Oh come now, there's way more good anime than that. You just have to know your tastes and find what you like. You know it's been almost a year since I've seen an anime I didn't like? And I've seen at least 30 shows since then. You just gotta know how to pick 'em.
Retro_on_theGo wrote:
Even though I really didn't like Prince of Tennis there's clearly a market for it. There's plenty of sports animes. If I'm not mistaken the manga for some basketball series (can't remember what it's called.) outsold the Dragon Ball manga.
SlamDunk. It's supposed to be pretty good. As is Touch, a baseball anime. Then there's Bamboo Blade, a Kendo anime. Oh, and Aim For The Top, which is the proper way to do a Tennis anime. I've only seen one episode of The Prince of Tennis, and to me it came off as more of an action show featuring Tennis players, with more focus on the actual sport than the characters, though I hope I'm wrong about that or it was just a bad episode, since to me, that's the wrong way to do a sports anime. That limits the appeal to those who enjoy the sport, and even then I think a fan of the sport would be more likely to watch the real thing. IMO, a sports anime should be more character-driven, so it'll be more meaningful and certainly more interesting to non-fans of the sport.
While some of you are discussing Prince of Tennis, I would like to ask is it any good? It only piques my interest because I like Tennis and would like to know if it is worth watching, as a Tennis fan or an anime fan for that matter.
I've seen the first couple of episodes multiple times and have the first volume of manga. And I can't decide if it's good or not, to be quite honest. It's a tennis shonen series...and if you know tennis and shonen, it's basically what you would expect. I guess. That's what I thought of it.
kkslider's description is spot on. Also, Looking at his MAL page, I think he'd like Prince of Tennis. He likes Tennis amd he likes Shounen. Maybe Shounen Tennis would be just his thing?
Speaking of MAL, @cnm_nintendo, what's your opinion of Guilty Crown so far?
kkslider's description is spot on. Also, Looking at his MAL page, I think he'd like Prince of Tennis. He likes Tennis amd he likes Shounen. Maybe Shounen Tennis would be just his thing?
Speaking of MAL, @cnm_nintendo, what's your opinion of Guilty Crown so far?
Hmm alright thanks kkslider and Gundam Mac. I'll give it a go I guess. EDIT: Oh snap, 178 episodes in the first season. Nevermind. o-o I may just start on the second season and attempt to understand it without any prior knowledge of the first one... Oh and in regards to Guilty Crown i'd say that it was definitely a bit cliched and predictable in the first half. But I can say that it has gotten better. From Episode 13 onwards is when I think things are much MUCH better. The main character isn't a stupid coward anymore. (Thank goodness >_>)
kkslider's description is spot on. Also, Looking at his MAL page, I think he'd like Prince of Tennis. He likes Tennis amd he likes Shounen. Maybe Shounen Tennis would be just his thing?
Speaking of MAL, @cnm_nintendo, what's your opinion of Guilty Crown so far?
Hmm alright thanks kkslider and Gundam Mac. I'll give it a go I guess. EDIT: Oh snap, 178 episodes in the first season. Nevermind. o-o I may just start on the second season and attempt to understand it without any prior knowledge of the first one... Oh and in regards to Guilty Crown i'd say that it was definitely a bit cliched and predictable in the first half. But I can say that it has gotten better. From Episode 13 onwards is when I think things are much MUCH better. The main character isn't a stupid coward anymore. (Thank goodness >_>)
Yeah, was about to suggest starting with the second season. And thanks, I'll try to remember that if I ever decide to try it. Also, I'll pass along the info to someone who's struggling to get into the show right now.
I saw the first episode of the third and final arc of Tales of Symphonia: the anime and now I've accepted that its not going to follow the game as faithfully as I would have wanted it to as even with the episodes being longer than in most anime, there isn't enough of them for it to be that faithful to the game and I've just started to enjoy it for what it is.
Anyway, the part near the beginning where Yuan and Kratos said the incantations for indignation and judgement at the same time (I love the fact that they kept the incantations in for some of the spells) and their spells blasted them both, sending them flying in opposite directions looked awesome. I also liked the flashbacks that showed Kratos, Yuan, Mithos and Martel's pasts the scene with Genis and Mithos where we learned more about Mithos' past was done really well too.
I just rewatching some older episodes of Bleach to refresh my memory as to why I used to like this show so much. And I figured it out: It's the comedy. Sure, the action's pretty good, too, but it was the comedy that made the characters so likeable in the first place. Once things got so serious in the later seasons I just lost interest.
I just rewatching some older episodes of Bleach to refresh my memory as to why I used to like this show so much. And I figured it out: It's the comedy. Sure, the action's pretty good, too, but it was the comedy that made the characters so likeable in the first place. Once things got so serious in the later seasons I just lost interest.
Same, I actually found the story enjoyable in the earlier seasons but in the later seasons the funny interactions between the characters was the only reason I was still watching because of how bad the story was then and eventually I stopped watching.
The Tegami Bachi anime was a let down. One word: Fiiiilllleeeers!
I really enjoyed the early episodes. Unique idea, great characters but after only 5 (?) the fillers started kicking in and a lot of them. At first they were fine but they got repetitive fast. I'll stick to the manga with this one. Missed opportunity. I'm pretty sure the manga was very far along by the time the anime was created too.
When I first heard about Listen to Me, Girls, I’m Your Father! I thought it was going to be another normal stupid, completely outrageous comedy anime that focused on too much naked, underage girls and a clueless idiot. While I've only seen up to the end of the second episode, that guess-timate holds true...to a degree. Surprisingly enough, the show is much more tame than I thought it would be and doesn't go completely ridiculous with everything that it has set up. And also, I really hope that the show actually plays the conflicts it has set up with a straight face in the end, since if it doesn't my possible enjoyment of the show will immediately turn into blazing hate.
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Alrighty, just watched the first ep of Prince of Tennis II. I did not like it one bit. I never usually judge an anime by it's first ep but I just really didn't like it. The actual tennis itself was just really overdone, I mean I was expecting it to be that but it was just too much for my liking.
I just rewatching some older episodes of Bleach to refresh my memory as to why I used to like this show so much. And I figured it out: It's the comedy. Sure, the action's pretty good, too, but it was the comedy that made the characters so likeable in the first place. Once things got so serious in the later seasons I just lost interest.
Same, I actually found the story enjoyable in the earlier seasons but in the later seasons the funny interactions between the characters was the only reason I was still watching because of how bad the story was then and eventually I stopped watching.
The large decrease in emphasis on the Ichigo-Rukia relationship over the years has been one of the (numerous) reasons why my enthusiasm for Bleach has dampened over the years, although I still watch the show. The contrasts between those two characters and their interactions with each other were the backbone of the show's story, character development and humor in the early years, and that dynamic hasn't really been used enough or suitably replaced since then. Obviously Rukia's still a prominent character in the series, but I don't really consider her much more of lead than any of the other prominent female characters at this point.
Alrighty, just watched the first ep of Prince of Tennis II. I did not like it one bit. I never usually judge an anime by it's first ep but I just really didn't like it. The actual tennis itself was just really overdone, I mean I was expecting it to be that but it was just too much for my liking.
Same here. I wonder if you'll like Aim for the Ace? Though I think that's hard to find nowadays, BlueFixer is almost done subbing it, and it'll likely be compiled soon after.
And also, I really hope that the show actually plays the conflicts it has set up with a straight face in the end, since if it doesn't my possible enjoyment of the show will immediately turn into blazing hate.
It's supposed to go Loli incest harem pretty soon. If I were you, I'd bale out now.
Alrighty, just watched the first ep of Prince of Tennis II. I did not like it one bit. I never usually judge an anime by it's first ep but I just really didn't like it. The actual tennis itself was just really overdone, I mean I was expecting it to be that but it was just too much for my liking.
Same here. I wonder if you'll like Aim for the Ace? Though I think that's hard to find nowadays, BlueFixer is almost done subbing it, and it'll likely be compiled soon after.
Wow came out in 1973 o-o. Might be hard to find no? Meh perhaps sports animes aren't very good. I dunno.
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