Your Fave Standard Anime Epispode

xenocrisis0153 · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:50 am Post subject: Your Fave Standard Anime Epispode

For those who've seen at least a handful of different anime series, you've probably noticed that the same "types" of episodes emerge at some point in the run. Most series have at least one, two or ALL of the following. Of the list, vote for the type you typically tend to enjoy the most.

Episode number range based on a 26-episode series, but it's not set in stone. These typical episodes can really show up at any time... sometimes even mulitple times... but more often than not, they come in the range provided.

01-02 Introduction: Characters, setting, and basic story (sometime backstory) are introduced

04-07 Swimsuit Episode: Usually a group trip to the beach or local pool

04-07 cooking competition: For whatever reason, characters decide to settle disputes with a cooking competition. Other times characters are excelling in all classes except Home Economics and the only way to earn a passing grade is to win a bake-off.

06-09 School Culture Festival: A cafe or a haunted house... yeah... it's usually one of those two options

07-10 sports festival: Usually comes right after the culture festival... I guess those are the typical summer/autumn events Japanese schools host annually.

08-11 Hot Springs Trip: The main characters usually "just happens" to "win" some kind of trip to a luxurious hot springs. Of course, supporting cast and rivals usually turn up at the same exact time.

10-13 Christmas and/or New Years Day: Decorations, food, talk of Santa, difficulty of choosing gifts... all that jazz. Plus, the start of a new year... and of course the festivals and the visit to the local shrine for new years ritual.

11-15 plot twist: Could be anything, but chances are... YOU NEVER SAW IT COMING!!! wah haw haw haw

12-18 character death: maybe it's cause for celebration, but more likely it will be someone you had high hopes for making it. Either way, there's a lot of drama to come.

25-26 final battle/resolution: Can be a two-parter... can be rushed in the last 15 minutes... either way, everything that happened in the last 25 episodes better be solved by the time the final credits roll. It is a happy and sad occassion... happy that God Is In His Heaven, All Is Right With The World... sad that the anime is over... unless there's word of a sequel and/or OVA and/or Movie and/or alternate retelling... meh, depends on how much money there is to be made.
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satuross · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:26 am Post subject:

you missed the kimodameshi....

oh yeah, i picked the "onsen" (hot spring) chapters... ecchi *drols*
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ZGMF-00X · Ronin Samurai Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 761

This is a really hard choice....For me, I'd pick plot twist, with resolution coming in a close second. I'd have to consider whether the plot twist or ending is good IMO, though.

Episodes such as Cultural Festivals with cafes as the main theme and Swimsuit episodes as well as Hot Spring episodes are mostly for fanservice...Not that I don't like that, but they pose as a less glamorous option for me in comparison. There can be a few meaningful insights about what the characters think while in these episodes, but nothing electrifying or earth-shaking would happen from there...Unless it's an explosive finale like Shakugan no Shana or Utwarerumono or a most unexpected plot twist like Bleach's Aizen Sousuke being the mastermind of the mishaps in Sereitei.
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sakib · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject:

like u even have to ask xeno Wink

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Xristyan · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject:

wouldn't it be awesome to have the plot twist coincide with the hotspring trip... Very Happy

like revelations are popping up here and there when women talk together on the hot springs and same goes with the guys.. Very Happy

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sakib · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject:

actually that wouldnt be half bad, the only thing is that u have to add the traditional dividing wall breaking and the guys being blamed for it. it might ruin the serious mood especially if the episode would end with that intense conversation in the onsen. still i would love to see a series like that
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ap2 · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject:

i'd like to choose the ending since i'm always wanted to see how everything will/should be. but also i'd like the "peaceful episodes" which tell some side story about the character.
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xenocrisis0153 · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject:

anime-lite · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject:

guess the final battle is my fave part
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deviln3 · Conscript Joined: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 162

huh.. and here it thought i would be the only one voting for the hot spring trip.. Wink

xenocrisis0153 · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:49 am Post subject:

redragon3883 · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Jan 12, 2006 Posts: 254

I pick the final battle/resolution because it is at that period that every cool thing possible can happend... hehehehehe
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sakib · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject:

StrykerBlue · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:51 am Post subject:

I was hesitating in voting considering that the school culture/sport fests usually involve some kind of romance; but I had to settle with the plot twist since that's usually the most exciting/on-the-edge-of-your-seat moment. For me anyway.
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xiaoxing93 · newbie! Joined: Oct 04, 2006 Posts: 25

Plot twist FTW. It always gives me a shock without fail Very Happy