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so yeah, been watchin d gray man for a while, and apart from everyone being a dulbass a bit too often (although, it's kinda excusable cause most characters are from England, and the setting takes place in what feels like a post industrial era Britain, so I blame the brain damage on the lead and arsenic stuffed in everything) the world building is really pissin me of cause it feels like a heavy afterthought and more like it was first and foremost an esthetic choice.
so, you guys feel free to share similar anime with terrible (in your opinion) world building.
I'll be continuing my rant
my one biggest gripe, is with the Akuma themselves and just HOW FUCKING MUCH THERE ARE, like, it's well established that in order for even a simple rank 1 to be born, the milenium earl needs to get his ass to an isolated individual grieving over someone's death, then once they do accept his deal ( which, given that everyone knows about akumas, how they're made and who the earl is, you'd think wouldn't be an easy sell at all, specifically cause an Akuma after being created, goes right for the kill and wears their first human like a skin suit) , then they are made.
so, given the fact that:
1, it's the industrial era and most people were already used to losing half their family to a plague barely a generation or two ago,
2, everyone knows about akumas and how rigged the deal is ,
3, given how the earl and the exorcists have been around for quite a long time, you'd assume that there'd be some kind of culture forming around the dead and specifically how to grieve effectively or not making someone's death a super sad event, kinda like how some countries have festivals for the dead, but turned up to 11,and
4, the fact that the earl has to not only wait for specific situations to even show up, but also is the one handling every case individually.
you'd think that they'd be somewhat rare, yet in almost every episode where they do show up, there's like 5 to 5 hundreds of the bastards showing up like the damn New York sewer rats.
and don't even get me started on the finders of the black order and how those guys, despite being well used as scouts/travel companions, are still being sent out in big groups, unaccompanied with only a projector weapon, who at most can imobilize a rank 1 and maybe stun a bit any higher rank Akuma (the shielding capability is pretty nice tho). it's a painful misuse of human resources, it would be like trying to win in an it's by only using scouting units (technically possible but you're gonna need to drown the map in bodies to achieve anything)
but I think I'll stop this rant for now
so, you guys feel free to share similar anime with terrible (in your opinion) world building.
I'll be continuing my rant
my one biggest gripe, is with the Akuma themselves and just HOW FUCKING MUCH THERE ARE, like, it's well established that in order for even a simple rank 1 to be born, the milenium earl needs to get his ass to an isolated individual grieving over someone's death, then once they do accept his deal ( which, given that everyone knows about akumas, how they're made and who the earl is, you'd think wouldn't be an easy sell at all, specifically cause an Akuma after being created, goes right for the kill and wears their first human like a skin suit) , then they are made.
so, given the fact that:
1, it's the industrial era and most people were already used to losing half their family to a plague barely a generation or two ago,
2, everyone knows about akumas and how rigged the deal is ,
3, given how the earl and the exorcists have been around for quite a long time, you'd assume that there'd be some kind of culture forming around the dead and specifically how to grieve effectively or not making someone's death a super sad event, kinda like how some countries have festivals for the dead, but turned up to 11,and
4, the fact that the earl has to not only wait for specific situations to even show up, but also is the one handling every case individually.
you'd think that they'd be somewhat rare, yet in almost every episode where they do show up, there's like 5 to 5 hundreds of the bastards showing up like the damn New York sewer rats.
and don't even get me started on the finders of the black order and how those guys, despite being well used as scouts/travel companions, are still being sent out in big groups, unaccompanied with only a projector weapon, who at most can imobilize a rank 1 and maybe stun a bit any higher rank Akuma (the shielding capability is pretty nice tho). it's a painful misuse of human resources, it would be like trying to win in an it's by only using scouting units (technically possible but you're gonna need to drown the map in bodies to achieve anything)
but I think I'll stop this rant for now
