"Well, That Ruined It" Experiences in Anime

Sailor Chibi Moon...Need I say more? Entertaining show = derailed.

I won't say the "ending" of Ranma 1/2 ruined the previous episodes, but it was one of the emptiest feelings I've had watching anything. The last two episodes weren't even that good.

I caught Dragonball Z at JUST the right time...Right when they were showing the Frieza and Cell Sagas. It took forever to get to the Buu Saga and it was a mess even when it got there...I went a year without cable and when I got it back, they were barely into introducing Buu the next year. I taped the episodes as they ticked by, but I don't plan on ever watching them.

I started on the anime of Full Metal Panic and really liked the first couple of episodes. Then it started focusing too much on the badly done military sequences, as opposed to the cool romantic comedy angle of the earlier episodes. Fumoffu was a welcome addition, but a lot of sequences were nowhere near as good as the manga. Feels like so much potential was wasted overall.

Also, Tenchi never really got back the momentum of the first 13 episodes of the "Universe" series. First it was the badly implemented space chase back to Jirai, then the rancid Tenchi in Tokyo series. I don't know if I should approach the new series, because I've seen just how badly it can be handled...

Don't you hate it when it's the beginning of the episode and the TITLE tells you who's going to win the match, or exactly what's going to happen at the end of the episode?

It happened a couple of times for me during Initial D, probably happens elsewhere as well.

Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

With all this talk about Mai-HiME, I thought it was a fun show until the ending, which disappointed me It's still good though, but the ending could've been way better.

I was expecting a...

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big clash at the end with all the HiME's going up against the bad guy, but I don't get that at all. I don't think it explained how everyone got resurrected though. Maybe it would have been better if they all stayed dead or whatever the hell they went to.

Yeah well...

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I would have personally liked more if only Mai would've stayed alive, or something dramatic. The revival of everyone else part is what left me with a rather sour taste.

Although this is still my favorite series.

Blood+. I was a huge fan of this series and while it started awesome ...

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It slowly began to fall into mediocrity shortly after the time jump (32+). Saya NEVER amounted to anything particularly strong and won most of her fights on pure luck, even when she went vamp mode. Episode 49 really pissed me off, as I expected a nicely animated battle between Diva and Saya...only to find them slashing a few times and Diva dying because of some absurd plot twist.

Pissed me the hell off.

Originally Posted by Kurado

Blood+. I was a huge fan of this series and while it started awesome ...

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It slowly began to fall into mediocrity shortly after the time jump (32+). Saya NEVER amounted to anything particularly strong and won most of her fights on pure luck, even when she went vamp mode. Episode 49 really pissed me off, as I expected a nicely animated battle between Diva and Saya...only to find them slashing a few times and Diva dying because of some absurd plot twist.

Pissed me the hell off.

Yeah, I hear what your saying. Still the series kept me interested enough to watch it through until the end. I wonder if anymore plot twists are going to be thrown in with one episode left?

Gantz anime

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did Kei fucking win or what

Trigun.

This happened at a very strange time in my life. For some reason, my friends and I "discovered" three different series at the same time - Escaflowne (me), Trigun (David) and EVA (David #2).

Despite the rather crude animation job on Escaflowne, we all really enjoyed it, even though I still feel the end of it to be a touch too abrupt.

Evangelion caused a couple arguements - mostly around how I thought it was superior to the three if for the simple fact it tried hard to be something different and dropped the ball a lot of the time. (Still remains my favorite anime series)

Trigun, though? I was really enjoying the show. It was kinda flakey at times and the animation was about on par with Escaflowne (I'm an animation fan - so I tend to find 99% of all anime to be very badly done), but the very end of the show was really, really .... dull.

The build-up was there but the climax was throw away. It seemed like the show had been handed over to some gleeful teenager who only understood the glaring generalizations of the show instead of it's once-in-a-while subtle nudges. I was really offended by that last episode.

Originally Posted by LeHah

The build-up was there but the climax was throw away. It seemed like the show had been handed over to some gleeful teenager who only understood the glaring generalizations of the show instead of it's once-in-a-while subtle nudges. I was really offended by that last episode.

I could totally agree with that. A major reason for the Trigun ending being so "wha...?" could also be attested to the fact that the production company decided to go off on thier own tangent for the ending instead of following the canonized (UGH) ending from the Manga. This is the one thing that ruins a LOT of anime IMO. Trigun went on for a lot longer in manga form and went in a different direction than that final ep. Plus I THINK the order that Vash encounters them as well as the ideals of quite a few of the Gung Ho Guns were totally different. I'd have to ask a friend of mine who is a nut for the manga but doesn't look fondly upon the way the show turned up. I can't remember the reasons for why that happened.

Please don't use the word "canon" in any of it's forms. It's one of those words that flags the "idiot" alarm.

If you HAVE to use it, please follow it with a sound of disgust, such as (UGH).

Originally Posted by LeHah

Please don't use the word "canon" in any of it's forms. It's one of those words that flags the "idiot" alarm.

If you HAVE to use it, please follow it with a sound of disgust, such as (UGH).

LOL! Heaven knows I needed that laugh....Post duly edited. XD

You know, I never knew that the Trigun manga was different. I'll have to read that now since I too found the anime's ending very abrupt. Thanks guys. =)

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

You know, I never knew that the Trigun manga was different. I'll have to read that now since I too found the anime's ending very abrupt. Thanks guys. =)

for the most part, the manga is similar until the series becomes serious, the first 2 mangas are pretty close the the anime, but MAXIMUM is much diffirent

Well it's manga but I'm not sure if the anime of Death Note has caught up yet.

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L dying was a mehtastic moment for me. Second half feels strange without him.

Not to mention the "YOU GO THAT WAY AND I'LL DO A DUPLICATE AGENT THEN WE'LL ALL REPORT HERE AT 12 O CLOCK AND THEN THIS THAT THAT THIS BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH YAK YAK YAK WORDS WORDS WORDS NOW TIME FOR LOOOOONG BORING STORY ABOUT THOSE 8 GUYS" thing in the first half that drove me crazy because there was too much fucking talking.

Death Note will totally throw you for a loop by the end. That is all.

Umm... X/1999. The worst part for me was...

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When a friend said "Hey, you know that Seishirou dies, right?" My response: " .... Well, I do now. Thanks." I know the series isn't finished, but I haven't read a lot of it thanks to the horrible official translation and my lack of owning the tanks.

I am a big fan of Hellsing, particularly the manga. When I saw the first incarnation of it in anime form, I was pleased and the series was great until the Incognito storyline came about. I never understood why they went with a 13 episode series for Hellsing, anyway, furthermore they left out a lot of the awesome characters: Pip, Rip Van Winkle, the fuhrer, the odd cat-boy lackey of the fuhrer who I can't remember's name, they didn't give Walter near as much screen presence as he deserves, Celes' character became even more two-dimensional. They also left out the badass, tattooed, nazi, voodoo bitch. They also didn't bother to explain much about the Hellsing organization itself or its former relationship with the Vatican, and they even left out the two characters from the CrossFire sidestory. About the only thing they did include was a brief reference to Admiral Harkonen from Dune.

But, yes, Incognito ruined it for me, first seven episodes were great, after that, suck.

Originally Posted by Duo Maxwell

I am a big fan of Hellsing, particularly the manga. When I saw the first incarnation of it in anime form, I was pleased and the series was great until the Incognito storyline came about. I never understood why they went with a 13 episode series for Hellsing, anyway, furthermore they left out a lot of the awesome characters: Pip, Rip Van Winkle, the fuhrer, the odd cat-boy lackey of the fuhrer who I can't remember's name, they didn't give Walter near as much screen presence as he deserves, Celes' character became even more two-dimensional. They also left out the badass, tattooed, nazi, voodoo bitch. They also didn't bother to explain much about the Hellsing organization itself or its former relationship with the Vatican, and they even left out the two characters from the CrossFire sidestory. About the only thing they did include was a brief reference to Admiral Harkonen from Dune.

But, yes, Incognito ruined it for me, first seven episodes were great, after that, suck.

i will agree with that, but you have to remeber, that when that was animated, there where only 2 mangas out at that point it time, so considering, its not that bad, but this new hellsing shoudl prove good

I have to say Inuyasha the last episode the didnt kill naraku or regain the jewel shard it just ended with Ohh we will still hunt for naraku and collected the jewel shards and the series just ends with that and you have to read the manga to figure out how they kill naraku

and the Anime of Dragon Half they only did 2 episodes of the show and stopped it and there is more manga's of it then the show