What is your greatest disappointment in Anime?

[Rhatar Khurin]

The fact that the proper version of Akira was never made into anime

 

[Rhatar Khurin]

Eep! double post

 

[InsaneMaggot]

That some great manga-series never get an anime adaptation, or something completly missing the point because the "director doesn't like the original manga".
Still no anime-deal : Lucifer and the Biscuit hammer, gainax do it, it's like written for you guys man.
and regarding my second point, read this

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Regarding differences between the stories in the manga and in the anime, Hiroyuki Morita, who directed the anime, wrote in his blog that he dislikes the original story and has, in some ways, been making changes to the plot for that reason. He also wrote that, at one point early in the development of the show, he asked manga author Mohiro Kitoh if he could find some way to save the main characters ? the kids who must pilot Zearth. He wrote that Kitoh responded that his choice was fine as long as the changes did not involve "magical solutions" to the story. Morita closed out the blog entry with the statement "The director of the anime version of Bokurano hates the original work. Viewers should not expect to see any aspects that they liked about the original manga appearing in the anime. So fans of the manga, please stop watching the anime".

thanks for missing the point about bokurano you twat.

Another thing is the lonely-japanese-pervert-otaku pandering, otherwise known as moé, where all girls HAVE to either speak like a retarded 4 year old "ugyuu", or get exegarreted stereotypical personality traits like tsundere. Nobody is writing actual characters anymore, they just mix-and-match.

That most shonen get milked and milked long after they're actually interesting to read/watch like naruto and bleach (OP is fine though IMO. it has good sides from beginning up to now).

It's getting harder and harder to find something good. All you ever get is uninspired shonen fighting crap, Moe-idiocy (fuck lucky star! utter crap!) or something butchered and retooled so the first two (shonen BS, moe-idiocy) can fit in.

I remember a blog post about the director of Cowboy Bepop, and how he called out the industry on their bullshit 1 or 2 years ago. Nothing happend since.

 

[Axelhander]

Most recent disappointment: how awful the 2009 Fullmetal Alchemist series compared to the infinitely superior 2003 one.

Really? Most people you're apt to encounter say it's the other way around (I take it you didn't read the manga...)

Lots of people like Michael Bay movies too, but it doesn't make them good. As for the manga: no, I didn't, but my grievances with the 2009 show have nothing to do with the manga.

 

[Axelhander]

Also: after hearing much good about Char's Counterattack, I watched it. THAT is a disappointment; it's insanely bad. Two words, followed by three words: Quess Paraya, too much talking.

 

[Fbuh]

The conclusion of Death Note came to mind immediately. Without giving anything away... No, God dammit! NO!

That would be my number 3 choice. Only because I found it somewhat surprising. But still disappointing.

It was pretty obvious throughout the whole series how it was going to end, I thought.

Personally, I hate when dubs completely miss the mark on ow the characters should sound. They ignore tone inflections from the original Japanese audio and pretty much just make up how they think the character should sound. Example: Japanese Konata (Lucky Star) vs English Konata.

All in all, that's why I don't watch dubs. I'm ctually fighting with my computer right now, because DivX wont play Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade in Japanese, even though I have a dual audio file of it and I just downloaded a compete audio codec.

 

[BaronIveagh]

The last two eps of Evangelion.

The really poor anime of Gunnm.

The fact Shirow will probably never produce volume 5 of Appleseed, but we get more Appleseed anime constantly. DAMMIT SHIROW! I WANT TO REST OF THE CANON STORY!

The massive plot twist at the end of the original MKR anime. Was interesting but MAN what a downer.

Nadesico the Movie. Turning a series better known as a comedy into a tragedy is just...

 

[MetaKnight19]

The last episode of Elfen Lied, it didn't really finish the series, it just kind of stopped it abruptly. It also left some things unexplained and unanswered.

 

[ruben6f]

Death Note, the anime was boring every character was a as charismatic as a manikin.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Lots of people like Michael Bay movies too, but it doesn't make them good. As for the manga: no, I didn't, but my grievances with the 2009 show have nothing to do with the manga.

Fair enough... though I actually had my fair share of grievances with Brotherhood when it first came out. I thought it improved and was enjoying the ride by the time it ended, but when I watched the first episode what went through my mind was 'good lord, what have they done to the voice cast... it sounds shit!'

But then, that's just me...

 

[FernandoV]

Any scene in Bleach where Orihime is present. Any scene is any anime where a guy must save an inept girl with big tits. Any scene in an anime where they are eating Japanese food and drinking tea and their cheeks turn red because they are being flirty.

 

[Phenx92]

I hate it when an anime has a filler arc, 1-2 filler episodes are ok for me but it annoys the ****** out of me when it's been a whole month of nothing but fillers.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Naruto.....just Naruto (don't get me started on "why")

 

[WafflesandBacon]

Summer Wars, I heard so much hype over it and when I finally watched I was let down to know it very similar to the Digimon movie Our War Game, not saying either of them are bad, it just that if I wanted Our War Game, I would of watched Our War Game.

 

[Matt Dellar]

My biggest disappointment? The lack of characterization if favor of stereotypes. As much as I love the art styles, I just hate 90% of the elements in moe anime. Clumsiness might be an endearing trait if it wasn't just an excuse to show a girl's panties every few seconds. At least Strike Witches screwed over any concept of decency and made all its characters unable to put on a pair of pants. One character had a skirt? Not good enough, you pricks.

Maybe I'm just not the target demographic for moe anime anymore, but darnit, I love the art styles. Higurashi wasn't perfect, but it was the best moe anime I've ever seen. Take some hints.

I also hate flashbacks (Naruto especially), (the majority of) English dubs, Kenshin's voice in the Ruroken anime, Strike Witches as a whole, people using ecchi as a replacement for story and characters (all ecchi . . . yeah, obviously), replacing parts of the manga with original ideas the anime people think is better but actually sucks (Black Cat), predictable plots (anything but Higrashi and a few others), static characters, characters who look like they have an arc, but end up being the same way as they were in the beginning (He Is My Master, a lot of others), the complete lack of gesticulation or body language aside from bouncing tits, copy-paste everything-but-character-designs-and-sometimes-even-that, crap lip syncing (especially in English dubs), all the-- *deep breath*

Yeah, screw it. I still like anime.

 

[Aeon_COR]

that Soul eater didn't get a second season

 

[Krinku]

So that is the question.

For me it was seeing the last 5 episodes of High-School of the Dead. I weep at the lost potential turned to blatant fanservice. I could not understand why people were hard on it the first 6 episodes were splendid. Good action somewhat thought provoking (not deep thought but still). Then that dang bullet broke the laws of physics, a bullet travailing several hundred feet/second passing preforming stunts with breast physics. I lost all interest in the show after that. A few other scenes drove me farther away, but that one stab my science side in the heart.

I liked the drama, the decisions about who to follow, whether or not to save the child at the risk of the group. but the dang fanservice. I like a little fanservice if sprinkled in now and then. If it has a good plot to the episode I will enjoy it. In other words, I like the OVA of Full Metal Panic: TSR. It had a good (even if a bit cheesy) story to it, it was not over done on the unnecessary partial nudity (I like story more, but the unnecessary partial nudity was only 1.5 min at the start of the episode and was in place of the intro sequence), and it was an OVA, part of the series but separate at the same time. I did not have to watch to gain insight on the main story.

So that is it my greatest disappointment was High-School of the Dead. Great potential gone like the sand of time.

I did not watch HSOD, but coming from the manga view point... the fan service does lessen, and story does get better. I think the anime more or less had to make it more fan service either because of time constraints(they gotta fill 24 or so minutes with something) or because of the author going on hiatus. This is what I would guess would be the problem with the anime.

OT: I have to say School Days. For those fellow people who watched it...you know what I'm talking about. A normal romance gone HORRIBLY WRONG. I felt dirty after watching it-_-

 

[Damura]

Yes. I did. I watched all of it, including the ending, which

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involved a tentacle demon rape. Or I imagined it, but... that's none too likely is it?

There's no tentacle rape in the ending, though she was held down by tentacles while Griffith raped her. What was your problem with it? Griffith was doing it to spite Guts. Fair enough though... there were tentacles involved! I never had a problem with the rape scenes. They were never there just for the sake of it. It wasn't there for sexual gratification either...

While I'll concede there's no Great Evil that can only be defeated yada yada yada, there is a Great Evil, and there is an absolute fuckton of believing in oneself.
As for the action, well... to each his own. It didn't do it for me. Then again, from what I've seen, anime action rarely does.

There isn't really a 'great evil'. This might be the case in the manga, but the anime was more about Griffith screwing everyone over for his own goals. I don't remember much 'believing in oneself' either. Griffith was always super confident, and Guts just steamrolled everything.

Uhm. I watched them through to the end because I promised my buddy I'd give it an honest chance.
The shows I do like are uhhh.. good question. I watch Big Bang Theory every now and then. According to Jim warranted like 2 smiles those few times I watched it.
Red Dwarf rules, so does South Park and Family Guy/American Dad.

Sitcoms.

Finally, I'm not saying I want the shows I watch to be deep and sophisticated), I'm saying I dislike bargain bin psychology being spouted by girly looking teenage boys who somehow ended up on a quest to save the world before their testicles got a chance to drop.
I remember one scene from Berserk where that Griffith guy (and you have to admit, if you just see a picture of him, you'd be sure he was a girl. A 10 year old girl.) said something that actually made some sense, but I couldn't bring myself to accept it because it was being said by a transgender child.

Fair enough if the philosophy or whatever doesn't sit well with you. The characters started out young because that's what it was like during the dark ages or whatever. Kids were sent to war. The characters fairly quickly became adults though..

Yeah he's feminine. So? He's about the only character in the show like that. What's your problem? You've got a mix of valid reasons why you don't like it and a lot of petty reasons why you don't like it.