so in the end they went with "dbz spirit bomb" way. not that it wasn't good, but it didn't felt epic. oh well.
there's something here that some were saying that the anime is called "shaman king" and in the end it didn't lived up to it's name. though you can say that the anime took the usual tournament treatment - something would blow up as it goes. lol
the plot was lot of mess to my opinion, i may have read too deep to childish anime, but there's stuff i just cannot overlook. the series may had filler content from some point (dunno from where, some people on MAL says from 25, some from 30) but other anime who have filler content to end the story felt much better.
so the way i see it the plot goes with this way:
episodes 1 - 12 more or less: this part is pure 7, it doesn't have the best content and have many repetitive manners, but it was decent and presented the characters alright with nice character development.
episodes 12-25: this part is where the anime is getting the upper hand, in other words where the tournament is started. loved any piece of actions and the power-ups were reasonable and good character development. it may not good as "good shounen" but it still earned at the time pure 8.
episodes 25-43: though hao were presented in this part, i cannot possibly like this part due to much of filler episodes equals to pokemon episodes. and do not get me wrong, in pokemon they make sense, in shaman king's potential it was definitely waste. the good parts were presenting the x-laws, hao's backstory and the ideology clash between yoh's group to the x-laws. i can say fairly that this part was good only at it's end, before that it was 6, but by it's end i could assume good 7.
episodes 43-54: to be honest, the 2nd stage of the tournament had some kind trial and error, it let the action being side-story and the stories being more important which caused some very poor stories like previous part, but they were still decent. 6.5
episodes 55-57: or babylon gates arc. to be honest his arc was great, i wish the anime would end the story with it and somehow yoh would convince hao to be good but be killed by x-laws. but no, from some reason they ended it with more bizarre ending.
episodes 57-64: the bizarre with this arc is mainly due the fact that they had to make "final battle", and of course that hao had to get what he wanted as always with shounen. the matter of "how yoh would be back alive" or "how yoh gonna end the battle" were solved by cliche shounenish as well, without any creativity at all. from no where they presented "furyuku scouter" which basically ruined every power up and training the group had 'till now and made them useless, even the training mukihisa made them somehow gave fruits at the beginning but didn't matter at all in the end. they still used big-spirit power and didn't care for good attacks. i lost faith in the anime battle system long ago from when they just used big-spirits, but in this part it just felt stupid and not epic.
in the end, the feeling i got from the last few episodes that they just wanted to end it. and from the look of the last episodes art they had good amount of budget to give some more episodes.
don't get me wrong, i'm glad they ended it, but i had watched better anime with filler ending.
and if i talked about the art, last words about it, in the 3rd part of episodes i mentioned the art was seriously bad, even pokemon had better art lol. before that the anime had good art in prospective to the content.
the least i can say though, is that i'm excepting the story of the remake to be reasonable as the first series arcs. this series have good potential.
and to continue the legacy of this thread comments, my favourite characters were definitely len and anna. yoh was average goku, marty was annoying, ryo was somewhat good, but comparable to some characters from yuu yuu hakusho lol. lysger was awfull. chouclove was nice. faust could be little more when he was at the beginning, in the 2nd part of the anime he was just spineless lol. hao was interesting, though i expected from him much more.
6/10 for the series
Karusan said:Ok, I had to binge the last 4 episodes - pretty amazing last fight! But overall my heart was not in this anime, there’s a huge step up to Hunter x Hunter which is similar genre but with lots of depth, but at the same time it’s not as childish as Wataru and Granzort.
comparing this to hunter x hunter is like comparing pokemon to naruto, there's no comparison.
i would understand comparing this to naruto, where naruto is much better. and hunter x hunter is much better than naruto/ |