Hmmm... interesting.
I've seen a ton of bad anime, but in my opinion if someone wanna watch them, so be it. I'm not one to tell people not to watch something.
However, some of the worst anime I've seen are:
Eiken [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiken_(manga)]- I can't think of a single redeeming factor for this anime. It's tasteless, unfunny, unsexy, irredeemable, disgusting trash. Everything from the one dimensional characters, awful and inconsistent animation, generic and forgettable music, terrible voice work both Japanese and English, and lack of any sort of story or plot. I've seen hentai that had more class, plot, and better animation than this vile, unwatchable garbage. If you think HighSchool of the Dead was bad with its fanservice, you'll faint if you ever decide to watch this piece of shit. This is seriously the worst anime I've ever seen. I just can't squeeze any sort of enjoyment out of this, not even ironically.
The Rebirth of Buddha [http://myanimelist.net/anime/6985/Buddha_Saitan]- It's a Buddhist propaganda film, with so little effort put into it that it feels like it should have the budget of Mars of Destruction, and aired on a religious network, but instead it has a budget and screened in theaters with an all-star Japanese voice cast. The movie feels like a bad episode of Captain Planet, but with Buddha. There's a part with an alien invasion destroying a city Independence Day-style. I am not making this up. I feel like this movie was a waste of everyone's time and money.
Apocalypse Zero [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Zero]- This anime is basically a 90s Panty and Stocking minus all the fun. It's needlessly and uncomfortably violent, and I love my gory violence. It grows increasingly graphic and perverse, and it has a hideous art style. Like Eiken, it lacks any taste whatsoever, and it's not even enjoyable for how ridiculous it is. You just feel unpleasant and disgusted watching it. It's just not a fun watch, and it's not even like the anime is taking itself too seriously, because it's not. It has a fairly goofy Super Sentai theme going. It would be at least tolerable if the story was any good, but it's not. What sort of post apocalyptic society would have their high school above ground where grotesque monsters roam around the ruins, and even have them takes trips INSIDE these ruin cities with absolutely NO protection, where said monsters can easily rip their faces off? And the schools only protection against these powerful beasts are a handful of armed grunts? Why is the main leads brother looks and shaped like a woman, but they keep referring to her as a "him" and they never mention or establish if he's a transvestite or shemale or not?
Penguindrum [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguindrum]- I literally feel like the only person who actively hate this anime. Everyone I've heard from say it's a masterpiece, and while I'm not one to tell them they're wrong, it just irritates me increasingly every time I hear this thing get praised. Yes, this is seriously one of the worst anime I've sat through, just for the amount of anger it fueled in me. It was such an infuriating sit for me. The style was repetitive, and paced painfully slow, the characters lacked any believability, the dialogue was comprised of the most trite philosophical drivel you hear in almost every anime, coming out of the mouths of every character, including the children, a flashback every five seconds, and it's clear that the anime's main concern was not to tell a cohesive, believable story, but to shove as much symbolic schlock down your throat until you choke. It throws so much twists and new plot points that not even the anime could keep up with itself. Sure, there are some nice things I can say. It made me laugh a few times, and at first I found the character behaviors to be strangely charming, but as it went on it started taking itself way too seriously, and all those good feeling quickly "disappeared" like those fucking kids in that fucking child broiler. I tried watching Revolutionary Girl Utena afterwards, which is from the same creator, because I wanted something to like, but I didn't even like that "classic"
Nerawareta Gakuen [http://myanimelist.net/anime/14293/Nerawareta_Gakuen]- This was probably the angriest I've been watching an anime since Penguindrum. The movie looks pretty, but the story was... well, there wasn't any. Not even any of the synopsis I've read can tell you what the movie's about. It's just a sequence of horribly told events. When the movie isn't boring as hell, it's bafflingly bad. The main character's an idiot, and his love interest is overly abusive even for a tsundere. The other main character is probably the most interesting but even he's forgettable, and his love interest has nothing to do with anything in the movie. There's a student council in this movie make the student council in Kill la Kill look reasonable. The film also has this strange hatred for cellphones. This was just another infuriating sit.
Those are the ones that really get on my nerves. The other bad stuff I've seen I usually enjoy for their shittiness. Such as:
Mars of Destruction
Garzey's Wing
Master of Martial Hearts
Skelter Helter
Panzer Dragoon
Sleeping with Hinako
School Days
You may not know this, but I love watching shitty anime.
EDIT: I'd like to add two more to the shit list:
Amnesia [http://myanimelist.net/anime/15085/Amnesia]- A reverse harem anime from our good friends Idea Factory, the guys who brought us such masterpieces as Mars of Destruction and Skelter Heaven. While I see what this anime is trying to do, the execution is god awful. It's one of the most boring things I've bothered sitting through, and features one of the worst female leads I've ever seen in an anime. I've never seen a more useless, bland, idiotic empty husk of a heroine in my life. She has no personality or character, does nothing, doesn't say anything meaningful, and has such a passive reaction to everything around her. Have a guy lock her in a cage, and her only reaction is "well, uh... okay.". Have a guy nearly strangle her, threatening to kill her, and the minute he stops and apologizes, she reacts with "No... I'm fine." It's not a case that she has no memories, it's that she has no character whatsoever. Throughout the entire anime, she simply waits for shit to happen to her and rolls with it. She doesn't even have a name, for Christ's sakes. Also, the designs are just odd. The main characters dress like chess boards going through their goth phase, and no one ever addresses it. It's not like this takes place in a world of fantasy or scifi either, it's the normal, modern day world, and the guys (mostly) act normally. It's really distracting. The designs of the eyes are weird as well.
Diabolik Lovers [http://myanimelist.net/anime/17513/Diabolik_Lovers]- Another reverse harem from Idea Factory, both of which are from 2013. While there's a few steps up from Amnesia; The main girl here is better than the excuse for a heroine in Amnesia, and the episodes are only 15 minutes, but this one is somehow worse. This is probably the most vile, wretched, hateful anime I've seen all year. Throughout the whole anime, this helpless girl is constantly being harassed, threatened, forced upon, verbally abused, and treated horribly by these vampire boys, while also getting enough blood sucked out of her to give Elfen Lied a fun for its money. All the male characters are completely unlikable with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, one of them even straight-up refer to the girl as "*****-chan". What's more is that the girl, despite being treated like shit, constantly tries to get involved with them, and never tries to escape. There's a part where she gets a silver knife that can kill them, but she never uses it against them. And no, there isn't a single part where she connects or opens up to any of them. There's not a single part where they grow fond of her and start treating her kindly. This isn't like Beauty and the Beast. Any moment where it seems like the male characters are displaying some kind of likable trait, they immediately destroy it by sucking her blood and talking shit to her for the millionth time. This whole anime was just unpleasantness throughout. I felt disgusted watching it. It wasn't like Amnesia where I was mostly bored, this was pissing me off. The fact that this is suppose to appeal to girls and is trying to sell itself as a romance is astonishing to me. The fact that the girl does nothing against these horrible, horrible males and somehow gets infatuated by them is beyond idiotic. The fact that Kill la Kill is getting pegged for sexism while this goes largely unscathed is absolutely insulting.
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