Obligitory Animes Thread

Which anime eras are you into?

  • Old School

    Votes: 29 17.7%

  • New School

    Votes: 13 7.9%

  • Both

    Votes: 107 65.2%

  • Anime? What's that?

    Votes: 15 9.1%
  • Total voters
    164
So what happened with guilty crown? I remember months ago after the first episode I was like "it's shit." and everyone on the internet was like "NO! YOU. ARE. WRONG. SIR!" and now everywhere I see mention of it it's only how disappointing it was. You can spoiler me up I was never going to watch it anyhow.
 
Ghengis_John said:
So what happened with guilty crown? I remember months ago after the first episode I was like "it's shit." and everyone on the internet was like "NO! YOU. ARE. WRONG. SIR!" and now everywhere I see mention of it it's only how disappointing it was. You can spoiler me up I was never going to watch it anyhow.
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It had a moment to go the path of Gurren Lagann, show how well our hero Shu developed, and have lots of general badassery ensue. Instead, he becomes a dick, uses his superpowers to 'rape' his love interest so that he can get revenge for someone close to him, completely denies said friend's dying wish and goes all dick-tatory, loses all support, adopts a martyr complex after his girlfriend becomes the doomsday relic AGAIN, and fails to at least get through the 'death' requirement for his martyr position because he can't outwill his nearly-all-gone girlfriend. Not to mention his worst best friend ever gets away without any karmic backlash and the ending was a bit rushed.

I'm still kinda hoping for a Rebuild version where Shu goes all-out badass in the second act and ends up with badass pilot Ayase instead of Inori.

Yeah... this. Honestly, I was enjoying it for the most part UNTIL the part I mention in the spoiler. The art's beautiful, the fights are pretty badass, the soundtrack is one of the best of 2011 (an easy tie between GC, Fate/Zero, and Madoka Magica), and the acting's quite solid. The story and character development are the biggest weaknesses, and it only gets exaggerated in the second act.

Other people may have other points to chip in with, but I think I covered the gist of it.
 
Xernuht said:
It had a moment to go the path of Gurren Lagann, show how well our hero Shu developed, and have lots of general badassery ensue. Instead, he becomes a dick, uses his superpowers to 'rape' his love interest so that he can get revenge for someone close to him, completely denies said friend's dying wish and goes all dick-tatory, loses all support, adopts a martyr complex after his girlfriend becomes the doomsday relic AGAIN, and fails to at least get through the 'death' requirement for his martyr position because he can't outwill his nearly-all-gone girlfriend. Not to mention his worst best friend ever gets away without any karmic backlash and the ending was a bit rushed.

I'm still kinda hoping for a Rebuild version where Shu goes all-out badass in the second act and ends up with badass pilot Ayase instead of Inori.

Yeah... this. Honestly, I was enjoying it for the most part UNTIL the part I mention in the spoiler. The art's beautiful, the fights are pretty badass, the soundtrack is one of the best of 2011 (an easy tie between GC, Fate/Zero, and Madoka Magica), and the acting's quite solid. The story and character development are the biggest weaknesses, and it only gets exaggerated in the second act.

Other people may have other points to chip in with, but I think I covered the gist of it.
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Interesting. Though I suppose if you just hand a child power and wish fulfillment it isn't unreasonable to expect them to not appreciate either and to behave like a kid with a hose does with an anthill.

I'm considering watching puella magicka, but first I must ask you, will there be small, teary eyed girls covered in blood and shouting "WHY!?!" with much anguish?
 
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