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Geoff Thew, self-proclaimed Anime Pope and professional shitbag. Contour motion picture from his 2nd channel BasementEscape.

Mother's Basement is a YouTube channel led by Canadian vlogger Geoffrey "Geoff" Thew. Hither he mostly talks well-nigh anime in the form of reviews and analysis. On occasion, he makes videos about other media than anime, such every bit movies, Television receiver series, and games, although anime stays the well-nigh prominent topic. He'southward besides a fan of video games.

His earliest videos on the main channel date back to 2015, starting with a series called "What's in an OP?" Here he breaks downwardly the significant and layers of anime openings. Later on, he would exercise a couple of reviews, although most of these were about certain movies, tv-series or games. In early 2016, he did the start Weebcast with Beatrice the Gilt Witch (going past Digibro at the fourth dimension), All-time Guy Ever and Subsonic Sparkle, which was hosted past Beatrice. During fall 2016, he would starting time to feature the series on his main and later on his second aqueduct. The Weebcast is a podcast consisting of multiple anime YouTubers talking virtually and discussing sure trends within the anime customs, well-nigh often seasonal anime.

As of May 2020, he has gained over one 1000000 subscribers.

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Female parent's Basement contains examples of:

• Accentuate the Negative: In "The WORST Isekai Anime" he cites about everything wrong with The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar.
• April Fools' 24-hour interval:
  • In 2016, he made an "What'southward in an OP?" for Cory in the House (or as he called it: Kourii Howaito Hausu de Cho Taihen!) as if it were an actual anime, and a masterpiece at that, even though information technology'due south not an actual anime.
  • He decided to do an Affectionate Parody of the Game Theory format from MatPat in 2017.
  • Did something similar in 2018, where he made "the Real Elevation x Anime Betrayals", in which he called his aqueduct WatchMoba and did a Top Ten List of anime betrayals. While some of the entries were anime-related (and Spoileriffic), a couple of those were not. Ruby-red on top existence number one:

    Geoff: When I was twelve a daughter borrowed my anime DVD and never gave information technology back to me.

  • For 2019, he fabricated a "What'due south in an OP?" for Shrekku: Sonzaishinai Saikou no Otogibanashi, analyzing the championship sequence and its references to the original Calorie-free Novels.
• Award Snub:invoked Played for Laughs in his Odd Taxi episode, where he mentions that the anime is and so practiced that it deserves to be snubbed by the Emmys rather than just by the Anime Awards.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • His second "What'south in a Waifu" video seems to exist leading up to talking about Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba's Nezuko Kamado...earlier switching to his proclaimed "best boy" Inosuke Hashibira. Geoff claims it'southward considering he's genuinely scared of the fans who are very protective of Nezuko.
  • At the outset of his "Height five WORST Anime of 2018" episode, he claims his audience are expecting him to roast both Goblin Slayer (for its R-Rated Opening) and DARLING in the FRANXX (for having gone off-the-rails with a massive Info Dump on its second half); nevertheless, he reminds his audience that there are far worse anime than either 1.
• Basement-Dweller: He used to be this, before moving out to live with his real-life girlfriend and fellow YouTuber Yazy.
• Berserk Push:
  • Anime Piracy. While he states that in that location are moments where it'south justifiable, Geoff gets very heated nigh the bailiwick, and tends to be quite vocal well-nigh his distaste for information technology when the anime is legally available.
  • invoked Faux Symbolism being used for the Dominion of Cool. If you have an intent to make a piece of work that commentates on existent globe events, but not actually use the symbolism or pregnant behind it beyond window-dressing, Geoff will for sure be very upset most information technology. This is why he dislikes nigh of David Cage's games; they rely on imagery and themes from real globe history, but Cage is quick to always claim that they are non commentating on anything behind what in game they talk well-nigh.
• Canada, Eh?: Largely averted, he'due south a Caustic Critic with an accent indistinguishable from an American.
• Critic Breakdown: His review of The Principal of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar closes with Geoff maxim that he was going to go stare at a wall until the memories of the series faded, but that he might review something better "when I can experience positive emotions once more".
• Corpsing:
  • In "Peak 5 WORST Anime of 2021", Geoff loses focus and goes completely off-script when stumbling over a certain line:

    Geoff: In the very next episode, the absolute terrorist blows herself upwards by standing— Heh, information technology said "blows herself" in the script. I-I just read... (chuckles) "In the very adjacent episode, the accented terrorist blows herself"... (breaks downwardly laughing) I but-I simply wrote "blows herself". I forgot the "up"! (snickers) I don't know why this is and then funny. (laughs) Fuck! I'thousand a child! A manchild!

  • In the Spice and Wolf Adapt or Dice episode, just as he's finishing up his ad spot for Bookwalker and an attached contest to win a quite large hardbound collector'due south edition of the light novel, he says that fifty-fifty if you don't win, the ebooks do have advantages...but since this involves showing off the version on his phone, he's now holding the Door Stopper book with one hand, and loses his grip in seconds.

    Geoff: (choking back a laugh) ...Portability being a big one.

• Deadpan Snarker: He tin can go this when he'southward criticising something or is just being cynical.
• Deliberate VHS Quality: The Public Service Anime video series are made to look equally though they're beingness played on a VHS record, consummate with deliberately grainy footage and muted sound.
• Digital Piracy Is Evil: The betoken of the "There's NO Adept REASON to Pirate Legally Available Anime" video. He revised his stance in a March 2021 tweet, by acknowledging that Keep Circulating the Tapes invoked (in the class of enthusiast communities making and sharing copies) is the about effective way to preserve legacy media when it'south abased by platform owners.
• Don't Explain the Joke: Comes up in his first two videos of the My Hero Academia OPs. In the first video, he repeatedly claims that Tooru Hagakure appears in a shot where she couldn't exist seen, which led to some people getting confused. The joke is that Tooru Hagakure's quirk is invisibility. At the beginning of the second video, Geoff resorts to explaining the joke, but does so by a comedic visual representation of the saying "the joke goes over ane'due south head", using the second My Hero Academia OP.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Invoked with The Promised Neverland'south second anime season. In the JoJo's Bizarre Take a chance: Stone Ocean preview, he claims The Promised Neverland never got a 2nd season, while in "Bound 2021 Anime: Ones to Scout" he says it was cancelled after episode 3.
  • Done to the betoken of parody in his "Top v WORST Anime of 2021" video, where Promised Neverland Season 2 "won" the number 2 spot, and Geoff claims that Season two was cancelled before it aired, accompanied by CloverWorks mailing every disappointed fan a moving-picture show of Emma Flipping the Bird, and says that Season 2, and it's accompanying thwarting, was a completely hypothetical scenario he created in his nightmares, and reminds the viewer of that every few sentences.
• Ready Fic: "Fixing Alfheim: the WORST function of SAO", where he takes the Alfheim Arc of the anime Sword Fine art Online and tries to brand information technology a better story (if nothing else, a more than narratively cohesive story) by reimagining the arc'due south scenario.
• From Bad to Worse: In his first "Worst Anime of the Year" video in 2018, he claims that he establish some anime and so bad that even The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar didn't brand that year's listing.
• A God Am I: DownPlayed for Laughs whenever he calls himself the "Anime Pope."
• Guilty Pleasure:invoked Geoff has a particular affection for "big dumb battle royale anime," citing their very much anime excesses and the thrill of seeing evil characters get their comeuppance and cheer on heroic underdogs surviving against all odds. In particular he cites Highrise Invasion, Battle Game in 5 Seconds, and Juni Taisen: Zodiac War as some of the shining examples of the genre.
• I Can't Believe I'thou Maxim This:
  • As much as he dislikes Sword Art Online, even Geoff cannot believe that he'due south describing The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar as beingness fifty-fifty worse.
  • Geoff is also shocked that Rui Tsukiyo, of Redo of Healer infamy, really knows how to write nuanced characters and toe a fine line between tasteful and distasteful fanservice with The World's Finest Assassinator.
• Insult to Rocks: Given his well-known dislike of Sword Art Online, it says a lot that he considers it better than several other mediocre isekai series.
• It'south Personal:
  • While Geoff thinks that, past any other metric, Seven Senses of the Re'Spousal relationship doesn't deserve its place as the third-worst anime of 2018, he admits the placing is very much a affair of personal opinion, deeming it an ungodly amalgamation of Anohana: The Blossom We Saw That Day (his favorite anime at the time earlier Mob Psycho 100) and Sword Art Online (one of his to the lowest degree-favorite anime).
  • In his Maburaho episode in March 2022, Geoff admits that his roasting of the series is as much a matter of personal grudge as it was of studying the evolution of harem anime, having bought an expensive DVD box of the serial in his youth and wasting his time watching it.
• Long List: In his Loftier Guardian Spice review, he suggests a hypothetical Steven Universe-loving tweenager would enjoy the show... if they've already seen Adventure Time, Amphibia, The Owl House, Piffling Witch Academia, Infinity Train, Hilda, Magic Knight Rayearth, Bravest Warriors, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Gravity Falls, The Dragon Prince, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Sailor Moon, and every Kunihiko Ikuhara anime.
• The One Affair I Don't Hate Virtually Yous: Later gaining success from shitting on Sword Art Online, he turns it around and makes a video nigh the series' strengths and why it was successful to begin with.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: During his advertisement segment on KonoSuba Fantastic Days!, Geoff explains that the game contains "lovable characters, sometime and new, who are certain to exist useful additions to your party! ...And Aqua."
• "Non Making This Upward" Disclaimer: The video "An Bodily Cult Fabricated These Anime" contains a couple. The subject thing makes them necessary.
• Not And then Similar: Early in his "Hottest Trash Anime of Fall 2021" episode, Geoff mentions the negative hype towards Tesla Note, with its awkward motion-capture 3D animation inviting many a comparing to EX-ARM. However, he downplays the comparing past noting that Tesla Notation at least had comparatively improve facial animation, torso motion, and audio design.
• Otaku: He qualifies, being into anime (and gaming) with most of his content focussing on this. When he appears on screen, most of the time he'southward posing in front of a shelf cabinet with merchandise.
• Poor Communication Kills: Why he accidentally played Resident Evil two instead of MediEvil equally an viii year old.
• Precision F-Strike: In "The Roast of Dragonball Evolution":

  Geoff: And no boldness to white belts — everyone has to start somewhere - but a goddamn white belt has no place playing Son fucking Goku, son!

• Product Placement: In well-nigh videos, he'll find a moment to interrupt his story to promote for some brand, service or new production. This has gotten to signal that his promoting became somewhat of a Running Gag and has attained a memetic status.
• Public Service Declaration: Parodied in his Public Service Anime video series, with episodes such as "Your Transforming Body and Yous", "Is Your Girl A Magical Girl?" and "The Waifu Wars".
• A Rare Sentence: He describes the ending of SAO's Alicization arc every bit "trainwreck", like "a flaming, horny clown humping an armless woman to death."

  "'Golly, Geoff! That'southward a weird prototype to pull out of nowhere!' Boy, is it!"

• Running Gag:
  • Geoff rarely refers to Naruto every bit such, instead referring to both the graphic symbol and the show every bit "Boruto'south Dad".
  • Referring to Haruhi Suzumiya as God.
  • His cocky-described dislike of everything to do with Sword Fine art Online and the sheer number of videos he's put out on the subject field. Fans have started to joke that SAO-bashing is what's paying his rent most months.
  • In his video on whether in that location's merely also much anime coming out, he often talks, offended, that nobody is watching Odd Taxi
• Sanderson's Showtime Constabulary: While describing The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest as part of his "Hottest Trash Anime of Winter 2022" episode, he contrasts its soft, invokedAss Pull-prone magic system with the rules-based system from Brandon Sanderson's novels, in particular citing the 2d Law, that limitations are more interesting than the powers.
• Self-Deprecation: Geoff'due south jokes frequently target both his own nerdiness and his shilling of diverse anime related web-services.
• Serious Business organisation: Apparently, 1 of the bloodiest and most unsafe wars of all time standing to this day is the Waifu Wars.
• Shout-Out: His Fix Fic of SAO's Alfheim arc is split into sections with titles that he reads aloud in a vocalisation that imitates Mr. Plinkett'due south patented throaty monotone. He too throws one out for Sword Art Online Abridged, acknowledging the proficient work they're doing in parodically fixing the series' plot holes.
• And then Bad, Information technology'southward Skillful:invoked
  • Starting 2021, Geoff has made a list of hilariously bad anime (or, as he calls them, "Hottest Trash Anime"), which he rates using a "highly scientific" measurement organization of dumpster fires, trash cans, or other kinds of waste storage:
    • Wintertime 2021: EX-ARM (v), Hortensia Saga (i), Scar on the Praeter (2), Skate-Leading Stars (1), WIXOSS Diva A Live (2), Soukou Musume (three), Redo of Healer (2), and The Hidden Dungeon Only I Could Enter (4).
    • Summer 2021: Blood-red Nexus (ii), Drugstore in Another Earth (1), Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles (3), D_Cide Traumerei the Animation (four), The Detective is Already Dead (three), Girlfriend, Girlfriend (3), Megami-ryou no Ryoubo-kun (2), and Battle Game in 5 Seconds (4).
    • Spring 2021 (retrospect): Cestvs: The Roman Fighter (3), Fairy Ranmaru (4), Boxing Athletes Victory ReSTART! (4), and Osamake (3).
    • Autumn 2021: Tesla Annotation (1), Platinum End (four), The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window (iii), The Fruit of Evolution (2), The World'south Finest Assassin (3), and Pride of Orange (1).
    • Winter 2022: The 2nd season of Arifureta: From Commonplace to World'due south Strongest (4), World'due south Finish Harem (3), The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest (2), Orient (1), Fantasia Sango: Realm of Legends (ane), Rusted Armors (three), and She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Homo (4) (special mention: FreakAngels (five)).
  • Geoff dedicated an entire episode to ironically gushing over Assassin'southward Pride (which also appears as a special mention in his "Pinnacle five WORST Anime of 2019" episode) and its excesses, such the questionable implications of a Teacher/Educatee Romance between thirteen-year-old Melida Angel and her seventeen-twelvemonth-old half-vampire mentor Kufa Vampyr, the absurdity of their very names, the mildly sexualized uniforms worn by Melida and her schoolmates, and world-building opportunities eschewed in favor of piece-of-life antics.
  • Endeavor Knights, his 2d-worst anime of 2019, is also cited for its Mundane Fabricated Awesome approach to rugby.
  • In late January 2022, Geoff made a loving roast of the first season of Arifureta: From Commonplace to World'south Strongest (another special mention in his "Top 5 WORST Anime of 2019" episode), almost three years afterward it first aired (and to coincide with its second season). Despite its shoddily-produced outset few episodes, to say nothing of its infamously invokedTroubled Production, he cites the source material's relatively solid character writing and the plot shamelessly reveling in being a teenage revenge fantasy to exist its strongest points, making information technology popular plenty to survive a rocky offset and warrant a sequel. As such, using his measurement system for hot trash anime, Geoff awards information technology "four loftier schoolhouse dumpsters." Its second flavour also gets this treatment (albeit as role of his Winter 2022 Hottest Trash lineup), down to the exact rating.
• Something Completely Unlike: "An Actual Cult Fabricated These Anime." It's right there in the title, and Geoff does not appear to be making up a word of it. (It'd exist hard to tell if he were, though.)
• Accept That!:
  • Geoff's early merits to fame are his withering jabs towards Sword Art Online, to the point where he changed things up a bit by making a video on its positives.
  • Similar to the to a higher place, in his video about Detroit: Get Human, he gives diverse creators "Rekis" on a "Kawahara scale of god-awful writing." David Cage gets 5 Rekis for his involvement in the game, and you tin can see the full list in the video (pause at 7 seconds). Tim Buckley and Chuck Lorre pinnacle the listing. He also then says David Muzzle's "ability to directly actors and compose a scene is rivaled only by Tommy Wiseau and Uwe Boll."
  • His "Top x Anime Betrayals" April Fools' Solar day video is a large i towards WatchMojo.
  • Geoff also fabricated occasional jabs at then-U.S. president Donald Trump:
    • In his "Welcome to Amestris - Fullmetal Alchemist Travel Guide", he makes a jab at Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico by saying that the Briggs wall would exist "a colossal waste of time and money" without abracadabra.
    • In his roast of The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar, he claims that Yuuto's actions in the afar past he is transported into may create a Bad Future where "Trump becomes the president or something ridiculous like that."
    • Another jab towards Trump is made in "The Roast of Dragonball Evolution" when discussing the scene involving the grade of teenagers existence told well-nigh the eclipse, calculation that one tin not understand how it works and all the same be president, while showing a picture of Trump directly staring at the solar eclipse of August 22, 2017.
  • In his ERASED video, when he brings up Jun being an implied Lolicon, a moving picture of Beatrice the Golden Witch is edited over Jun's confront. This was not long after Beatrice came under burn after admitting to existence a proud lolicon herself.
  • What'south So Great About My Hero Academia adds one jab to The Scrappy Mineta. When commenting nearly the flaws in the hero society in the manga, he points out that Mineta "is just allowed to be exterior, unsupervised. What the fuck is upwards with that?"
  • He calls MAPPA a "dehumanizing nightmare sweatshop fine art factory" in "Chainsaw Man is Underhyped, Really".
  • When he discusses a certain uncomfortable plot point surrounding Hand Shakers that involves incestuous shotacon (yes really), he says "Await, Paw Shakers, if I wanted to watch Boku No Pico...I'd kill myself, okay?"
• This Is Unforgivable!: The number one biggest anime expose? A girl borrowed Geoff's anime DVD when he was a child and never gave information technology back.
• Verbal Backspace: In "I Miss English Anime Openings":

  "I bet yous didn't even remember Mon Colle Knights existed until only at present, and I arraign that 30 seconds of farting tubas, because the bear witness was awes-... goo-... okay, look, I liked it."

• Video Game Movies Suck:invoked Geoff has a rather low opinion on anime adaptations of video games, citing their lack of faithfulness to the source material, low production values, and/or just attempting to attempt to replicate the financial success of the Pokémon anime series, and in fact many of them already made his "Worst Anime" and/or "Hottest Trash Anime" lists. He takes exception, however, to those of Cygames mobile games, in item citing Princess Connect! Re:Dive and Uma Musume as some of their all-time examples of video game anime washed right.
• We All Live in America: Parodied from fourth dimension to time, in reference to 4Kids Entertainment, though Geoff himself is Canadian.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Beatrice the Golden Witch. Despite occasionally taking shots at each other, they were said to really accept been good friends. That beingness said, the past few years have strained their friendship profoundly, every bit the two's difference of opinion has made it difficult for them to get along. As of 2021, Beatrice has admitted that her relationship with Geoff (likewise as other Youtube anime vloggers) isn't the best, and that the fact that he wasn't already good friends with her and the remainder of the Pro Crastinators podcast squad contributed to his parting ways with the show (explained in the video "Why Mumkey Was Kicked from the PCP (Digi'due south Story)").
• "Well Done, Son!" Guy: "The Anime Dad'south Guide to Kid Neglect" recommends motivating your children past making them crave your amore.
• Worst. Whatever. Ever!: Starting 2018, Geoff ended the yr with lists of the five worst anime of that yr (every bit well as a few special mentions). In ascending lodge:
  • 2018: Hakyu Hoshin Engi (the remake of the 1999 anime adaptation of Soul Hunter), Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knights, Seven Senses of the Re'Union, Formulation: Delight Give Nascency to My Child!, and My Sister, My Writer (Special mentions: Between the Sky and Sea, Lord of Vermilion, RErideD, and Märchen Mädchen).
  • 2019: W'z, Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale (a spinoff based on some in-game lore in Cardfight!! Vanguard), Pastel Memories, Try Knights, and High School Prodigies Have Information technology Easy Even in Another World (Special mentions: Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, Assassin's Pride, Grimms Notes, the second season of Kemono Friends, Stand My Heroes: Piece of Truth, Exercise You lot Dear Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World'due south Strongest, and Isekai Crook Magician).
  • 2020: Dragon's Dogma, Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time, Shironeko Project: Zippo Chronicle, Hatena Illusion, and Gibiate (Special mentions: Shachou Battle No Jikan Desu, Sakura Wars the Animation, ShadowVerse the Animation, Kings Raid the Animation, Super HxEros, Listeners, and Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls).
  • 2021: Shuumatsu no Walküre: Record of Ragnarok, Scarlet Nexus, Battle Athletes Victory ReSTART!, the second season of The Promised Neverland, and EX-ARM.

Tropes discussed on Mother'southward Basement:

• Archive Rampage:invoked Geoff admits that he once did this for One Piece, pointing out that he'd been at it for eighteen days and all he accomplished in that time was "inch dangerously closer to becoming a furry..." and he all the same had a hundred chapters to get.
• Colbert Bump: invoked
  • Geoff's made a video most Michael B. Jordan's memetic enjoyment of anime (and to a bottom extent, Kim Kardashian revealing that she's a fan of DARLING in the FRANXX) and how information technology could encourage people to be more open about their interests or bring in new fans.
  • He too invoked this for "The Best Shounen Jump Manga That Oasis't Been Animated (Yet)", not only hoping to direct more readership to series that he'due south currently enjoying, but too (and by his own access, mostly) equally an alibi to somewhen discuss Chainsaw Man without feeling fear of spoiling it for besides many of his viewers.
• Doing Information technology for the Art:invoked
  • Geoff summarizes the late Stan Lee'southward foray into anime and manga as So Okay, It'southward Average at best; nevertheless, he finds information technology remarkable that Lee was willing to experiment with media he was fascinated with when he really didn't need to.
  • In his roast of Maburaho, he contrasts its mediocre direction to the more than impressive one of Girls Bravo, which happens to be the directorial debut of Ei Aoki (of Re:CREATORS, ID: Invaded, and Fate/Zero fame), praising him equally a director who brings his all-time artistic chops, even so mediocre and/or botched the source cloth may exist (such equally Girls Bravo and Aldnoah.Zero).
• Expy: Combined with invoked Older Than They Think. Geoff points out how Alice in SAO: Alicization appears to be just another Saber clone equally a blonde, sword-wielding waifu. He then notes that the original Alicization web novels were written around the same fourth dimension Fate/stay nighttime had released, pregnant Alice isn't a Saber clone, but one of the kickoff Saber clones.
• Fanservice: Geoff ordinarily makes annotation of the sex jokes and objectification of women common in anime simply has expressed a willingness to let information technology slide since he understands that none of information technology comes from an intentional desire to hurt anybody.
• Flat Grapheme: His primary criticism of Hand Shakers is that all the characters are nothing more than a single quirky character trait beingness given man class, comparing information technology to Edward Elric existence stripped of almost all his personality traits except his Berserk Push about his height. It's to the betoken where he considers the best written character to exist the one whose tendency to throw out a Hurricane of Aphorisms turns out to exist forcing this trait on herself.
• Gateway Series:invoked In his video where he points out the positives of Sword Art Online, he explains that, as divisive as the serial can get, even its strongest detractors (such equally himself) begrudgingly admit that the series (or at least its first season) is what got many people into anime in the get-go identify.
• Ham and Cheese:invoked In Dragonball Evolution, Chow Yun-fat gives an extremely lively and physical performance every bit Master Roshi that makes him one of the more expressive characters in a cast full of Dull Surprise. Even so, Geoff deconstructs this a bit by pointing out that by juxtaposing such a Large Ham against bland performances, Roshi comes beyond more every bit an insane lunatic than a fun Eccentric Mentor. And Geoff is saying all this within the context that Chow Yun-fat is not necessarily a bad thespian in the film.
• Hard-to-Adapt Work:invoked Gibiate'south fine art direction was based on concept art from renowned illustrator and character designer Yoshitaka Amano, whose art is so detailed and distinct that information technology is near impossible to translate to blitheness while keeping his mode intact; as a upshot, the characters in Gibiate wait similar pale imitations of Amano's original designs, often looking stiff and bad-mannered when animated or standing all the same. Geoff even cites Hiromu Arakawa's adaptation of The Heroic Legend of Arslan, the original of which Amano had provided the illustrations, as evidence of the necessity of streamlining when doing adaptations, equally Arakawa significantly simplified Amano's designs for the manga and the anime adpatation.
• Incest Is Relative: Anime finds a way, and Geoff is never happy about it; in fact, one of his "rules" for the "How to Survive a Harem" PSA is "DON'T FUCK YOUR Sister" in all caps. That said, in his Fix Fic for Sword Art Online'due south Fairy Dance arc, he nevertheless retains the plot indicate of Suguha'southward ane-sided beat out on her cousin and adopted older blood brother Kazuto/Kirito, playing it up as a sympathetic just misguided stage of adolescence she eventually has to grow out of in guild to become mature and happy in the future, while excising all instances of Male Gaze that do nothing just muddied the message that Kirito, as an audience-insert graphic symbol, is non supposed to encounter his cousin/sister in a sexual manner.
• Indecisive Parody: When discussing My Sister, My Author, ane of Geoff'due south biggest critiques was that the bear witness often made overtures towards existence a parody of light novel cliches (e.1000., hypercompetent Little Sis Heroine, rampant Fanservice, indulgent Wish-Fulfillment), just for the most part, those elements weren't whatever sillier than the sort of thing audiences would run into in an actual low-cal novel and notwithstanding seemed to be written with fans of those cliches in mind. For instance, its fanservice, though framed a little more comically than the norm, was however conspicuously intended to be sexy, and comedic fanservice is hardly atypical in the genre (being a joke doesn't end people from being turned on by it).
• Jerkass Dissonanceinvoked: Geoff theorized nearly the reasons Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness are more often than not well-liked despite their often unpleasant personalities. He somewhen concludes that this is non only considering of their comically exaggerated antics, but also because their personalities are genuine, which creates a sense of them being comfy around the audience and the audience feeling familiar with them. That, and perchance because of their their attractive designs.
• Tardily Export for Yous: He noted that Your Name took a year after its Japanese release to achieve Canadian theaters, but Sword Fine art Online: Ordinal Calibration took but a calendar month. Given Geoff's dislike of SAO, he was rather miffed about information technology.invoked
• Permit'due south See Y'all Do Better!: The principal motivation behind his Set up Fic of SAO. Geoff also goes ahead to option this stock No, You response apart past pointing out how creating and criticizing fine art are two completely unlike beasts and, realistically, he cannot hope to perhaps go through with the challenge completely since producing anime is an expensive and demanding workload.
• Merchandise-Driven: Hand Shakers has an egregious case of Product Placement where a existent life Japan-sectional card game is meaning to a character's powerset and a story arc involving him. Geoff goes farther to talk over the hurdles and effort needed to be able to brand this work (even playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! theme to make his point known) and points out how this in-story advertisement grinds the show to a complete halt that doesn't brand any logical sense In-Universe.
• Off-Model:
  • I of the many reasons Geoff detested the fight scenes in The Primary of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar was the poorly drawn beefcake of the characters fifty-fifty in Limited Animation shots.
  • He notes that ane of My Sis, My Writer's many problems is how distressingly often the characters get off-model, to the signal that it looks like what would happen if an anime studio had Pablo Picasso doing keyframes.
  • While describing Bermuda Triangle Colorful Pastrale as the 4th-worst anime of 2019, Geoff jokes that the characters' frequently poor facial modeling has him wondering if the series is set near Bikini Atoll, a coral reef in the Marshall islands used past the Usa for nuclear test, implying they are born with radiations-induced mutations.
  • Similarly to KonoSuba, Geoff notes that while he feels the writing and vocalisation interim more than than makes upward for information technology, the beginning flavour of The Quintessential Quintuplets has less than impressive production value and he expresses understanding but concern that viewers who can't expect past information technology will have their viewing experience ruined by information technology.
• Opinion Myopia: invoked Played for Laughs in Waifu Wars - Public Service Announcement where the narrator tells you how you can effigy out who's the enemy: anybody who doesn't agree with his (read:the narrator'due south) opinions.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: In general, ane of Geoff's biggest gripes with some anime are their tendency to use sexual assault as an opportunity for fanservice moments.
  • One of his biggest points of contention against Sword Fine art Online is what he feels to be its rather tactless usage of sexual assail as cheap Kick the Dog moments as opposed to actual plot/graphic symbol advancement. 1 of the few positive points he gives to the Alicization arc is its usage of sexual assault to actually drive the plot forward, but even that he considers mitigated past the fact that not just is it presented in a somewhat comedic style (intentional or not is unknown) initially, simply it creates a giant Plot Pigsty in its Worldbuilding every bit a result.
  • Also discussed in his video on the infamous rape scene in Goblin Slayer. Amongst his criticisms is the fact that the scene seems to merely exist just to plant that goblins are evil and that the anime sexualizes what should be a horrific moment. He feels that the scene does niggling but scare off people from what, in his opinion, is a fun dark fantasy.
  • While discussing his fascination for "big dumb boxing royale anime," he notes the sorry frequency of such serial' Activity Girls having sexual attack as part of their backstory.
  • Likewise, neither is Geoff a fan of Double Standard: Rape, Female person on Male, and is visibly uncomfortable with scenes from Maburaho where Kuriko tries to attack Kazuki.
• Relationship Writing Fumbleinvoked: An inverted take on this trope is brought up in his video about Dragon's Dogma, where he notes that he can't tell if Yang and Leni, the 2 characters of the calendar week in "Sloth", are supposed to be lovers, friends or fifty-fifty siblings. He somewhen concludes that Yang is "in a very vague sense, some class of Leni'southward human".
• The Scrappyinvoked: Discussed in his "What's in a Scene? — How SAO Became the Worst Anime Ever" video. Geoff heavily dislikes Yui because in his opinion, she was responsible for setting upward the downfall of the prove for him, since the scene of her "death" caused such massive amounts of Refrigerator Logic and an Donkey Pullinvoked from Kirito to salve her that the series ultimately went downhill and never recovered from. In a way, Yui, at least for Geoff, ended up being something of a Franchise Killer in terms of his ability to enjoy it, and for said reason, he heavily dislikes her grapheme.
• Second Flavour Downfallinvoked: Discussed in "How DARLING in the FRANXX Wrecked its Worldbuilding", and the follow upwardly video; "DARLING in the FRANXX — What the HFIL Happened!?". The second flavour of the serial went so drastically into a different genre for several of its run-time, then shifted to explaining as much nigh the setting as possible, earlier becoming a re-create of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Whatever skilful will people had towards the series finer died after the second half of the series started, and the ending basically trampled any hope for a expert decision.
• Evidence, Don't Tell:
  • A point of loftier praise Geoff had for DARLING in the FRANXX...a point which he angrily took back as the show decayed and it ruins its Worldbuilding mystique by having an Info Dump episode.
  • A consistent criticism towards SAO is its trend to accept boring and long Info Dumps mostly with characters sitting in a cafe and talking.
• Ho-hum Life Fantasy: In his "Types of Isekai Anime" video, two of the possible categories he proposed ("Hangout Isekai" and "Karoshisekai") are specifically centered on this genre. ^annotation Although his list included Konosuba and Princess Connect! Re:Dive as examples — neither of which would fit this trope'southward exact description.
• Strictly Formula: In "The Roast of Maburaho", Geoff notes how said series doesn't accept a plot and so much as a rigid formula around a harem comedy setup, with several plot and character points being repeated with superficial variances across dissimilar episodes. While he acknowledges that many classic Western cartoons (such every bit Looney Tunes) similarly stick to formulas, those cartoons at least know how to change things upwardly to stay interesting. Maburaho, on the other mitt, isn't creative plenty with its formula to make it stand out from other harem comedies.
• Stylistic Suck: Geoff thinks the Off-Model blitheness of several parts of KonoSuba are actually one of its strongest points because they help enhance its comedic tone. He also believes such animation is deliberate on the role of director Takaomi Kanasaki, given that in his other major work, Princess Connect! Re:Swoop, the characters are drawn more consistently so as to emphasize cuteness.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Proficient Plotinvoked:
  • 1 of the reasons Geoff hates the Fairy Dance arc of Sword Art Online was that the story never even remotely addressed Nobuyuki Sugou's programme to create mind-command engineering using 300 kidnapped SAO survivors (including Asuna). In Geoff's optics, it was simply used as a way to heighten the stakes, merely never actually mattered since the plot point itself had no usage at all. Another important plot point he discusses being wasted was how Kirito himself points out that Asuna is every bit stiff every bit he is, if non potentially more, and argues that the story really seems to suggest a fight between the two volition happen, but never actually does. In his "Fixing Alfheim: the WORST part of SAO" Fix Fic, he addresses these past combining both plot points by having a heed-controlled Asuna fight Kirito.
  • He notes that the gothic horror setting of Assassin's Pride, where it'southward Always Night and people constantly live in fear of Tim Burton-esque monsters, has the potential for some interesting stories. Unfortunately, the story itself tends to focus more on harem antics in a Wizarding School instead.
  • Much of his disdain for High School Prodigies Accept Information technology Piece of cake Even in Another World amounts to disappointment over the series' failure to exploit the potential of its premise of seven Japanese teenage prodigies reforming a fascist kingdom in a fantasy world. He points out that their idea of a democratic government being copied from that of modern Japan is both unimaginative and conveying a rather ugly implication that said system is perfect. There's too the fact that despite having an ensemble cast, functionally the only characters with the nearly agency are Tsukasa Mikogami and Masato Sanada (who are, of grade, two of the only 3 boys of the group), reducing the group'south four girls into resembling a typical agency-gratuitous battle harem, too equally heaping particular dislike on stage magician Prince Akatsuki (the other boy of the group), both for his obnoxiousness and the series' failure to requite a rational explanation for his feats in a globe where magic is commomplace, making him functionally no different from a standard fantasy mage.
• Troubled Productioninvoked: In his roast of the first season of Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest, Geoff takes notation of its behind-the-scenes drama when series author Ryo Shirakome expressed his dissatisfaction with the original adaptation, meant for an April 2018 release, and forced a massive rehaul of the production crew causing its release to be pushed dorsum by 15 months. In addition, he as well highlights Shirakome's questionable choice of replacements for studio (from the otherwise venerable White Fox, of Steins;Gate and Katanagatari fame, to asread, which he claims peaked with the otherwise mediocre Future Diary dorsum in 2011), director (from veteran Jun Kamiya, of Blueish Seed and Kingdom fame, to newcomer Kinji Yoshimoto, of the fanservice-axial Seven Mortal Sins and Queen's Blade infamy), and character designer (from Atsuo Tobe, of Kingdom and Yakitate!! Japan fame, to Chika Kojima, of Big Society infamy, which he described every bit a trainwreck ripoff of JoJo'due south Bizarre Adventure deserving of its own roast in the future).
• Unintentionally Unsympatheticinvoked: His biggest trouble with Peter Grill and the Philosopher'south Time is that he doesn't experience bad for Peter's plight—being hounded by an Unwanted Harem of Cute Monster Girls who want him to give them strong children—because he ofttimes ends up having sex with them despite already being engaged to his childhood sweetheart Luvelia. While the writing aims to brand the audition feel sorry for Peter and not all of the mishaps he gets into are his fault, the fact that he constantly cheats on Luvelia anyway still profoundly lessens Geoff's enjoyment of the serial.
• A Sorcerer Did It: Geoff has a fascination for phantom thieves and stage magic, then it frustrates him when a bad anime extensively featuring such characters and premises never explain how said characters pull off the tricks they do, leading to implications (or only outright shows) that information technology'south literally only magic rather than absurd fume and mirrors. For this reason he dislikes Prince Akatsuki, the resident stage magician in Loftier School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another Earth (already his absolute worst anime of 2019), autonomously from his obnoxious beliefs, every bit well as citing Hatena Illusion as the 2nd-worst anime of 2020.
• YouTuber Apology Parody: In this video, Geoff tearfully apologies for leaving Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun out of his best anime of 2019 video.

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I'grand Geoff Thew, professional shitbag, signing out from my female parent's basement.

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