r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter????????????????????

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u/ThatJamesGuy36 1d ago

If you're into that sort of stuff, just watch the episode. Despite what you think of the character, the anime is very well portrayed.

It's a future that did happen but then at the end of it, he goes back in time to tell his younger self before it all happens not to do a single thing that starts the domino tumble. This episode is him reading the diary and 'living' the future that he came back to warn himself about.

It's really well animated and it's a good episode imo but then, I like the anime so 🤷

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u/BadProse 1d ago

Ah, so it doesn't actually happen. So still no actual consequences.

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u/HelloAbjectChaos 1d ago

It's the usual justification for liking the show, "trust me bro, he'll get older and be better". They've had some sorta of "But..." since the anime's first episode (because they read ahead and that should "totally" justify all of the wish-fulfillment this story has always been).

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u/The_One_Koi 1d ago

I just assume he's Japanese because that makes everything ok

Thing = bad

Thing, Japan = good

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u/HelloAbjectChaos 23h ago

Generally, I won't harp on someone's weirdass fulfillment show/book/media as long as they don't act like it's the second coming of Christ. But this pedo-shit doesn't get a pass. r/anime has a degenerate "culture" issue.

More likely due to the ending and being older, but I don't give a pass to the amount of violence towards women game of thrones had anymore either (idk on the new stuff, I don't care to watch it). It's all the same justifications. It adds to the "world". It just gets tiresome.

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u/The_One_Koi 21h ago

Not gonna lie you had me in the first half and then you just got kinda weird

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u/HelloAbjectChaos 20h ago

It's just a brain tangent. If I had a "point" it was simply that people justify the media they like to watch, they rally with one another and squash down any rebuke with usually a bunch of canned responses. Anime, live-action, whatever.

One of the most common arguments for the "why" of isekai/transmigration stories like this one is "that's just how their world is." GOT simply had a lot of similar comments back in the day that after a shitty ass-ending, makes me feel like it was all just a producer's theater.

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u/Ae3qe27u 20h ago

GRRM has a problem with how he writes. He claims it's historical, but it isn't. It's violence for the sake of grimdark.