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What is the most repetitive anime in your life?
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Dragon Ball Super, no idea how people can like that garbage
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precure, for sure. it's all dumb fun and ocassional sakuga. except for the current season which lacks ANY damn spectacle. the best animated part was the cat jumping around before activating the water spray bottle thing.
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Dec 17, 2019 8:50 AM
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Pokemon
Fairy Tail
Precure

Or just most kids anime. It's all a simple rinse and repeat formula from start to finish.
Dec 17, 2019 8:52 AM
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I guess MHA since before that I haven’t watched any long running shows.
Dec 17, 2019 8:56 AM
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Do you mean anime that are repetitive in nature or anime that I watch repeatedly? The 'in your life' is confusing.
Dec 17, 2019 9:05 AM
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Probably Dragonball, but i also heard that Kimetsu no Yaiba doesn't stop using its formula of giving Tanjiro power ups from flashbacks and giving sad backstories to dying people no one cares about
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Fairy Tail, no doubt.

It used to be one of my fav anime of all time when I was 10 years old.
But as I grew older, I realized how repetitive and predictable the story was.
Despite of being repetitive, I still enjoyed it a lot though.
This show is a perfect example for kids below 12 years old who wanted to start watching anime.
Dec 17, 2019 10:06 AM

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Literally Endless Eight. Followed by Tatami Galaxy.
I probably regret this post by now.
Dec 17, 2019 10:20 AM

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Yeah the garbage ass endless eight arc is the singular most repetitive thing in anime.

- “but his shirt is blue in this episode, and green in the next one!”

Just no. It was the worst move by any anime studio ever and people need to stop defending it :x
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Dec 17, 2019 10:24 AM

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It's Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san, you know why.
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Yeah the garbage ass endless eight arc is the singular most repetitive thing in anime.

- “but his shirt is blue in this episode, and green in the next one!”

Just no. It was the worst move by any anime studio ever and people need to stop defending it :x


iT hElPs YoU uNdErStAnD yUkI's PeRsPeCtIvE FoR tHe DisApPeArAnCe mOvIe

nah i'm pretty sure there's a clear case to be made in terms of how harmful it was for Haruhi's own reception, but some people do legitimately like that it exist (me not included)

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It's Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san, you know why.


it's definitely supposed to be that way, but you're not wrong lol
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GreatAide said:
Hokage_Jason said:
Yeah the garbage ass endless eight arc is the singular most repetitive thing in anime.

- “but his shirt is blue in this episode, and green in the next one!”

Just no. It was the worst move by any anime studio ever and people need to stop defending it :x


iT hElPs YoU uNdErStAnD yUkI's PeRsPeCtIvE FoR tHe DisApPeArAnCe mOvIe

nah i'm pretty sure there's a clear case to be made in terms of how harmful it was for Haruhi's own reception, but some people do legitimately like that it exist (me not included)

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It's Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san, you know why.


it's definitely supposed to be that way, but you're not wrong lol


Lolol. Tfw I’ve heard those exact words in a non joking way. Sadly the movie was just as bad as the endless eight to me. The one saving grace of the series was that it was a parody. Most of the time I was bored, even upset I was wasting my time at points, but it did get me to laugh out loud a handful of times at how intentionally stupid it was being (giant praying mantis fight or cockroach or w/e it was).

The movie threw all that away and tried putting off a serious tone? For a parody with the most intentionally poorly written characters ever? Okay lol.
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Dec 17, 2019 10:53 AM
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Probably Sakamoto Desu Ga? The jokes were pretty much the exact same: Sakamoto does something cool in an incredibly over the top way.
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Hokage_Jason said:
GreatAide said:


iT hElPs YoU uNdErStAnD yUkI's PeRsPeCtIvE FoR tHe DisApPeArAnCe mOvIe

nah i'm pretty sure there's a clear case to be made in terms of how harmful it was for Haruhi's own reception, but some people do legitimately like that it exist (me not included)



it's definitely supposed to be that way, but you're not wrong lol


Lolol. Tfw I’ve heard those exact words in a non joking way. Sadly the movie was just as bad as the endless eight to me. The one saving grace of the series was that it was a parody. Most of the time I was bored, even upset I was wasting my time at points, but it did get me to laugh out loud a handful of times at how intentionally stupid it was being (giant praying mantis fight or cockroach or w/e it was).

The movie threw all that away and tried putting off a serious tone? For a parody with the most intentionally poorly written characters ever? Okay lol.


it certainly worked as a parody in a sense, and i'm not sure about 'intentionally poorly written' but i suppose most people found at least some emotional attachment when it came to the characters, and perhaps enjoyed their presence on screen. that isn't to say that weren't some parts in the original series that could be considered more serious or substantial, either

but evidently if the most you can derive from it is comedic parody, then i can see why the movie wouldn't work lol
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GreatAide said:
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Lolol. Tfw I’ve heard those exact words in a non joking way. Sadly the movie was just as bad as the endless eight to me. The one saving grace of the series was that it was a parody. Most of the time I was bored, even upset I was wasting my time at points, but it did get me to laugh out loud a handful of times at how intentionally stupid it was being (giant praying mantis fight or cockroach or w/e it was).

The movie threw all that away and tried putting off a serious tone? For a parody with the most intentionally poorly written characters ever? Okay lol.


it certainly worked as a parody in a sense, and i'm not sure about 'intentionally poorly written' but i suppose most people found at least some emotional attachment when it came to the characters, and perhaps enjoyed their presence on screen. that isn't to say that weren't some parts in the original series that could be considered more serious or substantial, either

but evidently if the most you can derive from it is comedic parody, then i can see why the movie wouldn't work lol


Uhh Naw. The characters are 100% poorly written.

You have Nagato who has less than a minute worth of lines in the first one or two episodes she’s in, then the next episode is literally her talking the entire time about how she’s an alien cyborg and god is a middle school girl bla bla bla. That is satirical irony. The expected response to that from anyone with any critical thinking skills is “okay that was supposed to be over the top, dumbly exaggerated.”

Then there’s the red head whose vocabulary consists of “classified” and maybe 2 other words. Intentionally poor writing, she is a parody of your “busty and dumb” girl in every generic harem/school anime.

I’m sorry but there really wasn’t anything to this anime besides it’s parodical elements and a slowly developing, almost non existent, romance developing between Haruhi and MC-kun. One that obviously would never be addressed in a serious manner because it’s a parody and not a romance.
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Hokage_Jason said:
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it certainly worked as a parody in a sense, and i'm not sure about 'intentionally poorly written' but i suppose most people found at least some emotional attachment when it came to the characters, and perhaps enjoyed their presence on screen. that isn't to say that weren't some parts in the original series that could be considered more serious or substantial, either

but evidently if the most you can derive from it is comedic parody, then i can see why the movie wouldn't work lol


Uhh Naw. The characters are 100% poorly written.

You have Nagato who has less than a minute worth of lines in the first one or two episodes she’s in, then the next episode is literally her talking the entire time about how she’s an alien cyborg and god is a middle school girl bla bla bla. That is satirical irony. The expected response to that from anyone with any critical thinking skills is “okay that was supposed to be over the top, dumbly exaggerated.”

Then there’s the red head whose vocabulary consists of “classified” and maybe 2 other words. Intentionally poor writing, she is a parody of your “busty and dumb” girl in every generic harem/school anime.

I’m sorry but there really wasn’t anything to this anime besides it’s parodical elements and a slowly developing, almost non existent, romance developing between Haruhi and MC-kun. One that obviously would never be addressed in a serious manner because it’s a parody and not a romance.


i can see the point for the character-writing being poor, but i think to say it's intentionally poor would be an overestimate of just how much of a complete parody the entire anime tries to be. The story that there is obviously more on the whack and silly side, Yuki's dialogue dump and of course the concept of having a High School girl perhaps being some kind of God is just ridiculous, but it's set up for intrigue and something to get emotionally involved in just as it is set up for laughing purposes.

it's almost like TWGOK to me, it's ridiculous and the concept utterly silly but it doesn't stop it from being totally engaging for me

now obviously if you found every other potential aspect in your viewing to be utterly garbage then that's fair, but i certainly wouldn't say that its parodic elements are the only thing it really tries for

now on another note though, if the characters do their job in providing a complete and utter parody, which it may be, wouldn't the character writing be doing its job?
mikuru (red-head) does say more than 2 words lol, but is totally deliberately made to fit that busty and dumb sort of dealio
yuki's literally an android-interface-whatever and considering how she is at the beginning, it makes total sense to me
Dec 17, 2019 1:15 PM
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Clearly Gintama. It repeats the same formula arc from arc and manages to stay fresh and relevant nevertheless.
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repetitive as in?

assuming I somehow know what you are talking about.
Any SoL, romance or ecchi with a status quo and the vast majority of shounen.
Dec 17, 2019 2:01 PM

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Fairy Tail. It's the same "plot" over and over and over.

Bokuben is also really impressive when it comes to recycle misunderstandings and jokes
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Fairy Tail for sure, the story follows the same events multiple times over.

1. Natsu and pals go on journey to solve a problem.
2. Villain shows up and absolutely whoops all the heroes.
3. People are nearly dying, but then the power of friendship activates and Natsu saves the day.
4. The problem is solved and they go back to the guild.
5. Rinse and Repeat
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I think Gurren Lagann is repetitive but in the best way possible.

1. Somebody wants to destroy the good guys
2. The good guys are about to lose
3. The good guys get a bigger drill and win

Never stopped being entertaining as hell.
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@GreatAide (resetting reply chain cause it’s getting long)

I agree if something is written to be intentionally bad/overblown for parody sake, it’s good to be bad, so when I say the character writing is intentionally bad it’s not necessarily an insult.

Every single roll Will Feral does is the same kind of “take a persona/event/thing to 10000%” type of satire used in Nagatos speech, and people (not me) LOVE Will Feral. But he’s not winning awards for best drama or anything with those rolls.

What I’m saying is people should not be looking at the characters and what they say and going “omg what an incredibly deep and well written character, this is such unique, interesting and believable writing.”.

As for you saying you felt other aspects of the show were meant to be emotionally invested in, I just disagree. I don’t see how anyone could become emotionally invested in such shallow, one dimensional parody charcters, or take any aspect of the show seriously when you go from typical highschool club activities, to threatening framing people with rape, TO KAMEHAMEHA’ING A FREAKING THREE STORY TALL COCKROACH. It was all over the place, in the most illogical of ways, and that was one of the few good qualities it had.

Every episode just sends up “don’t take this show seriously” flags.
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Seven Deadly Sins. They story is very generic and so are the characters. Teasing master takagi san. Is just teasing one person for like 12 episodes. Dragon Ball. Just fighting a stronger foe every arc. Nothing special ever happens.
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The first part of the ancient magus' bride is: elias treating chise like shit > chise fucking up > elias saving chise
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All seasons of Shingeki no kyojin in especially season 1 and 3 part 2
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Bleach recycled the Soul Society Rukai Rescue arc immediately after it ended up until the final chapter.

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The first part of the ancient magus' bride is: elias treating chise like shit > chise fucking up > elias saving chise


This too now that I think about it. Don't know how anybody found this engaging considering the characters never developed much in 24 episodes.
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Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san uses same thing every episode

Dragon Ball - Goku fights someone who is stronger, powers up, wins, jew enemy appears, Goku powers up, wins.. Every time

Konosuba - "EXPLOSION", steals panties, masochist things, Aqua being useless - makes water.. Repeat

Kimetsu no Yaiba - MC fights, can't win, flashback about sad story, powers up, wins.. Repeat

One Piece - arrives in island, "something's wrong", fight, wins, go to next island, surprise something isn't wrong again...repeat

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Shingeki no Kyojin. Impact-less tragedies. Meaningless deaths. And Eren bring a gay beach. Die Isayama you don't belong in this world.
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Dragon ball z wtf they be fighting about I lost track this point
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Surprised by the huge number of uncultured bashing the masterpiece that is the endless eight.
May God Haruhi have mercy of your soul!


In a way, a lot of shows are repetitive.
It always depends if it becomes annoying or not.
For example Black Clover keeps repeating "Asta destroying my eardrums with his annoying screams", lol.
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Utena, almost of the episodes followed the same structure and the battles have hardly any variety, most of them endd on the same way, it was like 45% of then ended with the A pattern, 45% of them with the B pattern and 10% couldn't be classified as one of them.

It's just that most of the episodes felt like if they were the same just changing the characters.

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I have never seen more boring and repetitive stuff than Dragonball. "Oh no this is the strongest guy of the universe. He will destroy the planet or universe, if I don't do anything about it. Oh no, he is stronger than me, I should go in my 1000th super form with another fabulous hair color." - repeat this 100 times.
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Probably detective conan when shinichi is gonna solve the case. I'm gonna watch it once it stops airing and I hope I'm still interested by that time.
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Probably Dragonball, but i also heard that Kimetsu no Yaiba doesn't stop using its formula of giving Tanjiro power ups from flashbacks and giving sad backstories to dying people no one cares about

Demon slayer lmfao now i'm even more convinced its the garbage of the year, I should have known the overhyped trash would be repetitive, the otaku community has no standards.
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Probably Dragonball, but i also heard that Kimetsu no Yaiba doesn't stop using its formula of giving Tanjiro power ups from flashbacks and giving sad backstories to dying people no one cares about

Demon slayer lmfao now i'm even more convinced its the garbage of the year, I should have known the overhyped trash would be repetitive, the otaku community has no standards.

One person says it's repetitive and you start shit talking like a kid.

Well done, your IQ<20
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Dragonball, I guess. Every bad guy is bigger and badder than the last one. Just as everything seems lost Goku, or someone else sometimes, works gard and/or unlocks a new power up that allows them to defeat the bad guy. Or atleast until the next bigger and badder guy, and the next power up. Rinse and repeat. It’s tried and tested tho. Works
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Demon slayer lmfao now i'm even more convinced its the garbage of the year, I should have known the overhyped trash would be repetitive, the otaku community has no standards.

One person says it's repetitive and you start shit talking like a kid.

Well done, your IQ<20

Oh I got a new stalker by quoting him once lmao sasuga kimetsu no yaiba fanboy sama
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fairy tail definitely. it's the real reason why I haven't even finished it yet
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Why was this thread in Music and Entertainment? lmao
I agree about endless eight arc. I can't imagine how people watching the anime while airing felt knowing that they were going to watch the same episode over and over again each week. Seriously.
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Boku no Hero Academia. I know, my first shounen. But I have hope shounen aren't normally that bad. We are at fourth season and practically nothing has happened and, also, many arcs are entirely pointless. The first arc in S2, supossed to develop one of the main cast wasted too much time on "filler" (events without relevancy) to make an impact. The second arc in S2 didn't have "filler" but ultimately only had one effect: adding more pointless antagonists. The second arc in S3 is literally entirely pointless and even shamelessly so as it has no consequences in anything. (Before somebody says it: N, certain character using their quirk on the MC could happen anytime so it doesn't save it)

The arc in this fourth season adds lots of new characters without build-up and it seems one of the main things in it will involve one of them. I spoiled myself and it seems it will be irrelevant in the end so... (I can really tell as I'm an anime only but that doesn't affect my opinion).

In the end, I just dislike BnHA a lot so it's normal I see it in bad lenses. If I had to be completely objective, the most repetitive anime I've experienced would be Detective Conan: 900 episodes in and the plot doesn't seem to even exist sometimes (and yes, it's supossed to have one, unlike something K-on! or Pokemom). However, it means something for me as it was very important in my childhood so I just can dislike it at the same level. However, to be honest, it's everything I said about BnHA but 1000x worse.
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The Most Repetitive Anime in My Life
- Cardcaptor Sakura
- D.Gray-man

Repeated sequences over and over again just like Team Rocket blasting off again.
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Shingeki no Kyojin. Impact-less tragedies. Meaningless deaths. And Eren bring a gay beach. Die Isayama you don't belong in this world.


Has SAO over AOT. Now that's a good one.
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Wharf said:
Nick-Knight said:
Shingeki no Kyojin. Impact-less tragedies. Meaningless deaths. And Eren bring a gay beach. Die Isayama you don't belong in this world.


Has SAO over AOT. Now that's a good one.

Oh noes. He got me. Beating on a dead horse. Riding the hatetrain bandwagon from ages ago. And bringing up SAO for no reason. Plz.
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Nick-Knight said:
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Has SAO over AOT. Now that's a good one.

Oh noes. He got me. Beating on a dead horse. Riding the hatetrain bandwagon from ages ago. And bringing up SAO for no reason. Plz.


lolz says the guy who's being a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian
was relevant to the post
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Wharf said:
Nick-Knight said:

Oh noes. He got me. Beating on a dead horse. Riding the hatetrain bandwagon from ages ago. And bringing up SAO for no reason. Plz.


lolz says the guy who's being a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian
was relevant to the post

Oopsie daisy. Didn't know that daring to say something bad about such 'masterful' work made me a contrarian. Guess I am one now. Better live on with it for now until the ending. Thanks for changing my worldview completely. Here have a cookie 🍪.
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