Comments on: Gonzo: Style over substance and messed up manga adaptations

By: Karura

Karura — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:08:35 +0000

Thanks for all your comments, especially the ~~flames~~ measured and tactful arguments about differences of opinion ;)

Mya, I’m loath to name a single favourite when there are various anime series that I love for very different reasons. If I whittled it down to a final four, it would probably be Wolf’s Rain, Kurau, Aria and Honey and Clover (season 1).

By: krypfto

krypfto — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:28:03 +0000

I actually found Black Cat to be an excellent genre piece, using all its clichés knowingly and lovingly. Very much like Sousei no Aquarion in that aspect, I’d say. The last episode was gloriously nonsensical; once you get down to it, making sense is completely incidental for these kind of stories.

By: jpmeyer

jpmeyer — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:26:32 +0000

Gatekeepers is totally my favorite Gonzo anime. Then again, the only other one I was able to watch was FMP.

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tokyojupiter.blog :: links for 2007-04-25 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:23:30 +0000

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By: Mya

Mya — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:25:52 +0000

Hey, Who Cares, Last Exile was fantastic. Obviously you missed all the symbolism. Obviously you bipassed the concept that the entire series was like a complicated game of chess. I think that you have to be mentally retarded to dislike LE, as it’s truly one of the last great Anime to come out in the past couple of years. Shame on you for being such an idiot.

Anyways, your reviews for Gonzo’s anime aren’t half bad. Most of them are dead on, except I think you failed miserably at Red Garden and Gantz.

A question for you:
What is your favorite anime of all time?

Favorites tell a lot about a person and their views on artwork and literature.

By: Senna

Senna — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:00:26 +0000

I thought Black Cat was enjoyable–a lot of fun if not necessarily “quality”–until the last episode, where Gonzo totally blew it with one of the crappiest, most nonsensical endings ever. After seeing it, my friend and I just sort of looked at each other and wondered if the final episode even belonged to the same series we had been watching. I really hope Bokurano doesn’t meet the same fate; Gonzo seems to struggle with endings (as Last Exile also illustrates, though on the whole it was a great series).

By: lops

lops — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:00:05 +0000

vandread 1/2 is extremely bad as well as Gatekeepers and yukikaze is typical style over substance. I think i’ve seen every anime by gonzo and i don’t dislike them! Some shows are really good…(Gankutsuou!!!)
oh yeah and Last Exile and Saikano really suck! and Kaleido Star is a nice kids show…

By: Who cares, it's not like my opinion matters to you

Who cares, it's not like my opinion matters to you — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:53:15 +0000

Last Exile was nothing short of terrible from the midpoint onwards, SaiKano was drivel from start to end, all of your neutrals are crap, Red Garden was fine up to the point where they needed to invent the ending (end of episode 16), and Pumpkin Scissors was fine (if you want to say that it falls short of the manga, whatever, but screw you and your ‘laughably bad’ when you have SaiKano up in the hits).

Ragging on Gonzo is old hat. We all know they suck by this point.

By: maglor

maglor — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:15:20 +0000

My wife and I believe Solty Rei to be the best hit made by Gonzo. There are elements only a parent of a child can understand in that series.

I believe YukiKaze ( OVA series ) to be neutral

By: tj han

tj han — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:40:39 +0000

Oh GONZO was excellent 7 years ago. Now Bones is far better. Btw, GANTZ is fucking awesome, the manga at least. Wouldn’t say that GONZO did a good job on it though.

Can’t believe you missed out the godly Gatekeepers and GK 21. Basilisk.. Pumpkin Scissors’s 2nd season (13 onwards) is as good as any anime you’re gonna get.

Considering how Bokurano is now the best spring anime, thanks to the powerful source material, it’s hard not to appreciate GONZO’s material scouting department.