the show immediately evaporated and what followed was a bullshit killer revelation and a retarded time skip nobody could take seriously.
Basically, while the show was using forced drama and a sickening romance between a man and a little girl, everybody was blinded to its problems. The second those were dealt with, they instantly woke up and realized it was crap all along. The whole thing is yet another example of why crap like Sword Art Online become super hyped and loved by everybody while they air, and then are hated as soon as they are over. The anime community is a cesspool of immature people who can’t think straight and let emotions cloud their perception. And then some wonder why Donald Trump is so adored for all the ridiculous things he does. Faith in humanity, lost.
>>139248780
>not loving cuck shit
you are a fucking faggot lmao
>>139248436
>Everyone here has an account on MAL.
Found the MALfag.
Who gives a shit about MAL?
>>139251509
>And then some wonder why Donald Trump is so adored for all the ridiculous things he does.
you had me and lost me
Everything outside of 1988 felt like it was lacking in every regard. It's obvious the writing and atmosphere was much better because the mangaka found it easier to relate to.
>>139248436
>Everyone here has an account on MAL.
Nope, try again. I don't really go to that site, the only reason I post here is because I don't have to make an account. And considering the season it aired it's not surprising this got popular. Shit barely had any competition.
>>139248436
>there are people browsing /a/ right now that don't have account on MAL, Animeplanet or AniDB
Don't tell me you use excel autists
A slice of life with Satoru and his friends would of been better than the crap after the coma.
>>139248436
>Everyone here has an account on MAL.
>he doesn't have Noptepad account
Shame on you, MALfag
>>139250122
Don't make such idiotic claims if you don't want anyone to shit on you for your idiotic claims, fucker.
Is Satoru author self-insert?
>>139248436
What do the kids say whenever they part ways?
All I know is it starts with an "s"
>>139248436
>MAL shit
>Everyone here has an account on MAL
Fuck off.
>>139252028
>>139251921
Ah, so that's why MAL threads get over 500 posts every time!
So is anyone actually reading the long posts this guy is writing? I just scrolled past them tbqh but he seems to just be quoting himself
Etou. What is MAL?
>>139251018
>First & Second reset: He saves kids because he is altruistic
>Never explained why he is, he was magically born that way.
>Third reset: He wants to save his mother by manipulating the emotions of a little girl
>A selfish reason, now he is magically no longer altruistic.
>Fourth reset: He wants to save the little girl
>He no longer cares about saving his mother, which by the way was never hard to save. He had 20 years of time to simply be around her when the fateful night arrives.
While I agree with a lot of what you've stated, these complaints are awful contrived. He's never portrayed as selfish, he never explicitly doesn't care about his mother. He just needs to make sure the murders don't happen so his mom doesn't get killed, over the course of the series, he comes to care about Kayo naturally as a result of her safety being a priority. His motivations fall under a single umbrella, these complaints are fucking shit.
>>139251672
>tfw even your gf's son
I think you are the one rating it so high. Fucking cucks.
>>139252108
>he took the bait
>>139252060
This, i dont bother with the wall of text.
>>139251921
>he's a special snowflake that uses notepad isntead of more convenient ways
>>139252108
nah, i give 5 to stuff like ERASED and steins;gate, i don't tend to overrate shows
>>139252009
"Shitake" essentially. Not sure if that's the correct romaji though
>MALshit
MODS
>>139252060
>>139252140
It's from that fat greek Sonb autist that literally everyone hates, he got banned on MAL and he's a laughing stock even on reddit
so all bokumachi threads went from cuck reactions to "why do people hate this show/this show is overrated/ending sucks"
>>139248436
>Everyone here has an account on MAL
You are incorrect.
>>139248436
>(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
>>139251049
>Episode 3: The protagonist has birthday the exact same day as the girl he is trying to save. This is way too convenient and lazy writing for the sake of cheap feels. He already wants to save her; there is no reason to hammer it even further with more drama.
That seems like a normal plot point that let him get closer to Kayo. A plot contrivance would be something that moves the plot forward without feeling natural.
>Episode 5: Airi appears out of nowhere and helps the protagonist when he is hunted by the police. The reason? She just believes he is not a killer. Ok…
Well, she met his mother and kind of had a thing for him. She had decent reasons for sticking by him.Having faith in someone is also kind of an important theme in the series.
>Episode 6: The manager appears out of nowhere to help out the protagonist. The script just wanted him to be there for the sake of plot armor.
The manager didn't help him, he betrayed him.
>Episode 7: The protagonist is about to kill someone when a friend of his appears out of nowhere and stops him before it’s too late. The script just wanted him to be there for the sake of ruining tension.
They establish earlier that Kenya had been worried about Satoru's mental state, Satoru also feels backed into a corner and feels like he has few options. It culminates in this scene and both characters were further developed by it.
I agree with a lot of the stuff you've said, but you're seriously fishing with some of your bullshit.
>>139252329
How do you keep a track of all the shows you ever watched?
For me it would be impossible without MAL.
>>139252393
>someone dared to criticize my favorite cuck show!
>WAAAAH MOOOOODS!!!!!
>>139252441
The only thing he is fishing for is replies.
>>139248436
>Everyone here has an account on MAL.
holyshit, kill yourself
>>139252487
I used my memory until about 100 shows and then gave in an made an account
>current year
>not having MAL account
>>139252620
>listing anime on mal
Kill yourself
>>139252733
>>139252733
>Uses mal
everyone that uses mal in this thread or on 4chan should gas themselves.
btw I listened to kendrick and now im black nigguh
STORY:
It's about a paedophile with mind powers and he tries to save a little girl with his mind powers while being a retard who doesn't even know that you need to stay down when you're inside a building in fire
ART:
why do all the little girls have red beside their eyes like were they crying because they are stuck in a shit anime or what, also the little girl thats running or walking or someshit in the ending song is annoying for some reason
SOUND:
OP is okay and i dont remember the ED, didin't notice any good track in the actual anime so i guess its shit
CHARACTERS:
The maincharacter is a huge fucking dumbass, even an unborn baby (fetus) is smarter than this dumbass that doesn't even think that his phone is being tracked when he's a wanted man, also he didin't get down while there was a fire like what the fuck did this guy even go to school, The rest of the characters are either little kids/child rapists/ C U C K S / or overrated moms with shit lips
the guy who designed the mom was probably like "DUDE IM DESIGNING LMAO"
OVERALL:
Story: 0/10
Art: 2/10
Sound 1/10
Characters: 0/10
3/10 its fucking trash
but hey if you're a 9 year old or/and a C U C K you might like it
>>139252693
>>139252821
Cry more stupid special snowflake
You just mark the shows you watched there, you don't even have to share your profiile with anyone
>>139248995
>>139249289
>>139249590
>>139251552
>>139252329
>>139252549
>>139252693
>>139252821
>look mom I'm being edgy on 4chan
>>139251509
>SO WHY THE DEVIL WAS THIS SHOW SO HYPED AND ADORED BY EVERYBODY?
> the show was using forced drama and a sickening
>romance between a man and a little girl
You just answered your own question mate.
>>139248436
The well-grounded characters really stood out to me. But the pacing and focus of the story were way off. If it wasn't a wish-fulfillment premise I couldn't figure out what it was trying to be unless it's the next worst thing; a training manual for introverts. I was laughing like hell at THAT scene. Tears of joy for sure. hahaha
>>139248436
This is my opinion as someone who watched ERASED weekly and enjoyed it.
>Why is ERASED so overrated?
The art is good. There is more to the art than the kawaii anime faces. The backgrounds are excellent and their faces are not bad. Their choice of colours and lighting are deliberate, muted and are not painful to look at. I liked the fact that this anime did not have fruity, vibrant colours like other anime.
Many of the characters are objectively likable. Specifically Sachiko, some of the things she did were very satisfying and made her the "cool mom".
The voice acting is on par. Kayo's voice stands out as being very fitting to her character (not a surprise, her seiyuu is a goddess.)
>What rules of time travel does the story follow?
This should've been explained. No excuses here.
>This isn't even including times where characters became incredibly stupid for the sake of the plot's progression, like how Satoru red flags Sensei, and tells him he has his memories back, only to make himself be seen as a threat to a man who can easily best his crippled ass in a fight.
This scene, as well as that damned drowning scene, were very weak. Satoru goes from being too stupid to suspect Yashiro is the killer, to being able to play mind games and outsmarting Yashiro like that, the serial killer who in another timeline had framed others for his crimes. Satoru's a tiny 10 year old boy. He is stuck in a seat belt. Satoru drove when he was 29 years old, there is NO WAY he does not know how to loosen the seat belt. The only excuse I can find is that Yashiro rigged the entire seat belt and not just the buckle. Disappointing.
Who saved Satoru from the car? Was it implied that it was Yashiro in the anime? Where is the explanation of why he didn't die and instead fell into a coma like in the manga?
Also, Kayo and Satoru looked cute but I am not disappointed that she married Hiromi.
Time for some lunch. Cheers
>>139248995
>>139249289
>>139249590
>>139251552
>>139252329
>>139252549
>>139252693
>>139252821
"FUCK YOU I WONT DO WAT U TELL ME!!"
Wow, you are so unique and different! A true outlaw!
>>139252881
God, you're retarded. I don't agree with the people that overrate the show, but damn...
>>139248436
Why does people care about MAL ranking?
>>139253219
Even Kenya was a better option than Hiromi; that came out of nowhere.
>>139252770
Check ’Em
>>139253231
>>139253095
>samefagging to defend MAL
Sometimes I forget how many delusional, shitty people there are on /a/.
>>139248436
Read the manga bro
There's a difference in having an account on MAL and actually participating in the MAl-Community, desu senpai.
>whining about MAL ranking
Go complain on MAL, nobody here gives a shit.
>>139253255
Cause they're newfags who think /a/nons care about what MAL thinks.
Do japanese list their anime like malfag?
Jesus look at the mangaka's portfolio hahahahahaha.
Is it the same 4 or 5 people always saying the word MALfag? Because it's actually a useful tool to keep track of your shit so I don't understand the term MALfag unless you're one of those MAL forum frequenters trying to sound smart or funny.
>>139253709
To be fair, MAL forum frequenters are stupid but they don't try to pretend to be better.
>MAL
Who cares?
>>139252222
Taiga is even more convenient than MAL, so you must be the special snowflake, it updates when you watch shows, you don't need to be connect to the internet to use it, it can warn you if a torrent comes up if you're to retarded to RSS, and it pools it's database from MAL.
There literally isn't a reason to use MAL other than being a special snowflake.
>>139251132
>Episode 11: The killer knew that the protagonist is alive but in a coma for many years, yet didn’t do anything to kill him, despite having the political power to do anything he likes. He just reappears when the protagonists wakes up, does his best to make him remember what happened, and THEN tries to kill him.
>Episode 12: The killer out of nowhere is not only unable to kill the protagonist but he is also willing to save him and commit suicide if the guy he wanted to kill just a few seconds ago is not alive. And all that were well known to the protagonist who had regained his memories just a few minutes ago. What the frack???
Sensei was waiting for Satoru to awaken so he could continue his game of cat and mouse. Satoru was like a challenge for him and life/kidnapping was not fun without him. Sensei also visited him throughout the years.Best girl.
>>139251369
9) To be honest, unless you're dealing with the time police, if you're in the body of a ten year old, you have built-in defense. They'll worry more about *YOU* being a victim of abuse yourself.
I am honestly not sure how any of them would react to that story.
>>139248436
>reading all that shit
Just post some cute girls or boys and enjoy it or let it be.
So, what are the odds on the next 'relatively mature and mainstream' anime actually having decent source material.
>>139248436
Except those shows were actually good
Ill be honest, i got a MAL Acc, i like how it organise my list and not really care about the rankings, i always give 9 ranking to everything just to fuck it up desu, i couldn't care less
Are all MAL fags autistic?
I wish people would just get instant bans by mentioning this shitty website or ANN reviews. It's also always only used by shitposters to fuck up threads. They just keep posting some shitty MAL or ANN review or ranking that gives the series a 9/10 and retards follow the meme train to claim it to be bad or else those retards on other websites wouldn't give them many points, even when every other review by the same fags is 9/10 as well.
>>139248436
it's been going down the rankings in the last few days. soon it will be out of the top 20
>>139254367
I think it's the other way around that are autistic desu. You must be to be upset about people using a website
>>139253576
>portfolio
Where the fuck did you come from?
>>139254161
Well, the new LoGH is coming out soon.
KAYO
>>139248436
Because a large proportion of MAL users are secret lolicons: they're pedos but feel guilty about it. Boku Dachi provided a way for them to have their lolicon fetish without feeling squeemish. That's why they started panning it the moment it switched away from being a sort-of love story with a little girl.
MAL is cancer, desu senpai
>>139254508
I don't care about people using the website but people who use it to derail threads of series they don't like and this happens all the time here. You just have to point out that MAL or tumblr like a series and everyone will start sperging around and shitpost the series into oblivion due to their hate for MAl, tumblr, whatever.
>>139254519
Unemployment.
>>139254558
That'll do but I was thinking more along the lines modern day drama (Sangatsu I guess?).
>>139254367
They're just newfags trying to be the epic troll and defensive MAL forum users.
>>139254625
Sure, whatever you say.
>>139254654
It will get tons of shitposts nonetheless unless there are enough other hyped shows or niche anime airing at the same time.
It's just like shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso in that it's an entry level anime which is distinctly different from the original entry level series. The exact same thing happened with Shingeki no kyojin and steins gate.
>>139254776
Anyone shitposting about Sangatsu will be hanged.
Taking the base score at face value is idiotic. Trendlines and direction are more important. You can shift the score +/- 2.0 points, but the trend still remains the same.
MAL/reddit/etc. started hating the anime towards the end, and it shows. Maybe not as much as /a/ does, but it's there.
I want MAL cancers to leave
>>139248436
>Why is ERASED so overrated?
Because MAL is a bunch of children.
![[HorribleSubs] Boku dake ga Inai Machi - 12 [1080p].mkv_snapshot_14.29_[2016.03.26_19.09.27].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/tRnf54F.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Boku dake ga Inai Machi - 12 [1080p].mkv_snapshot_14.29_[2016.03.26_19.09.27].jpg")
What were they thinking?
The show baited hinazuki x satoru
everyone watched it for the romance
then the ntr scene happened
>>139253871
Is Taiga free as in freedom?
>>139255282
He's right 2bh anon
>>139255355
>NTR
>a girl just chosed to go on with her life instead of expecting for 15 years old vegetal to wake up
this is neo /a/ everyone
>>139255355
This
>>139255467
He's talking about the audience being NTRd. This is narrative NTR at its finest
>>139255467
why didn't they showed her being single ?
the show wanted to be realistic right ?
Don't give me that bullshit,a japanese woman doesn't have a baby at 25 yo,and no one marry his childhood friend,that almost never happen,statistics mate
>>139255382
GNU GPL
>>139255588
The mangaka wanted to be poetic. It wasn't about it being realistic, it was about making a point.
>>139255355
>everyone watched it for the romance
Speaking of yourself. Although the childhood scenes were one of the reason why I liked it but I had no problem with the NTR, it actually surprised me since barely see this happening. I actually find Kayo as an adult very uninteresting to be honest. While the other girls got better she was more boring later, what made her interesting in the past was her pessimistic nature and it was nice seeing her warming up step by step thanks to the help of others.
>>139255669
Then it tried to do it very badly.
The show was terrible,the story had a shitloads of plotholes,the characters made no sense at time.
Kenya who was fucking 10yo was more intelligent than satoru,hinazuki was more mature than satoru just because she was beaten,etc.
Erased was bad,the first episodes were pretty good honestly,but don't lie,this show just went to shit.
>>139255807
The build up to it was not good, no one expected that outcome. The baby was named future for fuck sake. Kayo understanding Satoru I get and liked. I don't mind too much about Kenya.
>>139255907
well maybe you don't mind about plotholes but some do i guess
when you're new to anime you don't think a lot about the plot,you just like seeing it because the art is good for example.
But when you start to get deeper into anime you have higher expectations i think
That's why MAL and reddit liked a lot erased,they're mostly casuals who doesn't care about writing errors.
The amount of salt, tears and semen from circlejerking this thread has accumulated is astounding.
>>139248436
Good character designs, pretty looking visuals here and there, and a plot that's different than most anime plots. That's all it takes for less selective anime fans to convince themselves that they're watching something "great."
But in the end, they aren't getting a Ghost in the Shell or a Gurren Lagann. They're getting a Shin Sekai Yori or some other series that ironically leaves less impact on people compared to adaptations of Weekly Shounen Jump manga.
>>139255588
Is 25 too young or too old? I don't really get it. I guess too young but it happens quite often that people who were abused during their childhood have a need for a family to compensate for the lack of a family in their past whereas normal people of that age don't care about it.
The unrealistic part was that Hirmo was the father but this affects all friends. I found it incredibly unrealistic that all of them were still together and still best friends. This might happen with two people but I've never heard that a whole small group of friends were already friends in their elementary school years and that they never lost connection with each other and even study shit to help the coma victim like Hiromi becoming a doctor. In the end the other two guys are even togheter with Misato and the other girl.
I want to fuck Kayo.
>>139255382
GTFO Stallman
>>139256277
Too young because of work related stuff in japan,it fuck up your career.
Also yeah this show just isn't realistic,i don't get why so many people say that it is while it really isn't.
Why even live
>>139255382
Literally botnet
>>139248436
give me enough examples of anime shows being shown at the same time which would warrant Erased not being popular?
>>139249642
honestly. i like the ride they took us on, the emotions, etc. i don't understand what people hope to get out of saying a show is overrated, are they expecting people to change how they felt about a show they enjoyed? or just obstruct other people who haven't watched the show from watching it?
>>139256479
In relation I guess. Overall it's still realistic if you compare it with 97% of the rest of anime that air. There were actually many things that reminded me of my past in the 80s and during elementary school and the problems (abuse and murder) are actually things that exist in real life and with which people will probably even be confronted with. It's different from super power matches, fantasy stuff or over the top villains that threat to destroy half of the earth like in other anime.
>>139248436
For a board that seems to thrive on acting superior to other communities in terms of anime taste, you guys sure love to complain about other people's opinions.
I like the show, because it's a well directed show dragged down by its source material. But the show definitely tries its hardest to keep moving forward despite that, and it improves on the original in alot of ways.
>>139250527
nothing wrong with that, not that I agree, but I loved both of those shows, and I like many shows which aren't similar to these shows in any way, employ many cliches, tropes, etc. or are very original and may or may not have the best art as long as it is entertaining.
>>139256895
It's usually not even people that are /a/ natives and it's just about hate of popular things they don't like. That's why series that only have small fanbases have the best threads. Haters drop it and don't care about it anymore since they'll barely ever see it getting mentioned anywhere due to the lack of popularity.
>>139249372
what is Boku no Pico rated?
>>139257150
*I meant to quote >>139256883
Have some random fanart.
so do they get together or what?
and which is better, anime or manga?
>>139257391 here
also why do they change the name to ERASED for?
>>139257391
I like both the same. There are scenes I loved in the manga which the anime misses and there are things I prefer in the anime. Just watch the anime and read the manga after that.
>>139256248
After 6 years spent on /a/ I still get triggered whenever someone calls Gurren Lagann good.
>>139252487
>How do you keep a track of all the shows you ever watched?
I don't.
Why do people feel the need to keep track of all the shows they've ever watched in the first place? I don't get it.
I was going to ask if they do the same with the people they've met, or the music they listen, but I remembered that facebook and last.fm exist so I won't bother.
>>139257728
Why do you even care so much when the hype was long gone when you joined? Are other opinions that triggering for you?
>>139257735
I think most people only do it for current series. I wouldn't surivce with shit like this since I am "reading" about 60 manga series that are ongoing and about 16 anime each season. I tried it before but I wasted too much time searching for the last chapter or episode I've read/watched since I don't always do that as soon as something gets released and my memory is shit anyway.
>>139257735
Cause it makes looking back and reminiscing far easier. Even really good stuff is hard to remember if you watch alot of stuff.
>>139257540
But!
You didn't answer my question:
>so do they get together or what?
>>139258029
Yeah it's a good thing to find other good series. I just look at the manga or anime I liked the most and search for other works by the same author or studio. There is no way someone can remember everything he liked when he has seen more than 500 anime or something.
>>139258267
why?
Who > Kayo.
>>139258346
because he get cuck
Why can't Snob just start a blog instead of splaying his shit over here?
>>139258346
Because the author is a hack
>>139258346
By the time he awakes from a 15 year long coma she's already married with someone else.
Thank you Sensei you faggot.
>>139258530
Did anybody even read those textwalls?I only joined the thread to dicuss one of the series I enjoyed.
>>139258666
I was hoping to discuss it since I'm marathoning it now.
All I saw was the usual mal shitposting and some anon very angry about this series
>>139258474
>>139258551
>>139258576
well there goes something I want them to be cannoned and have a happy ending!
>>139258828
and you break my heart too anons!
>>139258796
You should just leave and finish the series first. Believe me, the threads will only take away the fun you would probably have without them.
>24 y/o
>hanging out with 10 y/o's and inviting them to your house
Yuki had it coming
>>139258796
Just discuss it preferably in a non shit thread.
>>139248436
You are trying to hard, it's anime deal with it.
>>139258944
Fuck society for this though. I knew some guys like him when I was a little kid and even visited them and they were always cool guys. Nowadays you go to prison if you only look at kids. Well if you're an adult man at least.
It's why I liked that scene in which adult Satoru plays with those two boys for a moment and as soon as some mothers see him they start suspecing him being a pedo. This scene was anime original AFAIK. The manga only showed him with the kids.
>>139253487
Yes they call it BD/DVD sales.
This show reminded me how much I love fat lips in anime
>>139259522
I also really liked the eyes, especially the eye lashes, in this anime. It made the characters look hotter. I just wish it had more fanart.
>>139248436
Agree terrible show
So the story had problems. How would you fix it then, /a/?
>>139259835
More porn.
>>139259879
I meant this particular story, anon, not every story.
