Your Top 10 and Bottom 10 Toonami shows

[Zenigundam]

Top 10

1. G Gundam (My favorite non-UC gundam by far)

2. Rurouni Kenshin (Should have been on Adult Swim, Toonami edits were garbage, but amazing anime)

3. Batman: TAS (Watched it ad nauseam when it first came to CN at 6pm, but it still counts. Amazing cartoon. My favorite American cartoon)

4. Mobile Suit Gundam (Even though I caught most of it on AS)

5. Robotech (I regret not appreciating it more back in the day. I was too young to know better)

6. Parasyte (Why can't Toonami get more anime like this?)

7. Voltron (First cartoon I even loved, but it's bad)

8. Dragon Ball (Excellent anime, just that it's for babies to be honest)

9. Thundercats (Cheesy, but I'll always love it)

10. Attack on Titan (Ridiculously clichéd at times, but I love the premise)

 

 

Bottom 10

1. Dimension W (This is just crappy bullshit)

2. Wulin Warriors (total BS. What a bunch of crap)

3. Reboot (Fckn hate it)

4. Bakugan (Yeah it's for babies. So stupid)

5. Zatch Bell (This be that little baby ish)

6. SD Gundam (garbage)

7. Megas XLR (What a stupid show)

8. Ben 10 (Very dumb. For kindergarteners)

9. Gundam: IBO (What a bunch of crap. F this)

10. Deadman Wonderland (Probably the worst anime ever made)

[PokeNirvash]

Putting Dimension W below Wulin Warriors ruined any chance you had of me taking this thread seriously.

 

That said, best is Eureka seveN, worst is King Star King, 'nuff said.

[ben0119]

1. Dragonball/Z

1. Robotech

3. Rave Master

4. Bleach

5. Sword Art Online (all seasons)

6. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

7. Rurouni Kenshin

8. Kekkaishi

9. One Piece

10. Big O

11. Cowboy Bebop (because I can, and it turns up the volume by "1")

 

12. Trigun

13. Space Dandy

14. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

15. .hack//Sign

16. Moribito

17. Black Lagoon

18. Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

19. Eureka Seven

20. G Gundam

21. Gundam IBO

22. Samurai Champloo (very surprisingly not as good as I remember upon rewatch)

23. Deadman Wonderland

 

1. Evangelion

2. Code Geass

3. Mobile Suit Gundam

4. The Gundam with Couple that fall in love from Opposing Sides

5. Hiatus x Hiatus

6. Dimension W

7. Blue Gender

8. Beware the Batman (cgi series)

9. Attack on Titan

10. Zoids

 

Damn, I forgot about the non-anime shows.  Will fuck it, I ain't redoing the list.

[naraku360]

Since I don't like enough of the Toonami lineup (past or present) to warrant a full list of 10, I'll include ASA (which won't take up the whole list, no real order aside from first 6 are higher priority and don't have much to say about the remaining 4 - this also excludes things I haven't watched any off, like Pilot Candidate, Morbito, Dimension W, GitS).

 

 

Top 10:

Paranoia Agent (Not Kon's best work, but what got me into psychological thrillers and stands as a very good one in it's own right)

HxH (Opening arcs done much better in '99, but late-Heaven's Arena is good - great climatic fight - and, more importantly, Phantom Troupe-onward is basically the best showen ever_

FMA (don't remember the anime-original material very well, though the first half of this was genuinely memorable and handled better than in Brotherhood)

FMA:B (better exploration of the cast and world, and the Promised Day was a fantastic climax that kept momentum for an absurd number of episodes)

Wolf's Rain (interesting all the way through and excellent final arc)

JoJo (generally very fun, but enjoyment varies from arc to arc, Phantom Blood was alright, Battle Tendancy was pretty great, Stardust Crusaders is very good but goes on way too long imo, and Diamond is Unbreakable is da best)

Cowboy Bebop

Eureka 7

Trigun

Parasyte

 

Bottom 10:

Akame ga Kill (tryhard angsty teenager edgelord bullshit, I could write better than this trash in grade school)

Deadman Wonderland (shitty incoherent trainwreck of a show)

SAO (couldn't bring myself to finish the first arc, so goddamn boring.... not a single character gets any form of development, Kirito is supposed to be sympathetic but never picks a fucking personality to have, the plots are full of asspulls and inconsistencies, evetyone and everything in the show is stupid, the animation isn't even particularly great either. Just an complete clusterfuck of incompetence from a writing standpoint, and really doesn't have anything to be redeemable.)

Bleach (Painfully generic, massive waste of time, too many episodes where nothing of value hapens.)

DBZ (Just because something is baby's first anime doesn't mean it's automatically good, plot is just an excuse to go from one boring fight to another boring fight where the same shit always happens.)

Gurren Lagann (The most enjoyment I got out of this overhyped pile of medoiocrity was the glee I felt when Kamina died. Fuck that annoying piece of shit, too bad every single character's "arc" was to become a knock-off of Kamina, in effect becoming insufferable.)

Kill la Kill (Such a mess of a show. Ryko's motivations make no sense, Mako was the worst kind of obnoxious comedy relief, basically everything post-first episode was lame or annoying.)

Naruto (Goes on well passed its prime and nobody fucking cares about Sasuke.)

One Piece (Not a single character has any depth beyond an overtly tragic backstory and none of them are relateable or give me any good reason to care what happens to them, which is only compounded by the abysmal like of stakes in any form. Repetitive to a fault.)

Durarara (Probably wouldn't hate it so much if it wasn't such a huge disappointment. It's Baccano! for babies that need everything spelled out 10 times per episode. I shouldn't have the narrator inform me that the relationship is "special"; they should've spent some time showing why it's special, but it didn't. Shows like Baccano! and Durarara are founded on a sense of chaos, yet I literally predicted the last  the conclusion 8 episodes in advance, which - by the way - what a load of balls that was. 3 idiot teenagers start a gang war against each other accidentally then some dumbass rando thug becomes a villain for no reason and the dumbass teens have to unite through the power of friendship to take down no-name McGoo. Fuck this show. I know I predicted the end nearly half a season early, but I never would've guessed the climatic sequence of events would play out so moronically. Give me Baccano! season 2, and keep the shitty non-stop narrating out of it.)

[Jman]

Bottom 10:

 

10.  Paranoia Agent - Dull, pretentious and overall boring.  A show that thinks it's smarter than it really is, like a teenage otaku who thinks shit like this makes him "deep".  Deeply stupid maybe.

 

9.  Reign.  Alexander the Great forgets what pants are and stumbles through a plot that much like Alexander's actual foray into Asia, falls apart at the end.

 

8.  One Piece - This is the show that never ends (or moves).  Yes it goes on and on my friend.  Some people started watching it not knowing what it was, and people just want DeMarco to cancel the fucking thing just because this is the show that doesn't end...

 

7.  SD Gundam.  Proof that humor does not translate across borders.  Well, most of it (the original SD shorts can actually be really funny at points).

 

6.  Hiatus x Hiatus.  DO SOMETHING!  Gon is also not very interesting or likable.

 

5.  Parasite.  No special spelling for you bad show.  Collapses near the end, and just a slog.

 

4.  Dimension W.  Show, don't tell!  This is the worst kind of writing.

 

3.  Wolf's Rain - Shitty nature Aesop that ends with a magic reset button.  A shaggy dog (or rather shaggy wolf) story that ends with nothing being accomplished.

 

2.  Moribito - Offensively boring.  Sleep inducing.  Anger inducing.  Everything wrong with ASA.

 

1.  Sword Art Online.  This show would have escaped the bottom 10 if not for its continued insistence on tackling subjects it lacks the tact and nuance to address.  Rape.  Isolation.  MOTHERFUCKING AIDS.  A real and horrible disease reduced to a boogeyman to make us feel sorry for the littlest VR player.  And even then it's a small miracle that the thirst of the countless women in this show for Kirito (TWO YEARS WORTH) didn't magically cure her because the Gary Stu can do everything else. 

 

If the show was 13 episodes it would have been average.  As it stands it's not only bad, but offensive.  Well beyond how a boring show like Moribito or a show you want cancelled like One Piece is.  This is genuinely offensive to anyone who doesn't want their abuse reduced to making them a damsel, to anyone who saw a relative suffer from AIDS and have it reduced to a fictional boogeyman.  This is a shitty power fantasy for geeks and gamers who like the idea of their mad gaming skills getting all the single ladies and saving the day.  Shame on them!  And shame on the author for trying to reduce people's trauma to a way to drive women into Kirito's arms.  If you deal with real issues, use some goddamn tact!

[Sketch]

Including ASA only shows, really? And yet nobody said Pilot Candidate

 

Bottom 10 (the shows I would argue were the worst Toonami has ever aired)

 

10 ) Blue Exorcist

9 ) Akame ga Kill

8 ) Pokemon Chronicles

7 ) Dragon Ball GT

6 ) Tenchi Muyo GXP

5 ) 4Kids One Piece

4 ) Yu-Gi-Oh GX

3 ) D.I.C.E.

2 ) Wulin Warriors

1)  Bakugan Battle Brawlers

 

Dishonorable mention to the Card Captors, Sailor Moon and OG DBZ dubs because they have NOT aged well but quality of those shows can still shine through their overwesternized, censored and/or poorly acted dubs. Gotta be honest, I like SAO, Beware the Batman and even the 2012 ThunderCats well enough to keep them off the top 10 but they were close and InuYasha: TFA barely missed the list. I maintain the stance that while Hamtaro was a terrible show to air on Toonami it was cute and not a bad watch.

 

Top 10 (the shows I liked seeing on Toonami the most)

 

10 ) Batman: The Animated Series

9 ) Parasyte - The Maxim

8 ) Black Lagoon

7 ) One-Punch Man

6 ) Space Dandy

5 ) Justice League / JLU

4 ) Gurren Lagann

3 ) Megas XLR

2 ) Hunter x Hunter

1)  One Piece

 

Top 10 (what I would argue are the best shows Toonami has ever aired)

 

10 ) Sym-Bionic Titan

9 ) Black Lagoon

8 ) Gurren Lagann

7 ) Justice League / JLU

6 ) Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

5 ) Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

4 ) Space Dandy

3 ) FLCL

2 ) Cowboy Bebop

1)  Batman: The Animated Series

 

Top 10 OVERATED

 

10 ) Dimension W (strictly from a Toonami ratings stand-point)

9 ) Gundam Wing

8 ) InuYasha

7 ) Naruto

6 ) Sword Art Online

5 ) Akame ga Kill (mostly from a Toonami ratings stand-point though this shit is oddly popular)

4 ) Naruto: Shippuden

3 ) Bleach

2 ) Attack on Titan

1 ) Dragon Ball Z

 

One Piece would have made this list if the Toonami ratings weren't as low as they are.

[naraku360]

Bottom 10:

 

10.  Paranoia Agent - Dull, pretentious and overall boring.  A show that thinks it's smarter than it really is, like a teenage otaku who thinks shit like this makes him "deep".  Deeply stupid maybe.

 

9.  Reign.  Alexander the Great forgets what pants are and stumbles through a plot that much like Alexander's actual foray into Asia, falls apart at the end.

 

8.  One Piece - This is the show that never ends (or moves).  Yes it goes on and on my friend.  Some people started watching it not knowing what it was, and people just want DeMarco to cancel the fucking thing just because this is the show that doesn't end...

 

7.  SD Gundam.  Proof that humor does not translate across borders.  Well, most of it (the original SD shorts can actually be really funny at points).

 

6.  Hiatus x Hiatus.  DO SOMETHING!  Gon is also not very interesting or likable.

 

5.  Parasite.  No special spelling for you bad show.  Collapses near the end, and just a slog.

 

4.  Dimension W.  Show, don't tell!  This is the worst kind of writing.

 

3.  Wolf's Rain - Shitty nature Aesop that ends with a magic reset button.  A shaggy dog (or rather shaggy wolf) story that ends with nothing being accomplished.

 

2.  Moribito - Offensively boring.  Sleep inducing.  Anger inducing.  Everything wrong with ASA.

 

1.  Sword Art Online.  This show would have escaped the bottom 10 if not for its continued insistence on tackling subjects it lacks the tact and nuance to address.  Rape.  Isolation.  MOTHERFUCKING AIDS.  A real and horrible disease reduced to a boogeyman to make us feel sorry for the littlest VR player.  And even then it's a small miracle that the thirst of the countless women in this show for Kirito (TWO YEARS WORTH) didn't magically cure her because the Gary Stu can do everything else. 

 

If the show was 13 episodes it would have been average.  As it stands it's not only bad, but offensive.  Well beyond how a boring show like Moribito or a show you want cancelled like One Piece is.  This is genuinely offensive to anyone who doesn't want their abuse reduced to making them a damsel, to anyone who saw a relative suffer from AIDS and have it reduced to a fictional boogeyman.  This is a shitty power fantasy for geeks and gamers who like the idea of their mad gaming skills getting all the single ladies and saving the day.  Shame on them!  And shame on the author for trying to reduce people's trauma to a way to drive women into Kirito's arms.  If you deal with real issues, use some goddamn tact!

I like that when asked to give a top 10 and bottom 10, you skip the part that involves liking things entirely.

 

Because you hate everything.

[Top Gun]

I used to have a reputation for liking everything, so does that make JMan my evil mirror universe double?

 

...but wait, I have a goatee...

[Jman]

I like that when asked to give a top 10 and bottom 10, you skip the part that involves liking things entirely.

 

Because you hate everything.

 

I answered the important part.

[PokeNirvash]

Okay, now tell us the rest.

[Jman]

Nothing else to say.

[moose]

Lmao you all know by now that Jman is a negative ball of hatred. Of course he wouldn't list what he likes, only what he hates.

[Jman]

No one cares what you like.  Posting what you like is just a way to have it made fun of.

 

Posting what you hate is where the internet dollars are. >

[moose]

No one cares what you like.  Posting what you like is just a way to have it made fun of.

 

Posting what you hate is where the internet dollars are. >

 

I mean, I'd argue no one cares what your opinions about anything are, PERIOD... except this thread.

[Jman]

And I'd argue you're just buttmad because I make fun of One Piece and the ratings show it's a failure each and every week.

[naraku360]

Nothing else to say.

In other words, you don't like anything and live an empty, joyless existence.

[naraku360]

No one cares what you like.  Posting what you like is just a way to have it made fun of.

 

Posting what you hate is where the internet dollars are. >

[Jman]

I'm a chicken for posting my list? S:

[moose]

And I'd argue you're just buttmad because I make fun of One Piece and the ratings show it's a failure each and every week.

 

I'd argue you have no idea how anything works and so you pathetically lash at One Piece as a way to cope.

 

(I also find it interesting that Naruto and Bleach are no where on your worst list, but One Piece is, especially because back in the day, OP was your favorite outta the three. Lmao!)

 

Sorry brother, but that won't make Jojo do better. Which is also proving to be quite a 'failure' (if we go by your logic, which you won't with Jojo because you actually like it and therefore won't admit it)

[Jman]

I admit it.  It's a failure.

 

Not as big a failure as One Piece (because JoJo was never earmarked as a major show LMAO) but it's a failure.  Live and learn.

[moose]

I admit it.  It's a failure.

 

Not as big a failure as One Piece (because JoJo was never earmarked as a major show LMAO) but it's a failure.  Live and learn.

 

Sigh...

 

But here's the thing Jman, none of them are failures. No, obviously, they're not a breakout hit like DBZ but you have to understand that no anime will ever hit the heights of DBZ in America. Ever. Only in Japan.

 

Naruto was the only other long runner that got semi-close but that mostly has died down, while DBZ stayed on top.

 

AoT and OPM are popular, but they're seasonal and therefore will probably never hit the heights DBZ did in America.

 

But OP is successful here. If you go to retail stores it is among the few anime DVDs/Blu-Rays that they sell there. It ranks high on HULU and Crunchyroll. Go to stores like Hot Topic and Spencers and there's only a few series they represent and OP is one of them. FUNi is up to the time-skip and is releasing a limited release OP movie in theaters, something they wouldn't do if the series wasn't profitable to them (we've seen them cancel series before -- Toriko, Sgt. Frog, Detective Conan, D-Gray-Man - although that one is supposedly coming back - etc etc) It does have merchandise that is sold both in stores and online. obviously not as much as DBZ, but it does have plenty of merchandise.

 

As for Jojo, it has a few games that released stateside so thats good for it, but yeah it hasn't really made a name for itself in the states. But that doesn't mean it's a failure.

 

Toonami is a niche block. Just because some of the shows don't get break-out ratings doesn't mean the series is a failure. Because as I just proved with One Piece, that simply isn't true.

 

They just aren't the powerhouse that is DBZ here in the states.... but that does not mean anything that doesnt reach DBZ's stardom is a failure. Get rid of that logic.

[naraku360]

I'm a chicken for posting my list? S:

You're a chicken for not posting your top 10, because "Posting what you like is just a way to have it made fun of."

 

If anything, that's more mockable than the list could ever hope to be.

[Chapinator_X]

Top 10

1. FLCL

2. Samurai Champloo

3. Cowboy Bebop

4. Kill la Kill

5. FMA

6. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

7. Evangelion

8. Trigun

9. Paranoia Agent

10. One Punch Man

 

Bottom 10

1. Tenchi Muyo GXP

2. Star Wars Clone Wars

3. Beware the Batman

4. Thundercats

5. Akame ga Kill

6. Sword Art Online

7. Kekkaishi

8. Moribito

9. Code Geass

10. Bleach

[Zenigundam]

Your Top 10 only has three Toonami-exclusive series. I guess Adult Swim Action really did trump anything Toonami could ever do in terms of broadcasting anime.

[Jman]

You're a chicken for not posting your top 10, because "Posting what you like is just a way to have it made fun of."

 

If anything, that's more mockable than the list could ever hope to be.

 

Motherfucker I was joking.

 

The real reason is that it's way easier to talk about what sucks.

[Jman]

Your Top 10 only has three Toonami-exclusive series. I guess Adult Swim Action really did trump anything Toonami could ever do in terms of broadcasting anime.

 

Most of the bottom 10's are loaded with shitty ASA shows.  At least Kekkaishi didn't talk about AIDS even if it was for babies.

[Chapinator_X]

That was when I followed [as] anime the most, but I feel like while Toonami got some quality shows and I was debating whether 10 would be OPM or AoT, ASA had a lot of shows that I would say are some of my favorite anime while the ones from Toonami are mostly ones that I just casually like save for the ones that made it on the list. To be fair, ASA did have some garbage (for instance, Reign and Trinity Blood) and everything after SAO was from ASA

[naraku360]

Motherfucker I was joking.

 

The real reason is that it's way easier to talk about what sucks.

Bawk bawk.

[naraku360]

That was when I followed [as] anime the most, but I feel like while Toonami got some quality shows and I was debating whether 10 would be OPM or AoT, ASA had a lot of shows that I would say are some of my favorite anime while the ones from Toonami are mostly ones that I just casually like save for the ones that made it on the list. To be fair, ASA did have some garbage (for instance, Reign and Trinity Blood) and everything after SAO was from ASA

I don't think any of the ones I put on my bottom were ASA, but could be mistaken.

 

Anyway, I'd argue shit like Akame ga Kill, Deadman, and SAO are still worse than Reign or Trinity, even if it's comparing shit to shit.

[Jman]

Reign was just badly designed from the ground up, Trinity was beyond a cliche, and as hilariously edge lord as AGK was, at least it wasn't for babies like Kekkaishi.

[PokeNirvash]

>Kekkaishi for babies

>multiple TV-14 episodes.

 

Worse than "Y7 drivel".

[naraku360]

I'd probably take Trinity over AgK just off the fact that they tried to make it good even if it didn't end up good. AgK was terrible and I doubt anyone involved really cared about it, unless they're a dumb goreporn fanatic.

 

Didn't see enough if Reign to judge it, but I've heard the story isn't bad, but the directing and art are what people hate about it. Mostly art. I'm fine with a show being ugly though.

[Top Gun]

Reign was just badly designed from the ground up, Trinity was beyond a cliche, and as hilariously edge lord as AGK was, at least it wasn't for babies like Kekkaishi.

 

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

[Jman]

I love how you never bring that up when Zeni uses it CONSTANTLY.

[mochi]

off topic but are we gonna even bother watching Toonami tomorrow or are we all gonna be too damn drunk on champagne to remember to watch it?

[Sketch]

I'll tune in for Shelter and a few DBZ episodes probably.

[mochi]

I'll tune in for Shelter and a few DBZ episodes probably.

I'll set Shelter to record just because I am expected to watch the ball drop so I'll likely miss Shelter

 

I am going to try to watch all of the DBZ marathon though cause I'm trying to psyche myself up for Super

 

I reeeeeeeally hope Vegeta doesn't suck as much as I've been told he does in super

[Sketch]

Ya know that's a fair point. Reign is a fugly show but I wouldn't necessarily say it's a bad show. It was one of those "Peter Chung doesn't give a fuck what you think" shows like Aeon Flux and in retrospect the story may actually have been decent or even good. Though it was also pretentious and heavy handed but that's how Chung rolls.

 

I haven't seen enough of Blue Gender to judge.

 

Trinity Blood had some interesting ideas. Able was amusing MC.

 

I liked Moribito when I saw it a few years after it was off ASA. Balsa is a bad ass.

 

Kekkaishi was milk-toast shounen of the most boring calibur IMO and Pilot Candidate was definitely trash.

 

 

 

 

[Sketch]

The schedule has Shelter listed at 12:30AM but I wouldn't be surprised if it aired during the first or second DBZ Kai so I would recommend recording the whole first hour of Toonami.

[Sketch]

I got to thinking about what shows are more likely to remember watching on Toonami and Adult Swim Action and I came up with some lists.

 

 

 

[Daos]

Lets all agree that Dimension W is the worst thing they ever aired.

[PokeNirvash]

Lets all agree that Dimension W is the worst thing they ever aired.

 

No, Wulin Warriors is objectively the worst, you're just stupid.

[CaptainStarwind]

I'll take a crack at this.  Admittedly, I don't really hate all any of what Toonami has aired, since even if the show fails in it's own merits, I can usually enjoy it as mindless fun or so bad it's goodness.  I'm only considering shows from the AS era of Toonami.

 

Top 10

 

1.  Eureka Seven - Still my favorite anime.  Admittedly the first half of the show can be a bit unenjoyable, but the show really shines through in the second half, which more than makes up for everything in my opinion.  The show also has a killer soundtrack (which I have on my iPod), and is also partially responsible for introducing me to Joy Division, which is now one of my favorite bands.

 

2. Black Lagoon - One of Toonami's best pickups, in my opinion.  With badass gunmen and over the top fights, there's nothing not to love about the show.  Not recording this when it ran on Toonami is one of my biggest regrets.

 

3. Kill la Kill - While I wasn't too impressed when the first images of Kill la Kill came out, I was pleasantly surprised when I watched it.  Insane and fun, Kill la Kill starts up crazy and doesn't stop until the very end.

 

4. Gurren Lagann -  Really neck and neck with Kill la Kill, because I enjoy both series so much.  As Kill la Kill's spiritual predecessor, Gurren Lagann starts small but end the series with giant robots throwing galaxies at each other, which is hard to beat on the insane scale.

 

5. Inuyasha - While I'm defnintely not rabid about it, I really do enjoy Inuyasha.  Sure, it meanders and takes it's time with the plot, but I honestly find that half the fun about Inuyasha.  It helps that I never really hated any of the filler for the show, with even the stupid stuff being enjoyable.  I've fond memories of staying up until early in the morning in 2013 watching Inuyasha as the sun came up, and I still maintain that it's the perfect show for the 5 AM hour, should Toonami ever get those slots back.  Also, much like Eureka Seven, Inuyasha has great music.

 

6. Samurai Champloo - One of my favorite series from ASA, the show delivered again when it aired on Toonami.  It has just the right balance of action, drama, and comedy, that the series remains enjoyable throughout, and never really gets terrible.  Rerun or not, the show was awesome, and I'm glad it got a run on Toonami.

 

7. Sym-Bionic Titan - Out of the American shows that aired on the revived Toonami, this is my favorite of the bunch.  I enjoy the everything about the series, from the action scenes, to the character interactions, even down to the series being an homage to John Hughes movies.  It was a good show for a time filler, too, if Toonami was able to manage their contract expirations properly. 

 

8. Sword Art Online - Yeah, this is in my top shows.  I've already outlined why I like this series already, but here it is again: I do genuinely think that Aincrad is a solid arc for the show.  It's not perfect, no, and Kirito is still a Gary Stu, but it has good action, beautiful animation (one of the few universally agreed upon things about SAO), and story that I actually enjoyed.  It would have been a lot better received if Aincrad was the whole show, I think.  Fairy Dance is saved from total oblivion by the addition of the royally fucked up Sugou, who is deranged, psychotic, and rapey, yet he knows it and revels in it.  This makes him oh so enjoyable to me, and I love it. 

 

9.  Attack on Titan - AoT was massively hyped before coming on Toonami, and in all honesty, I don't think any of that hype was mistaken.  The series had solid characters, a good premise, good action, and a twist that, while I correctly guessed, was still pretty good.  Had Toonami not rerun the series to death at the top of the night, it might be higher.

 

10. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - While I don't like it as much as the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime, FMAB is still an excellent show, and was probably the best show on the lineup when Toonami was first revived.  Admittedly, Toonami did spam the show quite a bit, and I'm pretty sure it didn't get a break at all from when Toonami was revived all the way to when it left the block in 2014.  Regardless, the show was fun to watch.

 

Bottom 10:

 

10. Star Wars: The Clone Wars -  This one, admittedly, boils down more to my own personal tastes than the actual quality of the show.  I dislike CGI (see #8), which is one strike against it.  I also really don't like any prequel stuff in Star Wars, even though this The Clone Wars, admittedly, did it really well, and made it seem exciting, and not terrible.  The show replaced a slot of Inuyasha at 5 AM, which I really didn't enjoy, and that was enough for me to dislike it.  Finally, there was also this one guy who kept going on and on about it, saying it was the best show on Toonami and how they weren't respecting it, that I grew to hate it intensely. 

 

9. Beware the Batman - I'll be completely honest: I hate CGI.  I truly hate it.  I'm not denying the fact that CGI can look great, but I hate how practically all of western animation has switched to using CGI.  You won't find any American made animated movie that uses anything other than CGI.  I want to see traditionally drawn movies again, not anymore CGI bullshit.  Of course, Beware the Batman being CGI isn't the only strike against it.  Gotham in the series felt empty.  It felt like there was nobody living there.  The series also didn't have any of the classic Batman villains, instead going for his B-List villains.  While a neat idea in theory, it was executed poorly, and it didn't work for the series.  In the end, I'll take B:TAS over Beware the Batman anyday.

 

8. Dimension W - My dislike of Dimension W really stems from how much potential the series had.  When it was first announced, and I first looked into the series, it made it seem like the series would be some sort of conspiracy detective action series: Kyouma would find Mira and do his jobs with her, all while some sort of conspiracy with the New Tesla Company would unfold, with Kyouma and Mira slowly picking up evidence about what's going on.  That series would have been awesome.  Instead, we get a couple episodes of intrigue, and 10 episodes of the plot going really nowhere, with nothing changing and no consequences happening because of the events they went through.  Couple this with a watersports fetish scene that feels like it was meant for Rule 34, and that's Dimension W in a nutshell.

 

7. Blue Exorcist - Much like Dimension W, this series really had so much going for it at first.  It looked like it was going to be an awesome series about the main characters fighting demons and Satan, but what it turned out to be was more or less was series depicted everything the main BUT fight demons.  Also don't get me started on the anime only part.  I'm still reeling to understand why they decided to go the consensual Rosemary's Baby route with the show, or how any of the hell Satan unleashed on Earth was supposed to bring the Assiah and Gehenna closer. 

 

6. Tenchi Muyo GXP:  This series pretty much speaks for itself.  It's unfunny, unentertaining, and it features none of (save a single episode) the characters from Tenchi Muyo that I liked.  This never should have been on Toonami.

 

5. Samurai 7: I didn't really find Samurai 7 to be a bad series, but it definitely wasn't traditional Toonami fare.  It was relatively slow moving, and it seemed incredibly dramatic: only Kikuchiyo really seemed to provide any sort of comedic moments.  The show also seemed really out of place on Toonami, especially considering that soon after it was picked up, Toonami got the 6 hour expansion, and the block seemed to have more lighthearted action fare.

 

4. Naruto: Shippuden - Shippuden on Toonami has annoyed me to no end.  Naruto itself wasn't exactly the pinnacle of fine writing, but the series had (what I thought) a good story, had good pacing, and had interesting characters.  I was admittedly excited when Shippuden started on Toonami, though a lot of that was all the excitement surrounding Toonami around 2013-2014.  Since then, Shippuden has been shown to have shit pacing, randomly placed and stupid fillers, and an ungodly annoying fanbase that is best personified in that of Applecountry, who may or may not have been a troll.  The fact that the Toonami airings are so far behind the dubs really isn't helping, and in my opinion, they should just take Shippuden off Toonami and replace it with something else, or at the very least, advance it to somewhere near where the dub is at.

 

3. Akame ga Kill - I don't care how enjoyably edgelord Akame ga Kill was, this series is still shit.  The series jettisoned it's story in favor of being bloody and gory, and would introduce characters, and give them backstory, just to be killed off in the same episode.  Plot was never a main concern for Akame ga Kill: just show more gore, more blood and action, and it'll all be fine.  While the show was definitely enjoyable if you didn't think about it, I can't really call it a good Toonami series.

 

2. Sword Art Online - Yep, it's on here again, specifically Season 2.  In contrast to season 1, which had a genuinely decent first arc and a batshit insane villain in the second arc, SAO II doesn't really have anything that makes it stand out.  It just seems really generic.  And that's not even including their attempts to resolve PTSD with rape and little girls saying "Thank You!", or their attempts to gain sympathy points by giving a filler girl that I don't care about AIDS.  The only really funny part of the season was when Klein found that pretty girl in the dungeon who transformed and turned out to the Thor.  Other than that, SAO II was a poor follow up to the first series.

 

1. King Star King - Everyone knew this was going to be Number 1 on the list.  King Star King had absolutely no place being on Toonami, even if it was just for filler.  The series was just filler.  It's dumb, it's gross, it's crass, it's insane: it's typical Adult Swim drug induced fare.  And had I seen it on regular Adult Swim, I probably would not have minded it so much.  Because that's where it belongs: Adult Swim.  Not Toonami.

[OwlChemist81]

Alright, I'm reasonably bored, so I'll give this a try, and of course I'm sticking to new shows added in the Adult Swim era (no [as] deadhorses). Also, in general, my tastes are very mature.

 

TOP 10:

#10 Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

#9 InuYasha: The Final Act

#8 Attack On Titan

#7 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

#6 Parasyte -the maxim-

#5 KILL la KILL

#4 One-Punch Man

#3 Gurren Lagann

#2 Black Lagoon

#1 Hellsing Ultimate

 

And now, the bottom 5:

#5 OG Naruto

#4 Star Wars: The Clone Wars

#3 Beware The Batman

#2 King Star King

#1 Tenchi Muyo! GXP

[Jman]

While neither offend me the way SAO does with AIDS, it's difficult to say if KSK or Wulin was worse.  Wulin was bad editing, King Star King was built to suck from the ground up.  So I would say KSK.

[OwlChemist81]

I like that when asked to give a top 10 and bottom 10, you skip the part that involves liking things entirely.

 

Because you hate everything.

 

I gotta admit this is pretty annoying, to the point where I'm actually tempted to make a thread where we attempt to guess what Jman's favorite shows might be.

[Jman]

Please don't.

[mochi]

I gotta admit this is pretty annoying, to the point where I'm actually tempted to make a thread where we attempt to guess what Jman's favorite shows might be.

he's said what his favorite shows are several times

 

 

it's just that he randomly decides he hates them as well on occasion

 

like Jojo, he loved that show until Toonami got it now he hates it

[PokeNirvash]

I don't think he hates JoJo now, just the fact that it's bombing on Toonami.

 

OPM is obviously one of his faves, for sure.

[Jman]

Part of me wonders if I am biased against Toonami shows.  OP sucks but maybe if it wasn't on Toonami it would suck less.