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They did made a co-production with frenchs if that count, (The mysterious cities of gold.) but that was a long time ago.

The drama in the episode was top notch, exactly the sort of thing I like.

I spent today at Brisbane Supernova, a pop-culture convention. It was so cool that I could recognise so many cosplays, Attack on Titan being the most popular, it would have been amazing to get all the cosplayers in AoT costumes together. My haul from the convention was Fairy Tail volume 6, High School DxD collection, and RWBY volume 1, as well as the first volume of No Matter how I look at it, it's you guy's fault I'm not popular! manga. And also a nice yet not too expensive figure of Leafa from Sword Art Online, and Fate Testarossa from Nanoha, there is probably more I wanted, but I held off a bit. And watched some of the screening of Kill la Kill.

Yeah same here.

<--- Sailor Moon fan

Also, SAO, Attack on Titan... old toonami stuff like Tenchi Muyo. Ghost in the Shell... Oh and I was big into Pokemon back in the day, still play the games.

I finished Flowers of Evil. Those s-faces need to make Part 2 soon.

YES! Someone other than me thinks so as well!

I never thought why so many animes that I seen but it left so many unanswered questions till it really pisses me off.

I remember when Guilty Crown which I was obsessed that show it left so many things unsolved. I was like 'how the hell did that happened?' even the ending itself really SMH (scratch my head for short) all the time. Just worse than the ending of Gundam 00 Movie which it also left so many things unsolved (What happened to the others?).

Does every anime had a same thing like this sometimes? talked about loose ends & anything?

Guilty Crown was a very strange entity, in my opinion - it started out somewhat great but around episode 14-ish, things started going downhill for me.

I was very surprised Hiroyuki Yoshino (series writer) took the series in such a haphazard direction because he actually had the freedom to do whatever he wanted; there was no manga or novel to religiously stick to as Guilty Crown was an original TV anime project. Then again, Yoshino's been behind questionable series like Code Geass, A Certain Magical Index (alienating if you're unfamiliar with the novels), Gundam SEED and Darker Than Black season 2 (not saying they're bad shows; I've just seen a lot of debates about them). Maybe Yoshino just couldn't tell his original story within 22 episodes and had to come up with something that fit?

Or Maybe Tetsuro Araki was just bad at directing original TV-anime - he's done very well with Death Note, and more recently Attack on Titan), which are both adapted from manga.

Or maybe there were financial problems within Production I.G... (not likely though, considering how prolific they are, and they provide a lot of animation support for other studios, movies especially).

I'm just speaking speculatively - I've no real evidence to support my argument.

In short, sometimes anime endings just turn out bad for no particular reason (depends on your tastes) or au contraire, a multitude of reasons; finances, politics in-studio, or just plain bad writing (hello Gainax and Studio DEEN).

Watch Magic Knight Rayearth. It's one of the best tied-up series (and best series in general) that I've seen. It still leaves it open as to what might happen in the future, but I don't think it leaves any loose ends at all to the stuff that happens during the series.

To the executives in Japan, the anime are mostly marketing devices for the manga. If the manga continues past the anime, then the anime won't wrap everything up. I'm sure that there are also cases of bad writing, but I expect that this accounts for a lot of those issues.

I finished season 1 of Arakawa Under the Bridge. I liked it a lot, and found it funny with many interesting characters.

I respect your opinion but I'd advise anyone who wants to try Rayearth to also be patient with it because I personally found Rayearth to be one of those series where the serious plot (and exposition!) doesn't happen until quite late into the series. A bit like Tri-Gun - anyone would be forgiven that was just a well-animated episodic Japanese sci-fi comedy centred on Vash the kind-hearted fugitive but I think it's around about episode 10 or 16 the series completely drops that angle and starts taking itself seriously with an actual progressive plot.

Anyway, regarding Rayearth, people can judge for themselves as to whether the series format works for them, or not. I personally don't like it (ugh, that opening song!) but Rayearth was a pioneering anime (in the sense it was one of the early 90s anime to make it officially to the US in English) for a reason and it has its place amongst veteran anime fans, so I think it has its merits. But that's just my opinion on the matter.

I understand what you're saying here about it, but Rayearth isn't that bad. The 1st season is only 20 episodes, and basically a closed-off plot of its own. The 2nd season is 29 episodes, which brings the entire series to 49 episodes in total, which is honestly quite short (consider the original Sailor Moon had 46 episodes just in its first season alone).
I found the pacing to be very fast overall too, it never seemed like it wasted much time to me, and it throws in enough interesting characters to keep it entertaining along the way even if you don't like a few of them.
I think it's at least deserving of widely being considered CLAMP's best series. But hey, not everyone's a CLAMP fan.


Although it's one of my favorites, I was mainly just bringing it up as one of the best in terms of not leaving loose ends. I can't really think of many others that tied everything up as much as Rayearth did.

I don't consider Rayearth one of CLAMP's best series. In fact, of their work that I've seen, I like it even less than Tsubasa, which I liked less than Kobato, xxxHolic, Chobits or X (the first three of which are among my favorite anime). Tsubasa's main flaw it that it quits right when things are about to get interesting.

I've watched all of Rayearth series 1, and part of 2, and I do intend to finish it eventually. I don't dislike it, but I wanted to put that opinion on record.

Bitoku, thanks for the well-constructed reply - in the past CLAMP fans have bitten my head off for daring to have a different opinion to theirs.

Anyway, like I said, Rayearth clearly does work for some people; for me, it didn't - I found the characterisation rather blasé, the pacing very uneven, and it left exposition far too late (I dropped it around episode 5). Plus that irksome mascot character (whose name I forget) which to me felt like a Japanese answer to Scrappy Doo. At any rate, thanks for not feeling like I was definitively saying Rayearth was a terrible anime no one should watch; people are perfectly entitled to like it.

Maybe I'm just not a CLAMP fan outside of Cardcaptor Sakura; I couldn't make head or tail of what was supposed to be happening in Tsubasa, which to me felt like a love letter to fans of all CLAMP's wares (and therefore alienating to anyone outside of that bracket). But it clearly was a very popular project and it served its intended audience very very well.

Ironically, aside from Rayearth, I'm not really that much of a CLAMP fan. I've checked out some of their stuff before but it didn't really stick with me. I even watched the X series recently, and while I found it somewhat entertaining and some of the characters interesting, I thought it really dropped the ball when it came to the pacing and the plot, especially the ending (I actually predicted a different ending happening that I think would have been way better than what actually happened).
I'm still sort of surprised to hear people say they didn't like Rayearth, because from what I know in Japan it's generally considered one of CLAMP's best works, and I can't really remember encountering anyone who said it was actually bad before now. But hey, it doesn't bother me if people don't like it. I really don't like some anime series that other people can get pretty fanatical about too (like NG:Evangelion in particular). So if you hate some popular series I like, there's probably a pretty good chance I hate some popular one you like too. It's cool with me though, different people have different tastes.

In terms of what from CLAMP, I have seen Chobits, Kobato, and of course Card Captors as a kid. I have tried first episodes of XHolic and Tsubasa, but I did not really have my interest grabbed. Chobits was a pretty big part of my early anime viewing, so I think of it highly.

On other news.... Golden Time is going good. Actually a bit of a surprise of what they have done with the main couple.