The Hunter said:
Oh, almost forgot Soul Eater's premiering tonight on Adult Swim. Looks like I get to see if it's as good as people tell me/as bad as my brother and friend tell me.
Welp, I was gonna wait for the first commercial break to start reporting my findings, but this show's giving me a
very bad first impression. Here's what I've gathered so far.
1.) The intro reminded me why I hate anime intros so much. The theme sucks, and every time someone walks into the room, I give this sort of look that says, "I don't want to be here, I'm just leaving the TV on for the sake of leaving the TV on."
2.) English voice actors suck, but that applies to nearly all anime ever in the existence of... well... existence. Main character sounds like the kind of prick you see hanging out in front of the mall, texting, staring at you waiting for you to glance back at him so he can turn his head down and say, "I'm totally ignoring you bro," and diving into mom's minivan before any of the cool kids see him. Again, this applies to a
lot of stuff, but I don't think I can go through with this in English if the guy sounds like, well, yeah. Speaking of the main character,
3.) he sucks. Looks like how I assume his voice actor wishes he looked. Personality (if you could call it that) seems to be generic and reused relentlessly throughout manga/anime. Beginning to wonder why I'd even read the series when I was younger. Which leads me to this.
4.) It makes me miss the manga. That might be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you choose to interpret it. It's much more bearable to read it than it is to hear those grating American voices. Again, I'd probably want a subbed version, but that doesn't change this next point.
5.) The "humor" really really really sucks. Typical "kawaii desu RANDUM ECKS DEE" perverted humor that's only found in, oh, I don't know, 85% of all anime/manga. It's one thing to be able to tolerate it, but it's prevalent throughout this entire episode so far. I can stand it for a lot of things (namely Disgaea, because so far, I'm noticing there's a fair amount of it in that game), but not this much. For the love of God, not this much.
I was really considering just turning off the TV and crying myself to sleep, but I took the entire episode writing this post and I didn't want to turn the TV off because I thought it would get better (it didn't. It just got worse). Maybe,
MAYBE I'll consider rereading the manga to see what appealed to me about it, but I think I'm done with the anime. It was disappointing to say the least.
My man is supposed to have two jobs.
