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Fnordstrum -> RE: anime fans? (1/16/2008 11:00:28 AM)
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ORIGINAL: faerytattoodgirl
I just wanted to note that im not a fan of things bigger than 26 episodes..i find it gets boring and very repetitive... i prefer the 13 episode series the most.
Heh, I'm kind of opposite, I generally prefer things that are longer.... HOWEVER, there is a line between being long and still awesome, and long and going from awesome to just a ton of filler episodes (which aren't necessarily bad, but they do bring down the total awesomeness of whatever series)... Like for instance, the last 100 episodes of Naruto before the new season finally started, definately not as good as the first 100-ish episodes, and not a ton of reason for them being there.... But then there's something like Gundam SEED, which is 50 episodes long, but there's no filler (except for maybe one or two recap episodes that if they bother you can generally just be skipped)...
Basically what I'm saying is, if they keep a good story going without filler for more than 26 episodes, it makes it that much better the longer it is.... However if they do have a ton of filler, it might still be a good anime but it does get that kind of "meh" ness to it that doesn't make you want to watch it a bunch of times... Like Slayers, Slayers was a fun series, there are some parts/episodes that are just awesome, most of the main characters are just great, but it's not an anime I'd really want to spend the time to watch more than once or twice... I'd only really watch it again to show someone, because it's worth seeing once, but because it's so needlessly long it's not really worth watching a bunch of times.
Which of course is one good thing about shorter half-season anime (Like The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Onegai Teacher, etc.), you can watch them a bunch of times without using up too much of your life, plus since they're so short there isn't really room for a ton of random filler episodes/filler story arcs.
But yeah, generally if something is awesome, I prefer to have as much of it as I can get, which means if you had a 50 episode series of solid awesome vs. a 12 episode series of solid awesome, I'd probably slightly prefer the 50 episode series... Assuming equal levels of awesomeness, of course, but since Opinions aren't math, well, fnrod.
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