While we may all love anime, it’s also true that we don’t love all anime. For every amazing work like Mushoku Tensei, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, or Kaiju No. 08 there are some stinkers that disappoint fans for various reasons. I asked J-List’s awesome customers to share their list of the most hated anime, and here’s what we came up with!
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Why Do Fans Hate Some Anime Series?
I’m lucky to be able to watch anime for my actual job. Each season, I sample 15-20 different series. Then I pick the ones I’m most interested in and write blog posts about them for all of you. Sometimes I’ll pick a series if I think it’s creating buzz among anime fans, and sometimes I’ll do the opposite: try to find a show fans might have missed and highlight it for them.
If I’m watching a show I dislike, I usually won’t write a negative review of it because I know that someone, somewhere, will think the show is the neatest thing since striped panties. But every once in a while even I find a show I just can’t stand, so I understand where fans are coming from then they declare their hatred for a certain show.
Some reasons fans pick for hated anime include:
- Adaptation issues. Anime is a different format from manga or light novels. If fans think too much material has been cut or the pacing is terrible, they might react negatively.
- Too much skin. Sometimes, big changes are made in an anime work, like adding tons of fan service to Rosario + Vampire that wasn’t in the original work.
- Not enough skin. I’ve seen many fans drop a show because they felt it wasn’t showing the same amount of skin as the manga. If they think anything is being censored, they might drop the show.
What Are the Most Hated Anime according to J-list Customers?
Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear. Even the author hates it, LOL.
Rosario + Vampire. Love the manga, love the anime’s OPs & EDs, but I hate the show.
I just hate Darling in the Franxx so much.
The most hated anime for me has to be The Promised Neverland season 2.
Kenja no Mago. It’s peak isekai trash. The main character makes boring decisions and the story moves in whatever direction he wants it to. It is so far up his ass that he doesn’t even have to acknowledge basic common sense. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle that completes itself, so why bother?
For me, I can’t stand Konasuba.
My top most hated ever, which I wrote a long hate review for but never published, was Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse.
Casshern Sins was just not good.
I disliked Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans.
Digimon Adventure 02. The first season was amazing, thoughtful, and innovative, and then this one came along and poisoned it… and every unnecessary sequel after. Thank God for the 2020 reboot.
This girl. I just could not stand her.
I hate most isekai nowadays. The genre started as a cool ‘unlikely hero adventure’ and devolved into sad author insert harem wish fulfillment.
Even More Hated Anime!
I dislike the OG Evangelion. Don’t @ me.
My most hated anime is Berserk (2016), for what those no-talent CGI shmoes did to the series.
What about me? What show do I hate the most? I’d have to go with Shinka no Mi, a terrible isekai about a fat, unlikable hero who disables an enemy using his armpit stench. It’s pretty much everything bad about low-effort anime based on low-effort light novels written by hack writers who happened to get lucky writing online fan-fiction. And yet, it got a second season! What the heck is up with that?
Thanks for reading this blog post about the most hated anime according to J-List customers. What anime did you hate, and why? Tell us in the comments below!
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