What is your greatest disappointment in Anime?
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There not being a Second Season to Time of Eve. One of my favourite recent animes. Slice of life, sci-fi, romance, all in one thought-provoking and grounded look at android culture.
Unless if you know more news than me.
There not being a Second Season to Time of Eve. One of my favourite recent animes. Slice of life, sci-fi, romance, all in one thought-provoking and grounded look at android culture.
Unless if you know more news than me.
Nah I don't watch anime any more. I've exhausted the few that interested me and I can't stand watching them anymore. The animation is so poor. Sick of long scenes focused on a guys face where the only thing actually moving is their mouth opening and shutting itself. Until they start doing a better job I don't think I'd be able to stand it.Hagenzz said:
Might as well add my 'biggest disappointment'. For me it was Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Started out brilliantly in my opinion as far as the mystery goes. Degenerated pretty quickly into some sort of moe highschool drama, or something. Butchered the suspenseful atmosphere.
Do you mean the Japanese voice cast? Was it different? I watched both series dubbed.SckizoBoy said:
Yep, I almost refused to watch it because (apart from the Elric Brothers and Maes Hughes) the entire voice cast of the main characters changed, the worst one being Shinichiro Miki taking over as Roy Mustang. Nah, just doesn't fit his character (he has quite a soft and languid voice), though as I said, it grew on me and about half way through (granted, it started as a bit of a struggle) I wasn't that bothered.Axelhander said:
Brotherhood is needlessly 'shinier' (sorry, can't think of another word) than the original, but I honestly like both series (which gets me a lot of flak from the anime purists and the manga purists). Ah well...
Though, what did you think of the Conqueror of Shambala?
Ok,seeing as I can't exactly explain the sheer wtfness of this little moment. I'm gonna put it in a spoiler!
It's disappointing because from what I hear,Gainax endings make 0 sense,but then again maybe my mind is trying to make sense of it to prevent it from exploding.
Are you serious? The ending was the best part of the Near/Mellow Arc. Or are you just a massive kira fan?Last Hugh Alive said:
Claymore. After the whole "Battle in the North" arc, the anime has the remaining claymores meeting up with the big bad, implied to be far more powerful then any of the other awakened ones they just barely survived. Unfortunately, they're at the end of the season, so the big bad pretty much just gives up and goes home. Massive Anti-Climax.
I hate to tell you this but Light was a child who couldn't stand to lose. Why does he kill L. Lind Taylor? Because he called him "Evil". Real Mature, Light.Outright Villainy said:
I'm not even going to mention what he was planning to do to his sister.
Just to let you know, it does get better after that. Its still cliched as all hell but it was enjoyable once the story kicked in.The_Ghost_Ninja said:
OT: Demon King Daimao, also known as Ichiban Ushiro No Daimaou
It has all the pieces to be a great anime. Hell, as far as I could tell it had all the pieces arranged in the right way. Its just that its kind of hard to see that when the entire plot is obscured by boobs. The show seems to go out of its way to show off the boobs. It is annoying as all hell because I wanted to watch it for the plot.
Ooooh, I have a whole bunch. In relative order from least disappointing to most:
Claymore/Berserk Endings - A cardinal sin of anime in my books are endings that don't conclude anything and basically tell you to go read the manga if you want to find out more. It makes the whole show feel more like a giant advert for another product than something you can enjoy on your own.
Death Note post you-know-what - I have never seen a show jump the shark this badly before. Up to that point, I'd call Death Note a technically flawless show, it's only detriment being the lack of a soul. After that particular incident, the wheels just fell of wholesale.
School Rumble OVAs - You know what the most interesting parts of School Rumble were? Everything but the main love triangle. You know what these OVAs were about and didn't even conclude in any fulfilling way? Take a wild guess.
Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen - Goddamnit. Kenshin goes to hell literally once and figuratively several times, and THIS is how you repay him?
The third act of End of Evangelion - Screw you, I already had my 2 episodes worth of philosophizing over mindfuck dream sequences. Conclude the goddamn plot alre--- oh. What the hell was that? How disgusting.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Season 2 - Endless Eight was bad, but I also didn't really like the whole movie-creation arc either.
And, by a country mile, the most disappointing thing I have ever witnessed in any visual medium ever is...
Cowboy Bebop - I hate being promised the moon with a $20 bonus and getting instead a fist-sized rock and a dime. Seriously, not liking or caring what happened to any of the characters just killed any interest I had in the series, and to this day I still have no idea how I managed to sit through the whole thing. It wasn't bad, but I found it boring, meandering and pointless. That'll learn me not to trust everything I read on the internet.
Claymore/Berserk Endings - A cardinal sin of anime in my books are endings that don't conclude anything and basically tell you to go read the manga if you want to find out more. It makes the whole show feel more like a giant advert for another product than something you can enjoy on your own.
Death Note post you-know-what - I have never seen a show jump the shark this badly before. Up to that point, I'd call Death Note a technically flawless show, it's only detriment being the lack of a soul. After that particular incident, the wheels just fell of wholesale.
School Rumble OVAs - You know what the most interesting parts of School Rumble were? Everything but the main love triangle. You know what these OVAs were about and didn't even conclude in any fulfilling way? Take a wild guess.
Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen - Goddamnit. Kenshin goes to hell literally once and figuratively several times, and THIS is how you repay him?
The third act of End of Evangelion - Screw you, I already had my 2 episodes worth of philosophizing over mindfuck dream sequences. Conclude the goddamn plot alre--- oh. What the hell was that? How disgusting.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Season 2 - Endless Eight was bad, but I also didn't really like the whole movie-creation arc either.
And, by a country mile, the most disappointing thing I have ever witnessed in any visual medium ever is...
Cowboy Bebop - I hate being promised the moon with a $20 bonus and getting instead a fist-sized rock and a dime. Seriously, not liking or caring what happened to any of the characters just killed any interest I had in the series, and to this day I still have no idea how I managed to sit through the whole thing. It wasn't bad, but I found it boring, meandering and pointless. That'll learn me not to trust everything I read on the internet.
I wasn't aware the Japanese voice cast went through such a dramatic change. Much of the English cast remained intact. Which, as far as I know, is kind of a role reversal for English/Japanese VAs lol.SckizoBoy said:
I'm an aspiring screenwriter, so one thing I disliked about Shambala was it doesn't really stand on its own; it's the cap on a series. The movie Serenity, however, capped Firefly AND stood on its own two feet (I actually saw it before the series).
That little nitpick aside, I enjoyed Shambala, though our world's version of Bradley being Fritz Lang was a little wacky for me. Also...
Poor, poor Winry...
Gurren Lagann Just a Average Show with Painfully typical Anime Characters, and yet some people think it the greatest thing humanity will ever do. I got to the time skip and just quit.
Well in DB kais case also, how much new merchandise can you sell for a stripped down bare bones retelling of dbz, when db dbz gt has had tons and tons of merchandising over the years, not going to be much new stuff to sell less u can open new markets of kids and teens that may not have as much exposure to dbz as people have had over the years. DB Kai also also just taking the old dbz show cutting down 80% of the filler, looping, dragging out of fights in the show that took 5 to 30 minutes lasting 4 or 5 hours. A good fan could have done the same thing really.Kumagawa Misogi said:
If more animes were solid well told animated etc they would sell the episodes, look at cowboy bebop, fullmetal alchemist, two animes that sold well not because they are merchandized to death but they had compelling well thought out characters surrounded by better than average or well thought out characters.
But these are also two, well 1.25 animes that were made to be animes and not enslaved to a manga schedule, well FMA was but then maybe 1/4 into the series they pretty much bailed on the manga entirely and told their own story.
I think the main issue some people have and lets face it in some shows the filler is just ram your head into wall bad, like bleach and naruto, and other animes just go for cheap stuff or silly stuff or other stuff that turns people off to the core of the series, which naruto the manga is a fairly well crafted focused narrative that is 10x more interesting than the silliness they toss into the anime of the show. Compounded with the fact that manga filler has no or little reguard for "canon" some it can directly contradict the story. Now i can only watch some animes like naruto or bleach if an interesting boss fight comes up. Bleach moreso since i can not stand the anime at all.
That Ouran High School Host Club ended after 26 episodes without really solving any of the conflicts involved. What about the twins? What about Honey's brother? What about Suou's mom?
Note: I am a strait male in my mid-twenties and still loved this show to it's unsatisfying end.
Note: I am a strait male in my mid-twenties and still loved this show to it's unsatisfying end.
I love anime, but I hate that most of them have sad endings. Call me simplistic but I want a frigging happy ending. Especially if I've watched hours and hours of something. It's bad enough when ordinary movies have awful endings. [Except horror movies, I enjoy those and I usually expect that most if not all the characters will die.]
Maybe that's one of the little things that made me fall so hard in love with Soul Eater, I was braced for something terrible at the end and it was perfectly finished. Bad guys die, good guys win, huzzah.
Knowing how disjointed, random and dark the manga has become I kinda hope they never make any more cartoons for it. Just let it be. The doujinshi's have become more fun then the original. And not just the adult ones. ;]
Oh yeah and DUBS SUCK. The English version of Soul Eater is unbearable. I watched it when it was first aired and had a nasty sense of trepidation steal over me when I heard there was going to be a US release of it. It was justified.
I'm so glad I imported the Resonance game instead of waiting. I know enough Japanese to muddle my way through the menus and story modes. :]
Maybe that's one of the little things that made me fall so hard in love with Soul Eater, I was braced for something terrible at the end and it was perfectly finished. Bad guys die, good guys win, huzzah.
Knowing how disjointed, random and dark the manga has become I kinda hope they never make any more cartoons for it. Just let it be. The doujinshi's have become more fun then the original. And not just the adult ones. ;]
Oh yeah and DUBS SUCK. The English version of Soul Eater is unbearable. I watched it when it was first aired and had a nasty sense of trepidation steal over me when I heard there was going to be a US release of it. It was justified.
I'm so glad I imported the Resonance game instead of waiting. I know enough Japanese to muddle my way through the menus and story modes. :]