General Anime/Manga/Otaku Thread

[RepentantSky]

I would have to disagree on that bit. SAO has a protagonist that has everything go well for him for plot reasons while the protag of Zero gets dragged through the mud to do simple things.

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Konosuba got into our anime soc's weekly showing (12 weeks in a term, so we show a short series every week) and honestly it was pretty much trash.

Every time it came on, no one would watch it and people would leave immediately which dwindled the numbers down to me, my friends and the regulars.

Konosuba single handedly killed our anime society.

I mean it in the "normal guy ends up in an RPG" sense. The tone is completely different.

It's not really the protagonist that I'm referring to, if anything he's actually less memorable than Kirito, whether it be because of his name, which I can't remember for the life of me, or something else. It's the rest of the show that feels like SAO to me. Also, while I'm thinking about the main protagonist, I hated him in that first episode. He starts of by complaining that he doesn't have Excalibur at the beginning. That line just makes him sound pointlessly whiny. It's kind of nice that he tries to do something to help another character and dies it for it a few times, but beyond that, he's just annoying and at least as far as I could stand to watch, pretty worthless. I'm pretty sure he gets over that at some point, but I'm sick of main characters that are either perfect at the start, or so unbelievably useless to everyone around them literally dies because of their incompetence. It's always one extreme or the other. I'd like some balance in there from the start for once, so the character feels realistic. It's also pretty much impossible for me to accept that this guy has a better build than people who are actually that introverted would have, just as an excuse to show some hidden potential in him. That's actually taking the idea of show don't tell to the most minimalist acceptance that you can and just going with it.