Anything goes, lemme hear those hot takes. Just remember that because you have the right to shit on what someone else likes, it's only fair that they too have the right to shit on what you like. I'll start with mine...
I personally did not like Gurren Laggan at all, which is weird because I did like Kill La Kill. A few reasons I didn't like it are...
1: I thought Gurren Laggan's plot was a fucking mess.
2: The dialogue was cringe inducing at times.
3: I didn't feel anything for the characters.
4: It turned into a generic battle Shonen which is not my kind of anime.
5: The ending had no payoff.
I do understand why others like it, but I just don't.
This show seems really liked by the majority. but to me all I see is trash art and animation. but I can't say the story is too, the story is alright in my opinion but it's a bit boring when paired with the art.
While in my opinion this is the worst show I have seen, I will still acknowledge that the anime can seen really good for people who are looking for a good story but not caring too much about the art.
is the art really that bad though? i remember that i watched a bit of it a reeeeally long time ago and then i just forgot about it. i don't remember the art being bad, but what i heard from people that disliked this anime is the fact that the story is shit, cliche etc.
I also got spoiled with what happens soo i'm not really looking forward to watching it.
I have seen people here with shows I like and with reasons that I don't see wrong. Really we all see anime differently. For me the art in this is the worst I have ever seen out of all the anime I have watched. Maybe give the trailer a try before deciding to watch the show. I regret not looking at the trailer when I made my decision.
I've always viewed that show as a 6/10 at best. I just don't get why people helm this show in high regards. It's high school melodrama at it's best. The out of place comedy really put me off.
The comedy is the biggest sticking point for me.
As much as I like the art and music. I know that comedy happens in other serious anime. But the comedy is constantly rammed down my throat even when during the serious moments it really kills the mood for me. Humor can bring light in shows like this but it comes across as very inappropriate. I mean save the comedy for the comedy not when it's during a tear-jerking scene.
best exemple i can think of is steins gate.
Idk why, the story just wasnt very interesting for me and the characters were annoying. (sorry)
totally agree with the character part, I remember telling myself if all the reviews of it weren't so positive I probably would have dropped it by the 3rd ep because of how cringe it was, but tbh the time travelling part is great even though I hate how hopeless everything seems to be at certain points.
Incredibly unlikeable main characters (especially Sora) who are perfect at everything and never wrong so there's no tension anytime they do anything, Steph was treated like total shit the entire time, the fanservice was just gross, I didn't give a shit about anything that was happening in the plot, and I actively rooted against our main characters. I wanted them to fail.
Shin Seiki Evangelion Movie THE END OF EVANGELION
This is very simple to sum up: its unpleasant and I'm sticking to the TV ending which I actually like no matter what Anno says.
I agree. I notice it a lot in anime like jojo (I do like Jojo though) and No Game where it's part of the character ie being OP, super smart, etc that they just have ungodly amounts of plot armour. It takes away from any suspense/tension in the anime/manga :/
But the Jojos are shown to be flawed people. Except maybe Jonathan who is the epitome of virtue. They're op for sure and there is this sense of Araki wanting the audience to be impressed by their coolness, but something like Jotaro calling Holly a bitch is still something he gets called out on by Joseph in canon and its meant to show us that SDC era Jotaro isn't an outwardly nice person. Meanwhile when Sora and Shiro are being complete dicks its framed like "lol they right tho".
This is very simple, to sum up: it's unpleasant and I'm sticking to the TV ending which I actually like no matter what Anno says.
I just wanted Shinji to stop being a pussi. JUST GET IN THE EVA MODAFOKER!!
Asuka is the main character, Shinji is just there no annoy you.
Although I liked it when he (Shinji) actually tried to get along with Asuka. Those were good moments.
About the movie: The Asuka fight was amazing tho, after not having real action for a long time that was satisfying.
This could just because I'm not into yaoi-baiting or sports anime, but I couldn't stand watching free Free Iwatobi Swim Club
I never got attached to the characters and I remember dropping the anime just as they got stuck on the deserted island in season 1 or whatever. At the time when I did watch it, the free! fandom was at it's largest with a lot of yaoi bait content coming out and gotta say, I wasn't really vibing with it. These reasons on why I didn't like free also made me put off watching anime like Haikyu (I ended up watching it and loving it later on though, so whoops) as I suspected any male-protagonist sports anime would just be an excuse to yaoi-bait the audience and cut corners on the story.
Another anime that suffers from the same faults as free is yuri on ice. I think it's too overrated and not as good as a lot of people think it is. If there's anything it does right, it accurately represents the casual life of a competitive figure skater (I used to be one myself) ie. dieting, early morning/late night practices in a desolate rink, the competitive backstage vibes as well.
Yuri On Ice
Finally, my time to shine.
I really did not like Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash. I absolutely adored the art style, but couldn't get invested in any of the characters at all. They were all incredibly flat, with their "RPG party role" and their "single quirky real-world hobby that they remember for some reason." The show has no reason to be an isekai—it doesn't add anything to the plot or setting and could've just as easily been completely left out, and I might even argue that it would've been better had the characters just been regular inhabitants of the world who have to fend for themselves.
I started really checking out around the time when Manato died, at some point within the first 3 episodes. This was clearly supposed to have been a major emotional shock, but his character and role within the party was so underdeveloped that I felt nothing—and then the rest of the cast spent the entirety of the show's remaining runtime mourning him and imagining him as a ghost giving them advice, which came across as extremely overdramatic just because we hadn't been given enough time to know him. The rest of the show from that point felt like it was dragging, repeatedly digging up their dead party member as a source of drama and conflict.
Don't even get me started on the "final boss" of the season. The big-ass minotaur(?) which was supposed to be a major threat, was taken out by Haruhiro, alone, at the last second, during a moment of desperation. It looked effortless, and felt unearned.
And, by the end of the show, we've learned basically nothing about the world and its inhabitants, and even the game-like mechanics the characters have to deal with every day.
But I guess that's not important.
This series gives me cancer whenever I think about it. ESPECIALLY the 87% rated second season. The first season was tolerable, I think I even liked it a little at first, but then After Story... it's plot made NO SENSE, it seemed like they were pulling things out of their ass at KyoAni, what happens with the main character would only happen in a fantasy and they tried to add a genre after a full season which you JUST CAN'T DO. Two major plotlines in one season is too much. Slow, dramatic, story-heavy anime are kinda borderline for me to begin with, but occasionally I do like them. I don't see why people worship this.
it seemed like they were pulling things out of their ass at KyoAni
Don't blame the studio, all they did was adapt it. If you wanna fire at somebody, fire at Key.
fantasy and they tried to add a genre after a full season
The original season had these too. The first arc of Clannad was, legit, about Fuko, a girl in a coma that had come back as a ghost, that then disappears. The Kotomi arc was about her parents finding evidence of the parallel world, which then physically appears in mostly After Story. These events had the purpose of establishing this exact thing, that stuff like this is common-place and in-world "logic" if you wanna call it that.
Otherwise, your points are more common then you may think. The thing is, with average scores + extremely popular anime the lower opinions usually don't pop up as much. But Key works and Clannad especially have been criticized with these points for a veeeeeeeerrrrry long time. You just have to look in the right places.
I will be fast, anything that has a plot or art style like this is not for me :
Black Clover
Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai
Haikyuu
Fairy Tail 2018
Sousei no Onmyouji
Bleach
I'd agree on Bleach...
But I quite like Black Clover as a decent anime that releases weekly. (Don't love it, but don't hate it either. I, simply, just like it. However, I can see why people would hate it though, with one major reason probably being due to the incredibly inconsistent animation. Although this is to be expected of a show that releases weekly on tight schedules, I'll admit it's probably one of the worst shows out of all weekly releasing anime for consistent animations. (If you wanna see one of the worst examples, look for "Asta Cannon!" in Episode 106 --or on Crunchyroll "The Invincible Black Bulls! at 1:57 to 2:03 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD1WZF7wumw --)
ReZERO Starting Life in Another World
I watched this back when I was a weeblet when I literally enjoyed anything that was half decent like SAO, but this show was really boring to me, I hated how incompetent the main protag is and how the only thing going for him was his return by death thing, also the fact that he never grows in any way and I feel like steins:gate did it much much better. Another thing is how overrated the anime seemed to be, I don't mind it if you really enjoy it thats ur personla taste, but saying it is a masterpiece, that is way too far fetched, I feel like the fact it is so overrated makes me hate this even more.
AnoHana and KimiUso are terribly-written drama aimed at people who just want an excuse to cry. At least the latter has nice music; AnoHana is nearly irredeemable.
Don't agree as much with KimiUso (manga bias since I don't remember the anime at all) but AnoHana is indeed irredeemable. Even if you so much as tried to fix it, you couldn't. You'd have to scrap every single episode. It might just be the most unrealistic cast of characters and the most unrealistic portrayal of grief I've found so far.
Angel Beats
This show never really took off for me. The whole series bored me and the ending was so underwhelming. The characters were in my opinion really weak. A lot of people say this show is really sad, but I was never emotionally drawn in, so none of it had any effect on me.
alright, i'll say it:
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon
personally i think this show blows and it has been my lowest rated show for around 6/7 months with a 3.8.
reasons i disliked:
the plot reminded me of a worse version of sword art online (which i did not like too much either) with its dungeon fighting qualities. that trope of fine, sure, but pair that with characters i could NOT care less about made it agonizing to watch.
i did not feel any attachment, concern, or care for literally any of the characters. hestia was the character i could tolerate the most due to her humorous nature, but it rubbed me the wrong way how she literally liked a child and tried to pursue him under the cloak of "comedy..." like he is 14 :'))
the end of the first season felt like the longest final episode of anything i have seen. i would check the time, check again in hopes 5 minutes have passed, and see that barely over 1 minute truly did.
imo dan machi was bland, irritating, and unoriginal. i can see how others would enjoy seeing it is a care-free/short anime but it was not for me.
Clannad After Story
I hate clannad after story (and regular clannad to some extent) with a burning passion.
I just can't think that anyone actually sat through after story (let alone the first season) without thinking it was the stupidest thing in the world. All of it was predictable and boring cry porn.
The show sabotages itself when it undermines its most emotional moment in the most confusing and pretentious way possible. I know the ending is from the visual novel but I think that anyone could have seen that it was a bad ending and that it needed to be changed. What's the point of making an adaptation if you're not going to ADAPT anything. It's not called a copy is it? What they did I can only see as incredibly cowardly and maybe greedy (trying to change as little as possible to appeal to fans of the vn so they'll buy the dvds).
Not only that but the whole route they adapted (even though it's the main route) is easily the most boring by far. I watched the Tomoyo route ova and it's 100000x more interesting than Nagisa's and I imagine that Kyou's route is similarly much more interesing (I didn't watch it).
There's also the stretch of like 3 or so episodes (I forget) that have basically nothing to do with anything related to the actual plot (all I remember is there's some spirit cat so that tells you how terrible and unmemorable it is).
I could go on but this is basically my main reasons for hating it so much. A lot of it also stems from how regular clannad is boring as fuck and nothing interesting happens AT ALL so they really had nothing to go off of in the first place. The way I see it is the whole thing was doomed to fail from the start and they really should have made some radical changes before even adapting the first part.
yeah tldr clannad is stupid and boring.
@xandrrr FINALLY another Clannad hater!!!
I'm currently watching Afterstory and similarly hate it and the rest of Clannad. Though our reasonings don't exactly line up.
The last comment I made on Afterstory after watching episode 16:
So you're telling me Nagisa got sick at THE ONLY TIME IN THE YEAR SHE PREDICTABLY DOES, you're dumbass didn't time the pregnancy around that, and are surprised when a plot device blizzard cuts off transport and she dies in birth?
Go fuck yourself.
then he doesn't even force her to go to the hosiptal in the week or so he had before the blizzard he tries to be like nice to her or something but doesn't do what literally anyone else would do in that situation. I think you'll hate the ending as well. It's pretty awful
I already know the gist of the ending (I watched analyses on it to try and find out how people like it) and am kinda looking forward to it in a sadistic way.
I had it spoiled before it happened and it ruined the whole franchise instantly. I hadn't though very highly of it before but it was doomed to be a zero for me after that point. Even after having that spoiler I still didn't understand wtf happened in the ending so good luck with that. Had to read the wiki to figure it out.
Oh wow. This is my most favourite anime. Really shows how different we all think.
yeah I think how much you got out of the show is how much you can ignore the decisions the characters make and just focus on how those decisions impact them and also how much you care for said characters in the first place. I couldn't do either of those very well but I can at least see how you might care for the characters, it's not like the whole cast is as boring as nagisa (mainly tomoyo and kyou and mei).
@Gintokee look at this ^^ ?
Taiga has the magical ability to give me a headache in every single scene she participates. The romance, the abusive relationship, makes 0 sense. Supporting characters are very weak & every episode feels like I am on a loop, where Ryuuiji does something -> Taiga gets mad -> ??? -> She blushes or gets mad. Insanely boring.
I have to give an honorable mention to:
Shingeki no Kyojin 2
There's only 1 series I can say I hate it:
Kuroko no Basket
Kuroko no Basket
I actually read and watch more than my list shows (I can't remember exactly in which chapter I left it), but... Basketball means literally nothing to the plot. It's about more superpower than basketball.
VINLAND SAGA
i just did not get the hype, it was ok. everyone was crazy about askeladd and i was just like "???"
Damn it! I was going to pick Bakemonogatari, but somebody beat me to it! I guess I'll have to go Shinsekai Yori. I don't actually hate the series, but I feel it did get overrated on MAL. So many Zoomers have that series on their faves right next to Galactic Heroes, Tatami, Patlabor 2, and all the super heavy hitters. All because it was their first dystopian fic and they were 12 years old when ThatanimeSnob hyped it through the god damn roof. If you go back and actually watch the series again, it's just not THAT good. The characters are kind of bland besides Samurai Mole. The plot actually has some serious issues. The best parts were just stolen wholesale from better dystopian fiction. As an adaptation of a YA novel it's perfectly fine. It's just not the 300 IQ, uber elite series that so many remember it being.
Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari
I loved the first 4 episodes, but after that it was just terrible. Episodes 5-14 were completely pointless and ranged from pretty boring to pretty annoying, episode 15 made me actively dislike the show, episodes 16-20 were painful, and episode 21 was an utter train-wreck.
Overlord
It just feels like an edgier version of SAO, with most of the same issues (at least for the first season, I refuse to watch anymore). Most of the characters are flat, and the show does an incredibly poor job of establishing Ainz as a character. The number of people who think he's supposed to be intelligent and/or a good person who has any qualms with killing people in the slightest should be more than a sign of that.
The plot is less of a mess than SAO, but since when was that a high bar? Nothing really interesting happens in the season, as there's little to no character building and is kind of just a series of beat downs. Oh, and the discount Midnight Cats was populated by a bunch of cardboard cutouts that I didn't care about at all, and sapped any satisfaction I could have gotten out of the arcs final beat down. I don't know what's so stand about this story that deserves any praise, beyond the lack of major plot holes that I'm aware of.
The animation ranges from okay to God awful CGI, that may have good direction but that's about it. Hell, this is one aspect that SAO completely trounces Overlord in to the point that it doesn't even feel like Mad House was trying. Don't get me wrong, there's still some cool moments thanks to the directing. But, they would have been way cooler in a show with better animation. Besides, there's a multitude of better-directed shows out there, even if I don't have the expertise to point to them myself.
The only thing that I have walked away with nothing to complain about is the aesthetic. It does a very good job of conveying the "we are the bad guys" concept, I can't deny that. But I can get the same thing by just looking at a static image, so I don't think Overlord can stand alone on just that. Even with the addition of good directing, I find it hard to consider this show anything more than okay.
I've heard people praise the show for its world-building, but I recall nothing of note. Like even if they did establish a lot of stuff I don't remember, this takes place in a pretty generic video game medieval fantasy world. The whole fun and appeal of world-building are exploring a place that is foreign to the reader, which is lost in a world that isn't very unique.
TL;DR Blah blah blah, I clearly hate fun and think everything about the show is garbage beyond repair, and you definitely read everything I wrote. But really, Overlord is somewhere from okay to mediocre, and I'm tired of people praising it to high heaven just because it's slightly better than SAO.
Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion
A bunch of pretentious nonsense.
Why? See:
Memes aside (but not really), Promare was absolutely horrible. I'm glad the score is somewhat dropping off now that people are seeing through the hype, but jesus Trigger has really fallen off in recent years.
The full-length analysis of why it's so bad comes later, but here is the most condensed way to spell it out.
Bonus because it's not exactly popular, but after seeing this review and its upvotes I have to make a disclaimer that Cipher was and still is a meme, so if you feel inclined to watch it after reading the review, please know that nothing written on here is true and that you will get a good laugh out of watching it. This is easily The Room of anime.