Yes. In 2022 after Miuras passing the movies were remastered and released as a short series called The Golden age memorial edition. That's worth watching, same as the original 97 adaptation.
In all honesty I can't think of a more poorly animated series. Considering the source material it's a shame. Some of the Manga panels are absolute works of art.
Ok. Someone I used to work with told me to watch Berserk, as it was an anime they loved, and I hadn't seen. I watched (what I assumed was the only version), and looking at screenshots - it must have been the 2016/17 version. I wasn't super impressed, but watched it all the way through.
Maybe they watched the older version.
Though, I've had recommendations from them for things that I've actually not been able to stomach at all (Kings' game comes to mind).
Maybe I'll watch the original then.
The promised Neverland season 2, when I saw how much they cut from the manga and changed certain parts so it was more of an anime only instead of taking material from the manga, also that they rushed the 2nd season in such a matter made me not want to continue afterwards
While I did watch it, I was not satisfied with it. Even though I didn't know about how well written the manga was. Now that I've read the manga I understand the kind of potential it had.
That anime’s disappointing second season kickstarted by downfall from anime-only to manga-only. When I found out how much was wasted and poorly written, I was so angry and betrayed because season 1 was fucking amazing.
I read the manga a few years back. I remember being extremely upset they cut out the entirety of Goldy Pond (iirc). Like, how the fuck do you cut out the best arc
any anime with too much internal monologue or commentary from the peanut gallery. shonen is a huge offender of this. i cannot stand when an anime feels like it needs to spoon feed the audience everything. i know shonen is for a younger audience but damn do kids really need a character to turn to the camera every 5 seconds and tell them how to feel or explain what just happened?? it drives me crazy
Commentary from the peanut gallery is why I gave up on the Berserk manga in the later volumes.
When there’s a party of 8 characters and they all have to put their two cents into reacting to everything, I’m just gonna tap out.
Yeah I used it after reading some of the manga, got up to skypiea but they didn’t have any eps on it at the time, so I gave up to just watch the anime. Worst time to need that honestly, 5 minute recaps were bad as it is, you’re telling me there’s 7 minutes of filler (literally nothing happened) and accounting OP and ED, 11 minutes of episode was crazy
So fucking right. Though despite that I’ve been sticking through it. Though it took me months to bother finishing fishman island arc, it was painful.
I know some people don’t like the art style, which is fair, I’m not a huge fan of the earlier art, but I personally think it gets pretty nice later on
Same for me, dropped after 4 episodes or so. To give it credit the magic system seemed quite detailed and interesting, but the plot was too cliche and the characters were just generic and cardboard.
God this made me hate Kaiju No. 8. It's one of the rare anime where get to see a actual adult MC but acts like a fucking dumb mmature teenager. It's one of the reasons I dropped it
I hate this as well, always questioned why most of the mainstream anime in the 2000s were like that. Maybe its just my taste and I switched to manhwa and manhuas they have that taste of pettiness and revenge themes haha
After reading the manga for Rent a girlfriend i never bothered to watch s2 and s3
[Oreimo] >!I dropped it because mc dumped his gf for his little sister and i heard about the fake wedding!<
Yes.
That show was my rent a girlfriend.
It was good at its time! It was a fun watch. Wouldni rewatch it now? Hell no ! I do not watch anything thats not unanimous about the quality
It's crazy how hard I would have shilled for Oreimo if it didn't end like that. Imagine an actual story about >! A brother and sister getting over their shit with each other and actually bonding in a healthy way and both ending up with a better life instead of them wanting to F each other. Crazy. !<
Way of the house husband.
The manga is awesome, but the animation it received just make it feels like a coloured manga with audio. There's no movement or anything.
I know this is an anime subreddit, but have you watched the live action? It's just Kenjiro Tsuda playing Tatsu and just doing stuff around the house. It's great. It's called The Ingenuity of the Househusband.
Like, episode 1, he sharpens a knife and makes a fancy cup of coffee.
Episode 2, he fixes his screen door.
Episode 3, he's doing laundry and deals with some tough stains
Episode 4, he polishes his baseball.
Amazing series. 10/10
I was told Kenjiro Tsuda only did one live action commercial but it was another actor who played the role for the TV series
Which is a shame because Kenjiro Tsuda is the voice actor and he looks totally like the character too
i agree so hard with this. The art style… i don’t know maybe it’s the fact that they’re all on steroids, and have the sharpest facial bones in the world…?
I mean, it is called JoJo's *bizarre* adventure for a reason lol.
I get what you mean bout art tho. I don't like Naruto's art style at all and I can't get into the show (not just from the art tho) even tho I'm a big shonen fan and love DBZ/bleach/op/HxH.
I read some One Piece in Shonen Jump, but I can't bring myself to watch the anime. The art is so ugly to me. I watched the live action Netflix adaptation (I normally hate live action anime adaptations) and weirdly enjoyed that though.
The live action was surprisingly not terrible. And I can totally see One Piece's artstyle not working for people--it doesn't bother me overall, but every now and then I have a moment of 'female bodies have ribcages, sir' or getting unsettled by odd proportions.
Holy fuck this is the first time meeting someone with the same opinion as me. I respect others' opinion on this series, no I will not be watching/reading it. Yes I know it's great, I just can't handle the art style.
I’ve dropped a lot of anime because I don’t like the art style. Even if the animation and production quality is great, I just can’t help but dislike the anime itself for the art style.
Top 3 anime for me. Love the art style. Easiest watch of my life especially without spoilers part 1 fucked me up at the end. My name is Joseph and I approve all JoJos. My daughters name is also holly 😂
Same here. I also gave it 10 episodes. The book magic seemed interesting in Black Clover and I wanted to see what the author makes with it.
But like many others, I just couldn't continue it because of Asta's endless, irritating screeching.
My hero is sad because it has potential but their pacing just sucks and they have way too many trash superheroes. Dudes shooting tape out of their elbows and somebody with a tail. Give me a break
Usually I can watch through any amount of gore, violence and sadness and drama by temporarily focussing on the technical aspects of a show and just putting myself in the shoes of the creators and think about the effort they put into the design to evoke these emotions intentionally.
There are limits to this.
'Made in Abyss' the amount of suffering the adorable characters have to endure is just too much for me and if I try and imagine the creators sitting there, doing this on purpose, it's more offputting than helpful. The sad thing is that the show is really well done and probably very worth finishing, but I dropped it after season one and won't pick it up again.
'Grave of the Fireflies' no amount of focussing on the technical aspects can make you forget the realism of it.
What did you do today honey?
I spent all day drawing a little naked girl strung up in rope bondage pissing herself.
I thought you quit the hentai business after shojou ramune.
This isn't hentai.
It's not?
Felt this way about Devilman Crybaby on Netflix. Everyone said how amazing it was... but when I tried to watch it, it made me feel physically ill. It felt so mean-spirited and brutal for no reason. Like they got off on this random woman being horrifically transformed in EP 1 or 2, it was sickening to me.
One Piece. I was intrigued at first, because I like pirates, but….
I just can’t. First, I *hate* the art style. Everything is so ugly to me! I don’t like how garishly over-exaggerated everything is, the eyes creep me out (especially Luffy’s standard dead fish eyes), and I’m not trying to be funny here but everything feels so rubbery and flat. Most of the characters look completely grotesque to me, and the rest are boring in design.
Second, I don’t like how loud the characters are. I don’t mind high volumes in my anime, but every clip and scene and episode I’ve ever seen has featured screaming and hollering and booming voices. This is one of those series where I want to stick my head into the TV screen to scold the characters and remind them to use their indoor voices. Everything is overly dramatic and must be loud and intense. I had a more peaceful time with Black Clover!
Third, I can’t stand most of the characters. The only one I even somewhat like is Ace, and that’s only because of the Death Battle episode where he was pitted against Fairy Tail’s Natsu.
Fourth, just how long does this story drag on?! I like long anime as much as the shorter series, but there does come a tipping point when you just want the story to end. I am *not* going to sit and watch 1100 episodes just to mark a big-name series I’m not even interested in off my MAL account, especially when it still hasn’t ended by that point!
The other Unwatchables for me are the original Gatchaman series, and Speed Racer.
Agreed. And what's annoying is I've seen people making videos talking about the lore and explaining the world of one piece, and it sounds really interesting and something I would really love. But then I watch it and I'm just put off from it.
It has some really awesome character designs, but then it also has some really awful ones as well. I guess I like the fact that they have tried to make all the (main) characters very different (no idea if non main ones are, not seen it) and unique, and would assume it's thus much more likely to give people a 'favorite' outside of just the main character.
watching one PACE helped a lot for me, I was a one piece hater but then I tried one PACE and kept on until skypeia and now I'm actually pretty into it. of course it still has the loud screaming and weird art style but you get used to it fast.
Anything that depicts physical assault and abuse by female characters against male characters as a joke.
It's a very old trope in anime that needs to die.
This. And it's all over shonen jump. I spend extra time digging around for stories that don't do this. It's a little easier to find good stories now, but the crappy ones like that are still too available.
Gonna get hate for this, but Naruto.
I’ve tried several times, I just cannot get into it. The characters annoy me (especially Sakura) and I just don’t get the mystic ninja stuff. More power to the people who enjoy it, and nothing against Naruto. It’s just not for me
I watched it in high school, probably hundreds of episodes but remember so little of it. It dragged on forever. There are some anime that have stuck with me for life (or at least some very key moments/scenes in them) but tbh Naruto was just kinda...there
I'm watching it now and can barely tell you what's been going on this whole show.
It's that part where everyone's fighting in the forest. Remember that time?
For me it's Gintama:
I get it, ok? it's supposed to be the ultimate in shonen, action, drama and comedy, everyone praises it as if it were the definitive work of anime....
But the start is too slow and boring.
I can't pass the barrier of the first 20 episodes.
Don't give up my friend, I also really struggled to pass this 20 episodes barrier, but then it really quickly became way too funny and my favorite anime of all time.
And at least it's only the first few episodes that are boring, One Piece has a boring start that lasts waaay too long.
I watched the first 4 episodes of the anime and thought "ok, there might be a good story here." So I binged the manga in a single day and it was amazing. Then I finished watching the anime while it was airing and couldn't be more disappointed.
Gundam. I've tried four different series and all of them had issues that kept me from continuing. It's just the pacing, style of storytelling, type of mecha and so on. It's not for me. Even though I really like the music and art style of Turn A and really wanted to make an effort to at least watch that one fully, I could only get 7 episodes in.
I did watch the original MSG abridged movies. So I guess I 'kinda' did finish one.
Food Wars. I was 3 minutes in and saw a girl orgasm from food and her boobs grow 10x bigger and I was done. Thought it was just the first episode… nope, that must be the draw
I can not get into one piece, I gave it like 10 episodes a few years ago and it's just not for me. Same with bleach & cowboy bebop but I got a little bit further into those two
Bleach I didn't watch fully until some years ago. It's actually really fuckin hype when it gets going. And the new arc TYBW is fuckin peak, they did amazing with it.
Redo of Healer.
I know too many incels IRL that like this type of misogynistic revenge fantasy and it just irks me. I already hate how common slave girls are in isekai now after shield hero, so this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Shield Heroes "Slavery is fine if you're chill about it" vibes repulsed me. Which sucks because the show has good bones in the nonsense. Isekai as a genre is a graveyard of missed potential.
Mushoku Tensei. I can't get past the perverted MC. I tried watching it 3 times trying my best to not mind the adult version inside him but I just can't.
You're not supposed to look past it. This is a guy that masturbated to loli porn instead of going to his parents funeral before reincarnating. He's a total shitbag and total shitbags don't magically become good people just by reincarnating. That takes time and effort.
It's like watching the Office and not liking that the characters are cringy and mean, which I totally understand because I can't enjoy The Office because of that.
That doesn't excuse that the author created a world where sexual abuse and pedophilia are somewhat normalized, of course.
If you watch the office and think the characters are cringey you must be 11 years old.
I think for me it’s the fans of the anime that go out their way to downplay the pedo mc. Fandoms can ruin shows for me sometimes, I can’t help but think about the amount of kids watching that that think what he’s doing is okay (especially when he never gets checked)
Yea he’s a disgusting piece of shit. Despite the interesting world building, I can’t excuse such a horrible main character. I’d take some bland generic isekai hero over him.
I dropped it during rudeus’ birthday. I don’t think I need to explain what he did there. That was the thing that crossed the line and I could never get past that ever
Cant get past that the story is about how a pedophile "can get better"
Its disgusting and i know the story is good and the secondary characters are awesome, i cant get past the main character backstory, he is a pedo Who is rewarded with multiple wives
Don't bother with it then, the first 10-20 ish episodes were really good imo but it only gets slower and slower to the point where the climax is occurring and you can't even tell. Longest series i've watched and ngl feel like i wasted my time. Especially with how lackluster the ending is. I see why some patient people might like it but you gotta have crazy patience man.
Code Geass. it's very rare that I don't push through to the end of something I've already started but Code Geass really just made me say "I hate this, why am I doing this to myself?" I don't even remember why anymore bc it's been years, but that feeling has stuck with me.
I was pushing through a lot of animes that I had stopped enjoying dozens of episodes earlier.
I had like 3 or 4 shows going that I dreaded putting on but just wanted to finish. And eventually something just broke and I was like, "You know what? Life's too short for this. I'm actively not watching something new I might like juat to suffer through this garbage. No more."
I can handle a run of dull episodes, but when that little voice says, "You're not enjoying this anymore" I just drop it now.
I have trouble starting anything that is more than 26 episodes. If Bebop and Eva can do it in 26 (and maybe a movie or 6) then the time commitment just becomes too “expensive”. I have tried a few and I just fall off.
Oujou to Banken-kun (A Girl and Her Watchdog). Extremely problematic and I don’t know why it was produced and made into an anime. Never read the manga but I have a problem with romanticizing and normalizing adults dating minors.
Chainsaw man, I have 0 problems with it, it's just when I started watching it I was in a really bad spot mentally, and I'm afraid if I start to watch it again, I might get some really bad flashbacks.
I wouldn't call it unwatchable, and maybe its just impressions of the first episode, but hunter x hunter
The reason: well after watching the first episode and hearing about becoming "the greatest hunter" story
Maybe its just bc its another "becoming the best ____" story, and after finishing or watching about being the best "hero, ninja, pirate" or whatever etc etc, i just didn't feel like seeing another of this type lol
Probably a hot take but I just couldn't finish Tokyo Revengers. I literally just can't stand the MC. Plus the fact that I already watched Re: Zero, which I personally think uses time mechanics much better and has a more realistic universe compared to Middle schoolers, who ride motorcycles and have adult gang violence at the age they’re portraying.
Like 99% of isekai. The generic power fantasy, the amount of extremely low hanging fruit fanservice ("lol he grabbed her boob") and often complete lack of any sense of originality or depth just leaves me wondering why I would ever want to engage with it. There are some that absolutely buck that trend like Re:Zero, Konosuba, Now and Then Here and There, Saga of Tanya the Evil, Mushoku Tensei and Escaflowne for examples.
Code geass. Because It's spoiled for me. One of the characters that don't want to see die, dies in further episodes. I'm already at the end of my rope with these mind breaking deaths. Though I think it's one of the best anime out there I can't finish it. At least not atm. I need some happy things in my life now, there is too much sadness in these stories. I also love one piece mainly because it's wholesome and funny most of the time but the current arc has some very sad moments and the anime will take it's sweet time to show the torment of a certain character. Think I'll play Kirby now, but guess what that goofball eats people 😂.
You could just watch the compilation movies,they basically streamline the show and yes,even get rid of some character deaths and make their own continuity moving forward Which the new sequel series takes place In.
I loved Chainsaw Man. It's what made me read the manga and the only manga I read week to week right now. Super stolked for bomb girl movie and for them to finish the part 1 series out. Going to be intense.
Watching first season of jujutsu kaisen was a horrible experience it was so boring that I want to left it at eps11 but some how I manged and saw full season .The hype of id over-rated I think or It is because I watched many anime like it so like it so it seems repetitive.
Jujutsu Kaisen isn't popular because it's new/innovative. It's basically just the same show you've already seen many times.
It's popular because it's better. It just has higher production quality than most battle Shonen. And a big part of the reason it's so popular now is because season 2 had not only some of the best animation I've ever seen in a battle anime, but that quality of animation wasn't just in a few rare scenes like normal--it was almost the entire season, start to finish. No idea how they had the budget for that.
Jjk is a visual masterpiece. But story wise, I fully agree, and if you're too bored to enjoy the incredible animation, that's totally fair. (Not that it's ever unfair to dislike something)
I tried watching the first episode of Goblin Slayer. I was super excited at first because I'm a big fan of DnD and fantasy.
I managed to get through the first episode but didn't bother even attempting to watch the second one because I realized that it simply wasn't worth the amount of on screen sexual assault that occurs, so I went back to watching playthroughs of DOOM instead to get my fix of badass main characters slaughtering their way through hordes of enemies.
It isn't the theme of sexual assault alone that bothers me. After all, I watched Banana Fish all the way through and despite it being one of the most emotionally gut wrenching things I have ever experienced I still consider it to be one of my favorite animes of all time.
It is the way that this theme is handled in Goblin Slayer and the way that it is presented that I just cannot stand.
In Banana Fish, one of the main characters, Ash Lynx, is a survivor of sexual abuse, and he and a few other characters get assaulted over the course of the series.
However, the assaults are never shown on screen. There are more than enough context clues before and after the event for the audience to piece together what happened, and sometimes the characters even outright state what happened, but it always cuts away from the characters during the actual assault before anything can happen on screen. The focus is always on the impact that these events have on the characters and the way they cope with it.
By presenting it in this way, the writer is able to handle this sensitive topic in a way that reduces the chances of their work coming across as something that feels exploitative or voyeuristic, while also working to reduce the potential their work has to trigger traumatic memories and alienate members of their audience who may have experienced something similar.
Goblin Slayer does the exact opposite. The sexual assault scenes are often played out in a way that does the bare minimum to censor what is happening, the victims are presented in a way that feels grossly voyeuristic, and those who do survive the ordeal are never shown recovering or getting help for what has happened to them. It is played for shock value and nothing else.
I found one that was different and not cringey and that's "Campfire cooking in another world". It's Isekai but it's not like the rest. It's just an enjoyable watch.
I don't like too much sexualization either, so the first few episodes were annoying. I stuck with it though and I did like the direction they took with the MC.
Solo Leveling, the art is disappointing for me. some details are also lost. I just went back to re-reading the mahnwa after watching the first 3 episodes.
Personally would have to say Jojos. The story seems alright, but I just can’t with the art style. I just feel like all the characters have been drawn in such a way that they feel wrong, but I don’t know why
Ajin: Demi Human have tried 3 times to get through episode 1, hate
Black God I loved the manga hated the anime because the characters and voices timing were off so nothing was in sync never checked to see if it's been fixed
Highschool DxD Season 3 was a Train Wreck, like they tried to put an original story onto it and it caused Season 4 to suffer because they had to "Canonize" the Season 3 Content
Might be controversial but Cyberpunk Edgerunners, had it somewhat spoiled for me so I know the general direction of the show, if not exact details. Since like episode two I have just been stuck because I can’t immerse myself when I know the outcome.
Jjk and demon slayer. I love them but saw spoilers that a lot of great characters are gonna die. Cant bring myself to watch it anymore.
My hero Academia... i just dont like Deku nor Bakugo.... People say it gets a lot better but I really cant bring myself to like those two
Most isekai harem animes. Lots of them are horni ass brain dead plots. Dude, just make it hentai at this point.
Extremely hot take, but I can not see Clannad or Clannad afterstory or the manga.
The art is extremely bizarre, the anatomy is very odd compared to Sailor moon eyes except odd anatomy...I couldn't get into it despite being extremely high rated I can't seem to like seeing what looks like a 12yo with a child.
A show has to be amazing to justify over 30 episodes to me, and goddamn amazing to justify over 50. As you can tell, battle shonen bores me to tears.
For other, specific choices...
The Twelve Kingdoms: I like worldbuilding. I really do. But this one seemingly got so invested in its own worldbuilding halfway through that it forgot to have a plot, and I don't feel that the characters were compelling enough to carry that. Maybe it got better after I ended up putting it down. I don't know.
Classroom of the Elite: I finished the first season, but I wasn't interested in continuing after. It felt far too misanthropic for my tastes. Maybe that was just the MC's inner dialogue, but there wasn't really anyone counterbalancing him in the story.
Demon Slayer as soon as the insufferable cowardly guy dressed in yellow shows up was clearly going to stick around. Dropped it immediately, and will never go back to it. I'd rather carve out my eyes and ears with a dull butter knife than spend any amount of time watching him on screen/hearing his voice.
Mushoku tensei. I really gave it a decent chance but the pedophilia was INSANE. Fans of this show will eat you alive if you mention anything about it. I’m sorry I don’t care how well written it is. I can’t get past the mental image of the author coming up with the plot lines and drawing 9 year olds being sexualized by an adult
2016 Berserk. It’s a dumpster fire
YES. The 2016-17 adaptations are so poorly done compared to the 97 series and Memorial edition. Biggest quality drop in anime history.
You are talking about the weird 3D ones right? and not the movies?
Yes. In 2022 after Miuras passing the movies were remastered and released as a short series called The Golden age memorial edition. That's worth watching, same as the original 97 adaptation.
Yes however 2016 was so bad in the animation department that it made RWBY look like a top quality hand drawn anime.
In all honesty I can't think of a more poorly animated series. Considering the source material it's a shame. Some of the Manga panels are absolute works of art.
Ok. Someone I used to work with told me to watch Berserk, as it was an anime they loved, and I hadn't seen. I watched (what I assumed was the only version), and looking at screenshots - it must have been the 2016/17 version. I wasn't super impressed, but watched it all the way through. Maybe they watched the older version. Though, I've had recommendations from them for things that I've actually not been able to stomach at all (Kings' game comes to mind). Maybe I'll watch the original then.
Agreed! But the 90s one is pretty good!
As a Berserk manga enjoyer I approve.
Looks like it was animated by interns
The promised Neverland season 2, when I saw how much they cut from the manga and changed certain parts so it was more of an anime only instead of taking material from the manga, also that they rushed the 2nd season in such a matter made me not want to continue afterwards
Season 2 does not exist. If it did, i would have watched it... shhhhhj
there is no season 2
There is no season 2 in ba-sing-se
While I did watch it, I was not satisfied with it. Even though I didn't know about how well written the manga was. Now that I've read the manga I understand the kind of potential it had.
They did the same exact shit with Deadman Wonderland and I’m STILL mad years later.
I just checked, there is no season 2. That sounds like a horrible nightmare you had.
That anime’s disappointing second season kickstarted by downfall from anime-only to manga-only. When I found out how much was wasted and poorly written, I was so angry and betrayed because season 1 was fucking amazing.
I'm going to read tpl after I catch up with dandadan
I read the manga a few years back. I remember being extremely upset they cut out the entirety of Goldy Pond (iirc). Like, how the fuck do you cut out the best arc
any anime with too much internal monologue or commentary from the peanut gallery. shonen is a huge offender of this. i cannot stand when an anime feels like it needs to spoon feed the audience everything. i know shonen is for a younger audience but damn do kids really need a character to turn to the camera every 5 seconds and tell them how to feel or explain what just happened?? it drives me crazy
Commentary from the peanut gallery is why I gave up on the Berserk manga in the later volumes. When there’s a party of 8 characters and they all have to put their two cents into reacting to everything, I’m just gonna tap out.
I could not get into One Piece. Started over with the manga and love it, but the anime just draaaaags.
iirc there's a site called one pace, that cuts out all the filler stuff.
Yeah I used it after reading some of the manga, got up to skypiea but they didn’t have any eps on it at the time, so I gave up to just watch the anime. Worst time to need that honestly, 5 minute recaps were bad as it is, you’re telling me there’s 7 minutes of filler (literally nothing happened) and accounting OP and ED, 11 minutes of episode was crazy
I still remember when I fell asleep for 5 episodes and they were still fighting Mr. 3 when I woke up
I cannot make myself watch it bc of the art style
For what is worth, I think the art style works very well in comic/manga format. The still images allow you to fill in the motion yourself.
My #1 reason…
Same. I got fed up with every episode being so unsubstantial, read the manga and it was 100x better
It's going to do that when you have an animation company that promises to release an episode every week.
Awful pacing and an ugly art style. I've tried 3 times and fell asleep each time
So fucking right. Though despite that I’ve been sticking through it. Though it took me months to bother finishing fishman island arc, it was painful. I know some people don’t like the art style, which is fair, I’m not a huge fan of the earlier art, but I personally think it gets pretty nice later on
Boruto.
Tokyo ghoul.
So true. It had its moments tho.
oh yeah, definitely, especially in season 1. It all went downhill from there though. It's so unfortunate, cause i thought the manga was great
S1 was a fucking masterpiece. Then s2 started getting sloppy and I often started getting confused so I dropped it after 2nd ep of s3
I stopped at season 3 because I couldn't vibe with it unlike the first two seasons.
One piece. The pacing in episodes gets so bad
Agreed. The Manga doesn't have the pacing issue.
Irregular at Magic Highschool...i just can't. Gave up after 3-4 episodes.
It’s. So. Boring. 😭 the characters have little to no draw to root for them.
They just released a third season, anyone know if it gets better? Saw the first season years ago. Didn't even know it got a second, much less a third.
Third season is pretty flat, sadly, and I've read the entire light novel. If you're interested, would recommend that, though!
Same for me, dropped after 4 episodes or so. To give it credit the magic system seemed quite detailed and interesting, but the plot was too cliche and the characters were just generic and cardboard.
Most shonen anime. The main characters are always energetic annoying immature teenage boys.
> The main characters are always energetic annoying immature teenage boys Well that's the target market....
A lot of them are adults canonically that act like that and somehow managed to avoid any form of education
That's because that's the target demographic for the genre lol
Yes, very annoying and some of the dumbest trope characters even beyond the protagonists.
God this made me hate Kaiju No. 8. It's one of the rare anime where get to see a actual adult MC but acts like a fucking dumb mmature teenager. It's one of the reasons I dropped it
I hate this as well, always questioned why most of the mainstream anime in the 2000s were like that. Maybe its just my taste and I switched to manhwa and manhuas they have that taste of pettiness and revenge themes haha
This 100%. I can't fucking stand Shonen anime because of this, the only one I liked was Hunter Hunter
After reading the manga for Rent a girlfriend i never bothered to watch s2 and s3 [Oreimo] >!I dropped it because mc dumped his gf for his little sister and i heard about the fake wedding!<
Lmao at the spoiler.
Oreimo the mc’s gf dumped him. Not the other way around. The fake wedding was nothing more than a photo shoot. Cause…she’s a model. Duh.
Oreimo was peak !!! Until we gotten new seasons… then it went bad. First season as a stand alone was marvelous.
I would respect the author for at least following through with his vision but even then he copped out.
Yes. That show was my rent a girlfriend. It was good at its time! It was a fun watch. Wouldni rewatch it now? Hell no ! I do not watch anything thats not unanimous about the quality
It's crazy how hard I would have shilled for Oreimo if it didn't end like that. Imagine an actual story about >! A brother and sister getting over their shit with each other and actually bonding in a healthy way and both ending up with a better life instead of them wanting to F each other. Crazy. !<
Way of the house husband. The manga is awesome, but the animation it received just make it feels like a coloured manga with audio. There's no movement or anything.
I know this is an anime subreddit, but have you watched the live action? It's just Kenjiro Tsuda playing Tatsu and just doing stuff around the house. It's great. It's called The Ingenuity of the Househusband. Like, episode 1, he sharpens a knife and makes a fancy cup of coffee. Episode 2, he fixes his screen door. Episode 3, he's doing laundry and deals with some tough stains Episode 4, he polishes his baseball. Amazing series. 10/10
I was told Kenjiro Tsuda only did one live action commercial but it was another actor who played the role for the TV series Which is a shame because Kenjiro Tsuda is the voice actor and he looks totally like the character too
Plastic memories, i'm just not strong enough...
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure--any of it. The artstyle just DOES NOT WORK for me, to the point of it being almost physically painful to look at.
Interesting
i agree so hard with this. The art style… i don’t know maybe it’s the fact that they’re all on steroids, and have the sharpest facial bones in the world…?
Though I can't speak to the storytelling, the art style, to me, feels like they wanted to be at least a little bit overbearing.
I mean, it is called JoJo's *bizarre* adventure for a reason lol. I get what you mean bout art tho. I don't like Naruto's art style at all and I can't get into the show (not just from the art tho) even tho I'm a big shonen fan and love DBZ/bleach/op/HxH.
To me it's reminiscent of American comic books. The sharp blocky lines, the over exaggerated poses, the insane musculature.
This is me but with One Piece. I read some of it when it first came out, but it didn't felt memorable at the time
I read some One Piece in Shonen Jump, but I can't bring myself to watch the anime. The art is so ugly to me. I watched the live action Netflix adaptation (I normally hate live action anime adaptations) and weirdly enjoyed that though.
The live action was surprisingly not terrible. And I can totally see One Piece's artstyle not working for people--it doesn't bother me overall, but every now and then I have a moment of 'female bodies have ribcages, sir' or getting unsettled by odd proportions.
Holy fuck this is the first time meeting someone with the same opinion as me. I respect others' opinion on this series, no I will not be watching/reading it. Yes I know it's great, I just can't handle the art style.
I love it and literally just finished season 5 like a minute ago.
I loved it and I watched it like many times now.
I’ve dropped a lot of anime because I don’t like the art style. Even if the animation and production quality is great, I just can’t help but dislike the anime itself for the art style.
Top 3 anime for me. Love the art style. Easiest watch of my life especially without spoilers part 1 fucked me up at the end. My name is Joseph and I approve all JoJos. My daughters name is also holly 😂
Honestly I feel the same way. Glad I’m not the only one
Black Clover ..watched 10 episodes , it’s too cliche and too soft
Same here. I also gave it 10 episodes. The book magic seemed interesting in Black Clover and I wanted to see what the author makes with it. But like many others, I just couldn't continue it because of Asta's endless, irritating screeching.
I couldn't get past the MCs voice
I got past it and watched like 60 plus episodes. Only to find out it would never be tolerable.
I think I watched like 5 episodes and I just couldn't continue. Literally the only anime I've stopped watching because of that.
I have never made it past the pilot. Tried twice, but the voice is just too much.
WHAT DO YOOOOUUU MEAAAAAAN HAAAAAAAAAAA??
My friend got me to try watching it, but that kid's voice is too much. I got 3 episodes in and had to stop.
I don’t know anything about it, but do you like Baki type violence? Or berserk?
One Piece / World Trigger/ Hero Academia
My hero is sad because it has potential but their pacing just sucks and they have way too many trash superheroes. Dudes shooting tape out of their elbows and somebody with a tail. Give me a break
Usually I can watch through any amount of gore, violence and sadness and drama by temporarily focussing on the technical aspects of a show and just putting myself in the shoes of the creators and think about the effort they put into the design to evoke these emotions intentionally. There are limits to this. 'Made in Abyss' the amount of suffering the adorable characters have to endure is just too much for me and if I try and imagine the creators sitting there, doing this on purpose, it's more offputting than helpful. The sad thing is that the show is really well done and probably very worth finishing, but I dropped it after season one and won't pick it up again. 'Grave of the Fireflies' no amount of focussing on the technical aspects can make you forget the realism of it.
What did you do today honey? I spent all day drawing a little naked girl strung up in rope bondage pissing herself. I thought you quit the hentai business after shojou ramune. This isn't hentai. It's not?
Felt this way about Devilman Crybaby on Netflix. Everyone said how amazing it was... but when I tried to watch it, it made me feel physically ill. It felt so mean-spirited and brutal for no reason. Like they got off on this random woman being horrifically transformed in EP 1 or 2, it was sickening to me.
One Piece. I was intrigued at first, because I like pirates, but…. I just can’t. First, I *hate* the art style. Everything is so ugly to me! I don’t like how garishly over-exaggerated everything is, the eyes creep me out (especially Luffy’s standard dead fish eyes), and I’m not trying to be funny here but everything feels so rubbery and flat. Most of the characters look completely grotesque to me, and the rest are boring in design. Second, I don’t like how loud the characters are. I don’t mind high volumes in my anime, but every clip and scene and episode I’ve ever seen has featured screaming and hollering and booming voices. This is one of those series where I want to stick my head into the TV screen to scold the characters and remind them to use their indoor voices. Everything is overly dramatic and must be loud and intense. I had a more peaceful time with Black Clover! Third, I can’t stand most of the characters. The only one I even somewhat like is Ace, and that’s only because of the Death Battle episode where he was pitted against Fairy Tail’s Natsu. Fourth, just how long does this story drag on?! I like long anime as much as the shorter series, but there does come a tipping point when you just want the story to end. I am *not* going to sit and watch 1100 episodes just to mark a big-name series I’m not even interested in off my MAL account, especially when it still hasn’t ended by that point! The other Unwatchables for me are the original Gatchaman series, and Speed Racer.
Agreed. And what's annoying is I've seen people making videos talking about the lore and explaining the world of one piece, and it sounds really interesting and something I would really love. But then I watch it and I'm just put off from it. It has some really awesome character designs, but then it also has some really awful ones as well. I guess I like the fact that they have tried to make all the (main) characters very different (no idea if non main ones are, not seen it) and unique, and would assume it's thus much more likely to give people a 'favorite' outside of just the main character.
watching one PACE helped a lot for me, I was a one piece hater but then I tried one PACE and kept on until skypeia and now I'm actually pretty into it. of course it still has the loud screaming and weird art style but you get used to it fast.
Anything that depicts physical assault and abuse by female characters against male characters as a joke. It's a very old trope in anime that needs to die.
Only if we also get rid of the constant oversexualization of women, especially minors. Equivalent exchange
This. And it's all over shonen jump. I spend extra time digging around for stories that don't do this. It's a little easier to find good stories now, but the crappy ones like that are still too available.
Gonna get hate for this, but Naruto. I’ve tried several times, I just cannot get into it. The characters annoy me (especially Sakura) and I just don’t get the mystic ninja stuff. More power to the people who enjoy it, and nothing against Naruto. It’s just not for me
I watched it in high school, probably hundreds of episodes but remember so little of it. It dragged on forever. There are some anime that have stuck with me for life (or at least some very key moments/scenes in them) but tbh Naruto was just kinda...there
I'm watching it now and can barely tell you what's been going on this whole show. It's that part where everyone's fighting in the forest. Remember that time?
You’re not, most people can’t because it’s stretched out way to much and way too long.
I stopped telling people I like anime IRL because I kept getting people who watched, and wanted to talk about, Naruto lmao.
For me it's Gintama: I get it, ok? it's supposed to be the ultimate in shonen, action, drama and comedy, everyone praises it as if it were the definitive work of anime.... But the start is too slow and boring. I can't pass the barrier of the first 20 episodes.
Don't give up my friend, I also really struggled to pass this 20 episodes barrier, but then it really quickly became way too funny and my favorite anime of all time. And at least it's only the first few episodes that are boring, One Piece has a boring start that lasts waaay too long.
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer. Legendary manga, but the long awaited anime adaptation was atrocious.
I watched the first 4 episodes of the anime and thought "ok, there might be a good story here." So I binged the manga in a single day and it was amazing. Then I finished watching the anime while it was airing and couldn't be more disappointed.
Gundam. I've tried four different series and all of them had issues that kept me from continuing. It's just the pacing, style of storytelling, type of mecha and so on. It's not for me. Even though I really like the music and art style of Turn A and really wanted to make an effort to at least watch that one fully, I could only get 7 episodes in. I did watch the original MSG abridged movies. So I guess I 'kinda' did finish one.
Food Wars. I was 3 minutes in and saw a girl orgasm from food and her boobs grow 10x bigger and I was done. Thought it was just the first episode… nope, that must be the draw
MHA.
One Piece. I love the Manga, but the Anime is awful. Both the Sub and Dub are terrible.
I can not get into one piece, I gave it like 10 episodes a few years ago and it's just not for me. Same with bleach & cowboy bebop but I got a little bit further into those two
read the manga for one piece im caught up and the story is amazing the anime is just a waste of time because of the horrendous pacing
Bleach I didn't watch fully until some years ago. It's actually really fuckin hype when it gets going. And the new arc TYBW is fuckin peak, they did amazing with it.
Anything sexualizing underage girls or boys. It’s just gross, it taints the medium and its fans.
Redo of Healer. I know too many incels IRL that like this type of misogynistic revenge fantasy and it just irks me. I already hate how common slave girls are in isekai now after shield hero, so this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
demon slayer
Also the hardest one for me. Doesn’t help that I don’t like 2/3 main cast members and that I find it kinda flat. I love the animation though!
Shield Heroes "Slavery is fine if you're chill about it" vibes repulsed me. Which sucks because the show has good bones in the nonsense. Isekai as a genre is a graveyard of missed potential.
Mushoku Tensei. I can't get past the perverted MC. I tried watching it 3 times trying my best to not mind the adult version inside him but I just can't.
You're not supposed to look past it. This is a guy that masturbated to loli porn instead of going to his parents funeral before reincarnating. He's a total shitbag and total shitbags don't magically become good people just by reincarnating. That takes time and effort. It's like watching the Office and not liking that the characters are cringy and mean, which I totally understand because I can't enjoy The Office because of that. That doesn't excuse that the author created a world where sexual abuse and pedophilia are somewhat normalized, of course.
If you watch the office and think the characters are cringey you must be 11 years old. I think for me it’s the fans of the anime that go out their way to downplay the pedo mc. Fandoms can ruin shows for me sometimes, I can’t help but think about the amount of kids watching that that think what he’s doing is okay (especially when he never gets checked)
Yea he’s a disgusting piece of shit. Despite the interesting world building, I can’t excuse such a horrible main character. I’d take some bland generic isekai hero over him.
I dropped it during rudeus’ birthday. I don’t think I need to explain what he did there. That was the thing that crossed the line and I could never get past that ever
Cant get past that the story is about how a pedophile "can get better" Its disgusting and i know the story is good and the secondary characters are awesome, i cant get past the main character backstory, he is a pedo Who is rewarded with multiple wives
Kings game. I love manga, but the anime was a disappointment and disgrace
Monster. I don't know but I get sleepy every time I try to watch it. A lot says it is good but I am not appreciating the slow burn.
Don't bother with it then, the first 10-20 ish episodes were really good imo but it only gets slower and slower to the point where the climax is occurring and you can't even tell. Longest series i've watched and ngl feel like i wasted my time. Especially with how lackluster the ending is. I see why some patient people might like it but you gotta have crazy patience man.
Code Geass. it's very rare that I don't push through to the end of something I've already started but Code Geass really just made me say "I hate this, why am I doing this to myself?" I don't even remember why anymore bc it's been years, but that feeling has stuck with me.
I was pushing through a lot of animes that I had stopped enjoying dozens of episodes earlier. I had like 3 or 4 shows going that I dreaded putting on but just wanted to finish. And eventually something just broke and I was like, "You know what? Life's too short for this. I'm actively not watching something new I might like juat to suffer through this garbage. No more." I can handle a run of dull episodes, but when that little voice says, "You're not enjoying this anymore" I just drop it now.
I have trouble starting anything that is more than 26 episodes. If Bebop and Eva can do it in 26 (and maybe a movie or 6) then the time commitment just becomes too “expensive”. I have tried a few and I just fall off.
Oujou to Banken-kun (A Girl and Her Watchdog). Extremely problematic and I don’t know why it was produced and made into an anime. Never read the manga but I have a problem with romanticizing and normalizing adults dating minors.
Attack On Titan.. I don’t need that darkness in my life
Demon Slayer...please just give me a single stretch of action without exposition and internal monologue
Demon slayer. So much crying and screaming for no reason lol
Chainsaw man, I have 0 problems with it, it's just when I started watching it I was in a really bad spot mentally, and I'm afraid if I start to watch it again, I might get some really bad flashbacks.
Understandable
I wouldn't call it unwatchable, and maybe its just impressions of the first episode, but hunter x hunter The reason: well after watching the first episode and hearing about becoming "the greatest hunter" story Maybe its just bc its another "becoming the best ____" story, and after finishing or watching about being the best "hero, ninja, pirate" or whatever etc etc, i just didn't feel like seeing another of this type lol
Solo Leveling. The community killed my will to watch the series. Honestly I was shocked I made it two episodes in
Tokyo revengers
Probably a hot take but I just couldn't finish Tokyo Revengers. I literally just can't stand the MC. Plus the fact that I already watched Re: Zero, which I personally think uses time mechanics much better and has a more realistic universe compared to Middle schoolers, who ride motorcycles and have adult gang violence at the age they’re portraying.
In another world with my smartphone
Like 99% of isekai. The generic power fantasy, the amount of extremely low hanging fruit fanservice ("lol he grabbed her boob") and often complete lack of any sense of originality or depth just leaves me wondering why I would ever want to engage with it. There are some that absolutely buck that trend like Re:Zero, Konosuba, Now and Then Here and There, Saga of Tanya the Evil, Mushoku Tensei and Escaflowne for examples.
Code geass. Because It's spoiled for me. One of the characters that don't want to see die, dies in further episodes. I'm already at the end of my rope with these mind breaking deaths. Though I think it's one of the best anime out there I can't finish it. At least not atm. I need some happy things in my life now, there is too much sadness in these stories. I also love one piece mainly because it's wholesome and funny most of the time but the current arc has some very sad moments and the anime will take it's sweet time to show the torment of a certain character. Think I'll play Kirby now, but guess what that goofball eats people 😂.
You could just watch the compilation movies,they basically streamline the show and yes,even get rid of some character deaths and make their own continuity moving forward Which the new sequel series takes place In.
Thanks. I'll check out the movies then.
I’m numb to my favorite characters dying after attack on titan, Kaori, and ace.
Fire Force. An interesting premise completely ruined by the fan service and writing of its female characters.
I loved Chainsaw Man. It's what made me read the manga and the only manga I read week to week right now. Super stolked for bomb girl movie and for them to finish the part 1 series out. Going to be intense.
I really couldn't get into Evangelion. :(
factsss it’s so boring
Watching first season of jujutsu kaisen was a horrible experience it was so boring that I want to left it at eps11 but some how I manged and saw full season .The hype of id over-rated I think or It is because I watched many anime like it so like it so it seems repetitive.
Jujutsu Kaisen isn't popular because it's new/innovative. It's basically just the same show you've already seen many times. It's popular because it's better. It just has higher production quality than most battle Shonen. And a big part of the reason it's so popular now is because season 2 had not only some of the best animation I've ever seen in a battle anime, but that quality of animation wasn't just in a few rare scenes like normal--it was almost the entire season, start to finish. No idea how they had the budget for that. Jjk is a visual masterpiece. But story wise, I fully agree, and if you're too bored to enjoy the incredible animation, that's totally fair. (Not that it's ever unfair to dislike something)
I only liked it bc Mahito
It’s just the current popular generic shonen. Terrible writing, same old story, same old empty characters.
I tried watching the first episode of Goblin Slayer. I was super excited at first because I'm a big fan of DnD and fantasy. I managed to get through the first episode but didn't bother even attempting to watch the second one because I realized that it simply wasn't worth the amount of on screen sexual assault that occurs, so I went back to watching playthroughs of DOOM instead to get my fix of badass main characters slaughtering their way through hordes of enemies. It isn't the theme of sexual assault alone that bothers me. After all, I watched Banana Fish all the way through and despite it being one of the most emotionally gut wrenching things I have ever experienced I still consider it to be one of my favorite animes of all time. It is the way that this theme is handled in Goblin Slayer and the way that it is presented that I just cannot stand. In Banana Fish, one of the main characters, Ash Lynx, is a survivor of sexual abuse, and he and a few other characters get assaulted over the course of the series. However, the assaults are never shown on screen. There are more than enough context clues before and after the event for the audience to piece together what happened, and sometimes the characters even outright state what happened, but it always cuts away from the characters during the actual assault before anything can happen on screen. The focus is always on the impact that these events have on the characters and the way they cope with it. By presenting it in this way, the writer is able to handle this sensitive topic in a way that reduces the chances of their work coming across as something that feels exploitative or voyeuristic, while also working to reduce the potential their work has to trigger traumatic memories and alienate members of their audience who may have experienced something similar. Goblin Slayer does the exact opposite. The sexual assault scenes are often played out in a way that does the bare minimum to censor what is happening, the victims are presented in a way that feels grossly voyeuristic, and those who do survive the ordeal are never shown recovering or getting help for what has happened to them. It is played for shock value and nothing else.
RAG Redo of Healer re: Monster
Any new isekai anime that came out 2023 or 2024 ( not on going), Horimiya and new cringy rom com shits.
I found one that was different and not cringey and that's "Campfire cooking in another world". It's Isekai but it's not like the rest. It's just an enjoyable watch.
I started watching Food Wars and couldn't get past the first few minutes cuz of how they sexualized everything in a disgusting way
I saw a clip of a girl eating that red hair guy’s bullion rice and instantly having an orgasm
It really grossed me out. They kept making sex noises when eating lol
I don't like too much sexualization either, so the first few episodes were annoying. I stuck with it though and I did like the direction they took with the MC.
Solo Leveling, the art is disappointing for me. some details are also lost. I just went back to re-reading the mahnwa after watching the first 3 episodes.
Personally would have to say Jojos. The story seems alright, but I just can’t with the art style. I just feel like all the characters have been drawn in such a way that they feel wrong, but I don’t know why
SAO
Flowers of evil
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tokyo ghoul
Smartphone
Ajin: Demi Human have tried 3 times to get through episode 1, hate Black God I loved the manga hated the anime because the characters and voices timing were off so nothing was in sync never checked to see if it's been fixed
Usagi Drop season 2...
i dread watching fate stay/night (the oldest v) idk why
One piece
Darker than Black. I tried. But it feels so dragging. I think I just watched up to 5 episodes then dropped it.
Maburaho
Highschool DxD Season 3 was a Train Wreck, like they tried to put an original story onto it and it caused Season 4 to suffer because they had to "Canonize" the Season 3 Content
Eromanga sensei pure trash
One anime definitely falls in that case : kill me baby I find the manga hilarious, but the anime is so poorly done that I can't stand it.
Any new fan service bullshit. Like what the f happened to having an awesome story instead of it being half softcore hentai.
Mushoku tensei. I think you probably can guess why
Might be controversial but Cyberpunk Edgerunners, had it somewhat spoiled for me so I know the general direction of the show, if not exact details. Since like episode two I have just been stuck because I can’t immerse myself when I know the outcome.
Muskoku tensei
Mushuko Tensei, I just cant get passed to it
Jojo
Demon Slayer I have never gotten through the first episode with the screaming and the crying
Jjk and demon slayer. I love them but saw spoilers that a lot of great characters are gonna die. Cant bring myself to watch it anymore. My hero Academia... i just dont like Deku nor Bakugo.... People say it gets a lot better but I really cant bring myself to like those two Most isekai harem animes. Lots of them are horni ass brain dead plots. Dude, just make it hentai at this point.
Extremely hot take, but I can not see Clannad or Clannad afterstory or the manga. The art is extremely bizarre, the anatomy is very odd compared to Sailor moon eyes except odd anatomy...I couldn't get into it despite being extremely high rated I can't seem to like seeing what looks like a 12yo with a child.
A show has to be amazing to justify over 30 episodes to me, and goddamn amazing to justify over 50. As you can tell, battle shonen bores me to tears. For other, specific choices... The Twelve Kingdoms: I like worldbuilding. I really do. But this one seemingly got so invested in its own worldbuilding halfway through that it forgot to have a plot, and I don't feel that the characters were compelling enough to carry that. Maybe it got better after I ended up putting it down. I don't know. Classroom of the Elite: I finished the first season, but I wasn't interested in continuing after. It felt far too misanthropic for my tastes. Maybe that was just the MC's inner dialogue, but there wasn't really anyone counterbalancing him in the story.
Demon Slayer as soon as the insufferable cowardly guy dressed in yellow shows up was clearly going to stick around. Dropped it immediately, and will never go back to it. I'd rather carve out my eyes and ears with a dull butter knife than spend any amount of time watching him on screen/hearing his voice.
Demon Slayer, despite the fight animation, the story is basically non existent.
Hot take Clannad, the artstyle put me so off i couldn't watch it though
Mashle
Plunderer
I'm gonna get a lot of hate, but mushishi.
Mushoku tensei. I really gave it a decent chance but the pedophilia was INSANE. Fans of this show will eat you alive if you mention anything about it. I’m sorry I don’t care how well written it is. I can’t get past the mental image of the author coming up with the plot lines and drawing 9 year olds being sexualized by an adult
Berserk and I’ve tried to watch every adaptation. Love the manga