ImperialX wrote...
24:
White Fox has reached KyoAni-tier VN adaptation skills.
For those people who think the ending was underwhelming, I believe it's due to waiting a whole week after episode 23 before watching this. To be honest, I really dislike watching anime as it airs, since waiting one week between each episode removes emotional impact, and it also hazes your memory. For shows such sophisticated and complicated as Steins;Gate and Penguindrum, unless you're prepared to rewatch the whole thing like I do, I'm a big advocate of marathoning over watching as it airs.
Anyway, if you watch 23 and 24 together, you will see that there's nothing underwhelming about 24. I seriously cannot find fault with this series. I don't even know what's stopping it from getting a 10/10, speaking from a cinematographic sense. I'm going to give it 9/10 anyway because...I dunno, it's just not Aria the Origination level amazing. That is how my 9/10s and 10/10s differ anyway, according to
how I rate things.
My 8/10s have certain faults which I can name. I can't do that with Steins;Gate. If you want me to criticize it, I just can't make an argument that doesn't scream 'you're trying too hard'. For that reason I have to give it a 9/10.
EDIT: After some thought and rewatching, I have decided that this series deserves a spot in my Top 19.
Here is my updated list with Steins;Gate sitting at the 18th spot.
Also...
bring on the movie!
[font=verdana][color=green]I like the way that you post the exact same post in more than one forum ; )
Anyway, I really, really liked Steins;Gate. Well, it was masterfully written, a great, believable cast, a superb selection of music and, most importantly, the plot was intricately weaved together so that everything made sense.
I don't believe that 24 was "only good"; sure, it was a bit predicable what was going to happen in the end, but that's only because that episode 23 was just, quite simply, brilliant. It was always going to be hard to follow up.
It was always going to get the 10/10 for me. I'm now suffering Brilliant-Anime Syndrome...-sigh-