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Greed1914
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It's fair to put Demon Lord Retry and Trillion Game on here. I didn't have any real hopes for Uzumaki, so those other two are more disappointing. Maybe the semi-changes to Retry derailed it for me, but I feel like I lost the plot somewhere and now it's just leaping around to get from point to point. Trillion Game might have been ok, but it keeps going back to the same trough where Haru gets rewarded for being scummy. Maybe that is meant to be accurate to the type of person who ends up among the ultra-wealthy, but it doesn't make for an endearing fictional lead. Having no fear of rejection or immediately trying something else until it works are fine qualities, but outright cheating and dealing with the consequences (or lack thereof) later isn't.
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I Am Audrey, how are you
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I actually really enjoyed Trillion Game, but again, I love most MADHOUSE anime, but yeah Uzumaki has to be the worst thing to ever be released, I wonder if there’ll ever be a good adaptation of Junji Ito’s works, but probably not, maybe a western produced live action movie from A24
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Glordit
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Trillion Game is fun its own silly way.
Uzumaki was indeed bad but at least it was entertaining. Maou-sama, Retry! R was a mixed bag, sure it was bad, but I had fun watching it despite its problems. Blue Lock does have problems, but I can't help but get excited every week. KamiErabi God.App S2 isn't going to win awards, and the 2nd season felt a bit weaker, with less action and more dialogue, though overall it wrapped up nicely. Seirei Gensouki (Spirit Chronicles) again, not terrible or by far the worst. Felt a little too caught up in its own story. I found Hitoribocchi no Isekai Kouryaku (Loner Life in Another World) & Mahoutsukai ni Narenakatta Onnanoko no Hanashi. (The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians) to be dull and uninspiring. They almost put me to sleep a few times. Last edited by Glordit on Tue Dec 24, 2024 2:49 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Saeryen
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I think there should be a warning for the two GIFs for people who are sensitive to that.
OT: I don’t have a worst or most disappointing for this season; I thoroughly enjoyed everything I watched. I will say that the money bath screenshot from Trillion Game in the article was funny and made me smile. And I feel bad for all the disappointed people who looked forward to Uzumaki. |
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Takkun4343
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It's a shame Trillion Game got on this list twice, seeing how it's my favorite of the season. It's an even bigger shame that Kevin and Lauren designated it "worst" by the most face-value interpretation of the word. I felt more disgusted reading their saying the show is morally reprehensible just for existing than I did watching the show itself. (Okay, maybe the scene where Kokuryu decides to rip off the AI shop while not-so-subtly feeding a mouse to his pet snake exceeded it in that respect.) For me, what I enjoy most about TG is what I enjoy most about Dr. Stone and what I feel I'll enjoy most about Eyeshield 21 if and when I get around to watching that: multiple characters with hyper-specialized skills coming together to make their goals happen, and the step-by-step process of their doing so. That sort of thing is Inagaki's forte, the show is succeeding beautifully at that like its predecessors, and I honestly look forward to seeing the second cour.
Another bright side: Haru would likely consider the fact that Kevin and Lauren hate him and his show so much to be a badge of honor. As for my worst, I'm gonna agree with the blurb and hand it off to Uzumaki. Like many of the reviewers, I contend that the first episode was masterpieceful, even with all the pacing flaws it sustained in the adaptation process. And like many of them, the fitting downward spiral in animation quality was absolutely rough. It definitely wins my "most disappointing" of the year award; it really should've been better than it ultimately came out. Hopefully Lazarus sticks its landing and lets Toonami keep some of its dignity as a 2020s-era co-producer. |
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Elfensjón
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I can't understand why Seirei Gensouki is being called worst anime of Fall 2024. I think it was quite enjoyable and I hope for a third season (way more than I am happy for Let This Grieving Soul Retire for receiving a second season).
As for the rest, I haven't watched these shows (I stopped the Magical Girl's anime after EP1, so I am not eligible to say if it was bad or not. My personal choice would be The Banished Former Hero Is, in Fact, the Strongest. As someone who read the manga this show was disappointing (even though first two episodes followed the manga's story). The animation was okay-ish but the anime went far away from the manga's story: The guild and the adventurers were way less hostile towards the protagonists (the guild receptionist was even helping them, which she did not in the source material), the former parties leader was way more unscrupulous in the manga then he was in the anime series. Then, they decided to scrap the story of the manga for something that did not occur in the source material. This show was really a let down. I don't know how I even managed to watch until EP10. I really hoped that the story wasn't altered too much, but my hope died in the end. |
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smurky turkey
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I would say that the season as a whole did not have that many stinkers. Those that I saw were:
Uzumaki started off with a good first episode and made me quite interested in the setting and characters. What followed made me laugh in just how absurd looking and stupidly rushed the whole thing was. The Healer Who Was Banished started okayish to then become worse every following week and ending with horrible animation and a story that made little sense. Maou-sama, Retry! R makes the very flawed first season look good by comparison. Another case of horrible animation, bad pacing and a story that while interesting at times can also be real iffy. A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! is not a horrible show but it feels like a lot of wasted potential. There are so many interesting roads the show could take and it takes none of them.[/b] |
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tintor2
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Uzumaki felt more like the Twilight Zone than a scary anime to me. I would say Blue Lock at least feels like a guilty pleasure cos I still feels its Squid Games-like tension.
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NeverConvex
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This list has me feeling pretty content with never having checked out Uzumaki.
 It's a set of episodic tales, though? Sounds like maybe the first one, and just that one, is worth a watch?
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Princess_Irene
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I find Seimei himself to be the biggest issue in the show. I enjoy the students' antics, but he's just so annoying that he almost ruins the story. (But yes, also missed potential.) |
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MiniMarps
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I will remember The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Become Magicians first and foremost as a show featuring some of the prettiest art I've ever seen in anime, which is a hell of a lot more flattering than the things I remember most bad anime for. But that one particular triumph aside, it was indeed a bad anime. I spent all season fantasizing about that artistic effort being spent on better shows where it could have complemented the writing instead of having to fight against it. (Like imagine Dungeon People, for example, with that art.)
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killjoy_the
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I didn't watch any of the ones listed, and actually didn't watch anything I dropped or could even say is bad - everything I watched this season is going in the "at least a little better than mediocre" stand on my rankings
That said, out of what I watched the worst is definitely DanMachi 5. I'm caught up to the English release of the light novels on this part of the franchise (I couldn't handle Sword Oratoria), and actually dropped Season 4 of the anime - very very often this series is to me more frustrating than it's good, and that issue is way more offensive in anime than in written text. In comparison to other seasons of the show this is actually being pretty ok, and again I do think it's not BAD bad. But I'm just not watching anything that is, so this one's at the bottom |
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ThrowMeOut
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Agreed. That watercolor-esque style was just so fantastic that I was legitimately angry that the terrible writing made it unwatchable. I do hope the style is tried again with a better script. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I only noticed the Blue Lock gif?
I dropped this towards the end of its first season because I couldn't stand the lead character and the art style was ugly to boot. But reading people's angst over the animation is cathartic in a misery loves company sort of way. (obligatory Ace of Diamond incoming!) Though the anime has always been cheap animation-wise, AoD Act II did the slide show shortcuts in spades. Sometimes with uniform flaps (as seem in the BL gif), sometimes with just a white background over a still frame. The funniest one was one character ranting during a series of stills of uniforms on hangers, a bookcase, and a stereo on a desk, with speed lines to show...not motion? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I will never get over that. 
Uzumaki almost feels like there wasn't enough of it to count, but certainly it was the biggest disappointment. I agree with Rebecca and turkey about Ghoul School - lots of missed potential plus a grating lead character. I made it all the way through Blue Box, but won't be continuing with its next cour. Someone wrote a long post in the Best thread wondering what people saw in it, and I agreed with most of it. The sports angle was practically a footnote (I was really hoping to see more of the girls' basketball), and the romance side was as frustrating as teen anime romances too often are, so there ended up being nothing for me to latch on to. Blue Wolves of Miburo (hmm, all the shows I didn't like seem to have Blue titles) should've been my jam, but any time there was something half serious going on, they killed it with some goofy joke and even goofier-looking faces, with out-of-place cartoony smiles. What plot there was was all over the map, with run time wasted on pointless shenanigans. Peacemaker Kurogane long ago beat them to mixing the Shinsengumi and comedy, and did it a lot better. |
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Blood-
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I actually enjoyed Uzumaki but this site doesn't seem like a great place to admit it. Every episode had some imagery or concept that made me think, "How the hell does Junji Ito come up with these ideas???". In a good way. But yeah, if you came looking for effective and cogent story-telling, you would have been disappointed. On the plus side, I feel like I know what it feels like to drop acid without actually ever having dropped acid. I won't forget those spoiler[mosquito women] in a hurry...
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