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kitamesume:

--- Quote from: Tiffanys on August 18, 2013, 10:08:26 PM ---I dunno, I'm just not sure how someone could say Claymore was terrible even if the anime wasn't as good as it could have been once it got to the north.

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the anime was superb, its just that they botch the north arc enough to make people think its far worse than the manga.

zherok:
+1 to Busou Renkin. I'm not a huge fan of shounen action shows, but the manga adaptation was decent, and it's not long enough to have room for pointless filler.

That said, shounen action shows for the plot and not the action? Not really the highlight of that demographic.


--- Quote from: Tiffanys on August 18, 2013, 10:08:26 PM ---I dunno, I'm just not sure how someone could say Claymore was terrible even if the anime wasn't as good as it could have been once it got to the north.

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An aside, but have you read Claymore author's earlier work, Angel Densetsu? They're not remotely related, but I'm curious if you'd like it.

Tanis:
Wait...Angel Densetsu was done by the same person that did Claymore?

Holy balls that's pretty amazing.

kitamesume:
i didn't like busou renkin much, it felt lacking and annoying. in comparison to Naruto S1 or Digimon i'd rather watch these two.

speaking of old series, i remembered a few.
Flame of Recca (pretty similar to Yu Yu Hakusho)
Saiyuki [series] (similar to getbackers)


how common is seinen action? i rarely see good ones, both anime and manga are swamped by annoying shounen action :(

zherok:
Yeah. It's a lot more obvious when you compare the artwork in AD at the end of it's run with the early part of Claymore. They're about a year apart from where the former ended and the later began. He got tremendously better over the course of Angel Densetsu.

Also puts those occasional weird doodles at the back of the books in a better context. He went on to do something a hell of alot darker right after.


--- Quote from: kitamesume on August 19, 2013, 05:46:31 AM ---i didn't like busou renkin much, it felt lacking and annoying. in comparison to Naruto S1 or Digimon i'd rather watch these two.
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I think my tolerance for long running shounen is completely dried up. Early seasons of shounen stuff often has a lot of promise (I dunno about a proxy battle show like Digimon, but whatever), Naruto and Bleach certainly did. The problem becomes when it catches on, and the publisher (and likely just the author him/herself riding the popularity wave) end up extending it beyond it's original conceit. After a point I couldn't give a shit about either of the two. Bleach just became more tiers, more villains who didn't matter, more powers for Ichigo to retroactively already possess, and still all had to cap off with the most bullshit powers on a main villain I can really think of (Aizen is incredibly uninteresting as a main villain. I never bothered to see it to it's end, but I honestly don't care. His power is so all encompassing I can't imagine a reasonable way for Tite Kubo to have written himself out that shit.)

Anyway, what I liked about Busou Renkin was that it was a standard length series with a solid narrative arc and a fairly complete ending. It's just nice sometime to have a fairly simple series get to where it needed to go and just stop it when it's done.


--- Quote ---how common is seinen action? i rarely see good ones, both anime and manga are swamped by annoying shounen action :(

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Some off the list of things I've seen:

- AirMaster. The action is pretty great. Art style isn't the best but the animation is well done. Plot isn't amazing, and the ending is a non-sequitor non-ending, but worth a look.
- Katanagatari. I love the art style. Same guy wrote the Monogatari series. Not related. Shares his very verbose way with dialogue. Not constantly action packed, but it's beautiful when it's going. 12 episodes, they're all double length (around 45 minutes each.)
- Kemonozume. I recommend this every time anything remotely applicable to it is brought up. It's a very stylized show, but it's worth the watch. While it's definitely got a lot of action, one thing I really like how it handles is the romance. It's an honestly mature depiction of a relationship in a medium where kissing is often "end game" for a series.
- Black Lagoon. Definitely seinen, and definitely lots of action. Definitely worth watching.

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