Seems like it isn't what I'm looking for but horror is good too, might marathon it next time I have a free weekend.
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Spring Anime 2016 |OT| Get a Season So Complicated
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Seems like it isn't what I'm looking for but horror is good too, might marathon it next time I have a free weekend.
hosannainexcelsis
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It sounds like you would enjoy Mouryou no Hako, a mystery show set in post-World War II Japan involving a complex web of troubled people who get involved in a serial murder case.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
My main problem is also the main characters. I don't like the MC, he's too nice in an annoying way.
Beating in what? Number of hiatus'?
Crash Station
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But it DOES do things like everything else. It's consistent, but it's not unique by any means. It's not Fairy Tail levels of generic, but it ain't special either.
It does a lot of things like everything else (albeit with a massive dose of earnestness that many other series lack - sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse). But
a) it doesn't start with the MC already fighting in episode one
b) it doesn't have any rad fights even within the first few episodes
c) it doesn't introduce any real villains until... will they even be introduced in these 13 episodes?
Those are all pretty different from the typical fare. And have been cited as reasons people are completely uninterested in MHA.
I think you assumed I was talking about the theme/setting/overarching plot, rather than what I was actually talking about, which are the individual events that happen.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Fairy tail isn't generic, Fairy Tail is offensively bad. Nakama power is a real tangible thing thing, every villain is insanely hyped up and then jobs instantly like clockwork with little effort. A character does shit because she's just that awesome, logic or explanation be damned. Inconsistencies abound and reptition thy name is. You'd have to actively try to be as bad as Fairy tail is. Mashima is anything but lazy, the guy almost never has a break had periods of releasing 2-3 chapters at a time for a weekly series and manags a few thousand spinoffs. His work ethic is impressive and I would respect him if it didn't seem like he actively tries to write a bad story.
Cornbread78
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ReZero ep.4
SoGood.gif... I love the tone and interactions in the show, especially ones between Subaru and Emelia. Now onto the mystery on what happened in his sleep.
SoGood.gif... I love the tone and interactions in the show, especially ones between Subaru and Emelia. Now onto the mystery on what happened in his sleep.
Mockingbird
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RE ZERO 4
This and Kabaneri are the best shows this season. The difference is RE Zero is pretty much 5 eps in (1 hours season premier) and still really good while Kabaneri is only 2. The pacing for RE Zero is good and the main character is appealing. In a few eps it will catch up to the manga so while I'm watching this knowing how things proceed to an extent, I can see some material that wasn't adapted in the manga that makes me appreciate the anime a lot more so far. It's also helpful to have the twins in color.
This and Kabaneri are the best shows this season. The difference is RE Zero is pretty much 5 eps in (1 hours season premier) and still really good while Kabaneri is only 2. The pacing for RE Zero is good and the main character is appealing. In a few eps it will catch up to the manga so while I'm watching this knowing how things proceed to an extent, I can see some material that wasn't adapted in the manga that makes me appreciate the anime a lot more so far. It's also helpful to have the twins in color.
Crash Station
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That's arguably even worse because those are events reserved for when the series has already gained an identity of its own. Filler and downtime are terrible to open up an optimistic battle series with if they're going to dwell on it.
Individual events are important, and starting out a series with a training arc is not a good look. Disregard that and all MHA has going for it is tone, which is admittedly pretty good in animated form.
MHA is not a bad series, but it has a crappy beginning. Genre-shifting battle series like Reborn and Negima have better introductions.
And this is where we differ, proving my point!
Crash Station
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The thing is what you described can absolutely be good if the writing is there. Gurren Lagann is a great example. Protagonist is weak, doesn't start out fighting, identity of the villains are vague, etc. It's executed fantastic there. It's not in MHA.
...And this is where we differ, etc etc etc!
Pretty sure this won't be the last of her. She apparently visits every so often in the manga.
Explosion!
You should watch Mouryou no Hako, but the tone is completely different from Lost Village.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Honestly didn't mind the begining to it, It set up and defined the protagonist, gave weight to his future experience and honestly didn't find it that boring. It was basically a extended version of Luffy's Origin story. My problem was the pay off was way too slow/not worth it. One piece started out very slow but it at least had a hook, recruit new crewmembers explore new areas etc. MHA hook isn't as interesting.
Cool, that's good.
And she is prominent in the op.
Really liked this episode. And its really cemented itself as my favourite new show.
Yeah neither the protagonist nor his rival are particularly endearing to me, All Might is the exception, mind you we've only had three major characters by episode 3 but I've dropped the show so I don't know if this improves or not later on. For me if the show was going to rely on those two it better have made sure their interactions or plots were compelling enough for me to wish to see more but that wasn't the case.
I suppose that is another thing that is holding MHA back now that I think about it it. The super hero premise feels mostly like a coat of paint compared to other super hero anime that we have seen.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
So what im getting at here is MHA is like HxH.
Basileus777
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It's not much like HxH other than being in the same genre.
Early HxH at any rate.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
I feel exactly the same. Rival seems to be there just to make the MC look good.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
All Might is awesome.
Deku is fine for his role.
Bakugou sucks. The other side characters are pretty good though.
Deku is fine for his role.
Bakugou sucks. The other side characters are pretty good though.
Cornbread78
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Date a Live ep.3
As much nonsense thar goes on, that wasn't that bad an episode.. I'm shocked, lol. I'm not sure how Shido survived, but hey, he got his kiss to end their first "date" (that princess I'd donething...)
, lol
As much nonsense thar goes on, that wasn't that bad an episode.. I'm shocked, lol. I'm not sure how Shido survived, but hey, he got his kiss to end their first "date" (that princess I'd donething...)
after his girlfriend killed him
Ughhhhhhhhhhh.
Basileus777
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Do you just hate Mouryou no Hako?
Haha yes I do.
Hellwarden
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I think most fans of MHA dislike Bakugou. (Or they're at least apathetic to him.)
He sucks, and the story would be so much more fun without him.
He sucks, and the story would be so much more fun without him.
GoldCrusader
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But I like Bakugou 
MetroidPrimeRib
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Its more exposure. Not surprising.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Hellwarden
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Guys, I think the upcoming project itoh film might be a bit bloody. Just a bit. (Seriously though, NSFW, lots of blood.)
My surprise is not that it is divisive, I called that early but rather how it has become the show to argue about this season. I thought it was going to be Kanbari or Mayoiga or even Kiznaiver yet here we are.
Wow, that was surprisingly nasty. I wonder if the film's any good? It's the Itoh work I'm most interested in, since Micheal Arias is one of the directors.
nintendoman58
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I'm not exactly a fan of Bakugo, but I have to say I do find something refreshing about him when it comes to the shows I watch.
The kid is legit dangerous and has next to no redeeming qualities personality-wise whatsoever. He's an absolute ass to literally everybody around him, not just Deku. It's hard to remember any times where I didn't feel like he was gonna blow somebody up in a rage.
All this is because he wants to be overwhelmingly better than everyone else. That's it. No tragic past or anything. There's no foreshadowing to any pain he feels about what he does or anything.
I can't remember the last time I've seen a character like Bakugo be the kind of person he is without those traits in a effort to make him sympathetic.
The kid is legit dangerous and has next to no redeeming qualities personality-wise whatsoever. He's an absolute ass to literally everybody around him, not just Deku. It's hard to remember any times where I didn't feel like he was gonna blow somebody up in a rage.
All this is because he wants to be overwhelmingly better than everyone else. That's it. No tragic past or anything. There's no foreshadowing to any pain he feels about what he does or anything.
I can't remember the last time I've seen a character like Bakugo be the kind of person he is without those traits in a effort to make him sympathetic.
Cornbread78
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Damn, that was good!
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