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Your Top 10 / Worst 5 things. Why? (w/ index).

Mistress9 wrote:

penguintruth wrote: Mistress9 wrote: Nagisa wrote: With SEED I see even fewer applicable parallels. Still doesn't quite answer my question. I guess I am just shallow with this one. It was the pilots and well the Mecha's. I have only seen a few eppys on YTV, and I was like what this is sort of like Eva. I don't like it. Don't ask me to explain further cus I can't. I realise I am being childish and dumb but well, that's just me. I know I should give it a chance cus it is proabably good. But I just can't. Also I should note everytime I did check this out, there was a male character that reminded of me of Shinji. I am not sure if it was just the eppy's I saw, or if i am getting this mixed up with something else. Thank you for your patience. Also I realise how silly this is because of the fact that I love wedding Peach, which is a clear rip off of Sailor Moon. But I guess I am just werid. So yes my friend, just chalk it up to my crazyness. So I guess this is never going to make sense to anyone, since it does not even make sense to me. lol. I think considering that "Gundam" is a franchise dating back over 25 years and the fact that AU Gundam programs tend to be recyled elements of the Universal Century shows with new spins on them, it would be difficult to pin Gundam Wing, as awful as it is, as a Neon Genesis Evangelion rip-off. Also, labeling anything that's similar to another thing as a "cheap rip-off" without understanding the history behind it, or identifying key factors that prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it blatently copies its plotline (not its formula, as many types of shows have a formula that it works with but varies from which is why Love Hina isn't a "Tenchi Muyo rip-off") is sort of lame. If you "can't explain it", then you shouldn't have brought it up at all. Look I do not mean to sound like psycho/mean, or like a cow but IT IS MY OPIONION. I do not feel that you have the right to judge me and label me (call me lame) because I disagree with you. I don't care if the Gundams are a franchaise or whatever. I saw Eva before I saw them, and therefore when I saw similitaries I came to the conclusions I came to. Also maybe I should have also noted, that unlike Eva I found the Gundams I have seen, both on YTV and elsewhere, to be extreamly boring.(I have done this now.) Therefore I am giving you a viable reason for my dislike. Gundam Seed is extremly boring. This is only my opionion, weither you like it or not, or disagree with me, is up to you. Also if you would have had read through my other post you would have realised that I was talking bout Gundam Seed and not Gundam Wing. I already owned up to the mistake, and do not feel that I should have to justify myself more then I already have.

My mistake - Gundam SEED. The same comments apply, however.

Also, you needn't take what I said so personally. I wasn't persecuting you for having an opinion - I was criticizing your lack of depth in expressing said opinion and your misunderstanding of established anime genres.

You can feel free to express any opinion, but you can't just make vague, broad statements like "I find it to be a cheap rip off of Eva" and not expect any reasonable scrutiny, which is what I was giving.

Your "opinion" does not live in a vaccum.

And yes once again it is boring. Case closed.

A warning to Mistress9: stop confusing Mecha with Mecca, the holiest site in Islam. What you have done can be seen as sacrilege from both parties.

Least favorte:
This will suprise many.
1.)Elfen Lied
I think it's the absolute worst anime ever made. It has a story, but does nothing with it, or does very little with it. 'Diclonius new race that will replace humans,' and 'Find Lucy.' That is all. No real story at all. And when I say it does little with it, I mean they do it so simply. spoiler[New guy comes. Hunts Lucy. He dies. Army comes. Lucy kills them.] that happens in all 13 episodes. Really, nothing at all. The violence is repetitive. it is all the same. spoiler[Lucy chops everyone into pieces, that is all. That happens in every fight.] None of it is new. spoiler[Lucy, chops someone in half. Lucy, chops someone in half. ]Boring! the violence in Berserk is how it's really suppose to be done. The characters are terrible also. They really don't have personality. Kouta's sister or cousin(I dunno), "Omg! I love my brother, but he loves someone else! i'm going to go crazy." That was her character. i honestly didn't see anything else to her character. Each diclonius is suppose to have a sad background story, and Elfen lied has something "special" to it. The way it evokes emotions, and how we care for these characters. That is BS! Every anime series evokes emotion. Elfen Lied is not special. How can i feel sorry for these tortured girls, when they just go and kill everyone? The people they kill have familes. Nana is the only one I could ever evoke emotion too. Kouta is just as lame as they are. This is just like another crap harem. He can't decide who he loves. The whole series he is just thinking, "Lucy, Lucy, Lucy. Lucy." spoiler[Though during his flashback you figure out that he has a connection to her.] But it doesn't help out. His mind is just on her, and where she is, or what she is doing, who is she. His character is just focused on her, most of the time. Mayu is another character I though was good, and had a good flashback. But after her episode, where we figure out about her past, they throw her away. "Ok, you know about her, who cares about her, we will focus on another character now." I think that is what the director was thinking. i thought it was goint o be great. A lot of people on another forum i post on(my name gives away who i am) recommended it to me. I think Elfen lied had a hidden message. How races are discriminated against, and when that happens, you go kill all the people who discrimanate against you. Good message? Give me a break. But sometimes the only way to solve a problem is through violence.

I don't think Elfen Lied is special. Such animes/mangas like Evangelion, Berserk, Honey and Clover, and many others evoke emotion a lot better than Elfen Lied. Which I hear is Elfen Lieds strong point. Blah!

“It looks like a rock.”
“It’s a special kind of rock, called a geode…When you first become an artist, you’re like that rock. You’re in a raw, natural state, with hidden gems inside. You have to dig down deep and find the emeralds tucked away inside you. And that’s just the beginning. Once you’ve found your gems you have to polish them. It takes a lot of hard work. Oh, and here’s the tricky part. Look at the crack in the geode. You see that big green crystal there? You could spend years polishing that, and it wouldn’t be worth much at all. The smaller crystals are much more valuable, and there may be some even deeper inside that we can’t see, which are even more precious.”