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To observe without the prism of nostalgia.

DomonX2 wrote:

Digimon and Pokemon both suck as animated series, no matter what language you watch, especially Pokemon, which is the worse of the two. Play Pocket Monsters, not watch the inaccurate, stupid show(how the fudge can 'Rhydon' be beaten by 'Thunderbolt' in Generation I?). How the hell can Ghost attacks prior to Gen II, hit Psychic types? Satoshi(or Ash) is an idiot, who does things that no common sense trainer would do and so much more. I just hate it. It's ironic, because in Canada, Pokemon is our most popular Japanese cartoon and I grew up with it. Now, I love the games and hate most aspects about the cartoon(barring music). This is reverse nostalgia.

I find it funny how you're defending the first generation's terrible glitches. You should be happy the anime fixed the game's mistake of Ghost moves not working on Psychic, when they should. Not to mention Poison actually hurting Bug, rather than the other way around like the game mistakenly programmed by making Bug super effective against Poison. The game mechanics in general are pretty broken (then again these games were made in the early 90s and still follow pretty much the same formula with little in the way of change) and disliking something based on that principle seems like a fairly silly. The anime actually has the advantage of actually being able to choreograph fights and not be bound to the game mechanics. Allowing for some pretty nice and creative fights; like wall jumping up the side of building and using the terrain and environment to their advantage, or combining two moves together for a new effect and tag-teaming with other Pokemon. Not sure how you could hate that kind of stuff unless it's some kind of weird purism thing; would you rather they just sit in front of each other taking turns using attacks like a turn-based RPG? It sounds like you're still letting nostalgia cloud your judgement, just a different kind (love of the games, in this instance)

DomonX2 wrote:

Now, I love the games and hate most aspects about the cartoon(barring music). This is reverse nostalgia.

Heh . You should have participated in this poll.

Am I safe in assuming that you never saw Robotech?

nbahn wrote:

Am I safe in assuming that you never saw Robotech?

No, that was before my time. Besides, I have little interest in Macross or anything like that(I may check it out). I'm a mecha fan(Sunrise), when it comes to Japanese anime, hence my name,

Also Titan, I ain't a purist. I've heard Death Note was one of the few good inaccurate adaptations of a comic, cause most Shonen Jump animated adaptations are terrible. I prefer subs, but I won't bash tolerable-great dubs. I only bash the DBZ dubs, the One Piece dubs, the G Gundam dub, the 00 dub, the Naruto and Bleach dubs and other bad, overrated dubs. I also complain about good, but overrated dubs like Gundam W. Pokemon could have been good, because it's source material is arguably made up of one the greatest game franchises of all time, but there are too many liberties, taken with the animated project. If you're not going to follow the source material, either make up something else or don't call yourself 'Pocket Monsters'. Death Note's animated series is made up, but the characters are the same and are still as great as before, or so I've heard. In the case where you can't improvise, you NEED to be as close as possible to the original source. It's like me making a Shrek movie, but having as little to do with Shrek as possible. Sorry, I've been a fan of Pokemon since 1996 and it's just not fair that other shows are closer to the original, but not Pokemon.

DomonX2 wrote:

Also Titan, I ain't a purist. I've heard Death Note was one of the few good inaccurate adaptations of a comic, cause most Shonen Jump animated adaptations are terrible. I prefer subs, but I won't bash tolerable-great dubs. I only bash the DBZ dubs, the One Piece dubs, the G Gundam dub, the 00 dub, the Naruto and Bleach dubs and other bad, overrated dubs. I also complain about good, but overrated dubs like Gundam W. Pokemon could have been good, because it's source material is arguably made up of one the greatest game franchises of all time, but there are too many liberties, taken with the animated project. If you're not going to follow the source material, either make up something else or don't call yourself 'Pocket Monsters'. Death Note's animated series is made up, but the characters are the same and are still as great as before, or so I've heard. In the case where you can't improvise, you NEED to be as close as possible to the original source. It's like me making a Shrek movie, but having as little to do with Shrek as possible. Sorry, I've been a fan of Pokemon since 1996 and it's just not fair that other shows are closer to the original, but not Pokemon.

That's kind of what a purist is; disliking changes. A good adaption, however, will have no problem changing the original material if it better suits the medium. Video game to anime is one of those that people often complain about, but don't seem to realize how different they are; especially RPGs which have random battle and other game mechanics which just do not work in animated form; like turn-based fighting and grinding through dungeons and levels. Personally I'm glad they can do things like this without someone on the writing staff saying "But wait, Kenji, there's no move in the game that lets you do that, we can't do that. Also they can't do two attacks in a row, that breaks the game rules." The show is good, that's why it's one of the most popular anime out there to this day and people enjoy it all over the world. A few needless nitpicks on bad programming (Ghost [img]was[/img] supposed to be effective against Psychic, the original game said so as did the anime, but the programming messed up and it wasn't) seems hardly the reason to dislike it. Not to mention, last I checked, each game was about getting 8 badges and having adventures, and the anime still does that.