Animes that you regret getting, and why?

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:38 pm

Evangelion and DearS. Eva just didn't really work for me, DearS had kickin' music but weak characters and missiing storyline.

-Zero

doughboy · Post by **doughboy** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:39 pm

Sonic: "The Movie" for certain, what shite.

I almost regret buying Angel Sanctuary, the direction/animation was just barely tolerable at first but it did improve. I'm glad I saw it, but not quite sure I want to own it.

Unless they, oh I don't know, decide to animate the rest of it, then we're back on the A Team.

Only other regrets I have are not purchasing the rest of all the series I started but never followed through with. Love Hina, Witch Hunter Robin, Haibane Renmei, etc. Big ass empty boxes with only a few discs in them.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:07 pm

Demon City Shinjuku. On tape. Dubbed. Circa 1999. I had seen it on Sci-Fi years before and forgot uh, nearly everything about it.

Bad part about it is, when I sold all my other old tapes at a yard sale, I didn't want to stick that one out with them because it seems like prime "Look, all these cartoons are filth!"-bait. So there it sits, sucking the life out of my other tapes. The upside is that I don't have a functioning VCR these days, so I don't have to worry about never watching it again. ;P

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:41 pm

Escaflowne, and a bunch of other crap I took pity on some guy and bought it offa him thinking 'it's anime, how bad could it be??' Famous last words.

Escaflowne wasn't so bad, but it is such a big disapointment that I could never forgive myself for buying it. Thank God for the movie, I was first in line for the LE ;p.

Eva... as it led to a bad crack addiction.

lilgumba · Post by **lilgumba** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:55 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote:Demon City Shinjuku. On tape. Dubbed. Circa 1999. I had seen it on Sci-Fi years before and forgot uh, nearly everything about it.

I have actually had a similar purchase. I saw Doomed Megalopolis or however you spell that damn movie back on Ch. 62. Of course I was an anime virgin back then so I thought it was awesome. I bought the dvd dubbed for real cheap on some sale and watched it. That movie sucked and dragged on like no other. I want my $4 back.

I don't know what I saw in it. I did get Demon City Shinjuku as well but I still like that one.

Another thing that I am regretting getting is Angelic Layer. I also got that for cheap and wanted to try another CLAMP anime. It's okay but I am really not feeling it too much. Maybe I would have to get passed the 2nd dvd but as of right now I have no desire to.

Nurse Witch Komugi and Spirited Away are almost in the Angelic Layer category but it had more elements that I enjoyed so it's an okay purchase.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:02 pm

Blood the last Vampire. Had so much hype, I was honestly tempted to damage the bloody thing and take it back.

LenWidleheyt · Post by **LenWidleheyt** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:38 pm

Oh yeah...; Record of Lodoss War, first series. I wanted - and got - it for christmas one year. I heard the name a lot when I first started watching anime years ago, and I wanted to own a classic. I had trouble sitting through it. The concept is text-book old-school sword-and-magic fantasy; a lot of elements could have been taken straight from any RPG and adapted for anime, and some things are obvious Tolkien rip-offs. This is probably why it got so much attention back in the day.

Dreizehn† · Post by **Dreizehn†** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:38 pm

I bought Ghost in the Shell just to realize that I absolute doesn't like it at al...first I just thought that it is beacuse I got a bit of problems with the english dub, but then I saw I on DVD with engl. subs and it wasn't better at all.

The second case is Patlabor & Patlabor II - a few people call it great but I never found something interresting about it.

someperson · Post by **someperson** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:46 pm

Chrono Crusade. While it had great animation and one of the best openings I've ever seen, I just felt that the story was lacking. It had it's moments but the bad outweighed the good.
Any other anime that I regret getting have been sold to Gamestop.

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:23 am

Moonlight Soldier wrote:Blood the last Vampire. Had so much hype, I was honestly tempted to damage the bloody thing and take it back.

was it really Bloody?? </pun>