Obligitory Animes Thread

[Tanegashima]

It got popular because everyone watched it when they were 15.

I was thinking more along the lines of Rule 34 but I am sure those two things are far from mutually exclusive.

 

[Juez]

One other thing, recently I watched some of Dragonball Evolution and I have to say comparing it to the average western superhero movie it was actually comparatively good. I'm starting to suspect that the real reason so many people hate it is because it is a zoom in of so many weterners wish-fulfillment fantasies relating to the show and showing them how ridiculous they are (sort of like how people hate the Adam West Batman). Sure I think that having Goku played by a white guy was pretty stupid considering he was based on the Chinese literary figure Sun Wukong but everyone was bitching that he wasn't Japanese which doesn't make much more logical sense than him being white. The stupidest critisism of the movie was that it was too 'kiddy' which is moronic because it was based on a kids series and they even darkened it up comparatively to the source material by upping the stakes in a similar manner to Z. Anyway why can people not just accept that they like a kids show? Just my random rant, anyway.

My complaint was that it didn't follow the manga or the anime, it added something that was never apart of the manga and made some unnecessary changes. Goku wasn't a high school kid who was picked on, he was an alien who lived in the mountains until Bulma picked his punk ass up. The whole thing was just a piss poor excuse of a movie that tried to make money off the Dragon ball name. That's why people hate the movie not because Goku was white or because he wasn't Japanese ( both arguments are stupid considering he's a fucking alien). About the whole it being a kiddy show, you do realize that most kids show don't have peoples arms being ripped off or having energy blasts shot through their bodies, right?

Oh I'm not a DBZ fanboy either as I realize that it was a shitty show now that I try and re-watch it.

 

[Paragon049]

Hey everybody, I hope I am not opening Pandoras box but can I ask what everyone seriously thinks of Evangelion? I mean I can't figure this show out. Not in the normal "omg this show is sooooo deep and complex" sense though. I mean I think it is pretty obvious the show is about existential loneliness sprinkled with some Freudiansm, meaningless Judeo-Christian symbolism, and giant robots. What I don't get is how in the world did the show get popular? I mean it sorta got interpreted into where everything creepy warped into a fetish thing and even judging the show merely as a simple shonen monter of the week type show it fails pretty horribly. Still in a way I can't say I particularly dislike the show. The ending movie I honestly enjoyed because it seemed to actually be discussing a philosophical concept, albiet in an inept fashion. Anyway what is everyone elses take?

At the time it came out, nothing like it had ever been done before(That I can think of). It took the super robot formula, and completely turned it on its head in a way that most people found very surprising. It also helped that the show tried as hard as possible to throw as much meaningless symbolism around as it could.

It remains popular mainly because it was so huge back in the late 90s, and also because people seem to think it's some kind of incredibly deep anime.

 

[Tiamat]

meaningless Judeo-Christian symbolism, and giant robots. .

I've only seen the first episode of Evangelion so I can't say anything about the show really. I just wanted to mention that some other giant robot stuff has meaningless Judeo-Christian symbolism too like Xenogears and Xenosaga. (but Xenogears is actually good)

 

[K0rN_b4LL]

And the second season of Big-O. I loved the first season but the secons season was like one big giant helping of constant WTF?!? It was kinda like they were taking after the matrix dialog or something.