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I'll be using creative language for emphasis.

Because 85% of the comments are circlejerks revolving around how cute Mei is and all of her actions. It's either that or a generic "OMG I TOTALLY DID NOT SEE DAT DEATH COMING" bullshit.

Yes, that's the fiction in science fiction, it's meant to be slightly more believable than fantasy, but not actual. Steins;Gate is labeled as science-fiction, the happenings in S;G are due to the inherent mechanics of the world. Not the real world, just the anime world of S;G.
I'll enunciate on that. Each anime has their own world, with its own mechanics. You base your logic based on how fluid the storytelling is, given the mechanics of the world. For example, in Another, curses supposedly exist. That's a set mechanic for Another. Therefore it's not logic to say "curses don't exist, therefore Another is a shitty unrealistic anime", it is logic to say "Human reactions in Another are melodramatic" because emotions aren't specific to Another. They're applicable in real life and in numerous other anime, there's a common ground for acceptable "human emotion".
I mocked the illogical tendencies of human behavior found in Another, not the actual illogical curse itself, that's a mechanic, you can't call a mechanic illogical when it's not based on a "true story".

That's bullshit, you're operating under the assumption that parents care more about their jobs than their kids. Take for example numerous incidents in real life. Outrages and breaks of hysteria happen when one kid gets hurt at school, or a kid gets in an accident. Combine that with teachers dying, and numerous kids getting killed off on a daily basis, and you have an epidemic. It would catalyze a reaction of some sort, not a, "Let's wait it out and hope for the best." By reaction, I mean like a "Let's leave town for a while" or a "Don't go to school until this settles down" or a "Where the fuck is the police?"

I don't care that Another shows empathy, that's good, that's expected. However, I do mind that they overreact every fucking time. Deaths only serve to catalyze melodrama, and serve as shock factor.

My blog isn't meant to be accurate, they're opinions, if you want episodic analysis, read the Nisemonogatari entries. I don't give enough of a damn about Another to take it seriously past the third episode, realize how it shifts from being informative and analytical to comedy and minor storyline [the jokes wouldn't flow without this minor section].

Calling Higurashi a good horror anime is the same as calling Angel Beats! a logical anime, it's not. It's the same formula as Mirai Nikki and Another, it's cute girls + shock factor. In Higurashi, it's seemingly harmless, cute girls, killing people. Change the girls to dude, and nobody would care for it. Mirai Nikki revolves around a cowardly main character and a cute yandere girl. It posits the paradigm of making cute girls commit atrocities. Another isn't quite like this, but the situation is similar.
Oh right, a subjective view of the art barely helps this argument. It's the same as saying this series could have a shitty storyline along with shitty characters, but if it looks pretty, then i'll watch it. That's the same as calling Guilty Crown good because it has an amazing OST, and great art [which it unfortunately does].

I'm skipping your next three paragraph, it's about as coherent as the logic in Angel Beats! Write with substance, I couldn't care less if you wrote three, well-written sentences. Writing a shit-ton without getting your point across is about as logical as calling Angel Beats!, the epitome of good "emotions" and shitty logic, a masterpiece.

I'm perfectly consistent with my elitist point of view; in fact, I've refrained from calling your syntax shit and your vocabulary childlike, or your logic about as broken as the storyline of Angel Beats! You're the one that insisted on comparing one of my higher rated anime with Another. They're complete opposites, compare Another with something in it's genre. It's the same as comparing Clannad with Naruto, then debating which has better action.

Unlike many other harems, Clannad didn't focus on a dude intent on screwing every chick he met. The characters themselves weren't the most original, but Clannad doesn't serve to develop characters, it's there to tell a story, much like most Ghibli anime. I'd enunciate more, but it would be the equivalent of trying to remain objective with a subjective illiterate monkey.

You're free to question any of my "elitist" ratings, I can justify every one of them, as well as every one of my critical comments in this reply, otherwise, I wouldn't rate them, or in this case, write them. Do reply though.

Oh right, just in case the first sentence was far too complex, I'm using "fuck" and that sort for emphasis. If I got irritated with every idiot who thought that Angel Beats! was a masterpiece, then I'd be writing angry dissertations to every other user.

Mei has nothing distinct that separates her from the assumed archetype of just Another [BA DUM TSSS] mysterious, silent girl with an intriguing past [ which is just as much of a cliche like tsundere/yandere; take Inori from GC]. If she didn't exist, not that many people would bother with defending Another as being "good".

There's nothing realistic about kids staying in the classroom after half their class mysteriously dies. Common sense would be to get authorities to investigate, or to get out of town [due to the inherent superstition]. The emotions would really be great, if Another didn't overuse them, the guy breaks out in his "I'm going to die" face at every possible realization or opportunity, it's becoming more a humorous happening rather than a serious one.

How exactly are the deaths beautiful? The first death was a girl tripping due to an outburst of hysteria, which resulted in her being impaled. The second death was via elevator collapse, which was ridiculously predictable, but the most "logical" one out of all of them. The third one was caused by a heart attack, from a heart-disease patient. I don't understand the logic of letting someone with a heart-disease walk home, sure it would improve their cardio, but it's more likely to improve their chances of cardiac arrest, which in this case, was proven so. The next death was the teacher, who insisted on a suicide in front of the class. Not at home, but in front of the entire class, just to fuck everybody over. Prior to that, the librarian noticed something peculiar about him, but he looked past it. The librarian is best described as a seasoned-veteran of the curse, they're no logical reason for him not to interfere on behalf of the class's safety.

I don't complain about the deaths in horror, and yes, there's numerous horrors without death. The thing that scares people most in horror isn't death, nor is it blood, it's the unknown. Rather than explictly going "there's a curse out there, better bully that one kid in the corner by ignoring him/her", they could have shifted it into an unknown hemisphere, rather than a blatant, obvious, anti-climatic one. The deaths are done in a humorous way, they aren't serious at all. Getting hit by a stray motorboat or falling on an umbrella isn't exactly my idea of a "good" death.

Let's shift to the actual horror aspects. What exactly makes a good horror? There has to be music to go along with it, but in Another's case, the OST is played incessantly, and without logical merit. It's overused and generic, causing it to lose it's luster after a while, it further deviates from being "effective" to being redundant. A lot of the scenes would've been done a lot better without a loop of mediocre horror music playing in the background.

Another in my opinion, would be a great horror anime, if it was labeled as a parody, rather than a genuine, trying horror show. It does so many cliches, that it's almost seemingly intended. The melodramatic reactions, the generic soundtrack, and the characters. Their collective synergy could easily depict a parody, but in this case, it's just a bad horror show.

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I'm willing to debate After Story's ending. The "happy ending" was in no way forced, there was a build-up to it, and it was inherently obvious that it was coming. For TWO seasons, they built the vague mechanics of the magical orbs, allocating a few minutes before 70% of the episodes. After Story is usually praised for the blatant things that it excels at, but the underlying, ingenuous things go unnoticed. I'd explain it, but I would rather sleep.

My irritation towards Another wasn't due to this episode, it's the series as a whole. Remove Mei and nobody would give a damn about the show, it's just another mediocre show being carried by the attractive heroine.

Unless you could point out something actually "good" about Another?

Only recommended Mashiroiro because the main heroine's the "shy/outgoing, helpful, silly but fun" thing you were asking about, sort of like the one from Midori Days. Nogizaka Haruka has a heroine who's kind of got a rich girl w/ secret thing going on, but she's nice like Sawako and seems a little bit like Minori in that she's cheerful all the time. Tsukuyomi's a stretch because of loli vampire stuff, but she's got that *cute* thing going on. Let me know if you're looking for something else >_>

Oh, stuff like that. I wasn't thinking Haibane Renmei as mature fantasy/adventure... then again, I haven't gone into stuff like that much. I was being silly with irrelevant suggestions >_>

Nogizaka Haruka, Mashiroiro Symphony, Ai Yori Aoshi (possibly), maybe Tsukuyome: Moon Phase. Still braindead when it comes to mature fantasy/adventure.

Agree with how everything's still up for speculation at this point.

I do watch past the ED, but I skip the previews.

Mature fantasy adventure? No comedy? NONSENSE! I'll just recommend something completely irrelevant like Slayers. Or you could finish Nagasarete Airantou, but I'll attempt to find something. Lemme take a look at your list and- you have the same opinion of Tsukaima as I do?

Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo! is an anime that I can label a cute romcom that added some chances for action but never felt that it was necessary. Neither did I. It's not memorable, but it's fun while it lasts and never really forgets what it is.

Saiyuki is as mature as shounen takes you (or was it immature?) while removing any possible main character romance by removing female cast. Didn't stop one of the characters from trying to hook up with any possible supporting cast that passed the requirements of "female" and "legal". Can't remember if this stayed episodic or evolved into a plot at some point.

Not sure if you want to watch any of these yet, just throwing suggestions on the imaginary table. Perhaps giving in and watching Slayers might entertain you for a bit, but I'm drawing big empty blanks when it comes to mature fantasy adventures. If you don't mind the mecha bits, Gun x Sword could work.

Recently, I had predicted teacher suicide without doing anything important while main character feared that perhaps he was the reason everybody else is dying. Didn't expect him to reveal his insecurities right away, so I'm curious if they'll go with developing a character into villain or the sadder "main character slowly realizes what he is" thing. Maybe a fall-in-love tragedy.

Understandable, because at this point, there hasn't been anyone besides him that could be the ghost yet still keep the story interesting. Didn't see the school trip coming, seeing as the anime seems to neglect the idea that they could all just move away or remove the existence of class 3 entirely. I had figured I just missed the explanation as to why nobody ever leaves normally, probably being they all die anyway, yet school trips are now being introduced. Or perhaps because they'd all die anyway, there ends up being no point to escape? That makes sense, I suppose. My questions are all trivial though.

Brave 10 was the samurai protecting the chick. Senki Zesshou's the singing one.

I'm not particularly interested with Kemono right now, but I'll get to it. <_< I'd talk about the gay tea anime thing but only 2 girls have shown up so far and the main has had his way with both of them so :/

I haven't seen any of the pvs actually, do they do those pretty well? Yeah, they came to pass, glad they pulled a school trip twist in there. For Nise, I'm not really sure myself what it is that's bothering me.

Not as high on Mouretsu as I was last time we talked, so my favorite this season is going towards Inu Boku. Won't lie, it was probably my second favorite up till now. Now that Mouretsu's doing this "legal pirate/party attraction" thing, Inu's stealing the spotlight.

Nisemono's great as always, I suppose, but I'm somehow not very impressed with it atm. Another is starting to seem predictable, but that may or may not be just what it wants us to think, depending on future episodes. Highschool DxD remains a relatively competent anime worth watching. Chihayafuru is as enjoyable as ever. Danshi Kokusei is highschool Gintama without action. For some odd reason I love Phi Brain, and I have no idea what to say about Rinne no Lagrange besides that it's not great but it's not as bad as I expected it to be. Oh yeah, Senki Zesshou introduced lots of engrish to it (which means they're attempting to speak english, but end up speaking a mysterious language foreign to my ears), but I'm expecting psycho main character ending. No other ending will suffice D: Although I just know they'll do the "NO WAIT EVERYBODY LOVES YOU" thing to stop her insanity so still can't say whether I'll end up liking it as much as i do now in the end. Oh yes, Persona 4 is impressing now more than ever.

I'm not finding Kill Me Baby funny at all, but Nacho's in love with it, so I'll leave the debriefing of that to Nacho. Brave 10 is failing hard as the "protect the princess but the knight is a loner so it doesn't mesh well". Whenever things get bad they pull a "princess has ultimate power" but she doesn't ever use it so there really isn't any point. Plus, the ability comes from the object so now the story is about who wants to steal it. I'm still pissed off now that Hyouge Mono is now a FINISHED 39 episode series and only 11 eps are subbed.

nah dude im gonna be one of those good guys that drink root beer instead of alcohol and pocky in my mouth instead of a smoke :)