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Hourou Musuko was my fav this season!, that and kimi ni todoke

fractale is boring imo

BS on Fractale, that show is pretty awesome.

Fractale has too many boring eps, or fillers, whatever you want to call them:
- a girl playing hide and seek,
- hacking board computer with an iPod,
- loitering around in a digital city,
- watching the laundry dry...
This is not how an interesting plot goes. And the "bad" characters are shown so rarely I barely know who's who. No wonder it didn't sell.

And, finally, Nessa is freaking annoying. I know most of you like her, but I just can't stand another series which is that much centered on a little brat. The fact that she has the voice similar to Yui's makes it even worse.

Fractale would be better if it had 6 episodes. Like Aim for the Top! series.

I'm not surprised. Fractale is terrible and Hourou Musuko is not in everybody's tastes.

The reason why Hourou Musuko is getting such shit ratings is because it IS shit. It skips the first 4 volumes of the manga, cuts a bunch of stuff from the parts it does cover and won't be covering the newest arc. Do yourselves a favor and read the INFINITELY superior manga.
As for Fractale... Japan is nuts, that show is awesome.

Sucks, because those two series are probably my favorite this season. :/

That's actually one of the points why I like Fractale.

They deserve this!

first it was saraiya goyou, and now this. I think noitama may be slipping down in popularity...?

As for why ratings matter, higher ratings = more money from the TV station as it airs, and high ratings generally lead to stronger DVD sales.

The problem with Fractale was the weak start, putting many off it.

Hourou Musuko ASSUMES you are familiar with the manga, and goes right in. However, without reading the manga I found the show to be excellently made, and the low ratings may also be due to them condensing eps 10+11 into one episode. I'll have to wait for the full episodes when they are released on DVD/BD...

this is to be predicted. Wat with everything going on in japan as a start. For Hourou Musuko then the plot of the show may have most viewers appalled or uninterested. If someone(such as myself) was into the show, then they would have known that this episode was a big episode for the series. So the ratings are for people who are fans of the show but not many people are big fans of transgenders or the fact of it.

Didn't find Fractale interesting at all, just plain boring.

That sucks. I think Fractale is pretty decent.

Disappointing to hear. I don't have much of a positive opinion of Fractale and am mostly finishing it because I am a completionist, but I was really enjoying Hourou Musuko and have plans to eventually read the manga. At least this is happening toward the end of the season rather than at the beginning or in the middle, though, right?

The Hourou Musuko manga bored me to tears. It's one of the main reasons I couldn't start the anime. In fact Hourou Musako anime is one of the first animes in an anime season I couldn't bring myself to watch the first episode.
Because of that I can't say the anime is bad. In fact the art looks good and most likely the story is quite nice. But it's a hard anime to sell. It's really difficult to get interested in watching it. Like planetes. That's a great anime but just try to get one of your friends to watch it. You will see what I mean.

You have to read the manga BEFORE watching the anime, stupid.

Well, Fractale is pretty boring... they seem to throw in some high tension and have it dissipate 5 minutes later.

That's too bad, the only shows worth watching this season. Hopefully they don't take that as a reason to stop making non-mainstream shows. Not all of them are great but at least they try new things and thats worth more then most of the other crap we got this season.

HM is brilliantly directed and no manga readers could convince me otherwise.

Bad as an adaptation =/= bad as a stand-alone anime.

I read the manga, adore it, and STILL think the anime is amazing. So not all manga readers feel that way