What anime are you watching at the moment?

[Napalmbrain]

Ga-Rei manga, in my opinion it's the more obscure and better version of Bleach... kind of.
The anime however, is more up my alley. Depressing, but good.

Just so I know, the anime isn't shounen, right?

Naruto, is painful to say the least. I wasn't very aware that it had a plot until I skipped a few hundred episodes. Sasuke's past was portrayed so poorly it came off as utter Narm and his personality is just wangst wangst wangst with no well portrayed reason. Everyone is so flat and the fight choreography is sub-par to say the least.

My blood doesn't BURN WITH A FIERY PASSION as I watch the characters fight their poorly written battles for their flat reasons.

My heart doesn't weep manly tears for their passion or lackluster Tear Jerkers NARM.

I do not laugh at their pitiable attempts at comedy.

In other words, a cheap dragged out shonen manga. There are plenty better out there and you all know it.

Stop using terms from TV Tropes.

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[Lilium099]

Watching the third ep of Hell girl.
Very good, storyline reminds me of death note, but I'm not rivaling them both.
English dub kinda decent.

[DBloke]

Oh you haven't realized yet then?

It all becomes the same thing every episode (different people same story)
Then the second session is the same old stuff (episodes can be skipped)
Then the third I stopped watching soon after I started

[Lilium099]

^ thanks for the heads up.

[DBloke]

^ thanks for the heads up.

Well you can skip a lot of session one (last five are plot)
Second session there a bit sneaky with the plot episodes (I think the last five are plot)
The main story line is good its a shame its spoiled by all these same old story's that go on every episode

[Monsteroids]

Just so I know, the anime isn't shounen, right?

Nuuuu!!! It's more of a Seinen flavor, I don't think a shonen could ever be so short or soul crushingly depressing... or fanservicey

Stop using terms from TV Tropes.

This.


...and This.

[Napalmbrain]

Nuuuu!!! It's more of a Seinen flavor, I don't think a shonen could ever be so short or soul crushingly depressing... or fanservicey

Nice. I like soul-crushingly depressing- it makes for some of the best anime (e.g. Grave of the Fireflies, Now and Then, Here and There, Wolf's Rain, Texhnolyze, Gilgamesh, Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal, etc.). And I don't usually like shounen.

And what are you talking about, not expecting shounen to have a lot of fanservice? (See: every ecchi/harem series ever)

This.


...and This.

It hasn't ruined my vocabulary... but it has perhaps ruined my life.

[DBloke]

Nice. I like soul-crushingly depressing- it makes for some of the best anime (e.g. Grave of the Fireflies, Now and Then, Here and There, Wolf's Rain, Texhnolyze, Gilgamesh, Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal, etc.).

The afore mentioned Hell girl might be your type

Or that recent story arc of Haruhi

Meh just watch the end of Samurai X
(I can kinda fill you in on the different characters that are in it via the means of the episodes)

[Monsteroids]

Well it isn't Saikano or Bokurano depressing, but it definitely hits the tragedy tear jerker wall hard and well.

Of course I generally just went mentally numb with Saikano... and Bokurano... and NaruTaru.

[Roast]

If you didn't like Black Lagoon's length you're probably going to be disappointed with Spice and Wolf as well, since it'll only come up to 26 episodes (counting both seasons and both OVAs) when season 2 finishes airing.

Well it wasn't so much that it was 24 episodes, but more that I didn't know this until I had finished watching the second season and seeing as I had started (Re-)watching from episode 13, I was just getting back into enjoying the series.