What was that one popular show that you postponed watching for the longest time? And if you did end up finally watching it long after the hype died, what was your reaction?
For me it was Haruhi, had this thing backlogged for years until I finally decided to give it a go. It was good but I was honestly left wondering what all the fuzz was about.
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her VA fucked up everything because she's a woman and thus she did woman things ruining her career forever and getting nothing for everything
Higurashi
The animation was Garbage, I thought the gore scenes were cringe and didn't care until they remade it last year with all the shitposting
I liked it but still don't care about the old version
Steins;Gate. It was one of the first anime I even knew about. I'm not sure why, but my autistic ass was really adamant about reading the vn before watching.
I watched it a few years later, and now it's probably one of my favorites and I can totally see what the hype was all about.
Vn was still better tho
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lol, her VA is a whore and is not getting a new season or if get a new one she's gonna get a new VA.
you will never earn the approval of Based God. You will wonder the Earth bitchless for all your days.
bitches have their price and is lower than keeping your purity, i'm dying pure not like you used whore, chad prefer younger pure maidens instead of you.
You're dying alone on a coach with your dick in your hand and not getting found for five years, and your teeth will be so rotten they won't be able to identify you.
I had the same experience with Haruhi. I never watched it until literally like 8 days ago. I finished the 28 episode anime adaptation. It was a horrendously painful slog until episode 26 (Live Alive) when I finally gained an appreciation for the show and felt somewhat happy about it.
The Tvtropes page for Haruhi features a sentence containing the phrase "hype backlash" in reference to Haruhi's reception among audiences who watch it for its extreme hype but were underwhelmed by it, So yes, if you are watching Haruhi expecting it to be as good as the hype it received, there's even a common expression associated with the exact experience you had OP: hype backlash.
>As you might be able to tell from the length of this page, the anime in its first season became a smash hit both domestically and internationally, where it's been compared to similar ensemble absurdist comedies like Monty Python's Flying Circus. It spawned unthinkable levels of praise, with resulting amounts of Hype Backlash, a globe-spanning Cash Cow Franchise, with fans from Japan to America to Britain to Russia to Palestine, probably the largest body of backlash in the history of all anime, and made Kyoto Animation a household name.
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FMA 2003 and Brotherhood a few weeks ago.
pretty good, I should have watched it sooner. I really did not like 2003, I think people that like it better than Brotherhood have got to be nostalgiafags that grew up with it. Brotherhood ended pretty spectacularly.
what's the difference with you? you will probably die the same but sorrounded by cats and filled with cat parasites inside which sounds like a worse fate.
>dying alone but pure > dying alone but as used goods
Hmm, the most recent to me was Steins gate I guess? Finally played the game like a last month. Did not disappoint, but I do wonder where it came from the "I'm smartass" vibe from the people that I saw talking about it.
I mean, the game kinda is like this. But that's not even the focal point. And to me, kurisu did not seem a genius at all.. I love her, but no.
The most "smart" thing was the time travel theories in the beginning chapters, which were ok I guess. To me, what hooked was how good the game was in passing emotions. I felt nervous when Okabe was running, for example. And the characters are great
ended up talking a lot, ops
Oh, and the VN's VA it's just SO GOOD!! I like a lot
I watched a couple episodes of haruhi a year ago and it was ok but went back on hold.
Also watched the original Dragon Ball a couple months ago and really liked it until I got to Red Ribbon.
Its an archetype anime. People have have taken tropes, story elements, characters types, patterns, from it and used in their own works. It defines some aesthetics that persist into now. Also, its a 2006 anime and it was very high quality animation for its time.
You didn't like 2003 at all? I thought it did some stuff better especially towards the start of the show and the comedy was less jarring. Brotherhood was still very good though.
I watched Haruhi way after the first season but before the second and enjoyed it a lot. Then I read the novels and liked those as well. I like how it looks like a slice of life but it isn’t, how the characters go against what you would expect from their tropes. The time traveller usually comes from the future with lots of information trying to stop an event but here the time traveller mostly follow orders while lacking the knowledge about most things or not allowed to tell and instead of coming to stop an event she comes to find out what happened. Aliens usually have a specific goal that would result in drastic changes in human life be it the destruction of mankind, bring them to a space federation or uplifting mankind but here the aliens are just observing trying to find out how Haruhi did what she did while being a simple carbon life form. It takes well known tropes and flip them upside down.
My sister told me to watch Durarara when the first season was airing and I only watched it after the last season was over. The way she talked about it made me think it was about gay sex but it was a great heterosexual experience.
I agree on both points, 2003's beginning was definitely better, I've heard that Brotherhood rushed it because it was expected that everyone watched the 2003 version already. The comedy also comes in at unusual moments in Brotherhood but I really liked how everyone in the show mattered, even Yoki coming by to save Alphonse. The world was much bigger, 2003 felt like being lead through a tunnel while Brotherhood felt like traveling outdoors down a dirt path.
after way too many arguments with 03fags, I've concluded that people who prefer 03 prefer more simple and down to earth plots that stay focused and try to be original while brotherhoodfags prefer increasingly complex and bombastic plots and rarely get tired of seeing the protagonist reach the point where they can punch "god" in the face