Anime everyone else thinks is great but you don't like

VivisQueen said:
megagold5 said:
Most of the Ghibi/Ghibli-esque "all that" artsy films by *insert acclaimed director here* aren't all they are cracked up to be, most of them are good, but nothing more.

... I would add that the Ghost in the Shell films were rubbish aswell. Stand Alone Complex was FAR superior (as a series, at least).
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And the mother of all heresies:
Spirited Away (I fell asleep! Twice! I will attempt to watch it a third time... one day... because being the only one in the world who can't remember much of it and hates the fact that it has an Oscar while Grave of the Fireflies doesn't is an uncomfortable position to be in)
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I am with you on Spirited Away, I'm not a fan of it at all. I much preferred Totoro.

Princes Mononoke, while good, didn't inspire the pants-wetting awe some people have led me to believe it would.

Also, while I liked Code Geass r2 I believe the general consensus is that it was a trainwreck =P So I don't think you're upsetting many there Vivis

Oh! Big one I just thought of that loads of people seem to praise round here: Gantz. I thought it was complete rubbish after the first few episodes (by which I mean the first few were good but then it went to pot, I saw the whole first season) It just seemed to revel in its gratuitous violence and nudity with no purpose or point, which would be fine if it was a schlocky action anime but it seems like ti was trying to be taken seriously, even with all the bird people.

To Ryu, while I think watching ONLY 2 episodes is a bit much to write off a series, I do concede there comes a point where you've got to say "yeah this isn't for me" but I'd say that would be at least 5 episodes in to a 26 episode series, but life's certainly too short to watch everything to the finish in the chance it might get better.
 
Yeah I agree with you on GANTZ Sparrow, it was a load of tripe, yes thats right TRIPE!

However I disagree about spirited away, I mean forgetting whether it deserved the oscar or not (I think it did) and whether it's ghibli's best piece (I don't think it is), what is there really to dislike about it? Its just a charming movie really.

And including Princess mononoke in this thread, now that did make me cry...

Away things I would include are:

EVA: Some great things about it I'll admit but too much I dislike

Hellsing: Boring gratuitous violence, load of tosh and not Mad House at their best.

Gurren Lagann: It just never really interested me enough to watch more than a few eps, Though I admit those eps where mildly entertaining

Melancoly/disappearance/whatever of Suzumiya Haruhi: Just not my kind thing

Now for the crowning glory of this post

SUMMER WARS: Thats right I went there. Ok I'll admit I don't particularly dislike it, but its not particularly memorable either. Everyone comparing it to a Ghibli film is completely off their face. It should have stuck to the light hearted family drama/comedy which was where it was strongest rather than bother with all that weak Sci Fi virtual reality rubbish. Even at its best though this was still thoroughly cheesy through to the bone. Much like Vivi watching Spirited away, I literally was falling asleep by the end of this.
 
'Jumping on the Wolf's Rain train. I saw a little bit of it on tv at one point when the sound was off and I thought it looked interesting. When I sat down to actually watch it, I couldn't take it seriously at all.

Oh, and Chobits. Not just because the series seems to suddenly change its opinion of human/robot love about half way through, but also the eyes. Apart from Hideki, all the main characters seem to have these weird, dead eyes...
 
Everyone bashing Wolfs rain is a bit harsh, surely the soundtrack alone makes it awesome.

one more I just thought of

GUNDAM, any Gundam ever: It seems to me that one of the prerequisites for a series to have Gundam in its title, is a stupid yet convoluted plot that all revolves around future politics which takes very seriously, yet is absloutely impossible to comprehend or follow. Also there's always too much talking. Its about bloody flying robots who do they think cares about all this talking and stuff.
 
vashdaman said:
Its about bloody flying robots who do they think cares about all this talking and stuff.
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Never watch Legend of Galactic Heroes. Ever.

To an extent, I actually agree on Gundam - I've never had much success with it - but I think the emphasis on future politics is kind of the whole point, at least for the UC stuff. Just because it's about giant robots in space doesn't mean it can't be serious.
 
vashdaman said:
Everyone bashing Wolfs rain is a bit harsh, surely the soundtrack alone makes it awesome.
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>_> No?

vashdaman said:
GUNDAM, any Gundam ever: It seems to me that one of the prerequisites for a series to have Gundam in its title, is a stupid yet convoluted plot that all revolves around future politics which takes very seriously, yet is absloutely impossible to comprehend or follow. Also there's always too much talking. Its about bloody flying robots who do they think cares about all this talking and stuff.
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Speaking as a Gundam fan, I agree. I recently came off the high of Gundam Unicorn, having spent the first two eps totally besotted, and woke up to the fact that it's the same worn-to-the-bone themes only glossier (the saying 'you cannot polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter' comes to mind). Admittedly, MS Gundam has become a favourite of mine for reasons that have to do with the words 'retro cute', and the rest of the franchise is the crack that soothes my mecha twitches, but damn it is one of the most bloated, overrated, pointlessly self-propagating common denominator I've ever seen.

Professor Irony said:
Oh, and Chobits.
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But... but... Chii is so cute!!
 
i dont care what anyone says
Baccano
Gurren Lagann
EVA
Hellsing ultimate
SUMMER WARS
are all favourites of mine and i found all of them very enjoyable Gurren Lagann SUMMER WARS Baccano EVA are freakin master pieces and Hellsing ultimate i just plain enjoyed.
that guy from samuri x Rurouni Kenshin just pisses me right off everyone says Rurouni Kenshins a all time classic anime but its not m cup of tea
 
i dont care what anyone says
Baccano
Gurren Lagann
EVA
Hellsing ultimate
SUMMER WARS
are all favourites of mine and i found all of them very enjoyable Gurren Lagann SUMMER WARS Baccano EVA are freakin master pieces and Hellsing ultimate i just plain enjoyed.
that guy from samuri x Rurouni Kenshin just pisses me right off everyone says Rurouni Kenshins a all time classic anime but its not m cup of tea. and as for chobites i love that series there all so cute
 
vashdaman said:
GUNDAM, any Gundam ever: It seems to me that one of the prerequisites for a series to have Gundam in its title, is a stupid yet convoluted plot that all revolves around future politics which takes very seriously, yet is absloutely impossible to comprehend or follow. Also there's always too much talking. Its about bloody flying robots who do they think cares about all this talking and stuff.
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Gundam's thing originaly was not just being about the robots, like every robot show before it, but focuing on pilots.

It's a fairly solid hard sci-fi franchise, never found the plot too dense. Assume you just gloss over all the ploitics in GitS: S.A.C., or do you not notice how much there is?


I admit it has dragged on a bit with all the bloody remakes covering the same themes. Though I did like Gundam 00 season 1 as a satire on current world politics.
 
vashdaman said:
Yeah I agree with you on GANTZ Sparrow, it was a load of tripe, yes thats right TRIPE!

However I disagree about spirited away, I mean forgetting whether it deserved the oscar or not (I think it did) and whether it's ghibli's best piece (I don't think it is), what is there really to dislike about it? Its just a charming movie really.

And including Princess mononoke in this thread, now that did make me cry...

Away things I would include are:

EVA: Some great things about it I'll admit but too much I dislike

Hellsing: Boring gratuitous violence, load of tosh and not Mad House at their best.

Gurren Lagann: It just never really interested me enough to watch more than a few eps, Though I admit those eps where mildly entertaining

Melancoly/disappearance/whatever of Suzumiya Haruhi: Just not my kind thing

Now for the crowning glory of this post

SUMMER WARS: Thats right I went there. Ok I'll admit I don't particularly dislike it, but its not particularly memorable either. Everyone comparing it to a Ghibli film is completely off their face. It should have stuck to the light hearted family drama/comedy which was where it was strongest rather than bother with all that weak Sci Fi virtual reality rubbish. Even at its best though this was still thoroughly cheesy through to the bone. Much like Vivi watching Spirited away, I literally was falling asleep by the end of this.
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Woo *gantz hate five*

As for Spirited, much like the rest of my given anime (except Gantz) it's not so much dislike as not as good as the hype, which is true of anything I guess, but Spirited Away was something I was especially apathetic towards. i didn't dislike it, but nor did it endear itself to me or leave much of an imprint on my memory. I can usally remember 80% of the movies/ tv I've seen really well but I really can't remember much of SA and I only saw it in 08.
 
Have to agree with quite a few other people on Wolf Rain. It just had such a diabolic bad ending.

The only other title that comes to mind which I disliked but was rated highly would be Cowboy Bebop.
 
Neferpitou said:
The only other title that comes to mind which I disliked but was rated highly would be Cowboy Bebop.
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Dude, why'd you have to go and say that for? Huh??? In these here parts, that's like admitting to paedophilia. Some shows, you just don't touch, dude, right? There's rules, man! RULES.
 
VivisQueen said:
Neferpitou said:
The only other title that comes to mind which I disliked but was rated highly would be Cowboy Bebop.
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Dude, why'd you have to go and say that for? Huh??? In these here parts, that's like admitting to paedophilia. Some shows, you just don't touch, dude, right? There's rules, man! RULES.
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Funnily enough I like the movie just not the series. The conclusion to the series didn't have enough depth for my taste. Which I found quite annoying when they could have easily fleshed out the ending more by getting rid of some of those needless self contain story of episodes.
 
Neferpitou said:
Have to agree with quite a few other people on Wolf Rain. It just had such a diabolic bad ending.

The only other title that comes to mind which I disliked but was rated highly would be Cowboy Bebop.
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i agree with VivisQueen you cant go there without getting burnt hell bepops a timeless master piece
 
I wouldn't say I hate these shows, but I found Gundam Wing pretty anodine and difficult to get along with. Interesting that some folks rate it above SEED, as I think that's a superior show in every respect.

Also, I had a really hard time with Aquarion. It's not a bad show by any means, but it doesn't stand up well against the likes of Eureka 7, RahXephon, Gundam OO... there's a sense of unfulfilled potential running through it. And I'm not impressed with mecha shows that HAVE to shoe-horn their mecha into each and every episode as upruptly and inelegantly as that show was guilty of doing, in my opinion.
 
Most mecha shows bore me, nothing i haven't seen before and nothing captivating enough to keep me entertained.

There are some objections, but they aren't fully mecha (or in one particular case the show is that good that the mecha doesn't feel boring or monotonous)

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Burst Angel

(there's a couple more but at work and my mind has wandered away... will update when possible)
 
Sparrowsabre7 said:
vashdaman said:
Yeah I agree with you on GANTZ Sparrow, it was a load of tripe, yes thats right TRIPE!

However I disagree about spirited away, I mean forgetting whether it deserved the oscar or not (I think it did) and whether it's ghibli's best piece (I don't think it is), what is there really to dislike about it? Its just a charming movie really.

And including Princess mononoke in this thread, now that did make me cry...

Away things I would include are:

EVA: Some great things about it I'll admit but too much I dislike

Hellsing: Boring gratuitous violence, load of tosh and not Mad House at their best.

Gurren Lagann: It just never really interested me enough to watch more than a few eps, Though I admit those eps where mildly entertaining

Melancoly/disappearance/whatever of Suzumiya Haruhi: Just not my kind thing

Now for the crowning glory of this post

SUMMER WARS: Thats right I went there. Ok I'll admit I don't particularly dislike it, but its not particularly memorable either. Everyone comparing it to a Ghibli film is completely off their face. It should have stuck to the light hearted family drama/comedy which was where it was strongest rather than bother with all that weak Sci Fi virtual reality rubbish. Even at its best though this was still thoroughly cheesy through to the bone. Much like Vivi watching Spirited away, I literally was falling asleep by the end of this.
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Woo *gantz hate five*

As for Spirited, much like the rest of my given anime (except Gantz) it's not so much dislike as not as good as the hype, which is true of anything I guess, but Spirited Away was something I was especially apathetic towards. i didn't dislike it, but nor did it endear itself to me or leave much of an imprint on my memory. I can usally remember 80% of the movies/ tv I've seen really well but I really can't remember much of SA and I only saw it in 08.
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Yeah, I guess the way you feel about SA is similar to how I feel about Summer Wars.


Seriously though every time I see the words Bebop or Champloo brought up in this thread I think a little piece of me dies....
 
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