What's the least worst anime?

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:18 am

Lesson Lesson: If you see a strange episode in an otherwise great show, follow the show!
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Blade · Post by **Blade** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:50 pm

Cowboy Bebop is a great anime, but it does have some misses.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:48 pm

I'm not a big fan of anime, but I really liked Hellsing Ultimate. It's a story about two chaotic evil guys fighting each other, and London is destroyed in the process. It's just 10 episodes long, the animation is good and fight scenes are fun.

GreatGreyShrike · Post by **GreatGreyShrike** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:55 pm

Honestly, Hellsing Ultimate is pretty good, but the Hellsing Abridged series produced yearly (1 ep/year, around Halloween) based on it is just hysterically funny.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:22 pm

deanruel87 wrote:Ok, update. I've been watching a ton of Cowboy Bebop and it's great. Basically every episode is a hit and I'm now 12 episodes in to the series. Huge success there. One thing, we just met "Ed" and Ed is.....worrying. The first episode that just doesn't work is Ed's episode and from the first bad episode they add a really obnoxious character into the roster which seems like a really terrible choice. Then the next episode is an "Alien" reference which works but attempts to be humorous in ways which don't work and ends with Ed just eating the alien and taking a nap. I am now extremely concerned about where this will go and I find the direction change incredibly baffling. The show seemed to have a perfectly working direction and theme without adding a wacky Jar Jar binks element. I'm gonna watch a couple more and see if we can get some of that old magic back, then one way or the other I'm gonna move on to Bubblegum Crisis then the Ghost in the Shell movie.

Even if Cowboy Bebop becomes an awkward comedy that I no longer really understand I have still enjoyed my time with it, it will be a confusing direction for a thing I liked to take but I'll still come away from this happy I think.

Ed grows on you.

Voss · Post by **Voss** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:34 am

Blade wrote:Cowboy Bebop is a great anime, but it does have some misses.

Sure, but the important thing to keep in mind for any series is that sort of thing happens. Because no one wants to do 26/52/whatever episodes of Same Shit, Different Day. But the catch is some of those one offs are going to appeal less (or more) to some members of the audience. Tossing the whole thing out on the street because of one episode isn't a rational response. If the whole series starts trending downward for multiple episodes, yeah, probably worth ending the run (and it does happen, particularly in anime, but other stuff as well), It just means that if its good enough to come back and watch again, you don't sit throw those particular episodes again.

But then again, most of dean's posts in this thread have been egregious overreactions. [Even though I dislike FMA, the reasons he gives for his hissy-cow are ridiculous].