12-09-2003, 11:14 PM
I'm trying to think of what makes an anime bad. Stupidity is definately one factor. I'm not talking about intentional humor stupidity, but rather a stupid premise, or a stupid character. For a show to be good it has to have a healthy mix of characters, story and pacing. If you have an awesome story, but shitty characters, then you are destined to hate the characters too much to enjoy the anime (ex Shinji from Eva). If you have great characters and story, but the anime just drags, then you are destined to wait around eternally for something to happen (ex Noir, too much filler and junky bad guy of the week episodes, should have been 13 episodes rather than 26. also, after a while the berserk manga just drags on and on, no real sense of pace). If you have awesome characters, but a crappy story, then you are going to get bored rather quickly (EX Tenchi in Tokyo).
now deciding what makes those 3 factors suck or not is all subjective. It's all dependant on how it rubs me.
now deciding what makes those 3 factors suck or not is all subjective. It's all dependant on how it rubs me.