Well, I retooled this list again. It’s a new anime that suck list, only instead of just listing specific anime, I’m also shouting out category names that cover a wide variety of anime. There are many reasons why I decided to make this change, but you don’t want to hear about them, I’m sure. So without further ado, here’s the list of ten anime/names in anime I absolutely can’t stand. For the most part, I’ll pay attention to them to see if they’ll surprise me because I think almost all of these have a good anime in them somewhere. But otherwise, I look at them in scorn.
Also keep in mind that I chose popular names most people would care about rather than obscure stuff like the creators of Project Ice or Himajin Planning. Nobody gives a rat’s ass about them, do they? And I’m not saying shoujo, because that’s stupidly obvious.
Hanbun No Tsuki ga Noboru Sora
If you want to know the full length as to why I hate this anime, here it is. If you want a more calm opinion, it’s because the way it goes about its drama is downright atrocious on a human level. I’ve complained about the stupidity of Key’s stuff or the idiotic behavior of Mari Okada, but HanTsuki is one of those dramas that actually think nearly killing a person because he got caught with porn and trying to pass it off as a misunderstanding constitutes good drama. Good fucking god. I don’t want to dwell anymore on why this thing is shit, and I seriously question the sanity of people who think this is good drama. I’ll give that the art is nice, but that’s about it.
Hiroyuki Yoshino
The big cheese when it comes to awful writers. The cream of the crop. The guy who brought us Guilty Crown, Denpa Teki No Kanojo, the Accel World adaptation, and Seikon No Quaser. Hiroyuki Fucking Yoshino. From what I’ve seen of him, the guy specializes in awful train wrecks that people seem to find enjoyable, but I find flat out boring because he doesn’t embrace the cheesiness like Code Geass or Future Diary do. How do you make something so pretty and massive as Guilty Crown so fucking boring? I don’t know, but Yoshino found a way.
What pisses me off about him the most is that he has good ideas, but he can’t execute them worth shit. Now I know it’s the director’s job to reign in the script writer, but when every one of his anime have the same problem (terrible characters, poor pacing, devolving into messes whilst being unentertainingly stupid), I start to question why this guy even has a career.
Fuck Hiroyuki Yoshino. Just fuck him!
Hell Girl
Hell Girl is probably the highest ranked anime on MAL that I ever gave a “1″ to because of how much I loathed it. Why did I have such an allergic reaction you may ask? Wasted potential, that’s why. And not just wasted potential. Wasted potential that was so horribly mismanaged I paced around my room whilst screaming a bunch of curse words that DEEN probably heard across the ocean. You had this cool creepy girl who ferries people into hell and has awesome sidekick characters that investigate their clients in order to learn just what’s up. And who do you decide to focus on? A bunch of people whining and crying about their petty lives in literally the most contrived way possible.
I’m not kidding when I said that after seeing that anime, I gave up on it for the majority of 2011 (except for Madoka) and never got to seeing stuff like Level E or Nichijou or whatever else. It is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad…you get where I’m going with this.
Silver Link
Of all the studios I pay attention to, none of them have ever missed as much as Silver Link have. Even studios I’m not too fond of like Shaft, JC Staff, and shit have given me one anime I’ve liked or thought was alright. Silver Link has nothing whatsoever. Not one good anime under their belt.
It’s a studio created by a bunch of former Shaft employees that mainly specialize in adapting light novels and giving them creative animation and shit. And I hate them because they’re not in the least bit funny, despite multiple attempts at trying to tell a joke and ruining them due to poor source material or shitty comedic timing. The number of misses in Baka To Test, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, and fucking C^3 was just sad, and the fact that none of their anime have the characters and story to back up their jokes certainly didn’t help in the slightest. Also their attempts to be serious are laughable, especially when compared to the only work of theirs I somewhat respect, ef-a tale of memories (which I have quite a few problems with), and degrading from there.
If I wanted to see unfunny comedy with stupid drama and great animation, I’d just watch something by KyoAni goddammit!
Jormungand
One thing you have to do when writing about a particular subject, whether it’s parody or a tribute, is to love the thing. Put effort into it, like I do with this blog and (to a much lesser extent) work. Kind of like what the actors did with the X-Men movies when they read all the comics and watched the cartoon just so they could get their characters right because they’ve never been exposed to X-Men before.
Watching Jormungand, I got the feeling that it absolutely hated its subject. It didn’t care about action. It didn’t know jack about arms dealing (I looked into it and found out there were several facts they got wrong). It didn’t even have the gall to look pretty whilst giving the middle finger to guys like me who love Black Lagoon and wanted to see another version of that.
I’ll give Jormungand this. Koko is an entertaining character who isn’t sexualized in any real way. Other than those points though, the anime is just an absolute plodding borefest with a shit ending and no idea how to capture the spirit of arms dealers, or even action heroes. You thought the Spiderman reboot was bad with it being pretty much Vampire Diaries except replacing vampires with Spiderman? Well, okay the movie was shockingly badly edited and written, but at least the action scenes looked cool. Jormungand doesn’t even give us that.
I really think people only liked this because it was unusual for an anime about arms dealers to exist. That’s fine and all, but if you’re going to make it suck, I’d rather you not make it at all.
You seem like someone who didn’t like Accel world solely because the main character was a fat kid. I know a lot of people who were turned off by this; definitely dosen’t fit the standard of what the unpopular kid in a typical series looks like.
The consequence was loosing the ability to go into Accel world and also not being able to fulfill his promise with Kuroyukihime ( get her to attain level 10 and meet the creator of the brain burst program) ; i believe you said it yourself, his only skill is being good at video games.
There’s more that I hate about Accel World then just Haru, although he’s obviously the part I hate the most. Also, where exactly did you get that I hated him because he was fat? I barely touch on that in my description of the show.
And as I stated before, that consequence is just too weak. Do you know how stupid it sounds when you say out loud “if he loses, he’s no longer part of the game…and that’s it?” Also, I have real issues with a show that thinks glorifying video games at the cost of much better traits is a good idea.
Initially I was a bit surprised by the portrayal of a fat kid as the main character but no it was not the main main reason I don’t like it Accel World. It was his whole character that put me off : whiny main character that’s supposed to be the saviour or something. He’s good at his field but does he have to be such a cry baby. I’ve only watched the first two episodes so I don’t know how his character has developed over the course of the series.
My “bias” here is thanks to a mecha anime that I have a hard time remembering the title. It was of the first mecha anime I’ve seen after years of anime watching hiatus (life does that). The main character was so whiny with a bloated sense of importance throughout the series that I simply carry on watching because I’ve already paid for the dvd. The story was no better : the main enemy was from an alternate universe who attacked the Earth (who only have fake inefficient versions of similar mechas) who then turn sides and became the main protector of Earth. I felt like watching the whole Pirates of Caribbean franchise in anime form with mechas. They have just decimated Earth’s forces and suddenly surrendered and Earth accepted them just like that? After all the widows and orphans they have created, now they are plunging Earth (still reeling from the defeat with them) to fight a greater force from their own universe.
The story was mind boggling and the main character was too hard of a douche for me to root for. With a lot of other mecha anime’s cahracters getting younger and younger…it’s becoming less and less of my favourite genre. So the best hope for the universe are not highly trained soldiers but teenagers. The space army/navy can make hundreds, thousands of mechas but let’s just spend some budget on just five powerful and colorful mechas specifically for those kids. Let those highly trained soldiers constantly die during 24/7 patrols with outdated machines while those kids with the secret and much more powerful mechas resolve their personal problems at school. No need to make more of those better mechas.
Wow that was terrible. Deadman fucking Wonderland? Ya alright. It may have not been the best thing but its far from sucking. What a terrible article
Like I said, I went for representative stuff that encompass my distastes as a whole. There are far worse anime than the stuff on the list (like Netrunmon the Movie), but they don’t encompass my distastes very well.
Also, no. Deadman Wonderland was bad. Uncreative, annoying, badly animated, and edited terribly. And its biggest crime of all is that it never went far enough with its ideas, half-assing everything it did. Half-assed execution pisses me off more than something that starts and remains crap.
hmm mm crappy anime n bleach is absent? how very odd. and if your interested the black cat manga is actually insanely great. but i won’t defend the anime lol.
I wanted to avoid Bleach because this guy put it on his own list. Type-Moon was unavoidable, but I prefer not to rip him off too much: http://mecha-guignol.com/anime-i-hate/
As for the manga…I honestly preferred the anime. At least for its first few episodes.
for the manga that i’ll never undersand. type moon well i can’t say i have much against them. Accel world i agree 100%. 2 reasons 1. the main guy, not cus he was a fat ass. more like he was just some pathetic turd that i couldn’t stop thinkin, why does any of these people like this man. 2. “i no i might not be able to play some game anymore, boohoo”. honestly play blazblue n i’m sure u’ll get over it. Maybe i should consider lucky u didn’t add fairy tale or bleach to this list cus i could go on for hours about how unimpressive they are, not to mention over-rated. Anyways not a bad list a majority i agree well n true.
You agree with most of the list? I’d say about half of these are really well-regarded.
Fairy Tail I didn’t think was that bad, but I couldn’t stomach the pacing. Bleach was crap. Type-Moon…yeah I keep falling asleep every time I watch one of their anime. Same with Shinkai.
yea i do, even with the few i don’t fully agree i can see ur point. I can see why pointless talking in type-moon can put someone to sleep. Thou i may have tolerance for pointless talk on occasion. ( i loved Bakemonogatari )
That being said, i’ll have to admit for part 2 of fate/zero i was disappointed. Even thou in most cases i don’t watch/read alot of action anime/manga. I was expecting alota good fights scenes in part 2, but no. i did kinda come out of it feelin like it coulda been a better series but i didn’t hate it by any means.
Hmm as for Shinkai, yea i try not to watch too many of them depressing things lol. You know i’d actually be interested in hearing ur anime/manga that win list.
I’ve seen less than half of the shows on this list, which is surprising since a good amount of them are high-profile. Still, for what I’ve seen, I agree: Hell Girl has the anime syndrom where the world and everyone inside is either endlessly malicious or stupid, because apparently most authors can’t create tragedy/drama without that being the case. I’m still wondering whether to start the third season; it’s bad, but I wanna finish it. Accel World, for the few episodes that I watched, was terrible. Deadman Wonderland can only be liked by the kind of fan who doesn’t care as long as there’s “gritty” and “violence”. 5cm was boring – remember watching it with some other movies, expecting all of them to be awesome, and it was the sole crud in a pile of greatness.
Can’t agree about TM, given that this is one of my two absolute favorite franchises in anime; still, I knew you don’t like it from the SCCSAV watches (you know, we’re watching Carnival Phantasm next week, how about that?), so not much surprise there.
I’m seeing a few titles that have been hyped to me and are on my plan to watch, albeit for the far future. Hopefully they’ll appeal to me more than they did to you, but things aren’t looking good for the hospital drama.
Don’t worry about “not liking” Simoun. I’m one of three people who hate that series whilst many others have it in their top 5.
Hell Girl wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t keep focusing on those idiots and actually give the screen time to the far more interesting Enma Ai and her crew. But nooooooooooooooooo. Also, don’t watch the third season. It does absolutely nothing all that different from the first two.
I’ve never actually seen Carnival Phantasm. Might check it out sometime.
Yeah I can’t recommend HanTsuki. It’d be different if it was something I hated for personal reasons like Ano Natsu, but an anime that thinks you can have the female love interest lock the male lead who suffers from Hepatitis on the roof in the cold weather in nothing but hospital clothes just because he was caught with a porn magazine and pass it off as heartfelt drama does not get my respect.
Why do you watch anime porn? Really do you not value your time at all?
No
Hell at least your honest. Blood C fan?
Haven’t seen it.
Yeah you would most likely hate it I love it so much that I would fuck it sideways until sunday but that’s just me could make for a rather amusing article down the road for you keep that in mind. The dub is excellent as well.
5 Centimeters Per Second was beautiful and the ADV dub is fucking excellent.
Why can’t your tiny ant brain see it?
I never said 5 Cm Per Second wasn’t beautiful, nor did I mention the dub. Why can’t your eyes see that?
They see what they want to see like your tiny ant brain likes to watch shit and review for the masses. we both lose.
Opinion on Clamp?
Love Chobits. Liked what I saw of Cardcaptor Sakura. Don’t really care about anything else they’ve done.
So no chance of seeing a review xxxholic? That’s my personal favorite one from them its a shame only one season was dubbed in english damn funimation an there cheapness damn them to hell.
Very doubtful. I don’t hate xxxholic, but it doesn’t do a thing for me.
Fractale is the SAVIOR OF ANIME!!!!!!! Praiseeee A1 Pictureeeeeeess!
I’ll praise A-1 when they do something I can actually rank higher than a “7″ on my MAL so I can forget about Sword Fart Online. Although Occult Academy looks intriguing.
They did its called Blue Exorcist belligerent fool!
Hell From the New World is at least an 7.8 if not higher!
Never watched Blue Exorcist, so I can’t say. From the New World focused too much time on the boring parts and not enough on the interesting stuff to keep my attention. I dropped it at Episode 12 and can’t summon up any motivation to pick it back up. Maybe when the DVD comes to America, I’ll give it another shot.
So happy to find someone who acknowledges 5 Centimeters went absolutely nowhere with its story. The sole redeeming factor to that snooze fest was the beautiful animation. Otherwise, it’s a film about wasted opportunities and profound sadness… and disturbing amounts of boredom.
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Jormungand? I mean yeah it was a poor man’s Black Lagoon, but it was still a fun show.
As I said, the only I liked about it was Koko. Valmet was kind of cool, but other than that, the show was just dirt poor in every way from direction to getting the facts right. It really felt like the writers hated action movies, which is not what I want to feel when watching a show that’s supposed to revolve around arms dealers.
What about School Days?
I kind of like that one on a conceptual level
“I know it’s your opinion, but your opinion is just wrong.”
Your’e basically begging people to flame you, when you say stuff like that.
It’s actually a more common joke than you think. Besides, when an anime has no realism, creativity, animation, pacing, charismatic characters, etc. like Deadman Wonderland does, I think it applies fine.
Not really that common. Atleast from what I’ve seen.
And I seriously question your standards of animation. Storytelling and characterization is debatable but you are the first person I’ve seen that called it “badly animated”.
More like badly directed to be honest. Remember Episode 2 with that obstacle course? Terrible camera angles and the camera even went all loopy like a 3D Sonic game at one point. WTF man?
Really? That was the best episode in the series. I had a blast watching it on adult swim. I had no problems with the camera angles and the action was pretty good. Bet hey, opinions.
I was laughing because the traps were so stupid. Privately funded prison and that’s the best you can do? Bungee jumps? Arrows? Crash Bandicoot falling platforms? Where’s the creativity? Where’s the sense of dread? Where’s Takashi Miike?
How about titles like Another or Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere?
(Which by the way are coming out in July thanks to Sentai)
Do you ever find yourself running out of material to hate?
I would recommend getting rid of the porn reviews just in case(the likely hood of a Girl blogging about anime on wordpress is very low in itself) its a bit unbecoming.
Do you have any desire to learn the names of ADR directors and such considering you are a big english dub fan but from what I’ve seen your knowledge is very limited in this field for some reason?
There are so many things wrong with this list it would truly take me hours to write about how moronic every one of your opinions are not just on this article but this blog as a whole. I don’t even know where to begin the very nature of your opinion is so off the wall nutty that make daffy duck look sane. This blog needs a new look or something because looking at it right now makes me want to throw my head into a wall until I can’t think anymore..-sigh- That is that.