Top 25 Anime You Can’t Believe You Were Into
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 13, 2012 12:04 JST
- Tags: Ano Hana, Haruhi, K-ON!, Lucky Star, Moe, Otaku, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Rankings
Explanations ranging from youthful indiscretion to mass psychosis are amongst the excuses coughed up by regretful fans struggling to explain what they ever saw in these anime, although by the looks of their choices for each repentant fan a dozen more are still hopelessly enthralled…
1. K-ON!
2. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
3. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
4. Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
5. Ano Hana
6. Lucky Star
7. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
8. Clannad
9. Ore no Imouto
10. Guilty Crown
11. Neon Genesis Evangelion
12. Durarara!
13. The Prince of Tennis
14. Tiger & Bunny
15. Gundam Seed
16. Macross Frontier
17. Code Geass
18. Fate/Stay Night
19. Mahou Sensei Negima!
20. Sakura Card Captor
21. Zero no Tsukaima
22. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
23. Magical DoReMi
24. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
25. Keroro Gunsou
Monmusu BD “Bigger With Every Release!”
MLP Futanari: “Bronies Weirder Than Ever…”
Blade & Soul Launch Unexpectedly Voluptuous
Nisemonogatari Pachinko Machine Unveiled
Lax Lady Venera Figure
Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut Ceaselessly Naughty
“Abusive” Breast-Groping Fundraiser Molested by Petition
Hanayo Koizumi’s Birthday Highly Revered
Toyota Prius CM Goes Full KanColle Mode
Usamimi Anette-san Micro-Bikini Figure
A Full Course Dream 3some “An Otaku Wet-Dream”
Dimension W “Both Cute & Grotesque!”
Monster Monpiece Naked Trailer Shamelessly Shameless
Digimon Adventure Tri PV Full of Promise
Tekken Moves Performed in Real Life
Energetic Lucky Chloe Figure
Otoko No Ko Harem – Will You Admit To Wanting This?
Dagashi Kashi Irresistibly Sweet
Oshiete Gyaruko-chan Pantsu-A-Plenty
Nitroplus Blasterz English Trailer Quite Rousing
Momo Velia Deviluke Cosplay Bursting With Bridal Beauty
Skimpy Sonico Cosplay Barely Contained
Kumiko & Reina Cosplay Hardly Blows At All
Skimpy Elf Bikini Cosplay by Saku Supremely Sexy
Gothic Lolita Hatsune Miku Cosplay Busts Out
Delectable Dizzy Cosplay by Lechat
Dark Elf Cosplay by Non Very Dark Indeed
Titillating Tamako Cosplay Perfectly Pink
Goddess of 2ch: “Full of Lust & Urges (& Also Videos)!”
Raunchy Reisen Inaba Cosplay by Tsuyato
Why would you be regretful about being a fan of a show?
Because judgmental bastards say you should be?
Grow a freaking backbone and have your own opinion, if you like K-on, you like K-on, if your like Naruto, you like Naruto, simple as that, don't listen to what others say, be yourself!
dude, I liked Naruto and now I'm ashamed of it because of its fans and the cluster-fuck the series has turned into.
Maybe you can like the earlier version of it. I personally like the original Tenchi Muyo OVAs - but the spinoffs (Tenchi in Tokyo, Tenchi TV, etc.) just aren't as good inmho.
...then there's any series ending in "-ash." Bubblegum Crash, Dirty Pair Flash, Nuku Nuku Dash...
I don't think that's controversial at all.
Tenchi OAV: Classic
Pretty Sammy: What? Damn, Japan, why the little girl? (If I could have seen the future back then...)
Tenchi TV 1: This is alright.
Tenchi TV 2: What is this I don't even...
i liked all the tenchi series... granted i was a kid, and some barely hold up anymore but i still enjoy them to some extent.
Age and experience. After watching some more anime and other media, you may begin to realize just how derivative, manipulative and shallow your old favorites are.
Of course that shouldn't stop you from realizing you liked them because you were young and inexperienced, but it also can't stop you from feeling ashamed that you fell for it, and can't enjoy the shows on the same level anymore.
^ this explains the entirety of the anime community; just wish that the inexperienced anime viewers would be a little less pushy at the "my show has more episodes because its better" comments and realize all the quality differences franchising causes.
They're still young enough to know everything. That's all. Just chuckle at the naivety, and be there to recommend something more up their alley when they realize that there's a whole world of genuinely engaging, exciting, well-written material out there. Until they're ready, they'll be happy living in the popularity bubble.
Why - regretful? Tolerance from overexposure or saturation, forming bad associations, recognizing efficiency of competitive material might lead to the bad points of a show tipping the balance in their favor. A person worn down by something they liked would be as far from asking for seconds as someone who 'regrets', and not in a better position to physically understand what the ado was about initially.
Maybe they just came to dislike it on their own?
WOOOW exactly what i thought, great comment, and i wont, i dont , and i haven't ever regret beign fan of calnnad, ano hana, Baka to Test, puella magi, even haruhi and k-on this is one of the worst list i've seen so far
OK This is Officially the stupidest most retarded and pointless one of these list to date
Pointless because we already know what fans of these look like?
http://ayanami3.free.fr/blog/evangelion%20cosplay.jpg [http://ayanami3.free.fr/blog/evangelion cosplay.jpg]
AHHHH my eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
most emo/depressed shinji ever
Isn't that how he's supposed to be?
HAH!!! Shinji was always like that!
Hah! I remember these kids. This is Megacon, at the Orlando Convention Center. At least 7 years ago. Kid in the middle still looks like that (Saw him at an Atlanta Convention last month), but girl on the right turned into a total hottie.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!
Im not ashamed of any of these.
Can't say Im ashamed either, but Guilty Crown...after that horrible ending I can't believe I got into that series
I can feel your pain...
i mean like...who doesnt want to see magical girls in cute frilly dresses being deceived and beating the crap out of one another right?
This list is just stupid, the majority of the animé listed tells a great story with likeable characters, that's what is needed to hook audiences up. This list is like saying you can't believe you were into a great movie for having an enthralling plot acted by good actors. The whole point lays there.
Your tune will change over time. Watch some more anime, and you'll see. You can't hide behind rose-colored glasses forever.
Something tells me that they don't remember the plot.
It's more that the initial expectations was not the same as the experience.
I mean Madoka as an example:
without knowing what happened in episode 3, most people I know just thought that it would be a another lame Mahou shoujo anime.
So, this list is for animes that most people that it was going to flunk but on the contrary it was grea.
with the name Gen Urobuchi as the writer, everybody should have remembered by kikokugai and saya no uta what to expect.
@caiooa: most of the people who laud Madoka don't know who Gen Urobuchi is and would laugh at the prospect of watching something from 2003, or playing a visual novel.
"another lame Mahou shoujo anime?" Maybe because it looked bad, but being mahou shoujo doesn't automatically make it lame.
Until episode 3 ? you need to rewatch this, seriously... the mandatory dream intro, madoka's house, the school and its "hamster cages" , the by-the-book mascot rescue in an overly creepy place, etc... Everything in conjunction just shouts : "this is NOT going to end well".
As if "late night airing" wasn't enough of a clue ;)
RebornXPrinceTenni aside from these two
The other four I'm ashamed about is the fact I haven't watched them and the rest I love, regardless of the opinions of "others" out there
Sankaku is slipping. This isn't even remotely believable.
A list of anime many fans "regret" liking, and not a single mention of any shonen fighting/action adventure series? You expect this to be believable?
YEAH! WHERE IS NARUTO, BLEACH AND ONE PIECE?.
WHERE IS THOSE PIECES OF SHIT?
This FFS!
I bet people voted for animes they hate and never watched more than a few episodes.
Otaku is my only way of life
And next week, we'll see the same fucking list, only it'll be called "Best Anime Ever."
They can't understand why they were into Lucky Star?
IT'S BECAUSE IT'S MOTHERFUCKING KAWAII, BITCHES!
Lucky Star is moe and funny
Lucky Star is shit.
I watched the entire series, and I can tell you that Lucky Star is sadly pretty shitty. Why did I watch it, you say? Because I was young and impressionable. With hindsight, it's quite shitty. But you'd never know that until you watch it, what with the opinion-proof safety bubble that it's in.
agree LS is GREAT
dumb ppl who like naruto?
Allow me to correct that sentence for you:
Lucky star is THE shit.
No problem.
says the one who watched only the first episode
What? No Cowboy Bebop?
If you seriously regret watching Bebop then you must be some sort of boring, passionless robot.
C'mon, Bebop was pretty cool.
The only anime I regret watching is Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan...
oh come on. It was short and a good laugh. Protest to much?
Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan is funny in its own way. I force myself into it, got past the gore side and I have few some laugh.