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relic2279:

--- Quote from: Stsin on January 12, 2009, 11:16:43 AM --- and Skip Beat!.  But should wait and see, as more word about them goes around.

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You know, this is probably the most underrated anime airing in my opinion. I think I've been one of maybe 2-3 people on box who have ever mentioned it. But the show is awesome. It gets so much better as the show goes on. It's probably right up there with toradora! I would describe it as an underdog comedy. If you haven't seen it yet, give it a watch. It has a 8.47 score on anidb.

ray1301:
Over-rated:
Akira: I guess since it was one of the major things back in the day to first come out. It's one of those animes I first heard about being big and often talked about.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya: I agree with this one, as I never watched it until quite a while ago, always heard stuff about this and how it was supposed to be amazing, but once I watched it, it wasn't as great as I thought it'd be.

Hellsing: Possibly? People often say it is great but when I think it over it just seemed alittle boring, but then again I did watch it in english dub, but I'll try to ignore that fact, the story was compelling enough for me and I can't really recall any great moments D:

Can't really think of underrated animes atm.

Random Comments:
Some one previously mentioned that Noir was underrated, I have to totally disagree, I watched it and it just felt so bland, it bored me so much, one of the key things I can clearly remember is whenever they shot their pistols they would always take the same stance and fire at a slow and consistant speed, which made the gunfights seem very boring.

lol another thing you notice is when some posters come to defend their favourite animes as hinted by their avatars :p

Djnurma:

--- Quote from: relic2279 on January 11, 2009, 02:18:50 PM ---Akira is one of the few I thought was overrated. Even when I first saw it in the 90's, I was like ok this is cool, but why is everyone going nuts about it, bigger question is, why do people still go nuts over it?

Naruto (the anime) is also overrated. The hype was deserved when the show first came out, and for the first 60-70 or so eps. But now it's blah and fillers.
 

Underrated, well a few months ago I would have said Nodame Cantabile. But it seems like it's getting well deserved attention lately.

Now this is going to sound crazy, but Lucky Star is somewhat underrated to me. The people who see it, love it. But the problem is, most people can't get through the first ep of basically nothing + a little character development and thus bash it. I never bashed it myself, but I had to force myself to watch the first 3 eps and as I watched more and more eps I got used to the style, dialogue and non stop talking which seems to be the turn-off. And rightly so, if it wasn't for fanboys praising it, I probably would have stopped after the first ep. It has now become one of my favorites.

Ichigo Mashimaro seems a bit underrated to me too. I could be biased, because I think the show is hilarious, but I never see many recommendations or chatter about it.

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The Seinfeld of aniem  ;D

mgz:
IMO seinfeld doesnt hold up, simply not as funny if you go back now and watch it. It is incredibly dated feeling.


IMO curb your enthusiasm has a much more timeless feeling to most of it.

panicfire:
over rated:

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Naruto / Bleach
Elfen Lied, i liked it. but i started watching it because it was the BEST THING EVER
according to the person that referred me to it. it was GOOD in my opinion

Under rated:
Rurouni kenshin, in this i'm biased,
it's the anime that got me really really hooked into anime.
atleast it's the aniem that made me realize that the stuff i was watching as a kid
was not just cartoons, and it is what made me experience a whole lot of goodness over the years.

Maze, don't hear much about this kind of old anime, but in my opinion it's funny and the action is also quite good.


On a side note.
a lot of under/over-rated stuff has more to do with the audience.
late teens (16+) / adults are not so easily amazed as young children, up till about
the age of 14 - 15. Adults will state what they think but mostly won't idolize a series
while children are prone to do that. so those anime's are mostly over-rated.

afcourse also perspective counts, when i was young (10) i LOVED pokemon
but now when grown up i still think it's good for the intended public, but not so much for me anymore.
this also goes for DB/DBZ/DBGT and Naruto, Yu-Gi-Oh.
while when your young you probably can't relate to more serious anime
death note, i liked it, but when i was 10 probably not so much.

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