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Jasper van Heycop said:
The original, I was planning on trying Brotherhood someone said it is a lot better
Yeah, it is. I loved the original, but after watching brotherhood I can't even watch the original.
 

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TheMigrantSoldier said:
I wouldn't recommend Dragon Ball Z after the Frieza saga. After the Cell Saga if you lower you standards a bit. The more the show progresses, the more obvious the "New bad guy comes in, stronger than last, must train, barely win" formula is. Also, everyone except for Goku and maybe Vegeta ends up sucking. And the pacing. And the filler. Oh god.
The entire point of the cell saga was supposed to be for Goku to stay dead and Gohan, who was the strongest at the time of the cell saga, to take over. But people liked goku, so he stayed. But the entire series built up that Gohan was the strongest.
 

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Hrm this is tough, i mean its easy to recommend an Anime to someone, but to recommend, or rather warn people of one is hard, well for me anyhow because i dont actually have a long list of Anime that i loathe, i mean there are some i dont watch for the sole reason that they annoy the crap out of me with nonsensical plots or retarded filler. If i were to take those into account, well the list gets a bit longer i suppose.

Bleach - Filler and Plot. Most of the stuff in the story is barely referenced later on and when it is its done in such a dumb way that you cant help but facepalm at it. Latest development? Ichigo is actually everything, from hero to "villian" in the series in one single person. Yeah..fuck you Kubo.

Tenjou Tenge - Plot. Dear god the plot, im not talking about the Anime, that one was actually good because it focuses solely on the early part of the manga..but dear lord, the amount of flashbacks..like there is several minor ones, 5 big ones which tie into the actual plot and a timeskip out of fucking nowhere and nothing gets explained about why shit just happened.

Naruto - Filler. Enough said. Though the manga at least avoids that for the most part.

Dragonball Z - Pacing. It really is the pacing, there is too much fluff and unnecessary filler, some is funny and relatively good, but other stuff is basicly just there to be padding, and that includes the fights. Freeza blows up Namek, 5 minutes till kaboom, takes 10 episodes minus filler to actually happen.

Dragonball GT - Just no. Trust me, do not watch this, you are missing nothing.

Highschool of the Dead - Its kind of odd how they can take a story this basic and fuck it up, even the sequence of events is all over the place and doesnt match the manga which, if it had gone on longer, would fuck up every bit of consistency of the story later. The manga is pretty good, ignore the fanservice or enjoy it for what it is, but its not that bad actually.

Neon Genesis Evangelion - All of it. At least i wouldnt recommend it to anyone who isnt into Anime or Manga already. If you want to introduce someone to the media, keep them as far away from the mindfuck that is NGE. No, the Rebuild doesnt do anything better, in fact its worse when Movie 3 rolls around and shits all over everything you've been shown and told so far and is in fact worse than the Series or the previous movies due to this. And no matter what you do, do not try to figure this one out while you're watching it, wait a week, then rewatch it and once you've done that you may try to fiddle with the plotthreads, doing otherwise might cause you to rupture a bloodvessel or two.

Gantz - Manga is better, seriously. If you want a proper adaptation, watch the live action movies, at least they have a original ending.

Bokurano - That show can depress the fuck out of you and for added irony, its actually not as dark as the manga its based on. Its a really big hit or miss series honestly, it can be enjoyable but some things, especially some topics and themes are very..adult-oriented.

Well thats off the top of my head, i might add more when i remember them.
 

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Bokurano - That show can depress the fuck out of you and for added irony, its actually not as dark as the manga its based on. Its a really big hit or miss series honestly, it can be enjoyable but some things, especially some topics and themes are very..adult-oriented.
You haven't said any reasons why it was bad.
 

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Naruto/Bleach- they don't know when or how to end these series(anime AND manga). Once I stop reading or watching it was like a spell was broken over me and I never looked back

Freezing- EVERYTHING anime AND manga its just turns me off. I could never tell if the world is in danger because of high school BS

Tenjo Tenge- when it was just a show/manga about fighting it was pretty interesting but it went into the realm of WTF?! and never looked back. The story is so bizarre and groan worthy that I just stop reading/watching.

Sword Art Online- LOVED the first Arc and then the Second Arc changed all that. The characters never felt the same after the first half.
 

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Neon Genesis Evangelion - All of it. At least i wouldnt recommend it to anyone who isnt into Anime or Manga already. If you want to introduce someone to the media, keep them as far away from the mindfuck that is NGE. No, the Rebuild doesnt do anything better, in fact its worse when Movie 3 rolls around and shits all over everything you've been shown and told so far and is in fact worse than the Series or the previous movies due to this. And no matter what you do, do not try to figure this one out while you're watching it, wait a week, then rewatch it and once you've done that you may try to fiddle with the plotthreads, doing otherwise might cause you to rupture a bloodvessel or two.
I don't think so. Evangelion was how I introduced myself to anime, and I loved it. Then again, I already had a taste for rambling, pretentious sci-fi beforehand, so the weirder bits only made the series more engaging for me.
 

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I'm going to have to second Attack on Titan. I can see why it became so popular, it does a lot of generic 'awesome' things, but the pacing is shit, there's almost no creativity involved... It's a psychological show where the characters are flat caricatures instead of realistic people. It's a military show with idiotic tactics. It's a mystery show in which nothing will ever be explained and the viewer is punished for trying to think about things too much. It's an action show with maybe 30 seconds of things happening, and then 20 minutes of people talking about them (saying the same things over and over, or just cutting to a copy-pasted reaction face for a minute straight). And all this goes on and on forever...

Elfen Lied is right out. I liked the manga, but then the animated adaptation screws up every character, removes every scene that doesn't include blood or tits, butchers the story, and just generally slaps the title and a few visuals of a good story onto the lowest common denominator of "entertainment".

I'd stay away from all the "endless shonen", like Bleach, Dragonball, Naruto, One Piece, etc. They start with a stupid, repetitive, boring manga. And then they add about 70% by volume of filler. And then they keep this up for hundreds and hundreds of episodes. I'm not sure I've seen anything that went on for over about 63 episodes (however long FMA: Brotherhood was) without being shit, and refuse to start anything over about 26 without very good reason. Hunter x Hunter wasn't terrible for the few episodes I watched, but it wasn't good enough to hold my interest for long.

I'd skip the Ghost in the Shell movies and go straight to Stand Alone Complex. Not that the movies are particularly bad, per se, but they were among the first real cyberpunk things out there, so they spend a lot of time basically saying 'hey look, cyberpunk!' instead of devoting attention to characters and plotline like they should. SAC is awesome, but only if you like thinking and are in a rather alert mindset, because they absolutely refuse to simplify things or play down to the audience; don't bother watching if you can't or don't want to keep up.

Evangellion is a classic, beloved by many, and a huge influence on everything that came after it. I'm glad it happened, and I think that its existence has been positive for anime in general. But the show itself is kinda shit in my opinion. It starts out by deconstructing the usual unrealistic 'kid in a giant mecha' tropes, but then slides right into an even more unrealistic grimdark place. And of course the writer was gradually falling deeper into depression and growing to hate his fans as he went along, so a lot of it is deliberately intended to fuck with you. (Not gonna mention the ending)

While we're on Eva, might as well mention all the other 'oh I'm so grimdark and therefore mature and deep no really' shows. Gantz, Berzerk, etc. We get it, you're edgy and you show things a 'kids show' would never be allowed to. Adding Gorn doesn't make you mature, and tossing a bunch of rapists in your story doesn't make it deep.

Hellsing. The manga was a coherent story, centered on a girl adjusting to becoming a vampire in the middle of a supernatural war. The first anime tried to make it an episodic monster-of-the-week show centered on the God-Mode Sue side character who turned her and then acted as background for most of the series, only bringing back the real main character when they decide there needs to be a panty shot. Watch the Hellsing Ultimate OVAs instead; they're a faithful (and very well made) adaptation of the original story.



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I would like to go on record to say that Star Driver, however, is not worth a look. I generally find these things being shown at my local anime club. How blissful it must be that I've forgotten half of what I didn't like in there and bought what I DID. Star Driver is one of those things that still cling to memory...badly.
Star Driver is the most stupidly ridiculously fabulous mecha anime there is. If you take it seriously you will hate it. It has a giant mecha with high heels and a giant feather plume coming out of its head, piloted by a hero whose prophetic title translates literally as 'Galactic Pretty-Boy', fighting against a "secret" society with a ludicrously inefficient lair, paper-thin disguises, and a membership which seems to include every person on the island who isn't in the high school drama club. If you are amused by the absurd, it's hilarious, but otherwise you should stay far away.

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.
I dunno, FREE! was pretty funny. But yeah, most yaoi is basically just shitty porn, like Queen's Blade for women.

EyeReaper said:
Here, I'll throw in a recommendation too. Everyone should go watch My Teenage Romantic SNAFU. ignore how stupid the title is, It's surprisingly good.
Okay, I need to second this. I watched the first episode because I was bored at the beginning of the season. I don't know what I expected. The result was definitely better.

In that same vein, I recommend HENNEKO - The Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat. I have neither the time nor ability to explain why.
 

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Any of the ultra popular stuff, namely Sword Art Online, Bleach, and Naruto.
Very repetitive and filler based. In the case of SAO, its basically MMO Anime Twilight.

There are also some anime where the manga is better: the original Full Metal Alchemist (your mileage may vary), Trigun (better than manga #1, but manga #2 took it farther), Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X and Soul Eater. The latter two cause the anime caught up to the manga and they had no idea what to do with it.
 

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A-D. said:
Bokurano - That show can depress the fuck out of you and for added irony, its actually not as dark as the manga its based on. Its a really big hit or miss series honestly, it can be enjoyable but some things, especially some topics and themes are very..adult-oriented.
You haven't said any reasons why it was bad.
The main-issue is the themes clash with the genre mostly. At its core its about fighting robots with your very own robot, except then you have all the other themes that can clash with it and it seems a tad odd that they are basicly the focus of the story when its framed as a mecha-fighting anime more or less. Its not done badly mind you, they give each character their very own story and plot, before or after they are selected to pilot that deals with their respective issues and with a cast of 15 thats alot.

So really its the odd mood whiplash you get by watching a anime where one big robot fights another big robot all the while the story of the current episode is about how a teacher sexually abused one of the girls, or about a kid with daddy issues. And all the while the whole thing is just a game to "cosmic beings far older than we are" as it were, so yeah..its kinda on the depressing side, even though it has a "happy ending", the anime at least, in the manga there is no happy ending and certain plots are shown in much more detail.

As said, i wouldnt recommend it to people unless you really want to watch it, its not your usual anime-content.
 

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Welcome to NHK.

This was one that was highly recommended for it's comedy, but I found this series a bit too close to home to find funny. I watched it all the way to the end, but doing so was a slog, if only to justify the gigabytes I spent downloading it.

Tempted to say High-school of the Dead, but I love titties too much. They seemed a bit too dogged to never call them zombies, and all the girls seem to be a bit to attracted to the author insert male by virtue of being the only male without weight issues. Along with the titties I do like that one of the most capable characters is female and psychologically disturbed, what's this depth doing amongst theses gore and titties?
 

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That's the point. It's a deconstruction. And being unusual, dark, or sad doesn't make something bad.
And your point is what? The thread is about Anime you wouldnt recommend to people, that does not mean the anime has to be bad. After all, people have noted one piece, naruto and bleach as examples of anime they wouldnt recommend to others and those arent inherently bad. Also Bokurano isnt exactly a deconstruction because while it goes for realism when it comes to the whole child-pilot thing, its not a deconstruction of the mecha-genre given alot of its plotpoints.

Realism does not equal deconstruction of genre-tropes.
 

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Probably get crap for this but Neon Genesis Evangelion. Watched it after a lot of people were talking about it on here and all I could think is 'That's it?'. It had an interesting premise and character set but did nothing with it - there was no character development, the story just stopped dead and all the 'deep' moments were just waffling to appear meaningful, it never really had a meaning beyond 'something to say that sounds deep'.

Now I never watched the films, never found a good link to them, so I cant say if they fixed any of those issues but the series as it stands was just dull, dull, dull.
 

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Don't watch Tokko. I only watch anime rather casually and pick up titles on a whim but Tokko... There's little way to explain it other than "Boring story with excuses to show boob on occasion". it's just... bad... the voice acting is bad and the plot is bad and the voice acting isn't too good and all the characters are two dimensional. AVOID TOKKO.

...Theme song drags on a bit too...
 

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ImoCho- or as everyone I know has started calling it the ghost rape pee fetish incest anime.
 

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He made it in response to a show called Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh. It's a deconstruction of everything that show does.
Which is a Anime i never watched or read in case it was a manga. So to me the connection doesnt matter nor did i actually read whether the author did intend for it to be one, rather than it being coincidence. The point still remains the same, something doesnt have to be "bad" for me to not recommend it to someone, equally i wouldnt recommend only the "best" anime or manga to other people.

When i watched Bokurano, it had some similarities to NGE, except more pilots and a more "comprehensible" plot ;P