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I'll take you on, effortpost incoming. Other than Pokemon on kid's TV when I was like 10 and scattered popular shounen shows like Naruto which found its way even to these shores with their popularity, I first was really exposed to anime in 2005 and even then the only recently aired show I watched was Shakugan no Shana (which I thought was entertaining enough but not anything great), so 2006 was when I really started watching shows as they aired. Even if some of the shows I've soured on/got rose-tinted glasses for, I still fondly remember all the fun I had watching and talking about shows from this year and the next especially. These days I basically only read manga so it's kinda nostalgic. Still, I watched a decent bit of stuff but didn't watch a whole lot more, so obviously I can only rank what I actually did watch. Top 5: 1: Simoun. I have a complicated relationship with Simoun, by which I mean that it's a show I have never rewatched and thus I'm relying on current me's interpretation and memories of 10 years aged impressions of this show. Even with muddled memory I can still remember several things, big and small, to criticize about it. It had a creepy subplot with the pair of sisters that I didn't like back then and I was really oblivious about that kind of poo poo at the time. The early parts has lots of stupid fanservice shots that didn't do anything to actually make it popular so they clearly did a bad job with those, and similarly a lot of the commercial-break stills (do they still do these? It feels like so long since I last saw one for a show, not that I watch a lot of anime these days. Well, I digress) were badly fanservice-y too. I mean I'm not super down on fanservice in the right place but it felt pretty out of place in Simoun. The first episode's presentation is honestly dogshit between the overload of kissing shots, being ridiculously cram-packed with technobabble and setting one of our main protagonists on a multi-episode mourning/sulking session which while perfectly understandable and human doesn't necessarily always make for great television, see: how many feel about Shinji in Evangelion. It's a pretty bad episode. Also while I like the art-style, the animation was generally pretty lacking even by 2006's standards. So despite all this, my memories of it are ridiculously fond to the point I'd probably call it my favorite anime, and being aware that this could be a solid amount of rose-tinted glasses is part of the reason why I don't go back and watch it again to be honest. Except for the couple of as I said creepy characters and their interactions, I loved the main cast. I loved the story, and I definitely loved the ending. I remember episode 4 being the episode I really started liking the show and appreciating the things it set out to do. Plus, for teenager me, the show's handling of gender, choice in general, even war was probably real mindblowing stuff too. I don't really feel any need to revisit it and I don't really care if it holds up these days, it'll always have a special place in my memories. 2: Ouran. To be honest I probably wouldn't like Ouran as much today, much like many other series on this list! But at the time I thought it was hilarious, the MC was great, and while the guys were mostly assholes, at least they were being played as assholes intentionally and exploited for good comedy. In my memory that is - I definitely cannot remember any individual gags except the vase breaking so maybe it was actually all poo poo. Who knows! But here in list-town, my imperfect memory reigns. 3: Black Lagoon was just honest adrenaline-pumping fun. Sure ramping a boat and fighting underwater Nazis and nuns with guns are all really loving cheesy to current me (though cheesy isn't bad), but 2006 me lapped it up. One of the few shows I bet would lose very little on a rewatch too. 4: Aria The Natural was my introduction to the ARIA series, which is really soft and fluffy. Honestly I'm pretty sure everyone who likes ARIA likes it for the same reasons and it's pretty popular so just read someone else's description because this post is gonna be way too long anyway! 5: Welcome to the NHK a show I thought was very good, that sometimes grated (I remember being really loving annoyed by the opening). It could definitely be hard to watch for me which is part of what puts it this low as it could be tough to enjoy. Hell, you could probably say that the hardest stuff to watch was the best. Honorable mentions: Haruhi for being extreme fun to watch as it aired - while I'm not huge on either on their own these days, Haruhi and Code Geass were definitely the most fun and entertaining anime watching experiences I've had since everyone watched/talked about them, and I feel like Haruhi stands on its own a bit better. And I definitely still like it, Disappearance was a great movie too. That said, my enthusiasm for it has certainly waned, and even acknowledging some bias coming from later series copying it in style and snark if not content, I've still definitely grown less attached to several characters, and the series really hinges on finding the characters' interactions fun given its episodic nature. Sorry Haruhi, but you don't make the list! Honey and Clover 2 partly because I can't actually remember if I watched this one or only the first season, and partly because I thought Honey and Clover was good at the time but I honestly cannot remember a single thing about it. And I can't in good conscience put something I don't remember on my list. Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan which I'd probably dislike if I watched it now, to be honest. Maybe, I dunno. But joke's on 2016 me, because it was 2006 me who watched it and thought it was really fun, so on the 'good' mentions it goes. xxxHolic. I strongly suspect that this eventually turned into Not Good because that's how I basically feel about all other CLAMP stuff, and I never bothered with the manga or following it past the first season of the anime. Even then I didn't feel super strongly about it, but it was fun and it had a super catchy opening so on here it goes. Dishonorable Mention: Fate/Stay Night. I actually read all the LP of the game way back when (after this) and liked it okay, these days I definitely dislike everything to do with Fate. It'd be fun to blame it all on this adaption because it really deserves it, somehow excising basically all of the actual good parts of Fate in the process of adapting it. Not only inferior in every way, but also really boring on its own. So why only dishonorable mention? Because while I definitely wasn't a fan at the time, it did somehow hold my attention enough to actually complete it and somehow only elicited a 'meh' in response from me. And 'meh' is still (barely) better than my bottom three. That said, on a list purely based on quality rather than my subjective thoughts, it should probably switch places with my #3 on the worst list. Worst three: 3:Familiar of Zero because it's really boring and generic, and while I wasn't a big Shana fan Louise was still basically just knock-off less interesting Shana to me at the time. Obviously they're actually pretty different characters except for that at-the-time familiar Kugimiya Rie touch, but that doesn't really change that I disliked Louise a lot. Besides that, the side-characters were all a lot more entertaining than the main pair, I thought the story and setting were both boring as hell. Saito was my first introduction to the idea of 'why do these chicks like the MC he's so loving bland and uninteresting' which...sure is a common thought even today. Honestly after ten years of far worse examples to compare him with, he doesn't even come out looking bad at all! But at the time he did and combined with me getting annoyed at the KugiRie schtick and being supremely bland and generic in every other way, I quite disliked it. 2: Strawberry Panic. Honestly, I only watched a handful of episodes, but it was insufferably melodramatic for me and had a dearth of likeable characters which is kinda needed to get invested in a show like this. It was real bad but only watching a bit of it means it can't really compete for top spot. 1: Mai-Otome. Because I was an impressionable teenager I actually quite liked Mai-Hime which I watched early in the year, even though with the wisdom of not being a teenage dumbshit I can see all the things that are bad/goofy/cheesy as gently caress about that show. Though even then I realized the ending to Hime was bullshit, I just didn't really care that much. Well, even teenage me didn't like this one, I mean the character designs were stupid as gently caress. What was wrong with regular clothes huh? It also featured way too much angst and boring stuff and I didn't care about the world, plus all the cool Hime characters were now side-characters or basically didn't even appear, but we were still constantly reminded of them hanging around off-screen while we watched their much shittier knock-offs. Booo! Somehow I watched this to completion, mostly out of inertia, the theoretical promise of something cool happening with better characters, and bad judgement. And this poo poo was 26 episodes too! It probably wasn't the worst show of the year but it definitely was bad, unlike most other poo poo I watched it, and it was also the most disappointing show of the year for me. Insurrectionist fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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