Comments on: Ask John: Which Anime Has John Liked Least?

By: Discordance

Discordance — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:24:51 +0000

I always thought of the Blame! release thing to be more of an example of artistic expression than an OVA, but that doesn’t change that fact that it was skeletal.

Unlike John, there are MANY anime that I hate, so I just wanted to mention that the only thing that makes me loathsome is when Gainax releases a bad product: The “Nadia” island episodes and “Maharomantic” are the main examples. Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai was pretty bad for a Gainax release, but watchable.

The worst anime? The one called “Pilot Candidate” that aired on Adult Swim about a decade back. I don’t know what it’s real name is, or who released it, or why it was ever optioned by an American network because I’d prefer to just forget the thing was real.

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:42:12 +0000

Sorry. The “1977″ was a typo. As FPilot Bierce guessed, it was supposed to be “1997.”

I’d wholeheartedly agree that the Blame OVA was pretty terrible, but since I didn’t have high hopes for it in the first place, I can’t say that it either disappointed or frustrated me to any tremendous degree.

I’ve only watched the first episode of Sohryuden despite owning all of it on domestic DVD. So I haven’t seen enough of it to hate it.

By: PockyBox.com

PockyBox.com — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:34:46 +0000

The Blame! OVA is so mind-meltingly bad, my brain convulsed at the terror of it. Completely non-existent story which I doubt would have any meaning to fans of the manga, sparse, meaningless, and cheap imagery, and a DVD special features menu that is largely pointless depite the fact its supposed to help sell the alternative, artisic experience of the piece (at least in the US version). I thought I knew my bad anime, but this piece zooms all the way to the bottom at record speed.

By: GATS

GATS — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:38:58 +0000

Ah, thanks.

By: FPilot Bierce

FPilot Bierce — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:05:46 +0000

I think he meant the 1997 revival. It came just after the attempted American sequel SPEED RACER cartoon TV series, which meant that even if it had been much good it still wouldn’t have been brought Stateside.

By: GATS

GATS — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:36:14 +0000

What, no Sohryuden?

“I also didn’t like the 1977 revival of Mach Go Go Go”

Didn’t even know there *was* a remake.

“I particularly dislike anime that try to merge innately serious and violent action with slapstick humor.”

That’s why Black Lagoon-at least the manga version-irritates the hell out of me.

“the show’s rather ugly character designs,”

Tenchi’s always had ugly character designs. I guess you mean they raised the bar? ^_-

“The Koroshiya 1 Episode 0 OVA and Gantz television series were gratuitous shock value trash trying to pass themselves off as intelligent, insightful, satirical social commentary.”

Gantz is totally full of itself in general. But I still like the creator, I guess.