| I quite liked it, but I don't think it got a lot of advertising/marketing plus for a battle shounen it has a somewhat young target audience I feel, with the artstyle and the shibi demons and silly characters like the guy with the horse. Coming out and airing around the same time as Naruto and Bleach, two battle shounen which look more edgy and adult in terms of art style, tone and the age of the characters, it isn't hard to see why licensors were more eager to pick those up. I don't think Gash Bell would have been as successful in the west as either of those, just like it wasn't in Japan. Especially when they probably had much more hype from the source material at the time as well. |
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| Yeah, it's a pretty nice series, but the style would put most off. |
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| Well it aired for sometime in India and luckily I was able to watch some random episodes. For India it's mostly because of censorships. Like Parco's ridiculous anthem or that Ms Boing(member of Majestic 12) is enough for it to get cancelled. |
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Striker-3649 said: yup very great anime imo, the manga rating is very good and it deserves that but still the anime rating could've been betterDont know about other countries but it was pretty popular here in India back in the days. |
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| Very childish... That format doesn't work anymore |
| You gotta be kidding me dude. This show is pretty childish, only a kid or nostalgifags would appreciate that. I recommend you read ThatAnimeSnob review about the manga that is on manga page. |
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LoneTrain said:
Very childish... That format doesn't work anymore
I'm watching Konjiki no Gash Bell for the first time in 2023, I never watched it before, only barely knew about it and I'm loving it. I understand it's old, childish and Shounen and I'm enjoying it a lot.Very childish... That format doesn't work anymore
It reminds me of Hunter X Hunter (the 1999 superior version), MAR, Ueki no Housoku, Shaman King, Yu-Gi-Oh! and a few more early 2000s animes and I think they are much better than the animes in the past 10 years.
Now everything is trying to be super serious (more like super serial/cereal), they are trying to have those "badass" characters and plots and take themselves super seriously, I'm talking about overrated POS trash like Shingeki no Kyojin or Sword Art Online and they just come off as forced to look and mature when they really aren't.
I can watch something like Konjiki no Gash Bell even 20 years from now and still enjoy it and appreciate it, because the anime is so simplistic and predictable that it's not trying at all to be taking itself seriously - it just goes on until the end and that's it. I have read somewhere that the anime ends differently from the manga, but that doesn't really matter to me, because such animes should not be taken seriously or anything, they should just be enjoyed as they are and after you watch them, you should move on.
| @Allwynd The seriousness of Shingeki no Kyojin was never forced and this is clear in the naturalness of the plot twists, art style, narrative and most of the deaths. It never really feels like it's trying to shock for the sake of it or to seem "dark and edgy" while showing busty girls with colorful hair and fanservice dialogue. You can call it "overrated trash" all you want, but you used it as one of the worst and most nonsensical examples of "forced maturity" possible (and you even put it next to Sword Art Online, which makes it impossible to take your perspective seriously). Also HxH99 is less childish than its remake and still you made a point of highlighting that is superior. For me, anime should just stay true to itself, regardless of the tone it chose or the time it was released. |
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