Kazagistar's Anime
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| ERASED (TV) | |
| Fairy Tail (TV) | |
| Katanagatari (TV) | |
| Penguindrum (TV) | |
| Soul Eater (TV) | |
| (The) Tatami Galaxy (TV) | Holy fuck that is fast. Make sure I am on some serious caffeine before trying this one. |
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| 5 Centimeters Per Second (movie) | Decent | It was beautiful, and strongly filled with emotion. It was also boring as shit and nothing happened except for a bunch of relatively flat (or at least mild) characters looking sad. |
| Aeon Flux (U.S. TV) | Very good | |
| Ajin (TV) | Good | Fun, and fairly clever combat. At first the 3d bothered me, but I got over it quickly. It was a bit too purely dark and edgy for my tastes, but I did appreciate the interesting take on the protagonist being a clever sociopath. It suffers greatly on three major points: (1) the portrayal of everyone as selfish assholes comes off as a bit unbelievable (2) the fact that it does not even try to have a season ending, leaving things kinda hanging, and (3) there isn't a good character to root for, so you kinda end up not giving a shit about anyone. |
| Akira (movie) | Weak | It hasn't aged all that well. Very slow, very meh. |
| Aldnoah.Zero (TV) | Very good | |
| Alien Nine (special) | Decent | |
| Allison & Lillia (TV) | Decent | Watched it all, but it was barely interesting enough the whole time to keep going. It had too many cheap storytelling tricks, deus ex machina, and was just incredibly predictable beginning to end. Additionally, there ware too many moments when my sense of disbelief was broken by something over the top, or some "coincidence" happening yet again just because the story demanded it. On the other hand, the characters were pretty compelling, and it had a LOT of touching momentsin spite of it all. |
| Amagi Brilliant Park (TV) | Decent | Pretty anime with a neat silly premise, centered around the themes of management. Fairly forgettable though. Sylphy best girl. |
| (The) Animatrix (OAV) | Excellent | |
| Appleseed (movie) | Not really good | |
| Appleseed: Ex Machina (movie) | Weak | |
| Attack on Titan (TV) | Good | |
| Baby Blue (movie) | Weak | |
| Baccano! (TV) | Masterpiece | The premise (Alchemists, 1920's gangsters, immortality, and more) is great, but the execution is done bravely and flawlessly. Plots occur in 4 different time periods and like 20 characters at the same time, and somehow fit togeather perfectly, and with so much pizazz, it is hard to see how this can be surpassed. |
| Bakemonogatari (TV) | Excellent | |
| Basilisk (TV) | Good | |
| BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad (TV) | Very good | |
| Berserk (TV 1997) | Good | |
| Birdy the Mighty Decode:02 (TV) | Very good | |
| Birdy the Mighty: Decode (TV) | Excellent | |
| Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (TV) | Excellent | |
| Black Rock Shooter (OAV) | Weak | |
| Black Rock Shooter (TV) | Weak | |
| Blood Blockade Battlefront (TV) | Good | Fantastically creative art, incredible world building, and a solid dub, The characters are a little weak, but not terrible. The themes were interesting, but a bit too scattered, and they missed a lot of potential that they could have achieved if they really focused on them better: the the problems and growth created by culture mixing or the imperfection of all things would have been great if they gave them the time they deserved. Unfortunately they flubbed the ending; they tried to make it more serious at the end, but had to suddenly jam in a bunch of character development that felt out of character and forced for the show. |
| Blue Drop (TV) | Good | |
| Blue Exorcist (TV) | Excellent | |
| (The) Boy and The Beast (movie) | Good | |
| C – Control – The Money and Soul of Possibility (TV) | Excellent | It was a bit random and overly artsy, but the message was interesting, thought provoking, and very relevant to the modern day. |
| Castle in the Sky (movie) | Very good | |
| Chaika - The Coffin Princess Avenging Battle (TV) | So-so | |
| (Le) Chevalier D'Eon (TV) | Excellent | |
| Claymore (TV) | So-so | |
| Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) | Decent | |
| Comedy (OAV) | Masterpiece | |
| Cowboy Bebop (TV) | Decent | |
| Crest of the Stars (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Daily Lives of High School Boys (TV) | Very good | |
| Darker than Black (TV) | Excellent | |
| Death Note (TV) | Excellent | |
| Death Parade (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Deathtic 4 (movie) | Bad | |
| Detroit Metal City (OAV) | Not really good | |
| Doorbell (movie) | Bad | |
| Durarara!! (TV) | Good | |
| Eden of the East (TV) | Excellent | |
| Elfen Lied (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Elfen Lied (OAV) | Excellent | |
| Ergo Proxy (TV) | Decent | This totally seemed like the kind of thing I would like... the theme and art were heartbreaking, thoughtful, innovative, and beautiful... somehow, though, if utterly failed to deliver... the plot just sort of... stopped... right near the beginning, and it became utterly fragmented and psychological, with answers coming once every way-to-many episodes and the rest just basically filler. As for characters; they were incredibly designed, and poorly executed, and then just killed haphazardly toward the end. Conclusion: could have been the best ever, but it was simply a disappointing "meh". |
| Escaflowne: The Movie | Awful | |
| Eureka Seven (TV) | Excellent | |
| Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (movie) | Weak | At least the art was kinda nice and the pacing wasn't awful. |
| Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (movie) | Not really good | Wow I almost felt something like entertainment at times. A true highpoint of the series. |
| Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (movie) | Awful | AAaaaaand back to retarded jerking off to symbolism. Fuck. |
| Excel Saga (TV) | Good | |
| Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya (TV) | Not really good | |
| Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (US CG movie) | Bad | |
| First Squad - The Moment Of Truth (OAV) | Excellent | This was a very very strange anime, but the uniqueness and bravery of the producers to do something like this shone through, and while there was some very canned dialog at times, the overall effect was powerful, thematic, and emotionally compelling. |
| FLCL (OAV) | Very good | |
| Flip Flappers (TV) | Excellent | |
| Flying Witch (TV) | Very good | |
| From the New World (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) | Good | |
| Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (TV) | Excellent | I mean, its obviously going to have an amazing plot/characters/themes; the source material is a timeless classic for very good reasons. It does show age in its views towards gender roles, but it only occasionally grated me. I also was annoyed by pacing at times, with it either going too slow, or glossing over parts that could have been more detailed, but it filled out its 2 cour timeslot better then I was expecting. What I wasn't expecting was the visuals. Wow. I had seen some before, and they are grating for a little bit, until you get used to not focusing on the clothing patterns (it messes really hard with the sense of motion when characters move while the patterns stay still). But after a while, I grew to love it, and I think the experiment payed off. The style allowed the setting to flourish, with beautiful patterned walls, stylish outfits, and expressive scenery in general. Every frame is beautiful. The weak point was the whole... sci-fi thing. I don't get why it was needed. "Its an anime, so its gotta have mechs" or something? The whole plot and setting make perfect sense if it is set in the past in France; if I think about it as in the future, tons of questions come up about why certain technologies don't exist, why medical science is so bad, how the world came to be, etc. At the same time, it adds absolutely nothing that just a slightly abstract or "artistic license" setting wouldn't accomplish better. Its not enough to break it for me because I can just pretend its the original setting, but I could see it being aggravating for newcomers to this story. |
| (The) Garden of Sinners (movie series) | Masterpiece | This might be the first 10 I give to a series with a somewhat poor ending, but I can do nothing else. This is a beautiful masterpiece with perfect composition. Possibly the longest true "art anime" I have ever seen. |
| Genius Party (movie) | Weak | |
| Genshiken (TV) | Decent | |
| Genshiken (OAV) | So-so | |
| Genshiken 2 (TV) | Good | |
| Ghost in the Shell (movie) | So-so | |
| Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (movie) | Bad | |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV) | Very good | |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (movie) | Excellent | |
| (The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie) | Masterpiece | |
| Girlish Number (TV) | Very good | For someone with a dark and cynical soul, this anime truly spoke to me. Whether it was ego filled characters engaging in bold unsubstantiated boasting or cute girls casually slinging the harshest insults, I was constantly entertained and frequently laughing. Who knew that all it took to make a drama/comedy I enjoyed was to make everyone irredeemable assholes? Unfortunately, instead of doubling down, the ending had to try and be "optimistic and uplifting" or some shit, which really spoiled some of the fun, but my overall impression was still rather positive. |
| Grave of the Fireflies (movie) | Decent | |
| Guin Saga (TV) | Bad | |
| Gurren Lagann (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Haibane Renmei (TV) | Excellent | |
| Hanamonogatari (TV) | Not really good | I really hated the girl of this arc, it was drawn out, I wasn't fond of the themes, and it all just fit together much more jankey then the rest of this show. The only good and memorable episode was ep 2, which had nothing to do with the main plot and was just good cause Kaiki. |
| Happy Machine (movie) | Decent | |
| Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto (TV) | Good | |
| Hellsing (TV) | So-so | |
| Hellsing Ultimate (OAV) | So-so | |
| Howl's Moving Castle (movie) | Excellent | |
| Humanity Has Declined (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying (TV) | Masterpiece | It breaks every norm of romance anime by having marriage and (off-screen) sex in the first episode. It then proceeds to fully flesh out a diverse cast of flawed and human characters and addressing difficult and unique topics, while providing high quality humor, tons of cute moments, and progressing a central story. Did I mention all the episodes are just 3 min long? |
| I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying: 2nd Thread (TV 2) | Excellent | |
| Inferno Cop (ONA) | Not really good | I mean, they got the bang for their buck in terms of quality, but it's by being super cheap. |
| Jyu-Oh-Sei (TV) | Decent | |
| Kaiba (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Keijo!!!!!!!! (TV) | Not really good | |
| Kekko Kamen (OAV) | Wat | |
| Kemonozume (TV) | Excellent | |
| Kiki's Delivery Service (movie) | Good | A very high quality children's movie, but not really meant at all for any audience above 8. |
| Kill la Kill (TV) | Masterpiece | On ep 17 |
| Kino's Journey (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Kite Liberator (OAV) | Bad | |
| Kiznaiver (TV) | Very good | |
| KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world!! (TV) | Decent | |
| Kurau: Phantom Memory (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Kyousougiga (TV) | Very good | |
| Last Exile (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Limit Cycle (movie) | Awful | |
| Little Witch Academia (movie) | Good | |
| Log Horizon (TV) | Very good | This was 9, pushing 10 for most of the series. The characters felt real, the setting was compelling, and I was giddy watching all the various plot lines unfold. Then for some retarded reason they made the last arc a fucking festival where nothing happened with some random exposition about some new villain at the end. It didn't entirely ruin the show or anything (since I know there is more) but it did put a damper on the whole thing. |
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! (TV) | Not really good | Meh. It is surprising what a dub and good pacing will allow me to watch. It really suffers from all the pandering bullshit genera trappings of a harem anime. It had a chance to be good, early on, but it took too long to get there. The resolution was obvious by the halfway mark, and it just crawled the rest of the way. |
| Lovely Complex (TV) | Excellent | |
| Madlax (TV) | So-so | I rewatched it 9 years later, this having been one of the earlier anime I saw, and... it doesn't hold up. However, I can see what the earlier me saw in it... it is a beautiful tone piece, with strong themes of escapism and disassociation, both of which continue to be relevant to me on a personal level to this day. That said, most of the other elements are poor, and the way it draaaaaaaags out is painful. The content, ideas, and overall feel would do well as maybe short movie or something. It feels like a music video dragged out over a 2 cour series. I get that it helps establish that tone, but the extent of it is just offensive. |
| Magnetic Rose (movie) | Weak | |
| (La) Maison en Petits Cubes (movie) | Good | |
| Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (movie) | Decent | |
| Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion (movie) | So-so | |
| Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust (movie) | Decent | |
| (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) | Excellent | |
| Mind Game (movie) | Good | |
| Mob Psycho 100 (TV) | Excellent | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (TV) | Decent | |
| Monogatari Series Second Season (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Mushi-Shi (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| My Hero Academia (TV) | So-so | Below average for a shonen, and painfully unfinished, though I found myself not caring where it goes from here anyways. Only thing that got me through the whole thing was Bones visual coolness. Maybe if there weren't a million hero universes already out there I might care, but this one is particularly uninspired. Compare for example to Worm; this doesn't hold up even slightly. |
| My Little Monster (TV) | Excellent | Exceptional for a shojo style romance for its fast pace, believable characters, and drama based on real internal and external conflicts that arise related to romance (and friendship). It also had a lot of dramatic twists, which had me "fufufu"ing out loud in glee. The thing that made this resonate so strongly though was the main character dynamic, which reflected powerfully some of my past experiences. I am a bit spacey and lazy, I try to be earnest and open, and academics always came fairly easily without much studying. I have had more then one ex girlfriend that was the hardworking, hyper organized, straight A student. The male/female dynamic explored in this show, and its various idiosyncrasies, felt very meaningful to me personally. |
| My Neighbor Totoro (movie) | Good | A very high quality children's movie, but not really meant at all for any audience above 8. |
| NANA (TV) | Excellent | |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie) | Very good | |
| Nekomonogatari (Black) (TV) | Very good | |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) | Awful | |
| Nisemonogatari (TV) | Very good | It kinda goes all over the place with plot and characters, and calling the fanservice "a bit heavy" would be understating it. Still, even as possibly the worst chapter of the Monogatari franchise, it is pretty damn solid. |
| Noein - to your other self (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Noir (TV) | Decent | |
| Noragami (TV) | Very good | |
| Now and Then, Here and There (TV) | Masterpiece | The saddest Anime ever, yet somehow, the protagonist remains so incredibly optimistic, it makes for one of the most good and continuously heartbreaking stories ever told. Also... cure for emos. |
| One Punch Man (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Outlaw Star (TV) | Excellent | |
| Pale Cocoon (OAV) | Decent | |
| Paprika (movie) | Masterpiece | |
| Paranoia Agent (TV) | Excellent | |
| (The) Place Promised in Our Early Days (movie) | Very good | |
| Planetes (TV) | Excellent | |
| Princess Jellyfish (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Psycho-Pass (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Psycho-Pass 2 (TV) | Good | |
| Puella Magi Madoka Magica (TV) | Excellent | |
| Punch Line (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Redline (movie) | Excellent | |
| ReLIFE (TV) | So-so | There were some clever jokes and dramatic writing, enough to keep me going. My favorite character was autistic girl. There were some weaknesses in animation at times that bothered me. The whole premise of creeping on other peoples business was... creepy, and it made a lot of the emotional beats fall flat for me. Finally, the writing had a strange habit of... repeating obvious emotional information, like it thinks the audience is a little bit autistic itself, and feels a bit patronizing tbh. Passable ending, though I am a bit annoyed how basically nothing was explained or resolved. |
| RIN - Daughters of Mnemosyne (TV) | Not really good | |
| Romeo × Juliet (TV) | Very good | |
| Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) | Good | |
| Samurai Champloo (TV) | Excellent | |
| School-Live! (TV) | Excellent | I mean, I get bored in all the moe-slice-of-life content, but the hardcore tension of the setting more then makes up for it. |
| Scrapped Princess (TV) | Excellent | |
| Serial Experiments Lain (TV) | Excellent | |
| (The) Seven Deadly Sins (TV) | Very good | Top tier for a shounen anime. There was a surprisingly dense political, plot, and personal narrative that was revealed naturally and with good pacing. The world was a bit on the generic fantasy side, but with enough careful details to make it feel somewhat unique. Most major story beats were very predictable, and the unclear and variable power levels and effective immortality of all the characters made the stakes a bit lower in most of the fights. The ending wasn't ideal (a LOT of plot threads left dangling) but it was a real ending, so I guess its fine. Overall, simple with pretty good execution, and near the higher end of what I was expecting to get out of it. |
| Shanghai Dragon (movie) | Good | |
| Shiki (TV) | Very good | One of the better haunting/horror/dark anime I have seen. It has a thrilling plot, and surprisingly solid characters. It sticks with you in that way that disturbing things sometimes can. The major flaws I found were: - It took a while to get to the meat of it. The first half isn't bad, but it isn't particularly excellent, and many of the characters weren't as important to the main plot threads as their nameplates made out. They were just introduced to murder them to prove the series was dark and I guess fill time between important plot or character developments. - "No time to explain" syndrome. There were plenty of moments when a bit more communication and evidence providing would have helped, and characters just kinda preemptively gave up for plot convenience, because if everyone got what was going on earlier, the plot would die. |
| Shirobako (TV) | Excellent | A pretty decent story with good characters and powerful, optimistic moments, even without the industry angle. A 100% must watch for anyone interested in anime production, even if it is a bit too... idealized. |
| Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū (TV) | Excellent | |
| Silver Spoon (TV) | Good | It is a slice of life (not my thing) about farming (even more boring), yet the humor, pacing, and characters were strong enough that I finished it and want to watch the second season. Thats basically the highest praise. |
| Silver Spoon (TV 2) | Good | |
| Simoun (TV) | Good | |
| Skip Beat! (TV) | Excellent | |
| (The) Sky Crawlers (movie) | Not really good | |
| Soul Eater Not! (TV) | Bad | |
| Space Patrol Luluco (TV) | Excellent | |
| Spice and Wolf (TV) | Very good | |
| Spirited Away (movie) | Excellent | |
| Steamboy (movie) | Very good | |
| Steins;Gate (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Summer Wars (movie) | Masterpiece | |
| Sword of the Stranger (movie) | Good | |
| Tekkonkinkreet (movie) | Very good | |
| Terror in Resonance (TV) | Weak | It was a bit too slow, and not only did they always pick some obvious cliche to go with, but most of the time, they picked the worse option. The ending had some feels, but it was painful to get that far. Also, token girl was utterly useless, but the whole story felt a bit... weak. Its a shame, the message and themes they were going for were really interesting, and had some good potential. Maybe just a movie about the cop himself or something would have allowed the same plot to work better. |
| Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono (TV) | Decent | Its very creative to make a show that is just improv, and it really highlights the difference between scripted and unscripted dialog. Also, the structure makes for good comedic moments, and it wasn't too long. However, its clear that it does not hold up to something like Who's Line is it Anyways, because the actresses aren't quite as clever or quick on their feet, and so it falls flat fairly often. Also, the medium of anime does not add much, at least not in this form, though the simple pictures of the ideas in the early episodes helped the format quite a bit. |
| Time of Eve (ONA) | Masterpiece | |
| Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (TV) | Very good | The first half is a bit weak plot wise. Basically, they are just trying to survive, and Mari is somehow the only decent human being, with everyone else being total selfish assholes. The kids constantly do retarded things just to add tension. The second half is "Feels: The Anime". Its fairly well done, with a lot more empathetic moments, though it feels a bit like cheap shots sometimes, and stretches out a bit too much. I don't think the disaster genera is right for me, but it still does a good job on the emotional side. Overall, a good show with a few smaller flaws. Oh, and Kusakabe Mari is my waifu as of the time of this writing. |
| Tonkatsu DJ Agetarō (TV) | Decent | Only in anime... |
| Toradora! (TV) | Good | Well, it did better then most high school romance shows, which is saying something. The ending wasn't something that appealed to me exactly, and felt forced and rushed, but overall, the show had good pacing in plot and character development. Really, I was surprised it never felt like it stalled out too badly for most the middle section, as I was expecting. |
| Toward the Terra (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Trigun (TV) | Good | |
| Trigun: Badlands Rumble (movie) | Decent | |
| True Tears (TV) | Weak | |
| Tsukimonogatari (TV) | Good | |
| Tweeny Witches (TV) | Good | |
| Un-Go (TV) | Very good | |
| Unlimited Psychic Squad (TV) | Good | Its mysterious cool. Like, the entire point is to take itself totally seriously and have cool mysterious psychic characters do cool moves in cool fights for mysterious reasons. It doesn't really surprise, its pure cliche, and the characters are mostly melodrama props, and it has a pretty standard theme and structure. So yeah, it has holes, but it does what it sets out to do with flourish. |
| Vexille - 2077 Isolation of Japan (movie) | Bad | Lets see... lets take a B-rated action movie, dumb down the plot, give it great visuals... and then strip the action. Seriously, the action scenes are like a total of 10 min and utterly stupid, the characters are utterly flat, and the story is utterly uninspiring. |
| (The) Vision of Escaflowne (TV) | Excellent | |
| Voices of a Distant Star (OAV) | Not really good | |
| Welcome to the NHK (TV) | Decent | |
| When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace (TV) | Good | List of deconstructions off the top of my head: - Superpower show where the superpowers are meaningless, and are obviously an extraneous plot element at all times. - Background of magic and secret wars and whatnot are explained, but basically nothing comes of it and it stays in the background of what is fundamentally a normal harem/romance/comedy. - Protagonist is a guy who retardedly acts like a cliche protagonist and is made fun of for it. - Protagonist - Character literally referring to himself as the reader, who tries to mess with the group dynamic by coaching one of the girls on "how to win the hearts of the readers and be best girl". - Reader character also works to ensure a magic battle ending "so it wouldn't be boring" by contracting a random person from the magic sideplot characters. - Random dating sequence at the start with who confesses her love and hints at yandere, but then acts reasonably when it is explained it wasn't requited and backs off for good. Plus, like, trigger is just great. Tons of details, tons of references to their previous works, all fun, Under the hood it is just a cheesy wish fulfillment harem story, and I almost dropped it a few times, because that core engagement was lacking for me. But still, TRIGGER seems to have mastered this strange art of both embracing the genera, while at the same time commenting on it and deconstructing it. Its just... disgustingly clever, but I can't help but be amused by it every time nonetheless. |
| When They Cry - Higurashi (TV) | Good | |
| Wolf Children (movie) | Excellent | |
| Wolf's Rain (OAV) | Masterpiece | |
| xxxHOLiC (TV) | Very good | |
| Yona of the Dawn (TV) | Masterpiece |
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| ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. (TV) | Bad | The art is awful, the animation stilted, the plot is nonexistant, and the characters boring. This is a bit of a problem for a show attempting to be driven by plot, characters, and stylish art. Barely got through the first episode. |
| Angel Beats! (TV) | Not really good | |
| Angel Links (TV) | Bad | Outlaw star was so good, but this... they took out the riveting plot and interesting characters, and replaced them with flat caricatures, already-outdated "quality" graphics, and magical girls with bouncy boobs. |
| Aquarion (TV) | Bad | |
| Arakawa Under the Bridge (TV) | Decent | |
| Aria the Animation (TV) | Weak | BORING! |
| Assassination Classroom (TV) | Bad | I mean, I wasn't expecting much, but its always fun to try the strange series on, even if it amounts to the expected disappointment fairly quickly. |
| Azumanga Daioh (TV) | ||
| BBK/BRNK (TV) | Awful | I wasn't even sure if it was an anime, or just a shitty video game plot shoehorned into an anime. The writing is awful, the plot is pointless, the characters 2d. I like the visuals and character design a lot though. Man is that shit beautiful. If only the rest wasn't shite. |
| Beelzebub (TV) | Weak | |
| Beyond the Boundary (TV) | So-so | Got 9 epsisodes and couldn't even finish the last 3. The pacing is off, but the first 3 episodes were decent. But the characters never developed anywhere, and the plot was full of BS contrivances and people not explaining stuff for tension, and I couldn't stand either anymore. Fight scenes are kinda cool looking though. |
| Black Butler (TV) | Weak | |
| Black Jack 21 (TV) | Weak | |
| Bleach (TV) | Bad | So, I kinda liked the first 20 or so episodes... interesting characters, a bit of plot... and then they go to the Soul Society, and it goes to hell. It becomes the worst kind of Shonen... each episode, he meets a stronger opponent, is winning for a while, and then stronger opponent unleashes "true power"; hero bleeds a lot, and is suddenly stronger and wins. Repeat ad infinitum. I managed to get to about 47 before I gave up, realizing that no, those old days of real story were not ever going to return. |
| Blue Gender (TV) | Awful | |
| Bodacious Space Pirates (TV) | Decent | |
| (The) Book of Bantorra (TV) | So-so | |
| Boys Over Flowers (TV) | Watched like 10 min and... nah. Too old, too cheesy. Whoever suggested it was clearly a girl, and very nostalgia fueled at that. | |
| CANAAN (TV) | It was pretty good, but started getting meh halfway. I read some reviews later to see if I should pick it up, and they say the end bombed. Good enough for me. | |
| Cardcaptor Sakura (TV) | Not really good | |
| Casshern Sins (TV) | Bad | |
| A Certain Magical Index (TV) | Not really good | |
| Chiruran 1/2 (TV) | Bad | |
| Chrono Crusade (TV) | So-so | |
| Clannad (TV) | Bad | I REALLY hate moe. This is a popular moe series. What was I thinking? |
| Concrete Revolutio (TV) | So-so | The character designs and animations are brilliant, and I can appreciate interesting nonlinear storytelling, but there is no real substance that I can catch on to. After 3 episodes... some disconnected stuff happens? I could see it "get better", but it seems to be be in no hurry to do so, and the mediocre to poor ratings seem to indicate that this is unlikely. |
| D.N.Angel (TV) | So-so | Its too kiddie, and the protagonist is so cringy. |
| Den-noh Coil (TV) | Good | When you tried watching a show twice, and its been sitting on your "seen some, finish later" list so long you have no idea what its about, its time to move it on. Willing to watch again with a strong recommendation, but it was so slow... |
| Digimon Tamers (TV) | Bad | |
| Dragon Ball (TV) | Not really good | Better then the sequels, but still too silly and episodic. |
| Drifters (TV) | Weak | I don't care for war stories, and I don't care for the characters. But mostly, I don't care for the premise. On one side, there is the idea that history is created by certain individuals because they are special, possessing a uniqueness that drives the world around them. On the other side, there is the idea that there are inevitability in history, and that men are shaped and directed by the world around them: if they didn't do it, someone else would have done something similar, and the outcome would be the same. This show seems firmly in the first camp, while I lean towards the second. Pull people out of their time, and they should be irrelevant, not some big magically important heroes. |
| Dusk maiden of Amnesia (TV) | Weak | How did an ecchi harem anime get on my "want to watch" list anyways? Spooooooky, must have been a ghost or something. |
| Fafner (TV) | Not really good | Its a shitty NGE, but that makes it slightly better then NGE in my book. But still not good. Got to ep 5. |
| Fantastic Children (TV) | Weak | Someone came up with an idea for a long, heavy, weird fiction novel, one for only the most dedicated readers to be able to finish, filled with sad characters and dark themes. Then they make it a Anime. It is utterly boring, and only the most bored people watch it until it actually gets somewhere. That is not me. |
| Flag (ONA) | I don't think I will ever find this... | |
| Fruits Basket (TV 1/2001) | Bad | |
| Full Metal Panic! (TV) | Not really good | |
| (The) Future Diary (TV) | Weak | |
| Gabriel DropOut (TV) | Bad | Yet another totally forgettable seasonal comedy whose only purpose seems to be generating funny reaction gifs and such. |
| Garo the Animation (TV) | Weak | |
| Ghost Hound (TV) | Decent | |
| Ghost Hunt (TV) | So-so | |
| Gilgamesh (TV) | Awful | Story, characters, and theme are meh, but the animation is horrid, and the constant atmospheric suspense music makes we want to rip my earbuds out. ARG! |
| Gintama (OAV) | Bad | |
| Gosick (TV) | Bad | Mystery does not appeal to be. The "aesthetic" does not appeal so much that I find it somewhat offensive. I guess I probably should not have tried this show, oh well. |
| (The) Great Passage (TV) | Weak | I mean, its pretty, but it boils down to being another boring slice of life about a boring subject. I guess its kinda cool that anime is continuing its quest to make a show about every conceivable thing; in this case, making dictionaries. |
| GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (TV) | Decent | |
| Guilty Crown (TV) | Decent | It was interesting enough for the first cour, if the plot was a bit annoying. Then Guy died, there was a few poinless high school episodes, and I got bored. |
| Gunbuster (OAV) | Bad | Girls without pants driving robots that do pushups to fight space aliens. I watched like 5 min before deciding this had no particularly redeeming qualities. Could reconsider if someone explains carefully how it will overcome all these painful cliches to be watchable. |
| Gungrave (TV) | Bad | |
| Gunslinger Girl (TV) | ||
| .hack//Legend of the Twilight (TV) | Weak | |
| .hack//Quantum (OAV) | Weak | |
| .hack//SIGN (TV) | Bad | |
| Hayate the Combat Butler (TV) | Decent | |
| Heaven's Memo Pad (TV) | Not really good | I cant get myself to care about NEETs or high schoolers, and mystery is not my style I think. Too slice of life-y, too much pandering to otaku. The "dark" parts felt both preachy and light on substance, and totally missed their target of hitting the "feels". It had a few good characters though, and some fairly OK plot, and I could see where it might possibly improve into something a bit more enjoyable, but I have no desire to try and push through now. Minor side note: parts of the dub were kinda sketchy and felt unprofessional or awkward. |
| Hell Girl (TV) | Not really good | |
| His and Her Circumstances (TV) | Weak | |
| Honey and Clover (TV) | So-so | |
| House of Five Leaves (TV) | So-so | |
| Hunter × Hunter (TV 2011) | Bad | I dislike the world, I dislike the art, I really don't like the dialogue writing. I can see its quirky potential, but none of the quirks work for me, so screw it. |
| Ikki Tousen (TV) | Worst ever | |
| Inu X Boku Secret Service (TV) | Bad | It was silly and fun at first, but by episode 2 it "outed" itself as trying to be serious and/or heartwarming, and for such a pandering stupid premise and 2d characters, that was clearly never gunna work. Cool character designs though I guess. |
| (The) irregular at magic high school (TV) | Weak | Well, for a shitty harem show, it had all the pieces in place to actually inspire me with hope that it might end up being good. It has an unusually strong protagonist who didn't just make you hate him, and who is plausibly likeable by the various girls. It has a somewhat dark and interesting setting. It has an interesting magic system. And finally, it has an emphasis on clever spell engineering being able to surpass raw power. Then at ep 4, they reveal that the protagonist thinks that equality is bullshit, meritocracy is obvious (even in a world with royal families), and that everyone who isn't with him is against him. But I think... maybe they can make that interesting? But they just redouble on it. The protagonist is built as an ideal, and then never advances. There is plenty of plot, but no character development. All the foreign countries are against us, all the hippies are terrorists, and everyone who is not an ally is an enemy deserving only an extrajudicial execution. When I realized around ep 20 I realized that they had no intention of telling any story beyond weird conservative circlejerking, I just gave up. |
| Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (TV) | Weak | |
| Kanokon: The Girl Who Cried Fox (TV) | ||
| Kanon (TV 2/2006) | Worst ever | |
| Kokoro Connect (TV) | So-so | I watched the first 7 episodes. I enjoyed the body swapping, and the writing felt... clever. But the tone turned... sappy too quickly, and the "unleashed emotions" just felt lazy and I lost interest. |
| Kumamiko - Girl meets Bear (TV) | Not really good | |
| Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing (TV) | So-so | It tries so hard to be a copy of the original Last Exile, to an annoying degree, but the characters are flat and annoying and the story even slower then the already slow story the original. Got to episode 11, (some flashback) before giving up. |
| Level E (TV) | Weak | Interesting idea, but it tried to be funny and failed, and it tried to be serious as well and failed there as well. |
| A Little Snow Fairy Sugar (TV) | Bad | It boggles the mind how a slice of life anime about faeries for young girls managed to end up on my plan to watch list. |
| Lucky Star (TV) | Worst ever | |
| A Lull in the Sea (TV) | Weak | The genera (high school drama) is not really my thing, so it starts on shaky footing. Then, when dislike every single character to some extent, it really makes me not want to watch any more. It was tight and pretty enough to get through 5 episodes, but all the characters irked me enough that I just couldn't keep going. |
| Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (TV) | Not really good | The first few arcs (meeting of Aladin and Alibaba, the first tower, the horsemen tribe, and the slavers, were all pretty good, and set up an interesting and fairly unique plot. But then the main central arc kicks in, and everything goes to shit, and I totally lost interest. To make it worse. it was chock full of really forced writing and exposition, and as it started introducing the long term plot, I saw that this show wasn't going anywhere I would be interested. |
| Maison Ikkoku (TV) | Bad | |
| Masamune-kun's Revenge (TV) | So-so | I had such high hopes for it being a dramatic tragedy about a bunch of terrible people who totally deserve each other. Instead, it took that type of premise and shoehorned it into a half-assed heartwarming shoujo romcom, and I lost all interest. |
| Michiko & Hatchin (TV) | Not really good | |
| Momokuri (ONA) | So-so | Its sweet and fun and a little wacky for a few episodes, but the cutesey and creepy parts get overwhelming as well as kinda repetitive. Its fun to watch enough that you get it, but it does not seem like there is that much more that it offers. One interesting thing is the neat way it characterizes some of its side characters. Sure, they are a bit basic and cliche, but it gives them enough characterization to be interesting, and does so with surprising efficiency. |
| Monster (TV) | So-so | I like shows that go up and down a bit, and this is just dense, DENSE down. |
| MoonPhase (TV) | Weak | |
| My Bride is a Mermaid (TV) | Weak | |
| My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (TV) | Weak | Oh look a high school romantic comedy harem that cracks a couple jokes about its genera, while sticking to the cliches like a rule-book. Why do I even bother looking at this drivel... |
| My-HiME (TV) | Not really good | |
| Myriad Colors Phantom World (TV) | Bad | |
| Nabari no Ou (TV) | So-so | |
| Neuro - Supernatural Detective (TV) | Bad | |
| No. 6 (TV) | Not really good | Halfway through, both plot and characters are too weak to carry such a high brow theme and setting. |
| Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! (TV) | Bad | I was hoping for Lovecraft with a dash of harem romcom sillyness. I ended up with a particularly generic harem romcom with a few Lovecraft references sprinkled in for no apparent reason. At least the weird behavior of all the characters makes some logical sense in this one (girls are insane and don't act like real people cause they are old gods, protagonist is not attracted to them cause they are old gods... I guess?) |
| Oreimo (TV) | Decent | |
| Persona -trinity soul- (TV) | Bad | |
| Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ (TV) | Weak | |
| R-15 (TV) | Weak | Actually had some good humor... unfortunately, when it started to do a bit of plot and character development, it fell victim to all the classic ecchi bullshit. Why a erotic author would be a classic pussy MC who cant talk to women is incomprehensible, and annoys me 10 times more then usual. |
| RahXephon (TV) | Weak | |
| Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (TV) | Decent | See, I don't give a shit about waifus, so when a show comes around that gets people arguing about who is "best girl" I generally steer clear: If the most interesting thing that people have to talk about is which wish fulfillment fantasy is doing the best job, then a show is probably not worth watching. The plot is thin and all over the place and full of contrivances. The setting is the most bland sort of fantasy setting. Most of the conflict is driven by stupid miscommunication. The premise is a merger "transported to another world" and "time loop" which ends up being pretty bland. Nothing about this show sells me on it enough to overlook the numerous flaws... its yet another "fairly well executed light novel adaptation which got overhyped cause people like waifus". Basically, since I couldn't care less about the core engagement, and the "dark and gritty suffering" thing does nothing for me either, I end up being unable to overlook the numerous flaws and find myself bored and uninterested where this is going and unaffected by the character beats. I got as far as ep 13 (the start of the queen selection or whatever) before putting this indefinitely on hold... maybe once it gets a dub I can have it running on a second monitor while I play a game or something. |
| Real Drive (TV) | Not really good | 3 episodes watched, and so far, no real conflict, flat characters, and a girl who is obviously placed exclusively for wish fulfillment. |
| Red Garden (TV) | Bad | |
| Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV) | Not really good | Its interesting, and not terrible by any means. It has a unique feel and aesthetic which I can certainly appreciate, but nothing really draws me in, and there is a bit of cheesyness to the forced structuring. I also get annoyed when mystery is introduced, and then totally ignored for a long time by all the characters and the anime itself. |
| RIN-NE (TV) | Bad | Not funny and not serious, with a stupid helpless female following a shonen protagonist around a generic setting. I dunno why I even use the crunchyroll random button when I have such an extensive want-to-see list that actually contains good shows. |
| Saiyuki Gaiden (OAV) | Bad | I don't get it. This is like teeny fragments of a story that is never introduced or explained. |
| Samurai 7 (TV) | Not really good | |
| Samurai Flamenco (TV) | Decent | I'm glad I watched the first cour, it was very amusing and well written. But yeah, I don't particularly care for the genera, and have no intention of finishing. |
| School Rumble (TV) | Weak | |
| Seiren (TV) | Weak | On the plus side, it has pretty good characterization of the girls, which is a massive plus in harem shows. But the protagonist is just boring male harem lead turned up to 11, and the show is so slow and boring... I just wanted a trashy harem comedy with a lot of teasing and a realistic bent, not a slice of life about cram school. |
| Shangri-La (TV) | Bad | |
| SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist (TV) | Decent | |
| Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars (TV) | So-so | |
| Space Dandy (TV) | Its pretty funny, got through like 7 episodes, but without any serious themes or progression I just lose interest. | |
| Speed Grapher (TV) | So-so | |
| Spice and Wolf II (TV) | Decent | |
| Star Driver (TV) | Bad | |
| (The) Story of Saiunkoku (TV) | Not really good | |
| Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry (TV) | Not really good | The story has promise, but the bajillions of inconstancies in internal logic are total immersion ruiners. |
| Tachikomatic Days (OAV) | Weak | |
| Texhnolyze (TV) | Bad | |
| Tiger & Bunny (TV) | So-so | Its an interesting premise for a superhero series (corporate sponsorship), but as a comedy its cringey with fairly unlikable characters, and it cant seem dedicate itself to any central theme or go anywhere. |
| Tokyo Ghoul (TV) | So-so | |
| Tokyo Mew Mew (TV) | Bad | |
| Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (TV) | Not really good | |
| (The) Twelve Kingdoms (TV) | Bad | |
| Utawarerumono (TV) | Weak | |
| Wandering Son (TV) | Weak | Yeah, this style of slice of life (long shots of people milling about, low level drama among lots of people, etc) is just not my cup of tea at all. |
| WATAMOTE (TV) | Not really good | Funny at times, but the "cringe" humor was never my thing, and the premise can't hold it up for so long. |
| (The) World God Only Knows (TV) | Bad | |
| X (TV) | Not really good | |
| Xam'd: Lost Memories (ONA) | So-so | When I first watched this, I kinda petered out and never finished, but I had the impression that it was "cool" and i would finish it eventually. Well, coming back to Xam'd a few years later, its flaws are much more clear, and I also know exactly how I got fooled the first time around. The trick is in the OP, which is by Boom Boom Satelites, and just oozes with cool. Its one of the best OPs I have ever seen, when viewed in isolation. But its tone has nothing to do with the show. It establishes a potential which the rest of the show squanders, and even subverts and ruins. The show is a "serious" drama featuring teenagers. The pace is glacial, and the reveals of the story are basically nonexistant. The events of 90% of the episodes can be summarized in a sentence or two, and the rest is just forgettable "character development". I quote that, because for a show that seems super intent on selling itself based on personal themes and character development, it has some really awful and unbelievable characters. They just have some basic flat traits, and then respond as needed to what little plot there is, even if those responses don't line up with their (minimally) established characters at all. I am sure the awful acting in the english dub doesn't help. There is so much potential set up, but none of it goes anywhere. After 10 episodes, I know barely anything about the cool seeming steampunk/biopunk world they live in... and absolutely nothing about the motivations and goals of the fairly sizable cast. Its hard to give a shit about all the mystery if there is absolutely no hints of progress on it. On that subject, whats especially triggering for me is when characters refuse to explain things to each other. Half the drama would evaporate if they just talked it out, explained what the fuck was going on, etc. This annoys me in any show, and its what finally pushed me over the edge here; its implied that most of the characters know pretty well whats going on, but they tell the protagonist fuck all. This is a retarded and lazy way to structure storytelling. "I know things, but I cant tell you, and I can't tell you why I can't tell you.... ooooh mysteryyyy". Yeah, they can shove that mystery right up their ass, I don't care anymore. |
| xxxHOLiC: Kei (TV) | Decent | |
| Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (TV) | Not really good | |
| Yozakura Quartet ~Hana no Uta~ (TV) | So-so | |
| Yugo the Negotiator (TV) | Decent | |
| Yurikuma Arashi (TV) | Weak | When a show is weird enough, and gives you no time or moments to get attached to any characters, it makes it impossible to care about what is going on. Ep 2 and I already don't give a shit about whatever fever dream this idea came from. |
| Zakuro (TV) | Bad | Yeah, a big pile of jap nationalism and army gung ho appeals to me exactly 0. |
| Zipang (TV) | Weak | |
| Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (TV) | Decent |