Top 10 Most Annoying Things About Anime

I love anime, but there are things that just really annoy me, whether it's due to bad English dubs, unnecessary censorship, or other reasons.

1. Filler episodes

   The only anime that did this right was Sailor Moon. These episodes developed and fleshed out the characters, were funny, had cool moments, and were done in a way where the episodes didn't even feel like filler at all.

   However, they didn't do it right all the time. One reason the fourth season, SuperS, is hated is that it had way too much filler.

   Fillers can be annoying. Even though some of them can be enjoyable, I would prefer getting to the point instead of spending time on useless fillers.

2. Bad English dubs

   Some English dub anime is tolerable, but a lot of times, some English dubs are really awful. It's often better to switch to the Japanese audio with English subtitles.

   I don't mind reading subtitles because I can read them fast enough to keep up with what's going on. A lot of English dubs, though, sound utterly ridiculous.

3. Fight scenes dragging on too long

   I love the fight scenes in anime, but some really drag on too long. Dragon Ball Z is the best example of this. One of those moments is when Goku fights Frieza, which takes up nearly an entire season. Most of the fight scenes consist of them battling, then stopping to talk, going back to fighting, then switching to scenes with other characters. Yu-Gi-Oh does this too, with some duels lasting up to three or even six episodes.

4. Wimpy male characters

   I get offended by stuff like this as a boy.

5. Woman with ridiculously large boobs

   There was a scene in an anime that I forgot the name of where a woman's boobs dodged a speeding bullet. I don't mind large breasts on some characters, but there are limits to how much fan service is really necessary.

   It's annoying, and personally, it makes me lose interest in an anime. I don't watch hentai or pervy anime, so I don't want to see exaggerated breasts everywhere. If they just had large boobs, it would be fine, but they always make sure to showcase them in the most cringy fanservice scenes ever.

   Ugh, this is the worst. It's like the animators think they can oversexualize female characters just because they want to. At that point, it's more like a hentai than an actual show.

   And hey, that's what I'm saying. This one bothers me a LOT, and while I haven't seen any real anime series, this cliché should and must die.

6. Harems

   They make the female characters pretty much just eye candy with no personality or hobbies, as their only interest is to please their perverted or indecisive love interest, who often ends up with all of them in the end. At least in reverse harems, the guys actually have personalities and interests, which makes them more human than some kind of broken record robot.

   Please don't let characters be objectified like this. Real-life workers are not being implied here, but there are limits.

   Now everyone thinks all anime is porn. Gee, thanks.

7. Male character being violently attacked by female characters for no reason

   This is so annoying and one of my biggest gripes with anime, honestly.

8. Creepy female stalkers

   Especially when they get the guy in the end. Basically, the message is, if a girl harasses and forces herself on a boy enough times, he will end up throwing everything away and giving her what she wants. What a twisted message, honestly.

   I'm looking at you, Sakura from Naruto, and especially you, Serena from Pokémon XY.

9. The beach episode

   Oh, it's summer! Let's make those anime girls go to the beach so we can make them wear sexy bikinis and show off their boobs and asses! HELL NO!

   I hope the Pokémon animators and writers learned their lesson after that ridiculous "Beauty and the Beach" episode and other episodes where they have one of the female Pokémon characters wearing a bikini. I hate these kinds of episodes - they're TEN years old, for God's sake!

   A lot of anime always seems to include a beach episode, often for no reason.

10. Overly violent tsundere girls

    Yeah, including when flat-chested female characters beat up female characters just because the victims of their brutality have big boobs! They act like they have more problems, most flat IBTC problems are manufactured by society, and as though there's anything wrong with a flat chest or small breasts! Many women slouch all the time, bind their chest, and develop restrictive eating disorders so they can look like them, including me! It may even make them cry very often and put them into depression! It's much easier to add, and there are more ways to add, than to subtract from the size!

    If a guy did it to a girl, he would be a woman beater. But it's okay for a girl to do it to a guy? Do I smell sexism?

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    Villains who monologue their plans to the main protagonist for seven minutes

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    The "friendship gives me strength" cliché that makes the main character beat the villain in a fight

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13. Explaining battle moves

    Honestly, the villain could explain it in their head, or one of the protagonists knows it and explains it to their ally.

    Whenever the bad guy explains their battle moves or plans, they always lose.

14. Unnecessary story arcs

15. Repetitive openings

    I binge-watch shows, and it's the most annoying thing. Sure, I'll watch it a couple of times or if they have a new one, but most streaming options don't have the "skip intro" feature like Netflix. Even then, you miss part of the story because they put the intro five minutes in.

16. Really long titles

    Also, the same words in the titles of several different fantasy isekai anime based on light novels make me confuse different series for each other, especially when the character designs aren't memorable and are plain.

    This is the title of an actual anime that I watched:

    Japanese: Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo?

    English: Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They?

    The anime is decent, but that title is just unnecessarily long. They could've just named it Problem Children.

17. Hentai

18. Motivational speeches

19. Perverts

    Yeah, everyone wants a pervert who either ends up liking them later or makes up with the protagonist somehow or something - give me some STORY.

20. Inappropriate wide-angle scenes

21. Annoying voice acting

22. Sexual innuendo

    Really good material doesn't have to be so cheap.

23. Fan service

    My friends literally talked about anime (along with K-POP) all the time and kept asking me to watch it. I had already watched two of them, Initial D and Wangan Midnight. The biggest thing I didn't like about anime in general is people acting out behavior similar to anime characters. I may find myself completely isolated and shoved away by them.

24. Every main character is an idiot

25. Bathhouse scenes

26. 4Kids

    

    OK, first of all, sick burn! LOL! Second, I can agree. Even though they made a masterpiece like Yu-Gi-Oh (it could still be better even though it's perfect), they changed stuff that made the series a little bit less enjoyable, such as Yugi telling Joey, "Joey, I love you..." when he was mind-controlled. And don't worry, that isn't really a spoiler.

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