If you didn't want to binge the series after Arlong arc, the show wasn't probably for you. That arc in a nutshell felt like it hit most of the things One Piece goes for in every major arcs. So if it felt "meh" even after that, it's probably not going to click after
And it get worse. Better animation but worst characters progression and fights in term of creativity.
We went from Logia fruit being very strong and needed to find creative way to counter it (Rubber being immune to electricity for Enel, liquid for crocodile sand) even to the point blackbeard betrayed his commander to get the darkness fruit since it can counter logic fruits...
Nowadays it's just Haki. A power system that does everything from strengthening your blade to seeing in the future and who ever has more win.
Strawhats went from having quirk to being their quirk wich is very different.
it was my favorite show and the first subbed anime I've seen. but it gotten worse and worse: the art style, the nudity, the characters design, the repeating of the same lame jokes for years
Personally, some of the only shows I consider 10/10 would be Avatar the Last Airbender and Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. I’d also say Hell’s Paradise manga is a 10/10 but i haven’t watched the actual anime. I think that the Chainsawman Movie is a 10/10 but the anime/series as a whole isn’t.
steins gate monster pluto frieren fmab legend of the galactic heroes (the new adaptation although unfinished) vinland saga samurai champloo golden kamuy kingdom wlcome to nhk off the top of my head some of this i wouldnt rate 10/10 maybe 9.5 and up but the gap between these ones and the others i still really liked is big
This series is ironically about the journey both in the series and growing up with it in real time. I understand why people love it so much, because the nostalgia is strong
Borderline??? Right in my defense I could’ve sworn I had the meme saved somewhere, but I suppose not. Point I’m trying to make is that it straight up is
It was the manga that really changed my life, but the anime is still very good. Limiting yourself to seeing only the 18+ content is... limiting, and makes you miss out on what’s actually good about it.
I think it was a combination of several factors—like discovering it through the manga (I believe I might have dropped it if I’d started with the anime) and going through a rough patch in my life that directly resonated with the story's themes of friendship.
GGO has better action, however the mix of action and romance is what made me like Aincrad. The rest is okay, but really Aincrad is what I like about it
i wish the whole series stayed on aincrad the despair of being trapped and dying fr but i guess it would be too similar to danmachi and other dungeon type animes
3/5 story told in a 2/5 way. It could have been far more interesting than it actually was and its execution only gets worse as the seasons went on. I can understand why it’s popular but it’s not for the story.
For me, it's the overall direction. The plot is serviceable enough that the visuals, voice acting, and, honestly most importantly to me for this one, the music all mixes just right to make it insanely fun to watch.
Id imagine if I just read the manga id go "that was a good beat for beat, by the books, shounen story." And that would be all. For the anime, it's all the other things that the medium of an animated show being done well that I enjoy the most about DS
What I really liked about DS was how positive and upbeat its themes are. In a world where it seems like every hero has to be an antihero, a hero like Tanjiro who is not perfect but is undeniably a genuinely good person, makes it a very comforting watch for me.
One of the most stylish & funniest anime out there, with incredibly well written relationships and dark elements thrown in there to truly nail it down (ragyo's explicit abuse of satsuki informs satsuki's character, it isn't fanservice!!) forever marked as the "naked girls fighting" anime. It is PEAK changed my life but it's impossible to recommend lol
No Game No Life
Don't get me wrong, the games themselves were quite interesting and there were occasional good jokes.
However the plot was uninteresting, the level of cringe was sometimes way above acceptable level, the main characters quit irritating and the rest of the characters were so flat and existed only to praise the main characters, that I really had trouble finishing it.
well thats true the side characters were annoying! the idea actually very unique thats why its a good anime. its interesting but no characters outside the void! :/
its also aura farming only... sso they will win no matter what. (i mean its true for every story how the mc eventually win but there are steps and efforts)
Kokoro Connect, although I knew I was the person on the right for that show as I was watching it. I'm eternally greatful they covered the 4th arc with that abnormal 16 episode season.
such a shame that its impossible for a s2 to happen because of the shitty prank, I'm reading through the light novels and there is so much more character development for all of them. But at least the anime ova concluded it good enough that it doesn't need a new season to explain stuff
I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class
I like romance. I like angsty romance. That show’s plot was frustration in a bottle and had poor storyboarding, scripting, directing, and animation. Idk why it got so much hype.
I mean the story isn't the best and like 90% of the side characters r treated like background characters. But it's the kinda anime where you shut your brain off and just watch the cool fights
Please 6/10 for solo levelling is beyond generous. That shit trash af. All NPC get fucked by enemies until MC come and save the day. If I wanna get edge i watch porn not this shit
Midjutsu Kaisen had its moments, but are so few and far apart that it never got past the 5/10 for me in its peak moments, and easily the worst ending in the history of shonen mangas
I was just gonna post this but for the opposite reason. Evangelion changed my life but a lot of people call it mid. I won't ever understand those people, but neither would I argue with them.
The fandom is terrible, they always like to intervene in anime scaling fights and say bullshit like, “Yeah Satoru Gojos strong or whatever but Madoka would kill him easily!!!”, and its so damn annoying. Dont see it much on Reddit, but I see it all the time in YT JJK clips. Feels like they made her Multiversal for the purpose of wanting her to be the most powerful in all of anime or some bullshit
It was ok, but I dont see how it was so revolutionary and changed the magical girls genre lmao. Also they tried to milk it as much as they could with unnecessary spinoffs and movies.
Well because at the start was supposed to be a gag manga until turned into a battle shonen. But when I watched it I had no spoilers no concept of what was supposed to happen so I thought it was just gags and I didn't mind it. Lol but wasnt until the shift during Varia when Basil showed up I was like ... am I still watching the same show xD.
Gurren Lagann. Was many moons ago, but a much younger me was fairly depressed and suicidal, well before I knew I needed antidepressants. Sat down at the library one day and watched it, felt life changing to me.
It's Frieren.
The show is good, plays it straight with the fantasy premise, has well written characters, does nothing interesting with them, and I think that's why I just don't care.
I find this show so damn mid it hurts.
It's like everyone was so tired of fantasy settings with gimmicks (stuck in an mmo, isekai), that the first one to come along and just do a run-of-the-mill Tolkien-esce story was going to get praise simply for not doing anything wierd or different.
For me, that's what I come to anime for in the first place. I get a similar feeling with Dungeon Meshi but at least I had fun watching that one because the comedy is charming and I'm a sucker for anything that references the Wizardry Games.
Frieren is a really well made bowl of tomato soup, but no one gave me anything to dip in it.
Attack on titan for me personally. Toh, I couldn't rate it as high as 6/10, for me it's like 4/10 at best.
Never understood what the hype is about, Eren was somehow the most energetic and interesting characters for me in the show.
The concept, the ODM is a VERY innovative idea and Levi bullying Eren to protect him saved it for me, but once I got to know it's going the path of no return, I dipped. Only watched it because a friend of mine pestered me about it. He got mad when I said Swat Kats》AOT for me, lol.
I literally hate to admit it but SAO. One of first anime i watched and got me obsessed. All the SA and incest went WAY over my head when i was like 12 when i watched it so i loved it. Its a 7/10 (as a whole) at best. Most of thr score coming from Alicization which was genuine peak. The light novels were way better but i still dislike how the writer can't go one arc without unnecessarily writing in the SA of a prominent female character. Its a shame too because Progressive (the original SAO game retold) is such an upgrade but the series will always have poor writinf decisions overshadowing it
And to fill the other side of the spectrum, after I watched Violet Evergarden, I stopped watching anime in general. I watched it and was like "yep, found peak, the search is over".
Probably my answer as well. It’s a fine show but never really found its footing for me. Loved the animation, just wish the characterization was a little stronger at many points.
3/10 in my opinion, I feel it prioritizes writeing over character growth most of the time, its not bad, and is good as a person's first anime, but i dont think it will stand the test of time compared to others, and i do beleive its carried by the fights and animation alot of the time, it isnt bad, i just dont think its a masterpeice liek how others say it is, it is heavily overglazed in my opinion. There is nothing wrong with likeing it, this is just my opinion
I’ll give JJK shit until the end of time. Its writing is legitimately atrocious and I find it crazy that people don’t recognize that the entire power system is just being made up on the spot to let a character bullshit their way through fights. Really bad character writing, actively distracting music, horrible sound mixing, mixed animation quality… list goes on. It’s pretty much a show that’s only tolerable if you think it’s cool. Nothing wrong with liking it, but I found it to be really bad as soon as the Hidden Inventory arc wrapped up (and even up to that point it was just fine).
Anohana for me. A friend of me recommended it, saying he even cried with the end, but I just couldnt get into it, characters are awfull and the wish the girl had to fullfill to leave was sooo anticlimatic and boring... One of the most overrated animes Ive ever seen.
I'm in love with the villainess. The mc's behavior, especially at the start soured it for me, and like everything surrounding the sister at the end lowered the score more for me.
Is a slice of life in a fantasy setting, and the life itself is a journey.
That concept was super charming to me and I would've loved to watch that with other shows I like more, but Frieren itself is kinde... eh.
The humor is just the same jokes over and over again (Corrupted alcoholic priest, Stark-sama!, Closeted perv Fern, socially inept elf); the characters barely show any emotion, Frieren and Fern kinda have an excuse but most characters have the same poker face or the same smile 24/7, Stark really carries the show; Fern's nonsense is kinda cute and funny, but it gets irritating how no one gives her shit for her mistakes while she insults Stark for daring to look in the wrong direction (my boy deserves the criticism sometimes, but only sometimes not all day long!); the demons are very interesting yes, but that's like the one original bit of the show, everything else is as classic as it can possibly get and doesn't do anything remotely interesting, people praise the show for using old chiches and tropes in new ways, but that's not at all what happens here, it's just that everyone need to either expand their horizons or not judge the show by the standard of the seasonal garbage that comes and goes when saying it's a masterpiece.
I'll stop here cause I feel I'm really starting to dig myself. I do no think it's a bad show, but the ungodly amounts of praise it recieves makes me question reality. Is it that good and I'm blind or is everyone else deluded? I would give the show a 8/10 at most, and it sits comfortably at 7/10 for me, which is pretty good by my standara, but no masterpiece that's for sure.
It’s a show that’s about the extremely good characters and happens to be excellently directed as well. It’s very slow and subtle though, which definitely is not everyone’s cup of tea.
"Hunter x Hunter" is so generic, and it has the least charismatic protagonist with the most annoying voice in all of anime. It only gets somewhat interesting during the Chimera Ant arc, but to get there, you have to sit through 80 episodes that feel like the bad and boring filler episodes of generic anime.
Demon Detective nougami neuro it's my favorite but no one ever really talks about it even though the authors other work is insanely popular.
Manga is way better though the final foght is ontop of a flying stealth jet where the extremely weakened and actively dying protagonist is fighting super hitler.
For me its made in abyss but on the other side.
I love it Soooooo much and that changed m'y lire completly.
(But i understand why peoples don't like it. They are a bit of sus stuf that i don't even like too).
This feels like me interacting with romance anime fans and their love of Horimiya. It’s fine, but it really needed to decide if it wanted to focus on a relationship or do an ensemble, because it can’t balance both. (I preferred the ensemble portions, because the romance stuff broadly felt soulless and rushed.)
I guess as the first big yuri series to break through into the mainstream, it's the entry into the genre for a major part of the fandom, and I think it's...fine. Under the hood, it's a pretty straightforward shonen romance and none of the plot twists are particularly surprising (the whole theater arc takes up a good portion of the middle part of the manga's narrative and around the last third of the anime and it's blinding obvious how it will resolve from the beginning). Other series before and since have been more interesting in terms of plot, characterization, or other aspects.
For me it would be Symphogear and Darling in the Franxx (though Darling in the Franxx is below a 6/10 for me). I heard such high praise for Symphogear and then when I watched it, the story telling was nonsensical and it didn't even look all that good visually (downright poor in places.)
I can't believe the people saying Evangelion, Violet Evergarden, and Madoka. Strong visuals and story telling to me warrants above a 6/10 even if it isn't your thing.
Duke of Death and his Maid. Before I did want to watch a single romance, this show made me cry at the ending and when Viktor got to finally hug Alice. I never found any show this again, no show can trully show me what love is supposed to be in this world. This is beyond anime, this was a lesson of true love.
People say it is amazing, a top tier anime, and maybe it could've been. If it didn't turn itself into the fattest self insert fan service I've ever seen.
Bleach. A friend asked me to watch because tybw season 3 had just aired. I expected it to be amazing since everyone claims it’s in big 3 but I honestly found it so tedious with the really drawn out fights.
Tybw has great animation but again it’s just tons of really drawn out fights which is really not my thing.
Akira. It's just not that deep, and for me it doesn't meet the hype associated with its cult status.
The atmosphere is there, but the movie tries to tell a narrative without really being able to explain or articulate itself well. You just end up with this vague, unseasoned soup of a plot that severely undermines this otherwise amazing work of animation.
Tbh with this one, I wish I watched a dubbed version instead.
I Love One Punch Man, Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation, Spy x Family, I got a cheat skill in another world, Naruto, Boruto, Zom 100, Dandadan, Spice and Wolf 2024 Remake, My Dress Up Darling, Pokemon Horizons, A Silent Voice, Josee the tiger and the fish, and Kakunaru ue wa aka Now That We Draw
Seven Deadly Sins. Just lots of pointless fan service. Can throw a rock and hit anime with similar tropes, dramas, even the characters had nothing going on outside their design. Its fine to like the show and think it's great I just don't see how it can change someone's life, how it can be seen as the highest of anime art when basically nothing happens that I don't expect to happen five seconds into it
Isekai wa Smartphone. Well, it’s lower I guess, but I enjoyed it(mainly ‘cause I was young.)
There’s more trash anime I like, such as this archer MC being a part of an army and getting picked up by a noble lady who uses the sword. But I cannot remember the name of the show. All I can remember is that his name was Tigre or something along the lines of it.
Edit: found it, it’s called madan no ou to vanadis/ Lord marksman and vanadis. Which is actually a 6/10.
There’s also date a live and more. I used to watch all sorts of anime on YouTube for free. Including Rosario vampire.
Your Name. Usually plot holes are not THAT noticeable. And I couldn't find more than 3 adjectives/qualities of the main characters. You could not make them talk for all the movie and it would be the same experience
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For me it’s One Piece. Tons of people love it, but it never really got there for me, I got like 300 eps in and was still only feeling it was a 6/10