When I was 12 years old, watching torrented anime for the very first time - you know, anime that wasn't dubbed, that wasn't on YTV, that wasn't Pokemon or Digimon or Dragonball (or even Gundam Wing), that was probably a fansub - I thought that Arc the Lad was the absolute best thing I had ever watched. It was doing something with animation and storytelling I had never seen before! But! My close friend - the one who torrented it, the one I forced to watch it with me - insisted it was bad/that other anime series were significantly better, while I continued to insistthat we needed to finish this amazing series that I loved, wow, so good.

When it ended and we started .hack/sign, I realized that he had been right the whole - Arc the Lad (the anime) is complete trash.

Oops?