Shana was never a good show
Since I have no social life at all, most of my waking hours are spent on the Internet, specifically on anime messageboards. Now, since the world is 95% stupid and 5% smart, there are a lot of dumbasses on the internet. I’d like to think my chosen corner of Interweb contains some of the smart 5%, and for the most part it doesn’t disappoint. However, I sometimes run into comments that just blow my mind.
Guys, guys, guys, GUYS! Shakugan no Shana was never a good show. I repeat, SHAKUGAN NO SHANA WAS NEVER A GOOD SHOW. You wacky computer people on the intertrons seem to think that it was and think that this new show is somehow a step below that. No, it isn’t. It is just as bad.
I watched the first Shana series something like three months ago (alongside the first season of Nishizaki’s only good work, UCHUU SENKAN YAMATO) over the space of what was probably a few weeks. I tried desperately to see why people cream their pants over this show, and found nothing interesting past the (rather sexy) character designs. It was average. Infact, I’d go as far as to say that it was below average since the animation, for the most part, was horrible. Not quite GUN-DOH Musashi or Zaizen Jotaro levels of quality, but for the most part the animation was stiff, the characters were usually off-model and generally I found all the lighting effects to be quite muddy-looking. As far as important shit like plot and charaterization goes, they weren’t anything worth writing my folks about. The show is built around an interesting premise, but it seems the Japanese are genetically incabale of writing anything good around really cool concepts (hi, F/SN.) The “story” (which really just felt like fighting a new baddie every couple of eps for whatever reason) is similar to something I would write in 7th grade, and the charaterization is passable (I’ll admit to having a soft-spot of Kasumi.) Don’t even start with the “but I watched it for the action!” arguments since the action was typical horrible anime action.
This new show is really just the same, just with actual attention paid to making the characters kind of look like Itou Noiji’s original designs, which is probably the sole reason why I like this show better than the other one. All the other shit is just as bad, so I don’t see why people are making a fuss over it. But since all you guys are dropping it, you may as well fill the space with something that is actually good. Me? I’ll keep watching this show as I find it’s something decent to turn then brain off to. Kinda like porn.
you want the bad anime? you can’t handle the bad anime!
Oh noes, more Shana flaming!
O RLY?
Shana for me was mindless fun
opinions = teh win
What I liked about Shana’s first season, apart from the badass flame-haired katana-wielding loli, was the intricated world crafted by the author.
I liked the concept of Tomogara eating the “power of existence” of humans, thus deleting their whole existence from the world. To think that not only you disappear, but nobody will remember you is really excruciating.
I also liked the concept of Torches who bear a flicker of the former human existence. I liked the cool titles bestowed upon the Flame Hazes and the more powerful Tomogara (Flame of Heaven, Fang of Destruction, etc.) even though some are just ridicolous.
Tl;dr: Shana has an awesome potential but they are wasting too much time on a convoluted love drama filler.
your opinion =/= my opinion
Yupz i dropped Shana anime after ep 3.
The novels rock tho.
For me, only Shana 2 was really BORING. All the stuffs they had for the past 3 episodes were crap, because they need some boring drama to the new character that came out. I actually watched till I slept! =.=
I’m actually still continuing the anime, dunno me. But the novel is great.
I’m thinking that Shana 2 will be very very long, considering that its total episodes for this season is not announced yet. Maybe because due to the love drama like Son Gohan said, they might waste more time…
In short, lessen the drama, more interesting fight! =p
REMEMBER WHEN THE SHANA ANIMU WAS GOOD? THE SHANA ANIMU WAS NEVER GOOD. So yeah, seconded.
DA BOMB
http://zepy.momotato.com/2007/08/20/english-version-of-shana-novel-has-bad-english/ w
Go watch the movie.
shana season 1 was definitely not good, but what makes shana 2 even worse is that it’s bad… and it’s ignoring the first show’s good points, making it even worse. the few things shana 1 did good are lost.
I had to force myself through season 1. I found complete truth in this post, because EVERYONE I know claimed shana to be awsome, and truthfully it sucked………hard. Needless to say i’ve got no intentions of watching season 2.
Normally I don’t comment, but I like Shana too much to not throw in a bit of support. While it’s hardly the best anime ever, or most well made, it’s still pretty damn cool, fun to watch, even while the new series is, yes, not living up to its full potential. Another opinion for the win.
shana is good, not awesome the more drama they put to the show more it sucks, (refering to shana S2).
they just need to follow the original plot and stop the focking drama plot that its boring me (and im not easy to became bored of an anime)
I did like the premise introduced in the first few episodes.
And then “existence” became another mechanism to shoot off energy fireballs and Shana’s sharpness turned into a comical “I love you but I’m just going to yell at and abuse you”.
*sigh*
Yeah, I never got why people said they were watching it for the action either.
I like Shana (the show) because I like Shana (the loli).
I’m not a bad person.
But I can acknowledge that the show’s quality is lacking in many respects. In fact, it’s pretty bad.
But regardless, the second season _is_ worse than the first.
I don’t understand how Shana was ever popular. Maybe character designs trump substance for most people. Lulz.
I’d just like to note that I do /enjoy/ Shana, I just know it’s a bad show and appreciate it as such.
>DA BOMB
Hell yeah
“…the Japanese are genetically incabale of writing anything good around really cool concepts…”
lol racism. Sorry, you lost me after that.
I mostly throw stuff like that in to distract people from the fact that I am a massive weeaboo.
I’ve watched 9 episodes of Shana and it kinda stopped there… But since I am dedicated anime geek, I will watch this show to the end. Someday.
Opening song was pretty good though.
Ahh,Odin. I saw that when it was on the Sci-Fi Channel many years ago. Bored me to tears…