- Wark Say
- Feb 22, 2013
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by Fluffdaddy
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Ah, my jam! making GBS threads on shows that wasted my time!
- Erased: This is basically like last year's Rokka no Yuusha: A deece show that kinda went to poo poo by the end. More disappointing than outright rage-inducing, though. The one thing that bothered me outside of the show losing its steam was Satoru's voice. I read somewhere that Tomohiko Itou wanted somebody that wasn't so well-known or prone to having a "seiyuu-like" quality to their voice for the main character. Which, if you're going for a kid character (like in Barakamon, where they used actual kids for Naru and Hina), works great. But I'm sure that there's plenty of VA's that can pull out normal, non-exaggerated voices without breaking a sweat and without taking me out of the show(Yoshimasa Hosoya is so ridiculously good at this, it's basically how I recognize his voice nowadays), which the guy who ended up voicing Satoru often did.
- Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: gently caress this Misery Porn piece of poo poo show. KonoSuba won me back on the whole "Trapped in Another World / Isekai" setup with its comedy and Re:Zero, while not my bag, did do the whole "SAO but darker" thing way better than this abortion. The priest dude's death in Episode 4 was cringe-worthy in a way that the studio probably didn't intend to.
- Schwarzesmarken: That's it. While I loved Unlimited and the main Alternative story, I'm officially loving done with the Muv-Luv franchise. It has Aliens + Mecha + Fanservice. It's basically like a 90's Roland Emmerich wet dream, and they still hosed it up!
Dishonourable mentions:
- Izetta: The Last Witch: This was going to get the vote, but I realized that Schwarzesmarken aired this year, and gently caress that show. Maybe it's because my uncle + oldest 1st cousin are both war buffs that I often tend to experience OK stuff that concerns or happens around World War II that I said "Ok, let's watch this", but nope. It was dull. How do you gently caress up a World War II story?
- Myriad Colors Phantom World: How difficult it is to make a fanservice show boring? Especially with a girl that's half Kirby! What the hell?!
- Kumamiko: Best ED. Unfortunately, the rest of the show was not so hot, even with a talking bear voiced by Guile.
- Kuromukuro / Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: I'm sure that if 15-year-old me had seen these shows, he would've flipped his poo poo so hard, he would've decided to become an animator or screenwriter instead of a musician / recording engineer. Unfortunately for these shows, I am 32 I just can't get all that hyped-up for this type of show anymore. They were okay, but it just wasn't enough to do much for me. Which is a shame given the fact that these two got the kind of attention and mass release it got by virtue of getting the Netflix and Amazon Prime treatments. Even more unfortunately, that summer before I turned 15 (1999) I had the opportunity to go see Blink-182 and a shitload of other cool bands in Warped Tour, so they never truly stood a chance. My idea to make them better would've been this weird swap: Keep Kuromukuro a 12-episode joint instead of making it a 26-episode chore and Kabaneri should've give us some time to get used to handsome guy voiced by Mamoru Miyano instead of just plopping him into the end of episode 7. All in all, I slightly preferred Kabaneri just because it felt bigger (aliens in Kuromukuro notwithstanding), dumber and funner, but they were both disappointments.
Most avoided:
- Shokugeki no Soma: I honestly hope that there's a third season once the manga is close to conclusion because I want to binge-watch this. Only episode I watched was when Best Girl's Mom Showed up because Sayaka Ohara is the best and we need more cute moms voiced by her.
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- Wark Say
- Feb 22, 2013
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by Fluffdaddy
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I ignored Berserk really hard because everything I saw about its animations through gifs and such pointed to it having way worse animations than a loving puppet show. Puppet show ruled.
Wait, Puppet show? Like, Thunderbirds?
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- Wark Say
- Feb 22, 2013
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by Fluffdaddy
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WHOA! What the gently caress? That was unexpectedly metal! Is this a show that I need to watch sober? Or can I watch this drunk with my buddies / girlfriend?
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