Rules: explain why
Ready player one.
That has to be one of the cringiest movies I’ve seen, is tries so hard, too hard with it’s “WE LOVE YOU NERD, YOU’RE SO COOL FOR PLAYING GAMES AND GETTING THIS 80S REFERENCE” message and the whole “corporation bad, the people good” narrative seems written for toddlers… The fan service feels cheap and adds nothing to the story.
Finally, they trying to make the people believe that very attractive girl with a barely visible red tint spot on her face is “ugly”… Like wtf?
Yet it received decent reviews plus being one of the most successful movies of that year.
“Anime” is a bullshit word that just means “animation made in japan”. We don’t do this with any other country or culture’s animation and for that reason I think it’s a stupid meaningless convention. American animation runs the gamut from Chowder to Big Mouth to Cinderella; nobody lumps those together under one term that means “animation made in the USA” and pretends its a unique genre or medium.
That said, the vast majority of what’s popular over here for japanese animation is stupid cringey shit and way too much of it has pedo vibes for my taste, not to mention the overreactive fandom that will respond to you pointing out shit like blatant child molestation on screen by calling you a pedophile for noticing it before they go back to simping over middle school child characters.