Aion
Time-Traveller
There are two that stick in my mind.
#1: Naruto: Shippuuden
Like many Narutards, I got into the anime when I was green and someone told me on MSN how awesome it was. Word of mouth/finger is a powerful thing. (FYI, the guy in question was an American version of Lupus in terms of persoanlity; a guy who informed me he found tissue when... 'eating out' with his girlfriend.)
Anyway. I loved it. Shounen titles are attacked for being childish and simplistic but, of the three main characters, one had his entire clan - mom and dad included - killed before his eyes by his brother; the other had to deal with being despised his whole life and isolated and the final, female member of the team had more normal female teen issues, mixed with feelings of inferiority. So, while it is a simple shounen, its excellent character development and generally likeable characters made it easy for me to get into.
Eventually, following the epic VotE showdown between Naruto and Sasuke, the fillers started. These fillers lasted for around 100 episodes, going on for something like 1.5-2 years. I refused to read the manga during this period because I was anime onry. I tried watching the fillers from time to time but, sometime after the Tony the Tiger arc, I stopped. I started again once Shippuuden was announced.
If you were into Naruto then, you would've watched the first ten minutes, with movie quality art and animation, and fapped for an hour. And even after seeing the rest of the animation quality wasn't anywhere near as high, you - if you were a true Narutard - would've continued fapping. But, a few episodes with poor art and mostly non-existent animation that covered ONE chapter per episode (some less) later, the fapping stopped and the hating started. Seeing how SP were destroying something I still had love for - even after nearly two years of waiting - pissed me off. A lot. The worst thing about watching it was knowing there had been two years of fillers to allow the manga content to get animated... and yet, despite the anime having over 100+ chapters to animate and a new chapter getting released every week, SP refused to go full canon. It was as if their intention was to piss people off as much as possible while milking the cow to the max.
To be fair to SP, the manga goes downhill in the second half. I've even gone on record saying I rate the first half 9/10 and the second half 6-7/10 - I put the manga on hold some 50+ chapters ago. But the second half started in epic fashion, with two Atasuki members (the elite of Naruto and thebaddies) heading towards Gaara and they STILL ****** it up with a slow-motion, fillerised battle. While it had no chance of being as good as the first Naruto series, if handled right the second anme still could've been highly entertaining... but SP ****** it up so badly that I couldn't get any enjoyment out of it whatsoever. In the end, I dropped it after 17 episodes.
#2: Code Geass R2
Code Geass; the answer to the aftermath of Death Note. All of the plot twists and epicness of DN, mixed with some of the most fap worthy female characters ever created, robots and an alternate universe where Britain... err, I mean 'The Holy Empire of Britannia' rules the world with an iron fist. I went into it thinking it'd be a mess and came out thinking it's 10/10 worthy.
After seeing the best cliffhanger ending ever, I of course wanted more. Everyone always wants more. So, like a proper Narutard, I kept checking NarutoFAN - a very active forum - to see when the sequel would be released. It was always a few months away. But, eventually, the happy day (early morning, actually, but whatever) came when I could finally watch the first episode of S2, in HD as an added bonus. Happy days...
...or rather, it would've been happy days if Sunrise hadn't run out of ideas by this point. They started off by rebooting the story, going down a memory loss path. They also copied the first few episodes of S1, having the first episode end the same way as the first episode of S1 AND having the second episode focus on Lelouch's tactics get ****** up by an ace mecha pilot owning everything. Despite the repetition, I was fine with this - S1 started excellent - and I remained positive. However, my optimism soon vanished.
In S1, what lead up to plot twists was shown. This pleased me; it showed they hadn't pulled twists out of their arses without thinking first. In S2, Lelouch teleported to school, changing into his gym clothes and appearing before a 'teacher' when only minutes before he had been trapped within the Chinese embassy. He also *somehow* swapped places with CC without anyone noticing.
In S1, tactics played a big part in battles. While there were super mechas and ace pilots, it was possible for tactics to win over brawn, and Lelouch often did. But this was all forgotten in S2 when it was revealed that the old, non-ace pilot mechas could no longer even damage the super mechas; not even with weapons. Also, in the episode that revealed this, Kallen was saved from falling to her death in her mecha by a submarine appearing directly below her and shooting upgrade parts at her. CG became friggin' Gundam, losing all the tactical warfare of S1. Hell, Suzaku even beat Europe on his own, in one mecha, and I'm not even joking.
In S1, fan service only appeared in a few spots, ignoring the large size of breasts. In S2, an entire episode was dedicated to it, with a 'teacher' wearing a very thin (non-existent, basically) swimsuit. I'm all for the odd fun episode, but episodes like the one I'm referring to were put in solely to sell the anime to perverts. Overall, there was a huge increase in fan service over S1, and I can only assume they increased the amount because S1 didn't sell as well as was planned.
And, finally, at the end of S1, Suzaku made it clear he wanted revenge against Zero - he was going to kill him. In the continuation of this scene in S2, Suzaku did an infamous spinkick to disarm Zero and, instead of going through with killing him, he took him to the other side of the ******* planet as his prisoner and used him as a bargaining chip to attain greater power. Way to continue the story by ******** all over the character development of S1, Sunrise. I won't even go into Kallen abandoning her leader during the key stages of a battle to take over Japan in order to use the country as a staging point in the war against 'The Holy Empire of Britannia'.
Code Geass R2 pissed me off so much that, because of my negativity, people assumed I was trolling when I posted about it. I could go on forever about the first eight episodes I watched before stopping to keep my sanity. God knows how I'd be if I watched all of it.
#1: Naruto: Shippuuden
Like many Narutards, I got into the anime when I was green and someone told me on MSN how awesome it was. Word of mouth/finger is a powerful thing. (FYI, the guy in question was an American version of Lupus in terms of persoanlity; a guy who informed me he found tissue when... 'eating out' with his girlfriend.)
Anyway. I loved it. Shounen titles are attacked for being childish and simplistic but, of the three main characters, one had his entire clan - mom and dad included - killed before his eyes by his brother; the other had to deal with being despised his whole life and isolated and the final, female member of the team had more normal female teen issues, mixed with feelings of inferiority. So, while it is a simple shounen, its excellent character development and generally likeable characters made it easy for me to get into.
Eventually, following the epic VotE showdown between Naruto and Sasuke, the fillers started. These fillers lasted for around 100 episodes, going on for something like 1.5-2 years. I refused to read the manga during this period because I was anime onry. I tried watching the fillers from time to time but, sometime after the Tony the Tiger arc, I stopped. I started again once Shippuuden was announced.
If you were into Naruto then, you would've watched the first ten minutes, with movie quality art and animation, and fapped for an hour. And even after seeing the rest of the animation quality wasn't anywhere near as high, you - if you were a true Narutard - would've continued fapping. But, a few episodes with poor art and mostly non-existent animation that covered ONE chapter per episode (some less) later, the fapping stopped and the hating started. Seeing how SP were destroying something I still had love for - even after nearly two years of waiting - pissed me off. A lot. The worst thing about watching it was knowing there had been two years of fillers to allow the manga content to get animated... and yet, despite the anime having over 100+ chapters to animate and a new chapter getting released every week, SP refused to go full canon. It was as if their intention was to piss people off as much as possible while milking the cow to the max.
To be fair to SP, the manga goes downhill in the second half. I've even gone on record saying I rate the first half 9/10 and the second half 6-7/10 - I put the manga on hold some 50+ chapters ago. But the second half started in epic fashion, with two Atasuki members (the elite of Naruto and thebaddies) heading towards Gaara and they STILL ****** it up with a slow-motion, fillerised battle. While it had no chance of being as good as the first Naruto series, if handled right the second anme still could've been highly entertaining... but SP ****** it up so badly that I couldn't get any enjoyment out of it whatsoever. In the end, I dropped it after 17 episodes.
#2: Code Geass R2
Code Geass; the answer to the aftermath of Death Note. All of the plot twists and epicness of DN, mixed with some of the most fap worthy female characters ever created, robots and an alternate universe where Britain... err, I mean 'The Holy Empire of Britannia' rules the world with an iron fist. I went into it thinking it'd be a mess and came out thinking it's 10/10 worthy.
After seeing the best cliffhanger ending ever, I of course wanted more. Everyone always wants more. So, like a proper Narutard, I kept checking NarutoFAN - a very active forum - to see when the sequel would be released. It was always a few months away. But, eventually, the happy day (early morning, actually, but whatever) came when I could finally watch the first episode of S2, in HD as an added bonus. Happy days...
...or rather, it would've been happy days if Sunrise hadn't run out of ideas by this point. They started off by rebooting the story, going down a memory loss path. They also copied the first few episodes of S1, having the first episode end the same way as the first episode of S1 AND having the second episode focus on Lelouch's tactics get ****** up by an ace mecha pilot owning everything. Despite the repetition, I was fine with this - S1 started excellent - and I remained positive. However, my optimism soon vanished.
In S1, what lead up to plot twists was shown. This pleased me; it showed they hadn't pulled twists out of their arses without thinking first. In S2, Lelouch teleported to school, changing into his gym clothes and appearing before a 'teacher' when only minutes before he had been trapped within the Chinese embassy. He also *somehow* swapped places with CC without anyone noticing.
In S1, tactics played a big part in battles. While there were super mechas and ace pilots, it was possible for tactics to win over brawn, and Lelouch often did. But this was all forgotten in S2 when it was revealed that the old, non-ace pilot mechas could no longer even damage the super mechas; not even with weapons. Also, in the episode that revealed this, Kallen was saved from falling to her death in her mecha by a submarine appearing directly below her and shooting upgrade parts at her. CG became friggin' Gundam, losing all the tactical warfare of S1. Hell, Suzaku even beat Europe on his own, in one mecha, and I'm not even joking.
In S1, fan service only appeared in a few spots, ignoring the large size of breasts. In S2, an entire episode was dedicated to it, with a 'teacher' wearing a very thin (non-existent, basically) swimsuit. I'm all for the odd fun episode, but episodes like the one I'm referring to were put in solely to sell the anime to perverts. Overall, there was a huge increase in fan service over S1, and I can only assume they increased the amount because S1 didn't sell as well as was planned.
And, finally, at the end of S1, Suzaku made it clear he wanted revenge against Zero - he was going to kill him. In the continuation of this scene in S2, Suzaku did an infamous spinkick to disarm Zero and, instead of going through with killing him, he took him to the other side of the ******* planet as his prisoner and used him as a bargaining chip to attain greater power. Way to continue the story by ******** all over the character development of S1, Sunrise. I won't even go into Kallen abandoning her leader during the key stages of a battle to take over Japan in order to use the country as a staging point in the war against 'The Holy Empire of Britannia'.
Code Geass R2 pissed me off so much that, because of my negativity, people assumed I was trolling when I posted about it. I could go on forever about the first eight episodes I watched before stopping to keep my sanity. God knows how I'd be if I watched all of it.
