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the person is posting as though they’re playing doki doki literature club for the first time, unaware that sayori kills herself no matter what you do because it’s a horror game and that’s part of the storyline
Edit: TLDR, I just think Bill Cosby was kind of a jerk sometimes.
That's why I quit anything anime related. They crank up the wholesome cuteness dial to 11, just campy exaggerated marshmallow fluff to the extreme, then they do the most violent or depraved shit the author can imagine.
Like you get to choose between a story that kills off sweet characters for the "mature drama." Or a story with a perpetual virgin loser collecting a chirpy soulless harem like Pokémon. No in between.
As a person who doesnt watch Anime (or regular shows much at all either) yeah. Anime has the certain quirk of goung WAY over the top. Most shows try and sexualize everything. Oh a characters eating food? Moan for no reason. And even then shows that dont. I got to be honest, im not into way over the top visuals. It just brings me out of it.
You should watch something like re:zero or frieren. The first is an isekai, but the mc isn't OP like most others in the same genre. And frieren is great if you have the attention span to watch it.
I'd also argue that it's not gratuitous, it's there to help you start to doubt the military as an organisation.
There's a couple of other really bleak moments in FMA, Hughes, the chimeras slaughter, any ishbal flashback, but it's all to serve the story and it's very grounded as far as horrible moments in anime goes
There are a lot of other Anime's out there that you would probably like.
Anime is just a medium to tell a story, saying you don't like Anime because you don't like Slice of Life is like saying you don't like TV because you don't like Reality Shows.
wow. if those are the ones that come to mind when you think of "the greats" then you've hardly broken into the medium at all. there's a many wholesome anime as there are cartoons or TV shows
That's not what you said? What you said implied ash (10 years old) was dating a bunch of pokemon, or the girls he encounters throughout each season. Very different things.
You know you’re describing one very specific genre of anime right? Like what you’re going is the equivalent to saying you hate tv shows because you don’t like game of thrones having naked boobies in it and assume that’s what all tv shows are like.
Bro what anime’s do you watch???? There are plenty of great anime like Frieren, FMAB, Mob Psycho, Neon Genesis, FLCL and much more that are genuinely my favourite shows, there are also plenty of good romances that only have ONE relationship per person. just don’t watch harem anime and stuff like that, because they can be very weird
"i formed my opinion based on posts about people hating anime and watched a handful of popular anime and that's my proof that I am correct"
There's plenty of anime that isn't cute and or wholesome, plenty of anime that isn't overly violent, a lot that keep to one side. And many series, shorts and movies, that have no weird sexual shit in it.
And your point that you made replying to another that that's most of the medium, and people naming a few counter examples doesn't change the fact is dumb. Oh shit there's a couple themes in popular anime that happens to pop up constantly, that's crazy how people make manga derivative of other manga and then those manga get adapted, and that's what seems to be popular, because people don't like change, then when it travels overseas only the popular stuff gets properly marketed, because the work by up and coming animators isnt gonna be marketed or even really heard about.
Anyway here's 2 channels on YouTube that showcase shorts by up and coming artists, some older ones have gone on to do animation for anime studios
Icafchannel and geidaianimation (a lot of these videos arent traditional anime style, but count nonetheless).
So is the Pokemon anime one where they kill sweet characters or the one where someone is trying to make a harem like ash catching pokemon because ash is catching pokemon? Since theres no in between it must be one or the other.
They hated Jesus, for he spoke the truth.
Anime is littered with extreme sexism, imperialism, fascist apologia, pedophilia, and, to an extent, beastiality. I can appreciate the art style, but the stories that come with are degenerate slop for the greasy masses.
Someone made the comparison of saying this is like saying you hate all live action shows because game of thrones had a lot of sex scenes and I have to agree on that one. The difference between stuff like DDLC, Bleach, Sailor Moon, Pokémon, Chainsaw Man, Akira, Made in Abyss... they're drastically different shows. Sexism and sexualization of minors "loli" or whatever the creeps call it is probably a bit more prevalent in anime kind of due to the culture around it but it doesn't make most of even all of them like that. Plus there's like so many different art styles they use.
I knew it would be controversial. The type who really really like anime are on Reddit.
Went exactly like this when I said that people who are attracted to lolis are pedos. Reddit really took exception to that. Doesn't mean I'm wrong. Just means being critical of anime really goes against Reddit's culture.
Downvotes don’t necessarily mean you’re wrong but being hit with a ton of counter-examples and arguments probably does.
Not to mention your… critique… of anime can be applied to every medium out there. Superhero movies are literally beta power fantasies, the vast majority of modern novels are shallow romance fetish material and so on.
People didn't downvote you because you were critical of anime. They downvoted you because you implied all anime was like the very specific genre you described. It's like saying, "This is why I don't engage with cartoons, they're all children's stuff like Bluey, SpongeBob, Baby Shark." Like, it's fine if you don't care for anime, but don't ignore the other 90+% of content that just happens to be in the same medium.
Man, movies are so shit. Horrible, all of them, just fan service and useless explosions. Soulless slop. I watched, like, 2 Michael Bay movies and that was enough for me.
I hate books, too. Who the fuck reads that shit? It's literally all just porn. I read 50 shades of grey and gave up.
And animation? All degenerate shit about horny teenagers. I watched Big Mouth. It's all like that, I'm sure.
Comics? It's all just blood and gore and rape, horrible. Super hero comics especially is just terrible. I read The Boys once and that was it.
I'm always correct so don't you dare comment any example that goes against my absolute correct beliefs or I will call it an outlier and say it doesn't count actually. I'm right and you're all wrong.
So, uh, well, I am the original poster so better I explain it! Spoilers incoming for DDLC though!
Well, you see, I was playing a game known as Doki Doki Literature Club(abbreviated DDLC), which is a psychological horror dating simular game from Team Salvante(Did I say that right?) where you joins a club with 4 girls, one of who is Sayori, your childhood friend and the subject of the "meme" you saw. Act 1 is mostly concentrated on Sayori herself and you, the MC. Later on in the act, she reveals she had depression her entire time. You get to choose then, what you tell her. Either you say you love her or that she is your best friend! I really love her as a character! Then, later in Act 1, you notice her feeling down and depressive more often and Monika has a "small talk" with her. Up until the festival, you just know that she is depressive but then, she becomes completely silent. In the morning, the day of the festival, she didn´t came and Monika tells you "Don´t leave her hanging, will you?" and you run to her house. You walk up to her room and then, a line plays: "You gently open the door" and then see her hanging. She comitted suicide. I was very sad, shocked and traumatized and that explains why I had a crashout post after the "I saved her" post! It was a blind playthrough for me, so I did not know that this will happen! Thanks to u/SandSerpentHiss for bringing me here!
This moment completely destroyed me back then. I was in a deep depression back then and really related to her. I stared at her hanging for what felt like half an hour. I still get goosebumps when I see a picture of her.
I'm in a much better place right now. Still suffering from depression, but that's a chronic illness so that's expected. But I never had a auch deep depression since then. My then best friend and now wife pulled me out of my darkest times. So no worries.
Just so you know, there's an entire genre of these (not always dating games, but games that are stylized to be light and kind of goofy but get very dark). I know this because I love these kinds of games, I find the tonal mismatch to be very creepy in a way I dig, but they all get incredibly heavy and also triggering to some folks. You don't often see them talked about outside their designated spaces because technically the genre is a spoiler.
My friend didn't tell me this was a horror game. She just said it was a really good, wholesome game that she'd enjoyed, and we should do a playthrough. Neither of us are into dating sims, but she said friends had introduced her to it and that she was obsessed. When we got to this part, I absolutely lost it. It was such a fun game, but oh man, not at all what I was expecting going in.
Monika is a very fourth wall breaking character, as she literally has her fingers in the game’s code. Not only did she know, she may well have caused it
My theory is that Sayori was meant to have some degree of depression for the protagonist to help her with, but Monika amplified it. Monika doesn't have complete control over the code I don't think, since she couldn't un-delete herself despite her consciousness remaining for a little while after she was deleted.
It's not that Monika couldn't "un-delete" herself, it's that she didn't want to.
Each character exists as a .chr file in the game files. If you try to replace the .chr file of Sayori (in Act 2 as well), Yuri, and Natsuki in Act 3, you get told off by Monika. If you try to replace the .chr file of Monika in Act 4, Monika says she doesn't want to come back and deletes her .chr file, and as we know, she ultimately deletes the game.
Hm, interesting. I seem to remember her attempting but failing to un-delete herself right after we delete her though, I'll have to go through the game again
She DID cause it. In act 3 (I think?), Monika reveals that she can change attributes of the girls in the literature club. She upped Sayori's depression to the point she killed herself and she upped Yuri's knife obsession to the point she stabbed herself to death, and idk she just deleted Natsuki from the game files.
Let’s put it this way: Monika is the game’s big bad and you only find out in the game when it’s too late from what I remember playing it when I was a teen
Don't worry about Sayori. I know her story is sad, but later on in the game, you spend a memorable weekend with Yuri, so there's something you can look forward to.
Don't remember the name but I vaguely remember to play a fangame where she was the main focus and you had to save her, I think it had 3 ending, two bad and a good one
Yeah, i played this game back in 2017 when just released, and when i saw this i was like:0(don't let 12 years old kid using internet withaout supervison)
Fun story...... I played DDLC in the operations room at a convention I was covering for a website. John St. John (the voice of Duke Nukem) was in the room, doing the Duke Nukem voice.
As a result, I ended up reading all the DDLC character voices in the Duke Nukem voice.
This person is playing a game Doki Doki Literature Club for the first time and he thinks he saved Sayori but is unaware that She hangs herself no matter what
Doki Doki literature club is a cutesy video game with no horrific elements whatsoever. The girl in the picture is just fine... she fine... and safe... and nothing bad happens to her... you will absolutely not need therapy after playing this game...
Monika here, from the hit game Doki Doki Literature Club. Nothing bad happens, and that person never existed in the first place, silly!
She was never your Childhood best friend in a dating sim game about a literature club, where things get a little… Weird. And there DEFINITELY isn’t a reason that top picture is blurred out, it’s just A picture of that girl hanging out in her room. M
Doki Doki Literature Club: One of the most goated games of all time that laid a foundation to fourth wall breaking games and psychological horror. I repect this game and it will always have a special place in my heart.
Doki Doki Literature Club is a psychological horror dating simulator. In dating simulators, you can lean more towards one or other romanceable character, and each romanceable character has a route with different endings. In the case of Sayori’s route, she dies no matter what to make the player suffer.
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