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Aug 11, 2020 8:14 AM
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Badasssiper47 said:
Death parade had an interesting plot but it became repetitive and long

Texhnolyze has got to be so confusing i had to read a wiki episode synopsis to understand wth happend in episode 1 and im not gonna do that again!


Yea, same here for death parade. That was my main problem with it. It had a super interesting concept but just felt like nothing changed until the end.
Aug 11, 2020 9:21 AM

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For me it was One punch man, Dr. Stone, Fire Force, and Soul eater.

In my opinion Dr. Stone was too slow for me. It got boring fast. One punch man was cool but for some reason i just lost interest in it. Blackstar's Voice ruined soul eater for me. And I know fire force is supposed to be good, but it's too mediocre. I want to like fire force but for some reason I can't?
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Aug 11, 2020 10:42 AM

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One Piece, I dont understand why its so loved. its super long and isnt anything special

Aug 11, 2020 11:46 AM
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tehenolyze and angels egg, im not here to watch establishing shots for an hour
Aug 11, 2020 11:52 AM

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dropped one piece at episode 1 i cant see myself watching that shit for 32948 episodes
Aug 11, 2020 12:03 PM

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Kyoukai no kanata, noragami and chuunibyou. The first two were alright but I didn't think they were amazing. Felt bored watching Chuunibyou but might give it another go in 10 years.

Also, the whole glasses thing in Kyoukai was annoying. It was like 'no senpai, this is our fight' in Strike the Blood.

Aug 11, 2020 12:09 PM
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Oh, here's a good one I thought about.

Ishuzoku Reviewers. It was awfully mediocre in my opinion. Not funny, not entertaining and I could care less about the sex. Am I being memed on?
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Aug 11, 2020 12:11 PM

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quite possibly Kimi no nawa, the only reason I don't give it a 3 is because of the spectacular presentation
Aug 11, 2020 12:16 PM

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Highly rated anime I couldn't get into? DEASU NOOTO. I'm sure it's a masterpiece, and a highly engaging thriller, but I don't feel like watching it. Besides, how can a thriller be thrilling if I know everything that's going to happen? Watched the first episode only and never looked back.
(though that first episode wasn't why I dropped it).
Aug 11, 2020 12:49 PM
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benn14_ said:
Badasssiper47 said:
Death parade had an interesting plot but it became repetitive and long

Texhnolyze has got to be so confusing i had to read a wiki episode synopsis to understand wth happend in episode 1 and im not gonna do that again!


Yea, same here for death parade. That was my main problem with it. It had a super interesting concept but just felt like nothing changed until the end.
Exactly and doing stuff like cramming charcters backstories and character development in 1 episode and throwing them away is not going to do a good job of making me care about them since its a psychological drama show.
Aug 11, 2020 12:53 PM

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I couldn't stand watching s1 of Haikyuu because it heavily focused on Hinata and Kageyama, both whom I can't really stand. Other seasons thankfully focused more on other teammates/team, so I didn't have to drop and actually enjoyed show. Another one would be Konosuba. I don't find that humour funny and all the jokes got repetetive after two or three eps of s1. I am not fan of its art either.
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I couldn't stand watching s1 of Haikyuu because it heavily focused on Hinata and Kageyama, both whom I can't really stand. Other seasons thankfully focused more on other teammates/team, so I didn't have to drop and actually enjoyed show. Another one would be Konosuba. I don't find that humour funny and all the jokes got repetetive after two or three eps of s1. I am not fan of its art either.
Aug 11, 2020 12:56 PM

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Spirited Away but I am due a rewatch tho.
Ghibli films in general do not interest me but there were a few that I liked.
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-Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
From the few episodes that I've seen, seems to be a good anime, I can't deny it. But I think that it's so overrated by it's fans, and without any valid reason.

-HunterxHunter (Both versions)
After 2 episodes, I don't know what people see in this anime, it's so boring and generic...

-Great Teacher Onizuka
Other one that is labeled as an "classic". After the first episode (and I couldn't even finish it...) it is too damn cringey and so unfunny.

-Gintama
Gintama had it's moments, and this could have been a better anime series, but the "story arcs" were so damn boring... Also, Tae Shimura and Yagyo Kyubey are the worst characters within the series, a clear example of what not to do when you are creating a comedy anime series.
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Aug 11, 2020 1:54 PM
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AnimaExZero said:
-Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
From the few episodes that I've seen, seems to be a good anime, I can't deny it. But I think that it's so overrated by it's fans, and without any valid reason.

-HunterxHunter (Both versions)
After 2 episodes, I don't know what people see in this anime, it's so boring and generic...

-Great Teacher Onizuka
Other one that is labeled as an "classic". After the first episode (and I couldn't even finish it...) it is too damn cringey and so unfunny.

-Gintama
Gintama had it's moments, and this could have been a better anime series, but the "story arcs" were so damn boring... Also, Tae Shimura and Yagyo Kyubey are the worst characters within the series, a clear example of what not to do when you are creating a comedy anime series.


I don't want to hate on you for disliking HxH because everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but how was it generic? What other shows are so similar to HxH that it makes it "generic". It has numerous unique fighting scenes between wildly different and enjoyable characters, as well as, has an incredible storyline that surpases many other shounen anime I have seen. I just don't see where you're coming from in that regard. I can understand that you might find it boring because like I said everyone has their own taste/opinion and some people just don't like certain things. But calling HxH generic is a bit unfair I think.
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SliceOfDrama said:
I found both seasons of Sangatsu no Lion really boring sometimes, I don't know why because I usually enjoy slice of life series.

But Rei is your profile picture?? I'm confused


On another note, I found code geass -- albeit I haven't watched R2 -- very frustrating and lacklustre. It was riddled with way too many unconvincing plot twists and tried to focus on a way too big thematic scope, which it ultimately failed to execute well. The only redeeming factor of the season were the final 4-5 episodes, which were admittedly quite entertaining and a decent send-off.
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For me it would be Konosuba. I didn't hate it, but far from enjoyed it. Maybe it's just me though...?
Aug 11, 2020 2:39 PM

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Akira, so goddamn boring and they made the faces to look like the ugliest Japs you've ever seen.
Aug 11, 2020 2:45 PM

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NamikazeHime said:
There is a bunch of them but the most 'controversial' one is probably Madoka Magica. Spilling the blood on some lolis doesn't make it a groundbreaking masterpiece.


Well luckily everything else besides spilling blood on some Lolis also contributes making it a groundbreaking masterpiece
Aug 11, 2020 2:47 PM

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Well maybe not highly rated but very highly anticipated and hyped were the recent manwha adaptations like Tower of God and God of Highschool.

Which turned out nowhere near as good as the hype would let you to believe
Aug 11, 2020 2:49 PM

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Amatniki said:
One Piece, I dont understand why its so loved. its super long and isnt anything special


It's mostly just nostalgia.
It's not good per sey but it's easy to enjoy and people can spent a lot of time on it

The artstyle kills it for me but the story's aren't bad
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dan918 said:
SliceOfDrama said:
I found both seasons of Sangatsu no Lion really boring sometimes, I don't know why because I usually enjoy slice of life series.

But Rei is your profile picture?? I'm confused


On another note, I found code geass -- albeit I haven't watched R2 -- very frustrating and lacklustre. It was riddled with way too many unconvincing plot twists and tried to focus on a way too big thematic scope, which it ultimately failed to execute well. The only redeeming factor of the season were the final 4-5 episodes, which were admittedly quite entertaining and a decent send-off.
I like that picture, it's funny. Also I don't think Rei is a bad protagonist.
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I couldn't finish Gurren Lagann after I saw spoilers about one of the characters I was kind of attached to. I did enjoy it, but I couldn't get back into it after that.
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Aot and Re-zero: both have an interesting premise but sadly, the positive stops there! The events are uninteresting and the characters are intolerable
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Beastbane said:
Code Geass: Garbage, Ledouche is a boring character.
Anohana: Boring.


Vinland Saga - Annoying edgelord teenage protagonist that can win against adult veterans, and a guy who can kill four(?) people with one greataxe. Wow, so unrealistic and terrible with unlikable characters. Fuck that cruel piece of shit Askeladd.

Rezero - Boring and forgettable. Rem is trash.
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CuteAssTiger said:
NamikazeHime said:
There is a bunch of them but the most 'controversial' one is probably Madoka Magica. Spilling the blood on some lolis doesn't make it a groundbreaking masterpiece.


Well luckily everything else besides spilling blood on some Lolis also contributes making it a groundbreaking masterpiece

Yeah it does. It makes it a regular mahou shojo.
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I did not enjoy Steins Gate, just like I expected I wouldn't due to a crisis in anime scifi at that period after the collapse of the Despera project, but after watching Rerided with the supposed return of Y. Abe, Steins Gate is a masterpiece in comparison
Aug 11, 2020 5:34 PM
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BNHA and Yuri on Ice, They just diddnt feel right
Aug 11, 2020 5:43 PM

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honestly is....

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU / Oregairu...

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Aug 11, 2020 5:58 PM

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I guess Houseki no Kuni. I don't even know what I really kinda didn't like about. I guess I just expected to love it from the reviews it got, and based on how people talked about it, but it just fell flat for me.

Also, isn't this like the 4th time in the last week or so we've had a discussion about "popular anime i don't like".
Aug 11, 2020 6:05 PM
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Full Metal Alchemist Classic
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Aug 11, 2020 6:07 PM
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For me ,its definately tokyo ghoul.Despite its enormous popularity and hype , the show was complete trash after season 1. Its season 2 was ok and season 3 and 4 should not exist tbh! Worst direction I have ever seen which ruined a show of great potential. Somehow s3 and s4 ruined s1 for me too.
Aug 11, 2020 6:36 PM

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I found FLCL, Samurai Champloo and Ergo Proxy to be quite boring. Their stories didn't flow with me.
Aug 11, 2020 7:01 PM

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Like 90% of highly rated anime in here.
Aug 11, 2020 7:14 PM

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I rarely see eye-to-eye with the general consensus on anything

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Neon Genesis Evangelion. The main reason is I didn't understand the plot well. I was confused. I had no clue what was going on and the story kept going. I shouldn't have to go watch a 5-minute video explaining the plot of NGE to me to understand it. The anime should've done that. Another issue is I couldn't take the ending seriously when it's production quality descended from hentai quality during some scenes. There are good animation scenes but damn is bad animation more memorable than good in this case. I gave it a 7 but my enjoyment was really a 5. NGE killed a lot of my motivation to watch anime.
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I don't understand why Beastars is the best "furry" anime show. It's really cringy and ghastly to me.

It makes my head hurts so much, and I also don't understand the appeal of furries.

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My pretentious ass has weirdly enough not like a lot of shows the so called elitists flock to. The big one for me was Serial Experiments Lain. I liked a lot of its themes and what it was trying to say, but the actual characters and plot elements fell totally flat to me. I couldn't relate to or really buy virtually any character in that show, and the ending left me with a really strong feeling of dissatisfaction with a lot of questions I had just being left unanswered, like with Neon Genesis Evangelion's ending but to a greater extent. I didn't really like Ergo Proxy as well despite its cult status. It started out pretty strong and with a good premise, but the entire middle and most of the end of the show was just littered with one-off episodes that contributed nothing to the plot that started to make me feel disinterested and wonder where the main plot even went. It didn't help as well that I didn't really enjoy the big reveal and found it to be a bit lame. I also really disliked JoJo's Bizarre adventure and a couple others, but I've already rambled on long enough lol
Aug 11, 2020 8:31 PM
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it was Toradora for me, I enjoyed the last few episodes a lot, but for the most part, I found it very predictable, and personally tsunderes are not my thing.
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Food Wars I just couldn't get into it, each episode basically the same, and I know other shows can be like this, but it finds a way to work. This didn't.

Silent Voice, maybe my expectations were too high, but it is highly rated, and it's not like it's bad, but it just was nowhere near as good as I thought it would be.
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I definitely have a few controversial opinions about some anime

  • Evangelion
  • Gurren Lagann
  • No Game No Life
  • Youjo Senko
  • Promare
  • Kanata no Astra
  • Konosuba

All of these are quite highly rated (8+), yet I very much did not enjoy these (all 3 or lower for me)

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NamikazeHime said:
CuteAssTiger said:


Well luckily everything else besides spilling blood on some Lolis also contributes making it a groundbreaking masterpiece

Yeah it does. It makes it a regular mahou shojo.


It really sounds like you haven't seen an anime when you call the deconstruction of a genre a regular member of the genre

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it was darling in franxx for me. i think its overrated for the "waifu zero two"
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my hero academia - mc is crybaby and get power by eating hair...i couldn't rate above 5+

3gatsu no lion - unfunny comedy and boring .

reincarnated as slime - 1st ep 1st scene was better than the whole ep.
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this is going to piss off a LOT of people, but I tried, and I failed many times to enjoy JoJo, my friends all bully me for this many times .... maybe I will try again in a few years, but I just don't really click with the art style and the constant fighting
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Psycho Pass (Dropped)
3-gatsu no Lion (Dropped)
Monster (Dropped)
Shinsekai Yori (Dropped)
Akagami no Shirayuki-hime (Dropped)
Dr. Stone (Dropped)
Claymore (Dropped)
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Dropped)
Ghost Hunt (Dropped)
Tsuki ga Kirei (Dropped)
Shingeki no Kyojin (completed season one; dropped season two)
Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! (On Hold)
Spice and Wolf season two (Completed)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Completed)

Psycho Pass because it's style over substance. Around 11 episodes in its plot felt very thin and superficial to me not justifying the grandeur of its premise/presentation and its characters uninteresting archetypes. This is the standard go-to "accessible" cyberpunk from what I've noticed since of its ratings and legacy, but it's very hollow and more like paint by numbers cyberpunk-lite rather than constructing a compelling novel story from the ground up. It doesn't do the hard ground work but just references everything else.

3-gatsu no Lion because I wasn't a fan of the comedy and after Shinji and Eva I'm just really put off depressed main characters which don't have another compelling or interesting feature about them to make me care or be interested about their despondency/self-loathing/anxiety/internalized servility.

Monster because I was fine with the show being a thriller, a horror, a medical drama, or any combination of the above and the first 12 episodes or so were fantastic, but then it kept changing focus every three or four episodes to more and more side characters and there's been very very few anime or stories generally (I can only think of one anime which qualifies) which made me care about such a large ensemble cast. I honestly ideally prefer two main characters and four to five at most and even though I know and can tell it's well written so all the side characters and tales will connect thematically and have a point either in the direct action or symbolically by its end, it still doesn't make me that interested (for now anyway) to keep watching a longer show of countless side characters and constantly shifting focus. There's something I also find a little irritating about the tell don't show aspect of the show surrounding Johan and the sort of quasi-low fantasy mystique surrounding him and his omnipotence - it's either poorly explained or left unexplained and even if it's explained more later, it doesn't make watching it repeatedly enjoyable in the meantime. A longer show has to have enough to make me enjoy it while I'm actually watching (Inuyasha, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu, Nana, etc. of those I've seen) rather than just kind of tolerating it whilst waiting for a payoff later.

Shinsekai Yori because the premise was fascinating but I can already kind of tell three episodes in that the characters are a little too plain plot devices and won't be interesting to me as they just feel like instruments of the story. It's a shame because it's always recommended on MAL and elsewhere alongside Higurashi and Shiki, two of my all-time favorite anime ever and both in my top 10, but with both of those I felt immersed, gripped, and invested within like the first five minutes of the very first episode.

Akagami no Shirayuki-hime because it just feels a little too milquetoast Shoujo romance with characters doing what they do because the plot demands it and moves them along in textbook fashion rather than feeling like free agents and characterization seems poor and lacking and goofy.

Dr. Stone because I both love post-apocalyptic anime and always wanted to see one set in the prehistoric Jurassic period or any age of dinosaurs and this feels close to it because of the doomsday event and returning the few humans left to a primitive state + overgrown flora/fauna, but the main character and his 10,000% is a little too obnoxious for me and it's a little too spinning wheels classic Shounen tropey to me, which I don't necessarily mind if I care enough about any of the characters, but here I didn't.

Claymore because with its medieval European aesthetic and recommendation it almost seems like it could hold a handle to Berserk for a second, but its characters seem to suck and not really develop meaningfully and I thought I could get used to at least seeing how the two main traveling pair pan out, but then it commits the cardinal sin and my biggest pet peeve in anime and storytelling generally and changes focus for flashbacks and/or more random characters who are flat.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann because although I'm not a huge mecha fan generally (I wouldn't count it as a least favorite genre; it's just not a favorite and something I don't go out of my way to seek out, but don't actively shy away from it either), if there is something which sounds unique or compelling in the premise I'll give it a shot, but after the first episode I could tell this would just be way too loud, zany, "cartoonish" for the type of show I was looking for.

Ghost Hunt because I'm tired of typical Shoujo cliches of main heroines with some unexplained love interest for a bland rude pretty boy and the premise of paranormal investigators was interesting, but it was both too episodic and not capitalized upon fully and then later also derailed by the main character's annoying antics and dumb crush and the other main character's obnoxious rude bishounen persona.

Tsuki ga Kirei because I don't mind slow at all and often favor it, so I was a big fan of the pacing, a big fan of the art style which seemed storybook to me, and I could already tell the music would be good because of its composer - it was overall a quality production. But its romance is just a little too plain Jane/milquetoast/vanilla and simplistic for me since I like more transgressive stuff than the mostly flawless typical boy meets girl middle school romance.

Shingeki no Kyojin - There isn't a single main character I find interesting - the usual always yelling/angry/angsty main character (Eren) annoys me and though it kept switching to show other characters and their struggles, I didn't feel particularly pulled in by any of them either. Also, at least in season two, unnecessary stupid cliffhangers to inflate maximum hype every episode, including many false cliffhangers, which were then either dropped or with some anticlimactic addressing the next episode, and minutes of padding recap every episode. Felt like a lot of style over substance.

Eizouken because it's very interesting and fresh to have an anime about actually producing anime, even - nay, maybe especially from the perspective of low budget independent student creators, but the plot seemed a little too episodic and every dilemma wrapped up too quickly without any real drama, stakes, or tension so it reminded me of some of the plainer American cartoons rather than a proper serial, which for that short a run doesn't allow me to get invested in characters either who were just okay. Felt kind of by the book and not really doing something as exciting or revolutionary with a great premise as I may have hoped. I will still finish this one though since it's a short series with currently only one season.

Spice and Wolf season two - Although I liked the first season, love the premise, and generally like the medieval old German/west European aesthetic and mythological feel and Holo and Kraft Lawrence are not my favorite main characters ever but still decent, I find Spice and Wolf as a whole a little overrated, even the first season, but this season is massively so. It's a gigantic waste of time, rehashing the same conversations and banter and undeserved feelings of inadequacy and unrequited love justified by nothing shown on screen, and none of it is as charming, witty, or endearing the second time around or how people make it seem. It wastes the entire season on some of the lowest rung bullshit in anime about some dumb misunderstanding because one person simply could have told the other something basic and simple and didn't for no good reason. And a bunch of mini-arcs and side characters which are unpleasant and uninteresting. And it's made all the more egregious by the fact that this was their last season since 2009 with no third season in the foreseeable future and they squandered it on this nonsense and ended on a cliffhanger to boot.

Only minor saving grace was more European-inspired architecture, the bird deity, and I like the basic 2000s art style well enough (and more than today some of the designs I find sterile/clinical and overly sleek). When I think back to how much this season displeased me and how much disgust I felt that it did nothing of consequence for either the story or characters it seems like even more of a slap in the face and a 4 rating doesn't seem low enough. It drags Spice and Wolf down as a whole in my eyes and makes the first season worse in retrospect, which should never happen.

Neon Genesis Evangelion - This anime is the poster child for what I mean when I say a 5 or 6 rated series for me doesn't mean plain or mediocre. This anime is anything but plain and mediocre. It contains a duality in that there are many aspects about it I both love and hate. Its influence on anime in the 25 years since is worthy and impressive. One of the best OPs ever, great animation and art style, great premise, great fight choreography and designs of the bio-mechs, some quirky and interesting characters like Rei/Gendo/Misato (and how many anime have a penguin mascot as their animal of choice?), a feeling of grandiose scale and I love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic works as well as its incorporation of some psychological themes and dialogue.

So why? I didn't mind the transition from apocalyptic mecha war series to more of internally-focused psychological drama in the latter half, but didn't at all appreciate how it was done at the total expense, ditching and outright disrespect of its overall narrative (yes, I'm referring to the last two episodes and End of Evangelion both, which was a little too abstract/avant-garde for me to feel like a proper conclusion to the story in the way it was set up throughout the first half of the series' run) - it seemed like a total disrespect, disregard, and figurative "Fuck you!" to the audience and I was not amused or impressed.

I also loathe Shinji and Asuka both as main characters - my two least favorite anime characters in anything of all time. As well as the meaningless and shallow shoehorned-in gaudy pseudo-religious iconography and false symbolism for exoticism's sake alone.




I understand your reasons very well, and there are shows that I dislike at first like you too (Shingeki no Kyojin, Gurren Lagaan,...) But I must insist you to watch these shows because they are amazing later on:

+ Shingeki no Kyojin: the mystery in this show is masterfully unfold in later episodes and it has one of the most amazing episode in anime I've seen til date

+Claymore: while I agree the anime have problems comparing to the manga but it is still an awesome show about fighting monster and you can read the ending in the manga. It's very sastisfying.

+3-gatsu no Lion: the way season 2nd dealing with bullying is extremely great. And it's not just dealing with the depression of the main character but also curing it.

+ And finally Monster: of course the story is focused on different characters since the story is so big. But finally it connected pretty well.
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CuteAssTiger said:
NamikazeHime said:

Yeah it does. It makes it a regular mahou shojo.


It really sounds like you haven't seen an anime when you call the deconstruction of a genre a regular member of the genre

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That's not even about taste or preference.
Your statement is objectively wrong

I've actually seen it, and I think that entire concept of 'darker mahou shojo'is nothing really special. I wasn't amazed by the series nor I liked it more because of that darker tone. I'm trying to say that if you take that blood out you literally have just a regular mahou shojo and nothing more.

Madoka wasn't even the first destruction of that particular genre so I have no idea why people look at it as something new.
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Steins;Gate - I still am at a loss what people like about it. I think the premise is interesting, and everyone keeps praising it like crazy, so I really tried to make it work for me, I watched analysis videos and read reviews and everything to "get it", but I just can't, no matter how hard I try. It's bland and boring to me and the characters are obnoxious.

Gintama - it's not funny to me and I don't enjoy slice of life-y anime. I was told to watch the more serious arcs but they didn't click with me either because it's still the same flavour of humor/parody/etc. that I didn't enjoy in the first place.

Jojo - It's really unpleasant to look at. That's it. Also, the memeing fanbase is annoying as hell. I don't really mind the story or characters (though they weren't interesting to me either, but okay for an "I'm bored and have nothing to do" watch), but the visuals put me off so much.

One Punch Man - I found it simply boring. There's no stakes (for obvious reasons) and of course that's the point but...there's nothing else to make up for that lack. Maybe I'm being unfair because I dropped it pretty fast and it maybe got better later on, but at the same time, with a concept like that, I feel like the series has to manage to show me why it is worth watching a few episodes in, since it can't promise the excitement of other shows.

Clannad/After Story - Overly emotional, sad just for the sake of being sad, I just felt manipulated. But at least I can see WHY people like it, even though it didn't work for me.
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One of my least favourite anime is Code Geass, despite its MAL average.
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Hyouka: The art is gorgeous, but that's where my praise ends. I was incredibly bored while watching it. I honestly have no idea how I managed to sit through all 20+ episodes.

Oregairu season 2: I hated how they toned down the comedy for drama. Also I can't stand any of the newly introduced characters.
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