2010-01-11, 08:27 | Link #221 |
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2010
|
1. Valkyria Chronicles
I have no idea why Nihon Review give this 4/10. Yes its far from perfect but it is much better than what Nihon Review said. What kind of cock that they sucked. Excuse me but I really, really, REALLY angry with that review. Ahh yes, they rated Legend of Galactic Heroes as 10/10 and School Days as 8/10... 2. Kampfer I guess it easy to hate any ecchi/fanservice shows like this one. Perhaps a little too easy. Too easy that people ignored most other good aspects of it. It depends on other people but this show(at least to me) have good animation quality, good voice-acting, good soundtrack and good character designs. Yes it unfinished but I really hope for its second season. In my own analogy, it much like a good WW2 game that came out when most gamers hate every WW2 games such as Call of Duty: World at War. People tend to ignore all other aspects because its theme alone. 3. K-On Yet another show that was hated for its theme alone, if that hatred was never aimed towards KyoAni itself. |
2010-01-11, 13:38 | Link #223 |
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Right behind you.
Age: 35
|
I liked that show too. It really got serious at the end, which was probably a shock to the fan base, but I liked it a lot. It made me feel like theyreally were at war, as opposed the the show's first stupid character shield, and how a scratch on a leg from a bullet narrowly missing (you know what I mean) was a grievous injury. The only problem I had was the ending was a bit too compacted for my taste, but overall I found it very enjoyable.
__________________
|
2010-01-11, 14:14 | Link #225 | |
Salt Levels Critical
Join Date: Oct 2007
|
Quote:
On a similar note the image thread in the series' subforum has now turned into a discussion of modern military hardware. Guess that kinda shows what people had been expecting even though there was no reason to. |
|
2010-01-11, 23:44 | Link #227 | |
:cool:
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Idaho
Age: 32
|
Quote:
Actually I watched the first couple of episodes, then played the game. I came to the consensus that Valkyria Chronicles was one of the worst animes I've ever seen by comparison to the game. The game was absolutely amazing in every way. The anime they made even the most bittersweet moments into ridiculous drama. Want a great example? Compare the log cabin scene with the wounded soldier from the game and anime. Biggest failure ever. Now the anime on its own would've been fine but with something to live up to... No. You know a lot of you might disagree with me on this, but I always got the impression that .Hack is very unpopular. I like all the different .Hacks and it was one of my first anime obsessions. However, others seem to disagree. I suppose if "Animes you love but nobody else has watched" was part of the topic I'd have to say Banner of the Stars.
__________________
|
|
2010-01-11, 23:57 | Link #229 |
blinded by blood
Author
|
.hack// is pretty unpopular because, well, it's bad. The source material (the games) are bad, and the animated series are also bad.
But the music is Yuki Kajiura and is therefore awesome. "The World" and "Liminality" are great, great songs (a friend of mine totally got to go see Yuki Kajiura/Kalafina live in 2008 and I was so, so, so jealous of her).
__________________
|
2010-01-12, 07:12 | Link #230 | |
Somehow I found out
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 40
|
Quote:
I was ok with the first half of the anime. It had a generally light-hearted mood so I didn't exactly take it all too seriously, but there were some entertaining moments and the characters, while generally over-the-top, were fairly fun to watch, particularly the important ones like Welkin, Alicia, Faldio, Isara, etc. There was the odd serious moment, which was to be expected, since they were at war (although you couldn't be sure from Squad 7's casualty numbers during the first half), and while the dramatic execution was often a bit shaky, I wasn't going to be too critical since it played within its means and the characters generally remained lively and interesting. It wasn't anything amazing, but it was a decent "pass the time" anime. The first thing that really made me stop and ask "what the hell were they thinking" was the spoiler filled second OP. It meant that whenever those spoilers came up in the plot itself, the story had no oxygen. It's a bit much for them to ask you to be surprised (or even care) about a major plot twist when it's been right there, staring you in the face at the beginning of the last seven episodes. The logic started to become more and more questionable in the second half as well. There's been some fairly thorough discussions in the episodic threads on the VC subforum, so I'm not going to go into too much detail, but there were lots of little things, like Spoiler for Valkyria Chronicles:
The other thing that really hurt the drama, IMO, was the fact that the main three characters lost much of their personality during the second half, and become really bland, boring people. You can rationalize it as them "giving up" and being angsty because of all the bad things happening to them, eg. Spoiler:
There was one episode in the second half that I really liked, and that was ep 19. It was dramatic, romantic and really momentous, the characters' emotions were raw and felt genuine and the story was well told, allowing us to understand their backgrounds and the meaning behind a few of the important relationships. But all the episodes after this just weren't up to scratch. The execution was shoddy, the writing was questionable... I could see what it was trying to do, but it fell well short of the mark. When I stepped back after it was finished and realized that there was only one episode that I'd liked during the last ten or so, it became obvious that the show had lost me and I wanted to figure out why. In this case it wasn't so much one big thing as it is a lot of little things, combined with the execution. Also, I'd have no idea how it stacks up compared with the game, since I've never played it. I happen to be the type of person that doesn't like the idea that an anime needs to be loyal to its source to be good, so that's certainly not the reason why I didn't like VC. As for School Days, we have three reviews for that on our site, with three vastly different ratings and different opinions. We certainly don't always agree on every anime we watch, but we see that disagreement as a good thing, since it often sparks discussion. Like I said, I don't expect you to agree with me. That's not my intention. What I'm hoping is that you can at least see why I didn't like it.
__________________
|
|
2010-01-12, 07:54 | Link #231 | |
Me, An Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
Age: 33
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2010-01-12, 08:47 | Link #232 |
You're Hot, Cupcake
Join Date: Aug 2008
Age: 42
|
Zero Punctiation's review of Valkyria Chronicles is highly amusing.
__________________
|
2010-01-14, 01:12 | Link #233 |
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2010
|
I don't know how to describe it but saying that you like any KyoAni's productions is much like you like any Michael Bay's movies. People will ridicule you for that, even they never saw any KyoAni's productions before. Yes, I'm talking about trolls who jumped onto the bandwagon just because the driver hated it. All others are just playing cool. If you say you love Lucky Star or K-On in public, they will reply "go get a life you moetard".
|
2010-01-14, 05:19 | Link #236 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Adelaide
Age: 36
|
Not enough people love Miracle Train for my liking. It's hilarious but can be touching when it needs to be. It had nice story progression and ended well. The weekly problems were handled well but were significantly diverse. It has great directing by a great director and Shiodome and Roppongi are both adorable. Plus it's educational!
However most people pass it off as weird and pandering. Or they assume the humourous parts are all unintentional. (Can anyone seriously say that Tokugawa's comments are unintentional?) Then there are people who pass it off as sexist because it involves men helping women. They help a wide range of women with a wide range of problems and it's no real different from visiting a counselor or similar.
__________________
|
2010-01-14, 13:13 | Link #237 | |
Senior Member
Author
|
Quote:
I loved the .hack GU games. I felt that they had an excellent storyline to them, and I genuinely enjoyed the gameplay more often then not (especially late in the final game where you get a new combat mode/style for the main character). The .hack Roots anime was a pretty good lead-in into the games. I'll admit that it had an extremely slow pacing, but otherwise, I was fairly pleased with it. The .hack anime wasn't popular because they exist for the benefit of the games (as opposed to the games existing for the benefit of the anime). In other words, the anime is there simply to support (and chronologically feed into) the games. The games is where the vast majority of the real action takes place.
__________________
|
|
2010-01-14, 19:43 | Link #239 | |
Senior Member
Author
|
Quote:
JRPG's have an unique feel to them that's not for every RPG fan...
__________________
|
|
|
|