How do you differentiate melodrama vs well written drama

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This trash is airing this season and it's the perfect example of everything a good drama shouldn't be.

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Well written drama are the ones I like. Melodrama are the ones you like.

Not an argument

Melodrama relies on assumptions the writer needs the audience to make for the drama to make sense - a character will then not have their dramatic conflict visually or narratively stated. For example, if a break up scene occurs, a character might break down in tears without any internal explanation as to why prior or after the event, as breaking up with someone is assumed to be very sad on the audience's part. This is NOT reliant on intuition/understanding of narrative events, but reliant on cultural stereotypes and perceptions.
"Well-written drama", or just drama, without the retarded implication you're making, is where the writer does not assume anything on the audience's part as to why something would be sad/dramatic, and instead depicts either visually or narratively everything that would lead to a logical conflict between characters, then relying on the climactic/high emotion scenes to be affecting due to the internal logic of the story making sense.
This is not to say melodrama is bad, as it can often times be very entertaining when written competently, with good drama being very, very difficult to write competently. In fact, it is often times much easier to write good melodrama than it is to write good drama, with mediocre drama often times being a lot more boring/insufferable to sit through than regular melodrama.

an argument against what?

Dunno where you pulled that definition of melodrama from, but it's wrong.

>no counterargument

melodrama
/ˈmɛlə(ʊ)drɑːmə/
noun
a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.

>Well written drama = Koe no Katachi
>Y'know what, it's just occurred to me after 16 years of being deaf that being deaf is actually kinda inconvenient for the people around me
>guess i'll kill myself
Yeah, no. KnK was pretty good up until that point, but pulling such a cheap trick out of its ass just for the sake of having some big climactic scene qualifies it for being melodrama and disqualifies it from being well-written.

Something akin to sasuga kei and Seo kouji

This is what an actual well-written dram looks like. A plot that knows where it's heading, dialogue that contributes meaning and isn't wasteful, intense human interaction, realistic exploration of relationship dynamics and boundaries, multi-dimensional characters and emotional layering that goes up and beyond your typical drama story. This is the true face of a gripping, romantic drama with deep psychological subtext and mature themes. Unfortunately, most simply cannot watch something as brilliant as Citrus without looking at it through the lenses of fan service and cheap plot devices, much to their own misfortune.
Another anime that comes close to the perfection Citrus is Sankarea. If you can't enjoy Sankarea, then you haven't grown up.
inb4 melodramatic blo*m in2 you tumblr dykes have a meltdown.

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Examples:
1. Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.
2. Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda.
So melodramatic, they had to include periods in their titles.

>it's just occurred to me
How can you reach this conclusion. It's pretty obvious that she has always felt this way her whole life

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>exaggerated characters
>exciting events
Ah. Stereotypes/archetypes. "Exciting" events. Things that are informed by specific cultural perceptions and ideas of people and things and can be, note, ASSUMED of an audience to know and understand, without narratively explaining why. Trying reading and understanding the words of your own definition before trying to act like a stupid smug retard that accidentally agrees with your supposed opponent.

Well, in the manga it's more justified with the death of her grandma as the trigger, but the anime rushed over everything with such poor pacing that I don't blame him for thinking that it came out of nowhere.

Nice try, but "exaggerated characters and exciting events" aren't necessarily archetypical or not explained by the narrative. Trying reading and understanding the words without making an unwarranted leap of logic before trying to act like a stupid smug retard.

Melodrama if I don't like it
Well written drama if I do

I was more referring to how her decision to kill herself seemingly came out of nowhere. She's been living with her deafness her whole life, so why did her guilt suddenly worsen to the point she tries to an hero without showing any warning signs like getting depressed or trying to distance herself from people? If anything things seemed to be getting better for her as she was meeting people outside her immediate family who genuinely cared about her. Maybe the manga explains it better like says, but in the anime even her grandma's death didn't seem to bother her that much and seems pretty unrelated to her other insecurities.

I don't think I have ever seen a show more written like a soap opera than this one.

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Oh ho but I have

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a silent voice is so overrated,when i reached the point in the manga when a fucking school girl has a fist fight with a mom i almost cried of how much time i wasted with this trash,so bad

>yorimoi
>good drama
subhuman iq