Overated/underated anime's

DBZ may seem as horrible to some folks here, but you're looking back on it with a mindset that has been built up by anime series that spanned as a result of DBZ... Lots of manga creators of popular newer series idolized Toriyama and his success. If you read the DBZ manga back when it started, you would've thought it was dynamite.

It's like a PS2 being your first system, and you try to play a Nintendo game during a bored-stretch. The graphics aren't nearly up to your standards and anything remotely original in the NES game has been rubbed raw by now due to how these things work out.

But as for newer series? Naruto fucking blows. The manga was rather nice. Then I caught up to it. And it dragged. And dragged. And dragged. It REALLY had promise, but it just never "did it" for me. Last time I read it, I found myself getting angry at the horribly done characters (as well as character designs).

HunterxHunter never impressed me (manga-wise). It dragged along and tried to ramble special powers to redundancy. The manga creator got sick and kinda backed off. I won't pick it up again.

One Piece is cute and all but I can't get back into the manga. My older brother worships the series, but it's just not my kind of thing. Too kiddified.

I downright loathe Eva. It introduced lots of folks into anime (somehow) and it is just horrible. In-depth technology splurges and all that is good, but the bottom line is that the story is too hackneyed. Folks say it is an "intellectual" anime, but that's just a bullshit way of saying it's a horrible anime that makes more sense if you watch it while high on paint fumes.

Guu. I saw a few episodes of FINAL. Acer lectured me to give it a chance. I somehow dragged myself through half of the first season, only to gratefully delete the series when I was faced with HD space issues. Haven't looked back yet.

The Hellsing anime is something that tons of people circle-jerk over, but I don't see it as very good. It's odd, rushed, different from the manga (quite considerably), and it tries to go off and do its own thing (presumably where it caught up to the manga). Train wreck ensues.

Many more =I Anime is like American cinema -- there are some real masterpieces, but for every masterpiece, there are five mediocres and ten shitfests. And you run into folks who have a preference for one of the latter two.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Grave of the Fireflies is entirely based on a true story. I believe that it's the writer who was the little boy.

Spoiler:

He really did lose his sister, and the way the anime played out is just how he recollected it

Lots of labor doesn't mean large availability of food and such. There was only so much food/money to give out. Also, a child couldn't do anywhere near a full grown man's share of labor.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I tried getting into Rozen Maiden, and I hafta agree with Brady. I didn't see the "awesomeness" of the show to be honest =(

Hm. Might try Turn A Gundam. Sound promising. Been wanting to try Yakitate!! Japan for some time too =d

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Miyazaki films have a charm about them that isn't emulated anywhere else :[ Boring to some, beautiful works of art to others. Kairi pretty much nailed it with "beautiful" and "enchanting". Almost all of his anime are in alternate worlds, and they all feel incredibly alive. Plus, I love how he abhors CG usage and insists on hand-drawn technology 99% of the time.

Mushishi is much the same; many folks hate it because, well, it isn't an exciting anime to most. Still, every episode feels like a work of art. I absolutely love it.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Kairi Li

... is like enjoying 80's music and saying it's the hottest thing ever.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS, MADAM.

Yeah, I know Miyazaki uses CG at times, but it's rather begrudgingly. He uses it to make some incredibly hard things easier.

I was speaking idiomatically.