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[Liamv2]

Aaaand they're still introducing characters.

 

You have yet to meet the haemorrhoids ninja.

 

Wat

[CrazyRah]

Hm, it's interesting the see the number of more recent anime in there, such as KLK and Attack on Titan. There are also some I haven't seen like Log Horizon and legend of the legendary heroes, actually to be honest I had not heard of them or seen anything about them before. 

 

The only one that I'm sort of surprised not seeing more of is Stein's Gate, a lot of people seem to really like that one. It's probably because it's an anime about scientists and there's a lot of scientist-like anime fans out there. Or maybe the cross-dressing, or the time travel... er... yeah I don't know.

 

Apparently I hadn't even added it to the list. *does it now*. Though it will be quite a while before I get to watch it. The list isn't remotely small by now 

 

[Chewin]

Really? They only cost me like 10/12 quid.

 

For a light novel, I consider it rather expensive, since if I read ones it tend to be around 5.00-7.00€ that I buy them for. But then again, I am picky with books in general.

 

Hemorrhoid ninjas? Oh dear...

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

You need to see more "Gorilla-san" moments!

[LPPrince]

Be ready to cry some more, since the manga is not up to date on the English translation. If you want to continue, you'll need to start reading the light novels.

 

Damn. Ahh well, I can wait.

[Dean_the_Young]

Figured some people would like this- especially the Grand Champion at the end.

 

It's kind of like Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, but anime style. Without the lyrics.

 

[Dean_the_Young]

So. Aldnoah.

 

It was an entertaining episode, action packed and all, but I definitely feel it was one of the weakest to date. A real victim of pacing concerns- understandable, considering the cour 1 finale is next week, but no less real.

 

Contrivances occur in all anime, but sometimes they're just... well, a product of rushing. Some were animation short cuts (the princess's air mask headband that goes straight through the ear, bullet-proof storage containers that somehow stand up to giant robot fire, a loli character somehow being able to drive a military vehicle her feet wouldn't hit the peddals of), some were just excuses to get persona A to plot point B (like the convenient intact mech falling into a prison cell for a redemption cell), some were just a reflection of the focus of the core cast (the extra voiced squad members who exists solely to die during the drop sequence- they never even had names or background appearances beforehand!), and so on. Slaine didn't even exploit the easily apparent foreshadowing of getting his own mech.

 

Don't get me wrong- it was a fun episode, thanks to generally slick animation and mostly due to a really sick sound track. I could even appreciate the Princess's character arc, in which she's gradually realizing that Vers is just plain awful, rather than the idea of 'a few bad apples.' But it's definitely a weak episode, and I just hope that the finale is respectable.

[Chewin]

I don't know what to think. Guess I need to find out for myself. 

[Chewin]

True. Several times I have had a big "WTF" face while watching the show. I am mostly looking forward for some great action sequences. Seen some gifs on the web that look quite spectacular.

[SlottsMachine]

 

The only one that I'm sort of surprised not seeing more of is Stein's Gate, a lot of people seem to really like that one. It's probably because it's an anime about scientists and there's a lot of scientist-like anime fans out there. Or maybe the cross-dressing, or the time travel... er... yeah I don't know.

 

I don't really know which anime's I would put in my top 5, Steins; Gate would definitely been on it though. 

[CrazyRah]

Weak for Aldnoah or weak in general?

 

I want to watch this so badly so I hope it's not one those "great when it starts crap when it's done."

 

Wouldn't call it "weak" as much as it had a lot of unfullfilled potential and a few things that it really could've done well without in which Dean mentioned the most glaring. Alright episode all together but one that suffered a lot in the pacing department. The creators really badly want to end this season at a certain spot and apparently had to rush this episode so that they could reach that point. 

 

About "good turning to crap" I at least got no such concerns and depending on how good the last episode is it's possible that Aldnoah will get a few more mentions in general. 

[Isichar]

Hm, it's interesting the see the number of more recent anime in there, such as KLK and Attack on Titan. There are also some I haven't seen like Log Horizon and legend of the legendary heroes, actually to be honest I had not heard of them or seen anything about them before. 

 

The only one that I'm sort of surprised not seeing more of is Stein's Gate, a lot of people seem to really like that one. It's probably because it's an anime about scientists and there's a lot of scientist-like anime fans out there. Or maybe the cross-dressing, or the time travel... er... yeah I don't know.

 

I went into Steins;Gate thinking it would be the best thing ever and was sorely disappointing. The starting and buildup was ok, the middle was amazing but then the end just kind of petered off with terrible characterization, slow pacing and one of the worst climax's I've seen to date.

 

Spoiler

Having the last 1/3 go from the situation with the situation with moeka (who I consider to be the worst introvert character ever done in any piece of fiction btw) to "lets go on dates" with the side characters is a terrible form of pacing. The story had become emotionally gripping and tense where I honestly had no idea what to expect next when I was on the part dealing with the Rounders but I didn't think it would be "lets go on a date with the cat girl"

 

And then there's Shouichi who was just unacceptably bad.. This guy watches his daughter get accidentally stabbed and he just goes "hahaha fools!" and runs off, like really how cliche can you get? I've been told that it's actually really deep characterization and that he was really in shock, which completlely ignoring the fact hes carrying around a hunting knife and is willing to attack students almost at random with it I'd say seems pretty unlikely. If I recall properly he even attacks his daughter with a screwdriver or something. He fails as a father, fails as a scientist (apparently he had never heard of the concept of peer review before choosing to be a scientist) and fails as a functioning human being. It doesn't help that Okabe's great plan is to let someone stab him (brilliant! /not) and Kurisu is just standing off the side the whole time going "no daddy no!"

 

The show lacked any kind of decent villain. Moeka and Shouichi are 2 of the worst characters I've seen in fiction, the Rounders stop playing a roll partway through and Sern is just some organization in the background we know hardly anything about and that can't effect anything directly by themselves. All we know is apparently they just can't get this time travel thing down.

 

The contrived nature of the ending also upset me. Everything just works out disgustingly well for the goodguys and then the villains get what is coming to them, Okabe gets the girl who magically gets all her memories of other timelines back because the story said so and everyone goes about their happy lives (sept Shouichi of couse because screw that guy)

 

Then there was the movie which added nothing to the series and just ended up wasting time. It introduces a completely new problem involved with Okabe time traveling and solves it by the end changing nothing in the process... There's nothing I hate more then a story that is so blatantly pointless.

 

The only half decent thing I could say about the entire last 1/3 of the series is that I thought it was sort of cool the Okabe was essentially tricking the timelines to add up.

 

I don't need there to be some giant twist at the end or for there to be an epic battle. What I wanted was something that was thought provoking and helped pull the story together in a meaningful way at the end, which is what I honestly expected going into the series considering the rave reviews but I didn't feel it had either of those things. I had hoped for an ending along the lines of Shin Sekai Yori or the Zero Escape games where you can spend hours upon hours thinking about the story and how it all connects in the end but Steins;Gate feels more like standard goodguy gets the girl and wins the day sort of nonsense which I can see why some people like, but to me it's lazy on a series that deserved more.

 

It doesn't help that I wasn't really invested in Okabe ending up with Kurisu at all.

 

Is Steins;Gate a bad anime? No. I just don't see what it did to be rated as highly as it is. For me I'd give it a 5/10 maybe a 6/10. But then again I accept my tastes are a bit different then a lot of popular opinions.. Like I think Bleach is one of the worst animes ever made but you can look at how popular and well received that is too so take my ranting with a grain of salt. 

 

Anyways sorry for the rant but I was genuinely upset after finishing the series due to my expectations going in.

 

 

@Geth

I'll start One Piece up when my viewing habits are more consistent. I'm not great with the longer ones in general but if I were to try right now I'd never be able to finish it. I'd end up spending a month on the first 50 chapters and then just get burnt out. It is still the next series up on my list though so if and when I do start watching more you'll be sure to hear from me.

[Master Warder Z_]

Well Toonami is doing a showing of all ten Hellsing Ultimate OVA's over the course of ten weekends, they showed OVA 1 last night.

 

Got to say rewatching something that in truth was one of the first more modern animes i ever watched, many,many years ago brought back all sorts of feelings of nostalgia.

 

I mean i first watched those basically as soon as they released, i had read the manga (most of it) back during the 90s and early 2000s, and i even complete the series on both formats eventually although i will say, rewatching it also reminded of the year to several year long waits for the OVA series to just finish, its an excellent series but maybe i say not on it's merits but on the fact it has a place in my heart due to whimsy.

 

Mmm it also made me feel old.

[CrazyRah]

AND NOW ISI'S HERE!

 

OMG

 

BEST DAY EVER!

 

Waaaah I never get this reaction from you.. waaaaaaaaah

 

[Il Divo]

Ah, episode 11. That was about my stopping point. I loved how unusual Durarara is, but I heard after that point, the show starts to drop in quality.