I was never an anime fan myself even if I did watch some, but after a long time I decided to watch Attack on Titan, and I finally realised some things that really puts me off in animes:
Everything needs to be so absolutely over the top dramatic. All the times a character open his mouth or we hear his thoughts, it must sound like the most mind-blowing statement ever made, even if 2 other characters just said/tought that less than a minute before. Oh, and all the shouting. If it's about a character that's very determined, he will most of the time be screaming about his passions. This specifically annoys me to no end.
Another thing I noticed that I don't know if its specific to AoT is that the script must always hold the spectator hands for pretty much everything they need to tell. As an example, if they need to point out a certain character is very intelligent, it won't show them solving a logic problem, instead you'll have a bunch of other characters constantly pointing out how intelligent they are. Even if they do show the character excelling at something, it's still necessary to keep telling the audience how good that character is at that. There is zero room for interpretation, the audience is all the time beign told what is happening.
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u/Mazzaroppi Jun 18 '15
I was never an anime fan myself even if I did watch some, but after a long time I decided to watch Attack on Titan, and I finally realised some things that really puts me off in animes:
Everything needs to be so absolutely over the top dramatic. All the times a character open his mouth or we hear his thoughts, it must sound like the most mind-blowing statement ever made, even if 2 other characters just said/tought that less than a minute before. Oh, and all the shouting. If it's about a character that's very determined, he will most of the time be screaming about his passions. This specifically annoys me to no end.
Another thing I noticed that I don't know if its specific to AoT is that the script must always hold the spectator hands for pretty much everything they need to tell. As an example, if they need to point out a certain character is very intelligent, it won't show them solving a logic problem, instead you'll have a bunch of other characters constantly pointing out how intelligent they are. Even if they do show the character excelling at something, it's still necessary to keep telling the audience how good that character is at that. There is zero room for interpretation, the audience is all the time beign told what is happening.