People bitch that anime is so cliched and when one comes out that bucks a trend it's all 'where's mah power levels', 'how is there any tension if he wanpan's all baddies' 'what's this even about' 'will they have a 13 episode arc full of flashbacks describing how he got his power'
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The vast majority of people (in this thread and on other sites) have been overwhelmingly positive about this show.
There's no point complaining about an irrelevant minority.
OniBarubary
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It's still pretty shoneny but it's pretty good at having it's side characters not get the Vegeta/Piccolo treatment. They remain pretty relevant til the end. Fights are neat. It's not amazing but I liked it.
And yeah, the anime butchered the fuck out if it. They took a series aimed at teens and made it for 8 year olds.
I must have seen the first episode at least six times with different people now lol. The one scene that always fucking gets me is when the scientist brother dies.
"... NIIIII-SSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!"
"I am the strongest man... but what's the point 😪"
yeah, that's a good one too haha
I suggested the show to a friend, and after watching an episode she said it reminded her of Trigun.
First time I've heard that comparison.
I think OPM is closer to Megas XLR. An overly-powerful character that doesn't take things seriously and the series itself is a parody of a popular genre.
First time I've heard that comparison.
I think OPM is closer to Megas XLR. An overly-powerful character that doesn't take things seriously and the series itself is a parody of a popular genre.
The secret is most of them probably aren't the same people.
Hmm fair enough. I suppose I'll give it a shot. (The manga, that is.)
People in the Jojo thread being unable to keep their mouths shut isn't the fault of the show
As for
Kakoyin, I think that in most other shonen, he would have survived his encounter with Dio. I agree there were death flags but I feel enough shows don't follow through that there was a degree of doubt of how things were going to play out. Though I guess to be fair, the events of prior Parts and what went down in Dio's mansion probably are enough of a clue that Jojo isn't above killing major characters.
People in the Jojo thread being unable to keep their mouths shut isn't the fault of the show
No, no, I meant that I made comments calling it out a while before it happened because the show made it so obvious... Wait, actually, now I'm reminded that:
Jojo's Part 3:
I actually got spoiled on Kakyoin's death because someone sent a PM spoiling it for me, so I might actually be misremembering how that whole thing went for me. I guess with that knowledge, I might have known what to look for, though he did have his share of obvious death flags.
Anyways, all this to say that I'm a fan when I don't expect certain character deaths, and when plot armor is a reduced presence than it typically is. It can be interesting when the thought is, "Is this character going to die?" rather than it always being, "How is this character going to get out of this situation this time?"
OniBarubary
Banned
Despite my incredible fuck-ups, read Kurohime.
You should have just recommended it without giving context.
This is going to be a ridiculously long wait for season two.
I'll have him send the title to me in a private message.
Then I'll recommend the anime without context.
Oh shit...
Don't worry.
I'll have him send the title to me in a private message.
Then I'll recommend the anime without context.
Oh shit...
OniBarubary
Banned
I have shamed myself and dishonored my father.
Time to commit one-punch-puku.
Nemesis121
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Because they refuse to take a filler break and give Oda time to build up a lead, instead they kill the production with constant flashbacks, i have seen some eps have 2-3 mins of canon, Manga is great, anime is fucking horrible..
I think you confused One Piece with Naruto. That show completely kills it's momentum with a year full of filler flashbacks.
One Piece doesn't have much filler like that, but they do drag out scenes ridiculously long to fit a single chapter in one episode. Hell, a lot of times a full episode isn't even a full chapter. It's pretty bad but Naruto's situation right now is somehow much worse.
One Piece doesn't have much filler like that, but they do drag out scenes ridiculously long to fit a single chapter in one episode. Hell, a lot of times a full episode isn't even a full chapter. It's pretty bad but Naruto's situation right now is somehow much worse.
It got a rushed ending in the manga, but I wouldn't call it a throwaway series.
It's funny though,
the heroes keep asspulling huge powerups and at the end just when you start thinking they might have a chance the antagonist just goes "lol, get rekt".
Naruto Shippuden's fillers are continuing through March of 2016.
Nemesis121
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Go back and watch Thrillerbark arc shit was painful, I took a break there, then after a year finally gave it another shot, and the pacing is brutal... best arc at that time War arc was handled with the lowest production values, the animation was poor all through the arc.
Gentle Rodriguez
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In the end? Sure, but I've seen plenty of shows in which the protagonists do lose some fights, even if they lose only one fight it gives you a feeling of "it CAN happen" every fight afterwards. It's proably my fault for comparing it to sports series in which the protagonists can lose at any point vs anyone, probably why I like them so much too.
hmmm...i'll consider it
holy shit
i can't even comprehend how they can keep making this fucking filler
we won't see the end of the Naruto anime until 2017
that's fucking absurd
tbf, Thriller Bark is the worst arc in One Piece regardless of pacing
the only good parts are at the end
nah dude, the author revised the ending into what it should have been originally
that's what wikipedia told me anyway, when I was looking into the ending debacle
Poodlestrike
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That kinda depends on a lot of things. There are some series where the heroes lose (Eyeshield 21 to use an extremely convenient example), there's others where the tension is in "how much damage will get done before the villain gets stopped," there's others where the focus is more on the journey, where you get invested enough to stop focusing on and applying meta knowledge to outcomes.
Shippuden is doing some Itachi special in late-February/early-March.
Its January schedule is already out. Nothing but fillers. I highly doubt they put canon between the end of January and the Itachi special.
So, yeah, fillers through March. It's pathetic. They've basically given up. I think I'm going to give up. I don't even care.
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Thriller Bark is terrible with the worst antagonist of the entire series.
Its January schedule is already out. Nothing but fillers. I highly doubt they put canon between the end of January and the Itachi special.
So, yeah, fillers through March. It's pathetic. They've basically given up. I think I'm going to give up. I don't even care.
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Thriller Bark is terrible with the worst antagonist of the entire series.
Wolf Akela
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Yeah, those things bothered me when I rewatched the anime years later.
The anime is pretty mixed in quality. Like, I love the songs and the music is good. Animation quality varies. I really wasn't a fan of the story towards the end. It kinda felt rushed too.
Got to look at it from the bright side: We'll get to see the superior version of the last chapters first.
Poetic.Injustice
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The reason Naruto has fillers is because they wanna wait for Boruto to get some chapters out first.
Poodlestrike
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They could take a fucking break and not let the quality of their brand suffer but I guess that's just too much to ask of Japanese animation studios that aren't Bones or MADHOUSE.
Crash Station
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Tell that to Go Nagai.
Crash Station
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That's not really true though. The fight
just kind of.... stops. And it still gets a happy ending anyway.
You just watched One Punch Man and say that? Seriously?
The anime is a fucking POS. The voices and music are seriously it's only redemption. And the really, REALLY occasional sakuga.
Comparing the animation quality for a twelve-episode season with something that, unfortunately, has to crank out at least 40 episodes a year is pretty ridiculous.
When One Piece looks really good, it looks really good.
These days, however, those moments of really good get farther and farther apart.
hosannainexcelsis
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Uh, most studios do take breaks. There are only a few studios that do long-running shows consistently: Toei (Precure, Dragon Ball Super, World Trigger, One Piece), Oriental Light and Magic (Pokemon, Youkai Watch, Future Card Buddyfight), Shin-Ei (Doraemon, Crayon Shin-chan). Naruto is the only long-running show that Pierrot is doing right now; since Bleach ended, all of the other shows they've animated have been a year maximum (and that only for Polar Bear Cafe and Gaist Crusher).
It's not a studio thing per se so much as, when an anime series has been going on for years and years and is still making money for the producers, there's a vested interest in keeping it going. Since the main Naruto manga is done, there's no need for the anime production team to take a break so the manga can catch up - they can just adapt the remaining manga material. But the producers want to delay that, because they don't want to give up a proven franchise. Hence the large amount of anime-original material that's being done.
Does any of your excuses make it look better though?
It's shit. It's a fact. You can probably compile the sakugas from One Piece and make an anime of the size of One Punch Man. That's how much it sucks.
The last good fight I've watched in One Piece was... vs Moria (inside that giant monster). When the group fights it together. Before it, Water 7/Enies Lobby arc, it was fantastic, full of great fights.
After Thriller Bark... I can't really remember good moments... maybe Luffy punching the Tenryuubito.
Does your conspicuously avoiding question even actually address my post, though?
I never excused the One Piece quality. I just stated the facts of the matter, actual facts, not some random "compilation of Sakuga" thing. It's too bad, though.
Just earlier today, I said I made the mistake of watching the latest One Piece episode right after the beautify and electrifying One-Punch finale.
Despite the lameness of the antagonist, there were some great-looking episodes in the Fishmen Arc, especially in the water.
This long anime thing simply isn't sustainable in this fashion. Naruto's second (third?) fall from grace is proving it's not even worth it.
I just wanted to watch one of my favourite mangas with good quality.
Only Movie 6 and Strong World comes next to what I wanted to see in anime form.
I think they are saving budget in the worst possible way, stretching staring scenes or reusing lots of panels. It makes watching it weekly completely toxic.
Just saw the ending of OPM. It was good, really good.
People saying OP (anime) is crap, it is. It's pretty clear they save their budget for the key moments (I still find this impreasive since it's a lengthy series) everything else is pretty low on quality. I said this as a One Piece fan who stopped watching the anime at Water 7 when there was pretty tame filler/padding.
People saying OP (anime) is crap, it is. It's pretty clear they save their budget for the key moments (I still find this impreasive since it's a lengthy series) everything else is pretty low on quality. I said this as a One Piece fan who stopped watching the anime at Water 7 when there was pretty tame filler/padding.
eh, i dunno about that. Dressrosa probably has more well animated episodes than most arcs in One Piece. Of course, it's mostly for the really big moments, but that arc is really long and has a lot of them.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Dressrosa is already long, drawn out and bad enough, if you watch the anime version you are just a masochist at that point.
OniBarubary
Banned
Wellllllll...
technically the good guys win just because they change their plan from "Let's beat him oh shit that's actually impossible" to "He's going to win, we can't stop him, how can we convince/make that an okay thing to have happen." So the good guys LET him win because they can't stop him but through the Great Spirit/his mom that becomes an okay thing to have happen. So Hao does actually win, he becomes Shaman King and unites with the Great Spirit he just basically decides not to erase everyone.
So he does win it just becomes okay that he won. So you get your happy ending
Lavalamp1138
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He was like zoom and bang and the bad guy went crash and Pshhhh and there was this light and explosions abc he went to the moon and then he went serious series punch and shatters the Crystal and the troposphere parted across the planet and pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff aghhhhghggghbfhvc
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