Medaka Box’s plummeting popularity (at least when measured by online otaku activity) is the subject of some curiosity – “Why is it so unpopular now? It is bursting with moeblobbery just like all the others…”
Fortunately, it still makes for interesting screen captures:
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thought those were balls on last pic >.>
everything works in your mind.
The eye sees what the beholder wants to see... :3
uh - no.
@Yoshii-kun HIDEYOSHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Waiting for when the anime caughts up to chapter 15 where it goes from a slice of life/comdey to a battle manga with no plot.
Because Medaka is undeveloped and annoyingly "perfect".
Seriously. Fuck man, change her name to JESUS, the show will be the same.
Even people who love fanservice and/or moe can't stand a character like that at the front. Granted, if she is shown to not be perfect later that may change. But fuck man, I wanna throw her off a cliff and see how she manages to not die.
exactly my thoughts, characters are only really likeable when they have flaws
Thank you random anon person.
Hell, I would take her being a huge bitch over what we have right now. At least then we could complain about how much of a bitch she is and how much we love to hate her.
Or something to that effect.
I understand where you are coming from, but for me it's quite the opposite. It's actually refreshing seeing a main character like that, instead of the usual "Flawed" characters.
Though since I haven't read the manga, I have no idea where it will be going, and if she will actually go through a change at one point. Having her stay all madoka jesus like for the rest of the show will be boring as hell.
the manga goes to the point her haxxorness becomes a plot twist and battles are there to be won.
Where she becomes weak and then strong then mind break then weak then strong then kick ass then shows a lot of pantsu shots
She has flaws. Discovering them is kind of the entire long-winded point of the series.
Which is boring.
As boring as you are~
Uhm.. Did you even watch this episode?
As it clearly shows that she isn't perfect.
a) Despite her intelligence, she occasionally doesn't see the obvious. Like the fact that the second letter and new shoes were an apology by the girl that she confronted earlier, and the fact that this wasn't done in person was because the girl was too embarrassed about her earlier actions.
Her dressing up as a dog is also an example of this.
b) She's got a serious jealousy streak. And is uncomfortable with the fact that Zenkichi and Shiranui are friends. This despite the fact that looks wise Shiranui isn't even in her league. (well, not with the average person anyway, loli lovers are another issue.)
c) She's horrible with animals. While she herself likes them, the animals are scared to death of her, and view her as something akin to Diablo the Lord of Terror. And this tends to make her rather depressed.
Seriously, folks should just view this as something akin to Beelzebub as opposed to K-On! or some other fluffier high school show.
that's funny, so how is this different with protagonists that defeats god-like enemies? sorry but the story ain't like a wimp getting strong and all that shit. that kind of start is used WAY too much
Depends... if the protagonist defeats god-like enemies since episode 1, without any development to reach the power level to do so, it gets boring really darn fast.
Probably not the best example, but imagine Dragon Ball where they beat the crap outta any and anyone that dares challenge them. No exceptions. Without any struggles; just smooth outright beating. Yup, wouldn't have made it far.
Charging one attack (all the while screaming) for 7 consecutive episodes is another problem too.
You're applying basic principles of shounen plot development to a manga that (initially) wasn't meant to be a basic shounen title at all.
Initially was the key word there. Problem now, is that initially is out the window from what im hearing as it sounds like they changed it to a simple fighting story down the road :(
At least in generic shounen shit they have the decency to pretend that there's a chance the protagonist might lose. You know, try and keep it a little bit interesting. Sometimes the protagonist actually loses! Before coming back stronger than ever, but still.
Medaka Box doesn't bother. Medaka is categorically invincible from day one, people within the show acknowledge that she's invincible, and there is never the slightest bit of drama or tension in this rubbish. Worse than that, she's not even depicted as being wrong in anything. She ruins the entire show just by existing.
It seems you completely missed the point then. Medaka Box did not start out as a fighting manga, and the fights were not what solved the conflicts the student council faced (the first fight with the ex-Kendo club doesn't count since that was to establish Medaka's character as the strongest and to introduce her unique quirks). The manga was on a good way to basing its whole appeal on presenting situations where the other, imperfect student council members were required to cover for her flawlessness in areas where it was actually disadvantageous. It was really promising.
Of course that was before the manga ended up becoming generic shounen shit regardless, with opponents that are actually stronger than her at the time they're introduced.
Its because the wimps beating the god at least you know how they came to be so strong.
Medaka is literally like: IM MEDAKA LOL and then she beats whatever she is fighting.
.. And this is precisely why otaku will despise the show.
They can't obsess over a perfect, flawless girl who will never go all tsundere for them.
NO WAIFU = NO SALE
All those claiming to read the manga.. I call bullshit. Failure plot and artwork never stopped a title efore.
Riiiiight.
It can't be as simple as us not liking the story because we think its bad.
That would be impossible. As for failure plot and artwork, with a poor reception, do tell us of these many manga/anime that survived this kind of reception. Or are we just listening to a fan who refuses to hear anything bad about a topic he might like?
I honestly think its the latter.
Medaka's perfectness actually becomes an important plot point later on after the comic went further and further into becoming a self-parodying meta-analysis of battle shonen manga.
I've no idea about the manga as i've not read it but to me it doesn't seem to be bringing anything interesting to the table, sure it has minor amusement value but to me its not standing out as doing anything epic or memorable :/
just read it, you'll understand "sudden change"
the manga has a sudden genre swap, turning it into a battle manga. also, the characters repeatedly break the 4th wall, poking fun at the fact that it turned out this way. it sort of feels like the author was unwillingly pushed into doing battles...
'Coz too much of a good thing makes people sick.
im enjoying it so not sure
so is it loyal to the manga or not? me i like those freelance problem solver type mangas. and i think the super so call perfect char thing is an interesting twist since everone always seems to wanna find faults in everthing.
i kinda like watching gintama & sket dance when i watch this anime...
Panty shots on TV Tokyo. I thought they weren't allowed.
Kind of painful to watch until it reaches chapter 16 of the manga imo. I hope it doesn't take much longer.
The manga is chaotic, just a matter of time when the anime show starts becoming like the manga. And i am pretty sure the manga was not so populare on their ranking either. Might be a reason, i dont know.
regular nisio-shit /thread
I've read the manga, I know that it becomes a crappy fighting show
indeed. first you got ecchi school drama and then suddenly it changed into shitty action fighting story with its basic formula (new group of enemies, and then each member fighting and bla bla bla . . . )
Actually, I would've watched the anime, but then decided to just read the manga at some point rather than have it spoiled. I don't usually roll that way though.
You can't deny that there are some crazy shit later on, which can be entertaining...
Yeah but I can find that same stuff in other mangas that are actually good.
That's basically it.
ive also read the manga
story was like shit
but still read it anyways
cuz theres a loli chara in it
Well, I WAS gonna go read it, but fuck that I guess...
Anon 04:52 nailed it. You can read the one-shot and the first 16 chapters if you want some fun light entertainment with very good art that looks like it has the potential to develop into an interesting new take on the student-council genre, but then STOP RIGHT THERE. DO NOT read further than the first 16 chapters or you'll regret it.
Seriously. I cannot stress this enough. I LOVED the first part. I thought it was great, it was hilarious. And then they threw it all away. That and they don't even try and explain WHY Medaka is super strong. She can just magically solve any problem that she comes across. It isn't that she had ninja training, or she has special powers, or anything that would at least help make a setting for why she can do stuff, its just because she is perfect. Waste of a potential good story.
It's only crappy if you take it as a "fighting" story.
Virtually everything happening is just another way for the author to facilitate some philosophy or message.
It's more of a drama.
I'm surprised no one mention about the animation quality. This show is way below standard of current anime.
If they are going to make fighting/fan service anime. At least reeve up the animation quality. These kind of quality only acceptable on gag/comedy anime.
Go and read the manga, you will notice much better quality on the pantsu shot compare to the anime.
Maybe they are saving the budget for the fighting scenes?
Right now it is on its gag mode, it purposely starts that way then turns around into its true nature.
Maybe they're saving it for Kumagawa Misogi and his Naked Apron Alliance...
It'll take too long to reach that part lol
*Looks at article title, then at screenshots*
Really? They can't figure out why?
It looks like something made in the late 90's/ early 00's. Quality wise. However, that could have been overlooked. If this had a good story, but knowing what the manga eventually turns into. I can't bring myself to watch the adaptation. Even though its during the better part of the series.
If it was made into an anime before the manga went to shit, it probably would have gotten more positive attention.
My biggest gripe is with the color.
The uniforms don't look at "black" at all...
And lack or originality i guess...
whats wrong with it is not the annimation if tht was the case cardfighter would be way below its time...