Wow, a big change since I've been gone. I can now get an anime avy like I've always wanted.
So, what anime is your avvy from? She's kawaii~~ =^_^=
I love how many anime avatars there are now that custom is enabled.
I'm laughing at myself because I really should have realized this would be the outcome. No judgement or anything I just find it so funny, but of course this is a pokemon forum of all places so why should I have been expecting otherwise?
I only use an anime avatar because everyone else is doing it, tbh. Gotta keep up on what's trendy.
X was the worst one. The Waifu selection was almost none existent
I was pretty disappointed in the main story/characters, but pretty much everything else about the game was outstanding, imo (though I feel it's pretty much the first open-world game I've played, so maybe I was easy to impress). Still, I don't think it was as lacking in waifus as you're implying. There was Celica, for one. Also, the chick who sings Melancholia. And H.B.
most anime that are adaptations of manga are not as good as the source material, so that's understandable
Yep. Well, any adaptation of anything is generally worse. Still, animes tend to make more unforced errors than most media, in my experience. For some reason, they
really want to play into typical tropes.
I was just re-watching Utena which I was pleasantly enjoying, though.
I see that's ~20 years old. Does it hold up pretty well?
Yeah, I have pretty mixed opinions on anime. On one hand, I really love the medium because the emotions expressed in the characters are so vivid and intense. With actors, you have to do take multiple scenes and work really hard to capture the specific emotions that the director wants and sometimes the performance still falls short of the mark. With anime, no such problem exists. The downside is that anime is usually saturated with melodrama.
Anime also fulfills my need to consume fantasy fiction, my favorite brand. Aside from Game Of Thrones popularizing the genre to audiences again, there's really not a whole lot out there for lovers of the genre to sink their teeth into. Before GOT, the big shows were Hercules and Xena Warrior princess, which were pretty cheesy. Shows like supernatural were nice temporary fixes, but I eventually pulled out of them because they can only do so much with a small budget. When all the various monsters and Gods are just regular human actors with slightly reworked eyes or skin tones, it pulls you out a little bit. With anime, you can get pretty much everything. Fully detailed alternate worlds, spiraling towers, fantastic beasts, etc.
I just wish it wasn't so hit and miss. You have to search a long time before you find something really good, with many of them being profoundly disturbing. I was really enjoying the Berserk anime adaptation right up until the tentacle rape scene with evil Griffith. Stuff like that makes me extremely cautious when it comes to trying out new stuff. My favorite to this day though is Fate/Zero.
This pretty much sums it up for me. Except, while I do like the sci-fi/fantasy stuff, my preferred genres are everyday life and/or school, which, despite being totally plausible to make (usually), just aren't genres covered by western media. Hell, serialized shows are rare in general, and pretty much all of them are serious dramas.
And for being hit-or-miss, that couldn't be more true of animes. I've watched several over the past few months: Barakamon (very good; but loose plot), Charlotte (garbage), Danganronpa 3 (good at times, ends sucky), Golden Time (OK, but characters are bad/shallow; fails to bring plot elements to a cohesive conclusion), Kimi to Boku (pretty good, but some of the worst romance subplots I've ever seen), Kokoro Connect (surprisingly good; sucks that it's only partway adapted), Kids on the Slope (great; the only problem is an unnecessary and dull tumor of a romance subplot), Pet Girl of Sakurasou (OK; interesting concept spattered over with cliches), Your Lie in April (very good; incidentally, OP1 is my favorite opening ever), The Eccentric Family (very good, but the second season just repeats most of the conflicts), and Usagi Drop (pretty good; don't ever read the manga, though). As you can see, even the ones I liked had some sort of flaw or disclaimer. Well, several of them have to do with the source material, I'm sure, but animes tend to play up the oversaturated cliches on their own (like cutting/adding scenes to play up certain characters, relying on repetitive filler plots, etc.)