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anime seriously suffers from the way japanese people seem to dislike planning out story arcs in advance -- there are very few anime which, to my knowledge, have a satisfying conclusion. even conclusions that i like (including the somewhat controversial conclusions of NGE and cowboy bebop) seem to lack foresight. does this come from Tragedy being a significant genre in classical Western storytelling and not japanese storytelling? in many cases, japanese authors seem driven to prolong their series as long as financially possible, like the concept of ending the series doesn't even matter to them, so you end up with things like berserk never even getting a conclusion. will nishio ever end monogatari? has he ever even thought about making the overall series go anywhere? anime frequently gives me the feeling of going around in circles until the author runs out of energy.Breaking Bad and Death Note are similar in many ways; the main character is a highly competent, genius sociopath white male who kills people and has an unrealistic goal that he will never reach. (also, the guy in charge of investigating him is a family member and the main character knows he's being investigated by his family member which gives him special advantages and pushes the plot forward).Death Note is somewhat of an unusual anime in its brisk pacing. despite this, it still gave me the anime feeling of going in circles aimlessly. (spoiler alert) L dies -- and then he gets replaced with L 2.0. was this planned out in advance? why? eventually, light gets outsmarted -- why? it felt like it happened just because the series had to end... because the author was out of energy or something. Breaking Bad's conclusion wasn't exactly good, but it felt natural in the sense that the story had played itself out fully.
anime seriously suffers from the way japanese people seem to dislike planning out story arcs in advance -- there are very few anime which, to my knowledge, have a satisfying conclusion. even conclusions that i like (including the somewhat controversial conclusions of NGE and cowboy bebop) seem to lack foresight. does this come from Tragedy being a significant genre in classical Western storytelling and not japanese storytelling? in many cases, japanese authors seem driven to prolong their series as long as financially possible, like the concept of ending the series doesn't even matter to them, so you end up with things like berserk never even getting a conclusion. will nishio ever end monogatari? has he ever even thought about making the overall series go anywhere? anime frequently gives me the feeling of going around in circles until the author runs out of energy.
Breaking Bad and Death Note are similar in many ways; the main character is a highly competent, genius sociopath white male who kills people and has an unrealistic goal that he will never reach. (also, the guy in charge of investigating him is a family member and the main character knows he's being investigated by his family member which gives him special advantages and pushes the plot forward).
Death Note is somewhat of an unusual anime in its brisk pacing. despite this, it still gave me the anime feeling of going in circles aimlessly. (spoiler alert) L dies -- and then he gets replaced with L 2.0. was this planned out in advance? why? eventually, light gets outsmarted -- why? it felt like it happened just because the series had to end... because the author was out of energy or something. Breaking Bad's conclusion wasn't exactly good, but it felt natural in the sense that the story had played itself out fully.
