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Originally Posted by Malkuth

Let me clarify, unbiased as in hating eroticism or incest is what will obviously drive one into a rage, in addition to anticipating to see certain events and characters and be treated with others will the least annoy you. Being unbiased and not building baseless expectation helps a lot to enjoy the authors works, since he does a pretty good job to be unpredictable both with monogatari and katanagatari... we'll see about medaka box this spring.

And there's no bias in liking incest?

Liking incest is no less a personal bias/preference than disliking it is.


And it's not a "baseless expectation" to expect a sequel to be similar to its original, because sequels usually are similar to the original.

The differences between Bake and Nise are pretty substantial, imo. It's only natural that many people who liked Bake would dislike Nise (or at least some episodes of Nise).

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

Well then, maybe Shaft should improvise.

I know! They should show Araragi doing the fire bee transfer kiss, even though the novel intentionally skipped describing it!

And while they are at it, why not animate the Hitagi sex scene? You know, the scene that was never described in the novel.

This episode is exactly what the book was about. And the reason it was animated in an arousing fashion was because it was the only way to properly portray the scene.

If Shaft just wanted to titillate, they have missed many chances to do so because they decided to only animate what was in the book. No more, no less.

Having Araragi taking Hitagi's virginity on screen would certainly get people hot and bothered, right? So why not? Who cares if that wasn't what the author wanted?

Some things in an adaptation will always have to be cut. But if you want something cut because you are offended at the characters themselves, then there is little we can do. Araragi is a little too close to his sisters. This is part of his character. You taking that out means you want a different main character. And after that you might as well watch a different anime.

You're grossly overstating your argument.

Disliking one element of a character doesn't mean you want an entirely different main character. It certainly doesn't mean you want an entirely different anime.

Also, people are free to like some of a book, and dislike some of the same book.

When people do reviews, they frequently talk about the parts they like and the parts they disliked. There's nothing illegitimate about that.