Popularity

I have found out that among many people, that mainstream anime/manga isn't that popular among true otakus. What is you opinion on this?

Did you stop like Naruto when you found out all the little kids were watching it as well?

Did Hetalia got annoying once you saw a billion people cosplaying it?

Post your views on popular anime/manga!

while it dosnt change my likes and dislikes of an anime i find that if they get to poular the fan girls take over

yeah I get what you are saying... at that point, where the fan girls take over, you just don't want to admit that you like that anime

Aminor7 wrote:yeah I get what you are saying... at that point, where the fan girls take over, you just don't want to admit that you like that anime

i still like those sorts of animes, you just never tell anyone else ever. guilty pleasures.

Eh even if something gets popular i still like it... Its just when things get popular, the producers can dumb down or get lazy with the story. THEN I don't like it anymore. (Naruto anyone?)

Usarise wrote: Its just when things get popular, the producers can dumb down or get lazy with the story. THEN I don't like it anymore. (Naruto anyone?)

Oh god naruto.... it should have just died when shippudenn started.... I watched a recent episode out of bordum, and I was very sadly disappointed.

I know. D: New Naruto is so bad its scary...and people who can actually ENJOY that are even scarier... o___o

One Piece has done great though! Even once it got popular!

Usarise wrote:I know. D: New Naruto is so bad its scary...and people who can actually ENJOY that are even scarier... o___o

One Piece has done great though! Even once it got popular!

remember the good old days when we could watch all of this stuff on Tunami, with the lil robot named Tom, and then they killed Tom and Tom 2.0 just wasn't the same.....now i miss watching DBZ and Sailor Moon every Saturday night.

I miss Toonami in general... It had the classics and epics... Gundam, Kenshin, and Samurai Jack (not an anime but still freakin' awesome). The later years were alright too... One Piece, Bobobo, and Code Lyoko were good too. >_>

Loved Code Lyoko, but i was never a fan of Bobobo. Samurai Jack was pretty fantastic. Remember Zach Bell? that show was epic, Kenshin was one of my favorites of all time. I'm pretty sure thats where i first found out about YuYu Hakusho which I now own the entire anime and manga of so thats a good thing to find.

ah toonami....I loved toonami! Code Lyoko was an awesome French anime! I never got into samuri jack though.... I just remember watching Zoids and Sailor Moon on there as well as Gundam and may others. Alot of them were before you guys time.

before my time?!?!? i woke up an hour early every day when i was younger to watch zoids on cartoon network before going to little seaters, and even before that when i was like 5 years old i used to watch sailor moon and the first season of pokemon at my babysitters house, sure at the time i had no clue that what i was watching was anime, but i still loved it!

Well I used to watch Toonami when I was like four... And that is before your time consider I am older than you... Unfortunately I can't remember the names of the shows I watched mostly just the artwork.... though I do remember yu yu hakusho, Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo, Duel Master, Rave Master.... uh trying to remember more but my meory is failing me at the moment

Aminor7 wrote:Well I used to watch Toonami when I was like four... And that is before your time consider I am older than you... Unfortunately I can't remember the names of the shows I watched mostly just the artwork.... though I do remember yu yu hakusho, Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo, Duel Master, Rave Master.... uh trying to remember more but my meory is failing me at the moment

you've forgotten Zach Bell. that show was epic. i remember the day that they the first Tom fought off the evil virus and then jumped into the sun. I died a little that day. Tom II was ok but never quite the same.

JustAShinigami wrote:

Aminor7 wrote:Well I used to watch Toonami when I was like four... And that is before your time consider I am older than you... Unfortunately I can't remember the names of the shows I watched mostly just the artwork.... though I do remember yu yu hakusho, Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo, Duel Master, Rave Master.... uh trying to remember more but my meory is failing me at the moment

you've forgotten Zach Bell. that show was epic. i remember the day that they the first Tom fought off the evil virus and then jumped into the sun. I died a little that day. Tom II was ok but never quite the same.

I was not that fond of Zach Bell actually... It was too much like guys playing with dolls though I did like

thats defiantly not the scariest thing ive ever seen in my entire life or anything

do you not remember this from Zatch Bell?!?! After I saw this I stopped watching....Though I find It more amusing as I get older

Aminor7 wrote:do you not remember this from Zatch Bell?!?! After I saw this I stopped watching....Though I find It more amusing as I get older

I do not remember this from Zach Bell, I must have tried to repress this memory into nothingness. I didnt watch this show quite so avidly as all of the others, but when I was younger I enjoyed the silliness of it.

I agree it was quite a silly show.... There was definitely better stuff to watch on toonami though

DBZ was really epic to watch on Toonami, but it went downhill over time, Sayan Saga and Freeza Saga were the best, Cell and Boo were OK but by the time we hit Baby Saga and GT it went WAY down.

well keep in mind you were watching the dub on Toonami... But actually I liked Boo, but Freeza was def the best. But over all the manga is totally better than the anime.

Aminor7 wrote:well keep in mind you were watching the dub on Toonami... But actually I liked Boo, but Freeza was def the best. But over all the manga is totally better than the anime.

well of course there are very few series in which this is not true, the only one that i can think of that they are even off the top of my head is Death Note, which is 37 episodes for 12 books so they did ALL the detail.

well I think death note is a great anime and manga. It just takes a longer time to read the manga than watch the anime... At least in my opinion... Those manga are so long and bit tedious to read but they are still awesome...
And there are always exceptions to the manga is better rule...I just really haven't found any yet.

Aminor7 wrote:well I think death note is a great anime and manga. It just takes a longer time to read the manga than watch the anime... At least in my opinion... Those manga are so long and bit tedious to read but they are still awesome...
And there are always exceptions to the manga is better rule...I just really haven't found any yet.

i prefer manga to anime, the same way that i prefer harry potter books to the movies. i love to read. much more than i like to watch.

JustAShinigami wrote:

Aminor7 wrote:well I think death note is a great anime and manga. It just takes a longer time to read the manga than watch the anime... At least in my opinion... Those manga are so long and bit tedious to read but they are still awesome...
And there are always exceptions to the manga is better rule...I just really haven't found any yet.

i prefer manga to anime, the same way that i prefer harry potter books to the movies. i love to read. much more than i like to watch.

Truly I perfer manga to anime as well...It is always true that the paper version is better than the cinematic one