Don't Recommend Me an Anime

[DuctTapeJedi]

]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.

Sweet tap-dancing Jesus, I clicked on the link. How do the girls in this series not snap their spines the moment they try to stand up?

Spoiler: Probably end up on a government watch list for even Google searching this character

This is supposed to be an 11 year old child?! Who did their character design?

 

[Manji187]

As for the anime I wouldn't recommend; Log Horizon. Inspired by Sword Art Online, but decides to focus entirely on the gameplay aspects. Why can't people log out of the game? Who cares when there's cooking to be done! How does this game even work? Matrix-style plug-in to the neck? Who cares...when NPC's are apparently leading their own lives now!

There's only so much "just roll with it" that I can take.

Got Ninja'd I see... That the guy from Vagabond in your avatar by the way?

Anyway, here are some of my reasons why I would recommend to stay away from that series;

The main character comes very close to a know it all god character, the series seems riddled with inner dialogs explaining situations all the while emphasizing how smart and cunning the main character is.

He has his own personal ninja girl groupie that obviously likes him but he doesn't seem to notice. She role-plays that she is indebted to him for life, constantly calls him her lord and clings to him because he is so awesome and what not. She is totally insecure about the way she looks, acting embarrassed and what not whenever she is asked to dress or act femininely in front or around the main character.

I just can't stand these kinds of characters. The anime might have a nice story further down the line, but.. I just didn't stick around to find out. Also, it struck me as an anime that would end up making up game techniques just for plot convenience.

As to my avatar, you are correct.

Your reasons concerning the portrayal of the characters are pretty spot-on. God forbid Shiroe is ever shown as someone less than a total badass in all he does, the show seems to be implying. Self-insert character for the teenage viewer much? Also, what's up with those two kids being used as slaves? Just run, get yourself killed....RESPAWN and head to the nearest friendly guild. Maybe I've missed something, but I couldn't understand why they were patiently enduring it all until Shiroe the Savior came to the rescue.

What is a glaring flaw, IMO, is the fact that even though everybody is essentially trapped in the game, nobody seems to mind that very much. You don't see anyone freaking out (which would be a normal reaction from a normal person) and trying to find a way out, oh no, they'll happily play on and focus on all the things that don't truly matter. That's why I believe you are correct when you say that this anime will probably make stuff (like game techniques) up. The creators are likely to pad the anime out with all sorts of, ultimately irrelevant, shenanigans.

 

[maninahat]

Don't watch Elfen Lied or Black Lagoon. Both are a kid's idea of mature viewing, but in their own uniquely obnoxious way. Elfen Lied thinks it is trying to say something, but its navel gazing is diminished by gratuitous fan service, under-developed characterisation and excessive gore. Black Lagoon wants to be a throw back to 80s action movies, but it tries way too hard. All the swearing, boobery and akimbo guns feels a bit pathetic.

I'm not saying this because stuff has to be mature and I am happy with childish, mindless gratuitous stuff. But I like it to admit it's childish, mindless gratuitous stuff, and not making some attempt to be what it isn't. Elfen Lied is not clever or mature, Black Lagoon is not a Woo/Schwarzenegger movie.

 

[Casual Shinji]

From Up On Poppy Hill.
I wouldn't say it's bad, or insulting or... well it's not anything really. It's just dull. Nearly every secondary plot point is completely predictable and boring and the main plot is built on a non-issue that's so convoluted and silly it's hard to take it seriously.

It doesn't even have the good manners to have the mysticism that other Ghibli films have, like Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle or Laputa. The visual and sound design are great as per usual for a Ghibli film but everything else is dull from start to finish and I only remember it for how boring it was,

Well, it was directed by the same guy (Goro Miyazaki) who directed Tales from Earthsea. So it's no real surprise his next venture would be of comparable quality.

Japan seems like the type of culture where it's expected of children to follow in their parents footsteps, taking over the reigns. So eventhough Goro Miyazaki can't direct, and maybe doesn't even want to, it's still expected of him. I could be completely wrong though, but somehow I feel this might be the reason behind it.

 

[hazabaza1]

From Up On Poppy Hill.
I wouldn't say it's bad, or insulting or... well it's not anything really. It's just dull. Nearly every secondary plot point is completely predictable and boring and the main plot is built on a non-issue that's so convoluted and silly it's hard to take it seriously.

It doesn't even have the good manners to have the mysticism that other Ghibli films have, like Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle or Laputa. The visual and sound design are great as per usual for a Ghibli film but everything else is dull from start to finish and I only remember it for how boring it was,

Well, it was directed by the same guy (Goro Miyazaki) who directed Tales from Earthsea. So it's no real surprise his next venture would be of comparable quality.

Japan seems like the type of culture where it's expected of children to follow in their parents footsteps, taking over the reigns. So eventhough Goro Miyazaki can't direct, and maybe doesn't even want to, it's still expected of him. I could be completely wrong though, but somehow I feel this might be the reason behind it.

I remember kind of liking Tales from Earthsea. It was a bit slow at times and a little generic maybe but the mysticism was nicely done and I can remember more about the characters in Earthsea six years on than I can from Poppy Hill in less than a month.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Let's stop watching Naruto.

Let's stop watching Bleach.

Let's stop watching everything Gainax has produced.

And let's stop talking about how Evangelion is "deep" and "meaningfull", even though the producers themselves said that because Christianity is rare in Japan (0.023% of Japan practises Christianity, or a similiar number) they thought putting in a bunch of religious references would be fun and maybe they'd increase the popularity of their show by having a fight with censors.

In other words, the "deap and meaningfull" aspects of your shitty like anime are just a marketing ploy.

Stop talking about Evangelion. Please, oh God... please...

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Unless you happen to stumble about a list of useless fillers: Naruto. Reasons have been specified. However, recent episodes all the cool shit has been happening one has waited for years to happen. I suppose it's a guilty pleasure of mine.

Not a guilty pleasure of mine: Fairy Tail. Yes. The music is fucking amazing. No other anime has managed to bring tears to my eyes yet. This one does. And I blame it on the beautiful, mind boggling music.

However: Complete lack of blood?! Seriously?! Even the chick whose "magic" it is to slice everything up with swords. How does one manage to do this without bleeding? No. I am not a gore addict. But this just... bothers me. I can't even bump my forehead without bleeding (you know, very hard and stuff), and they... well...

The female characters are just plain bad. In every fight: First cry, than kick ass, than cry some more, than tragic backstory blabla, don't forget crying... oh yeah! And the crying! If that has been done we might even get to see some action. in EVERY arc.
Also the filler arcs are pointless. And what was about that fucking episode with the body switching magic?! First things go bad. Than things go worse, than solution is impossible. THE END! Coming up next: completely different arc. Also we retconned the episode you just finished watching. Sure you don't remember it, do you?!

In most animes you have a "learing curve". 2-3 standard attacks, 3-4 attacks for heavy foes. While undergoing physical/psychological trauma "the enraged mega death knock". After some uses of this, this one gets adopted into the arsenal. Not in this show. But, it's always a new "the enraged mega death knock". So yeah. Pretty creative writers who manage to find synonyms for "fire" "flame" "dragon" and "of doom!"

Anyway. The music is awesome.

To this day I still don't know WHY I actually liked this show. I blame it on the music, the tits, the fights scenes and the tits.

No but seriously the fanservice! The fucking fanservice! It somehow manages to not really interfere with the plot or seem overly ridiculous, even when it really really should.

It's not a great anime, it's probably not even a good one, but it's so much fun to watch.

And the No blood thing is especially ridiculous considering how extremely and absurdly R rated this series pretty much has to be because of all the god damn tits.

What the hell is the point?

OT: At this point it's really obvious that yes, Darker then Black was an amazing anime and yes, it went to hell in the second season and yes, were all extremely pissed off about it.

But I'm saying it anyway.

 

[mjharper]

Wow, some people don't seem to understand the difference between 'bad' and 'over-rated'. Spirited Away? Seriously? There is no objective standard by which that is bad, no matter how little you enjoyed it.

I gave up on Code Geass, was annoyed by the reset-buttoning of Clannad, and utterly despised Mind Game. Perhaps I'd advise you to avoid them. But they're all popular and/or respected enough in their own way, so that's just my opinion.

Anime to truly avoid, that no-one in their right minds could think was good? Evangelion, Black Lagoon, Attack on Titan, Elfenlied, RahXephon, Excel Saga; none of these are shows which fit the bill.

MD Geist, Sleeping with Hinako and the rest of that series probably should be avoided at all costs, though I can't speak from experience there. ThemAnime has a fascinating list of 'adult reviews' which are not adult for the obvious reason, but because they are likely to finally destroy your inner child. Those are more realistic anime to avoid than Death Note, for example.

 

[UPISTRVIMYD]

...four pages and not a single person has mentioned Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko.

You lucky bastards.

Suckered in by the promise of a show where the main character tries to bring the annoyingly quirky underage b8 back to reality and succeeds, I jumped aboard... and three episodes in, said plot was resolved. Cue nine episodes of NOTHING. Also, is anyone else more than a little creeped out by how, for some reason, when an older man makes sexual advances towards a young girl it's sick and wrong, yet the other way around it's supposed to be hilarious and sexy? Yeah, no, fuck that. That and the character design is hideous.

The one redeeming thing it has? The theme song is so bad, it's good incarnate. Here, have a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J5KHLXrcF8

EDIT: While I'm here:

Gurren Lagann spends way too much time focusing on a character I desperately wanted to see die, wasted an opportunity to develop a character with great potential(though I will concede he did get the most badass death of all time), most of the characters are complete idiots, and it continuously shoots itself in the face by twisting it's own message around to where the last episode basically tells the rest of the series to go fuck itself. An you know what? So do I.

Needless is one of the most accurately named anime of all time. Needlessly slow pacing, needlessly stupid and pointless characters, needless sexualization of characters for comedy that is neither arousing nor funny, and a needlessly dragged out ending that did manage to be creative while still boring as hell. Oh, and writers? YOU CANNOT MAGIC IN A ROMANCE IN LITERALLY THE LAST SCENE OF THE BATTLE CHARGE WITH NO PRIOR DEVELOPMENT.

Guilty Crown. First season was actually kind of an interesting character study with an acceptable conclusion; not really terrible, but Shinji Ikari .5 and generic fanboy bait Rei Ayanami ripoff #9001 do not interesting lead characters make. SEASON TWO, however, is absolute shit. Let me give an example of how bad this show is: there is a character who is wheelchair bound, and is clearly shown to be strong, mature, and independent. What, might you ask, is her "void"(basically a superpower every person has, each one being different for each character)?

BEING ABLE TO WALK. I wish I was kidding, I REALLY do. It just gets worse from there; characters become brain dead for no reason and get other, better characters killed, causing other characters to go insane and become evil, and it's just an utter fucking disaster.

 

[Saltyk]

Those two...individuals...who recommended watching Team Four Star's Dragonball Z Abridged as opposed to the actual Dragonball Z anime are classy people who I in no way disagree with whatsoever. Funny enough how at the beginning of every DBZA episode they go out and tell you quite directly to please support the official release.

You're free to believe whatever you want to believe, it's cool.

[sub]*twitch*[/sub]

OT: I didn't really enjoy One Piece when I watched it here and there on Toonami all those years ago. Then again I'm not the biggest watcher of anime, so you should probably take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Actually, make that a 4 lb bag of it.

If it makes ya feel any better, I am a huge DBZ fan. I love the series and it's probably one of the first anime I ever watched. That's half the reason I love DBZ Abridged. I've even enjoyed the more recent DBZ movies like Battle of the Gods. Kinda hope they start up more DBZ, since it seems to have done well. Heard it was released in theaters in Japan and was the number one movie when it came out.

You should Google Dragon Ball Multiverse, if you need a DBZ fix.

 

[Cybylt]

Elfenlied for me as well, it is boring bile fantasy nonsense interspersed with a bad harem anime where the main love interest is literally mentally retarded and can't even dress herself. Chobits for the same reason minus the gorn sections. Those late 90's/early 2000's "romances" really had a thing for inert female objects.

In fact, all harem anime, just that entire genre. But especially He Is My Master for the central ideal to it being "Yup, women exist to be subservient and indentured servitude is totally cool."

And I got one that's not so much an anime as it is a concept that's present in a lot of it. That blue-balling bullshit where the characters and by extension the audience are supposed to find innocence as a sexually attractive quality. The whole "I get off to the idea of this girl but I will never act on it because that will spoil her purity" and the highly sexualized situations those characters are placed in without any idea that it is indeed sexual.

 

[glider4]

Naruto. A lot of standing around talking about stupid crap when the characters are supposed to be locked in mortal combat, You are supposed to believe that some kids that just graduated ninja school can somehow train so fast that they can take on the best in the world in like a couple of weeks, the audience is supposed to recall the "good old days" when team 7 were friends and had adventures which are never actually shown so it has no effect on the audience what so ever.
Also Lucky Star, unless you enjoy hours of girls talking about nothings more boring than your real life conversations.
Code Geass R2. OK that's cheating because after one sees R1, seeing R2 is a requirement but after the amazingness that was Code Geass R1, R2 is just disappointing.
any anime dubbed by 4kids.
Oh yes Lets not forget DragonBall Z, the most overrated anime of all time, episodes of nothing but characters standing still, characters that are too overpowered for their own good, a story that nobody could take seriously, all fun and life sucked out and replaced with a bunch of identical looking muscle boys that could only be cool to children below ten years old, or so you would think.
Love Hina the anime. Studio Xebec decided to remove the good parts of the manga and blow up all the worst parts.
Negima! Same as Love Hina, ever other anime adaptation of the manga has been better than the xebe one. Read the manga instead.
Anything that has a premise of "a mysterious extremely attractive girl who is an alien/angel/robot/whatever ends up in a situation where they must live with our hilarious looser protagonist." Prepare for recycled jokes, unsatisfying fanservice, and ever character that isn't the main one acting like a complete moron for the sake of "comedy." Actually even the main character usually acts like a moron in these shows. The worst of these is Dokoro-chan which thinks it's clever because it takes the most overused anime joke of all time and uses it constantly and adds more blood.

 

[Nouw]

And let's stop talking about how Evangelion is "deep" and "meaningfull", even though the producers themselves said that because Christianity is rare in Japan (0.023% of Japan practises Christianity, or a similiar number) they thought putting in a bunch of religious references would be fun and maybe they'd increase the popularity of their show by having a fight with censors.

In other words, the "deap and meaningfull" aspects of your shitty like anime are just a marketing ploy.

Stop talking about Evangelion. Please, oh God... please...

You know not even on Evageeks, the Evangelion fansite, do they believe that . In fact I don't think I've actually seen someone try and justify or make sense of these symbols because it's so widely known that it was indeed, a marketing ploy. That isn't to say other parts of the anime aren't looked into perhaps, too deeply such as the cultural significance of lunchboxes in 2.0 or Shinji's sleep patterns in 3.0.

 

[Sock-Puppet]

...four pages and not a single person has mentioned Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko.

You lucky bastards.

Suckered in by the promise of a show where the main character tries to bring the annoyingly quirky underage b8 back to reality and succeeds, I jumped aboard... and three episodes in, said plot was resolved. Cue nine episodes of NOTHING. Also, is anyone else more than a little creeped out by how, for some reason, when an older man makes sexual advances towards a young girl it's sick and wrong, yet the other way around it's supposed to be hilarious and sexy? Yeah, no, fuck that. That and the character design is hideous.

The one redeeming thing it has? The theme song is so bad, it's good incarnate. Here, have a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J5KHLXrcF8

I entirely agree with you on this one the only thing that kept me from throwing this thing was the great quality of the scenery that this show has. Example: http://i.imgur.com/QuAhMx3.png. Though to enjoy it like this you need to have it in HD.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

I can't believe I forgot to mention my personal Nemesis of anime, Evangelion 3 point fucking zero. I just rewatched the first 10 minutes of it, and blimey charlie did everything that annoyed me the first time come rushing back in! What an indulgent, incomprehensible waste of tons of money, talent and great animation it is. While it removes some of the worst aspects of Evangelion almost altogether, like Shinji's constant whining, it only means it allows the ones left grow exponentially like a lethal cancer and making the movie reach all new levels of suck.

I intend to rewatch it tomorrow, so stay tuned for the ultimate bashing!

 

[CJ1145]

Gonna get hated for this but Full Metal Alchemist it is just sooo melodramatic. There's nothing lighthearted about it, so you eventually just get numb to the endless barrage of drama.

to the point where someone cut up their own daughter for an experiment and all it got out of me was just a "meh"

You're either discussing the original series (which WAS too melodramatic, but not even remotely close to the level you're bitching about.) or you have no concept of what melodrama actually means. Brotherhood is a damn good remedy for anyone who feels ripped off by the first adaptation, if you can forgive a rushed start to get past what little shared ground it has with the first show.

My own anti-recommendation would be, sorry to say, Berserk. There's just so much goddamned rape. To the point that I think there are more rapes than main characters. It's disgusting an horrifying, and not in a compelling way. It just makes you think that the mangaka is the sickest fucker alive and shouldn't be allowed out of a mental ward.

 

[l3o2828]

hmm...

How about every yaoi anime ever? Most of the time it's overly dramatic soap operas with barely any interesting characters and highly inaccurate sex scenes; going in dry would hurt anyone, squeak.

Junjou Romantica being the sole exception...Sort of.

Don't watch Kill La Kill. It's bad.

 

[loa]

Bleach.
Starts off decent but fails to explore some interesting elements and then takes a real nosedive when the second damsel gets kidnapped literally right after they saved the first one.
In the manga, that is. The anime is chock full of filler and slaps a whole arc that goes absolutely nowhere inbetween those 2 story lines.

Oh and you think aizen and ichimaru are cool and that something interesting will be done with them some day?
Well too bad for you.

After saving damsel #2, the story just goes apeshit and flails about aimlessly.
Kind of sad when dragon ball z has better structured story with more interesting villains that have actual motivations.

 

[IrenIvy]

I watched it years and years ago so I thought it is pretty obscure but somebody beat me to it twice: MD Geist is, probably, still the worst anime I ever saw [aside of an obscure hentai gifted to me as a joke just to see my reaction]. It is just ugly in a bad way and pointless in any other way.

One I haven't seen mentioned is "Ergo Proxy". I can't say it is the worst anime evarr! but I watch all anime series I start to the end (except those really long ones, like Naruto) and this was the only one that was so boring I stopped watching two episodes before the ending. It is supposed to be suspense but it does bad job on it.

If you liked "Darker than Black" first season, don't watch the second one. It isn't horrible, but it would be better as a standalone story in the same universe than the story that trashes all over characters from the first season.

If people thought "Excel Saga" was bad, I'd say "Puni Puni Poemy" is even worse. As a parody it just doesn't work well and by itself it is horrible.

 

[jhoroz]

Mirrai Nikki-do not be fooled by the recommendations and praise this show gets. It's a pretentious, stupid mess where the creator throws whatever bullshit enters his mind into a melting pot and then tries to pass it off at times as a serious, psychological thriller. It's not. Its characters are one-note and are solely defined by their over-exaggerated quirks (looking at you Yuno) and plot goes full retard a couple of episodes before the finale. On my first viewing, I dropped it eight episodes in, because I had enough. It just spewed what random, insane thing entered its mind and used that define its plot. Even eight episodes in, it still hadn't defined a consistent tone and direction of where the show wanted to go, and just kept digging itself more and more down a hole. The fact that it's mentioned in the same breath as shows such Death Note or Fate/Zero drives me up the wall. It actually pisses me off more than a majority of the slice of life/moe bullshit out there that defines the industry at the moment, because if this is what the modern anime community holds up as a pedestal for a great show, then by god, have standards dropped.

And did I mention that this show's fanbase are the most obnoxious group of people ever?