Postby Enki v.2 » Sun Jul 26, 2015 1:47 pm
- Battle Tendency is the best arc in JoJo's Bizzare Adventure, and Stardust Crusaders was made watchable only because of Joseph Joestar's involvement
- Studio Ghibli has never made anything worth watching
- None of the GitS anime -- not the movies nor the show -- hold a candle to the manga. The first season of SAC is the best of the bunch, because Kusanagi was given back some of the characterization that Oshii took away, but hugely interesting ideas that were explored well in the manga (like the effects of transhumanism on gender identity and sexuality) are completely ignored in SAC and replaced with boring and shallowly neophobic ideas in Oshii's films
- Nisemonogatari is the best of the monogatari shows, in part because it sets itself in contradiction to the kind of adolescent obsession with authenticity that's an unquestioned obsession of most similar media (and thus gets a bit of complexity and frission for free). Most of what was good in Nisemonogatari was thrown away in Monogatari Second Season, which was too long and added still more characters to an already top-heavy cast, while simultaneously devaluing the existing characterizations of the ones we already had.
- FMA is fun to marathon but in retrospect is clearly preachy overwrought mush. It shares this with other action-packed but ultimately bad shows.
- Lain is good in part because it cleverly turned all potential plotholes into sources of narrative complexity. It avoids being merely vague and 'arty' by providing just enough structure that the main plot is clear; as a result, the assumption upon encountering a plothole is that it is a plot-relevant detail that enriches the watching experience. This is not a flaw; this is brilliance.
- NGE and TTGL are, basically, the same show in the opposite direction. To like NGE but not TTGL (for reasons other than, say, the crappy art or rampant sexism in TTGL) is to indicate an affection for the grimdark for its own sake. TTGL asks: what if Gendo tried to make Shinji a happy and functional human being?
- Eva 1.0 is better than Eva (TV) 1-6, in almost every way
- They should have never made a second season of Durarara. The first season was perfect and now it's all screwed up, and even though I like some of what they've done and some of the new characters, I feel like they also really damaged a lot of the existing characters in terms of characterization and motivation by retconning too much. Furthermore, I think that the show was just on the border of being too complex to handle already, and now it's going to be completely impossible to keep up with.
- It's a good thing that the Negima anime failed (both of them), because have you seen the manga? After volume 20 it becomes Bleach.
- Utena is the only show longer than 26 episodes that is really worth watching to the end, and even so, twenty episodes could have been cut out and it would have made the result better rather than worse. Adolescence of Utena did what Utena tried to do in 90 minutes and was more successful because it was harder for the audience to intentionally miss the point. Penguindrum deserves all sorts of prizes, because it attempts to do an Utena-like show in 26 episodes, succeeds, and manages to balance the dark and the light well, while making us all have an incredible emotional attachment (as adults) to a show whose moral is basically "pure love will save the world", and whose main characters are all part of a death cult basically.
- The most interesting characters in Evangelion are the SEELE members, and I wish Gainax had made a show about them.
- Rosario+Vampire is an excellent show, not despite being pure fanservice but because of it. Whenever it genuinely tries to be serious it fails to entertain, and whenever it genuinely tries to be silly it also fails to entertain, but because most of it is a half-hearted and failed attempt at being semi-serious, it succeeds wonderfully.