Anime: the good, the bad, and the WTF!?!?!

[Heretical Rants]

They keep readapting old crap to animation

JoJo, DBZ, Hunter x Hunter, and now Sailor Moon


the new Hunter x Hunter combined massive stylistic improvements with the opportunity (now fully realized) to cover new material

but the titular character of Sailor Moon is still a squeaky, annoying wall-eyed idiot, and AFAIK they're not going to do anything new, so what's the point?


the only thing Sailor Moon had going for it even in the '90s is that it was one of the first to popularize the magical girl genre
but it doesn't have that anymore

It has nothing.

I am annoyed.

Make something new, you hacks.


I mean, okay

maybe they're going to dodge some of the mistakes of the original adaptation? the comic was slightly less shitty? so maybe they're going to try to stay true to that: slightly less shitty.

but so far they've just added in bits that look like they were rotoscoped from a 3D model, which is more shitty, not less
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[Heretical Rants]

...but to be honest, the only thing they would have had to have done to get me to like this would have been to get a different voice actress for the only role that still has the original voice actress and she's so fake-squeaky omfg it grates on my brain. And I still might watch it if someone informs me that they've at least somewhat distilled the thematic poignancy of the original. I've always kind of wondered what the series would be like if it didn't totally suck. I'm just not convinced that this is going to be an improvement.

and in the end I'd rather have my kids watching this than, say, Breadwinners, but only because Breadwinners is complete and utter irredeemable shit, and this is just some silly nostalgia thing that's being taken far too seriously by whoever the hell financed the latest coat of lacquer that they've decided to spray on it




As far as I can tell they're aiming entirely for the nostalgia audience and hoping that either that's enough or that enough more get caught up in the nostalgia-momentum. They aren't making it for the younger audience; it still feels old. It's still in the same primitive outdated mangacrap style. It's a kids' show aimed entirely at adults -- adults who already watched it before production even began. ;lkjasdfdl;kjadf;lkjfasijsdafoijefjoivdskanj


EDITS: I had mistyped "production" and began"
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[Darqcyde]

If you were a twelve year old boy and a fan of the series you might think otherwise.

But yeah, the rehash has gotten ridiculous. Don't forget that Captain Earth is Battle for the planets and also the darker and weirder Gotchaman remake.

Besides, there's more important things afoot:



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[Samsally]

One of my friends has convinced me to start watching Soul Eater. She also tried to get me hooked on Attack on Titan but no. Just... no.

One of my cousins talked up Fairy Tail a lot so I might look into that, too.
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[Heretical Rants]

[Samsally]

Well if i wasn't going to watch it before now i pretty much have to.
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Samsally the GrayAce

[Heretical Rants]

I've tried watching bits of Fairy Tail on at least three occasions. I've seen bits from the beginning, middle, and end of its major story arcs, and the rest is still behind a massive wall of unwatchability.
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[Samsally]

yeah but tell me the last time we agreed on media in... well, ever.
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[Heretical Rants]

it doesn't in any way resemble anything I remember you saying you enjoyed

I suppose you might enjoy it if you convince yourself that you're going to just to spite me
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[Samsally]

Haha, well, I'll probably at least check it out, my cousin was pretty excited about it and I gotta come back with some sort of opinion of my own.

I can't imagine wanting to spite you enough to force myself to watch something I don't like, though.
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[Heretical Rants]

Somewhere out there, there could be a slightly different version of me that likes Fairy Tail.

There's a clear gradient between myself and that alternate version of me - it's a hill, not a truly absolute barrier:
I found Reborn! to be moderately watchable. If Reborn! is your favorite thing ever, you will at the very least find Fairy Tail to be watchable. If I were obsessed with boobs, that would win it even more favor in my books.

googling "why do people like fairy tail" comes up with the following:

[Thy Brilliance]

Take it easy HR, you're getting all worked up over nothing.

It's a silly show that's not meant to be taken seriously.




Also they don't really have boob phobia in japan, I imagine you would have noticed this by now.

[Heretical Rants]

the boobs don't turn me away, really

it's just that they're on the short list of things that could potentially make this thing enjoyable - and you know you're scraping the bottom of the barrel on entertainment when you have to say that

it's got abs, too
but the alternate universe version of me that's obsessed with abs is busy rewatching Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club over and over
the abs in Fairy Tail really don't compare favorably to those


The alternate universe version of me that's obsessed with Hello Kitty and collecting little animal-head keychains and cell-phone baubles might be watching Fairy Tail for the weird animal things.

There's probably even an alternate universe version of me that likes the comedy, but I disown them.


I can't imagine an alternate universe version of me that actually cares about the storyline, but that's me speaking as a version of me that hasn't watched the prerequisite twenty hours of angry screaming heavily-muscled children throwing fireballs at each other that are necessary to really truly know the story.
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[Thy Brilliance]

[Heretical Rants]

I'm not a super-powered science-fiction action murderer, Thy.
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