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A breif update, and then a rant.
Hum. So I haven't updated this thing in ages, eh?
Quick update: No longer at my job, full time this semester, working work study with theater. Gallblader came out over summer. I live!
And oh god, do I remember how to do a LJ cut...
So yeah. I started watching DGreyman ages ago when it first started being fansubbed after seeing a sample chapter in ShonenJump and going 'Hey cool concept!'
It's up to over 100 eps now and I've watched every. single. bloody. one. No mater how bad. It's a trainwreck 80% of the time and really good 20% of the time. I'll hoard up episodes and watch in large batches, mostly because I'll get so damned fed up with the thing I won't want to watch it for a month and a half.
I love the conflict and set up and the badguys. The Millennium Earl is freaking awesome, and most of the Noah are kick ass baddies as well. They believe they are God's chosen and doing his will and there's some fun brain bending moments of "... wait a second." with the whole good vs evil thing. Sadly, this plotline, which should be the MAIN plotline only takes up 10% of the show...
I enjoy(ed) most of the characters. Allen started off awesome, then waffled over to emo, then to annoying with spikes of being cool before just... becoming very generic for a long time and then taking the uphill turn for Walking Dios Ex Machina. It's 50/50 if I like him. Leenalie started off awesome. Her weapon is her boots and she's gotten to super Boot to the Head a few times early in the show. But theeen she started sliding towards emo and useless with a side of plot device and "LOOK ITS A GIRL" and hasn't recovered yet. Bleh. Miranda is great but gets zip in screentime. She vanished for a good 50+ episodes, even though we got stuck with "why isn't he dead yet"/"no really, he's a vampire, just annoying" Crowly every goddamned episode. Lavi is great when he's not in emo mode (which thankful is rare) but he's mostly just background boy. Kanda, easily the best major character, has just a smidge more screen time than Bakura. Spotlight on character development, normally heavy with FLAAAASHBAAACK is another 10% of the show.
The other 80% of the show is Dragon Balled. LOOONG epic battles that just do not END, normally cumulating in SOMEONE getting an uber powerup to battle the monster of the week/month that just got its uber powerup.
There are these lovly plot bits. Hints of what's going on, cockteases of the overplot. The latest mini arc started with the end of a big DBZ fightout where Allen got bullied into doing something he had no idea he could do, leading to the nice plot dropping of the 14th Noah and the rising question of "WTF is up with that and Allen?"
Theeeen one of the Noah came by to retrieve the stolen factory from the previous plot bit. Cue massive battle. Cue the Big Guns being pulled out (finally) Yeay, victory for our side and all that rot, can we get back to the plot now?
But no. Instead, one of the defeated baddies, somehow gets ANOTHER power up and becomes a Level 4.
To explain: First season monster of the weeks, we mostly saw level 1s and Level 2s were OMG big deals. Around Ep 50-60 or so, we had the first appearance of a Level 3. This was BIG SHIT. Nearly took out the entire cast! But then 10-20 eps later we find Japan's full of the fuckers. No matter, Allen gets his uber powerup so he can off these things all easy like. Now, we get a level 4. A generic, monster of the week that appears to have taken out the Big Guns in one big explosion. ... yuhhuh. Only we know they ain't dead cause we didn't get their backstories yet.
But see, in the previous side quest plot, the main cast got to battle Noah, which are the big bad's Loyal Henchman / mini bosses. Each cast member was able to basically take one out, some at the expense of their own life (temporarily. There was a dios ex machina to fix that too) But now suddenly, we have a generic MONSTER OF THE WEEK that yet again is so powered up that the main cast is getting their asses kicked so badly, that we need another super-level up on the part of the main cast so that a pair of them can nearly die defeating it.
Only it ain't dead. Like a final boss, it's just gotten ANGRY.
So here we are, fighting an insanely superpowered monster of the week that's managed to off 80% of the redshirts and some of the named NPCs...
and the preview for the next ep says it's the last episode.
Whaaaaaaaaaaat?
The last conflict with the head big bad was in the FIRST SEASON. You're calling final battle with a nameless Monster of the bloody WEEK? Unless the baddies are winning, (and even if they do) we have NO plot resolution.
I think the damned thing got canned.
Quick update: No longer at my job, full time this semester, working work study with theater. Gallblader came out over summer. I live!
And oh god, do I remember how to do a LJ cut...
So yeah. I started watching DGreyman ages ago when it first started being fansubbed after seeing a sample chapter in ShonenJump and going 'Hey cool concept!'
It's up to over 100 eps now and I've watched every. single. bloody. one. No mater how bad. It's a trainwreck 80% of the time and really good 20% of the time. I'll hoard up episodes and watch in large batches, mostly because I'll get so damned fed up with the thing I won't want to watch it for a month and a half.
I love the conflict and set up and the badguys. The Millennium Earl is freaking awesome, and most of the Noah are kick ass baddies as well. They believe they are God's chosen and doing his will and there's some fun brain bending moments of "... wait a second." with the whole good vs evil thing. Sadly, this plotline, which should be the MAIN plotline only takes up 10% of the show...
I enjoy(ed) most of the characters. Allen started off awesome, then waffled over to emo, then to annoying with spikes of being cool before just... becoming very generic for a long time and then taking the uphill turn for Walking Dios Ex Machina. It's 50/50 if I like him. Leenalie started off awesome. Her weapon is her boots and she's gotten to super Boot to the Head a few times early in the show. But theeen she started sliding towards emo and useless with a side of plot device and "LOOK ITS A GIRL" and hasn't recovered yet. Bleh. Miranda is great but gets zip in screentime. She vanished for a good 50+ episodes, even though we got stuck with "why isn't he dead yet"/"no really, he's a vampire, just annoying" Crowly every goddamned episode. Lavi is great when he's not in emo mode (which thankful is rare) but he's mostly just background boy. Kanda, easily the best major character, has just a smidge more screen time than Bakura. Spotlight on character development, normally heavy with FLAAAASHBAAACK is another 10% of the show.
The other 80% of the show is Dragon Balled. LOOONG epic battles that just do not END, normally cumulating in SOMEONE getting an uber powerup to battle the monster of the week/month that just got its uber powerup.
There are these lovly plot bits. Hints of what's going on, cockteases of the overplot. The latest mini arc started with the end of a big DBZ fightout where Allen got bullied into doing something he had no idea he could do, leading to the nice plot dropping of the 14th Noah and the rising question of "WTF is up with that and Allen?"
Theeeen one of the Noah came by to retrieve the stolen factory from the previous plot bit. Cue massive battle. Cue the Big Guns being pulled out (finally) Yeay, victory for our side and all that rot, can we get back to the plot now?
But no. Instead, one of the defeated baddies, somehow gets ANOTHER power up and becomes a Level 4.
To explain: First season monster of the weeks, we mostly saw level 1s and Level 2s were OMG big deals. Around Ep 50-60 or so, we had the first appearance of a Level 3. This was BIG SHIT. Nearly took out the entire cast! But then 10-20 eps later we find Japan's full of the fuckers. No matter, Allen gets his uber powerup so he can off these things all easy like. Now, we get a level 4. A generic, monster of the week that appears to have taken out the Big Guns in one big explosion. ... yuhhuh. Only we know they ain't dead cause we didn't get their backstories yet.
But see, in the previous side quest plot, the main cast got to battle Noah, which are the big bad's Loyal Henchman / mini bosses. Each cast member was able to basically take one out, some at the expense of their own life (temporarily. There was a dios ex machina to fix that too) But now suddenly, we have a generic MONSTER OF THE WEEK that yet again is so powered up that the main cast is getting their asses kicked so badly, that we need another super-level up on the part of the main cast so that a pair of them can nearly die defeating it.
Only it ain't dead. Like a final boss, it's just gotten ANGRY.
So here we are, fighting an insanely superpowered monster of the week that's managed to off 80% of the redshirts and some of the named NPCs...
and the preview for the next ep says it's the last episode.
Whaaaaaaaaaaat?
The last conflict with the head big bad was in the FIRST SEASON. You're calling final battle with a nameless Monster of the bloody WEEK? Unless the baddies are winning, (and even if they do) we have NO plot resolution.
I think the damned thing got canned.
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Well, you know now what you must do. http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/
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This is a_rod, btw.:D
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I stopped because I got sort of fed up after the tenth plot that went "Allen and friends go to a new town and meet someone whose loved one died or is dying. Allen and friends say nothing about Akuma, even though they know it's a risk. Person meets Earl, tries to revive loved one, becomes Akuma. Angst. Fighting. Victory!"
I liked Miranda, though, as well.
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There's such a nice plot... they just don't know how to go about showing it. ><
BUt yeah, Miranda is awsome. <3 And they finaly got her cleaned up so she looks 20ish instead of 50 :)