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Shelf Life - Euro Trip

Red Fox of Fire wrote:

Maybe it was partly because of all the drama surrounding it as it aired, but I found Fractale to be nothing more than a complete trainwreck and was shocked to see it getting a Shelf-Worthy rating. It was nothing Yamakan wanted it to be and everything he didn't want it to be. Plus I found the motivation of the rebel people (whatever they were called) extremely weak and was practically disagreeing with them.

One big problem with Fractale is it aired at the same time as a certain other show by a certain director and studio, who was basically in the process of giving a master-class in what Yamakan had claimed to be doing.

Basically Shinbo made Yamakan look like a complete fool that season.

I didn't include Tsuritama as I dropped it out of disgust before the second episode was over, so I have no idea how good (or bad) it eventually became.

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Should I read the historical notes first and then watch the episode, or watch the episode first and then read the notes? Roughly every other episode is about some historical event I've never studied so I feel like I ought to read the notes first, but then the notes don't make sense since I don't have the context the episode provides.

Having spent years of my life playing games like this, sadly, I already understand most the jokes.

I am amazed Fractale made it to Shelf Worthy. It wasn't a bad show even with its uneven nature (Ghibli, sci-fi, harem, etc.), animation was good, the "world" was very detailed and made some sense, and the individual episodes were not horrible. But it failed for me at a basic level: spoiler[Why choose an abused teenager as the brain of the world controlling computer? Was everybody else out that day? How did that meeting go? -- Lets see we need somebody to run the world, who should it be? A 50 yr old philosopher - Nope, a 40 year old housewife - NO WAY, a 30 yr old entrepeneur - N***, you crazy, a 20 yr old genius - Never, an abused teenage girl with a tenous grip on reality - WE HAVE A WINNER!!! ] That was just a bridge too far for me, it made the whole thing too stupid to view again.

I understand opinions differ but at the moment Tsuritama is the best series for me that has started and finished in 2012. Well besides maybe Natsume Shi (but that's a sequel so I am not sure if it counts).

Tsuritama was a story told from the heart through the screen writers own personal experiences dealing with social anxiety. We need more well written series like this in anime.

Things like it would be nice, but Haru ruined the show for me and I didn't much care for Yamada and the duck stuff. For me, it'd have been great if it were just a calmer show about some guy adjusting to his life and finding joy in fishing, I found the alien plot pointless. It just did not work for me unless they were casting lines to hook actual fish.

Damn, that is a nice looking Fractale box. I mean I didn't really like the show, but kudos to whoever designed the packaging. It's probably a good thing it's region locked or I might have been tempted just to have it on my shelf.

Haru was the blonde-haired alien, right?

He was most of the reason I dropped the show. I can take clueless aliens, but Haru is so irritating I literally could not stand him. The fact that he's a main character and not a rarely-seen side character just made the show impossible to watch.

Haru was the blonde-haired alien, right?

He was most of the reason I dropped the show. I can take clueless aliens, but Haru is so irritating I literally could not stand him. The fact that he's a main character and not a rarely-seen side character just made the show impossible to watch.

I love Spongebob Squarepants. But a character like Spongebob has no business being in a show about a boy who tries to get over his extreme social awkwardness.

I reckon if tsuritama should have dropped the aliens and the stupid faces and just been a low-key Slice-of-Life series about two socially awkward boys who bond over fishing. That would have been a very watchable show. Heck, I probably would have lapped it up like a cat drinking milk.

I strongly disagree with the comparison to Haru to Spongebob. Haru was not just there for comic relief. He had moments of real reflection & growth.

If you still don't agree with that, then I don't know what show you're actually watching, but you have a right to have your own opinion, I guess.