Go give J. Greely your heartfelt thanks. He read up on the latest Rosario to Vampire manga chapter so we don’t have to, nor do we have to watch the seacond season series.
This is one of the shows that I’ve watched almost to the end, only to walk away from, because it was so damn disappointing. The ED was better than the series.
Y’know, one day maybe I ought to do a list of all the shows I bailed from because I just didn’t given a damn about the ending anymore. Let’s see, just off the top of my head, here’s the list with how many episodes were left that I didn’t watch…
Rosario to Vampire (2)
Shakugan no Shana II (1)
Karin (1)
Hey, am I detecting a trend here? All include horror, and arguably, all three are vampire shows; it’s just that in SnS, the “vampires” don’t drink their victim’s blood, but their very existance. I remember liking Vampire Hunter D and the original Blade movie, but it seems a vampire series is the kiss of death.
What else?
Busou Renkin (1 or 2)
Uh-oh, the pattern continues…
Coyote Ragtime Show (2)
Finally, something not horror! Well, a horror, maybe, but not in horror…
I’ll have to give it some more thought to see if I can remember any others, but we may have a heuristic worth thinking about here – I also notice I was turned off by this season’s vampire shows even before trying them out. Possibly my subconcious is already applying it as a rule. I know that when I think of vampires in terms of modern day society, the first thing that occurs to me is “emo-goth-wannabe chicks.” Too many conventions, back in the day….
Edit: How appropriate, considering that last…
And I should have congratulated J.Greely for storming the beach, given the date…
I could never get into the whole vampire genre myself. The goth association may have played a part…
Horror in general, though, is something I’ve become partial to, if only in anime. Elfen Lied is one of my all-time favorites, and I was quite enamored with Higurashi no Naku Koro ni through 20 episodes (then it got licensed by Geneon, and we all know what happened to Geneon; I’ve been meaning to watch the rest of season one now that Triad has finished it).
I have never watched either but from what I know of them, I note that neither of your horror shows involve vampires, and Elfen Lied isn’t even supernatural horror, but sci-fi.
I’ve never cared much for vampires in any media, really. What makes me NOT want to finish a series are boring or whiny characters in a show whose story just spins around in the same circles, over and over. Too bad that’s not specific enough to tag a trend…