I’ll try to post these entries on Sunday Evening. They’re just a collection of impressions about the series I watched that I didn’t blog. No rankings, no systems, just raw impressions and opinions. Enjoy.
Hunter X Hunter 96 – 99: Hunter X Hunter reached another one of its annoying phases again. The context of these four episodes was wonderful. I love what the creators are trying to do here in the big picture. The inrigues that come from all kinds of sides, some characters being really careful in their approaches in order to win. Great. But what happened in these four episodes was completely inconsequential in which the named cast just one-sidedly takes down a bunch of ants with weird powers. The part with the spiders was fine: it actually showed lots of new things about them, and gave them much appreciated depth, and the ants they took down were ants we know. However, Gon’s battle against that snake, bat and was really annoying to sit through and just served to kill some time. Not to mention that that fight just made no sense and it was way too overcomplicated for its own good.
Golden Time – 02: The comedy was less there, but I like what this show is trying to do: Kaga is an obsessive stalker and goes way too far and totally deserves a restraining order and yet this show is trying to make us sympathize with her. also pulling the “she’s pretty”-card for that.
Hajime no Ippo Rising – 02: A request to the creators: would you please try not to spoil what happens in your episode titles. I know that this episode was a bit more complex than just that, but it’s the same as hearing “character x does y”: it takes away a bit of the suspense. A suspense that by the way was utterly excellent aside from that tiny detail in this episode by the way. Oh how I missed these intense matches. It was a great way to get back into this series. Just let the next arcs take a little more time, okay?
The Gon battle is very important actually, as it is Gon’s survival instincts that catch Meleoron (The chameleon chimera ant) attention for “reasons I won’t say, because of spoilers.” The Killua battle coming up next will be similar.
Totally agree on HxH the bat fight with gon took a chapter or two in the manga, and there is was something I didn’t really care about.
I KNEW the anime was going to try and stretch it out for 2-3 episodes. so I basically skipped these couple of weeks
The battle only lasted half the episode. They sped through it pretty well, cutting the unnecessary narrator dialogue.
it was stretched out over three episodes. So no, you’re wrong.
No It lasted it half an episode. You are wrong. I have been watching this series. The fight was a fun short fight that lasted half an episode.
They first showed up at end of the last episode and they were beaten at the middle of 99. So no clue what you were talking about.
Added on you said you did not watch it so you have no clue what your talking about.
Hajime´s episode title was more bait and switch.
I’m surprised you still haven’t mentioned the groundbreaking event of Valvrave being back !
I mean c’mon … the singularly most well-crafted masterfully planned flawlessly executed totally not-just-pullin-shit-out-of-their-ass-as-they-go modern masterpiece has gloriously returned to us as fresh spring rain on droughtridden crops and here you are not reporting; almost not doin your claimed job of Anime bloggetry. Task task.
P.S the season premier was actually not bad enough to be good, here’s hopin for some of that old pure unadulterated Ōkouchi Sunrise gold 😉
Lol
Ippo’s chapter was so rushed. It hurts when you see some good parts of the battle and pre-battle getting excluded just to make the fight fit the chapter. Of course, they toned down the level of blood (Hajime no Ippo got more bloody from this battle on) and Ippo should have been fighting with a smile at the last round and throwing more perfect hits.
They cut too much to make the showdown fit in just two chapters and the animation quality took a down. :3