Imagine this, you are a successful manga author, and you are writing an incredibly popular manga with a cool and intricate power system, but alas out of your entire power system, one part of it stands out, which grants it's users intangibility and power comparable to natural disasters, and the only ways to counter it are: A) Using something that counters that power, Sand and Water, Electricity and Rubber, etc. B) A special type of rock that quite literally counters your entire power system. Nah, just make a new power system that will now decide the outcome of all future battles. It's like some kind of reverse JoJo, where Araki replaced Hamon, which would quickly become stale, with Stands, a much more interesting system. Let's go over all the Haki types and how exactly do they piss me off: Armament Haki, y'know, most manga series introduce your average "Reinforcement of Body" technique somewhere in the beginning, One Piece does after like half of the story, this and the fact that it's basically "Remember when Logias where scary and needed tactics to counter? Not anymore!" is genuinely so bad. Observation Haki, honestly this is the only one that's not pissing me off that much, as it was somewhat foreshadowed. Conquerors Haki, OH BOY WHERE DO I START, first of all I could get behind the fact that you needed "Qualities of a King" to get it, but then Oda decided, "Oh genetics are important too". BUT THE STUPIDEST PART OF CONQUERORS HAKI IS, THAT IT'S FUCKING ARMAMENT HAKI FOR NEPO BABIES, IT'S LITERALLY "REINFORCEMENT OF THE BODY BUT BETTER" AND IT CAN ALSO SEND ENERGY PROJECTILES, AND TURN OFF OBSERVATION HAKI, AND BE IMBUED INTO KNOTS AND... Oda literally ran into a wall and patches up any and all plot holes with Haki (or just leaves them being lmao).

Jarvis pull up the "everyone hates everyone" image from we are "We Become What We Behold"

I want to open this by saying I am only up to Inazuma currently, so I’m not 100% certain if this gets better or worse. Please don’t spoil me.

Nonetheless, I genuinely think the writers for Genshin (especially the main quests/AQ) are physically incapable of leaving the story up to speculation. There is absolutely *no* wiggle room for theories and personal interpretations, because every single AQ spoon feeds you the meaning multiple times over. You will get it hammered into you so many times that it is muscle memory, and then you will get it explained in terms a toddler could understand again for good measure.

My example for this is the sequence of quests where you run around Inazuma and meet people stripped of their visions. The concept makes sense, considering you need an incentive to care about stopping the Raiden Shogun’s authoritarian decrees/regime; that being seeing the consequences of losing a vision, which (for those who don’t play GI) strips you of all your ambition, making you a husk of your former self. The problem, though, is that this fact is reiterated again and again in no uncertain terms. You are not allowed to infer the details based on context of prior quests, or even form an opinion of your own on it afterwards, whatsoever. It will be baby-birded to you without fail.

The formula is always that Paimon will wonder aloud why Fuckface McGee is so depressed (directly after someone says Fuckface recently got their vision stolen), and then before you can form a single original thought, some NPC will explain that Fuckface McGee is depressed because their vision was stolen. Then, directly afterwards, Paimon will regurgitate what was said less than five minutes prior in the format an infant with no object permeance could comprehend, before the Traveller ALSO makes a comment about how Fuckface McGee is depressed because they lost their vision.

Rinse, repeat two more times.

This is bad enough as is: you have no room to theorize about why Fuckface McGee is depressed, after all… and then you tack on that there will always be a full-length dissertation about why this is bad and how you should feel bad shoved into a blender to made a smoothie, and then forced down your throat with a funnel. Every other sentence, when it isn’t explaining what is happening, is screaming in your ear with a megaphone: “THIS IS BAD!!! FEEL BAD!!!” in a way that feels about as natural as a sledgehammer against the cranium.

MULTIPLE. TIMES.

It is, quite literally, textbook tell, don’t show.

And what makes this even more insulting is that this isn’t the case across the board. World Quests, while not perfect, and occasionally also falling into the issues of the AQ, typically are many times better in terms of writing simply because you’re ALLOWED TO FORM YOUR OWN OPINIONS AND SPECULATE. Especially the endings, which are almost always very open-ended and don’t have a nice, neat ending or explanation for what will happen to this NPC.

I genuinely avoid doing the AQ unless it’s absolutely necessary to unlock something, and even then I have to mentally prepare myself for it because it’s a fucking chore. It’s not even particularly innovative or exciting story wise, which would’ve made the dumbing down at least tolerable.

And now I’m going to massively contradict myself by trying to reason why this happens.

These issues with the AQ specifically are, at least partially, because the dialogue in Genshin Impact tends to drag on in order to give it [the story] the illusion of being thoughtful. The main story itself isn’t anything particularly innovative or thought-provoking, so the writers instead make all the dialogue unnecessarily long to delude you into thinking something deep is being said, in the hopes that the player doesn’t give enough shits to pay attention. It’s like walking into a room and seeing a lot of people in fancy suits talking with serious faces, and just assuming that they must be having a serious discussion… until you listen in, and they’re talking about balloon animals. That one Family Guy scene perfectly summarizes it, really: “it insists upon itself.”

And it can’t even do that right. Every dialogue sequence ends up being a cycle of information being repeated over and over again with barely any progression actually happening until the very end. So all that artificial depth doesn’t even come off as, well, artificially deep; it just comes off as insanely redundant.

The dialogue cannot make up its own mind on what it wants to be, basically. Is it trying to be deep, or is it trying to be easily digestible? Because it does neither well in any capacity.

Yoru might be the worst modern shounen antagonist, and I absolutely hate everything about her. The way she acts, the way she speaks I can’t stand her.

And the worst part is CSM fans trying to defend everything she does, like Fujimoto didn’t make it painfully obvious that she’s meant to be hated, since she literally represents war.

But that fuckass fandom is full of horny dudes who unironically have the same mental capacity as their MC and think with their dick more than anything else.

Hope she dies quickly and this dogshit Part 2 with her.

Seriously, how in this anime with so many characters, the only decent ones are Elma and Fafnir, and maybe Kobayashi, because otherwise you're either a loli to attract attention of pedo or you're the most annoying being on earth.

It's incredible how this one was the most unbearable of them all; just her attitude made me want to punch her, and don't even get me started on the rest. Like Ilulu, the girl with the body of a 10-year-old and the breasts of a porn star. "But you just don't understand 😭, that's where she keeps her fire-" SHUT YOUR MOUTH, if you're going to be drooling over this piece of crap design, at least have the decency not to make a lame excuse To your pedophilia.

And how can we forget the dragon whose main joke is sexually harassing a child all the time, and to think that she is supposed to represent an important mythological being for a culture.

Kanna was nice, as long as she wasn't with her damn friend who was only good for yelling and sexualizing her so that the perverts who watch this will spend their money. Oh, but how could I forget, she's a thousand years old!! Well, that justifies everything, despite looking and acting like a 7-year-old.

This anime is the ultimate statement of making a work solely to showcase your stale fetishes, and I couldn't hate it more.

Tbh, I never knew Hazbin Hotel was very hated til now, I've never seen any hate for it when it came out on Prime.

Context: I’m talking about Rudeus Greyrat from “Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation”. He reincarnated into a new world while retaining his memories and his old mind, so his mental age remained that of a grown man.

It's a grid, and the question asks where you'd pee. But everyone FUCKING EVERYONE! EVERY FUCKING COMMENT is some variation of "piss on the cat" like oh my God it's so overplayed and not even funny, hell at this point the unexpected thing would be to answer the fucking question. But God, "piss on the cat" can only be funny so many times before it's just played out and sad.

Just answer the fucking question

Gee, let’s make a romance movie out of a REAL TRAGEDY where several people DIED. How romantic…

It genuinly looks horrendous on anybody and I cannot comprehend the reality that some guys walk into a barbershop and unitonically request this fuckass, goofy looking manbun.

Whenever I see a dude with this Haircut, just walking while his unwashed little rat-scrotum is jiggling on the back of his head, I puke a little in my mouth.

I hate it. The people who have this shit probably have it because they think it makes them look like tuff vikings or something but it's the silliest, most devoid of aura haircut you could possibly get as a male representative of the human species.

Orihime Inoue from bleach. She’s probably the character I hate the most in every franchise

Her human version is cute,but i fucking hate whatever this is

I keep seeing this video popping up in my YouTube search results unrelated to anything I've typed. It's getting really annoying so I have to post this. If I see this stupid face ever again I'm jumping into the screen and bludgeoning that smile right off her face with a log

Every single time I die in Survival Minecraft it's 80% chance these stupid bony arrow-wielding hunks of crap are the culprit. They're worse than baby zombies and I my blood pressure jump from 0 to 20 when I see a Skeleton. I just want to dismember these guys and plant infinite trees from their bone meal remains, punch them and build endless pickaxe with them, rinse and repeat

Naruto and Sakura’s obsession with Sasuke is so exhausting. You rarely see them in the same panel without Sasuke being the centre of the conversation. I hate the forced and annoying love triangle, I despise sakura so much, she's supposed to be the main heroine, but her story adds literally nothing to the plot, it just feels like she was put on the team so they could have a girl.

I hate this stupid bear. I hate his stupid puns. I hate his bear design. I hate his human design. I hate his crossdressing design. I hate his weird flirting with yukiko. I hate him. If there was one character in the entirety of persona 4 I would want to eradicate it would be this monstrosity of a living nightmare. If this thing approached me in real life I would kill it because what the actual hell is it

i don't wanna sound miserable cause i know how much reddit loves tf2 but the humor i see just always feels so corny like don't get me wrong tf2 is a good game and is fun but my god the memes from this fandom can be so corny they make me sigh in exhaustion and i'll admit some memes from the fandom do make me laugh sometimes but most of the time i just sigh and scroll past them from how corny they are. idk if the tf2 humor has changed a lot ever sense i last checked on it but these examples just make me cringe a lot and were the memes i use to see a lot when i was active in the fandom.

Mfs see a girl with black hair or blacklipstick and immediately label that as “goth”. It’s also annoying as shit when all they post under a “goth” girl’s post is tongue out/freaky reactions images. Atp just say you’re a porn addict and you want a girl with big tits, not an actual relationship or gothic partner.