Since I am very original and everyone's starting "favorite blahblah"-threads, I thought we'd need to rant about the series that really sucks too.
The worst one I've seen is probably Pugyuru. The CGs and animations were crap, the character-design sucked, and the voice actors didn't do a good job either. Not at all.
Gundam Seed is crap. The plot is so plain and the voice actors aren't that great. Mind you, most Mecha anime's are the same deal.
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Anonymous2005-01-05 4:24 (sage)
>82
Try Turn-A Gundam, just for the heck of it.
You will regert your remarks in a good sense.
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Jo2005-01-05 18:48
Neon Genesis Evangelion is a piece of shit. It is the worst of what I have seen. The "you obviously haven't watched enough anime" doesn't apply either.
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mug funky2005-01-05 22:21
good or bad, i think Anno Hideaki redeemed himself in his next role as miyu-miyu in FLCL (or is that just an urban legend?)
as for the "you haven't watched enough anime"... perhaps what is meant is you haven't seen enough really bad anime. say what you will about the story, the production of Eva is pretty damn good. there's a lot worse out there.
my only real gripe with Eva is that Shinji is such a fucking pussy! he should grow a couple of balls! i mean, how fun would it be controlling a giant mecha like that?
my vote for worst anime is Initial D. i watched the first episode, but after seeing it i just didn't care what happened to anyone from there. car worship is boring as fuck (though 2fast2furious is awesome when you're stoned).
and if anyone's after that million, the best way through any poor anime is with a drinking game. drink to all panty-flashes, drink to all money-saving animation (the endless elevator sequences in Eva for example where nothing moves for a minute, or the looping scenes in Azumanga Daioh that get funnier the more repetitive they are, somehow). just those 2 rules should be enough, but there's more if you google for them (ankle-to-head pans, vibrating eyes, blushes, etc. just don't drink to blushes in Saikano, because those red lines don't ever go away).
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Jesus fuck. If you think that's good production, I think *you* need to watch more anime. Specifically: GITS2, anything by Katsuhiro Otomo, My Beautiful Girl Mari (Fucking Koreans can do it better!), Any Ghibli film, FLCL, Alien Nine, Cat Soup, Any 4 Degree C film, and there are more that I can't think of.
My favorite drinking game is for Abenobashi:
If he's crying, take a shot.
If his nose is bleeding, take a shot.
If MuneMune's tits are bouncing, take a shot.
If she crushes his face in her tits, take a shot.
If you make it to the end of the episode without blacking out, empty the bottle.
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Anonymous2005-01-06 9:25
Why are you comparing production quality between a 20-odd episode TV series vs films and OAVs? Of course the latter are going to have higher quality production, they have more money!
you can't say Eva was shit production... there's obviously a lot of shortcuts (the endless elevator sequences), but it's not like the screen's full of "cutout" characters (like the white, outlined people that populate Excel Saga and Azumanga Daioh, both of which are very cool animes).
it was pre-digimation, so it's not all that fair to line it up next to GitS SAC or even FLCL. hehe... before digital animation, it was probably hell just to get Gendo's glasses to reflect a computer screen, like they spend half the series doing (btw, take a drink when that happens).
oh, i forgot to mention that Rei is a pain in the arse as well.
the drink-when-sashi's-face-is-in-mune-mune's-tits rule applies in FLCL with Ta-kun and Haruko as well...
It produced the greatest AMV ever though, set to 2 Live Crew's Doo Doo Brown. If you haven't seen it, you haven't lived.
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Anonymous2005-01-24 10:25
pop popop that coochie
letme see that duuduubrowwn
2livecrew lol
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Adolf der Weihnachtsmann2005-01-31 9:50
Tsuyukomi anyone? Well, it's the worst at the moment.
Worst over all performance belongs either to Piano (for being goddamn boring), Inu Yasha (for repeating itself all the time) or every single advertisement series eg. Pokecrap, Digicrap, Crapbade and so.
The worst anime series I have ever watched (bar YuGiOh) is ShinHakkenden. Damn anime had no point whatsoever.
And with regards to Neon Genesis Evangelion, I was too busy ogling at Misato, Rei, and Asuka to notice how good/bad the series is.
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Anonymous2005-02-14 16:08
NGE is a good series up until around Episode 20 or 21, then it jumps the shark and goes from being merely downbeat and serious to Hideki Anno jumping up and down on your chest and screaming "I've suffered for my art, AND NOW IT'S YOUR TURN. Feel my ANGST, MOTHERFUCKERS! FEEL MY ANGST!"
p.s. Ritsuko > Asuka. <3 <3 <3
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Anonymous2005-02-19 9:41
Air Master gets my vote for being pretty damn bad. Ugly chara models, dialogue is piss-poor, and the plot for almost every single ep is "New bad guy shows up. Air Master kicks his/her ass. Eventually, this bad guy becomes a friend."
My vote for worst anime to watch with a group and heckle is Space Battleship Yamato (I think that's the movie version name, I forget what the anime name is). It's so bad, it's funny.
My vote for worst anime, however, goes to .hack//Legend of the Twilight. I had the patience to enjoy ./hack//sign (though it did take me a long time to get through all 26 eps), and I've played through all 4 of the .hack games (I did the smart thing and bought them recently when they were $20 each, instead of when they first came out at $50 each <hatred for capitalism>), but .hack//LotT was just bad imo. Taking game characters and giving them to moronic 12 year olds (and even chibifying the game characters for them) is a bad idea to start with. All the characters in the show have 1 personality trait, there's next to no character development, and the plot is practically non-existent. And to me, it looks like Rena acts more like a girlfriend with Shugo than a sister in the earlier eps, which I find rather sick.
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Anonymous2005-02-19 15:45
My picks for worst ever?
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, especially if you can find one of the horrid English dubs licensed in the 80s and shown as "G-Force," "Battle of the Planets," or "Eagle Riders." The original is heavy-handed and melodramatic, the 1980s dubs are incoherent, and both are animated at a migraine-inducing two frames per second.
"Captain Harlock, Space Pirate," may just be the cheesiest, corniest, most melodramatic, most over-the-top thing I've ever seen, animated or otherwise. In the English dubs there is an added bonus: the eponymous title character, who is bishonen to the point of being androgynous, is voiced by someone doing his best to sound like James Earl Jones doing Darth Vader.
Well, Worst anime that I have purchased would have to go back several years, and to the agonizingly horrid dub of Ursei Yatsura (or however its spelled, too early for thinking right now) called Those Obnoxious Aliens. It was truly painful.
Worst anime that I haven't bought, geez, there is alot, most recently, I would have to say Kakyuusei 2, I made it thru the entire first episode, and it was absolutely the most boring anime I had ever seen, Other notable bad anime that just turned me off was Dragonball Z (dragonball without the z, while childish was at least a bit interesting) I mean, seriously, lets float around, in some strange pose grunting and talking about powerlevels and such, way to pack 30 seconds of content into a 22 minute show. Hmm other bad stuff, PPP was pretty scary, but I will admit that I did laugh at parts.
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Anonymous2005-02-20 18:35
The Tekken-movie was serious crap.
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Loser_Slade2005-02-26 16:01
Marmalade Boy. So bad it made my head hurt....
Something so wrong about a two families swapping spouses and the daughter of one couple falling for the son of the other couple. That, and it was just... crap.
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Edible Corpse2005-02-27 14:56
amen >111
i tried watching marmalade boy... i really did. i got to something like episode 20 but i was barely hanging on constantly screamin at the main girl JUST PICK ONE OF THEM YOU GODDANMED BITCH (i think the only reason i lasted that long was due to the story of the quiet friend who was in love with her teacher. you know things are bad when the side characters story is MUCH more intresting then the main girls dillema)
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Anonymous2005-02-28 9:27
Kokoro Libary is about a little girl taking care of a library. It shows how she waters them and finds books for her customers. So if we are talking about the worst anime ever i definetely win.
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K_x_uksami2005-03-03 18:38
From what I've seen of Abenobashi, I really can't say I liked it. It looked rather stupid. .Hack//Legend of the Twilight is definantly a contender, too. I swear the writers went out of their way to create one dimentional characters.
Inuyasha isn't really all that bad on its own, but it drags ON SO MUCH! It has so much filler that if you took it all out, the series would probably only be 26 episodes long. Entire story arcs are basically just filler.
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K_x_uksami2005-03-03 18:39
From what I've seen of Abenobashi, I really can't say I liked it. It looked rather stupid. .Hack//Legend of the Twilight is definantly a contender, too. I swear the writers went out of their way to create one dimentional characters.
Inuyasha isn't really all that bad on its own, but it drags ON SO MUCH! It has so much filler that if you took it all out, the series would probably only be 26 episodes long. Entire story arcs are basically just filler.
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Anonymous2005-03-05 1:12
abenobashi is funny
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Anonymous2005-03-08 19:30
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Exactly. I don't watch Inuyasha much. I don't care for it. I certainly wouldn't purchase it, though I sometimes watch it on Adult Swim.
I find it above-average but not compelling enough to justify taking the time to watch it more often or seek it out, now that I'm putting in sixty-hour weeks at my new job.
Inuyasha has great art and animation, but mediocre script and plotting. Inuyasha just isn't an interesting character--he's just an angsty, surly bishonen boy with doggy ears. There's nothing more to him than a bad attitude. And Kagome's "personality," to the extent that she has one, can be summed up in four words: "EEEEEEEEEK! Save me, Inuyasha!" Sango and Miroku are interesting, but don't get nearly enough screen time to salvage it for me.
So I don't care for Inuyasha, and I don't watch it, but anyone who says it's TEH ZOMG WURST EVAR!!!!!111one has never seen truly bad anime (*cough* Dragonball *cough* Pokemon *cough* Sailor Moon *cough* Battle of the Planets / G-Force / Eagle Riders *cough* Voltron *cough* Captain Harlock Space Pirate *cough*).
Shows like Gatchaman, Yamato and Harlock look cheesy because THEY'RE OLD. Christ. They're not going to fucking look like or sound like new anime. And, honestly, they were innovative for their time (you have Gatchaman to thank for opening the door to violent, mature action shows, and Harlock and Yamato are just plain legendary).
Would you say that Casablanca is a crappy movie because it's in black and white and it's been ripped off by a bajillion movies that came *after* it? Hopefully not, because that would be retarded.
There is a difference between shows that you don't like, or shows that are outdated, and shows that are just shitty. There's actually also a difference between mediocre/cliche and "ZOMG T3H WORST EVAR!!!!111".
BTW, has anybody mentioned Lady Death? Dear god. Utter shit.
I'm tempted to mention Early Reins, as it's just really badly done all around, though it doesn't really reach that Dog Soldier/Apocalypse Zero/what-have-you level of 'so bad it's amazingly entertaining' so perhaps it shouldn't be on a 'worst ever' list. Hmm.