As there are a anime in recent years that has become darker and edgier than the anime before, but when it is too dark? When you look at a genre, edgy or hard-boiled anime is usually link with a specific emotions: fear, action and suspense. Then when it comes to the audience to experience these emotions, it’s difficult to feel it strongly while watching a show. Who has ever said that a show has too much action or too much humour? No One! Not everything will be funny or action pack for everyone. Different things resonance with different people, so we as an audience need more than simple surface things to captivate us. We need more than our daily dose of feels.
A good story needs to speaks to the audience within their emotion and can conveyed a clear narrative while allowing them to read between the lines to think for themselves. A great story must allows the audience to take something away with them, but it doesn’t need to over-filled them with all of the emotional spectrum. An anime that doesn’t what it is and what it trying to do has already failed. For example, a threat in to a city should be take serious, and not be off- balance by humour or fanservice. Shows like Hellsing, Soul Eater and FMA all have humour in them, which I do find funny, but too overuse. Dark comedy should be and make use of the characters actual emotion not to make it of character.
This happens a lot of time in harem comedies too when there are too many sub-plots in the shows to actually get anywhere. We as the audience ship these relationship even if they are forgotten a few episodes.
There are too much anime that put the feels down your throats. The show should be a well- crafted experience not only feels. We need to be able to use an imagination to judge a series.
