2010-01-14, 19:32 | Link #902 |
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If for you art only encompasses being crazy awesome and stuff blowing up, I'd have to say that's a really sad look on art forms in general.
PS: again, I'm not saying you have to like it. The title of this thread, "Anime you hate but everyone seems to like?", refers to the fact that it's somehow hard to understand why people like what they like. In order to fully appreciate art in general, you need to step away from your own perspective for a second and try to understand what others see in things that one might find not as pleasurable.
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2010-01-14, 19:59 | Link #903 |
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I would have to agree with Synaesthetic that the anvil dropping in NGE was a pretty blatant thing and the plot was kinda weak.
But here's what I think coming from someone who has watched the tv series and movies multiple times and would like to see the new ones Yes, I even like the TV ending The "depth" isn't where some might think it is. Ignore all those Christian symbols for a second A lot of people like to bash Shinji for being a wuss, and being a failure. Hell, I do it in jest sometimes too, just because Anno seemed so insistent on it. But let's consider the standard cliche hero for a moment. Shinji acts that way because he's just a kid that was yanked off the streets quite literally. If you had Shinji all hot blooded and GAR, ready for blood, that wouldn't come off as normal. In fact, that would make him a psychopath! So yea, I think Shinji cries and Shinji moans because he has a conscience. This is most evident when he is ordered by his dad to possibly kill his friend. By the end, Shinji isn't emo; he's actually gone insane. The things that helped him keep sanity-- other people-- were slowly taken away from him. Then he learns his entire mission was a sham. And with that, he simply completely breaks down. The point was that, no, you can't just put a poor kid in and hope he wins because he is the main character. And for its time, it was something new. And interestingly enough, Asuka's more like the traditional hot blooded hero. If Shinji and Asuka were switched genders, you'd get a pretty ordinary story of a hot blooded hero and a pitiful partner that needs saving. But Asuka's case gets deconstructed, as we see what happens to the ace who suddenly loses potency and thus confidence, because as we know, hot blooded characters are fueled by this confidence. While the plot is pretty obtuse when it comes to these things, it is the playing around with the psychology of these characters that made it memorable. And yes, I would think a lot of it is really just Anno getting over depression, but it's still an interesting study of that area. I hope some of that made sense to those who got confused or just apathetic. Or at least offer another perspective with something less abstract.
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2010-01-15, 13:20 | Link #906 |
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The thing about the TV series was it was too heavy-handed. Suspension of disbelief, for me, was utterly shattered because every goddamned character was beyond fucked up to such a point where it stopped feeling real.
I got to the point where I was just laughing hysterically every time something bad happened to Shinji. He's an unbelievably amped-up Cosmic Plaything, to the point where it's just not realistic. Not to mention every other character had a pile of neuroses and twenty thousand tons of emotional baggage, it was just numbing. There was no "control" character in NGE TV to compare the fucked-up-ness to. Everyone had skeletons in the closet. Everyone had some deep, dark past. The Rebuild films changed this. Shinji's angst is pared back to a much more believable level. Asuka is five hundred times less annoying and much more badass in general. The new character, Mari Illustrious Makinami, is a Crazy Awesome Blood Knight, as well as trying to unseat Misato as the resident Miss Fanservice. The movies are just... better so far. What I ought to do, especially once all 4 movies are out, is watch the TV series, then the movies, and really try to nail this down.
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2010-01-15, 14:29 | Link #907 | |
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NGE was a good anime, but I think that it suffered a bit from the lack of an important "control" character or two, as you said. In fact, I would say that the lack of such a "control" character actually undermined Anno's goals with Shinji, Rei, and Asuka (i.e. to use them to critique popular anime archetypes). Spoiler for 1995 Eva spoiler:
Perhaps part of the reason why Rei didn't come across the way that Anno wanted her to is because there wasn't a female teenage character in the anime that, through comparison, could serve to highlight the neuroses and emotional issues with Rei. Asuka, of course, had her own issues.
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2010-01-15, 17:57 | Link #908 | |
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2010-01-15, 20:07 | Link #909 | |
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Saying that, his rare appearances in Railgun are great, I guess he's a character thats best when seen in small doses I gotta say only recent anime I've somewhat come to dislike is Haurhi S2, nothing can save it from that endless crap stuff>_<
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2010-01-15, 20:14 | Link #910 | |
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Actually there were control characters. The classmates, especially Hlkari were pretty normal. Yes, they were relatively minor, but they did have that point. Their disappearance near the end signifies the start of insanity for the main cast., But it seems like rebuild seem to offer something diffrent rather than being a simple rehash, so that's something I can look forward too.
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2010-01-15, 22:32 | Link #911 |
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I'm inclined to believe, based on Kaworu's actions in Evangelion 2.0, that the Rebuild films are not intended to replace the original series, but are a sort of alternate continuity... and Kaworu's in on it.
If this is true, it could lead to some incredible mindfucks in Evangelion 3.0 and Evangelion Final...
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2010-01-17, 01:09 | Link #913 |
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First post, might as well do it here.
Chrono Crusade I really tried to give this anime a shot, I really tried. It had "Chrono" in the title and vaguely resembled Chrono Trigger, which I love a lot, and it had great reviews, so this had to be somewhat decent, right? No, I forced myself through five episodes and could not go on. I hated the characters and did not care for the story at all. My distaste for this series is only rivaled by my distaste of the next: Elfen Lied The first thing that came up in almost every review of this series was the bloody opening to the first episode, that it made people sick to the stomach, and was quite the hill to overcome, but as I watched it, the violence didn't phase me one bit. The violence, obscene as it was, seemed so empty to me, as it had no context to it. I felt more disgusted at less violent shows because of the context it was in, NGE being a prime example. Still though, that was just the intro, I kept watching, but yet came to hate the main characters, especially the main male lead, and on top of it all, I though the animation was not as detailed as it could of/should of been for such a violent show. |
2010-01-17, 10:32 | Link #915 |
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I loved Chrono Crusade! xD ROFL
Anyway, I know I'm going to get so much hate for this but... but... (*builds barricade*) The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya! I'm not implying that I think people shouldn't like it; I mean... it had great music, good characters, and a very original plot, but I just couldn't bring myself to like the series itself (believe me... I tried). Last edited by Tealeafy; 2010-01-18 at 16:30. |
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Also, I thought many attributed the trolling to Kadokawa, not KyoAni.
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2010-01-17, 22:54 | Link #920 |
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I'd bet both Kadokawa and Kyoto Animation were laughing their asses off at the NERD RAGE on 2ch, 4chan, here and countless other anime message boards during endless eights...
Shit, I don't even work for either company and I was laughing my ass off. ^^;
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