Whoops! That one’s my fault, for reblogging the post and getting the train of replies going! XD

One of the best aspects of having been in the GX fandom for years is watching new people getting into the show, thinking it’s one thing (cutesy, stereotypical high-school shounen anime) and halfway through its run, realizing they’re dealing with something else entirely (a merciless deconstruction of common anime tropes such as ~nakama~ and ~kizuna~ being enough to save the day when one has fucked up epically and a very good interpretation of what would actually happen when you put the fate of everyone on the shoulders of a seventeen year-old boy).

I’ll give you the advice I give everyone else — watch the seasons in order, starting from Season 1. No peeking ahead, no skipping. GX’s shtick is that it relies on you getting fiercely attached to this adorable cast of GIANT DORKS…. before putting them through utter hell, in all meanings of the word. One of them will be cauterized down to the very bone and he’ll never be as he was at the start of the series, because one doesn’t just go ‘I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds’ and come out of that unchanged or without serious traumas to deal with for the rest of one’s life.

But yes, all of this rambling says you should definitely watch GX. It’s horribly, cringe-worthy silly at points (talking monkey anyone?) and at others it starts meandering and dropping plot threads left and right, but when it actually decides to get down to business, it has that sort of fierce, wild charm that makes you talk about it long after it’s over.