So there I was, browsing /a/, when all of a sudden I see this link. 20 Shittiest Anime of the Decade (2000-2009), eh? That's a pretty big claim. The list was filled with a lot of things I liked. I thought it was trolling, but it mentioned Blue Gender. When someone says Blue Gender is SHIT they are immediately drowning in credibility.

Eventually I read the little blurb they post about Genshiken. I'd never heard of Genshiken before, but all of a sudden I had to watch it. It sounded like it as a series dedicated to trashing weeaboos.

I begin to watch it, and by the end of the first episode I love it. It's a slice of life series full of a bunch of pathetic losers anyone reading this bullshit site should be able to relate to somehow.

Of the load of weeabros in this anime club, called "Genshiken," or "The Society for Study Of Modern Visual Culture," one of them is hot enough to have a girl friend. that girlfriend begins to troll EVERYTHING. Fucking shit is awesome. The only thing she hates more than these weeaboos are the douche bags that are always trying to fuck these weeaboos' shit up.

There's cosplaying, Guilty Gear, doujins, Puyo Pop, fire, gundam models... FUCK there's something for everyone, even if that something is making fun of goddamn weeaboos. WATCH THIS SHIT.

This anime was a train wreck of terrible, awful, fucktarded, stupid cliches. I loved every minute of it.

Princess lover's best aspect, and this always gets me, is a main caharater that HAS SOME GODDAMN BALLS. Arima Teppei, right away is like "HERP DA DERP. MY PARENTS ARE DEAD. OH NO THAT LARGE BREASTED PINK HAIRED GIRL IS IN TROUBLE. TIME TO BECOME BAAAATMAAAAAAAN."

Of course, after saving the busty pink haired chick, who turns out to be a princess, he learns he's GODDAMN RICH. Not Only is he rich, but he's engaged to Fate Stay Night's Saber, except with bigger tits and a rapier. Smaller sword for bigger tits? That's a tough decision Saber had to make. It worked out for the best in a couple scenes.

I have to say I totally dig short series. 12 episodes is a lot of time to get to the point, develope some character, and end it before it gets boring. I was haning on to my seat through out this piece of shit show despite it being the same thing over and over, and over. Saving pink haired busty chick. Also pink haired busty chick is a total slut, despite how she may sometimes act to teh contrary. Don't let her childish act fool you. SLUT.

I finally got around to watching Princess Tutu after proper coercion. While I discovered, much to my dismay, there were no ninjas dueling with guitars the over all story of Princess Tutu was pretty FUCK YEAH!

To be fair Princess Tutu Starts off slow. I mean really slow. Slow like "The Hobbit" slow. It gets good though.

TO CUT TO THE CHASE it's about Ahiru, who is a duck, pretending to be a girl, who happens to be Princess Tutu who is a character in Drosselmyer's story trying to reaturn the prince's heart to him. It's shattered, as he used it to imprison The Raven.

There's a lot of ballet bullshit. That's to be expected though, it's a shoujo. You feel pretty gay watching it. Not gonna lie. I feel I lost alot of symbolism, as I don't get ballet. When it's imporant enough they explicitly explain the symbolism.

As I'm a huge fag to stupid philosophy I loved how this series explored determinism vs free will, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE how they deal with existentialism. I quote Drosselmeyer, "OH NO! What if I'm just a character in someone else's story!? Bah, who cares."

Fuck yeah Drosselmeyer! He's a great troll.

Pandora Hearts as not a good anime. I'm going to say it right away, because it's the same reason almost everything is a bad anime. The end sucked dick. It was one of those ends where absolutely nothing happened. It's like some fag walks down a street and the bad guy is like, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA You're a fag I'm going home."

That's really the only reason I don't like it. You could count all the homolust, but I sometimes wnjoy Hetalia and that's almost 100% homolust. It's homotalia for christ's sake.

SO LET ME SAY WHAT PANDORA HEARTS IS ABOUT. There's this guy called Oz. He and Gil are so gay Oz's father decides Oz should be sent to hell. AT LEAST I THINK THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENED. In hell Oz meets a bunny girl name Alice. Alice is a loli by day and A GODDAMN MONSTER at other times. The series tries time and time again to ship Alice X Oz, but he's proven time and time again to be inadequate. Hails of derisive laughter, Bruce.

Much like Pokemon, or Digimon people have monsters that thy can use to fight for them. Unlike Pokemon or Digimon, a gun works just as well as the monsters. Those silly monsters. the monsters are called chains, and all the main characters chains seem to have something to do with Alice in Wonderland. At least in name. That's it.

It really bothered me that the series would use names from Alice in Wonderland, but shared none of the story. OH WAIT. Oz gets tossed to the future. That's that's an analogue to falling down the rabit hole, right?

REGARDLESS, this shit can only be redeemed by another season with a proper ending. Fuck if I'm gonna read the manga.

Kampfer: Ecchi Shit. Too much time fooling around with lesbianism, and double entendres when busty chick could be cutting, shooting, and using magic to tear each other to shreds. There hasn't been a serious fight in the series yet.

The Sacred Blacksmith: Katana Wanking every other frame. "Herp Da Derp u have deeman sord? I cut majik wit KAH-TAH-NAH. Derp." At least it's kind of turn your brain off and watch.

Kimi ni Todoke: GODDAMN FUCK SHIT BALLS CUNT SHIT. Why is a shoujo the most entertaining thing? FUCKING HELL GUYS. A GIRL CARTOON IS BEATING YOU. FUCK.

At least Zan SZS finally got subbed in entirety. I will miss it dearly. Can't until Hidamari Sketch x STAR STAR STAR outshines everything else next season. My nutbladder will be in extreme pain, but I will be happy.

Y = Eve no Jikan.

Are you enjoying the Time of Eve? I sure am.

Eve no Jikan is a 6 episode anime, each episoide roughly lasting 15 minutes. If nothing else it's short. I love that.

You can't go wrong with a short series. the whole series takes less than 2 hours to watch. Even if it was bad it doesn't waste your time.

So what is it? It's about a world where robots are common and androids are just reaching common use. People who love androids are called Weeaboos Dori-kei. They are treated like common weeaboos. World roughly looks down on them, and the main character isn't much different.

While checking out his andriods location logs he discovers a cafe called Eve no Jikan. the rule is you can't tell apart andriods and humans. Moral issues ensue.

BECAUSE I liked Enzo Rocca's philosoraptor class I found this intriguing.

I loved the shit out of it.

The shows so far this season seem bad.

Kampfer is some gender bending shit with guns, swords, and fireballs. I have no idea what's going on. The only cool characters and disemboweled plushies.

The Sacred Black Smith seems ok. Some loli elf girl. Some fag with a katana. Some knight chick. I will watch it, but I can't imagine it being great.

A Certain Scientific Railgun. How can that be bad? It's not a railgun. It's a 16 year old girl. 'Nuff said.

There are other shows this season, sure. They will likely disappoint me too.

SO I STARTED WATCHING Kemonozume after watching a hilarious clip from it.

The show is about a group of warriors who keep japan safe from flesh eating monsters. That sounds cool. What could possibly go wrong right? I MEAN LIKE aside from the heir to the organization falling inlove with one of these flesh eaters.

The series has alot of action, alot of drama, alot of humor, and awesome characters. The only thing you may not like about it is the stylized animation. It's very scribbly.

I would suggest it, because it's fun, and reasonably badass.

Dragon Force is the hardest metal known the man. That's because Black Heaven is fictional.

Black Heaven is an anime about a guy in his midlife crisis. He used to be a popular guitarist in a metal band, now he's just living day by day in a dead end job, married to a wife that doesn't understand him. She clearly doesn't understand him. SHE TRIED TO THROW AWAY HIS GODDAMN GUITAR. A Gibson Flying V for Christ's sake.

He is then contacted by aliens that need THA POWAH OV METTUL to work their GIANT SPACE LASER to destroy enemy aliens. The blond alien chick is hot. Just throwing that out there.

From that last paragraph alone if you are not torrenting or buying the DVDs of Black Heaven already well, Son, I am disappoint.

I don't know what I can say about Mononoke. Visually it's crazier than Gankutsuou, but as a series it's more than crazy art style. OH I THOUGHT OF A JOKE! No Girls Allowed.

The series follows the only main character, The Medicine Seller. It seems like an odd name, since he never sold anything on the show, and only used his medicines once. Even The Time Traveller in The Time Machine earned his name multiple times.

The Medicine Seller goes around with his sword killing Mononoke, which are poltergeists, except from GLORIOUS NIPPON! To use his sword he has to know three things about a mononoke. It's never really explained why. He just can't pull out his sword if he doesn't know.

The show is mostly a mystery show. the mystery is learning the form, truth, and regret of a mononoke. Then The Medicine Seller kicks mononoke ass.

Although the time period of the show seems to be in feudal Japan at one point, In the last arc he's on a train in Japan's budding subway system. That makes knowing the shows time frame kind of hard. Maybe The Medicine Seller has a pill to travel through time. SHIT WOULD BE BALLIN'.

Outlaw Star was made in 1998. That was 11 years ago. I recently finished watching it. I have quite a bit of praise for it, although it wasn't, "ZOMG AMAZING I AM HAVING AN ORGASM FROM WATCHIN THIS."

The show's main characters are pretty awesome compared to main character archtypes in most of todays shows. For one thing the main character, Gene Starwind, is unique in being a main character with balls the size of jupiter. Unlike some fags. The rest of the crew were pretty cool I guess. Jim Hawking, some bio-android bitch, a crazy assassin chick, and Aisha-clanclan. NOTHING has ever made me want to turn on safe search as much as googling Aisha-clanclan just now. Shit is fucked up. I HAD a discussion with a friend whether Aisha-clanclan looks like Merle or vise versa. We later decided that even though Escaflowne came first, Merle was the blatant ripoff because Aisha-clanclan was a better character. In retrospect, the look nothing alike.

The driving force of the series is getting to the Galactic Leyline. Some kind of treasure or some shit. TO GET THERE Gene conviently finds the XGPBLAHBLAHBLAH whichhe later names the Outlaw Star. That's a pretty badass name.

The series, as a whole, is pretty awesome to watch.

THE ONLY THING I didn't like was hwo the end of the series left it open to a sequel. IT WAS LIKE, "Oh hey, we're going to continu having awesome adventures, AND YOU'RE NEVER GONNA SEE THEM! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" I pray that one day someone continues the series in anime form.

THE FOLLOWING IS A CONVERSATION I HAD 30ish MINUTES INTO WATCHIN THE EUREKA SEVEN MOVIE:

Marie & Gali is a series of shorts that look like they were made by an animation student for a final project. THAT IS TO SAY, 'adorable.'

The main characters are Marika, the Goth Loli and Galileo, the Astronomer. Marika lives with Marie Curie in the town of Galihabara. Tonnes of historic inventors and scientists live there.

Marika and Galileo go on adventures meeting the scientists. They learn things you should already know.

Regardless, it's fun and easy to watch since episodes are only 5 minutes long.

Gungrave is a videogame. It was also adapted into anime form. Bad News Bears.

Maybe I'm being a little harsh on it? WAIT NO. VIDEO GAME ANIME/MOVIES/VIDEOGAMES(oh wait) ARE ALWAYS BAD.

Well, then I started watching it. THE FIRST EPISODE featured some buff guy shooting a bunch of zombies, BUT AFTER THAT Shit got REAL.

It became a mafia drama story, relatively void of super powered killer zombies. It followed the silent protagonist Brandon Heat. Brandon climbs the ranks to become one of the top mafia hit men. His best bro, Harry MacDowell, climbs the ranks to become on the top anime assholes. He was always well dressed, as least.

THERE was absolutely no completely hateable main character. If that character got more than 10 minutes on screen, you came to like them. Then Harry became an asshole. You could hate him, but at least you used to like him.

SO ALL IS GOING WELL, then they introduce zombies. SHIT HITS THE FAN. Brandon dies, and becomes a zombie with guns to take revenge. While being a zombie he also gets an incredibly faggy purple cowboy suit. This was a draw over from the video game, but he rarely wears it in the anime. THANK GOD.

The series takes a bit of a slump as Brandon kills a tonne of zombies, but not so much as you can't watch it. It's still very awesome at this point.

THEN the end happens. THE END was so well executed. HARRY became likable again, the series ties itself up, and you are left with a good feeling.

I would suggest GunGrave to anyone. Fuck, if I have money ever I'm gonna try to buy it on DVD. It's that good.

Moyashimon has everything. Seriously. Except mechs. Maybe. I forget, it may have mechs.

If you like shows with hot chicks, who display lesbian tendancies, very often, but also frown upon typical homosexuality especially when childhood friends turned goth traps are involved. While Mr. Goth Trap seems too horny to be accepted, the lesbians accept is blond friend, and all is well. REGARDLESS OF WHAT MR. GOTH TRAP SAYS.

HAVING CHARCTER relations out of the way I suppose I should say what the show is about. Blond kid goes to an agricultural college, and becomes friends with microbe researchers, because he can see microbes with the naked eye. They are adorable. He puts these skills to use when they decide to illegally brew saki, EXCEPT THEY EVENTUALLY GET A LISENCE FOR THAT. His skill is useful because they only want the good microbes.

This show has a huge alcohol influence. When the alcoholic lesbians aren't hoarding it for themselves they're mooching off the poor, defenseless nerds. This leads to many awkward mornings that no drinking session is complete without.

I fucking loved this show.

Dub Lelouch and Brotherhood Hughes died today, therefore making June 7th the saddest day in Anime history.

Pay your respects.

About a week ago a new episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was aired. OH GOD IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS SOMETHING NEW!

ONE PROBLEM.

It included time travel. Maybe I'm unique with this opinion, but I hate time travel. It always screws things up and introduces plot holes.

FOR ONCE that didn't seem to happen. Mikuru's time travel method was kept secret thanks to her use of a date rape drug on Kyon. They later traveled to the future by sleeping together for 3 years. Bears would be jealous of their hibernation ability.

NO. Kiss tribute bands are terrible.

Detroit Metal City has nothing to do with KISS. Right? Well, I guess they wear the same kinda makeup. And I vaguely remember a movie by a similar name, also being a hit song by KISS. PROBABLY JUST COINCIDENCE.

EDIT: confirmed for not a coincidence.

Judging from the intro you might expect a lot of rape. Perhaps as much as 10 rapes per second. Your expectations would be met. Exceeded even.

Can something so rapey fill that moé factor you need? No. Not at all. Why would you even expect moé from something like this? YOU SICK FUCK.

ANYWAY, the Deamon of Metal, Krauser II, is some lame kid who wanted to sing pop songs. Not just any pop. J-pop. THAT KID DODGED A BULLET. Of course being the good guy he is living a metal life style is hard for him. HILARITY ENSUES. Watch this shit.

So here's the state of the "Chrome Shelled Regios" world: infested with giant bugs that will KILL YOU. Where have I heard this before?

OK so the enemies of the series sound a lot like Blue Gender, which I HATED. What's different? Well instead of mature adults in a cruel world, it's university kids in a pretty little university city. There are no mechs. The main protagonist is a gigantic pussy, but one that can crush your skull. They took Blue Gender, took a shit on it, AND IT IS STILL BETTER THAN BLUE GENDER. How did Blue Gender fuck up so much?

To avoid these giant bugs that eat your feet the cities (I think they're called regios, but I see no chrome. I can't be sure) walk around using a cyber elf. Instead the main protagonist kills bugs with a sword that generates a blade out of the handle. That sounds alot like Zero but that would be too awesome.

Instead you get these fags.

To be fair, Harley Davidson is a cool guy. He works on every one's weapons and doesn't afraid of anything. Vash Grew out his hair, and even wore his red long coat a few times so far. Having Vash in this series was a cool move. Although, he's mostly a sniper now, and thus not credit to team. Cagalli from Gundam Seed is a main character too. I don't know why they did this. She gets ronery and talks to the cyber elf alot.

I'm not even going to talk about main fag. I just don't like him. Felli does though. Felli is like... a girl with telepathic powers that enable her to kick fridges really hard ultimately denting them and reducing their resale value. If there's any reason at all to watch this show, it's Felli.

Good enough reason for me

Noein - To Your Other Self is a strange anime. Let's analyze this poster. It makes two major claims.

"BY FAR THE GREATEST ANIME THIS SEASON"

"ANIME'S VERSION OF "STAND BY ME""

To say it's the greatest anime of the season is a pretty big claim. It aired at the end of 2005 to the beggining of 2006. A breif search showed that 'Speed Grapher' aired in 2005. A closer look showed 'Speed Grapher' actually aired the fall season as opposed to the winter season. YOU DODGED THAT EXPLOADING PHOTOGRAPH NOEIN.

Ok, so maybe nothing else good came out that season. Can I discredit that claim any other way? Wait, what's that say? "~fan reviews on Anime-Source.com?" OH BEAUTIFUL BIAS! I NO LONGER HAVE TO BELIEVE ADVERTISEMENT CLAIMS!

MOVING ONTO THE SECOND CLAIM: ANIME'S VERSION OF "STAND BY ME." I want to agree. They're both sufficiently awesome. Lets see if the wikipedia plot sumaries show any paralelles.

Stand by Me is a coming of age film set in the fictional Castle Rock, Oregon in 1959. It portrays a journey embarked upon by four 12-year-old boys across the woodlands near their hometown to see the dead body of another boy who was close to their own age. The film is told through the recollections of the main character, Gordie LaChance, a freelance writer. It describes how his friend Vern overheard his older brother discussing the body of a missing boy after accidentally coming across it in the woods with his friend.

Fifteen years in one of the possible futures, a violent battle using fictional technology takes place between two "time-spaces": La'cryma, a possible future of our own universe, and Shangri'la, another possible dimension fifteen years after ours, intent on the destruction of all space and time. The key to stopping Shangri'la's invasion is a mysterious object known as the "Dragon Torque" (竜のトルク ,Ryū no Toruku?). A group known as the "Dragon Knights" is sent through space and time to find it. In the present, twelve-year old Haruka and her friend Yū are contemplating running away from home when they meet a member of the Dragon Knights named Karasu, who is a possible Yū from fifteen years in the future. Karasu believes that Haruka is the Dragon Torque, but vows to protect her rather than sacrifice her for his timespace, La'cryma. Other than the Dragon Knights, Haruka is targeted by the mysterious Noein, the entity behind Shangri'la who is intent on bringing her into his timespace to end all universes.

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Meet all the important people in ToraDora! The middle chick wants the naked guy on the right. The guy on the left is chasing after pink hair. Half way through Blue hair comes in and lusts after guy on the left. How does pink hair feel about this? No big deal really.

Middle girl, whose name is a japanification of 'tiger', Taiga, and Ryuuji (Guy on the left. It means 'dragon') make a pact with the gods to help each other get in the pants of those other people. That never happens.

The title of the show, 'Toradora!' is a bad play on words. 'Tora' is the japanese word for tiger. 'Dora' is the beginning of the word 'dragon.' That shit only flies in japan. Dora is Nothing like dragon. It pretty much means 'TAIGA <3 RYUUJI! KAWAIIIII!'

STILL a fun watch. There's alot of comedy in the first half of it. I enjoy slice of life romance shit like this.

Also, Ami is a bro.