I'm absolutely furious, and this is going to be long. So if you have better things to do with your time, then don't bother reading.
I've watched probably close to 100 series in my life. All of the most popular ones and quite a few that probably less than a handful some have seen on the forums here.
My list is here:
http://myanimelist.net/animelist/leijonasisuThough please bear in mind that it's not even half full of what I have really watched, just what I have bothered to put together in my very bored spare time off the top of my head.As with all forms of similar entertainment, there have been many that I really liked, many that I really hated, and those that left me feeling confused and with mixed feelings.
But I think now that given my age (almost 23), and the fact that I have watched just a string of animes that have just sucked beyond all comprehension. I am going to give up on spending valuable hours of my life watching anime. I know that in the long run, age and etc. is a weak excuse to have anything to do with dropping watching anime forever, and in the general essence of my decision it actually really has little to do with it.
I just finished watching Attack on Titan
(進撃の巨人 Shingeki no Kyojin) and I am just utterly disgusted.
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Putting myself through the first 5 episodes and having them lure me in to what I thought would be an interesting story with a good amount of action and etc. I though I had really stumbled onto something big and that this anime would live up to the hype it apparently had going for it. I liked the fact there were no fillers and there seemed to be a good amount of action therein. In addition to what seemed like a pretty detailed and well thought-out story there was also tons of character building. Which was obviously so you felt attached to people when they got crushed/eaten/decapitated/etc by the titans.
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After 7 or so episodes I already had few favourite characters still and I was getting impatient that I hadn't really taken a liking to anyone.
Eren was just a block-headed reckless idiot who didn't listen to anyone.
Misaka played the annoying 'cool' person who excelled at everything with a constant need to 'protect' Eren from everything, and who had no other motivations what-so-ever.
Armin was the infuriatingly cowardly victim and obviously it was the creators intention to have you hating him as he let his friends get eaten and massacred.
Levi, the supreme jerk/prick/etc of the anime who everyone was entirely made to hate due to his ridiculous ego and seemingly being devoid of compassion.
This is where I should have stopped watching, after realising that there probably wasn't going to be anyone that I came to like, but I thought that somewhere, somehow. People like 'Armin' would prove themselves worthy and end up killing a few titans. Or that people like Levi would die screaming with all of their limbs ripped off just the way they deserved. Though in the end I was robbed of both of those things and practically everything else. The anime ends after only 25 episode and there are still a billion questions. The biggest and most obvious ones are:
1. Where do the Titans even come from and why must they kill people?
2. What the heck is in the basement under Eren's destroyed hosue?
3. Why is Anni able to transform into a Titan and what is her story and why did she try so insanely desperately to protect any information the Survey Corps would want from her?
etc.
I'm just so furious that after everything. 25 episodes into the anime, absolutely nothing has really been answered. Tens of thousands are dead and all we learned is that there seems to be some sort of... I dunno 'team' or 'opposing sides' human-titans that don't mind mercilessly killing other humans? But Anni was 'crying' when they took Eren back..? Yet ughh.. I don't even want to explain it. It's all just such a load of tl;dr. If you're reading this far then you've watched the anime or you don't care for spoilers. Hopefully somehow you can understand my being furious at this. It's just absolutely ridiculous how many questions they dared to propose and then not bother to answer any of them at all. Even after Anni is finally captured, she's encased herself in diamond or something and can't be retrieved.
The biggest and probably worst part of it is that there is really no general word or active 'motion' that they will pick up the series for another 'season' or whatever. The publishing team has stated it's practically a 'no go' at the moment, even with all of it's general popularity. Of course it's been left wide open to be picked up and completely continued onwards. It took at least a good year or so for Code Geass R2 to be released. But by the time, (if even ever) there is a second season. I doubt (due to the manga still being on-going and really long) that there will be much more development in plot in another 25 episodes. The publishing team would know this and that is a huge reason why they might decide against turning this into another 'Naruto' or 'Bleach' continued series. Which in a way is fair enough due to the sheer amount of detail and etc that went into the first 25 episodes. There are big shoes to fill.
Other things I kinda hated about the anime were all of the "What we can share so far" minor pauses halfway through each episode. Whilst some of the information was kinda useful, like how the 3D Manuveur gear worked. Other parts of it like the useless information about about how the wagons that transported bodies work, or the horses they bred for the operations etc. It just all had me thinking, "Who gives a s***? Lets get back to what's really happening"
But enough tl;dr.
Rather than this just become a rant about this one anime. The main general gist of how I feel is that I just wasted another night, another sleepless night. Watching an anime that let me down so bad that I just feel like crap. From what I had been able to gather from the general public was that whilst the manga is on-going, the anime condensed it into 25 episodes. My girlfriend watched it and said it was fantastic, so did many of my friends. For the ratings to be so high I wouldn't have expected them to leave it so wide-open without at least guaranteeing more seasons.
----- Incoming huge plot spoilers -----Having said that, the last anime I watched which I was told, was amazing was 'Another'. Which I also hated and was left with a million questions like:
1. Did Kōichi kill his sister or something (shown at the end of the anime) by stabbing her and letting her drown in the river? (It looked like him)
2. Why did the curse even start in the first place?
3. How come Misaki gets to be able to see 'the colour of death' with her eye?
etc.
Now it's important to take into account the fact that I do not ever read ANY spoilers, nor do I generally listen to reviews from friends/critics or the general masses. So when I watch an anime it's only based on 'ratings' which don't give away really anything of the plot other than a general blub, and what has come from dry 'word of mouth'. So you can't say "Oh you should have expected that". After Rozen Maiden just being left in the middle of a season like that, before they stopped doing it too. Plus other animes I've watched being canceled or not renewed properly, or taking too long like Avatar, The Legend of Korra (not technically an anime but whatever). I think I am just done with this.
I'm tired, I'm hurt... I think I will just watch the rest of Naruto: Shippūden as it comes out and when it ends I will just quit forever. Though I don't count like 1 episode a week really 'watching' anything anymore. After this I am done. I guess as much as I love anime it kinda drives me insane and it isn't healthy for me to watch it if I feel so disappointed afterwards and I stay up all night and throw my sleeping pattern and etc. It's just that, I really thought this would be one of those 'breakthrough' animes.
I guess if they pick it up and indefinitely renew it then all of my rant will be void. But I doubt that will happen...
Thanks for reading...
