Some anime are so compelling they succeed in persuading many viewers to watch the entire series on the basis of only the first episode – anime fans supply a ranking of just which exceptional titles they found able to do so.
1. Tiger & Bunny
2. Code Geass
3. Ano Hi Mita Hana
4. Angel Beats!
5. Haruhi
6. Bakemonogatari
7. Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
8. Yondemasu Yo, Azazel-san
9. Ga-Rei Zero
10. Neon Genesis Evangelion
11. Full Metal Alchemist
12. K-ON!
13. Ore no Imouto
14. Mushishi
15. Mitsudo Moe II
16. Kore wa Zombie Desu-ka?
17. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
18. Clannad
19. To Aru Kagaku no Railgun
20. Highschool of the Dead
21. Toradora!
22. Dennou Coil
23. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
24. Cowboy Bebop
25. Gurren Lagann
The presence of Cowboy Bebop in the list, even at so low a point, alone probably validates its contents for many.
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Huh?
Mahou Shoujo Madoka made me stop after the first episode and double check forums saying "Why the hell are you raving about a mahou shoujo..." after all the praise it got once it was 4+ episodes into the season.
Before the "nom nom nom" happened there wasn't much talk about it either.
Anyone that was hooked after the first episode must have had a very nasty surprise coming to them.
Bet they all thought, "D'awww, Kyuubee's so cute!" before the butchering began.
Never trust something at doesn't have fcuking eyebrows or show emotions.
Like that deadpan cashier at the convenience store who has her eyebrows shaved and replaced with tattoos?
Moreover, everything in the world has a creepy touch : the intro's nightmare, the weird and too large bathroom, the "palacey" school, the transprent classrooms looking like laboratory cages...
one must be pretty oblivious to "details" to mistake madoka for an average magical girl anime
No, they didn't. I was hooked because I suspected Shaft might try to shaft us with this "too beautiful to be true magical girl series". Instead of getting shafted, I almost shat my pants though.
the dream sequence in the first episode may've felt as though it was foreboding something. But really, even the most light-hearted of mahou shoujo series tend to grow rather grim as the finale approaches, so I didn't think much of it and still more or less assumed typical fare (albeit, the genre's typical idea of a "grim" end game is "oh no, the forces of darkness are taking over and the sky got cloudy" and not so much "half the cast has been killed off, there's no hope for you Homura, and your continued vain efforts are gonna make things even worse than, if you could even imagine it, all the shit that's happened so far"). Even when episode 3 did hit, while rather unexpected, I was just expecting Madoka to wish for a revival. Once we got to the end of episode 6, however.... oh shit. Yeah, that fully affirmed to me that this was indeed a deconstruction.
me beign a victim of that XD
"aaaw so cute" then a sudden splat of gore to a cute character "woah i just felt like schooldays ending"
I was impressed solely on the fact that they didn't have Mami wield a magic rod. Serious.
Expect Yuki Kajiuras music.
Reason why i was hooked.
It's cause it's magical girl anime made by shaft.
Exactly why I watched in the first place.
Shit always goes down with shaft, hard.
Same reason, I knew for a fact that It wasn't gonna be your ordinary stuff.
knowing shaft,shit will happen
I actually thought it didn't look very interesting from the beginning. I like Shaft's imagery in their anime (probably because I'm an artist), but taking a look at the promo art/trailers... I didn't expect much from it.
Then I hear Kajiura Yuki was doing the music and felt compelled to watch it for simply that reason.
And boy, I'm glad I watched it from the beginning. The fact that it wasn't that great at the beginning only made the rest of it so much better (if mainly for the fact that it destroyed what it had been setting up--with a purpose, at that).
same here. I mainly came for the Kajiura soundtrack. But as much as I love Kajiura's golden touch, I can't deny that it was the only thing keeping some of the titles she was involved in from being downright mediocre. That said, I went in not having a clue that the series itself would turn out to be so fucking awesome. ^^
exactly. I knew it was going to get crazy.
Fucking virgin Otakus, GO OUTISDE AND GET A FUCKING LIFE!
says you being in SC
The image I get from your name is a gay-man squeeling over overrated shit O___O
Love the fag-name bro. Did it take you long to come up with it?
totally agree with you. in hindsight, mahou madoka is a great show, as a whole though. it doesn't really have the whole ground-breaking madoka's going to be a goddess forshadowing in the first episode; in fact the first episode is highly misleading making viewers think it's another magical girl show. so although praise to mahou madoka, it doesn't deserve so much based on the first episode (unless you enjoy magical girl shows and that's how you were got hooked)
shaft show with character design by ume-sensei was more than enough of a reason to watch this for most people
ume + Kajiura + Gen + Shaft = instant watch.
As soon as I saw Gen + Shaft I was like... srz... this is not going to end pretty. Then I saw Kyuubee.. and I was like aww, isn't that a cute little devil... now kill it before it kills you... aww shit too late...
I was shocked but very happy at the end of episode 3 (any other Mami haters out there?)... Though, I can't say that it was the first episode that caught me but I would have watched the whole thing with or without episode 3... which was what really caught the masses...
Ya I thought it was pretty boring too. Like not much even happened until the end of the episode, and it wasn't even enough action in my mind.
I wouldn't say many anime has actually "hooked" me in after just 1 episode. The only one in recent memory that did was deadman wonderland, but only since I like the horror genre.
i didn't quite get what was the all the fuzz about this anime.
it was ok, but nah i didn't feel in love with it.
That's so true, and that's why I made up a term for those who only watch things cause someone else said it was good. It's like a fashion in that sense, so they're fashion retards: Fashtards.
End of story.
So what would you do, only watch things that people say are utter shit?
Goddam hipsters.....
probably only stuff noone talks about at all so he can feel hipster because of his refined and special taste all those people watching mainstream shows would never understand
i think what he meant was how people don't seem to give things a chance and criticize/drop them off early or something
meh why can't we all just watch things we enjoy and stop moaning m'kay?
Meme making attempt fail. Here's a thumbs up.
After the writer was revealed it's kind of obvious what could happen.
Some of us figured out what the show REALLY was from episode 01, right from the intro with the Walachia night and Kalafina music.
I think you've got some Melty Blood on the brain ;)
You weren't phased by the artistic gorgeousness of the first episode?
Shaft are gods
Tiger & Bunny is the shit imo, but everybody has different taste
For me it has to be Gantz. So many WTF moments in the first episode. I was totally mesmerized by the weirdness of it.
Other ones that grabbed me on the first episode were Ergo Proxy and Wolf's Rain.
Have you read Gantz manga?
I forced myself to watch 15 episodes of this anime and I wanted to puke. It was so shitty I wanted to kill the whole studio that did it.
So recently I tried manga and I was left speechless. Almost a masterpiece, seriously.
Yes I have and your right, the manga is far superior to the anime. I have to give the anime credit for making me curious about the manga though, otherwise I might have missed a great read.
Really, cause I hated that manga. I can't remember his name, but the main character, one of the ones that die in the first chapter, was so pathetic he made me want to kill him again. Unfortunately I couldn't, because he's not real. But I got so pissed that I just couldn't make myself read anymore.
Ergo Proxy and Ghost in the Shell (Season 1/2) come to mind.
fuck I almost died watching ergo proxy.
That shit was boring as fuck.
Looks like it was too deep for you.
for me it was one too many bunny costume annoyances
Or maybe he just foun it to be boring... Really, it happens
Probably not enough panty shots to keep anon interested.
My thoughts exactly.
*high five*
Episode 1 of Ga-Rei Zero was practically the first and last episode for some characters.
But to butcher the entire cast....
looking back, i actually enjoyed the killed cast than the other one; their use of down to earth weapons (guns, motocycles, etc) were much more attractive than the overly used high-powered swords
I remember that! It's strange how that draws you in isn't it? o_o''
The exact reason I watched it... And why it is one of my favorite animes... then again I needed that type of dark anime (which is why my favorite/best anime is Madoka.. came at the exact right time when I wanted a dark anime)... I mean, you need to balance out the cute, moe, bright and in most instances plot-less animes with something that has a good dark plot... And Ga-Rei Zero really had an almost perfect ending for the story...
I'd almost flame you for liking Madoka...but the fact that you liked Ga-Rei Zero is enough to make me not flame you :D
I don't recall Ga-Rei Zero having a proper ending though? I was under the impression that they were going to continue it in several arcs, since they had something like "Act 1 blah blah" o_o
I don't quite remember the exact details apart from one of them is called "Would you die for someone you love?" and another was "Would you kill someone you love because you love them?" or something