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Overrated: Bleach, Naruto, Dragonball, FLCL (massively)
Underrated: Basilisk, Golden Boy (OVA), Noir

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Please explain your choices and/or discuss other choices. This is not a simple listing thread.

Underrated: Trigun. Why? It's the definition of masterpiece. It's pretty popular, but should be rated higher definitely.

lol Trigun and Cowboy Bebop are neither overrated nor underrated; both are masterpieces that are widely acknowledged as such.

Basilisk is also not underrated, merely with a stultifying and immature plot execution.

I do not know that enough time has passed for Code Geass R2 to be overrated yet, but I am going to go ahead and say that at least as far as this site is concerned it is the most overrated. Monster is also impossibly overrated.

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Overrated: Fullmetal Alchemist. The plot's a hole, I tells ya. The manga is an actual masterpiece, though.

Underrated: Top wo Nerae! 1 & 2. They need to be watched a lot more, yessum.

How is Code geass overrated? Just because alot of people like it? It's not like it's a little kiddy anime like naruto or onepiece.

Overrated: D.N. Angel, Serial Experiment Lain, One Piece, Bleach

Underrated: Wolf's Rain, Gantz, Elfen Lied,

Code Geass however much of an entertaining ride it is, isn't that solid. It relies on dei ex machinis and diaboli ex machinis. It's far easier to like than it's good.

Nothing wrong with that.

Well, I would give the series some credit. It doesn't resort to dei ex machinis or diaboli ex machinis that I could see (as many other series do). Everything was within character, but it's true that a lot of scenes/characters were blatant pandering to the fans and that the series has an overall air of melodrama. It's entertaining as a soap opera is. You don't expect much, and you're not disappointed, lol.

I agree with all the overrated ones (with the exception of Bebop because it was first class ;) but I wouldn't agree that Basilisk was underrated. There was nothing special about that series. To the overrated pile, I would add EVA (highly) and Haruhi Suzumiya.

Please tell me you're not basing your thought of One Piece being kiddy off of the dub. Naruto, yes is kiddy, but OP really is not kiddy except for the debauchery that is the dub.

I'm sorry, but I have to defend my favorite anime :)

CG spoilers ahead.



The melodrama is delicious though, and I am ambivalent to fanservice - if it's a liability with anyone, it's with the fans.

NGE and TMOHS are hardly overrated though. Neon Genesis is a powerful portrait of a human being (even though he's a whiny wimp), with innovative and exquisite storytelling techniques (hard to like - yes, that it definitely is) TMOHS is... Harder to talk about. Suffice to say I think it does everything, and it does it well.



What's wrong with kiddie now?

Eep. I was basing that on my observations from the first season, sorry. I haven't seen the second. ^^;

There weren't any innovative storytelling techniques that I could see. It flowed much as many action anime do, and if the show's only credit is as a study of human nature (which seems to be the case), then there are series that accomplish this infinitely better. A comparable character to Shinji, for example, might be one of the main characters in Gantz. That show is basically all about the darker side of human nature and much more convincing in that role, though the protagonists are at times even more helpless than Shinji. As for Haruhi, well, that's just a matter of taste. Anime humor in general is usually too cheesy for me, but I won't get into that.

EDIT: Sorry, I'll end the spam here. ^^: But isn't more interesting to read a discussion rather than lists anyways? *halo*

This thread could go on forever

Anyway
underrated anime: GUN-dou Musashi! Musashi is like the Bauer of anime in this, what's not to love??

I'm not seeing how you're basically calling One Piece a more mature show. Please explain this one to me. >.>

What's wrong with Lain? I've not seen it getting anymore credit than it deserves.

Though this may be too early, I have to comment about how the new Kara no Kyoukai series of movies is getting T-Ups from people everywhere. It's probably going to be another series which builds most of it's fanbase through hype like Haruhi, though unlike Haruhi it fails as a proper narrative.

No, I never called it mature. I simply said it's not kiddy. Mature would mean it contains more stuff like nudity and gore and all. I'm simply saying it's not kiddy because it's the type of anime series that can appeal and be enjoyed by an audience of any age, not just young kids. If it was truly "kiddy" then it would indeed be like the dub: lollipops instead of cigarettes, slingshots instead of guns (no not Usopp obviously), toy darts that look like they're from a nerf gun instead of poison needles, 'cursed' fruit instead of 'devil' fruit, no blood instead of blood, and the list could go on. Oh, and it is listed as PG-13 on its page, which isn't kiddy, G would be kiddy, like Pokemon.

popular =/= overrated. Naruto has been my favorite anime from the start. Bleach is high on my favorite list as well.

One severely underrated anime is Hunter x Hunter. One of the best shounen animes out there.

No, you misunderstood me. You said Naruto was kiddy, and One Piece wasn't. I'm asking how is it more mature then Naruto. Not as in it's mature like Gantz or something to that nature.

Overrated: Eva(still good but not god), Akira(I hate it) and the new kid on the block Code Geass(I hate Lelouch, and the show worships Lelouch, see the problem)

Underrated: Comic Party, Blue Seed, Naruto(everyone seems to hate it) and One Piece(same as Naruto)

Special:DBZ is underrated now but was overrated when it was big.

Overrated: Cowboy Bebop, Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
Sure they're both nice but also definitely not epic.

Underrated: Dunno but I found the original Appleseed (1988) rated a bit too low. Especially if you compare it to other old series in the same genre like Patlabor.

Overrated - Death Note

Underrated - Yup there's alot.

Edit: Actually I don't think that Hatenkou Yugi is given enough credit. I thought it was an hilarious series with a decent plot but not many people were/are following it.

Oh yeah FF7AC as well, I forgot. Only reason it scores so high is because its FF7. Story sucks and all it is is an action flick, a good looking action flick but still.