With every anime season theres a minimum of five terrible new fantasy anime to come along with it. Genre fatigue has been slowly setting in for years and nearly every one of these glorified internet fanfics have been derided as power fantasies or selfinsert series by people who actually care about the quality of the media they consume. Extremely bland peerless main characters plowing their way through any obstacle and hundreds of indistinguishable girls in increasingly trite fantasy realms seems to be the basic establishing formula for these series most of which were written on novel websites made for the sole purpose of getting sheltered Japanese teenagers a chance to become a regular Nisio Isin if he had zero literary credibility. Name any seasonal anime that sounds even marginally like what I described and itll probably have spawned from one of these places. They dont even have to be isekai anymore thats the really tragic part. The cancer has been metastasizing into other genres. Its basically an endless content farm for fledgling hacks who think originality is unoriginal the ones who keep using the same exhausting story beats over and over because they genuinely cant conceive of anything better. Beast Tamer happens to be one of the worst to rise from these kinds of places in recent memory a series that falls onto the production line already preassembled ready for mass consumption and unlikely to induce any kind wonder awe or intellectual stimulation of any kind. Seriously every episode gets progressively less and less separable from every other foray into the genre that by the time I reached episode 13 I couldnt even remember the name of the show. Was I still watching Ysha Pt o Tsuihou Sareta Bsuto Teim Saikyshu no Nekomimi Shjo to Deau or was I watching Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita? Or was Ningen Fushin no Boukenshatachi ga Sekai wo Sukuu you desu? Fucking Christ stop letting these people write their own titles. Theyre longer than some chapters in their own novels. Summarizing the plot of this show would take too much effort when it deserves so little basically this boring asshole named Rein gets booted from a party of annoying onedimensional asshole adventurers who do nothing but bitch and moan about literally everything everyone inuniverse hates them too because this show lacks subtlety since his incredibly useful and niche Beast Taming power isnt strong enough to reach their specific standards even though they recruited him in the first place Im not sure why it suddenly became a problem after what seemed to be years of companionship because the show doesnt explain anything about any of the characters reasonings and he goes from place to place using his talent to pick up chicks to add to his haremparty. They all happen to be unfathomably overpowered too so they all team up to fight monster designs traced from a middle schoolers How to Draw Manga book. Then they meet the boring asshole heroes again and predictably beat the fucking shit out of all of them in the least cathartic fight ever animated Im talking 5 FPS here and after being defeated they offer Rein his position back like a bunch of NPCs and he predictably says no because who would give up crushing monster girl pussy every day for a bunch of the writers high school bullies personified? They fight a demon at the end of something too. They have another Microsoft PowerPoint battle Rein uses some dumb new power to save the day they meet a new ghost girl everyone still hates the asshole heroes and nothing else happens to meaningfully change the status quo. If you think Im oversimplifying it youd be wrong because Im actually making it sound even more complex than it actually is. I cant imagine why anyone would watch this kind of creatively bankrupt slop Im not even trying to sound pretentious here. I like Fairy Tail for Gods sake. Im just dumbfounded. Getting through a single episode of this shit nearly put me to sleep because within the first 2 minutes I had already predicted nothing engaging would happen for the rest of the episode. If an uncultured Philistine like me struggled to watch half an episode of this series without convincing that my life was critically lacking in some form of intimacy I hate to imagine what would happen to the most prodigal media analyst if they tried engaging with this. Theyd probably lose the will to live upon seeing how far anime has degraded as an artform. I might sound a little defeatist here but its hard not to when the medium youve loved for years has become almost unrecognizable just a corporatecontrolled springboard for mediocre writers to keep regurgitating the same content for years instead of trying to hone their talents. 90 of anime looks like this now and even then not many other forms of media are faring well either. Art used to be about constantly challenging yourself to create something only you could make but now it seems like anyone could make half the stuff you see on tv or in theaters. Its not hard to imagine why so many people are even more depressed and unfulfilled than ever all their routes of escapism are slowly becoming homogenized and boring and art only exists to tick off boxes on a checklist to appeal to the stupidest kinds of people. I fucking hate Beast Tamer I hate that its getting a second season I hate web novels I hate isekai I hate what the anime industry has become. Its just the same goddamn thing every month. If any aspiring writer picked up a pen one day and made something genuinely special something that doesnt fit into any preconceived molds and fills others with inspiration one that an AI couldnt replicate with minimal effort itll render corporateapproved swill like Beast Tamer completely worthless. Please everyone go out and write a story no one else can. Dont let this be the future.