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EireformContinent
 Posts: 977 Location: Łódź/Poland (The Promised Land) |
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It happens with every kind of fiction- just a minority of things that we loved in childhood can after years make us feel the same. That's a reason I rarely re-watch the series. I prefer to have good memories not overshadowed with realising mistakes that once were past my radar.
Most notably example is Dragon Ball Z. I still have lots of nostalgia toward it, but if I came across it now I'd never watch something with so many plot holes. It's interesting for me as a part of anime history, but now I hardly see anything enjoyable about it. Most of the anime I watched in early 2000s share the same fate- Magic Knight Rayearth, Saint Seyia to mention the most notable ones. Back then the concept of damsel in distress or warrior princess had some charm to me, now the repeating formula and overdose of romance sounds a bit naive. Do you have your types here? |
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Unicorn_Blade
 Posts: 1153 Location: UK |
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My very first anime ever was Yotoden, in good ol' times where renting video cassettes was so popular my parents got it for me a few times. Later on I forgot what the movie was called, and a few years ago I started looking for it. It was difficult, since the only thing I remembered was the name of one of the characters. You can't imagine the excitement I felt when I finally found it on DVD after years of searching, (felt like a Holy Grail or something). And the disappointment when I actually watched it.
Then I was not watching anime until I went to university, which was fairly recently, so my tastes have not changed this much since then. |
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PetrifiedJello
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TRSI has the Dragonball series, all 5 collections, for around $20 each. That's $120 to recapture nostalgia, a price too high to pay. I've never seen the entire series, and hope to hell someone will sell these 5 volumes (for $20) so I can finally see every episode.
The largest issue for me will then be the time to watch the 100+ episode series. I own all volumes of Inuyasha and Voltron, and I can't seem to get motivated to watch them (I didn't see all their episodes either). I wish I can blame it on the enjoyment factor, but that's not it. I want to see them all and the factor comes down to time. If I can swing 5 hours a day of anime watching, that's still a significant amount of days not being able to do other things. If I balance out my time, the series takes longer to finish. I'll get to them, that's a promise. It's just going to take some time to get there. |
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Thunder-Break
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I've only been collecting for a couple of years, but I remember one of my earliest purchases as an anime fan was buying the original series for Negima as the singles were coming out. I would hit up Best Buy every time a new volume was released and purchase the special edition boxes with the mini-figures for something around $35. I would watch and enjoy the series, and would rewatch volumes when I picked up the newest one, even though I was buying the manga and knew exactly what the plot was.
I tried to watch the series recently. It was a painful experience. I couldn't get very far into it because of the poorly aged art, and the dub was atrocious. Even watching it subbed could not take away the pain of watching it. |
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DuelLadyS
 Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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When I was in high school, the giddiness of the giggling fanbase and shiny, pretty artbooks made me somehow gloss over every single flaw in Weiss Kreuz. Several years after that all cooled down, my friend gave me the Weiss DVDs to save room, so I tried to re-watch one. That lasted all of 2 minutes, which I spent wondering what in the world was wrong with me back then.
On a more minor note, I really liked a show called Ayane's High Kick back when I was a new fan and rented it, but when I bought it on DVD several years later I was somewhat dissapointed by its now-obvious mediocrity. I think if I watched it again today, though, I'd find it charmingly 'old school'. |
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Dessa
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I still enjoy most of the shows that I've gotten into, albeit perhaps not as much (btw, Weiß Kreuz is much better when you read the drama CDs, at least story-wise).
But the big one for me is Gundam Wing. Like many in the US, it was my gateway to the Gundam franchise. It was good when I watched it, but after seeing other Gundam series and being exposed to the "what do you mean they're not all making out with each other, isn't it obvious?" fanbase... I won't touch it with a ten foot pole. |
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swienke
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Definitely Tenchi Muyo for me. I remember absolutely loving it when it first started airing on Toonami: it was so different from anything I had ever seen before, and I found the characters and art design fascinating.
However, I tried to rewatch the OVA's just a year or so ago, and couldn't get past the first 4 or 5 episodes. The harem antics that I had never paid much attention to in middle school were obnoxious and frequently degrading, the characters who had seemed so deep and different were revealed as largely one-dimensional stereotypes or were just annoying, and the sci-fi plot that I had always thought of as impressive and fascinating was not only simplistic, but was a much smaller part of the story than I remembered it being. Any interest I had in the series quickly evaporated. |
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Lynx
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For me that would be Gundam Wing. I still remember coming home every day after school to watch episodes on TV. I was addicted and loved every moment of it back then. Several years later when I was walking around at Anime Expo I saw the Gundam Wing box set being sold so, fueled by my nostalgia, I paid almost full MSRP for it all.
When I finally got around to rewatching the show it quickly became a challenge. I literally forced myself to make it through about half the series all the while trying to figure out what in the world did I find so great about it all those years ago. Eventually I just stopped so most of the discs are still in mint condition. |
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IchigoK90
 Posts: 1634 Location: Scarborough, Ontario |
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Gonna add in Gundam Wing as well. I have a fondness for it solely based on nostalgia for the series, but looking at it objectively the series is really nothing more than a piece of crap. I've become a huge Gundam fan since first being introduced into the Gundam Universe with Wing, but it is among the worst along with the C.E timeline.
This may probably come off as a shocker for most, but two series I liked back when I first saw them and now are just "meh" on are: Cowboy Bebop & Samurai Champloo. They still stack up to any other anime when it comes to animation, soundtrack and action, but what they really do boil down to--for me at least--is style over substance. This is more apparent in Champloo than Bebop, but I just can't get into either series anymore. I'll catch an episode or two every now and then since I own Bebop and my friend owns Champloo, but I can't sit through them straight and get as excited as I did a while back. Lastly, I'm going to throw in Bleach. Heck when this series came out I was really into it and the manga. Pretty much why my user name is what it is, but looking at where it is now... the series is just shallow, hollow, vapid and lifeless. It's a bore with some pretty lazy writing and piss poor characters that just aren't interesting anymore. |
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zawa113
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I found out that I do still rather enjoy Digimon, though not on the same level, but man, Pokemon. Like, I'll watch it if it's on TV for whatever reason, but I will then complain the entire time that this is not how the battle system actually works. Like for every moment, lol, I literally can no longer enjoy Pokemon (the TV show) at just face value, but seriously, when they don't know false swipe works (for those not in the know, it always leaves the target with 1 HP, making it the ideal move for catching Pokemon, but making it impossible to use as a finishing move), how can I possibly take it seriously?
That said, I still love the games, I still love looking at Pokemon memes and jokes and web comics and awesome fan songs and the game community, watching B&W and PBR battle vids etc etc etc, but the show? I do watch it on TV like once or twice a month cus it's on and I do still get some warm fuzzies from it, but knowing how much of a huge Pokemon fan I am, the show can honestly go dive under a tractor. Indigo League is still the best though. Seriously, I remember being at my friends' place and they had so much nostalgic stuff back there and I could not stop looking for the Pokemon stuff and I got them to play the Master Quest board game with me, whee! Now, I'm guessing my Pokemon thing isn't just me, but this one more or less is, Ranma 1/2 was one of the series that got me into manga and anime. I would get every volume of the 2nd ed of the manga as it came out (and Viz was releasing those two at a time), I got the anime up through season 6 (back when they still cost like $120 per season) and I simply adored the series. Then I was also collecting Maison Ikkoku (manga) at the time and it's weird, but like once I finished up reading Maison Ikkoku and it became my favorite manga of all time (until I read Banana Fish, naturally, but MI is still a good second), I then tried to go back to the romantic comedy in Ranma 1/2 and just....I just couldn't get back into it. MI was so ridiculously superior with its comedy I just couldn't look back. Ranma 1/2 was quickly exposed then as most of the jokes being "PERVERT! *slap*" (as I call them) jokes and it just wasn't awesome anymore. I finally sold the damn manga recently and sold the anime ages ago. Also, Ranma 1/2 is the reason for my rule on not having both the anime and manga of a series if they're damn near the same (except the anime for Ranma 1/2 was clearly drawn by the interns half the time, the animation could be downright terrible, so yeah, guess the manga was better), it just seems pointless to me now (if they're very different, I can still have both though). It also probably didn't help that MI's plot went somewhere (kinda slowly yeah) and also had a real ending and Ranma 1/2 overstayed its welcome after about 7 or 8 volumes, it was just way too long for me to possibly even want to consider enjoying it again when it has no real overall story and I got burned out after just a few volumes on a prior attempt. So yeah, I still think it's a great gateway drug, but not much more than that, and that's what it was for me, a gateway drug and nothing more. Outlaw Star was a gateway drug for me too, but I still love that series! |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7994 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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Well, with me, a lot of long running Shounen like Dragonball Z and Bleach definitely have a shelf life I've found. They're interesting to point, but then the quality wanes eventually and they get stale and repetitive.
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Guimer
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I'm gonna date myself on this one. I remember telling my husband how awesome Speed Racer was. I loved that anime when I was the tender age of 5. Needless to say, when I bought one of the videos and watched it with him, all I could do was apologize on how lame it was.
I want to lock Trixie, Speedy, Sprital, and the chimp in the trunk and push the car over the cliff. Another childhood memory shattered. lol. Oh well...my taste sure have change since I was five. >.> |
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Mushi-Man
 Posts: 1537 Location: KCMO |
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I grew up on Toonami so I saw all the anime that you'd expect a fan my age to see (DBZ, Gundam Wing, Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho, ect.). And actually lately I've really been trying to go back and see if any of them still hold up as enjoyable shows. Most have actually seemed to stay in my good graces. Now sure most aren't as amazing as I remembered, but they are still enjoyable anime all the same. But a few have let me down sadly. As others have said DBZ and Tenchi Muyo are now almost annoying to watch. As I kid I loved these shows but now I don't give them a second glance. Now I would still say that they are fun shows for kids to watch, but at this point I just can't deal with them.
Actually I've even found a few shows that are now better than they were when I first saw them. Anime like Gundam 0080, Gundam 8th MS Team, and Case Closed have more meat to the story then my young brain was able to pick up at the time. Now that I've grown a bit I'm able to appreciate these titles allot more. |
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Dorcas_Aurelia
 Posts: 5344 Location: Philly |
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It's not that it aged poorly, it's that it was horrible even then (to the point that fan complaints prompted Xebec to replace the entire animation team halfway through the series), you just probably weren't familiar enough with anime to recognize its flaws at the time. |
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EricDent
 Posts: 997 Location: Georgetown, TX |
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If I get tired of a show, or just not enjoy it anymore, then I sell it.
Of course there are some shows I have not watched in a long time. |
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