Oldtaku: Anime for Grownups

This one is related to ‘rpg to anime sucks‘. It’s just as easy to remember – any anime based on a hentai (porn) game sucks. Which should be obvious, because it almost inevitably means harem and/or buffet of girls and usually school syndrome and of course an unlikeable nebbish male lead. And the female characters are even more one-dimensional and annoying than usual – and really, who wants to put up with all that if you can’t even have sex with them (since the anime are invariably pg-rated)?

Some of the hall of failure include:

• Comic Party
• Fate/Stay Night
• Kanon
• Kimi ga Nozomu Ein
• School Days
  
• Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica
• To Heart (and To Heart 2)
• Tsukihime
• Utawarerumono

And some horrific anime I can’t even remember the name of about a battleship powered by the main character’s semen. (Brendan S reminded me that this is Lime-iro Senkitan).

These are usually pretty easy to spot – are there gratuitously too many different types of girls (especially an annoying loli) and a plot that seems to be an afterthought? Does the main goal seem to be to get you to lust after one of the female chars rather than involve you in the story? Unfortunately, manga seems to be headed this way too, so I mistakenly identified Sekirei as one of these even though it isn’t. Rosario to Vampire fits here too.

School Days is perhaps the most interesting of these – it knew it was based on a vapid porn game, so it took the most horrific of the game paths and rubbed it in your face, and made the main character to pathetically weak you couldn’t possibly like him (I hope).