Which anime was the biggest waste of your time?

Nana is the longest anime (being 47 episodes) I've given the minimum rating of 1 to, so have to default to it as my answer. Easily one of the most narratively superficial and stagnant anime in terms of meaningful character development I've ever watched, topped off with sporadic insertions of bizarre "comedic" moments into the middle of scenes intended to be suspenseful and/or dramatic. Convinced I would've been more entertained watching a fly groom itself for the duration of time I watched it instead.

Only Yesterday. So much of the Studio Ghibli library is amazing, in fact I'd say all of them. Except one. Only Yesterday, though quaint and easy going.... It's very.... bland, in comparison. It's what you get when you take out the magic and mystery of a Studio Ghibli film and get its milquetoast bland remains. I really appreciate the effort and heart that went into it, but if I went my life without watching it again, it wouldn't bother me.

In all of my life, for me, it honestly takes a lot for an anime to be considered a waste of time. When it's this movie, that's saying something. You could give me the most outrageous and bawdy OAV ever or a story with a lot of flash but a lot of plotholes and I'd still have a blast. Only Yesterday, again, while it isn't awful, this is what I think of when all of the tourists and naysayers go "there's too many boobies! it's too lewd! there's too much violence! it's too dark and colors should only be used for happy stuff! tone it down so hollywood can take me seriously!" You get stuff like this, extremely goes nowhere and on the head boring attempts of "let's go back to nature and live like hippies" and tries to appease everybody. It makes me want to puke the remains of dry toast, unflavored oatmeal, and buttermilk thinking about it.

Edit: Sorry, the english title is Only Yesterday.

Man frieren is some overrated garbage. They made an anime about touching grass with a bunch of boring shit and MAL users went wild. I watched it cuz of the hype around it and was shocked that this bs made it to no1

Ah sorry you didn't enjoy the Patlabor franchise but I love series I lean to balance between the comedy and drama but my favorite is the tv series

For my part is Nisekoi and Mushouku Tensei I can't not stand the mc I did try on Mushouku Tensei but I drop after watching that episode where this red girl and mc have something on camp at night that where I give up.

Where Patlabor really shined was the TV series. I didn't care much for the OVAs or any of the movies, but I loved the TV series.

But to answer the question, I guess I would say Gundam. I tried hard to get into it because it is a classic, but after watching the first three seasons (140 episodes), plus several OVAs and movies, I just can't get into it at all. I really don't get the appeal. I hesitate to say the time was truly "wasted" but there's so much more I could've watched in that same amount of time that I probably would have enjoyed a lot more.