>series has a child die, often in a horrific manner, as a cheap way to elicit an emotional response from the audience
Series has a child die, often in a horrific manner, as a cheap way to elicit an emotional response from the audience
Jeremiah Nelson
Jason Fisher
Dylan Morgan
>jokes on them when the readers of their genre are dead inside
Jackson Evans
>series kills off its most popular character
Nathaniel White
hunter x hunter
Kayden Martin
Name one
Juan Nelson
>Some new characters get a whole episode or more of introduction, backstory, build bonds and establish role in the world
>they die less than 3 episodes later
sick of these plot device characters. Laziest narrative device in the book. Fuck anyone who thinks this is good. Thanks for wasting the reader's time.
Connor Torres
Akame ga Kill like 3 times
John Diaz
Toji no Miko
Aiden Cook
Can be kino if episodic though. Such as Cowboy Bebop or Kino's Journey. But of course these are tippy top examples, and I assume you're referring more to battle shonen where this actually happens in a frustrating manner.
Dylan Evans
>series has like every character die to elicit an emotional response from the audience
Looking at you Eden
Jaxson Scott
Twice, in fact.
Camden Bailey
>best girl loses the MCbowl
Julian Cook
>protagonist visibly kills monster antagonists by chopping them into pieces or blowing them up
>knocks human antagonists unconscious
>big bad turns from a human into a monster for the final fight
Luke Ramirez
>MCbowl is never resolved so no waifufags are upset, but also none are happy
this is one of the few things Nasu did right
Julian Lewis
TTGL
Asher Foster
How did you know I read Chainsaw Man?
Zachary Campbell
yeah it doesn't really apply to episodic anime cause it's expected for things to return to a natural state. I'm talking about overlord
Nolan Robinson
>tragic moment is portrayed so hyperbolically dramatic it loses all meaning
David Smith
>big bad turns from a human into a monster for the final fight
name 75 shows where this happens
Kayden Russell
>First "major" villain is killed.
>Second major villain is not killed.
>Third major villain gets beat on by second major villain.
Sebastian Russell
>series does something
oh god the horror
Julian Ramirez
I'm actually really into "early game villain becomes ally, not good guy, but ally against endgame villain." Toriko does this very well, where it starts with The Good Guys and The Bad Guys who hate each other, and then introduces The Worse Guys who were infiltrating both sides and playing them against each other.
John Perez
I only here for Touhou.
Zachary Green
>MC makes friends with everybody he defeats
>even the 150,000 cannibal orcs who were just massacring entire populations
Owen Turner
Seeing cheerful children die (or being hurt) in fictional media always hits me hard. Every time it happens it fills my hearth with a deep sorrow that only disappears after various days. This level of sadness is something that only happens with children and sometimes small animals, while the deaths of adults only upset me a bit (even if they were my favorite characters). What's wrong with me?
Elijah Sullivan
You have empathy.
I feel that way for a few moments but then my brain kicks in and I realize why they did it, so the sorrow is replaced with indignation and anger at the creators for trying to do that to me in such a cheap way.
Jeremiah Bennett
>talk no jutsus the goblins
>talk no jutsus the wolves
>talk no jutsus the dwarves
>talk no jutsus the onis
And that's when I got fed up and dropped this shit. Literally friendmaking simulator- the LN.
Henry Johnson
your first mistake was reading a picture book
Brayden Rodriguez
>series does nothing
Oh god the monotony
Julian Reyes
dragon ball