2013-08-18, 23:23 | Link #461 | |
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(In all honesty, Oreimo is pretty much comparable to Sword Art Online or Attack On Titan; all of them start out great and then fall apart later. Amazingly I have a high tolerance for shit shows, considering that I watched every season of Queen's Blade; I figured that once you know something is shit and completely lower your expectations to negative zero, you can enjoy shows like that a lot more than when you look at it with critical eyes. )
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2013-08-19, 00:34 | Link #462 | |
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If this was season one, I'd understand. At this point, I see more value in Guilty Crown, and everyone knows how much I hated that too. The other reason is that in this current climate, I see no reason to lower my expectations at all. I hardly consider myself one with critical eyes. The first season was fine, and I enjoy stuff like Kiss x Sis and To Love Ru without a second thought. And even though people would stab me for saying this, I have no problem with stuff like Vivid Red Operation either.
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2013-08-19, 00:43 | Link #463 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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It's the "fall apart later" that has me annoyed and tired at this point with much of the offerings. Some days I wonder if "story school" in Japan spends 80% of the class on character design, 15% on premise, and 5% on actually writing a story that doesn't catch on fire and suck ... and then they cancel the last few days so that isn't covered.
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2013-08-19, 01:21 | Link #464 |
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Well, it's definitely better to watch/ignore shows with no expectations than to have everything fall apart several episodes in. Though to be fair, someone told me
that the light novel was much better. As for the animation school thing by Vexx, you put cute girls on everything to break even, and then you think of something resembling plot.
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2013-08-26, 15:28 | Link #465 |
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Seldom do I read about an anime before I watch it. I don't wanna know anything about it going in, more fun that way :3
And also, I watch like...2 or 3 shows every couple of months. Usually I find one I really like and I dig into it for a looong time. Keeps things super fresh. But on the flip side I'm not up on any of the new stuff.
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2013-08-30, 08:21 | Link #466 |
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I think that after watching some serious/mature anime series you will try to find more of that kind instead of silly, more childish ones.
For example, if you watched Bleach/Naruto then watched Darker than Black, Psycho-Pass, etc. you will try to find some more series like the later (Blassreiter, Fate/Zero, etc.) instead of things like Fairy Tail, One Piece, KHR! The same with romance type anime. First if you watch typical harem with a young looking stupid male lead and then watch something more serious like White Album, you would like to watch more series with an older protagonist, better character development, more mature story. Well, at least I think so.
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2013-09-02, 17:34 | Link #469 |
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I could easily pick Garzey's Wing, Angel Cop and Mad Bull 34 as some of the more horrible ones from the 90's.
These are even worse than most animes these days and it didn''t help that i remembered that most US dubbed animes were so bad that it became laughable |
2013-09-02, 18:18 | Link #471 | |
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20 years ago, the West got about 10% of the total available number of shows. 20 years ago, the internet did not exist and 500 series weren't available just by clicking. I love how people just go in and say "everything back then was awesome, everything now is shit", because it means that you never bothered really looking into "20 years ago".
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2013-09-02, 19:12 | Link #472 |
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There's bad stuff everywhere, just takes sifting.
And there's a time and a place for everything. When I was younger I was so into the super powers, fighting, crazy super action anime and now I'm chilling out with Tamayura 0_o. And After I finished Air I watched MM! to come down from all the intensities..can't say I saw that one coming.
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2013-09-02, 21:58 | Link #474 | |
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Dream and hope...uh...yeah. If anything, anime has gotten much more depressing. Japanese...well, it has always been a symbol of the Japanese since the 70s.... Not sure what you're talking about here.
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2013-09-02, 22:04 | Link #475 | |
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If you're talking about the shows themselves, then while it's true there's plenty of darker-toned shows out there, there's also some extremely heartwarming and uplifting shows out there. Heck, "Healing anime" is a much bigger thing now than it was back in the 90s or likely anytime before then. As someone who likes a fair number of "Healing anime" shows, I would say this is one of the edges that modern anime has on the past. It's not that hard to find modern anime with Dreams and Hopes in them.
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2013-09-02, 22:10 | Link #476 | |
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2013-09-02, 22:39 | Link #477 |
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No, no, I mean the prospect of this industry. Still survive and thriving after all these up and down - you gotta give credit to it. It's kind of an "American Dream" for some of us (my sister, for example). Also, even in the darkest anime, you could still find a ray of hope, right? And Healing Anime, they still growth, it is just that this is the era of depressing.
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2013-09-03, 00:22 | Link #478 | |
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But I am pretty happy we don't get anti-Semitic anime anymore. (At least that I'm aware of.)
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2013-09-03, 02:31 | Link #479 |
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While Candy Candy is not a masterpiece even in shoujo standards but it safe to say it wasn't made to pander fujioshi audiences, like most popular shoujo shows of today. Just my opinion though.
@Echoes: There's an anti-semitic manga as far as I know. It was an adaptation of Hitler's Mein Kampf, if its qualifies. It is so offensive that only Fakku interested of scanlating it. |
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