Final discussion thread of the year! If you think back to this time last year, most of us probably had never even heard of Lemmy, so it has been an eventful one. Having a smaller, but active community has exposed me to a wider variety of series that I hadn’t checked out before, so I look forward to more in the new year!
As always, this is a general discussion thread. So, feel free to reminisce with me or post about all the new manga you got for the holidays or anything else!
Like normal, please be careful with spoilers. I wrote a guide about spoilers in case you need a refresher on how to handle them (also linked in the sidebar).
I have had a similar experience plenty of times. My wife is a big film buff, and likes to go back and watch old, influential movies like you would find on the AFI list etc. Plenty of times watching with her I would comment on how something was predictable or formulaic just for her to remind me that it wasn’t at the time, that the movie we were watching established the formula.
Yeah - that’s why I suspect that’s the case with Skip Beat.
I first noticed it with Love Hina. Harems are one of my guilty pleasures, and I’d often recommend Love Hina, and a not uncommon response was that it seemed cliched. And yeah, it does. But that’s because it was the first really successful one. When it did it, those things were new - they only became cliches later, when other series copied them.