Obligitory Animes Thread

[Tiamat]

Slayers Try was sooooo bad.

I'm only mid way through Revolution, but it's so much better than try it allows me to keep going. Plus the animation is really good, better than any other Slayers outside of the movies. Which are also pretty good, if you like Naga. The biggest problem Revolution has so far are the new animal character, who is lame, and the constant flat jokes, which are meh. Other than that, the episodes are more self-contained, and the overall story has taken a back seat. No 2-3 episode DBZ fights, which is good; the action in the original Slayers series was awful, boring, and not fun to watch. Now the action is alright and animated well enough that it doesn't become annoying.

Also, they got almost all of the old English cast back, so that's nice.

I haven't seen any of the movies but I'll check them out sometime. I wouldn't have watched Slayers Try all the way through except that I bought it in a triple pack with the first 3 series (at the time I bought it I'd only seen the original series). In retrospect I'm kinda amazed I suffered through it cause I couldn't believe some of the shit they pulled. There were multiple instances of them using still frames for over a minute with dialogue and stuff going on. That's even worse than the re-used animations. Plus, Slayers Try is not funny, and has that Fox bandit character Jillias (sp?) who is a serious contender for my least favorite anime character ever.

microgamer: yea that's why I haven't been watching "the world god only knows" or "highschool of the dead" animes.

 

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The biggest problem in the first 3 Slayers series is that each one tries to pack in more actual story, and they always do it at the expense of the jokes. Even the first Slayers starts off with self-contained joke episodes, but by the end it's 3 solid episodes of boring, poorly animated fights. When you get to Slayers Try almost every episode is either a show-down or a plot-dump full of boring exposition.

The strength of the OVAs and movies is that they spend the absolute bare minimum of time setting up the plots, and the fights are well animated. It's the same for the 2 new series; they're only half a dozen episodes long, and barely any of that is spent with exposition or pointless DBZ fights -- and they're better animated anyway. Of course, the humour is different as well, with more flat-chested jokes, and a few really dumb characters. If you've managed to get through all of Try you owe it to yourself to watch the OVAs and movies at least.

 

[Ring]

I actually thought Slayers Try was better than Revolution and Evolution-R (but my least favorite of the first 3 series). Watching the new ones made me think "I've seen all this already", plus it was not funny at all.

 

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At least Revolution has jokes. Haven't seen Evolution-R yet, but it's probably the same. Try didn't even try to be funny. Entire 2 or 3 episode arcs would go by without ANY jokes. Revolution mostly puts the plot in the back seat and uses most of its running time attempting to be funny, or flashy. Even if it doesn't work all the time, it's still trying to be a comedy first, and a lame shonen not at all.

 

[Pocky-Yoshi]

Alright, anyone got some good romance to recommend to me? Something very good.