Tenma, you are still the worst. And by a large margin. (But not in my heart.)
"Why can’t real conversations have choices and save points?"
— Sena Kashiwazaki (Haganai Next)
Boku Wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai - Air Recital
Th-this was actually pretty cool.
But there’s also this. *stare*
(Source: unknownone)
So… there’s a bit of this going on.
Maoyuu Maou Yuusha - 1
No surprises: I thoroughly enjoyed the first episode. And frankly, I’m probably gonna be pretty biased during the show’s run because it’s from the main staff of Spice and Wolf, which I love, the main leads are voiced by Ami Koshimizu, who has been one of my favorite seiyuu since School Rumble and is both charming and adorable in this show, and Jun Fukuyama, who’s usually great at everything and is displaying some of his Chu-2-ness, and it’s set in medieval times, which I’m a sucker for.
Unfortunately, there’s a bit too much “bounce” for my liking in the first episode, which is not surprising because it’s produced by Arms, but it’s essentially offset by some exposition and informative dialogue. I thought it was a good introductory to story’s world, its issues between humans and demons, the consequences of ending war, its economic landscape, etc. Plus, the visuals and soundtrack are good. Just a solid start all around, and while it’s not for everyone, it’s very much up my alley. 4/5
New Avatar 2013
For the past couple of years, I’ve started off the new year by changing my avatar to an over-the-top reaction close-up shot of my favorite anime character from the past year. In 2013, I’m continuing the tradition by dedicating my avatar to Mutta Nanba (Uchuu Kyoudai a.k.a. Space Brothers), my favorite character of 2012.
Chihaya Ayase (Chihayafuru) represented 2012.
Tsukimi Kurashita (Kuragehime a.k.a. Princess Jellyfish) kicked off the tradition in 2011.
Uchuu Kyoudai OP 2 (Eureka - Sukima Switch)
This show is so good even the opening got better.
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m-paoword replied to your post: I think Naruto is one of the most overrated series out there. It hasn’t brought anything new to the shounen genre, is overhyped, and is full of flaws. The characters are a bastardized recreation of ninjutsu and the characterization leaves much to be desired. The art is subpar for a shounen series and the battles are boring and the plot predictable.
Or it’s under performing by comparison to One Piece because it isn’t as good as One Piece and that you are allowing your pro-Naruto agenda to cloud and distort your viewpoint of the series thereby causing you to fail to see how over hyped it is.I’m possibly the farthest one can ever be from having a pro-Naruto agenda. In fact, if the series, were truly flawed, then I would indicate it as such. If I had such an agenda why would I bother following One Piece weekly, or putting Zoro, Luffy, Ace, and Sanji as some of the best characters ever realized in shonen manga on the hype list. Naruto has been hitting it’s stride ever since it premiered and the masses just seem to fail to acknowledge the series greatness.
If One Piece focused on developing friendship and bonds more, showing action with key fights on panel versus off panel, keeping the straw hats together during arcs rather than splitting them up the second it begins, becoming more suspenseful, decreasing the amount of world building and text heavy chapters, having better character designs (why does everyone have to be a big bulky giant or non human creature?, and virtually most antagonists of the same species in the series have similar features), eliminate non human non compelling straw hats to decrease the cast size and give more attention to the characters we care about, brought Sabo back, eliminated Luffy’s scar, and had faster pacing, then I think One Piece would rival and be as good as and if not better than Naruto and Fairy Tail.
“If One Piece focused on developing friendship and bonds more”
Cool story, bro.
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One of the main reasons why I love One Piece so much is that it’s able to capture emotion better than any shounen I’ve watched or tried to watch and, frankly, better than any anime I’ve ever watched.
Also, the way they navigate through their narratives and build their characters, whether major or minor, is top notch.
Not sure where they are in the manga (and I don’t want to know), but the Fisher Tiger and Queen Otohime flashback was incredible. One Piece has always managed to lay down foundations for its big arcs tremendously well, and it’s no exception with the current one. The themes used in this Fish-Man arc are so deep; maybe deeper than any other arc so far. Just very good stuff.
That moment when someone accuses Goku’s character traits of being copied from Luffy’s character traits
Because you know, that jerk thief Toriyama time-traveled to the future and stole some of Oda’s character ideas.
And it’s not like Oda hasn’t riddled references to Toriyama through his work.
Toriyama ought to have designed his characters better in a way that couldnt be easily improved upon and serve as an easy inspiration for others. Surely you all could agree that he could aimed for a higher state of originality.
He used archetypes, so it’s not that someone took the characters that he created and moved forth with them, it’s that other writers have used the same archetypes but have done it, in your own opinion, better than Toriyama did.
He also kind of ushered in the era of fight manga, so he created what’s essentially the base of everything that gets done in the series that came out thereafter. At this point it’s inevitable that parallels will be drawn, and there will always be people trying harder to do it better, and many of them will succeed.
Sounds like a certain mangaka was an inspiration to other mangaka after all.
That moment when someone accuses Goku’s character traits of being copied from Luffy’s character traits
Because you know, that jerk thief Toriyama time-traveled to the future and stole some of Oda’s character ideas.
