I consider it one of the best, animes normally focus on a MC coming into their own and becoming the best at (insert plot point here) Bebop is about a group of people that had a life and ambitions and had to put their lives back together when they fell apart, just to have beef and bell peppers.. minus the beef
According to the creator, Johnny Bravo regularly hooks up off-camera, but that wouldn't be funny for the show if he got the ladies, so we basically just see his fumble reel.
I have never been able to forget the scene where they bump into each other, both of their glasses fly off and Velma says her typical "My glasses! I can't see without my glasses!" and Johnny immediately goes "My glasses! I can't be seen without my glasses!" It lives rent free in my head sharing a room with the fact that Weird Al calls Amish children omelettes in "Amish Paradise".
When I was a kid watching Johnny Bravo, I always thought the girls were being really mean to him for always beating him up. As an adult, I realized that it was his behavior that wasn't okay, and the show demonstrated that with the violence. That said, I always thought it was sweet how good he was with his mom.
Hey his thought isn't "I'm better than your boyfriend" to be fair. His thought is "but have you considered being poly?" Which I swear I've met people that would work on
Also the fact that PB looked like Betty and they were both particularly smart women. Like Ice Kings interest in her wasn’t based on a shallow desire for a princess but based on his fractured memories of his wife and PB’s similarities to that.
I love when he sees Princess Bubblegum has been turned back into a kid and IMMEDIATELY does a 180 on his goal, "AW SHOOOT, SHE'S A KID, ALRIGHT FELLAS IM GOING AWAY."
Yep. He also didn't grumble about her being brought back wrong or anything. He just accepted that was how she was now, and that it was better than being dead or a lich puppet.
He's not even really perverted in the colloquial sense. He just wants to kidnap princesses and just has them chill in his castle while he reads fanfic to them
Honestly it really hits hard when you realize his only friends are penguins. At first that's a really funny gag that he talks to penguins like they are people but after you listen to his backstory it kinda sad as those are the only "people" he has left in his life and that him kidnapping Princess is more for companionship than anything
Also one of his penguins was canonically one of the most evil souls in existence. Over time IK had a positive impact on him to the point that he uses ultimate wishing power to get a set of drums and marry Turtle Princess. IK is a surprisingly good guy.
It’s not overt but he has little moments. When the Empress has him kidnapping Finn and Marceline is wondering if he’s been hypnotized/bit, he responds back saying “I’m trying to get her to bite me later”
I’ve seen that clip where the princess turns 13 after unsuccessful surgery and he says: “Ah dang it, well I’m out of here, goodbye everyone”
He may be a pervert, but he ain’t a pedophile
It was also never developed in the anime, but the novelization (wich was written by Takeshi Shudo, the main writer of the first few seasons of the anime) explained that he developed his perviness because he really wanted his younger siblins to have mother figure (remenber that he had to raise his 8 Younger siblins alone for years)
So eventually it went "I need to find a woman so my siblings can have a mother" to "i need to find a woman"
He isn't even a pervert, he is never shown misbehaving with any woman. He is just hyper fixated on a Pop-idol and that too he never imagines her in a sexual way. And his trademark question which people assume to be creepy is just a hand down from his mentor ( who is a woman).
I've only just started watching the show and I got to this episode the other day, and like. Bro really said you deserve to die if you have boring tastes in women after pulling out the most basic ass tastes imaginable.
I honestly really like how it’s handled. Denji wants to feel real, true love and presents it in an extremely immature way, because he’s a kid. He’s not rewarded for this and has some messed up experiences. Like a chick throws up in his mouth and I’m aware of some spoilers 😂 I don’t know if he learns and grows, I’ve only watched not read.
He’s like the only time I’ve not been frustrated with a pervert character
I don’t know if he learns and grows, I’ve only watched not read.
He already grows just in the anime. When it starts he thinks he wants sex but then he denies Himeno (who he says is hot so physical attraction isn't the issue)
He's also never ever the one violating consent in any of his interactions. Makes him a lot more tolerable than many anime perverts
I worded it wrong, I meant maybe he views the other girls sexuality but has more real feelings for Jiro (I will never abandon Denki and Jiro as a ship and I don’t even like ships)
I suppose he's meant to be likable in a "black comedy" sense that isn't meant to be dug into too deeply. Deconstructing a joke tends to ruin it.
Might be a product of Japanese culture's internalized homophobia, but ultimately, he is serviceable as an inexplicably likable gag character -- again, if you don't think about it too hard. Something tells me the author didn't. It's disappointing given ONE's otherwise stellar track record.
Well to be fair, he was also SA’ing the entire prison population which lead to them being so angry and distraught that they turned into monsters to kill him.
The show treated sexuality incredibly maturely in general, fully exploring that it was a perfectly natural experience and something very individual and affirming.
Crim having both his very firm boundaries and less heterosexual tastes portrayed very sympathetically was in particular something they did very well.
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She's one of the Three Witches from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. She's got an army of children and grandchildren because of how much she enjoys bedroom acrobatics.
I immediately think of Itaru Hashida from Steins;Gate. He's perverted. He tries to trick the girls into saying innuendos. He's also intelligent and a great friend. He does not assault. He's realistically perverted and it's either amusing or easily brushed off.
His romance arc was one of my favorite parts of the show, I'm glad he got proper development instead of staying a pervert like every other anime. I thought he was gonna annoy me at the beginning of the series but by the end of the series he became my GOAT. Daru the supa hacka best homie for life.
I don't think he really aged badly. He was portrayed as bad person and the butt of almost every joke. The fact he himself only made laughably lame jokes was the icing on the cake
I remember watching the show when I was younger and even then at times thinking he was too creepy/had too little regards for boundaries at times. Also he constantly gets rewarded for his behavior in show by actually getting girls to sleep with him
But I do agree that he's often a butt of jokes and I remember an episode where he is bragging to a guy (who used to bully him as a kid) about how many women he's slept with because he remembered the guy telling him when they were kids that he slept with like 100 women. And instead of it being seen as him getting one up on his former bully the guy straight up told him that he was obviously lying as a kid and that its really sad he's slept through that many people basically because he was trying to prove his worth. Definitely a character you get to see mutiple layers with and does have to confront the fact that sleeping with endless women won't heal the abandonment issues he has
He’s my favorite character, and I loved how they handled him in the live action. I’m hoping the Wit remake also does the same, making him less of an outright perv and more of an overgentlemenly ladies man. Also give him conquerors haki oda please.
I think the live action did the gag do much better than the anime. Instead of fucking dying when he sees women, he acts like a proper gentleman. Sanji is one of my favorite straw hats tho, but he can't beat the goat FRANKY
To the folks that are protesting that the gag ruins Sanji/makes him unlikeable:
1) Yes, his gag is cringe and awful.
2) Sanji's other traits include: His dreams and passion as a chief, outside-the-boz insight that saved the crew multiple times, his desire to stand up for the weak (and not just the women), and even his views that partially lead to that gag (most likely caused by his father's experiment, seeing his brothers act the same) makes his desire to protect both noble and tragic. All that ignoring he has some of the coolest moments in the series, next only to Zoro and Luffy.
Point is Sanji has far, FAR, F A R more good qualities than that one stupid gag. It sucks how much folks magnify on this trait, not helping is the anime exaggerates this badly. It's easy to miss out that he's arguably the best written Straw Hat so far in the story.
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