When will this get good? I'm at episode 5 and each episode

>>137403803
If you don't like it, stop forcing yourself and drop it.

But it's a good torture to watch.

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>>137403803
I couldn't even get through the first episode

>>137403803
I'm told that most of the first cour after episode 1 involves crawling and heavy breathing. Personally I found one episode of that was more than enough.

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>>137403803

Keep going. It's shit at first, but you'll probably be glad you stuck around by the time it ends.

>>137403803
see
>>137404140

It's pretty accurate.

>>137404140
this

If you don't like it by now, just drop it. Maybe go back to it in a few years. At least you're not a first episode dropping shitter.

Though if you like the warring gang stuff, it picks up from the point that you're at, if you don't then it's a long slog to episode 19, where it starts hitting all the right notes.

One of the those things I can't watch not because I think it's bad, but because it's too depressing.

>>137403803
>When does it get good
Wish people stopped asking this

It's weird, bleak and I'm not really sure what it was about but I'll never forget it. Maybe one day when my backlog is gone (haha) I'll rewatch it with Lain.

I watched all of it and i don't remember a thing. What was it about again?

>>137403803
How many times are you going to make this thread?

It picks up somewhere around episode 5&6 so I would say stick around until at least this arc is done if you managed to get so far. You'll know when it does.

>>137404140
>It's shit at first
No it isn't, if you can't keep going through this it simply means it's not for you. Tex is very specific series.

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It's torture to sit through and the ending kicks you while you're down.

What was the deal with the above ground segment?

The second half is a lot more interesting.

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>>137404140
>It's shit at first
How to spot a total pleb.

>>137404938
But that's wrong.
There are evidently a lot of people who liked the series overall but didn't enjoy the first few episodes that much.

The first few, slower episodes didn't bother me. They took their time establishing setting and ambiance. I appreciated that, and would like it if more stories could pay that much attention to detail

>>137405185
I loved it from the beginning, so go fuck yourself.

>>137405185
I don't know about others but I loved the series from episode 1, so I'd recommend just dropping this show if you don't like it by episode 5.

>>137405324
And I started enjoying it later.

>>137403803
You have to be patient or not 10 to appreciate it. I get the feeling you don't meet one of those criteria.

>>137404140
I honestly don't get this picture at all. Sure the ending was depressing and it was quite sad from some points of view but the show never really was capable of creating an attachment to get that kind of reaction.

>>137405477
>hilarious_internet_overreaction.jpg

Yea, I felt the same way. It was dark, weird, and it was depressing, but yea. It wasn't. Well said.

>>137405477
>>137405691
Most of /a/ is faggots that cry when loli looking characters die

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>>137405313
Yeah. They do a remarkable job of establishing the city as a character itself and all of the city's factions as they relate to one another. A lot of this is done in the first episode itself, which doesn't rely at all on exposition or dialogue to get that across, while also juggling two or three converging plot threads.

I also think a lot of the emotional intensity of the show is tied to the first few episodes. A lot of people disparage Ichise stumbling around the city ineffectually for a bunch of episodes but a lot of the director's sequences and storyboarding, especially in the second episode, were really memorable.

The surface world episodes are a work of art

>>137405932
Most of /a/ is actually alot like you.

Angry, socially frustrated young men who act meaninglessly inflammatory on the internet for kicks.

I'm not offended... I'm just pointing out

>hurr faggots, durr loli

Being 100% straight, most of /a/ isn't super into loli. Some are, but for the most part it's kind of just a meme.

>>137406125
Funny that you'd put it that way, because IIRC, they were visually designed around a series of paintings by some famous artist from the impressionist category

>>137406239
Edward Hopper paintings and Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, to be exact.

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>>137403803
Don't watch if you don't want to have an existential crisis and drown in nihilistic feelz

>>137403803
Hard to say. I didn't really like the first half of the series, but enjoyed the second half and loved the ending.

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>>137406302
Should've spoilered that.

>>137406411
The ending was amazing, and really fitting.

I came to it after Lain and Haibane, with nothing more than the Blame-like OP pic to go by. Imagine my surprise when it ended up as The Godfather vs Revenge of the Cybermen, with a side of trite Romanticism.

i didn't like the Shapes

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>I enjoyed the first episodes of Texhnolyze

Go fuck yourselves you contrarian faggots. The general consensus is that the first 5 episodes or so are unbearably slow and drawn out. It really doesn't start picking up steam until somewhere around episode 8 and it doesn't truly get good until somewhere after episode 15.

If you have a tolerance for slow boring bullshit then maybe the first five episodes will appeal to you, but don't expect that everyone will have the patience to sit through two and a half hours of tedious nonsense that at first comes off like it's never going to get to the point.

Now don't get me wrong, the series is great as a whole, but I can't fault anybody for wanting to drop it a couple of episodes in. I came very close to doing it myself until some anons convinced me to keep watching.

Well that's all, you're free to tell me to "go watch Naruto and then kill yourself" now.

But seriously keep going >>137403803, the surface world episodes alone are some of the finest anime that has ever been made.

>>137406994
>posting fedora memes
>everyone who disagrees is a contrarian
Don't watch Naruto, just skip to killing yourself.

>>137406994
the first episodes were pretty cool to me.

>>137406994
>>137407064
this desu senpai

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>>137406138
I'm not into loli at all, but every time a mod gets trigger happy and starts banning it I spam it, not because I like it, but I'll be damned it other anons can't like it.

>>137403803
I don't think it's possible for any sane person to get through Texhnolyze. Episode 6 is the furthest I got.

Gasaraki is another notoriously fucking boring anime

>>137408428
Gasaraki's got some of the best mech combat in anime. You'd have to have ADHD to find it boring.

>>137408191
I think it's really, really funny. I tried getting into it, but only with little success. I'm just too used to fat, old hags.

>>137408428
You dropped it right when it starts picking up. What a waste of time.

>>137408490
Sorry anon, I think you just have autism. Extremely dry exposition, characters completely devoid of personality and a plot that move at a snail's pace does not make for a very watchable show unless you have autism.

>>137407945
>ergo proxy
>made for intellectuals
I guess that would have worked with literally any other example.

>>137408583
It's a hell of a ride though with a satisfying ending.

>>137408553
>you have ADHD!
>no, you have autism!
Well, at least you can agree that no healthy human watches anime.

>>137408553
Enjoying dialogue and not needing constant action and plot twists doesn't make you autistic, it makes you over twelve years old.

>>137408780
Enjoying Gasaraki's infodumps, zero personality characters and repetitive episodes does make you autistic though.

>>137403803
too deep for you kiddo?

>>137408867
>zero personality characters
Do you actually believe this? They make very distinct actions and decisions, they're just fairly taciturn.

>>137408937
autism

>>137404938

The first episode is a masterpiece.

>>137408982
ADHD

>>137408867
>infodumps
Why do you dwell into series that show fictional worlds if you hate narrative creation of them?
>zero personality characters
Only main duo suffers from this.
>repetitive episodes
They are not. Story has good continuity.

>>137409200
>Only main duo suffers from this.
I'd dispute even this. Miharu maybe, although that's sort of part of her background, but Yushiro has clear motivations and conflicts and struggles with his different allegiances/personal attachments quite a bit.

>>137406994
No, they were fine episodes and great especially in their visuals. Doc reconstructing him, the flowers in the sewer, Yoshi killing that pimp, tons of great scenes.

>>137404140
>It's shit at first
Wrong you turbopleb. You either like it or you don't, the 3 episode rule should be fine.

>>137409895
>You either like it or you don't
Wow, you sure taught that guy. He'll think again before pretending to like certain parts of something, now that he knows that's impossible.

>>137409982
You're enjoying it wrong. AKA you're a pleb

Literally 2deep4you and it ain't even that deep.

>>137409895

>You either like it or you don't, the 3 episode rule should be fine.

Then how do you explain all the people in Tex threads that always say something like "stick with it, it gets better" or all the people that admit that they hated it at first and didn't start getting into it until many episodes later?

The 3 episode rule doesn't apply to Texhnolyze, if it did almost no one would ever reach the end.

>>137410230
The first few episodes are consistent with the rest of the show. You just had an immediate knee-jerk reaction and slowly grew to enjoy what you were seeing, that's your problem not the show's. A situation like that could happen with fucking any show. It's not like the show pulled a madoka and you could play the "I've been tricked card," it's literally the same show throughout.

>It's starts off shit
It really doesn't but what the show doesn't do in the first ~6 episodes is present any sort of story or progression so it feels like nothing is actually happening.

>>137405477
>not getting attached to well develop characters
Pleb, die.

>>137403803
Episode 1 is a masterpiece. You are presented the whole of Lux in it, the characters, the factions, the politics, even some foreshadowing and 4th wall breaking, but you only notice this after having seen the whole series.

>>137410068
But he's enoying it. What's the point of that post?
Just admit that your retarded "you either like it or don't" statement is plain wrong.

>>137406994
>establishing the plot and characters is bad guys!
>I'm a pleb that can't appreciate good storytelling please excuse me

>>137404938
This, I loved it from start to finish.

>>137412083
>well developed
Ichise
>I don't immediately punch people anymore

Onishi didn't really develop or change but he was explored and was the one with the most "impact" but I still didn't feel it really.

Ran
>autistic but helpful person who doesn't want to do their job because it hurts

The characters may have been characterised well but they weren't developed in a way that attracts attachment.

>>137403803
haha well i guess it's just too complex for you to understnad

>>137412388
A shame, he seemed an honest man. Wait, wrong show.

>>137412388
>>137412424
>Lain or Texhnolyze
>Complex
At most it's entry level psychology and common sense.

>>137409895
>You either like it or you don't
What a fucking concept, people like something or they don't. You're a fucking scholar anon holy shit.

>>137408780
this shit needs to stop

>>137412718
What shit? You need to be more specific.

>>137412324
>Ichise
He has the most character growth in the entire show. His making peace with his father, his last 'talk' with Ran and the fact that he even decides to go back to Lux after being presented the opportunity to live a life free of conflict on the surface by Saginuma, makes that pretty clear. It's no coincidence that the last images of the show are what we're left with.

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>>137412803
Sure but those aren't really the most well developed parts of him. The most well developed aspect of him was as I said, he no longer immediately punched people.

This was caused by him reassessing himself after his encounter with Ran about his future, his time with Onishi and his time with the literal faggot who's name I can't remember.

This still doesn't create emotional attachment or investment in a character.

OP here, I'm at episode 10 and my opinion hasn't changed that much.

But since I've got this far, I'm not going to drop.

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>>137412874
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GYwYGEFJA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3pF_VBTGxo

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> When will this get good?
After the fifth rewatch.

>>137406138
>most of /a/ isn't super into loli
Could have fooled me.

>>137403803
Keep going OP.
When I watched Texh, I couldn't watch it in one go like most other shows, I had to take breaks, sometimes a few weeks, between sessions. I persevered and I do not regret it.

Just make shitposting thread along the way if it helps you kek

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yoshii did nothing wrong