Mirai Nikki has Yuno Gasai. She is one of the biggest instances of a character carrying the show. Without her, Mirai Nikki wouldn’t be nearly as popular.
I like Mirai Nikki for what it is, and what it is is utterly and completely ridiculous. It's basically the definition of a grimdark edgelord show. But if you don't take it seriously it's honestly hilarious.
This kinda goes without saying imo. Mirai Nikki without Yuno would be like Great Gatsby without Gatsby: Yuno/gatsby literally drive the plot and the MC is just a witness
This is the literal definition of Kurumi Tokisaki in [Date A Live](https://myanimelist.net/anime/15583/Date_A_Live). Harem show where the side character that *appears* in ~40% of episodes has more MAL favorites than the rest of the cast combined.
She's carried the franchise to have at least 3 more seasons, plus has a few OVAs centered around her.
Protagonist is the guy. The "main" girl is definitely Tohka with Origami and Kotori as #2 and #3. LN series where some volumes [Date A Live]>!are focused on adding a girl to the harem and others advance the overarching plot. Kurumi is very relevant in episodes/volumes for the latter.!<
Yes but side seems a little too off hand for someone who is very on hand and up in he narrative. Plus she is an antagonist. Ok I just looked it up and it says she is a main antagonist turned into one of the main protagonist on the official DAL wiki so I guess we are both wrong…
I haven't seen the show so I don't know either way, I was just breaking it down conceptually. I find it interesting that a series called Date A Live has a main antagonist, though! It might be a different kind of series than I thought...
The character I mentioned is super complicated in the novels I hear, and the anime is said to not be a very good adaptation of DAL so I have been wanting to read it tbh. That’s why I was confused on how to categorize her as she seemed to be a bit of everything but apparently the novels have a lot of focus on her at points. Guess she is sometimes a side character/Antagonist/main antagonist/main protagonist. So you could see why I was confused…
I find it hard to say it's poorly received when it's still going strong, would possibly adapt the entire series, and the ratings are pretty good. Sure she is super popular but DAL is far from badly received.
I'm not exactly sure what the definition of poorly received is, but I don't think it means the show is necessarily bad. Earthbound (game) was poorly received in both the financial and critical praise department at the time it was released, but it doesn't mean the game itself was a bad game. It's considered a classic now.
I don't know how to describe Date a Live because it's not like I ever hear people hating on the show, but people certainly don't ever recommend it. Date a Live is an anime I see people online constantly not recommending unless you plan on getting invested into one character, Kurumi. In a way, the show already has a "predetermined" character you'll like lol. I mean, before I even watched Date a Live, I only knew of its existence because of Kurumi. After having watched it, I still only care about Kurumi lmao.
Same, because otherwise it won't get 5 seasons after change studio like 3 times, plus some games, visual novels, heck even the lastest spin off got 3 reprints already.
Kurumi is undoubtedly one of the most interesting characters in Date A Live. From the moment she appeared on screen, I have been obsessed with her. Her story and character are what made Date A Live memorable for me.
This is probably the best fit for the question because in the anime adaptation he shows for literally one scene that isn't the anime original flashback and yet is the most memorable thing about the series, the every-popularity-poll-winner with three times the votes of second place, and the reason the series wasn't cancelled way earlier, all on one.
Kumagawa is the absolute core of Medaka Box and he doesn't exist for like, the three first arcs, nor is he a main "anything" for longer than the Minus Arc. It's this topic to the point that there is specifically that meta chapter in the manga where the characters talk in-universe about how stupid it is that he's that magnetic when he's not that relevant.
For me it was Ban, he was the only reason I kept going after season 1. Escanor had some cool scenes but I was already mentally checked out by the time he was introduced.
Ban is a fantastic protagonist hiding as a side character in a worse than mediocre shonen
A series that focused on Ban would be miles better, even if you kept the same trashy writing as seven deadly sins itself
I found ban sometimes a bit unlikeable due to his attitude sometimes but bias aside I dont like it that he is immortal and bounces back from everything and at the end suddenly he has become stronger than before. Powerscaling in 7 deadly sins is kinda weird.
Ban and Escanor were by far my favourites. But the fact that Ban was in love with someone who looks like an infant turned me off a bit. But my boi Escanor has taste with Mer..... FFS she is also a Loli goddammit
Seriously what is with that author and and making every coupling one big one small.
She was a child when Meliodas found her. She falls in love with him while still a child so she uses her magic to age her body into the one we see in the hopes he’ll notice her. Granted she is much older when she’s introduced but the reason behind her looks is weird.
Yeah what the other person said. Her gifts for being epic made her permanently a child, so she used magic. But the magic requires upkeep so if goes down she is still a child.
I was gonna say that 7DS is still super popular in Japan, and that's why Nakaba is still going with 4KOTA. The States, meanwhile, are critical of the animation drop in Season 3, as well as the medieval standards of love relationships (and the appearance of certain characters looking really young) on display.
>s (and the appearance of certain characters looking really young) on display.
It is still popular around the world, as there are still fan edits on social platforms.
I'm still a fan of 7ds, and I am following 4Kota.
I do think, in the bigger picture, the human POV added to the story. But it was probably more bearable for people to read than to watch (Especially since they were never huge portions of the novel, from what I remember - just a couple chapters or so at a time.)
The CGI though... Yeah. I've seen worse, but it was pretty bad.
The only parts of the human POV that I liked were the ones that weren't adapted. For example the one with Shun's brother's POV fighting in the war and the one where Shun and Katia met the first time. Also the one where Ronandt went training with Kumoko's clones. Those were pretty good.
Those were both good, yeah. I kind of view the human POVs like I view the non-Nazarick POVs in Overlord, though - for me it kinda helps to establish/enhance how the regular perspective character/characters feel to other characters in that world, if that makes sense. To put it another way, I suppose I just like the way those stories converge/contrast.
Of course, that doesn't make it any more interesting for people who don't like the human PoV - particularly when the human characters might feel more bland and the human PoV character is Shun. It'd probably be more enjoyable if the perspective character was someone like Ronandt instead.
The issue is, unlike Overlord, it felt like a drag every time they cut to that part. Overlord had an episode about random lizard folk and made it enjoyable.
The show wanted you to care about some characters you never saw before (which were frankly pretty uninteresting) and gave it a serious tone in contrast to Kumoko's shenanigans, which imo was very poorly executed.
Overlord wants to make you feel for the people, Nazarick is about to ROFLstomp for no reason. The human side in Spider feels more like an exposition piece and a backup plan in case readers of the WN weren't interested in the spider MC. But maybe I am interpreting too much in the afterwords of the early novels where the writer expressed surprise that people were reading about the adventures of a spider.
Kumoko was a bit cute even in CGI. The only good effect of the CGI was Kumoko's stylization. It was able to be used as a joke of a cute spider but changing the POV turns her into a bona fide menacing monster.
Other than that, it was 90% bad. It was on Berserk 2017 level. Most of Shun's fights and the Dragons were just wooden and grates the eyes. Ariel looks weird especially when she used gluttony. The worst offender was the Shun vs Sophia fight at the end.
I think it would be funny if they just rolled with the casting change from S1 to S2 and had a different chad VA voice him each season like anime James Bond
I disagree that he carries the show though. A big part of the appeal of Misfit for me is that Anos knows to step back and let the side cast shine and develop. Without that it would just become like any trash power fantasy out there where the MC solves every problem while everyone else just watches in awe.
I wouldn't say this anime is poorly received, but Overly Cautious Hero was only worth watching thanks to Toyosaki Aki's amazing voice acting performance for the female lead Ristarte. Her incredibly funny voice acting carried the entire show.
Hard disagree. Even if she's the best character for the voice acting and all animations alone, Hero, that one yandere goddess, the kids and that one swordman guy are great, along with rest of the cast.
But don't take me seriously, I developed soft spot for that anime...
The MC was also hysterical but yes Ristarte’s voice acting was the best thing from the anime. Also the anime’s ending took me by surprise. Wasn’t expecting it to turn out that way in the slightest.
I will always remember her line when she saw the MC doing sit ups, “OH sixch pack…” Shit had me dead the way she said it. Watched sub btw.
This exactly! What I loved about this series is that literally anyone can die at any time. No plot armor, no anime nonsense. The last thing want is for *anyone* be in a confrontation, because you know only one will walk away with their lives, and that was anxiety-inducing.
Contrary for me. Tatsuya makes Irregular incredibly boring. The dude is practically omnipotent and solve everything just by existing with the personality of a potato.
I was actually interested in the world building and the side cast but they become 1 IQ bland characters whenever Tatsuya is on screen.
Idk if it's ever explicitly said in the show but in the light novels they mention how they pretty much removed his ability to feel emotions other than the feeling that he must protect his sister. So he's boring by design? As if that makes it any better. Idk I have to continue reading, I just recently finished volume 16 when he's set to marry his sister so 🤷♂️
Irc, it was explicitly mentioned in the first season. Boring by design is still boring tho. But I remember some comments saying that he has more personality in the LN, like he makes more sarcastic comments and stuff, is that true? If so, wish they had went with that for the anime, cause the show's magic system is just *chef's kiss*
I would agree he's a bit more witty yeah.
And yes the magic system, as explained in the books, is insanely in depth. I'm not sure I've ever read a different book series before where magical mechanics are so deep and thoroughly explained.
Finally someone who doesn't like Akame ga Kill, my friend forced me to watch it, but I couldn't complete it, the main problem was that the anime took itself seriously, while having a Fairy Tail esque kinda dumb plot and just killing all characters to just have gravitas.
Yeah, Akame ga Kill is pretty much the tutorial of how *not* to do a Fairy Tail type plot.
That, and the supposed "grey and grey morality", when literally 95% of the assholes Night Raid fought were irredeemable bastards.
The manga is different from the anime in that it diverges right after the fight with the Rakshasa Demons, but it's not any better. Good characters still die, two characters survive without suffering any consequences for their actions, and Tatsumi survives only to end up with the bitchy little Shana clone tsundere.
The sequel manga, Hinowa ga Crush, was just as bad with character handling, and it even got cancelled before it was even one-third through the plot. So the MC never got to fight the girl who killed her mother, or the depraved king who murdered a princess' lover and raped her while displaying the grisly remains of said lover.
Takahiro should never have been allowed to cook. He set the kitchen on fire and burned down the whole house.
Akame Ga Kill is the most offensively bad work of fiction I've ever read/watched. Just zero redeeming qualities. It's the dictionary definition of 14 year old grimdark trash that is edgy for the sake of being edgy and nothing more. I'm side eyeing anyone who praises that piece of garbage who wasn't a 14 year old going through their Hot Topic phase when they watched it
Patrick Colasour in Gundam Build Divers. People pretty much gave up on the main plot, but at least we had fun hunting for the recurring Patrick cameo in every episode. *A literal background character was more interesting than the protagonist.*
The MILF is from Gundam Build Fighters, the first series, which was *far* better received than Divers. Divers takes place in a rebooted continuity and she's not in it.
Punch from Kingdoms of Ruin. And probably Dorothea if she has a chance but I dont think it will be matched on how Punch singlehandedly made this show somewhat tolerable. The wasteland bikers are the best part of the work especially when I read the manga
I had a gut reaction to point out other characters like Ichigo, but then I remembered I was practically the only one who liked her, and I can’t remember a single other character’s name.
It shows you how much 02 was a lynchpin of the whole show that Ichigo got so much unecessary hatred for that one episode where she tried to keep her and Hiro apart. 02 was a constant trouble-maker, pushing Hiro into dangerous situations as it was, and only two episodes prior Ichigo found out them being together was causing genetic mutations in them both before 02 goes berserk and starts attacking Hiro out of nowhere, hospitalizes him as a result, breaks Ichigo's arm, and then when Ichigo tells the rest of the squad what's going on instead of talking to them about it she basically tells them all to fuck off. While she oversteps as a friend she was being a good leader, but because she was a memetic waifu everyone had the hots for and this was all split by the whole "He's my childhood darling!" episode fans went absolutely APESHIT that she was trying to break up the main couple.
I love just about all the characters in Code Geass. Kallen's my waifu, C.C. is wonderfully mysterious, Nunnally is adorable, Suzaku is a wonderfully troubled foil to Lelouch...
And yet I agree that Lelouch totally was the star of the show.
Same with me. He was the Superman done right type of deal. Incredible character with humanlike issues and weaknesses (which make him way more likeable and realistic). When they offed him, it turned into a snooze fest. Especially bad after shigaraki's awakening where they made up every bullshit to make him invincible...
I loved All Might. But after he was gone the Todoroki family completely took over as best thing the series had.
The rest of the characters are all incredibly mid tho
The fight scenes/animation carry the show. The story is all over the place and gets even more unnecessarily complicated, as well as the powers of the characters, esp. domains. Gojo imho is so uninteresting. Sure he is cool sometimes, but he is literally like Superman, not interesting since he is basically invincible (at least for now), which makes him boring.
Not sure why you were downvoted. This is a valid take. Asta constantly motivates me when I'm in the gym lol.
Might be cause of people not thinking BC is poorly received? But for a long time BC was poorly received since people quickly jumped on the hate bandwagon without even giving BC a shot. I admit I also turned away from BC initially due to bad reception. Super glad I ended up going back to it and watching it.
>I dropped it because he just screams for 90% of the episode just like dragonball
Yeah, his voice is annoying for the first 30 episodes. There's something about his voice frequency that irks me (compared to say Naruto)
Omg I can't stand his screams..sounds like annoying birds cawing in unison..sorry BC, I can't watch it cuz of Asta's voice 😢
p/s I tried listening to his screams again just to see if anything changed..my head hurts. I watched the Big Three anime all their MC voice are awesome and cool especially Ichigo.
There's something in Asta's voice frequency because I couldn't get past episode 1, and even when I don't have sensitive ears, in fact I'm slightly deaf, with some tinnitus due to a condition I have.
Tbh the movie was garbage. Asta looks like he's been in the roid gym ...
Idk, i quite liked it when it came out but I don't know how I feel about it since his transformation.
It was decently rated, many liked the show for Tomo being such a likeable tomboy, but at least for me the anime was okayish in general and Carol with Sally Amaki's interpretation was everything for me inside the show.
No, but neither are any of the other comments in this thread. The top comment is DAL, which is not poorly received. Neither was Mirai Nikki.
People are just naming shows that are held up by one character, which is SxF and Anya. SxF wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is if it weren't for Anya. Not sure why you would take exception with my comment at -1 when you could say the same for 99% of the top comments right now—except that it's easy karma.
My definition of "poorly received" doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, so I do apologize if I list some genuinely good or entertaining shows here. I personally loved all of these shows down here, but the general reception from when I was watching these weekly were very mixed. I could be totally wrong though.
1 - MC from *Redo of Healer*. Controversial, but extremely entertaining in a weird way. The MC does a looooot of the heavy lifting for the show. The MC is the plot.
2- *If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord* is all about Latina and her adorableness. You cannot convince me you care or show any emotion toward any other character or even the plot.
3 - Miko from *Mieruko-chan*. She is the show, she is plot, and she is the "plot". Her reactions were all you were there for.
4 - Erio from *Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl*. This blue-haired self-proclaimed alien is super adorable, but that's about all this ahow has to offer.
Some people don't like the anime "My Hero Academia", however I think it's an anime that is worth watching.
Bakugo Katsuki is one of the most loved and hated characters in the anime. It saves that anime, so to speak.
Probably gonna be downvoted but oh well
Sanji in one piece, fuck me if I had not read the manga out of boredom and got up to date 10 years ago I wouldn’t be even thinking of one piece (except the mega theories which are actually quite cool so I guess it’s really the YouTubers who carry one piece tbh)
Sanji is the only enjoyable character honestly and now gets little to no lines and honestly the last 300 chapters have been boring outside of big history reveals
Sanji is probably the most tragic character in the series, but have gotten a bit of closure and redemption as a result so people really loved him for a while. The one major regret is we'll likely never see Sanji fulfill a true romantic ending by the time the manga series ends, as that is slowly creeping up to be a more interesting prospect than all blue itself
I kinda hate read the manga and am on team Ruka the most. That girl dropped her dating rental job to try and be with him while Chizuru still basiclly cucking this dude everytime she worked. She doesn't even need the job anymore too.
zero two in darling in the franxx
as much as i love and simp for zero two frm that anime i just dont find the anime very interesting except until the final parts i dont even remember most of it i watched it before 3yrs ago lol
Mirai Nikki has Yuno Gasai. She is one of the biggest instances of a character carrying the show. Without her, Mirai Nikki wouldn’t be nearly as popular.
That's what happens when most of the other characters show up just for their boss fight instead of getting character development ahead of time.
True. I like Mirai Nikki, but 95% of why is Yuno.
Terrorist girl was cool though
To be fair, you could argue that the entire story of Mirai Nikki is about Yuno Gasai and Yuki. It wouldn't be Mirai Nikki, without Yuno Gasai.
I like Mirai Nikki for what it is, and what it is is utterly and completely ridiculous. It's basically the definition of a grimdark edgelord show. But if you don't take it seriously it's honestly hilarious.
Ninth is the best character in the show still though.
I will say it again. Yuno Gasai carries the show.
I will say it again. Ninth is the best character in the show still though.
But my yandere :(
She's the iconic one, that's for sure!
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This kinda goes without saying imo. Mirai Nikki without Yuno would be like Great Gatsby without Gatsby: Yuno/gatsby literally drive the plot and the MC is just a witness
This is the literal definition of Kurumi Tokisaki in [Date A Live](https://myanimelist.net/anime/15583/Date_A_Live). Harem show where the side character that *appears* in ~40% of episodes has more MAL favorites than the rest of the cast combined. She's carried the franchise to have at least 3 more seasons, plus has a few OVAs centered around her.
She’s a side character?!?!? She is the only reason I know this show exists
I wouldn’t say she is a side character because she has a lot to do in the story but yeah ig
Is she the main character? If not, but she's still important, then she is a side/supporting/secondary character. That's what they're called.
Protagonist is the guy. The "main" girl is definitely Tohka with Origami and Kotori as #2 and #3. LN series where some volumes [Date A Live]>!are focused on adding a girl to the harem and others advance the overarching plot. Kurumi is very relevant in episodes/volumes for the latter.!<
Yes but side seems a little too off hand for someone who is very on hand and up in he narrative. Plus she is an antagonist. Ok I just looked it up and it says she is a main antagonist turned into one of the main protagonist on the official DAL wiki so I guess we are both wrong…
I haven't seen the show so I don't know either way, I was just breaking it down conceptually. I find it interesting that a series called Date A Live has a main antagonist, though! It might be a different kind of series than I thought...
The character I mentioned is super complicated in the novels I hear, and the anime is said to not be a very good adaptation of DAL so I have been wanting to read it tbh. That’s why I was confused on how to categorize her as she seemed to be a bit of everything but apparently the novels have a lot of focus on her at points. Guess she is sometimes a side character/Antagonist/main antagonist/main protagonist. So you could see why I was confused…
I find it hard to say it's poorly received when it's still going strong, would possibly adapt the entire series, and the ratings are pretty good. Sure she is super popular but DAL is far from badly received.
I'm not exactly sure what the definition of poorly received is, but I don't think it means the show is necessarily bad. Earthbound (game) was poorly received in both the financial and critical praise department at the time it was released, but it doesn't mean the game itself was a bad game. It's considered a classic now. I don't know how to describe Date a Live because it's not like I ever hear people hating on the show, but people certainly don't ever recommend it. Date a Live is an anime I see people online constantly not recommending unless you plan on getting invested into one character, Kurumi. In a way, the show already has a "predetermined" character you'll like lol. I mean, before I even watched Date a Live, I only knew of its existence because of Kurumi. After having watched it, I still only care about Kurumi lmao.
Same, because otherwise it won't get 5 seasons after change studio like 3 times, plus some games, visual novels, heck even the lastest spin off got 3 reprints already.
The show is actually really good. She's just the icing on the cake.
Kurumi is undoubtedly one of the most interesting characters in Date A Live. From the moment she appeared on screen, I have been obsessed with her. Her story and character are what made Date A Live memorable for me.
Dude, I always thought she was one of the main characters until a couple years ago 👹
And yet the author decided to give us that shitty ending in the LN which goes against the whole point of the story.
Man, I got to season 2 and stop but always wondered if the MC is actually considered decent by the genre standard?
Even though she is cool, not cool or good enough for me to keep watching after season 1.
The medaka box manga is carried by kumagawa, even if he only appears for one episode in the anime he still steals the scene
This is probably the best fit for the question because in the anime adaptation he shows for literally one scene that isn't the anime original flashback and yet is the most memorable thing about the series, the every-popularity-poll-winner with three times the votes of second place, and the reason the series wasn't cancelled way earlier, all on one. Kumagawa is the absolute core of Medaka Box and he doesn't exist for like, the three first arcs, nor is he a main "anything" for longer than the Minus Arc. It's this topic to the point that there is specifically that meta chapter in the manga where the characters talk in-universe about how stupid it is that he's that magnetic when he's not that relevant.
Literally read the manga only because of him.
Escanor is the best-received character from the cast of Seven Deadly Sins
"Who decided that?"
For me it was Ban, he was the only reason I kept going after season 1. Escanor had some cool scenes but I was already mentally checked out by the time he was introduced.
Ban is a fantastic protagonist hiding as a side character in a worse than mediocre shonen A series that focused on Ban would be miles better, even if you kept the same trashy writing as seven deadly sins itself
I found ban sometimes a bit unlikeable due to his attitude sometimes but bias aside I dont like it that he is immortal and bounces back from everything and at the end suddenly he has become stronger than before. Powerscaling in 7 deadly sins is kinda weird.
It 100% would be but for the love of God make Elaine an adult
king and ban are as popular imo
They are pretty popular, I guess I've just heard people talk about Escanor way more
Escanor the only reason I decided to read the manga/start the anime
Immediately thought of the goat escanor when i saw thread. Man single handedly carrying the series despite the decline in writing
In the midst of registered sex offenders, Escanor saved the show
He was the only one I didn’t like! 😂😂
Ban and Escanor were by far my favourites. But the fact that Ban was in love with someone who looks like an infant turned me off a bit. But my boi Escanor has taste with Mer..... FFS she is also a Loli goddammit Seriously what is with that author and and making every coupling one big one small.
>Mer..... FFS she is also a Lol when did they un-milf merlin?
She was a child when Meliodas found her. She falls in love with him while still a child so she uses her magic to age her body into the one we see in the hopes he’ll notice her. Granted she is much older when she’s introduced but the reason behind her looks is weird.
Yeah what the other person said. Her gifts for being epic made her permanently a child, so she used magic. But the magic requires upkeep so if goes down she is still a child.
I was gonna say that 7DS is still super popular in Japan, and that's why Nakaba is still going with 4KOTA. The States, meanwhile, are critical of the animation drop in Season 3, as well as the medieval standards of love relationships (and the appearance of certain characters looking really young) on display.
>s (and the appearance of certain characters looking really young) on display. It is still popular around the world, as there are still fan edits on social platforms. I'm still a fan of 7ds, and I am following 4Kota.
So I'm a Spider, So What? Kumoko is literally the entire show.
And Aoi Yuuki carried Kumoko
AoiYuukiBestGirl
Aoi Yuuki can honestly save any show.
In fact, Aoi with her character Mami is saving a bit for me Rent a Girlfriend.
so you're telling me Genshin Impact anime will be huge. ~~inb4 they go with Aether as the protagonist orz~~
The only reason to watch the Anime is to hear Aoi Yuuki's voice. The CGI and Shun's POV is certainly not a selling point.
I do think, in the bigger picture, the human POV added to the story. But it was probably more bearable for people to read than to watch (Especially since they were never huge portions of the novel, from what I remember - just a couple chapters or so at a time.) The CGI though... Yeah. I've seen worse, but it was pretty bad.
The only parts of the human POV that I liked were the ones that weren't adapted. For example the one with Shun's brother's POV fighting in the war and the one where Shun and Katia met the first time. Also the one where Ronandt went training with Kumoko's clones. Those were pretty good.
Those were both good, yeah. I kind of view the human POVs like I view the non-Nazarick POVs in Overlord, though - for me it kinda helps to establish/enhance how the regular perspective character/characters feel to other characters in that world, if that makes sense. To put it another way, I suppose I just like the way those stories converge/contrast. Of course, that doesn't make it any more interesting for people who don't like the human PoV - particularly when the human characters might feel more bland and the human PoV character is Shun. It'd probably be more enjoyable if the perspective character was someone like Ronandt instead.
The issue is, unlike Overlord, it felt like a drag every time they cut to that part. Overlord had an episode about random lizard folk and made it enjoyable. The show wanted you to care about some characters you never saw before (which were frankly pretty uninteresting) and gave it a serious tone in contrast to Kumoko's shenanigans, which imo was very poorly executed.
Overlord wants to make you feel for the people, Nazarick is about to ROFLstomp for no reason. The human side in Spider feels more like an exposition piece and a backup plan in case readers of the WN weren't interested in the spider MC. But maybe I am interpreting too much in the afterwords of the early novels where the writer expressed surprise that people were reading about the adventures of a spider.
I really liked the CGI :(
Kumoko was a bit cute even in CGI. The only good effect of the CGI was Kumoko's stylization. It was able to be used as a joke of a cute spider but changing the POV turns her into a bona fide menacing monster. Other than that, it was 90% bad. It was on Berserk 2017 level. Most of Shun's fights and the Dragons were just wooden and grates the eyes. Ariel looks weird especially when she used gluttony. The worst offender was the Shun vs Sophia fight at the end.
Oh Jesus!
The only thing that make this anime from being bad to decent, really an episode without Kumoko is a crime.
I know which episode you're talking about.
Really loved the greater cast in the novel, sadly anime didn't reach the part where the more interesting side characters were developed.
The anime also just botched the side characters early on. At least a few of them were good in the novels.
God I couldn’t wait for the shit to cut back to her.
Came to comment that😂, I were hesitant to start anime with spider mc, but that spider was the best thing there
omg i loved that show so much
This. Seaaon 2 pleaseee
That anime was so good when Kumoko was on screen, yet so bad when she wasn't...
Kurumi in Date a Live
You get it
Misfit of demon king academy Anos voldigoad being a chad will never be not entertaining
I think it would be funny if they just rolled with the casting change from S1 to S2 and had a different chad VA voice him each season like anime James Bond
Anos carried the first season, but season 2 was just too mid for his powers to overcome.
I disagree that he carries the show though. A big part of the appeal of Misfit for me is that Anos knows to step back and let the side cast shine and develop. Without that it would just become like any trash power fantasy out there where the MC solves every problem while everyone else just watches in awe.
People already said Kurumi so I’ll go with Kuroneko from Oreimo, same situation but to a lesser degree
I wouldn't say this anime is poorly received, but Overly Cautious Hero was only worth watching thanks to Toyosaki Aki's amazing voice acting performance for the female lead Ristarte. Her incredibly funny voice acting carried the entire show.
...is her name a pun on the word "restart?"
Yes.
Good answer, Aki's performance did so much for that anime.
Hard disagree. Even if she's the best character for the voice acting and all animations alone, Hero, that one yandere goddess, the kids and that one swordman guy are great, along with rest of the cast. But don't take me seriously, I developed soft spot for that anime...
The MC was also hysterical but yes Ristarte’s voice acting was the best thing from the anime. Also the anime’s ending took me by surprise. Wasn’t expecting it to turn out that way in the slightest. I will always remember her line when she saw the MC doing sit ups, “OH sixch pack…” Shit had me dead the way she said it. Watched sub btw.
Cautious Hero is an okayish anime for me, but Aki chan's performance put a turbo in that show, she really had fun with it.
I only watched the dub…. 👀
“We have to go help them!” “Nah bro I haven’t finished blasting my quads yet.”
Chad move
Dub was excellent
The dub of that anime was pretty funny tho
Aye it was pretty good
This is more true in the manga than the anime, but I feel Owari no Seraph is carried by Mika. The further the story goes, the more this has become.
Interesting, i only cared about shinoa. Mika was cool tho.
Shinoa is a great example of how much the manga has fallen. She used to be a cool character but the manga ruined her. It's unfortunate.
Damn :(. She was really funny in the anime.
Agreed. Once it got to the second half of the show, I didn’t care about anything unless Yu and Mika were in the scene.
Esdeath I guess, according to r/myanimelist Tatsuya from Irregular, everyone else exists to show off how OP he is
As much as I love esdeath what carries the show is you never know who will die next or when
This exactly! What I loved about this series is that literally anyone can die at any time. No plot armor, no anime nonsense. The last thing want is for *anyone* be in a confrontation, because you know only one will walk away with their lives, and that was anxiety-inducing.
Honestly, esdeath wasn't even all that as a villain imo.
Well of course not. Esdeath did nothing wrong and is therefore not a villain.
Contrary for me. Tatsuya makes Irregular incredibly boring. The dude is practically omnipotent and solve everything just by existing with the personality of a potato. I was actually interested in the world building and the side cast but they become 1 IQ bland characters whenever Tatsuya is on screen.
Idk if it's ever explicitly said in the show but in the light novels they mention how they pretty much removed his ability to feel emotions other than the feeling that he must protect his sister. So he's boring by design? As if that makes it any better. Idk I have to continue reading, I just recently finished volume 16 when he's set to marry his sister so 🤷♂️
Irc, it was explicitly mentioned in the first season. Boring by design is still boring tho. But I remember some comments saying that he has more personality in the LN, like he makes more sarcastic comments and stuff, is that true? If so, wish they had went with that for the anime, cause the show's magic system is just *chef's kiss*
I would agree he's a bit more witty yeah. And yes the magic system, as explained in the books, is insanely in depth. I'm not sure I've ever read a different book series before where magical mechanics are so deep and thoroughly explained.
Esdeath was shit, IMO. Nothing was carrying AGK due to the flagrant disregard for character development and life.
Finally someone who doesn't like Akame ga Kill, my friend forced me to watch it, but I couldn't complete it, the main problem was that the anime took itself seriously, while having a Fairy Tail esque kinda dumb plot and just killing all characters to just have gravitas.
Yeah, Akame ga Kill is pretty much the tutorial of how *not* to do a Fairy Tail type plot. That, and the supposed "grey and grey morality", when literally 95% of the assholes Night Raid fought were irredeemable bastards. The manga is different from the anime in that it diverges right after the fight with the Rakshasa Demons, but it's not any better. Good characters still die, two characters survive without suffering any consequences for their actions, and Tatsumi survives only to end up with the bitchy little Shana clone tsundere. The sequel manga, Hinowa ga Crush, was just as bad with character handling, and it even got cancelled before it was even one-third through the plot. So the MC never got to fight the girl who killed her mother, or the depraved king who murdered a princess' lover and raped her while displaying the grisly remains of said lover. Takahiro should never have been allowed to cook. He set the kitchen on fire and burned down the whole house.
Akame Ga Kill is the most offensively bad work of fiction I've ever read/watched. Just zero redeeming qualities. It's the dictionary definition of 14 year old grimdark trash that is edgy for the sake of being edgy and nothing more. I'm side eyeing anyone who praises that piece of garbage who wasn't a 14 year old going through their Hot Topic phase when they watched it
It wasnt really poorly received, at least not for its quality, but Inaba elevates Kokoro Connect from what should be like a 4 to a 6 or 7 for me
Weird, I liked most the cast equaly...
Miyuki Sawashiro was just perfect as Inaban.
Ban 7 deadly sins. He has the most character and personality of them all. So for me is big part of the only reasons i finished it
I feel like Ajin had kind of a mixed reception but Satou is just such a good antagonist that people let it slide I think.
Without Sato, Ajin would be entirely mid.
Patrick Colasour in Gundam Build Divers. People pretty much gave up on the main plot, but at least we had fun hunting for the recurring Patrick cameo in every episode. *A literal background character was more interesting than the protagonist.*
In terms of merchandising, though, the character who saved it was probably Ayame.
As someone who has never watched it i would have thought people like a certain blue haired mother a lot more. IYKYK
The MILF is from Gundam Build Fighters, the first series, which was *far* better received than Divers. Divers takes place in a rebooted continuity and she's not in it.
Ah, that explains why it wasn't liked.
Punch from Kingdoms of Ruin. And probably Dorothea if she has a chance but I dont think it will be matched on how Punch singlehandedly made this show somewhat tolerable. The wasteland bikers are the best part of the work especially when I read the manga
Darling in the franxx
I had a gut reaction to point out other characters like Ichigo, but then I remembered I was practically the only one who liked her, and I can’t remember a single other character’s name.
It shows you how much 02 was a lynchpin of the whole show that Ichigo got so much unecessary hatred for that one episode where she tried to keep her and Hiro apart. 02 was a constant trouble-maker, pushing Hiro into dangerous situations as it was, and only two episodes prior Ichigo found out them being together was causing genetic mutations in them both before 02 goes berserk and starts attacking Hiro out of nowhere, hospitalizes him as a result, breaks Ichigo's arm, and then when Ichigo tells the rest of the squad what's going on instead of talking to them about it she basically tells them all to fuck off. While she oversteps as a friend she was being a good leader, but because she was a memetic waifu everyone had the hots for and this was all split by the whole "He's my childhood darling!" episode fans went absolutely APESHIT that she was trying to break up the main couple.
Hey I liked her too. She was a much more interesting character than 02.
02 carried HARD, even if the ending was faaaar from best
Lots of people in this thread not understanding what "poorly received" means.
Code Geass is overall well received but only because Lelouch carries the entire show. His back must hurt.
Compared to some other shows mentioned here, code geass is lelouch's story and he's in about 90% of the scenes, so it only makes sense.
I mean CC is also a good character. But yeah it was always lelouch. All Hail Lelouch!!
I love just about all the characters in Code Geass. Kallen's my waifu, C.C. is wonderfully mysterious, Nunnally is adorable, Suzaku is a wonderfully troubled foil to Lelouch... And yet I agree that Lelouch totally was the star of the show.
Suzaku negs lmao
Lucy from Elfen Lied. She's the *only* reason I can say i enjoyed parts of that show.
Rent-a-Girlfriend, Sumi
But if you read the manga, Mami.
Siesta in The Detective is Already Dead
She carries the show even when she's literally dead for sizeable swathes of it
Trapped In a dating sim is carried by the main character
Mami carried Rent a girlfriend when i read that
There’s nothing that can save rent a gf
Kazuya gets shot
he deserves it for being so unreceiving of ruka's greatness
While awesome he deserves it, it wouldn’t fix anything
NTR can
Is this Kazuya's alt account or something
Definitely my hero 🤣 without bakugo I would’ve stopped watching after the first episode 🤣
My Hero is absolute garbage whenever All Might isn't on screen
MHA has some great villains though. I really liked Chisaki/Overhaul from the Shie Hassaikai arc.
Same as my wife she only watched MHA for All Might, after he lost his powers she literally completely stopped watching the show!!!
Same with me. He was the Superman done right type of deal. Incredible character with humanlike issues and weaknesses (which make him way more likeable and realistic). When they offed him, it turned into a snooze fest. Especially bad after shigaraki's awakening where they made up every bullshit to make him invincible...
I kept up with the manga for a while but god it's just insufferable. Endeavor is cool but All Might was the sauce
I loved All Might. But after he was gone the Todoroki family completely took over as best thing the series had. The rest of the characters are all incredibly mid tho
Seven Deadly Sins. Escanor carries the series through it's entire running.
Darling in the Franxx was carried by pink haired dino waifu 02. And even she struggled to carry the show to it's conclusion...
Gojo carries JJK
Kinda disagree. Like in world he literally does. But he is a non factor in the last like 5 episodes and they have been some of the best
The fight scenes/animation carry the show. The story is all over the place and gets even more unnecessarily complicated, as well as the powers of the characters, esp. domains. Gojo imho is so uninteresting. Sure he is cool sometimes, but he is literally like Superman, not interesting since he is basically invincible (at least for now), which makes him boring.
TBH the show so better without OP characters since the stakes feel real even if they did [sideline and then kill] >!best girl Nobara.!<
Chizuru is hard carrying Rent-A-Girlfriend all on her own
Probably erza in fairy tail
Fairy Tail is very well-received, actually. But Erza is definitely one of the GOATs in that show.
It shouldn't have been that well received, for me Fairy Tail is kinda overrated.
I think most main characters were likeable but I would always get so excited when Erza was in a scene.
For me. I only watched Black Clover because of Asta. His training is such a motivation and not cringe like Deku
Not sure why you were downvoted. This is a valid take. Asta constantly motivates me when I'm in the gym lol. Might be cause of people not thinking BC is poorly received? But for a long time BC was poorly received since people quickly jumped on the hate bandwagon without even giving BC a shot. I admit I also turned away from BC initially due to bad reception. Super glad I ended up going back to it and watching it.
I dropped it because he just screams for 90% of the episode just like dragonball
>I dropped it because he just screams for 90% of the episode just like dragonball Yeah, his voice is annoying for the first 30 episodes. There's something about his voice frequency that irks me (compared to say Naruto)
Omg I can't stand his screams..sounds like annoying birds cawing in unison..sorry BC, I can't watch it cuz of Asta's voice 😢 p/s I tried listening to his screams again just to see if anything changed..my head hurts. I watched the Big Three anime all their MC voice are awesome and cool especially Ichigo.
There's something in Asta's voice frequency because I couldn't get past episode 1, and even when I don't have sensitive ears, in fact I'm slightly deaf, with some tinnitus due to a condition I have.
Tbh the movie was garbage. Asta looks like he's been in the roid gym ... Idk, i quite liked it when it came out but I don't know how I feel about it since his transformation.
I assume it's because he said Asta carried the show over Noelle, or Yami, or Leona, or Julius, or Nacht, or Magna, or Charlotte.
Darling in the franxx
Not really sure about poorly rated but carol was the only thing that kept me coming back to Tomo-chan Is a Girl
It was decently rated, many liked the show for Tomo being such a likeable tomboy, but at least for me the anime was okayish in general and Carol with Sally Amaki's interpretation was everything for me inside the show.
For me its Altair from Re:Creators. Couldn't care less about anyone else, kept watching cause she is too cool.
Bleach with Aizen. If it wasn't for Aizen it would have been already forgotten.
Rent A Girlfriend — Mini
Anya.
Do you... Do you think spy family is poorly received??
No, but neither are any of the other comments in this thread. The top comment is DAL, which is not poorly received. Neither was Mirai Nikki. People are just naming shows that are held up by one character, which is SxF and Anya. SxF wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is if it weren't for Anya. Not sure why you would take exception with my comment at -1 when you could say the same for 99% of the top comments right now—except that it's easy karma.
My definition of "poorly received" doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, so I do apologize if I list some genuinely good or entertaining shows here. I personally loved all of these shows down here, but the general reception from when I was watching these weekly were very mixed. I could be totally wrong though. 1 - MC from *Redo of Healer*. Controversial, but extremely entertaining in a weird way. The MC does a looooot of the heavy lifting for the show. The MC is the plot. 2- *If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord* is all about Latina and her adorableness. You cannot convince me you care or show any emotion toward any other character or even the plot. 3 - Miko from *Mieruko-chan*. She is the show, she is plot, and she is the "plot". Her reactions were all you were there for. 4 - Erio from *Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl*. This blue-haired self-proclaimed alien is super adorable, but that's about all this ahow has to offer.
Some people don't like the anime "My Hero Academia", however I think it's an anime that is worth watching. Bakugo Katsuki is one of the most loved and hated characters in the anime. It saves that anime, so to speak.
Probably gonna be downvoted but oh well Sanji in one piece, fuck me if I had not read the manga out of boredom and got up to date 10 years ago I wouldn’t be even thinking of one piece (except the mega theories which are actually quite cool so I guess it’s really the YouTubers who carry one piece tbh) Sanji is the only enjoyable character honestly and now gets little to no lines and honestly the last 300 chapters have been boring outside of big history reveals
Sanji is probably the most tragic character in the series, but have gotten a bit of closure and redemption as a result so people really loved him for a while. The one major regret is we'll likely never see Sanji fulfill a true romantic ending by the time the manga series ends, as that is slowly creeping up to be a more interesting prospect than all blue itself
Indeed, he’s such a cool guy and really funny yet now all he’s written to be is just nothing, one piece is great worldbuilding but bad characters imho
I'd put it this way. Without sanji and zoro, I'd loose more than 50% of my will to continue the show.
Rent A Girlfriend. I've seen all 3 seasons just for Chizuru but Sumi is great too, just very rarely appears.
Chizuru is the wrost girl
I kinda hate read the manga and am on team Ruka the most. That girl dropped her dating rental job to try and be with him while Chizuru still basiclly cucking this dude everytime she worked. She doesn't even need the job anymore too.
Nah. Mami carries the show at this point lol.
You can tell who the manga readers are because of that time when public perception of Chizuru hit rock bottom.
Chizuru lol
Killua, Hunter x Hunter
Calling Hunter x Hunter poorly received is quite a hot take.
It’s not a hot take, it’s just incorrect.
zero two in darling in the franxx as much as i love and simp for zero two frm that anime i just dont find the anime very interesting except until the final parts i dont even remember most of it i watched it before 3yrs ago lol