Post by darkson on May 28, 2004 19:35:32 GMT -6
And to accompany the other thread, what anime do you suggest one avoid like it were a VD?
The Great List of Suckyness! OBEY THE LIST!
Argento Sama: It don't completely suck...buck what the hell is up with that ending? Very mediocre series.
Jubie Chan: Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch: The secret is, it's boring. I am pretty sure the target age group for this series was probley 13 year old girls. Even tho it is presented as a fighting anime, it is bland as hell. I did get a few giggles out of thanks to the useless samurai sidekick so .005 bonus points for that.
Rahxephon: This is basically a Evangelion clone, that has been watered down, but polished up with a shine. Instead of raging berserk human/god/mecha hybreds, you get a big golem that whales at people. He looks at them, bellows some opera, and the enemy goes down. There was some backstory, and some "why we all exist" junk, but take my word, stick with Eva, unless you don't like Eva, in which case this may be more to your liking.
Those Who Hunt Elves: Take Slayers, remove all the carefully timed humor, leave in the random gags, add more random gags, add even more until it is nearly nonstop random gags, and top it all off with a tank inhabited by the soul of a cat, a random assortment of main characters, and the mission to tear the shirts off of female elves, and you got yourself a hefty dose of bland fantasy fanservice.
Final Fantasy Unlimited: Hey, when you go to the video store, and you see a copy of FFU next to Sailor Moon, then you basically got the exact same anime in different boxes. Okay, it's not that bad. But for about 20 episodes out of this 26 episode series, it will follow this formula:
Girl, little girl, little boy, chocobo travel to new place.
Dark looking, quiet guy follows.
Enemy appears.
Dark looking, quiet guy shoots magic gun.
Lots of pretty colors.
Enemy dead.
Rinse.
Repeat.
Only the final few episodes show any real change in said formula. It seems that any Movie/Anime with a Final Fantasy title slapped on it is doomed to fail to meet peoples expectations.
YuGiOh: Andy and Scott allready know my feelings on this. I think this anime was created soley to sell those damed overpriced pieces of paper. Sure, the creator started off innocently enough, starting off with stories of a kid ruthlessly setting people on fire, electricuting them, and then sucking their souls out (which really must not be as bad as he makes it out to be, because the person who's soul he has sucked shows up two episodes later). But later, after the author ran out of ideas for innane game ideas, a company bought out his own soul (which he has since learned he would grow a new one in two days, so haha to said company) and paid him huge wads of cash ridden with the sweat from 12 year old boys and 34 year old men (who live with their parents still) who eagerly clench their money awaiting the Yugioh: Chaotic Power of the Twenty-Fourth Expansion Set! I would probley not dislike this series so much if the common/un-common trading cards did not line the floor around the toilet.
Pokemon: Has ruined my otherwise enjoyable porn viewing experiances.
That is it for now. I could list more mediocre anime. Fortuneatly I can mostly avoid buying bad anime, so I don't have many awful experiances to share. But you may have some. So do share. And feel free to point out any anime I listed that you have a differing opinion on.
And as allways, please ignore any spelling and syntax errors. I have the grammer of a retarded 10 year old.
The Great List of Suckyness! OBEY THE LIST!
Argento Sama: It don't completely suck...buck what the hell is up with that ending? Very mediocre series.
Jubie Chan: Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch: The secret is, it's boring. I am pretty sure the target age group for this series was probley 13 year old girls. Even tho it is presented as a fighting anime, it is bland as hell. I did get a few giggles out of thanks to the useless samurai sidekick so .005 bonus points for that.
Rahxephon: This is basically a Evangelion clone, that has been watered down, but polished up with a shine. Instead of raging berserk human/god/mecha hybreds, you get a big golem that whales at people. He looks at them, bellows some opera, and the enemy goes down. There was some backstory, and some "why we all exist" junk, but take my word, stick with Eva, unless you don't like Eva, in which case this may be more to your liking.
Those Who Hunt Elves: Take Slayers, remove all the carefully timed humor, leave in the random gags, add more random gags, add even more until it is nearly nonstop random gags, and top it all off with a tank inhabited by the soul of a cat, a random assortment of main characters, and the mission to tear the shirts off of female elves, and you got yourself a hefty dose of bland fantasy fanservice.
Final Fantasy Unlimited: Hey, when you go to the video store, and you see a copy of FFU next to Sailor Moon, then you basically got the exact same anime in different boxes. Okay, it's not that bad. But for about 20 episodes out of this 26 episode series, it will follow this formula:
Girl, little girl, little boy, chocobo travel to new place.
Dark looking, quiet guy follows.
Enemy appears.
Dark looking, quiet guy shoots magic gun.
Lots of pretty colors.
Enemy dead.
Rinse.
Repeat.
Only the final few episodes show any real change in said formula. It seems that any Movie/Anime with a Final Fantasy title slapped on it is doomed to fail to meet peoples expectations.
YuGiOh: Andy and Scott allready know my feelings on this. I think this anime was created soley to sell those damed overpriced pieces of paper. Sure, the creator started off innocently enough, starting off with stories of a kid ruthlessly setting people on fire, electricuting them, and then sucking their souls out (which really must not be as bad as he makes it out to be, because the person who's soul he has sucked shows up two episodes later). But later, after the author ran out of ideas for innane game ideas, a company bought out his own soul (which he has since learned he would grow a new one in two days, so haha to said company) and paid him huge wads of cash ridden with the sweat from 12 year old boys and 34 year old men (who live with their parents still) who eagerly clench their money awaiting the Yugioh: Chaotic Power of the Twenty-Fourth Expansion Set! I would probley not dislike this series so much if the common/un-common trading cards did not line the floor around the toilet.
Pokemon: Has ruined my otherwise enjoyable porn viewing experiances.
That is it for now. I could list more mediocre anime. Fortuneatly I can mostly avoid buying bad anime, so I don't have many awful experiances to share. But you may have some. So do share. And feel free to point out any anime I listed that you have a differing opinion on.
And as allways, please ignore any spelling and syntax errors. I have the grammer of a retarded 10 year old.
