[Anime] Your "Controversial" Opinions

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Regulus Tera said:
Mugi > Ui > Mio > Yui > Ritsu >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sawako >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Azunyan
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You got the top spot right, but then the rest is just so wrong.

Mugi >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sawako > Ui > Azunyan > Ritsu > Yui >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mio

I don't dislike Mio, but her character seems so horribly flat. Her only personality quirk is basically being afraid of everything and doesn't go beyond that so I always put her as last. Mio might as well be put off as a side character like Ui and Nodoka who just happens to play bass for the rest of them.

I'd like to say Azunyan = Ritsu = Yui since Ritsu is pretty cool and I don't dislike Yui anymore (I absolutely hated her when I first started watching because she was unbearably annoying) but my opinion of Yui fluctuates a lot so it's hard to get an exact spot. I generally like Ritsu more than her, but Ritsu doesn't get the spotlight as much.
I like Azunyan but Yui and Ritsu seem to outshine her a lot.
The placement for those three changes pretty much all the time for me.

*In-depth analysis of moe characters*
 
Mokoto Shishio is the greatest shounen villain...wait that's fact not controversial.

Yusuke Urameshi is shounen protagonist done right

Goku suck.
 
gunbo13 said:
Air Gear isn't difficult to follow. It just got insanely stupid at a certain point.

I admire your passion but man I just can't formulate a different opinion. And Air Gear was pretty decent up to that point. :(
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Yeah, most people that don't like the over the top stuff decide to bail at that moment. I wasn't a big fan of it at first myself and understand how it could turn some readers off the series for good.
 
Finaika said:
Hajimete no Ippo has nice pacing imo.
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Well, that's the benefit of already having 54 volumes of the manga out by the time the anime started. Not even DEEN could have screwed that one up.

Most series which are adapted in seasons, or wait until the manga is close to finished, turn out fine, but adapting a long running manga on a weekly basis will pretty much always result in bad pacing eventually simply because you wind up having to stall for time.
 
Air Gear was a great show.

One Piece has such horrible art that I will never be able to give it a chance.

Big O is one of the greatest shows of all time of the strength of atmosphere, music and style.

Oh and some guy said a few pages back that he could only appereciare bad assery when it was grounded in reality an I totally get that, and am confused by the backlash. It's what makes bebop and champloo cool.
 
Anime characters: almost always look Caucasian besides the gimmicky "american" they like to add. The Japanese envy of how white people look and are the ideal physical beings is a major turn off

And please save the anime examples of the gimmicky Japanese or American character some anime like to have
 
icarus-daedelus said:
I thought of another one: Shinkai is a total hack. Nice clouds tho.
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Yes!
icarus-daedelus said:
...marry me?
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Yes!
Wait...I'll consider it! You'll need to live with my Eva love and I'll have to live with your Yuasa hate (I don't love his work, but normally it has moments of greatness).

We can mutually obsess over Malick and Argento and Ikuhara and early Oshii stuff though. Obviously a strong framework for a successful long-term relationship.
 
perfectnight said:
Haha yeah it would be better if it was just the unfiltered, middle school level writing of Oda.

Might I direct you to Twilight? You would love that stuff.
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Of course, I would rather watch/read Twilight than One Piece. I'm not a eight years old boy anymore.
And the adventure-centric Dragonball (till the second tournament) is pretty much the best part of the entire Dragonball franchise.
 
Ken Masters said:
Anime characters: almost always look Caucasian besides the gimmicky "american" they like to add. The Japanese envy of how white people look and are the ideal physical beings is a major turn off

And please save the anime examples of the gimmicky Japanese or American character some anime like to have
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I think you should watch this.
 
pizzaroll said:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is horribly bland and tries really badly to be a liveaction show in every way it can. It's a horribly neutered vision of the GITS universe. Oshii's interpretation of GITS takes huge steaming shits on SAC.
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Just noticed you added this. I completely agree; it takes a true talent for dullardry to make a cyberpunk cop show feel banal, but Kenji Kamiyama has the gift. The interesting concepts dealt with in the story (and I guess the good, if not Klassic Kanno soundtrack) are all that make the show worthwhile. Also, the Tachikomas were totally insufferable and utterly inexcusable. I cringe every time they start talking.

I'm curious to hear you elaborate on the bit about how the show tries to be live-action, though. I can sort of understand what you're saying, but I'd never really thought of it like that before.
 
cosmicblizzard said:
I think you should watch this.
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Terrible video, proves nothing. But I would never get myself into a dumb racial debate. But he does have a point, Japanese love the western look. Most of it comes from after the war when they were educated that everything USA was amazing and superior, it's a type of a lost identity.
 
Gintama is an awesome anime, one of my favorites, but the manga is boring, the art is sub-par, and without the voices it doesn't click with me at all.
 
Typographenia said:
Howl's Moving Castle is probably my least favorite of the Ghibli movies I've seen. Despite all of the pretty things happening on screen, it felt really empty to me. The big emotional parts near the end were hampered by that feeling which pervaded nearly the entire film for me.
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There shouldn't be anything controversial about this, unless you've also watched Gedo Senki.
 
The explenation is pretty easy:

1. Disney as biggest influence for the new manga art style (minimalistic, big eyes) after the war.

2. minimalistic characterdesign, so you can see what you want:

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PdotMichael said:
The explenation is pretty easy:
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the only time it gets annoying is in realistic scenarios such as a Japanese school environment, and having characters with natural looking red/blonde hair and eyes. Its kind of a cheap way to differentiate characters without putting any effort into characterization.
 
ThisWreckage said:
I think that Monster is one of the worst shows ever in terms of pacing. I've tried to watch the show at least three times, get to around episode ten, and completely zone out. Glacially paced and boring. That's the only semi-controversial statement I can think of. I know that Monster has a lot of fans.
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Agreed. I went into it with sky-high expectations and by less than a dozen episodes in they were all destroyed. After the episode where Tenma treats a bunch of terrorists because he's such a good person and then they decide to renounce their lives of crime and turn themselves in, because Tenma is such a good person, that was when I definitively decided that I was through with this shit.

Also whenever I'm describing this show to people I always take care to mention that there is one episode where the protagonist learns how to fire a gun, and that is the entire plot of the entire episode.
 
Right, most people know that Disney started the big eye trend. But the fact still stands that most but not ALL of fictional characters in Japanese media, be it anime or video games, tend to have a western look. It's not a big deal tho, you also have to remember that they are trying to appeal to a international market, not only a Japanese one.
 
gatotsu911 said:
Also whenever I'm describing this show to people I always take care to mention that there is one episode where the protagonist learns how to fire a gun, and that is the entire plot of the entire episode.
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That's one of the best episodes in the whole show, though. And you can write misleading summaries like that for numerous good episodes of any given anime.
 
Clott said:
Right, most people know that Disney started the big eye trend. But the fact still stands that most but not ALL of fictional characters in Japanese media, be it anime or video games, tend to have a western look. It's not a big deal tho, you also have to remember that they are trying to appeal to a international market, not only a Japanese one.
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colour allows for more diversity than black hair and eyes
its not really about being western
would you make a cartoon where people look quite similar? nope
not unless you're going for a very realistic look, of which there are a few shows
 
Darker Than Black was a boring show with a boring plot, boring main characters, boring dialogue, boring fight scenes, and the worst case of contrived complexity I've ever seen.
 
Branduil said:
That's one of the best episodes in the whole show, though. And you can write misleading summaries like that for numerous good episodes of any given anime.
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IMO it was as dull as the "misleading" summary communicates, just like every other episode of Monster, thanks to the leaden writing and direction. I only recently remembered that it even had subplots.
 
gatotsu911 said:
Darker Than Black was a boring show with a boring plot, boring main characters, boring dialogue, boring fight scenes, and the worst case of contrived complexity I've ever seen.
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I agree idk how I watched the whole series, I suppose I was just curious to see if something would actually happen the next episode.
 
Clott said:
Big O is one of the greatest shows of all time of the strength of atmosphere, music and style.
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Wait, this is a controversial stance? I'm gonna have to beat some people up, if that's the case... Big O is awesome, and the world will know!
I think the second season, while not as great as the first, was still superb.
 
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