Gravity cat wrote...
TriniDarkSlayer wrote...
Seeing that dense Ichika around the girls of Infinite Stratos was more than enough to make me drop it, he's probably the first male harem lead piss me off to no end when he does these stunts and that's saying something about IS.
Gotta admit that was frustrating. I'm still not sure what made me keep watching it.
OT: I got up to episode 12 of Shakugan no Shana,
wiki'd spoiled the plot for myself and realised that the MC joins up with the enemy for the bullshit reason of "protecting" Shana. Or at least something along those lines.
This was a couple of years ago though. Considering picking it up again and giving it a chance.
I dunno why, but if I don't bother to remember what I'm watching, and play a game along with it (using the anime as background sound) I can watch IS. Otherwise, I probably would have dropped it a long time ago. (Currently on 10 in season 2)
OT:
Shakugan no Shana, by the time the third season rolled out, I tried to remember the second, but couldn't, and decided I would need to re-watch 2nd season. But considering that it left so small an impression (I never forget what I watch, even when it bores or annoys me...) I gave up on the series. Dragged things on too long, to much forced drama and filler, and listening to Shana's depressed "yuuji" was getting on my nerves... (I was growing a strong hatred for protag and his 180 personality switch...)
Zero no Tsukaima, sorta liked the first season, liked the second one, bored and annoyed by the third, said "fuck it" to the forth...
Sekai de Ichiban Tsuyoku Naritai!, having read a bit of "Koko ga Uwasa no El Palacio" (which reminds so much of Love Hina), I thought "sure, wrestling anime doesn't sound bad" without thinking.
"All female?" I guess, probably ton's of fanservice driven scenes and girls moaning...
"Idols?" ok... Idols wanting to be a wrestler...
"So their part of the main plot..." >_>... I quit, enough bubbly idol crap...
Yuushibu, I made it to 9... Honestly don't know how... the opening with the breast flying around so hard, that I can imagine them used as wreaking balls, is more than enough for me to drop it (told me exactly what to expect from the series, which I tried to be optimistic about). Guess I wanted to see if they would do anything differently, since the series's visual appearance looked really nice, and it was a interesting idea (though I honestly liked Tower of Druaga approach to the "fantasy hero role" far better).
Vampire Bund, though I didn't watch the anime, I dropped the manga after reading a article on a controversial preview from the manga series. The series was always really high in "rape innuendo" but that was just too much. The female cast were beginning to feel like they only existed to be victimized, but that scene completed the impression for me.
tl;dr: (rant)
I'm becoming incredibly cynical of animes wholly adopting fanservice, turning series into simple displays of female cast members' desirable aspects, resulting in no plot and no direction throughout the series. Where character personalities and/or situations are stagnant, or simply, the same rehearsed "cliches". I can enjoy mild fanservice, but if you want to go "IS" fanservice, just go hentai already... they seem to really want to. No fulfillment can be had in the series' themselves, especially compared to a single donjinshi of it.
Feels like they are making animes to be completed by doujinshi's, and with that being the case, the first episode introducing the character is all you need as a prerequisite for the doujinshi.
(If Vandred was made into an anime at this time, it would have had a harem/indecisive end...)
This is becoming my breaking point... Before I could and did, watch everything every season...