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s-CRY-eD

I'm more surprised that S-CRY-Ed isn't doing that well. Though it is probably due to it losing much of the lead-in that InuYasha gives them, the underlying problem is that up to now the show is just lame. Maybe if they actually start explaning how the world got so messed up instead of throwing bad cliches and tired dialogue (or is it tired cliches and bad dialogue?) at the viewer:

Ryunho: "It's like I turned on a switch in him. . ."
(later) Kazuma: "It's like a switch has been turned on in me, and I have you to thank!"

first off the dubbing thing i really liked the dub it was funny and very enjoyable to watch. sub fans hate every dubbed show so i wouldnt listen to him. anyway i have one more question for people who have actually seen the series ending. this is a spoiler but i bet you all saw it coming. i know i did. spoiler[when ryuho and kazuma are having their final fight and they both start fighting bare hand and knock each other out, does kazuma raising his hand and the credits rolling mean he won or are they getting ready to go at it again?] does anyone know the real reason or is everyone just giving their opinion.

... the underlying problem is that up to now the show is just lame. Maybe if they actually start explaning how the world got so messed up instead of throwing bad cliches and tired dialogue (or is it tired cliches and bad dialogue?) at the viewer.

first of all the cliches stuff, there are animes for worst out there and this one seems to stand out so people are going to hate on it. and it does get better, it gets a whole lot better but arnt most series like that? some series start really good and then they turn into crap isnt that worst? im not to thrilled about the first couple of episodes either but the animation maintains its high sandards throughout. the fight scenes arnt that bad in the begining its all just a lack of story that eventually will all get tied in.

and your argument about people who watched SEED are watching those only because its characters resemble is stupid. I've never seen one episode of SEED and i know fellow anime fans who hate Giant Robot Anime but love s-CRY-ed. one of my friends was laughing when kazuma destroyed the super pinch crusher because he hates giant robots so much. i think the dialogue is good it relates to the story im surprised you didn't say somthing like "the subtitled version is a lot better because its the way it was intended". and i don't think the intro and outro are any good either i kinda hate the songs but still really like the anime.

Similar characters? Not exactly. I'm saying it's produced by the same company, has the same nuances and the animation style is similar to that of Sunrise (who helped produce Gundam SEED). I know I developed a higher expectation of the show, and I don't think I'm alone on that.

Hirai's style is very distinct, but also very cookie-cutter in that he keeps copying characters for every show he does.

My hate on the dialogue has nothing to do with dub/subtitle versions. Again, it has improved from the time I wrote the comment but still are occasions where the writing seems a little transparent (sort-of spoiler[Ha! I captured you second-in-command! What! You have my sister? You must die!]). I mean Goku-Vegeta had more of a story going for them than Kazuma-Ryunho right now.

That's especially true for his female characters. I think it was someone on this forum but I remember someone nicknaming him Hisashi 'Clone Em All' Hirai.

first of all i'd like to say i really enjoyed watching s-CRY-ed although they were stretching it quite abit in the beginning
the only thing i thought it was missing was kazuma's background. You just get to see him as a native alter and nothing more except for the fact he gets more powerfull eventually.

okay i think your looking at it all wrong your trying to see the differences between kazuma and ryuho yet the point is that they are the same. they both have similar events occuring because they are so alike and it depicts war on how there are similar people on seperate sides of war fighting for the same thing. i really hope that made sense.

The dialogue isn't exactly great on s-CRY-ed, but we need to remember who's speaking as we watch each episode.

The spohisticated speakers seem to be Martin Jingmar and Straight Courgar. Jingmar, head of HOLY, is the oldest known Alter User (which, of course, leads me to ask how he became an Alter User if he was born before the Lost Ground came into being). Straight Cougar, although a young man, is older than Kazuma and Ryuho and nearly every other Alter User we've seen through Episode 13 . . . Nearly all the Alter Users I didn't mention are teenagers, and nearly all of these are younger than the legal age of consent (whatever that is where we live). Vocabulary and speech patterns won't be polished to begin with, so they won't be sophisticated. Additionally, the Alter Users come from a land where education was hard to come by-- the Lost Ground isn't exactly known for its schools or its educational system. Whatever language skills they have, they had to acquire somehow, and their environment determined that.

Ironically enough, it seems as if Ryuho does most of his talking with Kazuma. Any conversation between two people whose use of language is minimal can't be expected to knock our socks off. When people like Ryuho and Kazuma begin hurling threats and fighting words at each other-- and both have legitimate reasons for doing so-- we can't expect anything poetic or circumspect coming out of their mouths . . . Use of language on s-CRY-ed isn't near what we've seen on series such as Cowboy Bebop or Paranoia Agent, but I think the way it's used here fits with the characters involved.