What is your biggest turn-off when you start an anime?

PriestJabon said:
When it's not a mature show for mature people like myself.

FloatsBoats said:
Kana Hanazawa
Yuki Kaji

Dalis said:
When there isn't a giant robot for the mc to pilot.

mayukachan said:
Generic war between two colonies and one average MC that pilots the mecha lol


Add Saori Hayami and maybe Fukuyama Jun. Maybe.

FloatsBoats said:
What particular role do you dislike for Jun Fukuyama?

Red_Keys said:
I lose faith/interest in an anime when:

The main character gets hit for no reason and it's supposed to make me laugh.

Characters are physically abusive for no reason and it's portrayed in a way where the audience is supposed to think it is ok and normal.

Characters act like condescending assholes to the main character and talk down to them for no reason.

Characters act like retarded 9 year olds.

The dialogue feels like it was written by somebody who has never interacted with another human being in their entire life.

Situations are contrived and forced to result in nothing but a character breaking their characterization in order to dumb themselves down to inhuman levels of stupidity and uncoordination in order to give the audience a retarded scene of stupid shit that's supposed to be sexy (grabbing a boob after falling down or some shit), but in reality wouldn't sexually excite anybody with a functioning brain outside of middle school.

The main character is the least important character, because they are written specifically so that nobody gives a damn about them, and the anime tries its best to convince everybody that the main character doesn't actually exist. Posters don't show them, PVs don't show them, OPs and EDs purposefully exclude them. If you try hard enough, maybe you can convince yourself that they don't really exist (and the girls love you instead!) It's not a show about them, even though they're the main character. And that just creates a disaster of a narrative that has no chance of amounting to anything besides tasteless crap.

Melodramatic overreaction to mundane shit in order to create a sense of false drama because the writer is too incompetent to create any actual tension or interesting development in the story.

Scenes, characters, plot points, and entire shows exist for no reason other than to conform to and enforce gender roles. Woo hoo boys have no worth outside of their use to women and how they can solve a woman's problems; their own problems are unimportant and nonexistent because.... paying attention to a male character is boring and I can't fap to that/ewwwey gay/REAL MAN HURRRRR, and women have no worth outside of being a pair of tits to win as a prize. Barf.

Stupid arbitrary cultural dogma (sexism, etc) is perpetuated and unquestioned, demonstrating a distinct lack of both maturity and awareness from the author.

Overexplination/summery of shit that just fucking happened, or is completely obvious.

Bad exposition where characters explain things to each other that they should already know, but the writer doesn't know any other way to give information to the audience except for spoon-feeding it.

A love interest is completely unlikable in every way possible.

The main character exists to be nothing but a punching bag.

Writers think that a lame fetish is an adequate replacement to actually writing a personality.

Generic vagueness in the dialogue used to create a contrived sense of mystery that does nothing but make me roll my eyes and wish that the characters would start talking and interacting like normal people.

Violence is used as something I'm supposed to laugh at.

Violence is used as something I'm supposed to crave and hope happens (fanservice).

The main character is designed with the intent that I'm not supposed to like them, and not in an antihero way, but in a "omg girls like him I'm so jealous I hope he dies" sort of way, so that when horrible, undeserved, unjustified shit happens to them for no reason, I'm supposed to just go along with it and not question why people are treating them like less than a human being, and enjoy it as the fanservice it was meant to be.

FloatsBoats said:
Kana Hanazawa
Yuki Kaji

Generic-kun is just a generic gene until one day, a beautiful girl falls from the sky and his life is changed forever.

hybreezy said:


hey man Unicorn's first episode was killer

Red_Keys said:
I lose faith/interest in an anime when:

The main character gets hit for no reason and it's supposed to make me laugh.

Characters are physically abusive for no reason and it's portrayed in a way where the audience is supposed to think it is ok and normal.

Characters act like condescending assholes to the main character and talk down to them for no reason.

Characters act like retarded 9 year olds.

The dialogue feels like it was written by somebody who has never interacted with another human being in their entire life.

It's a harem.

It's "technically not a harem", but the only characters allowed besides the main character and bad guys are hot women. Same crap.

Panty shots.

Situations are contrived and forced to result in nothing but a character breaking their characterization in order to dumb themselves down to inhuman levels of stupidity and uncoordination in order to give the audience a retarded scene of stupid shit that's supposed to be sexy (grabbing a boob after falling down or some shit), but in reality wouldn't sexually excite anybody with a functioning brain outside of middle school.

The main character is the least important character, because they are written specifically so that nobody gives a damn about them, and the anime tries its best to convince everybody that the main character doesn't actually exist. Posters don't show them, PVs don't show them, OPs and EDs purposefully exclude them. If you try hard enough, maybe you can convince yourself that they don't really exist (and the girls love you instead!) It's not a show about them, even though they're the main character. And that just creates a disaster of a narrative that has no chance of amounting to anything besides tasteless crap.

Melodramatic overreaction to mundane shit in order to create a sense of false drama because the writer is too incompetent to create any actual tension or interesting development in the story.

Scenes, characters, plot points, and entire shows exist for no reason other than to conform to and enforce gender roles. Woo hoo boys have no worth outside of their use to women and how they can solve a woman's problems; their own problems are unimportant and nonexistent because.... paying attention to a male character is boring and I can't fap to that/ewwwey gay/REAL MAN HURRRRR, and women have no worth outside of being a pair of tits to win as a prize. Barf.

Stupid arbitrary cultural dogma (sexism, etc) is perpetuated and unquestioned, demonstrating a distinct lack of both maturity and awareness from the author.

Overexplination/summery of shit that just fucking happened, or is completely obvious.

Bad exposition where characters explain things to each other that they should already know, but the writer doesn't know any other way to give information to the audience except for spoon-feeding it.

A love interest is completely unlikable in every way possible.

The main character exists to be nothing but a punching bag.

Writers think that a lame fetish is an adequate replacement to actually writing a personality.

Generic vagueness in the dialogue used to create a contrived sense of mystery that does nothing but make me roll my eyes and wish that the characters would start talking and interacting like normal people.

Violence is used as something I'm supposed to laugh at.

Violence is used as something I'm supposed to crave and hope happens (fanservice).

The main character is designed with the intent that I'm not supposed to like them, and not in an antihero way, but in a "omg girls like him I'm so jealous I hope he dies" sort of way, so that when horrible, undeserved, unjustified shit happens to them for no reason, I'm supposed to just go along with it and not question why people are treating them like less than a human being, and enjoy it as the fanservice it was meant to be.

Writers who clearly don't give a shit about anything other than sucking as much money from people who are only interested in the same fucking shit being repeated over and over again as possible.

Old_Raven said:
lolis

Maor said:
lol'd

BatoKusanagi said:
Whent the anime sucks ass.


Is there any anime left after this?

BatoKusanagi said:
Whent the anime sucks ass.


Is there any anime left after this?

blessofcurse said:
I was about to watch shakugan no shana but i saw the female lead's VA is Rei Kugimiya. lol

Praland said:

Good choice, it just gets worse each season.

Democracy said:
"(insert confession that would force the plot to advance)"

"Huh? What did you say?"

"N-nothing! Nevermind!"

Cakedog said:
If they're going to blatantly flash ecchi in the first 5 minutes I'm going to be skeptical about watching the rest of the anime from fear of brain cell loss.