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Sakura588:
When I first heard about Naruto, the only information I had about it was "Good show with ninjas". I was like, "Holy fucking shit, that sounds epic" and started looking online to DL it. I found this one site with a bunch of DLs for the show (back when many sites required anti-leech to be installed lol) and the layout was of Kakashi and it looked totally badass. My hopes for the show being a cool, violent, adult-ninja gorefest turned to mush when I saw the first episode...

Despite that minor setback I saw the whole thing (convincing myself it had to get better, which it did at times) and decided to read the manga due to fillers. I would have to say that at least now they are realizing they can put in fillers that add back-story! What an amazing concept!

As far as Bleach is concerned, the first time I saw it I was amazed at how good it was... until I saw middle to end of the second season and was like "... I wanna see an epic fight, not conspiratorial dialogue". Bleach got too out-of-hand with the Bounto Arc which ultimately caused me to stop watching it and begin reading it... which resulted in nearly the same end as the anime, just much later in the story.

The whole dialogue > story progression thing seems a little backwards to me... since they are going to do spoilers anyways, why not make the fights chock full of more epic-win fight scenes and bad-ass moves instead of "You bastard... trying to kill [insert respected person here]" and the typical response of them smirking and retorting about how corrupt that person is or how justified their claim to destruction is". I'm looking forward to the Shippuuden spoilers for the simple fact that it looks promising... ramen-making free ~.~

zherok:
Dunno how it stacks up with Naruto; I haven't seen an episode since like the first exams or whatever. But while I don't really care for DBZ, I can agree it's very much a successor to shows like that. It's newer, so the animation isn't quite so speed line-y, and they don't resort to charging *quite* so frequently, but there's plenty of parallels if you wanted to find them.

I'd argue the worst part is simply the filler arcs. I think the current season is the 10th. Filler arcs account for three of them. The first filler arc took two seasons to run, so it's damn long. Marginal impact on the story after it resolves. Last filler arc interrupted an already in progress arc, totally disrupting the flow of the show for a bunch of content that had even less impact than the previous one, since after it finished they continued back where they left off.

Bleach is pretty predictable and there's nothing life changing about it, so if you're into anime for that, you won't find it, but it's a pretty solid action anime when they're not showing entire seasons of stuff that has no bearing on the story.

I can agree with Sakura588, sometimes they just fucking talk too much. Pretty much any soul society politicking is time wasting. Still, the fights are nice when they shut up.

juhas:
Aaaah, cant help my self.

Overrated:

One Piece - Realy! everybody loves it, but i just cant stand it. Even my GF loves it, but i simpy dont get it. Too weard for me, i guess ???
Rurouni Kenshin - I dont get it at all. There isnt just anything for me in this Anime. Why everyone likes it, beats me.
Code Geass - For me, its just DeathNote wana be. Nothing special and litle boring.

I agree with the Naruto and Bleach, both were realy good at start, but after they got near to manga and fillers started they realy never came back good as they were before fillers. Naruto could get good again if it just follows manga, but bleach is realy slow even in manga.

Underrated:

GunGrave - One of the best in my books, but many of my friends dont like it, and i realy dont know why.
Seirei no Moribito - Love it, but others seem to think its boring.


There is many animes that are Over/underrated IMO, but i think its just a matter of taste.

They realy should start HxH again, i would have liked that more then Hajime no Ippo. So i guess HxH=Underrated and HnI=Overrated  ;D

Hah, love them both. What ever...

sdedalus83:
Bleach demonstrates that it is entirely possible for a 30 minute, weekly TV show to be comprised of less than 30% new material.  There have been episodes with more recap than new show.  Toss in the 11 - 12 minutes of OP/ED and commercials and you start to wonder how this crap was ever aired.

Nikkoru:
Bleach isn't as bad as One Piece in the ceaseless time-wasting department, I spent yesterday getting caught up on the anime - you're lucky to get ten minutes of anything, let alone a progression in the plot, the excessively long op/ed along with a meaningless 4 minute review of the One Piece plot, and another few minutes spent on the specific action of the last episode - it only took me three hours to watch 22 episodes. Nevertheless Bleach is getting worse with it recently during the Espada arch, I'm hoping the new season will be more progressive.

Bleach is all about style, about cool lines delivered at the right time, and some thoroughly entertaining fight sequences - it's not really trying to be more than it is.

All Jump series are pretty much a cookie cutter affair, with the exception of their none battle manga like Death Note, Sket-Dance, Gintama, To-Love-Ru, and Bakuman - a simple plot, colourful characters and lots of action for mind numbing entertainment, they're all fairly high in quality in terms of production value, and for the most part attempt to please their target audience of early to mid-teenage boys as best as possible. Which is why they're intensely popular, and I suppose that could lead to perceptions of being overrated, it's also why they don't shut down when they run out of material, they can get by on fandom.

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