Thread 283382978

ITT: Pretentious shows that are not even funny

>>283382978 (OP)
Steins;Gate. I don't think Konosuba is pretentious.

>>283382978 (OP)
Maybe you just have a poor sense of humor.

>>283382978 (OP)
konosuba is anti-pretentious, what are you on about?

>>283382978 (OP)
>Watching Konosuba sober
And here is your mistake!

You guys dont understand what pretentious means

>>283383248
Are we going to forgot the absolutely pretentious ending of this shit series?

>>283382978 (OP)
You can dislike this if you want. That's your opinion. There is no way it's pretentious. It's straightforward and wears its intentions on its sleeve.

>>283382978 (OP)
What are you even talking about retard, how is konosuba pretentious?

>>283383317
this

>>283382978 (OP)
I agree that it's not funny but it never was pretentious. It always presented itself as cringe parodyslop.

>>283382978 (OP)
>>283383301
>today's episode: /a/non thinks he learned a new english word

>>283383371
>It always presented itself as cringe parodyslop
The problem is that it turned out to be an actually good anime, and some people forgot what it was supposed to be.

>>283383579
>it turned out to be an actually good anime
lol

>>283383371
>>283383579
Also, watch it witch beer anons

>>283383269
>>283383632
>those filenames

>>283382978 (OP)
This one.

>>283383371
>parodyslop
i don't think it was really parody'ing isekais. The gimmick was just kazuma being self-aware and then getting monkey-pawed at every step.

>>283382978 (OP)
>konosuba
>pretentious
you don't know what that word means do you?

>>283383700
gintama is even less pretentious, you're more retarded than OP.

>>283382978 (OP)
Re:zero

>>283383700
Braindead opinion

>>283384021
wow, not a single correct application of the word so far, sasuga /a/

>>283383201
This is the one.

>>283382978 (OP)
Filtered

Babylon was genuinely pretentious, for instance the galaxy brain trolley problem discussion. But it still doesn't fit OP's requirement because it was (unintentionally) funny.

>>283383201
Filtered by Masterpiece;Gate.

>>283382978 (OP)
Konosuba is incredibly funny and not pretentious at all though

>>283382978 (OP)
>>283383688
>ITT: Pretentious shows that are not even funny
This one

>>283382978 (OP)
Nah bro the succubi episode is one of the funniest things i seen in anime.

>>283384419
S;G isn't pretentious, but its fans sure are.

>>283382978 (OP)
Konosuba was funny though?

>>283384471
The first correct response to OPs question

>>283384471
Take that back, it was unfiltered KINO.

>>283384021
this
every time loop with a le epic grand scheme

>>283383269
>>283383632
>ZIMNE PIWO
hello polish or possibly chicago friend

>>283382978 (OP)
That word...doesn't mean what you think it means.

>>283382978 (OP)
i want to have baby making lovey dovey cuddly kissing hand holding marital sex with Yunyun

>>283384021
Not at all, S;G is way more pretentious than Re:Zero.

>>283382978 (OP)
Konosuba is very funny

>>283383301
Using words you don't know the meanig of doesn't mean your argument look valid, anon. It makes you look pretentious.

>>283386374
Maybe this one, but most of the jokes are focused in Japanese pop culture, which i don't care... The girls are cute though and Marie, i think, shows her butt with a mongolian spot, cute but not that funny, basically i don't get it and I'm not supposed to but still somewhat enjoy it.

>>283383786
Outside is a small handful of exceptions, like the obvious tractor-kun scene, it really isn't a parody. It's just an isekai that also happens to be a comedy. It's honestly even more of a pure isekai than most of its contemporaries. It's literally a story about a Japanese NEET bring reincarnated in another world and told to defeat the demon king. And while the dirt is predominately defined by the antics of its characters, that is what it's about from start to finish.

>>283382978 (OP)
YOURE pretentious and not even funny

>>283385884
witam :)

>>283383700
trvke

>>283382978 (OP)
>Pretentious
you don't know the meaning of that word

knowing what pretentious means is pretentious

>>283382978 (OP)
I laughed watching Konosuba.

>>283386374
It's rare for a show to make me both laugh AND cum as hard as this one did so shut up.

But it's hard to find a comedy that's pretentious. You'd need to be leaning hard into "this is only funny for intellectuals who understand this topic as deeply as myself". Rakugo anime do seem like a solid choice. This is clearly the more pretentious option.

>>283387845
It's the exact opposite. You're just painfully retarded.

>>283386888
Yeah but OP said "that are not even funny"
I laughed at S;G. I only cringed at Re:zero

>>283383201
FPBP

>>283383201
If you think Steins;Gate is pretentious, you are a certified midwit who entirely missed the point.

>>283392067
Both the show and the fans are pretentious.

>>283392342
No, that's just projection from the pretentious haters who think they're impressive and superior because they don't like the popular thing, which is also why they never elaborate on why it's supposed to be pretentious.

>>283383201
You are genuinely too stupid for Steins;Gate if you somehow came away with the impression that it's pretentious.

>>283392721
"You are too stupid for my favorite anime" is pure pretentious retard behavior.

Steins;Gate pseuds continue to be insufferable.

>>283392565
People having no valid arguments about why S;G is bad is purely a S;G fan cope. I've been in those threads and plenty of things have been listed on what is wrong with that story, you simply refuse to listen to any of them.

Gayniggers from outer space: >>283382978 (OP)

Truthfully just the ED arc. It was shit.

>>283394987
S2 part 1 was just not it, especially when compared to S1. I really don't understand. The studio was formed as a spinoff specifically to adapt the entirety of Mushoku Tensei into anime, but then they started to take side-jobs...

>>283382978 (OP)
You dont have to find something funny but how the fuck is konosuba pretentious?

>>283382978 (OP)
It's not pretentious, but I personally don't find it funny. Anime comedies never really tickled my funny bone for some reason. Shit like panty and stocking got some laughs out of me, but beyond that nothing really sticked for some reason.

>>283382978 (OP)
S1 was kinda funny in a novel sort of way. It was new, so the comedy worked.
I cant recall many anime that have even so much as gotten a chuckle out of me but I commend it for even accomplishing this much.

>>283383201
I'll be honest makise is easily an 10/10 for me and all the other girls in the s;g might as well be irrelevant to me.
But what makes it so pretentious to anons?

>>283382978 (OP)
Ignore those denying that Konosuba isn't pretentious slop. Because it definitely is.
It may not look like it because most people here are anime-only and didn't read the shitty source material, but the whole point of its existence is 'subversion for the sake of subversion' shit.

Still, pic-related is the only good thing that came out of this shitshow. The author fucked it up by forcing her into a shitty dynamic with what might be one of the shittiest MCs in any piece of media that I've ever consumed.

>>283395657
>It may not look like it because most people here are anime-only and didn't read the shitty source material, but the whole point of its existence is 'subversion for the sake of subversion' shit.
Interesting, I am also among the anons that never read the LN and only knew the anime, was it really that bad?

>>283382978 (OP)
Konosuba was funny when I watched it during the pandemic in middle school but I realized that I've outgrown the humor now

>>283395707
Very much so.
If you liked the relationships that each member of the group had each other, you'll be disappointed to find that most of it was ruined by harem shit, or were simply shitty from the getgo.

Also, not that I mean to disappoint you even more, but there is no nopan Aqua in the Light Novels.

>just call (insert safe controversial opinion) pretentious randomly
>get a bunch of (you)s
Is it that easy

NGE

I'm so not pretentious that I'm posttentious.

>>283393988
it's incredible how every one of these moronic bait threads starts with unprompted S;G seething, then whenever fans shows up to disagree with the retard who apparently has a hate boner for something 10+ years old, the fans are called insufferable

>>283383835
It pretends to be funny

>>283383201
I wouldn't call S;G pretentious. It is still overrated though, just not for trying to look smart.

>>283382978 (OP)
Really? My Dick thought it was hilarious.

>>283395721
>during the pandemic in middle school
This has to be bait

>>283397249
NTA but I'm 20 and I was in 8th grade for the first few months of the pandemic. 2020 was a pretty long time ago.

>>283397249
Bruh, the pandemic was a long time ago. Someone who was in the 8th grade five years ago is an adult already or becoming one

>>283397510
Did you get held back?

>>283382978 (OP)
aqua and her porn is hot tho so i'll forgive it. i hate that faggot r*ddit mc so many r*dditors self insert to, albeit.

>>283397684
No. I was 14 which is the usual age for 8th grade.

>>283396885
>It pretends to be funny
>pretentious and pretend are the same thing
where did you learn english kumar?

>>283397916
Truth Social mostly

>>283382978 (OP)
Sousou no Frieren is the definition of pretentious, beautiful on the outside but empty on the inside. Strip away the surface of good art, music and cinematography, and you are left with mediocre, meritless shounen-slop.
Each episode does the following:
>Arrive at a new town
>Flashback to Himmel
>Stark says "bazinga"
>Fern says "ecchi"
>Cue sad music
This show is so deep bro, it reminds me of that time a girl liked me and I didn’t notice until three years later. Truly profound.

>>283382978 (OP)
It's literally the only anime that has ever got a general chuckle out of me. Anime/Japanese humor is so god damn awful and shitty while Konosuba actually feels like normal responses from a shitty group of people especially a human from our world being trapped in a fantasy world and how he might respond without being given amazing godly powers like every other "pretentious" Mary Sue in Isekia Animes.

>>283398284
You will never have a real personality.

>>283383201
I find it interesting how much this show makes nu-/a/ seethe. I suspect it's because of how utterly sincere it is. The honesty and optimism present in it's portrayal of internet and otaku culture is utterly incomprehensible from the vantage point of the irony poisioned climate that zoomer newfags such as yourself grew up in. So the natural result is to lash out at it, calling it "cringe" and other such buzzwords which are wholly devoid of meaning.

Also I can't imagine what in the show could be pretentious. You'd have to be very low IQ not to understand Steins;Gate, the narrative is quite straightforward.

>>283398284
You have more personality than Shitrencucks I'll tell you that much, bub.

>>283398284
Its sad to watch the most simplest thing elude someone. You have my pity.

>>283398677
I'm not seething but I didn't see a single sincere thing in S;G, that's the main reason why I don't think much of it.

>>283383201
fpbp

>>283382978 (OP)
All of these anime are more obnoxious in pandering their themes and storytelling, barring isekai or Monogatari slop. AnoHana is an honorable mention. Monster is a passing mention.

>>283392067
>t. a pretentious Slops;Gate fanboy

>>283392721
>you are too stupid to enjoy my favorite anime about time traveling banana Tutturuuu EL PSY CONGROO awooo
Holy fuck.

>>283398677
>nu
>seethe
right off the bat in the first sentence. S;G fans and spammers are always newfags

>>283398284
This. Sad truth, truth nuke even, about this anime. It's not a shitty show, but it's definitely a pretentious and dull slop. Even going by modern iyashikey standards.

>>283398677
>Reddit-style
>nu
>seethe
>"uhhh ohh IQ level"
You're just a pretentious normalfag. Possibly a tourist. Not saying that it's bad, thought it is, but stop larping and admit your newfaggotry in anime.

>>283382978 (OP)
>pretentious
What? Niggers like you are the reason why there's a stigma against ESL here.

>>283382978 (OP)
This is the only real answer. The Reze movie proved the director was a pretentious faggot that nearly killed the franchise.

>>283384471
Anon cant handle KINO

>>283396534
Why are shitposters cross-posting and why do people feel the need to post about it?

i wanna nakadashi megumin

>>283398284
No, Frieren is great and it's extremely straightforward. A story being sincere is not automatically attempting to be profound or deep, especially when it comes out and tells you what it's trying to say in very simple terms. This post on the other hand is pretentious, you're just digging desperately for something interesting to say and you can't help but insinuate that you're too smart to be tricked by Frieren as if the sad music were creating the emotions out of thin air for retards, rather than the content of the story being told having substance.

>>283398677
they're just trying to look smart, the easiest way to do that is to call popular things bad, because that "proves" you have better taste than the average person and requires no effort

>>283400682
i think frioren isnt bad, but its not that great either, just enjoyable slop,
SG on the other end is kinda meh, it truly feels like watching 'retards first scifi'

The character design in Konosuba is truly masterfully done, every SINGLE girl in it is cute.

>>283400682
I agree that being straightforward and sincere doesn’t make a story pretentious. I think that Frieren leans heavily on its art, music, cinematography and constant flashbacks to appear more reflective than it really is, that’s why I call it pretentious. Strip those away, and the story, themes, characters and their relationships are shallow. The characters are typical shonen tropes, Frieren’s development is wrapped up in the first few episodes, Fern and Stark’s relationship regresses after the ballroom dance. The show is repetitive and episodic, very little development continues between episodes, and half the season is focuses on boring magical administration.

I liked Frieren, but I still think it's pretentious.

>>283382978 (OP)
i know this is bait but how is a slapstick like konosuba pretentious

>>283401752
OP is just taking the piss but then there's people like this faggot >>283395657 who, as far as I can tell, is 100% genuinely arguing it is kek

>>283401199
megumin is my wifer, aqua is my mistress, darkness idc cause shes a bitch

>>283401778
Why are you so retarded as to quote my post as if I've left the thread?

>>283382978 (OP)
>>283383201
ITT: Children who don't know what pretentious means

>>283402457
>as if I've left the thread?
I didn't know or care if you left the thread, I am just pointing out that you said something incredibly retarded.
Completely irrelevant too since OP very specifically said "shows"

>>283395707
It's fine honestly.

You think konosuba is pretentious?

Am I doing it right?

>>283402523
>I didn't know or care

Explains why you resorted to passive-aggressive bullshit like a woman, at least.
And why would it be irrelevant? KonoSuba anime builds upon the source material, anon. It's not that hard to understand.

>>283402608
Whatever retard, I am not about to engage seriously with someone who calls fucking KONOSUBA pretentious.

>>283402631
Then leave the thread, faggot.
Why did you engage at all?

>>283382978 (OP)
Anyone that says Konosuba was not funny is lying.

>>283402633
this, shitchijou is PRETENTIOUS nipponese humour, it fucking BLOWS. kyoani should've been burned completely to the ground, they only managed to put out trash after trash only enjoyed by complete midwits

I think op is pretentious in his pretentiousness

Half the anons here say OP was using the word "pretentious" wrong. But genuinely, the only thing I got from that show was that LOUD=funny. Was I supposed to laugh when aqua screamed for the 20th time that she isn't useless? The only thing I felt when darkness made an off-topic, cringe, lewd joke for the 4th time in the episode was extreme annoyance. And I was supposed to laugh? Watching episods simply gave me headaches.
It was the very definition of what you might call "pretentious."

>>283404491
just tell us you have no sense of humor.
>Was I supposed to laugh when aqua screamed for the 20th time that she isn't useless?
Unironically?
Yes,

>>283382978 (OP)
every "comedy" anime ever

>>283385450
>>283386933
>anime
>funny
pick one

>>283404526
To be fair, you need to have a very high IQ to understand Konosuba.

>>283383201
/thread

>>283383201
Steins;Gate fans are more pretentious than the show itself somehow

>>283402633
Yep. Mogged by Daily Lives of Highschool Boys, the sliciest of life shows.

>>283402633
Maybe you are just stupid

>>283402633
Nichijou was amazing. I have literally no idea why you posted it here.

>>283404491
pretentious does NOT mean "it wasn't funny"
pretentious DOES MEAN "implying or stating more depth or substance than actually present"
why is /a/ so illiterate despite being filled with manga/LN elitists?

Most "" "pretentious""" anime are just called that because the person naming them is dumb and didn't understand them.

>>283406212
No, you are the one who's illiterate. The entire point of my post was that I was expected to laugh, when there was clearly nothing to laugh at.

>>283406385
Do you call every bad comedian or person telling a bad joke, pretentious?

>>283406418
There's a differemce between a show that I understand is simply not to my liking, and a show who's humor is one that no person capable of understanding the genre would subject themselves to.

>>283383201
Holy falsenvke

>>283406001
Every S;G fan's response is that the other person is too dumb to understand their gay show. That's pretentious if I've ever seen it

>>283383201
fibby pibby this shit is so ass

>"What's the worst show?"
>thread is just people saying "no u" to each other

>>283406630
no u

>>283383201
>reddit;gate

>>283382978 (OP)
It's shallow and pedantic and insists upon itself.

>>283406787
it's the rare "style == substance"

>>283406531
And s;g isn't even a smart story either.

>>283382978 (OP)
>Pretentious shows that are not even funny
Your mom giving me lap dance. It's really sad.

>>283382978 (OP)
I dare you to explain how Konosuba is pretentious.

>>283383201
Why does /a/ hate S;G now? It used to be one of the most loved shows on here.

>>283399908
>reddit
He is too sexist for that. Reddit used to tolerate such behavior more before covid but there were too many bans since then.

>>283407409
was meant for>>283397834

>>283392721
>says the MOST pretentious thing imaginable
>it's not pretentious tho
retard

>>283389921
sounds about right

>>283398284
Good post, correct opinion
An oasis in a thread of wrong opinions

>>283407409
You're underestimating reddit's hypocrisy. I'm pretty sure those dummies still think Okabe and S;G are the greatest things ever made.

>>283407760
steins gate is the rick and morty of anime

>>283407795
Rick and Morty combined with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

>>283383301
I don't know because I don't read Light Novels. Tell me what happened and why the ending is pretentious

They should ditch Kazuma and go lez.

I'd rather worship Aqua than any abrahamic deity.

>>283408030
they fall apart without kazuma, much like most all-female groups.
He provides all of them with a steady flow of lust.

>mfw a bunch of anons on /a/ don't know what the word "pretentious" means
holy shit how embarrassing

>>283407182
Most fans of older anime have chilled out over the years but Steins;Gate fans are still arrogant as fuck years later.

>>283409246
people are acting like the anime are pretentious when it's really the fans of those shows that are the pretentious ones.

>>283382978 (OP)
Made in Abyss, Re;Zero, and Apothecary Diaries. The holy trinity of “deep” shows for pretentious midwits.

>>283382978 (OP)
Frieren and Steins;Gate

>>283382978 (OP)
Konosuba is funny, at least at first.

>>283400119
This, 100%. Thank god he's gone.

>>283409404
>re:zero
>deep
I thought it was just pure garbage

>>283408030
sex these two

>>283398898
>KEKren Yeager out of NOWHERE

>>283395657
Are we going to pretend any isekai LN is better? They're all the same shit: barely high school level prose, nothing makes any sense, some variation of Dragon Quest mechanics.

>>283382978 (OP)
If there are any anime that can be described as "pretentious," it's definitely Evangelion and Monster.

>>283404226
>comedy aimed at native speakers
>I don't understand so its pretentious
come on

>>283384471
This anime made me sad

nigger

>>283407182
/a/ has overrun by MALfags who have the likes of S;G, FMA:B and Frieren rent free on their head.

>>283414412
Out of those three only Frieren is good at the most.

>low-brow ecchi comedy with cute little characters is pretentious
Kill /a/ users by firing squad, man
I fucking hate zoomniggers or genalpha or whatever they are

>>283414412
For the longest time it's been FMAB/St;G/HxH that was the MAL/Reddit trio.

>>283382978 (OP)
>>283383201
Both of these are not pretentious.

>>283414028
I think with Evangelion at least its definitely more the case of this >>283409307.

>>283394987
You made a mistake and didn’t say the entire series

>i'm too good for X
This thread is pretentious.

>>283416097
I made no mistake.

>>283395657
>pic-related is the only good thing that came out of this shitshow
Only salvageable part of this post.

>>283408030
Megumin already has Yunyun, Aqua deserves better.

Clair and Darkness should have sex with each other or a threesome with Alice.

>>283416612
Luna x Aqua or Aqua x Eris, the Goddess ship

>>283416612
>>283416710

EVA
Monster (and the other works of the author in general)
Welcome to NHK

Especially Monster. EVA is weird because it definetely feels pretentious at times, but then Anno comes and says stuff like "that was pure shit and I'm ashamed that I have created such thing", so it ends with mixed signals.

>>283414412
I find posts like this annoying because it's like these people are trying to create an idea that you're not allowed to criticize Frieren and S;G on 4chan otherwise you're a "contrarian". I don't care, they aren't that good.

>>283395657
>DragonBall is pretentious because it subverts tropes

>>283383201
fpbp

>>283416760
>Monster (and the other works of the author in general)
Monster is good whenever it's not jerking itself out on the deeply uninteresting character Johan as if he's a complex masterpiece. Also, Lunge should have been the protagonist past the first 10 episodes or so.

>>283419361
Also whenever his sister is the main focus it's also bad. She cute though I guess.

>>283382978 (OP)
do zoomers really get filtered by konosuba?

>>283385675
>>283400209
first half yes, second half was trash. Same as Summertime Rendering.

>>283392067
Steins;Gate is overhyped trash, your midwit insult is pure projection.

>>283419414
My zoomer nephew and younger cousin like it a lot. But I like to think I've had a positive impact on their tastes.

>>283419548
Summertime Rendering was a false bill of sales. It sold me on a paranormal murder mystery-cum-romance, only to deliver me up-jumped battle shōnen. Granted the bitch who brained monsters with a fucking sledgehammer was absolutely kino. But that manga still really failed to make good on its premise.

>>283416978
Almost nobody is effectively "criticizing" those things though, they just say something like "it's bad" or "it's pretentious" and then refuse to elaborate or make a dumb argument, that's shitposting and it's pretty safe to assume contrarianism is the motivation.

>>283421761
That's 99% of all "criticism" on the internet.