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Been planning on making this. This is pretty much my view of each mainstream anime going on right now. Also delving into manga as well. Let's start with Naruto Shippuden.
Naruto:
Alright, it didn't really look like a bad series at the start. The Chunin exams entire arc was pretty well written overall with some great fights. However, after this, stuff starts going pretty crappy. For one, EVERYBODY looks like they're about to die in the Sasuke Retrieval arc. Neji even looks completely like he dies. Do any of them? No. Sasuke runs away, and then there proceeds to be an INCREDIBLY long filler arc in the anime.
Then Shippuden comes. The first arc is just pretty much a hidden filler. Was there any importance in Naruto chasing after Gaara to the overall plot later? Yeah, they killed Sasori and all, but that was it. And Gaara losing the Shukaku, anything else was just to fill space really.
Then Sasuke Retrieval 2. You get to meet all the other aged characters, and Sai. A homo dressing, constant cursing, bad mouthed, emotionless plot no no. WE FOUND SASUKE AWESOME! Well, it just so happens he turns you away. Too bad. This was sort of good because you got to see Sasuke again.
Then (I really cannot remember for the life of me if there was an arc between these two) Hidan and Kakuzu. For one, Hidan is a very foul mouthed, sadistic, crazy laughing(bonus points), religious freak. Kakuzu is an emotionless money-obsessed monster. Turned out O.K. Asuma died, which wasn't completely expected, and it was some pretty sad stuff, not really bad though. But Hidan gets a pretty cheap death, and Naruto's new technique is like a mini nuke but he breaks his hand every time he uses it. Hooraw,
skipping ahead, Itachi finally is beaten by Sasuke! But no. Madara messes EVERYTHING up and tells Sasuke what happened really, and Sasuke goes back to the unlikable angsty emo he is. Just more insane. I'll delve further later, gonna move on. Animation ain't too bad later on in the series, early on it's pretty 5/10ish.
Bleach:
You know, bleach didn't look too bad at the beginning. The only real turn offs were that Ichigo had a pretty overused personality. Ichigo vs. Grimmjow was pretty tight and all too. But then, we hit soul society arc. Everything becomes broken. Everything turns predictable. Chapters are almost fillers. Then, skipping ahead way far to recent chapters(I really am NOT going to go into the Arrancar arc without trash-talking Kubo), we spend 3 chapters of people standing around. Then there's Aizen just standing around saying "Yeah, I'm pretty friggin hax guys. But Yamamato can beat me." While at the same time Yamamato is doing almost nothing. Then finally WonderWeiss pops up and stuff starts happening. Again, I'll delve further later.
Animation gets a 6/10. Not good, not bad.
One Piece:
The series starts out kinda bland. Luffy just going around fighting people, recruiting a pirate hunter. Also, as a note, THE 4KIDS DUB CHANGES SO MUCH STUFF, I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO RAGE RIGHT NOW. Anyways, it sort of starts bland. Then we get to the Skypiea arc. You get a pretty cool/bad villain with a spear, who can shoot some pretty lightning and rules. His name being Enel, he's referred to as "God Enel." He can't even be hit, seeing as to there's not enough water on Skypiea to even stop his ability to let attacks pass through him, him being MADE of lightning. Then turns out Rubber Boy Luffy's ability stops lightning from doing crapp from him, and he ends up using a gigantic bell to launch him the moon. There's a lot less seriousness in the fights in One Piece, like Luffy's attack Gomu Gomu no Brain Dead.
Skipping ahead a tiny tiny bit, we get to the Enies Lobby arc. This is where stuff completely picks up and makes the plot great. For one, all of the strawhat crew are fighting some crazy villains in suits who in which most can turn into animals. To boot, Luffy gains the ability to use Gear Second, which makes his attacks have the momentum of sound, and allows him to move so quick his opponent who could once move faster than he could see, not even able to react to his attacks. And gear third, which is expanding his bones. Then after a bunch of fights, the final of the CP9 group is defeated by Jet Gatling. Robin is saved, hooray.
At a note, people were complaining how nobody dies in One Piece. I'll disprove this in a moment.
Now, skipping a bit, we reach Moria and Oz. You get to see, for the first time, the strawhats for the first time fighting completely together as a team. It's pretty tight sstuff, and the animation seemed to significantly improve.. shortly.
Skipping way further to a recent arc, we have Luffy losing his entire crew across the world, and trying to save his brother Ace from his execution. He goes through 5 levels of brimming fire, puts his body through 2 sets of hormones in which will put his body in a state of the worst possible in 10 years, gets shot by a light beam, fights through an army of marines, AND to boot has to deal with the strongest swordsmen in the world who can slice mountains of ice in half without having his sword be within 400 yards of it. He also suffered sever poison damage. He finally gets to the execution stand, saves Ace.. only for Ace to be hit straight through the stomach with a lava fist, so hot it burns his body made of fire. Luffy falls unconscious after all the effort. Whitebeard then after being stabbed in the stomach, decides, "FFF- you, you killed Ace, I'm ripping Marineford all to hell." Then Blackbeard comes in, is like hey whitebeard remember me? And Whitebeard is talkin all black to him, beats the crap out of Blackbeard, then after rocking an entire island and causing giant waves, splitting the ground in half, and punching the air so hard it shatters like glass, he dies after defeating Blackbeard's massive crew and a bunch of marines.
Animation is kinda poorly done, it's not terrific but it's not OH MY GOD WHAT bad. Movies are much better animated. Plot is pretty awesome, really good fights.
Incomplete.
Here, you can share your thoughts and opinions about a specific anime or manga
Been planning on making this. This is pretty much my view of each mainstream anime going on right now. Also delving into manga as well. Let's start with Naruto Shippuden.
Naruto:
Alright, it didn't really look like a bad series at the start. The Chunin exams entire arc was pretty well written overall with some great fights. However, after this, stuff starts going pretty crappy. For one, EVERYBODY looks like they're about to die in the Sasuke Retrieval arc. Neji even looks completely like he dies. Do any of them? No. Sasuke runs away, and then there proceeds to be an INCREDIBLY long filler arc in the anime.
Then Shippuden comes. The first arc is just pretty much a hidden filler. Was there any importance in Naruto chasing after Gaara to the overall plot later? Yeah, they killed Sasori and all, but that was it. And Gaara losing the Shukaku, anything else was just to fill space really.
Then Sasuke Retrieval 2. You get to meet all the other aged characters, and Sai. A homo dressing, constant cursing, bad mouthed, emotionless plot no no. WE FOUND SASUKE AWESOME! Well, it just so happens he turns you away. Too bad. This was sort of good because you got to see Sasuke again.
Then (I really cannot remember for the life of me if there was an arc between these two) Hidan and Kakuzu. For one, Hidan is a very foul mouthed, sadistic, crazy laughing(bonus points), religious freak. Kakuzu is an emotionless money-obsessed monster. Turned out O.K. Asuma died, which wasn't completely expected, and it was some pretty sad stuff, not really bad though. But Hidan gets a pretty cheap death, and Naruto's new technique is like a mini nuke but he breaks his hand every time he uses it. Hooraw,
skipping ahead, Itachi finally is beaten by Sasuke! But no. Madara messes EVERYTHING up and tells Sasuke what happened really, and Sasuke goes back to the unlikable angsty emo he is. Just more insane. I'll delve further later, gonna move on. Animation ain't too bad later on in the series, early on it's pretty 5/10ish.
Bleach:
You know, bleach didn't look too bad at the beginning. The only real turn offs were that Ichigo had a pretty overused personality. Ichigo vs. Grimmjow was pretty tight and all too. But then, we hit soul society arc. Everything becomes broken. Everything turns predictable. Chapters are almost fillers. Then, skipping ahead way far to recent chapters(I really am NOT going to go into the Arrancar arc without trash-talking Kubo), we spend 3 chapters of people standing around. Then there's Aizen just standing around saying "Yeah, I'm pretty friggin hax guys. But Yamamato can beat me." While at the same time Yamamato is doing almost nothing. Then finally WonderWeiss pops up and stuff starts happening. Again, I'll delve further later.
Animation gets a 6/10. Not good, not bad.
One Piece:
The series starts out kinda bland. Luffy just going around fighting people, recruiting a pirate hunter. Also, as a note, THE 4KIDS DUB CHANGES SO MUCH STUFF, I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO RAGE RIGHT NOW. Anyways, it sort of starts bland. Then we get to the Skypiea arc. You get a pretty cool/bad villain with a spear, who can shoot some pretty lightning and rules. His name being Enel, he's referred to as "God Enel." He can't even be hit, seeing as to there's not enough water on Skypiea to even stop his ability to let attacks pass through him, him being MADE of lightning. Then turns out Rubber Boy Luffy's ability stops lightning from doing crapp from him, and he ends up using a gigantic bell to launch him the moon. There's a lot less seriousness in the fights in One Piece, like Luffy's attack Gomu Gomu no Brain Dead.
Skipping ahead a tiny tiny bit, we get to the Enies Lobby arc. This is where stuff completely picks up and makes the plot great. For one, all of the strawhat crew are fighting some crazy villains in suits who in which most can turn into animals. To boot, Luffy gains the ability to use Gear Second, which makes his attacks have the momentum of sound, and allows him to move so quick his opponent who could once move faster than he could see, not even able to react to his attacks. And gear third, which is expanding his bones. Then after a bunch of fights, the final of the CP9 group is defeated by Jet Gatling. Robin is saved, hooray.
At a note, people were complaining how nobody dies in One Piece. I'll disprove this in a moment.
Now, skipping a bit, we reach Moria and Oz. You get to see, for the first time, the strawhats for the first time fighting completely together as a team. It's pretty tight sstuff, and the animation seemed to significantly improve.. shortly.
Skipping way further to a recent arc, we have Luffy losing his entire crew across the world, and trying to save his brother Ace from his execution. He goes through 5 levels of brimming fire, puts his body through 2 sets of hormones in which will put his body in a state of the worst possible in 10 years, gets shot by a light beam, fights through an army of marines, AND to boot has to deal with the strongest swordsmen in the world who can slice mountains of ice in half without having his sword be within 400 yards of it. He also suffered sever poison damage. He finally gets to the execution stand, saves Ace.. only for Ace to be hit straight through the stomach with a lava fist, so hot it burns his body made of fire. Luffy falls unconscious after all the effort. Whitebeard then after being stabbed in the stomach, decides, "FFF- you, you killed Ace, I'm ripping Marineford all to hell." Then Blackbeard comes in, is like hey whitebeard remember me? And Whitebeard is talkin all black to him, beats the crap out of Blackbeard, then after rocking an entire island and causing giant waves, splitting the ground in half, and punching the air so hard it shatters like glass, he dies after defeating Blackbeard's massive crew and a bunch of marines.
Animation is kinda poorly done, it's not terrific but it's not OH MY GOD WHAT bad. Movies are much better animated. Plot is pretty awesome, really good fights.
Incomplete.
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