2009-12-08, 00:48 | Link #802 |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Age: 34
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Among the sort of crowd that has similar genre tastes as me, one popular anime I never liked is Bokura ga Ita, despite the fact that many fans of the show also like shows that I'm a huge fan of, like Honey and Clover and Kare Kano. But I've never liked Bokura ga Ita all that much, I don't connect with any of the characters nor like them all that much as people, and I feel it treads into soap opera territory, which these other shows managed to avoid.
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2009-12-08, 18:00 | Link #806 |
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Well, the director of the show is Shinbo of Shaft. His works are purposely disjointed and bizarre in the way that is present in Bakemonogatari. It's an "artful" mess as it were. But I can certainly understand disliking his style, it doesn't appeal to all.
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2009-12-08, 20:00 | Link #807 |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Pennsylvania , United States
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Kampfer - The gender-bending idea seems to be great... but they failed on this one with bad execution. Kampfer when I saw the first episode was not interesting at all and it was not that great since there are tons of fanservice shots and pretty much lame with bathroom humor... Seriously...
I still couldn't resist the urge because of the female Natsuru, but I went on to Episode 6 and it still didn't improve much. The same old story with even more fanservice. I think I'll pass on this one...
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2009-12-09, 03:40 | Link #810 | |
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2009-12-11, 22:21 | Link #816 |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Tesla Leicht Institute
Age: 34
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Wait a minute, 00 had emo characters? I am not going to say that your choice of taste is wrong but 00 having emo characters (to be more precious having lot of emo characters)? That is kinda of surprising. You could argue some were from time to time, but most of the time? I just don't see that.
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2009-12-12, 05:17 | Link #818 | |
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For emo in anime I'd think something more along the lines of the Key adapations like Clannad, Air and Kanon in their latter halves based on how much they deliberately try to make the viewer cry and bring their spirits down alone. I mean there's emotion and then there's overwrought emotion, although granted they are referred to as "crying" games and anime by their fandom at large. In fact that gets me thinking...I don't hate these shows by any stretch of the imagination and feel they have quite a few good and well directed moments, but they do qualify as ones that I have a lot of issues with just the same and yet everyone else (or so it feels sometimes) seems to think are the greatest thing since sliced bread with no flaws of which to speak. Maybe it's just a sign of the times and my own personal tastes but when I think of exceptional greatness in anime that I've watched Key adaptations don't exactly spring to my mind as much as they seem to for much of the fandom. Last edited by Kaioshin Sama; 2009-12-12 at 05:29. |
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2009-12-13, 03:29 | Link #819 |
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 34
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I have a pretty low opinion of Bokura ga Ita, even though it's highly rated by people who seem to share my tastes in anime. Then again, I have a pretty low opinion of soap operas in general. H&C never stops being funny every time the mood gets sad, not so this tragic tale of star-crossed lovers etc., etc. Egh.
Likewise, NANA. I thought the concept was beyond cool (two very different girls with the same name and their life stories? Alright!), and the first volume of the manga, before all the DRAMA ruins it, was excellent. Then it got into shoujo soap opera territory and I cried bloody tears of regret. So not the drama, bitches. However, I admit I'm not the most consistent of viewers; for example, Vampire Knight. And the vampires there don't sparkle. There's something really offensive about vampires who sparkle in the sun in a non-satirical setting. Although it's pretty much a soap opera in the same way as the two series I condemned above are, I always thought of Vampire Knights as the ultimate guilty pleasure series. It's so fabulous with handsome high society vampires trapped in evil, evil byzantine plots, a love triangle to end all love triangles (I'm a Zero fan by the way ), and so much angst that I couldn't possibly look away. |
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