Though I agree with some of the others; some of the dialogue gets very tedious. And this anime has something of a problem with the old “show, don’t tell” rule.

Still, I think it’d be worth getting back into if you ever have the time or patience.

I keep forgetting what constitues a Tragedy, although I’m pretty sure Gankutsuoh doesn’t fit the bill, depending on how ridgedly you stick to the Greek/Shakespeare classics.

Thing about these ‘emotional punches’ series is that they rarely get me. The second season of Honey and Clover bored me silly and I enjoyed the first ‘slice-of-life in space’ half of Planetes than the drama in the second half. I’ll give it a shot though, mainly because I kinda need to see how Tomoya grew up.

@blissfullynaive

See what I said to Sorrow-kun. Heartbreaking drama is not my preffered genre

@Libera

Not even for Felli? NOT EVEN FOR THE HOT PURPLE HAIRED CHICK!?!

And it’s fun to watch more of Nagisa’s family, especially his dad. What a wacky family~ <3

Chaos;Head, didn’t finish it myself. I didn’t have the time back then, and when i read some reviews, a lot of them didn’t really like it that much. :/

@Scamp
I’m still not sure what to think about Denpa teki na Kanojo. It’s, err, rough around the edges, particularly the dialogue which, at times, is just plain dreadful. They do a good job of setting atmosphere, though, which is pretty important in horror anime (someone please tell this to the people making Ookamikakushi).

As for After Story, I’ll be blunt, the first eight or so episodes sucked. Royally. Don’t listen to what VNfags have to say on this issue. But, if you like Tomoya, then After Story is a must watch, because one of the best things about it is the way they develop his character. It delivers two particularly heavy dramatic punches as well. But I’m not going to make any guarantees about the ending itself. It’s divisive, to say the least.

@EurydiceQ

I didn’t exactly fall head over heels for the first sea­son of Clan­nad but yes, I did enjoy it far more than I thought I would. When it comes to these GOOD anime, I gen­er­ally enjoy it because it’s good. The idea of watch­ing some­thing an appri­ci­at­ing that it is a good anime without actu­ally enjoy­ing it is some­thing that doesn’t sit well with me. That’s where stu­pid high-class elit­ism comes into play. Although that’s not what’s hap­pen­ing with AS. That’s just rabid fans and a well-told story combining.

@zzeroparticle

Yeah it looks like I unknow­ingly made the right choice in drop­ping Chaos;Head. Well, except no anime is dropped forever. So I will obvi­ously return to it in order to see that crappy ending.

Gen­er­ally I’m all cool with creepy stuff. I men­tioned Elfen Lied because it still holds the record for being the creepi­est anime I’ve seen (bor­ing choice but true) but Denpa didn’t have any other qual­it­ies other than the hor­ror. Same way a cute show doesn’t appeal to me if all it has is cuteness

@blindability

lol, I remem­ber those Canaan posts. I had an awful lot of fun read­ing them because most other blogs seemed to be all yuri-fans.

First anime will always hold a place in your heart, espe­cially with some­thing as heart­warm­ing as Ah My God­dess (speak­ing object­ively here). I’ve said this before, but whatever about the haters, I will always adore Love Hina

@fangzhao

Give me a minute on MAL and I’ll find a better tradegy…ok, I couldn’t find one. All I could find was bittersweet. Actually fuck that, Grave of the fucking Fireflies! I know opinion is split but damn, I will never watch a greater tradegy than that.

Melodrama sux~

@temperus

Consume something in a medium other than anime? You must be mad!

(when I say anime fan, I really mean it)