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Mar 9, 2020 11:45 PM

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I think it's homophobia for some because they can't stand it when even one character is not a cis-het.
And for some others, they probably just ended up in the wrong genre and were incapable of understanding the story. I don't know why they wouldn't just leave, instead of forcing themselves to watch this while hating it even more.

Mar 10, 2020 4:09 AM

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The art style/character design isn't great but it isn't terrible. This started out with a low score because people maybe watched just the 1st episode and scored it that way because they might not have understood what was happening. This would really benefit from binging instead of week to week because it requires the viewer to pay a lot of attention and doesn't explain every little thing which some might not be looking for in a series. It's not for everyone but I'm personally enjoying it quite a lot. I don't really agree with scoring something only 1 or 2 episodes in, especially something like this that unveils what's going on over time and it's a shame this is rated so low.

Mar 10, 2020 4:31 AM

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FuMomo-kun said:
I think it's homophobia for some because they can't stand it when even one character is not a cis-het.
And for some others, they probably just ended up in the wrong genre and were incapable of understanding the story. I don't know why they wouldn't just leave, instead of forcing themselves to watch this while hating it even more.

That's just like a popular pastime at this point, isn't it?

If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that.

Mar 10, 2020 5:38 AM

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The story is sometimes way too much complicated for what it is or wants to tell

The artstyle is interesting but at the same time it's quite common and not really astonishing

I can't get attached to the characters, they're just not interesting to me

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Mar 10, 2020 6:11 AM

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FuMomo-kun said:
I think it's homophobia for some because they can't stand it when even one character is not a cis-het.
And for some others, they probably just ended up in the wrong genre and were incapable of understanding the story. I don't know why they wouldn't just leave, instead of forcing themselves to watch this while hating it even more.

I mean if someone isn’t into gay relationships, why would they want to watch gay stuff? That’s not homophobia lol.

Mar 10, 2020 6:17 AM

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I was interested in watching it but since it apparently has gay vibes I'm gonna stay the hell away from it.

Mar 10, 2020 6:29 AM

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Its not a bad show but the writing is not the best and some characters feels flat for some reason. Also, ep 1 and ep 2 should be 1 episode to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings for an anime viewer.

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Mar 10, 2020 6:52 AM

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BlakexEkalb said:

FuMomo-kun said:
I think it's homophobia for some because they can't stand it when even one character is not a cis-het.
And for some others, they probably just ended up in the wrong genre and were incapable of understanding the story. I don't know why they wouldn't just leave, instead of forcing themselves to watch this while hating it even more.

I mean if someone isn’t into gay relationships, why would they want to watch gay stuff? That’s not homophobia lol.

It's not about being into gay relationships or not. Some people immediately hate stories just because it has or looks like it has gay characters, and immediately give it a low score. That is homophobia.

Mar 10, 2020 7:22 AM

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FuMomo-kun said:

BlakexEkalb said:

I mean if someone isn’t into gay relationships, why would they want to watch gay stuff? That’s not homophobia lol.

It's not about being into gay relationships or not. Some people immediately hate stories just because it has or looks like it has gay characters, and immediately give it a low score. That is homophobia.

And this is based on your assumption that people are hating on gay characters, not that the story and/or characters are bad?

Mar 10, 2020 7:23 AM

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Only_Brad said:
I was interested in watching it but since it apparently has gay vibes I'm gonna stay the hell away from it.

I think a lot of people are mistaking the close relationship of "pets" and the "peak-givers" as gay, simply because the main characters are mostly men. The only gay vibes came from the guy they crushed in the first couple of episodes.

The main characters have more of a family relationship: Satoru sees Hayashi as a father-figure and Hiroki sees Tsukasa as a big brother. Their bond is more out of respect and gratefulness, especially since prior to receiving their peaks, they weren't able to have memories or live as normal people.

Mar 10, 2020 7:31 AM

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BlakexEkalb said:

FuMomo-kun said:

It's not about being into gay relationships or not. Some people immediately hate stories just because it has or looks like it has gay characters, and immediately give it a low score. That is homophobia.

And this is based on your assumption that people are hating on gay characters, not that the story and/or characters are bad?

Please read my first comment. I said the homophobes were one kind of people who give it a low score. The other type is people who ended up watching this anime, and realised that it doesn't suit their taste.

Also, Only_Brad's comment proves my point about homophobia perfectly.

Mar 10, 2020 8:12 AM

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this story is weak very weak. Art is good and Opening is good.The rest is weak :<

Mar 10, 2020 8:19 AM

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FuMomo-kun said:

BlakexEkalb said:

And this is based on your assumption that people are hating on gay characters, not that the story and/or characters are bad?

Please read my first comment. I said the homophobes were one kind of people who give it a low score. The other type is people who ended up watching this anime, and realised that it doesn't suit their taste.

Also, Only_Brad's comment proves my point about homophobia perfectly.

I mean I don’t really care for homosexuality either and won’t actively want to watch a show with it in it. Like I won’t watch Bloom into You because I do not care about homosexual relationships. I’m not homophobic either, I just don’t want to watch gay stuff as I do not care for it. However I’ve heard things like Banana Fish while although having some gay stuff, it isn’t the main focus so I’ll watch it.

Mar 10, 2020 8:29 AM

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Click this you might want to look for more answers from other forums.

Also i don't care about the gay vibes. But the way Tsukasa blushes when he chased Hayashi is too much for me. Damn... he's high af, and his face is close to an ahegao.

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Mar 11, 2020 9:27 AM

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BlakexEkalb said:

FuMomo-kun said:
I think it's homophobia for some because they can't stand it when even one character is not a cis-het.
And for some others, they probably just ended up in the wrong genre and were incapable of understanding the story. I don't know why they wouldn't just leave, instead of forcing themselves to watch this while hating it even more.

I mean if someone isn’t into gay relationships, why would they want to watch gay stuff? That’s not homophobia lol.

There are no gay relationships or scenes at least so far or for the foreseeable future. It's more a result of one guy being overly reliant and attached to someone who happens to be a guy and in one case it's basically a makeshift father/son dynamic. People who found this "too gay" literally got that impression from a 2 second scene where a guy was getting his mind and memories altered and thought he saw a guy unbutton another guy's shirt and lick his chest, that's it.

Mar 11, 2020 10:21 AM

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FuMomo-kun said:
I think it's homophobia for some because they can't stand it when even one character is not a cis-het.
And for some others, they probably just ended up in the wrong genre and were incapable of understanding the story. I don't know why they wouldn't just leave, instead of forcing themselves to watch this while hating it even more.

Why did not just leave instead of forcing yourself to watch multiple iterations of Chuunibyou...?

Mar 14, 2020 3:06 PM

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direction - it's hard to understand from the get-go and leaves people off with a weird mood

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Mar 30, 2020 1:16 PM

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Some homophobic people in this thread lol. Yikes. Who drops a series because someone seems gay?

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Mar 30, 2020 5:50 PM

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I would guess the art personally, and maybe the characters, although I'm absolutely positive the gay vibes didn't help. (Honestly my three favourite parts of the show).

The art style isn't really that conventional and leads to non-conventionally attractive characters, and there weren't any female characters at all until a few episodes in. Neither of these are fundamentally problems, but that kind of rules out a lot of the Chunnie crown that makes up a lot of the current active anime fanbase. To worsen the appeal to that fanbase, the first two episodes definitely had a decent amount of homo-erotic subtext, and none of the characters are either immediately relatable or likeable, with the exception of Satoru who isn't really a focus until later on in the series. This likely led to people watching the first episode or three noping out and leaving a bad score, which is honestly something I've done with a few shows. There was also zero big names in the anime community even talking about this show and its status as relegated to Amazon meant that it had a much smaller pool to draw attention from and thus less people who would theoretically like it gave it a shot. It was kind of just a perfect storm of a really great show getting overlooked due to seasonal anime culture and hopefully it will get retroactive praise

Also, lmao on the guy who's being like, "I'm not homophobic, I just don't watch shows with gay people." That's legit homophobia. If you'd watch the show if they were a straight relationship but not if they're gay, you need to work on your personal biases honey

Mar 30, 2020 8:36 PM

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even tho the score is incresing now (which I expected at some point because how good this is and people would realise at the end) it's still not enought, if I don't see this at leaaast over 7, I'll riot! The anime deserves its recognition and appreciation!

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Mar 31, 2020 1:25 AM

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It was quite hard to understand what's going on in the beginning. I think that this discouraged many people from following the plot. I was quite confused too - I started to fully enjoy the show after 5th episode or so. Gay vibes are quite understandable when we get to know the past of Tsukasa and especially Hiroki. Overall, I think it was the beginning of the series that made people drop it and rate low. I really enjoyed it but I understand that for some people it could be tiring.

Mar 31, 2020 1:03 PM

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There are no gay vibes in this show at all, it may seem like it, but it's just because almost every character are men.

I see the relationship between Peak-givers and pets as a paternal bond. This is much more clear when you see the relationship between Tsukasa and his peak-giver.

But, dropping a series because it seems gay it's a pretty archaic way of thinking.

Mar 31, 2020 1:31 PM

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BlakexEkalb said:

FuMomo-kun said:
I think it's homophobia for some because they can't stand it when even one character is not a cis-het.
And for some others, they probably just ended up in the wrong genre and were incapable of understanding the story. I don't know why they wouldn't just leave, instead of forcing themselves to watch this while hating it even more.

I mean if someone isn’t into gay relationships, why would they want to watch gay stuff? That’s not homophobia lol.

It's one thing to not care about the homosexual portrayal of the relationships, and another thing to be put off by them. If you just "weren't into gay relationships" then you would've watched it without prejudice. The fact that you (or anybody else, for that matter) actively avoid the show or dislike it because of the gayness means it makes you uncomfortable (implying you 'fear' it) and this is where your homophobia shows.

Mar 31, 2020 1:39 PM

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dir & vib. I don't care about gay vibes as long as the plot is interesting. Banana Fish for example I liked the first half but the 2nd half the plot was bad.

Here it was just annoying how some chars were obsessed with each other because of someone being the "peak giver" of someone else. Tsukasa in the end just went insane and everything was fucked up and I mainly watched it for comedy (Tsukasa's face).

Last episode also was great fun.

The setting itself was good. Would have loved if it were episodic with nice stories how they use their powers to manipulate enemies of the mafia group (company). Instead of that after a few episodes already I started to like it less (still funny every now and then) when they tried the overall "deep" plot.

Just some usual stuff thrown together while adding the special powers on top and I didn't care about the chars. Not too sure about the directing though ... might just have been some basic flaws that the manga already had that were hard to avoid (unless you wanted to change the plot).

I still gave 7 though. Episodes 1-2 (maybe also 3 ... I don't remember) or so ... felt like 8. So I'm not really hating it. I'm being realistic.

I can understand the overall MAL score. There are way better shows that struggle getting a 7.xx

Mar 31, 2020 1:40 PM

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BlakexEkalb said:

FuMomo-kun said:

Please read my first comment. I said the homophobes were one kind of people who give it a low score. The other type is people who ended up watching this anime, and realised that it doesn't suit their taste.

Also, Only_Brad's comment proves my point about homophobia perfectly.

I mean I don’t really care for homosexuality either and won’t actively want to watch a show with it in it. Like I won’t watch Bloom into You because I do not care about homosexual relationships. I’m not homophobic either, I just don’t want to watch gay stuff as I do not care for it. However I’ve heard things like Banana Fish while although having some gay stuff, it isn’t the main focus so I’ll watch it.

but why are you looking at it specifically from the gay point?? especially BECAUSE you chose shows such as banana fish and bloom into you. it's the same as any other romance shows, it's just that they're the same gender. you say you don't care but you're actively avoiding it BECAUSE it's gay. even if you don't have homophobic intentions, you just sound kinda stupid.

Mar 31, 2020 1:49 PM

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fuckgendo said:

BlakexEkalb said:

I mean I don’t really care for homosexuality either and won’t actively want to watch a show with it in it. Like I won’t watch Bloom into You because I do not care about homosexual relationships. I’m not homophobic either, I just don’t want to watch gay stuff as I do not care for it. However I’ve heard things like Banana Fish while although having some gay stuff, it isn’t the main focus so I’ll watch it.

but why are you looking at it specifically from the gay point?? especially BECAUSE you chose shows such as banana fish and bloom into you. it's the same as any other romance shows, it's just that they're the same gender. you say you don't care but you're actively avoiding it BECAUSE it's gay. even if you don't have homophobic intentions, you just sound kinda stupid.

I'm not gay, why would I want to watch people be gay? Also to clarify, I will 100% watch Banana Fish someday. I said if the MAIN focus of the show is on being gay, I will not watch it. Banana Fish doesn't focus on homosexual relationships, while it's LITERALLY the plot of Bloom Into You. Because yes, I can't imagine being in a romance with a boy because I think that is indeed weird.

@flinguist I agree, I won't watch it because I can never see myself being gay and I think it is weird. You know what I also think is weird? People being obese, as I can never imagine myself being obese.

And no don't worry, I do not hate or judge people because they are homosexuals. I dislike them as much as I dislike everyone else in this world.

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Mar 31, 2020 2:19 PM

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BlakexEkalb said:

fuckgendo said:

but why are you looking at it specifically from the gay point?? especially BECAUSE you chose shows such as banana fish and bloom into you. it's the same as any other romance shows, it's just that they're the same gender. you say you don't care but you're actively avoiding it BECAUSE it's gay. even if you don't have homophobic intentions, you just sound kinda stupid.

I'm not gay, why would I want to watch people be gay? Also to clarify, I will 100% watch Banana Fish someday. I said if the MAIN focus of the show is on being gay, I will not watch it. Banana Fish doesn't focus on homosexual relationships, while it's LITERALLY the plot of Bloom Into You. Because yes, I can't imagine being in a romance with a boy because I think that is indeed weird.

@flinguist I agree, I won't watch it because I can never see myself being gay and I think it is weird. You know what I also think is weird? People being obese, as I can never imagine myself being obese.

And no don't worry, I do not hate or judge people because they are homosexuals. I dislike them as much as I dislike everyone else in this world.

bruh im not straight and i still dont mind watching straight people be straight. like you don't need to be gay to enjoy "gay" things. "the plot of bloom into you is about it" yeah because it's a ROMANCE show so yes they are going to focus the plot on the ROMANTIC interactions between the ROMANTIC characters. it's the exact same thing with any romance show. it's the exact same as toradora, kaguya. bunny girl senpai or any other romance show you've watched. only difference is that they happen to BOTH be girls.

also you literally said you aren't homophobic but then you say that being gay is weird. just say you don't like fags and shut up

Mar 31, 2020 2:29 PM

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fuckgendo said:

BlakexEkalb said:

I'm not gay, why would I want to watch people be gay? Also to clarify, I will 100% watch Banana Fish someday. I said if the MAIN focus of the show is on being gay, I will not watch it. Banana Fish doesn't focus on homosexual relationships, while it's LITERALLY the plot of Bloom Into You. Because yes, I can't imagine being in a romance with a boy because I think that is indeed weird.

@flinguist I agree, I won't watch it because I can never see myself being gay and I think it is weird. You know what I also think is weird? People being obese, as I can never imagine myself being obese.

And no don't worry, I do not hate or judge people because they are homosexuals. I dislike them as much as I dislike everyone else in this world.

bruh im not straight and i still dont mind watching straight people be straight. like you don't need to be gay to enjoy "gay" things. "the plot of bloom into you is about it" yeah because it's a ROMANCE show so yes they are going to focus the plot on the ROMANTIC interactions between the ROMANTIC characters. it's the exact same thing with any romance show. it's the exact same as toradora, kaguya. bunny girl senpai or any other romance show you've watched. only difference is that they happen to BOTH be girls.

also you literally said you aren't homophobic but then you say that being gay is weird. just say you don't like fags and shut up

Not really the same since it's same sex romance and not straight romance. I find it weird, is that an issue? I find obese people weird for wanting to be obese, I find those who are furries weird, and I find feminists weird as I can not imagine ever being like them. Do I hate them? No, people are different and like different things. So you trying to misconstrue my words into thinking I hate homosexuals is you just being a child and thinking that if you are not in support of something you are against it.

Mar 31, 2020 2:40 PM

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