Alita's awesome.PedroSteckecilo said:Alita, because Battle Angel was my first Manga.
look at your avatar....he's the best of all time!Hitmantis said:Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop is the greatest anime hero of all timez
when they can create a relate able character it really means something to the fan you actually connect and fall into the character and if you start to want to more.ehnhander joker said:Revy from Black Lagoon. She's a pirate/gangster/mercinary who lives life with no regrets. Also she is one of the only anime characters I know of who suffers from periodic episodes of depression along with common syptoms of bipolar disorder. Very human snd very cool.
The suspense may have failed for you, but clearly not to many of its devoted fans. They had a big story to tell, and what sucks about Kai is that it's gonna cut out a lot of good filler. The pacing problems stem from them having subplots and character views that helped give you a sense of scope of the situation. Admittedly they could have done a few less recaps of "this is the story so far", but I think that added to part of it's charm.GloatingSwine said:Suspense fails when it tries to stretch out for too long.dwightsteel said:They may have taken more time then necessary to get from point A to point B, but it was incredibly suspenseful.
If I'd been reading it as a manga, where those 22 minutes of screentime would take maybe 90 seconds to read, that would be suspenseful, but the overly drawn out nature of Dragonball Z (and shonen in general) kills any suspense it might generate because you lose interest before the big thing you were waiting in suspense for bothers to show up.
The fact that the re-edited Dragonball Kai is only just over a third of the length of the original Dragonball Z speaks volumes of it's original pacing (and quantity of filler).
No, the pacing problems stem from having to adapt from a still-in-progress manga story, meaning that bits of the story got stretched to accommodate the fact that the anime production schedule and plot progression is much faster than the manga, hence the existence of filler in the first place where they had to have something to put on screen for this week's episode, but couldn't get ahead of Toriyama writing the manga.dwightsteel said:The pacing problems stem from them having subplots and character views that helped give you a sense of scope of the situation.
That wasn't a big problem for the DB franchise. Certainly that accounted for things like the Garlic Jr. Black Water Mist part or the whole Great Saiyaman thing, but they weren't crunching the way shows like Naruto were.GloatingSwine said:No, the pacing problems stem from having to adapt from a still-in-progress manga story, meaning that bits of the story got stretched to accommodate the fact that the anime production schedule and plot progression is much faster than the manga, hence the existence of filler in the first place where they had to have something to put on screen for this week's episode, but couldn't get ahead of Toriyama writing the manga.dwightsteel said:The pacing problems stem from them having subplots and character views that helped give you a sense of scope of the situation.