After the fact anime (only liked AFTER you watched em)

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After the fact anime (only liked AFTER you watched em)

Postby Sukunai » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:14 pm

Just curious, how often do you end up only liking an anime AFTER the last show, because in the end it proved to have a great story not apparent from the first initial shows?

I just finished watching Manabi Straight. And to be honest, I nearly quit at ep 3,4,5 simply because, well, it's initially an odd looking show.

But by the last show it's clear, yes, I really liked this show.

It's drawn uniquely, well maybe not too uniquely. It has that chibi like style that I saw used in Lucky Star, where the girls look a lot smaller (younger) than they supposedly are.
The show has zero fan service, which means it's girl friendly, which means parents can't even come close to wondering if it is young person appropriate. I'm planning on suggesting it to a buddy to show his younger daughter.

It has a nice background message.
And over all, that's ok.
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Postby GloryQuestor » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:27 pm

Neon Genesis Evangelion comes to mind here.

From the get-go, you wonder where it's going. Sure, there's big robots and invading alien-ish beings mixed with a pair of depressive teens and a hyperactive red-head. Said from that context (which everyone who started Eva usually formulates early on), it seems like nothing really special beyond the other giant robot shows.

It's right about the middle is where things really pick up, and the endings (both the original and the Director's Cut) turns out to be a huge surprise from the humble beginnings. Then you watch it again and realize that there was a lot more being done and said in those beginning episodes that now makes a lot more sense only after you've seen in through to the end.
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Postby Otohiko » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:51 pm

For me most of Abe's stuff, take even Lain or Haibane Renmei, is like that. With the characteristic pacing there, it's often hard to tell where it's going and get the meaning of some of the symbolism in its subtleties until you see it sort of connect at the end and then have a chance to sit down and think about it.
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Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:06 pm

GloryQuestor wrote:Neon Genesis Evangelion comes to mind here.

stuff.


x2. the last few episodes really made up for what it lacked in the first few. As well as what GQ mentioned, that after watching it all the way through once, you see a lot more happening that you didn't think was of any consequence before.
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Postby Pas » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:43 pm

School Days

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Postby 76 » Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:11 am

I thought of Ergo Proxy while reading this thread.

Ergo Proxy does allot of jumping around. Though the main focus goes from Real to Vincent, it also focuses on a couple others, which, if no-one else, confused me. It frustrated me to that I thought the show was going nowhere. Until the ending when they explain what's really happening.
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Postby LittleAtari » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:02 am

5cm Meters Per Second. I dont know if it was all the AMVs I saw with it that made me think, "Wow this going to be awesome!", but until the last second of it I was not really liking it. Then the ending song came on and I was like 0_0 and started crying from the entire movie, as I began to realize just what it was exactly about and it made me think a lot about my own life. Funny thing, had that ending theme song not been there, I probably would have not realized what it was about.
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Postby xexyzl » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:49 pm

GloryQuestor wrote:Neon Genesis Evangelion
It's right about the middle is where things really pick up, and the endings (both the original and the Director's Cut) turns out to be a huge surprise from the humble beginnings. Then you watch it again and realize that there was a lot more being done and said in those beginning episodes that now makes a lot more sense only after you've seen in through to the end.


What's the difference between the original and Director's cut? I don't know which one I saw. The ending made little to no sense to me as I missed one of the discs and wasn't fully paying attention to some episodes, and pretty much learned most of what I know through the spoilerific Wikipedia articles.
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Postby Chiikaboom » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:51 am

Pas1990 wrote:School Days


x2

and Kannazuki No Miko.
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Postby Kariudo » Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:21 pm

Not really because of the ending, but I hated flcl at first.
Time and a better defined taste for anime turned me around...though it did take a few runs on adult swim before I liked it.
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Postby LivingFlame » Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:49 pm

The first season of "When They Cry" was up and down for me. I liked it a lot at first. Then it hit the first arc change and I was like "o.O;" It was such a system shock at the time that I just started thinking, "what the hell, this is stupid." But I kept watching anyway. Glad I did, 'cuz by the time the last arc rolled around, I was like, "heck friggin' yea! This show is awesome!"

And now it's somewhere in my top 10 favorites, probably. Though, I haven't changed my favorites list on this site in some time, so that's not accurate anymore. >_>

I should stop being lazy and take care of that sometime...
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Postby OmniStrata » Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:57 am

School Days ending made me love it a LOT more than during.

I'd say it's murderous ending was the anime's saving grace, NEVER HAVE I hated a main harem char so much ^_^

Gasaraki, not one of Sunrise's well known works but to me, it was the Evangelion Killer. Ethereal and realistic it could have been...

Some hentai I'd rather not mention come to mind ^_^
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Postby Heero_Yuy84 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:54 am

Actually, kind of experiencing this now.

Back when Gurren Lagann first came out...I wanted to try and enjoy it...but thanks to the snowballing internet hype, the whole thing just lost a LOT of appeal to me.
Flash forward, with the hype finally dying down (...and partially cause I have a vid idea in mind with this) picked up the first DVD set they released a few weeks back...
...on rewatching, surprised to find this is actually better than I remember, now that the hype's not drowning out the show itself.
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