[diavolo blu]

What I hate most in anime is the fact that there is always a precise distinction between good and evil. The hero is almost portrait as a perfect being immune to temptations while the villain is irredeemably evil and often for no reason at all, as if it is evil from the very day it was born. Coming to the real world, do we really see such distinction between good and evil, or do we more often see a shade of grey between the two? The recurring theme of a saintly hero and a evil villain is making anime somewhat boring to some extend... why must he protagonist always be right? Can't there be other ways of looking at things?

Also frustrating is the tendency of producers to use 'the power of god' deus ex machina to finish a story. Why must a immensely stronger antagonist always lose to a visibly weaker protagonist? This rarely ever happened in the real world. A real good example for this is FFVII Advent Children, Cloud, after his sword arm is clearly decapitated by the superior Sephiroth still manage to pull that final fancy move to defeat Sephiroth. How can one pull that move with a useless sword arm? I'll admit it's probably to please fans so that they will buy merchandise but if that's the only reason for them to make anime at all, then they might as well stop making any, it is tiring being able to guess the outcome before the finale.

Finally, please incorporate something for the audience to reflect about after the show, a glimmer of truth or a portrait of current social problems, instead of always glorifying baseless optimism. It is better to know the ugly truth and try to do something about it than putting one's faith in beautiful lies, imho.

As for the good thing about anime, I think it is more versatile than live-action movies. Actions, background details and complex designs can often be successfully shown to a higher level of realism in anime than in live-actions. There's no limitations of actors as well as being relatively cheaper to produce.

That's just my rant, please ignore it if it offend you.