@arkadyred: You are entitled to your opinion. But I completely disagree.
I'm not an English professor, but Martin is a good writer in the technical sense. All major characters have arcs, the world stay dynamic with shifts in power among characters, every book has a clear plot breakdown and the structure of all his novels are well put together. He also has the huge challenge of balancing dozens of characters, many of whom are point-of-view characters.
ASOIAF is a complete deconstruction of the fantasy genre. What does that mean? Well, it means we take standard fiction tropes and characters, put them into a realistic world and see the result. Most fantasy is based on middle ages Europe, which sure as hell wasn't a safe place for anyone. If you were a person who values honour above all else, court politics would destroy you like they did Ned. If you are a person who dreams about a heroic princes and shining knights like Sansa, you will have your world shattered. Sure Martin's books are all depression inducing, but books like that are needed when so much of the genre is boring cookie-cutter bulls**t.
Martin's series doesn't take place in the real world, so it is not medieval fiction. There is still uses of fantasy features like dragons and magic, which I'm pretty sure did not exist in the real world during the middle ages. The story is based on a period of civil war in English history, that is where the connection to medieval fiction ends.
If you want to make comparisons to a series of novels, pick something in the same medium. If you want to make a better point you can compare it to other literary works of fantasy fiction. Don't randomly pick out a couple of anime to make your point. Always remember apples to apples oranges to oranges.
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