Postby jon_jinn » Wed May 09, 2007 3:20 pm
uc pseudonym wrote:Also, what specifically didn't you like about Naruto and Rurouni Kenshin? Depending on what you want in a shonen title, MAR may or may not be a good choice. Personally I didn't like it immensely.
good question. well, for naruto, i thought it was a pretty good series until the three-year time span took place. things just weren't as interesting and i slowly began to lose interest in the series. it became way too much like DBZ (train and learn new moves, go fight, move on and train some more, learn more special moves, fight the new bad guy...), and many of the new characters weren't as well thought of as i earlier. the plot became less engaging and i simply gave up on the series.
as for rurouni kenshin, i read the first...say half of the series but stopped around volume 15 or so. (i took the following paragraphs from another thread where i had posted why i did not like the manga. i apologize if it may go in a little too deep).
kenshin (the actual character) is a total airhead. in the first couple of volumes, he acts totally dumb with his unusual "third-person-point-of-view", then when he gets mad or fights, he changes into some super strong swordsman. his personality is just plain annoying. the main heroine (kaoru) is simply a liability. she always needs to be saved or gets in the way of fights. Her entire appearance in the manga is seriously quite meaningless. she's also annoying because she’s always getting into fights with that little boy (forgot his name), and displays a pretty pitiable form of maturity in doing so. her only role in the manga is to help the author provide readers with a pathetically vague romance between her and kenshin that further ruins the series. as for that little boy he's not so bad, as the author develops him quite a bit through the series. but even so, his independent personality and rude attitude doesn't do much to help the story, as all it did on my half, was irritate the heck out of me. as for sanosuke, he's pretty cool (actually one of the two characters that I actually thought was decent). nothing much to complain about him.
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the story itself is about a killer turned wandering samurai who ends up fighting against a group of revolutionist led by some wierd bandaged guy who can burn things for some reason (at least the story for half of the series. sorry but i didn't read the other half...).[/SPOILER]
it doesn't sound all that bad to me, but i just don't like the story. it bores me in a way. it might be the author's attempt to mix historical facts into the manga that annoyed me. some of the battles are pretty pointless two. It’s like two hits and the enemy goes down. Like, the author sets it all up so the enemy’s some strong guy famous for killing a certain amount of people, or doing something great, and then, this same guy that’s so well-known gets his butt whooped by kenshin or some other guy in like two seconds. Finally, kenshin has inhuman endurance and can live after being cut like a thousand times. He never goes down or even gets knocked out. He always comes back and it totally destroys the realism of the manga.
these reasons aren't meant to spark argument or whatnot, but simply to justify why i do not really like either of these two series...
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