Forgettable Anime
Posted: May 19, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized 9 Comments »
Frankly, I don't.
I had forgotten all about Rideback until today. I watched all of the series and gave it a pretty good score of 7 (out of 10). Yet why is it that it simply disappeared from my mind for the past two months or so?
Rin, Kataoka… hmmn. That’s pretty much all of the characters I can name. There was a girl who had shitty hair, one who died, a couple of stereotypical “nerds,” and a guy with an enormous nose, but I can’t seem to recall any of their names. (And in all honesty, I can’t remember Kataoka’s first name, and I only “remembered” Rin because her name is in the picture above.)
Is this just part of a group of anime that are easily forgotten? Going down my MAL list, I can pick out three anime that I’d forgotten about: Rideback, Munto, and Love Hina. Hell, I don’t even remember what happened in Love Hina, much less the character names and whatnot.
What do you mean Ken Akamatsu did something before Negima?
Also, that girl at the top looks a lot like that Vampire-killer from Index.
It’s not like I’ve watched these eons ago either – I watched Love Hina last October or so and Munto and Rideback aired just last season.
Munto (KyoAni label) and Love Hina (Akamatsu label) are pretty well-known and I made some hate posts against Munto, so it’d be natural for me to remember them, right? How come I don’t?! >:(
But I can't remember you doing it, damn it!
Just so I don’t end the post right here, I’m going to try and find some similarities among these three forgettable anime.
Okay, so… Munto had a shitty plot.
Love Hina… well, I don’t remember the plot, so I’ll just assume it sucks too.
Rideback… huh. It had a pretty nice plot, come to think of it. Robot ballet, robots going around the place, robots robots robots SUDDEN AWESOME DEATH robots robots…
I guess “bad plot” is out of the running as a scapegoat for my inability to remember.
Munto had bad art. Love Hina… again, I don’t remember crap about this show, so I’ll assume it sucks too. Rideback had okay art. Damn it.
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Um. They were all boring. Yeah.
Munto was supposed to be an awesome KyoAni anime about awesome, but I got Mr. face-changing freak and Mrs. I’m kind of useless.
Love Hina made me fall asleep. I remember that much.
Rideback was better than Regios in terms of action, but it was boring. Jesus. I remember sitting in front of my computer screen waiting for some non-ballet talk for entire episodes.
I guess boring –> forgettable, then.
Wait, then how come I still remember Mars of Destruction? Exceptionally shitty anime must be exceptions. (I’m going to have Isshoni Training stuck in my head for how long, then?!)
I thought Love Hina was really good. Like, damn good.
For me, the most forgettable anime is High School Girls, which I apparently watched, but literally can’t remember a God damn thing about. Can’t remember faces, names, plots, nothing. It’s like I watched the whole series black-out drunk. I assume it was about girls in high school, but it could have been about robots for all I know. I think it had some karaoke in it at one point. Who knows. Maybe I’ll write a post on it.
Tsuyokiss is another one that I kind of forget, but I kinda of remember it (I liked it).
I still plan on watching Ride Back, believe it or not.
Maybe it was good… but I can’t remember anything. :/
I never watched the two anime you mentioned, haha!
And Rideback is pretty good… it’s just that it’s nothing really outstanding.
I would love to forget a series, because then I would watch it again. Assuming I still remember about enjoying it at least.
wow, Love Hina? really?
I remember reading the 2600 page manga then trying to find every anime episode i possibly could to see if they really hooked up or not and i was not dissapointed. i loved it and i still think its a “classic” in terms of must watches on an anime list. for shame bro.
I don’t know, Love Hina is pretty far down the list of anime I’d term “classics”. Maybe if you’re a big harem anime fan, that and Tenchi Muyo pretty much started the genre and everything’s been photocopies since, so there’s some historic appeal in that sense. Still, I’ve yet to see a harem anime I’d call worthwhile.
The more of this anime stuff you watch, the more likely you’re going to forget something. Sometimes I go down my MAL account and struggle recalling some series I watched years ago. I’ll be like, “Woah! I’ve seen Itsudatte My Santa!?”, click on the link, and then remember, “Oh yeah, it was shit.”
@sunshinesan: Lol, I would never rewatch a series because of that! My Haruhi rewatch is an exception because my initial experience was terrifyingly bad.
@jersey, kadian: Love Hina is pretty famous in the manga and anime worlds, though a “classic” label may be stretching it. I’d have to agree that Tenchi Muyo helped start the harem genre (Love Hina came eight years after, so I can’t really say it had as big a part…).
And yeah, I’ll probably be forgetting more and more anime as I continue watching. Though I’ll probably forget the ordinary anime rather than the good or the bad ones (good = memorable, bad = memorable in a different way).
I forgot that there is an anime called Tayutama just recently.
That’s an anime?