Anime Shows you AVOID, Don't Like, or tried a bit of and BAILED

[Prinz Eugen]

There's another thread going about what people are watching and enjoying now, but this thread is the flipside. Let's say a friend says I'm watching an anime and it's about {x} and it takes place in [y] and there's this [z] that comes along ...

... and given the {x} and [y] and [z], you might not TELL your friend on the spot, but you KNOW you'll have NO INTEREST in that show.

Or you start a show and something happens and BAM - you're out and done with it.

[dshwshr55]

I'd have to say Witch Hunter Robin. No explanation...

[~boogiepop~]

I'll bail out on most shows if they're more then a season unless it's really caught my attention. Most shows over around 30 episodes tend to be full of fillers which I'd rather not waste my time watching.

Some shows I dropped or dislike besides the obvious Naruto, Bleach, Inuyasha are .hack//legend of the Twilight, Angel Sanctuary, Saiyuki, Spiral, Strike Witches, Gravitation, To Aru Majutsu no Index, and actually probably a lot more if I cared to sit down and ponder about it. I've gotten a lot pickier with my anime as the years go on.

[Lin]

I want to bail on Green Green for obvious reasons to anyone who knows the series, but my friends keep insisting I 'need' to watch it. XP

[Prinz Eugen]

So here's kinda my list:

HS romance shows where it's all about the wimp tripping up on a girl then getting his 'nads kicked when it wasn't his fault. Or 'Boy tries to be nice and girl beats him for not being PERFECT.' Louise in Zero no Tsukaima needs to be hit BACK a few times.

Japanese has many levels of grammar; I tend to bail on the shows where most chara speak at the street-trash level. I don't mind when a chara who talks street-Japanese gets PWNED by someone else speaking formal Japanese; that's awesome. He deserves it.

'Low-Rez' i.e, coarsely drawn animation. Leave that to the gaijin animators, who make crap like Family Guy, Bart Simpson, and Sponge Bob. Give me beautiful details and landscapes and light treatments, weather and seas done right, eyes that remind me of beautiful gems, etc.
FAIL: One Piece.

Nothing-important-is-happening' i.e, Kanon. Didn't make it through ep 1.
There was another deathly boring show with 'Yokohama' in the name. The guy who recommended it to me said, 'Oh, it's a character-driven show. I guess that means the same as a 'cement block driven sports car,' or something.

Too much helium. If all the seiyuu have high-pitched voices and all the characters look in the 8yr - 12yr range, I'm OUT. All-hyper kiddie voices give me a headache after a while. Figure 17, Bottle Fairy, Ojamajo Do-Re-Mi, gone.

Bhudda-headed or baby-headed boy as the main character. Akira and DBZ, gone.

Being clubbed to death by environmentalist propaganda: Mononoke Hime and the FF movie.

Trashing my own personal religious choice or opinions: FMA. The kid kept insisting 'There is no God' too often for me to get to like him or anyone else in the show. Gone before the end of ep. 1. I don't beat people over the head with my religion, but I won't let an atheist bludgeon me with his unrelenting opinions either. NEXT.

Most anything over like 52 eps, with two or three rare exceptions.
Bleach, D.Gray.Man, Detective Conan, Naruto, Marchen Awakens Romance,
One Piece, Groove Adventure Rave. Done.
(My few exceptions: Juuni-Kokki, Monster, Hikaru no Go,**
**which was a mistake, given the ending.

Bleach I bailed around ep 18 when it became clear that all they were gonna do is block Ichigo from getting to Rukia with a Bad Guy of The Week. I check back a year later and I got the low-rez chirpy bird with the blue hat, and I'm gone.

Stuff that's been on for so long and it doesn't seem to be driving to a conclusion: Gundam.

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...)

[~boogiepop~]

Nothing-important-is-happening' i.e, Kanon. Didn't make it through ep  1

You should try Kanon again. I almost didn't get through the first episode as well but my buddy said to keep going and it would be worth it. The first five episodes are really blah and then it gets crazy awesome.

[Prinz Eugen]

I tried - what was it - Air about the girl in the wheelchair who will die if anyone makes friends with her, and she almost makes it to the beach? There was a secondary character called Kanna, and I wanted a channel button so we could watch 13 or 26 eps of her Kanna's story in the cool Heian or Edo period or whenever, but no.

Hack//Sign was a cool world and I actually finished it waiting for SOMETHING to happen. THe next series was essentialy 'Chibi-Hack,' so I bailed. Then discovered Zegapain which is closer to what dot-hack COULD have been. (Thumbs up.)

Don't take this personally as it's part of your sig line but, also:

The druggie-world shows I either bailed on or should have:
Serial Experiments Lain
Paranoia Agent
Boogiepop Phantom
FLCL
Samurai Champloo (doesn't make sense + ugly character = gone.)

A show I REALLY Liked, set in the same period as Champloo was ...
(take a breath it's a LONG name)
Bakamatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
Great fun, and a good bit of history on the Ezo period and the
failed rebellion in the north of Japan.

Elfen Lied The bloody [glands] all the way
through the OP or ED (I forgot which.)  Gonzo.

[Hawkeye]

One word:  Naruto

[Man of the Public]

Naruto and Bleach. Too much filler, not enough substance. ANd most the characters are/were unlikable.
Once again most anything with 50+ episodes.
However there has been a few exceptions to that rule for me: One Piece, GaoGaiGar, and Soul Eater so far.

[Prinz Eugen]

Ratio of:

(Characters I am interested in, OR an interesting situation or setting for them)

vs

(Characters characters I'm not interested in or get turned off by)

... must remain favorable.

For now, Persona - Trinity Soul is on the edge:
Several characters I really DON'T like,
but cool music here and there, and
two characters I enjoy watching.

[Deviant Spider]

95% of Yaoi....

*Dont stone me to death....*

[Trumby]

I have watched all of almost every show I've started. The only one I can think of that I haven't was Najica Blitz Tactics and I only watched the first episode. That show is nothing but panty shots, I swear.

[Negima]

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.

[Mister_manji]

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.

One Piece definitely.

Kanokon. turned into soft-core porn, no real story to speak of.

[nikkiolie]

One Piece. That is it so far

[superjaz]

reighn nuff said it made my eyes bleed

[Wuntvor]

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

YES!  Definitely agree on both Bobo bo Bobobo And Reign - The Conqueror.  I couldn't stand either for long.  A real pity given that the voice talents we had at the last con were from Bobo bo Bobobo  I also am not a fan of to much gore.  I suppose more of sensless gore.  I did watch Elfen Lied all the way through.  It still isn't exactly a favorite, but I have seen stuff that I didn't watch because it was just a splatterfest.

I am not a big fan of Serial Experiment LAIN  I think it was the way the eyes are drawn and the pacing.  I just never could get into it.

Didn't like Boogiepop Phantom or Paranormal Agent.  I may try Paranormal Agent again sometime, because I do like the movies done by the creator, but it didn't grab me the first time around, and I am just not a fan of horror and suspense.

One series I just couldn't watch was Simoun.  Total Yuri overload.   

I still haven't made it through Excel Saga.  I do know one thing, I won't watch it in English, that voice talent had my ears bleeding halfway through the first episode.   

GeneShaft is another anime I couldn't get into, despite the fact that I have read many of the books it is based off of.  (I could tell that James P. Hogan's Giants Star trilogy had a large effect on it.)  I think it was the Dolce Doll that did this one in for me.   

[Deviant Spider]

@ Wuntvor

We clash bigtime lol. I love Serial Experiment Lain, Elfen Lied and Simoun 

* Others I dont like.
One Piece (as others mentioned) I couldnt get into the Manga either.

I loved the Manga for Yu-Gi-Oh but I hate hate hate the american "made for TV" anime....it was lame

I loved reading Naruto when Shonen Jump was first put out (like issue 1) but then it became "too mainstream" and I just lost interest.

I cant handle FLCL at all.

I tried Burst Angel and gave up. I enjoy some of the characters but I just dont find myself drawn to Mechas....

Gundam is NOT my thing at all

I hated Pokemon once Tracy joined Ash and Misty, after Brock left. I havent watched much since. There are just TOO many Pokemon now and I dont have the intrest of a 10 year old anymore lol

I normally dont watch animes that have OLD style artwork unless someone says its "Amazing: Must See!" I just find myself drawn to pretty soft artwork....yeah Im girly I guess (Exception to this would be Perfect Blue: I love that anime, if a bit dark)

Never have been able to get into Transformers or Voltron....But once again its Mecha

I believe Guy mentioned "Air"....I enjoyed the artwork but it was so sad that I would tend to stay away from tearjerker animes....I WILL watch them though. (I have avoided Grave of the Fireflies for that reason alone)

Gunslinger girl couldnt 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.

[princessmoon]

I bailed on Hunter X Hunter...I fell asleep in the middle of episode 1. Either I was tired or my brain found it boring. People keep telling me to continue tho'

I think I bailed on Saiyuki too...I can't remember why 'cause that was a loooong time ago.

[AnimeMatrix]

I've listed the animes that I don't watch under the thread about anime you watch and I'm too lazy to re-post my list (and that's what inspired this thread...). However, one thing that I can definitely say is NEVER JUDGE A SERIES BASED ON MUSIC! I once heard the opening song for the Tales of Eternia anime series and I really liked it, then I watched the anime- BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER! Dur- everything about that series except maybe the opening song and character designs annoyed me. And yet (I don't know why), I still powered through to finish it to the end (because I can never bail on a series no matter how bad it gets. Thankfully it's only 12 episodes long >_<). But I hated that show.

Other than that, I'm generally not to picky.

[Prince Nori]

95% of Yaoi....

*Dont stone me to death....*

I'm a pretty big fan of yaoi, a lot of people can tell you that. BUT! I have to agree with you, 95% of yaoi so ridiculous, it makes me angry XD -high five-

[Prinz Eugen]

I happen to agree with D-S on some of her preferences:

1- I normally don't watch animes that have OLD style artwork

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.

1- 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- Not a big mecha fan either, unless there's something ELSE going on and the world just happens to have mecha in it.

3a & b - Right there with you.

4- I liked Madlax and Noir too, but I liked Ginslinger girl a little, because I had fun recognising the weapons. Oh, and one of the chara had blonde pigtails. Then she grew up and became Eri Sawachika in School Rumble, right? Noir and Madlax seemed like shared-world cousins, same music band, same studio, etc.

Anyone notice that all the bad guys in Noir fire tracers ALL THE TIME?
(Look for all the red steaks whenever there's incoming fire.)

Cazador de la Bruja was made by the Noir/Madlax gang too, I but haven't even started watching at all - again, like Gunslinger, they seem too young.

[Prinz Eugen]

NEVER JUDGE A SERIES BASED ON MUSIC! I once heard the opening song for the Tales of Eternia anime series

I 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.

There have been several series I enjoyed but can't stand the OP - Death Note, for one. Just set your VLC player to advance 80sec and you can skip through almost all of the OPs.

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.

[Mr Silmero]

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.

[KogaRyu]

One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)
aaand thats all I can think of for now.

[Prinz Eugen]

One of the unwritten rules of this thread should be:
DON'T try to "convert" someone who has already said "I don't like {x.}"
Now, 'Why don't you like {x}' is one thing, but not - 'Oh!~ you need to rewatch it so you'll LIKE IT!'
People have many internal reasons for why they don't like certain shows.
Unfortunately you then seem to get hit with thunderous fanboi furor when you say you personally don't like something that happens to be really popular or especially a show with a small and RABID fanbase.

Hence the "Don't Kill Me" asides we have been seeing here.

My top "Don't Kill Me For Not Liking it" shows would probably be
Akira and Mononoke Hime. (Everyone is 'supposed' to like those, right?)

Question for KogaRyu: What turned you off from Code Geass?
(I have some aspects I liked, and some things I found annoying...)

[StarryShay]

One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)
aaand thats all I can think of for now.

-Gasp-
How come?

[Man of the Public]

One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)
aaand thats all I can think of for now.

-Gasp-
How come?

Well I jumped ship at the train wreck of a second season.

[Seraph]

I hold the opinion that Code Geass was Screwed by The Network
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScrewedByTheNetwork

I had actually watched the Loveless anime, it started off interesting, but then Ritsuka meets Soubi and then my interest died.

@Nori & Spider
just curious, but what reasons you find you dislike 95% of yaoi?

[Mister_manji]

One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)
aaand thats all I can think of for now.

You are going to have to explain yourself here. I need to know what camp you are in.

[JeffT]

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...)

Except Maison Ikkoku.

[Stevie]

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.

[Mr Silmero]

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.

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.

[Stevie]

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.

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.

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."

It was funny.

[Mr Silmero]

Technically he is not the antagonist- antagonist does not always mean "bad guy" it simply means one who opposes the main character so actually L is the antagonist...ok now that it's done.


Yeah I know he dies but meh...I'd rather just YouTube it then watch the entire series.


Also- Ouran Host Club, this one is actually manga related. Read a few chapters, put it down and have not looked back.

[BlackjackGabbiani]

One Piece. Let me put it this way--I couldn't even notice how bad the dubbing was because I was too distracted by EVERYTHING MOVING. It reminded me of those 1930s cartoons where everything's moving around jerkily even though they're meant to be standing still, and it looks like someone threw paint into a mixmaster and called it animation.

[Stevie]

I avoid Naruto, just because I'd never finish it.

I  don't watch much anime, but I just bailed on Naruto.

Two hundred plus episodes? Forget it.

[EveofAbyss]

Let's see, there are a few that I really try to avoid.

Naruto: I've tried multiple times to watch it, and every episode I have ever caught went nowhere. There is just so much plotlessness in there, at least to this viewer. And the character of Naruto is pretty annoying, just looking at him or listening to him makes me want to punch him, lol.

Inuyasha: Pretty much the same reason, except Inuyasha isn't as annoying a character as Naruto.

Hmmm, Gravitation, I believe it was. Watched the first episode of that and then spent an equal amount of time wondering why there would be a show made about such a boring person and bizarrely common topic. Didn't catch me in the least.

[KogaRyu]

One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)
aaand thats all I can think of for now.

-Gasp-
How come?

Well I jumped ship at the train wreck of a second season.

wow I had trouble making it through the first season.

One piece, Inuyasha, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion (Don't kill me)
aaand thats all I can think of for now.

You are going to have to explain yourself here. I need to know what camp you are in.

As for this I stopped watching when I got to point where it was maybe 2 full episodes of Shinji floating through a sea of Random words. At the same time I was constantly hearing about the series having a terrible ending. So I just never bothered to continue.
That was years ago soo I may have to re-watch it. (Very unlikely)

[Man of the Public]

Air Gear.
The storyline was just so boring. There wasn't really anything happening 'cept for a guy and his rollerskates.
And perverted things.

The manga's storyline is better.

However there is still plenty of ecchi in the series.

[Negima]

Just throwing in my two cents on a couple of things...

I'm not a fan of Death Note but this is what I gathered from skiming the manga.
The thing about Death Note, from my perspective, is it's a whole philisophical "What is good?" question mixed in with bits of action.  I've seen fans of Light and L who really think their side is the right side.  So I think it's suppose to be a series that makes you think, "if you had to pick a side to help the world, which path would you take?"  So anyway I'm not a fan but I do like the message I think it's aiming for.  (Then again, I could be waaaaay off)

[EveofAbyss]

Well, I love Death Note, but in reading it, the way I felt in reading it is that Light is so morally perverse and corrupt in his means to achieving his goal that it seemed impossible for anyone to side with him. He starts off likable enough, but as things progress he just seems to become more and more of a monster, a shinigami without the sense of boredom and displacement, so to speak. So when I read it, I tended to side with L and felt that whoever opposed Light was truly good, even if Light thought himself to be the greatest good. So, it does show a great analysis on, like you mentioned, who is right? Does perception and the belief of true virtue make one the only truly right side? It's interesting, I loved it to death, lol.

[LtCommanderRichie]

Gotta say, most of the series I've picked up I've ended up watching all the way through. D.Gray-Man, for instance, took me all summer and I now have the entire series, filler and all, on my computer.

But a series I dropped and never picked back up? Yami no Matsuei, Loveless, One Piece, Zatch Bell, Bobo Bo Bobobo, Yu-gi-oh, the list goes on and on and on. I've also dropped the Naruto Shippuden anime, though that was because of the filler, so I might pick that back up eventually since I'm still reading the manga. I dropped Bleach for the entirety of the last filler arc, too, but I'm back to watching that sporadically.

Yami no Matsuei and Loveless I was basically sat on and forced to watch on Youtube by a friend of mine that's no longer a friend for reasons such as this. She also seemed to think that boys kissing and being moe was "supa kawaii desu desu" and spent every waking moment of every day trying to prove to me that this is fact. That's probably why I despise yaoi anime/manga now, actually...

One Piece I could never get into. It's longer than Naruto and Bleach put together at this point and quite frankly the animation makes me want to hit something. I catch an episode every now and then when it's on and there's nothing else to watch, but that's it. It's the same way with Zatch Bell, but that's the premise along with the animation and I don't bother watching it anymore. Yu-gi-oh I mostly hated for the crazy hair and the overt '4kids'-ness of it. I still watch Pokemon, though!

Bobo bo... Yeahno. Bobo bo is in a category all to its own. It's just so mind-numbingly... Mind-numbing that I can't help but hate it.

I also can't seem to make it through much of Gundam anything nowadays. It all seems like a rehash of the Gundam I watched as a little kid, even though it isn't. Tried to get my little sister to watch Gundam 00 because she's mad in-love with Gurren Lagann, but not even she could stand to watch it.

[Prinz Eugen]

I cratered "Zatch Bell" the instant they showed the hovering grinning baby boy, winkie-winkie and all.

GONE!

Gurren Lagann, I bailed about ep 2 or 3; I didn't like the drawing style, and the shounen was annoying.

(I may have already named this one, but) Detective Conan is in the triple digits, so it's obviously NOT a show that gets to a point in a reasonable number of eps. (Like maybe 26.)

I don't automatically dislike non-comedy shows that do strange things, but only if sooner or later they get around to explaining how or why the unusual elements can MAKE SENSE. Samurai Champloo took too long to explain why one of the characters wore 20th-century style glasses. I don't know (or care now) if they ever do. BAIL.

[jaybug]

Peach Girl, Wedding Peach, please, just no. One of them came as a bonus to my order, the other, I think I had heard good things about, but it is just not what I wanted to see. I didn't want to go through a bunch of episodes trying to figure out what the REAL story was about.  Or if it only was to be about angsty stuff.

A lot of things from the 80s and 90s I just don't dig. Lesser quality animation. And someone has probably done something similar at a later date, so this older show seems all deja vu all over again.

Gundam. The continuity errors suck so bad, and it is militarily just wrong. I guess it's the equivalent of American horror movies to me. bARF. everyone except the idiots on screen know what is to happen.

There really hasn't been that many where I just sent it back to Netflix. When it happens, I more often forget the name, I send it back so fast. I didn't used to, I used to beat myself with watching the ones I really didn't like. Then I thought, I don't have enough time to do that. I want to see as much good stuff in as little time as I can. There will hopefully always be more.

[tofutakeout]

I do not speak of them because they are so bad. >_> most of the ones I don't like have been mentioned. A lot of anime series I like but there's always something about them that needs to be fixed. :/

[Cassiopeia]

A lot of anime series I like but there's always something about them that needs to be fixed. :/

Lemme see you try telling a perfect story. 

[tofutakeout]

What's its not exactly that. A lot of the time its the voice actors. I mean at times I can ignore them but it's those really annoying ones that don't sound like the character at all. lol 

[Prinz Eugen]

but it's those really annoying ones that don't sound like the character at all. lol

Oh, you mean dubbed anime?

[Cassiopeia]

Ahhh.

[melchizedek]

kyou kara maoh, as soon as the two guys got engaged it was over

I also made it through air though by the end I knew I should have bailed long ago.

Gakuen Alice, kiddy, but thought the powers were cool, I watched almost all of it but should have bailed a whole lot earlier.  Little girls obsessing about others girls meh.

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.

Tetsuwan Birdy Decode. .  .  Watched the first two eps, I really liked the old old series that is almost impossible to get now but I dunno, animation quality is a whole lot better but plot is SOOO SLOW compared to the first.

Rave Master . .  .  didn't seem to be going anywhere, like every ep was a mini plot to itself

[melchizedek]

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.

It's a pity, weenie boy is completely different by the end

[Deviant Spider]

Ergo Proxy is still on my list to watch...and no one can change that 

[jaybug]

I must have been a lot drifty last night. I should have included these statements in with what I wrote then.

On Naruto, I find many good examples of leadership lessons, and some useful tidbits that most shows just don't bother with. And I think that having the title character being so obviously different from his stated goal, just makes it that much more, hmmm, most people are not born leaders, and he is born to be the opposite of a leader. So I find it appealing that he does do everything it takes to become the leader he desires to be, even though it is not in his nature to be anything like a leader. It's like cilantro, the Doors, or Bob Sagett, you either love it op you don't.

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?

[Negima]

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?

[Prinz Eugen]

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.)

The Death Note book explores the question 'what would one do if he had an absolute power?' Yagami does not have powers to heal or create, teleport things, or resurrect the dead - and his powers to force people in to do things is only tied in with their impending death. Compare this with Lelouche's Geass power: you can make any one person follow one spoken order, once. But those people don't have to die unless they are ordered to their deaths. That too is fascism: I speak (or write) the order, you must obey, and especially: "I am above my own laws, and accountable to none." This last condition sets the scene to observe absolute power corrupt absolutely. [Lord Acton.]
Without spoiling things, it is debatable about whether Lelouche's final acts are about absolute tyranny or noble sacrifice. (No spoilers plzz -  it's an awesome ending!)

I guess WWII is still not so far back in time for them, eh?

Gee, let's see:
Strike Witches
Zipang
Grave of the Fireflies

...and German MG42s in Jin Roh, plus
I just saw the Browning M2 .50cal in Ride Back,
 even though these are supposedly futuristic shows.

There's also a bunch of vintage WWII weapons in Coyote Ragtime Show.

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...

[Brendan2]

I tryed watching diff animes but now I have a standerd or else I wont watch it and bail like.
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.

[Blue Leader]

I tend to like most anime I watch, except I'm really sick and tired of all of the game series-- for example, Yu-Gi-Oh, Bakugon, and all of the others. They've been done to death and yet a new one seems to pop up every so often... ugh.
I also don't like the ones that have crude, stupid jokes (*cough cough* Shin Chan *cough cough*), and I can't watch the ones that have a lot of blood and gore... I just can't watch extremely bloody ones...

[tofutakeout]

I tryed watching diff animes but now I have a standerd or else I wont watch it and bail like.
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 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)

[Prinz Eugen]

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.

[Daxe]

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.

:cough: CowboyBebop :cough:

[Mr Silmero]

ehh the whole mainstream thing is a cruel mistress cause on some things you really should not bail just because it got popular but on the other hand if it gets too popular (Bleach) then it never ends and yada yada yada.


tl;dr- becoming mainstream is a two sided coin.

[Mister_manji]

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!

[Higuma]

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!

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)
Im not going to stop watching Football because its the #1 in America!

[Radien]

For me, the quintessential case of a series I tried a bit and then bailed is Inu Yasha.

The reason being: I put a LOT of effort into getting myself up to speed on the series.  It first came out a little while before I joined the U of O anime club, and I wanted to catch up to where the rest of the club because it looked cool.  I borrowed a friend's manga and read about 16 issues so I could join in watching the series.

After I caught up, I watched it for quite awhile. But it just never ends. When a progressive series goes on for a long long time, you instinctively expect the ending to be better and better.  After awhile I realized that no ending could possibly be good enough to watch that many episodes (or seasons), and I lost interest.

Oh, Ms. Takahashi... how many great new series could you have created during the last twelve years you've been churning out Inu Yasha episodes?...



Other examples of "bailout" anime for me:

- The Twelve Kingdoms (too much like Fushigi Yuugi)
- Naruto (lost interest long before it was popular)
- Star Ocean EX (watched the whole series except the last episode, strangely)

...I'm sure there are many more.

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!

I definitely agree with you, but I wanted to point out one valid reason why a show going mainstream can be a bad thing (for the enjoyment of the show, that is): often when an anime goes to cable, the translators start to become much more "free-minded" with the localization. The dubbing is often cheesier and sometimes sub-par, and in worst case scenarios they "play" around with the episode order and mutate the plot.

Yeah, I know, at that point it's usually better to buy/rent the DVDs and switch to subs. That usually solves the problem, but sometimes it doesn't.

Fortunately for me, I'm so uncool that my top anime picks ALMOST NEVER go mainstream! This makes me sound all snotty and indy, but in actuality it's kind of annoying for me.

[shanime_panda]

so far I've bailed on One Piece [as soon as they changed the voices], Bleach, after they left the soul society for the first time [to me, that was the end], recently I bailed on Naruto [the manga version], and I've been wavering back and forth with Elfin Lied...I want to quit but eventually I get bored and pick it up again. lol.
I also didn't make it through the first episode of Code Geass, and only made it to episode 3 of Loveless.
..not really sure why people like those...


 wow. I never realized how many I've given up on. haha.

[Man of the Public]

@Panda
Wait, You liked the 4kids dub?
That's just odd.

Also just watch the subs for One Piece the voices are better.

[Charlatan]

I just didn't like Hellsing. 10 years ago I would have loved it, though.

I also stay away from anything Ghost In The Shell except for the first manga. Not entirely sure why. I think it was the increased SSSEXXX in later iterations.

I had to soldier through the first season of Nanoha to be interested enough to watch the second one. The first 2/3rds was dull/slow/creepy.

[shanime_panda]

@Panda
Wait, You liked the 4kids dub?
That's just odd.

Also just watch the subs for One Piece the voices are better.

When I was 12 
that was before I knew about the japanese versions and all the censoring

[Man of the Public]

@Panda
Well that's understandable.

[Man of the Public]

@Dana
I do believe that's something everyone can agree on.

[xxxchihiroxxx]

oh god....

hmm well theres a few I droped not becuase I didnt like them but because I didnt have the time

Sienkuku Monogatary is one I really want to pick up again.

I droped Bleach round 100 and I want to start again jsut becasuse I did like it though it was FULL of fillers.

I dont really drop anime much, I have a bad habbit of forgeting it sometimes but i'll alwayhs come back. really its because even ifits bad I get adicted and I want to know the rest of it SO BADLY ussualy what I tend to do is if I really cant stand it (naruto) I'll switch to the manga, its ussualy further along and fillers are more entertaining and if you really dont want them you can just skim it. I am reading the naruto manga cause everyone is all "narutos so great" I dont have time to sort through 200 sum episodes but I can slowly read through the manga at my own pace, read like a chapter a night and I'm happy as a clam.

there are a few series I REALLY wanted to drop but couldnt out of curiosity.

Elfen Lied. I loved it in the end but my god that was a BLOODBATH

Higurashi- still in the middle of this one. to be honest its damn confusing as hell. and again it creeps me out to no end.

[Blue Leader]

A few more...

One series I just could not get into was Code Geass. Ugh, I really, really tried to like that series... but I just couldn't. I hated the main character and the story was... not really to my liking. I wanted to like it, I tried to like it, but I just couldn't.

Death Note was like this as well. I wanted to like it but I just couldn't. Though I did watch the entire stupid series... heh heh. XD

Maps. Again, just couldn't get into it. Okay, it's a short series... really short. But even so, I just couldn't get into it.

There was another one, Dog Warriors or something like that... It sounded interesting but boy did it suck... and bad. The story was just so hard to follow, nothing really made any sense in it, and they'd skip around from scene-to-scene without really making any sense or explaining what was going on. The series felt like a complete mess with a sub-par story.
Good thing I only bought the first volume.

[lightbeam911]

I love the manga of D Gray Man, but I couldn't make it past episode 40 in the anime. Once they threw LuluBell in there, I was forcing myself to watch.
Naruto basically killed itself. Not much explanation nessacery.
I'm still working on Bleach. I think it has potential (though it may be LONG past that point), but it just drags in all the wrong places.
Kaiji. I know. I'm sorry. It may have been a fabulous story, but I really couldn't get past the art. It may be small minded, but art is a big part of anime for me.
Hayate No Gotoku. I got to episode 4. It just... Didn't make it.

[jaybug]

I wonder if I should include all the series that Netflix hasn't gotten that one disc that went missing. It would also be easier to find those series, as they are still on my Netflix queue. I think there are more than 50 discs that I am pretty sure I am never going to see.

I did just bail on two series. One; Ouran High School Host Club, just wasn't what I felt like wading through, and two; Noir, if I have to watch little girl assassins, gimme Gunslinger Girl instead. So I guess I can only handle so much shoujo material. And I haven't bothered to fully understand why I returned Noir so quickly, after only a few episodes. I just went with my feelings, that said no, please no.

[melchizedek]

I hear ya with Noir, I bailed on that too it just wasn't doing it for me.

[iluvshijimi]

I loved Noir!

I don't like Hanasakeru Seishonen, Phantom: Requiem of a Phantom and Macross Frontier.

[strayanimus]

Bleach. Too long, no progress.
Ghost Hunt. The characters were utterly unlikeable.
DNAngel. I remember liking the manga, sort of, but the anime was awful.
Gantz. Wonderful manga, but the anime was stripped down its bloody gorn center.
Kyou Kara Maou. Once I realized that nothing ever actually happened, I stopped watching.

[Kagome219]

For the most part I like manga versions better than anime. It feels more like I am part of the story and I can also read a whole volume in thirty minutes that is equivalent to like four episodes. So for the most part, if I really like a manga, it doesn't mean I like the anime as much.

Anyways, the one thing I can not stand no matter what it is and I will NEVER be able to stand it, is ANYTHING mecha. I'm sorry. I just can't take it. Even Mega Man I can't take. Dx  I tried the manga of Gundam Seed and I was able to read one volume, but couldn't continue. x.x

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.

Some that are in the future and sci-fi just bug me too. Actually, most all of them except for Chobits. Can't take it. ><

And sure there are some shows that I don't like just because I can't get in to them, but for the most part, these are the ones that really grind my gears.

[StarryShay]

Ah, this thread makes me sad. >.<
Um, I think one of mine is Bleach.
Sooooo many fillers. xD

[NightLotus]

Bleach: boring
Kaleido Star: I couldn't watch all the episodes and got lost after coming back in the middle
Tsubasa: the books are SO MUCH better

and a few more i'm blanking on right now! ^^

[Dapan Chan]

Kyou Kara Maou::: I tried to watch it... at first I was like "It's going to be funny!!!" but then it wasn't. Then I was like "Hey at least the guys are somewhat hot!" but that still failed to keep me...

Bleach::: The neverending stooorrryyy~~~
*coughs lightly*
Anyway I really love that series, I truly do, but it honestly felt like the never-ending story. I stopped reading it and now I can't jump back in.

Naruto::: It's another never-ending story issue... my attention span is equal to a baby's... then again, if that's the case, that should have kept me in- *is shot*

[DemonSpawn]

When I was younger I was all "Yaaaayyy sailor moooon!" (Yes, just like that.)
But like a year ago I tried to watch the dub and I was so grimacy the whole time. So, dub Sailor Moon I guess. I know I like parts of it but wow, that voice.

[Hidamari]

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.

Did you seriously group Haruhi as "Typical School Girl Anime"? Because it's anything but xD

[melchizedek]

I couldn't get into ghost hunt either.  As for Bleach, it started out good, but then really lost traction.  I liked up until soul society after that it was too dragonball z, and then next it was a bunch of meaningless side story

Haruhi is good, although I totally didn't get the ending.  The second series looks to be promising

[WhiteRoseMarie]

There's....a few...Here's a list of what I can think of. Some have reasons, some don't.

Naruto (I only watch it if I'm at a hotel and it's one of the only things on. Then I make fun of it.)
Bleach
One Piece

Shamanic Princess (x.x; I tried. But it made feel ill and I just did not understand a thing that was going on.)
Cyborg 009 (Don't know if it qualifies but I'm putting it up here anyways)
The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya (I tried! It was just...confusing after awhile)
Ghost In The Shell (The ill feeling again! Except both me and my friend tried to grab the remote to change the channel)

Vampire Knight Guilty (I struggled through Vampire Knight, saw the first episode of this one and ran for the hills.)

Pokemon with anything after the title (It gets old and it was just added to so much.)
YuGiOh with anything after the title (Same as above. The fact that you kinda know what's going to happen next and the way things were starting to contradict each other....It just didn't appeal to me to force myself through another season.)

Most Mecha Animes. <.<; I don't know why. There's an exception for some but yeah...

[Hitokiri Kenshin]

Magical Doremi.  Thought the theme song was cute and catchy, but the show was little girls' cartoon that didn't hold my interest. 

[WhiteRoseMarie]

Magical Doremi.  Thought the theme song was cute and catchy, but the show was little girls' cartoon that didn't hold my interest. 

Oh! I remember that one...I think the only reason why I watched it was because it came on early enough for me to forget what was going on xD

[The_Geek]

Fruits Basket- It's just shallow. I read the manga and it isn't much better either.
Bleach- Anime had too much filler. Lost interest during Bount arc, and by how much people are posting it here I'm guessing it didn't get much better.
D.Gray-Man- It's good, but the pause in the manga and the drop-off point in the anime were enough to have both my friend and I rip our hair out. Just wait till the series is finished before you read it. Or you will be bald too...
Yakuza Girl- Cliche crack... If thats possible...
Negima!- Shallow plotline.

[StarryShay]

Fruits basket is shallow? D':

[The_Geek]

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*

[CC3]

Let's see..

Naruto- Got to like 50 episodes then got really tired of it. I've actually been reading the latest chapters guess what I missed? NOTHING ! I've already decided it will have a cheesy ending where Naruto will become Hokage after a fight in which Sasuke will sacrifice himself in a fight against the bad people and will be redeemed in the eyes of the village people. Naruto will be depressed but Sakura will tell him it was "For the best" and all that crap and she will never be able to get over him so Naruto will marry Hinata, the end.

Lucky star- Bailed after the first ten minutes were about food.

The Melancholy of Haruhi something or another- What was her last name? Anyway I watched it till the end, thought the murder on the island was interesting. Couldn't get over how annoying Haruhi was though and the lack of chemistry between her and what'shisface. (I'm terrible at remembering names of things I don't like.
 
Fruits Basket- Watched the first episode. Thought "Hmm that's nice." Never really watched another.

One Piece- I don't dislike it. It just got to weird for me at some point.

Bleach- I don't remember at what point in the series (near the begining though) but I just stopped caring

There are a lot more but I just don't remember them.

[Higuma]

Some of you on here can be way to pickey. And if that statement offended you then you know who you are. I dropped Final Fantasy Unlimited after about 6 eps. I knew it had bad reviews but I figured I would give it a try. Bad animation(no shading), horrible cg animation and I hoped the story line or characters would keep me interested but no go. My 6 year old may like it but thats about it.

[EveofAbyss]

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.

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.

[jaybug]

There is a new show for this summer, starring a character named Cao Cao that I can do without. It's ancient Chinese history anime. I probably would have liked this back when I was 8-12.

I am currently trying to avoid having to watch too much magical girl anime. lol

I have come close to bailing on When They Cry this past week. After disc one, and everyone dies, I thought why watch more? Then I think I figured out what was going on, but I could be wrong, but at least it kept me watching.

[Higuma]

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.

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.

Because it was Final Fantasy I really did try to like it.

[EveofAbyss]

Yup, but I certainly can understand how it would be hard for a lot of anime viewers, overall it is a pretty immature anime, but even still, I dig it enough to keep it, heh

[MiriaRose]

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. D: I couldn't stand the title character long enough to see her get better. Naruto, I just got sick of trying to keep up with it. Bleach was on the same arc for over 100 chapters, and it was boring me anyways. The Soul Society arc was awesome, though. One Piece just bugged me for some reason, too. Inuyasha was just repetitive, and so was Sailor Moon. (I managed 3 and a half seasons of that before I dropped it.)

There are actually a lot of animes I DO like, but I never end up watching the entire thing. Noir was good, but I never actually bothered to find the second episode. >.> I liked Les Miserables: Shoujo Cosette, but Veoh only had up to 8ish subbed in English. (they had up to 25 in Spanish, though. D< )

[jaybug]

I just bailed on When They Cry in the middle of disc 6. Part of it was I didn't want to see the story from viewpoint number five, after watching the first four. Part of it was that I don't think a reasonable person will turn to the dark side, not if they weren't somewhat predisposed already. Maybe I just am not enamored with psychopathic behavior. But a large part was I got a couple of Story of Saiunkoku in the mail, and I really like that show.

[Kimiski]

Naruto, think I watched 5 eps.
Bleach... bailed around episode 200 something, couldn't take anymore stupid filler. First season was cool though.
Lucky Star, couldn't make it past the conversation on nothing but FOOD
Boogiepop Phantom- no real reason
Saiyuki- Again no real reason
Eternal Gift Rainbow

No robot fighting
I'm sure theres more I cant remember




@__@ Fruits Basket was amazing! The manga was much better of course, great story telling.

[PrinceZacky]

Death Note. :/
It bored me and I couldn't get into it.

Serial Experiments Lain. I didn't really get the whole point of the show so I lost interest xD

[Negima]

Lucky Star, couldn't make it past the conversation on nothing but FOOD

That 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)

I thought of a few others.  I love the manga but I don't like the anime of Love Hina or Negima.  You know it's a bad sign when you have to force yourself to watch something.

[superstarmegami05]

Ugh, my biggest ones are FLCL and Bobobobo (or whatever it's called). I've known some people that thought it was just the best thing ever. I tried more than once to give it a chance but I just never got into it.

I never got into Naruto but maybe that's because I like Bleach? I think my mind can only take one REALLY long anime at a time.
Although I really liked Tenjo Tenge, I think the last however many episodes that had NOTHING to do with the series nearly scared me away from it. =_= I understand the point why they were in it but really? Does it take THAT many episodes to explain it?

[sabata]

lucky star. i was waiting, and then BOOM. nothin happened.

[Washougal_Otaku]

Code Geass.  I saw the first episode, thought it had potential, then the ending.  It was so lame that I have no interest in giving it a real shot.  (I've seen bits & pieces of it on Adult Swim when I'd turn the TV on after a closing shift at work, but they'd be in mechas, and that doesn't work for me too much).

[kayu1111]

I gave Elfen Lied a fair chance.

I tried so hard. I wanted to see what everyone was talking about.

Hated it so freaking much.

[melchizedek]

I liked elfin lied

I bailed on boogiepop phantom, it just made no sense to me and was so slow...

[Blue Leader]

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. ><
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. >>

[Man of the Public]

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. ><
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. >>

Baccano takes abit to make sense since it jumps between 3 times but it does get better.

[CharlotteElbourne]

Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Eyeshield 21, Bleach, Naruto, Gundam, and a few others I can't recall at the moment.

For KHR, it was very silly in the beginning, and I just couldn't get into it enough to really read it, but gawd Kid Lambo is so adorable! Only plus thing <3

Eyeshield 21... I don't like football, so it didn't get me much, but Hiruma was hilarious.

Bleach/Naruto: SO annoying D: The voice actors make me cry because a good 90% of anime dubbed SUCKS. *cough*Death Note*cough*

Gundam and most mecha animes: I don't like mecha animes... they just aren't interesting to me, especially cause most of it has to do with battles, fighting, and firing things at each other in the hopes of killing the other enemy... >>; The only mecha one I liked was Zoids.


I prefer well made animes, with amazing graphics and details, with voice actors that aren't used in every other anime out there, and that hold a good plot line, keep me suspenseful without boring me... D: Also, if it holds too many episodes, I usually just go BLAH and quit,

Although Sailor Moon was one I stuck with, as well as Inuyasha. :s

[MiriaRose]

Katekyo Hitman Reborn!. I tried reading it and absolutely hated it. Inuyasha was boring and I didn't like Kagome. Bleach and One Piece were boring, and Naruto just wasn't worth keeping up with anymore.

[7bijou7]

heres a couple of mine:
-Naruto(obvious)
-Death note(I just don't like it, I prefer fight in my anime)
-Clannad(I just could not finish it, watch it for like a week looking for some development, but got nothing,)
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[Blue Leader]

Baccano takes abit to make sense since it jumps between 3 times but it does get better.

Well, it's good to hear that it does get better.
If On-Demand ever has the rest of the episodes available for free I might give it another shot. But I'm not willing to pay for it on the chance I may or may not like it any better.  >>;;

[Animeman73]

Hey everyone, this is Animeman73. Well in terms of anime I didn't like Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds has proven to be quite the disappointment for me. First off I don't get the whole turbo dueling thing because it breaks several major laws of gravity and how is one supposed to duel when they have to keep their eyes on the road at the same time? Secondly this is set so far in the future that the concept of it being part of the Yu-Gi-Oh universe becomes rather questionable. Personally I think they'd have done better to call it, Duel Monsters 5D's. I'm speaking from a viewer and writer's persepctive. Take no offense 5D's fans this is only my opinion. I've also got some other anime that I didn't like. I'll be talking about them at the panel I'm going to called, "Anime that Jumped the Shark" (Started off promising but then got real sucky). My e-mail buddy PaladinElric is going to be hosting it so if anyone out there has anime that they didn't like or felt jumped the shark COME ON DOWN!!!.

[Miyako]

Love Hina, the anime. I loved the manga, but the anime horrified me. I hated the twisted plot, HORRIBLE voice acting both for Japanese and American. I tried two different times to watch Love Hina, but I was so disgusted I turned it off.

Escaflowne, the movie. It made me sick to my stomach. About ten minutes into the movie I turned it off.

Lain. For the same reasons as Escaflowne. Plus it was confusing.

I got bored with Inuyasha. It was the same thing every episode. The only thing that really keeps me coming back is the strange relationship Kagome and Inuyasha have.

Saiyuki Reload. I dunno. I hated the voice acting. It was different than the first series. I was never really able to get into it.

Anything DBZ related. HATE it! That anime or multiple animes were seriously created by people on pot or 'shrooms. Everything about it is horrible. I honestly can't tell why in the world people watch that stuff. The animation style is awful, the humor in it is lacking heavily, the action sucks, overall it sucks. It never should have been created. I actually wince every time I hear about it, read about it, see it, anything. It's the worst series ever created.

There's a few more, but I'm really tired at the moment. I'm sure they'll come back to me later.