(Hated Trope) The series is good, but the beginning is so embarrassing that many people give up there.

[u/Uma-apreciator]

Dan Da Dan

The beginning of Dan Da Dan is notorious for starting with aliens trying to impregnate Momo in the first episode; however, despite such over-the-top moments, the rest of the series doesn't feature many scenes like that

Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san

Despite a premise that is off-putting—given that the girl bullies her romantic partner to the point of making Naoto cry early in the series—their relationship evolves beautifully; the teasing becomes less cruel over time, eventually turning into a rather sweet romance

Uma Musume Pretty Derby

Someone on the production team had the audacity to have the trainer start meeting up with Special Week like that—even though, in reality, he is a good trainer who doesn't usually treat the girls that way.

[u/Worldly-Pay7342]

Iirc Goblin Slayer isn't the favorite piece, just one the gods find interesting/annoying, because they can not control his fate via their dice rolls, like they can with other pieces (see The Priestess, who was orginally one of the god's pieces, which is why she can cast more than one miracle a day), and he keeps fucking up their story (again, see The Priestess, who was supposed to die in that cave in the first episode because one of the god's had a bad roll of the dice), because to the gods, the world is kinda like a living breathing self-sustaining DnD game that they can affect with rolls of their dice.

[u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

Yeah, should have phrased that better. GS is that one NPC the DM simply can’t kill off and that rest of the table finds interesting. Ironically, GS is basically the Boblin the Goblin trope taken seriously to an almost comedic degree.

[u/pattyboiIII → u/Embarrassed-Yard-583]

It's not that they can't kill him off. It's that he's not part of their story.
He is completely independently carving his own path and creating his own story. The gods aren't throwing stuff at him to try and stop him, in the capacity that DnD players care about a random NPC they are observing him.

[u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 → u/[deleted]]

Yes there are, as a DM myself there’s usually one character that no matter what you do you can’t kill them with dice or the party likes them too much to just get rid of even just narratively.

[u/U_L_Uus → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

self-sustaining

Aye, until one of them decides to break into the 40K expositor to spice things up

They bring a bloody Space Marine at some point. Wish I was joking

[u/Worldly-Pay7342 → u/U_L_Uus]

I'm sorry a fucking space marine ???? Really???

[u/U_L_Uus → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

What would you call this?

[u/Worldly-Pay7342 → u/U_L_Uus]

That can't be mainline, can it? It's gotta be like, a spin off or something.

[u/Fawkingretar → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

Hes basically Guts but less violent and his main gf is still alive and well.

[u/Just_Roll_Already → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

I'm pretty sure that the "gods" are literally just players playing a game of DnD.

[u/TheMoonDude → u/Just_Roll_Already]

I never liked this tbh

It's the equivalent of indie games telling you you're playing a game

[u/Just_Roll_Already → u/TheMoonDude]

It depends heavily on how mature the story is about it. I've seen some that are constantly nudging you "Hey look at this, you see this, isn't this NEAT!?" games like Undertale...

Then you have something like Goblin Slayer where the implication is there but it's really only a theory and never truly acknowledged.

[u/ro1isawed → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

wow geniunely gave up on the show after the first few episodes didn't know it went like that