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What event occuring in anime do you hate the most?
hoppurr:
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on February 21, 2011, 05:22:30 AM ---I'm not sure what I hate the most but...
1. When a comedic anime inevitably forces a serious situation near the end in order to form some kind of conclusion. Excel Saga comes to mind, though it was ironic fashion - there are plenty of love comedies or slice of life ones that end on this painful, bittersweet, overly sappy conclusion.
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that's not just anime that does that, and i agree, i wouldn't sayi hate when it happens but it is usually a letdown when a commedy becomes more serious at the climax because once that happens, most jokes after that are forced, making it even less funny
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on February 21, 2011, 05:22:30 AM ---2. Using a transfer student as a means of generating conflict or pushing the plot forward. It's just so very hackney at this point, especially when there's one every other episode like with Infinite Stratos.
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havn't seen too much of that but, yeah i can see how this has become cliche
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on February 21, 2011, 05:22:30 AM ---4. When they force sympathy for the villain. Naruto did/does this far too much. Either the sympathy should flow naturally from the story telling, or it shouldn't happen at all.
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meh, anything overly forced == bad imho
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on February 21, 2011, 05:22:30 AM ---5. With the rare exception of Baccano! and the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi - I hate disjointed chronology in story telling - like when they start in the middle of story and then return to the beginning simply because they want to introduce all the characters early to draw interest.
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yes this can be confusing
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on February 21, 2011, 05:22:30 AM ---6. Transformation sequences.
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that would be a significant number of modern magical girl animes ;)
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on February 21, 2011, 05:22:30 AM ---9. When a character is supposedly killed at some point - only to be miraculously revived later.
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depends on how it's done, if it's done in a belivable way fine but i agree, such is often forced
Tiffanys:
1. Death of my favorite character(s).
2. The show losing their budget. Ex: Kare Kano
3. Wuss main characters.
4. Really stupid main characters.
5. Focusing more on fixing and eating food than the actual story itself (F/SN VN was really bad about this).
6. Harem leads that care about moral values and won't do anything with the girls falling all over them (DearS), or the ones that are total pervs but such wusses that they won't (Sora no Otoshimono).
7. Relationships that never develop even though there's such heavy overtones that it seems obvious that there's something between them. It's such a letdown... Like Canaan/Maria (Canaan) or the entire Maria-sama ga Miteru series...
Nikkoru:
--- Quote from: hoppurr on February 21, 2011, 04:44:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on February 21, 2011, 05:22:30 AM ---6. Transformation sequences.
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that would be a significant number of modern magical girl animes ;)
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on February 21, 2011, 05:22:30 AM ---9. When a character is supposedly killed at some point - only to be miraculously revived later.
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depends on how it's done, if it's done in a belivable way fine but i agree, such is often forced
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Transformation sequences are acceptable to the point that it is clear they're just using them to bite into a chunk of the screen time via cut & paste - not just transformation sequences, but any sort of needless repetition. For instance, giant robot series with launching/powering up events.
I remembering watching the Power Rangers when I was in grade school and being thoroughly satisfied when they cut the Morphin' Time sequences into a 5-10 second clip. The audience knew what was happening and anymore time spent would be cutting into the action that a 9-12 year old's fragile consciousness needs to sustain attention.
As for supposedly dead characters rising from the grave - in my opinion - if you're going to return someone to life you have to provide some sort of foreshadowing or Aristotelian logic in order to bring them back. That is to say, at the time of their supposed death, their has to be rational explanation for their survival and some indication to us, the audience, that they would indeed survive. Otherwise they're just being either sappy (incapable of believing the audience can accept the death) or lazy (not wanting to discard the character because they're incapable of developing a deeper plot or a variety of characters).
Satsugai:
--- Quote from: DLTE on January 02, 2011, 11:42:40 AM ---How the good character gets powered up from the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
As if the bad characters don't have power of friendship too.
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You must mean My Little Pony, Friendship is..... *cough*. Then of course you must mean Sailor Moon... Bakuman? Toradora! Haruhi? Soul Eater? (though some of those titles dont really have "bad guys") I'm sure there must be a veritable mountain of shounen titles that I'm missing.
Personally, I'm most annoyed when a series (KNGE MUCH?) takes a serious story and throws in random comedy to "lighten the blow", and all they end up accomplishing is watering down the story. This includes kiss scenes that never happen, and are often interrupted by something stupid, as many others have mentioned.
What else... Power ups. Overcoming hardship is one thing, but obvious filler training is absurd and worthless when it lacks other content to fill the story out. This is the sign of a poor series.
Mimishiki19:
"Shut up woman ! Men are talking !"
When a pubescent snotfaced boy rudely interrupts an elder,vastly more experienced in the subject, woman simply because he's male and damn it he has FEELINGS and everyone fucking smiles.
Sorry for the necro but I'm raging and need release.
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