Dropped Anime
(No longer viewing or downloading)
Dropped Series
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Da Capo (TV)
It took itself too seriously in the beginning for a magical harem series. I didn't feel like trailing along this "dark" mystery so I dropped it after a fews episodes. Sadly it didn't have the hook I was expecting from recommendations.
Canvas 2
This show has a simple concept that destroys it. It's about a guy that doesn't want to draw (even though he's good at it) and thus an overly serious and dramatic harem is born. All the girls want "the guy," but won't accept him unless he draws and paints like he used to. Although anime in general is supposed to be weird, this one was just too serious . There should be a rule that says harem must have humor. True love stories can't thrive in a harem because there's just too many one-sided crushes and no real "love." Besides my nitpicking, the show overall paced incredibly bad. They include a lot of backstory on minor characters and it seems like every episode a new girl that loves this guy pops up. When the show paces itself so slowly and dramatically in an overly farteched scenario I lose interest quickly.
Tactical Roar (TV)
This show was retarded. It's one of those where you can tell the entire thing is crappy with the first episode. Heck, you could tell with just the opening song. It contained lame harem, bad voice acting(yes, bad JAPANESE voice acting), cheap 3D animation for fighting scenes. It was like the producer saw Agent Aika and decided to twist it around and make a ship full of women and one engineer on board fight evil pirates. What the fuck?
Digimon Savers
I don't know what made me try digimon, I loved it years ago on TV I guess. This episode was riddled with corny tough guy scenes. The skit where the digimon (I don't care to remember its name) and the lead character were fighting, risking their lives, and ultimately became best of friends had no magic at all. I normally approve of introductions like these, but I guess it was dumbed down waaay too much for me to handle.
Shuffle(TV)
I was enjoying this series very much, almost to the end even. However, I got ticked off with the "my dark secret is there is another me inside me!" crap. They did it once, I lived through its execution. They pulled off the SAME THING for the other girl and that was the end of it. I should of seen it coming, but I didn't. Shuffle may be a hit amongst many, but I was never so pissed off at a story plot twist in my life. Seriously, that was the most annoying "twist" in a storyline EVER.
Shakugan no Shana (TV)
Another apprently good series with a bit of loose ends I could not tie together in order to enjoy it. Above all the opening theme is really great and sets the mood to the anime perfectly. The first episode is gruesome and shows off the talents of the animation studio. However, from there on it just becomes a really dark themed mess. It takes itself really seriously and touches themes such as life and death, meaningless existance, and other stuff I didn't really understand. I would of enjoyed a touch of humor here and there to break the ice, but it was stone cold the whole way through. I like serious themes when they're grounded in some form of reality, or they explain what the hell is going on. Using made up words doesn't interest me, I don't care what some weird people have been doing for eternity and all this other bla bla bla. The show is a big hit among the fansub community, but I was not impressed. I saw atleast 6 or 7 episodes and there was just nothing happening that caught my attention.
TOKKO (TV)
TOKKO was recommended to me and the first episode had a nice premise so I decided to continue it. Unfortunately this show turned into the ill fated great idea, bad execution syndrome that plague a lot of shows. The material and the theme was there to really make something special. I definately could relate to the horror themes. You have your generic Yakuza cop for comedic relief and a bunch of retarded cops. This could of been a spinoff of resident evil, without the references to mythical creatures from Hell. I really didn't like that there were zombie-like things walking around a fucking hospital killing people and nobody gets scared or concerned. Instead of focusing on some retarded power-ranger squad of zombie/demon killers they could of explored the horror theme further by showing reactions from thirdparties. It felt like "Wow, more zombies today, lets call the police" and that was completely wrong. The show could of gone places, many places, but it was hurt by execution.
Air Gear (TV)
This show started off with a fun and energetic opening but it all fell apart from there. The characters are forced into role, which leads to a lot of "WTF" moments when everyone just stares and speaks figuratively and intellectually about skating. Think Initial D but without the nice music. The fighting aspect is unfortunately limited with no real strong points unlike other similar anime. The first episode showed a nice freestyle skating with combat, and a Skullhead member did a surprisingly awesome looking grab and pretended to slam the lead character into the ground. The lead pissed his pants and everyone laughed. I thought that this was going to be about ass kicking, but later turned out to be about racing and betting emblems. So with that, my hopes of an Air Master-clone were destroyed. I also couldn't take the one trick pony act without much of an explanation as to why I was seeing this guy suddenly become a prodigy. In the end the show didn't grab me at all.
Inukami (TV)
This show had a nice premise for some light ecchi humor elements but they did not capitalize much on it. Tthe characters felt forced into role, most of the skits involved jealously for no reason. I usually don't pick on the art, but this show had some bad generic art here and there. The plot doesn't have flow to keep me interested. The bad jokes were one point down, but then came a darker more serious tone which killed it for me. Dog gods being trained by humans and more dogs... and... eh... yea I'm sorry I just couldn't bare anymore.
Utawarerumono (TV)
This show was recommended to me and I don't know exactly why. I didn't like the native american-ish theme that took itself too seriously. The light humor wasn't working for me and the fighting scenes were boring. I guess the tender heart of the lead characters was the pull in this show, but I couldn't get passed the uninteresting theme to see the good parts. Probably a missed opportunity, but I can't stand the art.
.Hack Roots (TV)
I never got into .Hack before so I thought I'd try with this new show. I had an idea what the story was about before getting into it so I came prepared to encounter some headaches with technical terms. However, for anime about a game, it's sure not very game-y. It would of been better if it contrasted the heroism and drama of "The World" with actual real world interaction (relative to the anime itself). Best way to explain it would be sorta like Serial Experiment Lain, except no one is the internet's Jesus. It gets very tiring to see people use MMORPG terms like "PK," see characters sit idle on the screen and them come back and say they're sorry but they were AFK, or they disappear and then reappear and say "Oops I got disconnected." These goofy things work, but why keep it so serious all the time? Why not show me the old fat guys controlling the hot girls the lead was fighting? Why won't people just disconnect if they're about to die and then re log in when they think the PKers are gone? You know... a little more contrast to "I'm in this game and I never sleep." The serious tone turned me off and the ambigous setting for a "epic" storyline was not well done. Although everything is new, the show probably still is geared towards original fans.
FLAG (TV)
WTF? That pretty much sums up my thoughts on this anime. Basically, the UN dispatched mechs to get... wait for it... a flag! Yea, that's right. Some flag is in the middle east and a group of elite soldiers must retrieve it. Not only that, they send the photographer who took a famous picture of this flag on the mission to record it. To make matters worse, the story is mostly told in first person making it hard to adjust. You end up hearing snapshot noises a lot as this girl talks to herself in her head and takes pictures of everything. If anything the mechs were REALLY FUCKING COOL, I'd say as technical as Metal Gear. It's not a bad show (except, seriously, a flag?) but I'm not for japanese taking interest in middle east war with twisted ideals.
Strawberry Panic (TV)
I got interested with the bishoujo ai theme, rich girl school crap... only to see it got WAAY too serious for me to care. I skimmed most of it, acknowleding it is a very well performed anime but not my cup of tea. You eventually see a bit of lesbo action if you care. It's just kind of strange how EVERYONE is gay... like... a school full of lesbians? RICH GIRLS nonetheless! I mean... even the little 8 year olds, it was getting nasty I tell you, pedobear nasty!
Soul Link (TV)
Ok this is the story: Space Terrorists on a space ship. OMGz, the horror! The plot started off similar to Starship Operators but without the awesomeness of spaceship battle strategy and command. It's basically a dumbed down anime about shooting suspicious terrorists on a space carrier that has something on it, I think, Idunno, I really never cared. Also, it has stupid school anime love in it that just doesn't fit (I know its an academy onboard the ship, but wtf? There's terrorists on a mothafucking plane!, oops, I mean spaceship!).
Getbackers (TV)
The character designs were appealing but thats where the positives end. The anime starts off introducing itself as always, nothing special is seen here. Each of the two main characters explain their abilities to their enemies in such a way it introduces the viewers into the world of "GetBackers." Also, the name "GetBackers" makes sense when you find out it's a duo that specializes in getting people's shit back(lost items, stolen goods, etc). The problem begins in the second episode. They went through the same exact introduction which I felt was unnecessary. The themes they used(Father's daughter was given to the Yakuza, she ends up hating her father, bla bla bla, they kick their asses) were not to my liking and I felt that this 49 episode tragedy would end up being very boring and unfulfilling in the end. I dropped it after episode 3 because I saw no promise of anything unique or remotely interesting.
Ai Yuro Aoishi (TV)
The art was well done and the production was top notch. However, the story writing took a route I'm not interested in. It went from weird girl in a kimono to "Love Hina" mansion style harem. The humor is crappy as hell, and most of it is lead by the generic blonde american that can't speak english seen in many other anime. I did like the occasional fan service, but it wasn't enough to pull you in completely. The flow and excecution of the story ends up at a plataeu throughout entire episodes. They get extremely serious over rediculous themes like saving a ferret or a kiss. It's very childish for an anime based on college students (just like Love Hina). Love Hina has its weirdos and bland times too, but what it does that this show doesn't is have class. The writing is possibly the #1 problem, not the voice acting or the art. The authors just didn't have enough creativity. There were a lot of overlying themes like mega corporations and rich people involved. Why the hell is this little rich girl so caught up with this guy?(he was nice to her as a child, so what?) Why is the harem so bad? Why is the jealously element NOT exploited to its full potential? Why is she even wearing a stupid kimono all the time!? Why did Kaoru work part time to buy a rich girl a dress, found out the dress was sold out, and bought her shoes instead(only to find out she was the one who bought the last dress--supposedly showing how connected they are cause Kaoru knew she would need shoes... wtf?). Why do they think that getting what he could afford and buy at the time would be exactly what Aoi needed? I mean she's rich, she bought the damn dress and wanted to wear it and have Kaoru look at her. Yeah, whatever. I speed watched it through to episode 13 and there was enough evidence that it's not worth finishing.
AD Police(TV)
Nice art for such an old show. The problem with AD police was the lack of anything to suck you into their world. The little bit of information you get is the repeating voiceover at the beginning of each episode telling you that an earthquake messed up Tokyo or some generic city and they made cyborgs to fix it. Some of the cyborgs became rogue and attack people so the AD Police (Advanced Police) were made to stop them. Beyond that there is little information. Why do you have to shoot them in their cores? Just because they have a core? For a mecha/cyborg otaku knowing little details about the makeup of stuff is a good aspect to include, even if its just over the top. This team of AD Police had no bonding beyond the 2 main partners who always disobey orders but get the job done. I kept feeling like... hey.. why isn't this place ran more like Sectin 9 from Ghost in the Shell? Team work and trust is important in a line of work where your life is on the line constantly. Why the hell is the main guy so adamant to kill these cyborgs? They never hint at a dark mysterious past or anything that drives his emotions. I felt very bored from the very beginning, not even the soundtrack could help liven up the dead action scenes. What's up with cyborg tenticles on police men? That's gross. I'm done with this.
Abarashi Family (TV)
Really old. Had that retarded feeling to it, although the animation was pretty awesome given the year it came out. There were no seeds so I couldn't see beyond the first episode, although I didn't see a need to see any further anyway.
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Da Capo (TV)
It took itself too seriously in the beginning for a magical harem series. I didn't feel like trailing along this "dark" mystery so I dropped it after a fews episodes. Sadly it didn't have the hook I was expecting from recommendations.
Canvas 2
This show has a simple concept that destroys it. It's about a guy that doesn't want to draw (even though he's good at it) and thus an overly serious and dramatic harem is born. All the girls want "the guy," but won't accept him unless he draws and paints like he used to. Although anime in general is supposed to be weird, this one was just too serious . There should be a rule that says harem must have humor. True love stories can't thrive in a harem because there's just too many one-sided crushes and no real "love." Besides my nitpicking, the show overall paced incredibly bad. They include a lot of backstory on minor characters and it seems like every episode a new girl that loves this guy pops up. When the show paces itself so slowly and dramatically in an overly farteched scenario I lose interest quickly.
Tactical Roar (TV)
This show was retarded. It's one of those where you can tell the entire thing is crappy with the first episode. Heck, you could tell with just the opening song. It contained lame harem, bad voice acting(yes, bad JAPANESE voice acting), cheap 3D animation for fighting scenes. It was like the producer saw Agent Aika and decided to twist it around and make a ship full of women and one engineer on board fight evil pirates. What the fuck?
Digimon Savers
I don't know what made me try digimon, I loved it years ago on TV I guess. This episode was riddled with corny tough guy scenes. The skit where the digimon (I don't care to remember its name) and the lead character were fighting, risking their lives, and ultimately became best of friends had no magic at all. I normally approve of introductions like these, but I guess it was dumbed down waaay too much for me to handle.
Shuffle(TV)
I was enjoying this series very much, almost to the end even. However, I got ticked off with the "my dark secret is there is another me inside me!" crap. They did it once, I lived through its execution. They pulled off the SAME THING for the other girl and that was the end of it. I should of seen it coming, but I didn't. Shuffle may be a hit amongst many, but I was never so pissed off at a story plot twist in my life. Seriously, that was the most annoying "twist" in a storyline EVER.
Shakugan no Shana (TV)
Another apprently good series with a bit of loose ends I could not tie together in order to enjoy it. Above all the opening theme is really great and sets the mood to the anime perfectly. The first episode is gruesome and shows off the talents of the animation studio. However, from there on it just becomes a really dark themed mess. It takes itself really seriously and touches themes such as life and death, meaningless existance, and other stuff I didn't really understand. I would of enjoyed a touch of humor here and there to break the ice, but it was stone cold the whole way through. I like serious themes when they're grounded in some form of reality, or they explain what the hell is going on. Using made up words doesn't interest me, I don't care what some weird people have been doing for eternity and all this other bla bla bla. The show is a big hit among the fansub community, but I was not impressed. I saw atleast 6 or 7 episodes and there was just nothing happening that caught my attention.
TOKKO (TV)
TOKKO was recommended to me and the first episode had a nice premise so I decided to continue it. Unfortunately this show turned into the ill fated great idea, bad execution syndrome that plague a lot of shows. The material and the theme was there to really make something special. I definately could relate to the horror themes. You have your generic Yakuza cop for comedic relief and a bunch of retarded cops. This could of been a spinoff of resident evil, without the references to mythical creatures from Hell. I really didn't like that there were zombie-like things walking around a fucking hospital killing people and nobody gets scared or concerned. Instead of focusing on some retarded power-ranger squad of zombie/demon killers they could of explored the horror theme further by showing reactions from thirdparties. It felt like "Wow, more zombies today, lets call the police" and that was completely wrong. The show could of gone places, many places, but it was hurt by execution.
Air Gear (TV)
This show started off with a fun and energetic opening but it all fell apart from there. The characters are forced into role, which leads to a lot of "WTF" moments when everyone just stares and speaks figuratively and intellectually about skating. Think Initial D but without the nice music. The fighting aspect is unfortunately limited with no real strong points unlike other similar anime. The first episode showed a nice freestyle skating with combat, and a Skullhead member did a surprisingly awesome looking grab and pretended to slam the lead character into the ground. The lead pissed his pants and everyone laughed. I thought that this was going to be about ass kicking, but later turned out to be about racing and betting emblems. So with that, my hopes of an Air Master-clone were destroyed. I also couldn't take the one trick pony act without much of an explanation as to why I was seeing this guy suddenly become a prodigy. In the end the show didn't grab me at all.
Inukami (TV)
This show had a nice premise for some light ecchi humor elements but they did not capitalize much on it. Tthe characters felt forced into role, most of the skits involved jealously for no reason. I usually don't pick on the art, but this show had some bad generic art here and there. The plot doesn't have flow to keep me interested. The bad jokes were one point down, but then came a darker more serious tone which killed it for me. Dog gods being trained by humans and more dogs... and... eh... yea I'm sorry I just couldn't bare anymore.
Utawarerumono (TV)
This show was recommended to me and I don't know exactly why. I didn't like the native american-ish theme that took itself too seriously. The light humor wasn't working for me and the fighting scenes were boring. I guess the tender heart of the lead characters was the pull in this show, but I couldn't get passed the uninteresting theme to see the good parts. Probably a missed opportunity, but I can't stand the art.
.Hack Roots (TV)
I never got into .Hack before so I thought I'd try with this new show. I had an idea what the story was about before getting into it so I came prepared to encounter some headaches with technical terms. However, for anime about a game, it's sure not very game-y. It would of been better if it contrasted the heroism and drama of "The World" with actual real world interaction (relative to the anime itself). Best way to explain it would be sorta like Serial Experiment Lain, except no one is the internet's Jesus. It gets very tiring to see people use MMORPG terms like "PK," see characters sit idle on the screen and them come back and say they're sorry but they were AFK, or they disappear and then reappear and say "Oops I got disconnected." These goofy things work, but why keep it so serious all the time? Why not show me the old fat guys controlling the hot girls the lead was fighting? Why won't people just disconnect if they're about to die and then re log in when they think the PKers are gone? You know... a little more contrast to "I'm in this game and I never sleep." The serious tone turned me off and the ambigous setting for a "epic" storyline was not well done. Although everything is new, the show probably still is geared towards original fans.
FLAG (TV)
WTF? That pretty much sums up my thoughts on this anime. Basically, the UN dispatched mechs to get... wait for it... a flag! Yea, that's right. Some flag is in the middle east and a group of elite soldiers must retrieve it. Not only that, they send the photographer who took a famous picture of this flag on the mission to record it. To make matters worse, the story is mostly told in first person making it hard to adjust. You end up hearing snapshot noises a lot as this girl talks to herself in her head and takes pictures of everything. If anything the mechs were REALLY FUCKING COOL, I'd say as technical as Metal Gear. It's not a bad show (except, seriously, a flag?) but I'm not for japanese taking interest in middle east war with twisted ideals.
Strawberry Panic (TV)
I got interested with the bishoujo ai theme, rich girl school crap... only to see it got WAAY too serious for me to care. I skimmed most of it, acknowleding it is a very well performed anime but not my cup of tea. You eventually see a bit of lesbo action if you care. It's just kind of strange how EVERYONE is gay... like... a school full of lesbians? RICH GIRLS nonetheless! I mean... even the little 8 year olds, it was getting nasty I tell you, pedobear nasty!
Soul Link (TV)
Ok this is the story: Space Terrorists on a space ship. OMGz, the horror! The plot started off similar to Starship Operators but without the awesomeness of spaceship battle strategy and command. It's basically a dumbed down anime about shooting suspicious terrorists on a space carrier that has something on it, I think, Idunno, I really never cared. Also, it has stupid school anime love in it that just doesn't fit (I know its an academy onboard the ship, but wtf? There's terrorists on a mothafucking plane!, oops, I mean spaceship!).
Getbackers (TV)
The character designs were appealing but thats where the positives end. The anime starts off introducing itself as always, nothing special is seen here. Each of the two main characters explain their abilities to their enemies in such a way it introduces the viewers into the world of "GetBackers." Also, the name "GetBackers" makes sense when you find out it's a duo that specializes in getting people's shit back(lost items, stolen goods, etc). The problem begins in the second episode. They went through the same exact introduction which I felt was unnecessary. The themes they used(Father's daughter was given to the Yakuza, she ends up hating her father, bla bla bla, they kick their asses) were not to my liking and I felt that this 49 episode tragedy would end up being very boring and unfulfilling in the end. I dropped it after episode 3 because I saw no promise of anything unique or remotely interesting.
Ai Yuro Aoishi (TV)
The art was well done and the production was top notch. However, the story writing took a route I'm not interested in. It went from weird girl in a kimono to "Love Hina" mansion style harem. The humor is crappy as hell, and most of it is lead by the generic blonde american that can't speak english seen in many other anime. I did like the occasional fan service, but it wasn't enough to pull you in completely. The flow and excecution of the story ends up at a plataeu throughout entire episodes. They get extremely serious over rediculous themes like saving a ferret or a kiss. It's very childish for an anime based on college students (just like Love Hina). Love Hina has its weirdos and bland times too, but what it does that this show doesn't is have class. The writing is possibly the #1 problem, not the voice acting or the art. The authors just didn't have enough creativity. There were a lot of overlying themes like mega corporations and rich people involved. Why the hell is this little rich girl so caught up with this guy?(he was nice to her as a child, so what?) Why is the harem so bad? Why is the jealously element NOT exploited to its full potential? Why is she even wearing a stupid kimono all the time!? Why did Kaoru work part time to buy a rich girl a dress, found out the dress was sold out, and bought her shoes instead(only to find out she was the one who bought the last dress--supposedly showing how connected they are cause Kaoru knew she would need shoes... wtf?). Why do they think that getting what he could afford and buy at the time would be exactly what Aoi needed? I mean she's rich, she bought the damn dress and wanted to wear it and have Kaoru look at her. Yeah, whatever. I speed watched it through to episode 13 and there was enough evidence that it's not worth finishing.
AD Police(TV)
Nice art for such an old show. The problem with AD police was the lack of anything to suck you into their world. The little bit of information you get is the repeating voiceover at the beginning of each episode telling you that an earthquake messed up Tokyo or some generic city and they made cyborgs to fix it. Some of the cyborgs became rogue and attack people so the AD Police (Advanced Police) were made to stop them. Beyond that there is little information. Why do you have to shoot them in their cores? Just because they have a core? For a mecha/cyborg otaku knowing little details about the makeup of stuff is a good aspect to include, even if its just over the top. This team of AD Police had no bonding beyond the 2 main partners who always disobey orders but get the job done. I kept feeling like... hey.. why isn't this place ran more like Sectin 9 from Ghost in the Shell? Team work and trust is important in a line of work where your life is on the line constantly. Why the hell is the main guy so adamant to kill these cyborgs? They never hint at a dark mysterious past or anything that drives his emotions. I felt very bored from the very beginning, not even the soundtrack could help liven up the dead action scenes. What's up with cyborg tenticles on police men? That's gross. I'm done with this.
Abarashi Family (TV)
Really old. Had that retarded feeling to it, although the animation was pretty awesome given the year it came out. There were no seeds so I couldn't see beyond the first episode, although I didn't see a need to see any further anyway.