Wasted animation on this anime?

@Leon888 I saw you reply before you changed it. It doesn't prove your point, it just means you have double standards. You let demon slayer pass but solo leveling is mid. You're not consistent in your logic, your just cherry picking an anime you didn't like that you would've rather seen the animation in the animes you watched.

It doesn't matter at the end of the day you don't get to decide how animation studios choose what manga series their going to work on. Sounding very entitled.

But hey if you would like it, you can open up your own studio. Get the licenses and creators of series to work with you to focus on animes that you like. Other than waste time yapping about what you think deserves this or that. Cloverwork did good work on what they worked. End of story, move on. You are in the right to criticize bad work done by studios. But you don't get to to decide what get's worked on.

The Promised Neverland situation is inexplicable tbh. But I feel you. I would prefer they focus on continuing the Shadows House adaptation (it’s possible they do when the manga ends I guess) over this, but I’m sure this is more lucrative for them. Especially considering it’s fujoshi bait

you watched s1 and s2 and came to this conclusion? the guys from Gravel and Shishitoren? there's no need to have this conversation then.
you're free to believe what you want to believe.
like I said before, the story centers around Sakura's growth and coming from a manga reader, everything you said really holds no ground
"Wind Breaker has flat characters", lmao. it's fine to hate or not like it, gng. you say "retarded kids fighting each other" but it's fine to say you don't like or understand the story instead of using your hate to equate it to being mid.

The writing is great and the trauma is realistic to everyday life. The story is about traumas you can find anywhere, not huge dramatized events.

Shishitoren arc was about the emptiness of depression and being too scared of losing what you have to stand up for what's right. KEEL arc was about not trying to solve all your problems yourself and letting the people you care about help when they try to. Tsubaki's intro is about unapologetically being yourself and doing what makes you happy. Gravel arc takes the KEEL arc a step further and is about asking for help instead of giving up on yourself (morally or physically).

The traumas of WB characters are small and light compared to most series. It's okay to not be interested in a series focused on more grounded and common issues, but that doesn't make the writing poor.

Honestly it's a little ridiculous people spend so much time looking for things to complain about. As much as I love this genre combo, unfortunately we get people like this when slice of life/drama is paired with action shounen. There are plenty of pure action shounen that don't try to break the mold into other genres, I don't see the need to go out of their way to complain about a series they can just.. not watch in lieu of others that more fit their taste.

I've been watching anime for 20 years. I've seen all of the big name shounen (I haven't recorded them here since I've mostly been recording what I've watched since creating this account). This series does a great job of being emotionally mature, and I'm all for a series that shows it's okay for guys to have modern-day emotions and traumas, too. Other shounen have huge dramatic life events - this one is just real things that can happen to real people, with a little bit of action mixed in. I like this series because it breaks the shounen action mold of everything being a life-threatening near-apocalyptic event. Although, it does become more like a shounen sport series rather than shounen action because of it (which I don't mind, I like those, too).

You know, reading comprehension not being your forte really isn't surprising after this thread. It's very obvious I'm talking about the emotional aspect of the series and each character's respective traumas as being realistic to everyday life.

Yep, it’s just you. People didn’t forget about Windbreaker during S2. I’ll even say S2 surpassed S1

Not in the slightest? I was addressing a specific aspect of the show that I like. You went "What about this completely unrelated thing? Gotcha!" So it was explained to you what the specific thing that was being talked about was, because you seemed to need some handholding there.

Some of us enjoy shows that don't waste our time on things that are irrelevant to the plot. Windbreaker's plot is how a traumatized kid's peers help him grow. (Emphasis on "peers" here. Fellow students. Not school. Not teachers. Not parents.) Teachers exist but we don't see them because we don't need to. Classes happen like normal, but we don't see that because it isn't needed for the plot. Cops exist, but we don't see them because *this narrative doesn't need them.*

In the manga, we do meet more parents and adults that are actually relevant to the plot, we just haven't totally gotten there yet. We've already seen one so far, the old man widower. He was important because he was the one who inspired Tsubaki, who is a peer and therefore important to the plot.

It helps a lot with media literacy when we learn to pay attention to things beyond the surface. Oh no, no cops shown? No teachers shown? How will you ever cope with the series not taking unnecessary pit stops and wasting our time with unnecessary world building? (Since I think this might not be understood here, emphasizing "unnecessary" here. There are plenty of times where world building is needed. Windbreaker has world building, the scope of that world is just smaller, the exact size needed for the plot to continue without getting side tracked.)