Don't Let the Catz say Zero! [DLTMS0 v4.0]

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I have so many avatar ideas that get denied because of size restraints. It's sad, because then I have to cut them down and reduce the quality quite a bit ._.

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Okay Kodaka, there's pulling white lies to get away from your problems, and there's being a huge, egoistic wuss about it. And you're crossing the line.

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Can someone tell me why the useless (unlikable) wuss protagonist trope is so popular among manga and anime authors?

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I guess because it's supposedly easier to emotionally relate to an imperfect being than a more perfect one. Everybody loves an underdog. But it's still bloody ridiculous. Everyone watching cartoons isn't so miserable that the idea of a socially adept main character is unimaginable.

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You're watching the wrong cartoons, obviously.

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My best guess is it's for fanservice anime mostly since it's more appealing than say a gar type like Gatts for example.

Edit: Pokestick beat me to the punch.

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Hm...yeah, that makes sense. Still, they're so useless that I don't think anyone can relate to them, and when they're in trouble...you (or at least I) don't want them to come out on top. Like in Mirai Nikki. EVERY ENCOUNTER he had I wanted him dead. Heck, out of all the useless protagonists out there, he's the one I dislike the most. I mean, I didn't like most of the characters in that show, but Yuki specifically is probably one of my least favorite characters in anime for an ungodly number of reasons.

Eh.

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Seriously, the % of these type of protagonist is a lot smaller than you'd think. Just avoid things aimed at fat neckbeards (harem shows and anything produced from a light novel with a stupidly long title would be first on my ignore list) . Really, it's not that hard.

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Oh, I don't watch anime with them usually, I've just seen a good number of them (there are only about 4 that I actually watched, 3 of which were good). Generally shows with them have either generic stories and/or generic characters, and I can't deal with the latter (and the former, to a slightly smaller extent

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But the breasts! They're so hard to get away from! You've been seventeen too, Lappy, don't tell me you haven't!

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Speaking of Harems and breasts...I went back and looked at some of the anime that I watched when I was younger (outside of Toonami, I consider the time that I got into anime to be when I got Comcast for the first time and started watching the Anime Network...so 2003)...good God. I...uh...I should not have been watching that stuff. That was ten years ago, so I was 7 at the time (it really doesn't feel like that long ago). Looking back, I watched both Steel Angel Kurumis, Burn Up, Those Who Hunt Elves, Sorcerer Hunters, Maburaho, and other anime that I...I just shouldn't have been watching. Elfen Lied was on the list, and I always saw it there...it's a good thing I didn't click it ._.'

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Ok, you got me. I still love this.

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I don't even know if I was on the internet when I was seven. Too busy with mah lego back then.

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I didn't internet much as a kid tbh. Just Bebo and porn. Good times.

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I don't think I was on the internet back then. I may have been, I didn't watch anime on there. The anime I watched back then was either on Toonami, FoxBox (aka 4Kids TV or Fox Kids), Kids WB, or the Anime Network On Demand (which is also what taught me what anime was, and that's what I consider how I got into anime), so it was always on TV.

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2007ish was when I got back into anime. My mum noticed Blood+ on the TV, watched it and it was pretty kul. Started watching stuff as it aired around the time To Love Ru and Code Geass were airing.

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Code Geass and Blood+ came on for me but I couldn't watch them, they came on on weekdays and I couldn't stay up that late.

Speaking of nostalgia, I remember when this first aired in America and I fell in love with it:

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I consider Love Hina and Bleach to be the shows that pushed me into the whole anime thing for real. Back in 2009, when everything was exciting and awesome.
Then Kämpfer came along. But let's not speak of Kämpfer.

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I'm no sub elitist but that johnny Yong Bosch Ichigo made me so angry my demon fox chakra came out a little. Quite strange as I liked him in my Code Geass rewatch whenever I did that.

I got into teh big shounens pretty late actually, considering they're supposed to be gateway shows.

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Johnny Yong Bosch is one of my favorite male VAs in the dub business, along with Yuri Lowenthal and Liam O' Brien, but I didn't particularly care for his role in Bleach. Having said that, the dub of Bleach isn't that good, and after I caught up with Bleach I immediately switched to subs.

I will say, though, that he plays Ichigo VERY passionately.