| It's not underrated, I feel like some seasons of it are actually overrated. It's also very popular for a show that's relatively hard to get into. |
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| Gintama? Never heard of it, let me check its wiki page. |
| I think Gintama is not hated enough. |
just trying to understand what Gintama would have to do to be considered a best of all time I think it would've needed to cut down the amount of comedy and episodic content, instead focus mainly on the story. Moreover it should've been more edgy and pretentious about its themes instead of being straight up about nakama. |
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| Underrated? Absolutely not, like almost every iteration of it is in top 100. It's just niche af with a lot of meta humor, the sheer length probably puts off some people too. |
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| I don't care for it. I watched 1-2 episodes of it many years ago and bailed! Youtube clips of it and what I've seen online haven't convinced me to give it a chance either. That said, given how I'm usually disappointed by what most anime fans consider great, I doubt I'd find it compelling or worthwhile to pick up again. |
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| Your arguments don't mean shit if the main start you've given to boast your opinion goes along with the lines of "no one considers *insert animu* the best anime of all time, this is so sad!" or something like that. Even then, you're so wrong on this. Maybe try to familiarize with the fandom because a great, heavy and fleshy chunk of gintama fans do put the series on a such high pedestrial. The fanbase is one of the most loyal ones out there. People don't bother with the series simply because it's a long-running shonen that also happens to be "inconsistent". Even then, 6 of top 15 anime are gintama seasons and a movie included. Don't know what more can you ask for, OP! |
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| Giving Gintama a score of 10/10, is still an underrating! I vote that MAL rating system, instead of being "1, 2 ,3 ,4 ,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10" Make it be a scoring of system of "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Gintama" even though the score of Gintama is only attainable by Gintama, I see no problem with this. |
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| Let just say many ppl opt for the other long series than gintama. Gintama is quality filler. It's underrated if you were to compare to the other long run series. idk about short run series tho |
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| Gintama is just something that's not very easy to get into. I say this as someone who is fully aware of how highly rated and praised it is, yet is unable to start watching it. This is mostly because the whole concept and vibe of the show are not extremely appealing at first glance. Add to that the fact that the first season is 200 episodes long. I could end up watching 10 shorter and more appealing shows in the same time that it'd take me to watch the first season of Gintama. So yeah the choice ends up being quite easy. |
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| It’s talked about quite a bit, you don’t get 5 different Gintamas’ in The top 15 whilst not being talked about. The first season has 600,000 members which is pretty high. I would say it’s not an anime that’s easy to actually start especially today, I find the large episode count rather intimidating. Would I say Gintama is underrated? No. Would I say it’s easy to get into Gintama? No. |
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| I love Gintama but how much you enjoy it depends on your sense of humor. I also love all of the references. I don't think it is underrated, just fine how it is. |
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xkazutox said: Let just say many ppl opt for the other long series than gintama. Gintama is quality filler. It's underrated if you were to compare to the other long run series. idk about short run series tho Gintama really should get the "Slice of Life" tag, because it kind of is. And without this tag, people expect it to have more direction and a solid plot, but the plot is THERE IS NO PLOT (even when there is). |
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LanePlayer said: Hrybami said: I think Gintama is not hated enough. Actually good point. There is little mention of how people actually hate/dislike it. It's more along the lines of the comedy is not for them opinion, which is valid. Which may be another thing about comedies. People see it's subjective, so they give it more breathing space if they don't like the comedy. That's because if we dare speak up, some Gintama fan will insult us and say we have "shit taste". >_> |
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| Underrated means that people rate it lower than it should be. Under watched is a better term. And even as a Gintama fan myself I can see why. It's long and it's humor can be hit or miss. |
LanePlayer said: Whenever I post anything about Gintama on my SNS there are atleast 10 people who say"Gintama is Overrated".Hrybami said: I think Gintama is not hated enough. Actually good point. There is little mention of how people actually hate/dislike it. It's more along the lines of the comedy is not for them opinion, which is valid. Which may be another thing about comedies. People see it's subjective, so they give it more breathing space if they don't like the comedy. There is one thread every other week which complain Gintama is overrated and all its sequels must be merged into single entity as they take up space in the top 💯. |
NO_U_ETC said: Have you actually tried reading his post? He acknowledges the high rating but it's not about that. It's about the reputation because Gintama unlike the other mentioned anime is almost never seen as "deep" or having "good plot". People like it because it's entertaining and funny to them but you'd rarely see Gintama brought up as best anime in a "serious" way.Giving Gintama a score of 10/10, is still an underrating! I vote that MAL rating system, instead of being "1, 2 ,3 ,4 ,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10" Make it be a scoring of system of "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Gintama" even though the score of Gintama is only attainable by Gintama, I see no problem with this. Even tho all things considered HxH, Steins;Gate and FMA aren't much deeper than Gintama, Gintama doesn't try to present itself too seriously because it knows it's a battle shounen and keeps it battle shonen. Meanwhile Steins;Gate is basically a harem anime too with bullshit time reset asspulls but that gets ignored because overall it presents itself much more seriously. sonofbatmanrp13 said: I am a big fan of Gintama but I do agree MAL should change their database to be more like IMDb where you can rate the series overall as well as each season singularly then show only the series in the global rankings.LanePlayer said: Whenever I post anything about Gintama on my SNS there are atleast 10 people who say"Gintama is Overrated".Actually good point. There is little mention of how people actually hate/dislike it. It's more along the lines of the comedy is not for them opinion, which is valid. Which may be another thing about comedies. People see it's subjective, so they give it more breathing space if they don't like the comedy. There is one thread every other week which complain Gintama is overrated and all its sequels must be merged into single entity as they take up space in the top 💯. |
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sonofbatmanrp13 said: LanePlayer said: Whenever I post anything about Gintama on my SNS there are atleast 10 people who say"Gintama is Overrated".Actually good point. There is little mention of how people actually hate/dislike it. It's more along the lines of the comedy is not for them opinion, which is valid. Which may be another thing about comedies. People see it's subjective, so they give it more breathing space if they don't like the comedy. There is one thread every other week which complain Gintama is overrated and all its sequels must be merged into single entity as they take up space in the top 💯. I should probably have made my post clearer. I thought my post was going to get ignored. I mean Gintama is not hated enough compared to other highly rated shounen (SnK, HxH, KnY, Jojo, just to name a few.) or compared to the rest of the top 10. But i guess it's subjective and we could always find something less hated than the other. |
| @Zal Yes, I did read the post. And I think you just don't get my sense of humor... I am well aware of the subtle and actually pretty deep plot that Gintama has. But even that plot, is played off as a joke. Gintama, and Gintoki, aren't my favorites for nothing. And (sorry off topic) about Steins;Gate. Okabe, I see as just a guy that has a lot of platonic female friends, none of which are all gaga over him (the only one infatuated with Okabe... is actually a guy). So, I wouldn't class it as a harem in any regard. |
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