Shiki is awesome and sadly underrated. It admittedly falls off in its latter half, but I got hooked a couple episodes in and binged it over a weekend. The OVAs for it too are fantastic, especially the one where (IIRC) the locals trap a bunch of the zombies in a cave and subsequently go in and slaughter them all.
I think it's more that anime lost it's balls in the last 2 decades. I don't remember any other anime ending with a Kill Them All plus a lot of sudden deaths.
Honestly, I think the shit quality of MAL has stayed consistent only now offended zoomers are writing all the worst reviews instead of pretentious oldfags who think it's gay to like anything except for JoJo and LOTGH. I don't think anyone really hates death in general when it comes to stories but realistically, how often is it nowadays that a bunch of deaths are done cheaply without adding anything to the story except shock value? I remember everyone here talking about Gundam IBO a while back and agreeing pretty unanimously that most of the deaths were just mean spirited, pointless and gay. With bullshit like that, I wouldn't be surprised if some zoomers just thought death in general just kinda sucks in media but they'll overlook it if done right.
I agree, I liked it when we could enjoy our stuff in peace. I wish geek culture never went mainstream.
I hate those people, so much. They will never be attractive no matter how much they try.
Nigga gave it an 8/10 though. Seems like he knows his preferences are only mild criticism and just failed to couch them as mild. I think it's a gay preference but it's muddied water too.
There's still a lot of those types of series.
Shiki is one of the few vampire themed anime I could watch. It's a good one.
Can I watch anime in peace without the psych eval?
My only problem with Shiki was it trying to portray the Vampires as victims when they 100% deserve everything that happens to them.
Some of them were kinda given the sympathetic treatment, but Pinkie and a bunch of the others were clearly not.
Based, she's a cute. That said,Sword Maiden is best girl.
The only ones who were sympathetic were the ones who tried to avoid drinking humans, but the revelation that Vampires can live off donated blood plus the psychological nightmare they put the doctor through pretty much makes them completely irredeemable. The anime tried to make a "humans are the real monsters" but ignores the fact that half the village was wiped out.
Is that so?
By a long shot.
I liked IBO in large part for that exact reason though. It was a pretty realistic handling of character death, honestly. Orga decided not only to fuck around in the shadiest and darkest of underground circles, but also decided, against all forewarnings and conventional wisdom, to shortcut the way to Tekkadan's success as much as possible. And I believe if it were any other story, most people wouldn't think twice about the fact that when you cross dangerous people, there's usually severe comeuppance sooner or later. I don't know why a lot of IBO's viewers suddenly decided this couldn't possibly be the case with Gundam, but it should have been pretty obvious (at least, it always was to me) when you looked at the entire setting objectively.
I see.
I didn't really have a problem with it because it winds up dealing with moral absolutes. The vamps are to be detested by humans because of what they do, but obviously in their eyes they cannot help who they are - they're fulfilling their biological requirements. Likewise humans naturally want them exterminated because they threaten the community and everyone in it. I enjoy this sort of nuance because it forces you to recognize the other side has a legitimate argument even while actively seeking them dead.
