Out of curiosity, did anything in Eureka 7 EVER become anything other than a pure bog-standard mecha series? I watched it for awhile on YTV (back when I had
cable and there was an anime block) to see what the fuss was about and spent every episode wondering when I was going to see what was so special about it. Bog
standard main character, bog standard plot, bog standard love interest, bog standard fights, bog standard morality. I'm not trying to diss people that like
it, I just honestly wonder why it became a big thing when everything I saw in the first five or six episodes was completely unoriginal. Does it pull a mind
trip or become seriously deep later on, or is it just that it has surfing mecha and a bunch of women?
For my $0.02, I absolutely loved Bleach until about midway through the Soul Society arc, at which point it fell off a cliff and as far as I saw, never
recovered. Without spoilers, its main problems lay in the fact that there was insane character bloat linked directly into abandoned or hastily ended plot
threads and a abrupt lack of focus on the characters that had been introduced and built up in the first part of the series. The writer has a lot of strong
points and I'd love to see something else by him if an editor had him under control, but the series was just a mess by volume 20.
By the way, saying Rumiko Takahashi "dragged out a cash cow" in Inuyasha is silly. She was the world's best selling female comic artist and the
richest woman in Japan before she started the first page of that series (although I don't believe she held her current position as Japan's wealthiest
manga creator until after she started it). By her own words, she kept doing Inuyasha because she found it fun to write and fun to design new demons. While I
agree the series is excruciatingly slow-paced (every time I ran across a random IY plotline or two I liked it, yet I have no interest in collecting the whole
series, which is pretty damning), she dragged it out because she wanted to, not because she needed the money (or was bullied into it like Toriyama with
Dragonball).
cable and there was an anime block) to see what the fuss was about and spent every episode wondering when I was going to see what was so special about it. Bog
standard main character, bog standard plot, bog standard love interest, bog standard fights, bog standard morality. I'm not trying to diss people that like
it, I just honestly wonder why it became a big thing when everything I saw in the first five or six episodes was completely unoriginal. Does it pull a mind
trip or become seriously deep later on, or is it just that it has surfing mecha and a bunch of women?
For my $0.02, I absolutely loved Bleach until about midway through the Soul Society arc, at which point it fell off a cliff and as far as I saw, never
recovered. Without spoilers, its main problems lay in the fact that there was insane character bloat linked directly into abandoned or hastily ended plot
threads and a abrupt lack of focus on the characters that had been introduced and built up in the first part of the series. The writer has a lot of strong
points and I'd love to see something else by him if an editor had him under control, but the series was just a mess by volume 20.
By the way, saying Rumiko Takahashi "dragged out a cash cow" in Inuyasha is silly. She was the world's best selling female comic artist and the
richest woman in Japan before she started the first page of that series (although I don't believe she held her current position as Japan's wealthiest
manga creator until after she started it). By her own words, she kept doing Inuyasha because she found it fun to write and fun to design new demons. While I
agree the series is excruciatingly slow-paced (every time I ran across a random IY plotline or two I liked it, yet I have no interest in collecting the whole
series, which is pretty damning), she dragged it out because she wanted to, not because she needed the money (or was bullied into it like Toriyama with
Dragonball).