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Apr 12, 11:47 AM
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The title says it all. What is an opinion on anime/any anime that you have that other people would say is awful? Hell it could even be a take you yourself feel conflicted over if you want.

Mine would have to be that any romance anime that goes over 2 cours/seasons without the obvious couple getting together is a massive waste of time. I'd much rather see a couple together and figuring stuff out in the relationship than the will-they-won't-they situations lasting 3 seasons or them trying to figure out their feelings for a whole season. Honorable mention goes to The Promised Neverland Season 1 being kind of a mess already before Season 2 even happens (a fun to watch mess but a mess nonetheless).
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Apr 12, 12:05 PM
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99.99% of anime is trash except a very tiny percentage that is so good that makes up for all the rest.
Apr 12, 12:11 PM
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Cowboy Bebop is fine, but i don't consider it 10/10 greatest anime of all time

Lucoa isn't problematic and her scenes with Shouta are actually hilarious.

4Kids was a great company and their censoring of dubs was necessary because their series aired on local tv and not prime time network. They had great casts and for the most part, treated their anime like special series to become franchises, not just dubs
My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine.

We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by
Apr 12, 12:12 PM
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Genma Wars is a legit good Sci fi fantasy story. I think the darker elements scare away most of the positive reviews. I think the average anime viewer is a bit of a snowflake.
Apr 12, 12:12 PM
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Every anime decade is better than the previous one (2020s > 2010s > 2000s and so on)
Apr 12, 12:22 PM
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School Days is a misunderstood masterpiece.
Apr 12, 12:22 PM
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Onimai? Read it!

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I just can’t deal with anime anymore where the MC whether it’s a guy or girl starts off weak or power-less, gets bullied by everyone and then ends up super strong by the end Wistoria: Wand and Sword really confirmed for me that I need to stay away from these kinds of shows for a while

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Apr 12, 12:35 PM
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Sound is the most important part of anime.
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Nefregar said:
School Days is a misunderstood masterpiece.

I admire how it adapted the most batshit parts of the VN to be fair
Apr 12, 12:38 PM

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Gatekeeping is a good thing and keeps virtue signalers who cry about "problematic" stuff from ruining our hobbies like they ruined western gaming and comic books.
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There are animation from other countries that are better than anime that comes out nowadays.
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I think most anime is fairly cringy to watch. I can hardly think of any non-cringy anime shows. Best to spend less time watching anime, and doing something else instead.
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Gatekeeping is a good thing and keeps virtue signalers who cry about "problematic" stuff from ruining our hobbies like they ruined western gaming and comic books.
@LamiaWaifu Yeah I don't understand why people think they should get all the information for free like children in video games asking for handouts and for the world to bend to their will where everyone else earned their place. Arrogance infects everything, especially things that gets attention it didn't deserve, usually because of the pursuit of money over respect because they think money can buy respect in a community when it's the passion and effort to progress the subculture that garners respect.

anyway, my take on the dilution of the medium:
Because of commercialism infecting anime and turning it into a industry driven by image and marketability and not by passion, the medium has suffered and that's the reason why old anime get lower average scores to new ones even though stories are now being turned into throwaway content. Story execution isn't being valued anymore for an anime to make sales, it's just filler shows now full of bright colors to become a short trend to milk for all it's worth. Anyone can hone and refine skill for visual art, not everyone has the passion for life that animates the story in a remarkable way.
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@LamiaWaifu Yeah I don't understand why people think they should get all the information for free like children in video games asking for handouts and for the world to bend to their will where everyone else earned their place. Arrogance infects everything, especially things that gets attention it didn't deserve, usually because of the pursuit of money over respect because they think money can buy respect in a community when it's the passion and effort to progress the subculture that garners respect.

anyway, my take on the dilution of the medium:
Because of commercialism infecting anime and turning it into a industry driven by image and marketability and not by passion, the medium has suffered and that's the reason why old anime get lower average scores to new ones even though stories are now being turned into throwaway content. Story execution isn't being valued anymore for an anime to make sales, it's just filler shows now full of bright colors to become a short trend to milk for all it's worth. Anyone can hone and refine skill for visual art, not everyone has the passion for life that animates the story in a remarkable way.
@Neapollotan I lose more and more respect for the industry each year when it's just a list of lame Isekai with 30 manga chapters being adapted with the occasional gem being dropped every five years like a rare gacha.
Apr 12, 1:12 PM
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FMA 2003 >>> FMAB

The Ace Attorney anime honestly wasn't that bad of an adaptation, like a 6.53 really?

I know people love to trash these shows all the time for their artstyles and huge eyes and stuff but I personally just loved the artstyle of Clannad and Kanon.

I'm gonna be completely honest, I actually like internal monologues in anime, like when they're done right (and not interrupting things like fights or other things) I feel they can kinda develop characters and show a little bit into the mind of them and stuff, y'know?



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most Ghibli movies are a complete mess and are more interested in creating vibes than telling an engaging story.
Apr 12, 1:22 PM

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The Ghost Stories dub is not that funny. Actually, I think that the original story is a lot more interesting without all the shitty jokes the dub has, even if I don't think it's a masterpiece. I get the feeling that everyone who says the original show was shit didn't actually watch it without the dub, and they might've never even seen the show beyond random funny clip compliations.
Apr 12, 1:22 PM

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I tried to look for some worst takes in my mind but I can't find one, I guess - "every anime has rights to exist if it makes at least one person happy, even if it generally sucks" would be my take. I mean they are adaptations I dislike or weird decision made by studios [Yakusoku season 2, filler season of Kuroshitsuji and more] - but I'm not truly angry at them or filled with rage, just pure dissapointent - I guess in the end, I can't do nothing except just ignore them haha.

Also I never call a work overrated or judge it, without watching it first, when I started watching anime and this big hate on SAO was still going on, I kinda went with it - I watched SAO this summer and yeah, the second-half of first season is pretty bad and many decisions are questionable [the snails lmao], but It's not this big bad show, everyone seems to call it, It's just average and I think there's many boogeyman's in the community for no reason - but I guess that's normal.

I really started to dislike the trope in fantasy romance anime with the main lead being this dark, prince that everyone calls the worst thing in existence and then our heroine goes to meet him and he's actually nice and is keeping this facade of big bad. I saw it too many times recently and it gets so stale lmao - I mean I like them right, It's not the worst thing in the planet, but if the bad prince, was an actual bad person and a questionable ruler - this would make the plot and tension in the romance at least interesting [FOR ME], maybe there's going to be actual character development or even better there's no room to change and heroine while being his fiance would try to change his rule at least a little bit. But I guess I want some toxic character dynamics that's on me XD.

Also I don't find any anime really problematic, I mean they are decisions I kinda dislike [Ilulu design is still crazy XD] - but tbh I never cared that much, there was a point in my life, where I kinda thought that as a woman I should care more, but I kinda don't so XD.
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@Neapollotan I lose more and more respect for the industry each year when it's just a list of lame Isekai with 30 manga chapters being adapted with the occasional gem being dropped every five years like a rare gacha.
I agree as the same goes for TV and films. They cost a lot of money to produce so they just pump out a bunch of characters to make character goods for. Walk into any Suruga-ya or Mandarake and you'll see a ton of character goods no one buys that get priced down to 300yen and then probably trashed. Everything is content now and anyone that produces content paid or not are vending machines.
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FMA 2003 >>> FMAB

The Ace Attorney anime honestly wasn't that bad of an adaptation, like a 6.53 really?

I know people love to trash these shows all the time for their artstyles and huge eyes and stuff but I personally just loved the artstyle of Clannad and Kanon.

I'm gonna be completely honest, I actually like internal monologues in anime, like when they're done right (and not interrupting things like fights or other things) I feel they can kinda develop characters and show a little bit into the mind of them and stuff, y'know?



@megumeru With FMA 03 I'm so sad that stories nowadays don't take risks or really challenge the main character's and thereby the audience's moral choices the way that it uses its characters like Greed tricking Ed into seeing there's necessary evils to commit in order to mature.

Internal monologues get a really bad wrap I believe because people don't like first person perspective in writing either. When it's done terribly, it just cuts from character to character preaching to the audience. Actual good monologue is hard to come by because it's gotta be brief and meaningful and pretty much becomes the author roleplaying as the character, in which case the writer needs to have a deep understanding of the psychological build of that character, and not every character is made to have that many layers even though arguably most people are mostly the same with varying levels of self-shame, just with different attitudes.
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I gave low scores to both Serial Experiments Lain and FLCL.
If you want anything else, then... well, I really despised Vivy: Fluorite Eyes Song and to this day I'm unable to understand why the community loved something that in my head would be in the low 6.xx's here.
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I think this is my worst take in the sense that it'd be very unpopular given how many people like them at the moment, but I don't think Frieren and Maomao are very well-written characters. If they were put on a list of best written anime girls, I would heavily disagree.
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@LamiaWaifu Yeah I don't understand why people think they should get all the information for free like children in video games asking for handouts and for the world to bend to their will where everyone else earned their place. Arrogance infects everything, especially things that gets attention it didn't deserve, usually because of the pursuit of money over respect because they think money can buy respect in a community when it's the passion and effort to progress the subculture that garners respect.

anyway, my take on the dilution of the medium:
Because of commercialism infecting anime and turning it into a industry driven by image and marketability and not by passion, the medium has suffered and that's the reason why old anime get lower average scores to new ones even though stories are now being turned into throwaway content. Story execution isn't being valued anymore for an anime to make sales, it's just filler shows now full of bright colors to become a short trend to milk for all it's worth. Anyone can hone and refine skill for visual art, not everyone has the passion for life that animates the story in a remarkable way.
@Neapollotan I both agree and disagree on the current state of the industry. Mainly because I do believe the adaptation process of anime has gotten better as the decades have gone along (with some obvious exceptions hello Toyko Ghoul). Series actually wait for the manga to get far enough along to adapt it properly rather than forcing a bunch of filler or, worse, an anime-only ending. Also you gotta remember we didn't live through the eras in which ecchi shows were everywhere, or a dime-a-dozen sci fi mecha shows/Evangelion ripoffs, or the mid-2000s helping of mediocre shonen trying to become the next One Piece or Naruto.

That being said some of my favourite series of all time in Code Geass, Paranoia Agent, Haibane Renmei, Gurrenn Lagann, Clannad, Steins;Gate etc. probably wouldn't have even come close to being made with the care that they were or even given a shot due to how out there the concepts are, let alone their source material or lack thereof.
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I gave low scores to both Serial Experiments Lain and FLCL.
If you want anything else, then... well, I really despised Vivy: Fluorite Eyes Song and to this day I'm unable to understand why the community loved something that in my head would be in the low 6.xx's here.
@thewiru I also expected more from Lain and was actually enjoying it a lot for the first 9 episodes, then it lost me. Still a 7.3 for me though
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Burrito is good and enjoyable, both canon and some of the early filler arcs (though I can agree with the 'many characters could've been better MCs than Boruto' statement).
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most Ghibli movies are a complete mess and are more interested in creating vibes than telling an engaging story.
@krautnelson this is not the "the based and factually correct takes thread", but a different kind of thread.
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Women shouldn't watch anime.

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"Chimp in state of nature never jerks off, but in captivity he does, wat does this mean? In state of nature he’s too busy, to put plainly. He is concerned with mastering space: solving problem of life in and under trees, mastering what tools he can, mastering social relations in the jockeying for power and status. Deprived of this drive to development and self-increase he devolves to pointless masturbation, in captivity, where he senses he is in owned space and therefore the futility of all his efforts and all his actions."
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I do not care for Your Lie in April (yes I say this in April)
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I just recently realized that most of the so-called best anime all have a lot of depressing and sad parts

I don't get it, do people feel like if there's nothing sad then the story is not good. Or is it the fact that the anime which are good usually have a lot of sad stuff?

I personally can't watch sad anime so I want an outlook of the guys who can and do like them

That being said my 'worst' take is anime with sad endings aren't good - Your lie in April, A silent voice, I want to eat your pancreas, Akame ga kill, etc.

Please inform me why you would watch these knowing they have a sad ending?
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I just recently realized that most of the so-called best anime all have a lot of depressing and sad parts

I don't get it, do people feel like if there's nothing sad then the story is not good. Or is it the fact that the anime which are good usually have a lot of sad stuff?

I personally can't watch sad anime so I want an outlook of the guys who can and do like them

That being said my 'worst' take is anime with sad endings aren't good - Your lie in April, A silent voice, I want to eat your pancreas, Akame ga kill, etc.

Please inform me why you would watch these knowing they have a sad ending?
@awesomeoppy As one of those people who feels the opposite, I'll just say that it feels cathartic to watch something that can wring those emotions out of you. To me, the most memorable shows have made me cry at least once or multiple times, and personally that just feels like it has more value than a show that can make me laugh or get hyped I guess. I don't really know how else to put it, but I get why people wouldn't want to experience sad and depressing stuff all the time if they're just trying to have a good time.
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@awesomeoppy As one of those people who feels the opposite, I'll just say that it feels cathartic to watch something that can wring those emotions out of you. To me, the most memorable shows have made me cry at least once or multiple times, and personally that just feels like it has more value than a show that can make me laugh or get hyped I guess. I don't really know how else to put it, but I get why people wouldn't want to experience sad and depressing stuff all the time if they're just trying to have a good time.
@KKMurasaki I kinda get what you are saying, I also like the shows which made me cry a bit like Sweetness and Lightning, Mushoku Tensei's latest season's ending(made me a bit sad). But overall I think the difference is just the way we watch anime and what we expect from a show
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There were actually some takes on here I agreed with or can get behind in some capacity. These are some of the existing takes that I have positive reception to in this thread
tchitchouan said:
99.99% of anime is trash except a very tiny percentage that is so good that makes up for all the rest.

This is honestly true of most entertainment mediums to be honest. A lot of the things that get to the top do something to stick out that makes them not end up in the pile of thousands of other media that become forgotten as the years go by.

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4Kids was a great company and their censoring of dubs was necessary because their series aired on local tv and not prime time network. They had great casts and for the most part, treated their anime like special series to become franchises, not just dubs

Out of the takes you've presented in the thread this is the one I can get behind since there were quite a lot of really talented people who worked on these productions, even if the TV restrictions ended up leading to a lesser product. I kind of wish those uncut dubs they experimented with were more successful as I really did enjoy those 9 uncut English Yu-Gi-Oh episodes and would've loved to see how that dub would have gone on through the rest of the series. Even still I really do enjoy some of their edited dubs with Shaman King somehow holding up pretty well and honestly being better than the 2021 series dub despite having a lot of the same cast.
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FMA 2003 >>> FMAB

I agree on FMA 2003 being the better version of the animated iterations of Fullmetal Alchemist and for me it mainly comes down to the pacing issues and cut content in Brotherhood hurting the experience as a whole. At least in my area it seems to be a common preference for the 03 series even if the online sentiment seems to be that it "doesn't count" or isn't as good as Brotherhood due to its original content.
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Creepy Nuts is mid, or at best pretty good. I can't wrap my head around why the OPs they've put out are so insanely popular.
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@KKMurasaki I kinda get what you are saying, I also like the shows which made me cry a bit like Sweetness and Lightning, Mushoku Tensei's latest season's ending(made me a bit sad). But overall I think the difference is just the way we watch anime and what we expect from a show
@awesomeoppy Exactly. Everybody's got different things they want out of what they're watching. I have certain genres I outright avoid since I know they won't work for me right out of the gate, and it's best to avoid that sort of thing otherwise you'll be miserable.
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There were actually some takes on here I agreed with or can get behind in some capacity. These are some of the existing takes that I have positive reception to in this thread
tchitchouan said:
99.99% of anime is trash except a very tiny percentage that is so good that makes up for all the rest.

This is honestly true of most entertainment mediums to be honest. A lot of the things that get to the top do something to stick out that makes them not end up in the pile of thousands of other media that become forgotten as the years go by.

TheBlockernator said:
4Kids was a great company and their censoring of dubs was necessary because their series aired on local tv and not prime time network. They had great casts and for the most part, treated their anime like special series to become franchises, not just dubs

Out of the takes you've presented in the thread this is the one I can get behind since there were quite a lot of really talented people who worked on these productions, even if the TV restrictions ended up leading to a lesser product. I kind of wish those uncut dubs they experimented with were more successful as I really did enjoy those 9 uncut English Yu-Gi-Oh episodes and would've loved to see how that dub would have gone on through the rest of the series. Even still I really do enjoy some of their edited dubs with Shaman King somehow holding up pretty well and honestly being better than the 2021 series dub despite having a lot of the same cast.
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FMA 2003 >>> FMAB

I agree on FMA 2003 being the better version of the animated iterations of Fullmetal Alchemist and for me it mainly comes down to the pacing issues and cut content in Brotherhood hurting the experience as a whole. At least in my area it seems to be a common preference for the 03 series even if the online sentiment seems to be that it "doesn't count" or isn't as good as Brotherhood due to its original content.
@LSSJ_Gaming FMA 2003 is a lot closer to Brotherhood than a lot of people would have you believe yeah. Only reasons I put Brotherhood above 2003 is I wasn't a fan of 2003's ending.
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I just recently realized that most of the so-called best anime all have a lot of depressing and sad parts

I don't get it, do people feel like if there's nothing sad then the story is not good. Or is it the fact that the anime which are good usually have a lot of sad stuff?

I personally can't watch sad anime so I want an outlook of the guys who can and do like them

That being said my 'worst' take is anime with sad endings aren't good - Your lie in April, A silent voice, I want to eat your pancreas, Akame ga kill, etc.

Please inform me why you would watch these knowing they have a sad ending?
awesomeoppy said:
That being said my 'worst' take is anime with sad endings aren't good - Your lie in April, A silent voice, I want to eat your pancreas, Akame ga kill, etc.


I've only seen two of the four examples that you've provided. I can somewhat understand your feelings regarding I Want To Eat Your Pancreas due to its bittersweet ending, but I don't recall A Silent Voice having anything close to a sad ending at all.
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awesomeoppy said:
That being said my 'worst' take is anime with sad endings aren't good - Your lie in April, A silent voice, I want to eat your pancreas, Akame ga kill, etc.


I've only seen two of the four examples that you've provided. I can somewhat understand your feelings regarding I Want To Eat Your Pancreas due to its bittersweet ending, but I don't recall A Silent Voice having anything close to a sad ending at all.
@DeadBored My bad then, I must have read somewhere that it had a sad ending.
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Filler episodes are a waste of time and resources and should be skipped and shouldn't be made. Unless the slice of life, funny moments were added in the source material, studios adding a brand new episode and material with no meaningful content is the dumbest thing ever
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An adaptions that get bad adaption isn't always bad because of the adaption, it's because the source material is not as good as you think it is.

World building itself isn't a bad thing but it's often used as an excuse to defend how bad a show is. Good world building doesn't need to be stated that it's for world building.

Most isekais are written by authors who don't have any life experience or knowledge past high school.
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noone is autistic, they're caricatures and anime. they're supposed to be quirky and interesting and not a valid representation of mental illness. i once saw a comment about dungeon meshi saying "author doesnt realize her characters are autistic". that's such a stupid, dumb and self-projecting remark that I'm willing to deny the "different interpretations" philosophy to anime because that's what animals and r34 artists do.

denying the true nature of a character to contain them in a group around your mental disorders is such a weird and fucked up way of watching anime.
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With how toxic the online anime fandom can be, pretty much any take I make is considered "bad" due to how different my perspective is compared to the loud voices that tend to be more extreme and mirror 2016-era talking points.

English dubs are not anywhere near as bad as people make them out to be. We are far removed from the days of heavy editing and heavily changing names to suit an American audience with very little shows doing that these days. Most dubs are very faithful localizations that tend to be on par with the official subtitle tracks in terms of accuracy. Most changes that are made these days are mostly just trying to make things flow naturally in spoken dialogue or to fit the lip flaps as that is a restriction that dubs have to deal with that subs don't
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I don't understand why people linke Elfen Lied. Terrible story,ordinary characters,bad ending.Only good part is opening song.Might be the worst anime I have ever watched
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I think it is better when a localization plays with the words a little instead of doing an extremely bland, 1-to-1 (or as close as one can get with Japanese) Translation. Yes, even when they inject "woke"/"cringe" jokes and slang into it. I vastly prefer that that over something that reads like how sawdust tastes.
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I don't respect your opinion on anime if you only watch Shounen and Seinen.
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@NS2D I agree with this statement and wish that SAO should be considered an above average show that has some great aspects and some terrible aspects, like the vast majority of anime.

Also my review of SAO is my hot take. To sumarize, SAO is not what people define it as. It isn't an isekai, just a video game anime. It isn't a harem anime. This is based on the definition of a harem being all members have an equal chance of ending up with the main love interest by the end of this part of a story. Kirito chooses Asuna fairly early and before most of the "harem" is assembled.
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Credit to @yoltasi for this image, which I found really funny. I don't know if he made it, or if not where he got it, but I somehow found it from him, so senin komik memen için teşekkür ederim!

Now for the non-joke one. This is the quiet part I'm saying out loud. Key anime... they all suck ass, and are only good when they aren't trying to be overly tragic. This is why Clannad is the only good Key anime (Not After Story, After Story is also ass).

Sorry yoltasi for flipping off your opinions on Key anime literally three sentences after thanking you. 😶
Daviljoe193Apr 12, 7:46 PM
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With how toxic the online anime fandom can be, pretty much any take I make is considered "bad" due to how different my perspective is compared to the loud voices that tend to be more extreme and mirror 2016-era talking points.

English dubs are not anywhere near as bad as people make them out to be. We are far removed from the days of heavy editing and heavily changing names to suit an American audience with very little shows doing that these days. Most dubs are very faithful localizations that tend to be on par with the official subtitle tracks in terms of accuracy. Most changes that are made these days are mostly just trying to make things flow naturally in spoken dialogue or to fit the lip flaps as that is a restriction that dubs have to deal with that subs don't
LSSJ_Gaming said:
English dubs are not anywhere near as bad as people make them out to be. We are far removed from the days of heavy editing and heavily changing names to suit an American audience with very little shows doing that these days. Most dubs are very faithful localizations that tend to be on par with the official subtitle tracks in terms of accuracy. Most changes that are made these days are mostly just trying to make things flow naturally in spoken dialogue or to fit the lip flaps as that is a restriction that dubs have to deal with that subs don't


Exactly! Viz Media's English dub of the 1992 Sailor Moon anime is far more faithful to the original Japanese version than the 90s Optimum dub.


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I just recently realized that most of the so-called best anime all have a lot of depressing and sad parts

I don't get it, do people feel like if there's nothing sad then the story is not good. Or is it the fact that the anime which are good usually have a lot of sad stuff?

I personally can't watch sad anime so I want an outlook of the guys who can and do like them

That being said my 'worst' take is anime with sad endings aren't good - Your lie in April, A silent voice, I want to eat your pancreas, Akame ga kill, etc.

Please inform me why you would watch these knowing they have a sad ending?
awesomeoppy said:
That being said my 'worst' take is anime with sad endings aren't good - Your lie in April, A silent voice, I want to eat your pancreas, Akame ga kill, etc.

Please inform me why you would watch these knowing they have a sad ending?

Because I don't know they will have sad endings. Many end happily. There is something of a thrill in stories that don't guarantee particular endings.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/518/Mahou_no_Princess_Minky_Momo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2213/Black_Jack_TV
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37140/Gegege_no_Kitarou_2018
One never knows what the next episode will bring!
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