| V4: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1236487&show=0 Please explain your choices and/or discuss other choices. This is not a simple listing thread. Listing posts will be deleted. Secondly, trolling and insulting other users for whatever reason will not be tolerated. And lastly, trim quote towers and or spoil them when they're a full screen size. |
CkanJan 17, 2015 1:12 AM
| Someone's gotta pop the cherry I dunno if I'm the man for the job because I don't find many things overrated that aren't repeated ad nauseum and I don't like treating underwatched as underrated but here we go (wow run on sentence). I'll try not to write a mini review I guess... Patlabor 2 - underwatched/rated Despite a generally positive reception in the anime world the Patlabor franchise is pretty much ignored on MAL. Though the same can be said for a lot of mecha, its name and brainchild(ren) carries enough weight that it still somewhat surprises me. While other entries in the franchise blended police drama, mostly realistic robots. and comedy together this movies goes full on serious politic thriller. I like to think this is the movie that set the groundwork for the type of stuff Mamoru Oshii would move onto with both GitS and Jin-Roh after this. The plot can be a bit slow, but is very realistic in its approach. The animation quality is off the charts and in my opinion (even if marginally) surpasses Akira and quite clearly bridges the gap between Akira and Ghost in the Shell in that regarded. The helicopter attack scene is especially an example of this. Sound wise it has some great voice acting and music that sets a good atmosphere throughout. I think it stands alone pretty well, but I'm inclined to recommend the franchise as a whole, but either way this doesn't get enough love. If no one has anything to say about this specifically that's fine let's just stop being shy, friends >__>. The seal is broken your worries of fucking up the first post are over I have fucked it up myself. |
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| Tanoshii Muumin Ikka (aka the Moomins) - Underwatched/rated While fairly popular in Europe, the Moomins have been unable to break into the American mainstream, and is criminally underwatched on MAL. It's a show which's main demographic is kids, but there's something for everyone, because of it's quirky characters, masterfully constructed world, and the sheer variety in activites and trouble the Moomins and their friends get into. It's about the daily lives of the eponymous Moomins and the inhabitants of the Moomin valley. One episode they might help an invisible child become visible again, another they might go on a sailing trip to the Hattifatteners Island, another the Groke, nightmare fuel for every young child, might come visit the Moomin valley. The animation quality is decent, but nothing to write home about. The voice acting in the original Swedish dub is great (Moomin was animated in Japan but is based on Finnish author Tove Jansson's books, she was part of a Swedish speaking minority). The soundtrack is often very happy-go-lucky, but there are a few chill-inducing tracks (The Groke's theme comes to mind), and it can also become very soothing and give off Mushishi-vibes. All in all, it is a great show that can be enjoyed by everyone. |
kokkoderrisch said: Tanoshii Muumin Ikka (aka the Moomins) - Underwatched/rated While fairly popular in Europe, the Moomins have been unable to break into the American mainstream, and is criminally underwatched on MAL. It's a show which's main demographic is kids, but there's something for everyone, because of it's quirky characters, masterfully constructed world, and the sheer variety in activites and trouble the Moomins and their friends get into. It's about the daily lives of the eponymous Moomins and the inhabitants of the Moomin valley. One episode they might help an invisible child become visible again, another they might go on a sailing trip to the Hattifatteners Island, another the Groke, nightmare fuel for every young child, might come visit the Moomin valley. The animation quality is decent, but nothing to write home about. The voice acting in the original Swedish dub is great (Moomin was animated in Japan but is based on Finnish author Tove Jansson's books, she was part of a Swedish speaking minority). The soundtrack is often very happy-go-lucky, but there are a few chill-inducing tracks (The Groke's theme comes to mind), and it can also become very soothing and give off Mushishi-vibes. All in all, it is a great show that can be enjoyed by everyone. I'm vouching for this, yeah. |
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| Sword Art Online is overrated |
mclovinballzSep 20, 2014 6:39 PM
| Well now that it's officially a club I won't horse around and just drop down underrated titles from time to time. Underrated - Gad Guard I'm really surprised by how under the radar it is with all of the veteran seiyuu that took part in it. It takes a seemingly cliche boy meets robot scenario and brings to life a story of its own. At times I forgot I was watching anime with how down to Earth it remained with what it was aiming for. It's not to say that it's mature or brilliant, but I like how it does deal with some thought provoking concepts and more adult oriented themes such as prostitution without stopping to focus on it. I also love the jazzy ost and rundown city blues atmosphere that comes along with it. |
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mclovinballz said: Sword Art Online is overrated Do you have any reason why? Of course you don't, it's a masterpiece after all. |
| kokko is such a patriot championing his countries greatest export not named Teemu Selanne |
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Kolnikov said: Don't know if I'm the only one who felt that way, because the second season of Honey and Clover is rated higher than the first one, but I just couldn't get the hype behind it. Damn, sorry hipsters, if you complain about Clannad AS, how in the world you can say this is good? Same melodrama formula, sudden emotional explosions, stupid plot points for excessive drama everywhere, characters are pretty incoherent if you compare it to the first season, its pacing is so damn slow and unnecessary that I was literally sleeping at times. It seemed that they were trying to force every kind of thing, it got ridiculously dark and "mature", and abandoned the amazing formula of the glory first season. Extremely overrated. I gave a decent score, more for the dignity of the series and the great ending. To be honest I don't remember much about s2 other than it provided a sense of closure between the unrequited loves that were the centerpiece of the story. I'll try for the sake of spurring some discussion. tl/dr: I didn't like S2 Hagu very much. The show was never excessively "dark" except the fact so I disagree with this statement. Also comparing this show to Clannad AS is plain silly. I didn't even watch it, and i think it is absurd just by being spoiled by how the show ends. Also please elaborate on incoherent characters. I literally have nothing to work with here if you don't provide examples >_>, and I don't plan on doing a full rewatch in the near future lol |
zzzeallySep 22, 2014 7:12 PM
| Aldnoah.Zero underrated. The high-level trolling in that last episode is so under appreciated. |
fst said: Aldnoah.Zero underrated. The high-level trolling in that last episode is so under appreciated. oh man i was simulwatching it with some cc members on skype and everyone was like :O........ That scene made me up my score of the show. |
hybreezy said: kokko is such a patriot championing his countries greatest export not named Teemu Selanne At least people watch Finnish animu. ᶜᵃᶰᵃᵈᵃ ᶦˢ ᶦʳʳᵉᶫᵉᵛᵃᶰᵗ |
kokkoderrisch said: hybreezy said: kokko is such a patriot championing his countries greatest export not named Teemu Selanne At least people watch Finnish animu. ᶜᵃᶰᵃᵈᵃ ᶦˢ ᶦʳʳᵉᶫᵉᵛᵃᶰᵗ child please people love Reboot, Danny Phantom, and Totally Spies |
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| Totally Spies is about as anime as it gets. |
| I think I'd like to see more deaths of characters I actually care for (in anime). I suppose the 'caring' might be my issue here. |
| Now and Then is underrated. Seriously it needs more praise. Needs to be more known. |
Zergneedsfood said: I mean, what's the point of a good character if you don't kill them before the end?Ckan said: Hahaha. Always seems like the big issue. I think there are quite a few of my favorite anime where I lose characters dear to my heart. ;___;I think I'd like to see more deaths of characters I actually care for (in anime). I suppose the 'caring' might be my issue here. Try Katanagatari by the way Ckan, since we're on the topic. Not sure if it's your thing but it'd easily make top 10 anime for me. I lub it Watching Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi after someone mentioned it. I feel like if the pacing wasn't so weird and the story feeling so disjointed it could actually be really good. Even so, I feel like people should give it a try. I think people might be turned off by the moe moe character looking from the cover, but it has an interesting concept that's really only hampered by how weirdly they tell the story. Give it three episodes, I'd say, since I think episode three hits home. Katanagatari's great. I hardly remember a detail of it, but I always seem to drag myself into debates over the ending and such. Kamisama Inai is actually something I'm planning to get around to 'soonish'. Soonish being anytime within the next two three years. -Klad- said: B-b-but the artstyle! Hideous.Now and Then is underrated. Seriously it needs more praise. Needs to be more known. |
-Klad- said: Now and Then is underrated. Seriously it needs more praise. Needs to be more known. Do you have any raisins why you think it is? |
Zergneedsfood said: fst said: Not really. I think people who have seen Code Geass, the first episode of Ga Rei Zero, and read/watched GoT probably wouldn't say that it was high-level trolling.Aldnoah.Zero underrated. The high-level trolling in that last episode is so under appreciated. I don't know about the others, but Code Geass never had any pretext of being anything other than what it was. When you have CLAMP character designs, you can't hide the camp. Aldnoah was supposed to "surpass Gundam" or something. It's that sense of subtlety where you don't know that it's going to be like Guilty Crown until you're in too far to stop that makes it high level trolling. Ckan said: Totally Spies is about as anime as it gets. It really is. Zergneedsfood said: Watching Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi after someone mentioned it. I feel like if the pacing wasn't so weird and the story feeling so disjointed it could actually be really good. Even so, I feel like people should give it a try. I think people might be turned off by the moe moe character looking from the cover, but it has an interesting concept that's really only hampered by how weirdly they tell the story. Give it three episodes, I'd say, since I think episode three hits home. The pacing is awful and it's just all over the place, but it has interesting ideas and very nice visuals. |
Ckan said: B-b-but the artstyle! Hideous. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. You are simply too good in deceieving people in the almighty internet! Can you teach me? Don't judge a book by its cover, is what I'd say. But then I re-thought. "What do you expect by a 99' anime" kokkoderrisch said: -Klad- said: Now and Then is underrated. Seriously it needs more praise. Needs to be more known. Do you have any raisins why you think it is? Its still not top 200, or even higher. |
JD2411 said: nobunaga concerto is underrated. aside from a few pacing issues and badly animated action scenes I can't find anything wrong with it I find the series with Concerto's theme pretty interesting, Nobunaga no Chef is also a manga with the same concept, it's fairly long to get an anime adaptation, but that hasn't been rumored yet, sadly =( |
| Aaand Zankyou no Trainwreck finished by indulging in sappy music and last minute deaths of our heroic bland protagonists. Meh... Hanayamata is a solid moe drama if you want something from this season. Nobunaga Concerto was too rushed for its own good, and I didn't get much of the delicious period drama :> Glad to be back tho. |
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| Meh, Now and Then had some really bad characters which completely destroyed any of the drama scenes. They felt like they were written for a kids series but the show dealt with mature themes causing it to feel disjointed and awkward. Grave of the Fireflies is my go-to war tragedy. |
FloatsBoats said: Meh, Now and Then had some really bad characters which completely destroyed any of the drama scenes. They felt like they were written for a kids series but the show dealt with mature themes causing it to feel disjointed and awkward. Grave of the Fireflies is my go-to war tragedy. Now and Then's characters were realistic.. All of them except Shu. His existence was the light in the end of tunnel. He's just a shonen-like character, but I surprisingly enjoyed his character. |
FloatsBoats said: Meh, Now and Then had some really bad characters which completely destroyed any of the drama scenes. They felt like they were written for a kids series but the show dealt with mature themes causing it to feel disjointed and awkward. Grave of the Fireflies is my go-to war tragedy. Grave of the Fireflies is overrated af. The MC is just badly written. |
| Unfortunately Hanayamata just doesn't do it for me. |
| shit when was this made? nice to see it back though |
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JD2411 said: kokkoderrisch said: >Not realising that the MC is a microcosmGrave of the Fireflies is overrated af. The MC is just badly written. Are you implying that the Japanese would rather have their families killed than to swallow their pride? They're even more pathetic than I thought. |
| I still haven't watched Grave of the Fireflies. I'm saving it for an occasion when I can watch it with a bunch of easily emotional people who don't realize what kind of film it is. I want to see how many of them cry, and then laugh at them for it. There's nothing wrong about that, right? |
fst said: I still haven't watched Grave of the Fireflies. I'm saving it for an occasion when I can watch it with a bunch of easily emotional people who don't realize what kind of film it is. I want to see how many of them cry, and then laugh at them for it. There's nothing wrong about that, right? Nah, lol. |
JD2411 said: kokkoderrisch said: that's the message the film is trying to convey. It's a criticism of Japanese attitudes and values during WW2.Are you implying that the Japanese would rather have their families killed than to swallow their pride? They're even more pathetic than I thought. You mean besides all the other Japanese people in the movie TELLING the MC to apologize? Or all the other Japanese people not being lazy and contributing to society? How can he symbolize an entire nation's attitude during WW2 when every other Japanese character in the movie isn't a lazy asshole. The movie fails in its attempt to convey any sort of logical message and all you're left with is an irredeemable douchebag main character. |
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| New season has arrived and an already underrated title has appeared: Karen Senki! MAL doesn't seem to understand what spectacle and cheesy action means, yet they love HS DxD for its ecchi harem jinks! |
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| G-Reco can't even scrape a 7 rating while F/SN prologue is already knocking on the top 30 despite having a whole lot of nothing. Why can't the love be shared >.> |
| We should all add obnoxious Gundam things to our names like those filthy F/SN "priests" to show them up |
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| Sounds like a plan, but what do we add? |
| I have no idea >__> also guarantee F/SN is jumping to the top ten ala Fairy Tail did after first episode airs |
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| They're already knocking on top 30 though it may have broken through by now. I suggest we all change our avatars to somebody getting Bright slapped as a comment on the madness of it all. |
hybreezy said: I have no idea >__> also guarantee F/SN is jumping to the top ten ala Fairy Tail did after first episode airs it was in the top 10 before it aired earlier this week lol |
| ...so since pretty much everything has started airing now, what's underrated? No point talking about what's the most overrated since F/SN wins that crown regardless of it's actual quality. |
| i felt obligated to give fsn a 10 from the animation alone :3 the hype is real. I wonder what the score is going to be when it finishes airing. |
hybreezy said: id join in on that if it werent for the fact i wouldnt be able to control my tomino bitchingWe should all add obnoxious Gundam things to our names like those filthy F/SN "priests" to show them up |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| Koi Kaze is underrated and should really be watched if you want to experience an incest relationship that takes itself seriously. It's an eerily slow paced anime with a good portrayal of how differing from the norm affects peoples lives. |
fst said: GARO and Shingeki no Bahamut, hands down!...so since pretty much everything has started airing now, what's underrated? Karen Senki as stupid over the top CGI action, Inou Battle wa Nichijou for Chuunibyo with actual superpowers. Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso for romance. Selector Spread WIXOSS for more Mari Okadrama as in cute girls doing cute suffering with yuri. Donten ni Warau if you've been missing Bleach. Everything else I'm following out of curiosity mostly. |
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T3hSource said: shingeki thankfully is getting some love here(though sadly it looks like the oppossite in japan where it matters) but i think garo needs more love, its a really fun series so far and its definetly got the potential to be A: a really fun adventure and B: an actually interesting storyline especially cause i really love the whole fall of royalty due to corruption type stories and cant wait to see how the story progresses when the 2 mains meet the prince, Also god damn is herman just the definition of coolfst said: GARO and Shingeki no Bahamut, hands down!...so since pretty much everything has started airing now, what's underrated? shingeki (unsurprisingly) is gonna be a 1 cour series and that one will probably work out fine with the shorter length, but garo i really hope is a 2 cour cause i see alot of potential in the story that probably cant be completed in a shorter time |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
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