i liked that anime but none of my friend and the other people i know watching anime liked it
they say mean things like:
-the design looks cheap
-the computeranimation sucks
-the charas are too thin
-the music is lame
-every other chara is a copy of an other anime chara (oh! somehow this kid reminds me of that girl in coboy bebop!)
-the story is boring
it’s not that EVERYONE has to like it, but that i’m the only one in my circle of friends is hard.
please, say that at least you folks are on my side!
It is. It’s episodic, almost no characterisation besides “I have mysterious and sad backstory” or “I am also myterious and have powers etc etc”
-the computeranimation sucks
It does. Look at it and try and tell me it doesn’t. Anime shouldn’t try and do CGI. Vandread failed as well. Macross Zero is the only good example I can think of of CGI right now.
-the charas are too thin
See point 1.
-the music is lame
Can’t commend. Didn’t listen too hard.
-every other chara is a copy of an other anime chara (oh! somehow this kid reminds me of that girl in coboy bebop!)
Can’t really fault it there since when you down to it, every character in most series is similar to those of another series.
-the story is boring
It was. Almost until the last few episodes it followed the exact same heroes-meet-monster-get-pummeled-Kaze-summons-monster-they-win. At the end it DID get better, but too little too late in my opinion.
I can’t say I loved it, but I didn’t hate it. It definitely did get boring and repetitive (kids wander around, get in trouble, Kaze blows stuff up and gets them out of it), and there wasn’t much of a backstory for the characters. There’s still the “cool factor”, but it’s not enough to make it a cohesively good anime. Nor were there any overriding themes or ideas it was trying to teach us. It’s essentially (with some exceptions) 25 episodes of eye candy.
This design is cheap, the computer animation does suck, the characters are too thin, the music is okay, nothing too impressive. Of course the characters aren’t too original, but who cares? The story does get stupid just after the very beginning though. Like Cid said, it gets repetitive. The only good parts seem to be the beginning and the end
All these points have to be looked at in their proper context, or they lose meaning:
-the design looks cheap
Define “design.”
-the computeranimation sucks
I simply disagree. It was good enough.
-the charas are too thin
Nice deduction Sherlock fucking Holmes. I think all anime should be judged on the characters’ % body fat.
-the music is lame
If “Over the Fantasy” was lame, I can’t think of very many non-lame songs right now.
-every other chara is a copy of an other anime chara (oh! somehow this kid reminds me of that girl in coboy bebop!)
Whichever friends of yours said this are all copies of the newest popcult icon fag on MTV, just like most other people. So it balances out.
-the story is boring
What story? The entire plot was kids trying to find their parents. They were expecting Eva-depth in a light-hearted adventure anime aimed toward people other than pseudo-christs looking for englightenment from a fucking cartoon, and that’s why they’re disappointed.
It is. It’s episodic, almost no characterisation besides “I have mysterious and sad backstory” or “I am also myterious and have powers etc etc”
Oh it’s episodic is it? There was enough plot-intertwinement to keep me watching, and I never got tired of watching Kaze blast the fuck out of, well, EVERYTHING, so I don’t see how this is a valid argument.
In fact, most of the stuff mentioned here was invalid, mainly because it’s completely out of context, could be applied as an opinion to any anime you wanted and still wouldn’t be valid because said anime would be great in spite of it, just like FFU was.
Let’s stop looking for faults, and focus on what the anime is good at. FFU was good at being what it was - a light-hearted adventure show where a big guy in a cape blew shit up, and it was fun because he was so badass.
Everything GONZO makes is generic. The last time they made something decent was LastExile. They mostly make these cheap, generic TV anime. They should make more oavs. Also, they are more focused on some CG rather than actual fluid animation! Their fight scenes are only 3 minutes long. And other anime studios are trying to be like GONZO. Things just aren’t the same.
FFU was a horrible anime. I cannot beleive they took the final fantasy series and made it into a kids show! I mean who do these people think we are?
They did the same thing to Ragnorak Online manga. You know, a manga. They basically destroyed it.
The average fight scene in Evangelion was about one minute. It’s shortest was probably twenty seconds and it’s longest was probably three or four minutes. It has the best fight scenes I’ve ever had the pleasure of being graced with.
The average fight scenes in Dragonball Z are about 400 minutes, or almost 7 hours. That’s about 20 episodes. Dragonball Z has some of the shittiest fight scenes I’ve ever seen. The only really good one was Goku vs Burter and Jeice, which was only a mere ten minutes.
I read that the average episode of DBZ only has 3 minutes of fighting, most of it talking
Most TV anime has about 3 minutes of fighting in each episode. I really have a problem with that. So that’s why I watch OAV anime. They have a high percentage of fight scenes, and the fight scenes are fluid
I read that the average episode of DBZ only has 3 minutes of fighting, most of it talking
that’s why i prefer the manga
Most TV anime has about 3 minutes of fighting in each episode. I really have a problem with that. So that’s why I watch OAV anime. They have a high percentage of fight scenes, and the fight scenes are fluid
OVA=take a story, rationalize away 98% of it and squeeze the remaining 2% in 45-120 minutes
Why do i like fighting scenes? well its the whole point why I would watch ANIME itself. I mean, its animated, so its fun to see animated fights.
Yeah, manga is quite good too. But thats really another story. Manga, you sit down and read a book. Its not really a fair comparison
But the nice thing is oavs, they usually take a story arc in the manga, and then have really nicely animated fights. Sure, its not the whole manga, but thats the point. It animates part of the manga, and it does that well
