Since the Wild West has closed I guess I'll be posting my inane ramblings about all things weeby here.
First up, I shall complain about anime that I thought would be good but turned out to be not as good as I hoped.
First up, I shall complain about anime that I thought would be good but turned out to be not as good as I hoped.
[HEADING=1]Grimgar Of Fantasy & Ash[/HEADING]
First off I'll start by saying I'm reading the light novels for this, I've been enjoying the light novels, when I saw the anime was coming out I watched it as soon as I could. I just found the anime no where near the same as the light novel to the extent that some of the main characters seemed to have completely different personalities to me in the anime.
The story is guys wake up in a fantasy world with no memory and basically get conscripted into becoming 'volunteer soldiers', basically adventurers with classes such as warrior, theif, mage, priest etc. So far standard stuuf. What I like about Grimgar is the fact that the main characters are all pretty terrible adventurers and how grounded in real life (as much as it can be in a fantasy setting), the anime does away with much of that, adding in over the top fighting moves, jumping on walls and cheesy effects.
The main characters all seem close but slightly off from the ones in the novel. Perpetually sleepy looking Haruhiro smiles way too much in the anime and in the anime his pessimistic, almost defeatist, attitude doesn't seem to come through. Shihoru seems overly shy in the anime where as in the novels she will often come out with harsh retorts when the boys, especially Ranta, do something stupid.
So all in all I was really disappointed with the anime to Grimgar due to the characters not being different, time wasted on pointless extra scenes when more important scenes from the novel were shortened or cut entirely and also for the fact that I don't think the anime would get a second series so I'll never see them do the orc raid and even if they did I wouldn't trust them to do it justice the same way I think they messed up the whole encounter with Death Spots.
First off I'll start by saying I'm reading the light novels for this, I've been enjoying the light novels, when I saw the anime was coming out I watched it as soon as I could. I just found the anime no where near the same as the light novel to the extent that some of the main characters seemed to have completely different personalities to me in the anime.
The story is guys wake up in a fantasy world with no memory and basically get conscripted into becoming 'volunteer soldiers', basically adventurers with classes such as warrior, theif, mage, priest etc. So far standard stuuf. What I like about Grimgar is the fact that the main characters are all pretty terrible adventurers and how grounded in real life (as much as it can be in a fantasy setting), the anime does away with much of that, adding in over the top fighting moves, jumping on walls and cheesy effects.
The main characters all seem close but slightly off from the ones in the novel. Perpetually sleepy looking Haruhiro smiles way too much in the anime and in the anime his pessimistic, almost defeatist, attitude doesn't seem to come through. Shihoru seems overly shy in the anime where as in the novels she will often come out with harsh retorts when the boys, especially Ranta, do something stupid.
Also the whole scene where Manato dies seems completely different in the anime. In the novel he dies because the group get over cocky and think they can take two goblins that are clearly higher level than anything they've dealt with up to now and that over confidence is what leads to Manato dying , in the anime it seemed more like they were just randomly ambushed by a large goblin force and because of this ambush Manato dies. It really doesn't have the same effect narativly in my opinion.
So all in all I was really disappointed with the anime to Grimgar due to the characters not being different, time wasted on pointless extra scenes when more important scenes from the novel were shortened or cut entirely and also for the fact that I don't think the anime would get a second series so I'll never see them do the orc raid and even if they did I wouldn't trust them to do it justice the same way I think they messed up the whole encounter with Death Spots.
[HEADING=1]Prison School[/HEADING]
Probably the least lewd pic I could find for this series, and that is my main problem with it. I read the first volume or two when I was at college, I thought a series where the main characters were sent to a prison within the school seemed to have a lot of potential to it, but that potential never had a chance to be realised for me as I gave up on the series with just how over the top ecchi it was. I wouldn't mind a little ecchi, that doesn't bother me too much, but Prison School just goes far too far with it I think and really put me off.
I've been told the series is actual quite good, but I won't find out because of the bad first impression it gave me.
Probably the least lewd pic I could find for this series, and that is my main problem with it. I read the first volume or two when I was at college, I thought a series where the main characters were sent to a prison within the school seemed to have a lot of potential to it, but that potential never had a chance to be realised for me as I gave up on the series with just how over the top ecchi it was. I wouldn't mind a little ecchi, that doesn't bother me too much, but Prison School just goes far too far with it I think and really put me off.
I've been told the series is actual quite good, but I won't find out because of the bad first impression it gave me.
[HEADING=1]Claymore[/HEADING]
Ok, a bit cheaty here. I've read all the manga for Claymore and the only reason I'm disappointed in the anime is that they rushed the ending to finish the series off as much as possible as they clearly wern't getting a second series.
I'm only disappointed in Claymore because we're never going to get a second series. I'd love to see everything that happens after battle of in the North, after the time skip, animated.
Ok, a bit cheaty here. I've read all the manga for Claymore and the only reason I'm disappointed in the anime is that they rushed the ending to finish the series off as much as possible as they clearly wern't getting a second series.
I'm only disappointed in Claymore because we're never going to get a second series. I'd love to see everything that happens after battle of in the North, after the time skip, animated.
[HEADING=1]DARLING in the FRANXX[/HEADING]
I just didn't find it as good as Kill La Kill or Gurren Lagann which is what I was expecting from FRANXX.
Its ok as far as weird anime[footnote]Even by anime standards[/footnote] go, it just wasn't as good as I was hoping. Who knows, maybe a second run through may change my mind but I don't think I'll be doing that any time soon, too many good weird anime to watch first. I still need to finish Space Patrol Luluco.
I just didn't find it as good as Kill La Kill or Gurren Lagann which is what I was expecting from FRANXX.
Its ok as far as weird anime[footnote]Even by anime standards[/footnote] go, it just wasn't as good as I was hoping. Who knows, maybe a second run through may change my mind but I don't think I'll be doing that any time soon, too many good weird anime to watch first. I still need to finish Space Patrol Luluco.
And there is no fifth most disappointing anime here as I wanted to disappoint you.
