I like that show. Have you seen Working? It's by the same folks, and is also enjoyable.
I really enjoyed Working!! I like Working a lot more that Servant X Service. I started watching Akatsuki no Yona, so far I am surprised. Also I like the opening:
Kill me because it isn't really anime, but I just re-watched a Youtube series, "If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device", with my friend who instantly loved it after the first episode. There should be a category where I can talk about flash animations and zero-budget parody series with a bunch of jiggling paper puppets and surprisingly great scriptwriting.
As far as real anime is concerned, I'm on the 9th episode of Trigun. To be honest, I was expecting a little more after hearing so much about its critical acclaim, but it's still pretty interesting thus far.
I wonder if it has to do with when people watch it. It's an older show, and many fans were probably turned on to it early in their fandom. I know for me, at least, it was one of the all time great shows along side Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion, when I was 12.
Trigun has aged the least gracefully out of all of the "classics" of that era. Having said that it's still better than at least 75% of what comes out nowadays minimum.
Trigun has aged the least gracefully out of all of the "classics" of that era. Having said that it's still better than at least 75% of what comes out nowadays minimum.
You're absolutely right. Most of the anime that comes out these days are so lackluster, but I can definitely see what you mean by "aged the least gracefully". I'm not exactly sure if this may be a factor, but the first couple of episodes were not as tightly written as I had hoped.
I wonder if it has to do with when people watch it. It's an older show, and many fans were probably turned on to it early in their fandom. I know for me, at least, it was one of the all time great shows along side Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion, when I was 12.
Maybe. Then again, my general tastes have not changed fundamentally since I was a kid. Back then, I loved Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Warhammer 40k universe, challenging arcade-style games, science-fantasy, any story that felt fresh, and Toy Story, but I thought Bone and Star Wars were meh. To this day, I still generally hold on to my "childish" desires...
Trigun has aged the least gracefully out of all of the "classics" of that era. Having said that it's still better than at least 75% of what comes out nowadays minimum.
You're absolutely right. Most of the anime that comes out these days are so lackluster, but I can definitely see what you mean by "aged the least gracefully". I'm not exactly sure if this may be a factor, but the first couple of episodes were not as tightly written as I had hoped.
LOL old people. It was better than %75 of what came out at that time as well, but you don't remember that %75 because it wasn't worth remembering. In ten years you'll be saying the same thing about anime coming out now in comparison to what will come out then.
Maybe. Then again, my general tastes have not changed fundamentally since I was a kid. Back then, I loved Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Warhammer 40k universe, challenging arcade-style games, science-fantasy, any story that felt fresh, and Toy Story, but I thought Bone and Star Wars were meh. To this day, I still generally hold on to my "childish" desires...
I wouldn't call Trigun childish -- tho I would say the same of A:TLA. It takes a Panglosian character and puts him in situations that challenge his beliefs and pit his beliefs between each other. It has some very mature and complex dynamics between characters and within characters, but those can be obfuscated by other elements in the show.
I like that show. Have you seen Working? It's by the same folks, and is also enjoyable.
I haven't, but I just finished "The Devil is a Part Timer" on Netflix.
Slice of life comedies are my jam.
I liked The Devil is a Part Timer up to the point in which it ends and nothing resolved. I thought that it was the end of the mid-season, but it just ended, just like that. Why do they do that?
I am slowly educating my fiancee is the ways of anime. She'd already seen things like the Ghibli films, Dragonball Z, and Sailor Moon, but we recently watched Azumanga Daioh (she loved it), and we are currently going through Cowboy Bebop. It's been great going back through some of these classics that I haven't watched in over five years.
Maybe. Then again, my general tastes have not changed fundamentally since I was a kid. Back then, I loved Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Warhammer 40k universe, challenging arcade-style games, science-fantasy, any story that felt fresh, and Toy Story, but I thought Bone and Star Wars were meh. To this day, I still generally hold on to my "childish" desires...
I wouldn't call Trigun childish -- tho I would say the same of A:TLA. It takes a Panglosian character and puts him in situations that challenge his beliefs and pit his beliefs between each other. It has some very mature and complex dynamics between characters and within characters, but those can be obfuscated by other elements in the show.
I meant to use "childish" to refer to my preferences as a kid, and not to refer to immature desires. Apologies for any over-exaggeration, though.
I like Trigun because it's post-apocalypticy and cowboy-y and I don't even attempt any sort of literary or other content analysis because me lieks to watch animes.
I don't bother to analyze most Hollywood movies and I'd put the bulk of anime somewhere below that level in terms of complexity and literary merit. It's brain popcorn.
If you want to analyze, then by all means do so. I was just taking a (what I thought was a very transparent) cheap shot.
I don't bother to analyze most Hollywood movies and I'd put the bulk of anime somewhere below that level in terms of complexity and literary merit. It's brain popcorn.
If you want to analyze, then by all means do so. I was just taking a (what I thought was a very transparent) cheap shot.
The only one you were taking a shot at was yourself, hence the response.
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Didn't enjoy it. It tried to be too much like SAC, but without any of the subtleties. Didn't do anything new, in fact did less.
Let down really. Also fuqn fuq dat fuqn outro music!
I like Working a lot more that Servant X Service.
I started watching Akatsuki no Yona, so far I am surprised.
Also I like the opening:
Slice of life comedies are my jam.
As far as real anime is concerned, I'm on the 9th episode of Trigun. To be honest, I was expecting a little more after hearing so much about its critical acclaim, but it's still pretty interesting thus far.
(no seriously, who sits and analyzes this stuff?)
I don't bother to analyze most Hollywood movies and I'd put the bulk of anime somewhere below that level in terms of complexity and literary merit. It's brain popcorn.
If you want to analyze, then by all means do so. I was just taking a (what I thought was a very transparent) cheap shot.