Hey, tomorrow (12th) is my birthday and figured in the light of all of the crap happening in my life I talk about something both extremely important and fun in my life.

Comic books!

They had gotten my through nearly every awful time in my life, including living my early teens in the middle of nowhere without electricity and still managing to get an issue of Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog when it got released, later one picking up an issue of Crimson when the shop (Cody's of Odessa, TX) stopped carrying the comic itself and kind of setting me down a path of my cartoon/non-realistic rendering style of art.

Which leads me to something I just want to talk about is for the longest time I've been taking a lot of influence from Shonen manga for, well, decades but kind of feeling a bit bored and decide to take a step back, go back to trying to pick up something from Joe Mad and Todd McFarlane to work out something different from the crowd a bit.

Truth be told I'm very tired right now, want to to talk about how while I love, love love anime and manga, lately I had been so lately I had found anything made post 2010's had been grating my nerves due to having awesome ideas (like mascots coming to live and going on rampages, being teleported to another world) only to crap the bed (revealing it was a virus, the fantasy world is just generic high fantasy), and primarily I had been hungry for adult furry media which is coming out in drips, very small drips.

It's all I got right now I'm just going to go to bed and let you guys talk about comic books.

Happy Birthday! :)

Anime fits pretty strictly to trends unfortunately. I'm loving Spy X family at the moment because it breaks out of that.
I was super poplar and it has lots of fan love and I think the reason is that it breaks out of the trend.
It's really not that ground breaking of unusual, new, or clever, but it's heart-warming and NOT THE SAME as all the other stuff at the moment which makes it 100 X better!

Plus the protagonists aren't all 14 year old kids which is in itself a massive step up. I'm not sure when anime got dominated by 14 year old kid characters, but it wasn't always that way.

Happy Birthday!

Thanks for the Happy birthdays everyone.

Ozoneocean wrote:
Plus the protagonists aren't all 14 year old kids which is in itself a massive step up. I'm not sure when anime got dominated by 14 year old kid characters, but it wasn't always that way.

That I can kind of explain, sort of.

It is because mainly a wish fulfillment and a bit of the curse of the Everyman syndrome that plagues Isekai, a sort of blank slate for the audience to pour themselves in. Also having the same kind of issue is they tend to be “inexperienced” and must be explained things to, and thus the focus of exposition dumps for the audience.

Basically, they aren't characters, or even archetypes but just paper doll tool, a person shaped play button.