I love when people say "you could skip like half the episodes and not miss anything" on an episodic show. Like. Yeah. It's episodic. You would be missing the episodes you skipped which have a story. Why not just skip all the episodes except the last one. Or just the first one. Or hell, why not just skip all of them and watch a different show.
I love when people say "you could skip like half the episodes and not miss anything" on an episodic show. Like. Yeah. It's episodic. You would be missing the episodes you skipped which have a story. Why not just skip all the episodes except the last one. Or just the first one. Or hell, why not just skip all of them and watch a different show.
Personally speaking, I did not enjoy it at the slightest but most of the "internet" did enjoy it for some incomprehensible reasons to me. Give it 3episodes and you can decide for yourself maybe?
More or less I went into Angel Beats expecting something that feels kind of shallow and I'll admit, it does kind of feel shallow to me. I more or less expected it to be kind of emotionally similar to Clannad (which I didn't like) and more or less it kind of hits the same emotional tone. Hated the character designs from the get go, but I was debating how I felt about the story overall until I got into the endgame where I decided yeah I don't really like it.
I'll admit too I found everything about the donor heart scenario reveal at the end a little cheesy and unbelievable, with a lot of leaps in logic, even magical logic. Honestly I was emotionally 'in' to some of the characters backstories, but Kanade really got underdeveloped until the end. We know What she does but we largely don't know Why she does it or get much of an indicator into her psyche.
Even a character I like archetypically, like Naoi, isn't... well. well-written. He goes from murdering fodder, to getting a cooldown hug in an instant and is suddenly chill. There's definitely funny moments, but a lot of the drama ranged from ok-I'm-kinda-into-it to schlocky.
I'll say it's better directed than most of what that director does, but the writing? Kinda bad. I did enjoy some of the subplots, but not really my kind of show. I can see why it was kind of popular though, it has that sort of 'weekly reveal' kind of style where you learn more about the characters
and they 'sort of' have dark pasts which were probably interesting to hear about weekly even if these aren't explored in any depth, at all.
More or less I went into Angel Beats expecting something that feels kind of shallow and I'll admit, it does kind of feel shallow to me. I more or less expected it to be kind of emotionally similar to Clannad (which I didn't like) and more or less it kind of hits the same emotional tone. Hated the character designs from the get go, but I was debating how I felt about the story overall until I got into the endgame where I decided yeah I don't really like it.
I'll admit too I found everything about the donor heart scenario reveal at the end a little cheesy and unbelievable, with a lot of leaps in logic, even magical logic. Honestly I was emotionally 'in' to some of the characters backstories, but Kanade really got underdeveloped until the end. We know What she does but we largely don't know Why she does it or get much of an indicator into her psyche.
Even a character I like archetypically, like Naoi, isn't... well. well-written. He goes from murdering fodder, to getting a cooldown hug in an instant and is suddenly chill. There's definitely funny moments, but a lot of the drama ranged from ok-I'm-kinda-into-it to schlocky.
I'll say it's better directed than most of what that director does, but the writing? Kinda bad. I did enjoy some of the subplots, but not really my kind of show. I can see why it was kind of popular though, it has that sort of 'weekly reveal' kind of style where you learn more about the characters
and they 'sort of' have dark pasts which were probably interesting to hear about weekly even if these aren't explored in any depth, at all.
I can totally get not liking Jun Maeda's style honestly and Key, because he always seem to go for the same kind of layer of sentimental cheese in much of his work mixing it with the supernatural. He's not particularly subtle about anything. I appreciate him more for his influence of nakige VNs, inflecting emotional story telling into the visual novel medium and elevating it from just porn, Higurashi does owe some of it's influence to that honestly. That said, I don't think Maeda's work has particularly dated that well.
Shesh I havent heard of it in forever. I didn't like it back then and I doubt it even aged well.
I don't remember much but the main girl is kinda like komi? Silent-cant-say-a-word girl although I remember she was in the annoying side compared to komi.
Amazing how the same concept can either go to garbage or be wholesome.
I was actually really enjoying The Pet Girl of Sakurasou! I liked the characters and the show's overall energy, what with the young people trying hard/doing crazy stuff, I just thought it was kind of fun. But I haven't finished it yet, as it got pulled off of Crunchyroll before I was done watching it.
Got the 2nd season of Castlevania, the complete series of K, and Nausicaa, for my birthday yesterday! I'm not familiar with K, but it looks interesting, and I've been wanting to watch it for a long time. I love Castlevania, and am looking forward to watching Nausicaa, as a dear friend of mine recommended it to me a long time ago. :3
DAT: Man, I've been going absolutely wild buying anime movies on DVD of late. I saw a second-hand copy of Origin: Spirits of the Past being sold at one of my local cinemas for only £2, so I decided to snatch it up. I hear that it's somewhat similar to a couple of anime that I've enjoyed in the past, but we'll have to see if I like it or not.
I'm talking the main character is like a 40 year old fat sweaty guy in the body of a child who routinely molests underage girls, and his interior monologue is still the 40 year old fat sweaty guy so we're forced to never forget it as he says perverted pedophilic shit in his head.
But it's almost completely unrelated to the plot. It's just in there to give the fans something to relate to. Like, remove the fact that it's isekai, and the fact that the main character is reincarnated, and remove the interior monologues, and the show is unchanged except its better.
I'm talking the main character is like a 40 year old fat sweaty guy in the body of a child who routinely molests underage women, and his interior monologue is still the 40 year old fat sweaty guy so we're forced to never forget it as he says perverted pedophilic shit in his head.
But it's almost completely unrelated to the plot. It's just in there to give the fans something to relate to. Like, remove the fact that it's isekai, and the fact that the main character is reincarnated, and remove the interior monologues, and the show is unchanged except its better.
I love when people say "you could skip like half the episodes and not miss anything" on an episodic show. Like. Yeah. It's episodic. You would be missing the episodes you skipped which have a story. Why not just skip all the episodes except the last one. Or just the first one. Or hell, why not just skip all of them and watch a different show.
Sometimes an episodic show can have a good premise and fun characters, but some real stinker individual episodes. I am 100% in support of skipping episodes of episodic shows if you're not liking an episode. It rarely comes up for me in anime since I don't watch many purely episodic anime, but with Tokusatsu (Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Sentai, etc) it definitely comes up, especially in the pre-2000s shows. Many episodic shows are made much better when you don't feel obligated to watch the stuff that you're not enjoying, especially since you don't really lose anything by skipping. That doesn't mean that the whole show needs to be ignored, just that some episodic shows might work better for you if you curate what you watch.
More or less I went into Angel Beats expecting something that feels kind of shallow and I'll admit, it does kind of feel shallow to me. I more or less expected it to be kind of emotionally similar to Clannad (which I didn't like) and more or less it kind of hits the same emotional tone. Hated the character designs from the get go, but I was debating how I felt about the story overall until I got into the endgame where I decided yeah I don't really like it.
Angel Beats is one of only four shows that I've rated 5 stars on AP (out of 244 shows I've marked as completed). I thought it had a great combo of humor and heart, I've watched it twice and was a emotional mess at the ending both times. But some anime just hit people different, so I could get not liking it.
