I like Shippuden myself. A few problems with it but those are actually more to do with Naruto becoming laughably stronger than his friends than anything else. But I prefer it to Bleach's timeskip. And I've heard One Piece's has been less than stellar.
Ewww....Bleach's timeskip . Though the timeskip Naruto had wasn't all that stellar either. One Piece's timeskip did it's job of showing off the changed SH though it later declined in quality...I'm trying my best not to spoil anything.
Sure Naruto has it's fault but it did win the quality war with Bleach a few years agos IIRC. Though with Kishi's recent chapters I don't know what's so horrific about Naruto.
So aside from the deaths I already know about, will any good guys be dying in One Piece? That's a complaint against the Naruto war but no one died in Alabasta. Not even the little boy who was sliced up by Mr. 1. Of course, some nameless soldiers died but they're nameless anyway. And Pell lived in the anime so I'm guessing he'll probably live here.
Oda as a rule tends to dislike using death as a way to get a reaction out of his audience, viewing it as cheap, and as such very rarely does a character die.
Oh it is. But...in Alabasta, he *killed* several people and brought them back. He got the reaction anyway.
I'm in Skypiea. Most of the Strawhats just got kidnapped. Personally, I'd have told Luffy to go **** himself when finding out how to get to the Sky island.
Revolutionary Girl Utena is a classic anime in which a young woman meets a prince when shes very young and is so impressed she decides to become a prince herself. Fast forward and shes caught up in a series of battles over Anthy Himimeya, the Rose Bride, a girl who if you win the fight is 'betrothed' to you and you get a shot at revolutionising the world (not that Utena actually wants that, she just takes offense to a bunch of creepy assholes using a girl as a prize). Its really, really symbolic, metaphorical and surreal, with epic themes about gender relations and what it means to be women/men, and its pretty much my favourite anime. Also, lots of lesbian subtext (and text).
Star Driver wants to be Utena with its paper thin symbolism but it falls laughably short. All it is, is the main character effortlessly stomping goons in mechs and fanservice. Whereas in Utena each episode explores the character that Utena will swordfight at the end of the episode, in Star Driver Takuto meets them. And then they fight. Thats it. All we learn about them is that gasp, this guy is good at kendo! He might be a tough- oh no takuto effortlessly stomped him. The show continuously cockteases about deeper mysteries and it never reveals jack shit. Theres no plot twists, just plot holes. Takuto finds the villains main base in the first episode. The first episode! And he never does anything about it! And the villians know where he is at all times. How do these asshats fight for 25 ****ing episodes!?
I've been meaning to rant about this for some time. I watched it like half a year ago.
Edit: Yeah I know. Which is why its so frustrating that Star Driver is so crap. It steals a ****ton of stuff from Utena and the only thing better about it is the animation.
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Utena is canonally more manly than the antropomophic personification of manliness. Motherfvcker.
Dude breaks his sword trying to hack through a huge stone door and Utena just pries that ***** open with her bare hands. After being stabbed in the gut.
Because Utena is awesome.
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I'm not. The manga itself has parts so irrelevant that it feels like filler. Like the Davy Back Games. After that, they ran into that icey badass, making me wonder why they couldn't have just ran into him before all that. x.X
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Dec 20th, 2011 11:52 PM
. Though the timeskip Naruto had wasn't all that stellar either. One Piece's timeskip did it's job of showing off the changed SH though it later declined in quality...I'm trying my best not to spoil anything.
