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Jasper van Heycop said:
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.
 

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schrodinger said:
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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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?

 

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Epicspoon said:
School Days. Yeah...... don't. Just don't.
Except for the last five minutes. Those are hilarious.


bartholen said:
Berserk.

TERRIBLE animation and background art, chopped-down story with lots of things left unexplained, yet with added inconsequential bits, weak soundtrack and a legendarily abrupt ending. Just read the manga. The animation is so bare-bones it hardly makes a difference anyway.
The anime has Susumu Hirasawa. The manga has Puck.

It balances out.

SadisticFire said:
Highschool of the dead. It's terrible, mysonigistic, fan service, terrible plot, meh voice acting. I felt like a worse person for watching it.
I knew something was wrong when I started rooting for the zombies.
 

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This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
You... have NO IDEA how much I agree with this... to the point that I own the manga version of that series just to remind myself why I REFUSE to believe Gainax was even involved in this series' original conception...
Dr. Cakey said:
What? You just said I had to Not Recommend an anime. You didn't say it had to be bad.
That explains every one of my OT posts in this thread in a nutshell...

OT: Uh... I got nothing to (not) recommend this time... Oh wait...

I guess any English-dubbed hentai would have to do... (I sometimes find it hard to believe that some of those dubs are done by ACTUAL porn stars... I know their acting might be bad, but those dubs are just TOO ridiculous to listen to all at once...)

Also, if you don't like Space Dandy by it's first episode, then you should be glad that first episode ends the way that it did...
 

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EyeReaper said:
Well, I have a few.
Firstly, Squid Girl.
Weaver said:
A runner up award goes to Shinryaku! Ika Musume (Squid Girl).
I'm frowning pretty hard over my keyboard.


OT:

Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge - This one is for the record books.

Our main character, Kiri, is delightfully creepy. He loves cutting hair, I mean loves it. He hears rumors about a girl with uncuttable hair, so he goes to her house to cut it. He meets the 'Hair Queen', falls in love and triggers an ancient game.

There are items in the world that have been used by serial killers and are now cursed. Whoever owns one of these "killing goods" is driven to kill people with it, until the Hair Queen is dead. Kiri cutting the Hair Queen?s hair activates this curse. Furthermore, his grandfather was a serial killer who would use a pair of scissors to kill and dispose of young girls.

Now Kiri, with his scissors, kills people who try to kill the Hair Queen. These people are all young girls. Police begin investigating the missing girls and begin to suspect a copy-cat killer.

The show would have Kiri try to avoid police suspicion while defending the Hair Queen. Over the season The Queen herself grows uneasy with Kiri because she cannot be sure if he has complete control of himself.

It's a setup for a tense, smart show with an air of mystery.

This is all setup in one episode. It's perfectly paced. Unfortunately, there is no payoff in the other episodes.
Just awful.
Don't watch it.
I stopped at episode three.
 

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Berserk.

I Think it's a good anime, but the problem is that it doesn't have an ending. It just stops. I mean, even Mass Effect 3 had an ending, albeit a terrible one but sill and ending. Berserk does not. If you can handle that, by all means Watch it. It got an interesting artstyle and a solid story.

Edit: And one of the best anime soundtracks ever, swear to God.
 

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I feel like a lot of the "recommendations" on this list are by people who feel burned by the heavy hype of a series.

Attack on Titan is good, Evangelion is good. I like them both a lot. They get hyped as life-changing incredible experiences, and maybe for some people they are, but just because you don't see them as that doesn't mean they're bad or not worth watching. They both have their issues (pacing problems, Titan has too many characters, Evangelion's characters can be pretty grating at times), but just because some fanboys on the internet crow about them endlessly doesn't mean you'll look cool and edgy for hating them.

As for my own don't watch list, I'll say:

Code Geass: Mentioned repeatedly on this threat, but I really need to stress that you shouldn't watch it. I did and regret it every day. Things start out promising enough, and there are some memorable moments, but Lelouch is an atrocious protagonist, his friends and allies are either callous douchebags or brainless pawns, and his enemies... holy shit, if Suzaku isn't the worst characters in anime, then he has to be top ten. It brims with xenophobia, depicting Americans as mindless imperialist assholes, Europeans as haughty aristocrats, Arabs as greedy and sleazy sheiks, Chinese as backwards and corrupt eunuchs... if you aren't from Japan, Code Geass says, then you're some kind of disgusting garbage. The show's few redeeming qualities are the mech fights and a few of Lelouch's early plans are fun, but just as you get comfortable, the anime proves itself to be utterly incompetently written.

Oh, and Kallen's great. She deserves to be in a better anime.

Tenchi Muyo GXP: This was on Toonami a while ago, and I decided to give it a chance. I didn't expect to like it, but I thought it might surprise me. I haven't watched the main Tenchi Muyo series, it's apparently pretty good, but GXP is a mess of atrocious animation (there's a loop of our forgettable lead on a bicycle that is used like five times in the first episode), terrible characters, an uninteresting and generic plot, and is just plain boring. Don't watch unless you're a die-hard Tenchi fan, and even then I still can't recommend it.

Casshern Sins: A remake of a 70's anime, Casshern roams a boring wasteland fighting boring robots in a boring way. Every conceivably interesting character dies immediately after they're introduced. The "mystery" that drives the plot is one-note and completely easy to figure out. Watch Fist of the North Star instead, because at least that series has heart and likability. Casshern Sins is just a shameless, mercenary cash-grab on a potentially lucrative franchise.
 

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SomeLameStuff said:
Tony2077 said:
SomeLameStuff said:
Never watch Clannad. Ever. Trust me... ;-;
i am going to have to ask you why?
Feels! Feels everywhere! >.<

Well, I suppose if you want to feel like you got kicked in the chest, you should go watch it.
No, the reason we don't watch Clannad is because Nagisa is the most piss boring character to ever be created. I watched that entire show and Clannad : After Story and the point where Nagisa

finally dies was the point where I had the biggest smile throughout that entire thing

She is boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, oh so boring. The only saving grace is the Fuko storyline and Kotomi storylines. But then they turn Fuko into a horribly unfunny recurring character.

As for what I would suggest people stay away from:

Full Metal Alchemist : Brotherhood

Honestly don't watch this. People say that it is better then Full Metal Alchemist, but the character development is stretched incredibly thin. The plot is an uninteresting good vs. evil type deal and the villain is incredibly bland. It actually assumes that you've seen Full Metal Alchemist so some of the most interesting and dramatic early plot points are rushed. They try on several occasions to humanize the villains and make you pity them, but it does a horrible job of it. A lot of the villains have no real rhyme or reason to what they can do, or what they eventually turn into once defeated. The best part about the entire series is Greed and The Prince, two characters that have similar attitudes to the world but go about their goals in radically different ways, and who are forced to work with each other. All in all though the series tries to cram to much into to little time, so everything comes off as thin and uninteresting.

The Melancholy of Haurhi Suzumiya

Often hailed as one of the great anime of it's time. This anime touches on several interesting ideas but never actually goes anywhere with them. In fact the entire plot of the show is "Make interesting things NOT happen". I'm not even kidding that is the main characters entire goal. A few of the episodes take that premise and do make great episodes. But the majority of them are just bland and obnoxious. The whole thing has an undercurrent of subjugation to it. Most of the characters only do what they do because they have to, not because they want to, due to one of the major plot points.
 

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Movitz said:
Berserk.

I Think it's a good anime, but the problem is that it doesn't have an ending. It just stops. I mean, even Mass Effect 3 had an ending, albeit a terrible one but sill and ending. Berserk does not. If you can handle that, by all means Watch it. It got an interesting artstyle and a solid story.

Edit: And one of the best anime soundtracks ever, swear to God.
I second this. I would not recommend Berserk to anyone even though I found it to be one of the best animes I've ever watched (up until the ending). The ending is the biggest mindfuck you'll ever have and if you dare to touch the manga to see where the story goes you'll be scarred for life.
 

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Mersadeon said:
Bleach.
Haven't read the entire thread, so it might have been mentioned already, but god damn. The author even admitted that he writes himself into corners and whenever that happens, he just invents a new overpowered character to break out of it. And you notice it.
To be precise, he said that when he isn't sure where to go with the story, he creates a bunch of new characters at once. It's equally evident, though, given that the show has umpteen trillion heroes/antagonists/neutral characters... so many that it's pretty much guaranteed that whoever your favorite winds up being, they'll never get all the development they need.

He's actually not so bad with overpowered characters... the biggest problem being the same thing Kishimoto has wrong with him... they both fanboy their big bad too much, and wound up making him so strong they have no idea how to make him lose.



hmmm... bad anime... Well, super milk chan comes to mind.... generally with a bad anime, there's at least something to it to be liked, art, animation...SOMETHING... but there was really nothing to like about this one... crude scriblings delivering jokes so utterly incomprehensible to the non-japanese ear that even the world's most talented translator can't make it funny.

huh... my inability to pull more bad anime from the top of my brain is saddening... I need to watch more.
 

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Hmm.

Can't really think of others quite as bad as Sword FArt Online. (See what I did there? I know, hold your applause.)

The show had promise. A shit ton of it. But after it tried to throw in the romance into the plot, I lost a lot of interest. Like, the episode near the beginning where the guy killed his wife in the game because it technologically wasn't illegal because it wasn't real life, but in a game? That was great. More stories like that please.

BUT NUUPE. Shitty rushed love plot. I made it to episode 17 and called it quits. It goes full harem, and that totally makes no goddamn sense. Also, sister incest subplot? That's just.. yeah, okay, that's great. Good.

Good.

I had to give my sister props for having the nerves to finish the show. She also pushed through Attack on Titan when I was bored as shit with it and it's dang-ass slow pacing.

CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 2 LATER THIS YEAR LOLOLOLOLOLOL
 

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MM!
Strike Witches
Infinite Stratos - Second season.
Sword Art Online
Another
Kanokon - Unless you're into that stuff and don't mind turning off your brain.
Kill La Kill- Every episode should be like the "No-Late day" episode, but it's not so fuck it.
 

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deserteagleeye said:
MM!
Strike Witches
Infinite Stratos - Second season.
Sword Art Online
Another
Kanokon - Unless you're into that stuff and don't mind turning off your brain.
Kill La Kill- Every episode should be like the "No-Late day" episode, but it's not so fuck it.
i rather liked strike witches haven't seen the rest
 

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FPLOON said:
Also, if you don't like Space Dandy by it's first episode, then you should be glad that first episode ends the way that it did...
But Space Dandy is awesome, even if it is just a "fart around" anime. xD The animation is psychedelic in places and the main character is such a dumb goofball that he reminds me of Johnny Bravo. I get that it's not everyone's thing though, so ah well. Guess I'll just go with the flow~

OT: Buh, someone mentioned Gantz already. Crap. I like the manga for it, but it has so much fan service that I feel awkward having it around. The anime is terrible though, especially the english dub for it. Seriously, watching it almost put me off the manga, but it had an interesting enough premise to make me want to give it another shot.

Bleach was already mentioned too...so was Dragon Ball Z, surprisingly.

Oh, I know! The Marvel animes! X-Men and Iron Man were adapted to be animes, along with others I haven't seen. I thought X-Men was boring but not overly bad. It had enjoyable moments, but they were far and few in between. Too much drama, not enough action, in my opinion. Iron Man though? Holy shit, the 3D animations for the suit and any other piece of technology on the screen were teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerible. The story also goes against Tony Stark's determination not to share the suits with anyone either, completely throwing that out of whack. Just...eeeegh. I stopped after the first episode and couldn't pick it up since.
 

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SilverBullets000 said:
FPLOON said:
Also, if you don't like Space Dandy by it's first episode, then you should be glad that first episode ends the way that it did...
But Space Dandy is awesome, even if it is just a "fart around" anime. xD The animation is psychedelic in places and the main character is such a dumb goofball that he reminds me of Johnny Bravo. I get that it's not everyone's thing though, so ah well. Guess I'll just go with the flow~
Considering there was a time where I have mentioned at least more than once on a [random] Space Dandy thread that I wanted to buy this series on Blu-Ray despite not actually seeing a single episode at the time... I'm not lying when I say that I will still buy Space Dandy on Blu-Ray!!

Besides, in that post, I was trying to make fun of the fact that people seem to judge stuff by just the first episode...[footnote]Or maybe that describes most of my anime friends in a nutshell... (I forgot...)[/footnote] and Space Dandy, to me, made fun of that by having that particular ending in that first episode... and I loved it for that!

Like hell am I going to stop watching this series or take back what I said about buying the series on Blu-Ray... (Also, I laughed harder than I thought I would with the "Google Street View" reference in just the second episode...)
 

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Hellsing. Just...don't watch it. It's only redeeming factor is the theme song, which is admittedly, catchy as all hell. If you insist upon watching Hellsing, just watch Ultimate which has better animation, plot, pacing, characters and everything.