I'd say that there should be 4 different categories of anime first of all.
Im certainly not saying any of these shows are bad, though some of them suck anuses
1. Kids shows (such as Naruto, Avatar, DBz, Pokemon)
2. Teenager anime (Azumanga Daioh, all cutesy highschool-related anime)
3. Adult Anime (Kenshin, X, Ninja Scroll, Elfen Lied...)
4. Hentai (nuff said)
All anime in category 1.. us adults shouldnt be rating because its just
childish and weird for an adult man to be watching these shows and enjoying them to the extent that these full grown people do. It would
be the same as an adult japanese man watching Spongebob with subtitles.
I know TOO many adults that love DBZ and thats kinda lame. (By the way, all of those guys are single, too. Big surprise?) Im not sure about
the goodness of Naruto or DBZ or Avatar because I only watched a few
of them and realized that they were targeting CHILDREN with these shows.
Hence the fact they play these shows on Cartoon Network at 3pm? But I guess all you Christian-based people love these shows because they aren't offensive or crude in any way.
But getting rid of the Kids category, the worst anime Ive ever seen is in order as follows (#1 being the WORST EVER)
5. Wrath of the Ninja Movie - argh the music is annoying and repetitive and the storyline is so predictable and been done so many times..
4. Final Fantasy The Spirits Within - Although it was great animation and effects for its day.. the plot and the basic storyline sucked and I was confused on how this became a Final Fantasy movie. There wasn't anything in the whole movie that made me think of any of the Final Fantasy games. I own this movie but only because I bought it in a lot of DVDs and I have yet to watch it on my DVD because it was stupid when I watched it the first 2 times on TV.
3. Beyond the Clouds The Promised Place - This one made it on the list because it was SO slow and boring for the first 45 minutes of the movie that I tried so hard to watch it like 4 times but never made it through the whole thing without getting distracted by the paint drying on my walls because the paint was more entertaining. The movie does have really nice visuals but nothing else...
2. Magic Knight Rayearth - I have the first VHS of this anime series and I tried to watch it with an open mind but the characters were funny looking and the story started so stupidly. 3 girls in high school who dont know eachother magically end up in some dumb place with dumb characters that basically make you want to cringe because they are so copy and pasted from a million other animes out there. I just simply hate this series
1. Azumanga Daioh - This became the ultimately worst anime simply because of its presentation. I loved the characters but the plotline went
absolutely NOWHERE. The jokes were stupid and often dragged out to
where you wanted to fast forward to the end of the series so you can
get it over with. I think this anime could have been much better but it
ultimately sucked. What's even worse is I actually BOUGHT this anime thinking it was going to be funny but it wasnt. Everyone regards this anime as one of the best comedies but ITS NOT! STOP LYING!
5 least favorite animes?
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TATEJE
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And now I open up the floodgates:
#5 - Inuyasha. I can't do it, I tried and tried and tried, but I just can't like it. I have a friend who watches it with like it's as important as ritual sacrifice, and if he has the testicular fortitude to withstand episode after episode of mindless droning just to see the occasional "cool" episode, more power to him. I, on the other hand, loathe the series and it's fanbase with all of my being. This is partly due to the fact that, while in pursuit of quality AMVs, I have to sort through the endless fields of selfishly indulgent crap that it's mind-numbing fanbase puts out. The other part is the fact that the show has no substance, an increasingly strained plotline that barely holds on, and the asinine romance between Inuyasha and Kagome. Dear sweet merciful crap, I hate Kagome.
#4 - Super Milk Chan. I watched 2 episodes... and then my cranium imploded under the intense pressure induced by the aura of stupidity that filled the room.
#3 - X: The movie. Apparently noone learned anything from the travesty that was Angel Sanctuary's transformation from manga to anime. You can't fit a 5 gallons of water into a 1 pint flask. On top that, they couldn't even give us some halfway decent animation. It's not THAT old. 98-99 can hardly be considered as being "back in the dark ages of animated entertainment".
#2 - Neon Genesis Evangelion. Specifically, the first 20 episodes. I'm a huge fan of the last 4 episodes and End of Evangelion. Unfortunately, in order to get to those, you're forced to endure 20 episodes of "character development". This "character development" is so vague and one dimensional that I almost wouldn't dare to call it that. But if you don't struggle through it beforehand, you still miss out on that little bit of "character development", making it essential.
#1 - BobOboBoBObo Bo bo bo BOB OBOO- WHAT THE F***?! MAKE IT STOP. I haven't even seen it and yet the title haunts my dreams and keeps me up at night. I see it in mirrors and in my peripheral vision, I see it on people's shirts as I walk down the street. Why - OH WHY - are such creations permitted. *cries*
That is all. It's my opinion. You don't have to like it. You just have to show the decency to grin and bear it as I did all of yours.
#5 - Inuyasha. I can't do it, I tried and tried and tried, but I just can't like it. I have a friend who watches it with like it's as important as ritual sacrifice, and if he has the testicular fortitude to withstand episode after episode of mindless droning just to see the occasional "cool" episode, more power to him. I, on the other hand, loathe the series and it's fanbase with all of my being. This is partly due to the fact that, while in pursuit of quality AMVs, I have to sort through the endless fields of selfishly indulgent crap that it's mind-numbing fanbase puts out. The other part is the fact that the show has no substance, an increasingly strained plotline that barely holds on, and the asinine romance between Inuyasha and Kagome. Dear sweet merciful crap, I hate Kagome.
#4 - Super Milk Chan. I watched 2 episodes... and then my cranium imploded under the intense pressure induced by the aura of stupidity that filled the room.
#3 - X: The movie. Apparently noone learned anything from the travesty that was Angel Sanctuary's transformation from manga to anime. You can't fit a 5 gallons of water into a 1 pint flask. On top that, they couldn't even give us some halfway decent animation. It's not THAT old. 98-99 can hardly be considered as being "back in the dark ages of animated entertainment".
#2 - Neon Genesis Evangelion. Specifically, the first 20 episodes. I'm a huge fan of the last 4 episodes and End of Evangelion. Unfortunately, in order to get to those, you're forced to endure 20 episodes of "character development". This "character development" is so vague and one dimensional that I almost wouldn't dare to call it that. But if you don't struggle through it beforehand, you still miss out on that little bit of "character development", making it essential.
#1 - BobOboBoBObo Bo bo bo BOB OBOO- WHAT THE F***?! MAKE IT STOP. I haven't even seen it and yet the title haunts my dreams and keeps me up at night. I see it in mirrors and in my peripheral vision, I see it on people's shirts as I walk down the street. Why - OH WHY - are such creations permitted. *cries*
That is all. It's my opinion. You don't have to like it. You just have to show the decency to grin and bear it as I did all of yours.
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Arigatomina
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1. Samurai X. Before I read the manga I disliked it based on the animation style - weird, old fashioned, outright ugly at times - and the clear desire to take something that appeals to all sorts of anime fans (action, humor, romance, comedy, light and dark moments at appropriate intervals) and turn it into a dark slaughter angstfest as if fans of that sort of anime couldn't get their kicks during the Kyoto saga and needed something a lot more explicit. After I read the manga I disliked it even more. I dislike the entire Kenshin saga after his 'wife/backstory' is revealed. It's like reading the New Testiment and listening to appologetics spout new canon that doesn't fit with anything up to that point. There's no foreshadowing for the 'suddenly revealed' backstory because it didn't exist until the mangaka got to that point and needed to extend the series. I give Samurai X points for going in the same direction as the manga (dispite wishing the manga hadn't gone in that direction). I still think it's as bad as the filler Christian/Meiji arc that the original series used to extend the story. Any point where a story gets extended in such a blatant way ruins my enjoyment. The manga was too obvious - he practically admitted in his notes that he pulled the backstory out of his ass because he didn't want it to end yet. The ova used that to tell a story that's as left of the original as GT is to DBZ. And the original 'rurouni' series jumped into a filler arc like there's something wrong with ending a story while it's still good. Annoyance on all sides. RK should have ended (in the manga as well) after the Kyoto arc.
2. Dragonball GT. First, I've only watched a few episodes of this. I may be missing aspects that make the series enjoyable as a 'standalone' anime. I'm going from a dbz perspective. To me, this season is the Kenshin ovas for kiddies. Too much inyourface marketting. They took what dbz was missing at times - the cute little tailed boy aspect that made dragonball so popular - and mixed it with what made dbz expensive (3 eps per dvd) - the extended and repetitive supervillain theme - amid ridiculously innapropriate (considering the world will be destroyed any second now) slapstick dragonball searches. Plus they redesigned my favorite characters so one of them looks like a moron and the other is a moron. Vegeta lost his signature hair, Gohan became a useless nerdy pansy (dbz screwed up here, too, so it's not just GT), Goku became a kid again, and Trunks is so gay it's embarrassing. I guess we won't complain about even the little kids being 'buff' in GT - Trunks had more muscles when he was 7 than he does as a supposed 'adult' in GT. Ew. Just ew.
3. Inuyasha. I actually liked the first four books of this manga. I like the first 30 or so episodes of the series, too. Then I went away for a year and came back 30 episodes later to find that I hadn't missed anything. At all. I can watch random episodes and not get lost. I can mix and match the series in 5 episode chunks and it won't affect the storyline's coherency. That is undeniable proof that something's wrong there. Ever heard that old saying about how if the center doesn't hold everything falls apart? Well, Inuyasha is the opposite of that. The parts don't matter because they're all reproductions of the center, just with new disposable side characters and minivillains. The underlying romance has no collective advancement spread throughout these parts because even from one episode to the next the main couple backtracks repeatedly. End of one mini-villainarc = they're hugging and almost open about caring. Beginning of the next mini-villainarc = they're fighting like nothing happened in the last episode. You expect that sort of thing in American cartoons aimed at little kids who can't be expected to remember and follow a long coherent story. All the episodes stand alone so they never get lost when they happen to catch an episode on tv. I don't want to see that in a long anime series aimed at teenagers, especially when they're selling it to us at the old dbz style 3eps per dvd. This is a failure at marketting. No one needs to buy the entire series when you can skip half the series and not miss anything. They could learn something from Gundam Wing - if you miss one episode of that you'll have no idea what's going on. It's still like 49 episodes. That's a good amount of money at 3eps per pop. If IY had that sort of continuing storyline where each episode moves toward something, they'd make more money. Honestly, I understand the need for filler arcs, but if they aren't even going to do the filler in a way that matters from one episode to the next, it's just insulting. When they're set on ruining a story to make it last forever, they should at least do it in a way that keeps diehard fans entertained while they wait for the 'main story' to resume (think Bleach's 'vampire' filler arc).
4. Naruto. I liked it. A lot. Then it got weird. Too many minor characters, too much filler, too much 'what the hell did you do to the plot???' I was following the manga and had the same problem. What is this anime? I thought it was a 'coming of age' story looking at a group of kids in an original setting, with conflicts to overcome as they move toward some goal. Then the chunin exam ended and that 3yr jump popped up (manga) while the anime went to fillerland. I have no idea what the anime is about anymore. It's not just the filler - I don't mind waiting for filler arcs to end (Bleach) if I know it's going to resume eventually. With Naruto, I don't even know where it's going after it does resume. This is one of those rare anime where I actually hate it more because I liked it originally. Like the RK manga, it went in a different direction and blindsided me. I'd rather have hated it from the onset.
5. Sailor Moon. I like this series. And I'm really annoyed with this series. I read the manga. I know, the anime isn't the manga. I know. But there was so much unfulfilled potential in the original story and not a bit of that came through in the series. I liked the series because if you fastforward through the random funny looking female monster fights, there's a lot of character growth and interraction. I figured the reptetive monster-fights were done for marketting purposes - expected - so I overlooked them. Now that I know what an amazingly twisted story they were leaving out when they put this to anime, I feel cheated. They took the bare basics of the manga and ran with it when they could have - with just a little more effort and a little less random monster-fights - made it awesome. I still like the anime for the characters, but I hate it for the misuse of those characters when the animators completely left out the story that made the manga so popular to begin with. All those seeming 'filler episodes' with the Amazon quartet and none of the anime fans will ever know that those four girls were actually important in the original story. Why put them in at all if you completely change their purpose? Stupid money-hungry jerks. >.<
2. Dragonball GT. First, I've only watched a few episodes of this. I may be missing aspects that make the series enjoyable as a 'standalone' anime. I'm going from a dbz perspective. To me, this season is the Kenshin ovas for kiddies. Too much inyourface marketting. They took what dbz was missing at times - the cute little tailed boy aspect that made dragonball so popular - and mixed it with what made dbz expensive (3 eps per dvd) - the extended and repetitive supervillain theme - amid ridiculously innapropriate (considering the world will be destroyed any second now) slapstick dragonball searches. Plus they redesigned my favorite characters so one of them looks like a moron and the other is a moron. Vegeta lost his signature hair, Gohan became a useless nerdy pansy (dbz screwed up here, too, so it's not just GT), Goku became a kid again, and Trunks is so gay it's embarrassing. I guess we won't complain about even the little kids being 'buff' in GT - Trunks had more muscles when he was 7 than he does as a supposed 'adult' in GT. Ew. Just ew.
3. Inuyasha. I actually liked the first four books of this manga. I like the first 30 or so episodes of the series, too. Then I went away for a year and came back 30 episodes later to find that I hadn't missed anything. At all. I can watch random episodes and not get lost. I can mix and match the series in 5 episode chunks and it won't affect the storyline's coherency. That is undeniable proof that something's wrong there. Ever heard that old saying about how if the center doesn't hold everything falls apart? Well, Inuyasha is the opposite of that. The parts don't matter because they're all reproductions of the center, just with new disposable side characters and minivillains. The underlying romance has no collective advancement spread throughout these parts because even from one episode to the next the main couple backtracks repeatedly. End of one mini-villainarc = they're hugging and almost open about caring. Beginning of the next mini-villainarc = they're fighting like nothing happened in the last episode. You expect that sort of thing in American cartoons aimed at little kids who can't be expected to remember and follow a long coherent story. All the episodes stand alone so they never get lost when they happen to catch an episode on tv. I don't want to see that in a long anime series aimed at teenagers, especially when they're selling it to us at the old dbz style 3eps per dvd. This is a failure at marketting. No one needs to buy the entire series when you can skip half the series and not miss anything. They could learn something from Gundam Wing - if you miss one episode of that you'll have no idea what's going on. It's still like 49 episodes. That's a good amount of money at 3eps per pop. If IY had that sort of continuing storyline where each episode moves toward something, they'd make more money. Honestly, I understand the need for filler arcs, but if they aren't even going to do the filler in a way that matters from one episode to the next, it's just insulting. When they're set on ruining a story to make it last forever, they should at least do it in a way that keeps diehard fans entertained while they wait for the 'main story' to resume (think Bleach's 'vampire' filler arc).
4. Naruto. I liked it. A lot. Then it got weird. Too many minor characters, too much filler, too much 'what the hell did you do to the plot???' I was following the manga and had the same problem. What is this anime? I thought it was a 'coming of age' story looking at a group of kids in an original setting, with conflicts to overcome as they move toward some goal. Then the chunin exam ended and that 3yr jump popped up (manga) while the anime went to fillerland. I have no idea what the anime is about anymore. It's not just the filler - I don't mind waiting for filler arcs to end (Bleach) if I know it's going to resume eventually. With Naruto, I don't even know where it's going after it does resume. This is one of those rare anime where I actually hate it more because I liked it originally. Like the RK manga, it went in a different direction and blindsided me. I'd rather have hated it from the onset.
5. Sailor Moon. I like this series. And I'm really annoyed with this series. I read the manga. I know, the anime isn't the manga. I know. But there was so much unfulfilled potential in the original story and not a bit of that came through in the series. I liked the series because if you fastforward through the random funny looking female monster fights, there's a lot of character growth and interraction. I figured the reptetive monster-fights were done for marketting purposes - expected - so I overlooked them. Now that I know what an amazingly twisted story they were leaving out when they put this to anime, I feel cheated. They took the bare basics of the manga and ran with it when they could have - with just a little more effort and a little less random monster-fights - made it awesome. I still like the anime for the characters, but I hate it for the misuse of those characters when the animators completely left out the story that made the manga so popular to begin with. All those seeming 'filler episodes' with the Amazon quartet and none of the anime fans will ever know that those four girls were actually important in the original story. Why put them in at all if you completely change their purpose? Stupid money-hungry jerks. >.<
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8bit_samurai
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- Joined: Wed May 17, 2006 1:47 pm
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well, i mostly dont dislike any anime, i just try to avoid those im not interested in. but i do dislike inuyasha jus like everyone else in this thread. out of the edisodes i tried to watch but couldnt complete, all i got was inuyasha and kagome say each others name alot, the other characters are useless, demon appears, inuyasha does winstar (or whatever it is), demon dies, they collect a shard, wash, rinse, repeat. i think kagome just got a pretty bad concussion when she fell down that well, or however she discovered it. now, just like everyone else in this thread, i dislike naruto. he ruined the name and the meaning of the ninja. i thought it was good at first. but then they explained everything, if not once, then twice. or more. they made small talk with the enemies, complementing them. wtf happened to the cold blooded killin in the midst of the night without lettin anyone know, like ninja gaiden or tenchu? the only thing they did to the name of the ninja was make it look like dbz with all that chakra bs. if it was more like whisper of the beast throuhgout the whole series, w/o all that explainin, i probably woulda got more into it. other than that i never got into any other anime well enough to dislike, just avoided them.
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Koi Kaze
- Joined: Sat Jul 29, 2006 7:25 am
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1. everything Gundam bleuurgh...
2. DBZ It's really not my thing. With the guy that looks like a jelly baby? gah that annoys my head.
3. after hearing so much good about it i guess it didn't live up to standards Gungrave has crappy "action".
4. Bleach is borrrrring, i got bored after 4 episodes but still tried to carry it on.
5. Neon Genesis Evangelion I just couldn't stand it.[/b]
2. DBZ It's really not my thing. With the guy that looks like a jelly baby? gah that annoys my head.
3. after hearing so much good about it i guess it didn't live up to standards Gungrave has crappy "action".
4. Bleach is borrrrring, i got bored after 4 episodes but still tried to carry it on.
5. Neon Genesis Evangelion I just couldn't stand it.[/b]
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Shadowparadox165
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[quote="mj_fisher_15"][quote="Super Shanko"][quote="Cornwiggle"][quote="MovieMarc"]I havent cared enough to figure out the guy's name.
If cougar is the guy that can make cars go faster then yes Im talking about him.[/quote]
Hahaha, yeah that's him. Weird though, the word I wouldn't use to fit his personality is "Scary"
Kittens would love him.
[/quote] of course, they can sit in his hair.[/quote]
thats funny 
(god, i love this website)[/quote]
[i have to agree mj, that is funny ][/quote]
If cougar is the guy that can make cars go faster then yes Im talking about him.[/quote]
Hahaha, yeah that's him. Weird though, the word I wouldn't use to fit his personality is "Scary"
Kittens would love him.
[/quote] of course, they can sit in his hair.[/quote] thats funny (god, i love this website)[/quote]
[i have to agree mj, that is funny
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Shadowparadox165
- Joined: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:51 am
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My 5 least favorite animes:
Sailor moon- i mean, like my friend mj_fisher_15 states, they are just too cheerleader. anybody got a set of pom-poms?
Pokemon- DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED
Yugioh- the show is about guys who save the world using cards. i mean, how gay is that? what happened to the whole "hand to hand" combat?
Yuyu Hakashu- i didn't like the show, but i liked the plot (if that makes any sense)
Dragonball Gt- i didnt like gt as much as i liked the original. but of course out of the original, i thought the android saga and cell saga was the best. it was a BIG mistake to turn goku into a kid. didnt we get enough of Goku being a kid in Dragonball?
Sailor moon- i mean, like my friend mj_fisher_15 states, they are just too cheerleader. anybody got a set of pom-poms?
Pokemon- DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED
Yugioh- the show is about guys who save the world using cards. i mean, how gay is that? what happened to the whole "hand to hand" combat?
Yuyu Hakashu- i didn't like the show, but i liked the plot (if that makes any sense)
Dragonball Gt- i didnt like gt as much as i liked the original. but of course out of the original, i thought the android saga and cell saga was the best. it was a BIG mistake to turn goku into a kid. didnt we get enough of Goku being a kid in Dragonball?
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dark_angel_neko
- Joined: Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:53 pm
well this is a fun topic lets see.....
1. Inuyasha: used to luv it, but now it is way TOO much n the characters are sooo annoying- it is not going anywhere
2. Evangelion: well...i dont really hate it but i watched the first ep. n found it to be boring
3.DBZ: this series is really dumb,a bunch a guys in bad outfits screaming n fighting the latest new enemy everytime.....i can't believe i used to watch it
4. X the movie: now as much as i luv X/1999 n clamp, this movie was.........yea it was bad
5. Pokemon: do i need to explain this one?
1. Inuyasha: used to luv it, but now it is way TOO much n the characters are sooo annoying- it is not going anywhere
2. Evangelion: well...i dont really hate it but i watched the first ep. n found it to be boring
3.DBZ: this series is really dumb,a bunch a guys in bad outfits screaming n fighting the latest new enemy everytime.....i can't believe i used to watch it
4. X the movie: now as much as i luv X/1999 n clamp, this movie was.........yea it was bad
5. Pokemon: do i need to explain this one?
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1. Naruto (A ninja in an orange Tracksuit = Lame)
2. Full Metal Alchemest (Lame plotline)
3. Serial Experiments Lain (Lame character depth...)
4. Bleach (Im not interested with a guy with orange hair with a large sword)
5. Ruroni Kenshin (Kenshin's dialogue made me want to shoot myself in the face.)
2. Full Metal Alchemest (Lame plotline)
3. Serial Experiments Lain (Lame character depth...)
4. Bleach (Im not interested with a guy with orange hair with a large sword)
5. Ruroni Kenshin (Kenshin's dialogue made me want to shoot myself in the face.)
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