Anime's You Find Overrated

[Littaly]

I've only watched a handful of animes, and I try my best not to use the word "overrated" unless it's really appropriate, so I don't know if I can name any.

If anything I think that Death Note gets a little more praise than it's worth. It's a pretty cool premise and it works really well up to a point, but it goes on for a bit too long and tries a bit to hard to outdo itself in terms of complexity. Had it ended a little over halfway through I would have liked it more.

 

[James Crook]

R2. Motherfucking R2. I liked Code Geass R1. It was over the top and goofy, but it at least had a sense of pacing and a level of restraint. I liked the characters, it had some good action scenes as well as some nice subtle details, culminating in a pretty damn awesome climax cliffhanger of a last episode.

And then, within a single episode, R2 shit over that entire buildup completely. So we get to see a condensed repeat of R1 over the course of a few episodes before it actually gets back on track, but even here, it just gets stupider and stupider. It became less about the character dynamic between Suzaku and Lelouch, and more about what utter bullshit they could come up with next, including but not limited to murdering GOD.

To me, the series just digressed way too much and found itself off track, and then Shirley died. That pissed me off because I liked the character, and personally, I expected Lelouch to go completely berserk by then.

Why not talk about the small animes you randomly find and watch, though? Rosario + Vampire? Highschool DxD? Zero no Tsukaima?

 

[Murlin]

Fairy tail, I don't hate it and I don't regret giving it a watch but it's far from brilliant. It's basically just the love child of Dragon Quest and One Piece, but with a higher boob degree (seriously you can count the small-breasted female characters on your fingers)

I liked TTGL and Evangilion, but mostly because Gainax is one of the few studios who go out and break the unwritten rules of anime. Death of deuteragonist early on in the show? Haven't seen that before.
Their ends were a huge mess though. Evangilion was warped and TTGL just tried to hard to emulate the overblown final boss fights of Final Fantasy.

 

[Justice4L]

Death Note.


It's a great show, up until that happens.

Then the series turned to shit.

I didn't find the events after 'you know what' shit, just different... very different. Seems like it was done by different writers.

OT: Probably One Piece. I like it, but it is stretched out to a ridiculous level.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Death Note.


It's a great show, up until that happens.

Then the series turned to shit.

I didn't find the events after 'you know what' shit, just different... very different. Seems like it was done by different writers.

OT: Probably One Piece. I like it, but it is stretched out to a ridiculous level.

It wouldn't have been so bad if Mellow and Near weren't the most annoyingly dull characters in the history of the universe.

For me, the mind games between Light and L are what made the series so great, as well as L being a genuinely interesting character.

 

[Jonluw]

- Clannad: Controversial, I know, but 3 episodes and it's painfully obvious that the main woman is oversensitive and useless and the man is an emo bully (Yeah, its okay to mock/tease the blonde guy but the second he hints you may like someone you get huffy and whiny). Bleh.

But...
The entire point of the series is how weak of a person the main character is.
You can't criticize the series for presenting the protagonist in an unappealing way when the series is about his unappealing qualities, i.e., fixing the flaws that are holding you back as a person.
If you had watched after story, you would have understood (Everything does make a whole lot more sense in after story).

It's also fairly important to the story that the main girl is weak and pretty much useless.

Edit: I know it's a very annoying thing to say, but you really should try watching the whole series before passing judgement on it. A valid criticism is that it sort of fumbles around aimlessly in the first season and doesn't get to the point until after story.
I can get how people are annoyed by that, but it does create a so much stronger bond with the characters than if they had jumped right to the point.

I know I'm being very annoying, but Clannad changed the way I think about a couple of things in life and is the only show to have made me shed a tear. It hurts me to see someone blow it off after the three first episodes because they don't like the main characters.

What I'm saying is Don't judge a story because you don't like the main characters as persons.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Elfen Lied.
OMFG this is probably one of most boring and _cliched_ anime i ever saw, yet there are legions of people who say "maaaaan, this is probably one of most f*cked up, goriest, scariest anime i ever saw"... ;]

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Elfen Lied.
OMFG this is probably one of most boring and _cliched_ anime i ever saw, yet there are legions of people who say "maaaaan, this is probably one of most f*cked up, goriest, scariest anime i ever saw"... ;]

Elfen Lied wouldn't have been so bad if the young female characters weren't naked at every opportunity.

 

[darksuccubus]

yay I thought I was the only one who finds Haruhi Suzumya boring as hell. So yeah, that's my first overrated anime. I started watching it and it's just so boring, I watched 2 episodes and dropped it.
The second one is Natsume. And I gave it 1 on my anime list, it's the only anime that got 1. It's horrible and I have no idea why it's rated 8.6. I watched the first season and it's crap. The main character is a dull perfect cardboard cut out that has no problem and expresses no emotions outside occasional Sasuke-like angst about being alone. Every episode was forgettable because there was a new character every time with some bullshit problem that always got solved at the end of the episode. The spirits themselves aren't interesting and the plot has one of the biggest plotholes I've ever seen. And you know what's really depressing? Director of Natsume directed anime like Hell girl and Durarara! How do you do that?
Third one - Code Geass. I honestly don't get why people like it so much. It's just a Deathnote ripoff with mechas. I only watched the first season and I didn't like it. At first I thought that it's going to be good but then I kinda noticed what a douchebag Lelouche is. You may say that Kira was also a douchebag and yes, I completely agree, but he was interesting and you could kinda related to him. Lelouche? It just seemed to me that his only goal is to take over the world, other than that he didn't display any other emotions. And then you add school because really, who doesn't want to see school life of students that fight with someone? It's It's not like we saw that. You could've made an interesting anime about mind control but you decided to just draw everyone like it's yaoi (and don't get me wrong, I love yaoi but it was so painfully obvious that they wanted us to feel that way towards the characters that it's not even entertaining) and gave mechas colorful capes which completely destroyed any respect I had for this anime.
Fourth one - Kuroshitsuju. I'll admit it, that when I first watched it I was in 'OMG ITS SO CUTE' state. But then a month passed, I remembered it again and I suddenly understood what utter crap it was. The butler is such an obvious Alucard ripofff that you could substitute the guy with Alucard and noone would see the diffirence (except for the fact that Alucard would probably kill Ciel after a few seconds of dialogue). There are giant plotholes and my suspension of disbelief was destroyed in the very first episode when we're told that a 10 year old works for a queen. The whole anime is just based on shonen-ai innuendos but that doesn't make your plot any better! The only reason Kuroshitsuji exists is because Ciel dresses in different gothic-19th century outfits and occasionally flirts with the butler.

 

[fish iron4]

Elfen Lied.
OMFG this is probably one of most boring and _cliched_ anime i ever saw, yet there are legions of people who say "maaaaan, this is probably one of most f*cked up, goriest, scariest anime i ever saw"... ;]

Elfen Lied wouldn't have been so bad if the young female characters weren't naked at every opportunity.

Yeh thats the thing, if you remove the nudity from it then it actually makes it into a (well in my opinion anyway) pretty good dark show

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Elfen Lied.
OMFG this is probably one of most boring and _cliched_ anime i ever saw, yet there are legions of people who say "maaaaan, this is probably one of most f*cked up, goriest, scariest anime i ever saw"... ;]

Elfen Lied wouldn't have been so bad if the young female characters weren't naked at every opportunity.

Yeh thats the thing, if you remove the nudity from it then it actually makes it into a (well in my opinion anyway) pretty good dark show

I agree.

Every time I was about to really get into it, low and behold, young naked girls show up and kick me right back out again.

 

[Justice4L]

Death Note.


It's a great show, up until that happens.

Then the series turned to shit.

I didn't find the events after 'you know what' shit, just different... very different. Seems like it was done by different writers.

OT: Probably One Piece. I like it, but it is stretched out to a ridiculous level.

It wouldn't have been so bad if Mellow and Near weren't the most annoyingly dull characters in the history of the universe.

For me, the mind games between Light and L are what made the series so great, as well as L being a genuinely interesting character.

I do agree that Mellow seems to serve no purpose and Near's detective work seems to be made up of assumptions instead of fact and evidence, but the second half of Death Note was still entertaining, although L was what made half of the show.

I did, however, find the ending hard to swallow.

 

[kortin]

Also, Bleach went really downhill after the first couple of seasons.

When they got to the Soul Society, I stopped watching. What pulled me in to begin with was Ichigo becoming a substitute Soul Reaper and fought Hollows in the city. That was awesome, I loved that idea. Then they had to pull in the Soul Society shit. If the Soul Society was a place that was always talked about, but never seen, I would have loved it.

Bleach basically went from interesting premise for an anime to Dragonball Z 2.0 (If you know me at all, you would know I hated Dragonball Z with all of my heart for being a 100% testosterone-fest).

I didn't find the events after 'you know what' shit, just different... very different. Seems like it was done by different writers.

OT: Probably One Piece. I like it, but it is stretched out to a ridiculous level.

I seriously could not watch Death Note after "you know what". That should have been (and is in my mind) the end of the series. They should have made the next several episodes wrapping it all up.

 

[SidheKnight]

Dragon Ball Z

The most overrated anime of all time.

 

[Jonluw]

Death Note.


It's a great show, up until that happens.

Then the series turned to shit.

I didn't find the events after 'you know what' shit, just different... very different. Seems like it was done by different writers.

OT: Probably One Piece. I like it, but it is stretched out to a ridiculous level.

It wouldn't have been so bad if Mellow and Near weren't the most annoyingly dull characters in the history of the universe.

For me, the mind games between Light and L are what made the series so great, as well as L being a genuinely interesting character.

I once talked to a girl whose favourite character was Near.
I died a little inside.

As for the series:

Spoiler: Death note spoilers

I feel it begins to decline gradually when Misa enters the scene. She presents an element of random chance that is at first interesting to see Light deal with, but it just turns annoying after a while.

The moment when the series really takes the dive into shittytown, to me, is the moment when Light gives up his memory of the Death note. For a while, the series just turns into a shitty "adventures of mismatched detective team".
It was at around this point I stopped reading the manga.
I watched the anime instead so that I would get to know how it ended.

It's clear that this part of the series was not something that the creator had offered a lot of thought when the idea came to him.
The beginning of the series gives off the impression of having been well planned out in advance by a genuinely engaged creator.
Then, when he has created the stuff that he was picturing in his mind, he realized he would have to continue the story from the cool premise he created. It just strikes me as uninspired and half-hearted.
It's as if he had imagined the entire first third of the series in vivid detail, but for the middle part only imagined a rough outline that he figured he'd flesh out when he got to it.

Then there's a brief moment at the point where Light gets back the power of the Death note which is actually of the original quality.
The creator had clearly imagined this particular part of the story in the same vivid detail as he imagined the first third. Sadly, this only lasts for a moment, and the story reverts to the "deal with it when we get there" quality.
And as if that's not enough two utterly pathetic attempts at recapturing the magic of L are introduced to the story along with a Kira's helper to introduce a new element of random chance to shit all over and ruin Light's plans which were what made the series good in the first place!

 

[RyoScar]

I didn't like the ending to Code Geass R2, but the rest of the show is very top notch in my opinion.

 

[darksuccubus]

Elfen Lied wouldn't have been so bad if the young female characters weren't naked at every opportunity.

this. I still like Elfen Lied just because of the beautiful music and stunning opening (didn't know that that was a painting) and an overall interesting plot but the ecchi parts really, really irritated me. It had a potential to be a very grim and dark anime, something I would really enjoy but then it tries to mix comedy and everything instantly fails.

Why not talk about the small animes you randomly find and watch, though? Rosario + Vampire? Highschool DxD? Zero no Tsukaima?

Rosario + Vampire? Saw it a long time ago, so my rage isn't as big now but I really hate this anime. Saw the first season and wow did it suck. It was a harem with no plot. Half of the anime the guy was just assembling all the girl stereotypes and then the creators were like 'oh shit, it should end with the big battle but we barely had any conflict!' and then they pulled the ending out of their ass. I don't know who degraded vampires more, this anime or Twilight.

I have never cried no hard as in the first FMA when... well you know.

Was it when Nina...? I was in depression after that. And when Hughes died I also cried T_T

As a side note, is it any good after they deal with the big bad and the timeskip? I'm just there (episode ~17) and the new story arc didn't seem compelling enough (to put it this way) to make me want to watch it. I'm currently leaving it for later, but I'm wandering should I bother.

Definitely. At first it will be a bit slow but then they'll have the most epic fight ever.

 

[GrimGrimoire]

I didn't like the ending to Code Geass R2, but the rest of the show is very top notch in my opinion.

What? The ending was awesome. Sure, It's kind of atypical, and not the ending many would have wanted. But for me, that ending was perfect, it wrapped things up so nicely.

 

[PureChaos]

One Piece, I got bored and quite after 7 episodes. someone once said it gets good after about 50 episodes but sod watching 50 episodes just for it to start getting good.

 

[letfireraindown]

I gotta say I've been rather disconnected as of late. I mean I never heard of katanagatari before this, let alone that it was significantly hyped.

Also, this might be me misjudging the average age here, but I find it entertaining that Eva and Akira and the GitS movie are being mentioned, in this. (I liked them, but I saw them during my adolescence so it might have that kinda light on them.)

On topic, I heard great things about Lain and Key: the Metal Idol, back then. While I enjoyed them I couldn't really recommend them for any reason. A lot of the attention I heard about them might have been more that they were part of the first wave of anime stateside with high thought concepts, most of which are trite by today's experience.

A more recent one that got a lot of attention would be K-on! It's a fine show, but I can't actually watch it out right. I mean, I can have it on in the room but I end up playing with my phone or checking memebase or here or something else. Just a lot of fanfare that didn't impress.