Now that the dust has settled, what are /a/s thoughts on pic related?

>>156295725
8/10 it's trash

I mostly remember the gay

>>156295725
The gay segments were forced as fuck, but it great, still

First half is trash
Second half is good

>>156295725
Pretty good. The romance was all over the place and seemed a bit forced, but all in all very enjoyable.

>>156295755
Can't tell if you're baiting, sarcastic, or don't know how rating works.

>>156295725
Great, but gays were a forced plot device.

>>156295788
>>156296033
I thought the straights were forced. Like for literally what reason was there for the het end game?

>>156295725
Garbage production values
Paper thin characters
Pretty good storyline.

Forgettable overall, I always forget that it even exists until the occasional thread pops up.

>>156295755
this but unironically. it is kind of YA trash but it has its moments and i enjoyed it

>>156295988
lurk for 2 years before posting retard

>>156297800
>YA trash
Do you even know what "YA" means you fucking retard?

>>156297941
YA = young adult (novel), which is a great way to describe SSY's plot, themes and characters

>>156298021
kys

>>156298082
>kys
So are you actually underage? I could see this show leaving a bigger mark if I watched it back in high school when I read similar dystopias for class.

>>156298207
>le "all of anime's writing is on the level of YA shit" meme
Wew lad

>>156295725
Good story wasted on everything else.

A certain character did nothing wrong.

>>156298370
Wasted on what exactly? What is "everything else"?

>>156295725
First two arcs were boring. Last one was good tho. Squealer was the best.

>>156298317
That wasn't my post. Who are you quoting?

would be absolute kino if it was movie with proper budget

>>156298401
characters and animation quality.

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>>156298385

>>156298414
The last one wouldn't be good if it weren't for the previous two which established the setting and the characters.

>>156298490
Still doesn't make them good. Just cause it's set up isn't an excuse.

>>156298465
Also, the 'camera work' in the first few episodes was weird as fuck, it looked somewhat amateur, akin to Berserk 2016.

>>156298465
What's wrong with the animation? It's not god-tier, but it's satisfactory, it gets the job done.
Also what's wrong with the characters? Other than the sudden gay shit between them that happened. Was it pandering to the yuri and yaoi faggots?

I dropped it before the gay. The glacial pace in forty minute episodes just killed it for me.

>>156295725
Meh production values - finance-wise it was wise of A1 to funnel resources into SAO instead - but good directing nevertheless.

It subverted lots of YA novel tropes, actually. Maria is the kind of character who'd usually be the PoV in a dystopian novel, with the anti-system attitude. But we got Saki instead.

Characters were admittedly bland and uninspiring. Squealer and Kiromaru were the only truly good ones.

For me story alone was enough to make it one of the most moving series I have ever watched in my life.

You can rate it however you want basing on what do you value in anime, but anything less than 8/10 and you're dead to me.

My personal favourite anime ever.

>>156298726
Kiromaru is bro-tier, I wish he didn't die
I guess it was either him or her childhood friend, so it was an easy choice, but I loved Kiromaru's character, he deserved a happy ending

>>156298466
Why his actions showed to audience as bad at the first place? He did all he could for his kind. He was trying to prevent extinction by all means, there's no really time for whimsical blabbering on what is morally unacceptable if you put yourself on his place. Assuming how miserable his race was treated by magic users, he did pretty good.

Pretty good, I think most of /a/ actually likes it except for the gay bits

>>156298861
>Why his actions showed to audience as bad at the first place?
They weren't. The last episode especially shows this. Hell, queerats are humans with modified DNA. The point is that the whole anime is morally ambiguous.

>>156298912
it was literally few fucking seconds, why does if fucking matter?

>>156298961
Unleashing the fiend on the town isn't shown as just.

>>156298803
Kiromaru is an uncle tom, he had to die.

>>156299061
It was shown neutrally, for what it was. It was never commented as being morally wrong,
except for the humans themselves, but that doesn't matter in the long run. There's no objective narrators which comment on whether or not something a character did was right or wrong. The point is that both humans and queerats aren't "good", both are morally bad,
but queerats are a bit less, as they are being treated like shit, so they at least have a reason to behave like they did. Also, selfishness is a big motive in the anime, especially near the end when Saki refused to let her friend die so she could save THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD. Jesus Christ.

>>156299061
Does that term come from "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? I read it a long ago when I was younger, it was a great, but depressing read.

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Why even watch this trash when Nagi no Asukara explores similiar themes in much more mature and deep way? With actual experienced and talented director in charge and not some fucking hack from nowhere.

A Masterpiece

>>156299353
The only thing deep about that show is the ocean.

Reminder that in the manga Saki becomes a lesbian pedophile rapist, who cucks a boy who just wanted to keep his cute girlfriend safe.

>>156299431
the only deep thing in your answer is your mothers vagina

>>156299489
Manga is an unimaginable piece of shit, don't even talk about it

>>156299199
>Does that term come from "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Yes.

>>156298429
If you compare SSY's writing to YA novels, then you're obligated to do so with the writing for all anime.

>>156299984
Most anime writing is absolute garbage. Being in a high percentile for anime doesn't make SSY's writing not YA-tier

>>156298567
The animation was distractingly bad for some of the early episodes, when Saki and Satoru were with Squealer and his group. Like I was trying to pay attention to the plot but I couldn't stop myself from thinking "damn, this anime looks really bad right now, what happened".

Luckily it got better.

>>156297854
Your insecurities forcing you to call others retarded because they don't understand your lame jokes?

>>156299511
Y-You got me.

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>>156301517
pic related

>>156298021
Not every novel with young MCs is YA, anon.

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Like 6/10, it was okay, I wouldn't watch it again though.

It's weird to me that recently there's a lot of people that praise it as some sorta masterpiece. Back when it was airing, like 50/60% of the SSY threads on /a/ were complaints about the writing/animation.