| Title says it all. What is the most confusing or complicated anime you have ever watched? |
| Tenshi no Tamago I watched this movie 6 times and I still don't know what really happened there. |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| Probably Evangelion for me, especially the last two episodes. |
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| Seriously none. I barely need to use my brain in any anime/manga. These shits are easy to follow. |
| "When they're alive, you can enjoy watching them struggle. When they're dead, you can enjoy tearing out their guts. Tales are things you get to enjoy twice." |
| Serial Experiments Lain, for sure. I had no idea what was going on half the time... but I loved every second of it! It's such a trip! |
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| That would be Ergo Proxy. I had to read an explanation to clearly understand it's complex story. |
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aku no hana was so confusing it didnt get a part 2 and i aint reading the manga because its too confusing.. great visuals (rotoscoping) and music btw |
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| RahXephon was quite convoluted especially on the last episodes. Had to look up some explanation to fully understand the whole thing. I did enjoy the hell out of it though, will rewatch soon. Ghost in the Shell, however, was pure incoherent bullshit that merely bored me to death. Felt like one of those shows that was just confusing for the sake of being confusing, with its core message not even being too profound or rewarding in the first place. |
| I spent 2/3 of my time watching Flip Flappers not understanding what the fuck was going on. And tbh, I'm still not entirely sure I know for certain what was happening lol. Cool anime nonetheless. |
| Ummm, I think the most complicated anime which I have watched till now would be steins;gate. Uhh, it was making plot holes in my head. |
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| Serial experiments lame. evangelion too but atleast i understood the psychological parts of it idk what and how tf did the events take place in physical world. But in lain i couldn't understand anything at all. |
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| Serial Experiments Lain - Have to say it was quite the experience seeing my potential theories getting constantly crushed with each new episode I watch. Tenshi no Tamago - Understandable given that even the director didn't know what the fuck he was doing. |
| Yuri Kuma Arashi (ok, i watched only one episode, but it's so much more confusing, than the other Ikuhara anime.) But from the ones i've completed: Paranoia Agent |
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| Paranoia Agent, especially at the end of the series. |
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work1ngondying said: penguindrum i had no idea wtf was going on It's simply about people bonds. Siblings bond, friendship, romantic love, obssesion or whatever. And what conflicts those bonds and human feelings will make. (some) People will do anything for what they think is important, including fight againts the world/fate. Yeah, probably there are some allegory, but I believe it's not really important compared to the spirit of the show. It's kinda similar to TTGL, where having the will is all what you need to defeat your enemy. No need to overarching plot and world building. Perhaps that is why both are my favorite anime. |
Jim_HeartJan 17, 2022 10:52 PM
"The Slave is the have-not, the oppressed one with nothing to spare. But because the Slave is in that despairing situation, having nothing, it can kill the Emperor !" |
| Paprika, i don't understand what the hell is even going on |
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| Probably Yuri Kuma Arashi, Paprika and Evangelion. |
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work1ngondying said: penguindrum i had no idea wtf was going on I would advise you not to watch Sarazanmai then. I would have to say Occultic;Nine. That anime felt so fast paced. Its one of the few anime I had to actually pause multiple times to read the subtitles. |
| Tenshi no Tamago. I didn't understood it but still I gave it 8/10. |
| Gotta be the monogatari series, it gets my head twisting everytime I watch it. |
| I don't think there was a title which would confuse me with plot or anything like that, so the only title which made me kind of confused was Kara no Kyoukai as the episodes/movies are not in chronological order of timeline x) if I remember correctly the timeline order was (by numeric of movies) 2-4-3-1-5-6-7 |
| Has to be Mobile Suit Gundam F91. First of all, it was originally meant to be a TV series which got cancelled and was compressed into a movie. It's a shame because the movie has some very good animation and potential. The next would probably be Akira which also suffers from the same problem as F91 in the sense that it tried to fit the Manga series into a single movie which resulted in a confusing plot to follow. |
hl32Jan 18, 2022 8:33 AM
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| Mawaru Penguindrum. I followed the first half easily enough but it became a bit of a mess as it went on. Initially the symbolism was pretty well-incorporated and clever but then it just slaps you with some meaningless and confusing symbolism in lieu of actually writing a proper story and characterization near the end. |
 Latest reviews: Summer Pockets and Train to the the End of the World |
| Definitely Serial Experiments Lain. I'm fairly confident that I understood almost everything from every anime I've watched, save that weirdly amazing trip of a show. Sonny Boy is a recent one that gave me similar feels. BigMac7 said: I don't think you can ever logically explain how anything happened the way it did on their physical plane, it'll fall apart if you pick on stuff on a superficial level (like the plot) - each and every law of science was broken by that show.evangelion too but atleast i understood the psychological parts of it idk what and how tf did the events take place in physical world. ghostsamurai said: Same here, I didn't find it to be that high IQ or complex. I think it makes sense if you're paying close attention and patiently waiting for it to explain things later.I didn't think so, but I've had some people tell me they thought Ghost in the Shell was too complex or high IQ for them and they didn't get it. Seemed to me like it mostly came down to switching bodies and political disputes between the districts. TheRailTracerMAL said: …ouch. Did you not like the somewhat depressing cyberpunk world and the atmospheric storytelling?Ghost in the Shell, however, was pure incoherent bullshit that merely bored me to death. Felt like one of those shows that was just confusing for the sake of being confusing, with its core message not even being too profound or rewarding in the first place. |
elnino02 said: I didn't sadly. But I guess it's just a problem I have with these "atmospheric" shows. I tend to prefer it more if a story is being told mainly through the actions of the characters or the basic confines of its narrative. But with stuff like Ghost in the Shell, Texnolyze or Ergo Proxy, you don't really get much of that and instead you're presented with these somewhat big, unfamiliar worlds/concepts where the audience is somehow forced to make sense of what is happening in, to fully comprehend everything else. It just seem like an unnecessarily challenging way of presenting a less rewarding message to me. Though admittedly, I didn't really fully comprehend those shows either so I guess that is the failure on my end. So yeah, their probably just aren't for me. I haven't fully given up on GitS though, I'm still interested on proceeding with the other entries as I've heard their a bit less challenging than the movie and I'm still open to rewatching the movie if I ever find the mood for it sometime.TheRailTracerMAL said: …ouch. Did you not like the somewhat depressing cyberpunk world and the atmospheric storytelling?Ghost in the Shell, however, was pure incoherent bullshit that merely bored me to death. Felt like one of those shows that was just confusing for the sake of being confusing, with its core message not even being too profound or rewarding in the first place. |
| Serial Experiment Lain, Texhnolyze, Neon Genesis Evangelion |
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| A lot of Sci-Fi ones such as Ghost in Shell and Ergo Proxy. I also struggled understanding Code Geass too, but maybe someday later I will rewatch some of them because they deserve a chance and I'm kinda too dumb to understand now =w= |
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work1ngondying said: penguindrum i had no idea wtf was going on Same for me, when I watched for the first time was so confused. Horableme mention goes for Subete ga F ni Naru, at the start was so weird. |
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| probably flcl, whenever i started to get what was happening some other random thing happened and i was once again confused. |
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| Akira I had no idea wtf was happening in it |
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| bounty dog. eva was completely understandable flcl was easy lain I could piece together angel's egg, more like nothing of importance happens, it's just a cycle. but bounty dog was a confusing mess. |
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| The only anime that I didn't understand was SEL |
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TheRailTracerMAL said: Understandable. The show (Stand Alone Complex) is quite different from the movie and I suspect that you have a much better chance of enjoying that.elnino02 said: I didn't sadly. But I guess it's just a problem I have with these "atmospheric" shows. I tend to prefer it more if a story is being told mainly through the actions of the characters or the basic confines of its narrative. But with stuff like Ghost in the Shell, Texnolyze or Ergo Proxy, you don't really get much of that and instead you're presented with these somewhat big, unfamiliar worlds/concepts where the audience is somehow forced to make sense of what is happening in, to fully comprehend everything else. It just seem like an unnecessarily challenging way of presenting a less rewarding message to me. Though admittedly, I didn't really fully comprehend those shows either so I guess that is the failure on my end. So yeah, their probably just aren't for me. I haven't fully given up on GitS though, I'm still interested on proceeding with the other entries as I've heard their a bit less challenging than the movie and I'm still open to rewatching the movie if I ever find the mood for it sometime.…ouch. Did you not like the somewhat depressing cyberpunk world and the atmospheric storytelling? |
| Texhnolyze. I lost a lot of sleep thinking about it. |
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| Am I really the only one who got fucked up at Sonny Bruh? I never understood it at ALL and mainly because it was so boring as fuck |
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Kylinity said: Am I really the only one who got fucked up at Sonny Bruh? I never understood it at ALL and mainly because it was so boring as fuck yeah I also didn’t know what was going on and after the first few episodes I just found it boring as well |
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| FLCL, I don't know what even happening, find it boring because the comedy isn't my type but the songs are pretty good. |
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