Most Disappointing Anime

[Carlston]

Any anime englished dubbed and censored to a point you see it in the real Japanese and go WTF the story is not even the same!


So pretty much anything tainted by 4kids.

 

[McNinja]

Dragonball GT. Because where the f**k did Goku go? And Gungrave. Excellent anime, disappointing ending.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Probably the anime version of the game Blue Dragon. It was just not entertaining, which is surprising because the game's pretty good.

 

[ceeqanguel]

Linebarrels of iron sucked. Anything with characters that you're never quite sure if they are a boy or a girl. I just hate when they do that.

 

[Arisato-kun]

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.

What did you honestly expect? It's vulgar entertainment presented in a cutesy fashion designed to get laughs out of the viewer and make you go "Cool!" at the action scenes.

......Which makes it so, so good.

 

[Arisato-kun]

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.

TTGL is a parody of the mecha genre in its entirety. The whole genre was getting completely ridiculous so....Gainax made something completely ridiculous.

If you're into over-the-top it's some of the most fun you can have but I see why you didn't like it.

 

[TRR]

Devil May Cry, literally nothing happened. Maybe a total of 5 minutes of action in the entire series. There were more instances of Dante eating ice cream than him using his sword.

I am resisting the urge to defend my favourite series. I want to slap several of you in the face.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Cowboy Bebop.

What? No five hundred episode series? No endless exposition and filler? No annoying near lolicon styled characters? No angsty teens followed by dozens of women? Effective use of time and pacing? An established universe only hinted at instead of told every exacting detail?

What kind of anime is that?

(all in sarcasm, don't get riled up.)

 

[JenSeven]

TTGL is a parody of the mecha genre in its entirety. The whole genre was getting completely ridiculous so....Gainax made something completely ridiculous.

If you're into over-the-top it's some of the most fun you can have but I see why you didn't like it.

Yeah, and that's exactly the reason why I love Gasaraki and FLAG.
Those two are some of the best that Mecha anime have to offer.
Also Vision Of Escaflowne is among my list of favourite mecha anime, even though it has some incredibly whiny characters that can certainly put off many people.

 

[Korten12]

One Piece, heard SO much good stuff about it but found it boring

how far did you get? (just wanna know)

 

[JenSeven]

Although this anime didn't disappoint me (I expected I probably wouldn't like it, but watched it anyway), it surprised me with something I never expected.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

I never expected this level of homo-eroticism from this anime, and it's not even insinuated, it's as blatant as possible.
Although the manga is even worse.

 

[moose_man]

Garzey's Wing. I'm a big fan of medieval fantasy, and with dinosaurs? Badass. And then? This.

 

[Just_in_time]

Soul Eater had so much potential!!!!! it was actually very good up until the very last episode

Spoiler

seriously she punched the Kishin and that killed him!!!! that was the biggest wtf moment for me, i mean come on not even death with a death scythe could take this guy down, but a punch in the face from a little girl could? -_- logic fail.

 

[Just_in_time]

One Piece, heard SO much good stuff about it but found it boring

how far did you get? (just wanna know)

someone never got to the water 7 arc

 

[Telekinesis]

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

Geez that review reeks of pseudo-intellectuality.

And speaking of that, stop looking for DEEP in anime. It's cartoons for Japanese kids and teens at best, for Christ's sake. Enjoy it for what it's worth, cartoony fun with some strangely awesome moments. This is why the aforementioned Gurren Lagann is a striking success for me... it doesn't take itself too seriously, but it's also not Saturday-cartoon material and has legitimately great scenes.

One Piece, heard SO much good stuff about it but found it boring

how far did you get? (just wanna know)

someone never got to the water 7 arc

If it takes 300 chapters for a manga to get good then it's NOT worth it and I don't blame him for dropping it.
That's coming from a weekly One Piece reader. And yes, One Piece isn't very good. Like all other ongoing battle mangas it's just a weekly filler to get kids to buy your shit. It doesn't have any semblance of an actual thought out plot or anything, and it feels hella fake at times.

 

[Jelly ^.^]

What? Did you even watch Code Geass? That is literally exactly what it's about.

I saw up until the mass-exodus to China part. By that point, the focus on Lelouche and how far it was pulling away from what I was expecting and wanting to see frustrated me to the point where I gave up.