[Possible Spoilers] Most Overrated/Underrated Anime V. 4

JizzyHitler said:
naruto's last arc is under rated

keragamming said:


Fair enough, I agree with some points you made. Also get yourself a avatar pic, don't let me tell you that again.

JizzyHitler said:
Hell yes, thats what i want, we need more ms teams and surprisingly aldnoah zero is riding pretty close to the feeling ms team succeeded at. My only big issue with AZ is how villanous they make the enemies, i prefer it when both side have good and bad people alike.

Kolnikov said:
Such a shame knowing that they never did and never will do something like Hanasaku Iroha. They say The eccentric Family is pretty good, need to watch that.

mayukachan said:
Hey, at least Galilei Donna doesn't try too hard and isn't infested with forced drama.

skudoops said:


Well firstly the characters haven't had any development 4 episodes in. Infact one character actually has no relevance to the story at all (at least not yet).

The adults in the show are ridiculously stupid, I mean I really don't understand their actions a lot of the time.

The story has gone no where. From the first to the fourth episode, we still don't really have any conclusive hints about a possible motive the protags have for their actions

The explanations for some of the things in the show are pretty stupid and this combined with the stupid adults makes for some very unbelievable scenarios.

Right now to me the only things the show have going for it are the production values, it still has time to get way better but I'm not keeping my hopes up.

keragamming said:
I just finish watching HXH last mission. and....I didn't like it, I'm not even hating it felt like I was watching fairy tale, The lines that some of the characters said just didn't even fit there personality. Did Togashi help right the scripts and story in this movie? It just didn't feel like hxh. 6/10.

Do you hxh fans liked this movie?

fst said:


Wait wut.

In any case, there's no drama to speak of in Glasslip. Nothing ever happens on this fucking show, that's why there's never any background music. Nothing significant enough to warrant it ever happens.

mayukachan said:

Love confession in episode 2. Lots of relationship flags already. There is background music IIRC, although it doesn't match.

mayukachan said:
^ Okay I admit not that much has happened compared to other shows this season, but I feel like there's so many things that are unnecessary to the show, when it could have been a nice slice of life about glass making. Not some love polygon and sci-fi stuff.

YandereTheEmo said:


Aside from the fact that:

1. Throughout these first 4 episodes, exposition has been in place, detailing further information as to the motives of the terrorists, and their inclinations... Same goes for the police. I'm not sure about you, but I don't watch 20 minutes of a movie, or 4 episodes of a TV show, and run away screaming, "Pfft! No development at this point!? Shit, it's all shit!"

2. The adults' actions are driven by fear in the current state of the show, so a level of irrationality isn't unnatural.

3. They've hinted at the backstories/motivations of the kids, but they're not explicitly screaming out, "Ohhh Hurd-dur, this is their motivation." What do you think this is? Black Bullet?

4. He's just nit-picking. The characters in question have the power to toy with the adults throughout the story, and so they take advantage of it through childish riddles--detailing their still-adolescent innocence hidden under the husks of tainted youth left from their obscured past. I find it quite interesting, to be frank.

5. OST, Animation, Characters, and Fluidity throughout these first 4 episodes is astonishing for current anime standards, so I'd bank on it being good.

But who knows? We're only 4 episodes in, and are running into Rising-action, so development is most likely coming.

Can't you just smell the inevitable character development at the end of this week's episode?

mayukachan said:
Maybe we should all just stop watching Zankyou no Terror and marathon it when it's completed, because it'll be much better that way. lol

skudoops said:


Yeah I'm hoping ep 5 is the turning point.

fst said:


That goes double for Aldnoah Zero, a show which will either turn out to be really good or complete shit.

Ckan said:
Imo, it could also turn out "good" but forgettable in the vein of Psycho-Pass.

FloatsBoats said:
Judging from CSI is kinda a bad thing to do though. Not too sure how much bs they pull out their ass.. Just look at this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

DrGeroCreation said:
NCIS isn't CSI.

FloatsBoats said:

What about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0

Ckan said:
Terror has had such solid storytelling (so far), that it'll always be able to stand on that alone if it keeps it up. Aldnoah feels like it needs another climax, twist, or shock before it shows its full colours.

Ckan said:
Psycho-Pass just felt a little unrealised and sidetracked. The completely unnecessary references and quotes didn't help it there.

fst said:
I suppose we are all waiting for that moment that inevitably occurs in shows Urobutcher had a hand in; episode _ of Madoka Magika,Psycho-Pass, Gargantia... I'm not sure which one it would be for F/Z but anyway you get the idea.

But yes, Zankyou can just keep doing what it's doing whilst Aldnoah needs something spectacular to bring everything together and elevate it to the next level. Which may or may not happen.

fst said:

Unrealised? I guess that's what S2 is for, though Urobutcher apparently isn't writing it.

Sidetracked? I would agree that their efforts to step back from the main story for a few seconds to do worldbuilding ended up feeling rather half-assed a lot of the time, is that what you meant?

ScazoN said:
A.Z is AOTS anyways. 2G

DrGeroCreation said:
The point though is that the guys in Zankyou no Terror are not doing basic investigation.

ScazoN said:
Tell them A.Z is busy being at the top.

ScazoN said:
Tell them A.Z is busy being at the top.

Korrvo said:
Top of the mainstream af list and wanna-be list maybe.

/sips tea

Ckan said:
That's pretty much what I meant. On the one-hand, the mix of dystopic-SF elements were interesting, and the "side-stories" themselves weren't bad so far as I recall. The problem I feel, is that the writer didn't feel particularly interested in the SF elements and setting itself;

Ckan said:
To be fair, the Kougami/Shogo pursuit was tempered with Akane and her personal development as well as the wider social/political implications - which was a part that I liked - but personally, I felt Kougami and Shogo was done in a very generic fashion.

T3hSource said:
So Terror doesn't work well enough as a detective show, nor does it work as an effective thriller, because they are causing vandalism, nor terrorism, they haven't killed anyone, just bombed 2 buildings and that's it.

But at least now they're using hax skillz to cause cyber terror to the police, which makes the conflict more direct. Again, a thriller, but when the other side of composed of just one guy trying to figure it out while the rest are obviously overreacting for drama, it's not as fun uncovering 9/12s gambit.

ScazoN said:
Don't forget the AOTS list.

/chews licorice

Korrvo said:
licorice is a horrible candy so your argument is invalid

/eats a burger

parfaited said:
Kougami had that one shirtless workout scene.
Does a character need anything more than that?

fst said:


They drew nipples on him in that scene. That's just weird man. I still don't know how I should feel about it.

parfaited said:

You should take your P-P score and add a +1 to it because this industry has finally done at least one thing right.

Kolnikov said:
Such a shame knowing that they never did and never will do something like Hanasaku Iroha.

parfaited said:
Kougami had that one shirtless workout scene.
Does a character need anything more than that?

Gymkata said:
The House of Five Leaves

Maybe it's because my expectations were low, but I'm loving this. Underrated? Halfway in so the jury is still out. I think they take Masa's stumblebumming overboard at times, those blackball eyes and super wide mouths took some getting used to, and the op and ed theme songs are atrocious. Domoe...so far it's packed with character work and backstory. And the score, on the whole, is Very good. The tone of this really appeals so far, so hopefully the quality keeps up...

T3hSource said:
So Terror doesn't work well enough as a detective show, nor does it work as an effective thriller, because they are causing vandalism, nor terrorism, they haven't killed anyone, just bombed 2 buildings and that's it.

But at least now they're using hax skillz to cause cyber terror to the police, which makes the conflict more direct. Again, a thriller, but when the other side of composed of just one guy trying to figure it out while the rest are obviously overreacting for drama, it's not as fun uncovering 9/12s gambit.

pLaguE_ said:
There is a big difference between vandalism and destroying a million dollar building. They also bombed a fucking police station, if that's considered vandalism, then I'm just looking at the world wrong.

fst said:

Shougo, meanwhile, I feel was played a bit too much like a stereotypical evil villain type. They could have done more to make it seem like he wasn't just doing everything for the evulz because towards the end that was shown to be the case. But even then, he's not portrayed with enough moral ambiguity to sell it, partly because he doesn't shed the stereotypical villain aesthetic in his appearance and mannerisms.

tl;dr I agree.

Also, Akane = best girl.

pLaguE_ said:

There is a big difference between vandalism and destroying a million dollar building. They also bombed a fucking police station, if that's considered vandalism, then I'm just looking at the world wrong.

Aeonic said:


It's not a mere act of vandalism, but for that action to be called terrorism there needs to be a political motive or reason as to why they committed these bombings.

Aeonic said:


It's not a mere act of vandalism, but for that action to be called terrorism there needs to be a political motive or reason as to why they committed these bombings. However, so far the character motivations behind the bombings has yet to been clarified or expounded upon at all. Hopefully there will be some light that is shed upon their motivations, otherwise it would seem rather idiotic for them to bomb buildings because they like the thrill of the cat and mouse game with the police.

T3hSource said:
I'm in the opinion that if the show had more breathing room(like 22 episodes) it could show a lot more and have a lot more buildup and payoff as well.

Botato said:
I just hope it turns out this is a split cour and second cour is announced when episode 5-6 airs.