vonFiedler
I Like Chopin
It's not a show that "gets good". If you don't like it now, you won't like it later. It gets pretty bland at the halfway point.I've been watching Soul Eater, but can't get into it. When does it get good?
It's not a show that "gets good". If you don't like it now, you won't like it later. It gets pretty bland at the halfway point.I've been watching Soul Eater, but can't get into it. When does it get good?
I'm just short of 100 episodes through on my first watch. It stays pretty generic through the end of the Greed Island arc, in my opinion (around episode 75), though "generic" and "bad" are not always the same thing. In particular, the final episodes of the Hunter Exam arc and most of the episodes focusing on the Phantom Troupe in the Yorknew City arc (AKA the auction arc) are very good, as well as any episode where Hisoka fights someone. I was also a fan of the training montages in Greed Island, mainly because I fucking love training montages.when does hunter x hunter get good? like I've heard it described as the shonen that saves anime and as one of the best things that people have seen, but just from the first couple episodes it seems kinda generic. when does shti get exciting, aor does it just stay like that for the entire anime?
What I don't like about the really long shows it that they're a big investment when you can get a lot more from smaller shows. I mean, I still need to finish Bebop and I have shows like Ergo Proxy, GitS SAC and Planetes on my queue for ages. Spending that time on a show like HxH is a problem when most people only really like the latter part and the manga is on habitual hiatus.So far - at least in my opinion - HxH falls flat compared to many other shounens (I drew comparisons to Shokugeki no Souma, One Piece, and Fullmetal Alchemist a few posts ago) in terms of character development and emotional heft. That all changes with the Chimera Ant arc, which starts at around episode 76. Most of the praise I've read for HxH also usually points out moments from episodes 100 and up.
I love LWA. It didn't fill me with excitement or drown me in tears but it's one of my favorite anime from top to bottom in recent history. From the vibrant post-Ganiax animation style to the solid family movie plots and all the way to the music cues and pacing, it sets a benchmark for other creative works that want to be mainstream, instead of going the hipster route like the obscure comedies or anything by Yuasa, Ikuhara and pals. It's great.Just finished watching Little Witch Academia and its hour-long sequel.
The best way I can describe my experience is "cute".
Listing shows that everyone has watched, and possibly as their first anime, does not come across as pretentious, it come across as pedestrian(at the risk of sounding pretentious) NGE or even Bebop have proven over time
more thoughts on anime that nobody asked for (spoilers for airing anime, no spoilers for the finished ones):
Erased - episode 8 was great and is definitely one of the more cheerful episodes of the show. definitely a good decision to not have the show be week after week of gut-punches and suffering; this way it'll just hurt THAT MUCH MORE when tragedy strikes. i also love the cinematography here, especially the shot of Kayo seeing her breakfast and then the flashes to the typical "breakfasts" she gets from her mom in between blinks - that was not only a really powerful moment, but was also shown very well. shots like that and the scene where the duct tape is slowly rolling toward Satoru are some of the little things that make me appreciate the show a little more
Dimension W - we FINALLY get more backstory on Kyoma; it's definitely cliched but does a good job of explaining why he's so cold and refuses to use coils, and also heavily teases a connection between Miyabi and Mira (they have the same VA). i personally think they could have done a much better job giving us bits and pieces of his past OR dumped the whole thing on us a few episodes ago, though
Dagashi Kashi - saya best, actual romantic "progression", mostly uplifting scenes. plus we get a subtle suggestion that hotaru's life is actually kinda sad, so there may be some actual substance coming up
Hunter x Hunter - finished the Chimera Ant arc today. briefly, i'll just say that episodes 131 and 136 were fucking fantastic but about 80% of the episodes so far are actually pretty mediocre overall. the palace raid portion of the Chimera Ant arc was good but was bogged down by a lot of unnecessary narration and exposition. i'll probably post more in-depth thoughts on every HxH arc when i finish the whole show
Kekkai Sensen - the single most stylish show i've ever watched in my life. this thing oozes personality with every episode and feels like someone mashed up the setting of Baccano! with the fight scenes from Kill la Kill and the breakneck, sometimes-incoherent storytelling of FLCL. it's episodic but i enjoyed it because it's so damn fast and every episode is a ton of fun. also the OST is god-tier and it's got a really good OP and ED, which isn't something that i can say for a lot of shows
i like every episode of kekkai sensen except for mushroom ntr, also try out the manga if you loved the show since the manga does the all-over-the-place-crazy-episodic style quite well (although in a completely different way than the anime, mostly due to medium)
I just watched Clannad and it was pretty good. The main gripe I had with it was that it was kinda inconsistent in the second and third arcs (there were a number of irritating scenes such as the one in the PE storeroom) and the Fuko cameos were kinda stupid (I'd have preferred it if we'd gotten either permanent closure without the cameos or if we'd had some kind of significant interaction with the MCs remembering her or something along those lines before the series ended), but other than that I enjoyed it. I'm prolly gonna watch Afterstory either now or over the next week, but I want to know whether I should watch Kanon (the 2006 version) afterwards because it sounds really similar to Clannad. Should I watch it?