Oldtaku: Anime for Grownups

Here’s an easy one – if it’s an anime based on a video game, it almost certainly sucks. Excuse my lack of finesse in the terminology here, but nothing summarized things quite as well as ’suck’.

Generally this is because games are just not that deep, so when you try to translate that to a 13 (or even worse 26) episode series you don’t have much to work with.  If it’s an anime based on a porn game, then this is (almost) a dead certainty. For one thing, since porn games are almost all harem games, and (almost) all harem anime suck then it follows that the anime will suck.

Great examples are all Fatal Fury anime, romance harem like To Heart and Kimi ga Nozomu Ein, and especially porn games to anime like Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica.

There are only two counter-examples I can think of: people can argue about whether Tsukihime and Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni are good, but I can’t just dismiss them outright. The Tsukihime source story is actually much deeper than what made it into the anime, and the usual complaint about the anime is that it’s too grossly simplified.