The Worst/Most Boring Anime You've Ever Watched

[the7k]

Everybody seems to hate Naruto for the wrong reasons. You shouldn't hate the show because the fans are morons, or because there are a lot of 'em!

You should hate it because Kishimoto was only trying to re-make Dragonball Z with the least amount of effort so he could bask in the sea of money. You should hate it because each character has exactly one distinguishing character trait, but Kishimoto covers this up by having more characters than there are Pokemon. You should hate it because if all the filler were to be taken out (as in, entire episode arcs like the Rain village race and the numerous reused animation flashbacks and minute long still shots in every episode), the series could be compressed to a so-so 26 episodes. You should hate it because every character, even the main characters, are just extremely overused character archetypes without any expansion. Honestly, I haven't seen this "Shippuden" or whatever that everybody seems so crazy about, but I'm not falling for this trap again. I somehow seriously doubt that Kishimoto suddenly stopped being a no-talent hack. (Okay, that's harsh... he has talent at character design. Other than that, he's a hack.)

Also, Inuyasha. Guilty of almost all of the above, but because it caters to the legions of 16-year-old girls by giving them what is in essence an animated soap opera with long haired pretty boys, it'll be around forever. The one-up Naruto has in this department is that Kishimoto at least can design interesting characters. I think Takahashi bottomed out about mid-way through making Ranma 1/2 and became a one-trick pony, specializing exclusively in female-to-male spousal abuse. ("Sit Boy!" Aha ha ha ha! Hilarious!! /sarcasm)

It's a shame that so many of my favorite anime have been mentioned here, such as Berserk (mostly all about the manga though), Haruhi, and Death Note (Again, only read the manga, but the anime seems accurate). These are practically the only hope I've seen in the sea of crap that is modern anime.

Also, Big O and Bleach are definitely not top tier anime, but when it comes to 'broadly appealing' anime, it's them or it's Naruto and Inuyasha, and at least Bleach has a few complex and/or interesting characters while Big O has an interesting style.

Edit: Btw, I actually dislike most popular anime nowadays, but until they hit the airwaves, they aren't enough of a threat to rant about.

 

[Ynlraey]

Nie_7...boring as hell.
Dragonball...I don't think I should explain this ^^;
Naruto and Inuyasha..I just never stand to watch so long anime...

 

[$t3v0]

All of it. Especially the movies o.o

 

[Venetia]

Spoiler: Don't Judge Me :(

I like Naruto :'(

 

[Despain]

all of them lol XD

EDIT:
except Big O (batman with robots) and DBZ (senseless musclemen beating the shit out of eachother) seriously people on this forum have horrible taste

 

[DerVVulfman]

I still say Blood+... I mean they took a perfectly good strong-willed heroine and made her worse than the MOVIE version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (gak... Peewee Herman was the 'best part of that movie I heard?)...

...I mean... an amnesiatic and meek vampire??? Oh, puh-leeze... And to top it all off... its more soap than anything. Don't get me wrong... I do have some nice lengthy anime titles in my library. Even some that were intended to be character-driven stories rather than action fare.

And I really liked Blood: the Last Vampire. I hope the live action movie will be better.

 

[shannon]

Most anime is boring. Some series start off intresting but after a few episodes the story falls apart. But IMO the "cool" animes like cowboy bebob and samurai shamploo are the most boring.

 

[Mr. President]

Bleach, the characters are flat and boring and it tries to have a feeling of a deep back story, but in the end it fails at everything it tries. I got the feeling watching it that I should know more about it then it wanted to inform me on, maybe later on they explain more but I just didn't care. You have to be careful with mysterious beginnings in any form of media, because it bores the viewer. The only cool thing about it are the girls and the large swords.

 

[syphonmax]

I like all anime that was until POKEMON was released

so yeah I hate pokemon ALOT but I like the GBA games they are funXD

 

[Cruelty]

Everybody seems to hate Naruto for the wrong reasons. You shouldn't hate the show because the fans are morons, or because there are a lot of 'em!

You should hate it because Kishimoto was only trying to re-make Dragonball Z with the least amount of effort so he could bask in the sea of money. You should hate it because each character has exactly one distinguishing character trait, but Kishimoto covers this up by having more characters than there are Pokemon. You should hate it because if all the filler were to be taken out (as in, entire episode arcs like the Rain village race and the numerous reused animation flashbacks and minute long still shots in every episode), the series could be compressed to a so-so 26 episodes. You should hate it because every character, even the main characters, are just extremely overused character archetypes without any expansion. Honestly, I haven't seen this "Shippuden" or whatever that everybody seems so crazy about, but I'm not falling for this trap again. I somehow seriously doubt that Kishimoto suddenly stopped being a no-talent hack. (Okay, that's harsh... he has talent at character design. Other than that, he's a hack.)

Also, Inuyasha. Guilty of almost all of the above, but because it caters to the legions of 16-year-old girls by giving them what is in essence an animated soap opera with long haired pretty boys, it'll be around forever. The one-up Naruto has in this department is that Kishimoto at least can design interesting characters. I think Takahashi bottomed out about mid-way through making Ranma 1/2 and became a one-trick pony, specializing exclusively in female-to-male spousal abuse. ("Sit Boy!" Aha ha ha ha! Hilarious!! /sarcasm)

It's a shame that so many of my favorite anime have been mentioned here, such as Berserk (mostly all about the manga though), Haruhi, and Death Note (Again, only read the manga, but the anime seems accurate). These are practically the only hope I've seen in the sea of crap that is modern anime.

Also, Big O and Bleach are definitely not top tier anime, but when it comes to 'broadly appealing' anime, it's them or it's Naruto and Inuyasha, and at least Bleach has a few complex and/or interesting characters while Big O has an interesting style.

Edit: Btw, I actually dislike most popular anime nowadays, but until they hit the airwaves, they aren't enough of a threat to rant about.

awesome walloftext >=D
i lold so much at that, cause it's so true

 

[the7k]

I still say Blood+... I mean they took a perfectly good strong-willed heroine and made her worse than the MOVIE version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (gak... Peewee Herman was the 'best part of that movie I heard?)...

...I mean... an amnesiatic and meek vampire??? Oh, puh-leeze... And to top it all off... its more soap than anything. Don't get me wrong... I do have some nice lengthy anime titles in my library. Even some that were intended to be character-driven stories rather than action fare.

And I really liked Blood: the Last Vampire. I hope the live action movie will be better.

Damn, I forgot to mention Blood Plus. Yeah, the first episode got my hopes really high, but after about the third episode I saw exactly where it was going, and I think after about episode six, I just stopped watching altogether. I have friends of mine that tell me I should watch it again and that "It's getting better!" but every time I try I end up doing something else within 10 minutes.

I think I liked it in the beginning because at first, the yuri was so thick it could be cut with a knife (a good thing in my book), the heroine was strong and the action was, ya know, THERE. After a few episodes Saya lost her "a-little-too-friendly" friend, the action was only about 5-10% of any given episode and they made Saya "deep" by making her extremely weak.

But, Adult Swim has to have it's long, boring, "deep" gothic "action" anime with horrible pacing. First it was Witch Hunter Robin, then Trinity Blood, now it's Blood Plus. All these anime need to realize that having characters stand around talking to each other for episodes on end doesn't constitute character development and definitely doesn't constitute entertainment.

awesome walloftext >=D
i lold so much at that, cause it's so true

Glad you enjoyed it =P I was kinda afriad it would generate a tl;dr response.

 

[Mr_Smith]

Bobobobo or something. You know Shaman King? Pretty stupid also. I just dont like animes in general, only Shuriken Scool is quite funny. Do you guys know that?

 

[Sailerius]

Lucky Star.

Topic over.

 

[Mundane]

Pokemon...it's been going on for far too long and in way to many medium besides anime. The anime is boring, childish, and not funny like the creators intend it to be. Cliche and repetitive.

Just about every good bloody manga turned in to 6 year old oriented, action figure-mania, trading card American piece of crap. Why cant we dub them the way they are supposed to? Bleach is probably the only anime I like, because it is the truest to the manga I love to read. Naruto, which is an excellent manga, is probably the worst anime transition ever.

Shonen Jump is to blame for this, they over market the crap out of the good stuff.

 

[Venetia]

Spoiler: Still dont judge me :(

I like Bleach too ;_;

My husband and I download subs of Naruto and Bleach every week a few hrs after they air in Japan. We're freaks ._.

Gotta hate the filler seasons, though.

Most boring anime ... Of the popular stuff, I'd say Blood+. I liked the movie too but the anime is drivel that says "blood" and tries to be dark (and fails) every ten seconds. All the chevalier can kiss the fattest part of my ass.

Wolf's Rain is gorgeous, but incredibly boring.

As for stupid, ever see "Reign"? It was supposed to be about Alexander the Great but instead it was about futuristic sickos running around in nothing but codpieces. Awful.

I love-loved Champloo and Bebop, though. I don't care if the anime has a lot of action, I care about really strong characters and story, and those had them. Also there wasn't a single highschool to be found, which is hard to find.

Oh, and I rather liked Inuyasha (read much of the manga, seen all of the anime) until the last episode. I won't spoil it, but it's S-H-I-T. After that I hated it. Bleh.

 

[the7k]

Pokemon...it's been going on for far too long and in way to many medium besides anime. The anime is boring, childish, and not funny like the creators intend it to be. Cliche and repetitive.

Just about every good bloody manga turned in to 6 year old oriented, action figure-mania, trading card American piece of crap. Why cant we dub them the way they are supposed to? Bleach is probably the only anime I like, because it is the truest to the manga I love to read. Naruto, which is an excellent manga, is probably the worst anime transition ever.

Shonen Jump is to blame for this, they over market the crap out of the good stuff.

Most of the grievances I have with Naruto the anime apply to the manga as well. The manga might not have as much filler, but it's still present. "Oh, Naruto was already taught by one of the Three Legendary Ninja, but as soon as he gets back from 3 years of training with him it's back to training with Kakashi." WTF? I'd think that after 3 years of training with one of the best ninja there is, I'd not have to worry about this training crap ever again. The manga doesn't develop the characters anymore than the anime did either, they're all about as developed as the main character from any given Atari 2600-era top-down shooter.

Also, Pokemon is a given, but it's obviously not targeted at anyone over the age of 7, so I couldn't care less about it. I'm worried about anime series targeted to a 18-25 year old demographic.

Although, honestly, I am concerned at the fact that each episode maybe cost $10 to produce. All the damn speed lines and the thousands of episodes that take place in the forest so they can reuse backgrounds, the hundreds of reused frames of animation that weren't that great to begin with... You'd think with all the damn money they make through merchandise, they could at least spend SOME money to make it look presentable, but I guess kids'll eat this crap up with a spoon regardless.

On the bright side, I could look to Pokemon to figure out inexpensive ways to make animation for my RPG...

Oh yeah, I firmly disagree that Shonen Jump overmarkets good things. They overmarket things that are of the "Lowest Common Denominator". You'll always see them overmarket the hell out of Naruto, but I've seen very VERY little marketing for Death Note, Claymore or Black Cat.

 

[Despain]

The animation of the pokemon series with the more recent episodes is actually really high-quality. The style itself is still largely the same, but the animation etc seems less cheap. You should check it out.

Although the pokemon cartoon is still a pretty bad disgrace to the games though.

 

[MapleCutter]

No one can say most pokemons arent cute though
^_^

 

[Untra]

Lucky Star

I watched it with subtitles once, and the very first scene of the first episode was a ten minute unfunny joke that forced me punch myself in the groin in order to stop myself from laughing at how much time I had wasted. It was that bad.

The show does feature an exciting intro though. Possibly the best thing that happens in the actual episode IS the title sequence. Thats bad.

 

[Reives]

Just about every good bloody manga turned in to 6 year old oriented, action figure-mania, trading card American piece of crap.

Not Elfen Lied. D: