Most overrated anime ever made

fuck the quality of it, how did this even become the most popular overseas anime of all time?

Neon Genesis Evangelion

It's MAL. A few teenage boys liked it, and because teenage boys are obnoxiously loud, vulnerable to peer-pressure and make up a majority of that site's userbase, that created a certain dynamic that to this day makes most MALtards rate it highly no matter what.
Basically the mantra of "everyone says it's great, so it probably is great".

shut the fuck up brainlet retard.

>this thread again

how many times...

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Hit a nerve there, it seems.

Logh

I’ve seen people calling Kimetsu no Yaiba the most overrated anime lately. I’ve also seen people call One Piece, Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop, JoJo, Princess Mononoke, Madoka, NGE, etc. overrated too. Basically, any show, anime, movie, band, etc. will be considered overrated if it’s popular or critically acclaimed enough.

I've literally never seen any critically acclaimed work not be called overrated frequently, this is legit

Overrated does neither mean popular nor bad. It means that there is a noticable disparity between mianstream opinion on something and its actual quality, as far as that can be determined in a more or less factual manner.
I wouldn't say that that's true for any of the things you named, for which flaws do commonly get pointed out.
The term "overrated" only applies when something that's rather underwhelming does have a fanatic cult following of considerable size. MAL's behaviour when it comes to FMA Brotherhood is exemplary for that.

Overrated isn't necessarily linked to popularity, It can called that due to critical acclaim instead of popular following, for example

Critical acclaim is usually way more deserved than audience acclaim. Well, for books and films that is, where actual experts do the reviewing.
For anime, there is a different problem with critics, namely that they don't have any more of an idea what they are talking about than fans do and their critiques often boil down to "I liked it" or "It didn't cater to my sensibility". And that's the okay ones. It gets worse when you look at something like Anime Feminist reviews.
Therefore, I reject the notion of "critical acclaim" for anime out of principle.

Underwhelming can be subjective too. Someone can watch a critically acclaimed anime like Rose of Versailles, Monster, Berserk, or Spirited Away and find it too slow-paced, out-dated, or simply not their style of show, but those are just subjective reactions. Kimetsu no Yaiba, Cowboy Bebop, FMA, MHA, AOT, JoJo, and many other popular franchises are regularly called overrated on forums and sites like Twitter, and a lot of those reactions are just contrarian because the franchises are popular.

One Piece, Violet Evergarden, and Hunter x Hunter are other popular targets.

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>Underwhelming can be subjective too.
That is true, and maybe "underwhelming" wasn't the best word choice on my part. The thing that actually matters is how willing a certain portion of the audience is to point out legitimate flaws. And, no, by that I do not mean that one cannot defend one's favourite anime against unfounded criticism and has to accept every nitpicky or even made up attack by trolls. I mean whether or not the fanbase is able to point to flaws, which any anime naturally has, themselves and discuss them in a critical fashion.

And while many things can be subjective, there are also a few more technical points you can debate objectively. That does require some basic knowledge of writing, filmmaking and animation, of course, and thus excludes a large portion of an anime's viewership (including "professional" anime critics).

This should be the highest-rated anime.

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2003 is trash

Yas Forums call FMA entry level
Posts casual shit as it's replacement
Sometimes I forget how casual this board is.

It's badly written and looks sub-par. It's also incredibly slow-paced, which wouldn't be a problem if the plot was interesting enough to sit through. Why would anyone rate it highly?

I do agree that “stans” shouldn’t treat their shows as untouchable. It makes their fandom look bad and can create fandom rivalries like Attack on Titan vs KnY and other ones that have popped up on Twitter.

I don’t think that FMAB is perfect or even the best shounen. I just think that it’s popular to hate, just like MHA and other shounen. They are aimed at teens, so they shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as classic epics like Berserk and LoGH. I just think that these shounen series aren’t necessarily bad shows, even if you look at them from a more critical or analytical viewpoint. There might be some cliches involved, but there aren’t many major technical issues or plot holes in popular, well-rated shounen like FMA or MHA.

Yas Forums is seething about FMA for the 100th time!

By critical acclaim I meant a broader spectrum, like not only anime. As for anime alone professional criticism doesn't exist indeed. But anyway, although I agree that professional critics usually have better structured opinions,, the term overrated can still be used regarding their opinions d

Based

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Shut the fuck faggot. Who are you to decide about what or when something should talk about.

Okay brainlet. Stick to shounen.

theirs only one answer

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But why does Yas Forums cares about MAL again?

Anime critics are shit and are no better then the fanbase themselves so how can an anime be truly critically acclaimed? Most anime critics who professionally write reviews or make reviw videos on that godawful site dont even have a rudimentary knowledge of anime or its history and 95% of their tastes boil down to fart sniffing and insecurity that they like chingchong cartoons.

We don't have any Roger Eberts or lester bangs of anime, we have fags who dress like retards that think their taste are deep and mature and don't know what the hell they're talking about.

The only valid opinion is popular opinion since we honest to goodness don't have anime critics over here.

Based.

What up with some people on board lately calling every single show out there overrated? I mean, everyone can have their opinions, but out of nowhere people here started posting contrarian things with such an intensity

Stein's Gate obviously.

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There is no cure for idiocy i guess

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first half anyway.
I think Dante a shit though.
Having Elrics turn into fugitives was kind of cool while it lasted though.

Actually based. Anime critics are mostly just some commom guys pretending to have an Idea about what they are talking about. Not saying that I know more than those guys, but at least I don't pretend to know enough in order to be a "professional" critic

>lately
>out of nowhere
user, I...

Part 7 is based and you have to be a crippling speedreading retard to not agree.

Those aren't excludent. At certain point It started and since then people having been making posts like that, hence "lately"

>I just think that it’s popular to hate, just like MHA and other shounen.
Sure. Certain people are way too harsh. At the sme time, calling it overrated is justified: It diesn't mean "I hate it" or "It's objectively bad", it just means "People do generally hold it in higher regard than it deserves based on what it accomplishes".

>But anyway, although I agree that professional critics usually have better structured opinions,, the term overrated can still be used regarding their opinions
It can be, but if their arguments are well structured and sensible, that at least implies that there is some point to their opinion.
Of course, even good critics are not a monolith and have wildly diverging opinions on a work. So for each book or film out there, you'll obviously find a good number of profesional critics who disagree with you. What the critical consensus is is hard to gauge either way: Look at how different the methods to come to a cummulative score used by different sites are (compare Rotten Tomatoes to IMDB to Metacritic).

You probably do. Let me quote my favorite thing that super eyepatch wolf ever said in a video:

"Just as Evangelion was a deconstruction of Gundam, HunterXHunter is a deconstruction of the father of shonen: Dragon Ball Z"

Can you name all of the errors in this statement?

>crippling speedreading retard
>overrated anime
>anime
>ANIME

>Stick to shounen.
LoGH is shounen.

i fucking wheezed this is one of the most retarded things i've read all day. this dude thinks he's a fucking critic

You talk as if you'd never read an anime, user ...

it's certainly going to be animatede and people will suck the series off so fucking hard. also part 4 is pretty based too

I can't recall even one instance of this board not having at least one "x is overrated" thread up, there has been an increase in FMA focused shitposting though

I ain't stopping you from sperging out about it dude. I'm just saying that there isn't much that can be said. If it wasn't #1 on mal it would be remembered about as much as Yu Yu Hakusho, a good shonen with some fans who loved it because it was the first good show they watched.

this is so wrong i don't even know where to start

Thank you user, I guess.

I mean, I probably do know more than those guys who throw the term "deconstruction" at anything that is subverting in the slightest, just shows how any idiot can become famous within the community

No, that's Dragon Ball.
Dragon Ball is, namely, so poor, that even if the general consensus were that it was "pretty bad", it would still be the most overrated thing in existence — it is just that bad.

It is so bad it deserves to be placed with "The Room".

Don't even start user, I'm mad enough at people calling logh badly written

>even if the general consensus were that it was "pretty bad", it would still be the most overrated thing in existence
You make yourself sound like a retard here, user. Maybe you should try to express yourself with more nuance in the future.

>I'm mad enough at people calling logh badly written
It is badly written though. The characters are stilted tropes and have next to no development over the series.

>(show) is a deconstruction of the genre and reshapes it into something new and refreshing, but also very familiar to a lot of fans of the (x) genre

Kill La Kill if i must be honest

unironically this, is there anything that really holds a candle to Eva as far as art direction goes?

I get that FMA brotherhood is a nice and simple show with positive themes, but the art is often very poorly done. When I compare FMA 2003 vs Brotherhood, without mentioning the story at all, 2003 just looked way prettier most of the time. FMA Brodude is just very flat with the art A LOT of the time

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the highest-selling anime

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Master of Martial Hearts

name a better sounen then you cum gussling faggot

its miles better then naruto, one piece , demon slayer, dr reddit, neverland etc.....

LET'S GO HUNTERCHADS

DAI WA MOU SUMESHIMETEEEEE

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NGE is overrated

how the fuck is an anime a deconstruction? what does that even mean?