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At 4/1/12 02:42 PM, Jercurpac wrote: My problem with anime is that it deals in extremes. It's either some goofy-ass chipmunk shit that is so damn cloying that it misses being either endearing or funny or it's so overbearing with its metaphysical and existential musings that I want to beat my head against the nearest solid object.

Not that there isn't a middle ground, but it's so slim that I generally just avoid anime unless someone I really trust suggests something to me.

So you dont like watching 2 genres of anime, so you hate it all? what. Yeah everything is composed of 2 different genres and nothing else oh wait thats completely wrong.

At 4/1/12 12:00 PM, pirateplatypus wrote: I haven't liked anime in a long time. I found that pretty much all the stuff you'd see on American television (Naruto, Bleach and so on) was just utter crap. Though, there is little in life that compares to watching the last half of Neon Genesis.

Thats because theyre only showing the shitty overrated crap like Naruto, Bleach and so on.

At 4/1/12 11:19 PM, II2none wrote: I tried code geass couldn't get into it after the first episode.

I know im going to sound juvenile when i say this but how come all the "good anime" is centered around cyber tech and fantasy crap wheres the kung-fu and interesting characters?

1. Code Geass is epic, and youre judging something but what youre implying is one episode
2. Kung-fu is incredibly obviously Chinese, which everyone knows
3. What orifice are you pulling this cyber-tech and fantasy thing from?
4. Almost all anime is built around interesting characters, otherwise it wouldnt be as popular or sell as much merchandise

At 4/2/12 12:46 PM, Ryanson wrote: Generally bad anime?

Any hentai ever made.

There are a very small amount of exceptions, only one I can think of is Yosuga no Sora though.

Also, I dont get why its so hard for people to find good anime. You just harvest up as many recommendations and names as you can and look them up on a few different sites to get the gist.

I can agree with you on naruto,bleach and one piece.
I did like one piece for a while but it was stringing along for too long and was the same plot over and over, If you want a show to last a long time there needs to be frequent change and a point to having people view your show, like the knowledge to know something that they need to know about it before it ends.
Otherwise there's no point.
I used to have a one piece ps2 game and it was pretty good but like I beat it in just a few days. Not cool.

I agree with OP

At 4/1/12 11:19 PM, II2none wrote: I tried code geass couldn't get into it after the first episode.

I know im going to sound juvenile when i say this but how come all the "good anime" is centered around cyber tech and fantasy crap wheres the kung-fu and interesting characters?

1. Code Geass is epic, and youre judging something but what youre implying is one episode

I agree.judging an anime by watching 1 episode is like calling it quits on a novel after reading the 1st chapter
watch until episode 6, it starts to build up the epic of this anime,

AYE DON'T TALK ABOUT NARUTO. Naruto is a BAMF. But Naruto Shippuden sucks ass. I've watched every single Naruto episode of Naruto but stopped a few episodes into Naruto Shippuden. It just sucks...

At 4/2/12 06:55 PM, Autri wrote: AYE DON'T TALK ABOUT NARUTO. Naruto is a BAMF. But Naruto Shippuden sucks ass. I've watched every single Naruto episode of Naruto but stopped a few episodes into Naruto Shippuden. It just sucks...

Yup, just sucks! Seriously they just dont know when too stop.

At 4/2/12 12:57 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Hokuto no Ken

hell yeah.

WATAAAA!

At 4/2/12 02:00 AM, Daikenkini wrote:

Single season stuff is just better, like Claymore and if you want Elfenlied, but as soon as the anime gets a second season, it becomes unnecessary shit (Code Geass has 50 episodes or so and the second half just sux).

Claymore's artsyle is plain good to begin with, but the Manga is much much longer I would imagine.

You would probably also like Berserker. If that got turned into an Anime (It never will, the art is just too well made), it would be great despite being so incredibly long.

Stop posting in here, you fucking morons.

At 4/4/12 01:40 PM, Sevkat wrote: Stop posting in here, you fucking morons.

Wait, but you posted too, so doesn't that make you?....

A long time ago I was really into Naruto, but I stopped watching. It got too long. Since then I've started watching short anime and I've enjoyed myself. I think my favorite anime of last year was Nichijou. That's probably the closet thing we'll get to Azumanga Daioh in a long time (EFF HighSchool Girls)

At 4/4/12 01:42 PM, Revo357912 wrote:

At 4/4/12 01:40 PM, Sevkat wrote: Stop posting in here, you fucking morons.

Wait, but you posted too, so doesn't that make you?....

>mfw

At 4/4/12 01:52 PM, Sevkat wrote:

At 4/4/12 01:42 PM, Revo357912 wrote:

At 4/4/12 01:40 PM, Sevkat wrote: Stop posting in here, you fucking morons.

Wait, but you posted too, so doesn't that make you?....

>mfw

Is that your face when you realized your hypocrisy?

Hey i like Bleach, evident by my username, but it is dragging on too long. I catch it every now and then on AS but its not a ritual like it used to be, i watched the whole Aizen saga on hulu so i know what happens, they should have ended it there now there going into this Fullbring thing NOPE.jpg. I also liked NGE and tolerated the ending, i still watch it now and then and still get that disoriented feeling but whatev. I watched Naruto and One piece for awhile but lost interest. Avatar: The last Airbender is hands down one of my favorites, even if you dont consider it anime. In my experience any Harem anime is crap, i mean come on really, one skinny nerdy guy some how by chance gets set up into a situation where he is constantly surrounded by a bunch of over sexualized, busty girls who all want to be with him and constantly are squishing him in between their cleavage and embarrassing him. Plot? No thanks we have boobies, fan-service animes in general.

K-ON is about the most unimaginative anime ever. While the art itself is good, there is exactly zero artistic license with the plot or most of the characters / settings at all, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole selling point of anime (as opposed to live-action shows) was that you didn't need to stick to the laws of normality. Seriously, you could hire actors for the entire 2 series and you wouldn't even need a special effects department (or anything at all besides a school setting and a few musical instruments).

I still watched both of them though. It still has the power to make you laugh, not through humour, but through sheer force of stupidity. Most of the jokes / antics are just so dumb you have to laugh at them regardless.

Naruto is getting a little tedious.

DBZ was okay until after Freiza where it all became "I NEEEED MOAR POWAH!!!!" i watched it into the Cell saga merely to see cell and his different forms, Imperfect" walking upright insectoid" cell was my favorite.

At 4/4/12 02:24 PM, hollowhybrid wrote: Hey i like Bleach, evident by my username, but it is dragging on too long. I catch it every now and then on AS but its not a ritual like it used to be, i watched the whole Aizen saga on hulu so i know what happens, they should have ended it there now there going into this Fullbring thing NOPE.jpg.

True that.

I think it would have been ok with the Fullbring arc if it had been executed differently. The way they introduced that plot and all, so far, has been very unsatisfying. I think it was needed though, to not let Ichigo powerless and to close in some plot holes (Like Hell or his father).

At 4/4/12 02:39 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: I still watched both of them though. It still has the power to make you laugh, not through humour, but through sheer force of stupidity. Most of the jokes / antics are just so dumb you have to laugh at them regardless.

Seems like someone doesnt understand the entire concept behind moe and endearment. Id say thats pretty stupid.

At 4/2/12 06:14 PM, BumFodder wrote:

At 4/1/12 11:19 PM, II2none wrote: I tried code geass couldn't get into it after the first episode.

I know im going to sound juvenile when i say this but how come all the "good anime" is centered around cyber tech and fantasy crap wheres the kung-fu and interesting characters?

1. Code Geass is epic, and youre judging something but what youre implying is one episode

If I'm not invested in the first episode odds are the rest of the franchise won't be as engaging either. I don't have the kind of optimism to hope i don't waste another 30 minutes. Yeah I'm stingy as hell when it comes to anime.

2. Kung-fu is incredibly obviously Chinese, which everyone knows

Sorry mister technical, Martial Arts.

3. What orifice are you pulling this cyber-tech and fantasy thing from?

I'm just saying majority of anime people consider good usually revolves around advance technology or some over the top fantasy.

4. Almost all anime is built around interesting characters, otherwise it wouldnt be as popular or sell as much merchandise

Oh yeah I also have issues with anime that lack English dub. Can't stand listening to gibberish (yes it's gibberish because I don't understand it) for 20+ minutes plus the voices feel off to me 90% of the time.

Also, I dont get why its so hard for people to find good anime. You just harvest up as many recommendations and names as you can and look them up on a few different sites to get the gist.

Speaking for myself I'm not THAT into anime in general. The last one I've looked into was mightiest disciple. outside of that I only cared for the Toonami programs of the 90's-early 2000's. (nostalgia whore, I know)

Those three sucks nonetheless.

At 4/4/12 11:48 PM, LaForge wrote: Bleach is alright. the variety of powers among the characters makes it worth following, it's not just IMMA CHARGIN MAH

You are right about bleach..BUT!
Bleach Doesn't stop..it keeps going, coming out with new stuff., the fight are maybe too long, and ichigo is overpowered as crap, and so are the other characters..

At 4/4/12 11:28 PM, II2none wrote:

At 4/2/12 06:14 PM, BumFodder wrote: 1. Code Geass is epic, and youre judging something but what youre implying is one episode

If I'm not invested in the first episode odds are the rest of the franchise won't be as engaging either. I don't have the kind of optimism to hope i don't waste another 30 minutes. Yeah I'm stingy as hell when it comes to anime.

That still doesn't mean you should dismiss the entire series just on the first episode. Believe it or not, I wasn't too impressed when I saw the first episode of CG either the first time, but I decided to give it a second chance a few episodes later, and I never looked back. Hell, I did the same thing too with FLCL, and I still think that show is an overrated P.O.S. show after seeing the whole OVA twice.

To be fair, no anime out there is going to appeal to everyone's taste, and I have noticed that some fans got upset after the second season, {most of their reasoning is bullshit though.} so I don't have a problem with you not liking Code Geass, but the quandary is that you give up after the first episode, especially when after that, it gets to the good stuff.

Pokemon doesn't even deserve to be called anime, or yugioh. It should be dubbed, money train of a series with no stopping anytime in the future.
I prefer short anime, when it has a good plot of course, but I just like finishing it and have everything resolved in the period of the 20-30 episodes. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is an exception to this, as it really got great over time.

At 4/4/12 11:48 PM, LaForge wrote:

the characters don't redeem the show either. the villains all have superiority complexes and all the heroes are... heroic. they lack depth. except maybe vegeta.

And piccolo although you have to watch the latter half of dragon ball to get his full story.

At 4/4/12 11:28 PM, II2none wrote: If I'm not invested in the first episode odds are the rest of the franchise won't be as engaging either. I don't have the kind of optimism to hope i don't waste another 30 minutes. Yeah I'm stingy as hell when it comes to anime.

Youre pretty stupid then. There are very few things which are amazing from the start, most things take a couple of episodes of backstory to get good. Im just wondering how you can watch anything at all.

I'm just saying majority of anime people consider good usually revolves around advance technology or some over the top fantasy.

I still have no idea where you got that from.

Oh yeah I also have issues with anime that lack English dub. Can't stand listening to gibberish (yes it's gibberish because I don't understand it) for 20+ minutes plus the voices feel off to me 90% of the time.

Im starting to get the feeling that youre trying to troll me.

Speaking for myself I'm not THAT into anime in general. The last one I've looked into was mightiest disciple. outside of that I only cared for the Toonami programs of the 90's-early 2000's. (nostalgia whore, I know)

So you barely watch any at all and then say it all sucks and then act like your opinion actually means something. You obviously havent watched anything made within the last 10 years.

At 4/5/12 12:01 AM, orangebomb wrote: That still doesn't mean you should dismiss the entire series just on the first episode. Believe it or not, I wasn't too impressed when I saw the first episode of CG either the first time, but I decided to give it a second chance a few episodes later, and I never looked back. Hell, I did the same thing too with FLCL, and I still think that show is an overrated P.O.S. show after seeing the whole OVA twice.

Like this guy said, if you give an opinion about the quality something you didnt even give a chance, then your opinion is total crap. Giving up after the first episode is something a 5 year old would do. I learned to give a series as long as it took for me to get completely and utterly bored, and I rarely ever drop anything ever compared to before that when I dropped loads of stuff.

At 4/5/12 12:16 AM, BumFodder wrote:
Youre pretty stupid then.

intelligence and attention span in this case aren't relevant.

Oh yeah I also have issues with anime that lack English dub. Can't stand listening to gibberish (yes it's gibberish because I don't understand it) for 20+ minutes plus the voices feel off to me 90% of the time.

Im starting to get the feeling that youre trying to troll me.

Nope I'm pretty sure inquiring that I only watch anime with English dub is important when it comes to making a recommendation.

Speaking for myself I'm not THAT into anime in general. The last one I've looked into was mightiest disciple. outside of that I only cared for the Toonami programs of the 90's-early 2000's. (nostalgia whore, I know)

So you barely watch any at all and then say it all sucks and then act like your opinion actually means something. You obviously haven't watched anything made within the last 10 years.

Rephrase: I've watched all the mainstream anime too but either it wasn't interesting or had too much filler I only care for the anime programs of the 90's early 2000's

Didn't like:
Naruto
Bleach
prince of tennis
ZatchBell
Sonic X
Kekkashi
Deathnote
Pokemon after advanced battle (got old)
Yu-gi-oh after the original three seasons.

At 4/5/12 12:01 AM, orangebomb wrote: That still doesn't mean you should dismiss the entire series just on the first episode. Believe it or not, I wasn't too impressed when I saw the first episode of CG either the first time, but I decided to give it a second chance a few episodes later, and I never looked back. Hell, I did the same thing too with FLCL, and I still think that show is an overrated P.O.S. show after seeing the whole OVA twice.

Like this guy said, if you give an opinion about the quality something you didnt even give a chance, then your opinion is total crap. Giving up after the first episode is something a 5 year old would do.

My interest of Code Geass was out of sheer boredom. I guess I'll try again in the future too.

That whole moe-blob noise is bad anime. No story line, all fan service. Can't even qualify for soft-core porn. It's just something that should not have been. Its existence annoys and confounds me.

At 4/5/12 12:51 AM, II2none wrote: Nope I'm pretty sure inquiring that I only watch anime with English dub is important when it comes to making a recommendation.

90% of dubs are horribly made, I coudlnt bear to watch most of them. Im just wondering how you can take it over the original audio.

Rephrase: I've watched all the mainstream anime too but either it wasn't interesting or had too much filler I only care for the anime programs of the 90's early 2000's

Didn't like:
Naruto
Bleach
prince of tennis
ZatchBell
Sonic X
Kekkashi
Deathnote
Pokemon after advanced battle (got old)
Yu-gi-oh after the original three seasons.

Those all suck anyway apart from Death Note, and Death Note has a dub so bad its actually insulting.

At 4/5/12 12:01 AM, orangebomb wrote:

My interest of Code Geass was out of sheer boredom. I guess I'll try again in the future too.

You should since Death Note and Code Geass are the only ones that are good that you have tried. Whoever is telling you to watch these has a really bad taste in anime.

At 4/5/12 07:03 AM, BumFodder wrote:

At 4/5/12 12:51 AM, II2none wrote: Nope I'm pretty sure inquiring that I only watch anime with English dub is important when it comes to making a recommendation.

90% of dubs are horribly made, I couldnt bear to watch most of them. I'm just wondering how you can take it over the original audio.

like I said listening to Japanese voice actors is more annoying cause it just sounds like jibberish. I don't like being forced to read English subs if i can help it.