Anime's You Find Overrated
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I would say Haruhi also but I got to admit that the Dissappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya was pretty good. It may have been this one scene that just made the movie.TizzytheTormentor said:
Kyon gets stabbed and that was pretty awesome
I never saw much in Bleach, it just looks like DBZ with all the gloss filters turned on to max, and a demon theme over a superpowered alien scifi mellowdrama feel. I never bothered to watch too much of it, so I wont comment on too much of it but I personally never watched too much of it. Though I have heard the last few seasons were crap.
Don't get me started on GT lol.
Don't get me started on GT lol.
Oh cool, time to vent a little.
1. Fate/Stay Night.
What a complete piece of rubbish. One of the absolute worst things I've ever forced myself to watch. Completely filled with plot holes and things that simply make no sense, characters that I couldn't give less of a crap about and just SOOOooooo boring!
Maybe the visual novel makes sense and is entertaining but, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
2. Code Geass.
Seriously people? You like this stuff? I have seen so many people going on about how this is such an incredible series, but... why?
An incredibly dislikeable protagonist, incredibly dislikeable supporting characters, an incredibly dislikeable plot, Code Geass really does have it all! It wasn't smart, it wasn't interesting, and it sure as hell wasn't worth the time I put into watching it.
3. Gantz.
Just completely disgusting. Boobs and gore, what more could we need? Apparently nothing. Because that's all Gantz is.
I'd call Gantz everything that is wrong with some manga/anime, but it'll have to share that title with the next item on my hate-list:
4. Highschool of the Dead.
Yes, that's right! Incredibly busty high school kids amidst a zombie apocalypse. I at least understand why so many idiots love this series.
Thing is, without the frankly insulting level of sexualisation, Highschool of the Dead had potential to be pretty good. It's quite a cool premise, and executed by a competent creator, could have been a real winner. But it was seemingly written by a complete pervert, and as a result became some kind of justification for all the criticism anime is often plagued with.
5. Most of the long running Shounen anime.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge One Piece fan, and I quite like Naruto and Bleach. But their anime? I find it incredible that anybody bothers with them. So packed full of filler that it'll take you hundreds of hours to watch what you could have got in a tenth of that time by reading the manga.
I know this doesn't quite fit in with the other items on my list, but in my eyes, the Shounen anime that have hundreds of episodes are the most overrated series' around. People. Just read the manga. Seriously. It's better that the anime, and you'll be able to do other things with your life!
Ugh... that's been waiting to come out for a hell of a long time. There are so many more anime that I've seen that should probably be on this list, but I've forgotten about them. Because they sucked. These ones just stuck with me because their sheer awfulness offended me the most.
1. Fate/Stay Night.
What a complete piece of rubbish. One of the absolute worst things I've ever forced myself to watch. Completely filled with plot holes and things that simply make no sense, characters that I couldn't give less of a crap about and just SOOOooooo boring!
Maybe the visual novel makes sense and is entertaining but, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
2. Code Geass.
Seriously people? You like this stuff? I have seen so many people going on about how this is such an incredible series, but... why?
An incredibly dislikeable protagonist, incredibly dislikeable supporting characters, an incredibly dislikeable plot, Code Geass really does have it all! It wasn't smart, it wasn't interesting, and it sure as hell wasn't worth the time I put into watching it.
3. Gantz.
Just completely disgusting. Boobs and gore, what more could we need? Apparently nothing. Because that's all Gantz is.
I'd call Gantz everything that is wrong with some manga/anime, but it'll have to share that title with the next item on my hate-list:
4. Highschool of the Dead.
Yes, that's right! Incredibly busty high school kids amidst a zombie apocalypse. I at least understand why so many idiots love this series.
Thing is, without the frankly insulting level of sexualisation, Highschool of the Dead had potential to be pretty good. It's quite a cool premise, and executed by a competent creator, could have been a real winner. But it was seemingly written by a complete pervert, and as a result became some kind of justification for all the criticism anime is often plagued with.
5. Most of the long running Shounen anime.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge One Piece fan, and I quite like Naruto and Bleach. But their anime? I find it incredible that anybody bothers with them. So packed full of filler that it'll take you hundreds of hours to watch what you could have got in a tenth of that time by reading the manga.
I know this doesn't quite fit in with the other items on my list, but in my eyes, the Shounen anime that have hundreds of episodes are the most overrated series' around. People. Just read the manga. Seriously. It's better that the anime, and you'll be able to do other things with your life!
Ugh... that's been waiting to come out for a hell of a long time. There are so many more anime that I've seen that should probably be on this list, but I've forgotten about them. Because they sucked. These ones just stuck with me because their sheer awfulness offended me the most.
I would say Black Lagoon, but haven't seen it brought up enough to know whether or not it is highly rated anymore.
Still, it can't decide between over stylization or gritty realism, it tries way too hard to be "adult," and the pacing is terrible. Seriously, the plot structure always starts really slow, gives us the set up to a long plot of intrigue, only to solve it in a couple minutes with some gun fights that seem to be trying to copy John Woo without understanding why he was good in the first place. It might make up for it with strong characters, which it seems to suggest early on, but everyone just ends up degrading into a jaded asshole that doesn't give a shit. That isn't realism, it's just lazy writing. It isn't a "parody" of or "homage" to action films, it's just an action series that gets a whole bunch of things wrong.
Still, it can't decide between over stylization or gritty realism, it tries way too hard to be "adult," and the pacing is terrible. Seriously, the plot structure always starts really slow, gives us the set up to a long plot of intrigue, only to solve it in a couple minutes with some gun fights that seem to be trying to copy John Woo without understanding why he was good in the first place. It might make up for it with strong characters, which it seems to suggest early on, but everyone just ends up degrading into a jaded asshole that doesn't give a shit. That isn't realism, it's just lazy writing. It isn't a "parody" of or "homage" to action films, it's just an action series that gets a whole bunch of things wrong.
Magical Girl Madoka. I went into it expecting gods gift to anime, judging from what I had heard about it. What I got was a gorgeously animated show with some very obnoxious characters. I dropped it two episodes away from the end.
Madoka reminds me of the infamous Kira Yamato of Gundam Seed in her atttitude. All she does is whine and whine some more about how she wants to stop the conflicts but keeps refusing to become a magical girl. Perhaps it picks up in the last two episodes, but her bitching brought the series down for me.
Madoka reminds me of the infamous Kira Yamato of Gundam Seed in her atttitude. All she does is whine and whine some more about how she wants to stop the conflicts but keeps refusing to become a magical girl. Perhaps it picks up in the last two episodes, but her bitching brought the series down for me.
Lucky Star. Every little interaction on-screen seemed so entirely mundane and overdone. I remember that the characters spent a good 1/3 of an episode talking about the inside fillings of some foods, with a stupidly simple background, and no character body movements. I'm dumbfounded as to how it has a fanbase of any notable size at all.
Exactly, I don't know why people think something more happened after that. I found it to be a heartbreaking but very good ending, as it was something unexpected and worked out quiet well for the antihero(if Light could even be called such).Angry Juju said:
OT: Dragonball Z, any show where there is no real threat to the heroes of the show, and death is no hindrance, makes out to be a dull show. Take any battle scene and just change villains and you have a basic idea of the episodes, and the story itself was so clusterfucked but predictable at the same time that you could start any episode, not know a single character, and still have a good idea of what was going on.
Also, Naruto is overdone on both ends of the spectrum. People either like it too much, or give it too much hate. It's a decent enough anime. It isn't something scrounged out of the depths of hell and it isn't God's gift to the world, it's an anime that's somewhat entertaining and has a decent enough story when it's actually present.
it helps considerably if you skip the filler seasons, but yeah :/ least the anime of it is over now.Hazy992 said:
OT:
Eva and Akira
i don't get how people can praise ether.
Eva i spent the whole time wanting to choke the life out of .... every one cept the drunk chick, cause she's the only one that didn't piss me off in some form or another constantly
and i just didn't get Akira, yes i've been told the manga is better but i saw nothing to make me want to go find it. that and the movie felt like 6 hours long
me to actually, since it should have ended there >.<Hazy992 said:
have been following the manga though, and its getting good again
the final arc is Quincy VS Shinigami, and it is the final arc, TK said so a few times
I never really saw the appeal of Full Metal Alchemist. I gave it a try and, that one episode where Whinnery is kidnapped was fine (stop looking at me like that) but over all I don't see how it blew up like it did.
I never watched Serial Experiments Lain but that being said, I know it was more popular than Boogiepop Phantom; a series I absolutely loved. The thing is, Boogiepop seemed far less known even though a friend and anime fan told me about how very similar the two series are...were.
I never watched Serial Experiments Lain but that being said, I know it was more popular than Boogiepop Phantom; a series I absolutely loved. The thing is, Boogiepop seemed far less known even though a friend and anime fan told me about how very similar the two series are...were.
Dear god, where do I even begin?
Evangelion - Tries so hard to be philosophical and mature yet the franchise revolves around a teen whining and overreacting to EVERYTHING.
Death Note - Tries so hard to be intelligent yet the characters are so profoundly stupid it's sickening.
Elfen Lied - I'm pretty sure a little boy going through puberty in the 90's wrote this.
Naruto - Nearly half the series consists of flashbacks and characters talking about said flashbacks, not enough Rock Lee.
Bleach - After the first season the character design just nosedived.
One Piece - 545 episodes and no sign of slowing, poor character design from day 1, and I just can't stand the art style.
Shin Chan - Look at it, LOOK!
Hellsing - We get it, he can do cool stuff, does he have anything else going for him?
Devil May Cry - Like Hellsing, Dante just rips through any and every threat like butter and therefore has no real danger, and no plot.
Inuyasha - It's Twilight in anime form, bout it.
Evangelion - Tries so hard to be philosophical and mature yet the franchise revolves around a teen whining and overreacting to EVERYTHING.
Death Note - Tries so hard to be intelligent yet the characters are so profoundly stupid it's sickening.
Elfen Lied - I'm pretty sure a little boy going through puberty in the 90's wrote this.
Naruto - Nearly half the series consists of flashbacks and characters talking about said flashbacks, not enough Rock Lee.
Bleach - After the first season the character design just nosedived.
One Piece - 545 episodes and no sign of slowing, poor character design from day 1, and I just can't stand the art style.
Shin Chan - Look at it, LOOK!
Hellsing - We get it, he can do cool stuff, does he have anything else going for him?
Devil May Cry - Like Hellsing, Dante just rips through any and every threat like butter and therefore has no real danger, and no plot.
Inuyasha - It's Twilight in anime form, bout it.
the final arc starts at 480.Hazy992 said:
unless you skipped the fullbringer arc, then 424 is where you wanna start.
if only to explain the minor detail of Ichigo having his powers back and why he looks different
Bleach. I lost interest around the time where people started to glow and shit new bankais for every battle.
Naruto has, at time of writing, gotten over the over-the-top and has two laughably untouchable gary stue antagonists in manga history, and I just can't get into the characters and action anymore. Shame. It takes a lot to screw up a show about ninja wizards.
DBZ: You know why. Glowy-shouty-for-five-episodes wasn't an entertaining formula, and hasn't gotten better with age.
Death note also got increasingly ridiculous as time went on, and at one point I just went 'Fucking what?! REALLY?" and stopped watching.
Fairy Tail. It's One Piece to the power of Rave Master without the charm of One Piece.
FMA. Could not get into the main characters or the main conflict of it all, even if the alchemy was quite neat.
Soul Eater. FMA problem, but I actively wanted to murder most of the cast.
Clannad. It wasn't that special.
And yet, noone will read this list nor give two shits. Why do I bother replying again?
Naruto has, at time of writing, gotten over the over-the-top and has two laughably untouchable gary stue antagonists in manga history, and I just can't get into the characters and action anymore. Shame. It takes a lot to screw up a show about ninja wizards.
DBZ: You know why. Glowy-shouty-for-five-episodes wasn't an entertaining formula, and hasn't gotten better with age.
Death note also got increasingly ridiculous as time went on, and at one point I just went 'Fucking what?! REALLY?" and stopped watching.
Fairy Tail. It's One Piece to the power of Rave Master without the charm of One Piece.
FMA. Could not get into the main characters or the main conflict of it all, even if the alchemy was quite neat.
Soul Eater. FMA problem, but I actively wanted to murder most of the cast.
Clannad. It wasn't that special.
And yet, noone will read this list nor give two shits. Why do I bother replying again?