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Baki. Feels like there is a new plot every 2 episodes, but the last ones aren't resolved. Also characters come from nowhere

Baki is like the Simpsons, It doesn't now how to end.

The beginning of the manga was great I think it was one of the best martial arts manga ever.

But it went from a compelling story about underground fighting to silly plots about cloned samurais and prehistoric men.

School Days (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

Saga of Tanya the Evil

I know it's a classic answer but SAO.

I don't have any. I don't think in categories of hate.

I don't have any. I don't think in categories of hate.

That's very sweet of you, but anime that is meant to appeal as widely as possible while taking as few risks as possible is detestable.

I'd much rather have something that tries to connect with me emotionally and make me feel something (e.g., Cowboy Bebop, Bubblegum Crisis). Or even just something with really inventive conceptual designs (like the tree-spaceship thing in Tenchi Muyo... actually, just spaceships in general in Tenchi Muyo).

This is somewhat related to why early Dragon Ball is better than "Z" (later Dragon Ball). Early dragon ball had this sense of whimsy and magic and didn't take itself too seriously. It also looked gorgeous sometimes.

Cute girls doing cute things (for no reason other than being cute) is a troublesome trend. It's sometimes funny if it's subverted, but so much of the time it isn't. Isekai is also troublesome and feels like escapism for depressed people in most of the incarnations that I've read or looked at. It could be good if one was made that was a social commentary on the real world that we live in. But that'd be expecting too much probably.

With demand for animation perhaps higher than ever before, it seems the need for material of any grade to churn out has prevented us from getting more good stories. I will also attribute this to the near death of the OVA.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 9 2023, 09:45

Re:zero


all character is just pure cringe but mostly the MC. cant stand that fucking simp.
entire series is about time loop and the MC kill the show by being a complete dumbass, no planning etc. completely ruin the show. and his personality is just so fucking annoying. its the kind of guy that get beat up at school and you see it and you just keep watching and understand why he getting beat up insted of help


Summertime Rendering is WAY better than this garbage. done timeloop stuff better. good plot good mystery. it kinda like Stanger Thing the anime

Isekai anime.

attack on titan，badly ending (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

I have no interest in lily anime, although I don't hate it, and I definitely won't watch it

For me, more than hate it's annoyance at <name of recent popular anime> getting lots of attention and popping up everywhere while <name of good old favorite> did it first and better and you don't see it anywhere anymore.

It could be good if one was made that was a social commentary on the real world that we live in.

A recent isekai anime (can't remember the name) dealt with themes of racism and was doing pretty good until the isekai version of french people appeared, they were literally human sized frogs.

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Whatever people can't shut up about in <current year>.

Once the hype dies down I might like it more. When I'm not being told to like it.

For me, more than hate it's annoyance at <name of recent popular anime> getting lots of attention and popping up everywhere while <name of good old favorite> did it first and better and you don't see it anywhere anymore.

This is exactly what I think whenever anyone mentions edgerunners.

Bubblegum crisis is better cyberpunk genre stuff and as a bonus it doesn't put the fucking genre name in its name. Been enjoying Dirty Pair and Cyber City Oedo 808 as well. Though not nearly as much as BGC. I hope it does well, in a sense, because I really would like to feel what I felt the first time I watched BGC #6 again with a different take on its subject matter.

I would even be bold enough to claim Astro Boy/Tetsuwan Atom touched on cyberpunk topics frequently and did a very nice job (I've only read the manga, btw).

Also I don't even hear much about Kill la Kill anymore and that one's far, far younger than all these others (not the same genre, just another example of good stuff getting sidelined). The big problem when making comparisons in the cyberpunk genre is that it's basically been dead since the mid 2000's as far as anime is concerned (Chobits, Parasite Dolls... trying to think what I'm forgetting).

I probably shouldn't be complaining so much, but basically I want more philosophy and emotional moments in anime that make me think of things in new ways. And I have enormous difficulty finding it. The death of cel animation and hand coloring and the rise of cutesy moeblobs hasn't encouraged me to watch much modern stuff either.

The absolute most striking thing about BGC for me was how it portrayed women so much more like I might expect in a western work - they didn't seem like they were being constantly sexualised... they felt more like actual people, and like protagonists that just happened to be women. There were a few questionable moments, but overall it was startlingly different from what I'm used to seeing in anything but shojo works. And I loved it. Japanese animation style/character designs, but without some of the worst typical anime/manga tropes.

Even ignoring OVA's, though, things like Cowboy Bebop just don't happen anymore.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 1 2023, 11:28

JoJo: Stone Ocean - totally wasted potential. Will never forgive NETFLIX for that.

Eureka Seven Ao
Pointless sequel that basically tramples on everything the original did without actually innovating, even the ending is such a bad cop-out

sure gundam seed

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Texhnolyze. Rarely have I come across writing that bad. There are definitely worse anime but I would have had to watch them to have an opinion.

Elfen Lied.

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0. The trash is an insult to fans and proved that the success of the Neon Genesis Evangelion series is the ability of the staff, not the ability of Anno.