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My Top Five Most Disappointing Anime |
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by Phil I. Buster, Mar 31, 2008 |
Have you ever watched an anime, only to look back on it and go “That was horrible” or even just stopped watching in the middle of it? I have, and here are the five that made me frown. |
Death Note
Don't get me wrong here, it was a decent series, up until episode number 25 when one of the most loved characters in the series died of a sugar rush that only Kira can cause. Past that point, it went to about borderline mediocrity. It lost all tension that it had in the past, and kind of sucked the fun right out of it. His replacements were mere imitations and did nothing but make you want him back even more. They even had their own little thing, one looked like him, and one had the same tastes as he did. It just wasn't the same past that point. If you are going to watch it, go with 1-25, for that is when it was its best.
Black Cat
Here is a thing that went wrong. The manga was amazing, and then they make this. There is one thing that developers shouldn't do, but do anyway for reasons that only they know: differentiate from the manga. The anime was full of differences, meetings, events, abilities that never appeared (Train's railgun?). They even added an ending with Eve and a machine called “Eden” that in my mind shouldn't have even existed. A lot of the goodness of the manga was removed, and this is where it fails.Naruto
This is one of those anime that started off with a good premise to me: Everyone is human. They can die from normal things. They have their limits, unlike a certain show involving Dragonball. This, however was abandoned, for now you have people throwing useless items at people just to try and make suspense, little to no strategy in fights, with the exception of one character, and it has gotten cheesy with all of the talks about friendship. It has become more about flashy moves than about strategy. If it would have kept the humanity of the characters still well-known, this would have been a whole lot better. Also, if any anime has over 90 episodes of filler, it deserves to be shot.Dragonball Z
Good at the time, but my tastes have gotten better since then. This was really just a lot of fighting while trying to get some form of a coherent storyline into it. Not only did it revolve around fighting, but the fighting got heavily repetitive. Mostly revolving around these aspects: - Good guy gets beaten down by bad guy
- Good guy suddenly has some form of secret ability or transformation
- Good guy beats on bad guy and wins
- (Optional if bad guy didn't die) Bad guy has some form of special attack or transformation.
- Repeat.
Neo Ranga
On my goodness. Biggest disappointment I have seen. It sounded good, three girls suddenly can control a god. But do you know what they did with it? Use it to bring havoc, you say? No! They use it to ride to school and have a peaceful life. Why? I don't know. Everything you see about this show is a lie. Avoid this at all costs.
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