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
HOTD is good. I don't get what you all are saying about it. I mean yes there is your fan service, but as far as zombies go it's great.
 
The thing about zombies, is that there's just not that much to be done with them. Take the pivotal Romero zombie series, what made the first 3 entries so great was the social commentary in the situations. After that, the series just turned stale, not necessarily because romero lost his touch, but more because there just isn't that much more to be done with zombies, other than making them explode in more glorious ways.

Maybe HSotD does have something to say. Of the first few episodes i saw, i felt that i saw it all before. Which is perfectly all right, since I can enjoy zombie movies. But zombie movies usually don't run for 13 episodes worth of content. What it comes down to, is that the protagonists in general of such movies/shows are just not important enough to care about, such that you would want to invest that kind of time watching.

On another note, shows that are like 90% fan service tend to suck. Just because the director made the fan service the focal point of the show doesn't make it not suck. Just because there are zombies, doesn't make the show magically good.
 
Break Blade looks awesome, I just saw the title and decided to give it a try. Mechs been awhile, we meet again. :)
 
The_Landslide said:
I was thinking the same thing...
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Despite how I wrote that, it doesn't contradict.

I like shonen as do many because of the action, the story is there and you can get into it always knowing in the back of your head it's terrible. Really people watch Naruto, DBZ and Bleach for the action sets.

However, fan service really has no place anywhere personally except for comedic purposes. If it's not funny then it's simply a distraction. It can distract you from how shitty an anime is or just get in the way of a good plot. Code Geass for example I never finished the second season, but I think it was CC; I really thought for a serious anime like that it was pointless, and really just annoying.

What it did there is break my attention away from the story and question the purpose of the writing, basically breaking the illusion.

But then I watched Desert Punk recently and that was the first time I ever looked forward to any scenes with fan service. It was very funny.

I also liked RIN, but I wouldn't call that fan service or hentai really.
 
I find most fan service scenes to not be very funny at all. And if they were at one point funny, you can only see the same scene of guy being a klutz and falling on top of a girl's boobs, or haruhi-type character molesting some mikuru-type character and think it's funny so many times. Fan service exists in anime for the very distinct role of catering to fans that obsess over 2d images of women in compromising poses and supplying source material for future revenues in the form of pvc figurines of said poses, which just happens to be funny to some people.
 
KingAce: uh yeah sure whatever you say man XD

mizu-kitsu said:
http://www.rightstuf.com/cgi-bin/catalogmgr/CNeJfKF-e9CAx8hABT/browse/item/87111/4/0/0

I hope they put the WHOLE series out!
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That's new????? Says it's published by "eastern star" which ive never heard of and looks like it's been on sale since late july. new company?

I'd rather have the manga cause the anime has tons of filler, though the anime is also fun. Course even the manga has problems because eventually the manga starts to totally suck but its pretty late that it happens like volume 20something.
 
Man there's a lot of reading to do since my last post so I won't do that lol.

But fanservice is just fanservice, An over abundant amount doesn't mean anything good or bad, it doesn't ruin anything really. Like ANYTHING anywhere it's still about presentation, if it's presented well anything can be fine, and vice-versa. I mean crap like School Days exists which is very griddy about sex with boobs and what not, but it's complete trash from start to halfway through the final episode, while Inuyasha has NONE and it doesn't make sense how Kagome can be falling feet first off of cliffs for half the series and her skirt not fly up ONCE, all depends.
The HOTD story is a general zombie story just with sweet action and lots of TnA, high quality animation and music. The story is SURVIVE and PEOPLE SUCK, and it's doing it well lol. Just like filler isn't good or bad in and of itself, it's all about how, where and what's going on.

@Paragon, the Fairy Tail anime is still fairly new in it's story so who knows, but in overall action, comedy, and most of all MUSIC (which is sweet celtic rock) it's currently demolishing Failruto and Bleach. One Piece is still the best though.
 
I never really thought about Kagome's panties showing or not showing.
If it doesn't enhance the story or contribute to the relationship between characters, then it's blatantly there for you who unfortunately has a penis. Sex sales sure, but not in anime...at least not for me.

Fairy Tail is awesome; read the manga first so no anime for me.
 
See because you block it out, but unless it's overly flashy, it needs to at least be realistic. It can transcend into crazy but it cannot be dull. Which is what Kagomes skirt is, a skirt that actually had reasons to flip up never does while 80% of HOTD doesn't really call for it but it does anyway.
And no, many things don't add to a story at all but have it, I mean GITS SAC had a half naked Searge many many times, it was never used comedically (well except in 1 episode) and it never took away from anything, in fact many times it was almost surreal.
 
Anybody watched Kaichou wa Maid-sama? I wrote a pretty negative review of the episodes I watched, but I was wondering how people who actually liked this show could possibly defend this atrocity.
 
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