Welcome to the Fantasy Zone
This Zone is dedicated to the lesser known elements of anime hosted by the cast of Victory Script.
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I'm here today to give you a challenge, can you criticise your favourite anime?
This test is designed to see if you can accept flaws in your personal top 10 anime.
I'll attempt it with mine and we'll see how I get on.
10. Nisekoi
I often refer to Nisekoi as a better written Love Hina but still like Love Hina, Nisekoi's biggest sin is how crowded the cast gets and how pointless many of the late arrivals get.
9. Jing King of Bandits
There are a couple of stories that took more than one episode, Jing as a concept works better as a situation of the week show. Jing as a character is not suited to long stories, it's a similar problem found in Kino's Journey.
8. Fairy Tail
This one is easy, it gets away with far too much Power of Love and Friendship bullshit.
7. Cowboy Bebop
Within the last couple of years it's showing it's age more and more with less grace, Evangelion suffered the same thing.
6. Ranma 1/2
Is it the length? Nope, just Happosai. This anime would be so much higher if not for Happosai. That and you realise how terrible some of the supporting cast is.
5. Precure
Precure was clearly influenced by many of the Magical Girl shows that came before and during it's 16 years of broadcast to very different returns, Precure at it's worst looks like a pale imitation of a better show, it also has a habit of following it's best seasons with weak seasons. It's current problem is that it's running out of ideas.
4. Lupin the 3rd
Screw it, it's Lupin. That's the logic you need for Lupin the 3rd. It can't be anything else, it's design doesn't support it, so when it tried to do more art house style with practically no gags, it falls flat.
3. Dirty Pair
Dirty Pair has so many iterations that it's hard to keep consistent quality control, there's always going to be one you like and one you hate.
2. Slayers
Has the weakest dub of the top 10 and can easily have stories that do absolutely nothing for the franchise and that's not just the filler talking.
1. Black Lagoon
It's world building is compromised by it's inability to work with it's languages. When needing to use more than one language it can break the story. The Japanese sub draws attention to a character that is bad at English while speaking in Japanese, meanwhile some of Revy's best moments are when actress Megumi Toyoguchi uses English which ultimately gets lost in the dub. I'm also a little bitter about Roberta's ending.
That's my little list, now I challenge you to try and criticise your own top ten. I'm curious to know what you would say about them.
Not that long ago, I listed some characters that despite their popularity aren't actually that great so I found more.
1. Tatsumaki from One Punch Man
I could go through alot of characters whose arrogance gets punched into the ground by Saitama but I get the sense that even if Saitama ever did defeat Tatsumaki, she'd still be a bitch. Her attitude just grinds on me.
2. Davis from Digimon 02
A much weaker character than Tai and much stupider as well, he had his hand held far too much during that season and it was actually TK who punched out the Digimon Emperor and really should've been the leader.
3. Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo
The only thing the writers can get consistently right is that she's a space pirate, her powers are inconsistent, her back story is convoluted and there are some moments of no personal space where she comes off as clingy or obnoxious.
4. Onodera Kosaki from Nisekoi
Considering how much better Chitoge's personality is compared to other tsunderes in the same position, Onodera comes off as not really a rival at all, her insecurities get old and is quickly at the back of the queue the more the harem grows. Her own best friend has a better chance.
5. Orihime Inoue from Bleach
Considering how much Bleach changed the landscape of Shonen action series, seeing a damsel in distress is a huge let down, Orihime's powers are quickly forgotten as well so she can set up for the role of Damsel. I'd put Chad here as well, but I said popular characters.
6. Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion
The more you investigate this girl, the more you didn't want to find out. I'm also glad the emotionless doll waifu died out when Haruhi Suzumiya failed to replicate it with Nagato Yuki. I find nothing about Rei Ayanami attractive, endearing or even that interesting.
7. Hotaru Tomoe from Sailor Moon
*100s of Guns being loaded and pointed at me* put the guns down. Sailor Saturn's biggest problem is the fact that the writing for her character makes her unusable. Being the senshi that represents death, she only arrives if the universe is really screwed, her role is effectively reduced to last resort. I'm not including Mistress 9 because I judge her as a different character.
8. Ayaka Yukihiro from Negima
She was billed as Asuna's true friend despite the squabbling they always do but was relegated from the story for quite a long time and in the end, she never really got to do anything but be a little too obsessed with Negi.
9. Walter C. Dornez from Hellsing
I would've thought someone as bad ass as Walter wouldn't resort to such a boring tedious betrayal just for the sake of killing Alucard but he does, it was a let down and it only gets worst from there.
10. Red Haired Shanks from One Piece
Shanks' mere presence is enough to stop a war, stand up to other pirates at his level and ultimately garner so much respect that even the marines agree to his demands. Here's the thing though, he hasn't done anything but show up occasionally, we only have his reputation to go on and after so many years, One Piece owes us for our patience.
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