I really enjoy serious anime. Neon Genesis Evangelion, Code Geass, Full Metal Alchemist, Death Note, Ergo Proxy. Every anime that mixes serious with silly could be improved, for me, if you removed the jokes. Naruto without the jokes would be better. Samurai Champloo was too silly for me to get into. It reminds me of those mashup songs that takes a Carly Rae Jepsen pop song chorus and puts DMX rapping over it. I don't want to have fun while watching anime, I want to cry thinking about how heroic and tragic the characters are. I feel the same way about the Star Wars trilogy, that it could be improved if you removed all of the childish aspects.
I am similar, I also usually dislike jokey and childish aspects in my media and I have been like that since forever, but there was a charm in Champloo. Guess the concept just really worked for me, I really enjoyed Nujabes's music and the journey of the characters. The only thing I disliked was the ending, which was too much of a cop-out for me. They should have died after the explosion, and it would have been thematically consistent.
Agree about Star Wars (who can even disagree at this point, just look at it), Lucas adding more childish elements into ep6 and not making the series more serious after ep5 was the beginning of the end.
I really enjoy serious anime. Neon Genesis Evangelion, Code Geass, Full Metal Alchemist, Death Note, Ergo Proxy. Every anime that mixes serious with silly could be improved, for me, if you removed the jokes. Naruto without the jokes would be better. Samurai Champloo was too silly for me to get into. It reminds me of those mashup songs that takes a Carly Rae Jepsen pop song chorus and puts DMX rapping over it. I don't want to have fun while watching anime, I want to cry thinking about how heroic and tragic the characters are. I feel the same way about the Star Wars trilogy, that it could be improved if you removed all of the childish aspects.
I am similar, I also usually dislike jokey and childish aspects in my media and I have been like that since forever, but there was a charm in Champloo. Guess the concept just really worked for me, I really enjoyed Nujabes's music and the journey of the characters. The only thing I disliked was the ending, which was too much of a cop-out for me. They should have died after the explosion, and it would have been thematically consistent.
Agree about Star Wars (who can even disagree at this point, just look at it), Lucas adding more childish elements into ep6 and not making the series more serious after ep5 was the beginning of the end.