You just signed your own death sentence lol. Though I kind of agree
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What is the epitome of bad or generic anime?
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You just signed your own death sentence lol. Though I kind of agree
AnathemicOne
Banned
Sword Art Online, I'd throw in Charlotte too
Show title is so misleading. I thought it'd be about competing rail lines. Nope. Just boobs and the most unlikable protagonist I've seen.
Hydrophobic
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Holy cow this is on point. Sword Art Online is definitely up there, though it hasn't stopped me from watching it because I like shitty shows from time to time.
Sword Art Online.
It had like, EVERYTHING I fucking loathe about Anime, including undeserving popularity. Fucking TRASH writing and absolutely stupid characters, a half decent idea squandered on horseshit.
Oh and don't forget a halfway decent first episode that tricks you into the thought that it wont go to shit by ep 3.
Fuck Sword Art Online and fuck Anime.
It had like, EVERYTHING I fucking loathe about Anime, including undeserving popularity. Fucking TRASH writing and absolutely stupid characters, a half decent idea squandered on horseshit.
Oh and don't forget a halfway decent first episode that tricks you into the thought that it wont go to shit by ep 3.
Fuck Sword Art Online and fuck Anime.
DrForester
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I wouldn't call it generic, but you would be hard pressed to find any greater train wreck of an anime. Trying to be deep in it's storytelling every choice made by the creators is just bad.
It does have some payoff, as someone decided "to hell with it" in the last few episodes and made one of the most hilariously bad endings to an anime I have ever seen.
pauloshinobi
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Don't worry mah boi. You have a friend here
Seraph_Nicholas
Member
Gotta be Tenchi Muyo
This so much. The setting sounded interesting. And I sorta liked the main characters (well not the crappy waifu bait and beta MC; the vest guy and gun chick were pretty cool)
Oh yes, absolutely this.
Early Fairy Tail is actually pretty okay (and does some unique stuff like having a far more powerful character resolve one of the arcs instead of the MC) but past a point it just devolves into the most shonen-y shonen ever
The average anime doesn't have cursing or partial nudity.
Admiral Woofington
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i feel like a lot of people here don't watch enough anime if you think some of these are 'generic'
Look no further than last season's Asterisk War. It follows typical LN anime tropes:
- New guy enters school for gifted children, the school is a battle school
- Before he even starts his first day he walks in/sees a girl in her underwear changing for the day
- The girl gets flustered and screams, more likely calling the lead a pervert.
- She gets extremely angry and challenges him to a fight.
- Said female character is either a princess or known as a princess. A character that doesn't have many friends due to being cold, but a beauty nonetheless all the guys want to get close to. She's known as either the strongest or one of the strongest fighters in the school.
- During the fight the princess is cocky and ultimately the lead beats her because he's actually really fucking strong.
- The lead has now caught the eye of a bunch of people, including a student council who are likely some of the strongest people in the school too.
The only other way this could be more generic is if it had started with:
- Lead walking to school, passes a street crossing, girl with toast in her mouth is running and crashes against him. He lands on her boobs or she lands with her boobs on his face.
- Gets called a pervert.
- Lead gets introduced to class as the new kid and the girl is SURPRISE in his class, stands up from her desk pointing at him going "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh?!"
Look no further than last season's Asterisk War. It follows typical LN anime tropes:
- New guy enters school for gifted children, the school is a battle school
- Before he even starts his first day he walks in/sees a girl in her underwear changing for the day
- The girl gets flustered and screams, more likely calling the lead a pervert.
- She gets extremely angry and challenges him to a fight.
- Said female character is either a princess or known as a princess. A character that doesn't have many friends due to being cold, but a beauty nonetheless all the guys want to get close to. She's known as either the strongest or one of the strongest fighters in the school.
- During the fight the princess is cocky and ultimately the lead beats her because he's actually really fucking strong.
- The lead has now caught the eye of a bunch of people, including a student council who are likely some of the strongest people in the school too.
The only other way this could be more generic is if it had started with:
- Lead walking to school, passes a street crossing, girl with toast in her mouth is running and crashes against him. He lands on her boobs or she lands with her boobs on his face.
- Gets called a pervert.
- Lead gets introduced to class as the new kid and the girl is SURPRISE in his class, stands up from her desk pointing at him going "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh?!"
Poodlestrike
Banned
Bleach was fun at the start, the manga at least, but it dissolved after the first couple big arcs.
Fair Tale probably gets my vote. There's probably worse, but out of the big names, it's easily the most derivative and generic.
Fair Tale probably gets my vote. There's probably worse, but out of the big names, it's easily the most derivative and generic.
Frozenprince
Banned
Fuck how did I forget Fairy Tail.
All the women but the loli's are F-Cups, the power of friendship, the fights involve more exposition and move calling than actual fighting, the setting is as generically high-fantasy as you can get, it's got love triangles up the yang.
It's generic tropes personified.
All the women but the loli's are F-Cups, the power of friendship, the fights involve more exposition and move calling than actual fighting, the setting is as generically high-fantasy as you can get, it's got love triangles up the yang.
It's generic tropes personified.
Killer Queen
Banned
Angel Beats since everyone already said sword art online.
Rosario+Vampire
Chobits
Also Fairy Tail
Watamote.
Rosario+Vampire
Chobits
Also Fairy Tail
Watamote.
LittleBoots
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That's how I felt about Naruto.
Good call on Angel Beats. Chobits is generic but it didn't get terrible until the very end.
Man, someone RECOMMENDED me infinite stratos like it was some good stuff and I wonder how high they were. A more generic harem anime I could barely find in my mind
Charlotte was kinda the only redeeming factor for m
Frozenprince
Banned
You shut your whore mouth.
Chezzymann
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Dont forget the main character always is the underdog and gets hyped up at the end of the fight and yells loudly and somehow beats the badguy
Bleach is actually a good anime IF you stop after the Soul Society arc like I did. I just pretend the rest doesn't exist, hah. The first story arc of Sword Art Online was at least interesting enough to make want to tune in the next week, the 2nd arc and 2nd season are just plain awful. I got fed up with the Mary Sue/Gary Stu's when the plot started sucking beyond belief and the inclusion of Japanese younger sister incest trope, ugh...
Killer Queen
Banned
It's not bad, and I like it, but it's pretty typical anime.
Conkersbadfurday
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Dunno if Angel Beats is generic, but I certainly didn't like it.
I don't watch much anime though.
The Auxiliary
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It's tempting, but I wouldn't go for Bleach, since it was actually kind of good for the first few arcs. You'd have to spend a good deal of your time before getting to the pure, raw shit of it, which kind of makes it hurt even more.
Dash_Riprock
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If there ever was a more perfect Simpsons cap for Bleach:
But SAO is probably among the worst.
But that also describes DBZ, and Yu Yu Hakusho, and Yu-Gi-Oh, and most Gundam series, and, well...vrtually every Shonen anime.
Bingo.
It's just exceptionally true for Bleach.
RespectThySole
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Bleach.
Abyssal God
Banned
The Asterisk War, there's a VIDEO SERIES about how bad it is.
There's people talking shit about Hunter x Hunter in this thread?
what
the
fuck
It's the best shonen anime ever made(and the 2011 version is amazing quality wise for a 100+ ep anime) and the golden standard that most anime can't even dream to reach.
There's people talking shit about Hunter x Hunter in this thread?
what
the
fuck
It's the best shonen anime ever made(and the 2011 version is amazing quality wise for a 100+ ep anime) and the golden standard that most anime can't even dream to reach.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
You want something that's really bad? Watch Space Thunder Kids. That'll set the bar as low as it can possibly go.
John Kowalski
Banned
First season was good.
Frozenprince
Banned
Usually after someone yells his name while crying because he's the main character.
Killer Queen
Banned
Maybe not in premise, but pretty much every character personality or arc was used numerous times elsewhere.
Not to the level that Bleach relies on fights where it's an endless cycle of perfect counters until the fight has gone on for 5 too many chapters and it's ended so the next drawn out fight can start.
No they're pretty on point.
SigmasonicX
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One thing to note is that, as the last two videos of the previously linked "Why The Asterisk War Sucks" series point out, there was another series that aired at the same time that started in almost exactly the same way and continued to have similar characters and story beats, Chivalry of a Failed Knight. However, despite having the exact same cliches at the start, it was demonstrably better than Asterisk War--the difference between a 1/10 and a 3/10, mind, but still better. So even beyond being cliched, Asterisk War is low quality.
Actually, a lot of Yu Yu Hakusho fights are resolved from quick-witted plans. Yeah, through the story, the characters become stronger, but that is often not why they win.
Never forget
Punished Inaho
Yep, dude who should've been the REAL MC got robbed
Punished Inaho
Yep, dude who should've been the REAL MC got robbed
Yeah too bad the only good characters were reduced to "hungry meathead" and "MC makes my panties wet".
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