Comments on: Anime of the Decade: Part I

By: L’Antre de la Fangirl » Bilan de la Décennie, 2ème Partie : suite et fin

L’Antre de la Fangirl » Bilan de la Décennie, 2ème Partie : suite et fin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:54:51 +0000

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By: hydora

hydora — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:58:00 +0000

WOW I really like this list. There’s alot I haven’t watched but ones I recognise, I agree with. I notice you thankfully haven’t mentioned what I suppose is the anime industry’s most overrated long running crappage *coughNARUTOcoughBLEACH*

I really agree with the point about how Gundam Seed (and destiny, but then again, destiny was even more feeble than Seed) full of angst ridden teens who fail as mecha pilots.

Slightly surprised at the appearance of RahXephon however. I never saw a plot full of more gaping holes than this.

By: what

what — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:19:39 +0000

yukikaze was outshone mostly because it took forever to release.
It’s kinda like hellsing now. Everytime an ep is out people go bonkers, but halfway through it’s “meh” because of the gaps.
The wait time is just too ridiculous.

“the growth of the anime bubble as well as its burst.” <— this cannot be farther from the truth though.
One bubble has since bursted, that is the traditional anime scene.
You don't see such a thing anymore, and it's really, really sad.
Also, on behalf of my friends I bring greetings from #mae and #rg via their first rules:

1. Nobody likes you, get out.

Good times…

To end this I bring you an excerpt of what I think was in Mahoromatic.
Life is like a dream, a dream is like life.

By: faz

faz — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:08:45 +0000

/speechless TT_TT
so much win…

By: Reki

Reki — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:06:27 +0000

In before “my opinion is better than your opinion”.

Also, looking forward to your take on the back half of the decade. So far, lots of good titles. ^____^ Expanding on it could turn this into a nice little sample platter of the 2000s.

By: Silencers

Silencers — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:52:38 +0000

@karry:
1. Tenchi Muyo more or less ‘introduced’ the harem genre, yes. It had a lot of depth and definitely fun to watch. But did it define harem, though?

I doubt it, as Tenchi didn’t really have the flat, cardboard-cutout characters and linear-as-a-string plot that Love Hina had. Pretty much every other harem that came afterward followed this template; they were all about the character stereotypes and fanservice.

2. As for BT, there was a good number of trackers already offering fansubs in 2002, it was pretty much full-swing already. There was also a lot of different torrent clients already, I remember trying out at least 5 different clients back then. When you say 2004, that’s when BT traffic exploded and as you said, became mainstream.

‘Full-swing’ here meant it’s already being widely implemented, and being steadily spread.

3. Saikano is an acquired taste, I guess. Much like Serial Experiments Lain.

4. Yukikaze was good, yeah. I had a lot of fun watching that. Whether or not its better than Zero though, I don’t know. I’m a sucker for shows with lots dogfighting and crazy missile dodging acrobats.

By: karry

karry — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:00:44 +0000

“Love Hina – Perhaps the show that defined the harem genre in anime.”
No, that was Tenchi. And even earlier there was Ranma. And you can find roots of pretty much any anime trope in Urusei Yatsura.

“I think fansub distribution via bittorrent is already in full-swing by then.”
In 2002 ? No way, man ! That was still DDL and “traditional” p2p time. Even anime clubs were still around in ‘02 ! Bittorrent becoming mainstream seems more like 2004 to me.

“I have yet to see anything nearly as painful as Saikano.”
Painfully BAD, you mean ?

“Yukikaze – Got mercilessly outshined by Macross Zero”
Macross Zero was very aptly named, it was a total zero, compared to the hidden gem that was Yukikaze…