[Dr Kain]

I finished watching Dragonball Season 2 tonight and thankfully things really picked up once it got to the General Blue arc as the first half of the season was very sluggish to get through. I loved Muscle Tower in the manga, but it just seemed to drag on in the anime. Not just that, but some of my favorite jokes in the chapters when Goku finds Bulma were not in the anime. The only thing that completely lost me was the Dr Slump stuff as it was just throwing in all of these characters I guess you are just supposed to know who they are and what their backgrounds are, and it made them hard to sit through. Like there were these aliens that were just there and they were picking up trash for some reason. Then there was some dude that looks like Yamucha (which was also confusing in the manga, but he only appeared for like 3 pages there). The worst part was General Blue hitting on some 10 year old boy. That was just really really creepy and disgusting that Toei would do that at the same time. Thankfully, things kicked ass again once Tao Pai Pai entered the fray. In fact, he is one of my favorite villains from the original Dragonball series, and at least some of the filler gives him more screen time, so I am sort of okay with that.

[WhiteRanger]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I finished watching Dragonball Season 2 tonight and thankfully things really picked up once it got to the General Blue arc as the first half of the season was very sluggish to get through. I loved Muscle Tower in the manga, but it just seemed to drag on in the anime. Not just that, but some of my favorite jokes in the chapters when Goku finds Bulma were not in the anime. The only thing that completely lost me was the Dr Slump stuff as it was just throwing in all of these characters I guess you are just supposed to know who they are and what their backgrounds are, and it made them hard to sit through. Like there were these aliens that were just there and they were picking up trash for some reason. Then there was some dude that looks like Yamucha (which was also confusing in the manga, but he only appeared for like 3 pages there). The worst part was General Blue hitting on some 10 year old boy. That was just really really creepy and disgusting that Toei would do that at the same time. Thankfully, things kicked ass again once Tao Pai Pai entered the fray. In fact, he is one of my favorite villains from the original Dragonball series, and at least some of the filler gives him more screen time, so I am sort of okay with that.

Yea Akira early work that Dr slump been meaning to get manga of it due to there so many differnt version of the anime

[Dr Kain]

Dr Slump has an anime?

[algo448]

I finished Vividred Operation and honestly... I can't come up with any sort of coherent take on it.

I utterly hate the fanservice in it, because it's so specific, the guy has a fixation on rear ends, and man, everybody wears shorts so short they barely can be called that.
But I do love it essentially being a mecha show with Magical Girls as the units, the story is nice, the charcters get a decent amount of development, the different endings are nice, the action is solid if a short, and it's so lighthearted, silly and optimistic.
I both love and hate this thing.
And I kind of neutral it too.

I just dunno how to feel.
I'm in for a Season 2 if it ever were to happen.

But for know, I just feel weird.

[ZeoRangerV]

The sad thing is, I absolutely hated it and I'd probably watch a season 2 as well

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

The sad thing is, I absolutely hated it and I'd probably watch a season 2 as well

What the heck is wrong with us?

[Shin Henshin]

I despised Vividred Operation when I watched it. Utterly despised it. Looking back on it now, as much as I hate the annoying focus on fanservice, the bleh plot and ending and the overall flat characters who weren't Akane or Rei, it did have good action, visuals, music and a great concept. Don't like it still, but I don't hate it as much...though I still wouldn't watch any additional content.

I've seen much worse shows out there. Like Fantasista Dolls or that Blazblue adaptation.

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by Shin Henshin

I despised Vividred Operation when I watched it. Utterly despised it. Looking back on it now, as much as I hate the annoying focus on fanservice, the bleh plot and ending and the overall flat characters who weren't Akane or Rei, it did have good action, visuals, music and a great concept. Don't like it still, but I don't hate it as much...though I still wouldn't watch any additional content.

I've seen much worse shows out there. Like Fantasista Dolls or that Blazblue adaptation.

And it's not like Akane was particualry deep either, she's just excitable, happy, outgoing lead #342.

To be honest the BlazBlue anime can barely be called an adaptation, it's a series of nonsensical animated cutscenes that make no sense to anybody who hasn't played the games.

[ZeoRangerV]

Yeah, I don't anything quite compares to the awfulness that is the Blazblue anime

[losondro]

Finished watching Acchi Kocchi. Next up, Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan- Demon Capital.