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what's the ugliest anime you've watched?

What's the ugliest anime you've ever watched? By ugly I mean art style wise of course. I tried to watch special A but the legs were so long and I hated the style so much it just threw me off. I also tried to watch Gokudolls but the animation budget was so low it kind of ruined it for me. Any body else have a similar experience?


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Reply by nata >_<

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I HATE the one piece artstyle, I watched it and I was struggling same with 2001 fruits basket, and highschool DXD, oh and Jojos I love it but the artstyleee..


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Reply by Spacehey_Wh0re

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 High School Dxd, Omlll So in 2020, or 2019 my online boyfriend told me to watched it. What the fuck. The plot, the characters design, AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE MAIN CHARACTER holy shit, I vividly remember telling my online boyfriend, that the whole show sucked. He told me to keep watching it. Well, Did I? Fuck. No. 


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Reply by MATT! (๑و•̀ω•́)و

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boku no pico, when i saw that anime i was like 12 yrs old, pls never watch it, its disgusting


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Reply by 🥀𝕸𝓬𝕸𝖔𝖔𝖓🦇

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I love the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya, its a great anime for me. But the endless august saga is just a big NO NO, for me. Like really. The same episode made a lot of times, just to feel what kyon & nagato are feeling. I get it, BUT C'MON! They could have adapted so many more episodes from the novel, so i believe. 

As much as i love that anime. Endless august episodes really made me have a love-hate feeling towards the Anime. 


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Reply by whoah

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Anything toei ever touched


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Reply by Starin

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I love Devil's Line and Ojou to Banken-kun, but it has some strange scenes with ugly eyes or expression. Don't get me wrong, I liked seeing some episodes and I know that is a little old, but Ouran High School Host Club is a little ugly.. Everyone's body is weirdly skinny and 'tall', just the beauty of japan at that time, but I find it strange..


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Reply by Laceyzz

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i havent read it, but that one anime (i think its one day in mai-chan's life) that is really disturbing from the moment i saw the picture on an iceberg. 


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Reply by ghostsyndrome

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its so sad bc the story of this anime is actually so good but the art style alone makes it almost unbarable to watch....

Shiki (2010)... its a horror anime about vampires who slowly take over a secluded village. and what makes the story so interesting is that is poses a lot of really intriguing moral questions. but the art style. man. its just so ugly. i havnt read the manga but from what ive seen it at least lookes tolerable, but the anime is just so bad, mostly because of the colours. at least when the manga is in black and white its not as obvious how weird everyone looks. but the hair styles??? the face???? its awful. i think the only characters that look fine are the small vampire child and the pink haired girl.



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Reply by ewashii

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Metamorphosis, ik is not an anime but is the worst manga i´ve ever read


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Reply by verena

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beck mongolian chop squad , the manga is very pretty , but i dont know how they managed to ruin the anime like that


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Reply by Aal1y4h

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i cant rlly remember what its called in english but i think its something like convenience store boy friend it was so sluggish i couldnt watch past the first ep 


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Reply by zombie

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not really the artstyle. but i jst wanna vent it. basically school days. one of the most horrendous animes ive ever watched. like, if you like it i will turn a blind eye. but i had thought this anime was gonna be wholesome but it was the most ugly, gut wrenching, eye bleaching anime i have ever watched. i beg all of yall to never watch it to keep your sanity but if you're curious like i was im sorry... deeply.


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Reply by Bruja Madeleine

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one piece... Esos diseños estan feos


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Reply by xxPawlinaPoisonxx

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Haven't watched it but the jojo artstyle looks awful


Also didnt really like the dragon ball artstyle


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Reply by M

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I cannot watch one piece. It looks so bad.


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Reply by mattis

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honestly devilman crybaby it was so good but SO ugly


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Reply by amber

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bungou stray dogs

the manga is amazing but studio bones did the series so wrong


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Reply by snakeness

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If someone answers with anything that isn't "Chargeman Ken", it's not actually that bad.


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Reply by soapcatboy22

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Mirai nikki, chobits, School of death (or of the dead) specially this one bc it's fuuking full of echii and highschool girl gets way too much sexualized...I just wanted to see a cool anime bout zombies and ended disgusted. also that one anime (i dont remember the name) of a junior high LITTLE GIRL who fell in love with HER TEACHER, there was one scene where idk the girl was thanking her teacher for something and then she lifts up her dress...I HATE that anime it's disgusting, I never ended it but I saw that the end was like the girl was now 16 and got in a """legal""" relationship with her teacher. I hate these types of animes, mostly of them I never manage to finish them


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Reply by Liam Lavoie

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I didn't have to watch much of it but i still have trouble forgiving my pal for making me watch some of that ballroom anime. i don't even remember the title but everyone's neck was really uncomfortable


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Reply by Celine

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I JUST CAN'T WATCH ANIMES THAT SOME BODY PART OF THE CHRACTERS ARE GIGANT OR TOO SMALL. Some bl's mangas have this style, like

90s yaoi men really do be built different : r/BadMensAnatomy

WHAT IS THIS?????? 


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Reply by Valheim

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Titans Bride. i got half an episode in and quit. 


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Reply by luffy !

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Definitely utsu musume sayuri, its so ugly and sus I cringed throughout the whole time I watched it.


How is it even considered an anime in the first place?


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Reply by note2self

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In recent memory, FLCL Grunge's style is so jarring to look at/watch


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Reply by iPodsRlifeXOXO

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the newer one piece artstyle


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Reply by Kitsune

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boku no pico 

dragon ball

im sure i have seen others but i cant remember


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Reply by Sean † Christ

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GOTTA be Baki.

Look at this shit it’s fucking horrendous! 



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Reply by MEL

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boko no pico .... I was forced to watch it against my will plz imnotweird I swear


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Reply by JINXBURGER

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I love one peice but sometimes the art style makes me cringe- I also refuse to watch 7 deadly sins because the characters are so damn ugly 


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Reply by MaoMao

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This is gonna make people mad but I gotta be honest, Naruto has soooooo bad animations even one piece’s animations was 10 times better than whatever Naruto’s was, ngl the story was good 


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Reply by Bublixie

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Rent a girlfriend ong the shittyest anime ever the art is ok but everything else is just... ew


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Reply by acidatom!x

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I have to say, zero two. I have no clue why people saw her as “hot” and stuff but she was so..yuck

so darling in the franxx is the worst thing ever in anime


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Reply by Cy3k0

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Ex-arm, it has an interesting story and I really like the manga but the anime definitely shouldn't exist


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Reply by Yeon

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backstreet girls, but i recommend it (its on netflix)


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Reply by sk3l3d0llz

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someone is gonna hate me 4 this but definitely dragon ball z or one piece.... im sorry the art styles r so fucking ugly i physically cant watch it


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Reply by puppypropaganda

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I think this is a relatively popular opinion among bungo stray dog fans but I'd have to say the Bungo Stray Dogs anime. The manga is beautiful but Studio Bones must have beef with the series or something. I've only watched the first 3 seasons and switched completely over to the manga. I have no intentions of watching the newest seasons because it seems like they've butchered some iconic scenes.

 Anyways, most of my beef the art style has to do with the turtle looking mouths, weird side profiles (they give a lot of the characters really defined chins even if they don't have them at all in the manga), and of course the fish eye lens shots that take you out of serious moments. Also the official anime art is ummmm. interesting looking to say the least.


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Reply by mwalliy

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Recuerdo haber visto un anime casi apocaliptico o algo por el estilo, donde (no recuerdo porque) el protagonista recibe algo como un "poder" el cual le permitia controlar literalmente a placer todo a su alrededor en un rango minimo de cobertura. El punto esque el "poder" estaba relativamente ¿bien? pero despúes metieron temas tipo furro y luego el protagonista se mete a tener relaciones sexuales con su hermana ( de sangre) la cual estaba como en un hospital.... lo deje justo ahi y por eso lol

Psdt: Habia una escena que nunca olvido, el protagonista toma de las orejas a una hibrida y la embaraza por eso... WTF?


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OMG BEASTERS, I mean, the anime is good, the cgi its not that bad, BUT SOME ANIMALS LOOKS HORRIBLE, in the manga they dont look like this


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Reply by PsYdUcKfAnXD

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"Love tyrant" artstyle is terrible and there is so much fan service. Like wth


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Reply by Cat <3

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Not necessarily the anime in general js the character design on a few of the characters. (No one come for me plz cuz we all know how the fandom is ) My Hero bro.. it's js the character design for Bakugou, Shinso, and Dabi was js not it for me. Like everyone is simping over them for..what exactly?? Also, the eyes for the female students are so big for no reason, but the general art style for the anime is pretty good in my opinion.


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Reply by GENOSAD

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It's not "ugly" so much as it is jarring... Dorohedoro has a lot of moments that look really nice, but then they'll cut straight to a scene that looks so awful in comparison. In any given 5-minute period, I'll see a frame that looks like the coolest thing ever, followed by another frame that looks ugly as hell.

What's worst is that the story really had me hooked, but because I kept getting the whiplash of "this looks so coo- Oh, now it looks like shit," I just couldn't finish it after getting halfway through. It's a real shame, and is honestly worse than an anime that just looks all-around ugly.


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Reply by Marcy<3

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Definitely blood c. Like the anime is so confusing and rlly annoying


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Reply by ★ HOMICIDAL CENTIPEDE ★

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Omg I’m so glad I haven’t been the only one who saw “Back street girls: Goku Dolls.” Oh my lord,  If y’all don’t know what it is, It’s basically 3 guys being SURGICALLY forced and abused into becoming girl idols. Ntm the art style was so ugly, Like I can draw a stick figure and it would be a better anime then that stupid shit. 


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Reply by valbixx

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idk if this is a hot take or not but blue period. the characters were drawn poorly in my opinion


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Reply by TurntechGnostics

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Couldn’t handle Popteamepic for the life of me, It seemed like it would be so much fun but it was just sensory overload tbh.


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Reply by TheUserPerson

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I haven't watched it since it's literally the worst anime of all time but: Abunai Sisters


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Reply by metanoia

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okay so maybe not too popular of an opinion but ik a few people irl who feel the same way,,


i don't really like the style for ohshc,, like it's fitting in some way that i can't really place but it always throws me way off when i see it. not downright ugly or anything,, it just personally cranks the wrong gear in my head to look at the art style lol 


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Reply by mei

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prison school...


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Reply by xXferal_emoXx

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my most general answer would be visual novel adaptations from the early 2000s when studios hadn't mastered digital colouring yet. so the anime's art style would be a far-cry from the VN art. the lowest-hanging fruit in this category would be the Tsui no Sora OVA (there used to be a censored version online but I'm p sure it's lost now) since it's a bargain bin budget adaptation of a VN that didn't look amazing either lol


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Reply by kase ⁉️

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rent a girlfriend bcs like wtf is that anime


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