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phia_one
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It's a shame since I was really looking forward to this series before it aired.
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Ignatz
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Off-topic question: has there been an anime that was given an F on ANN?
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naki12
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Yes. Can't recall off the top of my head which one(s) though. |
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TG72
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Overall, the Ferrari sisters and mech action made the show worth watching for me. But I don't deny it stumbled really badly in those last two episodes
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Wrathful
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One user needs to watch Back To the Future or one of the Futurama episode because that also involves time travelling and incest. He has his head far up his rear, every comments stinks of pretentiousness and disingenuity.
Yes this anime is bad but nowhere near bad as some people makes it out to be. It serves as a simple and light entertainment. Even if it was from Noitamina, there's a brilliant one and many shitty ones. Unfortunately, this anime belongs in the latter. I had high hopes for this one but I digress, it was way ambitious for having only 11 episodes. I'm wondering if Guilty Crown got as worse score as this. |
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dtm42
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Yes, I can give you a list of releases that ANN gave some sort of F for their overall grade. I can't guarantee that it is exhaustive, though I've done my best: English dub got an F: MegaMan NT Warrior DVD 1: Jack In! (no sub to compare to) Midnight Panther OAV VHS (no sub) Endless Serenade DVD 1 (sub got C) Cyber Team in Akihabara DVD 1: Cyber Genesis (sub got D) Viewtiful Joe DVD (no sub) Iczer-One DVD (sub got C+) Love Hina Again DVD (sub got D-) Voltron Dub.DVD: DVD Set 1 (no sub) Dragon Ball Z DVD Movie 4 - Lord Slug (sub got A) Galaxy Fraulein Yuna Returns VHS (no sub) Bounty Dog DVD (no sub) Crying Freeman DVD 1: Portrait of a Killer (sub got D-) English sub got an F: Exodus Guilty Volume 1: Present (no dub to compare to) Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star Story Sub.DVD Collection (no dub) Both English dub and sub got Fs: Ikki Tousen DVD 1: Legendary Fighter Beet the Vandel Buster DVD 1 BAOH DVD It's worth pointing out that many were either children's shows or pornography. Carlo Santos claimed that in ANN parlance a C was average, but that's simply not supported by the facts. Not only are there few Fs, there aren't that many Ds either, which means ANN rejects Sturgeon's Law and thinks that ninety percent of everything is passable. So instead of the scale being A+ to F it is in practice A+ to C-, with Ds or Fs only handed out in exceptional cases. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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But Sturgeon's Law says that everything that isn't the top percentile is crap, ergo, an F. "90% of everything is shit" and "most things are average/mediocre" are not equivalent. Giving out Cs isn't full damning, and passable doesn't mean "good" or "great". I've always found letter grades to awkward because people ascribe different values to what a C or a B- means, and certainly for what an A might mean to them. But either way, it does seem skewed in favor of the positive side, but Fs and A+s should be both be uncommon, with Cs being the most common, because I believe most products come out in line with a Gaussian function. A graph of Sturgeon's Law would skew far too many works to the left, or that it just discounts everything that isn't among the best.
I've seen this distribution with my own anime watching when looking how I rate shows on a 1-10 scale. Fewer 1s, 2s, and 3s because I'm still selective enough to avoid things that would so infuriate me, but mostly 4s, 5s, 6s, and 7s. I guess most people only want the 8s and above, but that means accepting that there's a smaller number of shows like that available. |
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jr240483
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well i got no problem with any type, and this is a person who watches and reads angel sancutary, aki sora, koi kaze , and a crapload of Ran Hiryu's & Hindiburg's works (which features a lot of the mom/son shtick) though the great great grandfather take will definitely make my skin crawl. but no one should be surprised by this. THIS SERIES IS from the guy that made Kite and Mezzo Forte into the most infamous hentai OVAs since bible black. |
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Surrender Artist
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I really wish that ANN would abolish letter grades, or at least adopt a less granular system to reduce some of the illusory precision and implied consistency. They're a distraction and almost seem to set reviewers up to fail. I know they won't, but they always start the dumbest arguments and most inane diversions in any discussion. It's just wasting time on more simplistic, least important, least substantive and all around most irrelevant part of any review.
I don't think that connects. Kite and Mezzo Forte traded in actual portrayals of sex, not just goo-goo eyes around what I still think is a real stretch to cast as violating taboo. Furthermore, the sex scenes in both, especially Mezzo Forte, were largely separable from the rest of the work; enough so that it makes the claims that both included sex scenes as a contrivance to secure financing feel plausible. Mezzo DSA didn't, unless I'm forgetting, do anything like this and I really would have expected him to 'make his move' during the shower scenes in the early episodes, but instead, he didn't really show us anything. I also still think that concentrating on determining whether Hozuki's chaste romance with Galileo was incest is unnecessary, because the fact that it was really dumb is more than enough and an altogether better reason to condemn it. |
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jr240483
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true enough, though its as i said before , there are some otakus including me that have no problem with that type of romance genre.
and the main reason this series is even getting a mention is that its from kite and mezzo forte's creator is involved. Am I wrong? |
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Fencedude5609
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Seeing as how you are the first person to bring it up in this thread, yes you would be wrong. |
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zensunni
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No, I think the fact that is was a) in the noitaminA block and b) simulcast on Crunchyroll, therefore readily available to ANN's readers is why it is getting reviewed. |
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CrowLia
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Maybe in the thread yes, but the review mentions Umetsu's involvement over and over "Umetsu this, Umetsu's direction that, Umetsu's choices blablabla". Actually, the very first line of the review goes:
and then continues to analize the show from a "why did Umetsu's direction self-destruct" perspective as if trying to excuse the complete mess that this series became in "well, maybe Umetsu is not really cut out to do full-length series". So while Umetsu's direction may not be the specific reason this show is getting reviewed, it is apparently a big focus point for the review and other discussions about it |
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Maize Hughes
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I felt the same way about this show. The first episode was fantastic! The second, good, showing some interesting promise! (Ooh! Sky pirates! Action-hero dad!) Then...meh. I was really disappointed. Really disappointed - it had the chance to be a really rollicking good "family" adventure story, and instead, it was...whatever it was. I mean, it is just bizarre how the life just dribbled out of the show as it went on. I don't even know when I dropped it.
I toyed with recutting it myself (a la the Phantom Edit) to see if it could be saved, but then the next season started, and well... |
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