Rate the last anime you watched out of 10

Aion said:
Yeah, I read that in the new/current series Takamura has a big fight. I'm hoping it lasts longer than a few minutes, unlike his other fights.

If the focus does start to shift from Ippo after the Champions Road special (which I'm yet to watch) then I'll probably like the sequel series more. After all, it *should* have better animation, it being newer than the original series, which was a bit of let down in terms of animation.
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takamura's title fight which is coming up in the new series was my favourite fight in the manga, trust me it's probaly the most emotional fight and best in terms of build up and how it delivers.

About the new series though, if i'm being honest and this is entirely my opinion, i think it's a letdown because the new director omits a lot of the humor present in the manga and old season such as the comedy interactiosn between characters. Plus the pacing ranges from horrible to good, the new music is also a big stepback, it just feels very out of place and i was expecting something else out of the deathnote composer (did a good job with deathnote but here it just doesn't work), i loved the soundtrack to the first season. Lastly i think although the animation is brighter, it's also much choppier, a lot of still frames are used and the animation director cannot show damage for ****, punches come across as being stiff, they also over abuse the screen vibrations to hide the lack of decent animation.

Overall though so far i'm giving the new season a 7/10, i gave the old season a 10, (hope this hasn't put you off haha :p )
 
Hajime no Ippo: Champion('s?) Road - 8/10

It started like a Rocky movie...which is a good thing. Instead of jumping right into the continuation of the story, the best part of the Ippo vs. Sendo fight - the best and final fight of the first series - was shown. It got me pumped.

The film was pretty good when it dealt with the cast away from the boxing ring and not so good when the focus was on the boxing side. I liked the IppoxKumi scenes - they were cute/funny because Ippo couldn't say the 'L' word - and the scenes involving Ippo and the rest of the boxing gang were funny as always.

As for the boxing side, it failed because the rival Ippo had to face was boring - he was a doctor for crying out loud! Ippo got beaten to a pulp and then, on the verge of defeat, simply walked up to the doctor and gave him some quality lovin', knocking him down and winning. I found myself wishing he'd done it sooner because it was so bloody predictable. For the main (and only) fight of a movie, it wasn't great.

Still a good film, though. The fight wasn't horrible and there weren't too many newbie flashbacks (the leaf catching flashback irked me, mind you).

Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger - 9.5/10 (Episodes 1-8 )

My main complaints about the first series are as follows:

1: The lack of time spent on fights not involving Ippo.
2: The animation.

Right from the go, this second series started by reintroducing Miyata, setting him up for a title fight and getting it underway by the end of the first episode. It ended in the forth - lasting a hell of a lot longer than any fights not involving Ippo did in S1 - and, right after that, ANOTHER title fight got attention, the second once again not involving Ippo, the fighter getting the attention this time being Date. The first fight was wonderful, one of the best in the series, and the second was also quite good.

As for the visuals, everything is far more detailed because it's in HD. The animation has been better early on, the Miyata fight not having much in the way of loops and flowing really well. It looks great, all in all.

So, my two issues with the first season are no longer issues. Even better, I'm getting a 'serious business' vibe that I rarely felt during the first season because the focus was then on the story starting. Right now it's major fight after major fight, and Ippo even had a training session with the featherweight world champ in between!

I do, however, agree with OMGWAFFLES with regards to the pacing. I haven't read the manga but just going on the pacing difference between it and the first season I can see it's different. So far there has been near to no buffer between the fights, with very little of the comedy that was in S1. Kumi hasn't even appeared outside of a visualization yet - Ippo's 'girlfriend'!

Talking of Kumi, I believe her voice actress has changed. If so, that sucks because I loved the sweet voice she used to have. At least all of the other characters have the same voices.

And, finally, as for the music, I wasn't too fond of the original soundtrack, the openings and a few tracks aside. The music in the second season hasn't been great but it hasn't been bad either. I'll need to watch more before I can judge it, or listen to the soundtrack when it's put on the net.
 
Fate / Stay Night - 7 / 10

Great show, but I didn't like the ending so much.
I loved it until volume 4, but then volume 5 and the second archer ruined it.
 
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I dropped Noein after only two episodes. When there is so strangeness abound in the first episode of a show, I have no reason to attempt to suspend my disbelief.
It is probably possible to combine very hypothetical ideas into a dramatic work, but what I saw was a case of overkill.
 
SOUL EATER - 7.5/10

A decent series by Bones, although like FMA the anime had a exclusive ending as the manga is still being production, felt a bit weak in some areas like the story at times, but the overall feel was great .
Cant wait to see how the dub turns out.
 
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GANTZ - 8/10

A fabulous anime series. The ending was quite confusing but before that it was awesome. And it doesn't end that bad, it just could have been better.
But I'll forgive the ending when all the other parts of the anime are that great.
 
Mobile Suit Gundam Destiny 5/10.Watched the full 50 episodes over two days .God I wish I could get those two days back.The entire series except for a few new characters was basically a rehash of the much better Gundam Seed series.
Some nice mecha battles but that's about it.
 
Urzu seven said:
Mobile Suit Gundam Destiny 5/10.Watched the full 50 episodes over two days .God I wish I could get those two days back.The entire series except for a few new characters was basically a rehash of the much better Gundam Seed series.
Some nice mecha battles but that's about it.
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I still feel you're being too kind about it :p
 
Time of Eve - episode 1 - 4: 9/10

A very good anime that has kinda friendly feel :D It gives you a little to think of and the futuristic world is not literally sparkling of hapiness but I get in a cheerful mood when watching it anyway.

Btw it's awesome animated!
 
AD Police Files - 5/10

A dark 3-episode OVA set in the Bubblegum Crisis universe. The show explores what it means to be human in a time when AI androids and artificial body parts are commonplace. Not exactly new ground, then, but interesting enough. Unfortunately the stories feel the constraits of both their 25-minute running time and low budget, and this significantly lessens their impact.
 
Denpa teki na Kanojo OVA 1.
Was fantastic, having never heard of the novels before.

Both dark/gritty and well-meaning, it showed the good and human side in what many people fear and do not understand .
That's not saying that it didn't show the opposite extreme, the distressing and terrible things that can happen.

10/10
 
STAR TREK 10/10
I have no complaints at all over this film. I think the actors were very well chosen, and the story was awesome. It surved it's purpose for both trekkie and non trekkie fans imo. The Trekers got the references and the actors (who played the characters perfectly) and everyone else got a great story line. My fiance loved it and she hates Star Trek.
Definately be joining my vast DVD collection once released.
 
Voddas said:
STAR TREK 10/10
I have no complaints at all over this film. I think the actors were very well chosen, and the story was awesome. It surved it's purpose for both trekkie and non trekkie fans imo. The Trekers got the references and the actors (who played the characters perfectly) and everyone else got a great story line. My fiance loved it and she hates Star Trek.
Definately be joining my vast DVD collection once released.
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Worst anime I have ever seen! Makes Iczer III look like Shakespeare. :p

Actually I did hate the movie, but I posted that opinion in another sector of the Interweb.
 
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Voddas said:
STAR TREK 10/10
I have no complaints at all over this film. I think the actors were very well chosen, and the story was awesome. It surved it's purpose for both trekkie and non trekkie fans imo. The Trekers got the references and the actors (who played the characters perfectly) and everyone else got a great story line. My fiance loved it and she hates Star Trek.
Definately be joining my vast DVD collection once released.
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Worst anime I have ever seen! Makes Iczer III look like Shakespeare. :p

Actually I did hate the movie, but I posted that opinion in another sector of the Interweb.
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GAH!! Wrong thread!! Ah the shaaamee.... :oops:
 
Starship Operators 8/10.Only got the whole collection yesterday ,but watched it all today and I was really impressed with it.I saw the series blind having never seen a episode before and I know that someone on the forums suggested the show to me ,I can't remember who it was but Thank You. :D
 
Clannad - 4/10

Lots of contrived melodrama, lots of crying, badly paced, wholly predictable. Funny at times, though, which makes me wish it'd been a comedy and not bothered with the tragedy porn crap. Doesn't, as far as I'm concerned, hold a candle to Kanon.
 
Ghost Hunt part 1 episodes 1-13 8/10
This show is a delight from start to finish ,I watched all the episodes on fansub first so I knew what I was getting ,Still when I saw that it was coming on R2 dvd ,I preordered it straight away it's that good.
My favourite character from the show is Naru (Shibuya Kazuya),the main male lead who despite the show being a mystery/supernatural one tries to solve the various stories with a very logical and scientific way(in many way the show reminds of Spiral,where the male lead had to use his brain and intellect to solve mysteries as well).
If you haven't seen Ghost Hunt then it give it a try .It is definely a change from all the Shonen,Sci-fi,Fantasy, Moe & slice of life stuff that's out there. :D
 
Well, I watched the second half of the Death note series, now, for the entire series as a whole, I'd have to give it a pretty high 9. I know the anime gets a lot of stick but I loved it from start to finish, hardly a slow episode in the entire series but although the end was a good ending, I still felt a little bummed out by it. I would have preferred a different outcome.

Serial experiments Lain is next on the list, I've already seen it once over several days but today I'm watching the entire series, to try and get my head around it a bit more.
 
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