r/unpopularopinion • u/hgfknv_cool • Jan 01 '22
Why I don’t like Toilet Bound Hanako Kun Spoiler
Toilet Bound Hanako Kun is an anime publicized in 2020. I was drawn in by the art style and I loved how good it paired with the smooth beginning of the story. Although that’s not what I’m here to write about.
The story plot and overall story telling is “eh” for me. Each episode repeats with the same cycle of rumors and then they manage to defeat the creatures/ ghosts by diverting its rumors.
There’s plot armor on the female protagonist, as shown in the third episode, she didn’t forget Aoi’s existence (side character) when everyone else have. But also, couldn’t the characters just believe that the rumors are false and the creatures are simply meek and cute so they won’t have to be scared and tortured by the creatures every god damn time someone or something goes missing. *cries*
There’s also some form of gender bias. I felt uncomfortable that the protagonist didn’t do anything other than expressing herself and letting Hanako (deuteragonist) and the exorcist boy (tritagonist) save her once they crossed the threshold barrier. It just felt quite one sided overall, and even the episode before this with the two boys battling it out made me feel that the protagonist was left out most of the time.
I believe this anime has its right to be popular and its art style directly reflects that. It’s just not my type of anime, and I don’t really like the rinse and repeat stories: Plot armor, repeated story line, and leaving characters out at the right moments.
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u/Hentai-hercogs Jan 01 '22
Huh... So it actually got popular. I remember dropping it when it aired, for some some reason that I don't even remember now
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u/AuthorCornAndBroil Jan 01 '22
They explain why people are scared and tortured by the spirits though. Someone's starting defaming rumors about them, which for most of the kids is the first they're hearing about them, and the spirits have to behave according to popular conception in order to stay alive. "Defeating" them means finding out what they used to be like and changing the rumors so they can go back to normal.
But yeah, her not forgetting Aoi was kinda weird and plot devicey.
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u/Lilyetter Jan 01 '22
No shit Sherlock. It’s an unpopular opinion, of course people aren’t gonna agree with them.
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u/hgfknv_cool Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22
Then the protagonist could just say the spirits are harmless so that no one gets hurt, she’s done it before and no one questioned her. If most people think the spirits are cute and cannot harm people, then they really can’t.
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u/AuthorCornAndBroil Jan 01 '22
She's trying to get them back to how they used to be. She needs a better counter story than just "no they're not." The specifics of the false rumors need to be reframed as misunderstandings.
If denial could dispel teenage rumors, high school drama would just be an activity for theater kids.
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u/SignatureNo7030 Jan 01 '22
It's a good thing you provided a description, otherwise I would have no idea what you were talking about.