r/writingscaling

For me, it’s the one with Fei and Elly in Xenogears. I think it’s the best consolidation of a romance and the best and most mature love story I’ve ever seen in a game. The only sex scene that has ever made me feel something.

Their romance is something that runs truly deep into the lore of the game, so I can't say anything else because it would be a huge spoiler.

​I'll start first:

​Re:Zero.

​The sheer volume of micro-details and early foreshadowing (especially in the light novels) makes rewatching/rereading insane. You hit constant "how on earth did I miss that?" moments once you realize how seamlessly everything was set up from the start.

​The attention to detail is incredibly rewarding seemingly throwaway lines or minor character interactions in early loops completely shift in meaning once you have full narrative context.

What other series made you feel the same?

I'll be honest with you, Mirai Nikki is one of my guilty pleasures.

Sometimes overcomplexity of certain philosophies can get Overwhelming and at some parts make the Book very boring/Hard read.

Rank them from best to worst. Provide reasons if possible to prove that you have a functional brain.

Why do authors almost always screw up their best stories at the end? Like, they suddenly change everything and forget why the story started in the first place, or... I don't know, what the MC even wanted.

Seriously, there are moments in manga/manhwa/novels, even when they're only halfway through the story, where they could've just ended it right there and everyone would've been satisfied.

But they keep going, and then completely ruin it. Maybe it's a reset (I don't really mind those, I'm only mentioning them because a lot of people hate them), a forced relationship pulled out of... God knows where, an OP villain dying in the most pathetic way possible (unless it's the “I used to be like you” type 🤣🤣), and plenty of other stuff I've heard about.

Ever feel like you're taking crazy pills because its clear a character (villain or not) did something horrible and yet people still think the character did "nothing wrong" or that they're justified?

With that said, what are some of the worst actions that you've seen people actually try and defend/justify?

Edit: The plot of this movie, Don't Breathe, is some punks trying to break into this blind man's house. Not realizing that he's an armed and dangerous war veteran. Later on, you find out he kidnapped a woman who ran over his daughter by accident. He impregnated said woman with a turkey baster of his own semen, kept her in his basement and tried to do the same to Rocky after the other girl was killed in a shootout.

I've straight up seen someone say that he's not a rapist and that he was justified. Because apparently since he used a turkey baster, it's not considered rape. Yes, I'm serious. What an insane take.

Personally I found it enjoyable with good animation, good villain and nice cast. Even though the theme of never giving up/finding your true potential is repetitive still enjoyed it and I give it an 8/10, but I must have missed something cause everyone says this is the best anime ever made and that's it's the clearest 10/10.

Just because you like a series or it’s enjoyable doesn’t mean it has good writing, and the inverse is true also

Over the past few years, Japan has been pumping out nothing but generic isekai, all following the same cheap formula. Truck-kun, die, get transported, get reincarnated, receive a system, become ridiculously OP.

“What happens?” Korea does the same thing, but with like three genres.

Regression: you go back to the past. A family that never wanted you suddenly loves you for absolutely no reason.

You die and wake up inside a novel, and somehow you remember EVERYTHING about the novel. 🤡 Bro, what the fuck are you? And then there’s the whole “popular game” thing where the MC gets betrayed, goes back in time, and decides he won’t trust anyone this time around (just to play the game again). And don’t even get me started on Murim.

Why do I say Korea is doing it in a bad way?

Because Japan doesn’t only have that. You’ve got One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, and plenty of other series. Sure, some of them have similarities, but they aren’t just copy-pasting the exact same formula over and over again.

And Korea has an absolutely insane advantage: their art is fucking amazing. If they started putting out more genuinely good stories, the competition with manga would actually be debatable.

Anyway, there was never any competition because Overflow is right there. ✋🗿🤚

There are currently 8 movies that have reached over 2 billion dollars in the box office, how would you rank them in terms of their writing.
The list is:

1. Titanic (1997)
2. Avatar (2009)
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
4. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
5. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
6. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
7. Ne Zha 2 (2025)
8. Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)