Nothing-important-is-happening' i.e, Kanon. Didn't make it through ep 1
Stuff that's been on for so long and it doesn't seem to be driving to a conclusion: Gundam.What? Each Gundam series is a separate timeline and story, not an anthology. Each one has, by the end of its run, come to a conclusion.
Bobobobo-(however many this title needs)
- I get the jokes and everything, gave it a couple of chances, and... no, I won't even give a chance to be background noise.
After that, it's more of a genre thing.
I don't like anything that has a lot of blood and gore in it.
reighn nuff said it made my eyes bleed
95% of Yaoi....
*Dont stone me to death....*
1- I normally don't watch animes that have OLD style artwork1- Right with you. Couldn't get into the thing Leiji Matsumoto made for DaftPunk - even though it was late '90s (?) it felt so 60s/70s that I bailed. Also, up through the 70s, 'Japanamation' as it was called, still held two stereotypes that I found annoying: one was that all the 'good guys' had to have dark eyes. Light eyes (back then) were usually reserved for 'bad guys' or the alien weirdo. The other was that everyone got to be tall (the comic heroic proportion of 8.5 heads tall or more) EXCEPT that there ALWAYS had to be one SD character in the show, usually connected with the one 'babe' character. Examples: (Urusei Yatsura) Lum and larva-boy, Speed Racer's girl has a tomato-head SD brother, and the weapons guy Dr.-whoever on Star Blazers. Generally the Japanese dropped the shrimp-character in the early 1980s. And by the late 1990s, eye designs really became attractive to me.
2- Never have been able to get into Transformers or Voltron....But once again its Mecha
3a- tend to stay away from tearjerker animes.
3b- (I have avoided Grave of the Fireflies for that reason alone)
4- Gunslinger girl couldn't hold my interest at all for some reason. But I loved Noir and Madlax. I guess I like the "girls with guns" animes but they cant be little kids lol.
NEVER JUDGE A SERIES BASED ON MUSIC! I once heard the opening song for the Tales of Eternia anime seriesI stuck with it for a while too. We had 'ridiculous hair bigger than ping-pong paddles' girl, which was comically distracting, also Megumi Hayashibara voiced for a secondary character (Marone) but just like Hunter x Hunter (which I also bailed on,) I couldn't believe the full-hoop-skirt costumes in a woodsy adventure RPG setting. And the ending was a train-wreck to me.
One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)-Gasp-
aaand thats all I can think of for now.
Well I jumped ship at the train wreck of a second season.One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)-Gasp-
aaand thats all I can think of for now.
How come?
One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)You are going to have to explain yourself here. I need to know what camp you are in.
aaand thats all I can think of for now.
Anything my Rumiko Takahashi. I like my stories to have a stisfying and comprehensice END to them, and she has openly stated that after the fan reaction to the endign of her first story, she will NEVER end any of her stories. So, if its a Takahashi, I'm OUT. No matter how cool the story, I will *not* get emotionally involved in it! (Sometimes that does take willpower though...)
Saiyuki- mainly watched it for the GF but once I realized they would never end (or close to it) I bailed
Prince Of Tennis- I honestly gave it a try, couldn't do it
Hikaru No Go: Same as Saiyuki, I got really far but it just lost my interest
Naruto: Never Ended
Bleach: Never Ended
and I will get SO much hate for this but...
Death Note: I have no idea why, but I just COULD NOT stay interested in this one.
Saiyuki- mainly watched it for the GF but once I realized they would never end (or close to it) I bailed
Prince Of Tennis- I honestly gave it a try, couldn't do it
Hikaru No Go: Same as Saiyuki, I got really far but it just lost my interest
Naruto: Never Ended
Bleach: Never Ended
and I will get SO much hate for this but...
Death Note: I have no idea why, but I just COULD NOT stay interested in this one.
Hm... I don't understand how not, unless you 'read between the lines'.
Like "What's he REALLY thinking? WTF NO."
But random killing of random people with no clear intention IS annoying. :D
He's the Protagonist and the Antagonist. And he also dies. Not saying how, when, or where, but he does die and I was going, "HA! TOLD YA SOOOO. the. tables. HAVE BEEN TUUUURNED."Saiyuki- mainly watched it for the GF but once I realized they would never end (or close to it) I bailed
Prince Of Tennis- I honestly gave it a try, couldn't do it
Hikaru No Go: Same as Saiyuki, I got really far but it just lost my interest
Naruto: Never Ended
Bleach: Never Ended
and I will get SO much hate for this but...
Death Note: I have no idea why, but I just COULD NOT stay interested in this one.
Hm... I don't understand how not, unless you 'read between the lines'.
Like "What's he REALLY thinking? WTF NO."
But random killing of random people with no clear intention IS annoying. :D
I admit I didn't watch too much but it seems as if Light has NO redeeming qualities whatsoever and if he was ever going to get his it would be at the ending of the series which I knew would not be for awhile, if my protagonist has to be a bad guy I'd at least like him to have SOMETHING positive about him (MPD Psycho or something like that) then just be plain psychotic and evil.
Well I jumped ship at the train wreck of a second season.One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)-Gasp-
aaand thats all I can think of for now.
How come?
One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)You are going to have to explain yourself here. I need to know what camp you are in.
aaand thats all I can think of for now.
Air Gear.The manga's storyline is better.
The storyline was just so boring. There wasn't really anything happening 'cept for a guy and his rollerskates.
And perverted things.
A lot of anime series I like but there's always something about them that needs to be fixed. :/
but it's those really annoying ones that don't sound like the character at all. lolOh, you mean dubbed anime?
It's a pity, weenie boy is completely different by the end
Ergot Doxy (Ergo Proxy) was another one I couldn't finish. Cool surface-sailing vessel, but the main dark character gets saddled with a weenie-boy, and I punched 'eject' after about 7 eps. She should have ended up adventuring with a guy like Negotiator Yugo or something, or fallen in with the Black Lagoon crowd.
Also (imho) FLAG = FAIL.
Michiko no Hatchin . . . I'm kinda torn, it's done by the same people that ergo proxy but am really having trouble getting into it.How far are you in the series?
So would you consider Light Yagami's methodology to be that of a fascist? Or what other type of political persuasion would you classify him? It seems that if it isn't freedom, it's fascism in anime. I guess WWII is still not so far back in time for them, eh?Neat questions. First, fascism goes WAY back before WWII - look on the back of a dime and you'll see a fasces a Roman symbol of police/military control over the people. The bundle of rods is wrapped in a manner that can be unravelled quickly so that Roman soldiers could pass them out and beat the crowds or rioters. (Wounds from edged weapons became infected and that was usually a death sentence until the 1930s when antibiotics were discovered...) Bludgeoning and clubbing people kept them alive so you could force them to work or steal whatever profits they might make for their own families (tribute.)
I guess WWII is still not so far back in time for them, eh?Gee, let's see:
xxxHOLiC. Argh. It was...interesting. But seriously, there's not much storyline to it, ...CLAMP's 11 to 12 head high characters looked spindly to me. Again we have a spineless doormat as a central male character. But Yuko's traditional costumes look cool at times. Mokona is an annoying plushie target as always. More could have been done with the setting and plot, but it's CLAMP, so it's slow, diffuse, and generally inconclusive. Take the same characters and hand them over to Studio Pierrot or Gonzo, THEN see what happens...
I tryed watching diff animes but now I have a standerd or else I wont watch it and bail like.I go by the same standards pretty much. I usually tend to stop watching series after they become mainstream or they start to be played on tv like on cartoon network as well. except the old stuff(how I miss you cowboy bebop)
If the main chars a dude but looks to much like a chick or is a chick acting like a dude.
No fighting.
No epic story line.
Guys that look to much like girls.
I almost bailed out of deathnote on the episode where L rubs lights feet but I was like ok anymore of this im not watching this anymore.
I usually tend to stop watching series after they become mainstream or they start to be played on tv like on cartoon network as well.Me too - that's the "zOMG - my Mom is on twitter" indicator that it's time to move on to something new: Once an anime has been dubbed into English and is showing on US cable - it's jumped the shark for me. At the very least it means it's like two years old, which for anime is the 'starting to grow stubble, needs a shave' point in its market life.
Quote from: tofutakeoutI usually tend to stop watching series after they become mainstream or they start to be played on tv like on cartoon network as well.Me too - that's the "zOMG - my Mom is on twitter" indicator that it's time to move on to something new: Once an anime has been dubbed into English and is showing on US cable - it's jumped the shark for me. At the very least it means it's like two years old, which for anime is the 'starting to grow stubble, needs a shave' point in its market life.
I think that its pathetic that people bail on something because it gets popular. How do you discuss it with others if they've never seen it? Just because its mainstream doesn't mean it's not a good show. Do not, however, misconstrue this as a thumbs-up for the same old crap that comes out each year with the same plots and character designs, but different visuals (I'm looking at you, shounen!)I agree. I was watching Death Note before It got all mainstream, but once it became popular it did not change how good of a show it was just how many other people were watching it. (Because it was a good show)
In short: if you like it, watch it! If you don't, don't! But for god's sake, do it because you want to, not because others do or do not watch/like/know about it!
I think that its pathetic that people bail on something because it gets popular. How do you discuss it with others if they've never seen it? Just because its mainstream doesn't mean it's not a good show. Do not, however, misconstrue this as a thumbs-up for the same old crap that comes out each year with the same plots and character designs, but different visuals (I'm looking at you, shounen!)
In short: if you like it, watch it! If you don't, don't! But for god's sake, do it because you want to, not because others do or do not watch/like/know about it!
@Panda
Wait, You liked the 4kids dub?
That's just odd.
Also just watch the subs for One Piece the voices are better.
Also, the stereo-typical school girl ones like Lucky Star, MoSH, Hidamari Days, and Minami-Ke make me want to scream and hit my head so hard. I'm really sorry, but I just can not take it. The only one I'm grown close to is K-ON!, but it's not the school girl thing I like. d: Oh, and add neko girls to this as well.
Magical Doremi. Thought the theme song was cute and catchy, but the show was little girls' cartoon that didn't hold my interest.
Fruits basket is shallow? D':*sigh* Just my opinion. The characters rarely have real DEPTH, you know? :-\ The concept is good, but the plotline and the way it was executed was boring. Then there was the whole "There's someone for everyone" theme. In general I don't mind the trope, but the way it was wrote out ended up tacky and last minute. The anime doesn't even cover half of the series either. Those bits together really killed the series for me. Kind of like Twilight *shudder*
haha, I hear your complaints about FF:U, but I still love it. I don't know why really, I just think the prospect of seeing even a little bit of what I love about FF brought out in a new way excites me (even if the bulk of it is rather bland/unappealing). Ultimately, though, I really liked the show and wouldn't sell my copy for anything.Because it was Final Fantasy I really did try to like it.
Animation aside, I liked the inclusion of the summons, even if they were veeery different than they are in the games. Was still cool. And the magun idea, I liked that. Yeah, it gets my appreciation.
Lucky Star, couldn't make it past the conversation on nothing but FOODThat was one of the early episodes, right? They changed directors after a few episodes so it picks up the pace after about episode 4. (No more 10 minutes long discussions on how to eat a pastry)
Okay, I can now add "Ah My Buddha" to the list of anime I've tried a bit of and bailed. Ugh, I just can not get into this series. It looked interesting, sounded interesting, so I picked it up... And now I'm really regretting it. ><Baccano takes abit to make sense since it jumps between 3 times but it does get better.
The story is so bland and boring, and so are the characters. And the whole thing about a monk-in-training that can only get "powered up" when he sees a naked lady sounded like it could be funny (I have to admit, I had flashed on Love Hina a bit)... but trust me, it really isn't in this series. Ugh.
I can also add to my list of anime I'm not fond of.. "Baccano". Another one that I can't get into. Made no sense to me at all, and just was rather strange. Granted I only watched it when the first episode was free On-Demand, but I'm really not willing to pay to see another episode to see if it gets any better. >>
Well, it's good to hear that it does get better.
Baccano takes abit to make sense since it jumps between 3 times but it does get better.