We're sampling all the new pilots this Winter. Check out our thoughts on...
- JOJO'S - BATTLE IN EGYPT ** ASSASSINATION CLASSROOM ** DEATH PARADE
- MARIA THE VIRGIN WITCH ** YATTERMAN NIGHT ** THE ROLLING GIRLS
- THE TESTAMENT OF SISTER NEW DEVIL ** THE IDOLM@STER ** KANTAI COLLECTION
- ABSOLUTE DUO ** YURI KUMA ARASHI ** UNLIMITED FAFNIR ** WORLD BREAK
- CUTE HIGH EARTH DEFENSE CLUB LOVE ** SAMURAI WARRIORS
It's too bad I didn't see this before I watched WORLD BREAK. I could've tied them together into some editorial about Stereotypical Anime, explaining how these two shows are textbook examples of crews just playing Mad Libs with tropes.
OK! We've got the tempestuous tsundere! And the nebbish, bespectacled nerd! And they get into all hot/cold entanglements together! And there are demons! And it's a set at a school! And blah blah blah...
== TEASER ==
The only thing that made this stand out were the scenes where our the dude is lured into danger by pretty girls, only for the tsundere to charge at them with her bow, because she can see the huge, horrible monsters that they really are. Of course, I write that, and there are probably plenty of other shows in this genre (?) which did the exact same bait-and-switch.
I'd probably have more vitriol to spew, if this didn't feel like the fourth or fifth time I've needed to. There's nothing left to get worked up over. You know what this show is. You don't have to see it. And if these tropes push your buttons then, hey, go ahead and watch it, because it's pushing them exactly like the like the last dozen did.
Maybe it'd be better to just ask you Vicers a question? What tropes do you hate the most? What tropes are you sick of seeing in modern anime? And which specific hows are even more guilty of being Stereotypical Anime than this is?
Watch this pilot and decide for yourself.
from Anime Vice Site Mashup http://ift.tt/1CXosWv
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