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I have noticed recently that I have a few anime that I have no idea why I like so much. Most of these consist of magical girl anime like pretty cure and sailor moon and it got me wondering, does anyone else have any guilty pleasure anime?

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Leudkemia 11y
Handholding is pretty lewd. Anything with that.
- Tulla 11y
  You filthy human, you can't speak about that.
  
  Leudkemia 11y
  damn she has thunder thighs.
killjoy 11y
No.
I don't like watching anything.
- Viridescent 4y
  nice finally someone who has planet with in their favorites, is spirit circle better?
Tulla 11y
Everything I like is flawless, only Anime others watch are bad.

Hentai maybe? You could also consider the amazing and incredible moe Anime a guilty pleasure, but I wouldn't.
- StelFoog 11y
  If all moe anime was a guilty pleasure than KyoAni would be ruined xD
  Tulla 11y
  They are Heros! I love their moe shit xD
  
  But moe in general is 'meh', yet love it to bits.
  StelFoog 11y
  Yeah KyoAni are great at making moe anime (and anime in general), I just hope they won't waste their talent on another season of Free once their done with AmaBuri
  killjoy 11y
  Free is better than most of their moeshit
  StelFoog 11y
  You are dead to me sir
- Leudkemia 11y
  There is nothing wrong with hentai. Stop. Hentai is pure and innocent. Don't hate the hentai.
  requiemsama 11y
  Yes. Hentai is pure. And innocent. Only jerks criticize hentai.
  Tulla 11y
  The Internet is full of jerks! Like moe I just wrote what those jerks would consider bad.
  
  I am a good person, I know hentai is pure and the only right entertainment.
StelFoog 11y
About half the anime's I like are guilty pleasures, I have no idea why I like them but my guess it that the romance in them somehow speak to me. Example: SAO, Boku-H and Kiss x Sis to name a few.
Mirage 11y
Ecchi ones, no doubt. But only certain ecchi anime are good. For example: High School DxD & To Love-Ru "Darkness"
Zeto 11y
Two of my guilty pleasures that are relatively recent are Bodacious Space Pirates and Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere.

My justification for the former is simple: why wouldn't you love yacht-club-members-turned-space-pirates.

The latter is just unabashedly goofy, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I still can't forget those Werewolves of London.
- MonsterL 11y
  I just finished both seasons of Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere and i loved them but i personally wouldn't consider that a guilty pleasure because for me a guilty pleasure is something i don't really want to talk about in public but that show i would have no problem talking about it in public
  Zeto 11y
  A "guilty pleasure" in my book is something that I would never name-drop in front of the uninitiated. I, personally, would have trouble describing a series featuring a protagonist who is stark naked for the entirety of S2. You're the better man in that regard.
  MonsterL 11y
  well i would probably leave out that he was naked for an entire season but i would still talk about it in front of the uninitiated
sex 11y
Pupa.
- savvypanther 11y
  Hehe, Pupa's probably on the cusp of being a guilty pleasure/just bad anime for me. :) There was a lot of potential in the premise but they really botched up the execution. But it was such a bizarre train wreck it was hard not to look away. I'd definitely watch a 2nd season if by some miracle they ever got one.
Bling 11y
Can't really pin down any guilty pleasure genres, but I do have a few guilty pleasure shows:

Danganronpa: The Animation: I kinda classify it as "so bad, it's good." I gave up on watching it seriously when I saw the purple blood XD
Ranma 1/2: I know the this is generally well-received, but I tend to call it a guilty pleasure 'cuz I got a lot of flack for reading the manga in middle school :''(
Brynhildr in the Darkness: Despite its flaws, I genuinely liked this show. It could be because this was the only Arms anime I enjoyed (even a little).
Mahoromatic: There really isn't anything spectacular about the series, but the titular character, Mahoro, is so sweet and keeps me coming back and watching. Plus, its a joint production between Shaft and Gainax, so that's pretty interesting.
End of Evangelion: I kinda see it as a trainwreck that I never take my eyes off of. I may not give it a perfect score, but I'm always super excited at the opportunity to watch EoE anytime. Also, it has probably my favorite soundtrack of any show/movie.
- Removed 11y
  "End of Evangelion: I kinda see it as a trainwreck"
  
  dude what.
  jewelm 11y
  Danganronpa: The Animation: I kinda classify it as "so bad, it's good." That is Danganronpa for me. I don't know why I like it so much even though I know its bad xD
Gaim 11y
Code Geass because I had bad tastes.
Jesseee 11y
Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. from this season. xD
Twintails is love, Twintails is life!
NoFrame 11y
Hagure Yuusha no Estetica cause Akatsuki Ousawa is the best MC ever:

and

Moyashimon, for introducing me to 男の娘 (traps)

蛍ちゃん~~
- BrianJohnston 11y
  He really is one of the best
Vadrone 11y
I don't watch stuff that makes me ashamed of myself.
- noathings 11y
  Hahahahaha best answer in this thread!
SIRHC 11y
Well, pretty much most of the anime I watch are guilty pleasures. They're either:
1. Terrible anime based on awesome LNs
2. Ecchi
3. Most lewd jokes ever (yes you SYD)...
platy 11y
Meganebu is my biggest guilty pleasure. Simply because it's the shittest anime out there, in terms of anime that tried to copy Free (which already isnt that great),yeah it's so bad. Yet it's one of the three anime that have made me laugh to tears several times.
Zaphkiel 11y
Yup, ecchi ones are mine. Somehow I haven't seen a pure ecchi on for a while...
- MonsterL 11y
  by pure ecchi do you mean noting put that or can other stuff happen besides ecchi because if its the former i think that is called hentai
  Removed 11y
  I assumed he meant things like Seikon no Qwaser, Kiss x Sis or To-Love Ru where sometimes you might forget that these show are supposed to have a plot outside of the abundant amount of ecchi.
  MonsterL 11y
  Seikon no Qwaser has a lot of plot outside of ecchi it's just the the plot has a lot to do with ecchi seeing how they get power from sucking tits
  LordZage 11y
  When I started watching it, I had hopeful expectations. Then the titsucking began and well..., too bad really. =S
  Removed 11y
  Well yeah, I wasn't trying to say that it didn't have any plot or anything, just that the PLOT is sometimes overbearing.
  Zaphkiel 11y
  Haha whoops not hentai but ecchi is the main element in the series (where it's basically borderline hentai almost, but it's not)
bdubs 11y
Shit like Inu x Boku and Chunibyo were my guilty pleasures. They made me feel all faggoty on the inside.
- Viridescent 4y
  lmfao based, if someone types this today he'll be banned in a blink of an eye
Kranesh 11y
Honestly, I do enjoy ecchis, I watch a couple or at least one per season depending how good it is and if it has a decent plot... sometimes I don't care about the plot if it has good animation and hot girls so I say "fuck it I'll watch it just for fun"

Other of my guilty pleasures is watch underated series and some series that people consider shit lol.
Removed 11y
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero...the dub was HILARIOUS. Oh, and Ghost Stories dubbed, too.
Aurland 11y
Yuru Yuri.
It's terribly annoying yet for some reason i still like it.

Also anything tragedy I like. Pls save mah soul madoka.
That bitter yet saucy taste it leaves in my soul is akin to when I eat all the cookies and want more but I can't have anymore because gone. I especially like it when it pretends to be happy but you feel like "No".
- LordZage 11y
  I found the first 10-15secs extremely addictive. I dropped the show a few episodes in, but I still listen to intro from time to time. =S
  Aurland 11y
  Do you mean yuru yuri?
  LordZage 11y
  That's the one.
Mikolo771 11y
Oni Chichi
People who watched will know ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- killjoy 11y
  There's nothing shameful about Oni Chichi
  Mikolo771 11y
  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Oni Chichi is shameful (I mean a under 18 girl being raped by her father is pretty bad ) (still enjoyed it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) )
  killjoy 11y
  That's almost standard, hentai-wise.
  Tulla 11y
  There is hentai without someone under 18 being raped?
  Mikolo771 11y
  Yup Oni chi chi it even has four sequel .... (I enjoyed it but i wouldn't recommended you know.... )
  Tulla 11y
  I was questioning the existence of Hentai with NO RAPE.
  
  Why would you not recommend it? Oni Chi is great.
CinnamonBass 11y
DRAMAtical Murder. Considering when my friends recommended it they told me it was based on a game that is essentially 50% homo, I wasn't sure what to expect. And episode 3 made me spit my drink. I loved the story though and Clear and Koujaku are my baes.
requiemsama 11y
Sorry...but it's gotta be Seikon no Qwaser. That series deserves a 9, but most people don't have an affinity for tits, so it gets an automatic "-3" in their minds.

Guilty? I revel.
kidoa 11y
Plural for 'anime' is 'anime' because 'anime' is not an English word. Do you actually says 'samurais', 'onigiris', 'katanas' or 'ninjas'?
- bdubs 11y
  I say "ninjas" lol. I've never said ""samurais or "katanas" because they hardly come up in everyday conversation but now that I think of it...you're right o.o
- asterisks 11y
  Fixed it. Thanks for bringing that up, the grammar for Japanese isn't exactly my strong point.
Adamaa 11y
I'd like to say High School DxD mehehehe
StevOz 11y
Vividred...dat ass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e--qN5EGVZY
Removed 11y
Watched 4 episodes of Kiss X Sis . It was fun.

I will finish it.
- unknown11y
  oh god that's too far! NO! Just NO!
aishaq 11y
I have a bunch of guilty pleasures anime:
First off all, I love love super bad anime, like School days, Kakumeiki Valvrave and anything in between or much terrible than that.
Second will be _reverse harem anime, since I enjoy watching a couple of bishounen guys fight over an emotionless heroine while playing in the most "well-written" storyline ever.(For those who didn't catch that I was being sarcastic.)Example are : Uta no Prince, Amnesia, Brothers conflict etc.
Third, anything that has
yaoi or some BL actions in it I must to watch it and most of the time love it. (The amount of love I have for yaoi is more than it legally should be.)
Fourth, even though I'm I girl I just love anime for showing us cute girls doing cute things. ( That moe-thing is really just darn cute IMO)
Fifth, bad endings: my favourites are definitely the kind of ending where they just kill everyone of. ( Yes, I enjoys tragic endings-- Most of my favourite books have a bad ending.)
Sixth and last that I can think of at the moment , I enjoy bad animation more than that I actually should.
- fullcircle 11y
  I have to agree with everything you just wrote LOL.
  
  Anything by Shungiku Nakamura.~~~~/shot
  aishaq 11y
  You have good taste!
  Shungiki led me to the yaoi world, she is the reason for my BL addaction.
  fullcircle 11y
  Ugh yesssssssss. <3 Rumour has it though, 'she' is actually 'he'.
FloozyGod 11y
I don't believe there is such a thing as guilty pleasure. If you like something, don't be ashamed about it, stand up for it.
unknown11y
If anything, then it's probably the latter half of Oreimo. It's a legitimately good anime but gets really quite strange with all the incestin the specials and season 2. I do enjoy the show despite that though.
Inevitabilis 11y
Guilty Crown. I'm aware of its terrible writing and cringeworthy MC, but I can't resist, it's so freakin interesting to watch.

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