Lolis. Just Lolis. I hate the obsession Japan has with tiny, underaged(-looking), frail girls with huge doll-like eyes. I especially hate when they're given romantic priority, moments of sexual "tension," or just plain idolized or set out in center stage. I like my women full-figured, and seeing these little girls not only prancing about, but also being the cause of much trouser-tightening in anime just disturbs the ever-loving crap out of me.
The fact that people consider Elfin Lied to be a good series.
I haven't read the Manga, so I can't say if it gets better, but the fact that little kids beat a puppy to death because someone was different. This was taken place when there was no implied government brainwashing, these were normal, everyday bullys, not insane psychopaths, bullys, beating a puppy, to death, because someone, was different. I am sorry to add so many commas but my god, I can't think of one scene so forced. I can't sympathy because of how unrealistic that scene was. Little kids, normal little non-brainwash non-insane completely normal kids. Would never ever beat to death a puppy.
There are some complete monsters out there below the age of 10, that there have been recorded killings from, intentional killings where they find younger kids or animals and brutally beat them, or kill them. It's noted in some sociopaths that they did this when they were younger
and is a proven trait in some mental issues along the lines of narcissism and sociopaths.
The music in Macross Frontier. I just wanted an anime with a great soundtrack. And since loads of people keep claiming that it has one of the most epic soundtracks of all time, it seemed like just what I wanted. What I got was a show with great character development, production value and story. The music was mostly very meh j-pop along with the worst use of the English language I've ever witnessed. Try getting "dollars how much fake" into a sentence. Do it. Now do it without bleeding.
It did have 2 great songs and a few ones that I thought was ok, but that's about it. Not really the epic soundtrack that I expected.
Shaman King was my greatest dissapointment.
With such a great starting point of shamans "lending" the powers of ghosts like samurais, kung-fu artists and the likes; it all eventually boiled down to giant robot versions of said ghosts fighting eachother.
I haven't had any disappointments with any Anime I've seen.
However I still haven't seen the second season of Darker than Black and I've heard some very mixed reactions. Hopefully it won't be a disappointment for me.
Revolutionary Girl Utena - Was good (at times even transcendent) but my god some of these shoujo tropes are grating.
Every time an episode opened with Nanami pulling some hi-larious hijinks, I would audibly lose a small part of my soul and briefly consider skipping the episode. However, these episodes could also include the shadow puppet girl segments.
In case you haven't seen this show and are wondering: the shadow puppet girl segments are segments where an act that may or may not be related to the story is performed by a pair of shadow puppets. What or who they are supposed to be or represent is unclear, it's unclear if they're even supposed to be acting in-universe or somewhere outside the fourth wall.
It gets better. Later on in the series there are segments where a character will directly address them in the middle of a freeze-frame, actually providing the punchline. I love every second of those segments. They're fucking awesome. To avoid missing them (and the context), I had to soldier on. And get annoyed, because the episode would usually otherwise be unfunny, irritating and full of incest (but hey, that last one was to be expected).
Except the one where she gets the cowbell. That episode is SOLID GOLD.
There's also the fact that most of the male characters (except the ones voiced by women, interestingly) have voices that are the audible equivalent of a trough of rotten and moldy apples.
That might have been the point, but it didn't make it much more enjoyable. It's like Suguru in Maria-sama ga Miteru. Didn't anyone not want to cave his skull in with a tire iron? I actually ran a VST whenever I watched an episode with him in it so I could drown out his voice with noise.
Again, I like Utena. I like the rose motifs, the surrealism, the shadow puppets, the symbolism and yes, I really like yuri. The high points are infinitely higher than anything I found enjoyable in, oh I don't know, Evangelion, but the low points.. no, they're still above Evangelion's. But just barely! For reference, Evangelion's low points are so low they fell off the other side of the world and were thrown into space. Really, really annoying space.
Elfen Lied - Someone recommended this to me as a good horror anime. This person has been revealed to be wrong and also an idiot. It isn't scary. It doesn't make sense. The characters aren't good. Whoever made it has some very serious issues with women and should probably be institutionalized. Don't take that as some kind of "oh, it's so crazy!" endorsement: it's also incredibly boring and uninspired.
Princess Resurrection - So uh.. where's all the blood and gore? Normally I wouldn't complain, but with this manga.. well, it's just kind of weird. We're already talking about a show where a morally questionable (but indeed awesome) princess resurrects a young man (whom she accidentally killed) so he can be her loyal servant and/or mind-controlled meat shield.
Compare how the manga and the anime open and tell me you can't see why the manga is better:
Hime's android accidentally throws a truck on Hiro, killing him within seconds. Hime seems unfazed but decides to resurrect him anyway, both because her android is sad (guess she follows the three laws?) and because Hiro has "an excellent body".
Instead of any of that, Hiro sees some girders falling from a construction site. Hime, apparently not using any of the abilities or aptitudes she shows in the entire rest of the series, walking beneath them unaware. He somehow gains super speed and rushes to her rescue, protecting her and getting himself killed in the process. Hime resurrects him.
Seriously, why? Are producers allergic to fun?
Umineko - Despite some.. lesser moments in Higurashi (my snarky side wants to say "everything after the first four episodes", my forgiving side wants to say "a lot of the bullshit in the second season"), I was hoping Umineko would be good. Looking back, I was a naive fool.
You see, where Higurashi at first appears to make no sense before revealing more and more details (and occasionally some bullshit) to clarify the plot, Umineko ups the ante by not making any sense before revealing more and more things that don't make any sense at all to anyone anywhere ever (and occasionally some bullshit). Also, while this may seem like a minor complaint: Battler's eyes. They are too fucking big.
No, I know what you're thinking. What you have to understand is that this isn't some simple "LOL ANIME CHARACTERS HAVE BIG EYES XDXD" comment. I've watched a lot of anime. Even the most absurdly straw-legged demon-crow-people of low-budget shoujo don't look like this. This is just so fucking weird I couldn't think about anything else while watching the show. Battler is a freak of nature (and his name is dumb).
Also fuck George.
The overall lack of yuri anime and localized yuri manga - Self-explanatory.
Ghost Hound - Most rushed ending in the history of rushed endings. I loved the rest of the show, too. Pity.
Yuru Yuri - Pet peeve: They pick one series. ONE fucking series from Yuri Hime and it's the one with no actual yuri? I have two questions: "WHAT." and "WHY." I've also got "FUCK YOU.", but that's not really a question.
EDIT: Actually, I'm liking the anime. It's much, much better than the manga.
No second season of Aoi Hana or Sasameki Koto - Self-explanatory.
K-ON! - Now, I liked this show a lot. I imported the CDs. It just seems like they passed up a few golden opportunities here. For one, more stuff of the characters actually playing music would be interesting. Not just on its own merits, but because a Mio/Ritsu drum & bass duo would have so many hidden meanings and implications that the mere thought sends vivid images of white lillies coursing through my occipital lobes.
Also, while I appreciated how they toned down the fanservice (unusually cool of them, and more studios would do well to follow their example), why tone down stuff that wasn't quite as exploitative as that and still keep the maid cafe episode? I'm not referring to what Sawako does, she's okay. I don't mind fanservice, but that maid cafe episode was flat-out bad (and kind of.. wrong, somehow).
As for what they should've kept, I am pretty much only talking about Mugi's yuri goggles. Why tone down Mugi? The answer is don't. Don't tone down Mugi. Next time, keep the daydreams and cut.. whatever the hell that was. At this point, I hate maid uniforms. I really, really do.
On some level I should probably thank KyoAni for that. They've inoculated me against otaku culture.
Maria-sama ga Miteru - And I actually love this show! My disappointments are that there's never any kind of resolution (just kiss her, you fool!), far too much time is spent on Suguru (I was hoping the revelation that he's gay would make him more sympathetic, it didn't), far too little time is spent on Satou Sei (fuck yes you are the best character ever) and the season four OP isn't an Ali Project tune. What can I say?
Ghost in the Shell: 2nd GIG - After the stellar first season, I was expecting awesome. What I got was unnecessary backstory and exposition, retreads of old material and boredom. And Kuze. Kuze is the worst character. Kuze is so poorly written and uninteresting and so annoying that if I knew how to draw, I would be making guro doujinshi wherein he is disemboweled by a swarm of bees.
The fact that people consider Elfin Lied to be a good series.
I haven't read the Manga, so I can't say if it gets better, but the fact that little kids beat a puppy to death because someone was different. This was taken place when there was no implied government brainwashing, these were normal, everyday bullys, not insane psychopaths, bullys, beating a puppy, to death, because someone, was different. I am sorry to add so many commas but my god, I can't think of one scene so forced. I can't sympathy because of how unrealistic that scene was. Little kids, normal little non-brainwash non-insane completely normal kids. Would never ever beat to death a puppy.
There are some complete monsters out there below the age of 10, that there have been recorded killings from, intentional killings where they find younger kids or animals and brutally beat them, or kill them. It's noted in some sociopaths that they did this when they were younger
and is a proven trait in some mental issues along the lines of narcissism and sociopaths.
It might be true that it exists, but can you really say with a honest face that that scene wasn't forced, that all 3 (I think there were three its been a long time.) of those kids were mentally insane and wouldn't of stopped for a second to think, maybe killing this puppy is a bad thing.
It's anime. Nothing about it is reeeally believable. I liked the plot better in the manga, but yes character development was far better in the manga than that botched attempt to make up an ending ad lib.
It might be true that it exists, but can you really say with a honest face that that scene wasn't forced, that all 3 (I think there were three its been a long time.) of those kids were mentally insane and wouldn't of stopped for a second to think, maybe killing this puppy is a bad thing.
In a neighborhood four blocks down , four eight year olds went around stabbing people's pets in their yards with one of their parents butcher knives, maiming 2 dogs, and killing 5 others. Good nice pets that wouldn't harm a fly or a kid who really was a sadistic monster.
The fact that people consider Elfin Lied to be a good series.
I haven't read the Manga, so I can't say if it gets better, but the fact that little kids beat a puppy to death because someone was different. This was taken place when there was no implied government brainwashing, these were normal, everyday bullys, not insane psychopaths, bullys, beating a puppy, to death, because someone, was different. I am sorry to add so many commas but my god, I can't think of one scene so forced. I can't sympathy because of how unrealistic that scene was. Little kids, normal little non-brainwash non-insane completely normal kids. Would never ever beat to death a puppy.
There are some complete monsters out there below the age of 10, that there have been recorded killings from, intentional killings where they find younger kids or animals and brutally beat them, or kill them. It's noted in some sociopaths that they did this when they were younger
and is a proven trait in some mental issues along the lines of narcissism and sociopaths.
It might be true that it exists, but can you really say with a honest face that that scene wasn't forced, that all 3 (I think there were three its been a long time.) of those kids were mentally insane and wouldn't of stopped for a second to think, maybe killing this puppy is a bad thing.
My friend, who is a fairly normal human with a job in the Marine Corps, once beat a cat to death when he was 12 for no better reason than to watch it die. Some people are sick.
All three of the kids though, not a hint of "This might be wrong" I am not saying it can't happen. What I am saying is it doesn't happen enough to just get away with it without exploring the characters involved. Instead we get "these kids are just evil K"
It might be true that it exists, but can you really say with a honest face that that scene wasn't forced, that all 3 (I think there were three its been a long time.) of those kids were mentally insane and wouldn't of stopped for a second to think, maybe killing this puppy is a bad thing.
In a neighborhood four blocks down , four eight year olds went around stabbing people's pets in their yards with one of their parents butcher knives, maiming 2 dogs, and killing 5 others. Good nice pets that wouldn't harm a fly or a kid who really was a sadistic monster.
It doesn't happen enough in real life for it to be just passed off as "These kids were just evil K" I can't think of any other show from any other medium that got away with "They are just evil K" and continued to be taken seriously.
I've been on a real losing streak when it comes to watching anime lately. I am getting SO SICK of the whole hey-lets-try-to-find-as-many-ways-to-sneak-in-as-many-panty-shots-as-we-possibly-can mentality. Over sexualization is such a turn off to me.
I finished watching Season 2 of School Rumble today, and I was pretty pissed at the ending. All that character development, so many ways the different characters could wind up together...and it just goes to the standard "Status Quo Is God" with no closure whatsoever. Argh.
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