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What makes an Anime good?
southerndoom:
Let me take it a step further.
What makes a good anime a classic and a potentally a great anime mediocre.
1-Sound Design/Voice acting.Probably the most important thing for me.A good soundtrack,
compiled with great voice acting can really push a series to the next level.Macross Frontier,
Black Lagoon,Elfen Lied,Blubblegum Crisis all come to mind of shows that have "it" in the
sound design/voice acting department.
2-Episode arch lengths/Pacing-Look at a show like Black Lagoon.No filler all killer in the episode
department.Short and to the point kept it exciting.Then look at Marmalade Boy and the complete
opposite of the spectrum.76 episodes but the story progressed..progres sed a lot actually.
Then you look at some of these animes 10 episodes go by and NOTHING happens.Thats a major
turn off and can kill momentum.I love both Urusei Yatsura and Ranma but both are guilty of
filler episodes.I dont even want to look at shows like Bleach,Dragon Ball or Naruto those go on forever
3-Is obviously a great plot and a good resolution(or no resolution in some cases)
A good anime can be killed by poor plot twists,extremly convoluted situations that make no sense and
piss poor endings.It ties into the second point.
erious:
Eh...
Most important thing for me is writing. Skillfully written, with developed characters and good dialogue. Either avoiding cliches or using them in conscious way is also important.
Second thing is direction - a good director can turn even a mediocre work into something that's at least entertaining to watch - and good direction is required for truly great anime.
Art direction is also pretty important to me - a well developed and consistent art is always welcome. I don't like trying to be original for the sake of originality, but being bland is even worse.
Music... Needs to fit, and that's that. Sure, good music always enhances the final experience, but I haven't seen anything i disliked just because the music was bad. Same with good voice acting.
Also,
having a plot is totally overrated, yo.
;)
AceD:
You forgot beams, the more powerful the beam, the greater the anime.
Havoc10K:
--- Quote from: AceD on March 14, 2010, 10:23:40 PM ---You forgot beams, the more powerful the beam, the greater the anime.
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MI. MI, MIKURU BEAM !
Smokeyjr2:
--- Quote from: manganime02 on March 14, 2010, 10:02:47 PM ---FANSERVICE!!! And Lots of it! ;D
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What they said!!! ;D Fan service is great
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