Is Madhouse overrated?

ichii_1 said:

If the ones who made mahou sensou went there, mappa will will be closed in 2 years tops.

Mikasa said:
Take a look at Hunter x Hunter

Now take a look at other Animes

Now back to Hunter x Hunter

Now back to other animes

They are not Hunter x Hunter

I'm flipping you off

Now look at the topic name

Now back to Madhouse

Now where's the best anime studio award?

It's with fucking Madhouse


AND THERE'S NOT A DAMN THING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

Mikasa said:
Take a look at Hunter x Hunter

Now take a look at other Animes

ichii_1 said:

NGNL >>>>>>>> HxH
Thanks for opening my eyes :)
Sora is a better character than Gon.

ichii_1 said:

NGNL >>>>>>>> HxH
Thanks for opening my eyes :)
Sora is a better character than Gon.

Milky_way1886 said:
What the fuck you saying m8?

Shibuza said:
Madhouse gets to adapt a lot of popular stuff and does a good job at it, so it's only normal for it to get attention.

Shibuza said:
Madhouse gets to adapt a lot of popular stuff and does a good job at it, so it's only normal for it to get attention.

Agafin said:
Personally, I really like the studio and it seems like it's the most loved studio in the west. I mean, here on mal, whenever it's announced that a manga will be adapted into an anime, at least half of the replies are about people hoping for Madhouse to be the studio in charge of that. It also had an overwhelming victory in the best studio poll. Madhouse has also made very popular anime series or movies in the west like Death Note, Ngnl, Redline, Wolf Children etc and some semi popular but highly rated shows like Monster, HxH 2011, Hajime no Ippo and this season's Parasyte etc.

Japan doesn't seem to share this sentiment since in most japanese polls it's not highly ranked and it's best selling titles (Death Note and Cardcaptor Sakura) don't really have very impressive sales compared to other studios. There are also many westeners who believe that it is wanked but in fact produces just one good sghow in a stream of average to atrocious ones.

Personally, I feel like Madhouse really deserves all it's love, since from what I've heard and seen, they almost always adapt their shows well, have produced some of my favourites, produce a wide variety of shows thereby giving their chances to less popular titles to get anime adaptations instead of milking already popular frachises and whenever they produce bad shows, it's generally due to source material itself being bad.

So, what do you think? Is Madhouse overrated in the west or does it deserve it's love? Why is it less popular in Japan? Has it ever screwed up a show where viewers had high expectations (like Pierrot did to TG)?

Edit: I hope that this thread isn't against the rules. I know that OR/UR threads are forbidden when it comes to series but I don't think the mods have forbidden them otherwise.

Mikasa said:



Toei adopts the most popular mangas ever, still complete shit.

Mikasa said:



Toei adopts the most popular mangas ever, still complete shit.

SolviteWoTaberu said:


Stop saying animes and mangas if you want anyone to take you seriously.

Filthy casuals making threads like this are the reason nobody gives any credit to Wit Studio or PA Works on this website.

Mikasa said:


Oh I'm sorry. I speak English, not Weaboo.

That's how you pluralize. That's how you differentiate.

moonnya said:

go to some Nippon forum/ board chat and see how they rage about Mahouka adaptation

Mikasa said:


Oh I'm sorry. I speak English, not Weaboo.

That's how you pluralize. That's how you differentiate.

Shibuza said:
Madhouse is by no means perfect. But they have good adaptions generally speaking.

SolviteWoTaberu said:


In their defense, the mahouka anime was shit because Mahouka is shit.

SolviteWoTaberu said:


I don't even know how to respond to this.

Aeonic said:
Because it was an awful light novel adaptation. A turd is still a turd even it's wrapped in beautiful wrapping paper.

SolviteWoTaberu said:


Are you really going to ignorant enough as to say that all light novels are inherently bad?

For fucks sake Baccano is a light novel.

Aeonic said:
That's one example out of hundreds of light novel adaptations. So one out of maybe 200? Selective reasoning once again, but imbecile that severely lacking an iota of intelligence.

Tenkousei said:
I think they're properly rated. Lately, they have been on fucking point while other studios like KyoAni and Shaft haven't lived up to their usual standards. And I also love their modern takes on older manga.

SolviteWoTaberu said:


In their defense, the mahouka anime was shit because Mahouka is shit.

DrGeroCreation said:
No it isn't. You are just too simple minded to understand the magic system and you dislike Tatsuya because you hate characters that aren't loud, talkative and annoying.

PoeticJustice said:
They have adapted some great shit. They do anime no other studio would have the balls to touch. So no, I think they are fucking great. Top tier studio.

SolviteWoTaberu said:


Other studios wouldnt want to adapt No Game No Life?

Lets be real here guys.

You like madhouse because they animated grimdark manga 10 years ago.

PoeticJustice said:


Nigga what the fuck are you talking about? I am not even a parasyte fanatic so don't give me that shit. Grimdark lol are you 12 or something?

I like them because they adapted Kaiji, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Texhnolyze, The Tatami Galaxy, Gungrave among a litany of other things they have done.

And I don't give a fuck if they did No Game No Life. With their track record, they can afford some missteps.

PoeticJustice said:


Nigga what the fuck are you talking about? I am not even a parasyte fanatic so don't give me that shit. Grimdark lol are you 12 or something?

I like them because they adapted Kaiji, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Texhnolyze, The Tatami Galaxy, Gungrave among a litany of other things they have done.

And I don't give a fuck if they did No Game No Life. With their track record, they can afford some missteps.

Syndiciate said:
Guys just look at this thread if you need evidence of Madhouse's greatness. In a thread where somebody asks "Is ____ good? I think so." You'd normally have people trash talking the thing just to troll or be contrary. Madhouse is so good that the majority of the people posting on this thread have foregone this and went on to praise it as they should.

This makes me smile. :)

SolviteWoTaberu said:

Lol such projection

PoeticJustice said:


Nigga what the fuck are you talking about? I am not even a parasyte fanatic so don't give me that shit. Grimdark lol are you 12 or something?

I like them because they adapted Kaiji, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Texhnolyze, The Tatami Galaxy, Gungrave among a litany of other things they have done.

And I don't give a fuck if they did No Game No Life. With their track record, they can afford some missteps.