butch-cassidy
Straw Hat Pirate
Wolfs Rain. Horrid series yet everyone else seems to like it... for some reason.
Anime everyone else thinks is great but you don't like
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Sparrowsabre7
Za Warudo
Warmaster said:animefreak17 said:
But the series was what everyone praised in the first place...and after watching the series I don't really care about the characters or the plot enough to go any further. Which is my point
I have to agree with Warmaster "look beyond the series" is a pretty weak argument to try and get someone to like the series =P
There's few series that I outright dislike but quite a few I don't rate anywhere NEAR as highly as teh internets:
Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, Haruhi Suzumiya (I like the ONAs way better), Cowboy Bebop. All solid series I just don't LOVE them. I think with Bebop it was failed expectations, I went in thinking it would be an actiony anime, which it wasn't, had I been less expectant I probably woul've enjoyed it more, which is probably why I really like the movie.
Animefreak17
Godhand
well at least we know that everyone think differently on opinions of what animes the love and hate
Tenga Toppa Gurren Lagann.
Out of curiosity, I purchased the first two episodes from iTunes and watched them. It didn't grab me at all.
Hetalia
Then again, I have a penis.
Death Note
Okay, I don't hate it, but it definitely isn't deserving of all the praise it gets.
One Piece
I own the first 9 volumes of the manga. The series just hasn't grabbed me like other shonen series' have.
Dragonball
It bores me. I tried to get into it again with Kai, but I gave up after 6 episodes due to being thoroughly bored.
Out of curiosity, I purchased the first two episodes from iTunes and watched them. It didn't grab me at all.
Hetalia
Then again, I have a penis.
Death Note
Okay, I don't hate it, but it definitely isn't deserving of all the praise it gets.
One Piece
I own the first 9 volumes of the manga. The series just hasn't grabbed me like other shonen series' have.
Dragonball
It bores me. I tried to get into it again with Kai, but I gave up after 6 episodes due to being thoroughly bored.
Animefreak17
Godhand
you should give gurren largann a nother chanceRyu Shoji said:
Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
I watched Gurren Lagann all the way through when it was streamed, and I loathe it with a passion, so self referential and up itself.
Aquarion is a far more enjoyable parody of the mecha genre.
Cromartie High School puts me to sleep every time.
Bleach is the dullest thing ever created.
Hetalia = not funny
Excel Saga is tolerable, but I don't see it for the genius it's supposed to be. Actually I don't get Nabeshin at all, the only show of his that I do like is Tenchi GXP, and even that gets a little too much at times.
Aquarion is a far more enjoyable parody of the mecha genre.
Cromartie High School puts me to sleep every time.
Bleach is the dullest thing ever created.
Hetalia = not funny
Excel Saga is tolerable, but I don't see it for the genius it's supposed to be. Actually I don't get Nabeshin at all, the only show of his that I do like is Tenchi GXP, and even that gets a little too much at times.
Animefreak17
Godhand
i hate gundam seed its nothing compared to wing
Animefreak17
Godhand
Jaymii said:
im 110% behind you on that dude i told this guy to give it another chance
If a show can't capture my attention after 2 episodes, then it doesn't get a watch. As I was constantly taught in English class, it's the first chapter of a book that's supposed to encourage readers to read on, and buy the book. Needs a start that grabs you and makes you want to watch more.Jaymii said:
GL just didn't have that for me.
Animefreak17
Godhand
TO Ryu Shoji - i watched the first disc of area 88 and i was so freaking bored but when i watched disc 2 and 3 my heart was beating like crazy it was so good. i agree at the beginning of something is boring but when the story works up and up it pulls you in that how a story works
Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
Ryu Shoji said:
That's the current attitude to any form of entertainment. If it doesn't grab you by the balls with the first exposure to it, forget it. It's a marketing choice rather than anything to do with storytelling. It doesn't allow for the slow burn, gradual, insidious storytelling, or simple growth through word of mouth. Everything has to hit hit hit! Which is why Casshern Sins Blu part 2 gets cancelled within 36 hours.
I'm not saying that the instant hit, crack cocaine method of marketing doesn't have a place, certainly it does. But slow burners are equally as valid. That said, I found that Gurren Lagann started off average for me, and got worse the more I saw of it.
Animefreak17
Godhand
i also hate samuri X i cant get in to it. its just to depressing
I'd perhaps argue the book analogy doesn't carry over to televisual mediums. Films, maybe - films are planned and structured over one script and story. Shows are not - writers come and go, so do directors and their idea of the story they are telling. I would have missed out on a lot of amazing things in my life if I just dropped after disliking the first chapter.
mangaman74
Akatsuki
animefreak17 said:
I agree. Gundam Wing is much better than Seed.
Another show I don't rate - Robotech - awful dialogue.
Shows I did not like after watching 1 episode on a magazine cover disc - Divergence Eve, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (did not like the visuals) and Samurai Gun - watched all three episode 1s once, never again.
Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
Reaper gI said:
I get the genre deconstruction. It's supposed to poke fun at itself and the genre. But it's so blatant about it. Big neon signs flashing, idiotic characters, a whole tongue in cheek 'Hey, look at me, look how cool, smart and witty I am, taking the piss out of all the things that you've enjoyed about the genre in the past, and making you mugs think it's cool too' attitude that just made me say, "shut the **** up and just tell the story!"
Which is why I think Aquarion does it better.
VivisQueen
Adventurer
megagold5 said:
Some of you people make me cry. So on with making some other people cry in return:
Baccano (if you've seen Syriana or Crash, its narrative gimmick is definitely not enough to save its otherwise shallow events)
Wolf's Rain
Code Geass R2 (I enjoyed the first one)
Afro Samurai
Sword of the Stranger
Elfen Lied
Fullmetal Panic!
Gundam Wing (others are so wrong: SEED is a successful popcorn show while Wing is failed pretentious shite)
Hellsing
Kara no Kyoukai
Sarai-ya Goyou
Xam'd Lost Memories
And the mother of all heresies:
Spirited Away (I fell asleep! Twice! I will attempt to watch it a third time... one day... because being the only one in the world who can't remember much of it and hates the fact that it has an Oscar while Grave of the Fireflies doesn't is an uncomfortable position to be in)