BECK
| [Don't check this thread if you haven't watched the series - possible spoilers] I know this anime is good and epic but THERE'S something TOTALLY WRONG about it and I just can't grasp the possibilities of it Remember Izumi? The girl who introduced Tanaka to the music scene? Why was she abandoned by the directors? She should have had MORE part in this series than Maho. Maho wasn't there for him when he started, but Izumi did! + Maho was busy flirting with other guys, there's possibly no WAY they had a relationship from the start. |
| well maho get what she deserves later on and get a good grip over yukio :D and izumi simply cant bring herself to a romantic relationship with yukio and there was no development cuz this Series is about music not romance :D |
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| Maho's attitude in the middle point episode 15 - so is pissing me off, seriously.. |
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gosp07 said: well maho get what she deserves later on and get a good grip over yukio :D and izumi simply cant bring herself to a romantic relationship with yukio and there was no development cuz this Series is about music not romance :D what do you mean later on? In the Manga? |
| 95% of music. It is not any good. Just a couple of "alternative" cliches. Everything else (except for the music) is really good. |
| www.last.fm/user/gogitosbanditos <-- me www.myspace.com/farewellsofficial <-- band |
| Izumi starting out important and then fading into obscurity, as if she was nothing, was a major annoyance. There was a flashback to when she was friends with Koyuki as a kid, it was partly down to her Koyuki set down the path to joining Beck, and she even introduced Koyuki to Saito... yet, after the first seven or so episodes, it was as if she needn't have appeared. Bad writing. Another serious annoyance was how one minute Maho was all over Koyuki - ALWAYS going to him, and him never once going to her, for some inexplicable reason - and then, when the story required some forced drama, she'd not speak to him for weeks/months - prioritizing time with Yoshita and ignoring him openly insulting her 'boyfriend'. It didn't make sense. I do think Maho's awesome and all the rest, but her relationship with Koyuki was ruined by her chasing after a kinda-sorta loser... then not caring... than chasing after him again... and so on. The relationship needed to be more 50/50, and needed less random drama during the duller band sections. |
| By the by, this 'review' of Beck is highly entertaining, and should reveal to you why such 'romances' irritate me so much: http://www.therossman.com/rrr/anime/beck.html The reason why Maho becomes such a bitch is down to the author taking the easy way out constantly. Y'see, whenever he needed drama to spice things up, he'd use Maho - whether it went with her previous character or not. He never let them get together because that would prevent the lack of communication/Yoshita 'cheating', and that pretty much ruined her character. To start with she was allowed to be a loving inspiration, but then, as the story progressed, and it would have been too simple for them just to have got it on like normal people, she switched from crying over Koyuki to ditching him for a model, and not even telling him about her life. |
| Two things that bother me: the animation and the bad English. |
Aironic said: By the by, this 'review' of Beck is highly entertaining, and should reveal to you why such 'romances' irritate me so much: http://www.therossman.com/rrr/anime/beck.html. Hilarious and it truly describes Maho's character. I was planning to read manga to find out if her character improves later in the story but after reading this review I'm not so sure. |
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Aironic said: By the by, this 'review' of Beck is highly entertaining, and should reveal to you why such 'romances' irritate me so much: http://www.therossman.com/rrr/anime/beck.html The reason why Maho becomes such a bitch is down to the author taking the easy way out constantly. Y'see, whenever he needed drama to spice things up, he'd use Maho - whether it went with her previous character or not. He never let them get together because that would prevent the lack of communication/Yoshita 'cheating', and that pretty much ruined her character. To start with she was allowed to be a loving inspiration, but then, as the story progressed, and it would have been too simple for them just to have got it on like normal people, she switched from crying over Koyuki to ditching him for a model, and not even telling him about her life. Nice review, totally agree with the author. |
Aironic said: By the by, this 'review' of Beck is highly entertaining, and should reveal to you why such 'romances' irritate me so much: http://www.therossman.com/rrr/anime/beck.html. that review is great... HAHA |
 Are you the bloody applause monkey? Keep your sh*t comments to yourself or go troll on 4chan. |
| Maho did become irritating for no reason and the anime might as well have written Izumi out of the plot. I also wish the anime had branched off more from the manga and made it's own ending but only because it would have been more interesting to not know the plot. I'm actually not too happy with how most of the characters were used in Beck, Maho being the worst offender. Characters are what I evaluate most in a show and I would have enjoyed Beck a lot more if the characters felt more real to me. But this didn't ruin my enjoyment of the show until the romance between Tanaka and Maho became more prominent and irrational. My opinion of both characters was lowered but Maho regularly received a majority of my disapproval. It's even more annoying considering the romance wasn't even necessary. The show didn't have to completely disregard other aspects of Tanaka's life, but I would have enjoyed it a lot more myself if it was just about the music. |
| The whole MahoXKoyuki ship. They should have just gotten together the first time Ryusuke gave him the condom, instead of Maho just fucking around with that yoshito bastard. |
Nerdo said: Same here.Two things that bother me: the animation and the bad English. |
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| was I the only one who thought Yukio sucked at singing? His voice was so eh, slurred I guess. If they sang japanese songs then maybe it would have been better but I just thought it sucked. I thought it was a little odd that Izumi just dropped off the side of the earth as well but I never liked love triangles and besides a couple of bitch scenes from Maho, I thought their relationship was really good. |
| The ending, like NANA left a sour taste in my mouth. |
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Nerdo said: Two things that bother me: the animation and the bad English. |
| The same as others have said: Izumi's dissapearence, Maho's bitching and ocassional stupidity put me off. A lot. I would've liked for Maho and Yuki to get it over with and slept together, consumate their relationship and that's it. Why the fuck couldn't we see an Izumi and Yuki kiss, and a Yuki and Maho sleeping together, like, in the ending we should've seen them both of them watching the pictures lying in bed. |
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