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Worst Anime/Manga you've encountered?

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I see a lot of "What's your favorite anime" or "who's your favorite anime character" type threads in here.

To change things up, what is the absolute worst anime/manga you've come across?

I think the worst I've ever seen is Zatch Bell, and pretty much the entire Yu-Gi-Oh series (I loved the first couple of seasons when I was a kid, but looking back, I can admit that it was completely ridiculous. The spin-offs were even more outrageous/terrible. Card games on motorcycles.)
 
Hell Yu-Gi-Oh was decent.
Anything BEYOND THAT completely sucked.
 
Spooky Kitaro. I don't know why, but the art style (and voices in the dub), sucked, IMO.
 
School Days. If you've seen it, you know why.
 
Yep, School Days.

Something that if I could, I would erase from my mind completely.
 
Other than the new Yu-gi-oh, I havent encountered any.
 
Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's.

Card Games on Motorcycles. I don't care what the plot is, they play card games on motorcycles...

Also, Eiken. My God that was stupid. Fanservice incarnate and that's it.
 
As Meron and Arysd said, School Days. Just completely fucked up.
 
These types of topics are usually bad ideas... Other than that, I don't know I tend to put bad Manga and Anime out of my mind because it's usually very forgettable.
 
I hated Yu-gi-oh GX. The old series was so much better.
 
GRAVITATION ..... is.... just.... awful =/ ....
As for manga, King of Hell... REALLY?! ugh...
 
:/ School Days was brilliant for what it was. It took the path less traveled, adapting the BAD ending to the games and it did it brilliantly. If you're calling it bad due to Makoto being an ass and Sekai and Kotonoha being crazy and killing Makoto and Sekai respectively, you must not have been paying attention. The tension was built up perfectly to create those reactions, even if the girls overreacted slightly it's not like their actions were completely unjustified based on what they would be thinking. Yes, it was gross, but gross or fucked up =/= bad. It did everything RIGHT to get that bad ending (which, as a note, partially existed in the original VN anyways). They didn't just go "ohhey let's do the bad ending!" out of thin air, they built it up to the event.

Personally, the worst stuff I've seen is the .hack manga renditions of the original games. I finally stopped myself from buying them. Some of them are good and amusing, but with //GU+ and //XXXX I was like 'wtf is this shit, I don't even". They weren't adaptions of the original story, they were practically rewrites. Not something a series calling itself "an retelling of //GU" or "an retelling of the original .hack games" should do. The original stories are so warped it's frustrating.

While I haven't watched most of it, Haruhi Suzumiya S2 prolly should end up somewhere on the 'bad seasons' list or something, due to Endless Eight. They trolled their fandom in such an annoying way. :/

And I want to give an honorable mention to Kampher. It was bad, but so bad it was funny, so it did it's job well. Had it taken itself seriously, it would have been a horrible show.
 
I'm not sure if most people count this as an anime but... Transformers: Energon, AKA Transformers: Super Link. The original Japanese version was an abysmal mess, the dub was even worse.
 
無名鬼 幽幽 said:
I'm not sure if most people count this as an anime but... Transformers: Energon, AKA Transformers: Super Link. The original Japanese version was an abysmal mess, the dub was even worse.
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Energon was an interesting concept done badly. Cybertron/Galaxy Force was better, but the dub, in trying to connect it with Energon and Armada, effectively mangled it.

Car Robots/Robots in Disguise, now, there's a crappy TF anime.
 
out of the several series I've seen, Venus Versus Virus seems to particularly stick out in my mind as being horribly bland. I can give it a few points (pretty awesome opening, and I fucking love the character design for Lucia, one of the lead protagonists), but the concept gives me this rather "done to death" feeling. Sumire (the other lead protagonist) has gotta be one of the dullest anime characters I've ever seen (even in spite of her having a berserker mode), and while I can't say it left many loose ends, the finale seemed way too abrupt for my tastes (the antagonist's killed, we see Lucia and Sumire together against a white background for a few moments, and then it immediately cuts to a standard credit roll). Though, I can't help but be curious about checking out the original manga, see if maybe things played out any better there.

To be fair, I can't say I watch too many yuri series, but I've still seen much better ones than Venus Versus Virus. On that note, I should also mention Ka-si-ma-si ~ Girl Meets Girl. Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty nice series, but for the love of god, avoid the OVA like the plague. The series had a decent ending, but the OVA decided to follow this up with a rather mindless and blatant-looking attempt at pleasing shippers of the other girl in the triangle (though, even a friend of mine who does support said ship agrees that the OVA was horribly done).
 
I'm saying GX and 5D's are basically the worst thing that could've happened to the human population.
 
I've always thought that GX is very underrated, and everyone hated it 'because it wasn't the original.' To wit, the Yu-Gi-Oh! equivalent of the GEEWUNNERS of Transformers fandom.
 
NyaChan said:
And I want to give an honorable mention to Kampher. It was bad, but so bad it was funny, so it did it's job well. Had it taken itself seriously, it would have been a horrible show.
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I know a guy who quit watching Kämpfer because it sucked. He usually does not stop watching a certain anime if he decides to watch more than a few episodes, but this was an exception.

I have seen relatively few series, but of the ones I have completed, Kannazuki no Miko (it got recently an English name in AniDB, can't remember it) was the worst. But I only picked it up because of its awesome OP song (KOTOKO's Re-Sublimity).
 
Anime that doesn't have a moderate level of violence (with the exception to Pokemon) is boring and therefore the worst type.
 
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