if you're hurt badly enough you die and
i think that's the way it should be hey
guys it's ash here with watch mojo and
these are the top 10 anime that didn't
age well
for this list we're going to be looking
over the anime that either due to a
decrease in quality a change in otaku
zeitgeist or other extraneous
circumstances have become ultimately
irrelevant do any of these series still
hold a place in your heart let us know
in those comments below
number 10 for my romai
so you know that one netflix series
about ancient rome you've flicked past a
dozen times yeah it's actually the
second iteration
it's also not about soldiers or slavery
or war or any aspects of the roman
empire you might be accustomed to
hearing about this one is about how a
roman architect keeps finding himself in
a japanese bathhouse which in turn
inspires him to make wonders
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given how there's a version bathing in
all that netflix money best make like
dogs of war and give the old version the
slip
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number nine persona trinity soul
while we wouldn't call the anime
adaptations of the persona video game
franchise masterpieces they can be fun
even if they dilute and compress the
lengthy narrative of the games
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the problem started when the anime began
spitting out side stories in a bid to
capitalize on the property and expand
the law in their own way
not only is trinity soul painfully
boring and downright ugly to look at
titles like persona 4 arena and other
legitimate spin-offs have completely
de-canonized it
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number eight air we can't call this
anime bad it's actually really good it's
just a product of its time
and by that we mean a soft-hearted
supernatural slice of life featuring
girls with sparkly eyes but that's our
biggest criticism the sparkly eye thing
was at its peak here and that's at its
time what was once innocent now comes
across as kind of dirty all right
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the story still holds up quite well for
what it is but these girls are in dire
need of a makeover emote with actions
not peak anime eyes
number seven vampire knights
it's okay fangirls you can admit your
shame we're among friends
drinking blood on school grounds is
strictly forbidden
as the smell of blood made you lose
control vampire for a time this was the
vampire anime the one that balanced
blood sucking with forbidden
relationships gothic pretty boys and a
lot of brooding
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koran's blood
should have satisfied me for a while
but still
needless to say zero had legions of fans
all wanting to be the one to satisfy his
cravings but like all first loves people
move on and what was once seen as dark
and stimulating is now kinda cheap
cheesy slightly embarrassing the whole
incesty thing didn't really help either
stop it zero this man he's
he's my
my older
brother number six cannon
don't worry we're not crapping on the
pride and joy of kyoto animation while
it too bears the burden of having an
abundance of female characters with
impossibly shiny eyes doing impossibly
cute things it's one of the better
examples of its subgenre
and as a result makes the version toei
released four years prior completely
pointless
seriously it offers up nothing new other
than shoddy animation quality especially
when it comes to the dirty faces best
stick with its more celebrated successor
sometimes you stumble at the first
hurdle and other times you fall flat on
your face before the likes of uffo table
came along and endeavoured to adapt the
majority of the fate versus multitude of
stories studio dean took a stab at it
and the results were well not great
i am sabre your servant
i have come in response to your summons
sure introduced sabre and is today the
only adaptation of the fate roots but
the quality has severely degraded over
time the cgi dragon a lack of canonical
threesomes we demand a do-over
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number four dragon ball z broly the
legendary super saiyan
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while fans will always have a soft spot
for the flick that introduced broly this
particular incarnation has since been
rendered obsolete thanks to his
reintroduction into the canon via dragon
ball super which turned a mindless rage
monster into a layered character
and what was that supposed to be goku
plus the animation was fire we can't
exactly say the same for the original
which just paints broly as another
hulking villain for goku to overcome
along with a much sillier origin go
super or go home i am not gonna let you
get away with this
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number three duel masters
while there's certainly enough room for
a multitude of card game anime looking
back this one didn't exactly raise the
bar especially in the shadow of the
yu-gi-oh franchise did i ever tell you i
once lost a duel to a kid in a chicken
suit
what it's not even the overabundance of
cgi or paper characters that we have a
problem with rather it's the now
infamous dub no i told you we'll let our
hearts guide us it might have been funny
way back when but these days all anime
fans remember about this series is the
annoying fourth war breaks and cringey
jokes that come at the expense of
whatever story was left look into my
white vacuous eyes boy number two speed
racer nostalgia can only do so much and
unfortunately speed racer's dated
animation is way too far in the rear
view mirror for us to recommend
he's going over that cliff
while we're sure it did wonders to bring
more attention to the medium the it's in
all meme status of its dub along with
the borderline painful quality of its
animation takes a lot of the shine off
any potential enjoyments we would say
they should get another shot at a reboot
but the last time that happened
hollywood did its thing and not everyone
was a fan you must not be in the race i
will be and i can beat you i'll prove it
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while it undoubtedly has some of the
bloodiest content and most disturbing
deaths of any anime of its generation
there's just one thing that holds lucy
and her vendetta back from being
regarded as one of the all-time greats
the whole thing is saturated in
melodrama with enough edginess to cut
yourself on
just think of it lucy don't you think
it's brilliant
along with an anime original ending that
left lucy's ultimate fate up in the air
the way the series lathers itself with
so much forced trauma is borderline
exhausting
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