So I've been getting a lot of comments saying this reddit poster meant to say "fighting arts" in their section on what guardians are. I'm not entirely sure that's what they meant. I personally thought they just forgot to put commas between fighting and art since the school does teach things like pottery. Either way, my point still stands. I just wanted to bring that up before I get 500 more comments about it.

The smug tone of the HGS defender while having absolutely no decent arguments is a pure, unfiltered reddit moment.

Imagine the absolute beauty of. . . After Sage accidentally killed the sea dragon and everyone is crying because of its death, Rosemary walks up to the mermaid folks and says "Well, we came all the way here and we tried to help you anyway, so you gotta pay us now ☺️"

If guardians get paid, what's their life insurance plan? Do they get laid-off? Do they have medical insurance? Do their families get coverage? Do they go on strike? Is there a promotion tier? How much do they get paid? Does it depend on the importance of the quest? When an answer to one question creates multiple questions, then that should be a red flag.

im shocked that there are actual fans of this show. guardians get paid in food thats why rosemary want to be one

I buy Amaryllis being a cuss-mouth but they could have at least had fantasy swears, something to actually make it feel like it takes place in a fantastical land and not just a pastel college campus

The title of "The High Guardian Spice Guy" - ye it be a blessing, or a curse?

The fact that the strongest version of magic in the show is just an energy beam is hilarious. All the wonders they can pull off and energy beam is the most creative they became.

About what a guardian is, I think we actually already know half of it. A guardian is a hero archetype, they can be classes like fighter, mage, elf and dwarf. They learn to do dungeons, fight big and small monsters, defeat the villain's henchmen and so on. They also get the opportunity to train in AD&D like skills such as ancient runes, blacksmithing, pottery, dragon taming and potion making. We can see what they learn, the biggest missing pieces are why they are learning this stuff and what their role in the community is. Imagine an anime about a couple of youths in our world joining a military branch and training to become soldiers. We would know what a soldier is, why there are soldiers and how they fit into out community. However, imagine people from an alien civilization who doesn't have war were watching this anime. They would notice that a soldier is trained to kill people who in turn are trying to kill them. They would also notice that the soldiers are trained to do so in a scale that is far beyond what's applicable in a law enforcement situation. They would not understand why someone would have soldiers and what their purpose is. We are kind of in the same situation with Guardians. Since HGS doesn't do any world building, we don't what a guardian's role is in the community. With my example of the military training anime, we don't need that much world building since it takes place in our world, the aliens however needs it. Imagine the anime for some reason still did a lot of world building where it shows what war is and why they occur. Now the aliens would be far less confused and have a much better grasp of what a soldier is. Unlike the military training anime, HGS needs more world building since it takes place in a fantasy world. Unfortunately, just like the show doesn't explain how magic affects the community and everyday life, the role of a guardian in the community is also not explained. The reason we don't know what a guardian is isn't because the writers forgot or missed adding an explanation, this was an unavoidable problem once the writers failed to do world building. There is no way of knowing what a guardian is without knowing their role in the community no more than you can fully understand what a soldier is without knowing about wars and a soldiers role in them. As such, there does not exist a way for the writers to tell us this without doing some world building. What we are left with is what they are doing, but we have no context.

How does an entire team of writers craft the script for this show, and FORGET to include an exposition scene where someone explains what a "Guardian" is? Because not only do we not know what a Guardian is or what they do specifically, we don't even know who or what they are "Guarding" or "Protecting." Are they servants of the Crown and must go into battle along with the standing army whenever trouble arrives? Are they elite problem solvers who are sent in like navy seals or the Thunderbirds (the marionette puppet show) to carry out special retrieval or rescue missions that no one else can handle? Or, do they go to this academy to earn a certification in Guardianship but are then thrust out into the world and must stake a claim and find employment as a Guardian on their own, of whomever or whatever may be in need of one. NONE of this is established.

A quick note on _High Guardian Spice’s_ budget. By Raye’s own admission, HGS was a first for this studio. Doesn’t it make sense for Crunchyroll to not put a lot of its eggs into an untested basket? Give them a little money, and if season one turned out to be solid, they logically would’ve granted more for season two. Makes sense. Crunchyroll is another stereotypical big heartless corporation, yes, but it still gave Raye an opportunity that thousands of creators across the internet would KILL for: shining a light onto a complete unknown. If Raye and this studio had had their priorities straight, they could’ve made an amazing series with half the money. Other creatives have made fantastic movies on shoestring budgets because they had the shrewdness to decide what to do and what NOT to do with their limited resources. But look at HGS’ final results: no road map for the story; multiple episodes that go nowhere; inconsistent world-building and characterization; a major, apocalyptic plot element that receives next to no attention. These are not budget problems, they’re “the creators weren’t thinking” problems, and Crunchyroll giving them four times the budget wouldn’t fix those. If anything, more money might’ve made things worse.

They wanted this to be a slice of life show so bad and it feels like Crunchyroll just came in and said “oh and it needs magic too” and the writers just went “fuck”

Ahh a classic case of, "wait! You guys are getting paid?"

I’m not saying that Crunchyroll is embarrassed by this trainwreck, I will say that they’ve done everything in their power to it bury though..

I'm surprised you could even read that garbage in the first place. The first sentence would've had me laugh it off and give up reading. It's embarrassingly stupid to be a contrarian just because you see a large group of people have the same (or similar) negative opinion on something. It reminds me of that South Park episode when Cartman gets a girlfriend and when people tell her how horrible he is, she gets defensive and stands up for him even more.

Compared with Velma it wasn't that bad, you could at least feel people trying and failing behind HGS but in the case of Velma it felt just bitter.

I can accept an implied explanation of what a Guardian is if a show just wants to get to "the good stuff", even at the exact level the show does. But instead of letting the girls go out and do quests or have their slice of life adventures they keep reining them back to basically say "no, you must study and learn what a Guardian is!" and then proceed to not tell them. The show pitched the idea of the school because people would like that but then proceeded to think people wouldn't be interested in it so wrote it having nothing to do with any of the plots or even fan fuel. Magic classes, heck yeah! "Nope, we're not interested in that" Magic school? That can still be fun. "Nope, we leave it most episodes." Big new city, exploring that could be cool... "What are you crazy? They have to be in the school we don't like writing about!" Oh, school dorms could have some interesting challenges... "Oh yeah, definitely, too bad we won't. Man, if only we saw them more often, lol." Oh, new potential friends? That's going to be fun seeing them develop and grow past their characters clashing- "THEY'RE BEST FRIENDS NOW AND NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE THAT!!!" ... Seriously, you can have the girls messing around with magic in their backyard and still get the same antics. What if Harry Potter books' school setting was written as if it was waiting for 6 book for after he graduated to get to "the good stuff". Heck, even then it had more creativity in the mundane of its world... And I don't even care that much for HP!

High Guardian Spice More like Low Budget Herb

I feel like the reason why magic and guardians aren’t explained is that the show relied way too heavily on tropes. It assumes that since audiences are familiar with magical warriors in other stories, it can just breeze past the necessary worldbuilding that would explain this stuff. Guardians are basically DnD adventurers who go on quests, which the writers expect us to know based on what we’ve seen in other fantasy works. Similarly, magic does whatever it typically does in the fantasy genre, hence why it barely gets explored.

9:13 OMG I just noticed the worst sin in this show, Rosemary wears socks to sleep!

Thank you for pointing out how people will make fan theories just to justify writing. I have seen many people do this (specifically shows like Helluva Boss) that I am glad someone is able to say this. Also yesterday out of curiosity I did see if there was a HGS and Velma subreddit and I wasn't surprised there was. :)

Also the new vs old magic thing is completely debunked because Sage has a magic broom... in the first episode. Even if you ignore what Sage said because we see little to none of it, we actually see her with the magic broom.

What if the guardians are paid the same as teachers? Imagine if your job required you to fight monsters, without health or life insurance cause why not, then they told you “you know how little you get paid? We’ll let you send children into battle instead while not paying you any more or less than we already do.”

I love HGS for how bad it is. It helps me as a writer think more deeply about the story and characters to avoid garbage heaps (esp in fantasy genre). My novel is Blood Moon: Book 1 of the Crescent Crown Saga and I have a Kindle Vella called A Promise So Dark & Wicked if you like dark fantasy romance.

There is no in world evidence that the rot is caused by new magic, but there is a fairly strong evidence that this was at least at some point intended by the writers. The evidence can be found at episode 7, when the guardian trainees are going into the death cave to get healing water. At some point the main gang escapes crab monsters and the following dialog takes place: Parsley: Why would a Travor (the crab monsters) be evil? Sage: The well was dry, maybe without magic they mutated. Later when the girls escape the death dungeon with some healing water and heals a rot infected tree, we have following dialog: Sage: "It's healed, but what caused the rot in the first place?" Thyme: "I don't know, but the healing water's drying up has to be connected." Sage: "Is the level of magic in the earth fading?" Thyme: "I think so and I plan to stop it!" Combine this with Sage in an earlier episode while talking to Neppy Cat (in his normal cat form) and implying that when you use magic, you draw it from the earth. The difference between old and new magic in this context is that new magic is more powerful and has no cost to the user, meaning that new magic users can draw many times the amount of magic an old magic user can. So, with new magic people can and will draw far more magic from the earth than before and if the level of magic in the earth fades, healing wells dry up, monsters mutate and the rot becomes a thing. Now, there is no actual in world evidence that the new magic is draining magic faster than what the earth can replenish. For all we know as far as in world evidence goes, even the increased use of magic caused by new magic can still be just a drop in the sea and instead the rot comes from the fire creature in episode 9 and 12 and the machinations of the Triumvirate. However, it seems unlikely that this is what the writers went for. I can not imagine the writers setting up the whole thing with magic draining the earth, new magic being possible to be used at far greater quantity than old magic and then just go "nope, that has nothing to do with anything". That said, I can imagine the writers forgetting about it or abandoning the idea later on.

Thank you Dave for these videos. I think "fans" on sites like Reddit and Twitter don't deserve people like yourself, you're too good for them. Your videos as well as LobsterHero and BlackLightJack help me to become a better writer and person. It also gives me hope that if this garbage can be brought to the public, my hopefully better work can be brought forth. Thanks!

I believe the problems with HGS started with the fact that CR never polled its audience (particularly paying customers like myself) to ask if we would like to see an original Anime made by them. I wouldn't have necessarily down voted it, but it would've been nice to have been asked first since I and many others felt we were supporting Anime by supporting a legal streaming site like CR. It then went on to make a huge deal about their "diverse" creative team behind HGS while what we did see of the show was mostly uninspired concept art. How is your original anime different from the things it initially got compared to - like Little Witch Academia? They never really sold us on the strength of the project. There was never a "Yes this looks kind of silly or derivative, but please give us a shot, it's our first try at anime of our own and we want your feedback on how we did!" It had a very troubled production on top of that with most of the known crew being relatively inexperienced with animation. The series could have received far better PR if they had just told the audience this anime may be rough, but give it a shot ok? It would also have benefitted from at least a couple more experienced animators or story board artists being on hand. We in the anime community are no strangers to budget anime. I love Fushigiyuugi the Mysterious play and some of its reused animation or cheap outs are laughably bad. Trigun was so short on budget and time, PREVIEWS for the next episode were rushed and unfinished. We're also no strangers to diversity in animation on either side of the pond - heck, many of the most famous voice actors in animation are Females like the voice of Goku, or, over in American shores can you tell me how many of your most beloved characters don't physically match what's on screen? My favorite voice actor for Sonic the Hedgehog to THIS DAY is Jaleel White (Yes, Steve Urkle from Family Matters) and finding out that HE was the voice of Sonic really surprised me. Mainly because I was familiar with the dorky persona from Family Matters, but Sonic was the coolest thing to me. It even got me into "voice chasing" which has lead to a number of other examples of VAs with wide and varied careers and amazing talents. In short, I don't care who's behind the scenes as long as what I get as the actual product is good. Ultimately, I believe it was the backlash during production combined with likely mismanagement of what funds they did have that lead to HGS being buried and forgotten.

Dave something tells me deep inside you REALLY like this show. Just pulling your leg, you’ve already made a video that clarifies your hatred for this show.

After watching so many videos on HGS, I finally realize what it seems so similar and why the character designs looks the way they do to me. This show reminds me of a wattpad fanfic 😂😂

19:25 Deadass, I didn't even realize this was the case until you pointed it out. DAMN

Wait until SAGEMARY LUVA 96 challenges you to a debate over Discore about the lore. You will to prepare yourself

There is one thing I do like about this show and it's the character designs. They are unironically cute.

I imagine Guardians are something like Hunters from Hunter x Hunter. In that case, they're just people who are specially licensed by the government to do any dangerous tasks that are needed (searching for rare materials, surveying uncharted lands, protecting the realm, etc). Admittedly that's very vague, but it worked pretty well for HxH lol

The whole thing about if guardians are paid is a good point to make about world building, we as people expect a job or quest to pay because of the fact that is how it works in real life and videogames, but what if guardians didn't get paid. What I mean by that is what if guardians instead get "paid" by selling off the monster-bits/loot to people who make potions like in Zelda BOTW/TOTK the stronger the monster you kill the stronger the parts are and the more they could have been sold for, so killing a dragon means you can sell off the parts of it for way more then you could a giant spider, it would then add an interesting bounty system for old magic as if in, do you take a job that pays up front but they keep the loot but you don't have to deal with selling it or you can keep the loot but are expected to take care of all the smaller details of a job. Like what do you eat, do you wait for a monster to show where they have been spotted or go out and hunt/track it, and how do you bring the loot back to be sold and what can you do to keep "poachers" away from your loot. This could have been explained in the show and add a new magic old magic dynamic, old magic uses monster parts for potions like in your abridged show and also for some spells maybe, but new magic allows for a spell to be cast instantly and to the degree you want, potions are still used to save magic for healing and such, but it causes a market crash in the value of monster-bits. This leads to upfront payment being the preferred option now and requires Rosemary and Sage to be explained about the situation in an organic way, as everyone thinks they are crazy to hunt monsters for their parts and we the audience are then told on how the old and new dynamics that exists works by them and Parsley and Thyme, or even Caraway who tells Rosemary that isn't how monster hunting works now, and that they are paid upfront and the monster parts are mostly disposed of unless they are rare like dragon parts.

You missed that the first explanation ais 'guardians are people who go to school'. So guardians are students, who go to school, to become guardians.

i will give this show *one* thing- i genuinely feel like the creators cared about what they were making. the fact that Raye and the others continued making the show and plastering their names on it even when both they and CrunchyRoll saw that people weren't going to like it and still continued to defend it after months of hate and slander, i can only assume that they really did want to make something amazing. honestly, now i kinda feel a little bad for them. the people actually making the show, not CrunchyRoll.

Every time I hear “What is a Guardian?” I immediately think of “What is a woman?” and end up half expecting Dave to go into 2 hour documentary of research and interviews trying to find the answer 😂 Anywho, yeah the world building in the show is pretty bad, especially since there’s numerous fantasy tropes that if utilized properly, could have made it a decent watch. The Guardians getting paid actually reminds of the manga scene in Demon Slayer where Tanjiro (who grew up poor) receives his first pay and he’s confused about the whole thing. Then one of the other characters confirms, “Yeah we get paid, you didn’t know that?” But, DS does show the Corps is run by an old, wealthy family and they have numerous benefactors who want to support the Corps. Even the villain is shown working within the economy to fund his goals. In HGS……. Yeah, how does this all work? Surely the numerous drug rings aren’t the only prevalent and viable markets in this universe.

While I am not 100% sure, but I remember someone talking about it before and they said comparatively, HGS had fairly normal budget for an anime. Which is what it was billed as. HGS's budget was about 125,000$ per episode, anime generally cost between 100,000 to 300,000 per episode.

Also I'm going to disagree on the backgrounds. They are the best part visually but they actually aren't that good. Even the clips you were playing during that point have really bad perspective on the stone walls during that pokemon mating scene and Rosemary and Sage going to get the locket fixed. And they really don't understand shadows. They had good ideas and the colours aren't super ugly, but it wasn't done by an experienced background artist and I know a few bg artists.

Kind of weird how they always say things are bad because of Crunchy Roll and that it's bad because of a low budget...in a rant about how the show isn't bad. Regardless of the reasons, the show wound up worse because of it. It's not the defense they think it is.

I semi-unironically like HGS and here's my explanation. While its flaws are inexcusable and there's no discussion that this show is objectively terrible it has one thing going for it that almost completely redeems it for me: it just makes me feel good. Its structure, some scenes, motives and a few characters click with me so well I can't help but like them; I could go in more detail but I won't for the sake of brevity. It really feels like something I would create (for the worse more than for the better, but still) and it feels familiar because of it. To reiterate: this is a horrendous show and I am not defending it. But at the same time, I somehow like it. Personal thing.

My man keeping his cool and letting the response speak for itself, even inadvertently bring up more issues the show has is just high class content.

They probably shouldn’t have released hgs in the first place, but they did release a few years after the hate died down. It’s awful, but ig anything can get a s2 if Velma got one, although crunchyroll will probably just bury this. There could be the small possibility that after a 3 years they’ll release a s2 cause the hate died down or they’ll pick it back up a decade later, but that’s really unlikely

If you whatched the show and defend it, I will blame your defense in the mental damage the show caused.

Fun fact : the goat thing at the beginning of the show was trying eat the Blue hair shack maybe foreshadowing 🤔( I might be overthinking ) and if you notice entering the blacksmith they are bending down to fit in and you can see the elf lady because she's the tallest of the group bending down more so this is a little bit of good writing in garbage field of bad writing

I love your HGS vids cuz I get the eye candy of the backgrounds and (to an extent) character designs combined with trying to look for the very flaws you mention without having to actually watch the show XD

honestly this show is a guilty pleasure of mine but the fact that anyone would try to defend it to this level is wild lol. like it’s ok to like bad shows bro

Yeah, i think everyone who read that left with more questions than answers

0:49 look at the boy on the left His forehead is over his hair

High Guardian Spice has Grogs, that elevates it at least a few points.

I feel like the "what's a guardian?" question is a great example of poor writing and/or planning. Like would we be as confused if they were called soldiers, adventurers, or mercenaries? Guardian sounds so grandiose and what they teach the kids doesn't mesh well with the actual definition of "defender, protector, or keeper". Are they supposed to protect the peace like police officers? Why would defenders take up quests to collect magic water? What does an elite school for mercenaries have arts and crafts classes but can't help teach a kid how to use an axe because he's too skinny? The writers thought that the audience would be able to pick up what a Guardian is, but added all this extra stuff so they no longer matched the actual definition.

I rewatched this becuase I couldn't believe you just played the whjole first episode with no cuts, and you did. You did XD

Honestly high guardian spice makes me feel good about my own writing. And I honestly think it has some ideas that has potential to be really interesting if they were just fleshed out more. I also really like Mandrake as a character but like, I’m a sucker for evil characters who enjoy being evil XD

Another animation error! Thyme’s style of buckle seems to change from 18:38 to 18:43

I know that the whole so-called "magic system" featured in HGS is supposed to be allegorical for "conservatism" or "Old Magic" and how it's "inefficient in the modern era and that's what makes it bad" vs. "progressivism" or "New Magic" and how it's "the efficient and sparkly new thing that everyone is supposed to be on board with and you're just a dinosaur if you disagree" but, from a narrative perspective, I feel as though the writers/producers kind of...shot themselves in the foot with this concept. Now, granted, it's been a hot minute since I've last consumed *ANY* HGS content from anywhere, but if memory serves, it's implied that "New Magic" is what's causing "The Rot" to take place. *NOT* "Old Magic." If the showrunners wanted to include a narrative uplifting their personal, progressive beliefs/ideals and how they believe that society would be better ran under these beliefs/ideals, then WHY, pray tell, would they insinuate that "New Magic" (Progressivism) causes "The Rot"? Are the writers actually *THIS BAD* at doing their jobs when it comes to keeping these things consistent?

I felt like, the writers did this on purpose because they wanted the audience to figure out what a guardian is and how the magic system works. That proves how lazy these writers are

That awkward moment when you try to come off as an intellectual shitting on people for being too dumb to understand the deep nuances of this show, but your post ends up written on par with a 3rd grader’s book report. I also gotta love the smug tone he took while ensuring to self deprecates in the title to get people to be less critical, he couldn’t even stand by his own stupid points before presenting them, and did so with the literary grace of an elementary school student.

It is funny when people attempt to defend crappy shows like Netflix's She-Ra and here with HGS, their defenses, don't actually defend the show, they really just point out the show's are actually worse than people initially thought! And speaking of 'animation errors', when's the next vid? I was enjoying those immensely!

This show is honestly just so Bad it's Good, like every time I try to forget there's just something about its incompetence and Failure as a product that pulls us back in

If I decide to watch it, I would most likely enjoy it ironically.

There is an EPIDEMIC of people who are unable to accept or give criticisms to things they enjoy and it really saddens me. I wish people had a more open minded view on criticism and its purpose. There's nothing WRONG with enjoying something that's flawed, and a lot of the times, these flaws can be ENDEARING, or in some rare cases, elevate the piece beyond it's surface level. It's a big factor that makes art compelling to me, personally. Seeing the way an artist can fumble with their ideas and execution is learning process, not something necessarily done out of malice. A lot of the media that I have a great love for is extremely flawed, and I enjoy discussing these things and understanding WHY they are flawed, if they could be done better, if I might enjoy it more or less due to those things, and so on. I love to understand why I do and don't enjoy certain pieces of media. I'm of the opinion that if you truly love a piece of work, you can accurately pick it apart all day long - "If you can't write an hour long hit piece on your favorite anime, it's not REALLY your favorite anime" type beat. A lot of criticism as a whole stems from passion, or strong emotion towards a work.

17:13 This was after the fighting teacher guy revealed there would be only one winner for the trials. Parsley felt bad about winning over Parnell (she felt like he did more work) and the teacher says something about how she could be disqualified in order to forfeit the trophy. Knowing this she lands the hammer on Aster while he was insulting someone, not over anger but rather so she can be disqualified and give Parnell the victory over her. Ya i know this is hella nit picky im just bored tbh :/

Y'know the funny thing? My OU has people called guardians too. After some time I decided how I wanted them to be and stuck with it. Basically as an experiment God appointed an archangel to be the elder guardian of Earth, whilst 2 angels, Solis and Luna were assigned to his assistance as midguardians. Ignis, Aquae, Terra and Ventus, the beings imbued with elemental power would defend the planet as guardians (no prefix). Overtime, the guardians and midguardians had children with humans, and their powers mixed in all sorts of strange ways, leading to newer, more complex guardians being born, and given the same task of doing their part to drive back the forces of evil as superheroes. There was...one other person. Not a guardian. Something vile to the core. A being of pure darkness gained sentience and mainfested a spawn after consuming Luna. That child became known as the antagonist of the guardians, Tenebris Umbra, and its spawn would slowly spread across the planet, dubbed the children of Umbra. If they win, Earth, the last spark of life in the entire galaxy, will be suffocated by darkness. I'm just using this as an excuse to explain my guardian lore, but it loops back around to being relevant because at least I'm not afraid to do so.

Thanks for the upload i really like your videos

I'm the one who made two whole essay as an answer to show how they made their argument only on theories. I had been downvoted by two peoples and they didn't answer. I'm very disappointed because you can sometimes have good conversation on this reddit...

I think the closest real world comparison to a guardian is probably a monk, or some other similar religious thing. They're a group of people who may or not get paid, study a lot of varying things that may or may not be useful, and most of what they do is based more so off of tradition than moral correctness, or benifit to society, or even really their own beliefs (the bible doesn't say anything about monks at all). I haven't seen the show, but based on how you talk about it, I'm willing to bet that this is a coincidence and not intellegent commentary about tradition.

Now granted, I haven't watched the show, but from how the courses sounds I'd assume a 'guardian' is like a DnD character. Exploring around, slaying monsters, helping people, that kinda stuff. And the artistic courses would be there to make sure these adventurers don't turn into murder hobos, and glyph classes are to give them knowledge that might save them later. Again, just guessing as I haven't watched the show, I'm just here for the commentery and laughs.

If someone argued that Guardians are general purpose do-gooders, then that might be reasonable.

One idea could be that Sage's mother thinking that terraspheres destroy the world is a misconception, and idk the leader of the triumvirate did it with their own terrasphere.

Bad news: r/HighGuardianSpice is at it again. They say you are still obsessed. I can't see any of them saying they actually watch your essays. I doubt you actually care what they say, I thought you may get a chuckle.

HGS is better than Velma. It's bad, but it's a likable kind of bad. It's also completely original. Velma is just painfully bad, and it makes a mockery of a beloved cartoon series.

4:20 That….didn’t answer the question…..

Stock image bread and music: 🗿🗿

Like Josh Strife Hayes said "It's ok to like trash, I like trash"

The perfect video to -waste- spend my break time for at the internship wouldn't you agree?

I do like the little moment when Rosemary's sword hits the bottom of the sign

Do people not realize that they can just be into stupid stuff? Like there's TONS of shows I watch that I KNOW technically suck, but I like watching them anyway. They act like they have to prove themselves just so they can keep enjoying a dumb show when nobody is stopping them.

I think they meant 'the art of fighting' or something

The other type of reddit oddity of HGS fan's levels of love for a show only being able to be measured by how much they can hate a KZfaqr is one that I will never understand... I assure you, fellow HGS fans, there isn't a "enable brainwash" button on these critical look videos, and you don't need to make something out to be perfect for your fandom love to be validated. That’s when a certain something called "personal taste" comes into play, speaking as someone who really really isn't into Arcane. Being critical and thinking about it is what I love doing for any piece of media I'm a fan of. Something I feel I can't be allowed to do if these types of HGS fans are the ones I meet. It doesn't seem like a lot of fun if the only conversation allowed to happen is "I like this show" "Yes, I agree" "..." "..." *repeat with no explanation of specifics*

I confess I follow this subreddit and came across this post a few days ago. I was busy and didn't read the whole thing, but someone else let OP have it with a long, long response. I suspect it is a bit of trolling.

The HGS fan displays the depth of thought I would expect of a HGS fan.

Fighting art, as in the art of fighting

I dont know what [insert profession here] is: an [insert profession here] is someone who goes to school to learn how to [profession] and then goes to work and gets paid. ... still dont know what they do though.

The guardians pay is something I just assume is in the background but isn't shown because boring, like stuttering, yawning, burning and going to the toilet.

I love that I did once defend the show without watching it in full, then once I did, I made a follow up after actually going on about the flaws XD Lesson Learned: Do your fricken history.

Yeah like in 21:34 of second episode they talked about who Guardian is. Basicly. Military Greedpiece. Mb with adding of Knowedge seek and collecting. Quite nice in concept. But whatever if they literally go killing creatures and extract important resourses from earth that damaging eco system(cave episode) .

I think it's somewhat clear that one of the duties of a guardian is to go and protect people from monsters, but there's huge gaping holes about whether they do anything else, given what we've seen with crafting. We also don't have any idea about the organisation of guardians. We don't see a central command of sorts nor do they seem to just wander around like DnD adventurers. I think it's pretty certain that they get paid, but not how. Do the people asking for help pay directly? Does it go through a central organisation? Are they government employees? Those are more pertinent questions the show doesn't answer.

Out of all the garbage modern media we've gotten high guardian spice has to be my favorite. All of the trash shows getting multiple seasons further diminishes my non-existant faith in humanity, however a season 2 of hgs would only put a smile on my face.

I did not think about payment. And I think they mean the art of fighting not fighting and art. But you could also say blacksmithing is art and that is what they mean.

that is why we need season 2 XD

So, a guardian goes to school to learn to fight and art, but in the show its stated they go to school to later become a guardian, so does that mean the purpouse of HGA is is to be for the sake of being? aka you go to become a guardian by being a guardian because of studying how to be a guardian? Also i always though new magic is specifically never shown as efficient perse, its literally the "brute force" way of doing magic because of a virtually infinite source of energy for any spell, which is a basic inference even thou the show kinda fails to explain it, it really is only efficient due to the total lack of information the show has about how the stones are made and a lack of an explanation on the method and reasoning of old magic. The more i think about it the more it annoys me how easy it would be to fix the fucking magic system by deleting sage aunts and giving a couple of basic explanations :T even the seeming contradiction about sage mom "giving back to earth" can just be fixed by explaining that more costly spells in old magic cant be solely supplied by the mage own energy and so they have to drain it from the sorrounding, and so, measures like "giving back" exists to prevent rotlike effects on the sorrounding, Therefore new magic is just forcefully prepackaged concentrated ambient energy which is the connection to the rot. And mixing new and old is just using old magic efficient and resilient techniques with new magic extreme energy output. Easy aint it? but propaganda goes first i guess

High guardian academy is an art school? Glad they accept Amaryllis in. I can't imagine how devastating the situation if they don't.

im sorry but u sound like mordecai lol, luv ur vids

8:00 This is reminding me of teh anime Monogatari - that whole series have confusing events, but yyet you understand what ails/disturbs the girls in the story even if you didn't use the same terminology. Yokai attack girl issues and araragi somehow solves helps coz something. Still clearer than HGS. lol.

Maybe you already know but DaftPina isn’t a good source for info. He’s notorious for spreading false info to start drama within the commentary community. I don’t think it’s something that really applies to the info you sourced from him here, but just a heads up for the future.

OK... So about the art classes... I could MAYBE head cannon, dig deep into my imagination, that away by saying art classes is like mental training for magic users. Could prehaps teach patience to warriors. Give them an outdoor hobby to give these kids something to do besides having nice use of violence.

High Guardian Spice is my favorite Shin Megami Tensei Game

It could be worse.

I know a great plot line for High Spice Guardians. How about that the school brainwashes them that everything there is normal. The reason that they and we as viewers dont know what a guardian is is because the school isnt there to create guardians but rather villains. Its disguised! Each mission exists to make matter worse. The reason Sage mother doesn't like new magic is because she can be cursed to not reveal their real secret plan or whatsoever. (I just came up with this out of nowhere so yeah.) The moment maybe the purple haired axe girl was appart from the group was the moment she discovered the real truth. And so the story has a reason to well exist. The sword and a few other objects may hold a curse together like an new magic powerhouse? Idk.

4:28 Its very interesting seeing someone trying to defend this show accidentally pointing out another lack of clarity in one of it's core concepts...