Dishonorable Mentions.

So before I start my list of Dishonorable Mentions, I want to take a little time to make sure every one knows what I am on about. First off some of the shows are or wear very good.
So some of the reasons that things end up on this list are as follows.

Also on a note I will most likely not use the proper name of any long named show in this. (I.E. He-man not He-man and the masters of.... O look I seamed to have stopped caring)

A:They Suck. Plain and simple they are just terrible shows, and to even get on this list, some one some wear must have at least watched the shows, so it stands to reason that some one liked them, and I will upset some one with this list, to which I answer. "Harden the hell up."

B:Good But over rated and or I did not get them.
These are shows that I will openly give had something going for them. Where they good? Most likely not, but they wear not bad, some of them I will actually tell you where very good, but simply wear not for me, and some are just overrated for one reason or the other.

C:Jumped the Shark.
Plain and simple these are shows and simply should have quite at some point.
In new seasons they will have a few good episodes each season, but nothing like the original runs.

D:Hit and Miss.

E: Doug.





GI Joe. (Type A)
Lets not mince words here. This show SUCKS.
Simple put there is NOTHING good about this show and it has all of the major flavor groups of sucking. Low production value, Bad voice acting, boring, lame, no real story to be seen.
And the worst part is that it was popular. I'm not entirely sure how or why. As a kind I always thought over and over again, "OMG this sucks, why would any one watch this. I'm going to go watch something get eaten on the discovery channel." Also this show manages to be mildly racist on top of it. (That is to say racist without being meaning to do harm, and I'm normally not a big fan of bitching about that. This and a few other shows on the list are good examples of why you don't let toy sells control your show.

He Man. (Type A)
See above. Pretty much every thing that could be said about with the exception of the mild racism, But with a great deal more.... Well gayness. (Not that there is anything wrong with that) But again as a kid I was like. "This sucks, and that guy in the pink shirt is kind of gay... I'ma go watch something get blown up on the Discovery Channel."

Jem/Carebares/My Little Pony/Rainbow Bright/She-ra. (Type A)
Really these shows are the little girl targeted versions of the above, Shows meant to sell toys. And they have basically every problem the above do. Jem and GI Joe being the worst offenders because they wear stupid and often... well just bad for kids. No really.. Watch Jem again it's mind poison for little girls.



The Transformers. (Type B)
Ya ya, I know "how can you dislike Transformers!" And the simple answer is... I don't I don't feel one way or the other about Transformers, I always thought it was boring, It had some very good things going for it, and it also had some terrible things going for it, It's basically on the list for the sheer overrated factor. So in short, GOOD, but not THAT GOOD.

Thundercats. (Type B)
Three things to be noted.
1: This is in fact a American Cartoon. Allot of people think its Japanese.
2: This show was... Alright It had allot going for it, but basically had allot of stuff weighing it down as well.
3: This show got a huge popularity boost because of Cheetara... Just saying.
It had a alright story line when they stuck to it, It had a Pretty bad ass bad guy. (Always a plus with me) And it had Cheetara. (Always a plus with me) But It also had a over abundance of the required 1980's annoying sidekick/cute pet. And the Main character had He-man (Or rather Prince atom) levels of annoying twit going on for him. On a note the remake is nothing but a Improvement over the classic.

Beavis and butt-head. (Type B)
OK so right out front, I watched this show, And I liked it... but it was a guilty plesure and is just bad, it is however one of those things that gets into the. 'So bad its good' area, and 'made to be bad levels.'

The Ren and stimpy show. (Type B)
Same as above... Only... This one was much more a 'So stupid is Zen' thing going on for it.
Brilliant but at the same time to far out there to really be anything other then blatant idiot indulgence. (And now to make every one mad) This show dose in fact have a modern equivalent.
So much so that I'm going to include in here and not on its own installment. Spongebob. Yay I said it, Spoungebob is the modern reincarnation of the Ren and Stimpy show. Right down to the random Diseased images.

Daria. (Type B)
This show is on here because Wile Brilliant. (And I mean that in a much purer way the on the ohter Type B's) This show is... Just boring. I would still watch it, but I would never seek it out.

South park. (Type C)
The next few are going to get allot of flak. But Simple put south park should have stopped at some point, or at the very least started making much smaller seasons, you can now tell when they are just putting a episode out to be putting on out.

Family guy. (Type C)
Same as above only a little less, I find newer episodes of Family guy nearly as good as old ones, they just seam to be... more preachy and up there own ass now then they once wear.

The Simpsons. (Type C)
~Sigh~ This one really hurts me, Really as some point this show went from constant gold to... three or four good episodes a season, and then a bunch of crap ones.

King of the hill. (Type D)
Really Type D's are just Type C that never had a golden time. They are just hit and miss. One episode might be brilliant then the next is just stupid.
Kind of the hill never set well with me because it was always boring and relied on way to much stupid 'redneck' humor for me, That is to say making fun of rednecks. (And trust me I make enough fun of people from Texas as it is) And the sad part, The main character in this, is easily the most likeable one out of Type C-D. The real question is... Why the hell dose Hank hang out with these people?

American Dad. (Type D)
This one is more hit and miss by the moment, 90% of the episode is stupid and boring and the 10% is really funny. But over all its just to inconsistent for me.

Doug. (Type E)
Ahh Doug....
This is a show that really confounds me.
See the thing is, this show is almost a work of art, and I have watched the entire thing. (Because I have a friend that loves it) And I can totally see why. The Problem is simple that this is THE MOST BORING THING EVERY MADE! It's like watching lions eat a already dead Zebra, Amazing and terrible all at the same time.

Simply put I think you ever get Doug or you don't and if you do it transcends the boringness and becomes interesting.

My list of 10's.

I started to come up with the Ideal of a top ten list for my favorite cartoons.
And in doing so I discovered that I came up with lists of lists.

Simple put its a complicated matter.
So In the next few weeks I'm going to be doing a few lists.
And each one will most likely Be VERY long. Because I'm not just going to list them off I'm going to explain why.

So My First List is going to be.

My list of lists!

#1:My top 10 Favorite Cartoons.
#2:My top 10 Favorite Animes.
#3:My top 10 Favorite Animated Movies.
#4:My top 10 Honorable Mentions.
#5:My top 10 Dishonorable Mentions.

OK so a quick explanation of each.

Quick Note:
This is my list, shows I enjoy and think are very good, some of them are not as good as other shows and I know that, its just a matter of taste.

Number 1 & 2 are pretty simple.
And it's important to note that I take the "Made in Japan" approach to anime only on this list.
Simple because its a little unfair to MOST western shows to compare them to anime. (If only becuase of the normal target aduainces of anime/western animation)

Number 3. Kind of the same ideal, movies and TV shows really are not the same, so I split it off of the main lists.

Number 4.
Simple put a collection of shows that are ether VERY good, but I just don't get.
Or shows that are good, just not good enough to make it on the list.

Number 5.
This is a collection of shows that simple put I can't stand.
But it's important to note that COMPLETE tripe wont even make this list.
So this is really more of a collection of shows that were in fact successful but I just never got and really thought little of people who liked them as well.

MlP FiM

For those of you who do not know.
My little pony Friendship is magic is a kids TV show on the jointly owned channel the Hub. (Owned by Discovory Kids and Hasbro) The show is at current one of the top rated cartoons on the air.
And has a... Sizable following among adults, the male fans calling themselves broines.

Last Saturday Wile watching the new episode on a web sight called midnight run.
I did a little looking and came up with the following numbers.

Midnight run. Had about 63k viewers.
Bronie State. Had well over 130k Viewers.
Eqestria Daylie. Had over 30k viewers on its stream sights.
Pony Chan. Had well over 200k viewers on its stream sights.

And a hour latter when the episode was posted on Youtube it got over 3 million views in a little under 6 hours.

Now consider that allot of viewers had more then one person sitting at the computer.

And that's pretty impressive.
That's about a half a million computers at the same time. (So maybe 600+k People watching)
And then the youtube viewing.

The show is pretty good actually in the same way that allot of other Lauren Faust shows garner allot of adult fans.

Captin Harlock.

For those of you who do not know who Leiji Matsumoto is. I can only tell you that you should.
If your a Anime fan, you should because it is a classic, almost required watching as it wear. And if your a fan of Sci-Fi then you should watch because of the influence that his work has had on Japanese And Western Sci-Fi.

Let me back track a bit.
Leiji Matsumoto is famous for works such as Space Battleship Yamato. Captain Harlock. The Galaxy Express line and all of the shows that go along with them. In fact Galaxy Express is the best selling Manga in Japanese History, It is literally required reading in Japanese Junior High school.

All in all that's most likely well over 1200 some episodes of TV shows and a dozen movies.
A few things really give away a Leiji Anime. First is the heavy stylization of space ships. If you see a anime were a space ship looks like a WWII battleship. A Train, And Sailing Vessel. then you can bet its a Leiji Anime. (Or At the Very Least he worked on it)

On top of that allot of ideals and visual effect you see in other media are from his work.

And the Spokesperson of the Leiji Matsumotos work is the AMAZING! Space Pirate Captain Harlock.

It's really quite hard to explain Captain Harlock as a character. But the best way is just to say this. If you crosses Captain Kirk with Han Solo And Obiwan Kenodi. You might get some wear close enough to the ideal of Harlock. Simply put Harlock is made of 90% Manliness. And 90% Awesome.

So the list of Awesome tropes that captain Harlock has.
Awesome Face Scar.
Eye Patch.
Bad Ass Red Trench Coat.
A Giant Space Battle Ship: Names the Arcadia. (That kind of looks like a cross between a WWII battleship and a Star Destroyer) Space Fighters that look like Star Fighters from Star Wars.
The list goes on.
And understand that Captain Harlock and Leiji's work are the trope namers for many of these tropes.

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Now before you go out and watch this show I have a warning for you.
For the most part When I watch a anime, I go and watch one episode of it in Both English And Japanese. And Because I don't speak Japanese, If the English Is alright Ill watch it in English.
(On a side note, I can in fact speak Japanese.... About as well as a second grader)

But I can't do that in Harlock.
No really I can't.
I have never seen a English Dubbed Anime that's this bad.
Were to start. (List)

#1. The Music.
The Japanese Score to Harlock is Pretty damn good, It's got allot of brass in it, Allot of very well chosen mood pieces and the music always seems to fit the events taking place, the music is never the center of attention, but it is always good at supporting the story taking place. And the Original Japanese Oppening score is a very Epic Space... Sea... Shanty? Ballad... Ya.

#2. The Opening Theme.
I know I just covered the music but I think the opening theme needs to be touched on by its self.
So the Japanese Opening theme is a kind of Japanese Sailing Song, Think of Pirates singing a sea shanty, only in Japanese. Is it Great? No. Is it Bad? No. But it has personality.
No... Second thought. No it's Great...

The English Opening Theme. Is TERRIBLE! Lets just say this, It sounds like it was done by a Bad Deo Cover Band. Now I know this Anime was dubbed in the late 1970's. (The Anime was made in the late 50's) But really this is the best we could do?
Its so bad that after a wile the English Dubbing doesn't even have a opening theme.

#3. Voice acting.
OK so the Japanese Voice Acting Isn't great but its not bad ether, The Voices don't fall into the formal annoying Japanese Voice Problems. (Unnaturally High Pitched Female Voices, And Tough Males that have overly effeminate voices.... Or male cats having the deepest voices on the show, I'm talking about you Sailor Moon)
And that might be the charm of Captain Harlock, For the most part the voices match up. And are not grating, they actually sound like normal Japanese People

And to be fair the English Voice Acting Isn't bad. But with the exception of maybe two characters there is nothing great ether, and the rest of the voice crew seams dreadfully miss matches. The 17 year old female on the Arcadia Sounds Like shes voices by a 60 year old women.

#4. Length.
OK so no rude Jokes.
But the first episode of the English Dubbing covers almost four episodes of the Japanese Show. And not in a good way. Allot of the episodes are simply cut out, and some are clearly in the wrong order.

#5. Stupification.
The Setting and Back Story to The Japanese Version has a very Interesting premise, Technology and Robots have made it so Humans don't really need to work that much, so most people just sit around and watch TV all the time. Harlocke Pirates Food and Supply's and stores them for the time when the Incompetent Earth Government needs the supply's for the people.

And with the exception of a few people that still work on intellectual and Artistic Stuff, Most people do nothing, Basically its all about Apathy and Social Atrophy.

This seams to have been to complicated for the viewers when they did the American Dubbing, So they just cut it down to. "The Rich Have Everything, The Poor have nothing and do all the work, Harlock is Robbin Hood in space." It's one of the most insulting adaption changes I think I have ever seen.



But the overall impact of the show is pretty staggering. Allot of the big names in Western Si-Fi have stated that it was a huge inspiration to them.

Golden Boy.. OGM golden boy.

Golden Boy is.

To put it simply one of those polarizing animes.

You ether love it or you hate it. But for me.... Being the middle of the road kind of person.

I have very mixed feelings about this anime.

For those who don't know. Golden Boy Is a 6 Episode OVA style anime about a young man Named Kintaro..... Something something. (I can't be bothered to look it up)

The Anime Follows a Simple Formula.

Kintaro Meats a Girl. Acts like a Moron. Gets In Trouble and then Finally dose something Amazahhh! To Fix the Problem and then win the girls affection. And lets not give false impressions here. This is a PG-17 type Title. Wile there is no sex, and only passing nudity.

The Humor in this Anime is Very Perverse.

And thats just the thing, If you like that type of Humor then most people like this anime, If you don't like this kind of anime, Then most people don't like this type of anime.

And to be honest I really normally like this kind of show. but....

This anime just seams to rub me the wrong way.

SOOoooo..

List.

Things I Liked About this anime.

#1. "The Lovable Pervert." Allot of animes have this kind of thing going on. Heavens lost property comes to mind, were the anime wants to show that the character is a pervert but basically a good person. And a really nice guy. Heavens lost property trys. (All be it very tongue in cheek) But Fails. The Character just comes across as a pervert and a ass hole, Even if the strange problems he has were forced on him.

But Golden Boy. I actually by the hole lovable pervert thing in this anime.

The Characters is a pervert, there is no question about that. But at the same time I buy that he is a good guy, and is just a little over active in his decides and a little under active in his restraint.

#2. Humor. I will be honest this anime for the most part was not that funny. BUT and thats a big butt, there are some truly funny moments in this anime, the odd thing is I dont even thing they are the moments the makers thought would be funny.

#3. Voice acting, Wile the sound it self is nothing special and bordering on the bad side, the voice talent is very good in ether Japanese of English. Doug Smith dose the voice to Kintaro Oe... O thats his last name. And does a VERY good job, Kind of a shame that the only other thing he seams to have done in voice acting is ALLOT of bit parts.

Things, I didn't like about this anime.

#1. Humor. There are jokes in this anime and points in this anime, were its not only funny its just dull. Like I said there are some VERY funny parts in this anime, but there are also allot of jokes that just miss there mark with me.

#2. Point. There simply is no point to the anime, The anime honestly didn't need to be made. Wile I will not go as far as to say this anime is a waist of animation. I will say that it at least could have done with a little more focus.

#3. Merry sue... Ness....

Ya so I know that the name of this anime is Golden Boy, And that my inference that means the main character is going to be very good at stuff. but really this anime just takes that to far. Honestly speaking the character is again, just kind of dull, By the end of the... third OVA maybe you pretty much now that Kintaro is basically Superman, posing as a stupid pervert version of Clark Kent.

#4. Follow Through. OK so by the end of each OVA Kintaro has a chick who is ready to jump his bones. BUT at the end of each OVA he leaves. with NO follow through. I'm not saying this should be a Hentia Or Echi or anything I'm just saying It makes no sense.

In the first OVA there is a reason but then after that it just makes on sense.

The final episode is pretty epic but again makes no sense in context with the rest of the show.

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The Score.

Honestly Speaking This Anime Is hard to score, I feel that any score I give it will be Unfair because It is a very Opinion based Anime I guess.

But I can Give it... A.. Seven... And a Half.

Really I mean it, Its worth a watch if you like this Kind of anime, But its nothing special. And I would not personally buy it myself.

Its one of those anime I watched. And was not sorry I watched it, but i don't really want to watch it again.

Hellsing... No the first one.

OK so first off I would like to say that I am a MUCH bigger fan of the original Hellsing set then most people seam to be. But I will admit that the New OVA series Hellsing Ultimate has allot to do with most peoples view on the OG Hellsing.

So I thought I would take a little time out to point out... (Make a list) Of the things I think the OG did better then the OVA. And things that it did not do well/didn't do as well as the OVA... (OK wait)

If you haven't figured it out/know what I am talking about.

OG = Original in anime/movie groups.

OVA = Is a acronym for Original Video Animation. And is general in reference to a mini-series or one shot movie of a Anime. And or a already esisting anime series. The OG hellsing was in fact a OVA 13 episode set. But it is much less a OVA in heart then the Hellsing Ultimate OVA.

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OK so here is my list making.

The first list is things that i REALLY like about the OG hellsing, Or think it does better then the OVA hellsing. The 2nd list is A list of stuff that the OG does wrong.

The third list is a list of stuff that OVA just does better.

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List ONE! (OMG! I LOVE MAKING LISTS)

Stuff I rather like about the OG Hellsing.

#1. Characters.

OK to be honest. There are really only three compelling character in the ENTIRE OR Hellsing. Alucard, Integra and Anderson. And allot of Alucard's charm is based on the fact that he is all kind of bad ass and more importantly he is voice by Crispin Freeman.

Integra is a very compelling. (The most compelling in the show) She has the most back story, and allot of the drama / tension in the show is fueled entirely by Integra's force of will. (Literally) If you have watched it. Or You are going to I just have just two words to say. "Letter Opener" something that SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN Ultimate.

And then there is Anderson. I have never seen anyone that dose not love this guy, and it's not because he is a good characters its just because he is fun as all get out.

#2. Voice Acting.

I think I already said this... Crispin Freeman as Alucard.

Victoria Harwood as Integra. Who is ACTUALLY BRITISH!

Steven Brand as Anderson... Who is ACTUALLY SCOTTISH!

I really like the fact that they.. you know got a British actress to be the British female.

And a Scottish man to be the Scottish male.

#3. Music.

The music in the OG hellsing is great... In that the opening is very good. And the songs are very good....

#4. Art Work.

The art work in this show... CAN BE very nice, that is very stylish... Like the opening with him walking throw the forest, with the red sky and moon.. That is good... But... Well latter.

#5. Weird Stuff.

The show just seams to have thing every now and then that are just hilarious! But.... They are few and far between.

#6. Boundary's.

This version of Hellsing seams more tasteful then the OVA version... But really that can be better/worse then the OVA.

Stuff I did not like about the OG Hellsing.

#1. Characters.

Pretty much every other character is pretty boring. Serias Victoria is just boring.

Walter is alright. But other then that.. There is not character that sticks out and most of them are just boring. Even the made up (By compairison to the fact this is based off a manga) Bad guy, his voice acting is alright. But still nothing interesting.

#2. Voice Acting.

... ... Again.. Nothing interesting here other then the mentioned stuff before that was good.

And some of the English accents are HORRIBLE!

#3. Music.

As I stated before the music is very nice.... But it's used very badly. Some times you can't here over it, and other times you can't here it at all. The exception of this is.

A: The song that plays in Integras letter opener / back story plot.

B: The very weird song that plays wile the bad guy powers up.

#4. Art Work.

The art for the main characters is good... And the rest is... OK but thats just it Just OK.

#5. Story line.

O my god no.... There is no story line. There is some very nice character driven story. (By that I mean Integra) But other then that its a bunch of unanswered questions. And a lot of story who goes no were.

Stuff that Hellsing Ultimate did better.

#1. Character... (Only one of them)

Seras Bictoria is MUCH more enjoyable. And by that I mean much more Ax Crazy... Just trust me. Every one likes her more this way.

Also Walter is much better in this version.

#2. Voice Acting...

Same as above. Seras Victoria voice acting is done better... I don't even know if it is a different person. But it's just better. Also Walter is much better in this version.

#3. Music.

No... No. I don't even know if there is music in this version. I just don't remember anything about it, but I remember that it's mucis dose seam to fit better.

#4. Art Work.

This version is just more consistant not really better.

#5. Story line.

Were to start. Lets just say this. There is a story line. That just the thing that makes this better.... There is a story line. It goes some were.

End of story.

Blue Bishonen Hell.

OK.
So as of late I have been looking out for anime that I have not watched and Normally would not watch. So I have been watching Bishonen and Shojin... And so far my Manpoints are doing alright.

The simple reason being that I have been aiming at FUNNY Bishonen. (So Basically Reverse Harem Anime) My Two Biggest Finds so far have been Fruits Basket. (I think i already did a piece on it) The Second Being Oron High School Host Club. (Really bad Title)

But it could be the funnest thing i have seen in a long long time.

First think you need to know is that if you are a Flamingly Strait man, Don't watch this. Your just going to hurt yourself and annoy the shit out of any one else around you.

Because there are ALLOT of gay jokes in this show. But not in the "I'm going to laugh at his because he's gay" Way in the... They are making fun of people who do that way.

... Wait wait. I think i need to explain something here.

What the crap is a host club?
Well you ever seen those bars were you pay for a young attractive female to sit down and have polite conversation with you?... ... No hu? Well they do exist, there are even some in the United States.

A Host club is the Female Equivalent. Women come in and pay to have young men entertain them with polite conversation and... maybe a little flirting.

And yes they really exist in Japan. Following the MJIW principle. (Man... Japan is Weird)

Ya so the show is great, it just.... Vary hard on your reserve Man Points. Not quite as bad a as... Playing The YuGiOh Card Game. But harder then playing D&D.

And no wear near as Hard as Watching or liking Twilight. ~Shutter~

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If your a female this is going to be much easier to watch for you. Because this thing is FULL of ManService.. (It's like FanService, Only... You know for Chicks) Just know there is ALLOT of bare chested guys..... And not even in the Bleach Standard. In the... ... Well Pretty Boy Underwear Standard.

The Saving grace of this show is the female lead, Who is like many Main Characters the only sane.... Women in the Room? Well not really just just say that she is just as annoyed at the weird stuff in the show as the rest of us.

The Show Really is Side Splittingly Funny, And latter on it can actually be very Sweet.

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There are some problems with it. Out of the 26 Episodes about... 4 of them are really just not that funny, not really because of any fault of the show, but i think some of the jokes missed there marks.

And some times it just seams like they... Well forgot to put jokes into the show for a episode or something. The Sweet / Romance parts... Seam a little odd. There done quite well but they just seam out of place in the show after so much funny stuff going on.

Now that being said, I really think they could have taken the time they spent on the 4 not so funny episodes and really done a good job with the romance in the show, Because ya. like 6 episodes of romance mixed in with 26 episodes of PURE FUNNY WIN, would have been fine with me.

Even my Partners in Crime.. A.K.A. My Friends/Evil Minions. Like it, and one of them is VERY hard to please with this kind of "Girlie" (Hurts me to even wright that word I think it's so stupid to call something girly just because it has romance in it) Show..

So if you like Funny stuff and are not a retard-man.

Or if you have NO Y-chromazone.

You should love this show.

If you don't.

You may never laugh again. And really you don't deserve to.