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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni / When They Cry
dbml:
--- Quote from: Zalis116 on January 05, 2010, 09:30:27 PM ---All I can say is, if I were undecided on the series, I wouldn't take the advice/warning of someone who'd seen a mere 16% of the story.
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I think 8 episodes is more than enough to decide whether or not a series is any good. In that amount of time it's easy enough to draw solid conclusions about the characters (how enjoyable or annoying they are), the comedy (good or bad) and the story thus far. If someone needs to watch the entire 26 episodes to figure that out, they're an idiot.
psyren:
You do realise things can change very quickly, don't you?
Of course you don't. Go back to your explosions and random panty shots.
dbml:
--- Quote from: psyren on January 06, 2010, 03:08:50 AM ---You do realise things can change very quickly, don't you?
Of course you don't. Go back to your explosions and random panty shots.
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Ouch, that hurt :( FYI explosions are cool, but panty shots are not.
I realize that a lot of things won't change:
My hatred for the characters.
My hatred of the comedy.
The resets will continue.
And I'd want to keep watching... why? I even watched the final episode for the hell of it. Yeah, it was pretty bad. I can't bring myself to care at all about those damn kids. No way I'm suffering through 52 episodes of hell and headaches. I wouldn't even if the ending was grander than School Days! (Like all the kids dying permanently?)
The only reason I'd pick this up again is if Scooby Doo and the gang showed up to solve the mystery of what was happening, then I'd be all in.
psyren:
S2 has only 2/3 loops, because things are being unravelled.
Yes, S1 was hard to get through because of annoying characters, but you have to accept it as part of Japanese media. All their fictional teenagers are about as pleasant as a yeast infection. It does get better towards the end.
I have only ever dropped one series: Ninja Resurrection. That was because it was incomplete, and because I couldn't find the other episode anywhere.
You cannot judge something until you have seen it in its complete form.
dbml:
--- Quote from: psyren on January 06, 2010, 05:16:58 AM ---You cannot judge something until you have seen it in its complete form.
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I do agree with that. But even still, I can think of at least 20 other series out there that I'd rather watch in place of this, that won't annoy me and give me a headache. I've read all the spoilers and wiki'd the hell out of this series... and to me the payoff at the end isn't worth pain I'll suffer through to get there. I very rarely drop series myself. I try to finish everything I start... but some are just impossible, knowing what's waiting for me.
I'd be more apt to leave the rest of season 1 in the dumpster where it belongs and just pick up season 2 to see what happens. I don't see it happening, but if I'm really desperate for something to watch... who knows.
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