Stuff You Really Couldn't Stand Watching

[Lt. Colonel Remo]

First 3-4 Chapters. I have too long of a list and my site that I used to read it got blocked. Too lazy to deal with another interface. XD

 

I really like it so far though. 

It gets way WAY better, and then it becomes DBZ (which can be good or bad depending on your preference)

[Desu the Blue Nerd]

B-but I love that ;_; Isn't watching it all play out with al that tension and no back up plan the best part?

 

 

I personally absolutely hate those beta MCs. Just man the f*** up and fight already. I dropped Guilty crown cause I just couldn't handle it.

 

As much as I'd love to dis on the stupidity of Guilty Crown I still love the main character's development. Episode 10 was glorious for his growing of a pair...sure he loses them soon after but towards the end when he remembers the balls were inside his heart all along its pretty solid again...until the rushed end that also sucks...Plus, that f*cking first OP, man. God damn, that first OP.

 

Personally, not a horror fan. At all. I can work with pretty much any genre (yes, there's been even one reverse harem I enjoyed) but I just can't get into horror.

 

But there's one thing above all things I just can't stand. I'd watch all of Butt Attack Punisher Girl before I'd consider watching this load of bullsh*t. Motherf*cking Lucky Star.

[mitchermitcher]

But there's one thing above all things I just can't stand. I'd watch all of Butt Attack Punisher Girl before I'd consider watching this load of bullsh*t. Motherf*cking Lucky Star.

 

Hey hey hey, what's wrong with Lucky Star now? That was practically 24 episodes worth of fun.
 

[Enrise]

I could not, cannot, and will never be able to stand watching Eureka Seven: AO.

 

It is an abomination to the franchise, and I refuse to accept it as part of the franchise. Why?

 

Poor character development.

Poor plot development.

Far too short when compared to the original series length.

Very confusing use of time travel that conceived many inconsistencies.

Terrible sequel series overall.

 

I wouldn't see the series again unless I would be paid a fair amount of money. Honestly.

[Makο]

...It's hard for me to, usually, point out specific things I don't like.

 

Usually, I stop watching/reading something if I'm maybe a couple episodes/chapters in, and at some point, I just sit there and think

 

"...uyech."

 

See: Me reading Date A Live.

 

But one thing I REALLY hate is when I feel something is rushed. It's pains me so.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

SFW Choice: Kaze no Stigma
These are some of the stupidest characters I have ever run across.
We have a jerkass anti-hero lead who is maligned simply for being an outcast to his own clan because he couldn't master fire magic, so he becomes a master of wind magic...which his clan considers even worse for some reason, even though he's proven he's much more powerful.
Then there's the uber-tsundere who is such a tsundere that she automatically negates ANY character development by her own actions, makes herself incredibly unlikeable, and always misinterprets EVERYTHING.
And the tsundere has a crush on the anti-hero...even though their dads are brothers...Which makes the entire thing incredibly squick.
I only watched 8 episodes, but those were 8 episodes too much.
he opening arc has a sub-clan below the fire magic clan go rogue after 400 years because...it's a Tuesday...and attempt to take revenge on the fire clan for...reasons...There's no buildup or intrigue to this arc, as it only lasts 4 episodes, and the traitor ninja clan has no ability to establish themselves as characters while their rivalry backstory is delivered via ham-fisted exposition.
The other arc I saw has a maid belonging to ANOTHER branch clan getting pissy at the anti-hero for indirectly killing her brother (voiced by Vic Mignogna in the dub in a voice cameo), and wanting to take revenge (sensing a pattern?), so she allies herself with a creepy kid WHO IS CLEARLY EVIL and gains the power to absorb people so she can gain the power to defeat the anti-hero...but this turns out to be false, as she can, according to her sponsor, never attain enough power to defeat him with her absorption abilities...which makes the whole arc pointless to everyone. She becomes a nun once she is dispatched.
I don't want to continue, as it seems formulaic and no one actually changes. The anti-hero is still a god amongst men, and the tsundere sees everything as perverted, even when they are not.
[spoiler=NSFW Pick: Master of Martial Hearts]
Oh, dear Bhunivelze, this anime...
A short, 5-episode OVA, Master of Martial Hearts is 4 episodes of an Ikki Tousen ripoff with dub voice acting that is too good for the quality of animation, and a plotline as flimsy as the constantly disintegrating clothes of the combatants...and one final episode that sends the show in such a jarring new direction that a new one has to be invented: Qirst. In the future, when children are in elementary school learning their 5 cardinal directions, they will know that Qirst is the direction Master of Martial Hearts went in Episode 5. I can't spoil the ending (you can go look it up yourself if you are curious), but the anime is like slowly falling asleep in class at a dull lecture you have heard so many times before, only for the professor to suddenly pick you up out of your desk, throw you out of it, and order you to understand something critical about a subject the class isn't even on. You just stand there in shock at what just happened, trying to process everything. Hints can be given, but they don't work. You just gawk at what you have experienced, dumbfounded.
[/spoiler]

[Agro]

High School DxD and Kill la Kill

 

Same reasons for both.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

High School DxD and Kill la Kill
 
Same reasons for both.

At least the dub for DxD was done incredibly tongue-in-cheek.
They knew what kind of show they were, and they rolled with it.
And you can tell they had a blast doing it.

[Chiri Tsukikawa]

I think the only things I really couldn't stand watching in anime are obsessive girls. That ranges all the way from Nyaruko-pushy to Yuno-yandere.

[Sunn O)))]

Couldn't watch WataMote, Lucky Star, Anohana, High School DxD, School Days, and other similar stuff that I don't feel like naming.

[Agro]

At least the dub for DxD was done incredibly tongue-in-cheek.
They knew what kind of show they were, and they rolled with it.
And you can tell they had a blast doing it.

I trust Jamie Marchi did a good job on the script. She basically said she had to put plot into the show, though.

[Sleepy]

Posts in this thread are interesting but too long for me to read so forgive me for writing without finishing even page 1.

 

Anime I've seen that I can't stand:

 

[spoiler=Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]

Typical mystery solving anime. I really enjoy those even if the formula is really in one's face, and I decided to look for this and give it a chance because the opening is pretty epic. Little did I know how stupid lazy and non-censical it was.

We get 5 episode in which we are introduced to the cast, their backgrounds, and setting, and serves to steadily add impossible murders one after another, until the point most people are already dead.

 

My first impression was "Wow, I wonder how will we have the epic reasoning moments of the formula and solve this huge puzzle of impossible murders with different scenarios". Well.... the show doesn't solve them. We just jump right at a sort of story re-start.

The core of the story is that the main character is supposed to be enclosed into this space-time-neglecting place with a witch. The witch tries to prove she exists by killing everyone in alternate stories, and the main character tries to solve them with more realistic explanations.

This is a pretty dumb synopsis since the fact he is even with them, and that people go back and die again in the next re-set already proves this is evading the most obvious evidence against him. It also makes pretty stupid to try to solve them.

Not to mention whenever he is unable to solve something, they just move on and that lazy as heck.

 

Any person can create extremely hard to solve scenarios, but it takes skill to make a mystery show that can solve them in a satisfying way, and this is not one of those. I didn't make it past episode 5 out of like 24 (and yes I DID wonder that they had planned when most people were already dead by episode 5, but that's what I get for giving them a chance....) My brother watched the rest out of sheer curiosity.

 

Definitely one of the shows to not recommend ever.

[/spoiler]

 

[spoiler=Zero no Tsukaima]

I feel terrible whenever I remember that the creator died from cancer around 2 years ago and that this is his legacy, and that his legacy is crap.

 

We follow the adventures of Saito, a normal boy forcefully summoned to a magical world away from everything he knows and with no way of going back, to be the slave of an annoying girl that sucks at school, has very bad temper, treats him like crap, and really, has overall no redeeming qualities whatsoever. To whom he falls in love eventually despite that sucky relationship never actually changing.

 

This is a harem so, on top of having another minus point there by default because of it, literally all female characters are better choices by miles.

 

Siesta, a maid that is also a human, whose's grandpa came to that world just like our main character did, so she understands his situation better than anyone else in that world. She also is the first one to show him respect, hospitality, and to offer her friendship. He is an idiot for friend-zoning someone like that.

But of course, later down the road, since we need to shove the main couple down the audience's throats, let's take away her plain but nice character and make her fan-service with no self respect and make her look like she is desperate to get into the main guy's bed.

 

There's a princess with a very cool character design, that cleverly is not part of the harem since she has a lover. I know, let's kill the lover down the road and have her join the harem because why the hell not?

 

There's a stereotypical girl with unnaturally big boobs, which is a recurring anime cliche since forever. These characters are often just there to annoy the female lead, or they pass out as "crazy" or even comic relief. Whelp... this show's one actually has a nice personality for the most part and is skilled at what she does, even if unimportant. Why is it that they'd make her more likable than the female lead, Idk..... but it's kinda sad. She's a piece of the harem but not very relevant otherwise.

 

 

 

There are more, but let's move away from this. The story itself is very forced and "unrealistic" for lack of a better term. I don't think they've hit episode 10 when the main guy has jumped to holding back a whole army of monsters on his own and saving the nation or some crap like that, and deciding that he is in love with the annoying girl. Then after his death in the battlefield saving everyone, they decide to immediately revive him.

His revival is pretty clever in the aspect that they manage to deus ex machina his comeback WHILE ADDING ANOTHER PIECE TO THE HAREM. 

I have no idea what the show is like afterwards but I stopped right there and never looked back. I've seen in reviews, a general opinion saying that it gets more annoying after that mark. 

 

Louise (The female lead, and I had to google her name just now. She is that bad to me) never did become likable to me in the slightest. Even when she DID apologize for her actions, she didn't really go out of her comfort zone and make an honest apology out of her tsundere act. While also adding into the apology mix, stuff along the lines of "I guess I'll forgive you this time". It's never gratifying. I want her to suffer. Not that the stupid main guy is actually good either, but still.

 

The humor is also mostly Saito being caught up with another girl in an unlikely and compromising-looking situation, and Louise getting angry. The end.

I despise this one with a passion.[/spoiler]

 

 

 

 

Other than those off the top of my head, I generally dislike all tragedy genre anime. There CAN be good ones, but they have to have a greater meaning/goal behind them. Not just pure tragedy out of "I wanna ruin your mood for this afternoon after you finish reading this crap".

Also, I hate fan-service-heavy anime. Mainly the ones that make me uncomfortable of showing it to other people or recommending it to them or for a standard measure, anything that'd be awkward to show to my family. Especially when they try to have an actual plot, but shove panty shots and such in the middle of the action and ruin the mood by abruptly changing it back and forth like that.

I'm looking at Highschool of the Dead and Rosario +Vampire when talking about it, and to some lower degree but still included, To Love Ru.

[Fusion X. Denver]

Rosario +Vampire

Let me just say that the manga's nothing like the anime and gets pretty good down the line.

 

But the rest of all that, yeah. If fan service is all a show's cruising on, it's just otaku pandering and nowhere near a good anime.

[goddamnit names are a pain]

While fan service in excess can be bad I really hate it when people think that's all a show is.

DXD has a story just like any other manga. It's just slightly hidden by better "plots". 

[Sleepy]

Let me just say that the manga's nothing like the anime and gets pretty good down the line.

 

But the rest of all that, yeah. If fan service is all a show's cruising on, it's just otaku pandering and nowhere near a good anime.

I haven't read the manga but I can agree to that. 2 of my IRL friends are fans of Rosario + Vampire, and they do agree that at the very least season 2 eliminated some important plot points in the anime from what was important stuff in the manga counterparts. I remember particularly them talking about a pool episode. They were reading the manga and saying "wait, none of this happens in the anime episode. Why did they take all this out?".

So I can see that.

 

 

While fan service in excess can be bad I really hate it when people think that's all a show is.

DXD has a story just like any other manga. It's just slightly hidden by better "plots". 

 

I'm not a fan of the concept of fan-service myself, but I can respect people liking a little bit of it once in a while.

Though there are some shows out there that abuse of it too much, and having a show not be only about it is also bad, because it often means it'll get awkward with the panty flashes in the middle of important business.

So it's not necessarily that people think "it's all that show is" as much as people saying "it pops out often enough OR at a pace awkward enough for it to bother me, and I have no business watching something that bothers me".

[Enrise]

I'm looking at Highschool of the Dead and Rosario +Vampire when talking about it, and to some lower degree but still included, To Love Ru.

 

Don't know about HotD(D) and To Love Ru, but Rosario + Vampire II has pretty much eliminated that aspect. Of course there are some, but only when appropriate. When it gets serious, I don't recall seeing any panty shots.

Mind you, manga of course.

[Desu the Blue Nerd]

Hey hey hey, what's wrong with Lucky Star now? That was practically 24 episodes worth of fun.
 

 

It's an incredibly hyped up comedy that turned out to be the most boring anime I have ever seen. I wish I could be exaggerating when I say I got more laughs from Butt Attack Punisher Girl than I did Lucky Star. Sure, I hear it gets better at about episode four or so because of a new director or something but the first episode absolutely killed it for me.

[Sleepy]

It's an incredibly hyped up comedy that turned out to be the most boring anime I have ever seen. I wish I could be exaggerating when I say I got more laughs from Butt Attack Punisher Girl than I did Lucky Star. Sure, I hear it gets better at about episode four or so because of a new director or something but the first episode absolutely killed it for me.

Might actually not.

I enjoyed the references here and there that they made towards other shows, but overall I must admit I had to drop it and coincidentally I just got to episode 4. It's just so uneventful and while I don't really hate Lucky Star or anything, I believe the moe style gave it most of that fanbase.

It made me really wonder if the genre "Slice of Life" was actually the most skill-less way for shows to start and companies to go w/e.

No, it can't be.... Half the time I watched Lucky Star (if not more) I was trying to figure out what a show like Azumanga Daioh did to keep me up for 24 or so episodes, but didn't do much for me at Lucky Star with such a similar formula.