Which anime series is your favorite?

[Ignition]

Anime is absurdly long, though. More than half of its episodes can be easily discarded.

Even if you take all those "easily discarded" episodes, it'd still be much longer than what any of these other series provide.

 

[Ignition]

Even those canon episodes don't help much in actual character development, but rather badge development.

Not like these side series do much of that either and even then they don't have to worry about nearly as much like the main anime does.

 

[Ignition]

I don't think the anime worries as much given the massive number of fillers and overall lack of time limits, though...

Massive is an exaggeration and again even if you exclude the filler there's still a lot of characters/plot lines it focuses on regardless of execution. These miniseries don't have nearly as much to focus on.

 

[Ignition]

*smiles*

I like Hop's "plot" in Journeys.

Congratulations

 

[Peluched49]

Anime is absurdly long, though. More than half of its episodes can be easily discarded.

All the perpetual long shounen are pretty much this. This is why fullmetal alchemist and hunter x hunter are the best shounen.

 

[Peluched49]

Digimon Tamers

Recommend Dennou Coil if you like Tamers a lot

 

[Peluched49]

Those two aren't safe from criticism, though. FA had to do an anime series that was too filler-y and off-track from the source material before doing it right, and HxH updates once in a blue moon (whenever the author feels like it, emphasis on "like it").

Trust me i have my criticisms on both, nothing escapes me. But just looking at the genre as a whole, these are the best handled ones.

I am actually one of those people that prefer the og FMA series but think the second deserves the praise it gets. Same with HxH 99, i prefer it over 2011 up until the it gets to greed island stuff. HxH has no ending in sight, its been 5 years already, honestly im just contempt with what i got in the ant arc. Togashi just comes back when he's short of money lol

 

[mehmeh1]

FA had to do an anime series that was too filler-y and off-track from the source material before doing it right,

I mean there really wasn't much choice (aside from bloating it with a lot of actual filler) since the manga was still ongoing. I prefer B, but I do respect a lot of the things 03 did

 

[mehmeh1]

Also with Togashi it's more that he can't as long as he keeps wanting to be the one to draw it, considering he said he's in a lot of pain from just sitting down

 

[Morax]

Also with Togashi it's more that he can't as long as he keeps wanting to be the one to draw it, considering he said he's in a lot of pain from just sitting down

Meanwhile Araki

 

[mehmeh1]

Meanwhile Araki

That man is literally immortal,just like Sakurai

 

[SerGoldenhandtheJust]

Even a lot of the main series 'fillers' had more heart and soul than some of Twilight Wings episodes
And that's coming from a Twilight Wings fan

 

[Psajdak]

Side things are way too short for me to actually care.

 

[SerenaRulez]

The main series because some of my favorite characters came from there. But Chronicles has some great episodes too like the Team Rocket origin episode which I love.

 

[Kazuniya]

Obviously the main series.

Regardless of its inconsistent quality, it has produced some of my favorite episodes and in general had the most emotional impact on me.

 

[Gingertail24]

What's even the point of comparing a 25 year long narrative with more fleshed out characters to a bunch of shorts and mini series?

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

What's even the point of comparing a 25 year long narrative with more fleshed out characters to a bunch of shorts and mini series?

The fact the shorts may include far more character development than the extremely long narrative that takes its sweet time to do so.

 

[SerGoldenhandtheJust]

The fact the shorts may include far more character development than the extremely long narrative that takes its sweet time to do so.

Name the character development quick

 

[Kuzehiko]

Main series.

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

Name the character development quick

Of which?