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EP. REVIEW: Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

Bias you say? I don't think that it's Jacob who's got bias here

So you think the job of reviewers is to validate or reflect opinions of masses? What??? xD

So.... What is your criticism exactly? Is it not bombastic enough? Is it bad writing? All of it? You've been talking a lot about reviews, but not about your opinions on the show. Be specific.

I don't really understand what exactly are you trying to achieve with these comments and you are not showing any "harsh objectivity" yourself. It's all just salt and non-content statements with no examples. What is your proposal for solution of this "problem"?
And you can stop soapboxing about Jacob ignoring flaws of the show. We get it

And "woosh" goes Pipoko's point over your head. What you said still isn't fact, it's an opinion. Some people will agree with Jacob's reviews of the show, some won't, and some will be immature asshats and go out of their way to misgender him. That's just how it goes. But why make such a huge deal out of Jacob not picking a show you don't like to pieces then? Where is the harm in it exactly?

Pipoko wrote:

As my years on internet progress, I grow more and more amused by people just not willing to accept their POV is an opinion. People just have to make sure their opinion feels more "legitimate" compared to others by presenting it like a fact. "Bias", "apparent flaws", "blatant flaws" I find Kabaneri solid for it's action and characters and I *personally* just don't care about the stupid stuff. Who knows, maybe someone out there doesn't think it has stupid elements at all? People are allowed to have their opinions.

Yes its easy to say anything is solid nowadays without explaining why and you can purposely ignore any case of stupidity or bad writing in anything if you like it since Jacob does it all the time just don't expect people to take you seriously or think you're making a valid point.

Animechic420 wrote:

I'm very surprised not everyone is on board with this anime.

Really? You're surprised that people aren't on board with an anime from the same idiots that gave us Guilty Crown which carries exact same problems no less? Are you just turning a blind eye to its apparent flaws like Jacob has been doing for six episodes straight?

Both shows are made with an assortment of tropes that are popular to otaku to the point where they have no identity of their own.

Both shows carry the same "humanity is shit" mentality that ironically led both down the survival of the fittest route.

MC's current state is due to a traumatizing event involving a person that came back in the present if they show didn't tack this on as hard as it did.

Both show's have terribly directed action scenes and scores.

Of course you don't think it holds up to any scrutiny, you like this crap so you're gonna ignore any similarities both shows have

So you're saying Guilty Crown was good then? Gotcha.

I love how anytime someone has negative to say about a show the response from fans is that they're "salty" or that they're "haters" since the majority has something to say about a show no other opinion matters. I'm not even sure what was the point of this point other than to show your profound butthurt.

Because you can apply that same logic to all shows even Big Order, its easy to say something is good without explaining why or ignore all its faults altogether but then your "criticism" is no different from a YouTube comment.

I wouldn't bother with them.

I like Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress for the characters, themes and animation.

I find Ikoma and Mumei to be likeable leads - Mumei is my favorite character, but Ikoma is the more unique character - he's a combination of the nerd/intelligent hero and the action hero. He's also not perfect - instead of going out brave and screaming, he falls down and weeps. Instead of taking care of all the enemies to valiantly protect Mumei he says he's weak, but he will keep fighting. He's a planner as well as action-taker. I think that's unique and interesting.

Mumei is a female character with complexity - her "arrogance" is stemmed from the desire to remain useful, for her life to remain meaningful in the world of "strong live, weak die"; to remain useful for her brother. She's grown to see the world that way and so have many others around Mumei, but Ikoma proves this is wrong, and this is where the themes come in. I think it's a powerful statement the series has: the value of your life does not depend on your achievements. Everyone deserves a second chance and everyone's lives have value even if they're weak. It's a very powerful statement in my eyes.

The beautiful action scenes are just the icing on the cake. What's important to me is entirely divorced from the plot or some of the dumb scenes. I just don't care. You obviously do, though. So we probably disagree.

A guy says one thing anyone with common sense and he's labeled an "intelligent hero" despite not doing anything remotely intelligent and none of that is remotely unique given we have another protagnist from a different show this season who does the exact same thing but you wouldn't know that would you?

I don't exactly agree with the apparent implication that this is somehow a result of any "dishonesty" though. In short, Lost Village and Kabaneri are not equivalent series. Big Order is also very different and arguably the most thoroughly flawed of them all, so that's also not interchangeable. <snip>