Rant here about things in animes that really piss you off.

Gantz - The way it just ends, why didn't they wait and follow the ownage manga.

Naruto - FILLERS and the whole slowness of the anime the way it drags every sentence from the 2 seconds it should be to whole episodes.

Cant think of any more right now.

Trinity Blood... WTF is with not showing the fight at the end? Or did I somehow miss an episode?

Blood+ ... Way too emo of a main character, WAY TOO EMO

completely agree about naruto.
i switched to the manga. As far as i can tell they do an episode per comic
17 pages --> 20 min episode no wonder sentences drag
same with one piece
and bleach

My main problem is how lame English dubs are
hellsing was bear able because of alucard, but apart from that i stuggle

hmm,
gundam00 - they keeled off my fav char :/
*weeps for lockon

mnemosyne- they arent putting up regular episodes! and i get cranky without my weekly fanservice fix!

I almost stopped watching naruto because of all the fillers.

The manga is getting really interesting now.

poor itachi

not sure he's dead just yet.
glad i read the manga though
that fight would have lasted 5 episodes

did anyone read the naruto manga which had what seemed to be the actual finale on the front page?
i can't remember the chaper
and im well aware it could be fan art
but it was bloody well done.
and seemed to tie things off nicely.

one more thing
In the opening arcs of Bleach and Naruto
ichigo and naruto were basically unstoppable
then they just sucked
i'm not sure if thats just due to the filler in bleach due to the lackof manga chapters
but even in the new bleach arc ichigo still seems weaker..

*Indexed to W-C*

Bleach... definitely one of my favorite animes and I don't even mind most of the fillers, but 171 a zanpakutou that stops enemies with pollen that grows flowers on the enemies weapons and face? Does that not seem incredibly silly and pathetic to anyone else? WTF Ichigo also seems soooo weak during fillers they should be more consistent dammit!

P.S. Thanks spider for the venue to rant and all your hard work in anime!

i agree wih u m8 he is always seems weak on fillers but bear in mind he hos not went bankai on the ninjas yet and that dude zanpakutou is stuid flowers wats the deal with that

he did go bankai the first time he seen the princess bodyguards cos loads of hollows showd up (rukia shouts at him for going bankai at something stupid like that)

Yes but he hasnt needed to go bankai to kill a ninja which is the point martin was making, so the ninjas arent that powerful compared to him so far.

lol there has been worse then flowers like that kids who heals the enemy when he hits them, thats the worst lol.

What is up with Himitsu The Revelation? I don't know if anyone else likes this anime but I love it and they haven't subbed any episodes since #7 and they are up to 15 or 16. I want subs damn it. Does anyone know why it is not being subbed?

good anime, but the subs apparently just died off...

my rant is about just about all anime, no specific show or episode.. EVERYONE IS A ORPHAN, or mom or dad is dead
and if there being raised by brother or sister, well id hate to be the guy playing the brother cause hes gonna get killed off in a few episodes, sister too. it would have me believe all japaneze have no parents, or just 1. i cant think of 1 show to contradict this rant, iv said my piece, thanks for letting me get that off my chest 8^D

Death Note - Both Parents Alive - his father dies towards the end of the series

Bleach - Father still alive - Mother died but thats because of Ichigos power

Reborn! - Both Parents alive - none of them are dead yet

Heroic Age - Never had parents

One Piece - Dads alive, never heard about his mother

Theres a few that contradict your generalisation of anime, not all anime is the same, this sort of thing can be done for any genre and yet there wont be many things that fit it.

Horror - Some one kills some one - some one hunts the killer - they find out who the killer is - killer either kills the hunter or hunter kills killer. DONE

like i said 1 or both parents dead.. ur list just proved my point.. as for ur horror refference yes killers kill or get killed or both, why so many orphans in anime? in horror movies u expect horrors killers and other creepy crawleys. why should i expect orphans in anime? i never thought of anime as a genre. maybe just a different medium of entertainment ie...its a cartoon, but there are many genres within this medium and the one thing they all got in common is the lose of there loved ones..

The list may have prooved that peoples parents die within animes but it doesnt proove your point of orphans being a dominent theme.

Because thats life, people die and thats shown within animes, not everyone is an orphan and for you to say this you have watched a very limited ammount of animes, if you havent noticed animes are copied from other animes, animes creators sit there and whatch other animes to gain ideas for their next series, so having simularities throughout them all is obviously going to happen but the most obvious thing is the love triangle throughout most animes, I like her but she likes him kinda thing.

In Naruto there is only a few orphans main one being Sasuke, yes his brother did die but thats not even in the episodes yet so he didnt get killed of right away, his brother killed his family, Naruto is known as an orphan but isnt as his mother is still alive. This is an example of when people are portrayed as orphans but are infact not, quite a few animes follow the trend of "Luke I am your father..." thing which is why there may seem to be alot of orphans, when infact their parents are hidden away or not revealing their true identity for whatever reason. Also just because no parents are mentioned just not actually mean they have none at all.

Also unless you die before your parents then eventually everyone is an orphan.


Can you please tell me what animes you have seen that have caused you to have such a narrow vision.

fine there are no orphans in anime.. sorry i brought it up =P

Your no fun, you cant start a arguement about anime and then end it like that, wheres the fighting back, wheres the passion... oh well.

That the absolute best anime series I have ever encountered (and I've watched a fair amount) is a) not still being produced Not as wildly popular as I think it should be c) i've only run across so few since it that are even fit to be mentioned in the same conversation.
What am I talking about ?
Ghost in the shell of course. Now, the movies are one thing and they're pretty decent, the second one being particularly beautiful,
but what really blows my mind is Stand Alone Complex 1, 2 is also very good if more disjointed and a little less artfully intellectual. Solid state society was good, but not as satisfyingly deep and labyrinthine as the 1st standalone complex and it wasn't a whole series/season.

Just in case someone asks I've watched many of what I think are widely considered the deepest/best series such as but not limited to:
ergo proxy (also very good and relatively deep, but not as satisfying intellectually and frankly it ended way too soon and abruptly this seems to be a trend with most anime series i've seen)
Death Note (fantastic, but not as forward looking at society/technology, still quite good i'd put this somewhere around number 2 in my list)
Evangelion (meh, it was ok, but not terribly deep imo)
Jin Roh (ok but again not that deep imo)
Planetes (Fantastic idea, much of this was brilliant sci-fi wise, but it fell back on too many stereotypes of anime in characterization)
Gantz (not bad, but as most have noted the ending was not so swift).
Cowboy Bebop (just could never get into this even though it seemed like it had a lot going for it, I'll try it again from the beginning this time I guess)
Appleseed both of them (can't honestly recall the first that well, but the second had me seriously underwhelmed)
Akira (brilliant but so much less than the manga)
Serial experiments Lain (just couldn't maintain an interest , i'm told it's fantastic, but I was bored to the point of stopping by episode 4 or 5).
the famous films by Hayao Miyazaki (they were beautiful to be sure, but mostly just fantasy stories and any allegory was fairly shallow as best I could tell)

Can someone help me ? I really prefer the science fiction to fantasy, I should say I REALLY prefer science fiction to fantasy and the harder the science the better.
I can't imagine there haven't been more things like GITS:SAC produced since then.

That's my rant. Where the hell are the cool things that I'll like ???

i didnt start an argument i posted a rant, one that u disagreed with, so it was u who started the argument, an argument that i gave up on because all u did was change the subject. im talkin about the saturation of orphans in anime and u go off with horror and love triangles and darth vader refferences. when ur not doin this u actually post facts to support my opinion. i stand by my comment and nothin u have said has changed my mind just reinforced it..
of course there are going to be exceptions to the rule. i watched the posted golga 13 eps on this site and didnt see a single orphan or evena refference 2 one. ur sayin that love triangles are more prevelent, then ill ask u this how many of those in this triangle are orphans. i have come to believe that what i considered common knowledge u never took any notice of. i think if u go back and rewatch ur favorites or even new anime that u just found now that someone has pointed this out ull see it much more (like when u buy a car and then u always notice when another car like it drives past) thats all for now.

But what you think was changing the subject was examples of what I was explaining, the Darth Vader reference was to show that a character may appear to be an orphan when infact its not til much later in the series that their parents are shown.

Ive noticed how alot of animes never mention parents giving the idea that they are orphans but that doesnt make it so.

I still havent found my post where I prooved your point, I posted a list as an example of how some can appear to be orphans but infact arent.


Also my response to your original rant was my opinion of your rant, the fact that you retaliated to that opinion makes you the one who started the argument.


I re-watch alot of my favorite animes all the time and there isnt many orphans they arent a dominant theme to anime, and the love triangle thing is a dominant theme in most shonen animes where the only one who is "presented" as an orphan is Naruto (his mother is still alive), and sasuke is the actual orphan. I can see where your coming from as alot of animes present their characters as orphans but simply paying attention later on or reading the mangas if they have one will tell you that they are infact not.


Can you please just post a list of animes that proove your point, as you see it as a truely dominant feature then it wouldnt be hard to do so.

this is getting tiresome, if ur mom and dad arnt raising u then u a damn orphan, and dont give me u didnt start this argument, are u 10 or somethin. naruto is a orphan, u brought up death note yes the main character has a family but there are at least 2 that were raised in a dam ORPHANAGE
like i said before, if u pay attention now that this has been pointed out to u ull notice, if u still disagree thats just because ur a disagreeable person.

Raised in an orphanage does not make you an orphan just means your parents are unkown( L was an orphan, Near was raised by F who WASNT HIS FATHER so his parents are unknown, as for Mello dont know about him) just like if your parents are known your taken to a foster home, Im 18 your acting like a child now and just so you know Naruto is not a orphan just because his father died doesnt make him an orphan, his mothers alive.

I already said that there ARE orphans within some anime but you seem to have such a narrow view that you much have watched a small handful of series, yes there are orphans but it is not a dominant theme, if your still not seeing my point then there is no hope for you, and you obviously dont know how a arguement begins, first you give an opinion then I give my opinion on that opinion you then responding starts the arguement, all I did was pointed out that it wasnt a dominant theme and thats all Ive done so far. If you still dont see this then just give up.

maybe u should look up the definition of orphan, a child who has lost both parents thru death, or less commonly 1 parent, bereft of perents
those who arnt orphans by definition have been abondoned my there parents, which puts them in the same boat, u keep saying i have a narrow view and i have only watched a small handfull of anime, this isnt true, im sure there are ppl who have watched much more anime than me, but my intrests in anime cross all genres, at any given time im watchin 4 or 5 diffeerent series at once. and i have been doin this for years, my opinion comes from experience
and ur argument holds no water.
but ill make a deal with u, u finish ur list of 100 ill go thru them and make a list of all the anime with orphans or abandoned characters in it. ill bet i get at least 70%, if were both honest. im 32 been watchin anime since before u were born Voltron was my first i even had the toys.

Last time I checked we werent discussing abandoned characters, just because they are in the same boat ie without parents does not make them the same so now that youve widened your variable to a greater number then yes there will be more but only around 10% of the 100 will orphans and not abandoned characters, some anime lay it on thick with abandonment and some dont have it at all or at least no mention of it, okay I'll do a list but half the list will proberly have no mention of the parents unless you just want a list of anime but I presume you want a list that Ive watched. Nice way to avoid mentioning the anime you have seen though but I'll go along. (saying Ive watched anime for 24 years is way too vague but Voltron was cool I still have the videos my cousin gave me when I was 6, guessing you already know about the movie coming out then.)

Code Geass What a great anime BUT WTF AT sesson 2 am hating the ending of it. there better be a 3rd sesson to sort it out >_<

bereft of parents is abandonment or death, i never expanded my defintion, i gave u websters, i have always considered those characters whose parents arnt in the picture to be orphans, u havent. and noi didnt hear of the voltron movie. u want a list of the anime i watched and think im dodging the issue.
in a sense u are right, i dont wanna take the time and go thru what amounts to hundereds of hours of anime to prove anything to u. that is why i comprimised with ur list, i dont want u to make a special list for this subject, i want u to finish the list u have already started (14 amine u must see or somethin like that) u posted that u eventually want to get that up to 100. finish that list and everyone benifits viewers get a awesome post and i have a set
number of anime to prove my argument, an since u make the list u cant accuse me of "cookin the books" so to speak. if were both honest ill concede defeat if it turns out i was wrong, and ill expect the same from u.

naw, Code geass ended perfectly with lelouch dying, only loose end is C.C still being there

I found this amusing anime poster and wanted to share it's rantage. Should be viewed magnified:

What is the deal with subbers now days I really start getting into an anime and they either stop subbing altogether (Himitsu the Revelation) or take a long time right in the middle of the series like Kuroshitsuji eps 9. I just really got into this anime and they are several days late on the subs, its killing me. Just wanted to rant a bit I am sure some of you are having similar problems with your favorite animes.

It could just be a holiday season slump. The subbers are fans and have to deal with vacations, family gatherings and turkey(sushi/pancit/whatever) comas this time of the year like the rest of us.

Bah - my rant with anime is like my rant with a lot of modern media, an utter lack in quality of writing. There is some decent writing in manga/anime circles; you'll occasionally hit one that makes you stop, think, and says, 'huh'. There are some that will make you nod your head and think, "that was clever". And then there's a whole bunch of Shonen Jump dreck that I wouldn't subject my worst enemy to.

I mean really - take for example one of the worst offenders, Bleach (or Dragonball 2.0 given the similarities in style of writing). Guy dropped in fantastic circumstance. Isn't powerful enough. "Trains". Becomes powerful. Fulfills some legend or other. Writers realize they've written themselves into a corner and decide to completely disregard their own continuity to now claim a NEW big badder that's just bigger and badder than the previous one. Cocky dude fights, realizes he's weak.

Then what happens? Does he think his way out of problems? Does he make alliances with beings/groups that are contrary to his nature in order to secure victory in the now? Does he play devil against devil (ala Hellblazer and the fantastic lung Cancer 1st/2nd/3rd of the Fallen arc)?

No, instead we get a bloody "training". OMG!!11! He says he's in pain while traning!11!! That meanz it's really touh!~!1121!

It's essentially Rocky V over and over with the reels glued together at the ends. What makes it worse is that there IS some good anime/manga out there. Sadly, the art form has hit its natural slide with warmed over piles of sewage - and even more sadly I at very least have to follow it a little bit so I have something to talk with my JHS students about over lunch/in English class.

Amen to that sir. World history teacher here. i go All Hip Hop for the rap rumors cause i work in title 1 tehehehe

But ya man, predictable plot lines are just plain dumb to keep regurgitating. If anything they should make the manatees with the underwater sealab and idea balls figure it out.

Gundam 00 didn't disappoint me. but the kids don't watch it.

basicly anime reflects japan, ww2, and the fear of the bomb



lots of kids lost parents coz of riots/war/ect...

from a story point of view, its a wide area you can start a story from, a clean slate that can still hide something dark, unknown... and family deaths are more gripping than random people...



and about the OC, gantz the anime was awesome, i watched it in one sitting, loved it, all but the final episode... I though that killing off all main characters was shocking, bold, touching... anywho, back to the ending... so anti climatic, i kinda wanted the person scoring 100 to become the new gantz... like, at 100 they are about at crazy as him then, so it would make sence. Overall the aliens were the only thing that i didnt like 100%, a little too weird in the wrong way.






On a happy note, my fav. anime series are:
Elven lied,
rosario+vampire(capu2),
sekirei,
gantz,
generic harem anime with a twist.

Any recommendations?