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It doesn't matter if it's from east or west, animated or not, as long as you were disappointed.

Cross Ange
Nana Mizuki as a mecha series protagonist? Mecha facing against dragons? What could it possibly go wrong?

Instead, the series has a bunch of unlikable characters with plenty of fanservices and awful pacing. (I don't really hate fanservice, it's just that the series has too much fanservice for a mecha series)

Gundam Build Fighter Try wasn't as good as the first season and Gundam Reconguista is boring, but compare to my disappointment with CA, those were nothing.

I really thought I was going to enjoy Archer, but after watching the first season, I felt done with the series. Something about it just didn't feel right to me, but I didn't know what. After reading several of the few negative reviews, I had an idea: The show is completely lacking in humanity. While I've watched and enjoyed shows with unlikable characters before, there was always some kind of redeeming character somewhere. With Archer, I don't care what happens to the characters, because they're all terrible people and probably have it coming.

I never got into AoT, sorry if that's an unholy sin or whatever. I watched about 20 episodes before I called it quits, I personally didn't find any of the characters compelling enough for me to care about, which in a story about people dying and the trauma of loss and whatever is kind of a big killer for me.

Again, sorry.

Wait, you watched twenty episodes before quitting? Why didn't you just finish it, there were only 4 more to go?

Is it bad that I expected things from Allen Gregory? Just… ugh.

I used to really like Adventure Time, but after rewatching them, i can't help but feel dissapointed with what i was actually watching. The show is not really that great as i thought it was and i just couldn't care less for the new season. (especiailly since Finn's breakup.)

Can't really think of any. I can usually tell whether or not a show is shitty before I watch it.

Adventure Time: I enjoyed it so much when it was just a quirky adventure series, then it got all dark and… well, while other like that, I found it off-putting. After a while I left entirely out of boredom.

Adventure Time is freaking boring to me. I never understood the appeal other than his imaginative landscape. I'll give them credit that it did open a new age of good animation (Regular Show, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Star vs Forces of Evil, etc) but I just can't find his humor funny nor his "dark" stuff fitting. They were more off-putting.

Legit didn't know how close I was to the end.

@Farm Zombie @ThineButtocks So, Eight Deadly words for Archer and AoT, uh? I liked AoT and continued to read the manga, but almost quitted due to a case of Darkness Induced Audience Apathy. Simply put, things were getting too hopeless and grim, and the line between villains and heroes was blurring. Luckily, the latest chapters of the manga finally gave some hope back.

For me, Xiaolin Chronicles was really dissapointing. I was wary but excited about a series revival, but the characters (especially the villains) felt flatter than before, and it irritated me to no end that they managed to screw up the basics of the original series: in the original, every shen wong wu had a single ability. You could get creative with that ability, or alter it with the help of another wu or the elemental abilities of the heroes, but that was it. In the revival, they sometimes have weird, never talked about nonsense abilities as the plot demands. Second, the Xiaolin showdowns; OIn the original, one of the duelists chose a game or challengue, and then it took form by crating a grand scale, epic version of said game. In the revival, most of the time the duel started with none of the participants giving any game, leaving you confused as to the rules and nature of the game, and when one of the participants did say anything, it often was some unexplained, bizarre thing like "clown world", that only leaved you more confused. That it got cancelled seems like the right choice.

I know I am going to get a lot of backlash of this, but whatever:

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Now don't get me wrong. It's not a bad show. Almost everything about it is good, but there are two things that bother me a lot. The sheer weirdness of the show (not in a good way weird) and the characters (especially the main protagonist.).

That's a shame, because Season 2 onwards is where every character gets character development and a bit of humanity and dehumanity to pass around. And Archer slowly mellows into an abrasive yet somewhat likeable person.

Teen Titans Go. Bringing back the titans? Cool. Getting the original VA cast back together? Alright. Taking on a more humor centric vibe to the whole thing? I'm a bit iffy but it could work, as long as the characters are still likeable as ever.

Characters were not likeable, at all. Sad thing is, I've not watched but kept up with the show and there are some stuff in there that's pretty good. But its buried beneath mountains of crap and unfunny changes to the characters. I think someone put it best when an episode staring Ravager/Rose Wilson aired.

"Wow. So we finally got an episode where the titans fought a bad guy instead of each other."

:P

Oh my god I feel exactly the same way.

"The show's a classic! Its the best anime ever!"

Those are some of the things people told me. I genuinely liked it for the most part. But the ending…and I am talking about End of Evangelion. It killed it for me. I was into the story and characters but then they went straight up mindfuck at the end. So much for closure.

I heard the Rebuilds are really damn good and that the last one of those are coming out later this year. Perhaps I'll give those a shot someday but I'm watching other shows in the meantime.

I've heard a lot of people complain about Teen Titans Go. From the few episodes I watched…yeah, it's pretty bad. My complaint is that it isn't funny. However, I'm not sold on the complaint that it mocks the 2000s show. Honestly, I felt like the 2000s show was a whitewashing of the serious-business 80s comic. And I'm sure when that comic came out, there were die-hard fans who were upset that it removed the camp appeal of the 60s comics. There really is no one incarnation of the Teen Titans. Take your pick.

Also, I watched the first twelve episodes of Sailor Moon Crystal, then realized, for whatever reason, that I couldn't remember what happened in any of them. That's when I stopped watching.

Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works

Truth be told I love the first half of this show, it was a lot of fun. But as soon as season 2 started, it became boring and tedious. All of a sudden the best two characters (Saber and Rin) are essentially non-entities and the worst two characters (Shirou and Archer) literally spend 3 episodes monologuing their angst at each other. Yawn.

Parasyte

Second verse, same as the first. Great first half, bad second half angst fest. All the female characters are kinda just killed off and the only one who lives (Satomi "Are you really Izumi Shinichi-kun?" Murano) has the personality of a plank of wood anyway. Also Izumi is just kinda boring in general :/

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Also sign me up to the group who wasn't fond of this. I wanted to like it honestly and truly, I just found it kinda boring. It's way better than the above two, definitely, but still.

Gundam AGE
It was a pretty decent gundam series, until Kio got his "character development" (he got more annoying after he decides to spare pilots) along other things and the show went downhill. I'm not going to mention how the show handle Shanalua.

Lucky Star- I heard a lot about how this anime was great back when I was relatively new to anime, so I decided to watch it. When I watched it, I found it meh and overall boring, and I ended up dropping it after about 5 episodes. Guess that's why people hate moe slice-of-life schoolgirl anime.

Maaaaaybe Haruhi Suzumiya.I also watched this when I was somewhat new to anime, and I think I finished the first season (I may have missed an episode or two). It was also pretty boring (though better than Lucky Star).

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Wayward pines: It started off great! Episode 7 was pretty underwhelming,and episode 5 wasn't as thrilling with the reveal, but it was fine. All the others were pretty good, aside from 8 where nothing happened, really.

Then the finale. Everything was great until the last 5 minutes. Ethan Burke [Matt Dillon] did a sacrifice to blow up a elevator shaft, even when bombs before had been remote. Then his annoying kid [Charlie Tahan] was hit in the head. 3 years later, he wakes up, and the 100 or so high-schoolers have taken over the town and froze all the adults. Previously, it was shown that the kids had weapons, but never before in the show was weapon training shown. Not to mention the adults had thousands of vehicles and guns.

overall it began good and almost ended good but we were shamalamadingdonged

TTG could've been great… but since it's entirely humor based, and the humor is atrocious, everything fails. BAD.

Fairy Tail was.. alright. It just didn't hook me like Avatar or FMA. It was just kinda.. boring.

Lucky Star: I found it boring.
Fairy tail: Every major fight was win with power of friendship and a lot of fanservice.
Bleach: The filler is atrocious there was a damned three episode arc of Lt Matsumoto going fucking shopping that why i started read the manga.

Nobunaga the Fool: I thought it looks promising. But I got really bored with the series and dropped it. I thanked myself not to hype that series too much.

Agree with HeatEdgeSword :)

Animated shows:

Fairy Tail: I watched a few episodes, but I just didn't feel it.
Naruto: It was fucking annoying.
Bleach: Meh.
Death Note: Tried to read the manga, couldn't finish the first one. Found it slow and boring, so I didn't bother with the anime.
Dragon Ball GT: It was too slow and silly, even by Dragon Ball standards.
Adventure Time: It used to be quirky and funny but it went to shit.
Spongebob: People kept saying that it turned to shit. I realized this once I watched a more recent episode. Twenty minutes of boredom.
Fairly Oddparents: Same with Adventure Time.
Ben 10: That kid is just too cocky and annoying.

Reality shows:

Heroes of Cosplay: I thought this was gonna be close to what is FaceOff, they would focus on the aspect of creating things instead of drama. And what did I get? Drama. I read that the format of the show was changed after numerous complaints, but the damage was done.
King of the Nerds: I watched the first season. The show was fine, until the finale. The way they chose the winner made me feel like I was somehow cheated.

Lol, never thought I'd see someone with a greater distaste for mainstream anime than me.
If you're wondering how I differ, I was actually quite fond of Death Note because it's essentially a murder mystery and I freaking love that. Don't even plan to watch Naruto, it's absurdly long. Bleach actually seems interesting to me, and I might five Fairy Tail a shot at some point.