KonokoHasano wrote:It's SUPPOSED to be slapstick. It's just that people tend to view it differently and make more out of it than they should.
I don't see Akane or any of the other cast members having brain damage. They just have random quirks that get flanderized to a degree as the series goes on
There is much in what you say, but some people cannot see slapstick as funny. I absolutely
cannot watch the Three Stooges, am uncomfortable with Laurel and Hardy, and shudder every time I see an ad for the latest Jackass movie. To me, hitting people, falling on your head, or having a piano run you down, is
not funny.I think we're seeing two styles of perception here. This argument comes up over and over here: do we take the things that happen to <character> seriously, or do we laugh at them? I don't laugh. Some people do.
It's not the violence. I write murder mysteries. Just sold my first book, and in it, five people are killed and another gets his hand cut off. But by damn, there was a
reason for each of these things! It's
pointless violence, especially when it's intended to make me laugh, that bothers me.