Otaku Magazine ISSUE #2 March 2014

★Rapid Rants★

★Rapid Rants★

Short introduction for this piece, but I actually found more things than I thought I would to rant about.(This amazed me for some reason) So without further explanation, let's get right into it.

1) When Events Happen To Quickly

I swear some of these creators have never heard of slowing down before, and just letting things play out for themselves!

Its like they have a whole series worth of events and jumble all of it into one episode.

Seriously?

Me, personally, when I watch an anime I want to enjoy and savor everything that happens. Let the thoughts sink in and be able to predict what I think will happen next, but NO.

People have to go and be a Debbie Downer and rush everything, ultimately making a series short when it could've been way longer and better. Which is another thing that makes me mad, but I'll rant about that a different time.

Anyway, as I was saying before, its just too much sometimes. Its like this:

A wife who seemed to be loving has an affair on her husband, who turns out to be the husbands brother who was also have thought to have been dead. It turns out that the husband had attempted to kill his brother, but the brother had set a double in his place and came back to get revenge, starting with taking everything the husband ever loved.

All in one episode. (The things my twisted mind comes up with. . .)

'Don't know about anyone else, but that stuff just pisses me off.

2) Unsatisfactory Endings

Those endings when the credits role, and you sit there starring at the screen like-"What. The. Fuck."

If you've seen a lot of anime's and have watched them to the end, then you most likely have come across at least one that left you in the dark.

• Plot holes

• Unsolved solutions

• Leaves you wondering about other characters

And I'm sure there's a whole lot more!

Plot holes are a big one, I mean I know some creators want to leave things for the viewers to decide on, but damn it I hate when that happens. All it does is leave a huge hole in my heart, forever wondering about the story-or in character cases, their fate.

Its like a character comes in with a problem and just suddenly vanishes by the end of the series without a trace of what happened to them.

Are they dead? Are they alive? Apparently the creator doesn't give a fuck about it.

3) Jumbled Messes

Ever heard the word stability?

This can go for a lot of things, even fan fictions. Too many characters, too much switching around, too many plots going on at once, and just too many things to stay on track with.

I hate when this happens. Too many characters are not that bad, but when they continue to switch around between those characters there's ends up nothing to get close to.

Of course most animes are going to switch between characters, but when every fifteen minuets the stories revolution changes it offers nothing but confusion and little bond.

Maybe that might be an exaggeration, but not far from the line.

We all like to know of the characters and what's going on with them, but can people just take one thing at a time for once?

And not just that, but when the plots are just down right crazy! And not crazy in the good way, crazy as in insane. Like the people who came up with it were on crack while making the story, and just decided to throw in random stuff, and when you're finished you feel as if your brain is about to explode.

4) Those Two Characters That Won't Hook Up Already

You know they are meant for each other. When you say they are a perfect match its literate. Yet no matter what happens they will not get together already!

I swear its like watching two people get stuck in the friend zone forever. Its painful to watch!

The only thing that makes up for the agonizing episodes is the moment when they finally do get together, and you go all crazed fan girl over them. (We all have our moments.)

On the other hand, there's that devastating moment when they don't get together.

This is exactly why I hate animes with romance in them. . .well not really, its my guilty pleasure, but! When the creators continue to tease and tease you, leave you with only small hints of their attraction it just, well sucks.

Why creators? Why must you torture our souls?!