Favorite anime of 2007 poll

[fireheart]

I thought Byousoku 5 Centimeter was only ok, it started good and the second story was good as well but didn't quite like the last part and in the second part it felt weird the way he was acting. Don't know most just felt off after the first part.

And talking about movies one thing I didn't like is that I can't vote for Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo, now that at least was a great movie imo, it would have been among the top for my list if I could. Also Kara no Kyoukai since it aired December in cinemas I think, so a subbed version won't be out until sometime this year... one of the movies I've been looking forward to a lot so a shame I can't vote for it since I haven't seen it yet. But yeah Code Geass <3 it placed fifth on the one last year so at least it was in there.

If I remember right the reason you can only vote for shows that started that year is because otherwise you can vote for all those long series as well that just kept going and going like Bleach, Naruto and One Piece, so it's restricted in it's own way, but more free in another. Sure maybe we haven't seen all episodes but don't know does that really matter if we enjoy it a lot? Thinking that we have to see everything before voting isn't that a restriction as well? I don't really mind either way since it's just a minor thing, besides if most do it one way if someone does it another way isn't it more fun? Since at least we get a different kind of list in that case instead of one that everyone else uses as well, then again my opinion is kinda biased.

But I do agree sometimes the end will alter how much you like a show, like Claymore which I enjoyed quite a lot until the end came about then it just plunged and Raki was so damn useless and annoying that I wish someone would kill him already just to shut him up. Just that from all the animes I've seen there's been quite little amount of endings that disappointed me other than those that start using fillers instead since most shows are somewhat predictable how they're going to end. To me it's more about the ride until the end than the end itself that makes the anime, of course the ending have to keep up the same tempo as the rest as well but yeah like I said it's not that often they don't.

Somewhat surprised no one mentioned Dennou Coil, granted I haven't seen it yet but from what I've heard isn't it one of the better animes this year?

[Ryllharu]

Dennou Coil I really liked a lot at first, but then you began to wonder why Yasako was even the main character, as she stopped appearing in most of the episodes beyond a few minutes. The series lost focus for me, and just couldn't compete with a lot of the other shows that came up at the same time as it did or after it started.

I get that you wouldn't be able to vote for the super long series if you only went by when the series ended, but that doesn't make it right to have to judge a series by a small a portion of it's story.

[shinta|hikari]

@Ryll - did you finish Dennou Coil? I found that it lost velocity in the middle, but picked up the pace and ended really well.

I also think that the ending is very important, since it can make or break a show.

[Ryllharu]

I did finish it, but I still didn't think it came back together quite right. Part of it was an large gap between releases from Ureshii somewhere in the high teens, but that wasn't all.

Enough about Dennou Coil, this is not the place to discuss it.