Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

[VanceIX]

vivster said:

VanceIX said:

I personally love the tension. It's anime, you can't expect RR Martin drama in here,

Actually I can and it has been done before a lot of times.

Didn't really expect something like that coming from you. I will assume that you haven't watched a lot of anime before to make this claim.

From the top of my head there are Simoun, Maoyuu and Spice and Wolf which did political drama better. Hell, I would even count Sora no Woto among those even though it's extremely cheesy. And I can't even name all the animes that can produce higher tension than this.

I will admit that this anime will certainly be exhilarating for anyone who hasn't watched anime before.

Having watched Maoyu and Spice and Wolf, I can safely say that neither comes even close to RR Martin in terms of the insane amount of political weaving and drama. I haven't watched Simoun, so I'll take your word for it. 

I'm an avid reader of books and manga, and I love anime as well, but they all serve different purposes. There are exceptions, but for the most part there are things that books do better and anime do better.

Spice and Wolf took more than a season for the full plot to start playing out, yet you criticize Aldnoah for not living up to expectations when it's only on episode 6 of 24?

You know, you are really going against your earlier claims about not judging anime. You seem to be hardcore against Aldnoah already, and me claiming it's good causes me to be branded as a novice anime watcher?

No, I probably don't watch as much as you. I'm a full-time university student, so the most I can manage is watching four or five episodes a week, while over the summer I binge watch one or two animes a week. Still, I've had plenty of experience with hundreds of different anime. I haven't finished them all, but I've watched enough to be able to make a solid guess with what's good for me and what's not.

If you you choose to believe that Aldnoah is only good as a casual anime, fine. But please don't call out people like you are now, or sweepingly generalize everyone who enjoys Aldnoah as newbies.