To say that I love them would be a gross understatement.
I.THRIVE.ON.THEM.
They reach life so differently. Wow!
how you say in video games — it's not the graphics. It's the gameplay. And that's exactly how it translates to anime's. It has soul a plenty, and graphics are to die for, yes.
But this blog isn't about anime glory.
It's about anime's (series and movies) that I'd enthusiastically watched, but didn't care much for them by the time they were done.
1. Samurai X. 
This series wasn't as good as samurai x: trust and betrayal, in fact it was too shōnen for me to like.
Ok, the first arc was interesting. Shishio Makoto was a formidable villain and there was decent sword fighting too, but a lot of it didn't appeal to me.
The later arcs were not so great, in fact it felt like it jumped the ship.
Fair warning: if you're looking for seinan this ain't for you, as it wasn't for me.
( but I watched all the episodes. Binged on some too)
2. Macross plus
The only reason I watched this movie was because shinchiro watnabe was its co director.
Totally mecha, science fiction and great music score by Yoko Kanno, and 'voices' was a great song. But that's about it.
The male characters were too manly, the girl a whimpering fool and I didn't get the logic behind why she cared so much for her rapist and didn't want him to feel guilty about raping her??!??
I mean I just didn't get it.
3. Code Geass
The story of this series was fantastic, lot of mecha and weird philosophy, and cliffhangers et al.
However it screamed shōnen, school antics and silly school dating stories, and a twisted gifted school kid (Lelouch) parading as 'zero' empowered by Geass. Its sequel - 'Lelouch of the rebellion' was still better, but hardly awesome.
So this was a no go.
4. Steins;Gate
This was an anime series, made on a Japanese game of the same name. It felt like a nerd prequel to edge of tomorrow.
Again shōnen. It started totally science, and ended like a childlike love story; in fact the first few episodes were full on fuzzy physics and it was fantastic for a while, but soon after that it became a lot of useless plot points and side story. It really didn't need a romantic angle in between the mystery and the time machine, but goddamit, it became so ridiculously silly towards the end that it started to drag.
5. Last exile
Out and out steam punk with lovely graphics and wonderful story, but it was too easy to spot the tried out formulas and it was predictable too :(
More lists coming coming soon.
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