Maokun: Ninjas or Pirates? (Vikings are not a valid answer, sorry)
EricTheFred: Vikings are always a valid answer.
shooraijin (post: 1374781) wrote:What makes it better, in your opinion?
EricTheFred (post: 1374820) wrote:I can't help it. I've been in love with Madoka for over twenty years. KOR wins hands down. Although I still don't get why they gave her such awesome guitar pick skills and then made her a saxophone player...
shooraijin (post: 1377326) wrote:I seem to remember that there was some, and so does ABCB:
http://www.abcb.com/kor/index.htm
I thought that Rev Doc had done a review for us once upon a time, but I can't find it (I might be mistaken). It's not a lot, but there is a bit.
Maokun: Ninjas or Pirates? (Vikings are not a valid answer, sorry)
EricTheFred: Vikings are always a valid answer.
The aggregate rank of this series must be from reminiscence rather than objective comparison. It was:
* lacking any real storyline.
* No real continuity or character growth whatsoever; it was full of filler episodes. I can see why you'd want to convert a series into a movie now. This would have better been an hour and a half flick than a 48 episode series.
* bad ending. This may be remedied by the OVA and movies that follow, but I'm not really interested in seeing them. Having invested so much time in the series though, I just might.
There comes a point in time in an anime where you're like "this kind of sucks", but the decision to drop the series needs to be balanced against your existing investiture and time remaining.
The esper angle may as well have been tacked on. [spoiler]It did play a prominent role in the end, but most of the time it was comedic fluff.[/spoiler]
The characters were two dimensional. Bad girl now reformed tsundere, bubbly innocent latcher-on, indecisive male lead, jealous but impotent male friend, a pair of troublemakers. Throw in bowl and mix; see what comes out. This story could have been told in 10 episodes or less with nothing lost. To drag it on for so long is a criminal act of American TV proportions.
6.5/10. This show is a pale shadow of it's masterful contemporary, Maison Ikkoku.
EricTheFred (post: 1377367) wrote:.. I can't actually complain, since as a high-quantity, long time anime viewer I'm probably the exact sort of person they want submitting reviews, and I've yet to get off my duff and submit one to either them or CAA....
shooraijin (post: 1374722) wrote:I'm feeling old and decrepit and I can't find my cane , and also I've been watching both KOR and MI the last few weeks.
So now it's time for the throwdown. Which one do you like better, and why?
I'm picking Maison Ikkoku. KOR is a wonderful series, but the plot doesn't hold together as well and the writers made life difficult for themselves with the mind-reading subplot (that they hardly ever used except for yuks or subtle deus ex machinas). Maison Ikkoku, otoh, has a more coherent plot, I like the character design a bit better, and the interactions (while still outlandish) seem a bit more grounded.
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