Ah, welcome back to our tour of anime-ism according to your captain!
I write this as I play Robodefense on my Droid X, so this post may have a few obvious fracture points in terms of the flow of the diction, just so you know.
Okay, as I mentioned previously, this post will have more to do with the animes I don't like and why. I'm not sure if this will thrill or depress those of you who do not like anime, since you will either like it all the more for the thrashing or be even more despondent that you're reading the bad stuff according to one who generally likes it.
The confusing stuff out of the way, let's take a dive:
1) Desert Punk - Here's an anime that's not necessarily bad so much that it's just bland. But it's bland in a way that it tries to appeal to the pubescent male with fan service (provocative, and usually unrealistic, depictions of female characters). Mmmm, not so much my thing. Bland, that is. As for fan service, it's strange to say it, but there are so many gradations of how far it can be taken that there are times where it can be effective without being offensive, but it all depends on the type of anime being viewed. In serious actiony animes, it's useless.
2) Dragon Ball Z - To be fair, I never watched a DBZ episode in my life. But then again, to be fair, I've been around enough guys in college who have watched too many episodes, so I know enough about it that I would not like it for the following reasons: character design way way way too uniform (I think 75% are different from each other because of their skin / hair color / facial hair presence - body type, hair style, eyes, mouth are all pretty much the same), there are so many fight sequences that they all resemble each other - a bunch of guys punching each other through mountains and into outerspace just so one (or both!) of them can hurl balls of blue lightning at each other, and then just general abundance of episodes that you'd think the creators were hoping to make them into currency.
3) MD Geist - Ugh. Just ugh. This is what happens when you have bad graphics, bad plot, bad dialogue, bad everything! And it's done with so much masochism that it's ridiculously immovable for the weight of its man parts, but in a bad way.
4) Neon Genesis Evangeleon - Finally, this may confuse some of you who know me. NGE is more of a mix of good and bad for all but the final two episodes of it series. One can almost overlook the flat characters and shoddy background design and lackluster dialogue thanks to the many and yet different mech-styled fights that take place. Then the final two episodes happen. All while not properly finishing the plot. It was like the director was about to sit down and write the baddest ass mecha fight to ever take place and then got up to get a glass of water of forgetfulness. When he sat back down, he whipped up some psycho-analytic poop on a stick and promised viewers it was chocolate-covered cotton candy, which is probably one of the most sugar-concentrated confectionary even devised to keep dentists up at night. People didn't like it. He decided to amend that by creating two 90-minute long features that both rehash what happens in the series and then make the final two episodes look harmless by ending the characters and storyline in the most depressing and confusing way unimaginable.
Now, I could easily do yet another post about common (and sometimes odd-to-Westerners) themes that anime gets bogged down in, but I think I'll hold that off for a while yet.
Next time with the Spacefaring Librarian, we'll visit something far far away (but not so long ago).
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