Recommendations: Anime to Avoid
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Really? I just watched the entire Gundam Wing Series and the movie because I wanted to relive one the wonderful animes of my youth and I can safely say that nostalgia is shit on toast. Wing is quite possibly the worst Gundam I have ever seen, the story didn't make any sense, the characters arbitrarily flit from one goal/ideal/motive to another throughout the series, the frequent time skips didn't help my confusion either, the voice acting was awful, and the the music made me want to bite my own thumbs off to distract me from the pain in my ears(Thought this might just be because it is now an "older" anime and tastes in music has changed since).Megacherv said:
The only good thing from the series is Duo Maxwell. His voice actor didn't sound like he was locked in a box for most of his life and was unable to learn human emotions. And his motivations stayed constant(Even if all they boiled down to was "Kill everything with a giant laser scythe").
Now onto animes to avoid:
The first season of Gundam 00, if you feel you must watch the first season to watch the second then fine but you will be sorely disappointed.
Chrono Crusade: Oh my (Insert Diety Here), the Japanese should not make animes around Catholicism. I wouldn't make one about Shintoism because I didn't grow up around it long enough to understand the subtle things and I wish the Japanese thought the same thing.
Big O: I watched it on [Adult Swim] and I wish with all my might that I could get those precious moments of my life back so I could do something my productive. Like sleep.
Inuyasha: Talk about an anime that goes on forever, geeze.
One Piece: When I first read it, I liked it. Then I grew up and stopped reading it. That's not to say it got worse just that I wont hold you attention for very long.
Filler Bleach Episodes: Give me stomach cancer, but the episodes that follow the story, great! They may not be for everyone but I know I enjoy the art,effects, music,(most)characters, and the solid linear story written by Tite Kubo.
TL;DR: Gundam: Wing sucks, and then everything else I said.
Elfen Lied - A naked girl walking around ripping people apart with invisible arms sticking out of her head. As much as I love senseless violence and fanservice it was just boring.
Trigun - Don't let the badass longcoat, glowing eyes and nickname fool you, Vash the Stampede is terribly whiny and afraid of killing to the point he helps people he shot clearly in self defence.
Trinity Blood - Somehow similar to the above but with scythe instead of giant revolver.
.hack//Sign - When I read that it's about people in an MMORPG I thought there will be action and some comedy but it turned out its more like "I'm stuck in a game, I have to whine about identity now." Maybe it's good if you are into this kind of anime but if you are not, don't make the same mistake.
Tales of the Abyss - I hear comments about how it deconstructs the genre and gives new insight and some other things but I just don't get it. The main character is so dumb he barely keeps himself from drooling on the floor and so unlikeable it would be unwatchable if not for his much more interesting original version.
Darker than Black the second season - I just couldn't bear the change from zappy-ninja action in the first season to existentialist gibberish in the second(I remember it that way).
I also advice to approach shounen series carefully, most of them are crap.
Trigun - Don't let the badass longcoat, glowing eyes and nickname fool you, Vash the Stampede is terribly whiny and afraid of killing to the point he helps people he shot clearly in self defence.
Trinity Blood - Somehow similar to the above but with scythe instead of giant revolver.
.hack//Sign - When I read that it's about people in an MMORPG I thought there will be action and some comedy but it turned out its more like "I'm stuck in a game, I have to whine about identity now." Maybe it's good if you are into this kind of anime but if you are not, don't make the same mistake.
Tales of the Abyss - I hear comments about how it deconstructs the genre and gives new insight and some other things but I just don't get it. The main character is so dumb he barely keeps himself from drooling on the floor and so unlikeable it would be unwatchable if not for his much more interesting original version.
Darker than Black the second season - I just couldn't bear the change from zappy-ninja action in the first season to existentialist gibberish in the second(I remember it that way).
I also advice to approach shounen series carefully, most of them are crap.
I rather enjoyed Soul Eater.... except the ending. GOD, the ending was horrible! The manga is o.k. though. If I had to pick an anime to avoid, avoid Elfin Lied. That anime is so gruesome and bloody. I didn't know what it was and started watching it during school and got in trouble for watching it. Not my best recommendation.TU4AR said:
I can't really give you any anime to avoid, but I can definitely put one on your Dubbed list: Baccano!
I haven't met anyone on this site so far who's seen it, it's basically focused around 3 interconnected events taking place between 1928-1931, and centered on various mob families involved with them. And then there's the twist which I'm not going to tell you(It's in the first episode, just not explained). The series is about finding out what happened between those events, that twist, and all the blood, gore, and likable sane/insane characters. That's pretty much how I can describe it without spoilers, so give it a shot.
I haven't met anyone on this site so far who's seen it, it's basically focused around 3 interconnected events taking place between 1928-1931, and centered on various mob families involved with them. And then there's the twist which I'm not going to tell you(It's in the first episode, just not explained). The series is about finding out what happened between those events, that twist, and all the blood, gore, and likable sane/insane characters. That's pretty much how I can describe it without spoilers, so give it a shot.
Does that bother anyone else, as a concept? I mean, shouldn't fanservice require that a franchise actually have fans to service? Making an entire series, that isn't part of a larger continuity, a "fanservice" series seems like jumping the gun a bit.Catfoot said:
Evangelion is awful. It makes absolutely no goddamn sense.Xpwn3ntial said:
My recommendation is to stay away from the .hack// series. It's pretty much 99 percent dialog with a very convoluted storyline that wont make much sense if you dont watch it, play the games, and read the manga.
A mentally unstable boy is forced into piloting a mech that isn't what it seems against Eldritch abominations while slowly losing his sanity. Everyone dies in the end. What's not to understand?loremazd said:
I thought the ending of Trigun wasn't that bad, not on par with the rest of the series by any means, but not terrible. This could just be me but after watching the first few episodes of Orphen I was bored senseless and the comic relief was painful at best. Actually Orphen is the first thing that came to mind when I tried to think of anime not to watch. I can't really think of any others that I really didn't like but the series that I WOULD recommend are Trigun, Darker than Black, and Soul Eater. All are top notch although a few extra episodes of Trigun would have helped the ending be as awesome as the rest of the series.Thaius said:
Because everything's better with penguins. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitleul0owi4irvy5]RaikuFA said:
Hell, look at the trope image. It's Pen-Pen.
He's basically there to lighten the mood, and stops having screen time when things start getting crazy.
What they're fighting, why his organization decides to start working to ensure they all die, the hundreds of naked Rei dolls his father made, why he can pilot them in the first place, how they were made. The whole series takes an Indigo Prophecy style turn towards the exestential and philosophical. The ending is almost purely metaphorical and vague, as well.Xpwn3ntial said:
In general, it makes no sense because it turns from a mech anime into a metaphorical psychedelic trip for everyone at the end, not just the mentally unstable Shinji.
What they're fighting- Cthuhlus from space. They desire nothing more than to eradicate life on Earth; essentially living MacGuffins meant to drive the plot and break the characters' (especially Shinji) psyches down.loremazd said:
Why Gendo wants them to all die- to reunite with his wife. Everything Gendo does is for the sake of reuniting with his wife or die trying.
Why SEELE wants them all to die- they're apocalyptic cultists wishing to trigger the end of the world under their terms instead of the Angels' in the off-chance they can make a better reality out of it.
Rei clones-
The Rei clones are half Shinji's mom and half the first Angel, so Rei can pilot the EVAs as an expendable pilot to buy time for Shinji to get old enough to pilot an EVA himself.
Shinji can pilot EVA unit 1 because it ate his mom and therefore his synchronization works as well as Rei's while his survival instinct lowers his chance of dying after he gets the handle of piloting the thing.
They were made by either A) taking Adam the Angel and putting him in armor [EVA unit 1] or B) cloning Adam and doing the same to the clones [other EVA units].
Shinji can pilot EVA unit 1 because it ate his mom and therefore his synchronization works as well as Rei's while his survival instinct lowers his chance of dying after he gets the handle of piloting the thing.
They were made by either A) taking Adam the Angel and putting him in armor [EVA unit 1] or B) cloning Adam and doing the same to the clones [other EVA units].
For the rest of your post: Yes.
That's probably why I like it so much and why a lot of people have such disdain for it.
Here's what you should watch:
Gurren Lagann,
Paprika,
Ponyo,
Princess Mononoke.
I find the movie anime to be far superior to most anime series. Mostly because it can tell a great story without wasting 50 hours of my time with filler and teases. Even if the anime is good it starts to lose its charm after several seasons. Case in point, Fooly Cooly was something like six episodes and everyone loved it.
Gurren Lagann,
Paprika,
Ponyo,
Princess Mononoke.
I find the movie anime to be far superior to most anime series. Mostly because it can tell a great story without wasting 50 hours of my time with filler and teases. Even if the anime is good it starts to lose its charm after several seasons. Case in point, Fooly Cooly was something like six episodes and everyone loved it.
DearS. It fails as basic storytelling, characters, and to be entertaining. It is almost a parody of how stupid fanservice is. But I wouldn't call it a parody, because that would imply it were funny.
Avoid: Naruto, and Bleach
Recommend: Claymore, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, FLCL, Higurashi no naku koro ni & kai, Ghost in the shell stand alone complex, High School of The Dead.
If you want to check out the stuff I watched, want to watch, etc here: http://www.anime-planet.com/users/schuka5/anime
Recommend: Claymore, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, FLCL, Higurashi no naku koro ni & kai, Ghost in the shell stand alone complex, High School of The Dead.
If you want to check out the stuff I watched, want to watch, etc here: http://www.anime-planet.com/users/schuka5/anime
off topic have you seen rei? and there doing 5 more ovas for the 10 year anniversary of the visual novel this year starting in July up till February of next year. It is labeledschuka5 said:
higuarshi no naku koro ni kira.