I wouldn't recommend "Deadman Wonderland." It's gratuitous violence and gore with no redeeming qualities that I can tell.
"Tanya the Evil" is just a visually-amazing TRAIN WRECK of an anime. It's got some beautiful aerial battles, but it's a big over-powered cheese-fest. At no point does it feel like Tanya really faces any sort of challenge, save her ongoing insane "struggle" against an omnipotent (yet strangely incompetent) deity. It could have been something awesome, and some people think it is, but I think most of those who like the show do so without thinking much about the implications. It's worth checking out for some of the aesthetics and maybe for some idea-fodder that one might then use to try to write a BETTER story. ;)
As for Japanese tropes, I don't know. All I know of Japan, I get from a few news reports, some TV shows, and cartoons. I hardly think that Hollywood's presentation of life in America is really representative of the whole US, culture-wise, and I shudder to think of what other nations might "learn" about us through our sitcoms. Correspondingly, I figure I should be aware that I hardly know anything about what things are REALLY like in the broader world of Japanese literature/media (let alone Japan's culture as a whole) from the tiny subtitled slice I get to see.
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Date: 2019-01-11 07:08 pm (UTC)"Tanya the Evil" is just a visually-amazing TRAIN WRECK of an anime. It's got some beautiful aerial battles, but it's a big over-powered cheese-fest. At no point does it feel like Tanya really faces any sort of challenge, save her ongoing insane "struggle" against an omnipotent (yet strangely incompetent) deity. It could have been something awesome, and some people think it is, but I think most of those who like the show do so without thinking much about the implications. It's worth checking out for some of the aesthetics and maybe for some idea-fodder that one might then use to try to write a BETTER story. ;)
As for Japanese tropes, I don't know. All I know of Japan, I get from a few news reports, some TV shows, and cartoons. I hardly think that Hollywood's presentation of life in America is really representative of the whole US, culture-wise, and I shudder to think of what other nations might "learn" about us through our sitcoms. Correspondingly, I figure I should be aware that I hardly know anything about what things are REALLY like in the broader world of Japanese literature/media (let alone Japan's culture as a whole) from the tiny subtitled slice I get to see.