Re: The MangaHelpers Anime Awards Discussion Thread
for me, and my preferences:
it's all about the story+plot, that's the #1 thing of importance to me. If it doesn't engage you, make you think, challenge you, and make you emotional, than it has no quality to me what-so-ever.
The type of story+plot doesn't matter to me at all, as long as I can understand it well enough, and it meets the above creteria.
for example:
Witchblade had absolutely NO/ZERO plot, it was stupid and lame, HOWEVER, it had an incredible story between the mother (the protagonist) and her daughter/foster daughter, and a "bureau of child protection", which kept trying to steal her daughter/foster daughter, as due to an accident, very few children exists and the already grown up women can't produce children anymore, or something like this. Needless to say, it's very emotional if you care about kids, as the bond between the protagonist/mother and her daughter/foster duaghter is done so well, especially with that !EVIL! "bureau of child protection" trying to steal the daughter/foster daughter. It makes you really rethink real life the government and its child protection services... as you usually only heard about the offer side of how "bad the parents are and unsafe for the child it is", whereas this anime delves into the other side, of the guardian/parent/mother having her child STOLEN from her by the government's "bureau of child protection"... is it right for a group of people to be able to decide that you're a "danger to your kids, and thus they may break into your home and take your kids away"...
needless to say, I loved the story in this, but it's plot was a complete joke.
another such emotional story is in:
My little sister cna't be this cute (I don't know its japanese title and too lazy to look it up).
the interaction between the brother and his little sister is really great! very emotional and enjoyable!
Also, I actually liked chuu-bra as well, as it has an interesting story about girls and their clothing... opened my eyes anyways, made me less ignorant. now girls are already aware of this, as they ahve to deal with it, so it might be boring for girls to watch, but I really enjoyed it.
ya I got wierd tastes... as I like good stories+plots
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now for the more basic stuff, GENRES and other stuff:
I'm a nerd/geek, so I love fantasy, sci-fi, and vampires/werewolves/wolves
I also love magical, ninja, war, blood and guts, guns, swords, other weapons, and martial arts stuff
so I like action obviously.
and being a guy, a perv, I like fanservice of course!
HOWEVER, all of these things are only average/alright/"so so", or even trash/awful if they don't have a good story+plot along with it.
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I have ZERO interest in comedy, unless it's "fanservice comedy", or it is within other stuff I like.
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Also, if I think something is going to be good (I've already chosen and am watching it), I'll be patient and watch it out, even if its slow or boring.
I'm an avid book reader, and I got a saying:
"Give a book patience, and it'll reward you!" -HK
So, this is the same with anime as well.
Many people watch an anime and its slow or boring in the beginning, so they quit watching it, and thus miss out on a really good anime, as it gets better, as you keep watching it.
Blood+ is such an anime. For me, it got me interested right from the "get-go", with its first episode, hehe. Berserk Saya, grins
, and its kinda interesting for about 6 episodes, as she's slowly intrduced to who she really is and her loss of her foster father George. But, much of the anime is slow and boring, as its ~50 episodes long. It doesn't actually have that many fight/action scenes, but when it does, they're pretty good. Because it's drawn out though, few people give it the patience of watching all ~50 episodes, and so they miss out on how awesome and great it is.
Samurai Champloo is like Blood+ as well, they seem like a bunch of miscellenous episodes, with reall good fight/action scenes here and there, but the later part of it, as it too is a long anime series, it starts to really pick up with its plot and it becomes much more interesting and fast paced.
there's actually quite a lot of anime, that have "dead" beginnings, but than they pick up with later episodes.
Patience.... Patience.... sighs... maybe I'm one of the few... who has patience... laughs
and again, my saying:
"Give a book (or manga, anime, movie, tv show/series, and etc) patience, and it'll reward you!" -HK
We, the mods in charge of the Awards, will now check the results and we will announce the winners next Sunday or Monday. Please stay tuned for more news and for the revelation of the list of winners.
Stay tuned for the results shortly~
And remember that you are more than welcome to discuss the winners either in this thread or in the respective category threads. 
for some reason I posted in the wrong thread..I posted in the manga one 
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Well done to it, though, it is well-deserving of every prize it won imo 
Anime-only watchers would not be able to appreciate the true epicness of this great series 
I've only watched the Strong World movie and quite enjoyed it, but then again it is entirely separate from the anime itself.
Such a good OVA that made an originally awesome/epic segment in RK even better with awesome music, animation, artwork, pacing.
It's so brilliant and epic!! See how people are dissing the anime... It means the manga is that much better 
Don't wait, the chapter count you have to catch up on will only increase and increase...!
