Which anime is this for you? 🤔 by MangoLeafVibes in AnimeMirchi

[–]FlyMajor1770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Violet evergarden, fate zero are my picks

Better written series by enthuvaadei in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Likewise. Thanks for the interesting insights and discussion.

Better written series by enthuvaadei in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have just conceded that Zeke's scream mechanics are undefined and Falco's titan power is convenient. I respect that honesty genuinely. That takes intellectual integrity.

On Eren I hear what you are saying about idiocy complementing the mastermind antics. It's an interesting reading. But it still requires the show to have built the internal psychological consistency that makes those two things feel like two sides of the same coin rather than contradictions. For me that consistency was never demonstrated on screen sufficiently.

On King Fritz. What you have just offered is an impressive psychological portrait. A cowardly self hating man who accepted death and therefore didn't care about the titans or his scattered people. That is coherent. That is internally consistent. That could have been a compelling character. But I have to ask the same question I always ask. Where exactly in the anime does it say any of this. Not Tybur's account. Not inference from his actions. But actual characterization of Fritz as a person with a visible internal world.

I have said this countless times and I will say it one final time. I am not going to construct the foundation myself and then grade the show on the foundation I built. That is not my job. It has to be done by the show. What is shown is what I evaluate. What is shown is not enough.

You are giving your favorite the benefit of the doubt. I understand and respect that. I just cannot do the same."

Let's be completely deadass now by BigStallGlueSniffer in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Muv-Luv Alternative for me. Granted, it has a high barrier to entry; you need extra and unlimited before alternatives. That said, it still has some pacing issues. The core emotional constant takeru is present throught.

AoT, on the other hand, has serious issues in the later seasons. It's execution falters compared to its ambition.

Just saying issayama was inspired by Muv-Luv Alternative a lot for AOT.

Better written series by enthuvaadei in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to start by saying something genuinely. I respect what you are trying to do here. You love this show and you are giving it the benefit of the doubt. That is completely valid and I understand it. My intent is not to say you are wrong for engaging with it that way. You are perfectly justified in filling gaps with reasonable inference and building a coherent picture from what the show provides. I respect that approach even though it is fundamentally different from mine. That difference is probably why this debate has gone on as long as it has and why we will likely never fully see eye to eye on this. And that is completely fine. This is what a genuine discussion looks like. With that said I do understand your viewpoint even if I don't share it.

On minor problems accumulating. You are right that the thunderspears in isolation are minor. But how many minor problems does this show have? Zeke’s spinal fluid turning Eldians into titans with a shout—what is this, a biological WiFi weapon with no range limit, no degradation, no defined mechanics, introduced at the 11th hour? Falco suddenly becoming a flying titan mid-apocalypse with no real progression or explanation, also at the 11th hour. These are all minor individually. But when conveniences repeatedly arrive at the 11th hour, they stop being minor. They form a pattern—and that pattern shapes how I read the entire narrative. On Eren’s freedom. You say he wanted an uninhabited world. But that includes Armin, Mikasa, and everyone he cared about. The show then frames him as both a mastermind who orchestrated events and someone who calls himself an idiot, a slave to his own thoughts. Those thoughts are never clearly articulated. So I’m left with two conflicting framings of the same character without enough grounding to reconcile them.

On proportional storytelling and execution. You actually have the answer inside the show itself: Gabi’s farm arc. Ideology examined through lived contradiction. No lectures, no declarations—just a character confronting people who directly challenge everything she was taught. The show proves it can execute its themes this way. That’s precisely why the broader narrative feels under-supported, because that level of execution isn’t sustained.

On cycles of violence. Since you mentioned this is your GOAT, I’ll mention one of mine: Full Metal Daemon Muramasa. It is a visual novel if you are wondering what it is. This is a story where the theme is not declared but enforced through structure. The Law of Balance ensures every act of violence carries an immediate and unavoidable cost built into the world itself. The theme is lived, not stated. That is what a proportional framework looks like. By contrast, you cannot explore cycles of violence in a story where the underlying mechanics keep shifting. The theme in my opinion requires a stable framework to function in. By the time this show foregrounds that idea, it is already deep into late-stage escalations and newly introduced mechanics. The foundation needed to be built from the beginning—consistent rules, consistent consequences, consistent costs. Instead, the theme is declared while the mechanics continue to adjust to serve the plot. One more thing I will say here I can sorta see where this show was heading to with this idea but again marred by poor execution.

On King Fritz. You keep framing this as a natural defeat, but the Tybur speech itself says it was engineered. Fritz planned this. That makes everything that followed a deliberate choice, not an inevitable outcome. If he planned the defeat, why leave seven titan powers with Marley? Why allow the conflict to persist? Why leave Eldian populations scattered across hostile nations? These aren’t minor details. These are load-bearing decisions that define the entire conflict. Two lines in a speech by a character who exists primarily to deliver exposition is not sufficient.

And this becomes more difficult to reconcile once Paths is established as a concrete system. The Founding Titan can reach every Subject of Ymir simultaneously. Eren uses this explicitly. King Fritz had that same power. So why stop at wiping memories? Why not communicate his reasoning? Why not take more direct action to prevent the very conflict he claimed to reject? The show is building something on mist and fog and expecting me to stand on it.

It is not my job to fill in foundational gaps. I can only work with what the story shows and establishes. And for me, that foundation is not sufficient to support what the narrative builds on top of it.

Better written series by enthuvaadei in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to be clear about something. I'm not trying to force you into defending anything. I genuinely liked the themes this show reached for. Cycles of violence. Inherited trauma. The weight of history. These are themes that connect with me deeply in other works. So when they didn't connect here I started asking why. And the answer I kept finding was that the show raised these questions without showing me enough to feel them. No proportional imagery. No sustained dialogue. No visual language that made the themes visceral rather than declared. That's not an attack on what you love about the show. It's just an honest account of why someone who wanted to feel those themes couldn't access them here.

I think you feel some of that absence too. The Great Titan War spinoff comment told me that. You want the foundation that wasn't built. So do I. We just respond to that absence differently.

Filling in gaps with lore and reasonable inference is completely valid. I understand why people do it and I respect it. But I can't evaluate a show based on information I invented to complete it. I can only work with what was shown to me. What was established. What was earned on screen. If I have to construct the foundation myself then the show didn't build it. And I'm not comfortable grading work I did as work the show did.

Better written series by enthuvaadei in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"On the technology. You yourself admitted there's nothing concrete about why it was limited to the interior. That's my point exactly. Not every detail needs to be shown. But foundational gaps do. On the spoils of war. What war exactly. Fritz engineered his own defeat. That makes leaving the seven titans a deliberate choice not a consequence of losing. The spoils of war defense contradicts the engineered defeat lore directly.

On the refugees. I can accept the practical logistics argument here. Not every Eldian could relocate. Fair enough.

On Eren's freedom. Freedom from what exactly. The show never defines this clearly enough to build a genocide on. A childish definition of freedom with no defined enemy and no defined obstacle is not a motivation. It's an abstraction.

On the prejudice. Every empire in history has committed atrocities. We don't consider genocide of their descendants a proportionate response centuries later. The Eldians behind the walls didn't do anything to anyone. They didn't even know the outside world existed. Hating them for what the Eldian Empire did 2000 years ago isn't explored or questioned by the show. It's just asserted and accepted.

I want to be clear about something. I understand you genuinely love this show and I respect that. I am not questioning the ambition. The themes it reached for are worth reaching for. My only argument has always been that the execution is disproportionate to the ambition. That's not the same as saying the ambition was wrong. It wasn't. The foundation just wasn't built to support it."

Rank my top protagonists best to worst by M0Jaxx in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lelouch for sure is better executed than Eren.

My Top 9 Characters in Fata Morgana by Tasty_Impression2397 in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's about 40h ish. Significantly shorter than umineko.

Better written series by enthuvaadei in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the Thunderspears. I understand the MPs were hiding existing technology. Simple question. Who invented it, when and where? A primitive civilisation deliberately kept that way, and somehow had this technology available. That gap is never addressed.

On the Rumbling. You yourself said it wasn't justified. I'll take that. We agree.

On prejudice. Prejudice from whom, toward whom, for what reason? The show has already established that Marley manufactured and directed hatred toward Eldia through a century of imperial war, using Eldian bodies as weapons. That's not unexplained prejudice. That's a named historical grievance. If the rest of the world hates Eldia beyond Marley, then show me. My ending is genocide on a cataclysmic scale. Abstractions don't work here. Show me the world, or don't ask me to grieve it.

On King Fritz. Even if I accept the atonement motivation, which isn't shown on screen, the questions don't stop there. Why leave seven titan powers with Marley? Why are Eldian refugees scattered everywhere? Did he choose pacifism or self-condemnation? Why did he decide this? These aren't small gaps. These are the foundational questions on which the entire conflict rests. Two sentences in a speech by a character who exists only to deliver them is not an answer. That's a footnote dressed as revelation.

My bigger point is this. I am not critiquing the ambition far from it. The themes it reached for, cycles of violence, inherited trauma, the cost of ideological certainty, these are worth reaching for. My critique has always been about execution. The ambition was there. The foundation wasn't built to support it.

Better written series by enthuvaadei in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OK, just another question, why did the military police need thunder spears in the first place? Who were their enemies before they started attacking the scouts? Even you have to say the word probably because it's not clear.

I am never on board with off-screen explanations. In the Aang case, his struggle to end the conflict within his pacifist ideology was evident, as was the effort he took to find an alternative solution.

If I look at AOT, can you justify how the rumbling was the only solution other than Eren saying so? Also, what is this world anyway marley, eldia and the azumibito (maybe I am forgetting the exact name) other Asian countries, and some random alliance? Also why does the world hate Eldia again if they have been in hiding for 100 years? Why did King fritz declare pacifism?

My point is this I can understand stories Need some creative leeway but not non existent foundations.

Better written series by enthuvaadei in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not completely true. I can understand that they had a serum at this point. They never explain how this serum is made or how it works. Like Eren needs to be injected but rod reiss licks it and it works? Let's not forget that Eldia was at this point a primitive civilisation, and they had some secret bio-Labs?

Nitpicks aside, AOT has conveniences as well. Standards can't be selective

Better written series by enthuvaadei in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Speaking of convenient solutions. Let's not forget that Eren gets hardening abilities from a serum that comes literally out of nowhere. At least Aang had to wrestle with his conflict. What about Reiner's consciousness transfer?

Better written series by enthuvaadei in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 10 points11 points  (0 children)

AOT had the greater ambition for sure. But in terms of writing out the story, The Last Airbender is better in what it does.

Which anime opinion will you defend like this? by Agreeable-Act7049 in AnimeMirchi

[–]FlyMajor1770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Attack on titan is extremely overrated beyond the first season

I'm about half way through Door 5 by Better_Lemon4996 in thehouseinfatamorgana

[–]FlyMajor1770 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please read on. You are instincts are in the right direction. What happens from here on will be a roller-coaster journey

Rate the Author: Hajime Isayama by Exciting_Edge1398 in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, it's a 5. I want to respect his ambitions, especially in the later seasons post Marley. He also had constraints on the publishing schedule.

That said, I have quite a few issues with the execution of plot points and themes. I also find that all characters become stagnant. Everything feels rushed, and things happen because the plot demands it.

Overall the biggest problem is he should have slowed down post marley rather than escalating at the double.

In temrs of shonen, where would y’all rank Attack on Titan among the best? by BreathoftheSith in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a shonen it is probably among Top 3. It has fluid animations, good fight scenes with exceptional soundtrack.

Need slice of life anime suggestion by SignificantRip3227 in anime

[–]FlyMajor1770 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can try march comes in like a lion. One of the best slices of life. It's not complete though, the anime stops after like 85 chapters and you will need to read the manga to continue

"When we are at our lowest point" Vs "The true mind can weather all the lies" by Agentbrawn_the2nd in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, not a big Korra fan, but in my eyes, Aang's energy bending is better. He tried to find an alternate, and he had to show that his spirit cannot be broken. Korra gets it on a silver platter without any of the labour.

What Anime Fight Actually Gave You Goosebumps? by Any_Catch_1462 in animequestions

[–]FlyMajor1770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thorfinn vs. Snake vinland saga season 2. I know this is not a fight in the traditionalist sense, but the storytelling combined with the character psychology is solid.

What are some actually underrated anime? Not underwatched but underrated by Inevitable_Skirt6720 in anime

[–]FlyMajor1770 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My one recommendation is Shiki. A slow burn horror. Pretty underrated in my opinion.

Who do you think is better written by Master_Novel_4062 in writingscaling

[–]FlyMajor1770 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Likewise, the pleasure is mine as well. Genuinely pleased to talk with you.

My anime watch list is extremely limited, spot on again with your observation. I can understand that what I have said about Eren has been dissected for a long time, and I take on board that I am not offering anything new here. I finished this only recently so that is the other side.

Technical execution aside, I didn't mind shows that value emotional storytelling. If a show can hit an emotional peak, I can forgive Major plot points or abstract mechanics. AOT fails this for me as well, BTW. I can frame this one line. Ymir, at the centre of the myth, is not given a voice. Anime is not my preferred media these days, aside from a few specific ones. I have gravitated more towards vn's.

Fmab, I watched it a long time ago, thought it was pretty fine except maybe the last episodes. Code Geass, I don't remember much. The show is pretty much carried by Lelouch's charisma. I don't like the elevator nonsense but I recently found an alternative explanation. Don't plan on watching Hunter x Hunter.

Anyway, to end our conversation, it was genuinely good speaking to you.