#people with no media literacy and so much hatred ruin it

[anotherfanaccount]

For a movie that's all about loving Manu, mostly I'll say, there's not enough appreciation for Manu, the character and for Tapsee playing it.

Manu is maybe my favourite female lead of 2023. A really well written character tbh. She was just a young person hoping to take away the word of her family and had the dream of finding love repressed for it. She does succeed in part of her dream but slaves away her entire life for it. She was worthy of being loved and more than that. I get why Hardy falls for her and I get why Manu does too.

Tapsee plays her so beautifully. She makes you laugh at her innocence and naivety but you feel for her pains when she has to choose. You understand her needs and why she calls when she does.

Giving her the ending part with the flashbacks and the song was so beautiful.

[animehouse-moe]

Have you been keeping up with Kagura Bachi? What do you think of it so far? I just opened the Manga Plus app and saw that it's at second place on the trending list💀. I honestly can't tell if people actually like it or it's just the memes

I have been keeping up with Kagurabachi (sort of). I think a good comparison to why its popular could be Kingdoms of Ruin.

It (currently) has a 7.59 on MAL, and has 91,000 members. It is not good. It should not be more popular than Shangri-La Frontier or Mahoyome or Kamonohashi Ron or even Ragna Crimson. It should not have a better score than Kamonohashi Ron or Overtake! or Dead Mount Death Play.

But it still does. Why? Content.

Anime fans love isekai, they love harem series, and they love edge. It can do enough to hide its bald spots from a casual viewer and reel them in with "I only feel hatred and will kill anyone in my path". Similarly, it's got a concept that isn't challenging to follow and understand, nor is it stupidly simple or plain.

All of this relates to Kagurabachi. A series without great art, action, narrative, and most of all execution. Yet it's still popular. The "revenge story featuring a black-haired swordsman" is a powerful trope that caters to the absolute lowest common denominator. Add on top the heavy handed and easy to follow humor, cookie cutter characters that fulfil tropes that fans eat up, and you've got a winning recipe.

Personally though, the one difference is that none of Kagurabachi is as offensively bad as Kingdoms of Ruin. That's also why it's so high up, it's much less offensive to the craft so it doesn't turn off as many people.

Anyways, yes Kagurabachi is not good. The issue is the fact that media literacy and knowledge of animanga is still in the mud for a lot of the Western audience. A meme is all it takes, an edit making it look cool, a single slideshow on TikTok going viral. The base level of people in the community, and what it takes for them to get invested in a series, is so far beneath the ground that it rivals the fervent fanbase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And so people will follow the crowd, they'll latch onto a single idea or pick something easy to follow. It's not like the vast majority of people that read Chainsaw Man or Jujutsu Kaisen really get what's going on with those series either, they just like them for shallow and superficial reasons that they can find anywhere.