| it ranged from normal to TOO NORMAL.., |
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| I agree the script didn't go anywhere but the direction was fantastic though (Yamauchi is still one of the very best on the scene) and the atmosphere really well-developped, so it was enough for me to beat 90% of lesser animes released this year. |
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| iirc, Merry sold moderately well. Not nearly half as well as big hits like Madoka and IS, but it still did better than the vast majority of anime so I guess they did something right. |
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| I'm watching it and so far it's below average.. |
| Pretty interesting at start and got boring afterwards, finished it thou. |
| It started off pretty good but went waaayyy downhill, and the ending was just totallly disappointing. |
| Wth only ''haters'' here o_O? Okay sucked that ending wasn't nicely wrapped up in the anime indeed (not a manga reader), but I still enjoyed this anime and thought it was much better than a whole lot of the other anime released in the same season... |
| Yamauchi Shigeyasu you asshole. I thought it was good and even if some say it wasn't THAT good, it was definitely not a failure. |
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| I'd be kinda sad to hear that from the director too if I was the mangaka. I will admit that I had trouble finishing Yumekui Merry. It just seemed like there was something wrong with it that I couldn't put my finger on, like it was missing something, but I'm not sure what. However, in the end I was glad that I had watched it all. The manga is a lot better though, but it's normal for the source material to be better. |
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| imo the ending was really crappy but i wouldnt say it was a failure. honestly when i saw that it was getting an anime adaption i thought they was rushing it abit cause the manga was still fresh and doesnt have that many releases. truly they should wait for about another year let the manga get ahead and prob do a redo on the whole series but stick to the manga a bit more and not go off on their own direction. |
| well I thought it was a good anime, but I haven't read the manga, so I can't really compare. Though it's true that the ending felt a bit rushed to me, they were in a tough situation, and suddenly in a blink of an eye it was done. But still, I gave it overall an 8, and it was one of the best previous season. Guess that says a lot about last seasons quality. |
| I think it started in episode 8 that the pace became reeeeaaaaallly slow. Treesea arc could wrap it within 2 or 3 episodes at least when the actual number of episodes are 5, thus, I could say it was boring for most people XDD But for me, the series is good. They added anime original characters without straying from the original story which gives more character development of the casts. The only problem for me was the Treesea arc because it was stretched too much. Slow pacing is good but I don't think it would go well in action genre... |
| well i thought it was ok |
| It had a strong start, but in the end it was a disappointment. My main issue was with the pacing, it felt off most of the episodes. It was a decent series, but definitely could have been much better. Oh well, the manga is still there... |
| i don't get the reason why certain anime do not follow the manga. perhaps to prevent repetitiveness of people who have already read the manga but the route they went was terrible. the manga progression was so much better it would have been fine to just go with it.... MOE? i didn't really get that from the anime. |
| I wonder Aria's director will say when that monstrosity is over with. JC Staff has really gone downhill with their novel adaptations and Aria is by far their worst one yet which is quite an accomplishment. |
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| i'm not gonna abandon ship to the hate brigade at the first sign of disapointment, i liked the anime. you know who SHOULD be disapointed in their anime adaptation, whoever did freezing. |
| Maybe it's just my sometimes overly-accepting attitude but I loved the anime. Yes it did not follow the manga but, nonetheless it was a great anime original story. Freezing also was a good anime though most people bash it in the comment section. Yes the manga is 9.5 out of 10 better than the anime adaptation but come on people, enouh with the anime bashing. |
Metty said: well it did fail so bad i dropped it :V This. |
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| I thought the anime was good, the thing that let it down was the ending. |
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| I was dissapointed but i really like the idea of dreams though |
| who decided to make this guy the director? ... It was bad but not terrible. a fair 6-7 rating. |
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| wow where's all the hate coming from? i like the show i liked it alot, characters where nice, art was good, music was great and john doe did exactly what i wanted himn too (never read the manga) it was one of my favs for that season >.> |
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| looking at the cover, of course it's going to be a failure |
| It was an incredibly boring anime...so yeah. |
| After a while it didn't go well anymore, but the OP was awesome and I guess that's what got me. The fighting was also awesome, but there were many holes in it that they forgot to patch up. |
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| Aaahh, words of shame and regret related to Yumekui Merry are like music to my ears. |
| honestly it was slow and kinda boring. didn't understand a thing. Don't Hurt Me! |
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| meh the anime was okay but not too bad, guess it could have been better. |
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| I would never want my manga to be adapted by a director so self-deprecating. |
GarLogan78 said: I would never want my manga to be adapted by a director so self-deprecating. yeah honestly. "it didn't sell as well as madoka? oh well sorry it was such a miserable failure, better luck next time" isn't what you want to hear from the guy you entrusted your story to. what an ass. |
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| i like the anime, except for the end... |
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| Can't be helped, he didn't understand moe. |
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| Well atleast I enjoyed it very much ^^ Too bad for you other guys :P |
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| You guys are kind of being assholes to the director. Do you realize how hard those people work? Enough with this "you're excuse wasn't good enough", you've got no right to demand excuses from the director anyways, unless you happen to be the mangaka or work for the studio! |
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| I don't know if i would say I loved it, but it was pretty good, the end could have been better. |
| This is how the series could've been improved. http://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=249299 |
| I went in watching it thinking it had potential but then it sort of fell flat...I guess I know why now. |
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| The anime wasn't that bad as some people make it out to be but it still could've been better and yes I know the ending was bleh but at least it got me into the manga of Merry which is better. |
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| It wasn't so bad. |
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jmal said: Seabury said: You guys are kind of being assholes to the director. Do you realize how hard those people work? Enough with this "you're excuse wasn't good enough", you've got no right to demand excuses from the director anyways, unless you happen to be the mangaka or work for the studio! How hard he works has nothing to do with whether his direction philosophy was logical or appropriate to the material. Even if we don't have a "right to demand excuses", he's the one who voluntarily presented one to the public, and his comments were being judged accordingly. Yeah, the comments above mine were along the lines of "what an ass". Because he was talking about the anime honestly, he offended the mangaka, which is fair enough. The way these comments sound, as a director you have no right to talk about your failures. You're not allowed to publicly reminisce about what you could have done better without a bunch of dicks who have never accomplished anything half as impressive calling you an asshole and demanding you make better excuses next time. I'm sorry if I'm coming across as overly hostile here, I just don't appreciate the disrespectful comments, especially coming from entitled fans who probably didn't even pay for it! Complain about the series all you want, but please stop taking out your frustration on the people who worked day and night to create it. |
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jmal said: Heh, I did import every JP BD of Merry, actually... I'm not sure why, I guess I blame Merry's delicious design (and the posters are nice), as there are other shows I've passed on that are better, but oh well, I loved it until the end (well, and the really mediocre fight scenes). Really though, if you can't blame a clearly misguided director for a show's flaws, you can't blame anyone. I'll agree that the wording was strong from some but the guy's excuses/explanations are just bewildering and hard to take seriously. I think the director is probably to blame for the shows flaws since the topic of the thread is basically about him admitting such a thing. I think his explanation made sense though, because the other series I'd seen from him (casshern sins) was pretty much the opposite of moe. He jumped into something that he wasn't quite ready for, and instead of sticking to the book he tried to experiment by making slow fight scenes because he thought it would fit moe better. But it turns out he was wrong, his experiment failed. I'd still rather have a director who takes risks and messes up than a director who plays it safe and makes the same stuff we always see. Of course, I could see why the director would feel guilty over such a thing since he's being paid to do it, and because he let down the mangaka with a botched adaption. I agree with the mangaka that it was a bit rude to all the other people who worked on it to talk about the flaws, but hell, at least he's being honest! Would you rather have Yamakan's "this is good, I don't know what's wrong with everybody" reaction? I think as a director he should at least wait a couple of years before discussing the flaws of his own work, but at the same time I think the mangaka's being a bit oversensitive. |
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