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FilthyCasual
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Read Ranger Reject. That is all.
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smurky turkey
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Lazarus and Your Forma being on the list hurts because I was looking forward to both before the season started.
Lazarus is fun enough to watch as long as you completely turn your brain off and do not think of anything relating to the logic of the story or the setting. Fun enough is a lot worse than I was hoping for though. Your Forma is a failure as an adaptation due to that one utterly insane decision that I will never understand. The first volume spends most of its chapters introducing the characters, how they function and how the setting works. The latter includes a shit ton of important information that does not get repeated as extensive or at all in later volumes. Without the first volume you do not initially care about the characters and even worse is getting drowned in terms that do not get explained but are crucial to the plot. I should add that Loser Rangers being on the list hurts too but the first season also had severe pacing issues (though the second season is worse in that regard). |
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malvarez1
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Between Reject Rangers and Your Forma, I don’t get why producers ever opt to mess with the source material. If it’s not broke, please don’t fix it.
I know there are some people who advocate for looser adaptions, but examples like these are why I never will. |
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Blanchimont
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It was a box office success, grossing $746.8 million, against a production budget of $175 million ($325 million including advertising and promotion costs). In North America, it beat the opening weekend record previously held by Guardians of the Galaxy. And it did similarly well in other countries too. If you meant the critics' response, yeah. But as far viewers go, well... |
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dmanatunga
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It hurts, but I agree with Lazarus being on the list. I ended up dropping it just because I didn't care at all about the characters. At least the OP was dope.
I do think Gquuux deserves to be on the worst list too though. |
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ab2143
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Lazarus was very boring and The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl could have been better
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Blood-
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It was a weak Spring for sure. Out of the 7 titles cited, I didn't bother with 2 (Children and Ranger), tried the other 5 and dropped them all. Really disappointed that Your Forma and Lazarus didn't turn out better.
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Terraziel
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Even as an anime-only viewer The Beginning After The End was pretty poor, at least i can't think of a worse show on a production level that i watched this season. Bland is definitely the word for it, it was as if they were trying to suck the life out of every scene. I feel for anyone who likes the source material.
Shiunji-ke... it really needed to pick a side. Personally i think it would have been so much better if the male lead actually rejected the incest flat out, instead of presenting as doing so on the outside and having the internal monologue clearly showing interest in them (or at least not being as disgusted as he would actually be). Personally the show i disliked the most is probably Danjo no Yuujou wa Seiritsu suru, the main characters were just insufferable even by the standards of anime romcoms, and the plot verged on being entirely arbitrary. |
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tywhoppity
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Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? was the only dumpster fire I actually hatewatched. I usually drop shows this bad, but for some reason I wanted to see how bad it actually got, and I was not let down, lol! The was literally not one character on that show I could empathise/root for.
Shiunji Family was just cringe, but it wasn't really that bad. Okay, it was that bad, but at least the characters were bearable. Except the dad, at best he was an idiot, at worst he was grooming the girls to be the wife of the MC. Lazarus is one of the biggest disappointments I've ever had in an anime, given the hype. The epitome of all style and no substance. |
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Glordit
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Compared to everything else on the list, #Compass 2.0 isn't bad at all.
Biggest bores/disappointments of the season (in no particular order because they all equally bad): Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive. Lazarus Dark Elf Takamine-san The Beginning After the End Gundam GQX ByeBye Earth SHIROHIYO Our Last Crusade II I haven't watched YourForma but the absolute negativity surrounding it from all sies of the web, makes me want to put off watching it for a while still. Rock is a Lady’s Modesty gets an honorable mention for almost putting me to sleep. |
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Philmister978
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God, I think these hit the head pretty well. And as someone who's watched most of these (skipped out on TBOTE and Yandere Elf Girl, glad to see I wasn't missing anything). These were some massive disappointments or just flat out boring titles.
#COMPASS 2.0 is one of those shows that just blatantly rips off a lot of its inspiration in terms of both concepts and character designs (Justice unabashedly looks like a StarCraft space marine) and the whole plot comes off as muddied and confusing. Plus they don't even try to stop, or even kill, the actual villain of the story Voidoll, which given all the crap that happened, would have been better than what actually happened. Especially if they were going for the "Make the world a better place" ending since what's stopping them from trying another stunt like this? Not even the animation can pull itself together long enough to try and save it with its stiff 2D visuals and the CGI looking horribly pixelated. The Shiunji Family Children Should have been a lot better than it was given who was behind it. But I'm guessing Miyajima was in full "Need the money" mode given it falls too hard on cliches and under-developed characters. It reminds me too much of 22/7 in the latter regard. Loser Ranger S2, along with Fire Force S3 are probably the big disappointments for fans of their respective shows. Their pacing is either slow and plodding or way too fast to take anything in. And it hurts seeing how the production teams of both shows' earlier seasons are now struggling to keep up with these ones. It's amazing DavidPro even managed to get episodes of FF out given how underwhelming the visuals could get. But arguably the biggest misfires of the seasons are the trio of Lazarus, Gundam GQuuuuuuX, and Your Forma; and all of them have the same fundamental issue executed in different ways - Their plotting/pacing. For Lazarus and Gundam, their issues lie in how they're shows that were clearly meant for longer stretches of time (hell, arguably even split-cours, if you really want to keep the visual quality of both high), but got crammed into 12-13 episode runs because that's the reality of any anime these days. Not to mention all the plot points that don't get expanded upon despite being set up (Doug's backstory in the former, the fallout of Machu's terrorist charge and where the Amuro of her dimension was or if he even existed in the latter). Not to mention the fact that both shows are basically piggybacking off the success of their creators' past works to try and make it instead of being their own thing (and in GQuuuuuuX's case, this applies to both the use of OG MSG, and Anno's works at the same time). Your Forma's issue though is much more serious than just pacing problems, though that too is very much an issue. But the fact that someone signed off on the anime staff nixing an entire volume of setup to a story that really needed it because if was "worldbuilding". Yeah sure guys, call the literal introduction of the cast we're supposed to follow and their intended motives "worldbuilding", that's going to go over so well [/s]. In all seriousness, this really hurts the series. Though I'd also argue that even if it was adapted, the writing really wouldn't improve all that much, and a large factor of that is the incompetence of its (supposed) protagonist Echika. I don't get why the writers of both the adaptation and the original novels need to keep having her be kidnapped, almost murdered or incapacitated every other scene, let alone make that a vital plot point for the third arc. It's clear she has no combat skills and is only useful because of her brain-diving, so why keep placing her in these situations, especially since we know she's not going to die because there's five volumes of source material and she needs to be in all of them. Speaking of that arc, why keep her on the force if her one and only useful skill is not up to snuff? Hell, why keep sending her out on field missions when it'd be easier to put her on leave or have her quit for a short while and work independently as she tried figuring out the source of her issues? Why have this stupid rule of "once you've joined the police, you can't be fired, laid off or quit"? when it makes zero sense plot-wise or even in reality? In short, Your Forma is a convoluted mess that honestly wouldn't have been improved all that much even if they had adapted volume 1. And it's clear its production values are also troubled given the cheap CGI, rough storyboarding/layouts and shoddy compositing of the characters into their surroundings. Oh, and I'd also like to nominate a few other titles for the "honor" of being the worst this season -- Bye Bye Earth S2 (a show that was already too confusing and had lackluster visuals somehow got worse on both accounts), Devil May Cry(technically not an anime, but if the site counts DiC cartoons, Voltron: Legendary Defender and the various Transformers cartoons, then I'm bringing DMC up here too. Bad, hamfisted Bush-era politics and a brutally unfaithful representation of the franchise on par with the Madhouse series with only its visuals and voice acting being its saving graces. Also why is Limp Biskit being used as an opening theme?), Dinner Time Detective (slow and plodding, certainly not everyone's cup of tea, much less mine. Plus Kyōichirō really got on my nerves after a while), and Zatsu Tabi -That's Journey- (of all the "Cute girls going on Journeys" titles this season, this was probably the weakest of the three. Certainly better than the previous three titles or anything on the list itself, but when compared to Mono or Food for The Soul, it didn't appeal to me). |
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kgw
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I did drop Ranger Reject, the manga. No interested in watching the anime to suffer the same flaws, but animated.
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Key
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I have followed three of these to seasonal conclusion (TBATE, Dark Elf, and Loser Ranger), and I can't dispute the inclusion of any of them on this list, nor the reviewer-stated reasons why they're on this list. Dark Elf is my pick for the season's worst, while Ranger is my pick for the most disappointing, as its coherence has collapsed in the second half of the season.
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TheSleepyMonkey
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I completely disagree with grouping Fire Force together with Loser Ranger as if they were on the same level. I read the manga, and while the production values are objectively lesser than previous seasons, I feel a lot of the reactions towards it are pretty exaggerated. There was only one climactic moment in that season that I felt was done in an underwhelming way, yet most of the season was fine. Not to mention the final episode was actually amazingly directed and really sells a huge discovery - which Loser Ranger certainly doesn't. |
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Eilavel
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Lazarus I wouldn't put on such a list. I can only see it as more a response to expectations. I mean, its absolutely dumb as a brick with flat characters, its not a good show, but its ability to pull out some strong action sequences is enough to keep it off such a list for me; it certainly wouldn't second it.
I don't think I'd put Your Forma top either, but it is pretty rubbish. I don't think its just to vol 1 cuts at this point; I think they've also adapted too much material. However, theres also underlying problems- I don't understand that the adaptation added more kidnappings of the lead, for example, which became exhausting over the season, so (while I don't know) I think its also that some problems with the originals are highlighted just by being up on screen. Ranger Reject, total agreement with the reviewer. First arc was pretty good, I dropped it 2-3 episodes after as it just started speeding through the material and its almost non-sensical. |
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