Animes That I Do Not Watch But Everyone Else Does (and their mangas)

[Tavrobel]

Tengen Toppa's OP is still better. And SZS's. And Baccano!'s. But that's okay, I'll forgive you this time.

[Wolf Kanno]

The soundtrack is also terrible. Its been a long time since I've watched an anime that has a soundtrack that detracts from the story.

"If you want to see some action...
got to be the center
OF A TRAK SHUN"

My god, the first time I heard this I laughed so hard. It was kind of a badass moment for Ichigo, and this song was just so out there. I later found out (after I stopped watching) that the same guy who's in charge of Bleach's soundtrack also did Evangelion's.

Funny how you mention Ichigo's similarity to Yu Yu Yusuke. It never really crossed my mind before, but Bleach is *a lot* like Yu Yu Hakusho.

That was what I was thinking of when I wrote that. God, that song kills that scene but it was pretty hilarious.

[Spatvark]

A quote:

Anyway, so I'm only 3 volumes into Bleach, but I'm ready to list the reasons why it's better than Naruto (of which I read ~32 volumes):

-- The narrative pacing is actual...narrative pacing.
-- Girls do things other than whine about Sasuke
-- It's a personal preference, but I like the art style more
-- A single fight does not take 6 volumes to reach its conclusion
-- Characters do not spend entire fights explaining the flow of their chakra, or explaining in great detail how their SEKRIT ULTIMATE MOVE works. I like this. I don't care about the schemantics behind somebody's bad-ass fight move. I care about who gets hit, who hit them, how cool it looks, and who dies afterward.
-- It's actually funny, when it tries to be funny
-- The characterization that protagonist Ichigo gets in volume 3 makes me care about him a lot more than I ever cared about the protagonist of Naruto.

Now this is related to the manga, but would you say this was accurate?

I know very little about naruto and absolutely nothing about bleach, so uh, ITT you try to teach me about them :D

I guess I differ from a lot of people on this, but for me, Bleach went downhill after the Kingfisher arc, and basically lost all the momentum of awesomeness that it'd built up. On the other hand, I actually quite like Naruto. God knows it has its flaws (and deeper ones than some of the more superficial ones mentioned so far), but it's kept me entertained for quite a long time.

You seem to have a logic error there, based on what I've watched of bebop.

*reads rest of thread*

Not really.

There's what, three, four, episodes of actual plot? Everything else is just filler. Good filler, no denying that, but filler nonetheless.

[Jessweeee♪]

I agree about that one song in Bleach. I love every song on the first OST but that one ._.

Head in the Clouds is my favorite!

[blackmage_nuke]

Anyway, so I'm only 3 volumes into Bleach, but I'm ready to list the reasons why it's better than Naruto (of which I read ~32 volumes):
-- A single fight does not take 6 volumes to reach its conclusion
-- Characters do not spend entire fights explaining the flow of their chakra, or explaining in great detail how their SEKRIT ULTIMATE MOVE works. I like this. I don't care about the schemantics behind somebody's bad-ass fight move. I care about who gets hit, who hit them, how cool it looks, and who dies afterward.

This person hasnt read enough bleach. He/she'll probably change his/her mind when he/she hears the word, "Zanpakuto's name"

Anyway I enjoy both anime's quite abit untill they got to the fillers. Naruto fillers went for way too long and then after that they made the story pace really slowly which is why i started reading the manga, but reading a battle isnt as fun as watching one. Bleach fillers just bored me and the thing that annoyed me was that they kept the mod souls when it ended. Sure some people might like the mod souls but every time they intefere i cant help thinking that theyre not meant to be there and theyre just intefereing with the main story. I know it might be unrealistic to want the characters to just pretend that the bounto or bounds or boundos or whatever never existed but I would enjoy it alot more.

[Lynx]

at first i thought bleach was better up until ichigo reached bankai. it should have ended after that making it a short series and the final fight with eizon being there as well. but then they put in fillers and i hate fillers.

as for naruto once sasuke left i stopped caring much cause the remaining episodes were mainly fillers until shippuden. shippuden all though in Japanese is mainly good. sakura starts kicking ass. unfortunately 2 years of training has seemed to teach no one any new techniques. but when theres fight scenes they are pretty good at least with sasori. ive kept up with the manga's online and they're starting to get annoying i just want the series to end all ready.

my opinion. go watch death note a fraction of the episodes and so much better.

[cloud_doll]

Sailor Moon all the way!

Though Nana is pretty popular isn't it? I thought it was pretty good.