What Evangelion is for Mecha, and Madoka is for Magical Girl, Monogatari is for Slice of Life.
Discuss.
What Evangelion is for Mecha, and Madoka is for Magical Girl, Monogatari is for Slice of Life
Elijah Turner
Leo Ortiz
harem*
Luis Hall
Eva didn't ruin mecha, and Monogatari didn't ruin SoL, to the comparison fails.
Austin Gonzalez
That's basically the same thing in this day and age. But fair enough.
Jonathan Kelly
I’ve watched Eva but now t the other two, and all I know is that madoka magica has some girl kill herself or something
Christopher Thompson
Monogatari is harem shit for pedos
Luis Nguyen
nani?
Hudson Wood
monogatari is barely a slice of life, if your naming naming shows that did something special within its format a better pick is watamote
Cameron Smith
Nicholas Lee
isn't Watamote is a harem series though?
Samuel Ramirez
This. Monogatari being a slice of life is like saying it's a battle shonen because it contains high impact violence like pic related and is aimed at the teen market.
Tyler Perez
that whole episode was pretty amusing
Adam Johnson
First, don't you mean harem genre, as called attention to?
Anno and Urobochi respected the mecha and mahou shoujo genres respectively. I do not think Nisio respects the harem genre
Jackson Hughes
A show that did nothing new, but casuals love it because it has good presentation?
That's debatable.
Aiden Jones
Hot take: Monegatari is vastly overrated, and its presentation is painful if you can't speak Japanese.
Note I didn't say "unless you watch the sub". The rapid fire presentation of the show makes it a nightmare. I got through like 2 episodes before dropping it.
Yes, drop your >filtered here.
Sebastian Miller
Don't fall for this meme.
Levi Mitchell
>you're just tryna have a good time but your girlfriend keeps trying to give you a handy in the backseat and make her dad watch just to spite you
Honestly, probably one of the highest tension moments in the entire series and it's entirely a fucking joke within a romance episode.
Levi Brooks
Anno is a certified otaku, regardless of what he claims, but did Urobuchi really like Magic Girl shit? From what I've heard Madoka was Shinbou's idea.
Benjamin Taylor
I appreciate you know you're a fucking casual but still choose to have an opinion anyway. You can have my (you) just based on the raw respect I have for your self-awareness.
Adam Smith
Senjogahara is great when used correctly.
Anthony Davis
It's not even a problem with Nisio himself. I'm re-reading Medaka Box with the story time here and it's been great to go back through.
Monegatari just didn't click with me.
Oliver Hall
the presentation doesn't really have anything to do with the language as I understand, I think you meant to slight its dialogue and source, user.
Daniel Jackson
She's only really had three good scenes. The car scene, the Koyokoyo Valentine's scene and the Observatory episode. Otherwise she's pretty accurately placed in the background.
Fair. I like both for different reasons. You might just need more ass-kicking in your series and that's okay.
Hunter Thomas
No, I honestly mean the rapid fire text on screen that demanded you either read at light speed, pause and go back multiple times, or just ignore it. I don't know if the series drops that aesthetic later on, but reading the subs alongside trying to read whatever they were translating on screen was a nightmare for me.
Jeremiah Sanders
I hope you try to get into Monogatari again. If you like some of Isin's other works then you might find something to like if you're patient and remove your reservations.
I think that text is like an easter egg. I doubt Japanese were able to catch it all on broadcast, and so you're not supposed to on the first run through.
Luke Diaz
some of her early Bake stuff was good as I recall
Connor Nelson
This sentence says literally nothing
Nathaniel Thomas
It wasn't. Early Senjougahara was the worst.
Liam Thomas
>Monogatari is for lolicons
Jonathan Evans
>when used correctly
as a toilet?
Jason Jenkins
>EVA
>Mecha
I guess AoT is mecha now too.
Adam Torres
It's to condense the story. Think of it as the pointless inner thoughts of the protagonist. It's not essential. In Kizumonogatari they took it a step further and removed Koyomi's inner dialogue completely.
Isaac Sanders
Is that why you're afraid to watch it?
Benjamin Price
Works that manage to stand out for various reasons, that a certain brand of pretentious people have placed upon too high a pedestal after wasting too many hours of their lives on them, while a different brand of the same people have deemed them garbage out of a need to feel special by going against the common opinion? If so, I might agree with you OP.
Aiden Fisher
>Anno and Urobochi respected the mecha and mahou shoujo genres respectively. I do not think Nisio respects the harem genre
The whole point is that Eva and Madoka are deconstructions of their respective genres. Monogatari is also a deconstruction of harem/SoL.
Aiden Sullivan