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sundin13 on 27 July 2015
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pokoko said:
sundin13 said:


I don't think it was ever really "scuzzy abuse humor on repeat" or that "most of the characters were assholes". Inami's character is painted as sympathetic, not domineering, and she does grow, albeit slowly. She certainly isn't hitting people because she is a sadist or anything. Also, who is an asshole exactly? You could call Inami an asshole, although I disagree with that, and maybe Hiroomi, although he is an asshole in a very "Izaya" way. Other than that, I got nothing.

While I don't blame you for not liking it, I think that it would be silly to watch S3 or S2 without watching S1, but whatever floats your boat.

What I saw had one coworker violently attacking other coworkers and no one doing anything about it.  I'm pretty certain management just stood there.  That's a nice working environment.  If that's the humor you like, whatever floats your boat.  I've never been much for the physical abuse trope, personally, especially when it's used so often.  I find it to be about as clever as a dead cat.

As for being silly to watch later seasons, I didn't find it to be particularly hard to pick up on anything.  The anime isn't exactly complex.  I think I can manage.

It just feels weird that you are trying to apply real world logic to the show's silly humor. Its like watching some catgirl anime and saying "these cat girls are enabling animal rape!" (I mostly just wanted to make a dig at PETA). Its hard for me to wrap my head around that perspective. Maybe its because I have a really easy time with suspension of disbelief...

Well anyways, Its been a while since I watched season 1, but I think after the first two episodes it tones down on the violence a bit. They just started the show off with Inami's character in the forefront because she one of the more important characters. Other than that, it really doesn't change very much so if you like season 3, you would probably like the other seasons. There will likely be episodes focusing more on Inami in season 3 too, but there were episodes about Yamada in S1 and S2. I wasn't saying that it was strange because you would miss anything, more like it would be strange because of how similar everything is and how I feel like season 1 was the best and parts of season 2 were really good.