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That's a fair point. I still think it tried too hard to be edgy and kind of lost its way (which is ironic, considering what it was responding to), but the intent behind it was certainly valid.
That might have been kind of the point. Out-edging the edgelord.
Shaman King is way better.
as someone who has watched every episode, I can assure you it is no greater than a 5/10
Like any other anime of that style, the constant drawn out filler killed the show for me. When a fight scene takes 4 episodes in the same location I get burnt out quick. I was I to Warcraft : Frozen Throne as well at the time and if the server list wasn't filled with auto banning Dota games it was Naruto vs Bleach.
I didn't mind the fights, those were mostly entertaining and I think the Pain fight is genuinely decent. There's just so much wrong with the characters and the conflicting themes.
there's a part where jiraiya sees that naruto has a magic seal on him that keeps hidden power locked away, except the seal is poorly done, and makes his power fluctuate you think this is the part where he goes "hmm well too bad, guess we gotta work through this, naruto's gonna have to be 5 times as focused as anyone else" but no, he just undoes the seal and naruto gets a massive undeserved power boost on the spot, and no one learns anything
he's always painted as an underdog despite being the luckiest and most powerful person around, it's the ultimate "you can't make me go to bed, i'm naruto" power fantasy, because the universe revolves around the guy there's probably a lot of people out there who hate anime simply because their biggest/only exposure to it was naruto, and it concentrates so many terrible anime tropes also: rock lee is cool as shit and if there's any part of naruto worth watching, it's his fight with the sand guy. he embodies the message of hard work over talent more than anyone else, and i love his unique look. the author wrote a perfect main character and didn't even realize it
I just like the campy happy feelings
hey, if you got me talking about dbz i'd wreck it a new asshole in fifty five different ways, doesn't mean i don't go 'haha that's great' and get filled with nostalgia every time i come across a scene of it
My favourite Naruto scene is during the fight between Madara Uchiha and the Five Kage, where Madara pulls a meteorite from the sky and throws it at them. Onoki (one of the Five Kage) uses one of his big techniques and the last of his strength(tm) to stop it, to which Madara just summons another, bigger meteorite on top of it.
This is why I never bothered watching the anime and just read the Manga. No filler.
in all 'seriousness', naruto is okay, just frustrating especially the lack of development of anyone outside of sasuke and naruto (rock lee and sakura would have been great secondary characters because they show 'normal' people living in a crazy world, instead of being gods like the main 2), the beginning was really intense with them basically being children fighting to the death, pain was a really nice warped character, but the author wrote himself into a hole later on with madara (where he literally had to make up an even more powerful character to usurp him that could be defeated by some bullshit, because he said madara would be unstoppable), and that felt really mediocre and bittersweet along with the development, every single character taking the sidelines is real lame, even the 5 kage basically couldn't scratch madara, same with the old leaf hokage, where in 'reality' I feel like they would have at least stood a chance. But everyone just keeps summoning godlike powers out of their ass so whats the point. At least it wasn't as total shit as bleach.
the marvel cinematic universe and superheroes in general are basically western shonen anime
and I love it
Shaman King is pretty good although I will never get over the narm of the implication that Jesus and Buddah once won a shonen-style ghostflinging contest. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/239377/0f84be7f-6f04-4ce5-8610-bb7e29a9a193/sham.jpg
Speaking of Jesus and Buddha, I highly suggest everyone watch Saint Onii-San. It's two OVAs and a movie about Jesus and Buddha sharing an apartment in Tokyo and desperately trying to hide that.
One of my favorite bits was when they went to a sauna and some Yakuza dude thought Jesus was some tough-as-nails gangster because of his scars and misinterpreted his crucifixion and resurrection as metaphors for prison and his dad was some big name Yakuza boss getting him out from it in just 3 days I like how outside the fact it's a comedy about these two prominent religious figures in wacky slice of life situations, they both stay pretty faithful in portraying both Jesus and Buddha according to their historical and written depictions, it just so happens they're written in the modern comedic context of contemporary Japan as roommates. It's a very lighthearted series overall.
Never forget Yugi and Kaiba's 15~ min back and forth shenanigans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1RrqVVVrxA WHO'S TURN IS IT???
The problem with Rock Lee is that, after several chapters/episode worthy of delivering to us the aesop that hard training and force of will can overcome natural limitations and your own lack of talent in other fields, the character was sidetracked in favor of the main characters (Sasuke and Naruto) and just couldn't keep up with the expontential powers creep which became the distrinct narrative feature of Naruto: Shippuden. It's telling that even his master/adult copycat, Might Guy, supposed last moment of awesomness, basically consuming all his life force in one swoop to trash the main antagonist, while still cool and all, was totally useless in the grand scheme of things and couldn't help redeem the characters involved in the eyes of the audience. But please, don't ever let me get started on Naruto. Is that one series that made me hate anime in general and shonen in particular, a distate that continues up to this very day
I don't know how anyone can pick up smoking. The few times I tried it, I fucking haaaaated it. Both cigarettes and cigars. Ugh.
Bird Box is fucking awful
It's not the best thing I have watched, but I don't regret watching it. I had a nice time.
I enjoyed myself, it was just for all the wrong reasons.
There's also the fact that people who smoke tend to smell like shit, and it causes nearby people to smell like shit as well
Into the Spider-Verse is good, but not amazing. It wouldn't be receiving anywhere near the praise it's been getting if it wasn't for the visuals.
I would really like to follow discussions about Undertale / Deltarune but I can't fucking stand all the "cute" fan-art every single thread about it has, sometimes for several pages in a row. It makes me irrationally mad. Everyone else seems to love it.
Well now wait just a minute
Let's dig my own grave deeper: I've recently watched Neon Genesis Evangelion (episodes from 1 to 24 and then The End of Evangelion movie) and to me it was basically the most pretentious, "true art is incomprehensible" bullshit I've ever laid my eyes upon. Also, apparently cutting down production expenses by abusing stock footage, flashbacks to previous episodes and still images is a distinct stylistic choice now. Keep in mind that said series is often cited by many players as the best anime in existence
The Witcher 3 is really mediocre. Other than the world building, all the actual gameplay mechanics are shallow filler. The worst part is that of all the mechanics they could have copied from someone else, they somehow managed to always consistently pick the most boring, stupid, uninspired ones. CDPR couldn't innovate if their life depended on it, and they really can't come up with good gameplay design.
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