Cyberstrike wrote:IMHO Beast Wars II is the absoulte worse Transformers series ever. It's just plain awful in every way possible, the animation sucks and it's extremely stupid.
Seriously Beast Wars II is painful to watch and it makes series like Armada, Energon, and those the God-Awful and super annoying Star TV dubs of the G1 Japanese Trilogy seem like great anime classics.
Well, I cannot make a fair judgement on it since I've only watched its first four episodes and its movie. I haven't seen enough of it to constructively criticize it as I can other series.
The main I want to see is so I
can make justifiable opinion about it. At the moment, four out of forty-three episodes can't tell me squat about the rest of it. There's plenty I'm missing out on before I can say whether it's good or bad.
But, from I can gather from your statements about it, you dislike it because of its animation style and its childish nature. Well, from what I saw, its animation is very akin to that of other anime released by Toei around the same time as BWII, like
some of these.
As for its younger appeal... it's hard for me to say this nicely, but what else would you expect? Transformers is aimed a much younger audience in Japan than it is an American, and at the time BWII came out, that notion really showed. The American Beast Wars series may have been darker and cooler in the West, but was dubbed as light-hearted comedy series in Japan. And you know what? It was a
HIT!It really isn't fair to judge this series with the expectation of it being like its American counterpart. It was made as a comical series, so it should be judged as a comical series.
Besides, can you honestly say that it ranks lower than the
Playskool Go-Bots series, which is like Transformers for the Nick Jr. crowd?