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Hyped anime that you didn't care about?
As the title suggests, are there any anime that are widely hyped and talked about but you don't understand why they're so popular and or do not see their appeal?
I personally have never seen the specialty about anime like Dragonball Z and Naruto, to me they're just super generic without much depth in storyline or character development. I've tried to watch Naruto in particular a number of times and always end up just getting bored with it.
Many, but here is my favourite punchin bag Sword Art Online.
Bad written characters are imo always fatal flaws for a show and the reason why i end up disliking them, why should i care for characters who have a plain flat personality and also having a mary sue character as protagonist (a mary sue character doesn't have to be bad, but in most cases he/she is) and not to forget that in the several months this show takes place no character evolved in any kind the only character that changed was Asuna she devolved from being kinda cool to being just a useless pile of crap for the sake of making the mc rescue her all the time.
The setting would be kinda nice but the author failed to make the world believeable or actually working (if this was an actual mmo it would be to broken to be launched after the trainwreck of the beta it would have been).
Bad Pacing. lets make the story several months long but skip a lot of it because why the shit not...
Plot holes, a game and gamingsystem that shouldn't have had launched, even nintendo knows better how to launch a system.
Why the fuck are there so many old men in the game?
Why are there so many young children who doesnt even know how to play a game in the fucking game?!? A game that sold so poorly which was supposed to be a system seller for a sytstem that also sold poorly?
Why can Kirito hack into the game files from inside the game to save data to an item, but on the other hand can't just enable a lookout button again or disable the fucking microwave shit in his netgear?... oh yeah becuase mary sue...I could write more but i guess i showed why i can't like a show or even respect a show like that especially if there are many shows out there with a similar concept but without sucking that much ass.
Most of the time, you have to grow up with shows like DBZ, Naruto etc. For example, in my opinion your favorite list is full of overhyped and generic shows. Code Geass, DTB and Erased are terrible in my opinion and the other 2, I see no appeal in and I'm 100% correct on shows, I think, I'll find terrible just by looking at the key visual.
Also, you can't say about shows that are hundreds of episodes long, that they have no story depth or character developement, just by watching a few episodes. For DBZ it's mostly true, but not so for Naruto. It's still not groundbreaking though. I'm not the biggest fan of Naruto either.
No offens though. Everyone has a different taste, obviously.
Shows, I didn't see the appeal in as much, or not at all are Bakkano, Duradura, Gurren Lagaan, Kill la Kill, Your Lie in April, Little Witch Academia etc.
There're more, but it's gonna be too much.
I see no appeal in and I’m 100% correct on shows I think
God, never change, Erwin.
While a lot of our most top anime scores are different, we do share quite a few anime which are around the same score like Black lagoon and Death Note. Glad we at least share that connection :P
just few, SAO o SnK to mention some, i could say snk is in fact a good anime and is a matter of watch it, but what annoys me is the hype it has created just because in the moment it was aired there was no other good animes. In SAO's case, it's just hyped-for-no-reason for me.
Others, like DBZ and Naruto are animes i like, though, even when DBZ is a good anime, DB franchise has good series, movies, etc, yeah, but it's been overexploited AF, so its new series just don't deserve that hype. The same for Naruto with the new Boruto (i can't feel that shonen-characteristic charisma in Naruto's son, whose father does have)
Now, what i do know are animes that are good but idk why in the world they're not popular.
SAO seems to be the front runner for love it or hate it, I personally fall into the category of it being not that great, as a "trapped in a game" genre it fails compared to things like Log Horizon and as a romantic anime there are still ones with better stories. It feels like an anime trying to reach as many people as possible and instead it's just ended up in a limbo of well if you judge it one way but not the other.
erased was okay, but it wasn't like. amazing.
Is there any specific reason as to why you potentially didn't enjoy it? Would be interested in knowing.
mostly a conflict of personal taste. the whole "mystery" aspect of the show was ruined for me because of how obvious it was that a certain character was the murderer. wasn't particularly interested in any of the other characters and i thought overall the show lacked a lot of subtlety, which (imo) is a very important aspect of any mystery story.
perhaps if it were longer and the characters were given more time to develop my opinion would be different. still think it's a well-made anime and i don't think less of anyone who enjoys it.
I think the core of Erased doesn't actually revolve around the mystery per say. It's more like a backdrop to set up the emotional appeal of the main cast. It has some life lessons woven into the dark plot as well even though some are somewhat surface level. I'd say just watch the show as more of a drama than a mystery and you'll probably end up liking it.
Nanatsu no Taizai, never watched it and i have no interest in watching it either
i'd gave some categories here, first "everyone's hyped, anime's very popular popular, and i tried to watch, but it was mediocre", second "popular anime which i didn't even bother to watch after seeing poster and some art, not interested" and "yeah, i've seen it, nothing special". Oh, and maybe "it's popular, i know it exists and people talk about it, but i didn't even bother to remember the title". It just makes a difference for me, different types of not caring about... ok, i realized i'm mean person
first: bleach, fairy tail - both after first episode drop, just another naruto/dbz-like shounen
second: tokyo ghoul, mirai nikki, parasyte, yuri on ice - just not interested, sorry
last: i watched some "nothing special" anime, but they weren't this popular to be here...
honorable mention: katana haiku wi-fi, or something like this, don't remember
I mean to each their own, but dang u dismissed a lot of super good anime in the “second” category. Maybe one day give them a chance? :) dont judge a book by its cover ^.^
Hyped by who is the question. The two anime you mention are for kids; many people saw them as kids and have nostalgic feelings toward them as adults, so they remain popular, but if you first encounter them as an adult of course you won't find them appealing. I would describe other shows often mentioned, like SAO, in the same category: not for kids necessarily, but for someone at a relatively low stage of emotional growth that they still get sucked in by a simplistic power fantasy with a self-insert MC. For people at that place in life, there's no problem whatsoever resonating with the show, and we were all kids at one time.
My wanting from this topic regarding "Hyped and overrated" are purely your personal opinions and views, every anime is subject to opinion, there is no fact that something is good or bad in terms of enjoyment because a mast majority of people will differ on views. I was simply interested in knowing what anime people see talked about and is showered with praise that they don't like or understand why people like it.
Doesn't not to care imply that you didn't watch it? I mean if you spend time on something you have to care about it to some extent.
But to follow the flow of the thread: The Tatami Galaxy, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, Grave of the Fireflies, Gabriel Dropout
Blood Blockade Battlefront - I'm truly sorry, everyone who enjoyed it but... I think it might have been one of the most boring action animes I've seen so far. It had a few good characters in it but ... other than that ... not very impressive in my opinion.
For me Inuyashiki is another one ... I mean ... crying was basically all they did in that show. Oh and a bit of murder, heroism and self sacrifice was slipped in too but ... I don't know ... I really didn't like it at all. Sorry!
Toradora. I didn't like it at all though it's hyped. It was a long time ago that I tried to watch it, like 2 years ago, so I don't remember exactly why I didn't like it, but it left me with this impression that it's a bland and soulless anime.
Attack on Titan season 2 was the big one for me. I didn't like the characterization in the first season and had already read through the material that would encompass the second. The combination of the two just killed my interest.
OH MY GOD, AOT SEASON 2 WAS SO MUCH WORSE THAN THE FIRST. Like it was legit rushed and abused to no end. It really saddened me because I had put off watching the first season then when I did finally watch it I loved it.
They didn't rush it. They changed the order of a few things and may have excluded some unimportant stuff. The second season over all was way more solid than the first one in my opinion. Production values, pacing, episode structure etc. were all better than in the first season. And the most important part, the mangaka excluded Levi, Eren and Mikasa for the majority of that part of the story, the second season adapted.
I think them missing out things even if they're unimportant, has made the season feel really rushed. I don't know if it's the same in the manga but the fact that in 12 episodes, about 10x more info is released than in season 1, makes it really not enjoyable to watch to me.
Anime like:
Anime that have comedy and cute girl as their focus. I watch anime for the emotions.
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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Nice production values, and a unique idea, but it just didn't hold my interest. I wasn't a fan of any of the character personalities either.
Recently:
- Assassination Classroom
- Re:Zero
- Anohana
- (To a smaller extent) My Hero Academia
The Seven Deadly Sins. Since I am familiar with the subject matter from moral philosophy, I thought an anime based on the idea of the seven deadly sins could be interesting. But there were problems with the execution. First, the deadly sins were portrayed as heroes. This seems like a good way to fail at portraying their personalities in a way consistent with the actual sins. Second, the main character is supposed to be Wrath, but he is portrayed as a bouncy, cheerful little guy who likes to squeeze large breasts. I could accept the breast squeezing from Lust, but it seems out of character for Wrath. I didn't continue watching long enough to see all seven of the deadly sins, but the next one, who was supposed to be Envy, was portrayed as a large breasted giantess. Something like this could have worked better if the personalities of the characters were more closely based on the sins they were associated with.
I think that the main character being portrayed as that makes the times when he loses his temper all the more scary. A lot of the anime seems to be about the Sins hiding amongst something else. Like with wrath, he's cheery and bouncy but has a darkness hidden within him.
Mahoutsukai no Yome.
The OVA was really stunning. I loved the story, art, characters, and could not wait to watch the full show. The first few episodes of the show were really great. Almost on par with the OVA. A lot of the comments I read were positive and claimed that it was one of the most stunning series ever. The world of Mahoutsukai no Yome is beautiful and the character development is good, but that kind of seems.... it? Plot wise it's lacking. The last quarter of the show felt like it was trying to be an action anime. I kept checking to see if each episode was ending and I'd be relieved when there was 4 minutes left. I enjoyed it, but I think that it's definitely overhyped and I would gladly watch a season 2, but never rewatch it.
tldr: it overhyped, would not rewatch but it wasn't bad. MEH
Tbqh watching Mahoutsukai was the most downhill experience in an anime in the last couple months. I dont see why people praise it like crazy when in reality it became just another overhyped generic piece of garbage which starts of super promising and then takes the down-the-gutter route once the budget starts waning. I really loved the anime and I wanted to like it hence why I forced myself to finish it, but I absolutely despised the route the story took. People who unironically consider this anime of the season are the kind of zealous bandwagon jumping morons who gobble up every piece of garbage and unconditionally shower it with compliments and fail to see any shortcomings whatsoever and when you criticise something about it they instantly get overprotective and passive aggressive as if youd trample over their shitty sandcastle.
The entire (or what I saw of) Monogatari series. Didn't understand the hype before I watched it and I understood it ten times less after watching it.
Yeah people were really banging on about that anime, People have said the manga is better. But the actual anime itself is full of cliches and the general story is a pretty boring self loathing one.
As it wasn't mentioned yet: Idol Shows.
Especially Love Live for me. I kinda liked the first season of WUG fot it's criticism of the idol industry, but the second season was quite bland and boring again.
For me, it is Boku no Hero Academia.
I watched the first season, wasn't too hyped for that and for me it was just decent, nothing more. gave it 7 - so When everyone was hyped for s2 and now s3 I'm just sitting here like "meh". Didn't bother watching S2.
Devilman Crybaby, it didn't make it for me /shrug
definitely SAO - it´s bland and ugh in general
No Game No Life - don´t really know why I didn´t watch it but it just feels so overrated to me that I don´t even feel I need to watch it
Monogatari series (Bakemotogatari specifically from what I watched) - dropped after 1st episode because it just didn´t make any sense
Fairy Tail - has a big fanbase which talks about how great it is. Is kinda long and as a hater of long anime it´s an instant no-no for me
Oreimo - watched it and still didn´t understand what was ,,that good" in it. Just lots of Kuroneko lovers
Fate series - I watched a bit of the newest that was in the time because I´ve though that it didn´t have any prequel,where I was terribly wrong. I asked people who like it and it feels like all of them are the same
I don't know why SAO is so often mentioned on this thread. It was hyped BEFORE premiere, after it received wave of hate, because of how people liked idea but not execution. As for actual topic for me it would be Black Lagoon - maybe I'll give it second chance some day, but after those few episodes that I watched I was bored as fuck
