I started watching this last week. 5 episodes in already, and am finding this a hilarious good time. (Netflix).
This little guy was one of my daughter’s Christmas presents to me this year. You can all proceed to be incredibly jealous.
BORF!
cmwolfe
6175
Getting old school with me anime viewing. Got VOTOMS and Galaxy Express 999 (TV version) on Blu Ray for Christmas and my birthday.
Uncle from Another World stops after episode 7 on Netflix. Apparently they suffered a bunch of production delays because of Covid. Even in Japan, they’re only up to Episode 12 as a result.
So hopefully one day I will revisit.
Still, man, after watching that, it made me want to check out Sega games for the first time. Back when my roommate had a modded Xbox, I sampled a bunch via emulator and the ones I tried all seemed pretty poor. But hey, one day when I’m in an emulator kind of mood, I should go back and revisit Sega. Maybe check out what the heck Guardian Heroes is.
When people recommend JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure, is that the anime fan equivalent of a rick roll?
ShivaX
6178
Anime fans tend to be terrible at recommending anime to non-anime fans.
I remember a stream where a streamer was all “I wanna watch some anime, what’s a good anime, chat?”
The responses were half decent and half “oh my god, why would you ever recommend that to a normie/anyone?”
I still haven’t watched JoJo, but from what I’ve gathered it’s good, but also pretty… anime.
If that makes sense.
I tried watching JoJo once. It was really bad. It probably gets better over time I’m guessing, but I couldn’t make it through the first episode.
The first 9 episodes are the height of bad for me. Fans will tell you “oh yeah, but then the next part (part 2) gets so much better!”
When you watch part 2 (which I’m in the middle of) and you say “Part 2, it kinda sucks?” The response is “Oh yeah, you might not like part 2, but part 4 is where it all comes together!”
And on, and on, and on.
It feels like playing an MMO where “The real game starts when you’re max level! Just grind it out for the next 50 hours, it’ll be worth it!”
But ya know, some people here might disagree, and tell me that it really DOES get better. I trust opinions here more than 1000 people on reddit.
I’ve seen Jojo fans say just skip the first season
The pirate one with 100 seasons is another one that “gets good later”, two of my friends recommend it.
I’m sorry if after 5-6 chapters I’m not feeling it, it’s probably not for me?
Same thing with Parks and Rec, I’ve rewatched season 1 multiple times and I just can’t keep going
Wait, Parks and Rec really does get better in Season 2, don’t rewatch Season 1!
Bofuri S2 is liveeeeee (3 eps so far)
Woah, I didn’t know that show was going to have a second season! Nice surprise!
I don’t really know if there’s a show where you can hate like half a season, and then end up really enjoying it. The individual story arcs may be better or worse, but the essential nature of the show and the characters aren’t going to change.
Things can get better with time, as you become more attached to the characters and the lore and more embedded in the world, but I don’t know that things can really go from bad to good. It’s one thing to be like “this is unremarkable”, it’s another to be like “I hate this”.
The only possible exception would be things that had a drastic change like swapping studios from one season to another (One Punch Man Season 1 to 2 comes to mind), but generally when there’s changes like that, things get worse, not better.
I’m not super familiar with Jojo, but the show’s premiere gimmick, Stands, don’t even show up until season 2, AIUI. That might be why people recommend going in then. However, I feel like if you were going to like what is has to offer, you’d at least see the seed of that by now.
Given that there’s like, infinite content to choose from now, I don’t see any reason to spend time on something you don’t enjoy.
draxen
6187
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is the most generic anime I’ve ever seen. If you can get through the first 4 or so pretty terrible episodes it picks up a bit and then manages to maintain its barely above average quality up until about the middle of season 3 where it becomes crap again.
The thing about Jojo’s is you can watch it when only one braincell is functioning. You can watch it half asleep, drunk or sleepy it doesn’t matter. It’ll be perfectly fine because it’s just a series of random fights with the absolute bare minimum of plot and/or character development. Watching it is a bit like eating popcorn chicken from KFC. You can keep munching them for ages and they’re edible enough but afterwards you’re left feeling unfulfilled and slightly queasy.
I can see how someone would recommend Jojo as a concentrated sampling of a certain kind of anime. It’s gonzo, silly, and has (so I gather) cool ideas for superpowers and fight sequences. And there’s a lot of anime like that, and some people really like that whole style of thing.
Jojo’s first “season” is the first two arcs of the manga and then stands hit in the third part, is my understanding. And I think that’s the only part with stands? My understanding is later bits have other superpower stuff that occupies a similar narrative role but they’re not stands? I dunno, I kinda stalled out in part 1, where the only really supernatural thing going on is the bad guy turning into a vampire. I didn’t hate it or anything, it just wasn’t weird enough or smart enough to hook me. (I don’t expect it to get smart. Weird, though…)
That said, I routinely fall out of the mood to watch anime and am stalled partway through like three or four series currently, including Jojo. So I dunno how indicative that is of anything.
draxen
6189
The best anime I’ve watched recently is:
Summer Time Rendering - link: Summer Time Rendering | Anime-Planet
An enjoyable time travel/Groundhog Day adventure/mystery set in a small island community.
Chainsaw Man - link: Chainsaw Man | Anime-Planet
I’m sure everyone had heard of this one already as it seems to have a lot of buzz (hehe). It lived up to the hype and is glorious gory fun with some fairly decent world building.
Sing Yesterday For Me - link: Sing "Yesterday" for Me | Anime-Planet
A romantic drama, well written and with some interesting characters. I dug its slightly melancholic atmosphere.
JoJo is a weird beast, later it has good concept and ideas but the execution isn’t usually up to the task. I think it got now some fame just because in a way, it’s a very memeable anime, there are tons of meme gifs and people like making references to it, which helps with getting viral on Internet.
In a way I think it has more popularity now than it really deserves.
Funny. I like those early episodes so much more than the rest of it. I will also always have the fond memory of watching episode 1 with my kids and freaking out when the guitar solo at the beginning of Roundabout started.
I watched a handful of episodes from the “prison” season. It was… well… bizarre. I didn’t not like it.
I’m into the 7th episode of Vinland Saga. Just some really solid storycrafting of a familiar tale. I love how otaku they make Leif.
I have now seen a French anime film about Japanese mountaineers (Summit of the Gods) and part of a Japanese anime series about Vikings (Vinland Saga). It’s fun to see different cultures pastiche each other reverently.
