Anime fans aren’t done with 2011’s winter season – the previously featured diagram alleging all the anime are but staid rehashes of overused element has been expanded to cover even more anime featuring an overbearing heroine browbeating a wishy-washy protagonist against the tedious backdrop of a Japanese school…
The diagram now covers Gosick, Infinite Stratos, Freezing, Yumekui Merry, Kore wa Zombie?, Dragon Crisis, Madoka and “Ochinko” (Oniichan no Koto) – as before, the three elements are a harsh heroine, useless male protagonist, and school setting.
Anime producers can probably be forgiven the succession of egomaniacal female leads, but the inability to construct meaningful male protagonists and the perpetual reliance on a school setting speaks either of creative enervation on their part or a fanbase completely obsessed with weakling schoolboys at the mercy of crazed schoolgirls…
Gosick had a very brave and useful Protagonist and less beating than lots of other series, because the story was really good (in contrast to all other anime listed here).
Also,the anime Dragon Crisis was one of a kind, because it featured dragons instead of school girls,zombies,aliens,androids,angels,demons, gods,etc. which have been used for ages for the role of the female lead (execptional things like puppets are not listed here,though :D).
The others,however, were anime that were produced just to sell uncensored Blu-Rays to those creepy Type-B Otaku…
Well this is stupid. Even in real life a person may have a thousand similarity with any of the other 6 billion.
And you’re saying anime hasn’t been like this for the past few years?
You know what else has no originality? Sankaku’s “news”.
Eto…. Madoka doesn’t completely fit that chart…
“meaningful male protagonists”
is keima in on this?