Most Disappointing Anime

[Drakmeire]

Blood+ I had just come off of soul eater and wanted something darker... but that series was boring as sin.

 

[Drakmeire]

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.

I'll only accept this answer if you at least watched more than episode one. I'll admit it got off to a bad start but it just kept getting better and weirder and by episode 6 I was hooked.
I understand if it's not your cup of tea but I just hope you gave it more than one episode.

 

[Drakmeire]

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

Why Gurren Lagann?
I thought that was one of the best anime I had ever seen. I understand it has haters but they all seem to stop watching around episode 8.
I hope you at least made it to the end.

 

[JenSeven]

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

Why Gurren Lagann?
I thought that was one of the best anime I had ever seen. I understand it has haters but they all seem to stop watching around episode 8.
I hope you at least made it to the end.

I have seen all of it. I even wrote a review on it.
Here it is

I just don't seem to be able to wrap my head around this anime and the ideas of the people at Gainax behind making it...
It seems almost like what Quentin Tarantino did with Kill Bill, which is a throwback to something that was mildly popular back in the 70s. Gurren Lagann seems to do the same thing, as in copying the over-the-top style and cheesy writing from the mecha anime from those days. Or they made a parody on that exact same thing by going even further into it then they did back in the 70s.

I'll admit straight away that this type of anime is not my style, especially since I'm someone that loves an anime with a great story, which is something that seems to be put into this anime as an afterthought to fill in the few seconds in between the senseless battles and fanservice.

I'll give a rundown of the scores, as I usually do.

Story: 2
There is something of a story put into this anime, but it's far from original, full of plot holes and succeeding in making as little sense as possible. The story is mainly used to drive the main characters from fight A to fight B while occasionally stopping for some fanservice. It's definitely not used to explain the events of the story, and when they try to do that it fails miserably and leaves holes in the plot large enough to fly a spaceship through.

Art: 6
It's decent to look at, although it does have quite a few repeated scenes (some even to the point of being nauseating) that are shown and reshown in several episodes. I also felt that the inclusion of "manga" style images broke the flow.
However even if the art was decent to look at the amount of cheesiness that it threw at the screen was so far over-the-top that it made me want to go and do something else that didn't include have to watch this anime, even Dragonball GT seems to be preferable over this at times...
The style of the art seems modern but the way in which it's used is fit for an anime from 30 years ago.

Sound: 6
It's decent, but like the art and the story very cheesy. The screaming out of a character's name during a death scene is SO overused, done to death and over the top that it really should become punishable by death to use it.

Characters: 2
What can I say... They are shallow, have very little character development, many seem to be included for the sole purpose of fanservice or comic relief and the amount of cliché character traits is as over-the-top as the rest of the anime.
We've got the whiny spineless emo teenager, the "I'm so cool that I'm gonna die halfway though the series" guy, the bigbreasted airhead, the faceless nameless enemy that's as 2 dimensional as can be, and so forth, and so forth.
The character design and character development are practically the worst I've ever seen.

Enjoyment: 4
Yeah, it was a load of fun action topped off with fanservice, atleast if you don't mind an almost complete lack of a coherent story and got plenty of crackers to scoop up the cheese with.

Overall: 5
It's a bit of fun, looks nice, sounds kinda nice but trips over it's own plot holes.
2 dimensional stock characters with hardly any development going on and a shaky over-the-top lack of a storyline.

In my opinion mediocre at best, which is something that Gainax seems to be specializing in lately.

 

[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

Why Gurren Lagann?
I thought that was one of the best anime I had ever seen. I understand it has haters but they all seem to stop watching around episode 8.
I hope you at least made it to the end.

I made it to the end.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

Any other the "big name" long runners. Naruto, Gurren Lagann (or whatever), Soul Eater, any of that bullshit.

ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE CUNTS

Tengen Toppa has 26 episodes >> Which is a short runner.

 

[Drakmeire]

Why Gurren Lagann?
I thought that was one of the best anime I had ever seen. I understand it has haters but they all seem to stop watching around episode 8.
I hope you at least made it to the end.

I have seen all of it. I even wrote a review on it.
Here it is

<spoiler=review>I just don't seem to be able to wrap my head around this anime and the ideas of the people at Gainax behind making it...
It seems almost like what Quentin Tarantino did with Kill Bill, which is a throwback to something that was mildly popular back in the 70s. Gurren Lagann seems to do the same thing, as in copying the over-the-top style and cheesy writing from the mecha anime from those days. Or they made a parody on that exact same thing by going even further into it then they did back in the 70s.

I'll admit straight away that this type of anime is not my style, especially since I'm someone that loves an anime with a great story, which is something that seems to be put into this anime as an afterthought to fill in the few seconds in between the senseless battles and fanservice.

I'll give a rundown of the scores, as I usually do.

Story: 2
There is something of a story put into this anime, but it's far from original, full of plot holes and succeeding in making as little sense as possible. The story is mainly used to drive the main characters from fight A to fight B while occasionally stopping for some fanservice. It's definitely not used to explain the events of the story, and when they try to do that it fails miserably and leaves holes in the plot large enough to fly a spaceship through.

Art: 6
It's decent to look at, although it does have quite a few repeated scenes (some even to the point of being nauseating) that are shown and reshown in several episodes. I also felt that the inclusion of "manga" style images broke the flow.
However even if the art was decent to look at the amount of cheesiness that it threw at the screen was so far over-the-top that it made me want to go and do something else that didn't include have to watch this anime, even Dragonball GT seems to be preferable over this at times...
The style of the art seems modern but the way in which it's used is fit for an anime from 30 years ago.

Sound: 6
It's decent, but like the art and the story very cheesy. The screaming out of a character's name during a death scene is SO overused, done to death and over the top that it really should become punishable by death to use it.

Characters: 2
What can I say... They are shallow, have very little character development, many seem to be included for the sole purpose of fanservice or comic relief and the amount of cliché character traits is as over-the-top as the rest of the anime.
We've got the whiny spineless emo teenager, the "I'm so cool that I'm gonna die halfway though the series" guy, the bigbreasted airhead, the faceless nameless enemy that's as 2 dimensional as can be, and so forth, and so forth.
The character design and character development are practically the worst I've ever seen.

Enjoyment: 4
Yeah, it was a load of fun action topped off with fanservice, atleast if you don't mind an almost complete lack of a coherent story and got plenty of crackers to scoop up the cheese with.

Overall: 5
It's a bit of fun, looks nice, sounds kinda nice but trips over it's own plot holes.
2 dimensional stock characters with hardly any development going on and a shaky over-the-top lack of a storyline.

In my opinion mediocre at best, which is something that Gainax seems to be specializing in lately.

I'll applaud you for that, it brought up some good points. I respect your opinion.
I never really take shows like that seriously which is why I enjoyed the over-the-topness of the whole thing. I wasn't expecting a earth-shattering story but I had a lot of fun with it and found the action to be so insane that I could have a good time.
to each their own.

 

[Vhite]

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.

Actually, at least in my case, it was that good that I havent felt bad about in the end. I can get attached to far worse anime and then suffer epicness withdrawal effect. But Baccano! was short, badass and had too many awesome characters to really get attached to them. And as you can see my avatar, my favorite character was psychopathic murderer so I probably wouldnt get attached to him that much anyway.

 

[thenoblitt]

Any other the "big name" long runners. Naruto, Gurren Lagann (or whatever), Soul Eater, any of that bullshit.

ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE CUNTS

what do you mean big name long runners, gurren lagann is only 27 episodes and soul eater is only like 40 something?

 

[niceguy191]

I have to go with Death Note. I absolutely loved it for quite a bit but...

Spoiler

After L died, the show seemed to really lose it's edge and I didn't like the "new" opponents for Light to deal with that replaced L. That, and I felt that if anyone should be outsmarting Light, it should have been L and not anyone else

 

[blankedboy]

Well I've only seen Higurashi, Ergo Proxy, half of Texhnolyze (gave up on it), FLCL and half of Azumanga Daioh, but they all exceeded my expectations...

I didn't give up on Texhnolyze not because it was bad, but because I just couldn't see the plot going anywhere once I was about 16 episodes in. Other than that it was the most awesome cerebral mindfuck I've ever seen

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Shuffle. I stuck through the cliched and overdone antics, annoying characters, and shit plot so I could see one character go yandere. And when she did, it wasn't even that much of a payoff. It's possibly the only anime that I've watched that I absolutely loathe.

Followed closely by, and I know I'm going to catch flak for this, the Ghost in the Shell series. Now, that wasn't a disappointment in that it was bad. It was solid throughout, and I could tell that a lot of love was poured into it. The thing is though, it just couldn't hold my interest for long. Each time I'd find myself engrossed in the story going on at the time, I'd come crashing immediately back to Earth for some reason. I don't know, maybe it's the fact that I usually watch it when I'm at my busiest and get too distracted. And this is something that I'll probably have to watch again when I won't be disturbed.

Finally, there's Zombie Loan. I thought it was a pretty good adaptation of a somewhat average manga, and the end left a lot of loose ends that could've easily been wrapped up in a sequel to my satisfaction. The thing is, they never followed up on it with anything but a couple of OVAs that left things even more open ended than before. It isn't my favorite, but it had a lot of potential that was squandered.

 

[Sacman]

Just so many... but the one that disappointed me the most was Haibane Renmei... it wasn't terrible, it wasn't even bad but I just looked it up right after I got off of Serial Experiments Lain, my most favorite show ever, since I heard it was from the same person, Yoshitoshi ABe... so I guess my expectation we're just way too high and I was really just expecting something different though it was still very good...<.<

Second up is Neon Genesis Evangelion... started out pretty good, giant robot type thing battles, an interesting plot and premise... but that plot just came to a screeching halt at the end when it turned into a pile of pretentious bullshit, someone, and you know who you are, pulled out of their ass for the final episodes... and the worst part is that the plot had absolutely no closure and when they could redeem the ending with a movie that makes up for the last few episodes they instead did the exact same thing as the original ending, that is stay as obscure and pretentious about the story as possible and the very worst of all is it still provide no Fucking closure it only mind fucked the audiance into the ground with a load of pretentious crap that very same person pulled out of their ass...
/rant...

which was a shame because the action was good and the characters we're phenomenal...<.<

-snip-

did you give Serial Experiments Lain a try yet?

 

[TeeBs]

Elfen Lied, its like if a Punk band was like fuck the government repetitively throughout one whole damn album, in a attempt to be edgy. Only this show was bloody and gory to be controversial. Lacks a actual interesting story, was some how able to make me hate and disconnect with every single character, no one acted realistically.

 

[Turkey Braveheart]

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...

The TV series or the OVA's? I agree about the TV series, but the OVA releases have been all kinds of gorey awesomeness.

 

[blankedboy]

Just so many... but the one that disappointed me the most was Haibane Renmei... it wasn't terrible, it wasn't even bad but I just looked it up right after I got off of Serial Experiments Lain, my most favorite show ever, since I heard it was from the same person, Yoshitoshi ABe... so I guess my expectation we're just way too high and I was really just expecting something different though it was still very good...<.<

Second up is Neon Genesis Evangelion... started out pretty good, giant robot type thing battles, an interesting plot and premise... but that plot just came to a screeching halt at the end when it turned into a pile of pretentious bullshit, someone, and you know who you are, pulled out of their ass for the final episodes... and the worst part is that the plot had absolutely no closure and when they could redeem the ending with a movie that makes up for the last few episodes they instead did the exact same thing as the original ending, that is stay as obscure and pretentious about the story as possible and the very worst of all is it still provide no Fucking closure it only mind fucked the audiance into the ground with a load of pretentious crap that very same person pulled out of their ass...
/rant...

which was a shame because the action was good and the characters we're phenomenal...<.<

-snip-

did you give Serial Experiments Lain a try yet?

Sadly, no... let's just say there aren't enough seeds in the garden

 

[Jelly ^.^]

For me it was Code Geass.

I wanted it to be based purely on the wars between the gigantic superpowers, and the social dynamics of the Britannian Empire, but instead it follows the adventures of some androgynous tween.

I was disappointed that they'd created a world with so much character and intrigue, and simply abandoned it before they delved into it on any interesting level.

 

[Justanothergamer300]

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

I love the first original anime but when I started to watch it I felt like they're we're too many characters. Also they got a happy ending