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Toaru Majutsu no Index
Vien:
I have watched this for 7 episodes now, and It looks decent.
Although I get a really weird Pokémon feeling from Touma, I don't know what it is.
This will take longer than excepted, but I'm still going to finish this, as always.
Does it get more interesting later?
quekmeister:
Whew, so much support. I guess I should reserve judgement until later.
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i feel you. it is irritating. they speak too much, the action is "okay" .. its not that "good" or "great". the animation is superb, but for the love of god ... LESS talk, MORE walk. i dropped naruto cu'z of shit like that, and well Naruto is even worse. (left it at episode 102)
edit -- the girl with the glasses in the last couple of episodes, if i was tomua .. i'd let her die, just because she's wearing glasses ... disgusting. >:|
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:o
You don't like meganekko?! They're one of my favourite girl tropes. But only when they're not stupid klutzes.
Case in point: Tsutsuji Baba from Sora Kake Shoujo.
Stsin:
That first episode was very promising, then it got kinda meh.
(click to show/hide)I felt like dropping it as soon as they used the amnesia cliche.Became interesting again with the well directed beginning of that sniper episode...but again turned slightly disappointing. As great as the animation is, wished it had a compelling story to go along with it. Ended up dropping it for better Fall and Winter series. Not saying it's bad, just that it had a lot of good competition. But going to give it another chance; just downloaded the complete torrent.
Most of the great series have ended. Hope Spring is half as good.
Tatsujin:
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--- Quote from: Tatsujin on March 29, 2009, 07:48:27 AM ---Good anime. Drama was utter stupid, repetitive, and made me feel sick and it wasted my time. Too many females for god sakes, tho' you could never complain. WTB nudes and uncensored (if there is any). We'll see how the 2nd season will turn out.
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I have to agree with you on the drama part. It was horribly repetitive. Touma did the same damn thing every couple of episodes, just with a different girl. As for too many females... tough call :P If removing a few would've let them develop all the characters better, then I'm all for it. But there was so little development for ANY of the characters, I don't think it would've made a bit of difference.
(click to show/hide)Like Touma's memory loss... that got completely neglected after the father arc. And what's the deal with "Deep Blood"? Ok... so there's vampires, then how come not a SINGLE vampire was shown in the series? That went absolutely nowhere.
I hope season 2 does a better job than season 1.
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There's alot of holes left, but with the introduction of a new character you know there is going to be more in the next season. Plus, who is Index anyways? She almost has NO past but only in "words" from her two colleagues; Stle and Kanzaki (name spelling?) And that dude with the green short hair. So I mean there's alot to cover, and I doubt this series is anyways near just 2 seasons. I'm thinking 4 seasons at the very least. There are too many characters, there's tons of things to cover between those characters as well. And we should know how the pattern works ... Index will most likely leave Touma one way or another.
I don't read Manga, fyi. I don't like Manga. I like motion animation with sound.
And yea, the show does suck for its repetitive, non-stop talking people about their past and their emotions. That's not how you do these things. Drama should build it differently rather than expressing "omg, my friend, died, and .. well, i need revenge" what the fuck?! .... No, wait .. WHAT THE FUCK?! I had to put up with Naruto's stupid scheme just like this one. I dropped Bleach on episode 4 fearing it would turn out like Naruto (and I'm hearing it does turn out like Naruto) . So, the drama sucks ass. I've seen better series than this one. I'm disappointed.
dbml:
--- Quote from: Southrop on March 29, 2009, 08:18:00 AM ---The point is, you're dissing a continuous storyline. Touma's memory loss is expanded on later in the novels, like when
(click to show/hide)Biribiri discovers that he lost his memory, in volume 17 or somethingThe anime only adapted the first 6 novels. You can't dis it for not expanding everything. That would ruin the possibilities of ANY continuations. At least appreciate it a bit >:(
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I don't read novels or manga. I'm critiquing the anime as it is right now. And right now the series doesn't even HAVE a story. It's like they couldn't decide on which direction to take, so they stuffed every damn story possibility into it, mashed it all together and came out with the disaster I just saw. The only one that was even touched upon was Misaka's, and she's getting the side story.
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on March 29, 2009, 02:05:05 PM ---There's alot of holes left, but with the introduction of a new character you know there is going to be more in the next season. Plus, who is Index anyways? She almost has NO past but only in "words" from her two colleagues; Stle and Kanzaki (name spelling?) And that dude with the green short hair. So I mean there's alot to cover, and I doubt this series is anyways near just 2 seasons. I'm thinking 4 seasons at the very least. There are too many characters, there's tons of things to cover between those characters as well. And we should know how the pattern works ... Index will most likely leave Touma one way or another.
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Yes, way too many holes. And I agree, if this only covered the first 6 novels and there's 19 already and still ongoing, there's going to be a lot more seasons coming. If there's some serious character development in them and there's an actual story... then all will be forgiven and I'll gladly rate the overall series higher. But honestly, I think giving this series an 8/10 is pretty damn generous at this point for all that it lacked... if this was all that was gonna come out, it'd be lucky to get a high 6/low 7 from me.
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