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Agent Aika
An anime that is all about panty shots, and some half baked attempt at a spy thriller type of plot. I'm not joking about the panty shots. No anime will ever top Agent Aika in this category.
Air - TV
A decent attempt at being a touching romance with a touch of magic. It doesn't pull it off very well. You'll want to skip this unless specifically seeking this kind of title out because there's a lot to overlook.
Akai Hayate
A plot which revolves around a secret organization that rules the world through their shadow armor, which are basically ninja mecha suits. A guy ends up in his sister's body. Wait, where is this going? Yeah I have no clue either.
Amazing Nurse Nanako
Possibly intended as a heap of fan service. It's also pretty dumb. All that along with the main heroin being extremely annoying, manages to make this one a total waste of time.
Burn Up
Burn Up is a strait forward action anime that got so caught up in the process of shooting holes in everything and busting down doors, that they forgot the search warrant and the fact that there's supposed to be a point.
Butt Attack Punisher Girl
If you haven't seen a girl break a katana in two with her butt cheeks, you haven't truly experienced anime. Honestly it's not very good, but lets face it - you're watching it for the concept.
Darkside Blues
As one of the most hard to follow anime titles I've ever watched, abstract would be an understatement. While I was unimpressed by the title, I do recall an interesting missile deflection by a guy using nothing but a knife. Sometimes it's strange what you remember a title for.
Desert Punk
I'm not sure what to say about Desert Punk other than it being really bland. The main character is mildly interesting, but overall the whole thing fell flat. Had potential in the first episode with all the talk about a girl being forced to make homemade pudding, but goes down hill from there.
Devil May Cry
With a decent franchise as a base, it's surprising that Devil May Cry manages to be totally anticlimactic and uninteresting. Dante kills demons, but doesn't struggle much, aside from wrestling with the dull plot.
Eatman
Bolt Crank is a guy who spends each episode watching events as a bystander while eating various metal parts as a snack. Where all that metal comes out is pretty weird. I wasn't very hip on this series. It just wasn't engaging.
Fight! Iczer 1
Iczers are warriors from outer space that like to obtain school girls named Nagisa to power their prized giant robots. This turns out to be convenient as the Earth is being invaded and we could use a good giant robot to repel the bad aliens. Disjointed and hard to follow, this one is tough to recommend.
Flame of Recca
Flame of Recca is a martial arts type fighting anime with super powers. I'll be honest, I didn't get very far into this series because I found it that boring.
Gestalt
One of my first experiences with very low budget anime. On top of that it's incomplete, but has its moments for one of those "priest who inadvertently end up with a magic wielding slave girl" type of stories. I'm still convinced a remake of this title done right could be really good.
Girls Bravo
This could have been much more if it had stuck to the premise of a guy who's allergic to girls ends up on a planet of women. Instead it's just another harem title, and pretty dumb all around. About the only thing going for it is the heavy costume fetish material. It's weak, but does manage to have a little fun with its concept.
Hand Maid May
When the best an anime can come up with to keep the robot maid genre fresh is to miniturize the girl, you know there's going to be problems. Totally bland and better to skip.
Harlock Saga
This OVA series takes the Harlock franchise, and merges it with the classical opera "Das Rheingold" by Richard Wagner. On paper that sounds like a great idea, but the plot just did not work with the characters, and most if it ends up not making any sense, and the end result is boring.
Iczelion
Nagisa had always been annoying throughout the Iczer franchise, and you'd think if they made her an aspiring pro wrestler that would get ironed out. I guess it just wouldn't be the Iczer franchise if that were true. This time around girls end up with Iczer like power suits. Mildly interesting aside from the irritating main character.
Iczer Reborn
Another installment in the Iczer franchise, not only is Nagisa still super annoying, Iczer 1 has a little sister which only compounds the problem. Not really engaging from a sci-fi perspective either, but Iczer 2 is still the coolest character in anime.
Ikki Tousen
Take one of the great titles of Chinese Literature, but then turn it into a dumb fan service laden martial arts anime featuring girls fighting. It's about what you would expect if Street Fighter were all about panties.
Infinite Stratos
Pandering to anime fans has finally resulted in this: a totally unoriginal harem anime where girls fight over one guy, with a bunch of giant robots flying around and no logic supporting any of it.
Kite
One of the more controversial titles in anime, Kite is a force to be reckoned with. The uncut version sports excessive intense violence, and a lot of sex. The cut version removes the sex, but then doesn't make much sense. Either way it came off as pretty soulless.
Kite Liberator
The original Kite had been pretty polarizing with different camps liking and hating it. This version doesn't have anything to do with the original, and is more a spiritual successor. It does manage to unite both camps to agree this one sucks.
Magic User's Club - TV
No summary
Mamotte Shugogetten
As another one of those magical girlfriend shows, this one comes off as being completely uninspired. It's cute at times with magical hijinks, but missing enchantment in its story.
Master of Martial Hearts
Girls enter a fighting tournament, and the winner will get a wish granted. Colossal in how stupid this title is, only to find it has an astounding ending that is crazy and totally evil (but kinda fascinating). Completely unexpected, but I'm still not sure it's worth watching just for that.
Master of Mosquiton 99
No summary
Megami Paradise
If Baywatch were an anime, this is what it would be. Basically a bunch of anime girls running around. I think there was a point to all that, but sometimes they fight too.
Mezzo DSA
This takes a concept from a movie (Mezzo Forte), then doesn't know what to do with it. Mezzo DSA lacks focus, but the main problem is that it's pretty boring.
Ninja Gaiden
I'm not sure if this was based off the arcade or (8bit) NES game. Either way it was about as dumb as you'd expect from a ninja fighting a demons story.
Nuku Nuku Dash
The Nuku Nuku OVAs were tons of fun and surprisingly charming. This TV incarnation manages to lose nearly all the fun and charm, with an uninspired story tieing the concept together. A big disappointment considering it merges two concepts which the Japanese should excel at: robot girls and catgirls. Maybe they should have turned her into a maid.
Princess Resurrection
Halloween monsters battle an aspiring princess of the underworld. It sounds like a good idea, but this anime struggles to do much with the concept. The list of anime titles that could be vastly improved by dropping in a princess wielding a bloody chainsaw is very long, which makes it all the more surprising that most of this anime is dull.
Princess Rouge
This is a title that would almost seem charming if it weren't a carbon copy of Oh! My Goddess which did it better. On top of that the story is basically dropped in the middle, so it doesn't go anywhere.
Queen Emeraldas
You may know Emeraldas as the brooding mysterious woman from the Harlock franchise. By the end of this series, she'll still be just as brooding and mysterious, but will have kicked the ass of a bunch of bad guys who pissed her off. As a Harlock fan, I wasn't very taken with this series.
RG Veda
The only thing this title has going for it is that it was based off a CLAMP manga. If you've never heard of it, you're not missing anything. Not interesting. Bad plot.
Sakura Wars
Japan used to be worked up into a frenzy over Sakura Wars stuff, so it's only natural an anime about the series would emerge. This isn't any kind of introduction but instead is some off the wall extra segment. It's totally disjointed and explains nothing about a story which must be fairly complex considering references here make no sense.
School Rumble: Extra Class
Take stuff that wasn't funny or interesting enough to make the cut in first semester, and paste it into a two part OVA. That's enough to make an OVA? Unfortunately yes.
Sekirei
Anime can be surprising with its lack of originality at times, but creating a show that basically substitutes Pokemon with big chested women is going too far. In all fairness, I'd much rather collect buxom females than pocket monsters myself.
Sentimental Journey
Twelve girls with different stories, and twelve opportunities to make something cute but instead tends to be a snooze fest. I am sentimental about they days when I used to get nap time, so perhaps it's unintentionally a sentimental journey.
Shuffle
A formula harem anime, you might want your barf bag handy for this one. In an odd turn around, this title also has some pretty good stories and one incredible one. Unfortunate that most of it is drowning in anime stupidity. Not sure what I recommend on this.
Space Adventure Cobra
The main reason this got imported was due to the animation being featured in Mathew Sweet's video Girlfriend (seriously cool video, look it up). As for the anime itself: it's one of those old school titles that makes you glad that they don't make titles like this anymore. Linear plot with a main character that's hard to like. Has some funky music and pretty cool animation though.
Strange Love
A two part OVA, the first of which is one of the most terrible experiences in anime. The second OVA is very different, and had some possibilities in becoming a better show, but was still too sleazy to pull it off.
Toward the Terra - movie
A really dated sci-fi film with an interesting idea and story that can't be told well within a movie's time constraints. Devolves into a disaster movie at times, and hard to relate to the characters, but possibly worth watching for classic anime sci-fi fans.
Vandred
Vandred seems like an interesting sci-fi anime from outward appearances, but is way too cliche, and pretty generic on top of that along with annoying characters and long winded speeches. While not completely terrible, it's not that great either. It does have some hilariously sexist dialog though.
Variable Geo
A fighting circuit where the champion gets 10 million yen and a house anywhere in the world. Two combatants fight in sexy waitress outfits, and the loser has to strip. Not a very good title, but I still think this concept has possibilities.
Very Private Lesson
Jailbait: the animation. Surprisingly no where near as sleazy as you might expect, but unfortunately proves to be about as dumb as you might expect. It's oddly cute sometimes though.
Voogie's Angel
An anime which lacks any distinct flavor, Voogie's Angel doesn't really have anything going for it. And seriously what is up with the name "Voogie"?
Wedding Peach - TV
Wedding Peach is one of those magical girl shows that really only the Japanese would have the guts to make. If you ever want to make militant feminists puke up blood, show them wedding peach and you'll get results.
