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SD gundam: the worst anime ever?

but i want to ask what makes this the worst anime ever? too many anime cliches? bad animation style? crappy dub? care to talk about it?

Viga_of_stars wrote:

but i want to ask what makes this the worst anime ever? too many anime cliches? bad animation style? crappy dub? care to talk about it?

It's simple. People can't accept that some anime are aimed at children. Seriously, if you think about it, what are the most common candidates among anime fans for "worst show ever?" They're kids' shows. Or at least the more blatant kids' shows of the medium. Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Beyblade, Zoids, etc. And when you tell someone that Naruto or Dragon Ball or Fullmetal Alchemist was aimed at a younger audience, they get vehemently defensive because they refuse to believe they like kids' shows.

For its intended audience, SD Gundam Force (be specific, people, SD Gundam has been around as a parody series and model kit line for longer than most of you have been alive) is not that bad of a show. A little more patronizing, perhaps, but not a bad show for the little ones. It's just Bandai breeding up the next generation of Gundam fans, and they weren't looking for our approval to do so. Bandai sees three separate age brackets within the Gundam fandom they can sell to, so they do so. The young tykes get SD Gundam Force, elementary and middle school kids get SEED, and college students & adults that grew up with the original still have Universal Century sidestories like MS IGLOO. Don't like SD Force? Aim higher on the age ladder instead of picking on it for not being what it was never supposed to be in the first place.

Hell, little kids in Japan are probably watching hentai while kids here are watching Barney and Blue's Clues or whatever these kids today watch. Truly sad .

@Nagisa. I disagree about FMA being a kid's show. There's a lot of stuff in FMA that parents wouldn't like. Such as religious themes, suggestive themes(Like spoiler[Hohenheim and Trisha in bed, naked together(No sex though).Or Wrath naked.], and dark themes. Don't forget that FMA also has more explicit violence than Naruto and Dragonball Z(And DBZ'z the king of violence) and has a plot a lot of kids these days wouldn't get. I think it's more along the lines of a show for teenagers. But that's just me.

@Nagisa. I disagree about FMA being a kid's show.

SD Gundam Force has nothing on Hanoka, which is truly the worst cartoon I've ever had the displeasure of watching. The episodes themselves are only five minutes long, but the OP is the usual two minute long song. This leaves only about three minutes for the actual show; and what a terrible show it is. There's no plot summary for it in the encyclopedia yet, but it's basically about an ugly little girl who's supposedly the ultimate weapon against humanity. I didn’t bother to follow it through all the way to the end, but what I saw reminded me of an unbearably bad flash version of Saikano. Judged on its own the animation takes the cake for the crappiest looking contemporary anime, but it's admittedly above average for a flash cartoon.

So you talking about the Superior Defender Gundam Force show?

Is that what the SD stood for?! I was informed that it stood for "Super Deformed". That was always in the product description whenever I'd browse an online site for model kits.