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Best and Worst Anime Revivals
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Crunchyroll, watch the the 2 newest movies and skip to Super episode 28.
cj_iwakura
Member
And the manga is bad too, so yes it is. Every villain dies in a page, no character development.
chicagocubsfan
Member
The new Berserk is awful.
Casshern Sins deserves a mention. It's probably the only piece of media in the macro-genre "grimdark reimagining" that I'm quite partial to. Mainly, that's because it looks absolutely fantastic, but still.
Crowds is a great show, to be sure. It's has absolutely nothing to do with Gatchaman whatsoever, mind, but it's still great. Even the second season, while it struggled to find its direction, eventually grew on me quite a bit. The long-term dedication to making a superhero show without superheroes or super-heroism was remarkable.
Crowds is a great show, to be sure. It's has absolutely nothing to do with Gatchaman whatsoever, mind, but it's still great. Even the second season, while it struggled to find its direction, eventually grew on me quite a bit. The long-term dedication to making a superhero show without superheroes or super-heroism was remarkable.
Watch the original Dragonball, ignore DBZ because it has atrocious pacing, read the manga for that part or watch DBZ Kai which cuts most of the filler. After that the Battle of Gods and Ressurection F movies, then skip to episode 28 of Dragonball Super (the first 27 episodes are a retelling of the movies just worse and longer than they need to be).
JimJamJones
Member
Literally every scene from the show can be an example.
I've already seen the original Dragonball. Just wanna catch up with Z.
I'll check Kai out then. Thanks!
Wait, what?
TeamLeftMatch
Member
These Berserk gifs, Holy Fuck what the hell is this anime.
Why is this scene giving me a Zelda CDI feeling
So so good... I can't wait for 4.0 (or 3.0+1.0)... I hope it blows everyone's mind, cements what many of us already feel is obvious,
that is is indeed a sequel not a remake
In some ways I wonder if the long delays between movies have done it more favors than harm.
Spuck-uk
Banned
Best:
GiTS Stand Alone Complex. Had low hopes, but it really broadened and expended on the universe, and didn't overstay its welcome
FMA:Brotherhood. Just better than the previous anime in every way.
Hellsing Ultimate. Better in every way than the first series, and like FMA:B, covers the entirity of the manga run without being dragged out.
Worst:
Evangelion2.0/3.0 whatever: Milking a never that amazing series for fanboy cash.
DBZ Super. Taking a classic, if overrated series and continguing to wring it for all it's worth. In decades of work, Toriyama is still awful at character design.
Berserk. do I even need to go there?
GiTS Stand Alone Complex. Had low hopes, but it really broadened and expended on the universe, and didn't overstay its welcome
FMA:Brotherhood. Just better than the previous anime in every way.
Hellsing Ultimate. Better in every way than the first series, and like FMA:B, covers the entirity of the manga run without being dragged out.
Worst:
Evangelion2.0/3.0 whatever: Milking a never that amazing series for fanboy cash.
DBZ Super. Taking a classic, if overrated series and continguing to wring it for all it's worth. In decades of work, Toriyama is still awful at character design.
Berserk. do I even need to go there?
You heard me. The pacing is terrible, it looks like they run out of budget after episode 3 and then there's these unnecessary long monologues in the last few episodes. Urghhhhhh...
The worst is The iDOLM@STER 2011
Where are all the mechs from the original?
Why did they replace the original female protagonist with some bloke and reduce her to a side character?
What happened to the storyline - it's all now some down to earth issues about putting on a stage show rather than a grand scale earth is in danger adventure?
Why did they introduce random new character while also changing the personalities of the originals. That new blonde haired girl was the worst!
Where are all the mechs from the original?
Why did they replace the original female protagonist with some bloke and reduce her to a side character?
What happened to the storyline - it's all now some down to earth issues about putting on a stage show rather than a grand scale earth is in danger adventure?
Why did they introduce random new character while also changing the personalities of the originals. That new blonde haired girl was the worst!
Spuck-uk
Banned
Nice jpgs, the story in the remakes is still fluff.
meltingparappa
Member
I am at the next stage of Berserk grief, where I see those gifs and think about how ready the series is for another revival.... in 2028 after I'm dead.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
lukeskymac
Member
You think I don't know about that? Directly connecting NGE to the trash that are the Rebuilds just makes it even more insulting. What was the point of posting this? Do you think that "it's a cycle! XD" shenanigans give free points?
In case the comment wasn't sarcasm.
Joke post?
If we're showing off Berserk, than here's my favorite example:
Jesus Christ, this is easily the worst
Geno Breaker
Banned
Rebuild of Eva kinda sucks. It's not as good as the originals but it has some nice scenes here and there.
Did anyone watch Yatterman Night?
The Time Bokan series is pretty old, and the villains tended to outshine the protagonists (even in the live-action adaptation they make a spectacle of themselves), but running with the concept and reversing the role seems like an almost daring idea after so many iterations on the concept, I wonder how that turned out.
The Time Bokan series is pretty old, and the villains tended to outshine the protagonists (even in the live-action adaptation they make a spectacle of themselves), but running with the concept and reversing the role seems like an almost daring idea after so many iterations on the concept, I wonder how that turned out.
Rebuild goes batshit crazy which is why I love it.
The Original Series will still be great no matter what rebuild does, if it's a cycle, a diferent universe, a reboot, doesn't matter. EoE in all it's brilliance is still brilliant and has no real follow-up. Despite Anno's trolls symbolism.
Alternate Universes and reimaginings work like that, there's the fun in it going bonkers with stuff like WILLE and the Failures of Infinity
Contrary to Eureka Seven AO were the entire point of the show is about how
Fuck everything about this scene in particular
The Original Series will still be great no matter what rebuild does, if it's a cycle, a diferent universe, a reboot, doesn't matter. EoE in all it's brilliance is still brilliant and has no real follow-up. Despite Anno's trolls symbolism.
Alternate Universes and reimaginings work like that, there's the fun in it going bonkers with stuff like WILLE and the Failures of Infinity
Contrary to Eureka Seven AO were the entire point of the show is about how
miserable the life of Renton and Eureka is after the perfect ending shown in the original, how the character in the original were wrong to help the Coralians, How Eureka's dream of giving life to another being ends up in edgy tragedy and all that tied up in a plot that's an insulting Evangelion ripoff.
And a Fucking Retcon Canon. No seriously its a canon, that fires beams, that change the universe
And a Fucking Retcon Canon. No seriously its a canon, that fires beams, that change the universe
Fuck everything about this scene in particular
Sunset Samurai
Member
Joke post?
Holy shit that's Terrible 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Eureka Seven AO never happened.
Dunno if it counts, but Soul Eater.
Understandably, the first anime had to end with fillers since they caught up with the manga, just like the first Full Metal Alchemist. And while the first Soul Eater was good, the original content was... average to say the least.
We didn't have new Soul Eater animated content until Bones announced a new Soul Eater anime. Sadly, instead of being Soul Eater Brotherhood, we got Soul Eater Not!, an anime spin off that is completely different than the original series. And even to these days, we don't have any indication Bones plans to adapt the original manga.
Understandably, the first anime had to end with fillers since they caught up with the manga, just like the first Full Metal Alchemist. And while the first Soul Eater was good, the original content was... average to say the least.
We didn't have new Soul Eater animated content until Bones announced a new Soul Eater anime. Sadly, instead of being Soul Eater Brotherhood, we got Soul Eater Not!, an anime spin off that is completely different than the original series. And even to these days, we don't have any indication Bones plans to adapt the original manga.
Rebuild goes batshit crazy which is why I love it.
The Original Series will still be great no matter what rebuild does, if it's a cycle, a diferent universe, a reboot, doesn't matter. EoE in all it's brilliance is still brilliant and has no real follow-up. Despite Anno's trolls symbolism.
Alternate Universes and reimaginings work like that, there's the fun in it going bonkers with stuff like WILLE and the Failures of Infinity
Contrary to Eureka Seven AO were the entire point of the show is about howmiserable the life of Renton and Eureka is after the perfect ending shown in the original, how the character in the original were wrong to help the Coralians, How Eureka's dream of giving life to another being ends up in edgy tragedy and all that tied up in a plot that's an insulting Evangelion ripoff.
And a Fucking Retcon Canon. No seriously its a canon, that fires beams, that changes the universe and the characters
Fuck everything about this scene in particular
See my post above
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
SigmasonicX
Member
To clarify, Soul Eater Not! is based on an existing manga spinoff by the same author. My understanding is that as an adaptation of that, it's adequate, but the base concept has its issues.
Hitlersaurus Christ
Banned
It's me, I'm the only guy that likes Digimon Adventure Tri.
Agreed on Eureka 7 AO as worst though. The original is one of my favorites and AO just took a fat shit all over it before hanging itself.
Agreed on Eureka 7 AO as worst though. The original is one of my favorites and AO just took a fat shit all over it before hanging itself.
Muffin1611
Banned
Notice how the arm is mesh-twisted at the end.
Fortunately the new movies will create a new ending for the series which likely precludes AO's existence. The first movie just premiered at Otakon (which i got to see) and basically just retells the first half of the anime up to Renton's decision to leave Ray and Charles.
It's basically clip show: the movie, aside from explaining the Summer of Love backstory and fiddling with a few details (like that Ray and Charles formally adopted Renton back when Adroc died, though Grandpa still raised him, or that Renton briefly went to the military academy before dropping out to join Gekko State), but a preview clip they showed after the credits implies more changes, like Anemone being a bigger presence and having her own squadron of enemy pilots.
Point is, hopefully the new ending will sponge away AO.
It was okay. Certainly had its charm but a lot of the humor was hit or miss. Production crumples in the last episode too.