top 20 most underrated/overrated anime

[FlashNeko]

Tomino hates it and he made it.

Hell, he wouldn't even let Bandai release V on DVD unless he could slap on a warning on the front cover telling people it was a bad show.

Everything ZZ was hamfistedly trying and failing to do was better-accomplished in ZZ's successor, Metal Armor Dragonar, which benefited enormously from leaving the Gundam franchise name behind.

Even as a fan of ZZ myself, I can say this statement is completely true.

If anything, I'd say Dragonar is an underrated show that deserves more love and attention than a good 2/3rds of the Gundam shows out there.

I'd much rather live in a world where Tomino kept making creative stuff like Ideon and L-Gaim instead of Gundam.

And someone kept an eye on him so stuff like Brain Power'd didn't escape into the wild.

 

[bigone]

Yeah, I thought Victory kinda sucked myself. I thought the show was poorly animated even for it's time. ZZ is good if you think of it as one big Scooby-Doo-chase . I definitely liked 00 more than ZZ and V.

Good thing Unicorn is totally awesome.
No. You don't get to say that to anybody here. You don't tell anybody how they see anything unless they're factually wrong which no one has been. You definitely don't get to say that to Lynx, I'm pretty sure she knows what she's talking about more than any of us. Why do you keep passing off these kind of threads as facts rather than opinion? It's damn annoying.

iv never stated what iv typed was fact

my view on ZZ is it had all the prefect things to be a perfect ending to the trilogy but the characters in it are bad Giant Mobile armour design was bad
and even worse the main love interest in the way Amuro had lalah and Kamille and Four Jadau had Puru that is bad choice there and the whole cat and mouse idea also annoyed me

 

[Lynxara]

my view on ZZ is it had all the prefect things to be a perfect ending to the trilogy but the characters in it are bad

I see this defense of ZZ come up from time to time and I've never been able to see the situation that way. If you want to look at Tomino's original Gundam work as a trilogy, then it has an ending-- Char's Counterattack.

That's kind of a "rocks fall, everyone dies" ending, but that's appropriate given the dour view of human nature that the original Zeta introduces. ZZ is really just the filler arc that happens between Zeta and CCA.

I mean, seriously, only two things of importance to CCA occur in ZZ. Haman is removed from Axis so Char can decide to lob it at Earth and Kamille gets written out so the ending doesn't have to deal with him.

All of this said, I personally dislike the argument that Tomino's Gundam work should somehow be viewed as a trilogy. The stories just... clearly weren't conceived that way.

 

[GekiDan]

I'll consider NOEIN as under rated. It has a good story but there are only a few people know of that show.

 

[KouAidou]

So when people say "over/underrated" are you talking about how many people have seen it, or the consensus opinion among people who have seen it?

Because it seems to me that something can be simultaneously underrated (in terms of the number of people who have seen it) and overrated (in terms of the opinion of the handful who have.)

 

[Sage Shinigami]

I can see an argument for Turn-A being underrated. The visuals are really nice and the story, though incoherent, is at least novel.

V? No, sorry, V is pretty bad. The animation is pretty slapdash, the themes are trite, the characters are mostly poor retreads. V has maybe one good idea and no good episodes. The entire production was regrettable.

(ZZ is still worse, though!)

The Gundam Team is more interesting than the entire cast of Zeta. (Kamille Bidan aside.) There, I said it.

In general, mecha as a genre tends to be healthier when the Gundam franchise goes dormant. Gundam tends to chew up good talent (like Tomino) and spit out mediocrity. I'd much rather live in a world where Tomino kept making creative stuff like Ideon and L-Gaim instead of Gundam.

*slits wrists*

No thanks, I'm good. I'd rather he make more stuff like Overman King Gainer. It's much more rare to see someone seriously attempt to make a series in which no one dies (without it being mandated by some company) than it is to have another "rocks fall, everybody dies" series from Tomino during his "Kill 'Em All" days.

 

[garfield15]

So when people say "over/underrated" are you talking about how many people have seen it, or the consensus opinion among people who have seen it?

I think underrated can be a legitimate concern if you haven't encountered many people who talk about it. Then someone can say "oh I've heard of that show" and then "Oh I've heard of it too!" and then you'll realize it's not that unheard of after all.

What REALLY PISSES ME OFF is the word overrated. I just so freaking hate that word. It used to mean something of actual bad quality seems to be misunderstood as good and other people feel the same way. No, not anymore! Now the internet has freaking twisted that word so now "this show is overrated" translates to "Why does everybody like this show that I think is crap? Stop watching it, seriously! I don't like people watching what I don't like."

 

[bigone]

The Gundam Team is more interesting than the entire cast of Zeta. (Kamille Bidan aside.) There, I said it.




*slits wrists*

No thanks, I'm good. I'd rather he make more stuff like Overman King Gainer. It's much more rare to see someone seriously attempt to make a series in which no one dies (without it being mandated by some company) than it is to have another "rocks fall, everybody dies" series from Tomino during his "Kill 'Em All" days.

i miss the whole kill em days cause the fact if nit fir Ideon we would not have had Eva i see V as Closer to a Super robot in structure [as it the mark one v Gundam has Gattai ffrom 3 parts like say Getta or most of the famous super robots

 

[Sage Shinigami]

i miss the whole kill em days cause the fact if not for Ideon we would not have had Eva i see V as Closer to a Super robot in structure [as it the mark one v Gundam has Gattai ffrom 3 parts like say Getta or most of the famous super robots

Yep. Like I said. Could've done without it.

 

[KouAidou]

What REALLY PISSES ME OFF is the word overrated. I just so freaking hate that word. It used to mean something of actual bad quality seems to be misunderstood as good and other people feel the same way. No, not anymore! Now the internet has freaking twisted that word so now "this show is overrated" translates to "Why does everybody like this show that I think is crap? Stop watching it, seriously! I don't like people watching what I don't like."

Yes, precisely!

I think underrated can be a legitimate concern if you haven't encountered many people who talk about it. Then someone can say "oh I've heard of that show" and then "Oh I've heard of it too!" and then you'll realize it's not that unheard of after all.

I dunno, I just find that people (and I include myself) can get really up their own ass about a show being good just because it's obscure. They call it "underrated" and thus want to evangelize for it everywhere, forgetting that sometimes, there's a good reason why things don't catch on.

I can certainly understand the mindset, but it sets off warning bells for me when people use it as a catch-all term.