Depends where they go from here.
If they drive it like Gundam, then yeah.
If they drive it like Eva, then maybe not.
Lots of people are saying that animating everything that happens between Evangelion 2.0 and Evangelion 3.0 is too much of a cash cow to pass up as a spin-off series, but I don't think Anno cares about that, and I'm quite confident it'll never happen.
Depends what Shinbo cares about.
What is Magica Quartet's wish?
I'm almost always a bit wary when it comes to sequels of shows that stand alone pretty well and very good. I still haven't watched the Eva reboot, and part of it is
because I love the original. I
did watch
End of Eva.
The thing with the third Madoka film is that it's just so easy to spot elements and think they're a nod to fan reaction. That was impossible before the series, so it feels more focussed. I have no idea how fair that is. It may just be my own pre-occupations with trends.
I dunno, there are lots of ways that boundaries can be pushed - as a phrase I'd say that when I say it I simply mean in a general sense something that's a bit "out there" and unconventional. Something that does things that your average audience wouldn't expect and might even be upset or disturbed by. These kinds of shows tend to suffer a lot of backlash because they get critically raved over but a large portion of the anime fanbase simply don't like what they are doing and then claim it's because it isn't artistic or clever or whatnot. Evangelion definitely suffers from that.
I've never put much thought into why I like an anime series. Some of the shows I like get torn apart by the critics
and hated by the fandom at large. Others are just generally ignored (which is why I recommend
Crime Edge whenever I get a chance; it doesn't desrve to be ignored).
Attack on Titan was class and I stand by that
Fair enough, it wasn't all that deep, but as a pure genre-thrill ride I felt that it did so much right in terms of keeping me hooked for the next episode. it was very meticulous in setup and execution and that showed especially in that the producers weren't afraid to create extended scenarios that lasted around 8 episodes at a time. That's comparatively rare in a world where everything has to be bite-sized chunks ... done and dusted so quickly. I appreciated the extra time and effort that was put into the show.
It's certainly got its own style, and that's more than many other series can say of themselves. Btw, the bit you quoted was about
Children who Chased Lost Voices.
Attack on Titan was the entertaining show that I found annoying because I don't tend to like shows that run on anger. (I preferred
Mushibugyou to
Attack on Titan. AoT: People fight giants and then things get weird. Mb: People fight giant insects [with teeth?!] and then things get weird.)
I actually do think
Attack on Titan has spots of brilliance, but they're pushing the mood too far for my taste. It's as if you underline, italicisa
and bold the important word in a sentence that you would have payed attention to anyway. But I do appreciate AoT more than other recent shounen shows (
Sword Art Online... um...).
Interesting is a turn on.
Of a different kind. (The blood flows upwards rather than downwards...)
I guess that's a matter of taste. I agree that it's not an easy show to watch and I recall that I had to take two cracks at it to get through it. On first viewing I was kinda "errrrrr" but on the second I blitzed through it. I like that it's cerebral - if I want action I'll watch FMA or Attack on Titan, I suppose!
I sometimes wonder whether it's more primal than taste. As a kid, I couldn't ride in cars; I'd get sick. I still can't watch some fast paced action scenes without getting queasy. So the quick text-flashes, for example, might just make me physically uncomfortable/nervous, before I even recognise what I've seen.
Certainly not bored yet
I've put it on my crunchyroll queue.
Yay!
I've watched them. We all have. And they are entertaining. There's a good reason for their success and that's because they are entertaining, particularly to a particular market. It's not that I see anything majorly wrong with it and I don't think a teenager should be embarrassed for liking them ... but they wear a trifle thin when you're a bit older and you've seen a few!
"This show contains mature content. And when I say mature, I mean juvenile, but I can't admit that out in the open, because I need to protect the purity of youth from the young."
It's hard to be so frustrated with an industry that produces these sexist shows when they're also an industry that caters for many other audiences too - you don't get as much genuine focus on genuine love and grief, or gay romance (both genders) in the west, that's for sure.
Reminds me once again of the
Saikin Imouto... show this season. The fanservice is awfully graphic and plays up the discomfort-is-funny trope that I never liked much, but it's also pretty good at portraying the female MC's emotions, especially when she's not being embarrassed by the show's ecchi shenannigans. It's a... confusing watch.
No-Rin is much more consistent in its ecchi celebration, and much more cliché in its presentation of emotion. (It's also entertaining me more than the acclaimed agricultural show,
Gin no Saji, which I find utterly boring.)
That being said, we also have Nisio's Medaka Box, which resulted in a rather lackluster anime by GAINAX. Maybe it was because GAINAX was falling apart at the time. Maybe it was because it wasn't Nisio's best effort. I don't know. I haven't read the original material.
I actually liked
Medaka Box. I enjoyed it more consistently than
Bakemonogatari, but it never reached the heights that show reached.
People who read the manga say the best material was yet to come.
In conclusion, personally, I'm always very excited when we get an anime-original. I can enjoy a good adaptation. Even love them. But they rarely become my favorites.
I didn't notice that pattern with myself.
It really has all of the elements that dictate I should like it. And I did, but... the delivery just didn't quite do it for me. I never really fully connected with the characters enough.
And the imagery was good, but I still don't like the color palette.
Oh, I
love the colour palette (unless you mean the monochrome filters - I'm undecided about those; sometimes they worked, and they did some interesting things with them, but sometimes they were pointless - I'd need to see a version without them to really tell - before the BluRays came out I heard a rumour that they wouldn't be in there; never checked up on it. It's sort of doubtful, since I remember they put a filter over a conversation, too.)
Sometimes a show just doesn't work for you (well enough). That's okay. I just think the show is ignored a bit too much.
