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Blood-
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I'm assuming that the only reason Fire Hunter 2 wasn't mentioned by any of the reviewers is that nobody bothered watching it? Excellent call.
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Jabootu
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I definitely concur with that. It's true that I am undoubtedly grading on a scale, but compared to Wedding Rings or previous shows like Peter Grill and the like, Gushing is easily the best of the lot. (I know a lot of people liked Interspecies Reviewers, which is fine. However, it just didn't make me laugh, which is a problem for a comedy.) I am neither attracted to nor have a problem with ecchi--OK, the one with the guy who turned into a dog was pretty weird and oddly specific--but I need a decent show to build around the ecchi elements. However, I also get that for that particular audience such trappings are not really considered all that necessary. So usually like many things I dip in, watch and episode or two, and drop it. Gushing, though, passes that test. I found it honestly funny, I really liked at least several of the characters, and thought the continuing evolution of Uetna as a character was consistently interesting. I'm not saying it's great, but I liked it well enough that it was one of the handful of shows I really looked forward to each week. Oh, is Keijo! an ecchi? I'm not sure how much fan service you need before something trips that wire. That was another show, though, that went above and beyond in terms of building an objectively good show around the heavy fan service. |
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Alberta Panda
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I think my two least favorite anime were "Gushing Over Magical Girls" and "'Tis Time For Torture, Princess."
For me, "Magical Girls" was a silly, guilty pleasure manga, way over the top and imho hilarious. But seeing it on the screen as an anime...left me a bit creeped out. I love a good ecchi show as much as the next person, but this show was just to, well, creepy. It wasn't like being a kid and finding an old Playboy magazine, but more like being an adult finding torture porn online. Dude, too much! "'Tis Time For Torture, Princess." is a manga I really love. It's a slice-o-comfy that I look forward to. However, as an anime, it just doesn't work for me. The episodes were very same-y, and even though I liked the general look of the show, I just couldn't stay interested in it. That was hugely disappointing to me. I was so looking forward to an adaptation of a manga I like, and then I was crushed by how little I enjoyed it. |
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Florete
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Metallic Rouge has so many elements that should have had me loving it...but I couldn't even make it halfway. It's so boring.
I dropped it for Solo Levelling, a show that is almost the complete opposite in that it contains a bunch of stuff that would normally make me hate it (and indeed it wasn't on my radar initially), but I'd heard some good things so I gave it a shot and have been enjoying it quite a bit, so it surprised me a bit to see it mentioned multiple times here. To be fair, I barely ever watch this type of series anymore since, as mentioned, I don't like them, but I do feel like it's better than a lot of the ones I did (and didn't, probably) see. I was initially a little surprised to not see Gushing Over Magical Girls anywhere here given the first episode reactions, but then I suspect probably no one except the reviewer actually continued watching it, and he's been pretty positive towards it. Or perhaps, it's the kind of show that if you're going to keep at it you have to approach it on its own terms, and in that context it does a better job than you might expect. |
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Rogueywon
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Surely My Instant Death Ability has to be top (bottom?) of the list here? Its awfulness is on a special kind of level that may even surpass In Another World With My Smartphone.
The funny thing is, I'm not even 100% sure quite which way it is bad. If it's intended as a straightforward isekai power fantasy and its main character is intended as the usual author/viewer-insert, then that's very worrying indeed. The main character is a cold-blooded psychopathic killer who takes lives at the drop of a hat when plenty of alternatives exist. So if this is sincere stuff, then I kind of hope the Japanese authorities are keeping a quiet eye on the author. The alternative is that it's actually a slow-building horror, where the main character is deliberately depicted and slowly revealed as a monster. Now, that would be more interesting (and would make me less worried about the author), but if that's the case, it's really incompetently done. There are just too many instances where the main character will kill somebody in cold blood and other characters will just indulgently say "there he goes again" or something to that effect. Seriously, that show's so bad it genuinely unsettled me. I kept watching out of morbid curiousity, but it never got any less creepy. |
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BlackPoint.
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Ye dropped quite quickly The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Metallic Rouge simply because so boring and found myself constantly checking if episode is over already or not....For the rest some crazy picks for sure that i didn't expect to see here specialy solo leveling, hokkaido gals and dunmeshi as all 3 are great watch in their own ways all easy 8 or 9 out of 10.
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Jabootu
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This, I think. Gushing is popular with YouTube anime people and does well here. Last week, I think it was, the latest chapter was voted as the week's fourth highest rated episode of the currently running programs. It also polls well with the community voting, getting a 4.8 two weeks ago and a 4.6 last week. Obviously it's not for everyone, and hey, we all got like 60 shows a season now to choose from, so that's fine. However, even for people like me who find the ecchi stuff the show's least interesting aspect, it's actually pretty good outside of those elements. Not a classic certainly, but a pretty solid bit of entertainment nonetheless. |
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smurky turkey
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There is always such a big difference between people watching most of the anime in a season and those being selective in what they watch/keep watching. The former has some of the most pure trash on their worst list (I am guilty as charged), the latter has a worst show to them, yet it is more most disappointing than being trash without a single point of merit.
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al505
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And I thought their "Best Of" selections were off-base! What a pity.
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Cho_Desu
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Think it's definitely worth changing the title of these articles at this point, lol. |
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Covnam
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Of the shows on this list that I've watched, Metallic Rouge is the only one I dropped. Looks like I made the right choice
I guess the "worst" that I'm watching this season would be Witch and the Beast and High Card. These were the shows that just got left behind in favor of other shows, so I'm still a few episodes behind on both, which I guess is more telling than anything else
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MiniMarps
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I’m not gonna be as harsh on Metallic Rouge as some people are being, but I do want to give my two cents on where exactly it went wrong. Because the first 6 episodes, while not perfect, delivered everything I was looking for: cool sci-fi noir aesthetic, charming chemistry between the two leads (I don’t know if I’ve ever not loved a character voiced by Tomoyo Kurosawa btw), and one or maybe two over-the-top action sequences per episode. That’s it. That’s my checklist of what I wanted from this show. I never even cared about all the big-picture stuff, really, like all the mysteries and the politics; we could have gotten 12 episodes of Rouge and Naomi Cowboy Bebopping their way around Mars and it would’ve been a comfortable 8/10 from me.
And then the second half of the show happened. I’m looking specifically at episodes 7, 8, 9, which I think is where a lot of people really started to sour on it. The visual direction changed from sci-fi noir to just plain sci-fi, they separated the two leads, and they spent FAR too much time focusing on the things I wasn’t tuning in for in the first place. That whole stretch of the show really felt like a chore to get through. And to be fair, in the last couple episodes they – to an extent – corrected course (or at least, they realized how dreadful of an idea it was to split up Rouge and Naomi) but by that point the damage had already been done and there was no coming back. It's a little bit frustrating, really. It just feels like they had a very good anime on their hands to begin with, but tried reaching further, only to fall on their face. |
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Animeeightoh
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"we gave you are list of the best anime"
Worst. Article. Ever. |
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uhuurt
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That's not even the worst part. Look at the "reasoning" for including Hokkaido Girls, like how did it get editorial approval? It's like if I said all anime with a happy school setting are bad because I was bullied, it's nonsense. |
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Saeryen
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There are ways to point out a typo without being mean about it. The best of us make them. |
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