I mean there’s a difference between finding the mystery itself confusing, which fair enough is the point. And finding the show itself hard to follow and not being able to keep attention on it because of that.

@@kuraihikari5785 Yet as you watch the show it all still becomes clear. So basically, you'd need to have more patience and a slightly higher attention span than that of a goldfish.

It's the thirst-thirstiest time of the year

⁠@@davefred look man, some mystery is just done bad

xD lol

yeah, i expectect something more general

ugh this is so frustrating to watch lol

I thought the same until I saw the "part one" so I'm fine with Steins Gate getting almost all the video to itself.

wtf is this

I finished Steins; Gate recently (dropped it for no reason years ago), and I really enjoyed ep 1. Really hit in the, "Da fuck is going on?" feel.

For real!

Exactly this! Loved the first episode and then was honestly quite bored for a while...and then suddenly WHAM! It really really hit me that I was watching a complete masterpiece.

I know that things happening in the early part of anime series so I kept that in mind in the whole show (Spoiler Alert) , when daru was gonna hack to sern in ep 22 i realized the fucked up shit before okabe did and dried my eyes out for half an hour. The first episode kept me guessing nani the fuck happened. It at least deserves that rank in mal if not better than fma brotherhood. El psy congroo.

Exactly right the action only started about episode 11

I wish

good? it's legendary.

Also, Digi, not everyone is good at viewing things they like with a strong critical eye. Most people can only carry their critical eyes to the second viewing. Bear in mind also, that even most people who have a strong critical eye like yours, aren't as steeped in the media as you. I could never be an anime critic as you are, simply for having not studied anime as in depth as you. You often know the credits of an anime before you've even read them. I might guess that "so in so has the same voice actor as this anime character, or this pony." That is to say even most who are able to think and ponder shows as deeply as you will probably never have your level of expertise... But i dunno. I've gained more expertise watching your vids than I have with all the anime I've watched... then again If I hadn't watched the anime I'd watched, I wouldn't be able to contextualize your expertise in a manner that allowed me to absorb some of it. But now I'm just rambling.

Gel bananas, time loops.... Oh Good GOD! This show's paying homage to HOMESTUCK!!!

Valrath823 I don't think any show TRIES to get bad, but sometimes it just happens.

From my experience, critical eyes are often taught, not learned. The reason you gain expertise from watching Digibro is because he lays out what the critical tools are and how to use them. In the same vein, if you know anyone who takes a college level film studies class, they'll often indicate that they can't enjoy movies in the same way anymore, thanks to the class having shown them how to evaluate all the aspects of a medium. This is also why some people can't shut off their brain and enjoy a 'bad' production. At some point they're brains just automatically pick up "hey, that voice acting is flat" or "this angle doesn't make any sense" and et cetera.

funny thing its the opposite for me. anime that have good beginnings tend to end up being bad. while animes with slow beginnings or boring tend to get better in the long run

its a part 1 of a 3 part series.

well it worked. I think I'm gonna give this another try. I initially dropped this midway through the first episode I think. 14 year old me had the attention span of a goldfish

@@destinyblade1167 want a good time travel story watch netflix's DARK way better than this trash anime

@Satanho well if you like steins gate that makes sense cause none of the characters on that act like normal humans. Only good part of the show was when the main character had a break down. Yes I do not like Stein's gate.

@Satanho naw i watch a ton of anime. But ig i should say I cant watch too anime anime. FLCL is one I can or gurren laggan

Slow burn stories can be arduous at first but can be worthwhile in the long run, especially if there are twists and turns planned to knock your socks off.

yep. That's what I noticed about Kabaneri. Goddamn those first episodes were amazing. The rest was lukewarm.

Andrea I think "The Tortoise and The Hare" applies here. Slow and steady wins the race. Trying to rush ahead will likely leave you worn out too soon. Storytelling can be like gardening. You have to cultivate things from a tiny seedling so they can gradually grow into a great tree. Of course, not everyone has that sort of patience sadly.

matt0044 Can you recommend me some animes that were pretty good story-wise? They don't have to be as good as S;G but man I loved S;G.

Andrea For a slow build but a good enough start, try LBX: Little Battlers Experience AKA Danball Senki for one. Other I'm not sure off the top of my head.

SUPAH KUUR sunavabich

@@sneedsfeedseed9905 Am smart.

Mad scientist so cool

Me

The seeker of chaos

by instant gratification do you mean movies because those are meant to covey a storyline within the time of the movie shows on the other hand most of them barely have a real plot its just take these characters and throw them into different situation

Instant gratification has more to do with writing. It's where you immediately give the viewer something that appeals to their desire to have fast paced events happen immediately, and are usually events completely and totally spelled out to the viewer. Something that does not use instant gratification are a lot of old Hitchcock movies, you'll notice they beginnings take their time, are very subtle, and involve good build up, much like Steins;Gate (except Steins;Gate does this over a few episodes). Both don't use instant gratification, but are willing to build up their characters as well as their events. Neither of them spoonfeed you information or instant action and instead create very interesting character scenarios as well as the beginning threads of a plot (assuming there is a plot). Granted, this formula doesn't always work. A person can use this way of doing things, but if they're bad at it, it could end up REALLY feeling slow. But in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, they can spend entire episodes with no continuous plot, but still create interesting themes, character studies, so on and so forth.

i was asking because i had no idea what films and shows you were referring too imo (yeah i know it doesnt count for much) as far as films go we have alot of examples of both side i think its less of a case of being conditioned to want it and more of a case that its easier to swallow so to speak because the ease of understanding it more can join in quicker and through that more immediately enjoy it i also dont believe this is a bad thing either as i think there is a place for media of many types also i believe that we would be having this conversation the other way around if they just made slower pieces with more build up i really believe everything has its own place and thanks for the clarification glad to know a bit more of where you were coming from

I want the genre fiction meme to just end

Other times when the first episode of an anime fails to show a plot but tries to hint it will suddenly become deep it will generally remain crap

Ye.

Pretty Much

Sometimes I like being a brainless consumer. Switching off my brain might allow me to enjoy a series more, which in turn enables a wider range of anime for me to watch. But I guess that's because I have nothing better to do :l

this is exactly how i lived sao. i actually thought it was a pretty good show for a while, that is, after i heard why its terrible and re-watched it without binging the majority of it in 1 night

***** Unless you're a child, you're not supposed to take sayings literally. Also I was never saying anything about criticism and its importance. Just making a comment about my own experience as a consumer. Basically your entire comment is just simply pointless. Like writing an essay and then have the teacher tell you that you completely missed the point.

Toastie GG but do you know what anime the one titled Whatever is? I just cant seem to find it, if it is titled whatever than thats gonna be an issue

Same. It annoys me when reviewers don't provide titles when they show clips

@@freshlymemed5680 "Whatever" is actually the asterisk wars and he called it whatever bc he knows it's not worth your time to watch it. Digibro did make a video series on it called "the asterisk wars suck" that is certainly worth watching though.

Freshly Memed You probably already know this by now but the show is the Asterisk War and Digi titled it whatever because he hates it

5. NEVER add oversexualized “tsundere” (its kind of overused)

@@standingpenguin7544 😂

Re zero has it, Steins Gate has it, FMAB too, Code Geass too, Made in Abyss too

Not with fmab is like poor start and ending is like what

@@standingpenguin7544 Eh, I ain't complaining

I bet you think you're funny.

So did the 35 people who upvoted his comment.

This exactly, we're giving the anime a chance. Not every anime can strike a chord on the watcher in one episode.

ppyporpeem Well, every show DIgi has found to be great has done just that, and he's seen plenty of anime. So, um, why not? Not every show *does* strike a chord in one episode, but those shows aren' great so I don't see the issue here.

ppyporpeem I bet you think lewmonuva's funny.

burnnn

As soon as I saw this comment I watched for 3 minutes and about to end the video lol.

ayy lmao get roasted Digibro

If you can pick out holes and fallacies in a persons' argument that plague the rest of their point, doesn't that make it harder to want to go through and listen to the rest of that argument knowing that it's based in those same holes and fallacies, and those incongruities (is that word) keep rearing their ugly head when they try to keep making points?

he took the first minute to hook you in, so you'll watch further. like a fucking anime.

Im watching this right after watching the anime and holy shit i just realized what that 15 minutes earlier was

JJShwa EPISODE 22 cough cough

Steins;Gate 0 Episode 21 :P

Steins;Gate is good but it won't fit everyone's preference. I'm not into mystery as I can get pretty bored, but I respect the pieces of media especially if they're good (like steins;gate)

No one knew the first episode was so perfect until it was over though. I rewatched it a few episodes before I finished the series and again when I finished the series. 10/10

The notion that it's like judging a film on the first 5 minutes is very misguided. There's a huge difference between 5 minutes and 22 minutes. It's not really a matter of percentage, it's a matter of how much time you spend getting to see what the nature of the work is. Haruhi, Madoka, and Higurashi all have great first episodes that give lots of information about what the show is going to be.

I'd like to add to Digibro that an Anime gets a lot more done in the first 22 minutes than a movie does in 5. In 22 minutes you've got the main cast, the setup, the premise, the art and writing style. In 5 minutes a movie has barely started the prologue and you know basically nothing about the rest of it. And like he said in the video, a good show never has a bad start. If you don't like a show after seeing 1 episode there's a good chance you won't like it in general. I speak from experience when I say that shows that were bad all the way through almost always started with a bad experience of the first episode, and that all shows I've watched that I consider good all had a good first episode. Shows like for example Kiznaiver (to pick something recent), which starts off slowly and a lot less intense than the rest of the series, still has a pretty good first episode. In that episode we get introduced to the cast, setting etcetera. If one doesn't seem to like the show after watching the first, they probably won't like the second and third of it either. I've yet to experience a show that went from bad to good after 3+ episodes.

i only say hunterxhunter the first episodes are boring as hell

It really depends on how you define bad or good. If you're one who judges the quality of a show based on character arcs and plot, as opposed to themes, setting or mood, an anime with a macro-narrative that spans the entire season can only be judged based on its entirety (or more than just the first episode). Believe me, I've had to struggle to force my friends to go though the first couple of episodes of Shin Sekai Yori before they started to agree that the show was heading anywhere, only to have them applaud the ending's twist. Perhaps they're not as patient or perceptive, but for them, I always suggest watching more than a couple of episodes to get a good grasp of the story progression. Especially when the first couple of episodes are all episodic like Psycho-Pass.

Maybe you found the 1st episodes of those shows great but the point the user is trying to make is that they don't reflect the true nature of the show. If people followed your logic then you'd have people dropping Madoka Magica if they don't like MahouShoujo anime. I could give you more examples of shows that started off weaker or don't reveal their true nature in their first episode. You have shows like Akame ga Kill, Clannad or Shiki that evolve into something totally different the more you watch. This isn't only limited to anime. There are manga that get A LOT better with time. The two greatest examples are Tokyo Ghoul, which starts off really weak (I noticed that you've dropped it) but becomes godlike after around 50 chapters and OnanieMasterKurosawa that seems like a sick ecchi femdom manga at first but suddenly turns into something very deep and complex. To be completely honest I think you can't even have an opinion of most shows unless you watch them whole (except for long running shonen). You can never 100% accurately predict how a show is going to turn out and there is always the possibility of your missing out on something great. The only person you are harming with such a stance is yourself because you are limitting yourself to shows with stronger starts and reject those that progressively get better.

Or rather I'm confused at the general public view of that, woops

See, I thought the same thing, but unlike a lot of people, this made me extremely disappointed with it, as I felt it went way downhill after a few episodes.

There are people who love science fiction but are repulsed by moe otaku culture. Said people would absolutely cream their pants over the second half of Steins;Gate, but be so utterly turned off by the first half that they never make it to the meat of the story.

Oh, I see, thanks for your info guys :)

+Savashri This guy gets it!!! I thought the first 8 episodes were boring and annoying but after that it was amazing. The same can be said with Shiki.

this fellow human gets it

I finally found someone in the newest first section that has a brain :D

Aka most anime don’t understand their medium.

agreed you have to stack your domino's before your topel them

i really loved code geass but the first 5 episodes were hard to watch lol

exact same experience. For some reason also I had a very sleepy panic attack while watching it and it made me stop watching it for a couple days.

lol same tbh if he likes the first episode of stein gate its his own opinion just like ours opps #srynotsry

I think I was the opposite... I was into for the first few and slowly lost interest... I mean I finished it and didn't mind it, but it was hard to watch. I am still not sure why... I loved the characters but something about it was hard to watch, normally I can binge a ton of episodes at a time but I could only watch a few in one sitting.

I am not surprise. The show forgets to engage the viewer in what it is trying to represent. It makes the view confused in what to think and not engaged in the world. Heck you are barely engaged in the characters at least it try's to do.

SAK556 I can see why. Steins;Gate gets insanely boring at some points.

he has a vlog channel where you can do just that

Tahts why you go too his digi after dark channel and listen too all his rants LOL

He also made a playlist with every video he's ever been in on youtube. It's like 1400+ videos long.

saaaaame

I already listen to him talk for hours lol

Well, he stated that the inversion of the scenario isn't true. A show that started good can obviously always go to shit. But it's far less common for a show that starts out bad to end up good.

Take a good premise and just fuck it right up with every episode as it goes. They could have waded in that MMORPG theme for so long and tackled a lot of cool multi-player themes. Instead they focused on the main character getting pussy and turning everything into fairies. Dropped.

+Zac (BadLore) thank god I'm not the only one who thought of that. They could of easily made SAO a long running fantasy series with with lots of suspense. That would of made deaths of characters a lot more impacting. But no, they had to rush shit. And now I can't even remember or feel bad about that one random girl dying in the first season.

Sao is Meh at best, is was decent for the first 14ep then it just idk. it didn't give the same vibe

Damn, Digibro isn't even calling it Ass War anymore.

It was probably Davoo who did that actually. I'm pretty sure he edited this video.

I'm still waiting for the season 2 "review" I would've said roasting, but pretty much the same if he did that anyway

Yeah yeah we know that he is secretly in love with the show and that it is his favorite show of all time. ;)

ExtremeRampage Pretty sure that's the case ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

it's on my list tied with Naruto at first place

@@loveinlatin oh my god

@Kazuto Kirigaya BROOOOOO

I place it at best non shounen Leaving nothing at best shounen

I agree, the first episode of fullmetal alchemist seemed so boring to me. It was the most cliche thing, a shonen protagonist overpowering the seemingly unbeatable desert city mayor. And then it picked the fuck up.

Yeah I meant brotherhood

I personally love the beginning of Steinsgate because it's masterful in developing and fleshing out all the individual characters, getting us to care for them more and more before we get to the part that completely fucks with your emotions. It's brilliant, the opening everytime I watched it and all the innuendos (hints) they left before that moment you could tell that shit was going to go down. FMA Brotherhood's opening two episodes are freaking disgrace to such a great anime and it's why everytime I try to get my friends into it, they can't because they never get past those two episodes. I'm glad I watched it with my eldest brother because he warned me and told me to stick with it because he believed I was going to love it. Both of these animes are in my top 3.

EXACT SAME lol

Kenner Lyjo Morala no way. The first episode of fmab was brilliant not Only for explain the alchemy showing it uses but for connect things that Will happen later in the beggining showing that everything was planned since the first episode.

***** Plus I have a very broad taste in anime, so it's extremely hard to make me not like one. Even ones that I hated like Black Butler and ones that everyone hates like Sword Art Online, I finished them because why the fuck not.

why do you capitalize every word rofl

better hope to god that *hidden gem* has a good first episode then, he already said he dismisses all that dont.

Just admit when you might be watching something shit to yourself and maybe you too can give up your addiction to animated closure.

I never dropped an anime because I have nothing better to do.

FMAB only got good after episode 18

I don't think that's a good example since we already knew it was going to be a good anime because it had good critics on the manga.

+Luiz Felipe no, i dont care about critics. school days got bad reviews -> I still love it

Mirotokiwa I didn't say that you cared about critics, also, before FMAB, there was Seiji Mizushima's version, which, even though at some point wasn't canon anymore, people knew it was a good anime.

+Luiz Felipe Well A lot of "good anime" is shit.

is not so much unrefined as the fact that digi needs to watch at least one episode of every single new anime and then watches allot of old anime. while most casual viewers only start watching an anime because there was something that already interested them.

also one of the best comment in this entire comment thread. and he probably disable comment on that one because it got lots of view that never watch the first two part and made comments that did not need to be made if you have watch the first 2 parts first

+

no one is going to read this. i think an often overlooked aspect of any series is the way one looks at it. what i mean is the expectations (if theres way too much fight in your slice of life or too much jokes in a drama) and also what you get from it (if the story is one big metaphore it means nothing if the viewer doesn't understand it). some series like kuregahime and kill la kill drasticly improoved from mediocre to all time favorite like this

Many good shows just keep doing worldbuilding in first episodes, and the action itself begins later. Inexperienced viewer can perceive it as boring. So that's where three episodes rule came from.

What do you mean? The first episode of Clannad was amazing. Just watch the opening scene.

As someone just getting into Hunter x Hunter I've enjoyed the starting arc thus far. I like how the exam has a variety of challenges, and the show has been good at build up thus far where I look forward to each episode weekly. I've been trying to avoid spoilers as well as I can. All I knew about the series that hasn't happened yet is related to Gon.

HXH first episodes were amazing why everyone hates them?

Wait, Clannad gets good? When? I've watched both seasons and still haven't gotten to the good part yet.

i only watched one episode of clannad because it was boring. hxh was interesting from the start for me.

Let's not forget the three aberrations that came out in the trashy short film: the eye-bullet thing followed by camera cut, the talking cat, and Koizumi's intense magic aura. This gives the viewer a clear indication that this isn't just about random high schoolers, but that there actually is something otherworldly going on with these characters.

I agree though the first episode terribly confused me. I thought I was accidentally watching a filler, clicked on the wrong episode or accidentally skipped to season 2 at first. I was so relieved when I watched episode 2 and things seemed normal.

I just thought it was hilarious to make a first episode look like a (perfectly) bad highschool film project by EXTRA EFFORT PUT IN.

Episode 00 is not the first episode

Liam Foote It's the first that aired as far as I know, you should watch it like that for the full experience.

"those features are just there to attract viewers" ...Like every single piece of entertainment in existence...

+Buck Wade 😂

if you defecate in the middle of a classroom of course you'd get attention

Roy • I don't even know why people make those kinds of characters. Who actually likes them other than creepy ass weaboos? It's unrealistic, completely not needed, necessary, or appropriate!

Steins Gate does all of that :p

Touche! hahaha

It was supposed to be a Steins;Gate ep 1 review.

+Digibro Sarcasm? If this was intended I understand where you are trying to take this topic. Guess I'll have to wait for the other two parts. Good video as ever though.

Ya I agree it wasn't clear from the title it was going to be a review

Breaking down what the first episode of Steins ; Gate did brilliantly helps you see how even a strange and at first off putting episode can wink at the greatness it's about to show you. He used Steins ; Gate to scale down his ideas on how to spot a good show from just the first episode. For example, he discribed the angles and the music used in the start of the episode and told his audience how he had already figured out the theme and style the show will likely take from these elements, this along with many other small variables that can be missed with an untrained eye gave him a good impression of the show. We as the audience must use the methods he used when we first inspect a show and hopefully we can understand where the story will go and if we would like the direction it's heading.

Get rekt

i dont see any similarity,may be same voice actors :/

lol, he looks like the dude from cloudy with a chance of meatballs

"scientist" Only fools think that! He's a *mad scientist* !! It's so cool sonofabitch!!!!!

Niels Beeris both awesome animes

and both are amazing shows

I only talked about ep 1.

+Digibro I'm talking about what you said at 4:08. Do we learn that he time traveled at the end of the first episode?

Yes, it's revealed at the end of Episode 1.

that's the theme of the whole series. Which should be in the synopsys found on any anime website.

You can piece it together by the end of the ep, tho it's not stated outright.

I feel like your fourteen. Because I was into the exact same thing when I was fourteen. Anyway fourth wall breaking isn't good because it slows down deep immersive story. It also create many canon events. Like when characters wave at the camera and walk along like nothing happened.

Lightning I am nineteen and am just sick of getting the same content in different ways, after watching most of the Mainstream animes and many little ones between them. Well, young on the Inside i guess :3 I just hate ecchi because i got to much of it XD. Breaking fourth Wall is not like you meant, i think of it more as an easter egg. I love eastereggs, thats just why. Deep stories are great of course, one of the main reasons to watch an anime. I search New things, i guess, those who can give me New ways of thinking, like a good book. I admit, i may appear childish, but i think life is boring without the inner child :)

Dennis Bonn try watching older anime. A lot of people don't because the animation is different. Watch something like BERSERK. It is ...definitely different from most anime.

Lightning was actually on my List, move it some places up, thanks for the tip :)

Dennis Bonn ^_^

But, the tips were delivered.

Be informed about the staff and about things like cinematography. That's the point he was making. If the staff behind a project has a good filmography, than the chances are better that the series might be worth a damn. If the series has great cinematography, than the chances are higher that the project has competency in it's production.

A tip to save time over watching 2 more episodes than necessary. Watch all the other stuff that team has been involved in.

This is an ongoing series which he mentioned in the video, there will be more content where Digi tries to further assert and address his claim.

I wouldn't have a problem if he does. It just right now, seems a little thin, ya know?But if all he focuses on Stein's gate... yea that would be a problem.

Luckily he won't, Digi is going to do one on Lucky Star next so maybe you'll like that next video more. One thing for sure is that he definitely has a lot of moxy for making such a bold claim about teaching us to be able to determine the quality of an anime in one episode, like I'm skeptical about this but I'm along for the ride.

Well. I'm hoping he can prove his case. It would be worth watching but.. as it stands now? this all feels like only a set up to improve stein's gate's rep and little else.

The funny thing is, he just released the second part today so you could go check it out if you want.

We'll get there.

Yeah this makes more sense otherwise it would just be an argument about perspectives. Some shows start slow or boring and became a favorite later on (One piece took 30-50 episodes to get there). But you might tell you found potential in it right at the first episode and that will be just your perspective and others might feel differently. Exactly the same with shows that have awesome first episodes and fail to deliver same punch after 2 episodes. I still feel 3 episodes is a good measure to check if the anime interests you unless you have pointers to identify the bad ones right off the bat.

+Digibro I am going to vomit, wanna no why? Because my friends say future diary is the best anime ever and I tell them: "You guys are Fucking idiots why? Because who smack your mother over the head with a mallet and threat to kill your dad, locks you up in a Fucking attic where you were drugged and about to see your friends about to suffocate and shit and shoots one of your friends in the thigh with a cross how and did I mention she mind fucked you making you believed that you can save all your friends you killed when becoming God...Like after that you have sex with her oh did I mention she TRIED TO KILL YOU AFTER WARDS??? but noooooo you still have the will to risk your life and she kills herself and you can do anything as God but nooooo you sit in your lair acting like a bitch."

Well a few the anime I liked in that video so I didn't finish that video cause I'm sure they would have had more i liked then I didn't like!

I was thinking the same

yeah the first arc in hxh is just so incredibly bland and boring its by far the worst arc in it, but the 3 episode rule doesnt really apply to it since its a whole entire arc

I hear people say this a lot and I disagree completely. I feel it was meant to have a light-hearted feel to it to lower your guard for the later arcs where the show becomes unbelievably brutal. A sort of setup and payoff.

But why would you watch something if you hated it? While I agree that HxH gets vastly better as time goes on, the beginning was simple but enjoyable fun. I mean, even early on we had interesting things at play such as the enjoyable personalities of the main cast, the menace & intrigue of Hisoka, the kinda questionable morals & methods of the Hunter's Association, and a really enjoyable Exam premise. I agree that the first 3 episodes were a bit rough (I actually stopped watching for a few weeks, not by choice as much as out of lack of desire) but after I started episode 4 I marathoned right through the rest of the Hunter Exam & Zoldyck Family Arcs. There's no way I would watch something 20+ episodes (longer than a lot of anime!) if I didn't enjoy it, much less hate it. Even when it was just the beginning, I found a lot to chew on and like in it. +Eternal_Rivals I dunno, I do't think the first episode was bad. (Though I'm glad I actually read the manga's first chapter a short time before I started the show, leaving out Kite & Gon's flashback at the start is really the only major problem I have with the show overall) It had a really upbeat and adventurous tone with some great animation that drew me in. I had heard a lot about HxH's great reputation and I was big into One Piece at the time, (tho I disliked many other long form shounen) and both its legacy & a really good first episode hooked me. The first 3 eps are definitely a bit weaker, and as I mentioned from a combination of business and laziness I didn't watch the next episode for a few weeks, but when I did I watched all of that first arc in a matter of 1-3 days hard to remember which. I can't imagine actively disliking or even hating a show, and watching that much of it. I haven't watched much anime that I seriously dislike mostly because I'm kinda a bit too selective with which shows I watch at times but whenever I watch a show and I dislike or even "hate" I waste no time dropping it. Some good examples - Black Bullet - I remember thinking this had a kinda cool premise and I had no real knowledge of how bad ln adaptations were getting. So I watched the first episode and...the animation felt wonky the characters and setting left no impression it felt needlessly self-important and I was just completely uninterested. I never watched the second episode. Akame ga Kill - This show was really popular and I had heard some of the hype. I watched the first episode, and actually quite liked it. After the first 4 episodes though I had come to really despise it. The tonal shifts, generic characters, extremely "edgy" & "shocking" violence & sex the 1 dimensional (or less) villains, and just a really juvenile & stupid worldview pretending that it was a dark & gray look at morality, when it couldn't be more painfully black & white. I dropped that like a brick.

I literally thought HxH was an anime of a happy adventure for children in the first episodes. The show changes completely.

He doesn't understand the concepts, or simply dislikes the presentation and disregards the more important aspects because of that. Probably.

Digi, that video needs to happen

It didn't really appeal to him after the first few episodes, and came off as pretentious though. He has said that he doesn't really get it though, and that he'd love an in-depth analysis of it to explain to him its appeal.

1 moe robo loli can't save Digi from a serious show. You need an entire cast of them. Just loo at this show.

Borderline Insane Except for the fact that he loves GiTS SAC, which is devoid of moe

I can personally tell you, from watching every. Fucking. Episode. Of Fairy Tail / Fairy Tail 2014, it's pretty fucking bad, however the mood drastically changes from the first episode with a darker tone.

xertonus ur SO wrong!! FAIRY TAIL IS AWESOME!

You're a fucking idiot if that was not a sarcastic comment.

I didn't get into it the first time as well, went away and watched some other anime, after the second time I was hooked, now I'm waiting for the next season, which is meant to be sometime this year I think...? :)

Eh, I have hope for it, I like it but I get the plot drags on so so much. It's been 2 big ass seasons and I'm still not quite sure what the plot is supposed to be. E.G: Naruto has a lot of fillers, but despite that the story is generally well paced. Fairy Tail is extremely slow even without the filler arcs

xD

+AnimeHomoFobisti is it with squids, children and incest Cus those disgust me

White boys watching hentai + weebs

Lol 😂

Bruh I'm done

I like Hitman Reborn, but I wouldn't have watched up to ep 20 something if I didn't already enjoy it for its SoL humor. Digi also brought up Gintama for being another exception to his rule.

After the first 30 episodes the show went to shit, but I watched it all the way to the end because of my love for the first episodes.

+Shiku Bah reborn got better afterwards tho

i was going to point out that too, KHR was soo bad to me until tsuna got his gloves, then it improved alot.

Hitman Reborn was a comedy from the start which was fun to read and it did not took itself seriously until Mukuro shows up. I remember chuckling at least once every chapter until chapter 50. And then by the Varia arc, there was just this massive paradigm shift where its all about techniques and powerlevels, training to beat up the next big bad.

Redborn lol

when does it start to be good? 'cause i've kinda dropped it on ep 33

+Jbdragonfire 35

I only read the manga but it's only gets good in the middle then it go downhill fast

Prayories hmm i guess i'll have to watch 10-15 more episodes or something...

that's why he said he is making multiple parts

This is part 1.

And that said by Kira himself....

I just started. believe you me. its a good example

Storywise and execution ? Probs :DD Personally im more of a gintama fan tho :3

Sunk cost fallacy. It's basic cognitive dissonance. I've already spent so much time with this series, so if it was awful, I'd be an idiot for putting up with the trash for so long. But I'm not an idiot! Therefore, the series is actually good. I swear, a disturbing proportion of One Piece's fandom is in this camp. I kept getting arm-twisted into watching it, but always wound up dropping it after a few episodes. It felt like I was just watching to make friends who loved it shut up. I hated pretty much everything about it. To be fair, I don't particularly like shounen as a genre, but if I need to skip giant portions of the series or subject myself to 100+ episodes "before it gets good," imma just go watch something else.

Before it got shit?

I have to do a full series check... Unless I get bored or forget to finish it

ending was predictable and pretty much anticlimatic

Misaka Mikoto Yeah, but it was about going back in time to the past and then returning to the future. Of course it's gonna be somewhat predictable. The ending wasn't really the point of the show. There WAS a climax, too. The protagonist and the antagonist met and had a conflict of wits. What would you have done differently?

lordkhan It didn't get shit. I could've gone for a little less gay friends coming together and being superheroes. I was hoping it was Kenya. I think you guys are just bitter because the gay friend ends up marrying Hinazuki.

And wow did that reply turn into a horrible word soup mess.

Well said! I always give a show 3 episodes whether I know I like or hate it because with how long the average series is, things can happen very quickly for short seasons. When you see a series lasting only 12 episodes, 3 is a great determiner because you can quickly grasp the pace and feel of the show, especially if you've read it via manga or light novel previously. However if a show is 24-26 episodes long, 3 episodes is about the right amount of time to introduce new characters and concepts that were previously unknown to the audience/characters. I can't recall a single anime that I've dropped after 1 episode unless I found the series absolutely atrocious. In fact, most animes I initially hate episode 1, I give them the chance to redeem themselves. For example, I hate Black Butler with a burning passion. I hated episode 1, but I gave it a couple more to see if maybe I was just being bashful. Turns out my initial reaction remained. I despised it, but only after seeing what kind of character and story progression it was going to provide. I rarely ever flat out hate a show. There is usually some redeeming qualities so that if someone asks I can say, "Well I personally wasn't a fan of 'x' but if you enjoy 'abc' you might like it." Attack on Titan was a prime example of an anime that had a lot of great qualities but I don't like the show. It had great characters, an awesome premise, and honestly some of the best damn animation I've seen in years. However it was a slow, horrendously paced show that left too many questions unanswered episode to episode. I did watch the entirety of the first season, mostly because I did a group watch with it. The animation hooked me, the characters were all fairly likeable/tolerable, but I was just bored to tears.

yeah i totally agree with you. Even anime with a great 1st episode becomes boring after a few episode, it happens alot in manga. This digibro guy has no idea of what he's talking about. I always watch anime to the last episodes even if it's a mediocre i only stop watching it if i get bored and decide if i watch the rest, and i also watched many anime so i can tell that digibro has done some research on the anime he highlighted specifically but that's only a small fraction of how to recognize a great anime but really? in one episode he's gotta be a kidding. It's a shame that many who watch his video looking for a good guideline on "how to recognize a great anime" are disappointed, it is very disappointing and very annoying. I only got to 16 minutes of his video because i know it's full of crap the rest of it, just like how to recognize a great anime in one episode i recognize his video full of crap talking about this studio that actor that director i think he needs to improve his reasoning skills because it's full of mess.

Can you imagine doing that with literature? "oh Master and the Margaretta. Dropped I don't care for the description in this poor prose of the bar." And dropping it after a page.

+Julian di Jorio How do you drop something after a page? lmao. Sorry for not clarifying. For books you'd obviously have to read through some chapters, but really at a certain point if you don't like it then close the book. But when someone doesn't like a book I usually never hear, "hey, read the second one it's so much better."

Not true. In many people's eyes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer started out laughably bad, but evolved into a masterpiece later on.

+AnOverdoseOfTuturu That's what works best for stuff I've seen. A lot of stuff I've dropped just really wasn't worth my time watching. There's some shows I stall, but I don't have the patience to look through three bad episodes.

+AnOverdoseOfTuturu I usually only do this for pretty bad shows. Anything mediocre or I'm not so sure about I may keep watching, but it's got to have something I like about it.

he'd still probably dislike it, and honestly whether someone likes it or not I don't think it's quality has gotten any better or worse. For me it has the same strengths and weaknesses it had from episide 1 to now.

I found it to be a great concept, but the payoff was anticlimactic and by the time they got to the actual story I was so bored I just couldn't care anymore.

Wait, wait... He dislikes Re:Zero? That's the best god damn anime I've watched in several years. And, ironically considering this video, had a good first episode. Seriously, how the fuck could he like Steins;gate but not Re:Zero?

+matchesburn Steins:Gate is not the same as Re:Zero. It's about something differs and its execution of its ideas are done differently

Granddaddy Gundam Dude, even GlassReflection drew parallels to Steins;Gate in his video about Re:Zero - for good reason, they're both the same core concept as time traveling (no, I'm not interested in yours or anyone elses' theories on Subaru's power and how it "actually" works) stories. Is the method different? Is the setting/world different? Obviously. However, at their core, both use time travel/"do-overs" as plot mechanics. The fact that they work differently is of no consequence. Nor do they have to be "the same" (by the way, I also didn't say that) to be compared and contrasted. As for execution, that's merely your subjective opinion. Frankly, I find Steins;Gate to be an excellent series that, however, is still overhyped as hell. I enjoyed it, but it gets the same smug nonsense about just how amazing it is like, say, Inception did. Meanwhile, with Re:Zero, I'm enjoying each and every episode with anticipation (the week-to-week wait is agonizing). That doesn't mean it's better than Steins;Gate, but if given the choice I would rather watch Re:Zero because I love so many of the characters, the writing, and the story so far. (Also, if all this is one long paragraph with no formatting, KZfaq fucked up again. Sorry. I can't fix it.)

No, Biba destroyed that show. That guy's evil for the sake of being evil (and a minor, soulless revenge plot that means nothing to the audience)

Biba was a little underdeveloped but at least consistent as a character. Mumei went from being a badass in ep 1, knocking fucking Ikoma out of his bullshit, and then descended into retardedness the entire rest of the anime. She has 1 episode to so-called reclaim herself (i.e. ep 12) but really Ikoma's the one who'll salvage her from the depths of garbage since her pathetic self-ceneteredness makes her unbelieveably naive and unsophisticated, despite being the total badass in ep 1. I think it would've been fine if she descended into darkness to about halfway, picked her shit up, fought against Biba, and then later got subjugated and turned into a super shit which would've elicited at least some form of sympathy from me; but it took until ep 11 for her to turn around and realize she was being used like a dumbass. So ultimately I just can't respect her, I mean, just compare to fucking Ayame, I'd tap that shit any day over crybaby Mumei, and she's not even a main character. The show started out 8.4 on MAL then crashed to 8.0, it's pretty disappointing considering the high hopes I had from salty Ikoma's declaration that'd he'd send the whole crew to hell with regrets about being basic bitches. The one save and grace is the music since I'm into that Aimer/Sawano shit and am a Gundam UC fan but if you weren't, then there's not much left. Pray for an op ep 12.

Kabaneri ended up being just another trash anime with whiny characters and a shitty villain.

the show was already going downhill since episode 4 and then and Biba made it worse

What in god's name about Code Geass could be called generic?

+Digibro everything about it felt like it had be done twenty time before... again, it was only the first episode, but Japan taken over by some empire, kids lose their parents one decides he's Eren Jaeger, then he becomes Sora from No Game No Life, cut to high school, writers convenience makes him get caught between the empire & "terrorists" because of mech battle, girl he knows nothing about dies, he cries for a second, becomes Mary-Sue because she's actually not dead, end episode. It was tropes upon bad writing upon bad pacing upon slightly above average animation...

lol I can't say I find Lelouche that cliche at all. I don't think his personality is much like Sora (he's way more self-serious) nor is he much like Erin in that his opponents aren't a force of nature. Idk if it's worth mentioning that Geass came out way before either of those shows anyways. I mean, if you describe anything as flippantly as this then it's gonna sound bad, but I think there's a lot more going on in that episode than you're giving it credit for, in terms of setting up a pretty interesting scenario.

yea i was bored out of my mind couldn't make it to the second episode

Wow, citing works that came a lot later doesn't help you to make your point... if you didn't like it's ok, but you're doing it wrong pal

I wouldn't say "more valid". More informed is a better way to put it. I think if one is very familiar with anime, it's easier to judge based off less information. So one could say, within the first episode "this show isn't for me" or "this show isn't worth my time". That's not to say that such a person will be correct 100% of the time but if it works even 90% of the time, that'd be good enough for most such people. After all, the idea of judging an anime without having watched all of it is to save time - so one doesn't spend an hour sitting through a show which bores them when they could have stopped after twenty minutes and tried something else.

+Cloud [2512] wouldn't you say that a more informed opinion is more valid than one that is less informed? I mean of course you can sometimes judge if it's your type of anime BUT we aren't always right in saying "it's not my type of anime. We can often times be wrong and be surprised by something new.

+Jerry Reyes Sure, in as far as anyone's opinion is ever "valid" on anything, I guess. I'd consider myself as likely to listen to someone tell me why the first ten minutes of a show didn't grab them as someone else telling me why, over the course of 200 episodes, that show made them cry, all other things being equal. At least in my experience, sticking with a show I've decided I don't like has 99% resulted in me just getting further irritated and frustrated with the show. A show that can turn me around but doesn't do so within the first few episodes is a real rarity. Now whether that's influenced by my first impression is up for debate but given how unlikely I am to forgive a major misstep in a show I previously enjoyed - signs point to not really.

+Cloud [2512] well "valid" doesn't have to mean objectively true. It can simply mean to be justified. Someone who knows more is inevitably going to be more justified in their belief that the anime is good or bad. Similarly, someone who has finished a show and calls it a good anime is much more justified than someone who judged the entirety of the show in just a few episodes. Now I am not saying that you can't have an opinion without watching it all, but I do think that making your decision on only one episode is a bit close minded. Three to five episodes would be a good balance. You may want to say that you are rarely wrong in judging based off of the first episode. Well that would seem to me to be a bit arrogant(no offense to you). Why? Because you are assuming that you are infallible in your judgment of the series. That also means that if you think something is not your cup of tea, then you will dismiss the show simply because it is not what you are expecting or hoping for. If we are genuinely looking for good anime, then we should be open to what an anime can offer despite our initial reactions or our biases. Because of this, I like the 3 episode rule or 5 episode rule. You don't spend too much of your time on something that might not be good at all, but you also give the anime the chance to prove itself.

The quality of the animation is usually at it's peak during the first episode. So if anything the show will be going downhill from there in some regards. The only anime I was hesitant over the first episode and then enjoyed was The Tatami Galaxy. Which is understandable given the uniqueness of the animation. One episode is hard to judge an entire series off of but if you don't like the feel of it, chances are that won't change. I think if you can verbally articulate what you didn't like in the first episode you can have a good guess at the rest of the show. If someone goes onto say they think the entire anime is bad after only the first episode though, that person is an idiot. You can't give a critical analysis from one episode, the best you can say is, "personally I didn't like it." Which is a good enough reason.

While i really enjoyed phantom blood i can't say the same for stardust crusaders i still can't bring myself to finish part 1

I never really cared for part 1 at all. It's just that the characters feel flat and with this series in particular I feel that the characters help the story. The other parts a lot more enjoyable, but the other parts also fleshed out their characters better.

+Prodigy same for me, I really liked PB and BT, but SC really lacked Dio tbh and kinda dragged on tbh

The problem with PB is that it is based on very early writings in a manga that was basically just a rip off of Fist of the North Star, with out adding things to the anime the characters would have still felt kinda bland compared to other anime around the same time of its release. I think Battle Tendency is really when JoJo found its own style of doing things that made it different and special enough for people to get interested in the anime over others despite its competition having more fleshed out characters and story.

each JJBA Part really does improve what Araki missed out on previous parts, SBR era is basically Araki using all his years of experience and current story to completely fix all his previous mistakes and make a more gritty story

It's okay to not understand as well when you're new. When I was new I'd watch whatever I could find, good or bad. Now I better understand through years of experience.

Okayu P I mean, I've been watching for 5+ years now but I'm the kind of person to miss things that are hinted at or things that people would notice in an artistic analysis.

I think that's fair. I missed some obvious things myself in hindsight. It's a skill you improve on the more you practice it.

Well, the fact that no one thinks this way is kind of the point: I can teach everyone how to think this way.

It's like you went back in time and teaching primitive people how to create fire...How about teaching something actually challanging for you?Stay in present time and teach us something we don't know...We all know Steins Gate's episode 1 was great for gods sake =_=

"But here's what would be more interesting for this: watch a new ongoing anime and apply your powers of prediction there and then watch the rest. " Watch his Asterisk War Sucks series.

".We all know Steins Gate's episode 1 was great for gods sake =_=" It's like you didn't even watch this video. A lot of people think the first episode is not great, hence "it get's better".

movelea are you serious???Even my 4 years old brother knew Asterisk War was going to be one of the most generic anime ever...

If learning about what happens in a show makes you lose interest, it was never a good show.

Yeah, probably could have ended the joke better by throwing the title in my anime backlog

Really it's better to research the show itself. If you're not as familiar with staff yet, then check out spoiler free reviews. MAL ones tend to be written as the show is airing anyways.

+movelea Isn't that like, almost all works of fiction though? Wouldn't knowing a major spoiler for something like what happens to the villain in Monster or if Light or L in Death Note for example sorta ruin it to an extent?

I know you're probably just a hater who doesn't know how to argue or do basic logic at that, but I'll ask anyway. In what way is his reasoning bad?

+Illyon / Aclean He basically says he likes the scene because Okabe moves around to show different parts of a room and it makes a reference to 1984. The scene itself is devoid of character, apart from Okabe being a conspiracy theorist, which has already been established and is pretty shallow anyway. Digibro just has this thing of pretending that every single thing is good in stuff he likes. If this exact same scene was in Erased, which he hated, he would be saying how this entire scene is boring and relying on kinda cool but kinda lazy directing.

the characters of Mayuri and Itaru are also further defined without any specific dialogue as description, making it indirect instead which is always a good thing. This whole "you on the other side of the screen" thing evolves a bit. It isn't over in a single humorous moment. The scene is mostly exposition, that is correct and I won't deny it. But are you saying that it isn't well-done exposition?

Erased doesn't have any moe characters, other than children. Not so surprising why Digi prefers this one. I find it hilarious that he said this show has amazing character design when every girl character is just another moe design. That goes for Ruka too. We have the big boobed childish one, the shy one who has a crush for the main char (also trap), the silent glasses face, the sporty tomboy and the worst offender of them all: the character whose personality is literaly a maid cat girl. Just because it takes place in Akihabara and portrays moe culture, doesn't mean you should make every girl char moe, or make the male protagonists the black faces of nerds. I almost find the Big Bang theory more interesting with their characters.

+Illyon / Aclean For that I'd have to watch it again, which I sincerely do not want to do, since I still haven't gotten around to slogging through the final episodes. I don't really want to go through all my problems with the series now, since that's long and irrelevant, but I'm criticising Digi for not covering any potential problems with the episode.

Subscribed!

Cool avatar! I had that as wallpaper as my phone until I lost my phone. It was very pretty.

I'm on episode 15 and it's my second favourite anime of all time (first being Madoka Magica). 10/10

are you serious? I think that Steins gate was good since the first episode

Well, Madoka is understandable with you know what going down.

Episode 1 of Madoka set up that it would be an interesting anime Episode 3 just took that and made it many times better

***** First episodes often become a lot better with the benefit of hindsight, knowing what's going to happen soon. Its weird like that...

TheMythof Feminism Since when are wishes granted without a terrifying cost?

since DBZ 'w'

He has seen and read it

Granddaddy Gundam Very good.

I watched the anime 2 years ago, and I decided to read the manga just recently (chp 117) on the lost children arc.

Sir Saber Ah, good times :^) Shit's getting really heavy right now, I hope Miura can finish it before he kicks the bucket :\

***** That is mostly why I have been holding back reading it for the longest time. Just Imagine if he started putting chapters out weekly :P

Tenma's conflicted nature regarding his choices and how he regrets them had me interested since ep 1

Specially the scene with the woman at the hospital.

Yes, exactly it's my favorite anime, but still the first episode doesn't look like a Thriller or any intense plot. It more looks like a casual doctor story and has none real hype moment or eyecatcher, basically it looks to serious and mature, but doesn't present us much content. Still it's my favorite anime and i feel the same like you, that the side stories and side characters caught me in all the episodes and i lost many tears for this well done slice of life.

At first i thought was going to be a medical drama or something, yet i still found it very interesting, also, I was suspicious of the kid, so i kept watching, but i see your point.

The first episode of monster was brilliant...

theMoporter Starting episode, first episode, premiere, whatever you wanna call it.

(but if a good chunk of the overall story is bad or (even worse) boring, then I see no reason to force myself to keep watching.) I felt this way about death note after L died the arc about some corporate executive leading to some chase on a bridge I forced my self to get to this point but I see what your saying I will never watch the ending of death note because this one arc I've tried literally 5 times and kept falling asleep even sitting up I fell asleep sitting up why did I put myself through that cause every one said it was good and it was but post L's death I just can't minus a few episodes

Yup. That's precisely what I wanted to say. I don't think Japanese entertainment or audiences subscribe to the idea of pilots.

You & @theMoporter are arguing semantics to a ridiculous degree lol. A pilot in the Western Sense is rarely something that happens in Japan, yes, but I think it's pretty clear that the guy just is talking about regular first episods as that's kinda what this whole video's about lol. It's a pointless argument.

It's not a pointless argument if Japanese audiences don't hold the same expectations for the first episodes as the people do in the US.

Same. Seeing it for the first time simply made me go "huh?". I remember thinking Okabe was irritating with his over-the-top-ness, but the trippy intro-sequence pulled me in and as soon as I heard the grief-struck scream and see Okabe find the dead body, I knew this had potential, especially at the end of the ep with said corpse being very alive. After finishing the season I rewatched it and it nuclear blasted my mind. How every little detail that previously seemed like simple character introduction suddenly held so much relevance to the later plot? Beautiful.

the salt was worse than the sea

Joseph Kleeman wish i saw why though. just cuz he trashed an anime? or for valid reasons?

I'd love to know what happened as well

I was wondering the same thing. Even if people are salty, they still have the right to be so. Censorship isn't the answer

Noelux he has the right to, but that doesn't make it ok. Seriously, I support the guy's opinion (or at least the right to have one), but not allowing people to disagree is the epitome of close-mindedness

It's the worst anime ever made, the Asterisk War

'The worst Anime ever made' you seem to not know many anime then. If you want to see something bad: Seikon no Qwaser (despite being cringey, edgy and bad as fuck I still got to EP3 before I stopped watching that thing). But you sound just like IGN "Yeah I did not like MonMusu, I watched like 10 seconds of the first episode"

+Digibro well what's bad about it?

But I love Qwaser

I made a 4.5 hour video series about it.