Worst anime you ever watched?

[RockmanDash]

What was the worst anime you ever watched in your life(NOT COUNTING ANY TERRIBLE DUBS LIKE ONE PIECE)

I cant think of any at the moment so I will get back to you guys about that:sweat:

[JShaggy]

I can only think of one right now:

FIGHTING FOODONS

[Lord Trunks]

It would have to be Pilot Candidate, as the worst ever, Then again I thought Eiken was terrible too.

[silverfox1027]

Ninja Resurrection. I honestly can't imagine ANY show being worse than that.

[Master Moron]

I can't think of any show worse than King of Bandit Jing.

[Creme]

I can only think of one right now:

FIGHTING FOODONS

Yeah... there we go.
I'll go in a different direction and say Gundam Wing though

[Weatherman]

The infamous crayon fire episode of Weiz Kreutz comes to mind.


Love Hina was pretty horrific to.

[XOMiss_Samantha]

I have a strong hate for Ghost in the Shell.
I just really, really don't like it at all.

[silverfox1027]

Ooh, I forgot to mention the Tekken movie. I also hate Love Hina and Ghost in the Shell, but Ninja Resurrection and the Tekken movie are just on another level in terms of craptasticosity.

[Ishtar]

I have a strong hate for Ghost in the Shell.
I just really, really don't like it at all.

Agreed. I also don't like Macross.

[Gatomon41]

D.I.C.E.

Seriously, the plots, dialouge, characters, voice acting, interest, etc. were so terrible.

[RockmanDash]

D.I.C.E.

Seriously, the plots, dialouge, characters, voice acting, interest, etc. were so terrible.

Wait D.I.C.E counts as a anime??? o_o OK THEN I PICK D.I.C.E!

[RomanMack]

Reign... Ugh. >_<

[Tay the Cat]

Ghost in the Shell has got to be the most overrated piece of junk I've ever had the displeasure of watching.

[Zack]

Sonic X. It contradicts my current avatar but it's possibly one of the worst video game anime ever created, next to Kirby.

Dragon Ball GT was also pretty terrible.

[Sandoz]

Tie between Attack of the Super Monsters and Lily C.A.T.

[Gatomon41]

Sonic X. It contradicts my current avatar but it's possibly one of the worst video game anime ever created, next to Kirby.


Actually, the Kirby anime was somewhat better because it had a ton of great parodies and satires.

[Zack]

Actually, the Kirby anime was somewhat better because it had a ton of great parodies and satires.

Ah, well, I found it to be boring and repetitive. Kirby himself was pretty dull, though he doesn't have much of a character even in the games.

Maybe it's just the dub, but oh well.

[TimothyB]

Back in the early days of anime I rented something on a whim. I mean with the cost of anime on VHS for 2 eps over $20 I forced myself to rent something I knew nothing about.

I think it was called Landlock (this was along time ago). All I remember it was crap compared to all anime I had seen, I had never expected there could be such crap, and it had a lot of CG use that made simple pans and other effects look like crap.

Even worse there was a scene with seizure causing flashing and flickering for an ungodly amount of time with every color under the rainbow that would make you sick.

I don't recall much about the story, just that it looked bad, and that stupidly watching the flashing it gave me a nasty migraine later that day.

[GWOtaku]

Probably Mermaid Forest, I believe it was a movie. Awful, boring, and slow with just about no point, and the protagonist kept getting mauled to within an inch of his life for some stupid reason--its okay though, thanks to Mermaid blood he's immortal! Usually my college anime club showed great stuff, but not that time. You couldn't pay me to sit through that crap again.

[beren]

I can't think of any show worse than King of Bandit Jing.

Wow, I was thinking something was wrong with me, that must be the reason I couldn't get into it...

I have seen alot of bad Anime, I tend not to remember it though. I don't know really because I tend not to watch stuff I can't stand, even the name fades from memory.

[Zeonic Freak]

I wasnt too fond on the X: The Motion Picture movie, didnt really get any of it.

Ah yes, Space Thunder Kids. I still have my copy to remind me how a horrible piece of korean made crap it is...

[Ishtar]

Dragon Ball GT was also pretty terrible.

Ugh, forgot to mention GT. I really hated it. It doesn't deserve to be counted as part of the Dragon Ball franchise.

[BackLash]

Mon Colle Knights
Gigantor
Speed Racer (the old one)
that's all I got, so far.

[Kuroba]

Papuwa....ugh, what a horrible anime.

[rubberchicken]

Gundam SEED/SEED Destiny. I've seen plenty of anime series that were bland or just plain dumb, but the SEED shows were the only series that have felt like an insult from the writers.

[Captain Highwind]

I have a strong hate for Ghost in the Shell.
I just really, really don't like it at all.

I concur.

The problem is that I want to like it.

It threw action to the side in order to intimidate me with philosophical arguement. It was like the series was constantly telling me to go read a book. :\

[fanboy]

Speed Racer
Beyblade

[J. B. Warner]

I haven't seen very much anime (at least, not compared to most folks around here), but ".HACK://sign" really rubbed me the wrong way. Given that it's a show based on the in-game happenings of an Internet RPG, I expected it to be fairly action-based. Imagine my surprise when I got episode after episode of characters standing around talking about philosophy or some damn thing, with every other angle in every episode being either an extreme wide shot or an extreme close up of someone's eyes so they don't have to animate anything. I try to give anime in general a fair shot, but there's none that I hated as actively as that one.

[SpaceCowboy]

DNA^2:
first half was an OK romantic comedy, but the later half was trying too hard to be Dragon Ball Z.

Ninja Cadets:
I couldn't get into this one at all.

Inu Yasha:
pretty good for the first 30 episodes but then went way downhill after that and never recovered.

Excel Saga:
good for the first 5 episodes then went downhill.

Lily Cat:
"Alien" rip-off.

[macattack]

Really obscure one here: Iron Virgin Jun.

My God, this one was terrible, from storytelling to animation to the fact that I could tell that the Japanese voice-over was half-hearted (which I normally can't tell). Supposedly, this has an English dub but I only saw the sub.

I didn't like the Outlanders OVA either. This one I managed to sit through, but man, it felt like it was trying to gorge upon my brain cells.

[XOMiss_Samantha]

I concur.

The problem is that I want to like it.

It threw action to the side in order to intimidate me with philosophical


I tried watching for the sake of Crispin Freeman, but after one episode of struggling not to throw something at the TV, I figured it wasn't worth it. GitS just made me go 'er wtf?' half the time.

I never cared for Paranoia Agent either.

[Rolling Cloud]

Gantz, simple as that. Watched 3 episodes, got bored as heck with the characters and dropped it.

Edit: I figured I'd add a better reason. Ok, the first episode was decent, set up the series pretty well. Episode 2 introduced Kishimoto and that episode was complete bleh, just total drek. Episode 3 is where I dropped it after seeing the whole crew just...die..on the....1st....mission. Kurono, and Kishimoto were alive, but...nvm, it was stupid.

[D Dubbs]

I didn't know there were so many GITS haters here. Personally, I don't find the show either good or bad; I find it rather mediocre in terms of entertainment. But still, the overall concept is astonishing and it's something that I could actually see happening in 20 years or so.

And as for the worst anime I've ever seen...I'm not sure I really have one. It's not like I've ever had to turn off the TV because I was purely disgusted. But the fact that I haven't seen that much anime probably helps, I suppose.

[garfiisan]

One word: Colorful. That was one mindless anime that could only be enjoyed when drunk. What was that all about, huh?

[Gatomon41]

Ah, well, I found it to be boring and repetitive. Kirby himself was pretty dull, though he doesn't have much of a character even in the games.

Maybe it's just the dub, but oh well.
Didn't 4Kids produce the dub?

[RomanMack]

Didn't 4Kids produce the dub?Yeah.

[FireStarterLE]

I wasnt too fond on the X: The Motion Picture movie, didnt really get any of it.

I had this as part of my X collection, but when I decided to watch it .. i got about 5 min. in before falling asleep. A few days later I decided it wasn't for me and traded it away.

I also didn't like the concept of "Duel Masters"

[megachao24]

I'll have to go with Dragonball GT on this one. A series made just for the money and without the original manga author's say on anything brings a big pile of poop.

[elsie]

Y'all must be youngsters. I can't believe I'm the first to say MD Geist. Absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

[Classic Speedy]

Y'know, it might help this thread if some of you actually say WHY you think xxxx is the worst anime you've ever watched. Just saying "Gah, how horrible" doesn't really say a whole lot.

Anyway, I generally try to avoid bad anime, but occasionally one will slip through the cracks. One of those is Love Love?, a -truly- bad anime that's actually the THIRD in a trilogy (the other two being Smash Hit! and Cosprayers)! It's about a photographer/writer for the show-within-a-show Cosprayers. He gets involved in the all-female cast of Cosprayers, who either A) have the hots for him or B) use him to get a bigger part in the show, or both.

People are hating GITS in this thread but at least GITS doesn't insult your intelligence. Love Love? does. It's all the same recycled, lame harem antics numerous times per episode: The male accidentally knocking down a girl, exposing her panties or grabbing her breasts; a guy having to hide in the locker room from girls who are changing; accidentally wandering into the girls' hot springs and having to hide; the confident girls who flirt and make the guy nervous with how forward they are; daydreams from the male which are very sexual in nature, etc. Oh yeah, and the Cosprayers show itself has all sorts of compromising positions the girls are put in, like being wrapped up by tentacles, being held on a cross displaying their bare chests, or being whipped while wearing nothing but bra and panties.

As if that wasn't bad enough, most of the cast is clearly underage, meaning that you get plenty of creepy near-lolicon fanservice shots in most every episode. And to top it all off, once the guy starts realizing that many of the girls are just using him to get better parts, he stages sinister situations on the set to cause them to expose themselves, or put them in embarrassing quasi-sexual situations, like putting a girl in the pool only to have her swimsuit torn off. Ho ho.

Animation is plain. I could maybe overlook all the other offenses in the show if the animation was zany or something, but nope. Very minimal motion and inbetweens, lots of pans, the usual.

Thankfully all the episodes are only 15 minutes instead of 24. And in truth, the show does have an appealing (if fairly generic moe) art style. But those factors can't save it. I don't like to throw this term around too much, but... I did feel like I was losing brain cells watching it. You want some of the worst, derivative writing anime has to offer? Look no further.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

It's interesting that it's the girls who hate GITS the most. GITS, I guess, is a show for male geeks.

I personally find the series to be very good, somewhat uneven, but when it hits the right notes, it can be astonishing, even prescient.

Of course, I'm referring to the TV show here, where there is at least some emotional and psychological content. The Oshii-directed movies, OTOH, are didactic and dry to the extreme.

In some ways, GITS is the most "American" anime out there right now (despite it's ironic anti-americanism at times). It often plays out much like a CSI or Law and Order episode, where the main cast keep their emotions in check and do their job like professionals. Most anime tend to have a sort of cheery "silliness" or periodic outbursts of unrestrained emotion that lighten up the atmosphere.

The strange thing out of all of this females disliking GITS is that IMO, Motoko Kusanagi is just about the best female role model in anime right now--she's not 'emo' and she never lets her emotions get the best of her in an emergency, and even when they do get to her (like in 2nd Gig) she does a good job of maintaining an admirable level of professionalism and not breaking down into anime-like hysterics. She's clever, tough, and is rarely outsmarted by anyone. In a way I guess this makes it hard for audiences to sympathize with her, but this fact makes me like her even more. Yet, she keeps her personal life to herself, with only hints of it shown to us, which makes her psychologically fascinating IMO. If you asked me to pick ANY anime character I want on my team in an emergency, I'd pick Motoko Kusanagi without any hesitation. That shows how highly I admire her as a character, and just her alone is already justification for the high pedestal GITS is put on IMO.

[Juu-kuchi]

-Pilot Candidate
-Initial D
-Overdrive (some crappy CRAPPY bicycle do-your-best anime that makes me want to strangle whatever mangaka created this)

[Patches]

Fushigi Yuugi: Eikoden: Even the cast hated this series. "OMG I'm an angsty teen girl who wrote myself into the Fushigi Yuugi universe in Miaka's place so everyone will lurve me!!!1"

KIBA: Just finished running on Japanese TV last year. Basically a darker and more mature version of Pokemon, with even less plot. I mean, the main guy has zero motivation. Not even a quest to surpass ___ or defeat ___ or save ___ or be the best ____ or become a ____. He's just THERE.

[Captain Highwind]

KIBA: Just finished running on Japanese TV last year. Basically a darker and more mature version of Pokemon, with even less plot. I mean, the main guy has zero motivation. Not even a quest to surpass ___ or defeat ___ or save ___ or be the best ____ or become a ____. He's just THERE.

Ah. So it doesn't get any better. :sweat:

[Sandoz]

Fushigi Yuugi: Eikoden: Even the cast hated this series. "OMG I'm an angsty teen girl who wrote myself into the Fushigi Yuugi universe in Miaka's place so everyone will lurve me!!!1"
You know it's bad when a series takes story ideas from lousy Mary Sue fanfiction. (And it's not even like Fushigi Yugi was a masterpiece to begin with.)

[Patches]

Ah. So it doesn't get any better. :sweat:
No. It doesn't. And I can't believe I watched it all the way to the end. I think I just kept watching because I really wanted to know WHAT the plot was, and then... there just wasn't one. At least not one that made 95% of the preceeding part of the series at all meaningful.

Around episode 10 I thought they were starting to get into a plot, with sweater-princess getting her kingdom taken over by evil ninja dudes and whatnot. But then sweater-princess just died totally randomly, and everyone just kinda forgot about saving her kingdom and went off and did something else. Probably a tournament or something.

The entire series just teased you with tidbit after tidbit of things that sounded like they were going to be revealed as important plot points later on. But then they just turned out to be red herrings. ALL OF THEM. And they didn't even bother spending the wasted time on character development, it was just lots and lots of random monster battles.

[Patches]

Just remembered another one:

Harlock Saga: Ring of the Nibelrung: Horrid animation aside, this OAV was boring as hell. If someone steals the gold from the center of the universe, we're all gonna die! Wait, someone did? Well, I guess we'll still be okay... as long as he doesn't make a RING out of it! ... Wait, he did? And... nothing's happened? ... Hm, well... let's just have Captain Harlock board his ship and shoot him. Wewt, the end!

[silvanoir]

agreed with that Harlock movie, for the same reason.

As for my own "worst", definetly TECHNOLYZE, which I only watch because of the designer on it. Slow and painful to watch. Many of the first episodes have the main character walking around as an amputee grunting in pain and falling over. The poeple of the town are either super violent or sit around and do nothing but wait for death feeling life is pointless. And honestly, that's how I felt after watching it, that everything was pointless. Nothing has ever left me so depressed. Nearly all of the characters were unlikeable. The ending to the anime was literally everyone dyinging horrific bizzarre deaths, everything going black, the human race coming to an end, and the main character curled up alone on the concrete having been unable to defeat the vision that he'd end up indeirectly destroying the world. credits roll. Even in the extras in the DVD were the voice actors making fun of what a stupid, depressing ending it was.

[Zeonic Freak]

I had this as part of my X collection, but when I decided to watch it .. i got about 5 min. in before falling asleep. A few days later I decided it wasn't for me and traded it away.

I also didn't like the concept of "Duel Masters"

I think if i was into the X series it probably might have made sence.

As for the GitS hate in here, thats pretty rediculous. Im going to throw out a theory that im guessing that people think when they watch GitS is that they expect something from the series or movies, which is kinda a bad way to look at it.

If your looking for action in GitS 100 precent of the time, thats like saying Evangelion has mecha action 100 precent of the time, which both are false statements. I was even warned about Eva from a friend of mine saying "if you watch eva for the mecha action, your going to be disappointed". But i looked at Eva as "what is this series about", and it was pretty good to me because i had no expectation other than "well i wonder what might happen in this episode".

GitS is pretty much a cyberpunk, intillectual, political and futuristic genre all the way around, with the action put into it. If you dont like watching movies or a series that makes you think beyond what is being shown, then its just not right for you...

[Gary L Thompson]

One of the worst series I've ever seen has to be "Betterman". It seems so promising in the first few episodes, but it is not that long before it all crumbles into a hopeless mess. And the characters in the main are great, or could be (I'm not talking about the villains, which are purely pathetic), I wish they could have been remade into a show more worthy of them.

"Dinozaurs" was purely boring.

I also found "Time Detective Flint" much too repetitive after the first few episodes. "Mon Colle Knights" was practically a carbon copy of "Flint", but a bit better show (the kids were put into the middle of the action instead of being hanger-ons for the hero, and MCK would throw a twist into the repetitive plot line occasionally--though I think it would have been even a better show if it had given larger roles to Beginner and Miss Lune).

While "Dual" was a great series on balance, its off-air 14th episode is a textbook case of how not to make a sequel.

Also, I have to cite the closing plot arcs of "Digimon 04 (Frontier)". Few things are more painful than to see a fine series (even "Frontier" was good up until the defeat of Cherubimon) essentially crash and burn right in front of your eyes.


I can only think of one right now:

FIGHTING FOODONS

Well, actually I liked that show. The whole premise was so totally absurb that there was nothing to do but sit back and enjoy the whole ride.


It would have to be Pilot Candidate, as the worst ever, Then again I thought Eiken was terrible too.

Well, I disagree. Not about "Pilot Candidate" being a bad show, which it certainly was. But it did have one of the greatest openings I've seen in anime, truly beautiful animation, good robot action, and a few interesting characters here and there (even if it all added up to nothing in the end). In my mind, "worst anime" should be applied to something that was a total trainwreck.


Sonic X. It contradicts my current avatar but it's possibly one of the worst video game anime ever created, next to Kirby.

Dragon Ball GT was also pretty terrible.

Well, "Kirby" was a bit off-putting at first, I admit, but the show eventually grew on me (hey, how many anime feature an episode on a maniacal sheep plotting to take over the world).


Speed Racer
Beyblade

I disagree with "Beyblade". It's no classic, but if you truly want to know what "Beyblade"-gone-totally-wrong could be, just watch "B-Damon". It started out like it might be interesting, but there were just too many stupid plot twists.

[Artimus Gigan]

Green Green takes every traditional harem idea, doesn't fully explain it, waters it down with poorly planned comedic moments that are groan inducing, and does this for about 13 episodes


Ruin explorers has one of the worst dubs in exitance, it also doesn't help that the story is pretty grey and bland and the characters feel all stiff personality wise to the point where you don't get any enjoyment out of their interactions

[Gatomon41]

Beyblade wasn't that interesting. Though, the latter seasons of BVeyblade were actually fun to watch. Better art, and improved and even sillier plots, it was fun to watch.

Mon Colle Knights was preety silly, if only because the dubbers pulled a "Hey what's up tiger Lilly", and subsituted some of the best punchlines that got a laugh from me. Unfornately, the rest of the show is about as generic as on can get.

I do agree with Gary L Thompson on Betterman, though I think it's a decent, if medoicre, show. Could have been a great, until the wrriters got Algeron, and went insane. I found watching the episodes in random order helps make the show interesting. :p

[BrendaBat]

Around 1997-98 (back when there were only 3 or 4 anime videos buried in the "special interest" section of Blockbuster) I checked out this movie called 'Wannabes'. The cover art lead me to believe it was a show about female superheroes or something. Turns out it was a show about teenage female professional wrestlers who stumble on some evil scientists trying to create a race of hot naked female super soldiers to help them rule the world or something. The girls use their wrestling skills to stop the soldiers and the evil scientists (and are incapable of keeping their clothes on for more than 5 seconds while doing so). I know the description makes it sound like an awesome MST3K camp fest, but trust me, it isn't even good for that. :(


Originally posted by Leaping Larry Jojo It's interesting that it's the girls who hate GITS the most. GITS, I guess, is a show for male geeks.

I personally find the series to be very good, somewhat uneven, but when it hits the right notes, it can be astonishing, even prescient.

Of course, I'm referring to the TV show here, where there is at least some emotional and psychological content. The Oshii-directed movies, OTOH, are didactic and dry to the extreme.

I think a lot of people (both gals and guys) are reluctant to give the TV show a chance because they assume it will be an overrated, pretentious, fanservice filled piece of pseudo-intellectual garbage like the movie was. I know thats why I was reluctant to check out the show at first (the only reason I started watching it was because I like the theme song :sweat:).

[Joe]

I found a lot of mid 80s and early 90s Lupin III TV specials to be pretty lame. Bye Bye Lady Liberty and Napoleons Dictionary stand out. I'll lump in the movie The Gold of Babylon as well. Thankfully, they've greatly improved over the years.

I swear theres some other really bad stuff I've watched, but I think I've blocked them out of memory.

I, too, am surprised that GITS is getting so much flak. Sure, I was never really a fan of the movie, but it was hardly terrible. And I hear the TV series is better.

[Tea]

Colorful: This entire "show" is about looking at panties. I admit, I thought G4 had better standards than this.

Mouse: Recycled plot (how many shows about a super theif do we really need?) and tons of fanservice where the main character's harem beat him during the day, then service him during the night. Huuuurray.

Pilot Candidate: What the hell was the point of this show? Even Adult Swim regrets showing it.

UFO Princess Valkyrie: It's a charming story about an 8 year old alien who transforms into an adult (in a graphic magical girl way) whenever her teenaged boyfriend kisses her. Add onto the fact they live in a bathhouse and the series tries to hit on every fetish imaginable. I love what my brother said after we watched this On Demand:
Me: Oh this show is so wrong...
Him: How? Maybe she's just a midget. Or older in alien years or something.
*scene shows the 8 year old alien playing and giggling in a playground with the other kindergarteners*
Him: ... Oh that is so wrong.

That toyetic anime show that appears in the mornings about a kid riding a bike also gets a vote. Can't remember the name.

[FightingDreamer]

That toyetic anime show that appears in the mornings about a kid riding a bike also gets a vote. Can't remember the name.

That would be Idaten Jump, and I hate that myself. It's just... there. Another 'worst' for me would be Transformers Armada. I have tried very, very hard to block out the painful memories of those stupid kids stealing the show and the cruddy animation (not to mention some of the worst Transformer designs ever). Yes, I've heard it gets better later on, but five or six episodes was enough, thanks.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

I think a lot of people (both gals and guys) are reluctant to give the TV show a chance because they assume it will be an overrated, pretentious, fanservice filled piece of pseudo-intellectual garbage like the movie was. I know thats why I was reluctant to check out the show at first (the only reason I started watching it was because I like the theme song :sweat:).

Same here. I really disliked the movies, and I think I still do, but when I FINALLY watched the TV show, I was like, "Hey, this is actually not so bad."

It does have its dry moments too, and yeah there is fan service (although significantly less of that, surprisingly, in the 2nd season) but somehow it still worked a lot better for me. If you treat it like an episode of CSI or Homicide, it really works quite well.

[Kitschensyngk]

Mon Colle Knights. Cuteness does not make up for having the same plot every episode.

Reign: The Conqueror. What was that show about again? Besides Alexander the Great and his friends walking around in codpieces?

Also didn't like Wolf's Rain. Everyone spends the entire second half of the show wandering the wastelands getting captured and re-captured. Also the end was too depressing.

[OverMaster]

Legend of Lemnear deserves a mention. It fails as both a fanservice-fest and an adventure with a solid plot.

[Ahiru-kun]

Although I liked it, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Super Milk Chan.

I myself hated the four part Kikaider OVA.

[Naruto D.Luffy]

Trinity Blood, nuff said.

[Mynd Hed]

I'll quote my standard rant that I've been requoting every time this subject has come up for literally the past five years:


Ever see something called Doomed Metropolis? It's a charming tale of an evil wizard who looks just like M Bison from Street Fighter II (they're both Thai, and I guess to the makers of this anime all those Thai folks look alike) who's all pissed off and wants to destroy Tokyo.
Why does an evil Thai soldier wizard guy want to destroy Tokyo, you ask? Good question. There's never an answer in the entire four-hour OVA. Not that they don't go into his character. They spend scene after scene delving into his past, talking about how he was a soldier in the Thai army and died in some war but came back to life and studied the black arts and all that mumbo-jumbo. But in all this "character development" (and I use the term very loosely), they never bother to explain just why he's so pissed off at Tokyo in particular.
Oh, and there's a subplot-- which has NOTHING to do with the evil wizard guy except that one of the characters involved in that plot happens to know one of the characters in the other-- about this guy whose favorite passtime is choking his sister. It's never really explained why he likes choking her so much, either, and nothing ever really HAPPENS with this plot-- she never contacts the authorities or tries to get help for him or for herself, and he never quite chokes her to death or anything. Just, every once in a while-- once or twice per episode on average-- it will cut to a conversation between the two of them in which he gets pissed and starts choking her, or else it'll flashback to when they were children growing up together, and it'll show him choking her back then.
So a friend of mine and I grabbed this anime at random off the shelf at Blockbuster because we felt like watching an anime that night but couldn't think of anything good we hadn't both seen a million times, and the cover looked pretty cool. We watch the first episode, and while it certainly didn't blow our minds, it looked kinda mysterious and vaguely cool, like it might actually progress into something good. Then we watch the second episode, and they actually get into some of the backstory, and now it's not mysterious any more, it's just boring. But we bravely soldier on, into the third episode, in which it ceases to be merely boring and starts being just plain horrible. At the end of the third episode, I say to my friend, "Dude, this is ridiculous. We've been sitting here for three hours watching this crappy thing. Let's cut our losses and go do something else." But he says, "No, dude, we've come this far. We've got to see it through until the end." So against my better judgment, we watch the fourth episode. That's where it stopped being just plain horrible, and started being so horrible that it was funny.
See, in the end-- well, I can't imagine why anyone would care that this was spoiled for them... trust me, there's nothing I can say that will spoil this for you any more than the writers already spoiled it before it was even animated. But just in case, I'll put it in a spoiler box.


In the end, this super pure virgin kung fu Buddha priestess maiden comes out of nowhere-- she's not referenced in any of the previous episodes even though she's supposedly spent her whole life preparing to fight the evil M Bison wizard, she just kind of shows up. She walks into the evil M Bison wizard's evil stronghold, and he chucks all this magic stuff at her to try to stop her. She just keeps walking like it's not even there, and sure enough none of the stuff he throws at her even touches her. She walks up to him, and-- get this-- GIVES HIM A HUG. She gives him a hug, and a little tear runs down his cheek. The end. All that crap, all the pissed-offedness, all that trying to destroy Tokyo for whatever !@#$ reason, and ALL HE WANTED WAS A HUG.


So there you go. There are anime that I don't like too terribly much-- Yu-Gi-Oh comes to mind-- but at least those shows are generally entertaining enough for their intended audience, namely kids. But THIS anime, well, I WAS the target audience, and I couldn't friggin' stand it. If anybody actually liked this OVA, speak up now, because as things stand I don't understand what anybody could possibly see in it.

[Zeonic Freak]

Around 1997-98 (back when there were only 3 or 4 anime videos buried in the "special interest" section of Blockbuster) I checked out this movie called 'Wannabes'. The cover art lead me to believe it was a show about female superheroes or something. Turns out it was a show about teenage female professional wrestlers who stumble on some evil scientists trying to create a race of hot naked female super soldiers to help them rule the world or something. The girls use their wrestling skills to stop the soldiers and the evil scientists (and are incapable of keeping their clothes on for more than 5 seconds while doing so). I know the description makes it sound like an awesome MST3K camp fest, but trust me, it isn't even good for that. :(


).

Im kinda Jelous you seen that, seeing how i love Kenichi Sonoda's stuff: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=102

Still wanna see all of the Gall Force Saga.


All that crap, all the pissed-offedness, all that trying to destroy Tokyo for whatever !@#$ reason, and ALL HE WANTED WAS A HUG.

Some times thats all people really need, and she might as well givin him a sucker too...

[Classic Speedy]

Trinity Blood, nuff said. "Nuff said" says -nothing- about why you dislike a form of entertainment. Please elaborate. Makes it much more interesting to read anyway.

[M?sterious]

Does Kappa Mikey count?...Whatever it is, it sucks.

[Kitschensyngk]

Does Kappa Mikey count?...Whatever it is, it sucks.

Kappa Mikey is American born.

But I can't watch it either. If that's anime, then I'm Hello Kitty.

[Naruto D.Luffy]

"Nuff said" says -nothing- about why you dislike a form of entertainment. Please elaborate. Makes it much more interesting to read anyway.

Fine, I remember when I first saw the show, I was like "Yeah, this is good", but after a few weeks it just got boring. The characters and story never really interested me.

[Mynd Hed]

Trinity Blood may not be very good, but if that's honestly the worst anime you've ever seen, you must not have seen much. There's some true crap out there that makes TB look like Shakespeare.

[RAINMAN]

DBGT. Talk about takeing a great series whit good know char and turing it into the worst thing ever made. It like I say, they must have change directors and writers who never work on the DB series before cause they didn`t know what the heck they were doing. Or didn`t care?

[Elven Moon]

Wedding Peach is ONE of the worse I've ever seen. Normally, I love shoujo and am open to anything. But this - this was like Sailor Moon, only painful (for me, anyway). "Lily Lipliner Rainbow"? What kind of attack is that? And I got really tired of the whole "Girls have to lose weight, and get boyfriends, and get married - because it's what we do - hehehe!" thing. It's like the feminist blood in me threatened to boil over.

There is one other anime I rented years ago (VHS days, I think) that had something to do with ninjas, only I was not aware it was basically a hentai until I watched it. I'm still traumatized.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

Rave Master: I tried to watch it at first, the art style was kind of nice but the animation and intro were terrible and the story matched :yawn:

Haruhi: Tenchi clone done wrong! way wrong! :eek: at least thats what I got from the first half of the series

GitS Season 1: I never even saw the movies and hated this :sweat: season 2 was more watchable though

Pilot Candidate: why you do this to us Adult Swim? and Bandai for that matter! of all the shows that could be licensed and brought over what ever made them think this was worth it :confused:

Pokemon Deoxys movie: how can a movie about alien pokemon not have Clefairy :confused: the cg block things were lame and the city concept and customs didn't feel like it fit in the pokemon world at all

[Dark Soul]

Man I have soo many animes I dislike so little time:

Not in any order but what i can come up with:

1) Eureaka 7: bizarre love traingle+some robot gundam thing= Im not liking it
2) Rave Master: Awful I say I didnt like the plot nor did I like the setting
3) Blood Trinity: Gave it one episode I didnt like it wasnt comfortable with it
4) D.I.C.E: Horrible plot +bad vas= ultimate garbage
5)Pilot Candidate: Didnt make sence too me I was lost
6)Reign: rofl a bad portrait of history
7)Paranioa Agent: None of it made sence and if it did I dont want to know. Every episode was so random and bizarre Im surprised I saw all 13 episodes
8)DBGT: horrible villains+ crap plot= a show that disgraces DBZ
9)Wolfs Rain: I tryed to like this show I really tryed but 12 episodes of aimlessly wandering plus 2 horrible endings regular and ovas Im ashamed I watched it
10)Kikaider: The most depressing show I have ever watched I must of been really depressed or sad to watch it all lol
11)Beyblade: Amazing how some toy could be so lame and taken so seriously.

I could probably find more out there I dislike but for now thats it. These shows I have harsh feeling towards lol:p

[Mad Mod 49]

S-CRY-ed. Scheris and Straight Cougar were the only redeeming characters, everyone else (particularly the idiotic reckless main character and his obligatory stoic rival) was a shonen stereotype and not in a good way either. :raven:

[Conan-san]

Green Green takes every traditional harem idea, doesn't fully explain it, waters it down with poorly planned comedic moments that are groan inducing, and does this for about 13 episodeAnd you know what's worse? At my anime club last week we went from unable to watch Gurman Lagann to watching Green Green. I think I made my excuses as soon as the "Callus" joke came by and only returned once everyone started MST3K'ing it.

[Desensitized]

....... 4 pages and not one mention of Genocyber? Color me surprised.

But Ninja Resurrection gets my vote. Falsely advertised as the sequel to Ninja Scroll, this trash heap has pointless deaths, crazy gore, crappy characters and characterization, and fails to have anything likable about it.

You think you've seen bad anime? Give these a watch.

By the way, I used to see Doomed Metropolis around my videostore, but I never rented it once. The cover just fascinated me. I don't know why it did, but am I glad I never saw it. I heard tales about it's awfulness for years later.

[asphaltviking64]

I hated Beyblade. All of those toys + large 5 year old fanbase.

[TKnHappyNess]

I can only think of one right now:

FIGHTING FOODONS

I wouldn't say the show was all bad. There was one good thing about it, and it was a certain pink cat girl who made it worth watching. ;)

[email2003]

Euerka 7
Wolf's Rain
Witch Hunter Robin
Trinity Blood
Ghost in the Shell: both series
DragonBall GT
Paranioa Agent
Pilot Candidate
Slayers
Fruits Basket
Trigun
Kiddy Grade
Tenchi In TokyoAnd there's others that I can't recall right now.

[WolfieKiwi]

Wow. Paranioa Agent hate... Never thought I'd see that.

Beet The Vandel Buster: Too much cliche and shounen. Way too much.
Onegai Twins: Somewhat interesting plot but...it just got worse with its predictable outcomes.
S-Cry-Ed: I didn't really like the art and none of the characters interested me. Plus, I never understood the show too well.
Hare+Guu: The good humor only lasted a few episodes...
Dragon Ball GT: All I can think of are the horrible music and villans. >_>

[Captain Highwind]

Blue Gender

AHHHHHHHHHH-Giant Bugs!

AHHHHHHHHHH-Cabbage People!

I stopped halfway through when the main character finally lost his mind.

[Bubblegum Girl]

Beyblade. The tops looks very cool but the whole concept of the show was very lame.

[River26]

Euerka 7
Wolf's Rain
Witch Hunter Robin
Trinity Blood
Ghost in the Shell: both series
DragonBall GT
Paranioa Agent
Pilot Candidate
Slayers
Fruits Basket
Trigun
Kiddy Grade
Tenchi In TokyoAnd there's others that I can't recall right now.

Can you elaborate on why you hate these titles? Because just saying "Eureka 7" just for the heck of it. Doesn't really mean nothing.

It's almost like saying; "I hate that thing" but yet you don't give a reason why you hate it.

For me;

Whistle!

I particularly liked the show itself. But it was Sho's acting by Minako Komukai that I didn't particularly like. As it wasn't emotional as Sena Kobayakawa.

[Tash]

Lucky Star just frustrates me because I just don't see the humor in it.

[Kuroba]

Lucky Star just frustrates me because I just don't see the humor in it.
It's an extremely niche anime. You'll either love it or hate it. I like it because I'm in high school right now so I can relate to it some.

[Golgo13]

Apocalypse Zero.

Although I'm not sure how I'd categorize it as bad. I mean, the dialogue sucks, there is way too much gore, sexual content, and other disgusting elements including obesity and necrofelia, but it's a lot more fun to watch than just about anything new coming out of Japan.

[Classic Speedy]

Euerka 7
Wolf's Rain
Witch Hunter Robin
Trinity Blood
Ghost in the Shell: both series
DragonBall GT
Paranioa Agent
Pilot Candidate
Slayers
Fruits Basket
Trigun
Kiddy Grade
Tenchi In Tokyo Er... I know everyone has different opinions and everything, but... some of the shows you've listed are largely hailed as good shows, especially Fruits Basket. I know I'm sounding like a broken record in this thread but it really would be worthwhile to hear WHY you picked these shows.
I can't believe no one else has said Eiken. Have people just not seen it, if you haven't seen it then good, do not see it. Lord Trunks mentioned it on the first page of the thread. I haven't seen it myself, but have little desire to. Although does it possibly fall into the "so bad it's good" category? Just curious.

[Weatherman]

I can't believe no one else has said Eiken. Have people just not seen it, if you haven't seen it then good, do not see it.


At least one other person has mentioned that tripe.


Wow. I'm not trying to be insulting, but do alot of you not like having to think really deeply about what is being presented on screen? I'm noticing that alot of these show that are being mentioned as bad really require alot of concentration to keep up with what's goign on.

[WolfieKiwi]

Blue Gender

AHHHHHHHHHH-Giant Bugs!

AHHHHHHHHHH-Cabbage People!

I stopped halfway through when the main character finally lost his mind.

Completely forgot about Blue Gender. I mean, half the cast was confused with their lives, they kept changing themselves for the better...only to end up even more screwed. >_>

[wingdarkness]

Gilgamesh...

My God where do I begin?? The story is WTF wrapped in a 10-day old egg roll...

The opening theme song sounds like you just advanced a level on an 80's ATARI arcade game...The mood of the show is so unbelievably dark and gloomy and it doesn't change one bit from beginning to end...The animation is so unspeakably bad at times you have to question how anyone got this thing even financed...I mean every action sequence consists of the Adobe Photoshop graphics like the sparkle or emboss effect with chracters dissapearing like David Blaine before another character or power can hit them...and the movements of the actual Gilgamesh transformations look like cockroaches fighting each other (It's like the ugliest thing I ever seen these transformations)...The CG is so lame and elementary in it's execution it's down right hilarious at times...I once fell out of my chair laffing at an episode it was so unspeakably c-movie material...If you like to get loaded I really suggest this show for it's laff-factor, but beyond that, it stinks...

[M?sterious]

One piece, Big-O, maybe a few others if I rethink the ones I've watched.

[Rolling Cloud]

One piece, Big-O, maybe a few others if I rethink the ones I've watched.

How can you hate OP? It's like one of the best anime / manga's I've ever heard of.

[Dark Soul]

Oh yeah I forgot about Big O I didnt like it at all. I was not comfortable with it nor did I like the concept of the show

[Desensitized]

C'mon people, give some reasons. Even if it's piddling or nonsensical, simply saying "I hate 'Famous McAnime'" doesn't invoke much discussion or entertainment.

[Mynd Hed]

Yeah, let's see a few rants like mine!

...Actually, let's not. I'm kind of embarrassed that I spent the time to pound out that much wordage on one crappy show. But a paragraph or two might be nice.

[JShaggy]

I wouldn't say the show was all bad. There was one good thing about it, and it was a certain pink cat girl who made it worth watching. ;)Granted, that was the only thing likeable about Fighting Foodons, but the way 4Kids handled the voices of the monsters (*COUGH*Beef*COUGH*Steak*COUGH*), it was like watching another version of Pokemon.

[silverfox1027]

Lucky Star just frustrates me because I just don't see the humor in it.

Lucky Star is an otaku show. Not being an otaku myself, I didn't really enjoy it either.

[Tash]

Granted, that was the only thing likeable about Fighting Foodons, but the way 4Kids handled the voices of the monsters (*COUGH*Beef*COUGH*Steak*COUGH*), it was like watching another version of Pokemon.
Don't blame 4Kids, the Japanese version did the same thing.

[Sampire]

I can only think of about three right now: One Piece, Naruto, and sCRYed.

I tried reading the OP manga and I couldn't get into it, and when I tried the anime, it just rubbed me the wrong way. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but there's something about it I really didn't like.

With Naruto, I just can't stand the characters. I'm probably not being fair, as I may not have seen enough to judge, but the characters (and the plot) just grind my gears.

sCRYed, however, I wanted to like. I really, really did. The plot seemed interesting and Steve Blum was voicing Kazuma (and I love me some Steve Blum), but I just... got bored with it. Like, five episodes in I mentally said 'screw it' and went back to watching reruns of InuYasha. It was so boring that I didn't pay attention, and that meant that I really couldn't wrap my mind around what was going on. So, either way I wasn't going to have a fun time watching it.


Those are all just my opinions though.:shrug:

[rubberchicken]

How can you hate OP? It's like one of the best anime / manga's I've ever heard of.
I like One Piece all right, but I can think of plenty of reasons that people wouldn't like it - most likely the same reasons that I much prefer Bleach or Naruto (or Claymore, tee-hee) to it. Most of it has to do with the series' pacing. Ten years in, and it hasn't progressed very far in any real sense. The Straw Hats' last important achievement as a crew was to reach the Grand Line, and that was several years ago. They don't seem to be getting any closer to finding the One Piece (indeed, it seems like Oda's forgotten about that little detail sometimes.) Instead of developing existing threads, Oda throws in new complications like Ace and Blackbeard and Luffy's granddad and some vast ancient conspiracy by the government to annihilate all trace of... something. They haven't told us what yet, and it looks like it'll be a very loooooong time before they actually do.

The series is quite formulaic, such that each arc falls into largely the same pattern:

1) Straw Hats arrive at the location of their latest adventure.
2) Some new quirky character (Future Crewmember or New Friend) appears, and (in most cases) antagonizes the Straw Hats on sight.
3) Resident Villain shows up, also picks a fight with the Straw Hats. It turns out that Future Crewmember has a bone to pick with Resident Villain.
4) During the ensuing battles, Future Crewmember is revealed to have a tragic backstory in which a beloved friend/parental figure nobly sacrificed him/herself (or a limb) to save young Future Crewmember. Note that these people are pretty much the only One Piece characters who die. Ever.
5) Future Crewmember is inspired by Luffy's gung-ho pirate spirit and begins to cooperate.
6) The Straw Hats split up to have roughly one-on-one battles with each of Resident Villain's bizarre henchmen. Numerous other minor friendly characters appear to suffer mortal wounds (such as having their heads cleaved with axes) during this time.
7) Luffy and/or Future Crewmember face off against Resident Villain. Luffy eventually wins.
8) All the dead good guys are actually revealed to be A-OK. Except for the character(s) from Future Crewmember's tragic backstory, of course. They're SOL.
9) Future Crewmember agrees to join the Straw Hats.
10) The Straw Hats' bounties are increased. If you're very fortunate, there may be some brief conversation from Robin hinting at a larger plot lurking in the background somewhere.
n) Some time later, the defeated villains are also revealed to be A-OK, appearing in humorous bonus comics at the beginning of each chapter.

And the series repeats that pattern over and over. Looking at One Piece up to this point, it kinda feels like we're running in circles, with a tiny amount of forward progression every now and then.

[Rolling Cloud]

List of stuff

What are the exceptions to those rules? Little Garden, Drum Island, the Laboon mini-arc, Whiskey Peak arc. Many arcs have done away with that formula for the sake of story-telling.

[Crash]

People are hating GITS in this thread but at least GITS doesn't insult your intelligence.

Yes. It. Does! Season I finale. The squad gets 'taken down' one by one, but not before certain squad member brutally kill Mariens from their own country... And then, poof! Everythings back to normal, and everyone's happy! The most pathetic excuse for a deux ex machina ending I've ever seen.


Also, I thought Heat Guy J was pretty bad too. After Escaflone, I really wanted to like Heat Guy, but was just too stupid.

[rubberchicken]

What are the exceptions to those rules? Little Garden, Drum Island, the Laboon mini-arc, Whiskey Peak arc. Many arcs have done away with that formula for the sake of story-telling.
Little Garden: part of the extremely drawn-out Baroque Works arc.

Drum Island: Fits into the above pattern, with Chopper as Future Crewmember and Wadol as Resident Villain.

Laboon: A rare case of an arc with minimal fighting. Also very short, with characters who vanish after the arc is over without much of a lasting impact.

Whiskey Peak: See Little Garden. This is where they meet Vivi, who tags along until they settle their score with Crocodile (Resident Villain of the Baroque Works arc.)

Again, these sections seem to exist for their own sake rather than to serve the larger plot. Some, like the Davy Back fight, almost feel like exercises in frivolity that would be more at home in a Naruto filler episode.

[Rolling Cloud]

Little Garden: part of the extremely drawn-out Baroque Works arc.

Drum Island: Fits into the above pattern, with Chopper as Future Crewmember and Wadol as Resident Villain.

Laboon: A rare case of an arc with minimal fighting. Also very short, with characters who vanish after the arc is over without much of a lasting impact.

Whiskey Peak: See Little Garden. This is where they meet Vivi, who tags along until they settle their score with Crocodile (Resident Villain of the Baroque Works arc.)

Again, these sections seem to exist for their own sake rather than to serve the larger plot. Some, like the Davy Back fight, almost feel like exercises in frivolity that would be more at home in a Naruto filler episode.

I see, and I'm dropping it here. An argument like this would go on for too long.

[RomanMack]

It's not as if Naruto and Bleach aren't predicatble, either. I mean, the current arc in Bleach is billed to be a rehash of the Soul Society arc.

[FireWarrior]

I'd say Ninja Scroll The Series and Samurai Deeper Kyo were among the worst I've seen.

[Kurokawa41]

I can only think of about three right now: One Piece, Naruto, and sCRYed.

I tried reading the OP manga and I couldn't get into it, and when I tried the anime, it just rubbed me the wrong way. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but there's something about it I really didn't like.

With Naruto, I just can't stand the characters. I'm probably not being fair, as I may not have seen enough to judge, but the characters (and the plot) just grind my gears.

sCRYed, however, I wanted to like. I really, really did. The plot seemed interesting and Steve Blum was voicing Kazuma (and I love me some Steve Blum), but I just... got bored with it. Like, five episodes in I mentally said 'screw it' and went back to watching reruns of InuYasha. It was so boring that I didn't pay attention, and that meant that I really couldn't wrap my mind around what was going on. So, either way I wasn't going to have a fun time watching it.


Those are all just my opinions though.:shrug:

Sounds more like a death wish to me (Crackes knuckles, ominous stare)

That Tokko show was pretty awful.

[D Dubbs]

That Tokko show was pretty awful.
I concur. (Though, I will admit that it's slowly improving.)

[J'onn J'onzz]

I'll quote my standard rant that I've been requoting every time this subject has come up for literally the past five years:
Oh man that is your best post ever.

GitS Season 1: I never even saw the movies and hated this :sweat: season 2 was more watchable though
I find it humorous that you considered it the only "watchable" show on AS weekdays for a while, even though it's one of the "worst anime you've ever watched".

Er... I know everyone has different opinions and everything, but... some of the shows you've listed are largely hailed as good shows, especially Fruits Basket. I know I'm sounding like a broken record in this thread but it really would be worthwhile to hear WHY you picked these shows. Lord Trunks mentioned it on the first page of the thread. I haven't seen it myself, but have little desire to. Although does it possibly fall into the "so bad it's good" category? Just curious.
He seems to have an agenda against depth and anything not full of action.

Yeah, let's see a few rants like mine!

...Actually, let's not. I'm kind of embarrassed that I spent the time to pound out that much wordage on one crappy show. But a paragraph or two might be nice.
No, let's, that rant was hilarious, we need more horrible anime exposed like that.

I like One Piece all right, but I can think of plenty of reasons that people wouldn't like it - most likely the same reasons that I much prefer Bleach or Naruto (or Claymore, tee-hee) to it. Most of it has to do with the series' pacing. Ten years in, and it hasn't progressed very far in any real sense. The Straw Hats' last important achievement as a crew was to reach the Grand Line, and that was several years ago. They don't seem to be getting any closer to finding the One Piece (indeed, it seems like Oda's forgotten about that little detail sometimes.) Instead of developing existing threads, Oda throws in new complications like Ace and Blackbeard and Luffy's granddad and some vast ancient conspiracy by the government to annihilate all trace of... something. They haven't told us what yet, and it looks like it'll be a very loooooong time before they actually do.

The series is quite formulaic, such that each arc falls into largely the same pattern:

1) Straw Hats arrive at the location of their latest adventure.
2) Some new quirky character (Future Crewmember or New Friend) appears, and (in most cases) antagonizes the Straw Hats on sight.
3) Resident Villain shows up, also picks a fight with the Straw Hats. It turns out that Future Crewmember has a bone to pick with Resident Villain.
4) During the ensuing battles, Future Crewmember is revealed to have a tragic backstory in which a beloved friend/parental figure nobly sacrificed him/herself (or a limb) to save young Future Crewmember. Note that these people are pretty much the only One Piece characters who die. Ever.
5) Future Crewmember is inspired by Luffy's gung-ho pirate spirit and begins to cooperate.
6) The Straw Hats split up to have roughly one-on-one battles with each of Resident Villain's bizarre henchmen. Numerous other minor friendly characters appear to suffer mortal wounds (such as having their heads cleaved with axes) during this time.
7) Luffy and/or Future Crewmember face off against Resident Villain. Luffy eventually wins.
8) All the dead good guys are actually revealed to be A-OK. Except for the character(s) from Future Crewmember's tragic backstory, of course. They're SOL.
9) Future Crewmember agrees to join the Straw Hats.
10) The Straw Hats' bounties are increased. If you're very fortunate, there may be some brief conversation from Robin hinting at a larger plot lurking in the background somewhere.
n) Some time later, the defeated villains are also revealed to be A-OK, appearing in humorous bonus comics at the beginning of each chapter.

And the series repeats that pattern over and over. Looking at One Piece up to this point, it kinda feels like we're running in circles, with a tiny amount of forward progression every now and then.
Yes, this is very true. One Piece is extremely formulaic. Plus, when we break the formula, all we get is filler crap like Zoro "babysitting" or an old man who has a goat fetish.

I mean, I wouldn't go as far as to call One Piece one of the WORST anime I've ever seen, there are much worse, like, say, almost all hentai, but it's certainly not one of the best either.

Hell, all of the "big three" (Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece) have major problems, but I don't hate them. Bleach has HORRIBLE pacing for a once a week show. For example, Kenpachi vs Ichigo was way too long.

And Naruto kind of just rambles. (I'm about to go on a rant about part 1, so, uh, spoilers for those who haven't seen all of it) Like, you'll get a really long arc like the Chunin Exam developing all the genin then BAM here comes Orochimaru to screw stuff up and oh man new character Itachi, never mind, forget him, let's focus on Tsunade, hey wait what happened to all the genin other than Naruto let's have them chase Sasuke while Sasuke pops some pills and betrays his teammates and hey wait what happened to Itachi and the "akatsuki" dammit we forgot about them let's have some minor mentions and teases of them while we get generic filler missions for several years! :D

P.S. Yes, that is a run on sentence, sort of like how Naruto is a run on anime.

Oh yeah and I forgot Pilot Candidate. That was a horrible show. There was no ending! Plus, the plot was MAJORLY generic. I mean, there was absolutely NOTHING new that it brought to the table. And what the hell, why was it editted to Toonami standards, and aired on AS? That makes no sense. I mean, it's not like I care that it got edited, since I don't like the show enough to care about it, but it was just really weird. They were going to air it on Toonami, then they decided AS needs more shows? WTF? Just air the uncut masters, CN, there was nothing objectionable in the show in the first place. Other than, you know, smoking, which was uncut on Bebop an hour or so before Pilot Candidate. Why did I go on that rant? I mean, that has nothing to do with the actual quality of the show. I guess because the poor editting just turned me off of the show. Oh yeah, and why the hell did they bring it back for an OVA if the OVA wasn't even going to finish the anime's plot?

Hell, speaking of OVAs, I'm going to rant about the Wolf's Rain OVAs. Man, those OVAs pissed me off. I mean, they weren't REALLY bad, at least they got SOME emotion from me, but my idea of a good time is not watching every cast member get brutally murdered. And then, in the end, Kiba was the only one left, shades of End of Eva. Oh, wait! Reboot time! Shades of Big O! Yay for unoriginal endings!

Oh yeah, DICE was a piece of crap. The acting in that show was awful, the animation was no good, the plot was REALLY REALLY generic, and it just sucked in general. Plus, the name was idiotic. Wasn't it
DNA
INTEGRATED
CYBER
ENTERPRISES.
or something? I remember DNA being the D. You don't make a freaking abbreviation be part of an abbreviation. It should've been DNAICE if anything. But of course, that has no ring to it, so it was DICE. Couldn't they just think up some other things for the abbreviation to stand for?

...I think I've run out of anime to rant about. For the record, I only really hate DICE and Pilot Candidate of the shows I ranted about. It's just, the other ones have things that bother me about them.

Edit: Wait, no one's mentioned Bobobo? I know a lot of people hate that show, surprised no one's mentioned it in here.

[Classic Speedy]

Yes. It. Does! Season I finale. The squad gets 'taken down' one by one, but not before certain squad member brutally kill Mariens from their own country... And then, poof! Everythings back to normal, and everyone's happy! The most pathetic excuse for a deux ex machina ending I've ever seen. See, I missed that episode. I was mainly saying that GITS doesn't reuse the same tired comedy shtick over and over.
He seems to have an agenda against depth and anything not full of action. Well, we won't know for sure, will we? Without any reasons we're forced to read his mind.

You know what? Forget it, it's not worth the mental effort to read minds. If you only type a list or only say "This was horrible", I refuse to take your post seriously.

[tailsxcream]

sonic x is the worst video game anime i have ever seen digimon and pokemon were much better.

[Czar Gato]

I have to say that in all my years of being in the anime fandom (okay, seven isn't a lot), I can't recall ever seeing very many truly bad anime. Sure, I've seen shows that are boring or forgettable or just don't elicit any emotional response from the viewer whatsoever, but maybe only one or two that I thought were utterly atrotious.

The one that I can think of off the top of my head that qualifies as truly bad was Eiken- I saw maybe five minutes of an episode before I got disgusted and changed the channel. In fact, I'm suprised I tolerated it for that long- it's so blatantly sexist just from the first scene.

Also, what was that one with the vampires? Kimera? I think I may have seen that one years ago and hated it, but I cannot recall why; I don't even remember what the overall plot was like.

[anime_guru]

Thank you speedy boris and all for trying to make people explain why they dislike the anime they selected. And yet, the pleas fall on deaf ears...but admirable tries though...

I'm going to go with a few posters a few pages back and say Tekken was really a bad anime. I loved seeing tekken animated, but it was like the writers literally stuck a pencil in their ear when thinking of plot. So much could've been done with it (why the devil genome exists, the relation between Jun, Lei, and Wang Jinrei) and more importantly why did Lee hate Kazuya? Now granted this takes place in Tekken 2 continuity, but nothing was explained. Jun and Kazuya - childhood friends and they magically have a son? WTF!? did I miss something? It's like the movie dismissed story of the games and that's what disappointed me the most.

Also Battle Arena Toshinden suffered from a similar fate of the tekken movies. Instead of saying, wow I didn't know that (like in the short lived manga/anime series) this movie left me baffled. I guess what truly didn't make sense was the characters motivations as it was pretty darn mindless. And yes the sophia shower scene was also one of the mindless pieces of fan service I've seen...

I'm also surprised no one mentioned Amazing Nurse Nanako. What was that series? Was there a plot? Or was it just gratuitous fan service? I'm sorry but what type of series works on 6 OVAs of fan service. And I guess it wouldn't be bad if there was a plot. But there was none, the fan service ranks up there with ikkitousen, just no redeeming plot to make me watch. And I actually watched all 6 OVAs before saying I completely hate it.

I think that's all I can think of and I think many of the pics people gave are mostly series that are pretty heralded in many circles of anime communities. There are exceptions, but generally, a lot are accepted.

[Gary L Thompson]

Mon Colle Knights. Cuteness does not make up for having the same plot every episode.

I still maintain the show was a vast improvement over "Time Detective Flint". At least once in a while the show would try something different, like the plot revolve around the good guys and bad guys playing a baseball game, or the baddies actually trying to be helpful for once and Beginner causing all the real trouble.


Pokemon Deoxys movie: how can a movie about alien pokemon not have Clefairy :confused: the cg block things were lame and the city concept and customs didn't feel like it fit in the pokemon world at all

I'm hard put to recall any movie that looked as impressive in the previews, and delivered so little. I would judge it the weakest of the "Pokemon" films, even worse than the first one.


Blue Gender

AHHHHHHHHHH-Giant Bugs!

AHHHHHHHHHH-Cabbage People!

I stopped halfway through when the main character finally lost his mind.

Yeah, I had forgotten what an ordeal that series turned out to be.


I can't believe no one else has said Eiken. Have people just not seen it, if you haven't seen it then good, do not see it.

Your warning came too late. I saw it on the Encore channels this past week.


I like One Piece all right, but I can think of plenty of reasons that people wouldn't like it - most likely the same reasons that I much prefer Bleach or Naruto (or Claymore, tee-hee) to it. Most of it has to do with the series' pacing. Ten years in, and it hasn't progressed very far in any real sense. The Straw Hats' last important achievement as a crew was to reach the Grand Line, and that was several years ago. They don't seem to be getting any closer to finding the One Piece (indeed, it seems like Oda's forgotten about that little detail sometimes.) Instead of developing existing threads, Oda throws in new complications like Ace and Blackbeard and Luffy's granddad and some vast ancient conspiracy by the government to annihilate all trace of... something. They haven't told us what yet, and it looks like it'll be a very loooooong time before they actually do.

The series is quite formulaic, such that each arc falls into largely the same pattern:

1) Straw Hats arrive at the location of their latest adventure.
2) Some new quirky character (Future Crewmember or New Friend) appears, and (in most cases) antagonizes the Straw Hats on sight.
3) Resident Villain shows up, also picks a fight with the Straw Hats. It turns out that Future Crewmember has a bone to pick with Resident Villain.
4) During the ensuing battles, Future Crewmember is revealed to have a tragic backstory in which a beloved friend/parental figure nobly sacrificed him/herself (or a limb) to save young Future Crewmember. Note that these people are pretty much the only One Piece characters who die. Ever.
5) Future Crewmember is inspired by Luffy's gung-ho pirate spirit and begins to cooperate.
6) The Straw Hats split up to have roughly one-on-one battles with each of Resident Villain's bizarre henchmen. Numerous other minor friendly characters appear to suffer mortal wounds (such as having their heads cleaved with axes) during this time.
7) Luffy and/or Future Crewmember face off against Resident Villain. Luffy eventually wins.
8) All the dead good guys are actually revealed to be A-OK. Except for the character(s) from Future Crewmember's tragic backstory, of course. They're SOL.
9) Future Crewmember agrees to join the Straw Hats.
10) The Straw Hats' bounties are increased. If you're very fortunate, there may be some brief conversation from Robin hinting at a larger plot lurking in the background somewhere.
n) Some time later, the defeated villains are also revealed to be A-OK, appearing in humorous bonus comics at the beginning of each chapter.

And the series repeats that pattern over and over. Looking at One Piece up to this point, it kinda feels like we're running in circles, with a tiny amount of forward progression every now and then.

Actually that strikes me as a good formula. What will tend to make this series just one of my likes instead of my favorites, though, is that "One Piece" takes forever to go through those arcs. I don't mind the plot getting winding and involved, ratcheting up the tension before the climax. But when it comes to the battle I tend to favor the quick-strike approach: one swing of Voltron's blazing sword, or one throw of the moon tiara, a quick chomping down of the spinach (you get the idea), and it's bye-bye baddie. I simply detest :mad: the nefarious influence DRAG-on Ball Z had on subsequent Shonen Jump material in fights dragging over multiple episodes, I'd love some series to ruthlessly lampoon that someday and mock it out of existence.


Hell, speaking of OVAs, I'm going to rant about the Wolf's Rain OVAs. Man, those OVAs pissed me off. I mean, they weren't REALLY bad, at least they got SOME emotion from me, but my idea of a good time is not watching every cast member get brutally murdered. And then, in the end, Kiba was the only one left, shades of End of Eva. Oh, wait! Reboot time! Shades of Big O! Yay for unoriginal endings!

I think "Wolf's Rain" would have have been a worthwhile watch if there had been some payoff at the end. It was so disappointing to go through all that travail with those characters, only for it all be for nothing.

[Bomber D Rufi]

Digimon started out good but got worse. (Season 3 was good though...horrible ending however.) But my money goes on something that is far too overated.. the worst show has to be... NARUTO.

[Kaiser0120]

Digimon started out good but got worse. (Season 3 was good though...horrible ending however.) But my money goes on something that is far too overated.. the worst show has to be...NARUTO.


OK, come on man. You're new to the board, that's cool, but I hope you're not throwing out flame-bait just for the sake of it. You have a right to your opinion, of course, but that almost seems like you're trying to provoke people by overtly and excessively insulting a popular series in such a manner.

If you're just trying to emphasize your distaste for the series, however, then that size font is a little excessive, don'tcha think? :3

[Bomber D Rufi]

OK, come on man. You're new to the board, that's cool, but don't throw out flame-bait just for the sake of it. You have a right to your opinion, of course, but please don't try and provoke people by overtly and excessively insulting a popular series in such a manner.

Sorry. I tried to edit and it wouldn't let me. I wanted to add that i just feel Naruto is to overly hyped for too little of a series. Sure it has nice art, but thats about it. But yeah i apologize to Naruto fans. I'm really a nice guy once you get to know me, i just really cannot stand Naruto or any of the popularity it has.

[Kurokawa41]

Sorry. I tried to edit and it wouldn't let me. I wanted to add that i just feel Naruto is to overly hyped for too little of a series. Sure it has nice art, but thats about it. But yeah i apologize to Naruto fans. I'm really a nice guy once you get to know me, i just really cannot stand Naruto or any of the popularity it has.

Nice save; around these parts, that could have been fatal.

Though, it seems One Piece has a bigger fanbase around here than Naruto. Personally, I like both...

Addition: Oh, and Naruto has more to it than just the art. Give it a try. It takes a lot from landmark anime from back in the day, like Gaara takes from Tetsuo of Akira fame, and Neji from Kenshiro of Fist of the North Star. Not to mention, there are so many varied characters with different abilities, most of which get thoroughly developed. It's really not a bad show at all. Overhyped, yes, because it's mainstream now. Bad? No.

[Funkatron]

I can't really give you my worse anime. I can give you some things I hate the most about some anime. Get ready for a semi-long rant from the Funk...

First thing I hate is shows that think they can ride off a gimmick or genre to get success and not focus on anything else. One the types of shows I hate for this are some of the fan service shows... Not all mind you but most fan service shows seem the think all you need to do is add fan service and the show is magically fine, despite its crappy or non-existent plot o0r character development. The show that has irked me recently with this is Burst Angel. I, for the life of me, can't understand why people like this show. Yes, it has pretty art and yes, ZOMG! Girls with boobs with guns!! But that’s all it has going for it. Let’s have a look at how shallow this show is.

First thing is the characters. One of the weakest parts of the show. You can't relate at all to any of them they're all just cookie cutter fan boy favorites. You have Jo, the near emotionless girl with guns and giant robot. And that’s it. That’s all she is.

Then you have Meg, the ditsy girl who always seems to get captured one way or another. She has no skills whatsoever and yet she's on their team. Why the heck do they even keep her on?

The other characters? They're even more 2d than the two main ones. I can't even remember their names. The hacker: ZOMG! Lolicon bait! The Boss: ZOMG! Under boob! Non-descript mysterious past that we don't care about!! I'm not even sure why the cook guy is there, and yet he's more useful than Meg!

And then there is the plot or lack of it. They go investigate some weird goings ons, usually involving sending Meg undercover. She obviously doesn't have any undercover skills, because she normally gets captured by the bad guys. Jo starts shooting, gets into giant robot, lather rinse repeat. This formula is used in ever Darn episode I saw (first 9 before I got bored of it).

That’s not to say I hate all fan service shows. I just finished watching Godannar and I loved it. Yeah, it had fan service but it also had a decent plot and characters you could really get into.

Another thing I hate about some anime: the fact that some sows seem to build up to something big but in the end either doesn't go anywhere, ends horribly or just makes you go WTF? Case in point is Gundam Seed Destiny. Now its predecessor, Gundam Seed, I could forgive. It started out slow, sometimes mind numbingly boring. But once it hit the halfway mark, it just kept getting better and better. That ending was awesome. I could forgive the production staff for boring me in the beginning.

But Seed Destiny, wow, that was truly a disappointment. It started off so awesomely. Earth and Plants get into another conflict. Political intrigue, interesting characters, teen angst, and big giant robot battles...what's not to love? But then...I'm not even sure exactly what happened. The plot twists became too convoluted. The characters became too whiney. It seemed to loose itself. They couldn't even decide who were the real main characters, jumping back and forth between Kira, Athrun and Shin . And no one F'n DIED!!!!I know you like characters but why put in a position that they clearly should and will die from if you're not gonna kill them?!

In the end, Seed Destiny collapsed under its own fan boy fattened weight. Too many darn cooks in the basket. I can never forgive a show that had so much potential, but ended up wasting it.

If any of my comments are wrong or skewed, please feel free to correct me.

Ahh, feels so good to rant.

[Bomber D Rufi]

Nice save; around these parts, that could have been fatal.

Though, it seems One Piece has a bigger fanbase around here than Naruto. Personally, I like both...

Addition: Oh, and Naruto has more to it than just the art. Give it a try. It takes a lot from landmark anime from back in the day, like Gaara takes from Tetsuo of Akira fame, and Neji from Kenshiro of Fist of the North Star. Not to mention, there are so many varied characters with different abilities, most of which get thoroughly developed. It's really not a bad show at all. Overhyped, yes, because it's mainstream now. Bad? No.


Oh i've read quite a bit of Naruto, one thing i hate more than anything is people who read two chapters or watch two episodes of an anime or manga and then rant on how bad it is. I don't rant on how bad something is when i haven't read it or watched it. I've all of part one of Naruto (pre shippuden) and watched most of it (in chunks and also pre shippuden.) It had something before it got to Sasuke VS Naruto....but then it just lost it by simply hyping up Naruto and ignoring other characters. Also the snails pace of the anime didn't help much. Not that Pierrot (The animation company) could help it....the manga moves really slowly too. (One chapter for Naruto to go kyuubi? ONE WHOLE CHAPTER?) And sure there are other characters...but lets be honest.....how long ago have we seen any of them do anything other than live in Naruto and or Sasuke's shadow?


....and lastly any show with an annoying main character already has something against it. If you can't like the lead....its hard to get through the show since he or she appears the most, and i can't STAND Naruto. (The main character.)

[Classic Speedy]

I can't really give you my worse anime. I can give you some things I hate the most about some anime. Get ready for a semi-long rant from the Funk...

First thing I hate is shows that think they can ride off a gimmick or genre to get success and not focus on anything else. One the types of shows I hate for this are some of the fan service shows... Not all mind you but most fan service shows seem the think all you need to do is add fan service and the show is magically fine, despite its crappy or non-existent plot o0r character development. The show that has irked me recently with this is Burst Angel. I, for the life of me, can't understand why people like this show. Yes, it has pretty art and yes, ZOMG! Girls with boobs with guns!! But that’s all it has going for it. Let’s have a look at how shallow this show is.

First thing is the characters. One of the weakest parts of the show. You can't relate at all to any of them they're all just cookie cutter fan boy favorites. You have Jo, the near emotionless girl with guns and giant robot. And that’s it. That’s all she is.

Then you have Meg, the ditsy girl who always seems to get captured one way or another. She has no skills whatsoever and yet she's on their team. Why the heck do they even keep her on?

The other characters? They're even more 2d than the two main ones. I can't even remember their names. The hacker: ZOMG! Lolicon bait! The Boss: ZOMG! Under boob! Non-descript mysterious past that we don't care about!! I'm not even sure why the cook guy is there, and yet he's more useful than Meg!

And then there is the plot or lack of it. They go investigate some weird goings ons, usually involving sending Meg undercover. She obviously doesn't have any undercover skills, because she normally gets captured by the bad guys. Jo starts shooting, gets into giant robot, lather rinse repeat. This formula is used in ever Darn episode I saw (first 9 before I got bored of it). Burst Angel was far from the worst anime I've ever watched, but I do agree that it needed more work. The plotlines were pretty repetitive (as you said, Meg gets kidnapped, Jo rescues her), there were a LOT of filler episodes which caused the plot to be rushed towards the end of the series, and Kyohei is pretty much ignored and pushed into the background most of the time, which was a fatal flaw since he appeared to be a main character early on. But I liked the visuals and music, the action was well-done, and the city conspiracy plot had some cool things to it.

And for the record, the other two girls were Sei (oldest) and Amy (computer whiz). Sei was pretty much ignored and underused in the show but I liked Amy, especially the episode centered on her, like when she pursued a cyberhacker in cyberspace. That was pretty nifty.

....and lastly any show with an annoying main character already has something against it. If you can't like the lead....its hard to get through the show since he or she appears the most, and i can't STAND Naruto. (The main character.) Agreed. The thing is, I would've probably been able to root for Naruto's underdog scenario a lot more if I hadn't found him so annoying.

[DBZNarutoWarrior]

I'd say it's between all of the Gundam series (just not my taste), and Dragon Ball GT.

[MJC]

I got a couple:

Ghost in the Shell: Sure, I liked the fact that the show didn't insult your intelligence. Nice and high-concept and all. The problem is...IT'S REALLY BORING. The plots just weren't exciting at all. And the characters didn't help, with their monotone style of talking and lack of personalities. I think they found the show as boring as I did.

.hack/sign: Once again, BORING. For a slightly different reason. The plot moved ridiculously slow, you don't even know what the series is really about until it's almost over. Who wants to see cool-looking characters talking about how they just took a bath or something? Not to mention Tsubasa does pretty much NOTHING for the whole series (outside of annoying other characters). And were there even any fights? I'd only recommend this show to insomniacs.

Inuyasha - Was good for the first 20 or 30 episodes, but I think the writer just ran out of ideas after that. Might be the most redundant anime of all time. Inuyasha and co. save a village, sword upgrade, Kagome does the "sit boy" thing AGAIN, etc. Had the plot actually gone somewhere it could've been good.

Big O - I actually liked this show before the last few episodes. The problem is that the writer NEVER EXPLAINED ANYTHING. You don't introduced a universe-altering deus-ex-machina in the LAST minute of a series. That's just horrible writing. And I'm sorry, but I just don't care for nonsensical endings.

[DBZNarutoWarrior]

Inuyasha - Was good for the first 20 or 30 episodes, but I think the writer just ran out of ideas after that. Might be the most redundant anime of all time. Inuyasha and co. save a village, sword upgrade, Kagome does the "sit boy" thing AGAIN, etc. Had the plot actually gone somewhere it could've been good.

Inuyasha was ACTUALLY good for the first 30 episodes? I only watched the first 30 or so episodes, and I was getting bored with those episodes, hard to believe it gets worse than that.



Big O - I actually liked this show before the last few episodes. The problem is that the writer NEVER EXPLAINED ANYTHING. You don't introduced a universe-altering deus-ex-machina in the LAST minute of a series. That's just horrible writing. And I'm sorry, but I just don't care for nonsensical endings.

Yeah, it is done very badly, it's like he just felt like rambling on and on about nothing. Then all of a sudden he said WHOOPS I forgot to put the POINT in the series in. So he only had time to put a little bit in for the last 2-3 episodes. It took away from the series, because I always felt while watching it I was supposed to be getting something, but didn't get. But it worked out, and it was cool to watch everything again to see all of the symbolism and such that the creator actually put in. It's always fun to come up with theories on the show (there are billions), which keeps it going with the fans. I like Big O though, but I understand why you don't, and where you are coming from.

[Bomber D Rufi]

I'd say it's between all of the Gundam series (just not my taste), and Dragon Ball GT.

Agreed. Though i don't like mecha shows in general....(Though i do really like Gurren Lagann.) I'm more of a humorist, and Gundams are always so serious. Unless they're "Its-so-bad-that-its-funny".

[maxa]

Tenchi in Tokyo
Steel Angel Kurumi2
Nuku Nuku TV
Jubei-chan the Ninja Girl

[Rolling Cloud]

I got a couple:

Ghost in the Shell: Sure, I liked the fact that the show didn't insult your intelligence. Nice and high-concept and all. The problem is...IT'S REALLY BORING. The plots just weren't exciting at all. And the characters didn't help, with their monotone style of talking and lack of personalities. I think they found the show as boring as I did.

Lack of personalities? How is there a lack of any personality? :confused:

Togusa: Dedicated to his job while at the same time caring for his family. You ever see the beginning of: "Trial" in season 2? He shows a lot of personality in that scene. He shows a sweet personality while defending the girl, and shows an angry side right before he shoots the guy. (You want me to kill you? You Son of a *****!")

Batou: Shows a fatherly side to the tachikomas, a boyfriend-y side to Motoko (as proven in the next-to-last S.1 episode and more), and a cold side towards his job.

There, a couple of good examples!

[TheMP3000]

Let's see... the worst animes I've watched in the last 5 years are Dragonball Z, Dragonball GT, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Gundam Wing, Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED Destiny, Beyblade, InuYasha, Fullmetal Alchemist(to an extent), Eiken, Duel Masters, Yu-Gi-Oh (Sin to humanity), UFO Princess Valkyre, Trinity Blood, Speed Grapher, Basilisk, Desert Punk, Burst Angel, Reign, Afro Samurai, Idaten Jump, Prince of Tennis, Zatch Bell, The Twelve Kingdoms(This is due to the fact I fall asleep at episode 5), His and Her Circumstances, Kiddy Grade and lastly, .hack// Legend of the Twilight.

Wow, that's not as bad as I initally thought for over 5 years. ^_^"

[MJC]

I got another one, and you'll hate me for this.

Lupin III.

I've only seen the episodes on Adult Swim, but from what I've seen it sucks.

My main problem is that I hate most of the characters. Zenigata and maybe Jigen are the only ones I can stand.

The others are ridiculously boring (Goemon) or just plain asses (Lupin and Fujiko). All the episodes pretty much made me want Zenigata or somebody to arrest those jerks.

And the characters never really get much development, so we don't really know why they feel a need to go around stealing other people's stuff (Lupin's granddad being a thief is a poor motivation at best).

And no, the show wasn't that funny. Lupin's disguises were not that funny, nor is Fujiko betraying Lupin every episode.

[DBZNarutoWarrior]

Let's see... the worst animes I've watched in the last 5 years are Dragonball Z, Naruto, Bleach One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist(to an extent), Prince of Tennis

Ok.... OUCH:sad: (at least you gave FMA a little cushion on the slam....;) ) I see main stream anime is out of the question:p With Bleach, I can't really judge it yet, I've only seen 3-4 random episodes (I will if I like it or not when I see it from the beginning).



I got another one, and you'll hate me for this.

Lupin III.

I've only seen the episodes on Adult Swim, but from what I've seen it sucks.

And the characters never really get much development, so we don't really know why they feel a need to go around stealing other people's stuff (Lupin's granddad being a thief is a poor motivation at best).

And no, the show wasn't that funny. Lupin's disguises were not that funny, nor is Fujiko betraying Lupin every episodes.

Yeah, Lupin III isn't that great, It's not among the WORST anime that I've ever seen, but it's still pretty close to it IMO.