Anime's You Find Overrated

[Savo]

Magical Girl Madoka. I went into it expecting gods gift to anime, judging from what I had heard about it. What I got was a gorgeously animated show with some very obnoxious characters. I dropped it two episodes away from the end.

Madoka reminds me of the infamous Kira Yamato of Gundam Seed in her atttitude. All she does is whine and whine some more about how she wants to stop the conflicts but keeps refusing to become a magical girl. Perhaps it picks up in the last two episodes, but her bitching brought the series down for me.

 

[Lumin]

Lucky Star. Every little interaction on-screen seemed so entirely mundane and overdone. I remember that the characters spent a good 1/3 of an episode talking about the inside fillings of some foods, with a stupidly simple background, and no character body movements. I'm dumbfounded as to how it has a fanbase of any notable size at all.

 

[klaynexas3]

Death Note.


It's a great show, up until that happens.

Then the series turned to shit.

But Clarion, nothing happens after that.. That marks the the end of the series... There are only 25 episodes in Death Note.

Exactly, I don't know why people think something more happened after that. I found it to be a heartbreaking but very good ending, as it was something unexpected and worked out quiet well for the antihero(if Light could even be called such).

OT: Dragonball Z, any show where there is no real threat to the heroes of the show, and death is no hindrance, makes out to be a dull show. Take any battle scene and just change villains and you have a basic idea of the episodes, and the story itself was so clusterfucked but predictable at the same time that you could start any episode, not know a single character, and still have a good idea of what was going on.

Also, Naruto is overdone on both ends of the spectrum. People either like it too much, or give it too much hate. It's a decent enough anime. It isn't something scrounged out of the depths of hell and it isn't God's gift to the world, it's an anime that's somewhat entertaining and has a decent enough story when it's actually present.

 

[CODE-D]

In before all of them.

I don't like most shonen titles, though I suppose that's rather normal around these parts. I also really do not like the Ghost in the Shell movie. The show was a thousand times better in every possible way. I watched recently with a friend and we were both severely disappointed.

Spoiler: also this

I loved the first episode. I hated everything else. I'm only mentioning it because my friend thought it was the most glorious thing in existence.[/spoiler][/QUOTE]
They made Xamd lost memories which starts sucking halfway through and then the ending ugh...

 

[Lunar Templar]

Also, Bleach went really downhill after the first couple of seasons.

it helps considerably if you skip the filler seasons, but yeah :/ least the anime of it is over now.

OT:

Eva and Akira

i don't get how people can praise ether.

Eva i spent the whole time wanting to choke the life out of .... every one cept the drunk chick, cause she's the only one that didn't piss me off in some form or another constantly

and i just didn't get Akira, yes i've been told the manga is better but i saw nothing to make me want to go find it. that and the movie felt like 6 hours long

 

[Hazy992]

Also, Bleach went really downhill after the first couple of seasons.

it helps considerably if you skip the filler seasons, but yeah :/ least the anime of it is over now.

Yeah I used to do that anyway. I stopped watching it after

Spoiler

Aizen was defeated

because I thought it was just getting ridiculous at this point.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Also, Bleach went really downhill after the first couple of seasons.

it helps considerably if you skip the filler seasons, but yeah :/ least the anime of it is over now.

Yeah I used to do that anyway. I stopped watching it after

Spoiler

Aizen was defeated

because I thought it was just getting ridiculous at this point.

me to actually, since it should have ended there >.<

have been following the manga though, and its getting good again

Spoiler

the final arc is Quincy VS Shinigami, and it is the final arc, TK said so a few times

 

[Hazy992]

Also, Bleach went really downhill after the first couple of seasons.

it helps considerably if you skip the filler seasons, but yeah :/ least the anime of it is over now.

Yeah I used to do that anyway. I stopped watching it after

Spoiler

Aizen was defeated

because I thought it was just getting ridiculous at this point.

me to actually, since it should have ended there >.<

have been following the manga though, and its getting good again

Spoiler

the final arc is Quincy VS Shinigami, and it is the final arc, TK said so a few times

Dammit that actually sounds quite interesting! I might have to get back into in that case.

 

[neoontime]

Well I actually did not really watch, just sort of faded in and out when my bro had it on but.....

Spoiler: Dun Dun Dunnnn

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann- The whole drills and spiral energy concepts just sounded so stupid!

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I never really saw the appeal of Full Metal Alchemist. I gave it a try and, that one episode where Whinnery is kidnapped was fine (stop looking at me like that) but over all I don't see how it blew up like it did.

I never watched Serial Experiments Lain but that being said, I know it was more popular than Boogiepop Phantom; a series I absolutely loved. The thing is, Boogiepop seemed far less known even though a friend and anime fan told me about how very similar the two series are...were.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

Dear god, where do I even begin?

Evangelion - Tries so hard to be philosophical and mature yet the franchise revolves around a teen whining and overreacting to EVERYTHING.
Death Note - Tries so hard to be intelligent yet the characters are so profoundly stupid it's sickening.
Elfen Lied - I'm pretty sure a little boy going through puberty in the 90's wrote this.
Naruto - Nearly half the series consists of flashbacks and characters talking about said flashbacks, not enough Rock Lee.
Bleach - After the first season the character design just nosedived.
One Piece - 545 episodes and no sign of slowing, poor character design from day 1, and I just can't stand the art style.
Shin Chan - Look at it, LOOK!
Hellsing - We get it, he can do cool stuff, does he have anything else going for him?
Devil May Cry - Like Hellsing, Dante just rips through any and every threat like butter and therefore has no real danger, and no plot.
Inuyasha - It's Twilight in anime form, bout it.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Dammit that actually sounds quite interesting! I might have to get back into in that case.

the final arc starts at 480.

unless you skipped the fullbringer arc, then 424 is where you wanna start.
if only to explain the minor detail of Ichigo having his powers back and why he looks different

 

[Hazy992]

Dammit that actually sounds quite interesting! I might have to get back into in that case.

the final arc starts at 480.

unless you skipped the fullbringer arc, then 424 is where you wanna start.
if only to explain the minor detail of Ichigo having his powers back and why he looks different

Oh yeah I forgot he lost his powers. Again -_-

 

[Mr.Squishy]

Bleach. I lost interest around the time where people started to glow and shit new bankais for every battle.

Naruto has, at time of writing, gotten over the over-the-top and has two laughably untouchable gary stue antagonists in manga history, and I just can't get into the characters and action anymore. Shame. It takes a lot to screw up a show about ninja wizards.

DBZ: You know why. Glowy-shouty-for-five-episodes wasn't an entertaining formula, and hasn't gotten better with age.

Death note also got increasingly ridiculous as time went on, and at one point I just went 'Fucking what?! REALLY?" and stopped watching.

Fairy Tail. It's One Piece to the power of Rave Master without the charm of One Piece.

FMA. Could not get into the main characters or the main conflict of it all, even if the alchemy was quite neat.

Soul Eater. FMA problem, but I actively wanted to murder most of the cast.

Clannad. It wasn't that special.


And yet, noone will read this list nor give two shits. Why do I bother replying again?

 

[Lunar Templar]

Dammit that actually sounds quite interesting! I might have to get back into in that case.

the final arc starts at 480.

unless you skipped the fullbringer arc, then 424 is where you wanna start.
if only to explain the minor detail of Ichigo having his powers back and why he looks different

Oh yeah I forgot he lost his powers. Again -_-

least it was cooler the second time instead of just 'owned so hard his powers vanished' like the first time.

Spoiler

and to be honest, wish he'd kept the fullbringer over getting his shinigami powers back. least the sword in bankai got cooler looking >.>

 

[Hazy992]

Dammit that actually sounds quite interesting! I might have to get back into in that case.

the final arc starts at 480.

unless you skipped the fullbringer arc, then 424 is where you wanna start.
if only to explain the minor detail of Ichigo having his powers back and why he looks different

Oh yeah I forgot he lost his powers. Again -_-

least it was cooler the second time instead of just 'owned so hard his powers vanished' like the first time.

Spoiler

and to be honest, wish he'd kept the fullbringer over getting his shinigami powers back. least the sword in bankai got cooler looking >.>

Is his Bankai pretty much the same though?

 

[Dragonpit]

There are three anime I find overrated and those are the big three: Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece. Now don't get me wrong; I think they're all good anime. However, it still feels like there is something wrong with each of them on some level that really brings down their significance for me.

Bleach has its good qualities, but I find that, while character development is there, it's often obscure and hard to notice. What's more, Aizen, the series' first big baddie, seemed to be pulling a lot of 'plan' out of his ass, though I can't say his explanations didn't make sense. Then again, I can say that a lot of the series' villains.

Naruto is good, but it's long-winded and a bit high-minded. These aren't necessarily bad qualities in themselves, but with Naruto, they're just enough to barely cross the 'preachy' line.

One Piece was certainly an original concept, being one of the few properties out there that can pull off the pirate concept enough and have an effective enough a rubber man to make things interesting for me. However, the journey of the Strawhat crew has become so long-winded that's become extremely difficult to figure out just where they are in their overly-extended journey. To quote a magazine that covered this, "It's success is its own weakness."

 

[Lunar Templar]

Is his Bankai pretty much the same though?

Spoiler: the new look

so far he's only used it twice, so don't know if its mechanically different yet. since he's not relying on it for EVERY fight like he used to, hard to gauge how different it really is

unless we're talking about looks, then, yes and no. his new 'shinigami form' is a mix of his fullbringer and the old styling

 

[Hazy992]

Is his Bankai pretty much the same though?

Spoiler: the new look

so far he's only used it twice, so don't know if its mechanically different yet. since he's not relying on it for EVERY fight like he used to, hard to gauge how different it really is

unless we're talking about looks, then, yes and no. his new 'shinigami form' is a mix of his fullbringer and the old styling

That looks... different I keep thinking of Shakespeare from some reason