Have You Noticed How Most Anime Sucks?

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#55

hi
i need some help please
ive been trying to find the name of an anime series but arnt having much luck
okay its a pre 2005 series but not sure how far all i can remember is that there are three main charactors all male ones mid hight med build ones skinny and kinda tall and the other is rather large and they all have a coloured jewel of some sort on a peice of armour. the stage is set in a medievil era. i remember one of the ā€˜bossā€™ baddies has the ability to take liquid metal form and solidify at will and at one pointhe does it to one of our heros.
any help would be great.

Thanks

#56

I canā€™t figure out which anime your inquiring about at the moment, but if I figure it out Iā€™ll let you know! However for the time being I can suggest one website that may be able to solve your problem. Try:

http://s6.zetaboards.com/CartoonDecades/index/

Now back to the Thread topic, :stuck_out_tongue: I for one do kind of agree that a lot of contemporary anime are kind of bland. I guess the main reason for this is the fact that theyā€™re simply running out of ideasā€¦ and as a result, are shoving more and more ā€œfan serviceā€ into each anime they pump outā€¦ hence the quality begins to drop and the stories become somewhat ā€œnonsensicalā€, thus resulting in crappy anime. Despite this there are some decent contemporary anime out thereā€¦ just not as much as there used to be.

NB: I was referring to anime in generalā€¦ not just Cartoon Network. Also, thatā€™s why Iā€™m ā€œold-skool!ā€ Everything oldā€¦ is Cool! :stuck_out_tongue:

Edit: I just realized I replied to a thread more than 7 years oldā€¦ :frowning:

Sorry guys! I saw it up the top so I replied.

#57

Itā€™s Ok Helios you didnā€™t ressurrect the thread it was the guy above you (who apparently didnā€™t think of starting his own thread to ask his question.)

#58

Sturgeonā€™s Law.

Look it up.

#59

Ironically, Sturgeon first meant that with irony, which many people forget.

#60

I do agree with helios about the state of anime lately.

Last year it was Queenā€™s Blade. Then somewhere in between were Kampfer and that Quasar (aka tit sucking) show. And now this season its Samurai Girls (which is a fucking crying shame given how well animated it is versus how completely awful the rest of it is).

And thatā€™s just the straight up porn.

Most of the time you get moe crap like Lucky Star, K-on, and Working!!. As well as harems and other weird unmentionable shit.

As for the necromancerā€™s question. That description doesnā€™t narrow it down at all. My best suggestion is to look it up on Wikipedia since theyā€™re pretty thorough about their animez.

#61

The funny this is, the thread was posted back when Anime was really at its best quality wise (2001-2006/7 was where it peaked as far as Iā€™m concerned), and now the question and poll really is justified. I noticed the exact same thing Killmore did. It actually took me three years of downtime to notice it.

#62

Screw you guys I watched the shit out of K-on

that shit is adorable and if you say otherwise youā€™re probably a nazi

#63

Not all are that badā€¦ just the majority of contemporary ones!

#64

dude,

new berserk,

bro,

#65

If anybody ever thought I was stupid read this whole thread and pay special attention to Xael Sayhe.

#66

I disagree; while Anime has had better periods, I still find plenty of stuff that is original and/or fun. Though I must admit Iā€™m a little behind the timesā€¦ ironically, now that I have Net access and can get TONS of Anime stuff for free, I find it hard to decide what to watch, and since I like to watch from the start stuff like Bleach or One Piece, that have HUNDREDS of episodes by now, feel intimidating to catch up with.

One Anime Iā€™m going to try is HEROMAN! the one co-created with- Stan Lee! Itā€™s only 20+ episodes and from what Iā€™ve read about it, pretty good (even if Stanā€™s influences seem minimal; other than being set in America itā€™s the same as your typical Giant Robot Anime. But it looks like it was written well, especially the villains.)

#67

Dear God, donā€™t watch Bleach. I would advise against seeing it in any form, but if you absolutely must, read the manga. The anime fillers stretch for HUNDREDS of episodes, and if thereā€™s one thing Bleach doesnā€™t need any help with, itā€™s dragging ass. Kubo has a horrendous handling of pacing already, so it takes like ten chapters to make enough content for a single episodeā€¦ if you stretch it a bit. You can probably guess what this does for the animeā€™s pacing.

Heromanā€™s pretty cool though, so long as you can get in the saturday morning cartoon mindset. The first arc is really damn boring, but it really picks up afterwards. In a way, it actually runs counter to what youā€™d expect of satudray morning shows in a lot of ways, so itā€™s pretty original at times.

#68

Yes, I myself still have to watch ā€œHeromanā€! most likely in the holidays though, way too busy at the moment.

As for anime in general, even if there is originality in a lot of the new ones, another reason maybe that theyā€™re producing too many similar anime at the same time. This has been the case over that past few seasons, and over time the originality factor will disappear and the audience will be left with more and more (almost identical) anime to choose fromā€¦ which evidently, is already occurring. Either way they have to slow down and come up with better appropriations of past animeā€¦ since originality is getting difficult to achieve.

#69

Saw the first Heroman episode (subbed) last night. Yes itā€™s cliched, and yes itā€™s like a Saturday Morning Cartoon in its logic (if one of my toys suddenly turned into a REAL robot my first reaction would be ā€œhow is this possible?ā€ not ā€œThis is so cool!!ā€) but itā€™s so fun and honest in its heroism, which is why I guess I like shonen series these days more than American superhero comicsā€¦ Iā€™m not afraid that the former will shock and disappoint me as much as the latter.

As for variety, well of course thereā€™s a lot of copycat shows out there. The idea is to sell, and you copy what sells, which is another trait of American comics- itā€™s why there are mostly superhero comics now when there used to be all kinds including (seriously) romance comics. Thereā€™s still a few comics that are inspiring in their originality though, like ā€œWolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabreā€ which is a comedy about a team of lawyers that represent monsters.

In fact I think overall Manga still has more variety than American comics. Last night I also found about ā€œSquid Girlā€ (which is about a little girl who is the last survivor of an undersea race that comes to the surface to conquer itā€¦ except, you know, sheā€™s just a little girl, and pretty clueless.) Itā€™s hilarious, and yet strangely sad. Too bad itā€™s more a collection of shorts than an actual series.

#70

Actually comics and graphic novels are more varied than everā€¦ Maybe you should read more than a few pages of one or two before you make such a statement. Besides, costumed heroes are an american cultural phenomenon, where as in Japan they are not (not to say they arenā€™t popular over there to some degree), which is why we have more Superhero stories and they donā€™t.

Now about which countryā€™s printed media contains better storiesā€¦ thatā€™s a matter of opinion.

#71

Iā€™ve been reading comics and novels since the 1970ā€™s. Though I agree that the ā€œtraditionalā€ superhero is a more an American thing. Although (in my opinion) any character with superhuman abilities who fights for good is a superhero, secret identity or not. Which BTW describes a majority of the Shonen charactersā€¦ in fact, Iā€™d say that such characters are being written like American heroes used to be. Complete with using their powers in creative ways and not just blasting things with them.

#72

I have found it difficult to find a good anime series to watch that I havenā€™t gotten bored of.

My fav has been Death Note out of the few I have liked. Then Vampire Knight.

#73

There are still plenty of good anime. Inu Yasha, Bleach, and Yu Yu Hakusho are great anime.
Guess you have to have an open mind. :slight_smile:

#74

Peoples taste change over the generations. Look at what the kids watch these daysā€¦