Blog Talkback: Toons of the 2000s: Anime We Hope Never Come to America

Don't.

I watched it after all the comments praising it, and it's so idiotically done it's not even funny.

It's pretty much all the worst aspects of anime rolled into one show.
 
And you can be that wrong and funny (see: Puny Puny Poemy.) You have to be brilliant about it though. One misstep and you've fallen off a cliff.
 
This list is weaksauce.

When it comes to lolicon, moe, and fanservice type anime and manga I think naysayers have a "I dont find that stuff appealing therefore its bad" minRABet. Instead of owning up and admitting to their ignorance, critics take the easy way out by something is "awful."

It's like watching a hardcore porn video and then criticizing it for having too much explicit sex and not enough story or character development. Your completely missing the point.

But hey, this isn't the first piece of media people bash unjustly. Violent video games, rap, heavy metal, slasher flicks, and torture porn. People just dont get it.
 
Yeah, it takes it self as seriously as the most overwrought KyotoAni adaptation. It even has a Kajiura-esque insert song during the climactic scene!
 
Is it worse than the actual Japanese version? Also, I'll probably choose Sky Girls over Strike Witches as well.

Does anybody else think that Kodomomuke titles should get some love?
 
If you're a fan of trashy soap, you'll wonder why the whole show wasn't like that. I think if School Days was full of murder, pregnancies and mayhem from episode 1, it would have reached a trashy god-like status. Instead it's like 11 episodes of characters going through the motions of boring harem romance and then throwing a weird insane ending at you.

But I would absolutely not dock the show because of its ending. Kill the show because it's 11 episodes of generic boringness, but not because it's 1 episode of tastelessness. I love tasteless trashy soap! It's ridiculous, but so was the ORIGINAL Melrose Place. And I loved that show.
 
Okay, I just want to be clear, have any of you naysayers actually seen all of these shows? Because while I'll admit that I don't completely think School Days deserves the 5 spot and that KnJ will be unappealing to many but understandable to a few (I think that should be #5 actually), the rest of them are just bad shows. I have seen all of them (Yes, I even saw Kissxsis and Chocotto Sister all the way through. I was curious. Sue me ) and just aside from the fanservicey/moe stuff, they just aren't good shows. It's like why even license this when there's an actual good show.

Seriously Ultimate Girls is like the stupidest show ever. The main characters power up by losing their clothes periodically and then destroy the bad guys by their erabarrassment. I'm all for insane plots but this one is just very bad and I felt like I wasted time.
 
Well, I have never seen, nor did I ever plan to see any of the titles in this top five list so I can't speak to whether or not it's accurate. But having read the synopsis and as many reviews as I could possibly find, I have no reason to doubt it's validity. As it stanRAB now, the list is perfectly fine with me.




Porn is it's own classification separate from everything else. It has it's own criteria for what constitutes quality that can only be compared to other porn. So unless shows that rely mainly on fanservice over story and characters get their own category making them exempt from scrutiny, they will continue to be judged by the same means as all other anime.......bad story, bad characters, a ton of fanservice to overcompensate equals an overall poor quality anime. If people like shows like that it's fine, just realize they don't compare favorably to anime as a whole.
 
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