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Air Master (TV) Bad One episode was enough to move this to the Won't Finish category. The whole thing doesn't make any sense, and the character designs are over the top caricatures. Eww.
Aria the Scarlet Ammo (TV) Bad Unfortunately, it seems I'll have to watch this anime first before Double A. Technically it's a separate continuity, but it kinda skips the introductory world-building. Unfortunate, because this anime is not just fanservice, but harem. Which sucks :(
Nevermind. I'd rather not get all the details of Double A than watch any more of this. Yech.
Assault Lily Fruits (ONA) Not really good Little (2min., incl. 30s ED) silly vignettes, based on the figures' lore mostly. I guess that matches the game as well. Not super bad, but not interesting enough to watch more of.
Bakuon!! (TV) Weak Well, looks like the OVA was a pretty accurate prediction for the TV series. It's full of fanservice, both of the shiny mechanical and boingboing varieties. The art/animation is so-so, and the comedy so far is more miss than hit. I didn't like the sudden sexual jokes from the bike. Ep.2 even manages to cram in a bad trans joke. *sigh*
I made it to ep.5 before giving up. The ecchi stuff is getting too much, and the other aspects aren't even good enough to make it worth watching without that.
Blue Seed (TV) Not really good This looks and sounds pretty old, and it actually is, from 1994. Hmm, this anime seems to be moving a little slow, despite all the action. There's a lot of exposition too in the early episodes.
*sigh* Why must otherwise interesting anime always be spoiled by stupid fanservice? This anime doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. Horror/action/police? Or fanservice/romance? Both get in the way of the other.
Canvas 2 - Niji Iro no Sketch (TV) Weak Wow, it's very clear from the start that this is based on something harem/ecchi. I hope it tones it down a bit or I may have to drop it.
Meh. I gave it 3 eps., but it's not funny or interesting, and very harem and pantyshots. Dropped
Ceres, Celestial Legend (TV) Bad Wow, talk about a mood whiplash. Right after Aya sees her dad killed before her eyes, we cut to Ms. Q's driving antics.
I really don't like how powerless Aya is made in this story. Toya, Yuhi and Kagami continually invading her personal space. Egh.
Hmm, so it is going to be a love triangle after all.
And now Suzumi is being drugged too. What a nasty story this is turning out to be.
Allright, I've watched up to ep.10, and things seem to be getting only worse. Reading up on TVTropes confirms that it will get indeed much worse. So.. no, thanks.
Chi's Sweet Home (TV) Decent Sweet indeed, but a little too simple. A kitty is cute, but I think only actual cat lovers can stand 104 eps. of it. And I'm not a cat lover. Not sure if I'll finish this.
Full Moon o Sagashite (TV) Weak I suppose this will be a lot like Fancy Lala, except longer.
Oh. Turns out both Fancy Lala and Full Moon are copies of Creamy Mami. Why did they make the same story three times? It's not like it's that great.
I think I liked the characters in Lala better (except the little boy). So far Full Moon is all people not talking properly, jumping to conclusions, and making things worse. Not really my kind of humor. Well, I'll give it a few more eps.
13 eps. in. I'm having serious doubts about finishing this. I just don't like the characters and their interaction.
I gave in and read some reviews/commentary. Apparently this anime will eventually get more of a plot (although overly dramatic), but not until about ep.40. A heavier ending is good, but I don't think I can stand 25 more eps. of irritating stupidity.
Ga-Rei-Zero (TV) Not really good Well, that was certainly an actionful first ep. And the second ep. as well. They seem to be ignoring the conservation of detail rule. All the interesting characters are killed off. Then ep.3 is all flashback. I don't get this anime. Ep.4 is still the same flashback. Maybe the first two eps. were flashforward? Also a lot of fanservice :/
Ep.5 was still meh, and it looks like it'll be all downhill from here. Sorry, but I just don't care for unhappy stories with unhappy endings.
Gasaraki (TV) Not really good I don't know why this is on the to-watch list. The first ep. doesn't explain what's going on, and looks a little boring as a result, despite what appear to be tense situations.
Three eps. in it seems that this anime is rather heavy on boring realism and very light on likeable or interesting characters. After reading a review, I think I'll drop this.
Girls und Panzer (TV) Weak Got tempted to watch the first ep. because Andrea said it had a surprising scene at the end. Well, I did get tempted into watching one more ep. by it, but it turns out to be not very relevant to te anime's story overall, and it's otherwise rather military otaku bait. So yeah, no thanks. Two eps. was enough.
Hanamaru Kindergarten (TV) Weak Came across an image on BakaBT. The review on ANN said it's a little like Yotsuba&, so maybe give I'll give it a try.
The first ep. starts with a bad joke (Tsuchida "coming on to" Anzu). I hope they don't keep that up the rest of the series :/ Hmm, by ep.3 it's still there. I'm not sure I like the focus on Tsuchida and his love life. Or rather, any love life.
Nope. It stays with the icky "preschooler crushes on teacher" joke, and even throws in Tsuchida ogling Yamamoto and Tsuchida's sister also doting on him. This isn't about kids being cute, this is about a man's fantasy of every woman of any age being after him. Dropped.
Hataraki Man (TV) Weak I don't like the implication that "working" is somehow a masculine thing to do, that Matsukata needs to switch to "man" mode to accomplish stuff. Aside from that, this whole setting is very foreign to me. Makes you feel stressed just watching it. Well, I'll give it another ep. or two.
Seriously considering dropping this. Watch 5 more eps., or not? Bah, whatever. Dropped because it's not fun/interesting.
Hells (movie) Bad A rather sloppy art style. And like a lot of movies, the sound effects are much louder than speech, which makes it kinda hard to follow now and then.
This is basically an animated manga. And a sloppily drawn one at that. Characters also spend too much time telling instead of showing. Although maybe that's a good thing, because the showing doesn't make much sense.
Looks like someone read some christian mythology, then smoked something weird. This story doesn't make any sense, and isn't fun or interesting either. Byebye.
Why was this ever put on the to-watch list? I don't see any links to anything interesting :?
Initial D (TV) Not really good I didn't expect to like this anime really; I was just curious what it's like from references to it in other anime. I think a few episodes will be enough.
And indeed, three eps. were more than enough for me. The art is quite bad, the characters are all men/boys who care only about cars and racing, except for one token girl who is there to be ogled. The music isn't bad, it goes nicely with the racing scenes, but I don't think it'll be much fun to listen to separately.
Ah well, I satisfied my curiosity. I understand now how Chiyo was so traumatized by Yukari's imitation of Initial D-style driving.
Kanamemo (TV) Weak Well, this anime had 'ecchi' and 'lolicon' tags on AniDB, and the first ep. doesn't really contradict that. It looks like it could be a nice slice-of-life comedy though, so I'll give it a chance.
One of the few lesbian couples in anime (they're university students too), and then they ruin it by putting them next to Haruka's extreme lolicon (pedophile might be more accurate). Ep.4 has the whole cast singing in swimsuits for money. I'm beginning to think the nice slice-of-life story and rare lesbian couple just aren't worth tolerating all this crap for.
Nope, even Yuuki & Yume can't save this. I gave it 6 eps., but I'm not going to finish this.
Kill la Kill (TV) Weak Several people have said that this isn't good, yet at the same time they all keep raving about it and posting fanart. I think I'll have to check this out for myself.
Hmm. It wastes no time to establish its own style. Elastic characters, and a sort of zeerustic art style. I can see the problem though. Ryuuko is super strong, yet she's put into a "uniform" that even a stripper would find skimpy. Ep.2 starts with some rape-like imagery. Some of the art in this ep. looks very N-American, like Ren&Stimpy and the like. Not something I want to see in anime, thankyou.
This anime continues to have scary shots that look rape-like. I wonder if I should just drop this. You know what, just forget it. The characters aren't deep or interesting, the plot is meh, the art and animation are almost USAian, and there's the icky stuff. Dropped after 6 eps.
Kurokami The Animation (TV) So-so The first ep. looks like this might be interesting. Hmm, as can be expected from a shōnen anime, it's a matter of "don't mind the details", as long as there are cool battles. The story so far doesn't hold up very well when you start thinking about it.
Wow, ep.9 had some bad examples of plot-dependent power. Does this anime even try to have the story make sense?
And then it happens again in ep.10. This is turning into a giant ass-pull plot.
Wait, this anime has 23 eps. instead of 12/13? Sorry, I was going to watch the last two/three eps., but this is too much. Bye-bye.
Legend of Basara (TV) Weak Left unfinished because I lost interest. What I saw was quite slow and not really interesting.
Magic User's Club! (TV) Weak Because this is a TV series, I was hoping it would be less ecchi than the OVA, but I guess that was too much to ask with only three years between them. Now the question is if I will endure it for 13 eps., or move it to the 'won't finish' category.
Five eps. in, there's still no plot development. Takeo is still very irritating, and Sae is too stupid to save this anime. Bye-bye.
NANA (TV) So-so Hmm, not sure about this. The Nanas are a little too blatantly heterosexual for my taste. I don't mind some straight romance, but one Nana is utterly boy-crazy, and the other seems to be rather hung up about her boyfriend as well. Bleh.
Well, I'll give it a few more eps. So far it's been mostly background on both Nanas. Maybe it'll get better when the series returns to their present-time living together.
Btw, what's up with all the smoking? Over half the characters smoke some kind of cigarettes. It almost feels like a commercial at times. Is this meant to make them look more mature? Or dumber?
A few eps. later, after the flashbacks, it does get better, but not all that much. The over-anxious2 20 year old comedy is getting on my nerves.
Gave up after 11 eps. The comedy isn't bad, but the story didn't really grab me. Nana (Hachi) is supposed to be 20 years old, but she acts like a kid most of the time. All the boyfriend troubles were more like a soap series than a romance too.
Pandora Hearts (TV) Weak Music by Yuki Kajiura ♡
The first ep. is confusing. It isn't until ep.5 that things start to make some sense, although not a whole lot. Even after 13 eps., things are still muddled. What is becoming clear though is that this anime, like other shounen anime, is all about Drama. Everything that happens is drawn out endlessly for the sake of Drama. By now, any resolution would only be both disappointingly simple and a big relief from the yawnfest so far. I think I'm going to ditch this.
Penguindrum (TV) Not really good Watching this because both Christine and Aevee recommended it. It looks pretty at least.
Left unfinished because I lost interest. This anime is much like Utena, a lot of nonsense pretending to be deep and symbolic.
Polyphonica (TV) Bad Again I have no idea how this ended up on the to-watch list. It looks kinda average. Not super bad, but I don't expect it to be awesome. The way spirits are subordinate to humans and need a human 'player' to unlock their powers reminds me of Elemental Gelade. And dozens of other anime really. The subordinates always happen to be women and their masters always happen to be men. Blegh.
*sigh* It's very heavy on the fanservice/ecchi. And ep.3 looks to be more of the same. I'm giving it one more ep. to get a plot going, otherwise I'll drop it.
Still no plot, even more fanservice. Dropped.
Ranma ½ (TV 1/1989) Not really good Speaking of '80s style anime, I just finished Ranma ½. Season one that is, and that was more than enough to satisfy any curiosity I had about it. It's not really bad exactly, but I find it hard to imagine anyone wanting seven seasons of it. Catchy theme song though.
Rayearth (OAV) Weak See Magic Knight Rayearth season one.
Rune Soldier (TV) Weak Ugh, another harem/fanservice anime :( Sorry, but I'm going to give up on this after three episodes. What little plot there is is drowned out by Louie grating on everyone's nerves and everyone still acting like he's important.
Sgt. Frog (TV) So-so Ended up with three seasons on my HDD, so let's watching. It's kinda fun. I expect it'll run out of new jokes/plots after a while, but let's give it a chance.
Well, it quickly becomes clear that the status quo is never going to change for long (usually less than a single ep.), so any developments are temporary. The kerons will never invade Earth, Natsumi will never get anywhere with Saburou, Momoka will never get anywhere with Fuyuki, Dororo will never get anywhere with Natsumi, Mois will never destroy Earth, etc. etc. That kinda deflates any tension there is. It's all just light-hearted fluff. You could call it slice-of-life that way.
In addition, over the season the various characters become more firmly established. Giroro is at first only impressed with/respectful to Natsumi, but in the latter half is completely in love (and easily manipulated that way). Dororo is at first hesitant to join the group because they don't respect him, later it's a running gag that he's ignored all the time. Keroro is at first just doing chores and playing with gunpla a bit on the side, later gunpla is his main motivation for everything he does and chores are rarely mentioned. Etc. I dunno, it kinda feels like the characters have become caricatures of themselves.
So the only new developments are new characters that are introduced now and then. And then completely forgotten until some episode plot calls for someone like that. Toward the end it even felt like the writers were running out of good ideas, because there were a few really nonsensical eps.
One thing that felt off about this anime is all the male gaze. Not a good thing for any anime, but even worse for one that's supposedly aimed at children.
Overall, this anime isn't so great. It's very, very light entertainment where you can miss several eps. in a row and not miss anything important, or watch most of it out of order even. I think I'll check out one or two eps. from later seasons to see if they ever change anything (probably not) and otherwise drop it after one season. ANN lists it as a single anime of 300+ eps., so I guess it'll go into "won't finish".
Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (TV)
Utawarerumono (TV) Not really good It starts out somewhat interesting. Fantasy setting, interesting characters, beginnings of a romance, then it slowly reveals its origin as a strategy game, turning into battle after battle, all to the greater glory of the hero. The fantasy setting becomes just a backdrop, the interesting characters get lost in the crowd or killed, and the female main characters turn into just another bunch of supporters of the hero. Bleh. Sorry, but this just isn't my taste. Gave up after 5 episodes.
You're Under Arrest (TV) Decent If the character designs hadn't reminded me of Ah! My Goddess already, all the motor maintenance details would have. These two anime are clearly based on manga by the same author :P I hope it's not all about car chases. Those cops could use some common sense.
Neither the humor nor the drama are very sophisticated, so although this anime is not bad, it isn't really great either. At first I figured I'd finish watching it anyway, but 26 eps. is enough I think.
Zegapain (TV) Weak Recommended by Abunai.
I wonder why he did that though. The opening is rather full of clichés. Highschool boy (with important hair) meets mysterious girl and is told to fight to save the world, in a big mecha (using hard light). Mysterious past, check. Mysterious organization, check. Oh, and childhood girlfriend, check too. Okay, the animation isn't bad at all, but that might just have been the first ep. I wonder how they'll keep this from being a semi-boring mecha cliché fest. Ah well, only one way to find out, right?
Four eps. in, and there's still no explanation given for all the mystery. Sure, a little mystery can be captivating, keeping you watching to find out, but no explanation at all means that I don't care one way or another who these characters are or what they're doing. Better hurry up the exposition, or your audience is going to walk out. Oh, and you can add technobabble overload to the flaws too btw.
After seven eps. I give up. Some of the mystery is becoming clear, but characters continue to be idiots who don't communicate. Bye-bye.
Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (TV) Not really good This season seems to be even more random than the first. And not really funny. I'll give it one more episode before I drop it.