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You... have NO IDEA how much I agree with this... to the point that I own the manga version of that series just to remind myself why I REFUSE to believe Gainax was even involved in this series' original conception...chiggerwood said:
That explains every one of my OT posts in this thread in a nutshell...Dr. Cakey said:
OT: Uh... I got nothing to (not) recommend this time... Oh wait...
I guess any English-dubbed hentai would have to do... (I sometimes find it hard to believe that some of those dubs are done by ACTUAL porn stars... I know their acting might be bad, but those dubs are just TOO ridiculous to listen to all at once...)
Also, if you don't like Space Dandy by it's first episode, then you should be glad that first episode ends the way that it did...
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I'm frowning pretty hard over my keyboard.Weaver said:
OT:
Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge - This one is for the record books.
Our main character, Kiri, is delightfully creepy. He loves cutting hair, I mean loves it. He hears rumors about a girl with uncuttable hair, so he goes to her house to cut it. He meets the 'Hair Queen', falls in love and triggers an ancient game.
There are items in the world that have been used by serial killers and are now cursed. Whoever owns one of these "killing goods" is driven to kill people with it, until the Hair Queen is dead. Kiri cutting the Hair Queen?s hair activates this curse. Furthermore, his grandfather was a serial killer who would use a pair of scissors to kill and dispose of young girls.
Now Kiri, with his scissors, kills people who try to kill the Hair Queen. These people are all young girls. Police begin investigating the missing girls and begin to suspect a copy-cat killer.
The show would have Kiri try to avoid police suspicion while defending the Hair Queen. Over the season The Queen herself grows uneasy with Kiri because she cannot be sure if he has complete control of himself.
It's a setup for a tense, smart show with an air of mystery.
There are items in the world that have been used by serial killers and are now cursed. Whoever owns one of these "killing goods" is driven to kill people with it, until the Hair Queen is dead. Kiri cutting the Hair Queen?s hair activates this curse. Furthermore, his grandfather was a serial killer who would use a pair of scissors to kill and dispose of young girls.
Now Kiri, with his scissors, kills people who try to kill the Hair Queen. These people are all young girls. Police begin investigating the missing girls and begin to suspect a copy-cat killer.
The show would have Kiri try to avoid police suspicion while defending the Hair Queen. Over the season The Queen herself grows uneasy with Kiri because she cannot be sure if he has complete control of himself.
It's a setup for a tense, smart show with an air of mystery.
This is all setup in one episode. It's perfectly paced. Unfortunately, there is no payoff in the other episodes.
Just awful.
Don't watch it.
I stopped at episode three.
Berserk.
I Think it's a good anime, but the problem is that it doesn't have an ending. It just stops. I mean, even Mass Effect 3 had an ending, albeit a terrible one but sill and ending. Berserk does not. If you can handle that, by all means Watch it. It got an interesting artstyle and a solid story.
Edit: And one of the best anime soundtracks ever, swear to God.
I Think it's a good anime, but the problem is that it doesn't have an ending. It just stops. I mean, even Mass Effect 3 had an ending, albeit a terrible one but sill and ending. Berserk does not. If you can handle that, by all means Watch it. It got an interesting artstyle and a solid story.
Edit: And one of the best anime soundtracks ever, swear to God.
I feel like a lot of the "recommendations" on this list are by people who feel burned by the heavy hype of a series.
Attack on Titan is good, Evangelion is good. I like them both a lot. They get hyped as life-changing incredible experiences, and maybe for some people they are, but just because you don't see them as that doesn't mean they're bad or not worth watching. They both have their issues (pacing problems, Titan has too many characters, Evangelion's characters can be pretty grating at times), but just because some fanboys on the internet crow about them endlessly doesn't mean you'll look cool and edgy for hating them.
As for my own don't watch list, I'll say:
Code Geass: Mentioned repeatedly on this threat, but I really need to stress that you shouldn't watch it. I did and regret it every day. Things start out promising enough, and there are some memorable moments, but Lelouch is an atrocious protagonist, his friends and allies are either callous douchebags or brainless pawns, and his enemies... holy shit, if Suzaku isn't the worst characters in anime, then he has to be top ten. It brims with xenophobia, depicting Americans as mindless imperialist assholes, Europeans as haughty aristocrats, Arabs as greedy and sleazy sheiks, Chinese as backwards and corrupt eunuchs... if you aren't from Japan, Code Geass says, then you're some kind of disgusting garbage. The show's few redeeming qualities are the mech fights and a few of Lelouch's early plans are fun, but just as you get comfortable, the anime proves itself to be utterly incompetently written.
Oh, and Kallen's great. She deserves to be in a better anime.
Tenchi Muyo GXP: This was on Toonami a while ago, and I decided to give it a chance. I didn't expect to like it, but I thought it might surprise me. I haven't watched the main Tenchi Muyo series, it's apparently pretty good, but GXP is a mess of atrocious animation (there's a loop of our forgettable lead on a bicycle that is used like five times in the first episode), terrible characters, an uninteresting and generic plot, and is just plain boring. Don't watch unless you're a die-hard Tenchi fan, and even then I still can't recommend it.
Casshern Sins: A remake of a 70's anime, Casshern roams a boring wasteland fighting boring robots in a boring way. Every conceivably interesting character dies immediately after they're introduced. The "mystery" that drives the plot is one-note and completely easy to figure out. Watch Fist of the North Star instead, because at least that series has heart and likability. Casshern Sins is just a shameless, mercenary cash-grab on a potentially lucrative franchise.
Attack on Titan is good, Evangelion is good. I like them both a lot. They get hyped as life-changing incredible experiences, and maybe for some people they are, but just because you don't see them as that doesn't mean they're bad or not worth watching. They both have their issues (pacing problems, Titan has too many characters, Evangelion's characters can be pretty grating at times), but just because some fanboys on the internet crow about them endlessly doesn't mean you'll look cool and edgy for hating them.
As for my own don't watch list, I'll say:
Code Geass: Mentioned repeatedly on this threat, but I really need to stress that you shouldn't watch it. I did and regret it every day. Things start out promising enough, and there are some memorable moments, but Lelouch is an atrocious protagonist, his friends and allies are either callous douchebags or brainless pawns, and his enemies... holy shit, if Suzaku isn't the worst characters in anime, then he has to be top ten. It brims with xenophobia, depicting Americans as mindless imperialist assholes, Europeans as haughty aristocrats, Arabs as greedy and sleazy sheiks, Chinese as backwards and corrupt eunuchs... if you aren't from Japan, Code Geass says, then you're some kind of disgusting garbage. The show's few redeeming qualities are the mech fights and a few of Lelouch's early plans are fun, but just as you get comfortable, the anime proves itself to be utterly incompetently written.
Oh, and Kallen's great. She deserves to be in a better anime.
Tenchi Muyo GXP: This was on Toonami a while ago, and I decided to give it a chance. I didn't expect to like it, but I thought it might surprise me. I haven't watched the main Tenchi Muyo series, it's apparently pretty good, but GXP is a mess of atrocious animation (there's a loop of our forgettable lead on a bicycle that is used like five times in the first episode), terrible characters, an uninteresting and generic plot, and is just plain boring. Don't watch unless you're a die-hard Tenchi fan, and even then I still can't recommend it.
Casshern Sins: A remake of a 70's anime, Casshern roams a boring wasteland fighting boring robots in a boring way. Every conceivably interesting character dies immediately after they're introduced. The "mystery" that drives the plot is one-note and completely easy to figure out. Watch Fist of the North Star instead, because at least that series has heart and likability. Casshern Sins is just a shameless, mercenary cash-grab on a potentially lucrative franchise.
No, the reason we don't watch Clannad is because Nagisa is the most piss boring character to ever be created. I watched that entire show and Clannad : After Story and the point where NagisaSomeLameStuff said:
finally dies was the point where I had the biggest smile throughout that entire thing
She is boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, oh so boring. The only saving grace is the Fuko storyline and Kotomi storylines. But then they turn Fuko into a horribly unfunny recurring character.
As for what I would suggest people stay away from:
Full Metal Alchemist : Brotherhood
Honestly don't watch this. People say that it is better then Full Metal Alchemist, but the character development is stretched incredibly thin. The plot is an uninteresting good vs. evil type deal and the villain is incredibly bland. It actually assumes that you've seen Full Metal Alchemist so some of the most interesting and dramatic early plot points are rushed. They try on several occasions to humanize the villains and make you pity them, but it does a horrible job of it. A lot of the villains have no real rhyme or reason to what they can do, or what they eventually turn into once defeated. The best part about the entire series is Greed and The Prince, two characters that have similar attitudes to the world but go about their goals in radically different ways, and who are forced to work with each other. All in all though the series tries to cram to much into to little time, so everything comes off as thin and uninteresting.
The Melancholy of Haurhi Suzumiya
Often hailed as one of the great anime of it's time. This anime touches on several interesting ideas but never actually goes anywhere with them. In fact the entire plot of the show is "Make interesting things NOT happen". I'm not even kidding that is the main characters entire goal. A few of the episodes take that premise and do make great episodes. But the majority of them are just bland and obnoxious. The whole thing has an undercurrent of subjugation to it. Most of the characters only do what they do because they have to, not because they want to, due to one of the major plot points.
I second this. I would not recommend Berserk to anyone even though I found it to be one of the best animes I've ever watched (up until the ending). The ending is the biggest mindfuck you'll ever have and if you dare to touch the manga to see where the story goes you'll be scarred for life.Movitz said:
To be precise, he said that when he isn't sure where to go with the story, he creates a bunch of new characters at once. It's equally evident, though, given that the show has umpteen trillion heroes/antagonists/neutral characters... so many that it's pretty much guaranteed that whoever your favorite winds up being, they'll never get all the development they need.Mersadeon said:
He's actually not so bad with overpowered characters... the biggest problem being the same thing Kishimoto has wrong with him... they both fanboy their big bad too much, and wound up making him so strong they have no idea how to make him lose.
hmmm... bad anime... Well, super milk chan comes to mind.... generally with a bad anime, there's at least something to it to be liked, art, animation...SOMETHING... but there was really nothing to like about this one... crude scriblings delivering jokes so utterly incomprehensible to the non-japanese ear that even the world's most talented translator can't make it funny.
huh... my inability to pull more bad anime from the top of my brain is saddening... I need to watch more.
Hmm.
Can't really think of others quite as bad as Sword FArt Online. (See what I did there? I know, hold your applause.)
The show had promise. A shit ton of it. But after it tried to throw in the romance into the plot, I lost a lot of interest. Like, the episode near the beginning where the guy killed his wife in the game because it technologically wasn't illegal because it wasn't real life, but in a game? That was great. More stories like that please.
BUT NUUPE. Shitty rushed love plot. I made it to episode 17 and called it quits. It goes full harem, and that totally makes no goddamn sense. Also, sister incest subplot? That's just.. yeah, okay, that's great. Good.
Good.
I had to give my sister props for having the nerves to finish the show. She also pushed through Attack on Titan when I was bored as shit with it and it's dang-ass slow pacing.
CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 2 LATER THIS YEAR LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Can't really think of others quite as bad as Sword FArt Online. (See what I did there? I know, hold your applause.)
The show had promise. A shit ton of it. But after it tried to throw in the romance into the plot, I lost a lot of interest. Like, the episode near the beginning where the guy killed his wife in the game because it technologically wasn't illegal because it wasn't real life, but in a game? That was great. More stories like that please.
BUT NUUPE. Shitty rushed love plot. I made it to episode 17 and called it quits. It goes full harem, and that totally makes no goddamn sense. Also, sister incest subplot? That's just.. yeah, okay, that's great. Good.
Good.
I had to give my sister props for having the nerves to finish the show. She also pushed through Attack on Titan when I was bored as shit with it and it's dang-ass slow pacing.
MM!
Strike Witches
Infinite Stratos - Second season.
Sword Art Online
Another
Kanokon - Unless you're into that stuff and don't mind turning off your brain.
Kill La Kill- Every episode should be like the "No-Late day" episode, but it's not so fuck it.
Strike Witches
Infinite Stratos - Second season.
Sword Art Online
Another
Kanokon - Unless you're into that stuff and don't mind turning off your brain.
Kill La Kill- Every episode should be like the "No-Late day" episode, but it's not so fuck it.
But Space Dandy is awesome, even if it is just a "fart around" anime. xD The animation is psychedelic in places and the main character is such a dumb goofball that he reminds me of Johnny Bravo. I get that it's not everyone's thing though, so ah well. Guess I'll just go with the flow~FPLOON said:
OT: Buh, someone mentioned Gantz already. Crap. I like the manga for it, but it has so much fan service that I feel awkward having it around. The anime is terrible though, especially the english dub for it. Seriously, watching it almost put me off the manga, but it had an interesting enough premise to make me want to give it another shot.
Bleach was already mentioned too...so was Dragon Ball Z, surprisingly.
Oh, I know! The Marvel animes! X-Men and Iron Man were adapted to be animes, along with others I haven't seen. I thought X-Men was boring but not overly bad. It had enjoyable moments, but they were far and few in between. Too much drama, not enough action, in my opinion. Iron Man though? Holy shit, the 3D animations for the suit and any other piece of technology on the screen were teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerible. The story also goes against Tony Stark's determination not to share the suits with anyone either, completely throwing that out of whack. Just...eeeegh. I stopped after the first episode and couldn't pick it up since.
Considering there was a time where I have mentioned at least more than once on a [random] Space Dandy thread that I wanted to buy this series on Blu-Ray despite not actually seeing a single episode at the time... I'm not lying when I say that I will still buy Space Dandy on Blu-Ray!!SilverBullets000 said:
Besides, in that post, I was trying to make fun of the fact that people seem to judge stuff by just the first episode...[footnote]Or maybe that describes most of my anime friends in a nutshell... (I forgot...)[/footnote] and Space Dandy, to me, made fun of that by having that particular ending in that first episode... and I loved it for that!
Like hell am I going to stop watching this series or take back what I said about buying the series on Blu-Ray... (Also, I laughed harder than I thought I would with the "Google Street View" reference in just the second episode...)
Evangellion. It is long, and rambles on entirely too much. I skipped a couple episodes at the end becuase I thought they were clip episodes but in reality the budget ran out and they couldn't afford to create new episodes. Yes I know there was a movie, no that doesn't change anything for me considering it ended with thirty minutes of crosses and vaginas.
Edit: No stop, click the back button. Do not click the quote button. Do not snip my post, I don't care if the exploits of Shinji the most deplorable human in the world changed your life. Nothing you say will change how I feel about this show.
Edit: No stop, click the back button. Do not click the quote button. Do not snip my post, I don't care if the exploits of Shinji the most deplorable human in the world changed your life. Nothing you say will change how I feel about this show.
Another de-rec for Eva. Relentlessly negative and downright mean-spirited, which would be forgivable if it actually had something meaningful to say, but once you dig through the frankly meaningless symbolism, you find that it's just so so shallow. Basically the height of pretension. Production values are fine, and the big monster fights are cool, but beyond that....
I have to inform you that you missed out on something great, a story of young unemployed shut in fucktard getting his shit together. Something that was almost ahead of the curve in 2006 and still culturally relevant today. The imagery was exactly as you said Satou tripping balls on some legal highs due to being bored out his face.shintakie10 said:
My avatar is a big sign of my bias, but please do consider giving it another go : D.
To stay on topic there are so many.
-NGE for being trite pseudo philosophy.
-Ah My Goddess, for being the first instance of harem I had seen.
-Lucky Star for being Weeb shite
- Watamote, if you genuinely identify with Motoko seek euthanasia
