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The Worst Anime of Fall 2024

People are literally putting a decent show with some flaws and an actual production disaster in the same group and, in my opinion, that's not fair.

jmckenna15 wrote:

I will never understand the idea that somebody who earns a billion dollars

Just because someone obtains vast wealth doesn't mean they earned it.

And in the case of Trillion Game, the entire setup is "I wanna get really, really rich!" "Doing what?" "I don't know and I don't care." The point isn't to do anything and make a lot of money by doing it, it's just "make wealth flow in this direction". When I dropped the manga, the company had not created a scrap of actual value and still had no plans to do so.

So in Haru's case, I find the label of "earned" more than a bit of a stretch.

I haven't watched Blue Lock but my friend has and she also also has sent me images of the ungodly amouts of merch for this show! They unveiled like 5 new acrylic stand sets every single day!
Maybe instead of drawing illustrations of the principal cast dressed as Vampires, Pirates, the Four Divine Beasts of Chinese mythology, Alice in Wonderland characters and Bakers for what is going to be eventual land filler they could have drawn some in-betweens!

Dude you're the one responding to literally anybody who mentions it to moan about how nobody understands and it's a crime that people are voicing their displeasure for it (and that's after people already called you out for your reductive attempts to frame people's issues). Have a degree of self-reflection, please, it's kinda sad.

revolutionotaku wrote:

Uzumaki wasn't really that bad.

A lot of people are focusing on how production collapsed for the second episode and never really recovered for the final two, but even if it had kept the visual quality of the first episode, it still wouldn't have been that good an adaptation, as it felt like there was a full volume compressed into 20 minutes each time. That may not have left it as much of a disappointment as it is with the visual implosion, but since there was such a blatant drop in quality, yeah, it really was that bad.

Another element to it is that fans went into Uzumaki knowing the sad history of Junji Ito anime adaptations so there was hope Uzumaki would buck that trend. Episode 1 made a lot of people very happy and hope was elevated only for it to come crashing down again by episode 2 and never fully recovered. It also means that we are probably never going to get a Junji Ito adaptation that is actually good and he might just be genuinely unadaptable.

Also one of those folks who was disappointed by Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians. I lasted a little longer there -- episode 4, I think? -- but I loathe it when shows define cast in terms of some one-note eccentricity, and GWCBM seemed to do that with everyone. Was particularly put off by the guy who sang every one of his lines; he just felt like an obnoxious caricature of a human being. I couldn't actually call it the worst, of course, but the interpretation of 'worst' has always been pretty loose in this ANN piece; no surprise many of the reviewers felt seriously let down by it, given what seemed like an intriguing and visually engaging start, and that many ANN reviewers are pretty into the magical girl genre.

Oh, that's fair. I read the article a few days ago, but I guess reading the thread since then magnified the number of mentions of it in my memory.

Haru is absolutely bluffing his way to that billion. But that's the entertaining part of it for me because you want to see how the schemes are going to keep escalating.

jmckenna15 wrote:

Haru is absolutely bluffing his way to that billion. But that's the entertaining part of it for me because you want to see how the schemes are going to keep escalating.

You know, The Sting is one of my dad's favorite movies. I had fun watching it with him. And a few years back, I watched and enjoyed Ocean's Eleven. I'm not averse to con and heist movies. But a crucial element of those is establishing that the mark has it coming. You need Doyle Lonnegan, or Terry Benedict, or the Leverage crew's target of the week to be a grade-A scumbag.

Who's Haru's mark? Or Sam Bankman-Fried's? Answer: society. Everybody. Us. People, both investors and consumers, who might otherwise have put their money to something worthwhile. So, I'm not seeing the entertainment.

Plus I didn't buy the plot point of them getting their first investment interest from whatsherface because while they may not have had anything to actually sell, she could sense the sheer manga-protagonist will on them. Will to, again, do nothing in particular.

(I haven't seen The Wolf of Wall Street, but from what I've read, it works in a different way from both your typical con/heist movie and Trillion Game, making a point about society's glorification of Jordan Belfort and his ilk -- while, in a weird way, deliberately making itself and the audience complicit.)

Why is it called trillion game, if their goal is to become billionaires?