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Capitalism. If it gets renewed, then enough people thought it was good. If it gets dropped, they usually didn't.
It sucks but not everyone likes the same thing. I thought Arifureta was pretty ok if you ignore, or just revel in, the CG monsters. It's not winning any awards for story but it wasn't trying to.
Yeah, that's really my problem with the show.
Glad you can admit it, I'll take my apology now
Its character work is good! Its got interesting folks in its story.
But the pacing of its narrative is rough. Its hard to judge it this early into its presentation but as of right now I'd collectively describe it as... A bit masturbatory?
Its asking us (perhaps just me) to get really pumped & excited for what's about to happen!
Its gonna be SO SWEET when it happens!
After this long discussion, following an internal reflection, intercut with a flashback!
Maybe next episode!!
And that shit works really well in a book. In a novel you can split up the immediate action for those greater moments of introspection but in a cartoon I want to see the knight-lady fight the lance-guy.
Just. Do. It.
Edit: And I recognize that a show that I personally love like Dragon Ball Z does this shit all the time but I think it pulls it off as its mixing in classic goofball cartoon antics & sincere melodrama.
I suspect Fate/Zero being a a very serious show is what's highlighting this particular complaint, for me.
The early episodes carry a ton of a weight with explaining characters and their motivations. It pays off massively when all hell starts breaking loose, and the kettle's already beginning to boil over.
While it had some nice animations was a lot of analyzing and watching other people analyze over and over
It looks and sounds great. I just don't like anything that's happening. It really, really feels like a show for serious Fate fans that have already consumed this story and just want to see it animated and fully voiced.
It's giving you a ton of story/exposition, a ton of detail, but none of it is all that interesting or important. The names of all of these people and who they are related to, allied to or enemies of does not matter at this point at all. It's just (so far) meaningless information that is bogging things down. The entire first 45 minute episode could've been a five minute narrated opening. We did not need a history lesson or to see all these people ten years before the show started.
They could've summoned everyone in the first episode and had this fight they dragged out through episode 3-4 all fully contained in episode 2. We're four episodes in and they've revealed the full identities of 4/7 Servants, named but not explained another one, and shown multiple Noble Phantasms.
And yet, somehow, nothing has happened. There was no investigating the Servants, they all just said their names. There were two fights that both wound up being pointless by the end, as nobody died and nobody gained anything. Maybe information? But, again, everyone just says their names and powers out loud for the sake of the audience, which makes even less sense because almost everyone watching this already knows who they are and what they can do!
If it was entirely up to me I'd stop now, but I'd suffer through up to episode 13. If it hasn't drawn me in by then, I really, really don't want to watch a second season of this.
This is assuming a majority of other people are mostly enjoying it at that point. And if that majority instead wants to finish it up, I'll probably just leave it on in the background and be silent, or show up for the rest of the night after.
And best of all, 90% of the cast are, gasp, adults.
I know that from looking over what I remember
And the stuff currently is interesting!
But I also am deep in the fate hole so I just enjoy this shit anyways
It's funny, because I always see the show presented as the Fate show for non-Fate fans.
Anyway, while I agree with others that Unlimited Blade Works has some serious pacing problems of its own, it does have a more action packed opening set of episodes.
I remember blade works had a lull in its episodes where it was pretty similar to these episodes
But by STARTING with a explosive fight you get the hooks in earlier
Speaking of, I watched the original Fate/Stay Night at a con, and the first few episodes were definitely a lot more action packed than this. Looking it up, all four episodes had a fight scene in them, even!
Emiya fucking sucks though.
Oh also MHA is very good and we did three episodes of it to get to that one really good fight, which I'll post here because I'm going to watch it again for like the millionth time. Also before we started Season 4 this is the only part of the show I'd actually watched.
Not top tier though.
Also, this is personal and petty, but I liked the original art better than the current art. I think Nami's breasts have doubled in size since the start of the series and I liked the old Chopper design much more, he looks like a toy now (which I'm guessing is on purpose, gotta push that merch).
I like Super more than I don't, but the animation is worse than the storylines. To me, this is a bigger crime than the other way around. GT is terrible writing but some pretty good animation. I guess in a perfect world we'd a get a better animated Super. I never cared about Dragon Ball Z Kai (or was it just Kai?) because the original animation, despite having some filler padding, still holds up really fucking well
The new Broly movie we got a bit ago was really great, incredible animation and they took a fan favorite and rewrote him into the canon, nicely done. More of that please, the director nailed that shit.
For a while in DBZ, we had some really cool outfits and vehicle designs. That's kinda fallen to the wayside (though the new movie about adult Gohan has him rocking the Picolo outfit again so I have hope the drip is coming back)
Theatrical movies traditionally get super sized budgets, that's not weird for a showpiece of the animation to be in one.
-they add back in and redeem Android 17. I didn't need that. Let him die a bad guy. They have an issue letting people stay dead/as enemies. Even freiza became a battle buddy...
-they made tien look like a chump and spend an episode basically ragging on him, he does fight later on but I hated hated that episode. At least do it to Yamcha for the meme
On that middle point... why would he be bad? He and 18 have the exact same backstory. Everything that makes her redeemable goes for him as well.
All in all, I have high standards for the franchise, and now it feels like a lot of fan service (which is fine! I love that). But if you're gonna do fan service just write it better, animate it better and I'll happily line up for more.
Annoyed it seems those movies aren't canon
And I thought the animation in Super and its movie was fine, not bad enough to draw attention to itself at least.
The most recent chapter was a kinda funny one to be the last chapter on a first read.
The characters who actually did that WERE killed by Trunks. Since the 17 from the main story never did any of that, it's pretty outrageous to want him killed over it. And in terms of turning the villains into friends... it happened only twice in Z (with Vegeta and Buu). Every other time, the villains all get merced, DBZ is not the friend making show. That would be Bleach.
Can't speak for the Boruto anime, but the manga is unironically pretty good. Will it stay good now that kishimoto is taking back over writing duties? No idea
The big criticism you could give it is that it's very laser focused on Boruto and Kawaki, so you lose out on some of the interesting side characters. On the other hand, it's laser focused on them which means they actually get time to really breathe as characters, which is a lot more than can be said for many shonen.
But it's 50 odd lengthy chapters you can read on the shonen jump app/site that overall does some good stuff, so not a bad investment of your time
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Yeah stuff from them is referenced in the series itself