New animes or just old ideas resurfacing?

StupidDolphin · newbie! Joined: Nov 21, 2004 Posts: 19 Location: London

Anyone else notice the distinct lack of new "original" animes coming out?

They all seem so alike (Detective academy Q, clamp school detectives) or to have ripped off an older anime(Lady death, vampire princess miyu), or worse,
be a spin off of a prevoiusly over-shown series like gundam (I am no fan of gundam's plot or character development, although it does have quality mechanical perspective Shocked

)

I personally think we need to be seeing more good quality animes that have an in-depth plot(like hacksign, the best anime i've seen yet) and not such an obvious (love hina) or rubbish ending (cough, full metal alchemist, cough) and that are not completely perverted(new cutie honey Cool

and can be taken seriously and actually present the seasoned anime fan with something substantial to get their teeth into.

Your thoughts, although preferably no gundam ones Smile

or cutie honey..

Nomori · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

It depends what you like in an anime series. For example, i wasn't able to finish .Hack//Sign, it was so slow to develop or for anything to happen that i totally stopped watching.

You'll notice that it's the same thing everywhere. Have you seen an original reality tv show in the last 2 years? I haven't. Same old stuff used in mostly every show. But the formula works, people like those shows and they'll be aired until we can't absorb one more second of it.

Loveless · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject:

Yay for Originality... Elfen Lied.

celas · Conscript Joined: Nov 13, 2004 Posts: 179 Location: AZIA

hey have you wached those mentioned those anime?? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
those are original thoughts by their respective authors and if there may be some similarities well its just coincidences Razz

those animes that you coughed at are GREAT ANIME series and it really captured the HEARTS of anime viewers..and about the endings the authors
idea is for viewers to wach the whole series and not just anticipating the ending!!!!!!

and one more thing...Hack.sign wasn't able to beat the sales that Love Hina and FMA did and are more popular!!!!!! Wink

i'm not opposing you but its what I feel about what you said about those mentioned animes

StupidDolphin · newbie! Joined: Nov 21, 2004 Posts: 19 Location: London

<swims about cautiously>

Sorry if i upset anyone, especialy you Celas, that was not my intention.
I wasn't talking as if the authors did it deliberately, I was more worried at how we seem to be seeing less original works lately- even if it is coincidence.
I love Love hina, i though it was great, remember the robot turtles of doom? Very Happy

Nomori, your so right its scary, I didn't notice it was happenning everywhere, even my breakfast ceral is a copy of corn flakes! Your very sharp, Nomori, Next time i loose my can opener I'll ask you to open my tuna!

Loveless, Elfenlied is original but is much too gorey or crazy for me. Sure naked elven girls with psychic powers is all good clean fun, but it isn't "clean" when they start acting like Ray from evangelion, showing no feelings, then ripping people apart. Have you also noticed how each new girl you meet is much more powerful than the previous ones?
Called me a "Stupid" dolphin but i think Elfen Lied is alot like Chobits lol.
(call me stupid)

AlDim · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 10:51 am Post subject:

Well, many could argue that Hack is crap Smile

Anyway, if you aren't watching enough good stuff it means you aren't looking hard enough. There has always been tons of derivative crap and there always will be (good new ideas are hard to come upon and often are harder to sell). One just has to look for the few gems in the crowd. Some recent shows worth checking out are Monster, Paranoia Agent, Otogi Zoushi, Samurai Champloo, Gantz, Twin Spica, and Beck. And if the new shows aren't enough you can always watch something older.

Nomori · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject:

Sales are the last thing you should rely on for a product's quality.

Example : the game Enter the Matrix from Atari that was released the same day as the second movie of the trilogy.

It had like over 500 000 sales in the first few days (i think, maybe more but i don't want to exagerate).

Did anyone play that game? I rented it and let me say it was uber crap.

So we could say : Nealry record sales ≠ Game/Anime/Manga quality

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Loveless · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:34 pm Post subject:

I hated Hack. it just pissed me off...

yeah I'm interested in a show about a MMORPG that messes kids up woo
I'm sarcastic btw

In Ordinance to Elfen Lied Comment
Lucy came first
Nana came second
Mariko came third

Mariko>Lucy>Nana
That means you're WRONG hah

celas · Conscript Joined: Nov 13, 2004 Posts: 179 Location: AZIA

IDEAS and STORY PLOTS may be desame or alike but its the EVENTS that makes it UNIQUE Smile

StupidDolphin · newbie! Joined: Nov 21, 2004 Posts: 19 Location: London

Fair point, I have also watched Samuri champloo, it is good, but not great in my opinon.

I also think sales are irrelavent. They show nothing except which animes are sold in most stores.

atikiN · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject:

You want a healthy dose of originality? Go watch TEXHNOLYZED. Nuf said.

celas · Conscript Joined: Nov 13, 2004 Posts: 179 Location: AZIA

good sales means peple loves that anime ~~,,
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AlDim · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject:

Yebyosh · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:21 am Post subject: