| You guys ever tried watching an anime thinking it was gonna be so good but it was just really bad/boring, but for the sake of the anime you trooped on? It struck me after I binged Arjuna, thinking it was gonna be this great story about the MC gaining powers to defeat these demons and restore balance with some weird love polygon but it turned out to be some crap about nature and mystic swami ideals then I went through my list and found more anime I cant believe i finished, just waiting for it to get better but never did
I'm not one of those list strugglers that MUST complete every series I start regardless if I enjoy it or w.e. cuz some shows are just really really bad, but have you guys done something similar and if you did what anime(or manga too) :] |
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| I know there are plenty, but one that comes to mind is Joker Game. The premise and idea sounds awesome, then you watch it and realise that it is a really boring show. I really wanted to like it but I just could not enjoy it. Dropped it after 5 episodes or something like that. |
| @Tompa I was also going to say Joker Game. I majored in history in college, so obviously history is my primary interest. I also like espionage shows a lot, and of course anime. So I thought "This is right up my alley!" But it just didn't come close to what I wanted it to be. I didn't think it was as bad as you, but it was totally mediocre and I barely finished it. |
| Not sure if it counts but mine is Akuma no Riddle. I watched it back when it was airing and was actually really enjoying it, but the last episode ruined pretty much all the good will I had for it. It's less 'I wanted it to be good' and more 'it was good and then it screwed everything up'. |
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| .hack//Sign. In spite of potentially cool premise (kid stuck in a video game for some reason), the only good thing about the show was its soundtrack. It was otherwise very boring. Any part of Slayers that is about just Lina and Naga just isn't as good as the main show. Maybe Gourry is just funnier than Naga. Gate Keepers 21 suffers from the same problem (putting grimdark and realism where it doesn't belong) as post-soviet entertainment. I hate that. I guess I can name some more, but I'm too sleepy now. KazuyaKujo said: It struck me after I binged Arjuna, thinking it was gonna be this great story about the MC gaining powers to defeat these demons and restore balance with some weird love polygon but it turned out to be some crap about nature and mystic swami ideals I liked it for the very same reasons. Its mystic part agrees with what I know about this stuff very well. |
| Toradora... not even want to explain why |
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| @RP59 Did it get better later or was it about the same throughout the whole show? |
| I hate when a friend recommends one anime saying that it's good, then you watch it with every hope that you are going to like it and in the end you don't. It's really frustrating, because I wanted to talk with my friend and say that it was amazing and stuff. |
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| @CairAndros yeah I agree I wished Gintama was more story driven than slapstick; I didn't even bother after the first few episodes And Soul Eater too - I forgot I even saw a few episodes. @Lovaloo - me either I keep getting stuck on episode 10-11 of Higurashi because it just totally flips the story. I know it has to do with their psychological everything isn't what it seems trope but I just keep finding better stuff I like to watch lol |
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DraTreu4 said: I hate when a friend recommends one anime saying that it's good, then you watch it with every hope that you are going to like it and in the end you don't. It's really frustrating, because I wanted to talk with my friend and say that it was amazing and stuff. ikr lol and then they're like "did u see that new episode" or "are u caught up yet" lol |
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| Senki Zesshou Symphogear G, the second entry in the Symphogear series. I wanted to like it since I extremely enjoyed the first season, but was majorly disappointed and left frustrated. (Had a great soundtrack though, as expected.) A promising start in the beginning that was quickly brought down by the most annoying, god awful antagonist ever (every time he appeared my enjoyment was destroyed) and several of the secondary characters' completely illogical, stupid reasoning throughout the show. Also: Plot armor, plot devices, bad pacing, and weird direction. |
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| Spoilers here x) I would like re zero if the mc chose Rem i would like nisekoi if the mc chose onodera I would love twgok if the mc chose tenri or elsie I would love food wars if erina didn't exist ... megumi <3 |
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tragedydesu said: So Basically you wanted the MC to have Trash Waifu taste...Spoilers here x) I would like re zero if the mc chose Rem i would like nisekoi if the mc chose onodera I would love twgok if the mc chose tenri or elsie I would love food wars if erina didn't exist ... megumi <3 |
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| Serial Experiments Lain shit was way to boring for me But i must say Lain was very adorable in that bear suit  |
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KazuyaKujo said: DraTreu4 said: I hate when a friend recommends one anime saying that it's good, then you watch it with every hope that you are going to like it and in the end you don't. It's really frustrating, because I wanted to talk with my friend and say that it was amazing and stuff. ikr lol and then they're like "did u see that new episode" or "are u caught up yet" lol Yea lol... But there's always the good ones that both of us can say that they are good, at least in my case. |
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| I think Joker Game could have been a lot better if the group of spies was trimmed down. Instead of switching leads every 1-2 episodes, they could focus on 3 main spies at 4-5 episodes each. |
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| Rainbow: Nisha, just a bunch of retarded kids making retarded decisions every single episode. |
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| Guilty Crown 😭 Production wise it was a great show and I absolutely adore the music. Really enjoyed the first few eps but then it just got worse and worse until it became unbearable and the ending was horribley unsatisfactory. Honestly if it had even a half decent plot it would have been one of my favourite animes. |
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| KUZU NO friggin' HONKAI Realizing that I don't like it somehow hurt a little 'cause I think I just got the "wrong" mindset for it, lol |
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| Tokyo Ghoul. My friends had recommended me it and way over hyped it. I had heard so much about the manga that I assumed it would be great and was looking forward to what I thought we be one of my favorites! But it was so meh. |
| "It's the same sense of loss I feel when a slice-of-life series ends... The despair of knowing that their lives will still continue on, yet I won't be able to see it..." ~Hajime Tsunashi from Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken |
| ^this omg I was so excited because of all the hype and it was pretty average I also really wanted to like cowboy bebop because everyone loves cowboy bebop but it was just boring imo don't kill me |
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| I really wanted Little Bastards Busters to be good, since Key Arts did a great job on Kanon and Clannad which were face smashingly great. But it was utter sh*t, no effort into properly adapting it to the medium called anime. It felt like an animated LN. Fck. Now I am pissed. |
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Lovaloo said: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni has a very high MAL rating and reviews that praise it as the greatest horror anime. I didn't like it at all. The characters are forgettable stereotypes, the animation is inconsistent and usually quite bad, the character designs are unappealing, the murder simulation premise is cool, but gets boring after the first few arcs, and the ending struck me as a convenient cop-out. I wanted to like it and I sat through the entire thing hoping I would, but it was just a boring slog. While I don't come close to hating the 1997 adaptation of Berserk or Steins;Gate, I think they're both a bit underwhelming. Maybe they're just overhyped. hard agree, the concept for higurashi is cool but wasn't... used... at all and the characters are quite literally some of the worst ever created OT: aku no hana i liked the idea and the artstyle is interesting but the pettiness of the drama, psychologically uninteresting characters, and total squeamishness of protag killed it |
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| Ironically it's SAO for me. I really liked the theme and starting point of the plot but oh well. Takamura-sama said: Toradora... not even want to explain why I wonder what did you expected from that show. |
| Fuuka. I had really high hopes. In the end, |
| Man, I have to stop falling in love with fictitious high school girls'...moms! |
| Bleach for me. I loved everything before The Quincy War, but the last arc is just bad. I can't even bring myself to complete it. Same goes for the Great Ninja War in Naruto. Why must great manga be butchered by its creators, I will never know. |
| Re:Zero, boring and repetitive... that MC didn't help either. Occultic;Nine, I had such high hopes for this one... it was kinda disappointing. |
| Wolf's Rain. My final score for the series is a lukewarm 6.5/10, which means it's just pretty okay, but when a series has the legendary pedigree of Studio Bones + Yoko Kanno + Maaya Sakamoto and features such a rich and breathtaking setting, the fact that this series didn't rock me out of my socks is a crime and a shame. |
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| FMAB, it didn't make the same impact as its predecessor the legendary FMA Outlaw star, i thought it'd be as great as the great Cowboy bebop Lain, as much as i hate to say it, but it was boring as hell Hakugei densetsu, that was a nostalgia bust for me |
Lord_Sithis said: Don't say that!! 😢 i started watching it lately 😝Shoujo Kakumei Utena. Was super boring and repetitive and it's part of the reason why I no longer watch anime as frequently as I did before. |
| Soul Eater. Loved the art style, but couldn't get past the first three episodes. Kill la Kill. Wanted to like it for its over-the-top action, but meh... Overlord. Everything about it seemed like something I'd like, but ended up dropping it. There's probably more, lol. |
CairAndros said: Hmm...that's a tough question. I kinda wish Shun stayed alive in Shinsekai Yori. Satoru was a bit of a snot nosed prick. Steins;Gate had a lot of potential. What could have been an intellectual show was reduced to nothing but a dating sim with time travel elements and Groundhog Day. I wanted to like Gintama, but it didn't focus a lot on story as I expected it to be. Fate/Zero had a lot going for it, but it reduced itself to being the eroge it is. Code Geass had a lot of potential, but had so much shitty filler to begin with. Soul Eater had a lot of potential, but I could not get past the amount of ecchi and the semi-terrible dub. Arslan Senki and Kingdom could have been amazing if they kept the CGI to a minimum. At least Kingdom 2 is our saving grace. I don't know about you, but there was a certain beauty with the Arslan Senki OVA that I couldn't find in the anime adaptation. The character designs were much more polished compared to the generic Arakawa design that I had to deal with in Arslan. The ABe trio could've been better if the animation were more polished and the stories were more concise and better written. I waited 4 goddamn years for a Little Witch Academia adaptation and it looks like it's not doing too well. A lot of Gundam shows could've been great, especially the newer ones. It's a shame, though. Code geass doesn't have fillers. So you're probably getting confuse on something else. |
Blarey said: Bleach for me. I loved everything before The Quincy War, but the last arc is just bad. I can't even bring myself to complete it. Same goes for the Great Ninja War in Naruto. Why must great manga be butchered by its creators, I will never know. for me it was that zampakuto arc and the ending for me was alright it coulda been better |
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| 91 days was quite disappointing and so was Kemono no Souja Erin, but for very different reasons that I don't feel like elaborating on, because that would bore me. |
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| I agree about Magi. The first few episodes make it look like some awesome Indiana Jones-style adventure series, but the minute the drama kicks in during the later arcs it just becomes yet another magic bs fighting shonen (tbh magic bs fighting shonen can be awesome but in this case it just wasn't). I still liked all the more light-hearted parts of it, but the rest drag it down for me. |
| Ergo Proxy - Since is the standard "if you liked texhnolyze..." Got many wasted proxy-battles and one of the laughablest endings in history instead. Still had some nice "character episodes" in midst and a nice setting, but still... And probably Monster - It felt so dragged out and Dr. Tenma's was one of my most disliked main characters.. |
KazuyaKujo said: Blarey said: Bleach for me. I loved everything before The Quincy War, but the last arc is just bad. I can't even bring myself to complete it. Same goes for the Great Ninja War in Naruto. Why must great manga be butchered by its creators, I will never know. for me it was that zampakuto arc and the ending for me was alright it coulda been better That was filler, but I agree it could have been better. Zanpakatou arc wasn't bad, I actually liked seeing the human forms of all the zanpakatou since the only one we saw before was Zangetsu. Ryujin Jakka was supposed to be the strongest zanpakatou, but Muramasa bs made it more filler-like coming out of nowhere as a random OP spirit capable of beating head captain Yamamoto. Really if yama just used his bankai, everything would have been over. |
| Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann I enjoyed first half, it was unique and crazy. Second half was boring and they overdone with transformations. I know it was symbolic, but it was too boring. |
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sasalx said: Ironically it's SAO for me. I really liked the theme and starting point of the plot but oh well. Takamura-sama said: Toradora... not even want to explain why I wonder what did you expected from that show. Everyone kept saying it was a good romance and I expected a second clannad. and I got a worse anime than Pupa |
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