Urgh. All I can say is... urghSennz0r said:
Naruto is waay overdrawn. I loved Golden Boy cause they stopped after 6 episodes before it could get lame.
Drawn out animes.
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Naruto is waay overdrawn. I loved Golden Boy cause they stopped after 6 episodes before it could get lame.
I'm sorry, I was just in the mood, couldn't resist.AuntyEthel said:Urgh. All I can say is... urghSennz0r said:
Naruto is waay overdrawn. I loved Golden Boy cause they stopped after 6 episodes before it could get lame.
On-topic: yes indeed, DBZ and Naruto, both terribly boring when viewed too many episodes.
Don't worry, I too lack a 'bad-joke filter' between my brain and mouth. Or keyboard.Sennz0r said:I'm sorry, I was just in the mood, couldn't resist.AuntyEthel said:Urgh. All I can say is... urghSennz0r said:
Naruto is waay overdrawn. I loved Golden Boy cause they stopped after 6 episodes before it could get lame.
On-topic: yes indeed, DBZ and Naruto, both terribly boring when viewed too many episodes.
No joke is ever funny when it is followed by any variation of "get it."Sennz0r said:
Just telling you from experience.
It was a little witty, though.
I truthfully don't have much patience for the long running action animes anymore. I can do Bleach cause I just watch it on Adult Swim and I can take it in little chunks, but I'll repeat what others have said and say that this Bount filler is terrible. Most times I think the show manages to stand on all it's side characters. You've got enough other Soul Reapers hanging around that you can focus on them for a bit while Ichigo does his training or whatever. But it's not as good as FMA was in that regard. Edward and Al were interesting characters, but the characters in the military and what not were really good too. Not so much in Bleach.
52 episodes is usually about my limit. I watched most of DBZ up until the Cell saga, after which I called it quits because by then I'd pretty much seen everything the show could throw at me. I had thought Naruto to be one of the better examples of the genre, for a while (maybe because the fights were more interesting to watch than DBZ). I'm not so sure now. I only got through ten episodes subtitled and on occasion catch it on TV. I actually think Naruto's filler is more tolerable than this Bount crap on Bleach. Incidentally, they don't have Naruto say "believe it!" that much anymore. In fact, I don't remember hearing it at all in some episodes. They must have finally phased it out.
I will say that I am watching Soul Eater and loving it. I think I'm mostly liking the world and mood of the show. It's like an insane combo of One Piece and Groove Adventure Rave's art design set in Halloween Town. It works for me. But we'll see if it will end properly or drag out its welcome as well. It's pretty new, so it has some ways to go before then.
52 episodes is usually about my limit. I watched most of DBZ up until the Cell saga, after which I called it quits because by then I'd pretty much seen everything the show could throw at me. I had thought Naruto to be one of the better examples of the genre, for a while (maybe because the fights were more interesting to watch than DBZ). I'm not so sure now. I only got through ten episodes subtitled and on occasion catch it on TV. I actually think Naruto's filler is more tolerable than this Bount crap on Bleach. Incidentally, they don't have Naruto say "believe it!" that much anymore. In fact, I don't remember hearing it at all in some episodes. They must have finally phased it out.
I will say that I am watching Soul Eater and loving it. I think I'm mostly liking the world and mood of the show. It's like an insane combo of One Piece and Groove Adventure Rave's art design set in Halloween Town. It works for me. But we'll see if it will end properly or drag out its welcome as well. It's pretty new, so it has some ways to go before then.
It's an inevitable outcome of the publishing model of the manga they are based on.
Essentially, the model is "Continue publishing until no longer profitable, whether you have an interesting story to tell or not". The same model applies to the animated adaptations, but this may reach an endpoint either before (Inu-Yasha) or after (Dragonball) the manga has ceased.
It's almost, but not quite, the same as the publishing model for western franchise comics (Which is "continue publishing at all costs, because the toy rights and movie rights will always be profitable").
Essentially, the model is "Continue publishing until no longer profitable, whether you have an interesting story to tell or not". The same model applies to the animated adaptations, but this may reach an endpoint either before (Inu-Yasha) or after (Dragonball) the manga has ceased.
It's almost, but not quite, the same as the publishing model for western franchise comics (Which is "continue publishing at all costs, because the toy rights and movie rights will always be profitable").
That's a matter of opinion, do they still have worthwhile plot? Character development? or are they an unending stream of LOST esque teasers with no payoff, or pointless specticle with no direction?JadeWah said:
i think we all agree that the worst offender is the multiple dragonball shows. its so drawn out that they have at least three different shows for the same characters, which i like to call "the disney channel phenomenon". it includes:
story arcs that take about ten episodes to play through, but could be completed in about half of one episode. this includes for dbz: the round spaceship where goku can controle the gravity, the long road which looks like a snake, the planet which was maybe fifty feet across, the fight with the pink alien who can change shape, the part of the fight with the pink alien where goku stands there holding his hand in the air generating a big blue ball of light (which the pink alien conveniently didnt see), and probably some others that i cant remember.
really bad characterization (i guess im getting kinda off topic).
one of the worst dubbing jobs ive ever seen, with repetitive dialogue, lots of long pauses, repetitive dialogue, fast talking, repetitive dialogue, bad translation, and repetitive dialogue.
characters who claim to be omnipotent when they arent.
i cant think of anymore.
back on topic, death note was pretty good until the part when light yagami got put in jail, then the whole plot just kinda crapped out. i havent gotten much farther then that b/c im actually reading the manga. i have only read the first five volumes b/c my school library doesnt have the rest.
come to think of it, the only one i can think of which wasnt dragged out was full moon o sagashite. it doesnt overstay its welcome, although i might have just had a problem with that because i read them in the wrong order.
naruto (which i hate) literally has over a hundred episodes of filler. the reason is because its a japanese show, and in japan tv shows dont usually have season breaks or reruns because this means that you are out of ideas (it is a different culture over there...). plus they usually start the anime during the middle of the mangas run. they eventually reach the manga and are then forced to pass it.
story arcs that take about ten episodes to play through, but could be completed in about half of one episode. this includes for dbz: the round spaceship where goku can controle the gravity, the long road which looks like a snake, the planet which was maybe fifty feet across, the fight with the pink alien who can change shape, the part of the fight with the pink alien where goku stands there holding his hand in the air generating a big blue ball of light (which the pink alien conveniently didnt see), and probably some others that i cant remember.
really bad characterization (i guess im getting kinda off topic).
one of the worst dubbing jobs ive ever seen, with repetitive dialogue, lots of long pauses, repetitive dialogue, fast talking, repetitive dialogue, bad translation, and repetitive dialogue.
characters who claim to be omnipotent when they arent.
i cant think of anymore.
back on topic, death note was pretty good until the part when light yagami got put in jail, then the whole plot just kinda crapped out. i havent gotten much farther then that b/c im actually reading the manga. i have only read the first five volumes b/c my school library doesnt have the rest.
come to think of it, the only one i can think of which wasnt dragged out was full moon o sagashite. it doesnt overstay its welcome, although i might have just had a problem with that because i read them in the wrong order.
naruto (which i hate) literally has over a hundred episodes of filler. the reason is because its a japanese show, and in japan tv shows dont usually have season breaks or reruns because this means that you are out of ideas (it is a different culture over there...). plus they usually start the anime during the middle of the mangas run. they eventually reach the manga and are then forced to pass it.
I know I'm just piggybacking on others in this thread, but I agree with most of the anime mentioned in this thread as having overstayed their welcome.
DBZ/GT: "I fire energy ball at you!" "Well I fire bigger energy ball at you!" "Well I fire bigger energy ball at you!" "Then I'll fire a bigger one, wait till the next episode!" Rinse, and repeat with different characters until you have enough material for a season.
Bleach: Started out okay, then it became, "My sword is bigger!" "No, my sword is harder!" "No, my screaming 'BANKAI!' is louder!" "Umm...I have this freakish face [http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s138/Shinigami2010/Bleach/MayuriKurotsuchi.jpg] and I somehow believe in science." "You killed my father! I hate you!" And that's the episode where I stopped watching.
Inuyasha: "Yay! We killed the bad guy...wait a minute, he came back as some sort of not-quite-dead spirit? What the fuck? I mean, the writers couldn't even invent some new evil guy? Those lazy fuckers."
Naruto: "Remember Naruto, ninjitsu is all about stealth, deception, and striking your enemy when he is most vulnerable...which is why you must scream really loud, use flashy magic attacks and fight other ninjas who think carrying a whole zanbatou on their backs makes them more badass. And don't even get me started on the ones who can massacre whole villages by themselves."
"Ryu Hayabusa [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryu_hayabusa], what the hell are you doing here?"
"I just wanted to know I wasn't alone in being the worst definition of a ninja [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HighlyVisibleNinja] ever."
[Bonus fact: The only time I've ever seen a ninja wearing all black in this show was during a funeral scene.]
One Piece: "I'm the strongest pirate!" "No, I'm the strongest pirate!"
"Fine, you're all the strongest pirates! Everybody gets an evil fruit! Now shut up and give me 50 more episodes of your whining monologues!"
Pokemon: "Hey, there's an island we never thought to travel to with whole new monsters we somehow never cared about until now."
"I'm sorry, I've been spending the entire day rolling around in fanboy cash. Were you saying something? No? Good."
DBZ/GT: "I fire energy ball at you!" "Well I fire bigger energy ball at you!" "Well I fire bigger energy ball at you!" "Then I'll fire a bigger one, wait till the next episode!" Rinse, and repeat with different characters until you have enough material for a season.
Bleach: Started out okay, then it became, "My sword is bigger!" "No, my sword is harder!" "No, my screaming 'BANKAI!' is louder!" "Umm...I have this freakish face [http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s138/Shinigami2010/Bleach/MayuriKurotsuchi.jpg] and I somehow believe in science." "You killed my father! I hate you!" And that's the episode where I stopped watching.
Inuyasha: "Yay! We killed the bad guy...wait a minute, he came back as some sort of not-quite-dead spirit? What the fuck? I mean, the writers couldn't even invent some new evil guy? Those lazy fuckers."
Naruto: "Remember Naruto, ninjitsu is all about stealth, deception, and striking your enemy when he is most vulnerable...which is why you must scream really loud, use flashy magic attacks and fight other ninjas who think carrying a whole zanbatou on their backs makes them more badass. And don't even get me started on the ones who can massacre whole villages by themselves."
"Ryu Hayabusa [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryu_hayabusa], what the hell are you doing here?"
"I just wanted to know I wasn't alone in being the worst definition of a ninja [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HighlyVisibleNinja] ever."
[Bonus fact: The only time I've ever seen a ninja wearing all black in this show was during a funeral scene.]
One Piece: "I'm the strongest pirate!" "No, I'm the strongest pirate!"
"Fine, you're all the strongest pirates! Everybody gets an evil fruit! Now shut up and give me 50 more episodes of your whining monologues!"
Pokemon: "Hey, there's an island we never thought to travel to with whole new monsters we somehow never cared about until now."
"I'm sorry, I've been spending the entire day rolling around in fanboy cash. Were you saying something? No? Good."
Hajime no Ippo is a good 70+ episode anime. Great animation there, especially the fights (it's getting a second season this January!).
If I remember correctly, Ruruoni Kenshin is all manga-based up until Amakusa, then went to crazy shit with that Feng Shui arc. I think the anime ended there. The various movies and OVA's were awesome though.
If I remember correctly, Ruruoni Kenshin is all manga-based up until Amakusa, then went to crazy shit with that Feng Shui arc. I think the anime ended there. The various movies and OVA's were awesome though.
It doesn't. If anything it gets better when you start finding things out. Also, remember that Satoko is colour blind. The anime helpfully will not tell you this, but includes something which only makes sense if you know it.avykins said:
let me remind all of you that this is terribly prejudice, non-anime does shit shit too. i just never watch any of it long enough to remember the names of the shows.
quite a few american cartoons (and even live action shit) does this same stuff where only one tiny TINY event happens per episode. excuse me i need to eat something now. preferably a bad writers heart. and unlike you people i wont be discriminating on where they come from.
quite a few american cartoons (and even live action shit) does this same stuff where only one tiny TINY event happens per episode. excuse me i need to eat something now. preferably a bad writers heart. and unlike you people i wont be discriminating on where they come from.