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Vandread and Steel Angel Kurumi take the cake for me. In the first case an aquaintance of mine, to whom I had lent quite a few of my dvds in the past, lent it to me explaining that it was to him what gundam is to me. We hung out alot of on a class trip a few days later, and the main thing I had to say to him about is is "Really? REALLY?". As for Steel Angel Kurumi I had seen some of it's maker's recent works and rather enjoyed them. I knew that one of them, Shattered Angels, had more than a few references to it throughout and whilst I could see them, I didn't want to continue through the whole thing because unlike the two others I had seen the characters were unlikable, The Imperial Japanese Army depicted way to positively given EVERYTHING I KNEW ABOUT THEM and it seemed to be on a mission to be everything bad about anime.
I swear if you can honestly predict everything that is happening in the manga and anime, then nothing will be unpredictable for you. Was it predictable that Pain
Blew Up Konoha?
Or when Itachi
Was forced to annihilate his own clan at the behest of his village?
Or when
Sasuke Joined Akatsuki?
Or when
Kabuto absorbed Orochimaru's corpse?
And I can actually keep going. If you are going to tell me that all of those were predictable, then a picture paints a thousand words
there are far too many episodes with no sign of stopping even though the show and manga both hit their peak long ago (same with Bleach)
There are hardly too many episodes, most of what has happened arc wise had to happen, it's not like other anime when if things were cut out everything would still make sense. I've been hearing that Bleach is suffering for copypasta syndrome as of late, if you want you can have that, I only watch the anime. But Naruto hasn't really had two arcs that are really similar. If you compare it with, say, Tenjho Tenge where Oh! Great doesn't really know what he's doing any more, so it's dragging on, Kishimoto seems to have a grand plan with the entire story, as more revelations come and certain motives are changed. It's far from it's peak in my opinion.
I think the character design is pretty good, but I also think that he has far far too many characters in one series, and doesn't know what to do with them. But each to his own.
The story is boring and derails itself often to go on a tangent but never returns to the original pre-derailment plot (see: Naruto wanting to be Hokage, but that arc turned into a rescue and the idea never returned)
That was never an arc, it was a character motive. The fact remains that he is giving characters underlying motives that change over time, the rescue of his friend overrode his desire to be Hokage at the time. Besides that I can't see the plot actually derailing, it just changes over time. As for boring, see above.
the villains are all terrible and/or cliché to hell
The only truly cliche villain they had was orochimaru, he wanted power for no reason. Right now this could also be applied to Kisame if you wish, but we know nothing about him as of late. Itachi is an interesting villain, and so was Pain to a degree (you could say he was half and half between cliche and interesting) and
Right now, Sasuke as a villain is irritating, but far from cliche, and that is mainly because he is almost without motive in a sense
Besides this, , and the characters who are actually interesting are fairly quickly written out or killed. Also, plot holes
Hmmm. Written out? I guess that's subjective in a sense because it depends on who you find interesting. I like the original rookies because they were entertaining, but they weren't interesting in the sense that I know everything about them.
Kakashi is another one who is interesting, and hasn't been written out or killed yet. There are others also.
As for plot holes, I like hearing about those actually, could you name some please?
Honestly, it's turned into another DBZ where fights last forever just because the creators are out of any original thoughts whatsoever, so they have to stall with random flashbacks and shit. "I'm almost dead! But wait. I have another power! So do you? Fuck. Guess this shit's going for three more episodes."
Bah, that's nonsense. Bleach is more like DBZ than Naruto is, both authors have named DBZ as one of their influences, but Bleach Reeks of it through it's scale of fighting. From the flight to the abilities, they are being purposely held back for no reason at times. Naruto I disagree with.
I actually liked the original Hellsing until it started to deviate from the manga, still haven't gotten around to watching Ultimate Hellsing. For me most dubbed anime is like a train wreck I can't tear my eyes away from.
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There are hardly too many episodes, most of what has happened arc wise had to happen, it's not like other anime when if things were cut out everything would still make sense. I've been hearing that Bleach is suffering for copypasta syndrome as of late, if you want you can have that, I only watch the anime. But Naruto hasn't really had two arcs that are really similar. If you compare it with, say, Tenjho Tenge where Oh! Great doesn't really know what he's doing any more, so it's dragging on, Kishimoto seems to have a grand plan with the entire story, as more revelations come and certain motives are changed. It's far from it's peak in my opinion.I think the character design is pretty good, but I also think that he has far far too many characters in one series, and doesn't know what to do with them. But each to his own.That was never an arc, it was a character motive. The fact remains that he is giving characters underlying motives that change over time, the rescue of his friend overrode his desire to be Hokage at the time. Besides that I can't see the plot actually derailing, it just changes over time. As for boring, see above.The only truly cliche villain they had was orochimaru, he wanted power for no reason. Right now this could also be applied to Kisame if you wish, but we know nothing about him as of late. Itachi is an interesting villain, and so was Pain to a degree (you could say he was half and half between cliche and interesting) andRight now, Sasuke as a villain is irritating, but far from cliche, and that is mainly because he is almost without motive in a senseHmmm. Written out? I guess that's subjective in a sense because it depends on who you find interesting. I like the original rookies because they were entertaining, but they weren't interesting in the sense that I know everything about them.As for plot holes, I like hearing about those actually, could you name some please?Kakashi is another one who is interesting, and hasn't been written out or killed yet. There are others also.
