| Since the other poll had an story and characters winning, someone mention to start a new thread about story vs character so I decided to step to the plate (before anyone else can do it). My answer is characters because while I can watch good character in a bad story, I can't watch a good story with bad characters. I can enjoy characters in place of a bad story because I tend to watch character first then care about the story later. Bad characters make my watching exprience horrible which then means watching the story horrible. In turn, good characters make me enjoy/care more for the story. |
TakenMalUsernameAug 24, 2016 10:28 AM
| good story with bad characters = bad experience bad story with good characters = at least decent experience |
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takenMalUsername said: Since the other poll had an story and characters winning, someone mention to start a new thread about story vs character so I decided to step to the plate (before anyone else can do it). My answer is characters because while I can watch good character in a bad story, I can't watch a good story with bad characters. I can enjoy characters in place of a bad story because I tend to watch character first then care about the story later. Bad characters make my watching exprience horrible which then means watching the story horrible. In turn, good characters make me enjoy/care more for the story. Give me some examples cause im interested @Shoegum u2 |
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Shoegum said: This thread triggers me on so many different levels. Aren't the characters are a part of the story? Can't the characterisation and development of characters be the main part of the narrative? Do bad stories with good characters even exist? Do good stories with bad characters even exist? I knew this is going to come up and what I have to say is I mainly made this to follow up on what someone said. I know that story and character are intertwined, and I say bad story with good characters do exist (by good I'm mainly meaning enjoyable). I can watch a show and not care for the plot/the show has a really basic one, but still watch because I like the characters more than the events. Another way to put is, make me care for these people for me to care about what happens to them. Some shows where I don't care for the plot, care for the charaters more or have a really basic one, but I like; Girls und Panzer, Kekkai Sensen, Gundam Build Fighters, most of Gintama and Shingeki no Bahamut. I tend to gravitate to more character focused show than plot focused ones. |
TakenMalUsernameAug 24, 2016 11:07 AM
| Definetly characters. Because as long a show has a likable cast of characters, I don't mind an anime with a subpar story. :) |
| I honestly care very little about story. Something can have pretty much no story whatsoever but as long as the characters are interesting I will still enjoy it. Hell, it could be an entire series consisting of just two people sat in an empty room talking to each other and I would still like it as long as the characters were interesting. |
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Salokannel2 said: good story with bad characters = bad experience bad story with good characters = at least decent experience agreed! if you have a bad story and good characters, at least you can still enjoy their qualities. you can ignore a bad story but you can't ignore bad characters. |
| Both are very important to me, when giving a rating i give them an equal percentage of the final rating, but when i give the rating of enjoyment, its mostly based on story. I like story-driven anime more, so story is slightly more important for me. |
| a bad story with good characters is boring i go with the story because a good story with bad characters is still more entertaining |
tragedydesuAug 24, 2016 2:32 PM
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| I'd say characters. It is difficult to have a good story without good characters, although the converse is not necessarily true. A good story without good characters is like cake without any icing. A lot of potential, but tastes bland. |
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Salokannel2 said: good story with bad characters = bad experience bad story with good characters = at least decent experience Honestly, this is exactly how i feel and why i still enjoy things like k-on so much. |
| Too kawaii to live, too mahou shoujo to die >:D |
| This thread again? I'll just say Characters this time. You can't have good Ecchi without well-developed characters... |
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| Good characters are kinda essential to a good story. |
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| Well i guess i'll go with the story since i'll still enjoy it despite the characters.. On the other hand, i don't think i can handle bad story even though it has some characters that i like.. |
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| I'd say this literally depends on the type of show honestly. |
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| Story because I want to know the story behind of this necroing. Why? |
CheekyKunt said: I'd say this literally depends on the type of show honestly. +1. These vague polls annoy me. This is such a broad decision that it literally just comes down to "uhh, in what scenario?" |
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Shoegum said: This thread triggers me on so many different levels. Aren't the characters are a part of the story? Can't the characterisation and development of characters be the main part of the narrative? Do bad stories with good characters even exist? Do good stories with bad characters even exist? I'd say both are equally important in their own way. You can have good characters in bad stories, and vice versa, it actually happens alot in LNs and VNs. |
| Characters are the main thing that drive a story but I think both are equally important for a better experience |
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| I think characters are more important. Excellent characters can enhance a mediocre plot and make it more enthralling. If a show has poorly written characters, I'll dislike it even if the story seems interesting. |
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| You can't have daylight without the sun. |
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| I vote Story, it seems peps love character more. But I think a good character comes with his/her good plot, so they have relation in each other |
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| To me charatcers are much more imporatant. It can be the most epic and amazng story ever written, if I can't give a shit about any other the characters it's pointless. On the other hand, even if the story is shit I can still care if the characters are endeering. |
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| character for example, guilty crown has a pretty good story. but has a dickhead protagonist. personally i didnt really enjoy it because of that on the other side, nisekoi have a very slow pacing. but has a likeable characters , which makes me much enjoying the every eps. |
| None of it matters if it contains ORANGE. |
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| Character, no good story will be enjoyable if the characters that are going through it arent likable, plus a show can literally succeed with little to no story if they have cast of likable characters, just look at the many SOL show, they dont need any story |
| It depends. I personally prefer a strong or well-executed story because I am a writer. However, there have been times where the story wasn't that strong, but I really loved the characters and still enjoyed the anime. The best anime, though, is when it has both a good story and likable characters. |
takenMalUsername said: Since the other poll had an story and characters winning, someone mention to start a new thread about story vs character so I decided to step to the plate (before anyone else can do it). Good thing that you took the initiative... hexanort said: Character, no good story will be enjoyable if the characters that are going through it arent likable, plus a show can literally succeed with little to no story if they have cast of likable characters, just look at the many SOL show, they dont need any story Well... CGDCT for the win! |
| Well written characters can carry a bad story. |
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| A good set of character make up a good interesting plot. |
Orange-Tenshi said: None of it matters if it contains ORANGE. I bet this will make you happy, won't it c: |
| I think the question makes alot more sense when it's story-driven vs character-driven, but I think I'll say that in the end it depends. I don't watch Kiss X Sis, or To Love Ru for the story. You watch those for the characters, you usually watch harem for the characters. And I think Eren(for instance) is a pretty poor character..but ignoring the fact I like some of the other characters, I think the story is fascinating enough to make it an interest read and I think the characters of generic harem 0111 is enough to cover up the fact that nothing else is actually happening. Edit: I always think about Monster when the question comes up, it's story is it's character, so..it doesn't have a lack of story. It's literally about the way it's characters think, feel and interact. But it does have a "whodunnit" behind it and chases. The tension is good but it's certainly not what makes the series. Still, I don't know if a BAD x can carry a good X, Kiss x Sis "doesn't" really have a "story" beyond it's characters interactions either. It's not really like the story is terrible. |
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| how can you watch a show in which you don't at least "like" the characters lol? i mean, i personally don't give a shit about story regardless but i don't see how the characters can't be more important |
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| story or charater? why not both like cross ange? |
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| It doesn't make sense to me the characters ARE part of the story! The characters make the story if the character is bad and has zero character development or whatsoever then their story/arc is bad which effects the rest of the story and makes it bad too don't you think either that or I just didn't understand this poll But if I had to choose I would go with the story for sure :) Good story is what pulls me in and keeps in throughout the entire anime. |
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| Characters! Characters are malleable and act as tools to enhance the story, change it's direction, or deconstruct it. They drive the momentum of the story. They dictate where the story is going to lead and they allow us to make inferences about what'll happen next. You can have plenty of anime with very similar story lines and themes but what separates each other is the relationship dynamics, intrapersonal development and more. It's going to lack if you have a really awesome plot with great potential but bland characters/underdeveloped characters who do nothing for it. |
| I feel like it's characters I think that bad characters cannot 'carry' a good story. And if we have an anime with good characters but bad plot, i think it's better than the reverse. |
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| It's pretty much always characters > story for me, especially when it comes to things like slice-of-life, since there isn't really a story to begin with. I also prefer character-driven stories to plot-driven ones and well-developed characters are more important to me than an interesting story. The one exception to this is Shinsekai Yori, where I didn't really like the characters (and most of them annoyed me), but I still really enjoyed it. |
| I can't enjoy the story, even if it's good, when I hate characters, so characters is my choice. |
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