#this bitch just lame and could kill Goku just bc the author said his stats were so high

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It's more, this bitch's anime popped off and it's mid (but semi decent for a teenager watching this for the first time, speaking from experience) narrative in another world was pretty cool, bc MMOs are pretty cool. Story was still mid tho, it has potential, but I'm not sure if it was ever capitalized on past it's 3rd season of GunGaleOnline. It's just basic power trip fiction without a lot of payoff

But then like, everyone did ctrl+c, ctrl+v and barely did anything to the formula that popped off in a similar way. So we just kept getting basic harem animes using the isekai genre to skim past worldbuilding efficiently.

And it's gotten to the point that isekai animes *have* to be shitty Harem animes to the point the guy isekai'd isn't even relevant and we just need hot chicks. It's more interesting shit only when the lead isn't a boy, bc if it's a girl there's a fun narrative. Point proven in SAO alternative about just a girl enjoying a game for some body euphoria. Could there be female lead isekais as blands as the ones we have with boy leads? Probably? I haven't seen one yet.

Like isekai animes can be more, look at Digimon! Did you remember Digimon was an isekai for most of its iterations!?

Its not even solely Kirito's fault here about anime getting so bland, but he definitely had a hand in lowering the bar of quality for popular anime to be popular. It was kinda coming already what with the moe boom, and just studios picking up animes that basically go "OH Yeah! We're just like this super popular thing that came out recently if you squint your eyes." Like, it's become a sludge to find good death game animes bc they're so surface level basic. Also how many "high school apocolypse" animes were around in the early 2010s?

all your issues with modern anime are this cunt's fault btw