Worst Anime you've ever seen, and why......

[Metroidvania]

I don't have as big of a collection as some people, so I was wondering if there are any major disappointments out there to avoid...
Some specific reasons (not: the plot sucked) on why would be nice, but not required......

[Rei-chan]

Worst one I have ever seen I can't even recall the name of. It was some sort of sci-fi story but all it ever showed for like the first 45 minutes were a lot of guys running around with flashing lights and a lot of what might have been 80's rock playing in the back ground. I think it was called Orion or something like that, but I wouldn't swear to it. Why did I watch it? It was on the Sci-Fi channel back when they would show anime movies for about a week every year. Hadn't heard of it so I sat down to watch, grew very bored very fast.

[Acey]

That sounds like 'Dark Myth' to me, Rei.

[lwf58]

One that comes to mind is Silent Service.
It's a show in which an advanced nuclear sub is built for the Japanese Self Defense Forces by the US, and the officer and crew sent to sail it back to Japan instead declare themselves an "independent nation". Not only does the Japanese government fail to send their own forces to hunt down and destroy the rogue mutineers, they recognize them, grant them diplomatic rights, and send elements of the Japanese Naval SDF to protect them.
In a scene burned into my mind that I wish I could forget, the crew of the sub, at one point in the story, sail it on the surface right into the middle of a US carrier task force, shells landing in the water on either side, in an attack run. They get away with it completely unharmed.
The sheer, utter unreality and blatant Japanese nationalistic nose-thumbing at the US in this anime was disgusting to me. I also have to wonder what Central Park Media as a company was smoking when they thought it was a good idea to import and dub that fiasco.

[Neko-]

I watched Air, but that somehow (although nicely drawn) still is a blank for me as to what the heck just happened. Same goes for Narutaru (and actually FLCL and Serial Experiments Lain too). Some people may like it, but for me the whole plot kinda went beyond me.
Colorful (although pretty obvious on the fanservice) with it's 7 minute episodes kinda disappointed.
Series I absolutely do not like I usually don't watch at all (or just remove them after the first one or two episodes, so I don't keep a record of those really. Just when I do come across them as being mentioned that they ring a bell and thus I'm warned

In a scene burned into my mind that I wish I could forget, the crew of the sub, at one point in the story, sail it on the surface right into the middle of a US carrier task force, shells landing in the water on either side, in an attack run. They get away with it completely unharmed.

Stormtrooper effect...

[camk4evr]

Worst one I have ever seen I can't even recall the name of. It was some sort of sci-fi story but all it ever showed for like the first 45 minutes were a lot of guys running around with flashing lights and a lot of what might have been 80's rock playing in the back ground. I think it was called Orion or something like that, but I wouldn't swear to it. Why did I watch it? It was on the Sci-Fi channel back when they would show anime movies for about a week every year. Hadn't heard of it so I sat down to watch, grew very bored very fast.

Could you be talking about "Searching for Odin"?

[Bliss]

I have yet to find an anime series I truly could not stand watching... let downs, plenty.. but truly disappointed in, never happened..
I didn't like Gallery Fake... the whole replicating famous artworks and selling the fakes just didn't do much for me, and what little information you get about the history and the techniques of artpieces wasn't worth the contrived plotline...

[bissek]

Sword for Truth, an adult anime (some on camera sex and violence). Shown two years in a row at Genericon (held at Rensselaer Polytechnic every January) to demonstrate what bad anime is so we can apprectiate good anime better.
I believe the plot description as recorded in the program manual was "A samurai is hired to rescue a princess from a band on lesbian ninjas. Then he goes in search of (and fails to find) a plot."
It struck me as a part one of who knows, and not worth the effort of finding the other episodes.
Shinesman, a spoof on Power Rangers and other sentai series, is also pretty bad. I think my decision to consider it awful was when they started poking fun at the phone companies. "We need to contact our agent." "Let's wait until tonight." "So we don't attract attention to ourselves?" "No, because phone calls are only 10 cents a minute after 7PM." That was also in the late-night lame section of Genericon.

[Neko-]

Most hentai's have little to no plot anyways... Personally, I don't get the fascination some people have with tentacles...

[Rei-chan]

I really don't see the attraction to hentai to begin with, but then again I just believe that sort of stuff would be terribly boring to watch. It might have been Searching for Odin, like I said I really can't recall. That was years ago and so far is the only anime that I absolutely want my life back that I lost watching it.

[lwf58]

Shinesman, a spoof on Power Rangers and other sentai series, is also pretty bad. I think my decision to consider it awful was when they started poking fun at the phone companies. "We need to contact our agent." "Let's wait until tonight." "So we don't attract attention to ourselves?" "No, because phone calls are only 10 cents a minute after 7PM." That was also in the late-night lame section of Genericon.

That one is a matter of taste; I and most people I know who've seen it thought it was hysterical. It was satire, and did a very good job of being satire. I suppose it was the audience you were with; if everyone went in with the expectation that it would be bad, you probably couldn't see the real humor in it. It's also one of the very few examples of anime where the English dub is funnier than the subtitled version. For example, in one scene the good guys are witnessing a girl from the alien empire making a fool of herself, and one comments to the other, "I think she's one episode short of an OAV." That line is English-only.

[Bliss]

*grins* Shinesman sounds like an interesting series to be on the look out for.. especially if the dub is almost as funny or funnier than the original language... *smirks*
Hmmmm a bad anime eh? It's not bad perse, but I felt Binbou Shimai Monogatari could have been much better than it is right now...at least the manga had some room of believability and it wasn't a truly 'sob and waffy' story... *shrugs* That's just a matter of opinion though....
I was disappointed in the ending for BECK... *shrugs* I felt it was a cop out with the whole 'afterwards we found everyone and we got together toured Japan and totally rocked...but you don't get to see any of that.. not even a montage..' was disappointing... meh.

[Atlan]

Sailor moon- vix dub. I know that this is probably not the place to knock SM, but that shit is nasty! Serena pining away for Darian, sounding like a 14 year old trying to sound like a hooker. Her friend (naru?) sounding like she should be chewing gum, serving food at an american truck stop. Luna, sounding like the clitrus from the movie of South Park. Atrimes, sounding like a 60 year old smoker gang boss.

[Knight of L-sama]

Earth Girl Arjuna: When Kawamori gets it right he get's it very, very right (Escaflowne, Macross). When he get's it wrong he get's it very, very wrong. This is when Kawamori got it wrong.

[camk4evr]

The 4 kids version of 'One Piece'. I saw all of a minute of this...crap before changing the channel. It made the cloverway dub of Sailor Moon look good (sorta).