The anime only focused on the consequences of egosurfing, so it didn't show anything other than online comments. Things like doxxing or hacking the victim's account, which are very common, were not even addressed. Let alone the shit you can do with AI these days. She solely breaks down because of insulting comments such as "kill yourself", which I also received.
The difference is the intensity but that is not part of the intent. The intent behind the comments is still the same, which is to hurt the other person, she just so happened to receive far more hate comments, plus her identity wasn't protected, plus her career was on the line. But that doesn't change the intent behind each individual comment, which is the same as yours.
Intent and outcome are two different things. If I killed myself because of the harassment then that wouldn't mean you intended to make me do that, but you would still be part of the reason it ended up happening.
And sorry for the long comments. I will leave you alone now.
The reason I opened up with this is because it's a common problem with manga (or comics) that are written and drawn by two different people. Sometimes the author writes their story like lt's a novel and the artist is incapable of transferring the stript into a format suitable for manga. What you end up with is a manga/comic that, despite being a visual medium, barely uses its visuals to tell the story.
What I did, for the review, I read through some of the manga and I immediately realized that this is one of those cases. Here are a few examples.
Explaining stuff the audience already knows:
Relying on exposition rather than finding ways to use the visuals to tell what's going on.
Indulging monologues that might fit into a novel but not into a manga (the mangaka even struggles with making the visuals even remotely interesting in this one):
There are more examples but I hope you get the point. Stuff like this doesn't impress me, it bores me. And the anime is faithful to the manga, so while it may have high production values in the form of fluid animation, nice sound and pretty colors, the problems of the manga are still there. That's why I say it's superficial. You got an author who writes for the wrong medium, a mangaka who struggles with finding interesting ways to present the script visually, and a studio that only cares about making things shiny.
Also, for episode 6 where they harassed the actress online, most of them were using a similar justification for the harassment as you. They make assumptions about the motivations of the victim, like "she was deliberately hurting the other girl" or "she's a bitch" or "she just wants the spotlight".
Not that I see myself as a victim, but I hope you get what I mean. And even if I wanted to be harassment, why would you give it to me then? What happened to "don't feed the troll"? So even if your logic was true it still wouldn't make any sense. You either harass an innocent person or you give a guilty person what they want.
There are no insults in the review. The art is mediocre and the writing is self-indulgent, that's just how it is. Pointing out such things is the job of a reviewer.
Pointing out your hypocrisy is not crying. I'm amused by the comments, if I wasn't I would've turned off the comments long ago. But interesting moral compass you have there.
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The difference is the intensity but that is not part of the intent. The intent behind the comments is still the same, which is to hurt the other person, she just so happened to receive far more hate comments, plus her identity wasn't protected, plus her career was on the line. But that doesn't change the intent behind each individual comment, which is the same as yours.
Intent and outcome are two different things. If I killed myself because of the harassment then that wouldn't mean you intended to make me do that, but you would still be part of the reason it ended up happening.
And sorry for the long comments. I will leave you alone now.
What I did, for the review, I read through some of the manga and I immediately realized that this is one of those cases. Here are a few examples.
Explaining stuff the audience already knows:
Relying on exposition rather than finding ways to use the visuals to tell what's going on.
Indulging monologues that might fit into a novel but not into a manga (the mangaka even struggles with making the visuals even remotely interesting in this one):
There are more examples but I hope you get the point. Stuff like this doesn't impress me, it bores me. And the anime is faithful to the manga, so while it may have high production values in the form of fluid animation, nice sound and pretty colors, the problems of the manga are still there. That's why I say it's superficial. You got an author who writes for the wrong medium, a mangaka who struggles with finding interesting ways to present the script visually, and a studio that only cares about making things shiny.
Also, for episode 6 where they harassed the actress online, most of them were using a similar justification for the harassment as you. They make assumptions about the motivations of the victim, like "she was deliberately hurting the other girl" or "she's a bitch" or "she just wants the spotlight".
Not that I see myself as a victim, but I hope you get what I mean. And even if I wanted to be harassment, why would you give it to me then? What happened to "don't feed the troll"? So even if your logic was true it still wouldn't make any sense. You either harass an innocent person or you give a guilty person what they want.
Pointing out your hypocrisy is not crying. I'm amused by the comments, if I wasn't I would've turned off the comments long ago. But interesting moral compass you have there.