Most Disappointing Anime

[Marik2]

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
High School of the Dead
Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple
These three that I listed nearly made me hate anime. I was at that point for a while mind you

LOL you forgot, haruhi suzumiya

 

[Aura Guardian]

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Totally Spies is French made

 

[Aura Guardian]

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
High School of the Dead
Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple
These three that I listed nearly made me hate anime. I was at that point for a while mind you

LOL you forgot, haruhi suzumiya

That one I HATE!! But this is the most disappointing anime thread my friend

 

[Yosato]

Has to be Hellsing - In my opinion it has shallow characters, a plot that goes nowhere and it's just a huge gorefest. It's a real shame too because the premise intrigued me and I'm a massive fan of the Freeman, but personally I just couldn't bring myself to like it.

 

[dalek sec]

Neon Genisis Evangelion, Bleach, FMA and Death Note are the most disappointing in terms of anime for me.

Meanwhile Inyuasha was a huge let down simply because the damn thing just went on and on and didn't end not to mention they never defeated the one core villian of the series! D:

 

[Stuntkid]

gonna get flamed for this, but i'd say Elfen Lied. interesting premise, but i wasn't able to watch more than a couple episodes because the violence was so excessive and brutal, it made me sick. and that's coming from a guy whose favorite movies are zombie flicks.

Yeah, I liked the anime myself, but at the same time I forced myself to have an open mind.

Myu pissed me off x(

 

[mireko]

NGE Started off okay, then became pretentious, masturbatory garbage in the second half.

Elfen Lied disappointed me because it was listed as "horror" and even "psychological horror", when it never got any scarier than a lukewarm glass of milk. And because it was fucking terrible.

Ghost Hound was great until the end. One of the best OPs I've ever heard, creepy and stylish sound design/BGM, interesting characters, an interesting plot, hokey Fringe-style pseudoscience.. and then it just sort of stops.

I'll still put a spoiler warning here though:

Spoiler

Nothing is explained or resolved, we don't get to find out how anything was fixed or how certain people were cured of their afflictions. Tarou walks into the shrine, and everything is just fine again.

I can only imagine they ran out of time or something, cause it's one of the most rushed happy endings in recent memory.

 

[2733]

Linebarrels of Iron. God that was awful.

Terribly animated mechs, an ugly art style and a main character that was just an asshole for the sake of being an asshole? Yeah, I'll pass.

Glad I not the only one who hated that piece of sh*t of an anime and thought the main character was an asshole. I seriously wanted to punch that fool in the face.

I got about 4 episodes in, realized his "sense of justice" was just him being a dick and that none of the other characters weren't even remotely interesting. I'm glad I got out when I did. Also if I had one word to describe the art it would be "dirty."

yeah, that one is just plain bad, but that one that really disappointed me was "The Skull Man". it looked all dark and complex, but it was just slow, I quit 9 episodes in because NOTHING HAD HAPPEDNED.

 

[Kroden]

Digimon. hands down no competition Digimon

 

[Mike Laserbeam]

Clannad After Story.

Almost great, but the biggest shit pile of an ending ever. A cheap twist to back out of an otherwise great story.

'But the Manga...' Shut up! It still sucks, and isn't worth watching halfway through.

Clannad wasn't based on a manga. And After Story is an incredible anime.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

Animes like Bleach, Naruto, and even Case Closed. I initially liked them, but then they began to drag on FOREVER, up to 300 to 600 episodes with no end in sight!

This.

These series started well...now you have to have a plot for the most remote of people or for the guy that will die in ~2 episodes...

 

[childofbodom]

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. I think I have said enough. Not that the concept seemed promising in the first place, but damn even my low expectations got disappointed.

 

[Alufear]

Baccano! Not because it was bad, but because it was SO BADASS that I was literally cursing at my screen when it ended at 16 episodes. That was one HELL of a train-ride, and totally warrents a second season.

 

[eelel]

havent seen brotherhood tho, maybe its closer to the manga

Ohhh boy is it ever.

 

[Mike Laserbeam]

Clannad After Story.

Almost great, but the biggest shit pile of an ending ever. A cheap twist to back out of an otherwise great story.

'But the Manga...' Shut up! It still sucks, and isn't worth watching halfway through.

Clannad wasn't based on a manga. And After Story is an incredible anime.

Clannad was based on a manga, check the wiki. And After Story was incredible, till the ending made the whole last half pointless.

The anime was announced a week after the manga ended, right before the After story manga started : P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clannad_anime

Did you read that properly? The manga was an adaptation itself. The Clannad anime and manga were based on the Clannad visual novel. The anime may have come out after the manga but the base material was the game. I know this because I've played said visual novel and the story (for the main arc) is very much the same, After Story is also based on the After Story in the visual novel. The ending of After Story wasn't some cheap twist they thought up on the spot it was basically what happened in the visual novel (which sets that ending up throughout).

I'll admit even I found the last few episodes slightly annoying but I wouldn't say that the whole second half of the AS series was rubbish, the episodes with Ushio were brilliant and really moving, although I get what you mean by making the last half pointless.

Don't know if any of that was coherent... But there you have it!

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

I thought Full Metal Panic was awesome, why ruin it with forced romance?

For me, it's probably Claymore, now don't get me wrong, I still like it, but the series really lost steam about halfway through and began to drag on quite badly.

I wholeheartedly agree with that, up to episode 8, the show was insanely good, then it just sorta stagnated.

My vote goes for Hellsing, I just found it extremely boring. There weren't enough opportunities for Hellsing to be cool, I really didn't care less about the organisation...

 

[bdcjacko]

It is hard to say disappointing as I never have a clue about what is going on, but I like the pretty colors.

***Wait does Avatar count as anime? If so, did the live action movie count towards disappointing anime property?

 

[Hollock]

Baccano! Not because it was bad, but because it was SO BADASS that I was literally cursing at my screen when it ended at 16 episodes. That was one HELL of a train-ride, and totally warrents a second season.

doesn't the ending where the guy in the top hat says "fuck you endings are boring. Make one up for yourself." piss you off. Just finished that one myself and it was really good.
Most Dissapointing Samurai Champloo, I was so ready to love this series when I started and stuck with it for a while. But after about 10 episodes I decided that the flimsy bond holding them together (sunflower samurai) sucked, and I was not the least bit invested in what they were doing. I didn't expect it to be as good as bebop (which I didn't like at first but grew to love) but I thought It would be okay. Well to be honest, it's tolerable, but damn, damn.