I think it may be the later because I know that early WB, MGM and to an extend Disney weren't considered wholly "children's media" and could get decently dark for there time. Granted this was back when all cartoons where either movies or shorts that aired before movies so I kinda want to say this happened when TV animation started becoming more prevalent but part of me wants to also blame the MPAA for being a bit retarded since they give almost every 2d movie a G rating, and this includes shit from Don "showing fucked up things to kids is OK as long as there's a happy ending" Bluth,
Still trying to figure out how to explain it... basically Kintaro goes into a VR thing because he became a sex addict, so he wants to reminisce/grow as a person, but it‘s basically just like 3 straight chapters of him getting NTR’d, and he decides that makes him a better person by not getting attached to women as things, and then he gets so distraught that the girl is more turned on by the bull which makes the power short out to the whole town and... end of manga. Or something.
Hot damn, IDK what can I say except based.
Oh yeah I wanted to complain how the new mech looked like a fucking abortion but I forgot about it because the show is so forgettable. It also feels unearned, not one of the protagonists grew up in any way. The team still feels like they'd rather go home and feel depressed than protect their city.
what is up with Japs and NTR?
I think part of the problem is how it tries to cram in so much characterization and plots with its cast into too little space. And the problem there is that the plots seem to go nowhere and don't feel connected to any greater whole. There's nothing to keep me wondering like Gridman's big reveals. It's really a show that just kept stringing me along and making me expect "oh shit, dramatic reveal when" or "oh shit, fights are gonna get hardcore" but at some point you realize what a colossal waste of time it all is. This sort of pacing would barely work in a 50 episode show, let alone a 12 episode show.
Man, Yugiri truly is the 2nd best girl after Tae.
That wait was truly worth it.
One of the very few times where it's too bad I don't have a Twitter because it would be super interesting to ask her what it was like to be a woman in the field when she first started out. Some fan I had briefly been acquainted with years ago had claimed to have actually met Rumiko, and he told me that back in the '70s, she would have to walk to another block just to go to the restroom because the place she worked at didn't have women's toilets. And also, that she wrote Akane Tendō the way she did to satirize and flip on its head Japanese society's standards on how women are to behave and reciprocate men's advances.
No, Trigger just absolutely sucks at writing characters. Zombieland Saga, a show about zombie girls making an idol group, managed to make a full story of three characters in about one hour runtime that was miles above anything Trigger wrote over full seasons.
