"robosexual." were your words exactly. I never said sex was needed to have sexual tension. Just because i said roger never made any advances doesn't mean I was talking about sex. What I meant is that you don't see him do things like flirt or any sexual innuendos.

You realize I dropped "robosexual" as a joke term.

Though in my opinion, he showed way more interest in the androids and the mecha than he ever did in actual human females.

2. If your slice of life anime has people with superpowers, your anime a shit - FMA
>Implying two brothers wandering the country looking for the means to get their bodies back is a "slice of life"
3. If your anime needs to have someone explain a new power every episode, your anime a shit - DBZ (learning kao-ken and spirit bomb conveniently off screen),
He learned both of these techniques from King Kai, and uses them multiple times
FMA can also invent powers, since everything can be reconstructed through alchemy
The only thing that inhibits a person's alchemical ability is practice and imagination, anything one alchemist can do so can the others.
When I made this rule, it was more aimed at animes that have people with a thousand powers who never uses the same one twice.


4. If the hero of your anime is super strong but is powerless to the new villain of the week your anime a shit. - DBZ + GT x 100,
Name me one villain in DBZ where this was the case,
Let's look at the main 4 bad guys from the DBZ series

Raditz + Vegeta + Nappa

Goku struggles to kill Raditz but still eventually beats him at the cost of his own life

After training long and hard, Goku easily defeats Nappa.

Vegeta on the other hand survived a Spirit bomb, and was left alive because Goku wanted to fight him again.


Frieza

One of the most powerful being in the universe, it took Goku going super saiyan to defeat him, but at no point did he "lose" to Freiza

Cell
A perfect creature, it combines the DNA and abilities of some of the most powerful people ever to exist.
He challenged the people of Earth to a tournament, and lost it to an eleven year old kid

Buu

Probably the closest here to breaking the rule, but he was introduced for the series finale so he wasn't the "Villain of the week" he was THE Villain.


Hajime no Ippo also is guilty of this one imho.
Ippo lost one fight, and he wasn't "powerless" during ANY of his fights.

5b. If your anime has a minority for the sake of having a minority, your anime a shit. - DBZ had one black guy who was the reïncarnation of buu I believe.

You're referring to Uub, and he doesn't even come close to fulfilling the role of token black

6. If the meekest character is secretly the strongest one in the group with no proper explanation for why that is, your anime a shit. - DBZ : gohan

Gohan is half human half saiyan, please note that both Trunks and Goten were able to go SSJ1 much earlier than Goku and Vegeta were. This trait is shown in hybrids, not meek characters.


7. If your anime NEEDS to have a fight scene in every episode to be interesting, your anime a shit. -
DBZ. Plenty of the "filler" episodes were interesting.

Bo Bo Bo. It's a parody of action animes, and again the filler episodes were interesting.

10. If any given character can be considered "Evil" for no reason other than the sake of being evil, your anime a shit. *sigh* FMA, DBZ and Bo Bo Bo has these guys to.

FMA. If you're referring to any of the seven sins it's been shown that they all had perfectly understandable reasons for what they did,
If you're referring to Father, he was afraid of being powerless, like he was when he was stuck in the flask.
So much so he sought to be the most powerful being in existence, so nothing could ever bind him again

DBZ All of the Villains had reasons for their actions


Raditz was employed by Freiza to wipe out all life on an unnamed planet, unable to do so by himself he seeks Goku's aid.
Upon seeing his own brother isn't acting like a true saiyan, he does all he can to try and get goku to fight.

From Raditz's perspective: "Saiyans have been given jobs, I need help with mine so I'll ask my brother.
My brother has befrended the people he was ordered to kill? There are only 4 Saiyans left! Who knows what Freiza will do to him!"

Vegeta received a message saying that one of the last 4 saiyans in existence was killed, and that a certain planet had balls that gave wishes.
After years of being mistreated by Freiza, Vegeta would do anything to get back at him.


Freiza
Runs the Planet Trade Organization, He's a warlord and a businessman, and business is good.
He obliterated the Saiyans because he feared the legendary Super Saiyan

Cell

Apart from later on wanting to destroy everything not "perfect" Cell only sought to become stronger.
He displays characteristics of all the people who's DNA he uses.


Buu

Buu is a child, a super powerful being with no concept of right or wrong. To be "evil" is to do bad things even though you KNEW they were wrong.
He even had the patience to fight Gotenks, he wasn't in it to kill people, he was just a kid who wanted to have fun


Bo Bo Bo. It's a parody, it's not supposed to make sense

It was Dr Gero who invented these robots, and he took some of Freiza's DNA too.

Also Freiza had only obtained 93 planets in his campaign.

Spirit Bomb is used multiple times throughout the series, and kao-ken is only used by Goku throughout the entire anime.
Is it really that strange for him to use a stronger technique when it becomes available?

Also, the 1000 year rule for Super Sand Lesbians isn't 100% accurate.

The super saiyan they all refer to is in actuality Bardok, Goku's father, who for whatever reason found himself 1000 years in the past after freezy pop destroyed Planet Virgina.

I also never said DBZ WASN'T shit.


Also, I used the word "powerless" not "weaker"
Having the hero win with no struggle wouldn't make for a good anime now would it?


Also please note how I word each rule on the list.
I'm against them having to explain new powers each episode like when you watch Yu Gi Oh and each card needs a 3 minutes explanation
I never said nor did I imply I hated people learning new powers.

I'm tempted to say that eventually there will be an entire episode of Yu Gi Oh where a good chunk of the episode is spent just explaining cards so they can duel without exposition.

That reminds me, I watched an entire episode of Yu-gi-oh! at the request of a friend, and since I'm a huge fan of the abridged series, I thought I was ready to handle the real deal. I wasn't.

Bakura was dueling Zombie Boy, who trapped the former and said only one card could possibly get him out of there, which Bakura had. Was that, like, a twist? Are those things frequent? Can they literally just make up cards in their decks as they go along, or do we know what the characters are equipped with beforehand?

Yeah, that's basically how all duels work. HEART OF THE CARDS

Yeah, that's basically how all duels work. HEART OF THE CARDS

I do like some anime

I like FMA, BIG O, Death Note, Bo Bo Bo, Hajime No Ippo, DB, DBZ, DBZ GT, Zatch Bell....

Hell I even read all of Azumanga Daioh.

I also never said DBZ WASN'T shit.

Anyway, is it just me, or by DoMaya's standards Ace Attorney was shit ever until GS5 came along? The "student never surpassing teacher" bit...

You've lost me

...Bridge to the Turnabout, anyone?


...Technically, he never said the stuff he likes isn't terrible :D


I miss Holy Hell. He'd be able to settle this

He's in a worse better place now

And Sjibbey, I'm more intrigued as to how you found me in the first place.

If you watch the masacre of the dub, you damn well deserve to hear shit like that. I overall prefer the manga, mostly cause it didn't have filler (unfortunately, it didn't have my sweet little Rebecca in it...) and it did some good hints and overall idea of friendship, believing in oneself and others.

Yeah it happens a lot that they have this one card that will win them the duel. But it's the rule of winning... otherwise, the main character would lose every other duel and never make it to the finale and stare at Marik's sexy naked back-I mean... learn of how to find his lost memories...

C-A

You can't fool me, Cat, I've read enough of the manga to know they say that kind of crap there too.

The manga doesn't talk about shit like HEART OF THE CARDS. It's more based on believing in oneself, but also believing and trusting your friends. No card-heart stuff there. And trusting in friends is a better message than HEART OF THE CARDS!

C-A

Yeah... Death Note is clever, but it's not nearly as deep as it wants you to think it is.

I stopped watching most new animes since Death Note finished.
All these people start suggesting new animes and they're the exact same shit

I remember watching Death Note quite a while back and to me it just reeked of sexism and forced character nerfing from an outside source (the author).

Wait you have to explain this one to me. Out of all the anime's like Echi's , harems, girl x girl, boy x boy etc. you think that Death Note is sexist?

Yes... Harems are nothing more than beaten to death rehashed generic fanservice but that doesn't mean they don't have useful and strong characters to the nonexistant story, they usually aim for those dark haired and strong karate champion girls with tight asses.

It's just not hard to notice because it's so generic and the pantyshots create false image...

I don't think we are on the same page here. I was asking why you thought Death Note was sexist.

Characters are nothing more than tools that have no personality/characterization whatsoever, L for example. I don't think I have to mention how Misa and Naomi kept getting the shaft until they died for some nonsense.

That part with Naomi was... Retarded.

I read that the reason Naomi got shafted was that the writer was kinda writing the story into the wall. They had made Naomi too smart and had to write her out because it was going to advance the plot way too quickly. I hate she got shafted too, but from my understanding, it's more on the part of poor writing rather than sexism.

Women getting shafted sounds like my type of writing.

The only anime I know that passes your list is The Boondocks.

The Boondocks is an anime about a black family moving to the white suburbs, but it tackles current events and delivers political messages in a lot of the episodes.