Why do people like shows about iron-willed people going on adventures and defying huge odds and possible death (like Sora Yori and Made in Abyss) and hate or ignore Twilight/Danielle Steel-tier melodramas about bland milksops (like VEG)?
Why does the former category yield timeless masterpieces while former yield forgotten time flops?
And these are only the main publishing channels, for the sake of simplicity I will not grab social media and gaijin numbers.
By the way, this is the first and final reply you'll ever get from me when it comes to MiA or whatever it is that you're trying to force a fight with. I really don't care kid.
>implying those aren't shillbots run by kusoanus's sugar daddy Lantis
Jordan Turner
timeflop is a termflop
Carter Howard
Certainly more than some timeflop would.
Robert Jones
Violet Evergarden is a time flop. It sold well, but its fanbase is dead, and people don't even remember it anymore. It was generic, melodramatic, and boring. It was a corporate project (it was also shilled by its producers Kyoani and Lantis) that represented how you can play it safe to make sure your show sells.
There are shows (such as Evangelion, Madoka Magica, Sora Yori, Made in Abyss, etc.) that can be considered timeless successes because not only were they successful, but they still have a sizable fanbase, and people still remember them as one of the masterpieces of anime. VEG has none of these things.
People reference the number of threads it gets (which only started picking up in number after I called them out on their shilling), but that doesn't mean it's not a time flop. It's a very small number of people coordinating to artificially create an impression that the show still has a fanbase after it finished airing. Just look at the Unique Posters to Posts ratio in every thread. It will be wildly unbalanced, especially in comparison to shows with an actual legacy (Evangelion, Madoka, Sora Yori, etc) which have a far more balanced ratio while also having a greater volume of posts.
The bottom line is that VEG has no cultural legacy whatsoever, even in comparison to other Kyoani shows like Hibike and Tsurune, and is sustained entirely by dishonest fan support.
Ethan Turner
Who else is looking forward to the potatoes curbstomping the saberclone next year?
I feel kind of bad for the actual fans of Sora Yori and VEG that basically had any meaningful discussion about either show destroyed
Nathaniel Reyes
Because...
Logan Diaz
Based.
Nathaniel Jones
This but unironically
Levi King
FUCK OFF TRIGGERHK. Stop trying to rope every other fandom into your biased, unjustified hatred of Trigger, you FUCKING SPAMMER.
Jaxson Powell
After a prolonged and much to my chagrin, fruitless search to find a show that has even the slightest modicum of thought put into it, I've just watched this show, Violet Evergarden, for the first time. Where it stands the question becomes one to definitely coalesce, but the words aren't so simple to be spoken as such, simply expressed in a form to be delivered in the inquiry that is the core curiosity behind this show which lies in the details of the intricacies of the writing direction as seen in the narrative direction of the story and is encapsulated in its main character, the focus of the story around whom all events and occurrences in the story revolve as well as a figurehead for the central themes of the work and a way for the authors to develop the plot and flesh out the world, Violet Evergarden's esteemed protagonist Evergarden Violet, whose mind quite like the work as a whole tends to be an enigma at times though clearly very stoic, further serving as a microcosm of everything in the show as shown by the parallel obsession of the character with emotions, attachment, loss and war to an ultimate point of having one's entire being become inseparable from these things much like the show itself is defined by its almost prescient look at compassion and its intricate interweaving with opposing societies, which brings itself back down to the protagonist's struggle once more as she experiences difficulties navigating through the tangled web of emotional interactions at f2f conversations but seems to have no hardships interacting through the usage of letters, hinting at the main character's extremely anischerality which makes sense in the context of many of her reactions to the events that unfold in this story, making Violet Evergarden not just a Nostradamic look into the new role that war has on family structures but also a pressing social commentary, and I tip my hat to the creators for getting such a powerfully clear message across so succinctly and concisely.
Good, so Reg can prepare some roast saberclone for the celebration with his Incinerator.
Lincoln Ross
Ugh, aren't there any crimson splitjaws available? Saberclone probably tastes bland as fuck.
Ayden Garcia
>IP counter doesn't go up >Thread doesn't get bumped Oh no!
Gavin Campbell
Dayum, TrigHK has really been active lately. What is with that fucker?
Jaxon Lopez
I can't even tell who TrigHK is anymore.
Samuel Bell
He's an mentally ill, ban-evading spammer with an insane, unjustified hatred of Trigger. He's probably responsible for the targeted shitposting campaign on Promare.