UnrestrictedMethod's Anime
take a look at UnrestrictedMethod's MangaThe Black List. These are titles that are too bad or mediocre to be worth finishing.
| Will not finish▲▼ | Comment▲▼ |
| 18if (TV) | [Watched one episode] Shame that the talent that went into the visuals was wasted on such amateurish writing. By the end of the episode the show's trying to have this emotional climax even though it hasn't put forth the slightest bother to earn such a thing or even just to properly establish the main character, who doesn't react to anything he experiences in a believably human fashion. |
| Accel World (TV) | |
| Ah! My Goddess (TV) | An unrelentingly inane show, from the world-building to the episodic plots to the characters, I just cannot understand what anyone sees in this show. The only thing I found entertaining about it were the two auto club members. And I *really* tried to like it. I began watching the episodes in order but when that beat me down I switched to watching scattered episodes, mostly from season one but also some from season two. Nothing I watched demonstrated any improvement. |
| Air Gear (TV) | It's not so bad; it's just kind of dull. I hadn't distinctly decided not to watch any more, I just put off watching more until I realized I had no interest left. |
| Aldnoah.Zero (TV) | [Watched eight episodes] |
| Aquarion (TV) | |
| Astarotte's Toy (TV) | I don't rate shows I haven't watched all of. However, if I did, this one would fall under the "worst ever" category. Not because it's offensive, as one would expect given the premise, but because it's boring. Really, really fucking boring. |
| Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts 2 (TV) | (Watched six episodes) Pretty much all the worst parts of season one with none of the good. Even that is charitable though. Baka and Test was never an anime that anyone would call progressive in regards to the depiction of women, but in this season the depiction of the female characters reaches the point of being sickening. Over and over they alternate between taunting the men and punishing them (often unjustly), to the point it feels like the show comprises of nothing else. They have no character besides their interest in the men. It's a shame because I did like season one, but this is just deplorable. |
| BASToF Syndrome (Korean TV) | |
| Black Cat (TV) | Sven is a superb protagonist and is so in no small part due to Brandon Potter's dead-on performace. The dub team couldn't have made a better choice. Train on the other hand is a stomach churningly bad character (who no voice actor would have been able to save). He starts out fine and with a lot of potential but once his personality shifts gears... *shudders* What's worse the entire plot revolves around Train, to the point Sven is put on the sideline of what was at first his own story. On top of that as the show increasingly embraces its shōnen nature it reveals itself to be a perhaps the most boring shōnen I've ever seen (and I watched A LOT of it before giving up). There are several reasons Black Cat is so boring: 1) TOO MANY CHARACTERS all of whom are one-dimensional, immediately forgetable (with a sort-of exception for Kyoko Kirisaki who has some charm about her) and play little role is the story; 2) When extraneous characters aren't hogging up screen time Train is and the most I could do then was grit my teeth and bear through it; 3) its plot is exhasperatingly simple and uninvolving, meandering about much of the time; 4) despite all these flaws it plays itself straight. While all of that is true the show isn't so boring from the begining- the first three episodes are quite excellent. Sven gets the attention he deserves, Saya Minatsuki is a compelling character I adore more than its probably healthy to like a fictional character, and the introduction of Eve adds emotional weight as well as enough potential emotional weight to sustain the entire show. At this point I thought the show would be about Sven and the newly emotionally awakened Train (thanks to Saya who, once again, is a beautiful character) trying to protect Eve from those trying to deny her humanity and use her to kill. But no, that would have been good, so we can't have that. |
| Black Lion (OAV) | |
| Bleach (TV) | Watched twenty or so episodes before giving up. |
| Blessing of the Campanella (TV) | |
| Blue Dragon: Trials of the Seven Shadows (TV) | |
| Buddy Complex (TV) | |
| Burst Angel (TV) | |
| CANAAN (TV) | watched most of it |
| Cat Planet Cuties (TV) | episodes one and two=not really good (laudable use of irony but the characters are generic and plot development inorganic) |
| Chrome Shelled Regios (TV) | |
| Corpse Princess: Aka (TV) | Watched four or so episodes. It's not offensively bad or anything, just standard and boring. Few shows make me feel so apathetic. |
| Descendants of Darkness (TV) | I went into this show knowing nothing about it (as is my usual policy). Immediately I found myself liking the protagonist. He’s exactly my kind of character; funny and silly when the situation is light but competent and serious whenever the situation is otherwise. Now look show, if you’re going to make your characters gay that’s great! But, on the other hand, if you’re going to make a life threatening situation and indeed the whole plot about gay sex (or, indeed, sex at all) when there’s no sensible reason for it to be it just makes your plot laughable and impossible to take seriously. Okay, I know, I’m not this show's target audience. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t disappointed. I really like Asato Tsuzuki and want to watch a show with him as the protagonist. I just don’t want that show to be this show. |
| Destiny of the Shrine Maiden (TV) | |
| Dragonaut - The Resonance (TV) | |
| Dream Eater Merry (TV) | [Watched three episodes] Episode one is marginally promising. Episodes two and three are boring. |
| Ergo Proxy (TV) | |
| Fafner (TV) | |
| (The) Future Diary (TV) | |
| Gad Guard (TV) | Why do they stand on the outside of their mechs? They're not controlling them, there's no seat? They just keep standing there as if the things can fight just fine with them in the way. Already the show had too few points with me and this flaw is what pushed me over the edge of my patience. |
| Gantz (TV) | Five minutes, that's all I could get through of this anime. In just that time, it managed to become one of the worst anime I've ever seen. Poor production values and bafflingly bad cinematography leave the first negative impression, and things only nosedive from there when we meet our protagonist as he's in the middle of lewd fantasies about his female classmates and teacher, only to be publicly humiliated for his erection. I'm not joking. Soon afterwards he's in a subway station lying to an old, lost lady just to avoid inconveniencing himself helping her. AND THEN has the audacity to snap at her when she realizes the lie. That's where I stopped watching. Everything about this show is just so ugly and offensive. |
| Ghost Hunt (TV) | watched one episode |
| Girls Bravo (TV) | |
| Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun (TV) | |
| Grave of the Fireflies (movie) | |
| He Is My Master (TV) | |
| ID-0 (TV) | I watched most of the first episode, quitting without about a minute of time left. The CG character animation is predictably awful and why in God's name should we care who gets to mine some fucking asteroid. |
| Ikki Tousen (TV) | I watched the first few minutes of the first episode and that was the furthest I could get. |
| Infinite Stratos (TV) | Watched the first episode. Despite the marginally promising premise (it would be great if they had explored how emasculated men feel from being unable to pilot IS) it's the typical harem crap. |
| Inuyasha (TV) | |
| Jinki:Extend (TV) | |
| Kaze no Stigma (TV) | Personally I like to think of Kaze no Stigma as a four episode oav. It had a tight, driven plot that really made me feel for the lead and want to see him reclaim what he lost. When the plot wrapped up in episode four I found myself satisfied but also wondering "Wait, what's the rest of the show about then?" Not really anything as it turns out. I plan on enjoying the first four episodes again and again. The rest of the show can go be as lifeless, unmotivated, silly, and slapdash as it wants somewhere far far away from me. |
| Kiddy Girl-AND (TV) | Gave up after the lead character showed everyone her panties and got into a fight with her boss who wanted her to strip in public for no reason. That was half an episode in. Kiddy Grade wasn't a particularly good show but it doesn't deserve being associated with this crap. |
| Kurokami The Animation (TV) | watched half of it |
| Love Hina (TV) | watched one episode |
| Magical Play (ONA) | |
| Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (TV) | All the wierdness in this show, past the promising initial episode, is NOT entertaining. Instead, the show is good only when telling a serious story, which it does far too little. |
| Magician's Academy (TV) | |
| Magikano (TV) | |
| Mezzo (TV) | |
| MM! (TV) | |
| Modern Magic Made Simple (TV) | |
| Moeyo Ken (TV) | trite, vapid, and inane to the point thinking about it churns my stomach |
| Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok (TV) | |
| Outbreak Company (TV) | watched three episodes and parts of episodes four and five |
| Overlord (TV) | watched one episode |
| Pani Poni Dash! (TV) | "I'm God, meow" and "It's warmed by my body heat" are strangely memorable lines. Watched a big chuck of it before giving up as there is some good material here, few and far between as it is. |
| Rosario + Vampire (TV) | Wastes and enticing premise on harem bullshit. |
| Rosario + Vampire Capu2 (TV) | more of the same |
| Save Me! Lollipop (TV) | |
| (The) Seven Deadly Sins (TV) | I gave up on this show less than a fourth of an episode in when the main character started molesting an unconscious girl. |
| Shattered Angels (TV) | |
| Shigurui: Death Frenzy (TV) | |
| Sister Princess (TV) | |
| Sword Art Online (TV) | [Watched three episodes] I can see why people hate this show. There was such a disconnect between what the show was trying to make me feel and what I was actually feeling. You could say that all art is manipulative by nature- and this is true- but it's not supposed to FEEL manipulative. |
| Tayutama - Kiss on My Deity (TV) | |
| Tenchi Muyo! GXP (TV) | first four episodes=very good (charming, unique, a lot of fun, transporter captain is best character), fifth episode=bad, sixth episode through what more of the show I could tolerate=worst ever (once it embraces its harem nature it shows itself to be the worst material of that genre, where the fuck did the transporter captain go? so that's why he didn't have any name besides "transporter captain") |
| Un-Go (TV) | watched one episode |
| Utawarerumono (TV) | watched four episodes |
| X (TV) | |
| Xam'd: Lost Memories (ONA) | |
| Xenosaga: The Animation (TV) | [watched two episodes] |