Watching the entire series of Yugioh, since it's the only thing 4kids did right

Ahahahahaha! You're joking, right? At least watch the original, unmasacred version.

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Well the original manga wasn't about the card game. It was originally much darker, focused on a variety of games (hence the name King Of Games) and was overall very heavy on the emphasis on friendship and trust. (Yeah some chapters focused on love which were a low point...)

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I'm currently watching Fairy Tail. After a lot of protesting, my younger brother finally dragged me into it. I really wasn't feeling it early on, partially because I was trying to watch the dubbed version (which is arguably one of FUNimation's worst dubs, which is saying something since I usually like their dubs. I mainly hated Cherami Leigh as Lucy, but then, I've only really not minded her when she was in Steins;Gate, but I digress). Anyway, after a kind of slow start, it was okay enough (I've watched other anime I've cared less about), didn't really feel the urge to keep watching more, but my brother insisted "it gets better," so I kept watching; then finally, around the time of the Fighting Festival arc, I actually wanted to watch the next episode! So now, I'm in the Tartaros arc (that's actually how they spell it), and it's actually pretty enjoyable.

Pros:

• A kicka** soundtrack. I don't know who had the idea to give the soundtrack a Celtic rock feel, but it really works!
  
• The characters are actually fairly well fleshed out, and they're (for the most part) pretty likable (exceptions below).
  
• Natsu is a pretty fun main character. He's got this "Crouching Moron, Hidden Bada**" thing going on; however, in a fight, he's like a bizarre Leeroy Jenkins/tactical genius hybrid, and strangely, it's nothing short of awesome.
  
• Juvia Lockser is one of my favorite side characters of all time, and I have the biggest crush on her voice (subbed, that is).
  
• Wendy Marvell has to be one of the most likable child characters I've ever encountered in anime. Very polite and well behaved, which is a huge breath of fresh air compared to what I'm used to.

Cons:

• Happy and Lucy suffer from what I call "Phantom Menace Syndrome." What do I mean by this? When I watched Star Wars for the first time, I was around 18 years old, and the friend who got me to watch the series had me start with The Phantom Menace, which I hated. Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were only marginally better, and I didn't care much for the original trilogy either. Strange thing is, I think I might have enjoyed the original trilogy more if only I hadn't started out with The Phantom Menace, but I did, and now the rest of the series is sadly tainted. How is this relevant to Happy and Lucy? When I started watching the show, I watched it dubbed for the first eight episodes. I hated Lucy's voice and dub characterization, and Happy's voice made me want to take an ice pick to my eardrums. Therefore, when I switched over to subbed, the damage had already been done, and took me a long time before I even remotely liked either of them.
  
• On that note, as a character, Lucy just falls a little flat. She basically uses a sort of summoning magic, which is fine. The problem is that aside from that, she's pretty much useless in a fight (which I hear is supposedly remedied sometime during the Tartaros arc, so there's that at least). I don't find her character interesting in the slightest, so when the plot focuses on her backstory, I have a hard time caring about it. She's likable enough, and if I met someone like her in real life, I'd probably have no trouble getting along with her, but as a character, she's just kind of bland compared to pretty much everyone else.
  
• Mirajane's idiotic looking hairstyle.
  
• The show could stand to tone down the fanservice a little. I don't mind it when it makes sense (like at a beach), or--as long as it's not too often--when it's used as a source of humor (like the water slide incident in the 5th OVA, which was pure comedy gold). Other than that, I'd really rather not have it in there. Strangely, the anime is a little inconsistent with this. They tend to tone down some of the crazier stuff, but then came the anime-only Eclipse Celestial Spirits arc, which had this one fight scene that was just... (You'll know it when you see it).
  
• The celestial spirit Aries is female, which I don't really mind at all, except that the Aries constellation is a ram. This one's more me nitpicking about semantics than anything else though, as I generally like her otherwise.
  
• The anime apparently toned down some of the more violent scenes in the manga, so there's now a lot of (mostly) bloodless carnage, which is fine, unless someone very clearly gets stabbed or something, in which case, it just looks ridiculous. The other problem (with both the anime and the manga) is that very few characters actually die, and the majority of the ones that do are posthumous characters anyway. Of course, I really shouldn't complain about this too much, because when they finally killed one of the mauve shirts onscreen, it was one of the ones I really liked. Go figure.

It's no Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood or Death Note, mind you, but now that I'm into it, I'm actually pretty glad I stuck with it as long as I did so early on.

I don't watch One Piece though, so I really don't care.

Aside from that, I'm a firm believer in the idea that there is no such thing as new material. Only fresh coats of paint on story ideas that have been around for millennia. Rip off something as old as Shakespeare and no one bats an eye. Rip off something that's a little more recent and people start losing their minds!

For example, The Lion King was basically a rip off of Hamlet, but with lions. Not too many people seem to care though.

Rip off something that's a little more recent and people start losing their minds!