City of Amnesia

We all have on of these. I don't mean to bash personal opinions...
I personally couldn't stand Reign the Conqueror....

p-i-l-o-t c-a-n-d-i-d-a-t-e
Horrible show, just horrible.

Dammit man, you beat me to it. The worst part is that I remember, way way back when Adult Swim first started, someone (maybe IGN) was saying how excited he was to see this show.
He got my hopes up only to be crushed like a cockroach under a steamroller.

Anyway, since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I can't stand Inuyasha. Or Gundam Wing. And Blue Gender got real weird.

FLCL. Evangelion. Gundam Seed. Samurai Champloo. Wolf's Rain. Robin Witch Hunter. Inuyasha. Gundam Wing. Sonic X. Bleach. Naruto. Patlabor (mechs were cool, but the entire thing was too damn slow. I fell asleep!). Serial Experiments Lain. Blood+. Trinity Blood.

The list goes on.
War.

s-cry-ed is the one that pops out for me.

Good God, that show could have been something too...
Peace.

SD Gundum... it was so bad my memory blocked it.
*cuddles inuyasha* It's okay, honey, I won't let the mean people hurt you.

All those are winrar! (except naruto and samurai champloo)

Worst would be Welcome to the NHK

SD Gundam is awesome and kick ass. Inuyasha... Hard to believe the woman who made Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikokku, and Urusei Yatsura Lum made Inuyasha. Such a difference in quality. Maybe she just didn't care at that point.
War.

The fact that DM doesn't like Bleach is full of hilarious irony. >_>
Peace.

Irony? Why? Dragon Ball Z and S-Cry-Ed did it better.
War.

Megaman NT warrior

having played the battle network games, i didn't particularly like the way Bass was introduced in the series compared to the games >.>

they actually had bass in that?

You can make a decent case for the former, the latter is a different and weaker story.
Peace.

Evangelion, you knew this though. Wolf's Rain bored me to tears. Witch Hunter Robin was pretty much AS going "we'd like to air hellsing but it'd cost too much, lets find the dollar store off-brand equivilent", thats my theory anyway. Inuyasha is a summation of everything wrong with anime and anime fans. Trinity Blood, see my earlier comment about witch hunter robin. Scry-ed or whatever it was called was terrible.

Tokko which I saw like one episode of on the sci-fi channel, first five minutes had an incest joke, well thanks japan let me find my remote and salute you with the button that flips the channel.

Reign the conqueror was pretty awful, I'm not sure how that seemed like a good idea to...oh wait look at pretty much every other anime they aired on AS. Nevermind...in fact wasn't evangelion on there for a while? Awful track record overall, yeah.

Bleach...never really cared to watch it. Samurai Champloo, same thing, saw five minutes of it decided it was pretty much cowboy bebop with swords, decided I prefer cowboy bebop, didn't watch anymore of it really.

EDIT: How could I forget. I once saw chobits...replace "least favorite" with "now I want CLAMP to be officially recognized as a terrorist organization" and it sums up my feelings on that and chobits.

I make it my point never to see bad anime.

*nods sagely*

Vicious used a sword. :|

you beat me to it eop

Excellent... [/maniacal voice]

As fucking lol as the Champloo comment is, SC is a very good anime in it own right. Even though you hit it exactly on the head that its Cowboy Bebop is feudal Japan and that the girl is a minor now. No wait, that wasn't mentioned...

Also, some of us already note CLAMP as a terrorist organization. Sharpie, I have a plan to cut off their funds from Chobits as well. Oh yes and like I (Sharpie) said before, Trinity Blood at least looked cool with the nice animation. But that was the worse anime series I've seen lately. I mean, ripping off Peter Pan and using vampire fairies. What the blue hell?
Peace.

Wait, the girl in Samurai Champloo was a minor?
I feel wrong now for thinking she was hot.

I think they said she was 15. I still hated it.

Oh, and Rurouni Kenshin, Yuyu Hakusho... Can't forget those.
War.

Yes, Mike. Yes she was.

...I'll let you turn yourself in, bruh.

And Kenshin's problem, from what I remember, what too much dialogue in a samurai killing spree session. That's kind of like the same problem that's been going on with recent Western pictures, in trying to overanalyze everything and have too much dialogue. Just have the damn showdown and have one kill each other. That's how these things are done.
Peace.

DBZ got it right. That's my tagline.
War.

I notice most of you generally hate what adult swim puts on, and what tends to be the most popular of animes...

Lately I get the feeling that most anime being made these days is a pile of crap, whether it's on Adult Swim or not.

that is true. I guess i'm really not much of a judge, i do tend to like everything i see, almost.

I saw an anime on demand that i hated because 1: the plot was generic 2: The boobs were so big you'd need to strap them down to see two feet in front of you! I know guys like this, but it's just ridiculous!

The Black Eye Rule: If the chick's breasts are big enough to give you a black eye, they're too goddamn big.
War.

I actually like pretty much all of [as]'s anime, especially recently. I doubt I'll be a huge fan of Death Note, though, since I already read the whole thing.

Vegeta: DBZ was, by far, the worst offender when it comes to opponents over analyzing a situation while in mid-battle.

Over analyze? What the hell are you talking about?
War.

hahaha, you know EoP is right, Vegeta. And what the hell is her boob doing in YOUR EYE?????
Death note will be so awesome!

Over analyze, are you kidding me? They just fought, pure and simple. The analytical moments (if you could call it that) were usually Bulma scenes elsewhere, especially during the Cell saga.
War.

By "analytical" do you mean "standing there and grunting for 5 minutes like you have to take a huge dump"?

...ITS CALLED POWERING UP, DAMN IT!

GET IT RIGHT!
Peace.

I know. And I know that the only reason it's there is really because they had to pad out a weekly show to go along with a monthly manga.

Damn it, every action anime has those crappy filler moments! It's why Cowboy Bebop had Ed and Ein, damn it!
War.

I really expected Ein to be really important to the plot at a later point. Oh well.

See what I mean? So before you knock one anime for its crappy filler, consider the crappy filler the anime you like more than likely have.
War.

... i like the filler moments...

Some filler episodes are good though.

Case in point, Ghost in the Shell's filler episodes are something better than the episodes that pertain to the actual plot.

And I say again, I have to be the only one who doesn't have a problem with Ed from Bebop.
Peace.

That is definitely not the case.

...what?
Peace.

I like Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV, as well. She's good comic relief, and a freakin' awesome hacker to boot.

Ed was good in Bebop. She broke the tension a little. Sometimes you need that...

SC had nice animation, but some phenomenally bad episodes. Fuu (the minor) was great, because it was entertaining seeing her attempt to stop the other two main characters from outright killing each other. I liked that fact that she never strayed from her "dreamy teenager" persona. Also, she was also responsible for the little plot twist at the end of the series. Because of this, I can't outright hate it, but it only gets an "uh, OK" vote from me. Did Bebop really have as much humor? I thought Bebop was more serious...

Man, I don't think I've seen anime that bad. The worst have just been "OK", but I've never seen one that totally reeked.

Inuyasha didn't seem that bad, but I've only seen it in small doses. Trinity Blood was alot of anime cliches strewn across a Vatican vs. vampires war. Yawn... Blood+ seems OK, but I think I've been subjected to a filler episode.

.The Final Negotiator.

I freakin love ed, especially when you find out she's a girl.
I think filler moments are out ranked in badness to those just plain idiotic moments that are ment to be funny but for some reason fall flat...

Yeah, I really hate scenes that really hit you over the head with THIS IS SUPOSSED TO BE FUNNY, SEE, YOU SHOULD BE LAUGHING NOW

Like Ed?
War.

No, like when a man is dressed as a cucumber and has a panda on him and for some reason the cucumber turns into a giant wee-wee. (i don't know if i'm allowed to say penuts)

I think saying "penuts" is perfectly fine. You could check on it, though.
War.

Does this forum have a language filter? I'm pretty sure I've said shit and dropped a few f-bombs here.

Unfortunately, we do have a motherlovin' langauge filter. Why, I don't know.
Peace.

You have to be fucking kidding me.
War.

Wow, i didn't know language filters were possible yet. i'll just stick with penuts.

Yeah, we have a language filter.
War.

Well just to name few.

1. Eva: While it had interesting Mecha designs, the show just kinda falls into the Japanese genre of "LOLZ Christianity is liek kewl, let's use stuff from it". The show tried to hard to be edgie and the dub sucked, in fact ADV sucks, but that's a different story.

2. Samurai Champloo: This show tried very very hard to be the next Cowboy Bebop, and yes, true the same guy directed this, the show falls short on every level. It lacked alot of what CB had... style.

3. Anything from shonen Jump, well Bastard! was awesome though.

Hey.

HEY. Dragon Ball. DRAGON... BALL.

I rest my case.
War.

The "written by" credit should have gone to Anno's bottle of valium

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-05-03 (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-05-03)

I found this to be quite informative and very very funny.

...So apparently this guy lives in what looks like a set from the movie eraserhead.

kare kano is an anime?!?!?!?!

Kare Kano has been an anime for, like, nine years now.

I remember reading about the Anno documentary back when it was first posted, and it sounds like that event was a real turning point in the man's life.

Silly me, I somehow overlooked this.

Yeah I loathed the Ed character, and am stunned I ever made it through the two or so episodes primarily about them, which were the weakest ones in that show.

you made it through because it had promise.

No, it didn't. Ein maybe, but not Ed.

On another note, anime I cannot stand at all for any reason... Beyblade. Something about going from battling monsters, to battling digital monsters, to battling cards with the spirits of monsters, to battling FUCKING TOPS with spirits of monsters in them just made me go... "What?"
War.

I've gotta quote this for truth.

For some reason, no other terrible, terrible anime come to mind.

True, but it was a bit of a hit in mexico... damn yu-gi-oh knock offs.
Ps Mr. moderator, you're not setting a good example....

Mexico seems to love anything that can have bootleg merchandise made of it.

PS: I don't set examples. I make them.
Make it so.

I don't really like most animes(in b4 getting hit with tomatoes). I have a hard time keeping up with the ones of people having Japanese names(when I was a huge weeaboo I could do it, but now it's hard). Some are just terrible though.

That said, I really dislike Lucky Star. It makes me want to cry blood.

painful...
You mean you can't remember japanese names? What anime gives people not weird/japanese names? Don't say pokemon... or yu-gi-oh (which is a weird name) those are bad examples (I'm sorry, Pikachu! *sobs*)

Well, Big O for one. :) And Red Garden.

I don't know how I remembered Japanese names before. I was really good with the Utena characters, but now I just get confused.

Ok, wait, Utena had weird names. I've never heard of Anthy, and that is not japanese. And I love Red Garden! My mom thought I was watching some horror movie because she heard all of the screaming in the second episode... lawl, good times...
I actually don't like it when they give the characters stupid names, because they are japanese, and most animes are set in japan. Basically, I like them correct.

Hahaha, and what was up with Touga? I named my cat after him too! Red Garden is sososo good! I watched it before it was licensed and I love how they made references to things in America like NBC, and the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld, and David Letterman(except they had no idea how to spell his name so they put David Lettervmary).

Lawd. Lucky Star was epic fail. I don't get the appeal of this show, well maybe it appeals to Weeaboo's, but unfunny animu jokes, and 11th graders that look like 6 year old loli's isn't what I call a good anime.

"So, which end of a ChocoCornet do you eat first, the fat end or the skinny end?"

Somebody mentioned odd names in anime, but one that really sticks out is Christmas from Kurau: Phantom Memory; great show, awkward sounding name. It probably worked better for Japanese audiences.

Monica Stori sucked as Kurau,ok, i'm sorry. Christmas confused the heck out of me. I mean, if it has to be a holiday, why not ... Thanks Giving?! Halloween is a cooler name than christmas. that anime was cool though, i wish i could have finished watching it...

Obviously you haven't seen The World is Not Enough.
"I thought Christmas only came once a year..."

And to keep this on topic. I really like Gundam Wing but the other Gundams just bored me. I think I may have only like Gundam Wing to laugh at Dorothy Catalonia's eyebrows.

I thought she did a decent job...

neoncoyote: Not even G Gundam? That was the only Gundam I was ever able to handle.

I hold contempt for all things Wing, with the exception of Tallgeese (http://likaspapaya.deviantart.com/art/OZ-00MS-45370108) and this game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwfAmuKDUUg&feature=related).

You should download an emulator and play that game right away. Even my gf plays it. A lot. Therefore, so should you.

It's called, "Shin Kidou Senki Gundam W: Endless Duel."

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It'd be hard to list my least favorite anime, because I've seen loads of shitty anime. But I'd have to say that among high-profile anime series, Inuyasha takes the cake as my least favorite.

I recall that S-cry-ed just ANGERED me for some reason when it was on. I'm not even sure why anymore. I must've blocked it out. I never, ever could get myself to like DBZ, but then I think it's probably the case that I was too old for it to charm me by the time my cousin tried to get me into it.

Bleach strikes me as the type of series that would be great if it would just FUCKING END. Like, 50 episodes max. I'd probably like it. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen a series over 50 episodes of ongoing continuity that I didn't think turned to stale poo quite quickly.

We don't talk about Inuyasha. Or... I don't. Because I could launch into a rant that'd last for ages on why that series pisses me off. |D

this is the truth right here

Ha, yeah. Big Money seconded this, and I third it.

Save Big O somehow has an entry on urbandictionary, and it mentions the members being unsympathetic towards fans of other series. Your RAGE towards Inuyahsa amuses me now, even though I sympathize, since apparently that legacy lives on.

And I will Fourth it.

InuYasha could have easily been done in 40-50 episodes, yet was allowed to continue for 200+ episodes with random demon showing up and InuYasha spamming his newly acquired move he learned 2 episodes ago, that combined with an overall awful cast of characters. If their was a template for making a cliche' riddled anime, then InuYasha is a prime example, and the only interesting character was Sesshomaru if ya ask me.


Bleach started out pretty cool but after it hit episode 40, it did a death dive into the sea of mediocrity, well that and the animation varied by huge degrees episode to episode. I swear 1 episode had decent animation but the the very next episodes animation was so bad, everyone and everything barely passed for 3rd grade scribbles.

Well basically anything in Shonen Jump is destined to run 200 episodes+, no matter how stale it gets.

 

I agree with your whole post, and this interested me. I thought the characters made no sense. All of them seemed like variations on the same theme: small, hyper, precocious. Nobody had any dignity except for Seshoumaru. I guess Kikyo was supposed to have that, but then her haughty formality just makes her inaccessible. And Kikyo's sister was Kung-fu Adventure Granny.

I guess they were they trying to appeal to a female audience this way? Did they want female viewers to fawn over the cast, then identify with Kagome, the level-headed mom holding the others together with her straightforward and "real" attitude? The independent modern gal? That's the only explanation that comes to mind. But it seems like you'd have to be awfully full of yourself to identify with Kagome, surrounded by idiots, villains and juveniles wherever she goes.

I absolutely loathed SD gundam. Gayest gundam I've seen. My opinion....
G Gundam is jsut too classic to lose its place in the hall of good shows...

Whatever audience it was designed to appeal to it worked, as sad as that is, they still show it on AS and has it ever been taken off for longer than a month, cause it certainly doesn't seem that way. I tried to relate to one of the characters, I really did, but it's hard to like a character when they are so generic and stereotyped. InuYasha is dull and your run of the mill Shonen hero, Kagome is your generic Shonen heroine, Miroku is the typical perverted holy man, and Sango had the most potential to be interesting, yet they squandered any hope of her being interesting with that horrid excuse of plot point by the name of Kohaku.

I'll probably catch hell for this, but I can't stand Fullmetal Alchemist. It started out pretty decent and all, but really fell apart fast and Edward honestly pissed me to no end, although that was thanks to Vic Mignogna. The other voices in the dub where spot on though, I really liked Travis Willingham as Roy, and Aaron Dismuke as Al. Speaking of Vic, the stardom that came with his role as Ed, really went to his head. I've chatted with him a time or two at various cons, and seriously he can't stop talking about himself, Fullmetal Alchemist, or Jesus, although I had the privilege of watching a yaoi fangirl troll Vic, it was a thing of beauty, and I lulz hard.   

Inuyasha: I don't remember the secondary characters' names, and haven't seen more than I could stomach, so I can't agree or disagree.

About Fullmetal Alchemist, it seemed sterile and by-the-numbers.

Yeah, jarring. Sounds like it's from a guy that's twice the apparent age of the character.

Anyway, we both agree that Fullmetal Alchemist really should've been more like Straight Jacket.


Heh. Spill the beans! Give some details. Do you remember the conversations?

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A challenger approaches:

Gun X Sword.

lol. It's been a year or so, but talking to Vic is like talking to a robot. You can strike up a conversation with him, and it goes down hill quickly, cause one second you ask him what he likes about being a voice actor, and then he starts yacking about Fullmetal. Also, someone asked him if Fai was gay... oh boy, the shit hit the fan then, and going as far as to make up a BS story about how he meet with clamp to talk about yaoi being bad, and how they need to stop using it. His fan club is also bat shit insane. Encyclopedia Dramatic has an article on Vic, if you want some more good stories.

*gasp* Ididn't even know there was another page when I last posted!
Now, I love Inuyasha. Don't throw tomatoes at me though, because I can't stand how long and redundant it is anymore. I take it in moderation, like i should do for chocolate. I think the main problem is that the length made it annoying. that made the internal strife get old really fast, and kagome was just ... fail.

And I'm really sorry, Monica RIAL is the actress I don't like. She'd really bad at doing kids voices, that's what I should have been more clear about. Though you guys probably don't like Monica Stori either, she's the voice of Hamtaro's owner and Kagome. *dodges tomatoes*

Vic is hard to talk to. Of course, my only experience is through e-mail, but he was polite, you know, absolutely no personality in his responses. I'll pull one up, maybe...

Haha, Gaddes, I ended up checking out the article and the epic cosfu post linked there; all I have to say is wooooooow. Hours of entertainment, that was. Though strangely, it really left me wanting to attend an anime con again. Perhaps I'll have to take advantage of Anime Detour's proximity in April...

lol, glad you enjoyed it Xel. I took me over 5 hour of reading and nonstop laughing when I first discovered it and having witnessed some of it first hand, I have to say, Vic is way to popular for his own good..I mean a Vic plush toy...really. Also youtube has some creepy videos of Vic and his fan club.

I had a friend who was obsessed with Vic. You can imagine how much fun that was...

Only reason I'm mentioning it, cause it's a crime it was only 3 episodes, when it had sooooo much more potential. It was everything FMA should have been, plus it had a much better dub, better lead character, and was just overall just plain kick ass.


I tried to like S-cry-ed but something about it was just too much fail. A lot of people compared it to DBZ, but I never really saw it, well outside of the fights a plenty but even DBZ's fights where more interesting. Dub was kinda iffy but they didn't have much to work with.

Ninja Resurrection. I don't know if it's because I was listening to the dub, but I cannot get past the first five minutes before deciding to watch something else.

/rage

Straight Cougar was awesome, and the fights didn't last five episodes.

lol no kidding. I love how it's up to Jubei to stop Amakusa Shiro and his big bad evil Christians. Not to mention it's obscene amount of violence  and ADV's lulz dub didn't help either.


He was pretty much the only thing worth watching the show for.

I keep thinking of how many newer animes I've seen that are pure crap and fanservs. Like this psuedo-maho-harem that I can't remember the name of dammit. Why do Otaku have to like sluts? m(_,_)m sorry if I can't say that...

But then I think of animes that were good until they stopped making sense, like Hana yori Dango. I liked it at first, but the english dub was actually better than the japanese at times, and it was still painful. And then there was a part where she hit her boyfriends mom and then there was a boat people getting married and then not getting married. They needed to make up their minds DX.