amphibian, on 09 June 2011 - 01:34 AM, said:
Other than the five or six Luffy as a samurai episodes, what filler has the One Piece anime put out? Everything mattered. Even the Afro/Foxy battle ended up influencing how Luffy interacted with Hancock.
Geez, I respect your brother's breadth of knowledge, but he's wrong about this one.
OK, now he's awake again I've grabbed him for quite a bit longer this time.
(Illybro)
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The Warship Island, Goat Island, Rainbow Mist, G-8, Ocean's Dream, Ice Hunter, and Spa Island arcs are all non-canon filler not in the manga. Your example of the Davy Back Fight is actually in the manga, though it's stretched out by a few filler episodes, the same kind which are also stuck in across the rest of the series. None of the movies except Movie 10, Strong World, are meant to tie into the plot anyway and only that one was written by Oda - the rest just had character design and a few other things done by him. Out of all of the filler arcs G-8 is probably the best.
The quality of the anime drops significantly around the Enies Lobby arc. Yeah, there are some good episodes with great animation, mostly the big fights, but the lull episodes recap half the previous episode really obviously just stretching out material and it suffers for it. Then you get to the Impel Down arc and the Marineford arc and you see the lull episode animators are back and ruining all the awesome scenes there. Basically just read the manga.
The 4kids dub is a fucking tragedy, it ruined One Piece's reputation over in America and no-one gives a shit about the UK market so the US is stuck with Naruto and Bleach for popular shonen and they suck. No, they do. Naruto had a good start with Zabusa and Haki, short tight action and reaction using actual tactics which was cool, and then it started getting shit, fights being decided on what bullshit powers the other guy had and if they had magic eyes or not. Following a timeskip, which the anime decided was a perfect time to stretch out enough time to let the mangaka get ahead with chapters by airing OVER A FUCKING YEAR OF FILLER, the characters are even worse (with one exception)! The plot bullshit is even worse! The Sasuke fangirling DARKNESS is fucking even fucking worse! Also Kishimoto is a horrible sexist, Sakura is a cringing puddle of rubbish and SASUKE-KUN who can do nothing cool what-so-ever, the only other major female characters are a wet blanket with the character trait of fancies Naruto, a huge-titted token female 'badass' who loses all her fights despite not being handicapped like the other two of her 'badass trio', a housewife who got pregnant and various types of 'Wow you're so cool' useless bystanders. Oh, and Tenten, whose face is in the dictionary next to 'utterly fucking worthless'. Kishimoto seems to have decided to do the opposite of whatever good storytelling is, but he's still not perfected it yet, which is why he has characters like Killer Bee. He's the exception I meant, because he's a black guy in an anime who beat the shit out of Sasuke and I'll love him forever. Also he raps terribly which might be as stereotypical as most of Japan views black guys but Sasuke, asskicking, forgiveness.
And Bleach? Oh man, Bleach is shit of the highest order. Training arc followed by rescue arc followed by training arc followed by rescue arc followed by training arc followed by speculation on who's getting kidnapped and needing to be rescued next. No backgrounds, bullshit powerups out the ass, horrible unlikable characters, character derailment of the ones we actually liked at the start (five ambulances vs THIS ISN'T THE WAY I WANTED TO WIN), pretentious psuedodeep dialogue (THE HEART), screentime based on how popular you are (young boy captain who is canon the weakest captain and beaten like a bitch every time, but the fangirls love him. Sales are down, bring in Hitsugaya!). There's the occasional good idea in there sometimes but it's drowned out by the waterfall of bullshit spewing from Kubo's mouth all the time.
OK, non-shonen? Evangelion had the original 26 episode series out back in 1995/6 or so on 13 two-ep VHS tapes, which you borrowed off your friend to watch oh no Illy, I'm doing this thing for you so you write that shit down while I'm reading the screen [I: Fucker! I was 13!] HAHAHAHAHA but yeah, that's when I saw a bunch of them, and while it was interesting at first it quickly became very stupid, mostly when they ran out of money. There's an interview with Anno where he flat out states he pulled most of the Christian imagery out of his ass, as well. I saw (fitting in after episode 24 of the original series) Death and Rebirth and End of Evangelion afterwards and you know those flashing handwritten letters in EoE? Those were death threats written to Anno after 25 and 26 came out. Well, I hope they were happy with EoE! Also watch the Rebuild OVAs, they are amazing also Shinji has a spine.
Hellsing, batshit crazy manga, mediocre anime made before the manga finished, excellent OVA series being made as we speak, Nazi Vampires fighting very British vampire hunters, French mercenaries and Dracula (his name's Alucard, it is not a big reveal) (oh, and if anyone you know calls him 'Arucard' for whatever reason hit them in the face) [I: If they do it because 'That's how they say it in Japan' PUNCH THEM IN THE DICK FOR BEING TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND NAMES] also there is a priest called Father Anderson who the Catholic Church could do with in real life.
Melancholy's great, Disappearance is better, Illy is a big fat stupidface for not liking it [I: Look dude, I tried an episode and I wanted to punch the title character in the face forever. I gave it my best shot.] Still a stupidface. Anyway, I'm outta here, tell them about Yotsuba in the meantime!
Dickbitch. (he's gone now)
This post has been edited by Illuyankas: 09 June 2011 - 03:56 PM
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