Talk:Raven VS Twilight Sparkle/@comment-33314856-20180228181604/@comment-33314856-20180228192545

^ It's a rather strange story, but it starts with Toonami way back in 2005-07ish area. They used to air DBZ and Naruto and Bleach and all these great things, and then Toonami moved to a different channel. I stopped watching but got back in year or two later, but at that point the shows all became the same over and over. DBZ is just "new character, Goku get rekt, Goku gets new form, Goku wins", and Goku's character got more and more annoying as time went on, since he started as a symbol of hard work, but now he just obliterates everything. Shows like Naruto and Bleach I can appreciate, they change things up. Naruto follows Naruto's life, as he grows up, things change. Bleach constantly introduces new characters and elements that make things more interesting. The problem for me, is when trying to start an anime, these common clichés ruin the story by making it easier to predict plot points and plot twists. There isn't anything interesting about them, for chance. Adaptations, like Castlevania and Godzilla, are fine, it's a set story that has been told over and over, but this time it's anime. Alright, but shows like SAO and One Piece, who try to tell a story, fall short in their focus on one person or group. Instead of a developing story and world, like one would believe, we are only exposed to one or more people's development, and taking Ace's death as an example, it's hard to get invested when all we really know is how a select few were effected. The extremeley long episodes (One Piece has 900+) also make it hard to make time to get into the series'. But ever since the original arcs of DBZ and Naruto, which broke grounds in their ability to tell stories, many other animes fail to set up their scenario, so when a plot twist happens, they tell us it's effects, instead of letting the viewer know what happened. For example, a death of a large character. In a good story, we would immediately know what that entails for the characters and plot, but in most modern animes, the show has to explicitly tell us, cause we would'nt know otherwise. I have tried several times to get into JoJo and One Punch Man specifically, both of which get praise for storytelling, but the whole genre is just a turn off for me, since it is just a reminder of most of the garbage nowaday. The biggest offender to me is Digimon and Pokémon. Pokémon tells the same story, Ash enter tournament while evading Team Rocket, fails to win. Digimon tells the story of several different protaganists and digimon, in an attempt to make the world more expansive. Guess which one gets more praise? Pokémon does, and for this reason I personally believe that anime is bad. It is forced under the assumption viewers like repetition, which isn't all bad, but there are very few original animes out there anymore, with some exceptions being JoJo and OPM, but like I said, I just can't get into those. It may sound pretty petty, but to me, the majority of anime is the same storytelling, with different characters and settings