Don't Recommend Me an Anime

[Matthewmagic]

Evangellion. It is long, and rambles on entirely too much. I skipped a couple episodes at the end becuase I thought they were clip episodes but in reality the budget ran out and they couldn't afford to create new episodes. Yes I know there was a movie, no that doesn't change anything for me considering it ended with thirty minutes of crosses and vaginas.

Edit: No stop, click the back button. Do not click the quote button. Do not snip my post, I don't care if the exploits of Shinji the most deplorable human in the world changed your life. Nothing you say will change how I feel about this show.

 

[Malisteen]

Another de-rec for Eva. Relentlessly negative and downright mean-spirited, which would be forgivable if it actually had something meaningful to say, but once you dig through the frankly meaningless symbolism, you find that it's just so so shallow. Basically the height of pretension. Production values are fine, and the big monster fights are cool, but beyond that....

 

[qeinar]

Naruto. There's a ****load of filler. Read the manga instead if you feel Naruto might be interesting. Not as much filler.

Or if you prefer anime, just skip the filler.

 

[Genericjim101]

About half (maybe even more) of the anime on netflix is a gigantic no. Like, I cant possibly tell you loud enough to stay the fuck away from them. Most are just horribly generic, others are just...I dont have words for the stupid.

For my personal stay the fuck away list, I'll just load up netflix and see which ones offended me the most recently.

Welcome to the NHK -

There's a story in this what I assume was drug induced trip fest, but honestly I have no idea where it was. The first episode was confusin, the main character established himself as an annoyin fuck within the first 3 minutes, and the weird ass imagery was just...well weird as fuck. I couldn't sit through the first episode before I got out while my brain was still intact. Maybe I missed the greatest anime ever because of that, but honestly I'd rather keep my sanity instead.

I have to inform you that you missed out on something great, a story of young unemployed shut in fucktard getting his shit together. Something that was almost ahead of the curve in 2006 and still culturally relevant today. The imagery was exactly as you said Satou tripping balls on some legal highs due to being bored out his face.

My avatar is a big sign of my bias, but please do consider giving it another go : D.

To stay on topic there are so many.

-NGE for being trite pseudo philosophy.
-Ah My Goddess, for being the first instance of harem I had seen.
-Lucky Star for being Weeb shite
- Watamote, if you genuinely identify with Motoko seek euthanasia

 

[daibakuha]

Gundam SEED and it's sequel, Gundam SEED: Destiny. Horrendous re-use of footage, bad character designs and shit characters.

Gundam 00 as well, first season had an interesting set-up but the second completely ruined anything set up in the first.

 

[Kachal]

Wow, so many people butt-hurt about Eva.
TBH, I love it.

As for my least enjoyed Anime.

Rahxephon

 

[Silvershock]

I think I'm going to have to throw another vote for Elfen Lied in here. Recommended to me by multiple friends, and I now value their opinions less because Elfen Lied is nothing more than thinly disguised stroke material for teenagers.

People act like it's some kind of masterpiece in storytelling when it's absolute dross. Bioweapon escapes from military lab, goes Tetsuo on some folks, disappears. Bad guys try to track down bioweapon, who now has amnesia and joins - of all things - a harem anime. And the series has literally no ending. Confrontation is set up, no resolution, end.

Think of an irritating trope, because it's in here. Socially awkward boy suddenly surrounded by girls continuously acts like a moron. Multiple misunderstandings between him and his primary idiot love interest (who I seem to remember he is related to). The "discovery" that Amnesia Bioweapon Girl and Moron have been linked since birth - OMG FATE. The show's constant poor excuses to take these underage girls and remove all their clothing.

The most egregious example of Elfen Lied's real objective comes during a heartfelt (read: sickening) conversation between Moron and Idiot. The entire scene is inter-cut with a scene of the girls taking a bath together. How does the conversation resolve? The door behind Moron and Idiot flies open and ABG appears, completely naked, to throw her soap-covered breasts onto the screen. End scene. Absolutely purile.

I ended up rooting more for the bad guys, because they were actually kind of developed and not infuriating. They are genuinely trying to contain a species that is demonstrated time and time again to be extraordinarily dangerous. They have horrible things happen to them, and part of the series shows them trying to cope, or not coping as is far more likely. They're not great people, but they're a thousand times easier to relate to than the protagonists.

TL;DR - Elfen Lied is everything that non anime fans tell me anime is. If you want to watch porn, just watch porn. If real folks don't float your boat, there's hentai out there better written and far more enjoyable than this. If you want to mix the two, get yourself an uncut copy of Kite and have some fun. Elfen Lied is pandering of the worst kind, enjoyed by knuggle-draggers everywhere. I hate it for squandering all its potential in the name of making a skin flick, and I hate it for making me respect my friends less.

Great theme music, though.

 

[Fat Hippo]

Neon Genesis Evangelion

I just find the anime far too despressing for my taste and I never get all of the religon subtext either. Honestly those past Critial Miss bash on the show explain it better on why I didn't like it.

Fate/stay Night: Read the visual novel instead.

It's getting a remake by the guys who did Fate/Zero. Shirou even looks a bit less like a shithead. Could be really good. And while I enjoyed the visual novel, it is reaaaaally goddamn long, I have yet to get very far into the second route. I know it's supposed to get better (though I enjoyed Fate, for what it's worth) but it is still really a lot of the same goddamn dinner scenes.

 

[GabeZhul]

Neon Genesis Evangelion

I just find the anime far too despressing for my taste and I never get all of the religon subtext either. Honestly those past Critial Miss bash on the show explain it better on why I didn't like it.

Fate/stay Night: Read the visual novel instead.

It's getting a remake by the guys who did Fate/Zero. Shirou even looks a bit less like a shithead. Could be really good. And while I enjoyed the visual novel, it is reaaaaally goddamn long, I have yet to get very far into the second route. I know it's supposed to get better (though I enjoyed Fate, for what it's worth) but it is still really a lot of the same goddamn dinner scenes.

Yeah, the Food Discussions (this is actually a thing, we even have a tag for it over at VNDB) are one of the two major flaws of F/SN (three, if you count Shirou starting out pretty unlikeable at the start because of character-development purposes), the other being the H-scenes, which were not only silly but they were also completely botched by the forced reasoning behind them (mana-transfer is still a bit of a meme among the TM fan circles for a reason, alongside of DOLPHINS! ).

And yes, even though the new anime will probably be better than the original (which is not hard at all), reading the actual visual novel is still better because I say so.

 

[Raziello]

I would not recommend the 07 ghost anime. The anime ends with a massive "to be continued" mid way through the slow paced storyline and then is never continued, giving no resolution at all.

 

[FPLOON]

On Another. Another, unlike Final Destination, has an undeniably incredibly well done atmosphere, where Final Destination is just a terrible horror movie with very predictable and gory deaths. Of course, Another has one of the shittiest endings after so much build up I've ever seen, nailing it down to "She let dozens kill each other because she didn't want to make him depressed even tho she'd have to eventually anywho, and he's probably already depressed from EVERYONE FUCKING TRYING TO KILL HIM"

Yeah... Despite the overall setup of Another being the main factor of me buying the series on DVD, the ending could have been done differently or, at least, less "shitty" and, to me, less "anti-climatic"... Then again, I feel like changing the ending would have created a "Final Destination"-type ending, which would have "killed" the whole series for me...

 

[shintakie10]

Neon Genesis Evangelion

I just find the anime far too despressing for my taste and I never get all of the religon subtext either. Honestly those past Critial Miss bash on the show explain it better on why I didn't like it.

Fate/stay Night: Read the visual novel instead.

It's getting a remake by the guys who did Fate/Zero. Shirou even looks a bit less like a shithead. Could be really good. And while I enjoyed the visual novel, it is reaaaaally goddamn long, I have yet to get very far into the second route. I know it's supposed to get better (though I enjoyed Fate, for what it's worth) but it is still really a lot of the same goddamn dinner scenes.

Yeah, the Food Discussions (this is actually a thing, we even have a tag for it over at VNDB) are one of the two major flaws of F/SN (three, if you count Shirou starting out pretty unlikeable at the start because of character-development purposes), the other being the H-scenes, which were not only silly but they were also completely botched by the forced reasoning behind them (mana-transfer is still a bit of a meme among the TM fan circles for a reason, alongside of DOLPHINS! ).

And yes, even though the new anime will probably be better than the original (which is not hard at all), reading the actual visual novel is still better because I say so.

While I may want to watch animes of certain visual novels (why you no anime Princess Waltz!?!), I have yet to see an anime that is superior to its VN counterpart. Even excludin the strange problem I have where I absolutely detest the primary love interest (fuckin Clannad man. Tomoyo's chapter was my shit) in nearly every VN, they're usually just not paced very well compared to the VN.

 

[Tony2077]

Neon Genesis Evangelion

I just find the anime far too despressing for my taste and I never get all of the religon subtext either. Honestly those past Critial Miss bash on the show explain it better on why I didn't like it.

Fate/stay Night: Read the visual novel instead.

It's getting a remake by the guys who did Fate/Zero. Shirou even looks a bit less like a shithead. Could be really good. And while I enjoyed the visual novel, it is reaaaaally goddamn long, I have yet to get very far into the second route. I know it's supposed to get better (though I enjoyed Fate, for what it's worth) but it is still really a lot of the same goddamn dinner scenes.

Yeah, the Food Discussions (this is actually a thing, we even have a tag for it over at VNDB) are one of the two major flaws of F/SN (three, if you count Shirou starting out pretty unlikeable at the start because of character-development purposes), the other being the H-scenes, which were not only silly but they were also completely botched by the forced reasoning behind them (mana-transfer is still a bit of a meme among the TM fan circles for a reason, alongside of DOLPHINS! ).

And yes, even though the new anime will probably be better than the original (which is not hard at all), reading the actual visual novel is still better because I say so.

While I may want to watch animes of certain visual novels (why you no anime Princess Waltz!?!), I have yet to see an anime that is superior to its VN counterpart. Even excludin the strange problem I have where I absolutely detest the primary love interest (fuckin Clannad man. Tomoyo's chapter was my shit) in nearly every VN, they're usually just not paced very well compared to the VN.

i agree with the waltz that would be an awesome one they would be able to expand the story a lot

 

[Xisin]

Do not watch the Qwaser of stigmata. I originally started watching because I thought the male lead had an interesting look. Spoiler(I mean it's a first episode spoiler) - The Qwasers get their powers by drinking breast milk. Not the kind of thing you should just stumble into...

 

[stroopwafel]

Well, I think there's a difference between an anime being genuinely bad or just not your cup of tea. For example I loved Attack on Titan as it's one of the few modern animes that reminded me why I like anime in the first place. Cool story, creative set-up, slightly melodramatic and archetypical characters, awesome action scenes. I found it thoroughly enjoyable. Now I can see reasons why some won't like it, but calling this an example of a bad anime is a bit ridiculous. For example I hate(well that's maybe slightly exaggerated) Evangelion as I think its pretentious and overindulgent up to 11 but I can see why this anime speaks to certain people with eg. anxiety issues. I don't like it but its not poorly made, there's a difference.

Anyways the most recent anime that disappointed me was Sword Art Online. Disappointed b/c there were a lot of things I liked about the anime in the initial episodes, such as the premise of the story and the intriguing plot elements about what it meant living in a world governed by the rules of an MMO with people trying to exploit this situation. However by ep. 7 there was way too much harem and moe in it for my taste, which really ruined the show for me.

 

[MorganL4]

School Days. Yeah...... don't. Just don't.

Well no, actually you kind of HAVE to watch that just to understand that a show could be THAT bad. I mean, it is kind of like Napoleon Dynamite being course viewing in film studies classes nowadays, because it is so bad that it is good. Except that School Days must be seen simply to understand that it is possible to harbor so much hate and vitriol towards a show that even the ending (as redeeming as it was) did not actually accomplish its goal, and forced one to retain their hate.

Also... Nice Boat.

Anyways the most recent anime that disappointed me was Sword Art Online. Disappointed b/c there were a lot of things I liked about the anime in the initial episodes, such as the premise of the story and the intriguing plot elements about what it meant living in a world governed by the rules of an MMO with people trying to exploit this situation. However by ep. 7 there was way too much harem and moe in it for my taste, which really ruined the show for me.

If SAO disappointed you, you should check out Log Horizon. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

 

[[REDACTED]]

Wow, so many people butt-hurt about Eva.
TBH, I love it.

Please never use the word "butt-hurt" again.

Not only does it not mean what you think it does (which appears to be "Not liking a show I like") it makes you look like a 12-year-old even when used in proper context.