Is Yu Yu Hakusho the most overhyped anime of all times?

[MFauli]

See, it´s people like these that caused me to make this thread:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1345454

Cant understand these.

[Ryllharu]

Uh, why are you bothered by the idiots at GAF?

From my view, objectively better by orders of magnitude: Battle Angel Alita's ZOAT. Shaman King...all of it.
(edit: the manga of SK, obviously)

Which is the best is all subjective. Do many later ones draw from YYH's? Yes. Does that mean the earlier ones are the best? Nope.

Stop worrying about it.

[Death BOO Z]

never knew someone invented a time machine that can watch all the way back to the nineties...

[MFauli]

Finished. phew. If only the entire anime had been as laid-back as the final episode. 5/10 and I´m being a bit generous. Really close to defining the word "average".

Imagine Dragon Ball, but make it less non-sensical, as well as stripping away all the unique desins.

What´s most incredible is that this is from the same author as HXH, which is one my top5 anime of all times. It really feels as if Togashi looked back at YYH and said "alright, let´s do this crap right this time!" and proceeded to make HXH, which shares many obvious concepts with YYH, but none of its weaknesses.

[Abdula]

You sir, are a trooper. There was a point in time where I used to finish any series I started no matter how bad it was regardless of the format. Books, anime and manga, tv shows, movies, whatever. Then Naruto came along and I realized life is too short to spend that much time on nonsense.

But thanks anyway, if not for this thread I would never have bothered going back to HxH

[MFauli]

Well, if I dislike a show after 3 episodes, I have no problem dropping it. But when I´m already 70 episodes in (because people claimed the Dark Tournament was sooo great - it wasnt - at all), I don´t want to cancel it that far in. Still, I´m really glad it´s over -_-

[shinta|hikari]

Or you have a lot of free time.

[MFauli]

I´ve got a lot time, but I have lots of anime waiting on my plan-to-watch list that I´d rather watched. Again, when I spent 70+ episodes watching something, I´ll go all the way.

It also was a special case here, because HXH is one my absolute favorite anime, so I felt like I had to watch YYH, just to see if it´s really that bad all the way to the end. It really is amazing how Togashi created two such completely different series in terms of quality.

[Death BOO Z]

You sir, are a trooper. There was a point in time where I used to finish any series I started no matter how bad it was regardless of the format. Books, anime and manga, tv shows, movies, whatever. Then Naruto came along and I realized life is too short to spend that much time on nonsense.

I think the peak of my weekend was that I started an episode of a show with my girlfriend, and I said "I'm not watching another minute of this shit" after four scenes.
this is personal growth.

[DarthEnderX]

Almost as if in response to this thread:

[kmkze04]

I think the most accurate comparison for me so far in this thread is that YYH is more a teen show than HXH. If you went back and watched YYH (like I did), it's sort of that regular old teen loner story who is actually a secret badass with mild logic most middle schoolers could make sense of. Also, objectively speaking, the ending episodes were all super rushed like the producers knew it was time to wrap up because they ran out of material to stretch.

[MFauli]

Lol, the stuff that guy in the video says borders on being sheer lies. All this praise for those generic characters, the generic story and the lack of logic.

Oh well.

[Death BOO Z]

The video does have some valid points, the shifts in animation style are interesting, there is a lot of tune and hue atmosphere, and the dynamic between yusukes mom, Kuwabaras sister and the evil suit guy wast the most interesting part of the black tournament.

but that's part of the problem, I was much more interested in the side stories than in the big plot.