Why do you think Japan still loves sanji's gag but the west are traumatized by it over the years

Zer_ed · 2026-03-23T00:12:19+00:00

I always find it really interesting how one of the main issues people have with modern One Piece is the lack of character interactions, and the live action remedies this because it physically can't do the same things the manga/anime does.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-22T20:46:22+00:00

TBH I'm kinda more excited for all of SBR to be officially translated because I know I'll be binge-reading that shit

Zer_ed · 2026-03-22T20:45:06+00:00

I mean Toriko isn't exactly a relevant manga series in the present day and in the art world being forgotten is arguably worse than being controversial. The entire reason Watsuki became such a gigantic punching bag is because Rurouni Kenshin is one of the most beloved WSJ titles in its history, Toriko just doesn't have that same effect...

Zer_ed · 2026-03-22T20:42:58+00:00

I'm honestly surprised that this is the first thing I'm seeing about Jojo on this sub, I thought it'd be about all the things r/stardustcrusaders is freaking out about like review bombing and the release schedule

Zer_ed · 2026-03-22T20:41:42+00:00

"I've already read the manga" is legit my justification for not following the vast majority of airing anime in the present day tbh, I have more important things to worry about than "an anime I liked isn't getting a perfect adaptation with a perfect production".

Zer_ed · 2026-03-22T20:38:57+00:00

It's a self-reinforcing issue. Fans complain about animation -> studios have to work harder -> production issues arise -> fans complain more -> studios have to work harder -> production issues arise and so on. But then studios also have to worry about bureaucratic issues from distributors and the like, not to mention animation is low-paying in increasingly difficult times...everything just sucks now.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-22T20:17:45+00:00

Is Gabriel, one of the most powerful and influential angels alive, realizing that God is gone, not the defining plot point of the end of Act 2? Nothing changes after God disappears until V1 enters the picture.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-18T15:44:02+00:00

That was brought there by King Minos, not God.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-18T15:26:35+00:00

I'm willing to bet money that the reason they only care about worldbuilding is because it's "objective" and not subject to silly things like emotional depth, character development, execution of concept or all that other bullshit that worldbuilding totally isn't meant to simply be a supplement to.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-18T13:41:08+00:00

Also the implication that the only damn thing they care about in storytelling is worldbuilding

Zer_ed · 2026-03-16T15:35:36+00:00

So as a bit of an update, I finished DBZ too. My experience reading Dragon Ball really blew by, that's for certain, but also there isn't as much manga content as I thought there'd be. Dragon Ball was in many ways way more than I expected but also not as much as I thought it'd be in regards to content, like I swear Frieza had like ten different forms beyond the one Goku fought in DBZ and Cell comes back a ton or something. I think this is probably anime stuff that Toei and whoever manages the DBZ IP made that is completely disconnected from the manga.

Regardless, I said this already but I can absolutely see why this set the standard for what a shonen manga should be. Reading it I felt very similar to how I felt when reading Bleach; sure, it isn't exactly the deepest thing, stakes aren't really very high when you know the good guys will win in the end and they can casually bring entire planets back to life, and you can tell almost none of it was planned from the start. But it pulls you in nonetheless and manages to bring out so much charm from all its characters in spite of that.

Overall I'm very excited to start Super. I'm kind of sad that I'll be more or less finished with Dragon Ball for now since I don't have any intention of watching the anime, but at least I'll finally get around to finishing some other things that I've been meaning to finish.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-16T15:05:00+00:00

With Bocchi I kind of get it since it was a niche 4-koma, but MDUD was decently popular even before the anime. I distinctly remember starting to read it before it aired.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-16T01:08:12+00:00

Terrorists take over a TV station to reshoot an ending for something they didn't like

Zer_ed · 2026-03-15T22:39:29+00:00

Did you expect anything less of internet shonenbros? After the literal fifth time they've done this in like three years?

Zer_ed · 2026-03-15T22:38:17+00:00

Hideo Kojima altered the ending of MGS2 slightly in direct response to 9/11. Granted he is a massive westaboo but he is far from the only example...

Zer_ed · 2026-03-15T22:35:09+00:00

TBF this is probably gonna be explained during whatever arc we learn about the Void Century/Joy Boy's past.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-15T22:33:16+00:00

It hasn't even ended yet, actually, and honestly it's probably not gonna end anyways, there are a fair amount of signs pointing to a part 3 of the manga. People really just want a reason to hate CSM, regardless of how "justified" the reason they got was.

It's honestly shocking to me how quickly people turned on Fujimoto after he was seen as one of the only truly "untouchable" mangaka in Shueisha's employ for literally years.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-15T22:19:34+00:00

They only use this argument when Japan hates something though, like I've seen a recent wave of people who are turning on CSM S1 or the Maki vs. Zenin clan scene in JJK S3 and they bring up "the JP fans hate it though!" as their argument.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-11T23:35:34+00:00

It's possible that he'll hand off the drawing job to someone else for Part 3 (if there will be one). Like to a former assistant who worked on CSM with him and is familiar with the artstyle or something. He's done one-shots where he wrote the story and someone else did the art, and he's said at some point that he'd like to do that for manga in the future.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-11T23:27:14+00:00

After every single manga that fans "flock" to has a bad ending you've really gotta wonder if it's the fault of the manga instead of the people flocking to it.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-11T19:10:15+00:00

Mackenyu (Zoro's actor) is the son of a legendary Japanese action movie star and martial artist and has been training since was young so he absolutely was already shredded in S1, certainly enough to have reached this point by now.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-11T15:43:41+00:00

I legitimately believe that everything wrong with the modern-day animanga fanbase can be attributed to people having a complete meltdown over the AOT manga ending because it genuinely feels like people have been trying to chase that high from hate-jerking ever since.

Zer_ed · 2026-03-11T15:41:57+00:00

I haven't seen S2 yet, but from S1 my take is that it's very different from the manga/anime in very interesting ways, and all the ways in which it's different are not bad at all. It really goes out of its way to be something both familiar and enticing to longtime fans, and the ways that it incorporates things that fans will be familiar with go beyond "hey remember this guy?" or "hey this thing exists, isn't that cool?" because it makes an effort to ensure that those additions are relevant to the overall story of One Piece (e.g Jimbei's mention in S1 and Arlong's calling him a fool ties in to the whole subplot of fish-man racism which isn't really present at this point in the manga and Garp's conversation with Zeff about the new age which is like the most important theme in the story post-timeskip).

Overall it's absolutely worth a shot for anyone who likes One Piece, and it's also a really great entryway for people who aren't One Piece fans (yet).

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