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Topic	Watching Hunter X Hunter for the first time. Holy crap episode 5.
KanzarisKelshen 05/22/18 2:18:16 AM #61:	LapisLazuli posted... Honestly really shocked we've got HxH naysayers. Never happened before! Not saying you don't have a right or anything, just haven't ever seen anybody talk bad about it that's actually seen it before, lol. And to clarify, the newer anime over the older one....it's a total invalidation. There's nothing to go back to the old one for, unless you REALLY wish Hisoka still had blue hair ~~like me.~~ Yeah, I know I'm a minority opinion, but I just have no patience for what HxH tries to do with the level of execution it has. It has very unsatisfying fight endings outside of a single arc ~~Greed Island~~, it's very grimderp in a way that feels pointlessly edgy instead of actually going somewhere with its darker tone, and I really, really don't like how much people fawn over Gon being omg so speshul when he does nothing interesting or awesome across the entire run except for the one arc I spoilered. On top of this, the only serious personal quality of his that I like is that he's very stubborn and determined, and I otherwise find him to be an extremely unlikable little sociopath. Couple that with a lot of botched plot resolutions and yeah, I really hated most of my watchthrough. It felt like I was wasting hours I would never get back on an unworthy work. I will give it this, though: the anime really manages to have an excellent ending, in spite of failing to get things right a lot of the time otherwise. So if you like the rest, the conclusion has gotta be outstandingly satisfying. EDIT: It also didn't help that a lot of people sold it to me as an anime with amazing fight scenes and lots of 'clever' combat where the smarter, not stronger character won (in the style of JJBA, for example) and...that isn't really how it works in practice a lot of the time. It's a really frustrating anime for me because it feels like it wants to do something great and fresh but it doesn't know how to do it, and comes off as extremely indecisive and lame as a result. It ends up working out to be the case that when it hews closest to generic shonen archetypes and tropes, it ends up much more entertaining, because it works within that framework with practiced ease that stands in a very stark contrast with the grimderp stuff people praise. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. <cite>KanzarisKelshen posted [p:901773015] in Watching H... [t:76628382]...</cite> <quote><cite>LapisLazuli posted...</cite> <quote>Honestly really shocked we've got HxH naysayers. Never happened before! Not saying you don't have a right or anything, just haven't ever seen anybody talk bad about it that's actually seen it before, lol. And to clarify, the newer anime over the older one....it's a total invalidation. There's nothing to go back to the old one for, unless you REALLY wish Hisoka still had blue hair like me.</quote> Yeah, I know I'm a minority opinion, but I just have no patience for what HxH tries to do with the level of execution it has. It has very unsatisfying fight endings outside of a single arc Greed Island, it's very grimderp in a way that feels pointlessly edgy instead of actually going somewhere with its darker tone, and I really, really don't like how much people fawn over Gon being omg so speshul when he does nothing interesting or awesome across the entire run except for the one arc I spoilered. On top of this, the only serious personal quality of his that I like is that he's very stubborn and determined, and I otherwise find him to be an extremely unlikable little sociopath. Couple that with a lot of botched plot resolutions and yeah, I really hated most of my watchthrough. It felt like I was wasting hours I would never get back on an unworthy work. I will give it this, though: the anime really manages to have an excellent ending, in spite of failing to get things right a lot of the time otherwise. So if you like the rest, the conclusion has gotta be outstandingly satisfying. EDIT: It also didn't help that a lot of people sold it to me as an anime with amazing fight scenes and lots of 'clever' combat where the smarter, not stronger character won (in the style of JJBA, for example) and...that isn't really how it works in practice a lot of the time. It's a really frustrating anime for me because it feels like it wants to do something great and fresh but it doesn't know how to do it, and comes off as extremely indecisive and lame as a result. It ends up working out to be the case that when it hews closest to generic shonen archetypes and tropes, it ends up much more entertaining, because it works within that framework with practiced ease that stands in a very stark contrast with the grimderp stuff people praise. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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