Well I'm just not the type to go out a by something just to check it out, but if Planetes were ever on tv I'd watch just on your suggestion. So go on and promote them cause I'd probably just pass over them.
Given that most of you people have Internet connections faster than mine (I'm on dial-up), I'm surprised not many of you are into dloading anime series off Torrents and the like. There's a good amount of fansubbed anime out there.
Wade_Wilson said:
I think that Naruto is stupid and annoying and can't bring myself to watch any of the episodes, in English or otherwise. At my school, this is blasphemous.
I'm no big fan of
Naruto but I think its popularity has to be understood with some amount of perspective --- it's a long-running serial narrative packed with soap operatic character development as framed around complicated fight scenes. You know, kinda like a long-running superhero comic book.
I think the reason why the series is so polarizing is because it places a moronic hyperactive loudmouth as its protagonist, and that doesn't always sit well with some audiences because they want their characters to be immediately likeable. But
Naruto is about a kid who grows through the years (I heard the creator intends to end the series when Naruto becomes Hokage) and the only way to maximize that growth is to place him in the bottom rung of maturity and wisdom --- hence the obnoxious brat hero.
The reason why
Naruto can get annoying is because there's so much material that it becomes difficult to maintain the patience necessary to follow it completely. There's a lot of filler material, too, which is unsurprising given the way the series was conceived. It's part of a long tradition of pop culture where people construct long-running works designed to be fast and disposable like daytime soaps and daily comic strips. I doubt its producers expect anyone but the most diehard otaku to purchase the complete tankobons and home video.
Ultimate Quicksilver said:
I hate Evangelion with a passion and I don't follow animes anymore wich is a shame. Im mainly reading this so I can see what good animes are out there so I can come back.
I hate Evangelion too. But I think it's an important anime regardless. I think it's a must-see anime not in the sense that I like it or think it's excellent, but in the sense that it would be in the company of other must-see anime to get a picture of what the entirety of anime's artistic scope is, just as flawed films like
Braveheart are important in giving you a wider perspective of the history of the American epic film.
Bass Version 2.0 said:
People say that anime is better than comics/movies/cartoons etc. but I don't think they're counting that a large majority of anime is absolute ****.
This is true.
I've never understood the tendency to celebrate one medium's output over another. Comics will always be better than film at doing certain things. Anime will always be better than comics at doing certain things. It's the nature of their differences.
But it's always so completely daft to assume that one medium's catalog is better than the others when the fact is that they will statistically have the same percent of crap as the other. I think the tendency for certain enthusiasts to champion one medium over the other has less to do with narrow-minded bias and more to do with their unconscious preference for certain medium-specific storytelling conventions that make it easier for them to embrace all kinds of comics or all kinds of anime, etc.
