10 November 2006, 8:23 AM
I shock people by disliking Castle in the Sky and Howl's Moving Castle from Hayao Miyazaki, the former because it's a weaker Castle of Cagliostro clone (same plot with princess abducted because of her mysterious jewelry, villian even looks the same in both, etc) and the latter because it didn't make much sense.
Also wasn't into Hellsing, I didn't get into the story, and it reminded me too much of the things I didn't like about the film Underworld (not very clear, boring characters, etc.).
Thought Metropolis wasn't quite as good as advertised, but this is also due to the fact I've seen enough of Tezuka's work to know there was probably more to the story than advertised.
Place Promised in Our Early Days was a weaker Wings of Honneamise with weaker elements of other anime spliced in, though I did love Voices of a Distant Star to compensate for my dislike of PPiOES.
Finally, thought Ai Yori Aoshi had a great relationship between the main characters, but the supporting cast got in the way of that chemistry and added nothing.
That's all I can conjure up, but we all have our own tastes right?
Also wasn't into Hellsing, I didn't get into the story, and it reminded me too much of the things I didn't like about the film Underworld (not very clear, boring characters, etc.).
Thought Metropolis wasn't quite as good as advertised, but this is also due to the fact I've seen enough of Tezuka's work to know there was probably more to the story than advertised.
Place Promised in Our Early Days was a weaker Wings of Honneamise with weaker elements of other anime spliced in, though I did love Voices of a Distant Star to compensate for my dislike of PPiOES.
Finally, thought Ai Yori Aoshi had a great relationship between the main characters, but the supporting cast got in the way of that chemistry and added nothing.
That's all I can conjure up, but we all have our own tastes right?