Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160213154456/@comment-4010415-20160214074236

Not an anime, but Buffy the Vampire Slayer did a really good job at being serious and humorous and then having a really bittersweet "They won, but not entirely" ending (because Joss Whedon doesn't want his characters to be happy, like... ever...). The humor is fucking top notch. The dialogue is so cleverly written. Sure, early on, the show is kinda cheesy, but that's because they originally expected Buffy to only run as a single half-season after a show got cancelled, and they had a really low budget, but then it took off and gradually got more and more funding.

Anyway, the dialogue... Man. These characters really feel like high school students and then college students. And I love the way they set things up for characters to have epiphanies. They actually had their epiphanies in believable ways, instead of how those "Wait a minute, what did you just say? That's it!" moments that usually feel forced in shows and movies. I just... GYAHH

I mock you with my monkey pants!