Disliked Anime | Various Thoughts

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5.5: Did not like personally, but can see why others would enjoy it.
5: Average, not worth watching.
1-4: Varying degrees of technical quality issues and personal annoyance/dislike.

Disliked Anime (5.5)

.hack//SIGN: Beautiful animation, interesting story, and atrocious pacing… the pacing completely ruins this otherwise great series. Lingering on one character’s unchanging expression for 5+ minutes is just not acceptable.
00:08: An abstract little short that seems to exist just for the sake of existing. Art for the sake of art.
1001 Nights: An abstract story told solely through ephemeral arthouse-style visuals (the only dialog is the opening narration). Its main draws are the artwork and the music, so if you’re looking for something conventional it won’t be of much interest.
3×3 Eyes: The first OVA series is remarkably similar to a battle shounen and pretty average. The sequel is quite a bit better, but still feels rather dated and I couldn’t really get into it.
Accel World: An interesting concept completely ruined with an insufferable main character.
Action Heroine: Cheer Fruits: Well-made enough if you don’t dislike super sentai.
Active Raid: Kidou Kyoushuushitsu Dai Hachi Gakari: A super sentai series in the guise of a police series. If you happen to like the cheesiness of super sentai it’s entertaining enough.
Aggressive Retsuko (Netflix): Dwells too long on some of the jokes compared to the short-episode version and the characters come off a bit more archetypal.
Ai o Komete: A remarkably well-made short that’s just too cheerful fro me.
Ai yori Aoshi: A pseudo-harem that would’ve been far better had they not bothered to tack on the harem elements. You’ll have to truly enjoy the ‘under-one-roof’ harem genre to get the most out of it.
Aikatsu! Idol Katsudou!: An incredibly cheerful idol show, aimed at a younger audience, that occasionally goes overboard with the character personalities and game advertsiement aspects. The music and peformances are its strongest selling point.
Aikatsu! Music Award: Minna de Shou o Moraccha Ima Show!: A bit of award’s show parody that serves mainly to collect an assortment of different CG performances in one place.
All Out!!: Hits all the right sports-shounen notes, but just didn’t grab me.
Altered Carbon: Resleeved: If you liked the live-action show, you’ll probably hate this. Good animation however.
Amanchu!: Nicely atmosphereic with an interesting comedic drawing style, but I do not like Hikari at all.
Anohana Movie: A sequel to the TV series containing a large number of recap scenes. While well-made, it doesn’t really add anything to the show. It just feels extraneous.
Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm: In a completely unexpected twist, this show turns out to essentially be a sports shounen. It has no romance or harem aspects whatsoever. If you like sports shows definitely give it a try, just beware that the character personalities are kind of forced and some of them overlap.
Appleseed Alpha: A perfectly decent popcorn movie. Doesn’t have anything going for it beyond action scenes though.
Arakawa Under the Bridge: Too random in a weird way. If you really like bizarre absurdity placed alongside an otherwise grounded setting then this may be worth a look.
Arknights [Reimei Zensou]: Beautiful animation, but the characters they want you to sympathize with are idiots.
Arion: This is a pretty well-done movie featuring alternate versions of the Greek pantheon. Technical qualities aside though it’s not particularly interesting.
Asatte no Houkou: While this has some solid relationship drama, the whole loli focus is sort of creepy and it’s annoying how Shouko’s transformation is treated.
Ashita no Nadja: A purestrain shoujo series.
Aura: Maryuuinkouga Saigo no Tatakai: Take Chuunibyou and replace most of the comedy with depictions of classroom bullying and you’ll get something close to this movie. It’s not really all that pleasant to watch honestly.
Bananya: An animateed children’s picturebook.
Basilisk: I’m not sure what I didn’t like about this exactly… it just wasn’t entertaining. Nothing really stands out as good or interesting making it sort of bad by default.
Beck: This is a rather slow series and I didn’t like the school-life parts at all.
Ben-Tou: A parody of Ikki Tousen/Tenjou Tenge in which high school students fight each other over half-priced food. Despite being a comedy, its plotline is delivered in a deadly serious manner and the combination (along with the setup itself) just didn’t work for me.
Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku: Fantastic production values, but the content is all over the place.
Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei Bu Love!: Starts out as a pretty solid comedy only to lose steam halfway through when it seems to become a bit more serious in modeling itself after a magical girl show. The complete lack of female characters is also an issue.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus: Overly reminiscent of Kill Bill. Wasn’t thrilled with the animation style either.
Boboboubo Boubobo: Too much concentrated randomness. Would have been better as a short episode series.
Bocchi the Rock!: Watching the protagonist’s struggles with social anxiety causes me physical pain.
Boku dake ga Inai Machi: A fairly well-made thriller. Just don’t go in expecting a mystery series.
Boku no Hero Academia: A cookie-cutter battle shounen that hits those familiar beats with admirable fervor. Fans of the genre should be well-satisfied.
Bokura ga Ita: Cute, but too slow.
Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou: The romance aspects are too earnest and the ecchi humor is too overwhelming.
Brave Story: While I found the protagonist too childlike, the visuals are nice and it seems like it would be a good family movie.
Cannon Busters: An unfinished mix of amusing and offputting. Fans of western animation will likely get more out of it.
Captain Earth: While not bad, I just felt an overwhelming sense of déjà vu while watching it.
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie: Same complaint as the TV series. Nice animation though.
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card: Pretty much the same as the the first movie, just with slightly more relationship development.
Cardfight!! Vanguard: Looks fine… for a kid’s show. Also I’m not too keen on the idea of watching card battle shows when I could instead actually be playing card battle games.
Carole & Tuesday: A great number of stereotypes combine here to produce something that may end up moving if you’re a fan of the featured music genres.
Chihayafuru: Turns out that the card game this series focuses on is remarkably uninteresting. The character interactions are pretty good though if you can get past that.
Chiisana Oji-san: A black & white series of half-minute episodes focused on a girl who takes home and cares for a pocket-sized old man. If you want to see a miniature old man treated as a pet… well, that’s about the only reason I can think of to watch this.
Choujigen Game Neptune: The Animation: This isn’t bad exactly, it’s just that it’s essentially a magical girl slice-of-life consisting mostly of cute girls doing cute things which tries to mix in serious drama… and it does not really succeed.
Classicaloid: The first twenty-five episodes have occasional flashes of brilliance; the second twenty-five are just tiresome.
Code:Realize ~Sousei no Himegimi~: If you can look past the ridiculous plot developments this actually ends up decent.
Code-E: Not bad, but I just didn’t like the protagonist’s timid nature.
Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou: The first half is marred by pointless non-linearity, while the second is marred by too many episodic diversions. The entire thing is marred by an ill-fitting composition of disparate elements.
Corpse Party: Tortured Souls – Bougyaku Sareta Tamashii no Jukyou: If you like gore for gore’s sake then this may be the series for you. Personally I’m not particularly fond of either that or horror movies in general, so I’m not even sure why I wanted to watch this in the first place.
Cossette no Shouzou: I like the way it ends quite a bit, so it’s unfortunate that most of the lead up to that point is rather dull.
Colorful (Movie): The style here is too realistic for me, I don’t watch Anime to see shows that would work perfectly well as live-action. The story is a little interesting though.
Crazy for It: While this was too arty/abtract for me, a lot of work obviously went into making it and it’s constructed quite well.
D.Gray-man HALLOW: Seems to start off well enough. I dropped the prequel halfway through though, and so couldn’t connect much to the characters.
Da Yu Hai Tang: Great visuals with a Ghibli-like fairytale story.
Death Note: The concept of the series is pure brilliance… however… the characters are just wrong on so many levels. Their personalities are nothing resembling believable and are rarely consistent from episode to episode (or even minute to minute for that matter).
Densetsu Kyojin Ideon Hatsudou Hen: Unless you really want to see where Evangelion got its inspiration from or happen to enjoy ancient animation, character design, and acting standards you would be best off steering far clear of this movie.
Devilman Lady: Mostly episodic, this show takes far too long to develop.
Dog Days’: This second season has no driving narrative and is nothing but cheerful people having fun. A sickeningly-sweet cuteness overload.
Dorohedoro: As a graphically violent action-comedy with a fairly unique setting, this show will certainly have more than a few fans. I personally didn’t like either the CGI or (most of the) character deign.
Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue.: Good if you can tolerate/enjoy all the unnaturally cheerful supporting characters.
Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka IV: FAMILIA MYTH: I can see why people whould enjoy this season, but Bell’s abject stupidity ended up too much for me.
Eiga Chibi Maruko-chan: Italia kara Kita Shounen: A bit too much on the family-friendly side for me.
Eiga Koe no Katachi: Solidly made story focused on bullying and the general troubles the handicapped have to deal with. Neither of which are topics I’m interested in.
Eizouken ni wa Te o Dasu na!: By this point I think you’ll already know whether or not you’re a fan of Yuasa’s work. This one has a ‘children making Anime’ theme to it.
El Cazador de la Bruja: This is from the same company as Madlax and Noir and shares some of their themes and plotlines while having a slightly different animation style. There isn’t the same sense of mystery and discovery/revelation as was present in Noir/Madlax however (thanks to the inclusion of a narrator), and the series has a far less serious tone. There wasn’t anything that really stood out as good and/or interesting, although keeping the Romeo/Juliet angle from the beginning of episode twenty-five might have salvaged it.
Enen no Shouboutai: The comedy style just flat-out didn’t work for me.
Escha & Logy no Atelier: Tasogare no Sora no Renkinjutsushi: Too sweet, light-hearted, and slice-of-life-ish for me.
Fantasia: Good animation with average plot developments.
Fantastic Children: Horrendous character design coupled with a rather dull storytelling style makes this a really difficult series to watch even though the story itself is fantastic.
Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya: While the fifth and sixth episodes are fantastic, most of the rest is a mixture of entertaining and generic that just doesn’t quite gel. The Undoukai de Dance! OVA is just plain pointless.
Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya Drei!!: Action scenes are still great, ecchi scenes are still out of place, and the plot developments are utterly insane.
Flag: A ‘found-footage’ type of series centered on a war photographer that includes a transforming mecha-tank for… some reason. Aside from the mecha it’s extremely realistic, and that realism works against it since with all the current upheaval in the middle east you can watch the real-life version anytime you want.
Free! Eternal Summer: Has a greater focus than its prequel on both being inspirational and swimming as a sport. This comes at the cost of the vast majority of its comedy, which is not a trade-off I’m at all fond of.
Fune o Amu: The mid-epsiode educational segments are bad and the romance elements are painful. Overall it is a serious story about publishing a dictionary though and may be worth a watch for that alone.
Futari wa Precure: Kind of cute. The action scenes are lackluster though and the rest is pretty standard afternoon magical girl fare.
Fuyu no Sonata: A Korean drama remade in Anime format. I did not like most of the character voices, though the content itself is [i]Kimi ga Nozomu Eien[/i]-ish and not bad at all.
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo: I don’t know what it was exactly that stopped me from liking this series. I think it may have been the animation style.
Garakuta no Machi: A short movie set in a robot-heavy world that features a stray who eats other robots to extend itself. The attempt at giving a moral to the story at the end is both off-base and unwelcome, and I’m not fond of the the kid protagonist either.
Gekijouban Macross Delta: Gekijou no Walküre: Aside from being slightly rushed at points it condenses the series into movie format quite well.
Gekijouban Natsume Yuujinchou: Utsusemi ni Musubu: For fans of the slower, more slice of life Natsume episodes.
Gen’ei o Kakeru Taiyou: An otherwise average magical girl series that kills its antagonists instead of redeeming them and focuses on the moral quandaries thereof. While it’s nice to see a common genre done a bit differently, not quite enough of the genre’s stereotypical elements were changed.
GetBackers: Dakkan’ya: Compared to Hamatora this just seems a bit dull. Which is something of an unfair comparison since this came out long before that did, but I saw that show first.
Getsuyoubi no Tawawa: If you want to pretend to be a lonely salaryman who likes to stare at large breasts, well this show has you covered.
Gin’iro no Kami no Agito: The first half is very interesting. The second half, after Agito gains super powers, is similar to some horrific combination of Akira and Princess Mononoke. Beautiful animation however and I strongly suggest watching the breathtaking opening.
Girls und Panzer Gekijouban: While the battles are quite good and the slice of life aspects are fine, the drama completely ruins it for me. The OVA is just a little school life bonus episode that occurs after the movie.
Go-Toubun no Hanayome: A barrage of (well produced) romantic comedy tropes.
Golden Kamuy: While I found the first half watchable enough, the second gets extremely weird in a bad way.
Great Pretender: Technically impressive, but nothing in the first two arcs managed to grab me.
Grimm Douwa: Kin no Tori: A pretty stereotypical fairy tale with uncommonly high-quality animation.
Groove Adventure Rave: A fun cartoony series that contains your standard sort of shounen drama. It’s a bit too much like a cartoon for me.
Gundam Build Fighters: A well-done battle shounen aimed at a younger audience. Die-hard Gundam fans might also get something out of the battle scenes.
Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor: This series is not bad, but I just couldn’t get into it. Vaguely reminded me of Neon Head Genesis and a bunch other series I no longer remember the names of.
Haibane Renmei: I don’t really like the slice of life genre. Add to that the bland character design and over-earnest character behavior and you get a series that, while not exactly ‘bad’, is just not particularly interesting or relatable.
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W: If you enjoyed the first season then you’ll likely enjoy this one as well. While I appreciated how they worked in the references to other shows, the general character behavior just becomes tiresome. The Nyaruko-san F OVA fits right in as an extra episode.
Hakkenden: Touhou Hakken Ibun: This is a surprisingly funny series with some decently dramatic plot developments that isn’t as shounen ai/yaoi-ish as it appears. The combat animation is pretty bottom-of-the-barrel though and there are a bunch of episodic episodes in the middle that feel a lot like filler.
Hakumei to Mikochi: Well made, but far too sedate.
Hanasaku Iroha: Home Sweet Home: Has a very large focus on kids and parent/child relationships. I’m not fond of either of those.
Hana wa Saku: Touhoku ni Saku: Too saccharine.
Happy Sugar Life: All the ecchi-focused side characters heavily detract from what’s otherwise an engaging central character drama.
Hataraku Saibou: Good at what it does, but what it does is fairly shallow.
Hayate no Gotoku!: Wasn’t a fan of the whole ‘indebted combat butler premise’; utterly despised Hayate’s parents. The second season seems a bit less manic than the first while the OVA is just your average fanservice entry.
Heartcatch Precure!: Okayish action scenes, but everything else is pretty simplistic. It’s perfectly fine as an after-school cartoon though.
Hello Harinezumi: File 170 Satsui no Ryoubun: If you’re looking for a realistic sort of detective case, this movie delivers just that. A little too slow for me.
Hi no Tori: Aside from the ridiculous character design there isn’t much wrong with this. It’s real ridiculous though.
Hi Score Girl: While I like Ono’s personality, the protagonist is kind of annoying and I’m not really a fan of arcade games.
Hidamari Sketch: A laid-back comedy with an incredibly dry sense of humor. While amusing at points, it more often than not bored me to death.
Hidan no Aria AA: A schoolgirl action comedy with a yuri focus that’s similar to Soul Eat Not!. If you’re in the mood for something like that then this may end up watchable.
Himouto! Umaru-chan: Most of the comedy revolves around slacking-off and hidden personalities. If you’re a fan of those two topics you’ll probably enjoy this.
Hinako Note: I really wasn’t in the mood for a slower ‘cute girls doing cute things’ show at the time.
Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu: An amusing show which requires a high tolerance for social awkwardness.
Hitorijime My Hero: If you can get past the problematic setup and a bit of weirdness it ends up an engaging enough male-male romance series.
Hiyokoi: A mini-romcom that’s a little too cute for its own good. Well-paced though.
Honzuki no Gekokujou: Appears to be one of the higher quality reincarnation isekais… so long as you don’t mind child protagonists.
Hoshi o Ou Kodomo: A curious movie about a young girl who chases a mysterious boy she just met into the underworld/afterlife and the man who follows her there for his own reasons. Technically speaking there’s nothing wrong with it, but it just didn’t work for me.
Hoshizora Kiseki: A short, strange, movie about the romance that develops between a girl who chases meteorites and a boy who lives his entire life in a space suit. While not exactly bad, it’s not quite good either.
Hotarubi no Mori e: Slowly builds up to one result only to have another result occur seemingly at random.
Houseki no Kuni: While I like the characters a lot, the visuals are often a bit strange and events are kind of forced.
Ichigo Marshmallow: If you can put up with or enjoy Miu’s antics, then this is an amusing slice of life comedy. I hated her.
Idol Jihen: A fluffy show focused on thwarting corrupt politicians through the power of good cheer and exuberance.
Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls: Focuses more on the girls than The Idolm@ster does, but still centers too much on the business itself for my taste.
Ikoku Meiro no Croisee The Animation: If you like both ambling slice of life and ‘cute girl does everyday things’ shows then this will probably be an enjoyable experience.
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha.: While it has its moments, this particular brand of drama-laced romantic comedy just didn’t appeal to me all that much.
Infini-T Force: If you’re looking for CGI action this has you covered. Where it’s lacking is in the character and story department.
Inuyashiki: A decent idea, but something about the event progression didn’t work and the ending is a bit of a punt.
Isekai Izakaya: Koto Aitheria no Izakaya Nobu: Decent if you like food/cooking.
Isshuukan Friends.: There’s a cloying sweetness infusing this series that just did not appeal to me.
Itazura Majo to Nemuranai Machi: Competent action and comedy, but terrible storytelling.
Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae: The series feels as though it became a parody of itself.
Jikkenhin Kazoku: Creatures Family Days: The dramatic aspects unfortunately didn’t work at all for me.
Jitsu wa Watashi wa: A cute romantic comedy that unfortunately has rather offputting character designs.
JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (2012): GAR isn’t really my thing for one, and for another this resembles a manga far more than an Anime.
Jungle wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu: No longer recall the reasoning. I suspect it was too slice-of-lifey.
Junketsu no Maria: If you can handle the protagonist’s worldview, this is a very well put together show with high production values. The ending is both abrupt and highly questionable though.
Juuni Kokuki: This started out brilliant. The entire first arc that deals with Youko’s story is very well done. Once that’s tied up and the series starts drifting to other characters halfway through… it just falls apart, becoming hopelessly bogged down by a focus on uninteresting characters who got essentially no mention up to that point.
Juusenki L-Gaim: Extremely cartoony, but surprisingly well done if that’s the sort of thing you’re looking for.
Kaiba: While the storyline is vaguely interesting this series tries far too hard to be arty with its visual style. There’s also a certain wrongness with the character behavior that ends up disconcerting.
Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san: Highly dependant on sentai references for its humor, and I’m not a fan of sentai shows.
Kaikan Phrase: Currently not really worth the effort to get into since it seems to only be available in questionable VHS quality. Feels a little like a gender-swapped White Album though.
Kakkou no Iinazuke: If you’re a fan of Nisekoi, then feel free to give this a shot.
Kaleido Star: Too obviously targeted toward a young audience; the comedy segments trend toward the nonsensical while the serious parts come out of nowhere and are resolved in the most simplistic manner possible. Its target demographic can probably easily forgive those issues though.
Kamen no Maid Guy: Too heavy on underwear/breast jokes for me.
Kanamemo: A cute/amusing series that would have been much better without the lolicon character and weird drama bits.
Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko: Everything Flows: Personally I liked the OVA better. This is a little too ambling.
Kami-sama Hajimemashita: The comedy is perfect. Unfortunately the serious and romantic aspects did not sit well with me.
Kamigami no Asobi: Has a nice comedic streak and plays around with some shoujo tropes, but you really have to be a fan of those tropes to enjoy it.
Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san: Not all that fond of the male lead’s personality.
Kasumin: While I like the protagonist, I don’t like how all the work seems to continually get dumped on her. The school-life aspects are also a bit of an issue.
Kaze no Matasaburou (2016): A simple fairy tale story. Perfectly fine if you’re looking for a quick family-friendly watch.
Kemono no Souja Erin: An otherwise fantastic series that unfortunately (and constantly) beats you over the head with ~every life is precious~ moralizing while containing far too many exposition-related recaps.
Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys: The technical aspects of this show end up far more interesting than its actual content.
Kick♡Heart: I hate the art style.
Kidou Senshi Gundam 0080: Pocket no Naka no Sensou: A fairly good ground-level look at the constant fighting in the Gundam universe that did not appeal to me due to one of its two protagonists being a child. Interesting ending as well.
Kidou Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans: If you’re a huge Gundam fan (or, alternatively, haven’t seen many Gundam series) then this will probably end up a decent enough watch. While I found the first half okay, the second half came across like a tacked-on afterthought.
Kimetsu no Yaiba: If you’re a huge battle shounen fan you’ll probably enjoy it, particularly since it has better animation than most.
Kimi no Iru Machi: Didn’t like the artstyle/animation.
Kizumonogatari: Only the first movie really feels like Monogatari. The other two are far too action/drama-centric.
Koi Sento: A little too cartoonish for my taste. Didn’t like the old woman at all.
Koihime Musou: The first two seasons of this series are good enough for what they are (a kid’s show with sex jokes)… I’m just not a huge fan of what they are. The third season however was actually decent and can be found near the end of the ‘liked’ list.
Konbini Kareshi: Too mundane/realistic for my taste.
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!: The protagonist is pretty good here and there are a number of laugh-out-loud bits scattered around. Unfortunately there’s also a large number of awkward/annoying segments, resulting in an extremely uneven viewing experience. The OVA is your basic ecchi-heavy filler epsiode.
Koukyuu no Karasu: Seems fine as a ‘forbidden’ romance, but I was looking for a more dectective-focused series.
Koutetsushin Jeeg: Lots of super robot action. Not much else.
Kumamiko: Girl Meets Bear: Focused as this is on trying to squeeze laughs out of personal abuse, it often ends up too awkward/uncomfortable to fully enjoy.
Kurage no Shokudou: This is basically just the prologue for the source material. It’s certainly well-made though.
LA TORTUE ROUGE: If you’re a fan of Ghibli works and/or metaphorical fables you’ll probably find this movie quite interesting.
Lance N’ Masques: An utterly ridiculous series that may be of value if you want to laugh at how bad something is.
Layton Mystery Tanteisha: Katri no Nazotoki File: The protagonist is a ton of fun, but it’s clearly aimed at a very young audience.
Little Witch Academia: Great animation with little else to recommend it. If you liked Mahou Shoujotai you’ll probably enjoy it.
Liz to Aoi Tori: Insanely slow pacing.
Love Live! The School Idol Movie: The first half has the girls in New York, while the second half has them back in Japan confronting their newfound fame. It’s about as by-the-numbers as you can get.
LOVE STAGE!!: An okay male<->male romance if you’re a fan of the comedy style and/or character design.
Magi: The Kingdom of Magic: The beginning and end are both kind of meh while the middle has some nice scenes scattered about.
Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: The heavy focus on the theme of restricting certain people’s freedoms is unpalatable and doesn’t mix well with the otherwise carefree mood.
Mahou Tsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito: The flashback portions came across as a bit too cookie-cutter.
Majimoji Rurumo: Wrong kind of ecchi. Don’t like some of the character design either.
Majokko Shimai no Yoyo to Nene: A family-friendly movie featuring a fantasy-world witch who gets stuck in the real world. The visuals are nice but everything else is too… well… family-friendly.
Makai Toshi Shinjuku: Great animation; generic B-movie developments.
Manaria Friends: A well-made mix of many different attributes that may or may not be welcome together.
Maria-sama ga Miteru: Very slow and leans toward a more realistic style. It’s certainly not bad, just targeted toward a very specific audience.
Mars Red: While this has top-notch atmosphere and composition, I feel it leans far too heavily on the action elements.
Maze Bakunetsu Jikuu (TV Series): If you can put up with the character personalities and more outlandish plot elements the show can become a fairly entertaining time-waster.
Meitantei Conan: Too episodic and cartoony.
Miira no Kaikata: Cuteness overload.
Millennium Actress: Good story. The comedy style and weird self-inserts made it nearly unwatchable though.
Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-bu: I didn’t like how it started turning into Long Riders! toward the end.
Mind Game: While overflowing with artistic value and imagination, it’s kinda just a haphazard collection of random ideas filling out a vaguely interesting framework.
Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman: Very cartoony, reminds me a bit of Inspector Gadget.
Miyanishi Tatsuya Gekijou: Omae Umasou Da na: Set up like a picture book, this is an okay series if you’re looking for something to watch with your young child/children. If you don’t have kids there’s no point in bothering with it.
Mob Psycho 100: Fantastic animation and solid comedy, along with an acquired taste art style and pretty mundane focus on middleschool self-image issues.
Mobile Fighter G Gundam: Too much ridiculousness for me. It’s more like a particularly over-the-top Super Robot show than a Gundam show.
Momo e no Tegami: Curiously, this reminds me of Monsters Inc. a bit. It’s a family-friendly Ghibli type of thing, which is not a direction my tastes have ever run.
Monster: Geared toward an older audience it was just a bit too boring. Sort-of felt like I was watching Murder She Wrote.
Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On: Decent enough if you’re in the market for an afternoon cartoon.
Moyashimon Returns: Very similar in structure to the first season, but the focus on the arranged marriage and familial duty just did not agree with me.
My Life: A short animation showing the future life of a young girl as it unfolds before eyes while filling out a career sheet. There’s nothing particularly notable about it.
Mutsu Enmei Ryuu Gaiden: Shura no Toki: An action series whose episodic situations are laughable. Literally. I couldn’t stop laughing at how ridiculous it was. It’s action action scenes are extremely well done though.
Nami yo Kiitekure: Didn’t seem badly made… just overly strange.
Nanatsu-iro Drops: First love that encompasses you: Sumomo is a terrible choice of main heroine. Everything else works well though.
Natsu-iro Kiseki: This looks a bit like Iroha and feels like K-On!! with a bunch of drama and ‘friendship is magic’ lessons thrown on top.
Natsume Yuujinchou: Itsuka Yuki no Hi ni: Identical to the slower more sedate episodes found in the parent series.
Natsume Yuujinchou: Nyanko-sensei to Hajimete no Otsukai: A more comedy-focused episode that unfortunately features some random kids.
Natsume Yuujinchou: Roku: Comes across a lot like a highlight reel.
Nekogami Yaoyorozu: A slice of lifeish comedy whose humor was just a touch too mellow for me.
New Game!: Gets a little too earnest for me, and most of the antics would not be out of place in a schoolgirl comedy.
No Guns Life: Fans of the hardboiled detective trope will likely enjoy this.
NOMAD: Megalo Box 2: The first episode felt very much like a cable TV prestige drama, and I just don’t look for that kind of thing in an Anime any more.
Nourin: If you’re a fan of ecchi comedies give this a shot. That’s basically all this is though; a steady stream of ecchi-focused jokes in an agricultural setting.
Nozo x Kimi: Exhibitionist porn that, curiously enough, includes some life lessons.
Nurarihyon no Mago: Like most shounen, this series combines interesting character design with absolutely abysmal storytelling, character behavior, and plot developments. The periodic bursts of excitement are all the more heartbreaking for it. This is for the first season mind you, the second is better.
Ongaku Shoujo (TV): Standard idol and ‘cute girls being cute’ antics executed well enough if that’s what you’re looking for
Onkyou Seimeitai Noiseman: A beautifully animated structural mess.
Ooyukiumi no Kaina: The non-ending is a issue, as is the plot development and some of the character behavior. Interesting setting though.
Ore Monogatari!!: Not a fan of the protagonist’s archetype. Don’t like his character design either.
Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu.: While this does have a number of comedic moments, it falls into the age-old trap that threatens all parodies: Becoming that which you mock. It’s a parody of Super Sentai shows that’s so serious about its love of twintails that it becomes a Super Sentai show… and I don’t really like those kind of shows.
Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara: I’m not fond of alcohol or childish behavior.
Ou Dorobou Jing in Seventh Heaven: Fixes one of the issues with the TV series. Othewise pretty much a seamless continuation.
Parol no Miraijima: A beautifully drawn/animated children’s story.
Patlabor: The Movie 2: An hour too long with a thoroughly anti-climatic ending.
Perfect Blue: This movie is utterly bizarre in a manner that I did not find enjoyable. Those who really like psychosis and paranoid hallucinations may feel differently.
Persona: Trinity Soul: The Personas’ appearances really kill this series. It tries so hard to be serious and then a Persona appears and it’s as though you’re watching Voltron.
Princess Connect! Re:Dive: The protagonist being a simpleton does it no favors, but if you can get past that it seems to be a cute enough action-comedy.
Psycho-Pass | Sinners of the System: The first movie is a pointless sidestory that doesn’t fit where it’s chronologically supposed to, the second is quite good, and the third is required viewing for Season 3 that happens to be significantly flawed. Your mileage may vary.
Pupa: If you can get past the eroticised cannibalism this is a remarkably interesting miniseries that does some pretty cool things with perpective. That’s really hard to do though unless you’re a fan of torture porn.
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin: If you’re particularly fond of groups of young male protagonists overcoming tragic/unfair/horrible situations against the odds then this could be the series for you. Particularly if you like boxing. Personally the obstacles just felt a little too manufactured.
RedAsh: Magicicada: Far too cartoony.
Rekka no Honoo: Very dated. Probably would have been decent for its time.
Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori: Very relaxing if you’re into that sort of thing.
Rozen Maiden: Beautiful animation, but I couldn’t get into the story. The various character’s motivations were mysterious and the plot in general didn’t make much sense. The sequels are better.
Runway de Waratte: Fans of Cinderella stories and/or the fashion industry will probably get more out of this than I did; everyone being an asshole toward the protagonists was prohibitively draining.
Saint October: The age-gap between the target demographic and myself was too great to overcome. In you’re in the market for a kids’ show however you should give this a look.
Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas: Highly reminiscent of X/1999, only with less conviction and cheesier combat.
Sakamichi no Apollon: Kids on the Slope: A very slice-of-lifish drama.
Sakasama no Patema: A beautiful movie. Unfortunately, I can’t stand the antagonists.
Sakura Trick: Amusing from time to time, but for the most part just gratuitous yuri fanservice.
Samurai Champloo: Nothing about it appealed to me… possibly because I’m not a fan of hip-hop culture.
Sarai-ya Goyou: A moderately interesting character-driven series that suffers from glacial pacing. The character design is a bit odd as well.
Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai: A mix of realism and fantasy that doesn’t really have a strong focus, coming across much like a slice-of-life.
Sayonara Galaxy Express 999 – Andromeda Shuuchakueki: A sequel to the 1979 Galaxy Express 999 movie, and the least bullshit-infused of the franchise’s various main installments. There’s still no particular reason to watch it beyond historical curiosity.
School Rumble: Too obviously staged. Appears to consist mainly of generic awkward-romance-based humor.
SD Gundam: Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors: If you want a more kid-friendly version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms this has you covered.
Sengoku Basara: Think Momoiro Paradox with ‘manly men’ instead of cute girls.
Seraphim Call: An inventive episodic series that explores some curiously heavy topics (the first episode is a bit of an outlier). A little too slow for me though.
Seto no Hanayome: Starts off hilarious, but around the fourth episode I was getting a bad feeling that crystallized after episode seven. Turns out the same handful of jokes and personalities are re-used every single episode. What was once funny and unexpected becomes generic and tedious.
Shadows House: If you can deal with the protagonist’s personality this show is a pretty well put together multi-genre series. For the first 10 episodes anyway. The last three are apparently an Anime-original addition and probably best off skipped.
Shaman King: Couldn’t stand the characters. Structurally it’s your average ‘race to the top’ shounen.
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso: Moments: Focused on the characters when they were children, the majority of this is already present in the main series (via flashback) while the few new bits don’t really add anything of note. It’s well-made, there’s just no point in watching it if you’ve already seen the series.
Shin Angyou Onshi: A movie spanning the first part of a Korean manga series. It was pretty good until the hypnotized ‘Sando’ appeared; then it just got ridiculous.
Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen: Avoid unless you’re a huge fan of nonsensical super-robot shows.
Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis: While the visuals are great, I strongly dislike the protagonist and the storyline is as cookie-cutter as can be.
Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul: Similar to the prequel, the visuals are solid while the story and characters are an acquired taste.
Shingeki no Kyojin: Ever wanted to see a basic shounen series in which random people are eaten by naked otaku and crushed by fallen debris? Here’s your chance.
Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica: I’m not sure how to categorize this. The setting is a world where spirits and humans live more or less side by side, and can enter contracts/partnerships with each other through song/music. The series follows the main character, who has formed a bond with one of the most powerful types of spirits, as he works for a sort of detective agency/odd job type place. There isn’t really any overarching plotline and it’s kind of like a slice of life hybrid.
Shinmai Renkinjutsushi no Tenpo Keiei: If you’re in the mood for something light and fluffy you don’t have to think about, this could fit the bill.
Shinpi no Sekai: El-Hazard: This TV version of the franchise is perfectly fine if you’re looking for something light and cartoony.
Shinsekai Yori: In the vaguest general sense this, up until the final stretch, has a mood similar to that of Casshern Sins and first-season Higurashi. And yet I couldn’t stop frowning while watching twenty-four of its twenty-five episodes (only episode seventeen didn’t exude wrongness). The ingredients for a great story are most certainly there, but the dry matter-of-fact method in which it is told squanders practically all of its potential.
Shion no Ou: I was hoping this would be like Saki. It ended up more like Monster.
Shokei Shoujo no Ikiru Michi: Virgin Road: All the elements of an entertaining series are there, but for some unexplainable reason I ended up feeling nothing but distaste for it.
Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu: I really don’t like rakugo and the character drama didn’t do anything for me.
Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu -Sukeroku Futatabi Hen-: Somewhat different cast, yet same issue as the first half.
Show by Rock!!#: While this isn’t really all that much different from the prequel, it has the distinct feel of an unnessisary add-on.
Shugo Chara!: It starts off nice, but quickly sinks into a mire of cheesy cheerfulness as Amu’s ‘true personality’ starts to be revealed.
Slam Dunk: A dated deliquent sports shounen series. Personally I found Kuroko no Baske to be a more entertaining/engaging update to the formula introduced here.
Slap Up Party: Arad Senki: Too ridiculous in a juvenile way.
Sola: It seemed interesting at first, but didn’t stay that way for long. The whole action subplot throws off the series’ entire rhythm.
Somali to Mori no Kamisama: Those that like slow, relaxing sorts of works (and particularly those that like children) will probably enjoy this series quite a bit.
Sonny Boy: A bit too slow-paced and realism-focused (despite the superpowed dimension-hopping theme) for my taste.
Sono Toki, Kanojo wa.: A little too mundane for me; the lack of animation certainly didn’t help.
Sora no Aosa o Shiru Hito yo: If you’re a big fan of bass playing and meandering relationship drama this may be worth checking out.
Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor – Heaven and Earth: This movie is a sequel to the main Fafner series. It’s very Evangelion-ish but ends up being far more strange than entertaining.
Sousei no Aquarion: The animation was unpleasant for one, but the real problem was that it didn’t seem to be going anywhere interesting.
Spirited Away: The stunning visuals this movie employs are something of a double-edged sword, as the characters it features are not very pleasant to look at.
SSSS.Dynazenon: Features more Trigger tropes than SSSS.Gridman and the mecha segments are played far too straight for my taste (I generally don’t like Kaiju shows).
Star Ocean EX: Well… I’ve already beaten the game several times, so I already know the story well. This holds quite closely to the game’s plot and as a result wasn’t all that entertaining for me to watch. It might be worth a look if you haven’t played the game though.
Super Crooks: Too western.
Suzuka: An otherwise decent romance that suffers from an overly childish main character.
Sword Art Online: Alicization: This would’ve been a pretty decent story if Kirito and Asuna weren’t inexplicably involved in it.
Sword Art Online: War of Underworld: The first half is actually pretty decent if you ignore Kirito’s reduced presence. The second however is basically an average battle shounen filler movie… which can be fine if you like that sort of thing.
Tactical Roar: This series is centered on naval combat and as a result is somewhat unique. Unfortunately, it goes overboard with the ecchi/harem elements and has a strangely abrupt ending.
Tales of Luminaria: The Fateful Crossroad: Solid enough animation, but I’ve seen this exact sort of story play out far too many times before.
Takahashi Rumiko Gekijou: Some of these stories are pretty good, but most end up a little too mundane for my taste.
Tamayura: More or less your standard slice of life/comedy that features schoolgirls. It’s certainly not bad, it’s just a little too slow for me.
Tanken Driland: A series aimed toward a younger audience. If you need to find something for your kids to watch this may do the trick, as it seems perfectly fine beyond its base simplicity.
Tari Tari: A story of one girl’s acceptance of her past actions couched in a pseudo-K-On! making-the-choir framework. Most of the characters are great, but everything else ends up feeling far too forced.
Tenshi no Tamago: A darkly surrealistic movie full of symbolism. If searching for hidden meanings is your thing though it could be interesting, otherwise it should probably be avoided since it’s fairly slow and has very little dialog.
Tesagure! Bukatsumono Spin-off Purupurun Sharumu to Asobou: This franchise is an acquired taste, and should be thought of as more of a talk show than an Anime due to all the 4th-wall breaking and since many of the lines are ad-libbed.
Texhnolyze: Extremely slow pacing and nothing all that interesting ever really occurs. It’s a decent watch if you’re looking for a darkly atmospheric dystopian sort of thing, just don’t expect anything particularly engaging.
The Idolm@ster: If you’re really into the background work behind models or idols then this is probably worth checking out. For me though it’s practically unwatchable. The animation is fairly fantastic and the character design is solid… but yeah, not my thing.
The Idolm@ster Movie: Kagayaki no Mukougawa e!: A greater focus on the girls, but not really worth watching unless you’re a huge fan of idols; the drama is laid on too thickly.
The Rolling Girls: The animation is great and it has a lot of fun parts, but for some reason the product as a whole ends up lackluster.
Thunderbolt Fantasy: Touri-ken Yuuki: Not an Anime at all in fact, this will probably appeal to fans of tokusatsu-styled shows.
Tiger Mask W: So similar to actual professional wrestling you may as well just go watch that.
Time Travel Shoujo: Mari Waka to 8-nin no Kagakusha-tachi: Overly simplistic and apparently specifically geared toward a young audience.
To Love-Ru: Trouble – Darkness 2nd: The franchise has essentially become purestrain softporn. Well-drawn softporn, but softporn all the same.
To Love-Ru: Trouble – Darkness OAD: While the first and fourth episodes are nice, most of the rest goes far too heavy on the fanservice.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T: Lot of ‘more of the same’ going on here, the point it becomes difficult to get invested. Impressive visual quality though.
Toaru Majutsu no Index Movie: Endymion no Kiseki: A Macross take on Index. If you’re looking for some mindless action this can probably fill that need.
Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san: Perfectly fine if you’re a fan of slowish everyday 4-koma comedy.
Tonari no Seki-kun: Certainly amusing, but I couldn’t help but feel perpetually embarrassed on Rumi’s behalf.
Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou: The DJ-related and food-related infodumps don’t interest me at all.
Top o Nerae!: The elements for a good show are certainly there, but they just don’t click for some reason. Wasn’t fond of Noriko’s spontaneous emotional outbursts either. Also known as Gunbuster.
Toshokan Sensou: Ludicrous premise. The concept behind it is solid (going to war against censorship), the actual execution (local and federal government sub-armies attack each under a sort of gentleman’s rules) is what’s problematic. Characters are good though.
Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru: While well made, it’s far too focused on daily life segments and I’m not interested in the character/sword history at all.
True Tears: The main character and primary love interest are not particularly likable, the ‘kooky’ love interest gets crushed, and the ‘childhood friend’ gets completely stonewalled despite being the best character in the series. Rounding things out; most of the melodrama feels staged and the entire tear-fetish premise is fairly creepy.
Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria: Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry does this kind of setup far better with far less grating characters.
Tsuki ga Kirei: Too realistic for my taste. I probably would have greatly enjoyed it if the main show was more similar to its post-credits scenes.
Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudou-bu: If you liked Free! there’s a decent chance you’ll like this too.
Uchouten Kazoku 2: An interesting show that takes far more effort than I’m willing to expend to appreciate.
Uchuu Show e Youkoso: This is a pretty standard family friendly kids’ movie in which the only trait that might really appeal to older audiences is the fantastic visuals.
Under the Dog: While a fairly competently made B-movie from a technical perspective, it has a distinctly incomplete feel to it.
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer: If you’re a fan of the parent series then you’ll probably be a fan of this. If you’ve never seen the parent series, this will give you a good idea of whether or not you want to. If you don’t like the parent series… well, this is not likely to change your mind.
Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete: A fairly interesting time travel drama/romance. I didn’t like Yui at all though and felt she ruined the character dynamics.
Ushio to Tora (TV Series): The first third is good while the second third is full of wave after wave of somewhat pointless battles and drags considerably. The concluding third is also dragged out a bit, but does manage to offer a pretty good ending.
Violet Evergarden Gaiden -Eien to Jidou Shuki Ningyou-: Not a fan of the first half’s setting, or the second half’s child character. If neither of those things bother you then you’ll likely enjoy it if you also enjoyed the parent series.
Vividred Operation: Visually this show is outstanding. Content-wise it’s much too focused on friendship power and cheerfulness to appeal to me.
Wakaba Girl: An aggressively cute slice of life mini-episode series. Too cutesy and ambling for me.
Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui!: Too painfully awkward.
Wake Up, Girls!: Like Idolm@ster, this is much too focused on the business side of things.
Yahari Ore no Seishun Lovecome wa Machigatte Iru: The whole focus on dismissing someone’s opinions and attempting to force them into fitting an arbitrarily ‘normal’ mold is sickening. If that doesn’t bother you, then there’s some pretty great conversation humor in here.
Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo: Take Najica Blitz Tactics, remove most of the ecchi, and combine it with the X-Files and you have something approximating this series. It’s fun on the surface, but the episodic nature results in the character actions and behavior feeling re-hashed by the halfway point.
Yama no Susume: Second Season: A cute/relaxing slice of life type of show with the occasional odd pocket of drama/ecchi.
Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo (2015): It certainly has its amusing moments, but I just can’t stand the dynamic.
Yoake Tsugeru Luu no Uta: A solid family-friendly movie with some pretty great animation.
Yobi, The Five Tailed Fox: A Korean folkloric movie that manages to have more life than many others in that genre. The problem is that everything is thrown off by a pervasive feeling of artifice/irregularity. Some kind of ‘uncanny valley’ phenomenon to the character design or something.
Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta: The depicted events and character behavior becomes pretty annoying before long and both the character design and animation get pretty weird in places.
Yuki no Joou: This is as classical a fairy tale as you’ll find and is primarily meant for young children. If you either don’t have children or are not a young child it would probably be best to avoid this.
Yuru Yuri Nachuyachumi!: This movie plays out far more like a slice of life than a sketch comedy.
Zettai Bouei Leviathan: A cute RPG/magical girlish show that’s just a little too earnest for my taste.
Zettai Karen Children: Sort of like a more madcap version of Kiddy Grade or E’s Otherwise. The level of ridiculousness was a touch too high for me to get very far with it.
Zettai Shounen: Too slow. The dialog, the plot development, the reaction time… it’s all glacially paced.
Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou: This second season seems to have a greater concentration of sentimentality than the first did. May still be worth watching if you’re a huge fan of spirit-focused slice-of-life series.

Disliked Anime (1-5)

[0]: A music video that begins suddenly, ends suddenly, and accomplishes little.
.hack//Roots: All the pacing problems of .hack//SIGN with none of the interesting storyline.
.hack//Sekai no Mukou ni: The character design is incredibly ugly and most of their personalities are annoying in some manner.
009: The Reopening: A short promo video that suffers from having some extraordinarily outdated CGI animation.
07-Ghost: I may have liked this if it weren’t for the predominately male cast. If you’re into yaoi and/or feminine guys you might get more mileage out of it.
11 Eyes: It has a vaguely interesting concept and some decently dramatic scenes, but overall the series feels incredibly childish.
12-Sai: Generic ‘first crush’ sort of stuff set in an elementary school. The protagonist’s eye design is fairly frightening.
3-Nen D-Gumi Glass no Kamen: The main series is already close enough to parody that this just comes across as superfluous.
3D Kanojo: Real Girl: Extremely awkward with a questionable finale.
8 Man After: Lots of action, cyborgs, and limb removal… but the characters are extremely flat and the storyline isn’t anything to write home about. Making matters worse is that only the English-dubbed version appears to be available.
A Channel: Like the second season of K-On! or a less boring Hidamari Sketch… except with exponentially worse character design. The OVA series is more of the same.
A Letter to Momo: A family-friendly modern-fantasy coming of age story. Not my kind of thing.
A.D. Police (OVA): It has a couple of good ideas that end up drowned beneath all the pulpy fanservice.
A.D. Police (TV Series): Extremely boring with bottom of the barrel animation. While it does end in an unexpected manner, that’s mostly because the twist makes little sense.
A.I.C.O. Incarnation: Lackluster action scenes and pretty average everything else.
A-ko the Versus: The basics of the A-ko series set in a semi-fantasy ‘destroy the evil emperor’ setting. It’s pretty generic.
Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai: Had promise, but squandered the majority of it on repetitive ecchi humor.
Absolute Duo: While this has some cute interactions, it’s exceptionally average overall. The OP is interesting though.
Accel World OVA: The first episode is a surprisingly fun watch, thanks mostly to the parent series’ main character being relegated to something of a supporting role. The second episode centers on trying (ultimately futilely) to get him to lose weight and is not good at all.
Aggressive Retsuko: Season 2: While more or less on par with the first season, the love interest subplot here comes across as extremely forced.
Aguu: Tensai Ningyou: Can’t decide if it wants to be serious or silly.
Ai Mai Mii 3 ~Surgical Friends~: Too much faux-seriousness and not enough crazy/wacky randomness.
Ai Tenchi Muyou!: Has far too much pointless/annoying filler. It would’ve been okay had it just stuck to the central plotline instead of going on those various school-life tangents.
Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~: Only the ninth episode is worth bothering with unless you really like the secondary characters.
Aika: I seem to recall not liking this due to it being a vapid ecchifest with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Its prequels (Aika R-16 and Aika Zero) are pretty amusing though.
Air Gear: Only watched the first episode, but I’m not a huge fan of the shounen genre to begin with and have no interest in sports of any kind. I did like the character design though.
Aishen Qiaokeli-ING… II: It clearly had no idea where to go after the first season and mostly ended up just spinning its wheels.
Ajin (OVA): Only the third one is really worth bothering with.
Akai Koudan Zillion: Three young adults playing laser tag with genocidal aliens. A standard cheesy 80’s anime basically, but if that’s what you’re looking for there are certainly worse options.
Akane Maniax: This is a spin-off of Kimi ga Nozomu Eien which unfortunately doesn’t share any real similarities with that series. The new main character is basically a combination of the comic store owner from Lucky Star and the baseball captain from Tokimeki. As a supporting character he’s fine, but as the main character his shtick gets old fast.
Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka: Around the fourth episode this starts becoming less amusing as the romance aspects become more pronounced, eventually becoming actively annoying by the end.
Akira: I hated this movie. The animation style was bad enough; I prefer the clean/sharp style to the round/realistic style. This was old however so I gave it a pass and watched it to the end. That turned out to be a mistake considering that the story makes very little sense and is horribly clichéd. What really made me hate it though were those floating fat kids whom I kept wishing would just shut-up and stop ruining the movie with their rampant moralizing.
Al Caral no Isan: Just plain gereric all the way down.
Alice to Zouroku: A bit too schizophrenic with its focus.
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku: I was hoping this would be one of those amusing shows like Tenchi Muyou! GXP or Pani Poni Dash! or something. It unfortunately seems geared solely toward a younger audience.
All That Gundam: A short showcase of a bunch of Gundam models that mostly all look alike.
Ame-iro Cocoa: An average mini-episode slice of life show. It just sort of ambles along.
Amnesia: A reverse harem that tries to translate a build-your-own blank-slate VN protagonist into an Anime protagonist. It fails.
Ancient Books of Ys: This is basically a stereotypical ‘young hero defeats evil monster empire’ type of thing. I wasn’t a fan of the animation style either.
Andromeda Stories: Starts out okayish only to become incredibly dull/uninteresting and end on a rather wierd note.
Ane Log: A gag comedy that only has one gag.
Anemone: A short arty movie that tries to have significant symbology but fails due a complete lack of background information.
Angel Heart: This series is sort-of like a psychological thriller up to episode nine, after which it morphs into something like a slice of life series. My main problem with it, besides the rather strange heart transplant premise, is the ill-fitting physical/ecchi humor used throughout.
Angolmois: Genkou Kassenki: Doesn’t really have anything going for it beyond the action scenes.
Anima: Fans of ballet may get more out of this performance than I did.
Animation Seisaku Shinkou Kuromi-chan: Two OVAs that do the same thing Shirobako does in a much more ridiculous manner. If you really like cartoony comedy they might be worth watching, but otherwise it would be best to just skip right to Shirobako.
Anime-Gataris: Gets far too weird very quickly.
Ankoku Shindenshou Takegami: Despite having some good ideas, the transformation designs and third episode really hold this back.
Ansatsu Kyoushitsu (TV Series): The comedy is nice, but both the discrimination and sincere learning segments are incredibly annoying. The second season is pretty much identical to the first, just with less discrimination and more flashbacks.
Ansatsu Kyoushitsu (OVA): Does a decent job of giving you an idea of what the manga’s about, but nothing particularly memorable happens (it’s also included in the TV series).
Ao Oni ~The Animation~: The setups are often good, while the punchliones tend to fail.
Ao Oni: The Animation: A horrible movie with not a single redeeming quality.
Aoharu x Kikanjuu: Like Stella Jogakuin Koutouka C3-bu, this show just does not quite work. The chracter design also gets a little weird at times.
Aoi Sekai no Chuushin de: An attempted shounen parody featuring modified Sega/Nintendo-related characters that happens to be far worse than the shows it’s meant to parody.
Appare-Ranman!: Kind of a mess that doesn’t know if it wants to be a buddy comedy, wacky racing show, or revenge drama.
Appleseed: This first Appleseed OVA is the closest to being about more than just the two main cahracters, who are more like secondary characters here. So it’s unfortunate that it ends up so average.
Appleseed Ex Machina: The animation style used for this movie works very well for action scenes and is god-awful for everything else. It probably would’ve been better if they went the full-CGI route rather than some bastardized CGI/cell-shading hybrid. As it stands, the character interactions look horribly fake and the characters themselves look a bit too much like plastic figurines.
Appleseed XIII: The animation is a bit better than that found in Ex Machina. That’s really the only good thing I can say about it though since everything else is terrible.
Aquarion Evol: The segregation elements are annoying and the level of ridiculousness is too high.
Aquarion Logos: While I love the comedy, the antagonists are pretty bad and the late-series drama is just a pain.
Aquarion the Movie: Had they simply made a condensed version of Genesis of Aquarion it might have been decent, unfortunately this is a retelling that has all the same negative attributes while making far less sense.
Ar Tonelico: It’s okay as a teaser for the game, I guess, but does not work well as a stand-alone.
Arcana Famiglia: A reverse-harem focused on building and strengthening bonds of friendship and camaraderie. It’s pretty cheesy and ends on something of whimper with a fighting tournament lacking most of the fighting.
Aria the Animation: This is a pure slice of life series, which means it has no storyline to speak of and instead just follows the characters around as they do normal everyday things. It’s very laid-back and has a dry sense of humor, so you may find it worth a look if you’re feeling mellow or want to watch something just to pass the time.
Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekaisaikyou: Decent-to-good comedy, questionable-to-abysmal everything else.
Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekaisaikyou: 2nd Season: Notably better animation than the prequel, but notably worse event progression. Feels rushed despite adapting less material.
Arjuna: An environmental-friendly series that takes its focus to Luddite extremes. It has a lot to say about science and progress and none of it is good (or well researched, or backed by any sort of actual evidence, or even moderately sane). Basically, the only people who are going to enjoy this series are the same one’s who consider vaccinations evil.
Arslan Senki: Became too dull and meandering in the second episode for me to continue watching it.
Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan: The original project based on the trailer looked pretty bad. The eventual finished project starts out surprisingly decent, but quickly falls off a cliff in the event development department.
Arve Rezzle: Kikaijikake no Yousei-tachi: A short movie with an interesting concept that fails to sell itself. The unimpressive animation and questionable art-style choices don’t help matters any.
Asobi ni Iku yo!: An otherwise generic harem with an action subplot just as ill-fitting as Sola‘s.
Assassins Pride: A faulty premise compounded by repeated nonsensical/random plot developments and forced romantic elements.
Asu no Yoichi!: Similar to Crocodile Dundee, if Dundee were a submissive character who continuously stumbled into ecchi situations. The jokes, such as they are, get old fairly quickly.
Asura: A movie about a feral cannibal-child that goes out of its way to be as repulsive as possible, in everything from its character design to its depicted events, in order to enhance its message. Don’t bother with it unless you’re fond of self-flagellation.
Asura Cryin’: Both the premise and the characters are ridiculous. Perhaps it would be better without the ecchi/harem elements, but I doubt it.
Asylum Session: A movie set in a semi-future dystopia with an ‘art can save your soul’ theme. The storyline is nothing special and the animation is bottom-of-the-barrel CG work.
Avenger: A slowly-paced, over-dramatic, and effectively action-less soap opera.
Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher: Has a couple well done martial arts action scenes. Painfully generic in all other aspects.
Aya Hito Shiki to Iu na no Ishi Hata: Whether this is actually unfinished, or merely appears unfinished for artistic effect, doesn’t really make much of a difference; it seems unfinished either way.
Ayakashi: Wants to be Shadow Star and/or Elfen Lied; fails miserably.
Azusa Otetsudai Shimasu!: Has a couple good comedic bits, but that’s about it.
B-Project: Kodou Ambitious: An otherwise average idol-themed otome game brought down into terrible territory by a ridiculous conclusion.
Back Street Girls: Gokudols: Barely existent animation and a bit too focused on standard idol activities.
Baka to Test to Shokanju: Far too ridiculous.
Bakuman (2011): Unlike the first season, the conflicts that appear in here feel extraordinarily forced and little of note happens. That the characters age from 14->20 over the course of the series while looking exactly the same is also an issue.
Bakumatsu: Ren`ai Bakumatsu Kareshi Gaiden: Just incredibly uninteresting all around.
Bakuretsu Hunter: The ecchi aspects are annoying and the ending is painful.
Bang Dream!: Can’t stand the protagonist.
Bang Dream! Garupa Pico: A few more misses than hits in the random comedy.
Banner of the Stars II: This installment is far, far worse than the previous and later ones. It focuses too much on a rebelling prison world and ends up feeling nothing at all like a space opera.
Bartender: If you really like both alcohol and people sitting around talking about alcohol then you may enjoy this series. That’s pretty much all it contains though.
Basilisk: Ouka Ninpou Chou: A questionable Naruto immitation.
Battery: A pretty average character drama that suffers from some questionable dialog work and plot developments.
Battle Angel Alita: I couldn’t deal with the animation style.
Battle Girl High School: A pale imitation of too many other shows to list.
Battle Girls: Time Paradox: This is pretty much a cutesy simplistic version of Samurai Deeper Kyou. It wouldn’t have been so bad if it weren’t for all the happily-ever-after friendship-cures-all nonsense.
Baymax: A little monochrome short related to the movie Big Hero 6. It’s average.
Bayonetta: Bloody Fate: Odd character design coupled with a barely-there story and absolutely abysmal characters/dialog. Nice monster design though.
Beatless: The central character dynamic doesn’t work very well at all.
Beautiful World: This Evangelion music video ends just as it’s getting good.
Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastorale: Bad visual quality.
Bernard Jou Iwaku.: Spends more time explaining the jokes than making them.
Berserk: Violence for the sake of violence and insanity for the sake of insanity.
Betterman: Starts out semi-interesting only to very quickly become, at turns, ridiculously melodramatic and just plain ridiculous.
Big Order: A badly executed parody of Mirai Nikki.
Bikini Warriors: A parody of mindless ecchi situations that’s, at the end of the day, remarkably similar to mindless ecchi .
Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei Bu Love! Love! Love!: Exceptionally dry.
Bio Hunter: An average B-movie; nudity, violence, and not much else.
Biohazard: Damnation: A painfully cheesy action movie with some pretty good animation.
Biohazard: Degeneration: A pretty average action movie with, by modern standards, notably lackluster character animation.
Birth: Also known as Planet Busters and World of the Talisman, this movie is full of childish humor, nonsensical plot developments, and an ending that renders the entire exercise pointless.
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal: The first arc is pretty decent. The second is horrible.
Bishoujo Yuugi Unit Crane Game: A group of wannabe idols gets tricked into playing an arcade crane game in order to save the world from an asteroid. The crane game or idol parts alone might have been amusing, the two combined just ends up bizarre.
Black Bullet: An average action/drama/comedy with a loli focus. Not much reason to watch it unless you desperately need to see another show in the same vein as Machine-Doll, Kurokami, or Shana.
Black Magic M-66: A cartoonish Terminator knock-off.
Blade & Soul: Bad pacing in the beginning, bad execution and too many ideas in the end.
Blame! Prologue: Two CGI-animated shorts that look really good until their characters begin to move. Beyond the static background art there’s nothing of value here.
Bleach: Basically, it gets worse the further you get from the end of season three. The first three seasons are fantastic, the filler seasons (four, five, nine, and thirteen) are terrible and should be skipped no matter what, and the rest gets more and more tedious the further you progress.
Bleach Movie: Hell Chapter: Has one or two interesting fight scenes… but that’s all it has.
Bleach Movie: The Diamond Dust Rebellion: A boring first half and a second half filled with pointlessly excessive power usage.
Blood: The Last Vampire: This movie gave no reasons for why what was happening was happening or any form of exposition whatsoever. Random things happen to random people and I see no particular reason to care.
Blood-C: If you liked anything at all about Blood+ then this series is nothing short of blasphemy. They took everything even remotely realistic or nuanced from that series and threw it right out the window, leaving nothing but a trashy school-life series mixed with a childish monster of the week shounen. I liked the above The Last Vampire more than I liked this series.
Blood-C: The Last Dark: Nothing like the prequel series, this is much closer to a slightly improved version of The Last Vampire. The slight improvement comes in the form of actual non-action-related plot developments/events… that unfortunately weren’t implemented very well.
Blood Lad EX: Serves to connect the first season with whatever comes next. Not much point in watching it until that ‘whatever comes next’ actually materializes.
Bloodivores: The action scenes are remarkably bad and it doesn’t really have anything else going for it.
Blue Seed: Urotsukidouji without the sex.
Boku no Kanojo ga Majime Sugiru Shobitch na Ken: The central romance is usually amusing, but the harem aspects are not.
Boku wa Imouto ni Koi o Suru: It just didn’t do anything for me despite being good from a storyline perspective. The character behavior, while realistic, was just incredibly annoying and I didn’t like the visual design one bit.
Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Add-on Disc: Pointless heavy-ecchi extra episode.
Bokura Mada Underground: Interesting visuals paired with not so great music.
Bokurano: The interesting parts were canceled out by the annoying and/or boring parts.
Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan 2: Wholly inferior to the first season. There’s far more censoring going on (yes, even in the uncensored version) and the former extreme graphic violence was the show’s entire attraction.
Bouken! Iczer 3: Somehow manages to be even worse than the prequel.
Bounen no Xamdou: It reminded me too much of Eureka 7 and Wings of Rean.
Boys Be…: A fairly average work with below average visual quality.
BPS: Battle Programmer Shirase: Has some amusing moments, but once the lolicon aspects get serious with the introduction of Yoriko it never quite recovers.
Brave 10: If this focused on just Isanami and Saizou it would have been a fun series. Unfortunately it also features a bunch of other characters and they are all insufferable.
Brother, Dear Brother: I couldn’t deal with the animation style.
Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV: Gives you the backgrounds on the four protagonists in a painfully hamfisted manner.
Bubblegum Crash!: Slightly better than the prequel thanks to a less nonsensical plotline and better character presentation. Still not really worth watching though.
Bubblegum Crisis: A loosely connected series of cyber-punkish B-movies that do nothing at all of interest.
Bubuki Buranki: Fantasic action scenes. Sadly, that’s all it’s got going for it as the storytelling and characterizations are a total mess.
Buddy Complex: Rather generic and it feels as though large swathes of the storyline have been cut out. The two-episode TV Special finish is a decent enough watch if you’ve seen the series though.
Burn the Witch: Balgo’s presence ruins it. Completely.
Burn Up Excess: Too much ecchi with not enough interesting storyline.
Burn Up Scramble: I like Maya, but she doesn’t get enough screen time to outweigh all the cartoon-quality silliness that’s going on nor how tiresome Rio’s behavior becomes.
Burst Angel: Infinity: It’s okay, but isn’t really on the same level as the main series. I never really liked the flashbacks to begin with, and since this is all flashback….
Busou Chuugakusei: Basket Army: Reminds me a bit of Gunslinger Girl, but for some reason the premise here seems particularly unbelievable.
Busou Shinki: A fluffy, simplistic light-hearted series that has a distressing amount of ecchi. The battle scenes are incredibly good though.
Busou Shinki Moon Angel: A web series with an atrocious plot and fantastic battle animation.
Butlers: Chitose Monotose Monogatari: Could have been decent if it had dropped/sidelined the school life aspects.
C3: Cube x Cursed x Curious: Average drama/comedy haremish type of show with an action focus. Though the characters are more emotionally unstable than most.
Caligula: A mess similar to the Persona franchise.
Captain Harlock (2013): Animated similarly to Spirits Within, Advent Children, and Starship Troopers: Invasion. Said animation is surprisingly passable, unfortunately the second half of the movie is chock full of mind-numbingly stupid developments.
Cardcaptor Sakura: Just this side of too little-girlie. A little more seriousness and this could have been a series for everyone.
Chain Chronicle: Haecceitas no Hikari: A otherwise surprisingly good set of movies utterly sunk by painfully generic storyline developments. The TV and movie versions are identical.
Chain Chronicle: Short Animation: The first and last episodes are set up like trailers, while the rest is kind of episodic. The character design is its only notable feature.
Chaos Dragon: Sekiryuu Sen’eki: The majority of the characters are interesting (both visually and personality-wise), so it’s a shame the nominal protagonist is so annoying. The animation also has issues (it often can’t keep up with the action and the CG is rather bad) and the storyline is disjointed.
Chaos;Child: The swordfighting is dumb and the climax leading up to ending is annoyingly ridiculous.
Chaos;Child: SILENT SKY: Would’ve actually been decent were it not for the extended info-dump/villain monologue halfway through.
Charlotte: Tomori is quite entertaining and the last episode is pretty good, but for the most part the show is either annoying (pre-mood shift) or unengaging (post-mood shift).
Cheating Craft: Too silly.
Chiruran: Nibun no Ichi: Lacks range; the jokes are all pretty much the same.
Chiryokumaru: A commercial with decent animation but no real point to it.
Choujikuu Kidan Southern Cross: Tons of generic tropes and some especially aggravating moral hand-wringing.
Choujin Locke: Lord Leon: A decent enough first two episodes torpedoed by a terrible third episode.
Choujin Locke: Mirror Ring: This takes place shortly after New World Command. It has bad animation, uninspiring antagonists, and a highly questionable plotline.
Choujin Locke: New World Command: Trying to turn this into an ensemble show is not the best idea, nor is ending it with a spontaneous over-the-top boss fight.
Chronus: Average at best story with an annoying protagonist and mostly basic animation. It does have an unusual art style though.
Chu Feng: B.E.E.: The action scenes are uneven, the situational setup is exceedingly dumb, and it ends mid-plotline.
Chuumon no Ooi Ryouriten: An arty movie that manages to take an interesting premise and make it extraordinarily dull and boring.
Circlet Princess: Good comedy, mediocre-to-bad action, and an atrocious conclusion.
citrus: Gets ridiculously over-dramatic at times.
Clamp in Wonderland: A music video featuring various CLAMP characters from their earlier works. Nothing in particular stands out about it.
Clannad After Story: A wholly inferior version of Kimi ga Nozomu Eien.
Clione no Akari: Average story with a forced ending.
Clockwork Planet: Has some pretty good character interactions, but it fails utterly as an action series.
Clover – Preview OVA: I’m not sure as to the point of this very short (6.5 minutes) OVA. Perhaps it was made as a proof of concept? The setting could be very interesting, but a full series probably won’t materialize.
Cluster Edge: Lacks focus. The religious aspects aren’t all that interesting either.
Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito: Starts off great and gets worse as it progresses, exponentially so in the last two movies.
Code Geass: Nunnally in Wonderland: This is, infuriatingly enough, effectively a picture drama. Nothing but glorified bonus content.
Code: Breaker: Starts off interesting despite having an awful main character. At the halfway point it throws that all away and becomes a sad mimicry of a shounen series.
Comet Lucifer: Nonsense-heavy and features an annoying mascot character.
Comic Party Revolution: This little OVA series took the stereotypes of the parent series and applied them to the plot. Which essentially makes it excessively stupid.
Comic Party Revolution (2005): This seems to have taken the basic story of the first season and then overlaid it onto a harem series. Well… that was a bad call since the story and archetypes don’t lend themselves well to that genre.
Conception: Unsalvageable, regardless or whether you view it as a harem comedy or as a parody of one.
Cop Craft: A stereotypical central relationship bracketed by some haphazardly executed interesting, and not so interesting, ideas.
Coppelion: A series that starts out serious and overly dramatic and quickly becomes goofy and ridiculous. The combination is pretty terrible.
Corpse Party: Missing Footage: This just sets up the events that presumably take place in the game. Considering how heavily censored it is there’s no real reason to watch it; just watch the four-episode Tortured Souls OVA series instead.
Cosmic Fantasy: Ginga Mehyou no Wana: The first half is surprisingly good; the second half is a disaster.
Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo: The fourth through seventh episodes are pretty good, the rest fluctuates between being either overly dramatic or just plain unengaging.
Crusher Joe: Good animation; bad everything else.
Crystal Blaze: An action/conspiracy series with a setting curiously similar to Gintama‘s that’s notable only for its incredibly annoying characters.
Cutie Honey Universe: Dated garbage.
Cyber City Oedo 808: Good animation. Everything else is unfortunately pretty generic.
Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman: Beautiful visuals highlighting painfully dated content.
Cyclops Shoujo Saipuu: A limited focus combined with unwelcome ecchi elements.
D_cide Traumerei: The Animation: Solid enough action scenes, but the protagonists are all pretty one-note.
D.C.if: Da Capo if: An alternative continuation of the first season, this is a bit awkward and the events feel a bit forced.
D.C.III: Da Capo III: A generic ecchi-fanservice harem for the most part. Episodes nine, ten, and eleven are worthwhile though.
D.Gray-man: It starts off inspired only to descend into mediocre storytelling and stupid physical humor. The first nine episodes are quite good while the rest is mostly rather bland (although seventeen & twenty-six were good). Road and Lenalee are by far the best characters in the series and without them it would be utter crap… but they can only do so much.
DAME×PRINCE: ANIME CARAVAN: Starts out amusing only to become highly uneven and, in the last third, consistently mediocre.
Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen – Kibou Hen: Concludes things in a pretty generic and uninteresting manner.
Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen – Zetsubou Hen: The various elements (comedy, horror, conspiracy, violence) aren’t blended particularly well. I enjoyed the comedic bits, but the rest just came across as gratuitous/forced.
Dagashi Kashi: A series of candy comercials interspersed with random/ecchi comedy.
Daishizen no Majuu Bagi: If you’re really into furries you might get something out of this, otherwise it will probably just be too silly. Being fond of silliness alone likely won’t be enough since there’s a significant amount of seriousness/tragedy shoved in there as well.
Dallos: Good artwork, but it’s kind of dated and nothing else about it really stands out.
Dan Petory Kyoushu no Yuuutsu: A short movie that’s part random comedy and part educational parody. It goes too far over the edge.
Danchigai: While cute at times, it contains far too many forced ecchi scenarios.
Dark Side Cat: While the animation is surprisingly good (for flash) the actual content is neither particularly funny nor interesting.
Darkstalkers: Watching this is similar to watching someone play the video game. Making matters worse is that the humanoid characters’ faces are poorly drawn.
Darling in the Franxx: Starts off pretty good despite the ecchi aspects only to begin falling apart in the second half before completely disintegrating at the end.
Date a Live: Does not try to be even remotely plausible and feels like an amateur fanfiction. Characters, events, situations; everything’s pulled right out of thin air just for the hell of it.
Days: A by-the-numbers sports shounen with ridiculously forced events and a questionably designed protagonist.
Days (Music Video): One of the more simplistic Mekaucity Actors videos.
DearS: An ecchi and emotionless (besides lust) version of Chobits.
Death Billiards: Decent enough animation with some nice artwork, but offloads all of the plotwork onto the viewer. Rather than tell a story, it throws some ideas out there and wants you to tie them all together and come up with a fitting conclusion yourself.
Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku: Painfully average with some highly questionable harem aspects.
Death Note: R – Genshi Suru Kami: The abrieviated runtime highlights just how stupid Light is, and certainly doesn’t help make the characters’ personalities any more palatable.
Deltora Quest: Could only find the English version and couldn’t stand Jasmine’s voice actress.
Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z: Overly spastic.
Dennou Coil: I find the drawing/animation style physically repulsive.
Denpa Kyoushi (TV): An incredibly bad show that appears to have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Desert Punk: Utter crap. Unless you’re a ten-year (or less) old boy.
Devil May Cry: This resembles a Hellsing/Gungrave hybrid. However, while those two had plotlines this is just gratuitous violence/action with no significant storyline until episode nine. The final battle was also quite pathetic since you never even see Dante assume his half-devil form; it’s just implied a bit and then drowned out in a flash of light.
Devilman: Crybaby: The gratuitous ecchi, inconsistent pacing, and questionable plot devlopments render this unwatchable.
Diabolik Lovers: Sadistic vampires biting/degrading an innocent girl for eight episodes, followed by some low level scheming and plot development for the last four. It’s overly dramatic/pulpy and only one character has a remotely interesting personality.
Dies Irae: Tries to do too many things at once while being bad at all of them.
Digital Juice: A small collection of weird shorts that are, well… weird.
Dive!!: Falls apart at the end, which resembles a collage.
Divine Gate: Something of a hodgepodge of various other series, the main issue is that it seems to greatly enjoy wallowing in its own melodrama.
DNA2: Dokoka de Nakushita Aitsu no Aitsu: A dated ecchi/harem series that suffers from severe amounts of incompetence and implausibility. The three episode sequel tosses out most of the ecchi to focus on action and ends up a decent enough conclusion (though nowhere near good enough to recommend watching the series).
Dogs: Bullets & Carnage: Only the third episode is worth watching. The other three are trash.
Dominion: A parody of police brutality which backfires into a promotion of it.
Donten ni Warau: A comedy/drama that just doesn’t feel right at all.
Donyatsu: Quite dumb. Has only one or two good bits.
Double-J: A series of ‘educational’ absurdist shorts (three-minute episodes) that seem to want to remind people of the “traditional arts”. Most of the episodes tend to have at least one amusing exchange in them, but it’s generally not worth sitting through the lecturing to get to it.
Doukoku no Nightmare: An indie project that starts out looking like it might be interesting only to get a bit too carried away preaching its message. It still has a chance to get better, but right now it’s not really worth watching.
Doukyuusei 2: While technically a hentai, in effect this is more like an ecchi comedy crossed with a dramatic love polygon; the sex scenes are rare, brief, and only show breasts. The series’ best quality by far is its slapstick comedy, which unfortunately disappears for a large chunk of its runtime.
Dragon Age: Blood Mage no Seisen: While the animation is a decent cell-shade variation and it has relatively impressive fight scenes, the story and events make less sense than Dragon Age 2‘s. You’ve got blood mages galore, Golems working with Ogres on the surface, and winged drakes… all on the same side.
Dragonaut: The Resonance: Sort of like the inverse of Witchblade; the first half is moderately interesting while the second is not.
Dragon Ball Kai: Couldn’t stand Gokuu’s voice actor.
Dragon Fist: Only noteworthy for how consistently bad it is in just about every category.
Dragon’s Dogma: Okayish in some respects, it suffers mainly from not having a reason to exist.
DreaFes!!!!!! -Dream Festival-: A decent idol show scuttled by significant pacing issues.
Drifters: While fundamentally different from Hellsing it looks and behaves so similarly it’s difficult to take it as anything other than a cheap knockoff.
Druaga no Tou: the Sword of Uruk: The first episode is good. Unfortunately it all goes downhill from there.
Dual! Parallel Runrun Monogatari: A mix of Evangelion and Tenchi that’s not integrated very well.
Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka: Familia Myth II: Accomplishes its goal of expanding the Hestia Familia, but does so in the most boring and hamfisted way possible.
Dynamic Chord: While overly-dramatic the first arc is okayish… sadly it has no clue where to go from there.
Ebiten: Kouritsu Ebi Sugawa Koukou Tenmonbu: Doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. Skips from one idea to another more or less at random.
Eien no Aseria: An unfinished OVA series whose first impression does not leave you wishing it were finished.
Eiga Layton-kyouju to Eien no Utahime: The mystery parts are dull and the action parts are dumb.
Egao no Daika: The princess half of the story is remarkably uninteresting.
Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki the Animation: Beautiful visuals all-around and a handful of great fight scenes in the first half. Unfortunately the plotline is incomplete and full of holes. The dialog is also rather terrible.
El Hazard: The Alternative World: More serious than The Magnificent World, this basically jettisons the only thing that made that series worth watching: The boatloads of weirdness. Ends up simply average.
El Hazard: The Magnificent World 2: If you desperately want more El Hazard weirdness you may get something out of this, but I found it completely extraneous.
ēlDLIVE: Resembles a sillier Boku no Hero Academia.
Elf Seventeen: Dated nonsense.
End of the World: A short movie about dimension hopping and post-apocalyptic violence. Maybe. It has an idea there but doesn’t really manage to realize it.
Endride: Overly simplistic with an annoying protagonist.
Enmusubi no Youko-chan: Though I like Suusu, the rest is fairly unwatchable.
Eromanga-sensei: Starts out fun, but crashes and burns following the introduction of Hana.
Escaflowne: While this movie’s animation is more palatable than the TV series’, the whole production reminded me far too much of Akira.
Escha Chron: There’s not really anything at all noteworthy about these two effectively unrelated episodes.
Eureka Seven: I have no clue if this is good or not, but I couldn’t stand the main character.
Eureka Seven – Pocketful of Rainbows: Watched this due to claims it was nothing like the series. The main character is unfortunately still horrible though and the plotline is an uninspired and jumbled mess.
Evil or Live: Both the animation quality and characters are terrible.
eX-Driver: Lots of car chases (which aren’t animated so well), generic comedy, and an annoying main character. Does vaguely feel a little like Bubblegum Crisis though.
eX-Driver the Movie: A sequel to the OVA series, this feels a lot like The Fast and the Furious. The car chases and characters aren’t as good as that movie though.
Exception: Weird visuals and dumb characters.
Explorer Woman Ray: Average, cheesy, 80’s action.
Fairy Gone: One of the most enthusiasm-sapping first episodes I’ve ever seen.
Fairy Tail (OVAs): The first episode is generic fanservice and not really worth watching. The next three have a greater comedy focus to them and are on par with the main series’ earlier episodes. The fifth is sort of at the midpoint between the two, while the Groove Adventure Rave mash-up is best avoided completely. Out of the last three only the 8th is particularly amusing.
Fairy Tail: Houou no Miko: An average stand-alone movie add-on for a popular series. Contains all the unfortunate traits you’d expect from such a project alongside an apparent (equally unfortunate) personality transplant for Lucy and an unexpectedly interesting design decision for the titular phoenix.
Fantasista Doll: A pseudo-parody of shoujo with similarities to Rozen Maiden and Cardcaptor Sakura whose only redeeming quality is some decent battle sequences.
Fate/Extra: Last Encore: Cool visuals. That’s about it though.
Fate/Grand Order -First Order-: Neither the comedic nor dramatic aspects work on any level.
Fate/Grand Order: Shuukyoku Tokuiten – Kani Jikan Shinden Solomon: Effectively indistinguishable from a battle shounen filler movie.
Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya Zwei!: Amazing technical quality. Far too much ecchi. The OVA is just an average fanservice episode.
Final Fantasy Unlimited: A very strange series. The premise is a touch too strange for me to like it though.
Fire Tripper: An interesting central concept wasted on a generic romance story.
First Squad: The Moment of Truth: I suppose this movie could be good if you can deal with horrifically illogical plotlines and characters. I found it utterly ridiculous.
Five Star Stories: Looks great but lacks any notable impact.
Flip Flappers: Looses its touch past the second episode, ending up as a pale imitation of shows like FLCL and Kyousougiga.
Flying Babies: Standard schoolgirl club comedy with lackluster animation.
Fractale: It’s okay, but I ended up having to skip through a good 80% of the later episodes’ content due to a chronic infestation of implausibility and nonsense.
Frame Arms Girl: The lighthearted atmosphere doesn’t mesh with the gratuitous ecchi.
Freezing: This series is sort of like what would happen if you tried to combine Kämpfer with Evangelion. It suffers from excessive melodrama, overly heavy ecchi elements, and some fairly terrible character personalities (including the most extreme example of a tsundere I’ve ever seen). The ending is also horrible.
Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu: Mostly cringeworthy with a couple good bits.
Fukigen na Mononokean: The protagonist backslides quickly after finally becoming tolerable.
Fukumenkei Noise: The heroine’s voice can’t live up to the storyline’s praise.
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Notably inferior to the parent series.
Fullmetal Panic!: Invisible Victory: A number of good action scenes, but the plot developments lack coherence.
Fushigi na Somera-chan: A completely random short-episode comedy who’s bits miss more often than they hit.
Fushigi no Kuni no Miyuki-chan: The first episode is mostly amusing with an annoying ending stretch, while the second is mostly annoying with some nice background art.
Fushigi Yuugi: This show did not age well at all.
Futakoi Alternative: A love story revolving around a guy and a pair of twins that staggers between manic insanity and glacially placed melodrama. If it had kept up the balancing act from the first three episodes throughout the entire series it would have been great… unfortunately as it is it’s just a mess.
Futari wa Milky Holmes: Pretty much identical in overall feel to Milky Holmes: Alternative, it just has different protagonists.
Fuuka: Both the romantic elements and music elements are pretty average. Nothing about it really stands out.
Fuuun Ishin Dai☆Shougun: Awful and barely animated.
Gaikotsu Shoten’in Honda-san: Though it tries to be funny, the events presented won’t be a surprise if you’ve ever worked retail.
Gakuentoshi Varanoir: Kingdom of Chaos The Universe: A wonderful candidate for the worst Anime ever. Even Mars of Destruction is better than this immensely low-effort work.
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk: A cookie-cutter, by-the-books, academy harem action/comedy. The tournament arc action scenes are pretty good, but pretty much everything else is forgettable.
Galaxy Angel: Too little-girlie. Filled with nonsense for nonsense’s sake.
Galaxy Express 999 Movie: A modified and condensed version of the 113 episode TV series. Its story and structural elements are extremely dated and there’s little reason to seek it out.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy: This takes place after the TV series and Adieu Galaxy Express 999 and focuses most of its efforts on getting you to feel for Tetsurou’s plight. Unfortunately, the character design has regressed to the point where it’s pretty much impossible to relate to him as anything other than a caricature.
Galerians: Rion: The characters are hideous and the visuals are video-game cutscene level CG. I can’t think of any compelling reason to waste your time watching it.
Galilei Donna: This show is an utter mess. I have no idea what its trying to do, and highly suspect that it doesn’t either.
Gallforce: Eternal Story: A quintessentially 80’s movie populated with an unlikable cast.
Gallforce: The Revolution: A re-imagining of the first movie that fixes some issues, makes others worse, and dumbs down the plot.
Gallforce 3: Stardust War: A half-hearted production overloaded with exposition.
Gallforce: Chikyuu Shou: Starts off as a continuation of the prequel only to quickly end up as a stale re-hash of the franchise as a whole.
Gallforce: Shin Seiki Hen: This is half Megazone 23 and half a worse Gallforce: Eternal Story.
Gangsta.: While this does some interesting things, the heart-of-gold prostitute brings it down and the superpower focus gets pretty ridiculous.
GARO: DIVINE FLAME: Gratuitous action.
Garo: Guren no Tsuki: A lifeless retelling of Honoo no Kokuin.
Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri: The assembled parts make for something that might have been good if it weren’t for the fact that everything about it is gratuitous in the extreme. The violence, nationalism, harem aspects, and protagonist glorification are all overdone (particularly in the second half).
Gegege no Kitarou (2018): Very childish.
Gekijouban Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio -Ars Nova-: The first movie is mostly a refresher-style recap capped off by what looks a lot like a filler battle. The second movie continues from where the first left off and concludes the series in a rather painful and somewhat random manner.
Gekijouban Clannad: The characters are all fairly annoying and you’ve never really given a chance for them to grow on you. It basically highlights the series’ flaws without bringing anything worthwhile to the table.
Gekijouban Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatte Iru Darouka: Orion no Ya: A completely pointless sidestory adding nothing to the series.
Gekijouban Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry: Had it not specifically took place post-episode 285 this movie would’ve been merely average overall, as it is it’s actively harmful to the series as a whole.
Gekijouban Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Sekka no Chikai: A particularly uninspired re-hash of Fate/Stay Night.
Gekijouban Kyoukai no Kanata: I’ll Be Here: The first movie is a hack-job of a recap that reminds you of everything wrong with the TV series. The second is a sequel that retraces the prequel’s mistakes.
Gekijouban Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: While the visuals are fine, the character behavior is flat-out wrong and reeks of fanfiction.
Gekijouban PriPara: Minna Atsumare! Prism Tours: I have no idea why I watched this in the first place. The musical numbers would have been good had it not been for that ‘making drama’ gimmick, but sadly that was not to be. Another issue is how the middle segment’s four variations all feel like commercials.
Gekijouban Trinity Seven: Eternity Library & Alchemic Girl: Arbitrary and doesn’t have much reason to exist.
Generation of Chaos: The first half would be watchable if it weren’t so unfailingly cringe-worthy in its attempts at humor. The second half is fairly generic and (purposely) somewhat unfinished.
Generation of Chaos III: Toki no Fuuin: This actually tries to tell an entire animated story. It’s just not very good at it. Plus the story itself is nothing a veteran RPG player hasn’t seen hundreds of times before.
Generation of Chaos Next: Chikai no Pendant: Half-assed animation and a painfully cliché story with dialog to match.
Generator Gawl: Starts off very unfocused and isn’t all that interesting once it gains focus halfway through. The build-up to the finale works well though and it does have a pretty cool revelation near the end.
Genesis of Aquarion: This is sort-of like Evangelion with a bunch of ecchi and friendship-power nonsense mixed in. There’s really not much point in watching it as it doesn’t really do anything other series haven’t already done better. If you do decide to check it out, episodes seventeen through nineteen should be avoided since they’re just useless filler.
Genesis Surviver Gaiarth: This is basically a post-apocalyptic version of Record of Lodoss War. Which is to say it’s your standard heroic tale that happens to have a bunch of robots in it instead of elves. Too retro for me.
Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki: Suffers from a lack of both technical quality and believabity. Ookami to Koushinryou, Maoyuu Maou Yuusha, and even the slime isekai all do the kingdom economic thing better.
Genocyber: Reminded me of Akira.
Genshiken: I couldn’t progress beyond the first episode of each season. The characters at the beginning of the first season were just completely unlikeable, while the second felt like a slowly-paced slice of life series. It was far more awkward and embarrassing than amusing, which may be because I’m not particularly enamored of manga-related culture.
Gensou Maden Saiyuuki: Too little-boyie. Very few of the episodes made any sense and there doesn’t really seem to be a point to anything that’s happening. The second season (Reload)is slightly better than the first… but they’re both equally pointless.
Ghost Hound: What could have been an interesting mystery series ends up bogged down with a number of ill-fitting fantasy aspects and questionable plot developments. Great soundtrack though.
Giant Robo: The Animation: Kind of ridiculous and ends up getting extremely serious about some very questionable things.
Gift: Eternal Rainbow: An otherwise generic tragicomic harem with some fairly heavy moralistic messaging.
Gigantic Formula: Seemed like just another generic mecha series. That’s sort of bad enough, but the real killer was the frightening animation style; the characters’ eyes are horrific and doll-like.
Gilgamesh: Both the drawing style and animation were fairly terrible.
Gin no Guardian: The only part of this series even remotely worth watching is the first episode.
Ginban Kaleidoscope: Good reaction-shots. Everything else is stereotypical.
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden: Ougon no Tsubasa: This movie throws the established character design of the franchise right out the window while seeming to do its level best to ripoff Star Wars. It is atrocious.
Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince: A collection of clichés commonly found in shounen, mecha, and space opera series. Its various attempts at comedy also leave much to be desired.
Ginga Sengoku Gun Yuuden Rai: An extremely dated space opera with a setting similar to Gintama‘s (samurais and spaceships). It’s more silly than interesting.
Ginga Senpuu Braiger: Weirdly silly.
Gingitsune: Don’t like Gintarou’s character archetype and most of the other characters are annoying in some way.
Giniro no Olynssis: I don’t think I can adequately describe exactly why I dislike this series. Perhaps it’s due to the bland character personalities? Perhaps it’s due to the Power Rangers-esque look of the Gardeners? Perhaps because Tia looks copywrite-infringingly like Lacus from Gundam SEED? It’s probably all of those combined.
Gintama x Mameshiba: A pretty pointless crossover.
Girlfriend (Kari): A painfully average school girl slice-of-life show.
Girly Air Force: Has some amusing interactions. Pretty dumb overall though.
GJ-bu: Shockingly boring entry into the moe-club-comedy genre. Feels like it was made by hipsters for the express purpose of mocking those types of shows.
Glamorous Heroes: If this has a redeeming quality, I certainly can’t see it.
God Eater: Prologue: This promotion for the God Eater video game has some issues. While the animation is quite good and the human character design has no particular problems, the monster design is questionable and the… direction I guess… is choppy/disjointed.
Godzilla: Hoshi o Kuu Mono: A combination of genres that seems an odd fit for Godzilla.
Godzilla: Kaijuu Wakusei: Awful, especially visually.
Godzilla: Kessen Kidou Zoushoku Toshi: The best of the three Godzilla Anime movies, yet most of it barely manages to be average.
Gokicha!! Cockroach Girls: Some ‘comedic’ shorts about two anthropomorphic cockroaches that aren’t really all that amusing. The low quality animation doesn’t really do it any favors.
Gokudou-kun Man’yuuki: Too cartoonish.
Gokukoku no Brynhildr: Something of a mess. Tries to be an ecchi-harem version of Elfen Lied and does not pull off the integration well at all.
Golden Time: Great comedy, but the drama surrounding past-Banri drags it too far down. Past-Banri is a terrible character that should have stayed forgotten.
Golgo 13: An average, ridiculous, B-movie.
Golgo 13: Queen Bee: An average action/drama that alternates between violence and sex.
Good Morning Althea: A simple sci-fi mecha action movie with a bit of magic and romance thrown in. Nothing in particular about it stands out.
Gondola: A pretty pointless short with VHS-level resolution.
Gosenzo San’e: While likely considered more Hentai than Anime by most, I think its focus on an actual plotline puts it more on the Anime side. Unfortunately that plotline is at turns overly dramatic and boring; not particularly horrifying at all. The characters are also fairly one-dimensional and single-minded… which I suppose should be expected from something that’s nominally a Hentai.
Gosick: A boring series with uninteresting characters. It seems to want to be a mystery but explains everything before it can become mysterious.
Granbelm: Feels like it started in the middle of a 24+ episode series, has mecha designs that resemble SD Gundam, and desperately needs to learn the importance of restraint.
Granblue Fantasy: The Animation: The beautiful artwork can’t save the generic plot developments.
Gravion: A generic alien invasion storyline with some extremely cheesy giant combination robot fight scenes forced into every episode.
GRAVITY DAZE The Animation: Ouverture: Just some generic action designed to promote the second game in the series.
Green Green (TV Series): An ecchi comedy whose supporting characters go way too far in expressing their perverted nature.
Grenadier: Hohoemi no Senshi: An ecchier and slightly less serious version of Trigun. It looks nice, but that’s really the only aspect that might make it worth watching.
Grisaia no Kajitsu: The first four episodes or so are a masterwork of comedy; the rest is a somewhat disjointed and semi-episodic mess. One particularly noteworthy feature of this series is that a lot of effort went into detailing the little background animations (e.g. rain hitting a window when there’s a storm outside).
Grisaia no Meikyuu: Dull and uninteresting. Pretty much has to be watched before Rakuen though.
Grisaia no Rakuen: Not as disjointed as Kajitsu, but lacks the strong first third and its plot developments are even worse.
Guin Saga: For whatever reason I forgot to add this after having watched it and only just noticed it on my AniDB listing. All I can recall off-hand is that I didn’t like the characters.
Gun Frontier: Horrible character design and fairly awful storyline.
Gundam Evolve: A collection of short movies set in various Gundam series animated mostly with CGI. Only two or three of them are remotely worth watching.
Gundam G no Reconguista: A bit of a disjointed mess with characters who constantly talk past/at one another instead of having converations.
Gundress: Sort of like (a serious) Full metal Panic! or Ghost in the Shell S.A.C., only with an ensemble cast, dated animation, and a generic storyline.
Gunjou no Magmell: The two parody episodes are horrible and the drama-centric concluding arc is extremely generic.
Gunparade March: A standard school-life romance hidden behind the trappings of an alien invasion.
Gurazeni: The first half is decent, the second introduces dramatic and romance elements that don’t even remotely work.
Gurren Lagann Parallel Works 2: Sense of Wonder and Kittan Zero are worth checking out. The rest… not so much.
Guyver: Out of Control: A pretty awful action-centric B-movie.
Gyakusatsu Kikan: Extremely slow and not all that interesting besides.
Gyakuten Saiban: Sono “Shinjitsu”, Igi Ari!: The humor is childish and the spontaneous breakdowns are laughable in a bad way.
Gyo: Now I have not seen the Human Centipede movies, but I strongly suspect that the intent behind their production was the same as the one behind this. I also suspect that this is actually worse than them due to not having any reasons whatsoever for why what’s happening is happening.
H2O: Footprints in the Sand: A painfully generic eroge adaptation with next to no interesting features.
Hacka Doll: The Animation: Some of the parodies are pretty good; most are average at best.
Hagane Orchestra: Some of the episode have good bits in them, but most are self-admitted half-assed attempts at advertising/
Haikyuu!! (OVAs): Essentially just filler episodes, one for each season.
Haitai Nanafa: A series of short comedy skits that rely mainly on slapstick-style humor. Some of the episodes work while some don’t and it ends up average. The artwork is certainly lovely though.
Haiyore! Nyaruani: A series of flash-animated shorts relating to a moeification of the Cthulhu mythos that are mostly terrible. Only the second and last two are even mildly interesting.
Haiyore! Nyaruani: Remember My Mr. Lovecraft: Another series of (slightly longer) flash-animated moeified Cthulhu shorts. These manage to be slightly better overall with a more or less even split between terribleness and amusement.
Hajime no Ippo: Champion Road: A somewhat pointless movie that takes place directly after the first series ends.
Hajime no Ippo: Kimura Tatsuya vs Mashiba Ryo: A double-length filler episode.
Hajimete no Gal: Nothing much beyond a large amount of ecchi.
Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan: The problem with this series is that it’s both extremely boring and has a terrible protagonist.
Hakushaku to Yousei: Though the protagonist’s reactions are amusing, everything else is pretty generic and the animation quality leaves much to be desired.
Hakyuu Houshin Engi: A rushed, choppy mess with a questionable genre balance.
Hal: The first three quarters are a rather dull character study. The last quarter is somewhat dark, somewhat tragic… and utterly nonsensical thanks to an apparently spontaneous shift in perspective.
Halo Legends: Artwork and animation are good for most of the episodes, but there’s nothing really here beyond some mindless action and one horrific attempt at comedy.
Han-Gyaku-Sei Million Arthur: While there’s some good comedy scattered about here the dramatic aspects leave much to be desired and the ecchi occasionally goes overboard.
Hanayaka Nari, Waga Ichizoku: Kinetograph: This set of OVAs is basically just a lead-in for the source material. It ends shortly after introducing the various plot points and setting the stage for an improbable romance.
Hand Shakers: Interesting visual style; painful plot developments.
Hanoka: A short series animated in flash that tries to be Saikano and fails.
Haou Daikei Ryuu Knight: Adeu Legend: A basic hero journey type of story with cartoonish mecha design. Nothing all that interesting about it.
Happiness!: You get precisely what you might expect from the title.
Happy Lesson (OVA): A below average harem-ish show that has absolutely no direction whatsoever. Its humor is all over the place and it misses far more than it connects.
Happy Lesson (TV Series): An average harem-ish show that has a focus on extremely absurd situational comedy. Ignore the first episode though since it’s just a repeat of the first OVA episode.
Hashiri Tsuzukete Yokattatte.: Feels like a commercial.
Hataraku Onii-san!: Unsurprisingly banal.
Heavenly Sword: This seems to be a sort of preview for the game. Each episode is only ~2 minutes long and the ending is a cliff-hanger designed to get you to want to play the game.
Heavy Metal L-Gaim: While surprisingly interesting for its time period, it’s far too cartoony for me.
Heibai Wushang: Some cool early action scenes are all this show has going for it.
Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi: Besides displaying graphic scenes of dismemberment/torture I’m not really sure what the point of this series is. It’s not an action series, it’s not really a comedy (blood-soaked slapstick is pretty much all its got in that department), and there’s a distinct lack of commitment to the dramatic aspects.
Hello!! Kin’iro Mosaic: The jokes/setups come across as forced/artificial.
Hells Angels: Has an interesting art style and a strange enough setting to be intriguing. Unfortunately, I despised the main character completely and utterly.
Hen Semi: Tries to turn trivializing sexual harassment into a laughing matter. It does not succeed.
Henkei Shoujo: A handful of good reaction faces is all this has going for it.
Henna Omamesan: I don’t see of any reason to watch this short unless you’re already a fan of the comedian who appears in it.
Here Comes the Three Angels: Tenshi no 3P!: Overloaded with gratuitous loli-ecchi.
Here Is Greenwood: A comedy with some romance that’s 1/3 amusing, 1/3 dull, and 1/3 nonsensical.
Hi-sCool! Seha Girls: It’s just not very funny. Some sketches are pretty good, but most did not hit the mark for me.
High Card: The protagonist is really bad and the moralizing is painful.
High School DxD: An empty shounen-esque ecchi series with absolutely nothing going for it. The fight scenes are terrible, the characters are terrible, and the plot is terrible.
High School of the Dead – Drifters of the Dead: An attempt at pure fanservice that manages to fail on every level.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kaku: Outbreak: Transplants Higurashi‘s characters into a zombie-themed B-movie lacking the zombies. The open ending doesn’t help matters any.
Hikari to Mizu no Daphne: The most obivous issue this show has is the barely-there character uniforms. Other than that it’s primarily an episodic and mostly silly action show which happens to end with a slightly interesting short dramatic stretch of episodes.
Hikaru no Go: Treats everything far too seriously.
Himawari!: A ninja themed series with sci-fi elements that suffers from low production values and a chronic lack of focus. The second season has a few improvements, but not enough to make it watchable.
Himegoto: More perverted than funny.
Himote House: Tokiyo really brings it down and the randomness doesn’t work very often.
Hinomaru Zumou: Generic sports shounen.
Hitori no Shita: The Outcast 2: A tournament arc which drags on for far, far too long.
Hitotsubu ni Kawaranu Ai o Komete.: A candy commercial. A blatent one.
Hokuto no Ken: Legend of Heroes: Raou and Kenshiro’s final battle re-done in Tekken-like CGI. It’s okay, but there’s no real point in watching it.
Holy Knight: A version of Rosario+Vampire that’s more hentai-ish and less comedic. It ends up blatantly inferior to that series in all respects with the possible exception of character design.
Honto ni Atta! Reibai-sensei: Pure undiluted randomness with low quality animation/art. Not even a token nod toward cause and effect and completely lacking any sort of in-universe logic.
Hoshi no Samidare: Horrifically fast pacing.
Houkago no Pleiades: There’s no reason to bother watching this if you’ve seen at least one magical girl series before. Wholly generic.
Hunter x Hunter (2011): While the first arc is quite good, the next three range from terrible to so-so. Remarkably similar to Naruto in certain respects.
Hunter x Hunter Movie: Phantom Rouge: An average filler movie.
Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Bride: The series has turned into a low-effort parody. Which is a shame because it’s extremely stylish.
ICE: This OVA series is like some unholy combination of Wings of Rean, Noein, Karas, and Simoun. While I liked three of those series, combining them all into a giant mish-mash is clearly not a good idea. The storyline is relatively easy to follow while the setting and character behavior is quite strange. It’s a curious series that’s unfortunately not all that interesting.
Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou: At first this is an otherwise average ecchi comedy that handles the genre stereotypes well. As it progresses beyond the sixth episode things get really weird, in a bad way, and it ends up a disjointed mess.
Ichigeki Sacchuu!! Hoihoi-san: I’m not sure what this is trying to be exactly, but if it’s meant as a comedy… it’s not really all that amusing (besides one line toward the end). More head-scratching.
Ichigo 100%: Only watched the first episode; not my type of series.
Iczer-Girl Iczelion: While certainly better than (though notably different from) the earlier two installments of the franchise, it still never quite manages to rise above average.
ICZER-ONE: The artwork/animation is the only redeeming quality.
Idol Memories: Incredibly average and by-the-numbers.
Idolish Seven: A pretty average male idol show.
Ikemen Sengoku: Toki o Kakeru ga Koi wa Hajimaranai: Overly simplistic comedy style.
Iketeru 2-ri: Horrible animation quality.
Ikkitousen: Great Guardians: The ecchi reaches new highs while the storyline and battles get shoved to the wayside. Very dissapointing.
Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku: A dark fantasy series starring the most energetic and cheerfully idealistic character you could possibly create. So who exactly does this abomination oppose? A comic book styled mustache-twirling villain who happens to be literally insane. This series is trash unless you happen to be a bleeding-heart pro-lifer who desperately needs some self-affirmation.
Imawa no Kuni no Arisu: The few two episodes are okay and resemble Gantz a bit. The last epside is horrible and ruins everything.
Infinite Stratos: Encore: While good by the standards of extraneous fanservice OVAs (characters behave as you would expect, no ecchi overload), there’s no real reason to watch this since it adds nothing to the series.
Infinite Stratos 2: World Purge Hen: Advances the plot slightly, but tries to fit far too much into a single episode.
Ingress the Animation: The game elements are a bad fit and the non-combat animation leaves something to be desired.
Interlude: The series’ title says it all; this is a rest stop between two points. A fairly dull rest stop populated with agitating characters. Though the bits and pieces shown of the before and after paint an intriguing picture of what could be.
Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san: Extremely forced. Tries way too hard.
Inukami!: Strongly dislike the main character, who’s perverted in a far more creepy/annoying way than an amusing way.
Iria: Zeiram – The Animation: Occasionally decent, but most often generic or worse.
Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu: An inferior Saikano that replaces the realism with awkward school life stereotypes.
Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu Ω: This is supposed to be an overpowered protagonist show, yet here you have the protagonists struggling more often than not. It’s also rushed.
Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni.: A deliberate construct with a few good comedic bits.
Isuca: Starts out gory and then quickly becomes a cesspool of ecchi.
Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi: The main love interest is only a loli for the first episode; that’s the only positive thing about this series that vaguely resembles 11 Eyes with some Dance in the Vampire Bund influences.
Izumo: Takeki Tsurugi no Senki: The harem is extraneous and the action scenes are bad.
Janguru wa Itsumo Hare nochi Gou: Mildly amusing, but there wasn’t enough of a plot to keep me interested.
Jashin-chan Dropkick: The titular character is awful.
Jikan no Shihaisha: Not good at being serious.
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade: I’m not sure what exactly this movie should be labeled as… ‘psychological drama’ would fit I suppose. It’s vaguely interesting and resembles Texhnolyze with a higher dialog to symbology ratio, but is just a little too dull to appeal to me.
JK Meshi!: Half talking about random factoids and/or nothing, half talking about food ingredients. There’s little to no reason to watch this.
Joker: Marginal City: Quite dated and doesn’t really have any notable qualities besides showing two guys kissing.
Joshi Kausei: Feels unfinished. The gratuitous ecchi doesn’t help.
Joshikousei Nobunaga-chan!!: Standard ‘man doesn’t understand girl things’ and ‘person from the past doesn’t understand modern things’ comedy with nearly non-existent animation.
Joshikousei: Girl’s High: Creepy ecchi style.
Joukamachi no Dandelion: The whole setup/setting is actively aggravating.
Juubee-chan: Lovely Gantai no Himitsu: Occasionally impressive action scenes is really all this has going for it.
Juuou Mujin no Fafnir: While this has some cute moments in the beginning… they don’t last. For the most part it’s just a particularly subpar action-centric ecchi harem with rather terrible action scenes.
Juushin Enbu: Hero Tales: First episode is pretty good, the rest is mostly generic shounen.
Juushinki Pandora: None of the plot developments feel natural.
Kabukichou Sherlock: An overload of eccentricity in which only the Moriarty subplot comes close to being intriguing.
Kachi Kachi Yama: A weird little short movie fond of abstract and not so abstract imagery. Personally I just didn’t see the point.
Kachou Ouji: Hard Rock Save the Space: Doesn’t really know what it wants to be.
Kado: Beyond Information: Notably worse than the full series.
Kagerou Daze: In a Day`s: The original version of events is far better.
Kagewani: When it sticks to episodic monster stories it’s pretty decent; when it doesn’t it’s really bad.
Kagewani: Shou: It mostly abandons the episodic story structure here.
Kaijuu Girls: Ultra Kaijuu Gijinka Keikaku: An average little parody show.
Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel: Kyun Kyun Tokimeki Paradise!!: An attempt at parodying stereotypical magical girl shows that ends up too close to what it’s parodying.
Kakegurui XX: Doesn’t do anything new; feels extraneous.
Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi: Ping-pongs between genres and foci with little rhyme or reason.
Kakyuusei (TV Series): Starts out decent but starts falling apart once it becomes semi-episodic.
Kamichama Karin: The comedy is the show’s only redeeming aspect.
Kaminaki Sekai no Kamisama Katsudou: A complete mess of disparate elements glued together by a large amount of gratuitous fanservice.
Kämpfer: Amusing, but far too ludicrous. Für die Liebe is more of the same.
Kaname o: While not technically a music video, in effect that’s exactly what it ends up being. Which is a shame since the music is so horrendous.
Kanashimi no Belladonna : An Anime version of art-world concepts and elements meant for those who frequent gallery viewings.
Kannazuki no Miko: This seems to want to combine mecha action with drama/romance and it just doesn’t work. The mecha portions feel overly forced.
Kanojo ga Kanji o Sukina Riyuu.: A curiously unsettling set of commercials with a romantic bent.
Kantai Collection: KanColle: The events and character interactions come across as especially contrived.
Kantoku Fuyukitodoki: Having the author depict herself as a baby makes watching this incredibly awkward.
Kao An: The character design is extremely cartoony and the dialog and character actions are awful.
Karakuri Circus: Rushed. Awful character behavior as well.
Kare Baka: Wagahai no Kare wa Baka de R: Half of it is exceptionally dull and the other half only occasionally works.
Karen Senki: Nothing but mindless action.
Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou: The animation style was a complete turnoff.
Karneval: Has a couple good episodes, but it’s mostly rather dull.
Katekyo Hitman Reborn!: The comedy parts are simplistic while the action parts are average at best. That it uses a stereotypical harem lead as its protagonist makes the action segments all the worse.
Katsugeki / Touken Ranbu: Good action scenes with generic characters/developments.
Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e: Unimpressive action scenes and average at best battle shounen elements.
Katte ni Kaizou: Similar to Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, this series start out much more insane with a distinct vulgar bent to its comedy. By the fourth episode though it gets bogged down in trying to be SZS and ends up somewhat dull.
Kaze no Na wa Amnesia: A mishmash of parts from better movies/shows.
Keijo!!!!!!!!: A standard sports shounen married to a standard ecchi series.
Keitai Shoujo: A dating sim advertisement that just covers the love-interest introductions. It’s remarkably slow and slice of lifey.
Kemonodzume: Interesting concept, basically Romeo & Juliet with a twist, but I hate the animation style.
Ken En Ken: Aoki Kagayaki: Pretty generic story/characters combined with deteriorating animation quality.
Keppeki Danshi! Aoyama-kun: Lacks comedic range.
Key the Metal Idol: A slow pace combined with bizarre plot developments does not equal a good time.
Kiba: An interesting setting, but generally rather mediocre and the protagonist is fairly annoying.
Kiddy Girl-and: Similar in structure to Kiddy Grade but suffers from an overload of cheerfulness and badly named characters with a horrific dialog style that has them stating those names every single line.
Kidou Senshi Gundam AGE: Memory of Eden: The first movie is okay, but the second is a mess of time skips. It doesn’t help that the plot developments, geneological gimmick aside, are almost exactly as the ones in practically every Gundam ever. I kind of liked the Macbeth-like rationalising though.
Kidou Senshi Gundam MS IGLOO: 1-nen Sensou Hiroku: The second episode is decent, but the other two are basically just tech demos.
Kidou Senshi Gundam MS IGLOO: Mokushiroku 0079: Very forced, with basically no redeeming qualities.
Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo: The protagonist has a weird mixture of both timid and bold behavior traits while the plot developments are cringy.
Kidou Senshi Gundam: The Origin: Filled with awful, cartoonish character behavior.
Kidou Senshi SD Gundam: The first one is mostly decent, but the rest are just average-ish.
Kidou Senshi SD Gundam Gaiden: A child-friendly fantasy quest styled thing with some Gundam visual trappings. It’s pretty clichéd.
Kidou Senshi SD Gundam Mk-II: The first episode is annoying, the second is just sort of there, and the third is decently amusing.
Kidou Senshi SD Gundam Mk-IV: First episode is mildly amusing, the second is terrible.
Kidou Senshi SD Gundam no Gyakushuu: Arashi o Yobu Gakuensai: So-so.
Kidou Senshi Victory Gundam: This starts out such a disjointed, rushed mess that there’s no real reason to waste your time on it. That its comedy style and visuals are straight out of an 80’s production does it no favors either.
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki: The mood swings between slice of life and slapstick comedy don’t really work.
Kikou Souseiki Mospeada: Has some interesting ideas/themes, but it’s extremely dated and the kid is annoying.
Kikoushi Enma: At first I thought this to be similar to Kyougoku Natsuhiko: Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari, but while the premise is the same the story-telling and characters aren’t as good. To make matters worse, in the second half they used some half-assed 3D rendering that looks like shit for the backgrounds.
Kill Me Baby: An unfunny version of Fullmetal Panic? Fumoffu that looks like a DVD extra.
Kimagure Orange Road: The main character is terrible.
Kimagure Robot: Only about four or five of these short stories end up interesting.
Kimi ga Nozomu Eien ~Next Season~: It’s okay, but doesn’t really hold a candle to the first season. Everyone getting a happy ending just seems to run contrary to what the series is about.
Kimi no Na wa.: The memory-loss and romance aspects don’t mix well.
KIMI to BOKU no Saigo no Senjou, Aruiwa Sekai ga Hajimaru SEISEN: Has a similar feeling to Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry, but executed far worse.
KimiKiss Pure Rouge: The character interactions were painfully aggravating to watch. That most of the supporting cast are blatant stereotypes doesn’t help matters.
King’s Raid ~Ishi o Tsugumono-tachi~: Starts out painfully generic for the most part. Ends up merely generic.
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV: Gorgeous visuals. That’s all it’s got going for it.
Kino’s Journey: Country of Illness: While this has better animation than In Order to Do Something, the storyline is less interesting. The ‘climactic’ confrontation also felt forced.
Kino’s Journey: In Order to Do Something: This depicts Kino’s first adventure. I don’t really like young Kino and the animation style seems low-quality.
Kinsou no Vermeil: Generic ecchi combined with a lackluster voice acting choice for Vermeil.
Kira Kira 5th Anniversary Live Anime: Kick Start Generation: Awful, extremely low-quality animation. Just get the OST if the music interests you.
Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet: The action elements don’t fit well and the ecchi is often weirdly forced.
Kiss Dum: Engage Planet: I don’t remember why I dropped this. I suspect the reason was due to either it making no sense or being particularly boring, as thinking back I only recall a mysterious artifact, someone getting stabbed, and releasing someone from jail to fight something.
Kiss×Sis (2010): This series is nothing more than concentrated fanservice.
Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku: A slightly below average schoolgirl sketch comedy with a seal theme.
Kite Liberator: The action scenes are decent (if gratuitous) and the visual quality is high. Everything else is abysmal.
Kobayashi ga Kawaisugite Tsurai!!: The first episode is basically just a promo; seemingly a story about two romances that appear to be shoujo/shounen-ai when they aren’t (due to crossdressing). The second episode is about animal-human bodyswapping and has next to nothing to do with crossdressing, throwing everything into question.
Koi to Uso: Some amusing character interactions brought down by a terrible setting with questionable plot developments.
Koi wa Ameagari no You ni: The love interest is just plain sad.
Koi-ken! Watashitachi Anime ni Nacchatta!: A short pseudo-idol series that’s empty and lacking pretty much any meaning or value.
Kokuhaku: A low quality and fairly pointless yandere-focused short.
Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo: A semi-friendship based dating-sim/harem adaptation that has neither good points nor bad points.
Kono Danshi, Uchuujin to Tatakaemasu: A rather unconventional movie focused on a couple of existential questions as well as a yaoi-ish relationship. The ending sort of ruined it.
Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru!: An ecchi/comedy harem that quickly wears out its welcome. There’s nothing to it beyond some cute girls spontaneously falling all over the MC in increasingly unlikely manners.
Kono Oto Tomare!: The overload of annoying clichés in the first like 5 minutes was too much.
Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun: Has a couple funny moments but overall not worth the time.
Kotetsu no Daibouken: A heavy ecchi action/comedy/drama. The first episode is mildly entertaining while the second is just a waste.
Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Sends conflicting signals and doesn’t really seem to know what it wants to be.
Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Alternative Architecture: A slightly re-ordered version of the above that includes two new episodes which aren’t any better than the previous eight.
Koukaku Kidoutai Nyuumon Arise: The 4th through 13th episodes feature what appear to be amusing workplace shorts (“appear” because I have yet to see a subbed version). The rest are glorified DVD extras/commercials.
Koukaku Kidoutai S.A.C. 2nd GIG: Individual Eleven: A condensed version of Stand Alone Complex‘s second season that comes across as an inferior Patlabor: The Movie 2.
Kouryuu no Mimi: Mina no Shou: A fairly painful pair of movies that consist of one ludicrous happening after another.
Koutetsu Tenshi Kurumi Zero: The first two episodes set the stage for an interesting romantic drama. The last buries it all with pretentious philosophy.
Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregototsukai: An insane amount of exposition.
Kuiba: The setting is interesting, but the movie only uses it to tell the first part of what seems to be an exceeding generic tale.
Kujibiki Unbalance (TV Series): Throws a ton of ideas at the wall hoping one will stick, never staying with one long enough to allow the audience to form an attachment. Also has an insufferable mad scientist-type central character.
Kuro no Shoukanshi: The protagonist is pretty annoying and the initial pacing is much too fast.
Kurogane Communication: The melodrama gets out of hand a bit too often.
Kuroko no Baske: Baka ja Katenai no yo!: A pointless filler episode.
Kuromajo-san ga Tooru!!: Begins with some amusing episodic stories, then starts introducing uninteresting/annoying multipart stories. Eventually even the episodic ones come to feel forced.
Kuroshitsuji: A comedy and drama/horror hybrid heavy on the comedy. I did not like the comedic style at all.
Kuusen Madoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan!: Has some similarities to Kaze no Stigma. Is utterly generic overall. The bonus OVA might be worth watching if you like bonding-with-animals stories.
Kyokugen Dasshutsu ADV: Zennin Shibou Death: A short promotional movie for a visual novel that has a setup like Danganronpa and Saw. No point in watching unless you’re about to check out the source material.
Kyoto Teramachi Sanjou no Holmes: The introduction of a rival was unnecessary, and all the related interactions are terrible.
Kyou no Asuka Show: A gratuitous fanservice overload not helped in the slightest by the protagonist’s creepy facial design.
Kyoukai no Kanata: The conversational humor and action scenes are great while the ecchi style and rushed conclusion leave much to be desired.
Kyokou Suiri: In/Spectre: A supernatural detective series in the vein of Gosick or Dantalian no Shoka that curiously concerns itself with obfuscating the truth rather than revealing it. The relatively sparse romantic comedy is pretty much its only enjoyable aspect.
Kyouran Kazoku Nikki: The main character is fun, but the series in general is too absurd.
Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora: A school-life show filled with bishounens whose female main character is looking for her ‘prince’. Not my thing at all.
Ladyspo: Nonexistant animation combined with gratuitous ecchi.
Landlock: While the ending contained an interesting development, for the most part this is an extremely uneven and haphazard movie.
Lapis Re:LiGHTs: Extremely generic character behavior coupled with conflicting setting premises result in a bad time.
Last Period: Owarinaki Rasen no Monogatari: A semi-random parody series which usually strikes out.
Legend of Lemnear: Kyokuguro no Tsubasa Valkisas: The first half is pretty bad while the second half is pretty generic 80’s action. Good artwork/animation though.
Legend of the Glass Fleet: A Sci-Fi/Fantasy series that can neither keep its own in-universe mechanics straight nor be even remotely interesting.
Legend of the Millennium Dragon: Wants to be Princess Mononoke. Manages to be vaguely similar yet notably worse.
Lemon Angel: The quality of these music videos varies greatly, but very rarely ever rises above average at best.
Lemon Angel Project: The plotline isn’t all that bad, but the choice of voice actors is horrible and ruins any sense of believability or immersion.
Let’s Nupu Nupu: A remarkably crass gag comedy whose gags lose pretty much all their humor in the second half.
Licensed by Royal: Starts off as a goofy secret agent show only to turn into a sincere political drama by the halfway point. Neither half is particularly good.
Lightning Trap: Leina & Laika: The set-up would be more entertaining if the characters and plot developments were actually tailored to it. As it stands it’s just a random mess of ill-fitting elements.
Linebarrels of Iron: Good mecha combat scenes, uninspired everything else.
Litchi De Hikari Club: Eight two/three-minute episodes of randomness. The bad kind of randomness.
Little Busters!: Wasn’t a fan of the baseball theme and the never-ending stream of female characters with hidden problems to be fixed got old fast.
Little Busters! Refrain: Has something like two good scenes and a seemingly neverending amount of really stupid plot developments.
Long Riders!: The ecchi aspects are atrocious.
Lord of Vermilion: Guren no Ou: The character interactions and plot developments reek of artifice.
Lost Song: Though this has a couple of particularly noteworthy scenes worth checking out, for the most part it’s a generic fantasy tale.
Lost Universe: Its only really redeeming feature is Canal, and she gets canceled out by Millie and the mediocre heavy-drama of the second half.
Loups=Garous: This movie is what you get if you take Scooby Doo, place it in a high-tech over-securitized setting, and then throw in some Garden of Sinners just for the hell of it. It doesn’t work.
Love Live! School Idol Project (2014): This second season is an episodic mess. The visuals are still high-quality, but basically everything else has taken a massive hit.
Love Live! School Idol Project OVA: The actual OVA is kind of weird and not very interesting at all. The music video that comes with it is pretty good though (assuming you like idol J-pop).
Love Live! Sunshine!!: Feels far too much like a re-tread/alternate version of the first season.
Luck & Logic: The terminology is annoying, the characters aren’t particularly interesting, and the storyline is pretty generic.
Luger Code 1951: The animation and character design are both pretty bad, the former being a death sentence for an action-focused work.
Lupin Sansei: Babylon no Ougon Densetsu: Two different movies combined into one with a terrible ending tacked on.
Lupin Sansei: Bye-Bye Liberty Kiki Ippatsu!: Contains both supernatural elements and a child character, two things Lupin does not handle well at all.
Lupin Sansei: Ikiteita Majutsushi: A movie focused on Pycal. Pycal is terrible.
Lupin Sansei: Part 5: Starts out decent enough only to get progressively worse as it advances.
M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane: Has quite a number of similarities with Evangelion, but suffers from both having a cast of mostly unlikable characters and going too far in a goofy and overblown psychotic direction.
Macross 7: Drags on for far too long only to finished rushed. Basara is also an extremely annoying character whenever he doesn’t have someone else to play off of.
Macross 7 Encore: The third OVA is decent and shows how Mylene joined the band, the other two are meh and don’t add much of anything.
Macross 7: Ginga ga Ore o Yonde Iru!: A filler movie.
Macross Delta: Tries to do too much, some of which was completely unnessisary, and ends up not doing much of anything particularly well. Freyja is pretty great though.
Macross Dynamite 7: Purestrain Basara, naked loli, and Moby Dick. It’s pretty bad.
Macross FB7: Ore no Uta o Kike!: Essentially just a choppy recap of Macross 7.
Macross II: Lovers Again: Of average quality for an older series. Not worth watching unless you really like that sort of thing.
Madan no Ou to Vanadis: Such a waste. The first three episodes are great and set up expectations that are promptly shattered by some of the most disjointed storytelling I’ve ever had the misfortune of encountering. At least the web specials are amusing.
Märchen Mädchen: A nonsensical setting combined with severe technical issues.
Maetel Legend: One of the prequels to the Galaxy Express 999 series. The first episode is relatively decent though incredibly dated, the second focuses more on Promethium and is notably worse as a result.
Magi: Sinbad no Bouken (OVAs): Came across as pretty lackluster all-around; the characters aren’t particularly engaging and the events are rather standard. For some reason I actually enjoyed the TV version though.
Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Gaiden: Great visuals. Lackluster everything else.
Magic Knight Rayearth: While I like Hikaru’s character design along with the climax of the first arc and Primera, there’s far too much sillyness/filler in the first part and drawn-out drama in the second.
Magical Canan: An unnotable magical girl series. The first season of Nanoha has a similar sequence of events and pulls it off much better.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation: Far, far too many ludicrous plot twists.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection: Nearly the entire cast behaves like idiots and the animation quality is a bit uneven.
Mahoraba ~Heartful days~: Too ridiculous. Far too much of the harem genre without anything to balance it out.
Mahoromatic: A fanservice-laden maidcentric series. I’m not particularly fond of either of those two things.
Mahou Sensei Negima!: Anime Final: This movie is half generic harem hijinks, and half pointless apocalyptic scenerio.
Mahou Sensei Negima!: Mou Hitotsu no Sekai: The first episode was pretty good (if a bit random), but the remaining three jumped around far too much while accomplishing far too little.
Mahou Senshi Louie: A Slayers!-like series that started off really good, but eventually lost its charm by the time it concluded.
Mahou Sensou: The setting is nonsensical, the character behavior is unfathomable, and the storyline is uninspired. Nice VFX though.
Mahou Shoujo Ore: A random-style parody that misses a bit more often than it hits.
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu kara. Second Season: The series becomes to much of a slice of life here. The attempt at drama doesn’t work very well either.
Mahou Shoujo Site: Its attempts at comic relief also almost universal failures.
Mahou Shoujo Sonico Magica: A parody of Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica‘s OP sequence. It’s okay, there’s just not really any point in watching it.
Mahou Shoujo Taisen: Good animation, but too many generic magical girl attributes.
Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka: The ecchi ruins it.
Mahou Shoujo? Naria Girls: A hideous improvisational show.
Mahou Shoujotai Alice: Interesting animation style and character design, but the storyline really rubbed me the wrong way.
Mahou Shoujotai Alice: the Adventure: The first episode is good and the last is okay. The rest have assorted issues ranging from excessive moralizing to uneven pacing.
Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora: Character behavior is fine, character design is lacking and the plotline doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be.
Mahou Tsukai Tai (OVAs): The ecchi comedy starts out amusing and gets somewhat exhausting as the series progresses. Everything else is pretty average with the exception of manga club girl, who’s personality is awful.
Mahou Tsukai Tai! (TV): Turns into a relatively generic slice of life.
Mahou Yuugi: A 3DCG movie alternative to the TV series. It goes in a notably more serious direction and is quite incomplete.
Maji de Otaku na English! Ribbon-chan: This first Ribbon-chan series reminds me of Milky Holmes in its humor style. It’s not bad, but it’s definitely not good either (except for the seventh episode). The English-learning segments scattered throughout are simply annoying.
Maji de Otaku na English! Ribbon-chan: Eigo de Tatakau Mahou Shoujo The TV: The sequel is primarily focused on meta-jokes about the Anime itself and with the exception of the fifth episode isn’t particularly amusing.
Majuu Sensen: The Apocalypse: A very bloody monster of the week show that features some godawful dialog/subs.
Majuu Senshi Luna Varga: Pretty average old-styled fantasy OVAs. Some good comedic bits here and there though and some decent enough action scenes if you’re looking for something Godzilla-ish.
Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist: If you like shounen ai, predominately male casts, and ‘sudden paranormal X appearance’ type of shows then this may be watchable. Otherwise….
Makeruna!! Aku no Gundan!: The protagonist is real bad.
Malice@Doll: A desolate horror series that visually resembles stop-motion animation (although it’s full CGI). Would’ve been watchable if it weren’t for its random action and sex scenes. The ending didn’t do it any favors either.
Mame Neko: Mostly average comedy with a few particularly good bits.
Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku o!: An unbalanced romance that, while amusing, suffers from some infuriating plotlines.
Mangirl!: Rushed mini-episodes in which shit just happens as an excuse to provide information regarding the manga publishing industry.
Maou-sama, Retry!: A bottom of the barrel Overlord.
Marginal #4: Kiss kara Tsukuru BiGBANG: Average and uninteresting all-around.
Marimo no Hana: Saikyou Butouha Shougakusei Densetsu: Awful, awful VA choice and voice acting in general.
Mars of Destruction: There are some shows that can tell a full story in a half hour, and some that cannot. This one cannot. The stilted dialog and ultra-low quality animation certainly don’t help matters any.
Martian Successor Nadesico: Seemed like a much less serious version of RahXephon. I’m not generally a fan of mecha series to begin with, and with this lacking both a decent storyline and believable characterizations it just fell flat.
Mass Effect: Paragon Lost: A generic squad-centric action-focused movie. Notable for not meshing well with the events portrayed in the games and having badly drawn Krogan.
Masuda Kousuke Gekijou Gag Manga Biyori 3: As opposed to the first season, I only liked about half of the segments in this one. The absurdity is dialed up a notch and as a result each sketch is either really good or completely uninteresting.
Mayoiga: A Danganronpa/Higurashi hybrid with bad CG monsters.
Maze Bakunetsu Jikuu (OVAs): A far ecchier/sillier version of the TV series.
Mazinkaizer SKL: Looks great, but it’s nothing but mindless action with a nonsense plotline.
Me-gumi no Daigo: Appears to want to be serious, but its protagonist’s behavior comes off more as a parody.
Medaka Box: The first season is semi-episodic and fairly amusing when it’s not preaching, unfortunately it does a lot of preaching. The second is story-driven and more of a particularly violent shounen battle series. Both are reminiscent of Kill la Kill, but nowhere near as entertaining.
Megazone 23: Very 80’s, this throws plot developments and scene changes at you with little rhyme or reason.
Megazone 23 Part II: Himitsu Kudasai: While not as slap-dash as the prequel, it still ends up fairly ridiculous.
Megazone 23 III: Inherits aspects from both prequels, resulting in something worse than either.
Melody of Oblivion: The Greek Gods that the Humans fight against are called ‘Monsters’, the group of humans that help the monsters are called the ‘Monster Union’, the main characters yell out poker hands as their attacks (Flush, Straight Flush, etc.), and the enemies generally take the form of giant robotic versions of harmless animals… like a chicken. The main storyline idea was decent, but the execution was an utter failure.
Metropolis: Gorgeous artwork with atrocious pacing. I don’t really like the character design either.
Mezzo DSA: Fun characters, unimpressive everything else.
Miami Guns: The parodies are more amusing than not, but the main plot is really bad.
Midnight Eye Gokuu II: Unlike its prequel, this movie’s over-the-topness results in more exasperation than entertainment.
MILPOM★: Go watch Tesagure! instead.
Minami-ke: Far too much of the slice of life genre for me.
Mini Toji: Mostly generic school life segments/gags.
MiniPato: These chibi Patlabor short movies have a strong educational bent to them, ending up surprisingly dull as a result.
Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen SC: Possibly because I’m not familiar with most of the characters, but this season just didn’t connect.
Miss Monochrome the Animation: Good ED, average at best everything else.
Mitsuwano: An average slice of life OVA reminiscent of Hanasaku Iroha.
Mobile Suit Gundam – Char’s Counter Attack: Both the pacing and ending are atrocious.
Mobile Suit Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer: An otherwise standard Gundam thing that just so happens to feature aliens. What knocks it down into below-average territory is the abrupt and fairly random ending.
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 – Second Season: A stale rehash of all earlier Gundam series. A satire without humor.
Mobile Suit Gundam F91: Extraordinarily cheesy, tons of random time jumps, and a bizarre ending.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: MSV ASTRAY: Two shorts that don’t serve much purpose.
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THUNDERBOLT: BANDIT FLOWER: Something of a mess of disjointed ideas and concepts.
Mobile Suit Gundam UC: A Phantom World: A simple advertisement projected on the side of a building.
Mobile Suit Gundam X: Too much newtype pseudo-religious bullshit.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis: Overly rushed.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation: I suspect I didn’t like this because I had already seen Wing, SEED, and 00. Everything that occurred here was done better in those series.
Mokke: Too laid-back for my taste.
Momo Kyun Sword: Might have been a decent series if it weren’t for the ecchi overload.
Monochrome Factor: Average action, childish comedy, and I’m not particularly fond of shounen-ai to begin with.
Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou: Far too much softporn-style fanservice. That the characters don’t have much in the way of personality also hurts.
Monster Sonic! D’Artagnyan no Idol Sengen: Average idol show with a pretty good episode 0.
Monster Strike: As a random comedy this show is actually pretty good. Unfortunately, it eventually turns in a generic battle shounen.
Mou Hitotsu no Mirai o.: Nice artwork and the AI character is cute, but the ‘message’ and character behavior is pretty dumb.
Mozaika: An average 80’s show that was curiously released in the 90’s.
Muhyo to Roji no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho: Clashing genres and arbitrary-seeming conflict resolution. Jirou is also a terrible character.
Musekinin Galaxy☆Tylor: Terrible in every way.
Musekinin Kanchou Tylor (OVAs): A collection of so-so side-stories intertwined with the Chijou yori Eien ni OVAs.
Musekinin Kanchou Tylor: Tokubetsu Hen: A re-hash. Doesn’t add anything to the series.
Mushishi: This takes an episodic approach similar to Jigoku Shoujo only with none of the relevancy. Each episode has no effect on the later ones, which makes each one more or less pointless.
Mushishi Special Episode: Hihamu Kage: Basically identical to the parent series.
NAMI: A little arthouse type of movie featuring a (live) naked woman and dead fish.
Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san OVA: Too much fetish pandering and not enough non-ecchi comedy.
Namu Amida Butsu! Rendai Utena: Wholly generic daily life sort of thing.
Nana Toshi Monogatari: Hokkyokukai Sensen: Fanservice for those that love wargames and military maneuvering.
Nanae Chrono Presents: PEACE MAKER Kurogane: A host of structural issues coupled with no resolution.
Nanatsu no Bitoku: Awful animation and an overload of softporn-style ecchi.
Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu: Events no longer feel even remotely natural.
Nanatsu no Taizai: Seisen no Shirushi: Just a transitional piece to tie the two main seasons together.
Nanbaka: The humor is good, but the battle shounen aspects are pretty dull and uninteresting.
Nandaka Velonica: Very cartoony. Might be decent for a younger audience.
Nansensu Monogatari Daiichi-hen: Sarugashima: Too much time is spent showing a whole bunch of nothing happening. The animation style is also a bit odd; I almost thought I was watching a flash animation at first.
Naruto: I’m not sure what people see in this series. Sure the fight scenes and character design are interesting, but the plotline and dialog are terrible and overly clichéd.
Naruto Movies: Worse than the series. Land of Snow is the best of the bunch… though that’s not saying much.
Naruto SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden: Despite not liking Rock lee, I found the first episode slightly amusing. The next couple however were awful enough to drop it.
Naruto: Shippuuden: Better than Naruto, in that the plotline and dialog have been cleaned up, but also worse thanks to the seeming adoption of .hack//SIGN‘s patented ‘focus on one scene for minutes on end without anything happening’ storyboard style. The Invasion of Pain arc is pretty good though and the second half of the World War arc is decently entertaining.
Naruto: Shippuuden the Movie: Roughly on par with the first Naruto movie (Land of Snow).
Natsuiro no Sunadokei: This short two-episode Anime is sort of like an upbeat version of Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. It suffers both from feeling rushed and from some fairly terrible characterizations.
Nazotokine: A mix of disparate elements that do not work as a whole.
Neo Angelique ~Abyss~: I’m not sure whether it was the predominately male cast or the questionable fight scenes that caused me to dislike this series. Perhaps it was both.
Neppuu Kairiku Bushi Road: This is both badly constructed and has an awful main villain.
Netsuzou Trap -NTR-: Far too rushed.
New Game!!: Very similar to the prequel, only far more disjointed.
Nexus: A music video for the ClariS song of the same name. It uses recap footage from the Ore no Imouto Anime mixed with some terribly animated avatar stand-ins for the vocalists.
Nihiki no Sanma (1967): A weird little movie that doesn’t really seem to have anything going for it.
Nihon Art Animation Eiga Senshuu (Vol. 1): A collection of mostly monochrome short movies from the 1920’s to 1950’s. A few are interesting (Baguda-jou no Touzoku, Kogane no Hana, Kumo no Ito), most are average, and some are rather bad (Saiyuuki: Son Gokuu Monogatari, Haru no Uta, Kaeru San Yuushi, Hana to Chou).
Nil Admirari no Tenbin: An overload of melodrama sinks this otherwise interesting show.
Nineteen 19: A dated rocky relationship story. It’s not bad, there’s just not any good reason to watch it beyond a well-fitting club music insert song.
Ningyo no Kizu: The story comes across as overly contrived.
Ninja Nonsense: Its title is remarkably accurate. The first half of the first episode was funny, but the situation became exhaustive rather quickly. May also be referred to as ‘2×2=Shinobuden‘.
Ninja Slayer from Animation: Starts out amusing only to become exasperating. Not fond of all the ecchi that starts showing up either.
Nisekoi: Most of the comedy felt more overwrought than funny and I wasn’t really fond of either of the two central protagonists.
Nisekoi OAD: The first half of the first episode is good, as is the ending of the second episode. The rest ranges from average to annoying.
Nishi no Yoki Majo: Astraea Testament: The first half is interesting while the second half badly fumbles everything with a bunch of random plot developments.
Nobunaga no Shinobi: The history lessons are pretty dull.
Nobunaga no Shinobi ~Ise Kanegasaki Hen~: Same as above.
Nobunagun: A fairly dumb show good for little beyond mindless action.
Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu: Purezza: The ecchi and harem elements that dragged the first season down completely inundate this one.
Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart: The comedy’s a bit more miss than hit.
Norn 9: Norn + Nonetto: Starts out interesting but quickly starts trying to do too many things at once… and none of them competently.
Null Peta: Elder appreciation propaganda.
Nyanbo!: I don’t like how a significant portion of it is live footage, and the comedy style is pretty generic.
Nyanpire: A series of shorts that focus on a kitten who was turned into a vampire and the cutesy things it does afterward. I wasn’t feeling the alleged cuteness and the parts that I suspect were trying to be comedic weren’t particularly amusing.
Oda Nobuna no Yabou: Awful protagonist. Awful storyline concept.
Odin: Koushi Hansen Starlight: Battleship Yamato, only more nonsensical.
Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo: The protagonist is extremely bad and most of the plot developments are painfully dumb.
Omae wa Mada Gunma o Shiranai: The lack of animation hurts and the educational aspects are on the heavy-handed side.
One Off: Has some cute girls doing cute things. Unfortunately, the things they are doing are incredibly uninteresting. Also has a terrible ‘Australian’ character.
One Piece: Terrible character design and extremely cartoonish besides.
Onsen Yousei Hakone-chan: Falls apart about halfway through when it tries to introduce an actual plotline.
Ookami Kakushi: This is like a really boring, mostly nonsensical, and not creepy at all version of Higurashi.
Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki: The furry aspects are offputting and the rest is pretty generic.
Ore dake Haireru Kakushi Dungeon: Not sure if this is supposed to be a parody or not. Either way it’s unwatchably cringy.
Ore ga Suki na no wa Imouto Dakedo Imouto ja : The ecchi level is out of hand and the technical quality is lacking.
Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai 2: This second season of Oreimo starts off on the wrong foot, recovers nicely in the eighth episode, and then falls flat on its face for the final stretch. Despite wanting to like it and enjoying certain aspects, for the most part it just isn’t worth watching.
Ore o Suki na no wa Omae dake ka yo: Reeks of artifice.
ORGUSS 02: Not as much fun as the prequel and the ending is somewhat insane.
Osomatsu-san: Ouma de Kobanashi: More horse-racing advertisement than comedy.
Otogizoshi: Very nice animation style, but I just couldn’t get into the story. If you really like samurai or historical series you may enjoy it.
Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shite shimatta…: I don’t like the protagonsit much and the way she’s consistently rewarded for being oblivious is kind of annoying.
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Relatively average ‘rich girl’s academy’ setting that includes a random ghost-girl character for no discernible reason.
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Futari no Elder: Just felt generic.
Otona no Bouguya-san: Not much variety in the jokes and the ending doesn’t really match up with what came before. The three web specials should be avoided at all cost.
Ou Dorobou Jing: Has a serious problem with repetitive action scenes and annoying supporting characters. The protagonist is good though.
Ousama Game: The Animation: Both the story and characters are exceedingly dumb.
Outbreak Company: Juggles serious drama, preachy heavy-handed anti-caste messaging, and awkward otaku culture. It’s a bad mix.
Overlord: Most of the characters are remarkably annoying to one degree or another.
Overlord (Movies): Pretty much the same as the series. They cut out a fairly significant subplot however, which effectively counteracts anything gained from the streamlined presentation.
Overman King Gainer: The dialog is awful and everything seems to happen at random.
Owari no Seraph: The protagonist is awful and the events are painfully generic. Contains a pretty great supporting character though.
OZ: A ridiculously bad two-part 80’s movie that was released in the 90’s.
Ozma: This has some similarities to Harlock and, while not bad exactly, never quite manages to overcome its generic protagonist.
Ozmafia!!: A prequel to its source material that comes across like a set of BD-extras.
Pastel Memories: A few pretty good parodies mixed with a bunch of dull ones.
Peace Maker Kurogane: Aside from the well-animated action scenes nothing in particular stands out about it.
Peaceful Times (F02) Petit Film: A music video featuring some unused Evangelion Rebuild storyboards. It not very good and there’s not much Evangelion in it.
Peach Girl: Overflows with dumb melodrama.
Persona 3 The Movie: The first movie is good while the middle two are incredibly awful. The fourth is just kind of there.
Persona 4: While the Personas don’t look as bad as Trinity Souls‘, everything else is painfully childish/simplistic.
Persona 5 The Animation: The Day Breakers: A combination of P3 and P4‘s worst traits.
PES: Peace Eco Smile: A set of fairly colorful car commercials with extraordinarily forced plot developments.
Petopeto-san: A weird little series that doesn’t really seem to know what it wants to be.
Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation: Has great difficulty deciding whether it wants to be a character-driven show where the game is just a game, or an action/drama where the game is real life. By the time it decides it’s far to late to salvage.
Phantom in the Twilight: Though amusing at first, the action and drama aspects aren’t executed all that well.
Phantom of Kill: Zero kara no Hangyaku: Features a limited color pallete and an abrupt conclusion.
Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle: The silly parts are too silly and the deadly serious parts are too ridiculous to take seriously.
Piroppo: Just sort of middling. Reminds me a bit of Adventure Time.
Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume: Never gives a good reason for why the protagionist puts up with the android. Does have a couple nice action scenes though.
Planetes: Same problem as with Eureka Seven; the series might be good, but I can’t stand the main character.
Plastic Little: Standard B-movie. Action scenes, nudity, and a bare-bones story.
Plastic Memories: The romance angle comes across as forced and many of the developments just don’t feel natural. There are a few good moments scattered about though.
Plastic Nee-san: As with most mini-episode random-style comedies, the humor in here is hit or miss. In this particular instance the first half hit while the second missed.
Ple Ple Pleiades: An extension of Overlord‘s BD specials. If you liked those then you may as well continue with this. Otherwise avoid.
Please Save My Earth: Putting aside the series’ general strangeness and shaky presentation, I disliked both Rin and Alice. Which basically ended things before they began since their story is essentially the show’s centerpiece.
Plunderer: Incredibly creepy ecchi overload.
Pokémon: The Origin: Felt rushed to the point that you’d honestly be better off just playing the game.
Pop Team Epic Kinen: A so-so collection of shorts.
Popotan: Tries to rise above its ecchi roots with forced drama. Does not succeed.
Princess Mononoke: It’s a Bambie-esque fairy tale with a heavy progress vs. nature theme. I’m not really a fan of Disney-style fairy tales.
Princess Resurrection: This seems to be the spiritual predecessor of Murder Princess. It has vampires, werewolves, androids, the titular demon-eyed princess… and horrible, horrible storytelling along with less than quality animation. I wanted to like this series, I really did, but the various episode premises were just far too badly presented.
Princess Tutu: The 4th-wall breaking aspect is overwhelming.
Prism Ark: A horrible fanservice-based school life series. Its only redeeming quality is the feeling of nostalgia for Scrapped Princesss that you may get from watching it.
Project A-ko: A pretty average dated action comedy. Has a certain resemblance to Kill la Kill.
Project A-ko 2: Daitokuji Zaibatsu no Inbou: Basically the same as the prequel, just with pool-episode content.
Project Zeorymer: Pretty average aside from the heavy melodrama.
Promare: High quality visuals (if the color scheme and styling doesn’t bother you) marred by incredibly dumb character behavior and especially nonsensical plot developments. Galo-hen is only slightly better, while Lio-hen is actually pretty solid (sadly, neither work as stand-alones).
Promised Town: The story here feels incomplete, making it only good as a source of some simple (CGI) action eye-candy.
Psycho Diver: Mashou Bosatsu: A pretty awful B-movie that contains little rhyme or reason.
Psycho-Pass 2: More of a mindless action show than a thriller and I’m not fond of Mika at all. In the first season it seemed like she had an interesting personality, and that does sometimes shine through in isolated situations, but for the most part she’s just completely insufferable here.
Puchi Eva: Evangelion@School: A series of very simplistically 3D-animated comedy shorts. They ranged from impenetrably bizarre to awful with only a handful being notably amusing.
Puchimas! Petit Idolmaster (OAD): A series made up of 6 mini-episodes focused on a treasure hunt of sorts. It’s pretty average all told.
Puchimas! Wakku Waku!!: An introduction to the puchi idols that’s no longer necessary since the second season of the show did it better.
Puchimas!! Petit Petit Idolmaster (OAD): A rather pointless re-hash of everything seen in the series. The first scene is amusing though.
Punch Line: The first six episodes are basically the prologue, and while the show’s concept is interesting its execution is a failure. Most of the characters, along with the panty-shot theme, are also annoying.
Puppet Princess: This is one of those “so bad it’s good” B-movies that you watch at night with friends specifically to laugh at how bad it is.
Qiang Niang!: The voice acting, visual quality, and character actions all leave something to be desired.
Qualidea Code: While the Chigusa siblings are great, the show itself suffers from becoming just as ridiculous as Date a Live is.
Queen Emeraldas: A side-story in the Galaxy Express 999/Captain Harlock universe. Released in 1998, it looks (and plays out) pretty much just like all the other Galaxy Express and Maetal series… which is not a good thing.
Queen Millennia Movie: The first of the Galaxy Express 999 prequels. It has pacing, plausibility, character design, and character behavior issues.
Queen’s Blade: Similar to a medieval Ikkitousen. Unlike that series however, this has pathetically low quality fight scenes and becomes a vapid ecchi-fest as early as the third episode. The second season somehow manages to be slightly better (actual fighting tournament!) and yet exponentially worse (even more pointless ecchi!) at the same time.
Quiz Magic Academy 1 & 2: A nonsensical tale of nonsense.
Ragnarok the Animation: This may have been good, particularly if you’ve played the game, but it reminded me far too much of .hack//SIGN and Record of Lodoss War for me to like it. Roan’s entire design greatly annoyed me as well.
Rail Wars!: Tons of ecchi, tons of train-related babble, average harem archetypes, and a nonsense setting.
Rayearth: Starts out pretty cool, but squanders everything by the end. Terrible ending stretch.
Re: Cutie Honey: Has a lot of bare breasts and wacky enemies. Not much else going for it.
Re: Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu: An interesting idea explored in the most formulaic manner possible. The protagonist is also kind of annoying.
Record of Lodoss War: Cliché upon cliché upon cliché.
Red: Comes across more like an advertisement than a part of the Mekakucity Actors series.
Red Garden: This is a series about four random girls who died and were resurrected to fight a family of weredobermans. Now, if that premise sounds silly… that’s because it is. The ridiculous premise isn’t all that important however, as the series is character based and focuses on how the girls deal with their new situation. This stands out from other series of this nature (like Gantz) in that it’s done in a semi-realistic style. In other words; the girls don’t magically become bad-asses, and they don’t get any sort of superpowers (though toward the end of the series they learn they can jump really high). The ending was very strange and, during the first half or so, various characters have a tendency to spontaneously break out into song for unexplained reasons. I’m forced to lump this together with Basilisk; not bad per sè, but nothing about it appealed to me.
Reikenzan: Eichi e no Shikaku: Events move much too fast and the sudden focus switch to Shushin doesn’t work at all.
Release the Spyce: The serious/dramatic elements don’t fit well at all.
Rental Magica: Not worth the time. Couldn’t even get past the first episode.
Rerided: Tokigoe no Derrida: Falls apart in the second half to the point even a decent ending can;t save it.
Revisions: The character behavior leaves much to be desired.
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena: Inferior to the full series and fairly terrible as a stand alone as well.
Rewrite: The first season is a complete mess with a pretty good comedy style. The second season starts out a complete mess and then becomes merely average a third of the way in.
RG Veda: Doesn’t last long enough for an attachment to form and has a rather generic plotline.
Ring of Gundam: A neat tech demo, but the depicted events are a total mess.
Rinkaku: A monochrome music video that doesn’t particularly fit the music.
Rinne no Lagrange – Kamogawa Days: This OVA takes place between the two seasons. It’s not bad exactly, there’s just nothing really notable here and no point in watching it if you’re not going to watch the second season afterward.
Rinne no Lagrange – Season 2: There’s no real impact to any of the events that take place and it ends in a rather unfortunate manner. You’re better off considering the finale of the first season to be the series’ end rather than subject yourself to this season.
Rio: Rainbow Gate!: An ecchi-focused series with a random plotline and character archetypes. Nothing happens with any rhyme or reason.
RobiHachi: Comes across as exceptionally artificial.
Robomasters: The Animated Series: Hated the comic-relief male friend character.
Robot Girls Z: Highly inconsistent. The good parts are outweighed by the bad parts.
Robot Girls Z Plus: Adds nothing to the prequel and lacks half of the characters that made that intermittedly entertaining.
Robot Town Sagami 2028: A commercial for something that doesn’t exist that’s just as annoying as a real commercial.
Rocket Girls: Too silly. You almost feel embarrassed for the characters.
Roku de Nashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records: Uses its comedy elements as a crutch.
Romantica Clock: A simple advertisement for a manga.
RS Keikaku -Rebirth Storage-: Nice animation. Unfortunately, the story wastes its interesting twist and resolves in a half-assed manner.
RUN=DIM: The various Gundam series do everything this tries to do far better.
Run & Roll: A brief marathon advertisement with a strange art style.
Ryuu Seiki: The first movie is an example of a good idea executed terribly. The second is just a total mess.
Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin: While this has a couple good ideas, it fails utterly in combining them into something that feels whole.
Saber Marionette J: A mostly by-the-numbers slapstick harem comedy.
Sabikui Bisco: Everybody being convinced mushrooms spread rust is annoying.
Sacred Seven: Has solid action scenes and an interesting dark streak; completely ruined by nonsensical fillers.
Sacred Seven: Shirogane no Tsubasa: A supplement/recap of the series in movie form that does not improve things any.
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine: Drags the inevitable conclusion out far too much and then doesn’t even fully commit at the end.
Saga-ken o Meguru Animation: Only the second short is really worth watching (unless you’re a major fan of pottery).
Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut: An average ecchi-harem academy show. Nothing particularly noteworthy about it.
Saiki Kusuo no Sainan: In the first half the gags work more often than not (when they don’t it’s usually because a joke’s being run into the ground). In the second half however they don’t work very often at all.
Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga.: Extremely contrived pseudo-porn.
Saint Luminous Jogakuin: Somewhat interesting, but the pacing has issues and the middle is a total mess.
Saint Onii-san (Movie): Too mellow and laid-back for me. It doesn’t have quite the same manic/absurd edge present in the OVAs and sort of feels like a daily-life romance.
Saint Seiya: Saintia Shou: Unpleasant character design and idiotic melodrama.
Saiunkoku Monogatari: A political drama slash reverse harem, with a few bits of (horribly done) action and a decent amount of (mostly well done) comedy. It starts out good only to lose its way with ~24 episodes of filler-quality drama and a host of artificial conflicts. The second season doesn’t do anything notably different from the first.
Sakamoto Desu ga?: Has a number of hilarious segments, but also quite a few that either just don’t work or don’t work well.
Saki Biyori (OAD): The first half is pretty good, the second is fairly boring.
Saki: Zenkoku Hen: More of an ensemble show that spends far too much time focusing on the backstories of a bunch of girls/teams I don’t care about.
Sakigake!! Otoko Juku: Only briefly manages to hit the sweet-spot between serious and ridiculous before turning into a pretty generic battle shounen.
Sakura Nagashi: The music and visuals do not match in this Evangelion-themed music video.
Sakura Taisen: École de Paris: The third Sakura Wars OVA series has an almost entirely new cast of characters. I was hoping it would be different than the first two as a result, but it is not. Not in any significant respect anyway.
Sakura Taisen: Gouka Kenran: The second Sakura Wars OVA series. Similar to the first, its combat scenes are good while its character personalities are lacking. A larger cast helps a bit with that problem though.
Sakura Taisen: Ouka Kenran: The first entry in the chain of Sakura Wars OVA series. Its combat scenes are good, but its character personalities are lacking.
Sakura Taisen: Sumire: The endcap to this particular cast of characters, this OVA focuses on Sumire to the exclusion of nearly everyone else. Don’t bother with it if you don’t like her.
Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatte Iru: A pretty average police procedual with an annoying protaonist and heavyily sentimental focus.
Samurai 7: This is a very odd series that combines samurai with mecha. There’s no discernable reason why the series’ bandits all have Gundams and the various characters’ personalities all fall extremely flat.
Sands of Destruction: Seems like a less over the top and more juvenile version of Gurren Lagann. The character design of the anthropomorphic animals and beastmen alone killed it for me before it even really began.
Sankarea: There’s a general sense of wrongness about this series that prevented me from becoming interested in what was happening. Its various elements ended up awkwardly clashing with one another.
Sanrio Danshi: Muddled messaging (is it advertising for boys or fujoshi?) and generally generic.
Sansha San’you: While I liked Teru, the show comes across as a deliberate construct. The animation style only enhances this feeling.
Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru: It lacks focus and its action scenes need some work.
Satsuriku no Tenshi: Lackluster action scenes combined with a weird dip into fantasy territory toward the end.
Scared Rider Xechs: Comes across as a fairly standard super sentai show.
Schick x Evangelion: A pair of half-assed shaving commercials.
Schoolgirl Strikers: Animation Channel: Decent action scenes and (eventually) okay comedy with not much else of worth.
Schwarzesmarken: This would have been fine if they didn’t double-up on the antagonists. Either have them fighting aliens, or have them fighting the Stasi; having to deal with both is just exhausting.
Scramble Wars: Tsuppashire! Genom Trophy Rally: Overly cartoony.
Scryed: Seemed decent at first, but no characters were given believable reasons to act the way they did. They all just kind of meandered around doing what they were because the plot told them to. Very afternoon-cartoonish.
Scryed Alteration: A choppy mess.
Seihou Tenshi Angel Links: Mostly episodic, the visuals are dated, and it really likes contrived plot developments.
Seikai Suru Kado: Starts out interesting, but can’t manage to deliver on its promise.
Seiken Tsukai no World Break: Has an uncommon theme and some okay comedy, but overall just feels incredibly generic.
Seikimatsu Kyuuseishu Densetsu: Hokuto no Ken 2: The first fourth or so is entertaining, the rest is just a drag.
Seikoku no Dragonar: Very similar to Zero no Tsukaima, this show ends up drowning under the weight of its ecchi and harem elements.
Seirei no Moribito: A period piece similar to Ironheito and Chevalier, although this one is based in a fantasy world instead of being mildly historically accurate. What makes this series stand out a bit from many others is that it focuses on spear combat instead of sword fighting. The storyline isn’t all that original though and it plays out a bit like a classic fairy tale or epic poem.
Seiren: First arc is good, second is eh, and the third is bad.
Seisen Cerberus: Ryuukoku no Fatalite: A hollow, empty production lacking almost any spark of life.
Seishun Buta Yarou wa Yumemiru Shoujo no Yume o Minai: Completely loses the balance of the prequel series. The first third or so comes across like a half-baked rehash while the last half grafts on ill-fitting heavy drama elements.
Seitokai no Ichizon Lv.2: For whatever reason this second season seemed more boring than the first. There are still moments of amusement, but they’re spaced too far apart. The characters’ voices are also prohibitively shrill.
Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda: While this doesn’t contain as much gratuitous fanservice as you might expect, it doesn’t live up to the promise of the first two episodes either. One episode is terrible, two are full of gratuitous fanservice, and the rest are just kind of average. Good combat choreography though.
Selector Infected WIXOSS: A Madoka-like show that unfortunately does not end up very engaging. The pieces never quite come together.
Selector Spread WIXOSS: The best part of this conclusion is the very beginning which is styled like a slice of life. The only other times this series felt right were during the rare occurances in which Ruuko was actually having fun battling.
Sen’yuu: The first three episodes and the second special are pretty good. The rest is fairly annoying.
Sen’yuu: Dai 2 Ki: Having a greater focus on the series’ main plotline (aka its largest flaw) makes this notably worse than the prequel.
Sengoku Choujuu Giga ~Otsu~: Unlike Kou, this set of gags ends up more or less split between hits and misses.
Sengoku Musou: A less over-the-top Sengoku Basara.
Sengoku Musou SP: Sanada no Shou: A prequel to the Sengoku Musou TV series, it’s basically a less entertaining Sengoku Basara.
Sengoku Night Blood: The romance aspects are painfully forced.
Senjou no Valkyria 3: Tagatame no Juusou: This two-episode series is, at best, nothing but a shadow of Valkyria Chronicles. The hints of that better series are drowned out by implausibly fantastical combat maneuvers and noble intentions nonsense.
Senjuushi: Interesting setting; abysmal characters.
Senki Zesshou Symphogear: A musical that wants to combine the Power Rangers with Evangelion. The attempt ends badly for all involved.
Senkou no Night Raid: A series somewhat similar to Darker Than Black if that were a historical documentary. Despite its good design, animation, and characters the series is just no fun to watch. It’s dry as a bone.
Senran Kagura: A below average combat-themed ecchi comedy. The only things of note about it are that Katsuragi has the head and personality of Kyouko (Yuru Yuri) while Hibari has a suspicious number of overtly bovine traits.
Sentou Yousei Shoujo Tasukete! Maeve-chan: Weirdly serious/sincere about its setup.
Servamp: The protagonist is annoying and the antagonists are overly psychotic.
Seven Knights Revolution: Eiyuu no Keishousha: Starts out mildly interesting with surprisingly good action scenes only to go completely off the rails in the last 3rd or so. Surprisingly good ending however.
Shadow Skill (1996): No reason to watch except to either get some background information on the characters in the 1995 OVA, or as a replacement for episodes two, three, and seven of the TV series.
Shangri-La: While this doesn’t particularly resemble any other series and reaches for the stars… it never quite manages to cohere into solid form. It has several interesting ideas that all manage to clash with each other in some manner, resulting in a distressingly boring cacophony of plot developments.
Shichisei no Subaru: Starts out extremely strong only to utterly fall to pieces in the last quarter or so.
Shihaisha no Tasogare: An otherwise average B-movie with a horrible ending.
Shikioriori: Each story has it’s own particular problem.
Shikkakumon no Saikyou Kenja: A parody of overpowered protagonist harems that doesn’t seem to be in on the joke.
Shin Hikari Shinwa: Palutena no Kagami: The first story is like an extended in-game cutscene while the second is effectively a teaser trailer. The third story is actually somewhat entertaining though.
Shin Hokuto no Ken: Far too many convenient plot developments and nothing really of any particular interest takes place.
Shin Strange+: It felt like they were forcing things.
Shin’ya! Tensai Bakabon: Painfully dated character gimmicks.
Shina Dark: Kuroki Tsuki no Ou to Souheki no Tsuki no Himegimi: There’s no point in watching this collection of four music videos unless you’re a fan of the manga. Neither the music nor animation is all that impressive.
Shinano Mainichi Shinbun: A very brief comercial. The animation is fine but little stands out.
Shingeki! Kyojin Chuugakkou: The events of the series retold as a high school comedy. The original actually ends up funnier.
Shinigami no Ballad: This is sort-of like the polar opposite of Jigoku Shoujo. Momo is similar in personality to Ai, but the storylines are much more upbeat and are about redemption rather than damnation.
Shining Tears X Wind: This series is very… I suppose ‘juvenile’ is the word.
Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica: Crimson S: A prequel to Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica with an actual plotline that mysteriously ends up the worse for it.
Shinmai Maou no Testament: Has some good comedy and a pretty good MC, but the ‘Succubus Curse’ element is infuriating.
Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen: A remarkably boring variation of the Gundam formula featuring an especially annoying protagonist.
Shokugeki no Souma: An average ecchi comedy with a major focus on food.
Shomin Sample: A somewhat average harem that gets a little carried away with its ‘the protagonist pretends to be gay’ and ‘naive, sheltered girls’ aspects.
Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya o Mezasu: A pale imitation of Saenai Heroine.
Shoukoku no Altair: Doesn’t really get going until halfway through, and even then doesn’t do anything particularly interesting.
Shoumetsu Toshi: A hodgepodge of bad ideas.
Shounen Onmyouji: An average shounen series. It’s not bad, there’s just nothing particularly engaging about it.
Show by Rock!! Short!!: Feels a lot like a soulless promotion.
Shrine of the Morning Mist: Simplistic afternoon fluff overflowing with school-life based filler episodes and general antagonist incompetence.
Shuumatsu no Izetta: A nice beginning slowly squandered with a meandering focus and highly questionable late-series developments.
Silent Möbius (Movies): Decent, but they weren’t anything special. Nothing really surprising happens and the characters are rather average.
Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai: Not bad as an ecchi comedy, but doesn’t work as an action drama at all.
Sin: The Movie: Average B-movie type story with atrocious animation.
Sket Dance: While this is Gintama-like, it feels like it’s trying way too hard to be funny. The animation is also rather sketchy.
Skull Man: Ridiculously boring until the last three episodes, in which it just goes insane (in a nonsensical way).
Slayers (TV Series): As with several other Anime in this genre, the token ‘strapping young moronic hero’ ruins it for me.
Slime Taoshite 300-nen, Shiranai Uchi ni Level Max ni Nattemashita: Starts out cute, but quickly loses its way.
Sol Bianca: Taiyou no Fune: Similar to Avenger in that it’s dull, boring, and pretentious. Different in that it has periodic ridiculously over the top action scenes. Almost nothing like the first Sol Bianca.
SoniAni: Super Sonico The Animation: Sonico’s personality is just so painfully dull/average. If you can get past that, this can almost be viewed as a sequel to K-On!!.
Sora no Method: Full of really, really dumb/infuriating character behavior. Not fond of the ‘twist’ toward the end either.
Sora no Oto: Moe for moe’s sake.
Sora no Otoshimono: Reminded me of DearS. I wanted nothing to do with it after the first 10 minutes.
Sora to Umi no Aida: All of The characters are all pretty bad.
Sore ga Seiyuu!: Starts veering into idol territory and just doesn’t quite feel right.
Soredemo Machi wa Mawatte Iru: I didn’t find the first two episodes funny and the main character’s voice annoyed me.
Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor: It’s as though they combined the most boring parts of Evangelion and RahXephon. The Right of Left prequel OVA is worlds better.
Soul Buster: Has a hideous visual style.
Soul Eater: The first episode has fantastic battle choreography and animation, but the character design, setting, and overall tone are abysmal. Making matters worse, after that first episode the action scenes take a hit in quality while a bunch of insufferably infuriating characters are introduced.
Soul Link: Vaguely reminiscent of Coyote Ragtime, but couldn’t hold my interest beyond the third episode.
Sousei no Aquarion: Love: A complete mess.
Sousei no Onmyouji: It’s ~30-37 episodes too long. Had it ended at either 13 or 20 it would’ve been decent.
Sousei Seiki Devadasy: An Evangelion fanfiction in which the EVA runs on sex energy, there are nanomachines everywhere, and the ending is abrupt.
Souten no Ken: Regenesis: The visual quality is real bad.
Space Dandy: Episodic series with a perverted main character that’s just a collection of stupid situations. Has couple good good bits here and there and some imaginative design though.
Space Symphony Maetel: One of the prequels to the Galaxy Express 999 series. The first half is passable while the second half is atrocious.
Sparrow’s Hotel: Starts out utterly unwatchable, becomes merely terrible over time. Has one or two good jokes though.
Special A: Ridiculously gangly character design and ludicrous episodic situations. Even if you’re only in it for the romance you would be far better off with Kaichou wa Maid-sama!.
Spiritpact: The humor style is pretty bad.
Spriggan: An action-centric movie that has nothing going for it beyond good action scenes.
Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto: This is Gurren Lagann if Gurren Lagann were made up of nothing but joke characters and a randomized plot.
Starship Troopers: Invasion: A mindless action movie with CGI animation that looks absolutely terrible for everything other than combat.
Steamboy: While this has fantastic visuals the storyline and characters range from lackluster to terrible.
Steins;Gate: Soumei Eichi no Cognitive Computing: Very forced/contrived. A few good moments though.
Stella no Mahou: In the beginning when it’s more about the gags this show is pretty good. As it progresses though it becomes more of a slice of life, featuring cuteness for the sake of cuteness.
Strike the Blood (Valkyria OVAs): A look into La Folia’s family situation that comes across like a badly constructed filler side-story.
Strike the Blood III: Progress without progress. Nothing feels like it ever changes depsite repeated claims that things have changed.
Strike the Blood IV: The series just absolutely refuses to progress, instead choosing to circle right down the drain.
Strike Witches: Far more horrible than I imagined it could possibly be. The character design from the waist up is nice, but everything else is abysmal… particularly the character design from the waist down.
Suki ni Naru Sono Shunkan o.: Kokuhaku Jikkouiinkai: The side characters here drag severely everything down.
Summertime Render: Far too fast-paced to work as a mystery/thriller.
Sunohara-sou no Kanrinin-san: A generally average ecchi comedy that occasionally dips into creepy territory.
Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaisha: While not exceptionally bad, it really doesn’t add anything to The End of Kibougamine Gakuen.
Super Mario no Shouboutai: It certainly exists, but there’s not really any compelling reason to watch it.
Super Robot Taisen OG: The Inspector: This series is very good at depicting mecha battles. It is very, very bad at telling a coherent story.
Surprise 4 U.: Some acceptably animated commercials. Nothing special about them.
Sushi Police: The videogame-like graphics are fine, but the humor is stupid-random instead of funny-random.
Suteki Tantei Labyrinth: The detective portions are decent enough; the supernatural elements are not.
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet – The Third Episode: The music is nowhere near prominent enough to carry the story.
Sword Gai: The Animation: An okayish concept hampered by low-quality action and a muddled second half.
Tabi Machi Late Show: Awaiting My Journey: A barely-animated collection of mostly mundane, everyday, stories.
Taboo Tattoo: Starts out very entertaining; goes straight into the gutter in the 5th episode and never recovers.
Tachibana-kan to Lie Angle: Would’ve been slightly better had they toned down the ecchi elements.
Tactics: Too contrived. Why is the main character the only one who can do what he does? Why does no one else find what he does odd? Why do things work the way they do? Basically just disposable afternoon-fare.
Tada-kun wa Koi o Shinai: Not enough romantic comedy in the series supposedly about a romance.
Taifuu no Noruda: The characters are annoying and the events are forced/rushed.
Tailenders: An inferior Redline. Visuals are good though.
Taishou Mebiusline Chicchai-san: Only useful as a bonus for those who have read the source material.
Taimadou Gakuen 35 Shiken Shoutai: Starts out good only to quickly become bad thanks to the super sentai aspects and pacing issues.
Takahashi Rumiko Gekijou: Ningyo no Mori: Not bad exactly but the episodes kind of blend into one another after awhile.
Takamiya Nasuno Desu! Teekyuu Spin-off: Starts off okay and has a couple good bits, but somehow manages to run out of ideas in the last quarter.
Takanashi Rikka Kai: Chuunibyou the Movie: A few scenes that link the first season with the second and a ton of pointlessly lengthy recap scenes.
Takunomi.: More alcohol advertisement than comedy.
Tales of Eternia The Animation: If you want to see some random characters fool around on a random island that just so happens to be the base of a major antagonist completely unrelated to the series’ stated goals, then you may not be as annoyed by this series as I was.
Tales of Gekijou: The Luke and Zelos characters leech away most of what little enjoyment these short episodes contain.
Tales of Phantasia: Starts off a decent RPGish fantasy, quickly turns into a jumbled mess.
Tales of Symphonia: Sekai Tougou Hen: This third and final OVA series ends on something of a whimper. All that build-up from the first two series just kind of fizzles out in a simplistic ‘racism is bad’ message.
Tales of Symphonia: Tethe’alla Hen: This second part of the Tales of Symphonia series is both rushed and spends a lot of time on ultimately meaningless character backstory.
Tamako Market: A moe show focused on a mocchi-maker’s daughter, a talking bird, and an island prince subplot. It certainly looks beautiful, but the inherent strangeness of the situation plus the whole mocchi/food focus pretty much killed it for me.
Tamala 2010: Cripplingly slow.
TANK S.W.A.T. 01: The visual quality is quite bad.
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes: The first season is mostly terrible, but has a few gleaming hints of light in it. In the first half of the second season that light blossoms into beautiful insanity, only to dim and ultimately fail in the second half. The Summer Special OVA is fairly average all-around.
Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD: Pretty much the same sort of makeup as the second season. Has an idol focus though.
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes: Alternative: This OVA series take place in London and has the girls doing detective work with their powers restored. Unlike the TV version, there is little comedy here. It’s average.
Tatakae!! Iczer 1: If you must watch this, watch the movie version (ICZER-ONE) instead.
Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari: Season 2: Comes across like aimless filler.
Tears to Tiara: A sub-par mashup of Samurai Deeper Kyou and Druaga no Tou.
Teizokurei Daydream: Despite being able to nail the spooky atmosphere, this set of OVAs fails utterly at balancing its comedy, ecchi, and action aspects.
Tejina Senpai: Too much repetition coupled with the hit/miss nature of random comedy (to say nothing of the inexplicable incestuous overtones) result in a work that’s more annoying than amusing.
Tekken: Blood Vengeance: If you’ve been religiously following the Tekken games’ storyline then this may be worth a watch. If not…. Not helping matters is the animation style, in which there’s something not quite right with the facial animations ~60-80% of the time.
Tenchi in Tokyo: Avoid this like the plague. It’s completely inferior to both the Tenchi Muyou OVAs and Tenchi Universe. If you’ve watched either of those first, you’ll weep (or rage) upon viewing this travesty.
Tenchi Muyou! Midsummer’s Eve: Nowhere near as bad as Tenchi in Tokyo, but doesn’t have much substance to it beyond some generic harem antics.
Tenkuu no Escaflowne: I couldn’t deal with the animation style.
Tensei Kenja no Isekai Life: Things happen, and then some more things happen, with little connection to one another. The comes across more like a random assortment of ideas than a proper story.
Tenshi no Drop: Most of this short TV special is fairly weird and sometimes amusing, the last 15 seconds or so however are horrible and ruin everything.
TenSura Nikki: Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Strips all the action/drama out of the parent series, leaving you with nothing but awkward (generic) comedy and odd character design.
Tentai Senshi Sunred: A few amusing bits, but for the most part this is rather average. It certainly doesn’t help that I do not watch Anime to see people being back-breakingly polite to one another.
Terra Formars: Pretty much the same sort of content as the prequel. Maybe a little worse.
Terra Formars OAD: Putting aside that the antagonists look like poorly disguised racial caricatures, this two-episode prequel to the parent series features little in the way of consistency or sense. It’s basically just violence for violence’s sake.
Tesagure! Bukatsumono: Four high school girls talking/laughing about fairly everyday things in an offbeat manner. Not really my thing, though the conversations sound remarkably natural.
The Daughter of Twenty Faces: Starts off mildly interesting, but the supernatural elements eventually overwhelm the series with ridiculousness.
The Epic of Zektbach: A cursed sword story that starts off on the wrong foot with sketchy animation and terrible CG. It manages to get its act together somewhat around the nine-minute mark and ends up almost watchable. Almost.
The Hakkenden: Shin Shou: Hakkenden‘s follow-up. It is nowhere near as good due to chronic timejumps combined with chronic lack of exposition.
The Humanoid: A cookie-cutter story about sacrifice and a monomaniacal villain wanting to cause an armageddon event. Only really notable for having an android in it.
The Last: Naruto the Movie: Starts out like it could be decent only to collapse under the weight of dull monologues and gratuitous actions scenes.
The Mystical Laws: Fairly dull and a bit off for the most part. If you’ve ever seen a movie produced by a questionable religious organization before then you’ll have a general idea of the quality to expect.
The Quiz Animation: Nana Maru San Batsu: Weirdly serious about its topic.
The World God Only Knows: 4 Girls and an Idol: I have no idea why anyone thought making this was a good idea. It’s dull, boring, and bears no resemblance to the series proper.
They Are My Noble Masters: I enjoyed the comedy part of Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!! and so hoped to enjoy this series. Unfortunately the comedy in here is not quite the same; it’s basically your standard ecchi overload.
Those Who Hunt Elves: Far too cartoony.
Tiger & Bunny: Tiger is an awful character and the reality TV bullshit is just as annoying as its real-life counterpart.
time bokan 24: Average morning cartoony show.
To Be Hero: An overload of toilet humor coupled with a highly questionable ending stretch.
To Love-Ru: Trouble (TV Series): An ecchi-focused version of Tenchi Universe.
Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator: Accelerator is almost as annoying a character as Touma, and the new characters meant to carry the series when he’s offscreen are mostly pretty boring.
Toaru Majutsu no Index III: Far too much exposition and Hamazura is incredibly annoying.
Togainu no Chi: Has some sharp character design, but everything else about it is terrible.
ToHeart: An episodic slice of school life show featuring a fairly laid-back protagonist. It doesn’t really have any notable qualities besides how relatively mellow it is.
ToHeart: Remember My Memories: A sequel to To Heart that changes the MC’s personality and has a dynamic closer to that of a standard harem show. It ends up the worse for it.
ToHeart2: This is a lot like ToHeart, except with a more generic main character and dialog/situations that come across as forced.
ToHeart2 (OVAs): Out of the nine OVAs split up into four series, only the 2nd episode in the first series and the 1st episode in adnext are decent.
Tokyo Babylon: While this does provide a bit of background information for the main X mvoie/series, with the exception of the first episode’s climax it’s just not very engaging.
Tokyo Ghoul: Has a few good moments, but for the most part this is just a set-up for what comes after… and a rather flawed one at that.
Tokyo Ghoul √A: Eh. Starts out pretty good only to quickly become, at best, an average battle shounen.
Tokyo Ghoul :Re: Much like the prequel this starts out surprisingly good only to completely fall apart in the second half.
Tokyo Loop: An assortment of arty short movies. A handful are interesting, most are average to pointless.
Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou Tou: Dai Ni Maku: Nothing at all like the first season. Bad dialog, nonsensical plotline, and blank characterizations.
Tokyo Marble Chocolate: An otherwise good romance utterly ruined by a cartoonish diaper-wearing miniature donkey.
Tokyo Underground: A wholly generic superpower-centric battle shounen.
Tokyogurashi!: A parody opening segment. There’s not much point in deliberately seeking it out.
Tomoe ga Yuku!: Competes with Avenger for the title of ‘slowest action show’. It’s only notable trait is that it features rollerskating.
Toshokan Sensou: Kakumei no Tsubasa: Pretty much a seamless continuation of the series. Concludes seemingly self-aware of how nonsensical its premise is.
Touhou PVD 3: None of the four videos were particularly appealing, either visually or musically.
Toukiden Kiwami: A promotion for the game of the same name, this would have been fine if the monsters didn’t look so awful.
Towa no Quon: A dull, plodding series (first episode excepted) featuring a painfully idealistic group of protagonists lacking even a single interesting characteristic among them.
Toward the Terra: Starts out seeming as though it will be an interesting dystopian tale only to turn into a stupid and illogical race war. Then it just sort of ends.
TRICKSTER: Uneven; the disparate elements don’t blend well.
Tristia of the Deep Blue Sea: A simple two-episode series with a tiny bit of mecha action in it. Honestly, it’s not worth the effort of tracking down.
Tsubasa Chronicle the Movie: Compared to the parent series, this is terrible.
Tsugumomo: A well-produced show that doesn’t quite seem to know what it wants to do/be.
Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka: Not fond of the apparent deadpan-repetition style of the comedy nor the mother focus.
Tsukiuta. The Animation: An idol show with a fairly novel structure; its middle episodes explore several different types of stories. That novelty isn’t enough to outweigh the inconsistency it introduces though.
Tsukumogami Kashimasu: Amusing comic aspects coupled with overly simplistic storytelling.
Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase: I remember nothing about this series beyond the fact that I didn’t like it.
Tsuyokiss Cool x Sweet: A generic school-life romance with a female tsundere lead. I disliked most of the characters and the general absurdity infusing the setting.
Turn A Gundam: Consists of boring average characters involved in a pointless war (which doesn’t even try to be believably fought) alongside a smattering of cartoonish nonsense.
Turning Girls: Has a few good jokes. More annoying than enjoyable overall though.
Twin Angel Break: A generic magical girl show with lackluster action scenes.
Uchuu no Kishi Tekkaman Blade: Generic in all respects.
Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199: Hoshi-Meguru Hakobune: This movie fits in between episodes 24 and 25 of the OVA series. It’s pretty bad and serves little point besides being a vehicle for some very nice visuals.
Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi: Same nonsense overload as the prequel without any of the exciting space battles. All the confrontations here come across as abitrary.
UFO Princess Valkyrie: The first season has the largest concentration of lolicon and love triangle elements of the franchise, while also having some of the better comedy. It’s not the best mix and the sudden action focus introduced toward the end just makes things worse.
UFO Princess Valkyrie: Juunigatsu no Yasoukyoku: This has more of a Nanoha vibe to it. It’s notably more serious than the first season but ends up more melodramatic than moving.
UFO Princess Valkyrie: Seireisetsu no Hanayome: The first three episodes of this third season are mostly just vaguely annoying side stories. The fourth episode is good though and the final two do actually advance the main relationship (though they are not particularly impressive).
ULTRAMAN: The last episode is good. The rest is average at best.
Ulysses: Jeanne d`Arc to Renkin no Kishi: Awful main heroine and an exceptionally haphazard event progression.
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby: Pretty fucked up on a conceptual level.
Umi Monogatari ~Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto~: Took an almost immediate dislike toward the characters and comedic style.
Umineko no Naku Koro ni: Similar in some ways to Higurashi, it falls massively short of that series due to its terribly one-dimensional and/or absurd characters and lackluster storytelling.
Urahara: Starts out pretty bad, becomes actually decent, then crashes and burns.
Urawa no Usagi-chan: An otherwise average school girl mini-episode series that has a bad start and a single notably interesting character (the student council president).
Usagi-chan de Cue!!: An ecchi OVA series that specializes in panty-shots and not much else.
Usakame: It’s Teekyuu slowed down to the point the absurdity of the jokes works against them.
Uta Kata: A relationship/psychological drama with a couple of magical girl aspects that puts up a cheerful front at first. It takes too long to get into the meat of its story and ends rather indecisively.
Uta no Prince-sama: Maji Love 1000%: The characters aren’t very engaging and the drama is excessive.
Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid: A gratuitous softporn ecchi show that has some vague similarities to Cross Ange.
Vampire Holmes: While this has one or two good episodes, most of it is awful.
Vampire Hunter D: I couldn’t deal with the animation style. The female-lead also made no sense.
Vampire in the Garden: Good animation wasted on characters and events that completely lack any believability.
Vampire Princess Miyu (OVAs): I no longer remember why I didn’t like it, but I know I liked the TV series version more.
Vandread: It has an interesting theme, but relies far too much on absurdist and situational humor.
Venus Project: Climax: A generic idol story with mecha bad proxy-battles.
Venus Senki: Not fond of the characters at all and the story is rather average.
Vexille: Sort of a combination of Appleseed and Dune. The general concept is interesting, but the actual plot and execution of that concept are fairly terrible.
VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fire: A hero’s journy parody that sometimes takes itself seriously and goes on for about 13 episodes too long.
Wagamama High Spec: The first episode is misleading, as this is not an ecchi show (only two other episodes are ecchi-focused). It’s closer to a slice of life… and a somewhat dull one at that.
Wakie Wakie: A claymation(?) music video for some random background song. It’s not bad, but it’s not worth seeking out either.
Walkure Romanze: A very uneven series. The (very few) jousting matches are good, the character studies are rather dull and boring, and the ecchi ranges from painfully gratuitous (the first two episodes) to comedic (episode 7) to generic (episodes 8 & 9) to nearly non-existent (basically every other episode).
Wanna Be.jk: Basically an OP and an ED for a show that doesn’t exist. The first video is nice, but the second is just dull.
Warau Salesman New: I don’t like the artstyle and the content has a certain inconsistency to it.
Watashi ga Motete Dou Sunda: Ultimately it’s a standard harem show with a somewhat limited sense of humor.
Weiss Kreuz: It’s surprisingly dark and serious and may have been decent if released/watched much earlier. Basically its problem is that it’s extremely dated.
Weiss Kreuz (OVA): First episode is good, second isn’t.
Weiss Kreuz Gluehen: This has a great many issues, beyond those already present in the prequel series. Two key ones being its constant escalation and an exhaustively extended main plotline.
Weiss Survive: Couldn’t stand the female lead’s VA.
Wheels: Pretty average dialogue-free short with nice artwork.
Wind: A Breath of Heart: Tries to be Da Capo, ends up more like Sola thanks to unbalanced genre switching. The OVA version is notably worse than the TV version in the design and animation departments while also feeling rushed… but at least does not share the genre confliction.
Wings of Rean: This is an incredibly strange series. I couldn’t follow what was happening… at all. The animation is quite good and the characters aren’t noticeably problematic in any way, but the storyline is incredibly convoluted. Far more convoluted than even Karas.
Witch Craft Works: Some parts are extremely funny, some parts are rather painful, and the male lead is horrendous.
With You: Mitsumeteitai: A rather boring love story and a rather boring love triangle fused together into an uninteresting whole.
Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil: Just not very fun or interesting to watch really. Lots of action and a couple mystery/thriller elements that, for some reason, all just feel so empty.
Wo De Tian Jie Nuyou: A generic mixed-genre series.
Wolf Guy: Violence for the sake of violence with highly questionable (and incomplete) plot developments.
Wolf’s Rain: Far too much moralizing. If you want your story to have a moral, fine, but don’t go shoving morals down people’s throats each episode. I got up to where the Moon Maiden starts phasing through walls before I had to turn it off in disgust.
Wonder Egg Priority: The disparate elements don’t coalesce into a coherant whole.
Wonderful Days: A mind-numbingly boring movie that has a progress vs. nature theme along with all the stereotypes that entails.
Wooser no Sono Higurashi: A random short-episode series focused on a lazy semi-perverted rabbit-like creature. It has no notable qualities whatsoever.
Wooser no Sono Higurashi Mugen Hen: Pretty much exactly like the first season with only a few glimemrs of the advances made in the second.
World Fool News Part II: This season comes across as a bit dull and lifeless.
WWW.WORKING!!: A decent reaction comedy that turns into a generic romantic comedy.
Xenosaga the Animation: It follows the main storyline decently, though that isn’t very difficult since the game itself is over 50% FMV. What it utterly fails at is doing any justice to the fight scenes. The general action/choreography is the same but they may as well be a storyboard with the amount of effort put into (re)animating them. Albedo’s appearance was also rather off… he just didn’t look right at all.
Xi Avant: Does a terrible job of masking the fact that it’s just a commercial.
Xiang Ling Ji: The animation quality is atrocious.
Yakimochi Caprice: The first one is pointless yet cute, while the second is basically an orphaned OP.
Yakitate!! Japan: I don’t care about bread and did not like two of the protagonists.
Yakumo Tatsu: Serves as the prologue to a longer story (presumably told in the manga version). It’s okay, but doesn’t really do anything particularly noteworthy.
Yoru no Yatterman: Due to a both distinct lack of focus and a pretty bad plot twist in the tenth episode, this show fails at its attempt to merge old-style campy nonsense with more modern sensibilities.
Yosuga no Sora: The first arc is decent despite its abrupt ending, the second feels both forced and rushed, and the third and fourth arcs feel overly awkward. The finale was surprisingly good, but did not make up for all the fanservice-laden horror of episodes five through eleven.
Yotsunoha: The heroine’s character design, along with the ecchi, are both particularly jarring.
You’re Under Arrest: Full Throttle: An episodic buddy-cop kind of show whose various episode premises just did not work for me.
Young Black Jack: You’d have to seriously struggle to come up with events and character actions more forced than those contained here.
Yume Oukoku to Nemureru 100 Nin no Ouji-sama: The drama is more annoying than engaging.
Yumekuri: If you haven’t bought the drama CD this OVA comes with, or haven’t read the manga, there’s little point in watching this. As on its own it’s not much more than an excerpt from a longer series’ hot springs episode.
Yumeria: An ecchi harem comedy with a simplistic action subplot whose technical qualities are roughly on par with your average hentai.
Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san (OVAs): Overflowing with the bad kind of ecchi.
Yurikuma Arashi: Ultimately an extremely basic forbidden romance story. It’s dressed up real nice and some of the imagry is quite good, but overall it’s mostly just a drag.
Yurumates (2012): Two bonus episodes for Yurumates 3D that are simply average.
Yuru Yuri Nachuyachumi!+: Tries far too hard to be Non Non Biyori.
Yuugen Kaisha: An average classic-style monster-of-the-episode show. Has a couple good scenes but nothing all that notable.
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou: Nearly a third of it is a hodgepodge of poorly integrated school-life scenes.
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha-bu Shozoku: Standard schoolgirl moe.
Yuushibu: An ecchi comedy that manages to be slightly entertaining from time to time. Unfortunately, the final three episodes consist almost wholly of forced plot developments that don’t fit well with the rest of the series. The extra episode OVA is also particularly bad.
Zankyou no Terror: A fantastic start utterly squandered with the introduction of a horrid character (Five). Decent end as well, but that third quarter really murders it.
Zeonic Front: Kidou Senshi Gundam 0079 – Zeon no Hifun: A fairly dull recap of the first Gundam series included with one of the Gundam video games.
Zeonic Toyota Special Movie: A decently animated pair of average car commercials featuring Char and Lahlah (from the first Gundam).
Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho: An inferior Junketsu no Maria.
Zetman: Full of unlikable characters (unless you’re a FRIEND OF JUSTICE), meaningless situations, and painful dialog.
Zetsumetsu Kigu Shoujo: Amazing Twins: An incredibly average ESPer/super hero type of show.
Zettai Shougeki: Platonic Heart: A fighting tournament series somewhat similar to Ikkitousen. That series and pretty much any other series that focuses on girls fighting one another are all better than this.
Zero no Tsukaima – 2nd Season: This has the same type of comedy style as the first season… only more exaggerated. The storyline isn’t all that interesting either as Louise, despite finding out about her power last season, still seems to be rather ineffective. Capping things off they had to go and ruin an otherwise perfect ending with the cheap humor.
Zhen Hun Jie: In broad strokes this is a pretty by-the-numbers start to a battle shounen with lackluster animation. It does a few interesting things though and its flashback half builds up to a pretty good plot twist.
Zone of the Enders: 2167 Idolo: A bit rushed and the depicted events lack weight/meaning. Possibly important as a lead-in to the TV series.
Zone of the Enders: Dolores,i: Complete nonsense. Utterly ridiculous. Basically a joke.