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Shelf Life - Euro Trip

Shippoyasha wrote:

Yuru Yuri is indeed pretty great. It takes a premise and does fairly interesting things with the idea.

Isn't everything with a bunch of little girls considered interesting and good these days? Sometimes even claimed to be innovative? As hilarious as it sounds.

Shippoyasha wrote:

Yuru Yuri is indeed pretty great. It takes a premise and does fairly interesting things with the idea.

Isn't everything with a bunch of little girls considered interesting and good these days? Sometimes even claimed to be innovative? As hilarious as it sounds.

Gewürtztraminer wrote:

Such over the top hatred for Fractale, and other select series. I first noted it with Endless 8. My first exposure to the Endless 8 was via the discs and I marathoned it. I just could not see where the over the top vitriolic hatred came from. You would think that the production team of the show had broken into your home and mutilated all your pet gerbils, defecated on the corpses and then posted it on facebook. Once I thought about waiting one week for each episode, I could see where some of the hate came from. Marathoned, I thought it was a fairly cool concept, of which only a show like TMOHS could even attempt. I claimed such over the top disdained was just an excuse to justify piracy.

Oh Endless Eight...

The problem people had was they were showing the same episode (With different angles, clothes, and a few minor differences-you know how the first episode they don't find out they're in a timeloop) eight times in a row. Those that watched it as it aired (I wasn't one of them) had the most fury as those who were unable to guess the "Eight" in the title meant it was going to be eight episodes had no idea when it would end (They took "Endless" too literally), some thinking it would air for years. Every week they saw the same episode to their dismay.

Timeloops can be quite interesting, but when you make everything the same, instead of just a few main things, it gets redundant, and irritating seeing the same thing over and over so many times.

It overdid the point (There was a point to it-not just to troll people) which supposedly makes the movie better (I have not seen the movie, so I have yet to see for myself if EE makes it better). They should have made it shorter (As I've heard, it's a short chapter in the novels that can be read faster than watching just one episode, so it's much longer in the anime), or done something different with the loops, keep the few things that should be the same every time, and make everything else different.

erinfinnegan wrote:

I'd rather see more interesting failures like Fractale than boring successes. I hated the first season of Rosario + Vampire, but it's my understanding that show is a huge hit in Japan. Rosario plays by the numbers, it doesn't take risks. I'd rather see a very risky new show with crazy ideas that don't pan out than boring paint-by-numbers stuff, like, let's say, more YuruYuri.

I am personally offended at the assertion that Fractale is preferable over YuruYuri. Such an injustice requires immediate retribution.

Fractale wasn't even that risky when you consider the numerous tropes and various fanservice it provided.

Tropes and fanservice are not bad depending on how they are used.

Endless Eight was insulting.

Isn't everything with a bunch of little girls considered interesting and good these days? Sometimes even claimed to be innovative? As hilarious as it sounds.

Endless Eight was insulting. The creators knew that people would still purchase it and lo and behold, they did. Not as much as the first season, but the sales volumes were still very respectable. Endless Eight also doesn't make the movie any better.

Natsuiro Kiseki also spoiler[had a time loop and actually pulled it off far, far, far better than Endless Eight (although that's not saying much).] Definitely an underrated show, even if the budget was a little low.

erinfinnegan wrote:

I guess I'd rather see a great idea executed very poorly or a crappy idea executed extraordinarily well than anything in between.

Anything in between? Does that include series with a great idea and an extraordinarily good execution? o_O; (Which wouldn't make much sense, but that's somehow how that statement sounds to me.)