>>509589138it's just way too blatant HERE'S SAD THING FEEL SAD shit, like nah fuck off, tell a fucking story, like, the other anon brought up anohana, and there the scene where menma wrote in the diary was sad, the whole show was leading up to it, you understood the story, the characters and what was doing on, that was fine, it's a sad scene situated within a story, it's a matter of build up and telling a decent story, anohana didn't need fight scenes either to tell it's story, it's not a battle anime, it would've been stupid if there were just fight scenes randomly, emotion is about build up and telling a good story, not some pavlovian OH HERE'S THE SAD MUSIC TIME TO FEEL SAD, or like in summer wars when the little default avatar says "please save our families" that felt emotional, because you understood what was happening and what everyone was doing without needing some pavlovian cues that now you are watching an emotional scene, I'm not gonna feel sad when you just go HERE DEAD KID SAD MUSIC PLAY SO IS SAD FEEL SAD, I just roll my eyes and dip out