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Just finished up Golden Time and I guess I'll write down some of my thoughts:

Going into this show, the only thing I really knew was that it was by the writer of Toradora, so I had fairly high expectations, with Toradora being one of my favorite romance anime. Because of that, I can't help but compare the two shows in my head, and unfortunately, Golden Time doesn't quite stack up. While it has fun characters and an interesting premise, it never quite reaches the dramatic highs of Toradora and its lows are significantly lower.

For a while, my main problem was with the amnesia plot and how it was used. I wont spoil anything, so I will just say that, while it allowed the plot to take some interesting turns, amnesia is just too played to work. My other main issue was with the writing. While the characters making extremely dense decisions is common in a lot of anime, it pisses me off every time. Toradora managed to work around that, by making the characters fleshed out enough that you can understand where these decisions come from, but in GT, it sometimes seems as if the characters are bipolar, rapidly flipping between one mood and another, solely for plot purposes. Also, its worth nothing that certain characters, or points in the story seemed a little too similar to Toradora, making me think that the author should maybe branch out a little more.

However, thats not to say I didn't enjoy the show. The fact that the show actually developed a relationship was quite refreshing, and while it was largely executed in the Toradora style, this made it feel more like Honey and Clover and Say I Love You. Some of the conflicts brought up throughout the show were really interesting to see and at times, the protagonist actually felt like a real person in a real relationship having real issues. This also played a part in the fact that I didn't know what was going to happen at the end of the first episode. There was always some doubt in my mind about what the next step would be, and while it didn't deliver on all of the interesting roads it could have taken, I still enjoyed it greatly...



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somebody knows a good sci fi anime series, like cowboy bebop, or involves a cool characters, intriguing story, well design animation, or something like Bleach, Yu yu hakusho, Rurouni kenshin ?



petroleo said:
somebody knows a good sci fi anime series, like cowboy bebop, or involves a cool characters, intriguing story, well design animation, or something like Bleach, Yu yu hakusho, Rurouni kenshin ?


Trinity Blood

Dragonball Z

Dragonball GT

YuGiOh

YuGiOh 5D

Crono Crusade

G Gundam

Blue Exorcist

Hellsing

Digimon

Full Metal Alchemist

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

 

Off the top of my head, base on your 2nd request as highlighted in the quote.



Looks like next Kaleid ep is going to be epic.



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Kaizar said:
petroleo said:
somebody knows a good sci fi anime series, like cowboy bebop, or involves a cool characters, intriguing story, well design animation, or something like Bleach, Yu yu hakusho, Rurouni kenshin ?


Trinity Blood

Dragonball Z

Dragonball GT

YuGiOh

YuGiOh 5D

Crono Crusade

G Gundam

Blue Exorcist

Hellsing

Digimon

Full Metal Alchemist

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

 

Off the top of my head, base on your 2nd request as highlighted in the quote.

Thanks for the list :D,

That full metal alchemist series Im always like should I watch it or should not.



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Kaizar said:
petroleo said:
somebody knows a good sci fi anime series, like cowboy bebop, or involves a cool characters, intriguing story, well design animation, or something like Bleach, Yu yu hakusho, Rurouni kenshin ? 

YuGiOh 5D

That should be enough to have you banned from this thread, how could you possibly reccomend that trash??



petroleo said:
Kaizar said:


Trinity Blood

Dragonball Z

Dragonball GT

YuGiOh

YuGiOh 5D

Crono Crusade

G Gundam

Blue Exorcist

Hellsing

Digimon

Full Metal Alchemist

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

 

Off the top of my head, base on your 2nd request as highlighted in the quote.

Thanks for the list :D,

That full metal alchemist series Im always like should I watch it or should not.

You can skip DBGT since it was nowhere was enjoyable as the original Dragon Ball or DBZ!



                
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ktay95 said:
Kaizar said:
petroleo said:
somebody knows a good sci fi anime series, like cowboy bebop, or involves a cool characters, intriguing story, well design animation, or something like Bleach, Yu yu hakusho, Rurouni kenshin ? 

YuGiOh 5D

That should be enough to have you banned from this thread, how could you possibly reccomend that trash??

lol is it that bad ?



AZWification said:
petroleo said:
Kaizar said:


Trinity Blood

Dragonball Z

Dragonball GT

YuGiOh

YuGiOh 5D

Crono Crusade

G Gundam

Blue Exorcist

Hellsing

Digimon

Full Metal Alchemist

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

 

Off the top of my head, base on your 2nd request as highlighted in the quote.

Thanks for the list :D,

That full metal alchemist series Im always like should I watch it or should not.

You can skip DBGT since it was nowhere was enjoyable as the original Dragon Ball or DBZ!

Sadly I watched  almost the whole GT series, and it was so bad ;_; 

The combination, Trunks, Pam and Goku  was bad, making Goku a kid bad too, the whole story line was bad imo :/



petroleo said:
AZWification said:

You can skip DBGT since it was nowhere was enjoyable as the original Dragon Ball or DBZ!

Sadly I watched  almost the whole GT series, and it was so bad ;_; 

The combination, Trunks, Pam and Goku  was bad, making Goku a kid bad too, the whole story line was bad imo :/

Oh, I didn't know! I feel bad for anyone who had to watch that disappointment!



                
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