Most Disappointing Anime

[ZiggyE]

Clannad After Story.

Almost great, but the biggest shit pile of an ending ever. A cheap twist to back out of an otherwise great story.

'But the Manga...' Shut up! It still sucks, and isn't worth watching halfway through.

Clannad wasn't based on a manga. And After Story is an incredible anime.

Clannad was based on a manga, check the wiki. And After Story was incredible, till the ending made the whole last half pointless.

The anime was announced a week after the manga ended, right before the After story manga started : P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clannad_anime

Did you read that properly? The manga was an adaptation itself. The Clannad anime and manga were based on the Clannad visual novel. The anime may have come out after the manga but the base material was the game. I know this because I've played said visual novel and the story (for the main arc) is very much the same, After Story is also based on the After Story in the visual novel. The ending of After Story wasn't some cheap twist they thought up on the spot it was basically what happened in the visual novel (which sets that ending up throughout).

I'll admit even I found the last few episodes slightly annoying but I wouldn't say that the whole second half of the AS series was rubbish, the episodes with Ushio were brilliant and really moving, although I get what you mean by making the last half pointless.

Don't know if any of that was coherent... But there you have it!

I see what you mean. First the visual novel, then manga, then anime...

I loved the anime, but the last few episodes made me feel my tears were for nothing. I was hoping for something other than 'it just didn't happen'. Glowing lights aside, I guess I just wanted something different.

Considering how much emotion I had invested into the series, and how much I disliked the ending, I call it my 'Most Disappointing Anime'.

I thought the ending was a non-canonical 'what if' situation >.>

 

[Marik2]

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
High School of the Dead
Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple
These three that I listed nearly made me hate anime. I was at that point for a while mind you

LOL you forgot, haruhi suzumiya

That one I HATE!! But this is the most disappointing anime thread my friend

Thought it was disappointing to you cuz you heard the "good" things about it and you realized it didnt fulfill your expectations.

 

[Agent Cross]

Elfen Lied. I know there's worse but this takes the cake (insert lie joke hear) of laziness on the writers part. Lets see main character; we'll dumb her down, makes writing easier. What'll we do about the action scenes; hmm... lets see. Oh, got it... you can't see her powers, yeah that'll do it. *team high-five* This will be awesome! Sorry to the fans. Just my opinion. >.>

 

[Icey300]

Neon Genisis Evangelion all the way.

I haven't seen the newer remakes, but the original series just sucked. I'd watch an episode and about 10 minutes of that episode would be silence, and Shinji being emo. Half the episodes are just him whining about his father issues and how he hates using the eva's.

And don't even get me started on the ending movie.

 

[MgalekgoloHunter]

Ergo Proxy. Bar none.

Funnily enough, a friend of mine who was trying to get me into anime showed me the first few episodes as an example. And, to be fair, they got me intrigued. It did that whole 'playing it's cards close to the chest' thing really well, and got me very interested in the complex mysteries it wove. Years later (a few months ago) I remembered it, and got the box set.

It kept up the mystery and intrigue for episode after episode, constantly assailing me with scene after scene of vague, pretentious, aloof dialogue that was near incomprehensible. At the time, I thought this was simply a rather daring move, keeping it's secrets until the final episodes.

Then, without any explanation, the characters appear on a game show. For a whole episode.

Let me reiterate: the main characters go from a grim, dark, post-apocalyptic world to a fun, campy gameshow without any explanation whatsoever... and then go straight back to the above-mentioned grim landscape off-screen, not bothering to explain what just happened or why. You can't even dismiss it as a fantasy or a dream, as another character watches the gameshow on TV and learns important information from it!

Then, oh but then, comes the final episode. You'd imagine they'd use this important half hour to wrap up the storyline and explain everything that has occurred thus far.

Do they bollocks. Instead, we just get more vague, overwritten dialogue that doesn't make sense for another half an hour, and then it just stops. Yippee.

If the above rant didn't tip you off, here is Ergo Proxy in a nutshell:
great opening that builds mystery... building it... still building it... building it to unbelievably confusing and impossible-to-explain levels that require entire essays just to figure out what the flying fuck is happening... end.

Dear God I hate this series.

And don't come to me trying to explain the 'clever symbolism' and 'intricate, subtle mechanics of the storyline'. My point is this: such things are appropriate when there is a strong foundation that an average layman will enjoy. You can talk about the symbolism in Fritz Lang's Metropolis until the cows come home, it's still a bloated mess that goes nowhere and has one of the stupidest endings imaginable. Then take a movie like The Wizard of Oz. Sure, there;s been plenty said on it's supposed gay subtext and the like, but remember: an average person can still enjoy it as just a magical tale of a teenage girl being swept away into a fantasy land. That's my problem. Symbolise whatever you want in a story, but if I can't enjoy a story without knowing about the subtexts and symbolism, it's not a good story.

 

[Worgen]

havent seen brotherhood tho, maybe its closer to the manga

Ohhh boy is it ever.

ok then I suppose Ill have to check it out

 

[BigHairyMarty]

Urotsukidoji IV. Despite the whole Urotsukidoji franchise being infamous for it's more perverse aspects, I was able to see past that and enjoy the somewhat compelling storyline (not to mention amusingly bad dialogue at times), but with IV, they instead put the story to one side and focus almost entirely on the shock value.

The first two episodes are actually nothing but filler that offer nothing towards the main storyline. Having filler episodes makes more sense when it's a long running anime based on an ongoing manga, but for an OVA series, it's kinda ridiculous.

The last episode wasn't particularly satisfying either. One of the more badass looking characters hardly gets any decent screentime before getting killed off, and the ending just sorta implies that it's meant to be a good ending before the credits roll.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Both Hellsing series, though the second one is at least bearable. Dokuro-Chan was recommended to me by some punk off the internet but all it was was Torture Porn anime-style.

 

[Aura Guardian]

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
High School of the Dead
Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple
These three that I listed nearly made me hate anime. I was at that point for a while mind you

LOL you forgot, haruhi suzumiya

That one I HATE!! But this is the most disappointing anime thread my friend

Thought it was disappointing to you cuz you heard the "good" things about it and you realized it didnt fulfill your expectations.

So I tried to be different. Remember how many times I was quoted just for saying that one

 

[JenSeven]

It's hard to determine which anime was the most disappointing.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Gurren Lagann weren't really disappointing for me, I knew from the start that they were overhyped and mediocre. Actually below mediocre, my benchmark for mediocrity is Melody Of Oblivion, which is about as mediocre as it can get, and I liked that more than Haruhi and Gurren Lagann.

I'm guessing Soultaker would have to be my choice for the most disappointing. I heard it was bad but I wasn't prepared for how bad it actually was. The only good thing about Soultaker was that it spawned a totally awesome "spin-off" with Nurse Witch Komugi-Chan.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

High School of the Dead... It was interesting at first (beside of the fact that is another take on the overused Zombie Genre) but after a while it becomes just shots at huge tits (see the nurse) and girls taking showers... It's not even a good contrast to survival horror... It's just dumb.

Yeah, I was pretty disappointed with HSotD at times. I mean I came for the whole zombie survival story (even if its not that original) and some of the characters were interesting; but damn if the fan service wasn't annoying. Needless panty-shots, jello breasts, stupidly out-of-place sexuality. Still enjoyed it somewhat, but I could have definately done without the fan service.

 

[Drakmeire]

Blood+ I had just come off of soul eater and wanted something darker... but that series was boring as sin.

 

[Drakmeire]

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. I think I have said enough. Not that the concept seemed promising in the first place, but damn even my low expectations got disappointed.

I'll only accept this answer if you at least watched more than episode one. I'll admit it got off to a bad start but it just kept getting better and weirder and by episode 6 I was hooked.
I understand if it's not your cup of tea but I just hope you gave it more than one episode.

 

[Drakmeire]

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
High School of the Dead
Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple
These three that I listed nearly made me hate anime. I was at that point for a while mind you

Why Gurren Lagann?
I thought that was one of the best anime I had ever seen. I understand it has haters but they all seem to stop watching around episode 8.
I hope you at least made it to the end.

 

[JenSeven]

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
High School of the Dead
Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple
These three that I listed nearly made me hate anime. I was at that point for a while mind you

Why Gurren Lagann?
I thought that was one of the best anime I had ever seen. I understand it has haters but they all seem to stop watching around episode 8.
I hope you at least made it to the end.

I have seen all of it. I even wrote a review on it.
Here it is

I just don't seem to be able to wrap my head around this anime and the ideas of the people at Gainax behind making it...
It seems almost like what Quentin Tarantino did with Kill Bill, which is a throwback to something that was mildly popular back in the 70s. Gurren Lagann seems to do the same thing, as in copying the over-the-top style and cheesy writing from the mecha anime from those days. Or they made a parody on that exact same thing by going even further into it then they did back in the 70s.

I'll admit straight away that this type of anime is not my style, especially since I'm someone that loves an anime with a great story, which is something that seems to be put into this anime as an afterthought to fill in the few seconds in between the senseless battles and fanservice.

I'll give a rundown of the scores, as I usually do.

Story: 2
There is something of a story put into this anime, but it's far from original, full of plot holes and succeeding in making as little sense as possible. The story is mainly used to drive the main characters from fight A to fight B while occasionally stopping for some fanservice. It's definitely not used to explain the events of the story, and when they try to do that it fails miserably and leaves holes in the plot large enough to fly a spaceship through.

Art: 6
It's decent to look at, although it does have quite a few repeated scenes (some even to the point of being nauseating) that are shown and reshown in several episodes. I also felt that the inclusion of "manga" style images broke the flow.
However even if the art was decent to look at the amount of cheesiness that it threw at the screen was so far over-the-top that it made me want to go and do something else that didn't include have to watch this anime, even Dragonball GT seems to be preferable over this at times...
The style of the art seems modern but the way in which it's used is fit for an anime from 30 years ago.

Sound: 6
It's decent, but like the art and the story very cheesy. The screaming out of a character's name during a death scene is SO overused, done to death and over the top that it really should become punishable by death to use it.

Characters: 2
What can I say... They are shallow, have very little character development, many seem to be included for the sole purpose of fanservice or comic relief and the amount of cliché character traits is as over-the-top as the rest of the anime.
We've got the whiny spineless emo teenager, the "I'm so cool that I'm gonna die halfway though the series" guy, the bigbreasted airhead, the faceless nameless enemy that's as 2 dimensional as can be, and so forth, and so forth.
The character design and character development are practically the worst I've ever seen.

Enjoyment: 4
Yeah, it was a load of fun action topped off with fanservice, atleast if you don't mind an almost complete lack of a coherent story and got plenty of crackers to scoop up the cheese with.

Overall: 5
It's a bit of fun, looks nice, sounds kinda nice but trips over it's own plot holes.
2 dimensional stock characters with hardly any development going on and a shaky over-the-top lack of a storyline.

In my opinion mediocre at best, which is something that Gainax seems to be specializing in lately.

 

[Aura Guardian]

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
High School of the Dead
Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple
These three that I listed nearly made me hate anime. I was at that point for a while mind you

Why Gurren Lagann?
I thought that was one of the best anime I had ever seen. I understand it has haters but they all seem to stop watching around episode 8.
I hope you at least made it to the end.

I made it to the end.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

Any other the "big name" long runners. Naruto, Gurren Lagann (or whatever), Soul Eater, any of that bullshit.

ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE CUNTS

Tengen Toppa has 26 episodes >> Which is a short runner.

 

[Drakmeire]

Why Gurren Lagann?
I thought that was one of the best anime I had ever seen. I understand it has haters but they all seem to stop watching around episode 8.
I hope you at least made it to the end.

I have seen all of it. I even wrote a review on it.
Here it is

<spoiler=review>I just don't seem to be able to wrap my head around this anime and the ideas of the people at Gainax behind making it...
It seems almost like what Quentin Tarantino did with Kill Bill, which is a throwback to something that was mildly popular back in the 70s. Gurren Lagann seems to do the same thing, as in copying the over-the-top style and cheesy writing from the mecha anime from those days. Or they made a parody on that exact same thing by going even further into it then they did back in the 70s.

I'll admit straight away that this type of anime is not my style, especially since I'm someone that loves an anime with a great story, which is something that seems to be put into this anime as an afterthought to fill in the few seconds in between the senseless battles and fanservice.

I'll give a rundown of the scores, as I usually do.

Story: 2
There is something of a story put into this anime, but it's far from original, full of plot holes and succeeding in making as little sense as possible. The story is mainly used to drive the main characters from fight A to fight B while occasionally stopping for some fanservice. It's definitely not used to explain the events of the story, and when they try to do that it fails miserably and leaves holes in the plot large enough to fly a spaceship through.

Art: 6
It's decent to look at, although it does have quite a few repeated scenes (some even to the point of being nauseating) that are shown and reshown in several episodes. I also felt that the inclusion of "manga" style images broke the flow.
However even if the art was decent to look at the amount of cheesiness that it threw at the screen was so far over-the-top that it made me want to go and do something else that didn't include have to watch this anime, even Dragonball GT seems to be preferable over this at times...
The style of the art seems modern but the way in which it's used is fit for an anime from 30 years ago.

Sound: 6
It's decent, but like the art and the story very cheesy. The screaming out of a character's name during a death scene is SO overused, done to death and over the top that it really should become punishable by death to use it.

Characters: 2
What can I say... They are shallow, have very little character development, many seem to be included for the sole purpose of fanservice or comic relief and the amount of cliché character traits is as over-the-top as the rest of the anime.
We've got the whiny spineless emo teenager, the "I'm so cool that I'm gonna die halfway though the series" guy, the bigbreasted airhead, the faceless nameless enemy that's as 2 dimensional as can be, and so forth, and so forth.
The character design and character development are practically the worst I've ever seen.

Enjoyment: 4
Yeah, it was a load of fun action topped off with fanservice, atleast if you don't mind an almost complete lack of a coherent story and got plenty of crackers to scoop up the cheese with.

Overall: 5
It's a bit of fun, looks nice, sounds kinda nice but trips over it's own plot holes.
2 dimensional stock characters with hardly any development going on and a shaky over-the-top lack of a storyline.

In my opinion mediocre at best, which is something that Gainax seems to be specializing in lately.

I'll applaud you for that, it brought up some good points. I respect your opinion.
I never really take shows like that seriously which is why I enjoyed the over-the-topness of the whole thing. I wasn't expecting a earth-shattering story but I had a lot of fun with it and found the action to be so insane that I could have a good time.
to each their own.

 

[Vhite]

Baccano! Not because it was bad, but because it was SO BADASS that I was literally cursing at my screen when it ended at 16 episodes. That was one HELL of a train-ride, and totally warrents a second season.

Actually, at least in my case, it was that good that I havent felt bad about in the end. I can get attached to far worse anime and then suffer epicness withdrawal effect. But Baccano! was short, badass and had too many awesome characters to really get attached to them. And as you can see my avatar, my favorite character was psychopathic murderer so I probably wouldnt get attached to him that much anyway.

 

[thenoblitt]

Any other the "big name" long runners. Naruto, Gurren Lagann (or whatever), Soul Eater, any of that bullshit.

ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE CUNTS

what do you mean big name long runners, gurren lagann is only 27 episodes and soul eater is only like 40 something?