2010-11-10, 09:50 AM
Avoidant Wrote:I know this guy -- I've known him since middle school -- and for a year he was like "yo man you GOTTA try Bleach," so I gave it a shot. Roughly fifty episodes. And after the first main arc, I was bored out of my shitting mind, goddamn. So I checked the episode list, and there are hundreds of episodes. Hundreds. How can this even happen? How can things not be resolved by now? Mother of god. I told my friend about it, and he goes "oh, after episode 100 it gets better." Episode fucking 100. I asked him if he enjoyed any shorter shows. Another friend of his, who happened to be with us at the time, chuckled and said that "anything with less than 30 episodes isn't worth watching." Then he suggested watching One Piece, and some slice of life series revolving around young girls who go to school. Except it isn't Azumanga Daioh. BUT I DIGRESS.
How can you enjoy this? It just goes on and on with no end in sight, and it doesn't even matter when the main character gets stronger, because there's always some new villain who is "just too strong" for everyone, until the protagonist pulls a win out of his ass again and you flip your pomegranate like it's never happened before. I suppose I can understand the nostalgia factor for some shows, but I simply cannot understand the hubub about these 500 episode cartoons that follow the same goddamned pattern. I'd rather watch a show that ends before it gets stale, but that's just me.
pomegranate, and here I am giving One Piece a shot because it actually looks interesting, and of course it's over 400 goddamned episodes. And it still isn't done. That guy still hasn't gotten his treasure. 400 goddamned episodes.
Alright to give you a perspective, bleach, naruto, and One piece are all terrific animes with great underlining stories. However bleach has started to dissapoint me. Now what I like about Naruto/One piece is it's not like those cliche "We'll meet again one day!" and never happens. Such as Pokemon, the stories actually end up tieing together (One piece being much more elaborate).
Specifically one piece, read, but it is a spoiler
Also in these anime's, too the main story there are tiers and they stick to them. Anime's like DBZ/Gundam they always went stronger, stronger stronger. Naruto actually shows progression and work. It doesn't just come naturally too him and the people around him grow too. Shippuden is much more into foreshadowing then the original naruto. But once again, as people have said, it's good too stick with the anime storyline, rather than the subplots that randomly are added in to give them more time to animate the actual series.
Also, for omi, you think evangelion was bad? Haha what Pu-ssy pomegranate. Go watch Deadmans wonderland and tell me you aren't f-ucked up. Ill find this other manga that I couldn't even finish because it was like, even more fucked up (the guy turns into a swirl or something?) that's all I remember from that pomegranate. Japs are fucked up!
But yeah best anime I have ever seen is FLCL, code geass was good too. I finally caught up to one piece, and I feel like the new saga were getting into will make the previous look like pomegranate.