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I loved Code Geass. I thought the story and plot were incredible, the characters were unique aswell. I will also confessed I sobbed during the final episode. Code Geass is up there in my top favorites. Only falling behind Fullmetal Alchemist in my top favs.

Code Geass is my favorite anime of all time. I legitimately cried and it helped make me an anime fan.

no no no, the best anime is one with Gundam style mecha suits, Gurren Lagann's comedic situations, and Code Geass' supernatural powers and mecha fighting styles (like them low sweeps, back flips, front flips, wall running suzakus.... *ahem* moving on)

@Hatchet: Quoted the wrong person. Sorry bout that m8

[quote=Lmafroggy]@Hatchet: Gee Thanks for changing my words around. <3 <3 <3
Don't be angry just because not everyone likes anime.[/quote]

What the hell are you talking about?

@Hatchet: Gee Thanks for changing my words around. <3 <3 <3
Don't be angry just because not everyone likes anime.

[quote=ericsoogyum]Trigun, GTO, Samurai Champloo[/quote]

Samurai Champloo (y) The most chill anime everr.

[quote=Siris]Death Note is the best. Sorry, all the characters are sexy. In One Piece (the sword dude main character is sexy, not gonna lie) all the characters are freaking ugly. Anyone watch any animes that are good like deathnote? I dropped Attack on Titan faster than Kim Kardashian's marriage, and one piece faster than sonic taking a dump.[/quote]

How early on did you drop AoT? That show actually has pacing and it takes a few episodes to get going.

Dragon Ball/ Dragon Ball Z is the best tho.

[quote=superimani]You are handsome.[/quote]
We are both handsome.

I don't get the people saying Angel Beats was an excellent anime
Of course Aniplex didn't do justice by cramming the story into a mere 13 episodes, but that doesn't excuse what we were presented with:
1)The plot was rushed.
2)Character development mainly centered on Otonashi and Yuri. The rest of its overwhelmingly large cast was just fluff (with the exception of Hinata and Yui somewhat).
3)Too many plot twists that made the story misleading and anti-climatic.
4)Sacrificing plot for comedy (though the comedy itself was pretty damn good).

I wouldn't give Angel Beats more than an 8.
Code Geass however, the only critiques I give is that the sountrack was subpar and the super-deformed character design they carried out was just awful (Seriously, everyone looked 'boxy' and anorexic).
Best anime ever.

Sorry, but Angel Beats>All

@enoch129: Dang lol

[quote=Lmafroggy]I hate anime and I tried watching this and I couldn't keep going. I even tried the Haruhi one. Nope. I don't like anime.[/quote]
How could you give up on Haruhi... you sicko

OT: Death Note sucks

@Akatsuki0826: Wow what an interesting perspective.

I have to admit the storyline of the original FMA was pretty good and I loved the way they tied it into the modern world (towards the end with the movie), but I feel as though they could have did it better. I prefer FMA: Brotherhood over FMA but I like you perspective on both series. And when I think about it, I agree with the title switch idea.

[quote=3moRaccoon]You prefer the original FMA over FMA: Brotherhood? That's a first wow.[/quote]

Of course. More emotional, better story Imo, better Homonculi and an INSANE plot twist no one saw coming. Honestly, if I could, I would swap the two titles. I would make the first one be called Brotherhood since I feel like the original was centered more around Ed and Al while the second one was a bigger story that included a lot more people playing prominent roles. And since the second one is the one based off the manga, which was just called Fullmetal Alchemist, the second should just also be called Fullmetal Alchemist. It's too late to change it now, but that's just my opinion on it.

[quote=DarkWeirdo27]Why hasn't anyone said Angel Beats?[/quote]

Because it's not worthy.

[quote=Enkane]lol what episode in Fairy Tail made you cry o.o. One piece is better imo.[/quote]

You are handsome.

Code Geass was alright, so was Death Note.
There are better anime, but that's just my opinion.

@xsupakoreanx There might be a reason NekoChan is unladylike...

Dragon Ball Z and Old school pokemon are the best animes

[quote=NekoChan]@JeIIal: I just realized I stated "world piece", not wonder it looked weird when I was rereading it. So what if she said the world still has problems, it's still retarded. Basically this anime is propaganda praising Hitler. Anime is already propaganda and the fans are like Nazis while Japanese are like Hitlers, dam, Japan really is trying to be Nazi Germany

And, pffffft, a Fairy Tail fan trying to defend something, this is ganna be funny, especially when the Fairy Tail fan bashes on the review that bashes on the show. PFffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft[/quote]

Oh, I do agree it will be fun, but not of me debating you. It will be fun to see you showing you asinine behavior.
I would love for you to come at me with points of anime and what not, and to show me how I bashed on your review.

[url=http://imgur.com/OlItsCq]Come at me bro.[/url]

Geass is aight, but far from the best lol

Brotherhood>>>>>>Geass
Fate Zero>>>>>>Geass
Monster>>>>>>>>Geass
Yu Yu Hakusho>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Geass

[quote=NekoChan]1)Lelouche was a b____ of a main character, surrounded by crap ton of plot armor. It's not that he was a super genius, he was smart, but everyone else was just retarded. Geass = Plot armor. Not to mention the whole drive for the plot he caused is because he's a siscon.
2)Kallen was pointless as hell, and plot armored as hell too. Only thrown in to service fans, which is the last thing you do when you try to make a masterpiece. Which is seems to been what the makers tried to do with that grand finale. Along with other annoying and pointless character.
*I just plain hate most of the characters, except CC
3)During the first season I was confused as to what the series was trying to be. A story with a kid who got mind control powers and uses them to get revenge or something;big and dramatic, or a school story where a kid has mind control powers;like one of them super power stories where your average [fggty] school kid has super powers and must fight evil crap.
4)The ending was retarded, world piece doesn't happen because of that crap, it's like saying Hitler was the uniter of the world because blah blah blah big evil. Did it happen? Did we get world piece? No. The circumstances were different, but it was essentially the same, Hitler = Lelouche = One Evil =/= Sense. Not just the ending "outcome" but a lot of the outcomes are just so dam scripted, only happening because it's fiction. Seriously, what was with the stupid orange crap.

I got more hate but these are my main problems with it. It's not bad, not mediocre, just average good. I only watched it for CC, to bad she was friggin half-assed, but probably had a delicious ass from all that Pizza.

*Actually I did like Kallen, just not as a character in the plot. Mainly because it was forced as hell, only put in their for Fan Service, just like Renka, a favorite female anime character of mine.

@Lmafroggy:
Code Geass may attract fans, but watching Haruhi as your first won't, Haruhi is stupid, a stupid anime loved by laughable anime fans that mimic the dance thinking they're anything but lame.[/quote]

World peace*

It's peace not piece

well its okay I guess I mean its not the BEST anime imo.

no lol

[quote=NekoChan]
4)The ending was retarded, world piece doesn't happen because of that crap, it's like saying Hitler was the uniter of the world because blah blah blah big evil. Did it happen? Did we get world piece? No. The circumstances were different, but it was essentially the same, Hitler = Lelouche = One Evil =/= Sense. Not just the ending "outcome" but a lot of the outcomes are just so dam scripted, only happening because it's fiction. Seriously, what was with the stupid orange crap. [/quote]

In the ending Kallen states that the [b]world still has problems[/b].

OT:Most of the reviews of why this anime "is bad" and it's comparison to others are just too filled with asininity.

gintama>everything else

Why hasn't anyone said Angel Beats?

[quote=Akatsuki0826]Original Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto and Death Note are better in my opinion. I've explained my love for Naruto numerous times, it's not just "Oh he looks cool and badass", but I genuinely think the plot and story of the show is amazing.[/quote]

You prefer the original FMA over FMA: Brotherhood? That's a first wow.

[quote=DaiMeteor]I love Fairy Tail, it teach me some much about friendship, love and team work. It also an anime made me cry the most, so far.[/quote]

lol what episode in Fairy Tail made you cry o.o. One piece is better imo.

I hate anime and I tried watching this and I couldn't keep going. I even tried the Haruhi one. Nope. I don't like anime.

Original Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto and Death Note are better in my opinion. I've explained my love for Naruto numerous times, it's not just "Oh he looks cool and badass", but I genuinely think the plot and story of the show is amazing.

[quote=aran4lever]Anime is dumb[/quote]

I hope Luffy fists you for saying that.

Code Geass is my favorite anime of all time. Though "best" is subjective.

Directed by Goro Taniguchi, arguably one of the best directorial talents left at studio Sunrise, and written by his Planetes screenwriter Ichiro Okouchi, Code Geass promised to be a true epic series in the making. An interesting alternate history, a lead character that promised to evolve into a ruthless rebel seeking revenge against the father and the country that ruined his and his sisters life and a dash of mecha added into the mix for good measure. So why did it turn into such a complete circus? An absolute mess of jumbled ideas never touched upon in any way that isn`t absurd or laughable, a cast of characters who constantly degrade into utter imbeciles and a constantly re-shuffled plot. By the half-way mark of Code Geass, it`s as if focus changed from creating an actually riveting series, to essentially seeing how stupid they could take the whole thing and see how many viewers would go along with the ride.

Story: While Code Geass had an interesting premise that seemingly got off to a good start, it`s unfortunate the creators of the show had no idea how to handle the mass of ideas they had, or perhaps they simply didn`t care. New plot elements are introduced while at the same time are others are pushed back and delayed, sometimes by many episodes, and sometimes taken out of the show entirely, left to be settled in the 2nd season yet to air. The writing completely flat lines half way through and instead of the gripping and fast paced war/revenge story we had, we then dive headfirst into utterly inane romance drama with a resolution so incredibly bone headed that the series has almost turned into a comedy. As the series moves on, almost as if the romance was a checkbox on a "to do" list of the plot, the series gradually builds up again, making you think it may yet recover, despite the still omnipresent idiocy, but the show sees fit to deliver a "plot twist" so completely over the top and ridiculous, the writers have wrecked absolutely everything that the series had built in it`s first half, only to deliver one of the most stupid and pathetic twists in recent years. I can`t imagine the writers had any other intention rather than having the audience laugh at the absurdity of it all. The series seems to want to be so many things at the same time. It wants to be a gripping war story, a drama about revenge, it wants to include romance and tragedy, but without foregoing humour. Unfortuntely it was unable to do any of these right.

Sound: Music wise, the show's soundtrack doesn't impress much if you're familiar with Kotaro Nakagawa. His music here is essentially a rehash of mostly every other show he's done and remixed into one soundtrack. The only stand out area are the vocal tracks by Hitomi and Mikio Sakai, but even those are all too familiar if you're aquainted with their previous works. As far as the OP and EDs go, Colors by FLOW is a great accesible song, and Hitomi no Tsubasa by Access is perfectly catchy in that "I wouldn't admit in real life that I like this" way. The rest of the shows selections vary from the uninspired (2nd ED), to mind numbingly awful (ED1 and it's usual Ali Project rehash and the often hated OP2).

Character:Just as the plot of the series completely crumbles midway through the series, so do the characters. Completely intolerable and annoying side villains are introduced while other much more interesting ones are left to languich and not to reappear until much later. The constantly annoying Suzaku throughout the show is barely even a character, so much his personality and intentions are a joke. Some characters have their personal development completely eradicated from the series, again only to delay it into a second season, while most are barely given even a cursory look, including even supposedly main antagonists. Worst of all is Lelouch, whose descent into a sort of machiavellian evil was purportedly the series main selling point (Episode 1 "the day the devil was born&quot, is reduced to an utter half wit, commiting imbecilic mistake after another and constantly proving to be all talk and nothing more. A complete let down in every sense.

Value: A seemingly promising series that eventually degrades into nothing more than fanservice and idiocy. Whatever points the series seemed to want to make in it`s first half are utterly invalidated by it`s second. The lack of any sort of resolution, for anything in the series is as confusing as it is aggravating. Being made to wait 4 months for a completely lackluster "ending" only to find out we`ll have to wait even more for any kind of resolution is ridiculous. Knowing that a second season is in the making is irrelevant, there needs to be some kind of payoff for sitting through 25 episodes of this, and all we are left with is having to wait for another 25 episodes.

Enjoyment: As far as rating this show as an enjoyable new series with promise from a once great director, I`d be hard pressed to give it anymore than a 4. Nevertheless, the shows stupidity and constant excesses at least made it worth watching for a few laughs. Laughing at it of course, not with it. Sunrise seems to be stuck in a rut in terms of how it plans out and executes it`s shows. Mai Hime, Mai Otome, and now Code Geass and unfortunately they don`t seem likely to want to change that formula. I expected much more from the people behind this show, a complete shame.

http://myanimelist.net/profile/TheWestExit/reviews
In my opinion, I thought it was boring

[quote=Siris]Death Note is the best. Sorry, all the characters are sexy. In One Piece (the sword dude main character is sexy, not gonna lie) all the characters are freaking ugly. Anyone watch any animes that are good like deathnote? I dropped Attack on Titan faster than Kim Kardashian's marriage, and one piece faster than sonic taking a dump.[/quote]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByhP478ZPQI]If you need sexy...[/url]

Someone said that Death Note's like Legend of the Galactic Heroes for babies... (wat? lol Gosh MAL...) I'm not sure about that since I haven't ever watched Death Note, but maybe you could try LOGH?
Note: It's from the 1980s.

If that's the best no wonder most anime are pure turds

Code geass has the whole package including amazing fighting scenes, death note is in my top 5.

[quote=regardless]Basilers have an extremely skewed way of judging anime. Their criteria is usually limited to one single biased factor like if they like the main character or not. Nothing about the plot, build up, flow, character growth, action / etc.[/quote]
Maybe that's why I haven't met anyone that likes Legend of the Galactic Heroes on basil...
(Or maybe because it's associated with those elitists on MAL)

I watched the first episode and thought to myself, "What is this crap?"

sorry death note is the greatest anime

season 1 of code geass was good
season 2 was a joke

[quote=regardless]Basilers have an extremely skewed way of judging anime. Their criteria is usually limited to one single biased factor like if they like the main character or not. Nothing about the plot, build up, flow, character growth, action / etc.[/quote]

That's bs I loved Accel World but hated the mc.

Cowboy Bebop?

Death note>code geass>everything else

It's alright, I dropped it halfway.