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What's Your Biggest Guilty Pleasure?

Comic Party would be mine. I own the big artbox box set and have the full print release of the various manga titles. I love all the stupid Leaf cross-promotion with To Heart and the characters all have their quirks that make them enjoyable for me. Taishi is easily the best though, with his seemingly random outbursts and motivational speeches he gives when Kazuki experiences failure. It's not a particularly good show by any merit, and I can easily understand why it never experienced much of any fan appreciation in the West, but it's just so goofy, silly and light-hearted that I just can't not love it.

Oh, but Revolution was crap. Didn't care for that at all.

School Rumble is good, no need to feel shame about liking it. It was one of the first anime I saw that drew me into anime in the first place.

If I'm being completely honest, I'm also just a sucker for sappy romance, and Twin Star Exorcists has it in spades. Over the course of my many reviews for the series, the one constant joy that the show has provided is in watching its protagonists, Rokuro and Benio, grow up together, and eventually grow to love each other. The initial premise had a lot of potential to be off-putting, what with the two of them being destined as teenagers to eventually marry and sire the savior of all Exorcists; in spite of that, though, the two form a bond that is not only sweet, but earned. Over the course of the last year these two have shared their trials and tribulations together, and they've supported one another through everything, be it the mundane worries of sharing a home together or the more pressing issue of saving the world from evil demonic forces. I've found many romances in this medium to feel somewhat trite, often even artificial, so to encounter a relationship that feels so unexpectedly real has been a genuine treat.

James_Beckett wrote:

diamoundheadx wrote: i don't think twin star is any where bad enough to be considered a guilty pleasure I wouldn't consider it a bad show at all, either. I'm just recognizing that it has a lot problems that understandably turn other people off of the series, especially big fans of the manga.

Many of Sousei no Onmyouji fillings were made by the original author.
Kinako is canon in the manga.
The times that the quality of animation decreased, it was because the animation was done by a subsidiary study.

Even though it isn't a terrible series by any means, at least in my opinion, my guilty pleasure anime is, ironically, Guilty Crown. The beautiful animation and some genuinely great story beats out the uneven story telling, poor character development, unlikable main character, nonsensical love story, and the haphazard ending. I also found the major characters to be at least memorable, with some of them I grew to really like (even though their relationship with one and another is really forced). This is just my feelings for the show, and I know why people say the series is bad, but I just can't help look back on the show very fondly.

People are going to think I'm insane. But mine is First Love Monster.