Postby QuirkyIceHeart » Sat Jan 15, 2011 2:19 am
Gintama (Ep 1-17) I have this guilty, growing affection for this series... T.T (Gah, who am I kidding, I loved it from the first moment on) I don't know, maybe this kind of humor just appeals to me. Regardless, it deserves attention for its... everything. It's about samurai, but with the aliens being there, they do anything from dressing as pirates to infiltrate a space ship, to getting hit by cars to getting fired for wearing sunglasses. There really isn't a plot yet... But every episode leaps into some new, hilarious arc, and 17 episodes in, I'm not even close to getting bored. And this is coming from me, who, more than almost anyone I know, HATE filler arcs, so this means a lot coming from me.
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom Despite earlier complaints about the series having no point, I take the side that says the ending was NOT meaningless. Granted, it's one of the more frustrating ones out there, and seems to spit in your face after spending hours rooting for Reiji and his ongoing goal...
[spoiler] All the same, after the beginning of the series being about how much he WANTED to live, it was almost a 'release' at the end to have him die. It makes you realize that the story, since the beginning, was about making Eren happy, and any delusions you had aside from that were false. It also looped back to his 'I kill to survive' stuff, and Scythe Master's death, being killed by Eren, closed off the story. It worked... quite well, actually, but it was still depressing.
Outside of plot matters, I think only two main characters actually lived. That pale, purple haired man, and Ein/Eren. Guess what? I wanted to cry at EVERY STINKING CHARACTERS DEATH except for Scythe Master's, and I was practically cheering for his. *hugs Cal * It was the most unfair, depressing series on EARTH. It has to be D': [/spoiler]
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