Criticise a series you like, praise one you hate

[Captain Cadaver]

An old thread returns to give life to this section.

Title makes it self-explanatory, but there's one difference this time. Each post can only have 1 criticism and praise and no doubleposting as to offer more activity in this thread.

Criticism
Legend of the Galactic Heroes - The Earth Church were very 1-dimensional villains. Even if that was the point in showing the effect of cults, it still seems off considering the excellent characterisation from all the other characters.

Praise
Bleach - Ichigo's Post-Dangai hax works as a concept due to it having his will overcome a power that made him a berserker, thus having the potential to be a power up that offered character development if under the use of a more competent writer.

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

Criticism

Satima's gag of one punching everything starts to get annoying after awhile.

Praise

Food Wars had excellent art.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

^Include the series as well. I know both you're talking about, but others may not.

Criticism
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Araki's bad memory resulted in some Toriyama level inconsistencies.

Praise
Magi - The build up of each faction's political power was well presented, such as the focus of the story often changing to different aspects of rulership.

 

[withheldforprivacy]

Critisizing one i like...
-Ayako Tenge: How did she not get pregnant after all those years of
being locked in the cellar and having sex with her brother? That
question does not allow my perverted mind to rest.

Praising one i hate...
-Yokai watch: When i'm too tired to think of consistencies, power levels,
children card games' rules and twisted sex scenarios, it's a good relaxing
read.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Criticism
Fullmetal Alchemist - The humour, particularly when going into chibi mode, can be very immersion breaking and somewhat damaging, particularly trying to make a gag out of something as serious as Izumi's internal damage.

Praise
Naruto - In it's first part, Naruto was probably one of the most justified and relatable Shonen protagonists when it comes to the reason of their goals, much moreso than Goku wanting to fight strong guys or Luffy wanting to be the Pirate King just because.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

This is hard, I can't praise something that I hate and hate something that I like.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

This is hard, I can't praise something that I hate and hate something that I like.

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[Tapion]

Criticism

Naruto
Anime: There are way too many fillers. That normally wouldn't be a huge problem if they were good fillers, but literally 90 up to 95% of the fillers in the series are HORRIBLE. Not to mention the incredible case of Arc Fatigue starting from the middle of the series. Are they still on Namek?
Manga: Hard to distinguish. I think there's a bit of fatigue as well, but it's not even close to being as big as the Anime's.

Praise

Rurouni Kenshin
I honestly like the characters and their personalities.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Criticism
Hokuto no Ken - The post-timeskip material in general (mainly the Shura Arc and beyond) were incredibly damaging to the series' quality due to producing many retcons to events previously established and certifying Kenshiro as a Gary Stu, not to mention being unnecessary due to the first part giving the series a solid ending.

Praise
One Punch Man - The art and character designs tend to be above average (manga version, not the webcomic).

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

Praise
One Punch Man - The art and character designs tend to be above average (manga version, not the webcomic).

What? Explain, I like a large post explaining why people dislike stuff.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

What? Explain, I like a large post explaining why people dislike stuff.

The series' main premise got old after 5 minutes, not to mention being something Hokuto no Ken and Dragon Ball did decades ago until their creators realized the idea of a protagonist who can oneshot everyone (which doesn't even stick after the first 10 episodes/6 volumes) got old.

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

What? Explain, I like a large post explaining why people dislike stuff.

The series' main premise got old after 5 minutes, not to mention being something Hokuto no Ken and Dragon Ball did decades ago until their creators realized the idea of a protagonist who can oneshot everyone (which doesn't even stick after the first 10 episodes/6 volumes) got old.

But, one punching everything never really was the main focus of the series. Everything that makes the show, and manga good is the wit, humor, the characters, and the animation, and looks itself.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

But, one punching everything never really was the main focus of the series. Everything that makes the show, and manga good is the wit, humor, the characters, and the animation, and looks itself.

Not the main focus when it's the title of the series itself....
Beyond reaction faces, the humour is pretty standard repetition of running gags, whilst the characters are very bland archetypes you could easily find equivalents of in other series, not to mention the possibility of them receiving any development is slim to none. The other two criteria are superficial aspects that have no merit as substance.

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

But, one punching everything never really was the main focus of the series. Everything that makes the show, and manga good is the wit, humor, the characters, and the animation, and looks itself.

Not the main focus when it's the title of the series itself....
Beyond reaction faces, the humour is pretty standard repetition of running gags, whilst the characters are very bland archetypes you could easily find equivalents of in other series, not to mention the possibility of them receiving any development is slim to none. The other two criteria are superficial aspects that have no merit as substance.

It's like Dragon Ball being called Dragon Ball even though the Dragon Balls have been worthless for ages now.

It really isn't the standard repetition of gags. It's a dry, sarcastic romp of a story so I really consider the idea that it's similar to be ridiculous. Look, at the end of the day this series clearly isn't your thing. Debating you on it wont get me, and you anywhere except waste both of our times.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

It's like Dragon Ball being called Dragon Ball even though the Dragon Balls have been worthless for ages now.

It really isn't the standard repetition of gags. It's a dry, sarcastic romp of a story so I really consider the idea that it's similar to be ridiculous. Look, at the end of the day this series clearly isn't your thing. Debating you on it wont get me, and you anywhere except waste both of our times.

But they were the central focus for a good portion of the story.

Whilst I agree OPM is a satirical take on such ideas, it doesn't matter overall when it doesn't do anything to subvert such tropes, eventually forcing itself to conform to the stereotypes it was poking fun at such as having Saitama need more than one punch and actually getting serious against some foes, with the events such as fighting Boros having a serious tone that goes against the point of the series.

I also find it funny that you're the one requesting to drop the topic when it was who insisted on bringing it up.

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

I also find it funny that you're the one requesting to drop the topic when it was who insisted on bringing it up.

Meh, I feel arguing with opinion always flies into the shit hole. Also, you saw nothing...

 

[ahill1]

CRITICISM

Hunter x Hunter - the manga's art tends to be pretty ass. Besides, while the usage of strategy and heavy thought by the characters is something cool, I find the excess of it a bit tiresome.


PRAISE

One Punch Man - the protagonist is someone original.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Criticism
Berserk - Aside from Guts, character writing post-Golden Age was a step down in quality, especially for returning characters, what with Casca becoming a potato and Griffith no longer being as nuanced as previously.

Praise
Nanatsu no Taizai - The premise of a series with a gimmick of Arthurian Legends was quite a hook that was better utilized than other manga that dabbled with such Legends.

 

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Critisise...
-Dragonball: Power levels are bullshit.

Praise...
-Zero Familiar: Louise is cute.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Criticism
Ashita no Joe - Whilst the series has excellent character writing for it's main cast, a little more effort could've been put into developing Joe's one-off opponents.

Praise
Angel Beats - The rapper who talked in engrish was entertaining, particularly his reference to Get Wild by TM Network.