Again your taste is bad nothing he can do about it.
Naruto putted anime on the map for many people. The fights in it where awesome, the enemy's where great and it wasn't sugar coating people with nobody ever dying. People dropped dead like flies everywhere and it made u wonder who was next in the next episode ( game of throne kind of feeling ).
Hey kids lets go into this forest to play a game so u can became this legit ninja, oh wait u dead.
Then u had awesome fights like this:
Probably up there as the best fight anime ever had to offer in any series. This completely talentless kid vs this demon kid that blows everybody up with his sand in seconds and he puts up a dam good fight that really drags u in with great animations. The 3D camera usage was really next level at that point. It was incredible well done and probably opened the series to most people as u had to see it. Everybody in my class was sure as heck watching it and talking about it.
Then u got stuff like this, by far my most high ranked enemy in any of these anime's and really well done character.
Pure evil, total control, extremely skilled, barely moves. Watch him in the eyes and u are locked up in his torture dungeon before the fight even starts getting stabbed for the rest of your entire life.
Oh hey how you doing?
Oh wait you're dead, not really just kidding. getting stabbed for the rest of your natural life that passes in seconds in the real world.
There where tons of interesting characters and well worked out story's. Sure it dragged on but so does any other anime that isn't a season or two type of series. And yea at the end it became borderline bad but that doesn't dismiss the early series which was pretty much at its peak.
Then about Bleach.
Incredible interesting characters with lots of good fights in there. Aizen was probably one of the best main villains in any series. A skill pretty much the same as itachi but a bit different to the point he's simple not killable unless he chooses not too. U never know where this guy is even if he's straight in front of u. Sure the ending it became dragon ball z power struggle matches. but the fights with espada's and the characters like that toxic professor where absolutely fantastic. It was a dragon ball z and naruto hybrid.
I loved every bit off it after they entered there spirit world.
I still hate they never made it further to showcase u the king place as the series stopped after it because it catched up on it. Not much of a anime reader. But would have loved to see the bankai of kenpachi animated properly.
Then attack on titan, probably one of the best first seasons. The brutal killing that goes on and this major threat is well done and probably one of the fast anime that blow up in western audiences ( it was pretty much a flash back towards naruto's starting area ). Everybody i know here was talking about it when u saw the titan in the wall. It was a instant hit. Sadly season 2 came way to late and it was total shit to the point nobody cared anymore. Season 1 however was great and absolutely solid choice.
Seven deadly sins, didn't really like it yet my friends do. They all love it. It's a hit or miss i guess. Still fights in it where awesome when they did happen.
Hunter x hunter, absolutely fantastic series, sadly the last season dragged on a bit to long in there freeza arc but in general really well done anime on its own that doesn't feel like its riddled with fillers.
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Joaquin won Best Male Actor as expected, and "Ford v Ferrari" and "1917" won deserved trophies as well.
