Poll: Anime List Comparison

[Soviet Heavy]

Depends on which season he was talking about. Code Geass R1 was pretty solid, but not terribly groundbreaking. R2 was horrifically bad.

Bad? BAD? Did you even SEE the ending? I'm sorry, but it is hands down the greatest ending in the history of storytelling. It was the perfect culmination of both Lelouche's and Susaku's character development. After all their work and hardship, they both make one of the most difficult choices anyone could ever make. Choosing the good of the people over the self. That kind of selflessness doesn't just come from nowhere, it makes perfect sense.

You want to know another reason Code Geass is better than 80% of the other anime out there? Pacing. I watch something like Bleach and you know how LONG it takes for anything to happen? Weeks, months even. It's not as bad as DBZ was, but sometimes it gets awfully close. And even then, when something does happen it takes several MORE episodes for it to actually happen.

And you know what Code Geass is about? People. Not fighting styles or who has the biggest sword or the flashiest power, it's about people. People and their desires and their fears and their regrets. Real breathing people who do things for their own reasons, not because a plot dictates they do. They MAKE the plot.

I'm sorry, I get a little nuts when it comes to CG, but maybe you should take a class that teaches you proper story structure someday, it might help you understand more.

Since I don't feel like arguing with a condescending jerk, I will simply say this: I disagree.
Bye bye fanboy.

 

[deserteagleeye]

I only read most of the Death note manga and I have to say it was good for a while, but it just seemed to drag on for me.

 

[Norix596]

Go watch Gurren Lagann.

 

[Active Schizophrenic]

GURREN LAGANN. WATCH IT NOW. TURN OFF THE ESCAPIST AND GO WATCH IT.



You still here? GO WATCH NOW! DONT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH NARUTO: SHIPPUUDEN ILL SPOIL IT FOR YOU: ITS NOT VERY GOOD!

 

[Active Schizophrenic]

Go watch Gurren Lagann.

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRGGGGGGGNNNNNN GODDAMMIT NINJA.

 

[Omega Pirate]

Just go watch Code Geass and stop complaining. Death Note was alright, but its not suited to everyone's tastes.

Here is my anime list.

[link]http://www.anime-planet.com/users/Bulletproof/anime[/link]

I tried making the link prettier, but I failed.

 

[chimeracreator]

Go watch Gurren Lagann.

It's like, on top10 of a lot of people of the most overrated anime.

Yes, but it's also on the top ten on even more people's list of their favorite anime series.

 

[Sunrider]

You gave Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann a 6/10. This makes you a peasant.
Also, ignore anyone telling you to watch K-On. Moe blobs = cancer that is killing anime.

EDIT: You should really watch Planetes.

 

[RaikuFA]

You gave Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann a 6/10. This makes you a peasant.
Also, ignore anyone telling you to watch K-On. Moe blobs = cancer that is killing anime.

I disagree to a bit, I read the manga and laughed at the music practice scenes.

But the Taste Like Diabites bits? Yeah just avoid that.

 

[busterkeatonrules]

That's a decent enough list you have there. Besides, nobody who has watched FLCL, Lupin III, Trigun AND pre-Z Dragonball deserves to be called an "anime peasant". I think you're right - the person you were talking to IS full of shit. This looks like nothing more than another classic case of "I like this but you don't? YOU STUPID! ME ANGRY! AAAAARGH!"

I think you should simply initiate the universal standard procedure for this sort of situation: Ignore & move on!

 

[Xhoyl]

Since I don't feel like arguing with a condescending jerk, I will simply say this: I disagree.
Bye bye fanboy.

I'm a jerk because I explain why the show was good? Okay, maybe my tone sounded condescending, I'll admit. Text is notoriously bad at showing tone. But my goal was not to make you look bad, just show you why you might be wrong. At the very least I wanted you to see that story-wise it was "textbook" good.

But that's probably going about it the wrong way. You want to know why I really love this show? Because it resonates emotionally with me. For example, every time I watch it, it makes me cry at least 4 times. Once the first season, and three times for the second. Three times. So maybe when you said the second season was bad I got a little defensive. I apologize. I just find it difficult to see someone not appreciating the story as much as I do. But to each his own I guess.

 

[Adamc-mh]

Curious why you dropped One Piece. But I don't think you're a anime peasant you've watched more than me.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Since I don't feel like arguing with a condescending jerk, I will simply say this: I disagree.
Bye bye fanboy.

I'm a jerk because I explain why the show was good? Okay, maybe my tone sounded condescending, I'll admit. Text is notoriously bad at showing tone. But my goal was not to make you look bad, just show you why you might be wrong. At the very least I wanted you to see that story-wise it was "textbook" good.

But that's probably going about it the wrong way. You want to know why I really love this show? Because it resonates emotionally with me. For example, every time I watch it, it makes me cry at least 4 times. Once the first season, and three times for the second. Three times. So maybe when you said the second season was bad I got a little defensive. I apologize. I just find it difficult to see someone not appreciating the story as much as I do. But to each his own I guess.

The big problem I had with Code Geass was that it was trying to be two shows at once, and the slice of life highschool dramedy got in the way of what I was invested in. I wanted to see this little power hungry chessmaster dupe people by nuking mountains or manipulating officials. When it gets interspersed with images of teenagers humping tables in the dark or gratuitous fanservice scenes, it totally drew me out of the plot.

Despite that, I enjoyed R1 overall, because when it actually dealt with the rebellion, it was intriguing. I enjoyed it in spite of the juvenile tit show that the high school portion showed. I thought that the season ending was a great cliffhanger.

Then R2 rolled around, and everything stopped dead in its tracks. The first few episodes were just a repeat of building up the Black Knights because they felt the need to kill all the momentum that had built up in R1 to show more of the high school bullcrap.

I would hardly call it the greatest story ever told, because like all such statements, it is a purely subjective view. Sorry to react violently, but I don't have much patience for people who tell me I'm wrong because I lack the proper education to appreciate something properly.

 

[somelurker]

Here's a list of all the anime I watch:

I'd happily watch any anime, if I could get over it's style and storytelling. But I can't, not any more. I've not really seen any anime that isn't over the top, stylized or weird/silly in some way. Which isn't really my thing anymore. In the interest of staying on topic, is there any anime out there that might still be interesting in a japanophobe like me?

Hello there good sir. I dare say I think I could recommend you wholeheartedly Kino's Journey (otherwise known as Kino no Tabi.

It has none of the things that you complain about. It's relatively slow paced, philosophical, episodic material that focuses on story, characters, and little ironic twists.

In addition to this, Mushishi, a very similar slow paced show. Episodic and visually arresting. By luck, the first episode is on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdhR5XZNXbs

As for a third recommendation, this is from a good friend of mine. Mononoke. First episode here. Gorgeous really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKd_5vwxM_0

 

[DarkRyter]

Your list is downright pathetic.

Most of it is just movies for series, and of those series, it's mostly just popular licensed stuff.

Even your backlog looks like it's from 2009.

 

[Xhoyl]

The big problem I had with Code Geass was that it was trying to be two shows at once, and the slice of life highschool dramedy got in the way of what I was invested in. I wanted to see this little power hungry chessmaster dupe people by nuking mountains or manipulating officials. When it gets interspersed with images of teenagers humping tables in the dark or gratuitous fanservice scenes, it totally drew me out of the plot.

Despite that, I enjoyed R1 overall, because when it actually dealt with the rebellion, it was intriguing. I enjoyed it in spite of the juvenile tit show that the high school portion showed. I thought that the season ending was a great cliffhanger.

Then R2 rolled around, and everything stopped dead in its tracks. The first few episodes were just a repeat of building up the Black Knights because they felt the need to kill all the momentum that had built up in R1 to show more of the high school bullcrap.

I would hardly call it the greatest story ever told, because like all such statements, it is a purely subjective view. Sorry to react violently, but I don't have much patience for people who tell me I'm wrong because I lack the proper education to appreciate something properly.

I can understand that. I'll admit that the series isn't perfect, but no story is. But I think there was purpose in what they did, even if it came as badly to some. Lelouche as a character was largely about his different masks. As in he was a different person depending on who was around and what the situation needed. In that regard the high school stuff was kind of necessary for comparison. Did they maybe go a little bit overboard with it? Perhaps. It's all subjective based on your story preferences.

But one of the greatest things about this show, and part of why I love it so much, is the play between Leouche and Suzaku. As characters they oppose each other so much, and yet despite that manage to finally work together at the very end for the common good. It shows a lot of strength for Suzaku to forgive Lelouche for what he did, even if he didn't know the whole truth. And Leouche being able to finally let go of his ego and do something that didn't benefit him at all, was the final progression of his character.

Sorry, I'm going all in-depth about the story again. It's kind of what I do