Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
It's easy to drop anime. You start watching and the show sucks, and you stop. Sometimes (especially when you're a reviewer) you watch a whole series through and vow never to watch it again... Oreimo Season 2, J'accuse!
Usually I give a show a second chance, it might have sucked the first time, and maybe I was just in the wrong mood that week, and I have flipped my opinion on a couple of shows that way.
But what about the shows that you fall in love with, and then fall out of love with after several years, and several viewings?
It took me 3 viewings of D. Gray Man to tire of its shonen mediocrity, while I watched Saiyuki Reload 5 times before I got bored with that.
This time around, I am retiring my Gantz DVDs, which I've watched an unprecedented seven times to this point, the difference being that I really loved Gantz the first few times. It's a death game anime, of which there weren't too many around when it came out, and it was provocative in all the classic, Manga Video cyberpunk ways, with swears, sex and gory violence. So much so that I forgave its blatant weaknesses.
But this time around, those weaknesses overwhelm the rest of the show, the poor writing and woeful pacing. It's my last time watching it, and I'm watching it as background noise to whatever is more interesting on my ipad...
So what have you fallen out of love with?
Usually I give a show a second chance, it might have sucked the first time, and maybe I was just in the wrong mood that week, and I have flipped my opinion on a couple of shows that way.
But what about the shows that you fall in love with, and then fall out of love with after several years, and several viewings?
It took me 3 viewings of D. Gray Man to tire of its shonen mediocrity, while I watched Saiyuki Reload 5 times before I got bored with that.
This time around, I am retiring my Gantz DVDs, which I've watched an unprecedented seven times to this point, the difference being that I really loved Gantz the first few times. It's a death game anime, of which there weren't too many around when it came out, and it was provocative in all the classic, Manga Video cyberpunk ways, with swears, sex and gory violence. So much so that I forgave its blatant weaknesses.
But this time around, those weaknesses overwhelm the rest of the show, the poor writing and woeful pacing. It's my last time watching it, and I'm watching it as background noise to whatever is more interesting on my ipad...
So what have you fallen out of love with?