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Hehehe... but really, the length is pretty much the main thing that turns me off from watching it. I have enough trouble watching 26-ish episode shows, so I'm sure if I tried watching Monster I'd make it like halfway through and then eventually just stop watching it for months and then forget everything about it and then not want to keep watching it because I'd have to rewatch everything and...
yeah.
Watch Rocket Girls.
Only 12 episodes.
Also, I noticed something.
In Element Hunters, Chiara Ferina's parents are separated but not divorced, and they both appear in the show. Her mom, with a successful acting career, is the breadwinner; her dad is unemployed and a bit of a dorky hobbyist. Are there any other anime characters like that?
In Madoka the mom was also the breadwinner and the dad stayed at home, but they were together.
DYRE,
Has anyone watched/read Busou Renkin? And if so... is it any good? This girl's sword things are really cool, and so now I kind of want to watch it because of that... >.> On the other hand, main character guy looks like a generic main character guy.
I watched Buso Renkin recently and would consider it a pretty solid show. I do think that some parts are a little too generic shonen fighter, but since the series is relatively short for something in that genre, it does not really go into stuff like power levels or filler, which I guess minimizes some potential problems. I mostly enjoy the interesting characters (Captain Bravo, Papillon, Busujima) and theme song more than the plot though.
Opinions are opinions of course, so ours might differ here. Also, if you really dislike flamboyant characters or want a dark story, the show probably is not a good fit for you.
But the manga never finished its story. Does the show?
The thing about watching Monster is that it's like eating potato chips laced with crack: Very, very difficult to stop once you've started and satisfying all the way. A friend of mine who has finished the series tells me that she only found it the slightest bit laggy about fifty episodes in, and that was only because the plot started focusing for a time on characters that she didn't care for.
Seriously, watch it.
I... didn't like Monster. Not because of any flaws in it, it was just too dark for me to enjoy it.
It has already been established that I like dark things more than most of the other people here, so I don't have that problem, but I can still completely understand that. It's a heavy show.
You know for all people rant on about how Johan is a great villain he comes off as incredibly boring to me. He just bounces around Europe committing various crimes... for no concrete reason really. I mean sure you can argue blah blah blah evil incarnate but if the villain doesn't even have a motivation for what they do, it comes off as a pretty hollow narrative.
Well thankfully Roberto and Lunge picked up the slack for motivated antagonists, but Johan is just a black hole that hangs over the plot for me.
Johan is more or less a classy version of TDK's Joker, Chaos for Chaos' sake combined with dashes of nihilism, misanthropy, and mommy issues. It's honestly a little incoherent, but I think that's the point. Johan is supposed to be scary, not understandable.
Granted, I think Urasawa laid the whole "this guy is totally evil!" a little too thick with Johan.
Johan wasn't really big on chaos for it's own sake until he plunged that last town into war. All his previous crimes were all about either screwing with a specific person or making life hell for Tenma.
The problem with Johan is that he exists to serve the story, which is a meditation on whether it's possible for evil to be irredeemable. Sadly, the only way to test this is to make the villain entirely one-dimensional.
I'd rather eat potato chips laced with salt.
Wait, what was the metaphor again?
...This is unusual now?
Apparently Byakuya died recently in Bleach. I... felt nothing (Partly because I didn't really start reading BLEACH again until a couple of days ago when ninjaclown was talking about it and partly because I didn't really... do much outside of HE'S DEAD NOW).
I doubt it'll stick since there was absolutely no sendoff for him. I bet he and everybody else will be okay by the end of the arc.
^^^^ The interesting thing about Johan's presence in the story so far (I'm about a third of the way through) is that he is more a palpable absence than an actual character. You see glimpses of what he is and what he does, but why and how is never quite in focus, and the closer Tenma gets, the more confusing things become.
It's my infatuation with "nothing is the scariest thing" as a concept that makes me love it as much as I do.
Yeah but nothing is scarier gets old really fast after a 50 manga chapters or so. The thing about that idea is you have to have some pay off eventually, because if you keep stretching the tension forever people will loose immersion and get bored.
So, a few days ago I kinda put FMA on hold and I haven't gotten back to it since. I really wanted to make a blunt, trolly comment like "K-On! is better", with no explanation beyond that, but I remember that I actually put K-On! on hold for a while before finishing it, as well.
Then again, I don't know if I would go to the trouble of torrenting another 25 episodes of something at the moment, so . . . I'll probably like K-On! more in the end, and One Piece, of course, but I can't say it wasn't an okay series.
Well, it is.
Though I didn't actually read your post yet so I don't know what you're comparing it to.
EDIT: Ah.
EDIT2: Yes this post was necessary.
Oh, no, I would totally have posted it like that if I hadn't remembered that, no, I couldn't finish K-On! in a very small series of sittings, either. It just amused me to tell this story.
In any case, I find that whether or not I decide to take a break from watching a show has very little to do with how much I like it. Of course, whether or not I actually end up continuing it later does...
So apparently Kokoro Connect's fourth episode is good and it's started telling an actual story so I guess I'll start watching it now.
Just watched The Place Promised in Our Early Days. I didn't like it too much to be honest. Even though in the art department it's superb, both music and visuals, the story didn't interest me enough.
Also not changing my avatar because I like this one too much
So I finished season 3 of FMA: Brotherhood, and I'm probably going to put the series as a whole on hold for a little while, because so far, it's really not captivating enough for me to torrent the rest of it or deal with streaming the rest.
Luckily, I discovered that Netflix has a whole lot more anime (not to mention ones I'd actually watch) than I thought, including Gankutsuou and FLCL, both of which I want to re-attempt, and maybe Trinity Blood or Witchblade.
HERESY!
Initial D is the best anime on Netflix. Trufax.
If I ever end up finding the last 25 episodes at a decent price somewhere, I might buy it, but I think it would be a pain to deal with stream or torrent quality.
Is nearly the same as DVD or Blu-ray quality, except with better subtitles. Unless it's something really obscure/old/rare/shitty, but FMA Brotherhood is not.
I have to watch Initial D. But I doubt it is available on Netflix LA.