Not of my Interest

[CatOnFire]

This topic is to post what series you can't seem to get into and also which ones you don't like to see in fanfics.

Kingdom Hearts: While the game was enjoyable I found no joy in the story. Worse yet I find this series crossed over with multiple other series. Unless KH is a minor part of a fic it renders the entire story unreadable.

Halo: I can't understand peoples fascination with this series. To me it's just a boring, tacked on, storyline to an above average FPS. If I see anything crossed over with this series it is an immediate ignore.

Bleach: Now this I actually like... mostly. The one part of Bleach fanfics I am not particularly enthused to see are Seiretei centered stories. Yadda yadda dies goes to "heaven" and trains to become a soul reaper, rinse and repeat ad nauseam for everyone. Especially Ichigo, because a good Ichigo is a dead Ichigo.

Suzumiya Haruhi Series: Maybe I'm not looking at this series correctly but this is some boring cr*p.

Homestruck: At first I was like: Homestruck? WTF is Homestruck? Then I graduated to: I still don't get it. Now Homestruck means to me: That crazy sh#t with that stuff and things. Am I missing something? Maybe, but I don't care enough to look further. Auto-skip.

Negima!: Now Harem Fanservice Anime aren't for everyone but honestly if you have to force yourself to watch 5 episodes of a series and still don't get why everyone seems to like a series then it is just not for you. Unlike the above mentioned series I have found I can stand this series if it is a crossover with one of my 3 favorite: Ranma½, Worm or BtVS.

 

[Fellgrave]

Halo definitely. I never had a console until the Wii, so I never played it when it first got big, and I hate FPS games with a vengeance. (Hand-eye coordination so bad it counts as a Learning disability ftw...)

MLP. Seriously. Fuck this shit.

Depending on the game in the series, Final Fantasy can be this for me. Actually, outside of the Ivalice ones, anything after VI falls into this. The rare VII is alright, but... eh.

Power Rangers. Found the series utterly ridiculous as a kid, and as an adult, I find it's just stupid.

...not sure what else. For most part I'm pretty open to reading anything, Yaoi aside. That isn't my cup of tea, but if it's well done I can ignore it.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Hmmm... splitting my response into series I did not like, and series I liked but could not get into due to conflicting views with the fandom.

Series I did not like (these are ones I normally refuse to even touch, and will get rid of or stop reading/following any story I have copied on my system if any of these are present)...

Naruto, I just cannot get the appeal of this series, Tried watching a few eps, nothing. tried reading a few fan fiction. One of the few that did appeal to me the fandom hated so much the author removed it. At that point, I gave up on it.

Dragonball, another that made no sense, my brother actually bought a couple VHS tapes way back and we sat down to see if it could get our interest. It instead permanently turned us off and will make us never ever forget the idiot whom for several episodes stood there in mid air grunting and straining looking like he had to go to the bathroom while trying to decide whether to help his friends whim were getting beaten up.

TTGL, the single worst series I tried to watch of the latter part of the last decade. Gave up after 6 positively dreadful episodes full of plot holes, bad animation, and slapstick in bad points, I even gave a very rare rant episode by episode on it here on this forum. And getting told off by tons of fans because of it insisting it got much better several more episodes in...

Dog Days, tons of plot holes, and as really hoping the Princess and her side would get there just deserts for the deception they pulled. Was told they never did, nor should they have. I was told by fans basically I went into it with wrong expectations.

One Piece, I despise the art style... major turn off. I cannot like a series I cannot stand to look at.

I'll agree with Fellgrave on Power Rangers and MLP, and add Super Samurai Squad, its main competitor in the U.S. in the early days. dreadful lines, battles, clichés, and inaccuracies.

Harry Potter, does not appeal to me in the least, nor will I touch non-crossover fan fiction using it. However, of the list in the not like category, this is the only series I will entertain reading good crossovers with it from other anime series. Such as Ranma.

Series I liked but could not get into due to conflicting views with the fandom...

MGLN, I actually liked this series. Those whom I have argued with on line about it still seem surprised I can make such a statement, but despite that it is true. HOWEVER, I can read very little if any fan fiction for it. The reason is simple. I walked away from that series with views diametrically opposed to the fans. I liked MGLN *BECAUSE* of its darkness and grey areas, and the fact the TSAB was *not* good, not just, not in the right, merely out for its own self interests. I compare them to Stargate SG1, and how they operated. That is a compliment. I want to see stories where Graham really gets what is coming to him, where the TSAB cannot get away with forced conscription and trumped up charges, stories where they are shown in a dark or black light. That rarely happens because most authors seem to follow the views or write to the views of the predominant fan boys. The few stories that appealed to me on this front that I bothered to follow have been on hiatus for a long time now, and doubt will see much out of it. Waste of a good series.

Negima, I've watched both TV series (in fact bought and have them on DVD still), and most of the specials. I liked it... but two things hold me back. The first is I cannot read the Manga. I mean this literally, I've tried a few times, I cannot get past about chapter 30. The fonts and way the scanlation were done literally give me headaches. The second is I cannot read the fanfiction. I mean this figuratively, I can actually read it qquite fine, the issue is most stories center on romance, normally involving Negi... My issue is while I consider myself accepting of unusual relationships, I cannot get interested at all in romance involving people of Negi's age... about the lowest I'll tolerate is 13-14, putting Asuka and Shinji from NGE at about the bottom of the acceptable age bracket.

Ikkitousan, I really wanted to like this series, I in fact had it on DVD. I watched the whole first season and some of the specials. I like virtually every individual character in it. The personalities, the interaction, the fights all great. The fan service for me was actually a bit of a turn off, as I felt this could have been just as good with out it... but fan service was not the issue. The Plot was the issue. After watching it I actually sold my copy in disgust over the dreadful plot. Only a couple fan fiction stories I ever felt were done good.

EDIT: Adding a couple more.

TMOHS, I actually did like this series, but like MGLN I came out of it with a different view from most fans. To me it was all about Kyon, and to a lesser extend Yuki, not Haruhi. Haruhi did not interest me at all, and Itsuki and Asahina were more obsticles and friendly enemies than friends to Kyon. I read fan fiction of this series, but not a lot of it, as much of it is about Haruhi, and not all authors can really do Kyon's internal monologue and sarcasm well...

Index/Railgun series. I liked Touma, I liked Misaka, I loathed index. But I cannot stand the fact he falls into the traps he does and allows the magic users to manipulate him the way they do, they are *not* friends, nor should he consider them such, but they are enemies. That plus the fact he could have all the help he needed if he only would keep the promise to Misaka to tell her what is going on... she owes him, the sisters owe him, and Misaka getting involved would bring in Kuriko.... I have yet to see a fan fiction to really go this route that was not abandoned. The few good ones along those lines I was following have stopped updating, and at least one was abandoned.

 

[Herdo]

Doctor Who: Cannot find any real interest of this. Something about an immortal alien who travels with a magical phone booth?

Star Trek: Boring. Never managed to get into this.

Twilight: I tried to read the first book. It was so boring that I had to close it at page eight. We were also forced to see the first movie in school, which was really awkward.

I don't like to see "mainstream" series like Naruto or Harry Potter crossover'd into just about anything. Sometimes it doesn't make sense and it is even worse when it is not crack. For example, a Naruto X Hannah Montana crossover exists and I do not think it is a trollfic:
Hanah Uchiha? by KnightCaim reviews
What would happen if Sasuke,Naruto,and all of the others were in Hanah Montana's world?What would happen if Miley/Hanah fell in love with Sasuke?AND HE LOVED HER BACK!
Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 3 - Words: 711 - Reviews: 28 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 5 - Updated: Mar 30, 2010 - Published: Aug 21, 2009 - Sasuke U., Hannah M./Miley S.
:no:

 

[PCHeintz72]

Doctor Who: Cannot find any real interest of this. Something about an immortal alien who travels with a magical phone booth?

FYI: The Doctor is not immortal, just long lived, with officially 15 lives.

The Tardis looks like a 1960's police call box merely because he wanted it to, and it made sense at series start, as it took place in 1960's England. They just decided to never change it, since it was a cult icon. It is not really magical, think more advanced semi/sentient AI, though I do not think the term AI existed back when the series first started.

To like the series though means you would need to like British humor of that time period, which was very dry... not everyone could adapt to it.

 

[FinalMax]

Yeah, I have to second the MLP, Halo, Gurren Lagann comments. I watched all of Gurren Lagann, and I want those 13 1/2 hours of my life back! Even if I only had to sit through an edited version of it on SyFy, I want that time back. There was no point where the quality of anything in that series improved, even when Kamina's death should have improved it by 9000% by virtue of him no longer filling the place with stupid.

Babylon 5: I can appreciate the idea of a writer actually starting a sci-fi series with a clear direction in mind. I simply don't think too much of that direction showed. I don't want to ask, "what if" with this series. Not that I had an interest in watching it. More my mother's kind of thing for the first 3 seasons. The whole fact the plot depended on a stable time loop didn't help.

Mass Effect: I have an interest in Science Fiction, but I've come to realize I'm of the more classical school of it. Maybe even the initial New Wave of it. Not so much the non-exploration action movie equivalent of it, which as far as I can tell, is what Mass Effect was all about. The series is already about empowerment fantasy, so they guys who are really into that I think are likely to write about it.

Insert modern "vampire" franchise other than Blade, Rosario+ Vampire, or Hellsing here: Yes, I'm putting effectively an entire genre of fiction here. My reasoning goes back to a creative writing class I had. One assignment had me looking into the possibility of publishing a work, just to see what steps we'd have to go through and the cover pages we'd have to make. I had discovered (about 2 years before Twilight came out) that the publishing industry had a near universal ban on vampire fiction. Several companies put it directly on their submissions side of the site that it was so, and even explained why. Basically, all of them are empowerment fantasy. All of them were knockoffs of Anne Rice's work, focusing more on the sexual identity aspects of a vampire; and thus the stories themselves were a vehicle for the writer to shove their conscious/subconscious sexual preferences down the reader's throat. All brooding, all emo, all screwing, all the damn time. It makes you stop and wonder just why those very things are now being forced down our throats now.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Insert modern "vampire" franchise...

I can agree with that. Except the Hellsing Anime TV/OAV, Tsukihime, Corpse Princess (not really vampires, but similar), and a 90's series called Forever Knight, I cannot think of a non-spoof serious type vampire series that remotely interested me.

 

[ragnarok1337]

MGLN, I actually liked this series. Those whom I have argued with on line about it still seem surprised I can make such a statement, but despite that it is true. HOWEVER, I can read very little if any fan fiction for it. The reason is simple. I walked away from that series with views diametrically opposed to the fans. I liked MGLN *BECAUSE* of its darkness and grey areas, and the fact the TSAB was *not* good, not just, not in the right, merely out for its own self interests. I compare them to Stargate SG1, and how they operated. That is a compliment. I want to see stories where Graham really gets what is coming to him, where the TSAB cannot get away with forced conscription and trumped up charges, stories where they are shown in a dark or black light. That rarely happens because most authors seem to follow the views or write to the views of the predominant fan boys. The few stories that appealed to me on this front that I bothered to follow have been on hiatus for a long time now, and doubt will see much out of it. Waste of a good series.

I know this is hard for you, but try not to insult other people when criticizing a series.

I find it hard to read MGLN fanfiction as well, because 99% of it is nothing but lesbian romance, and it's always the same three pairings, with very little variation. 90% of THOSE fics are all high school AUs, where the characters have next to no similarities with their canon counterparts, not even personality traits. I mean, I wouldn't mind the romance if it was actually decently written, or someone wrote a different pairing than every single other fic. Oh, and demonizing Yuuno. That pisses me off like no other. If you want to ignore him or relegate him to the background, fine. It irks me to see a character with such potential ignored, but I can deal with it. But turning him into a villain? Fuck no. He's one of the nicest guys in the series, and with a main character like Nanoha, that's really saying something.

 

[da_fox2279]

TTGL: Saw a few eps on Syfy back in the day. The art style totally turned me off. The voice acting was okay, but I really couldn't get into the series.

Maison Ikkoku: I bought the first 2 omnibus editions, because I like Ranma and Inu-Yasha, and thought 'Hey, I'll give this a chance.' Nice story, but so dry. Never bought another book.

X/1999: Much like MI above, I liked other works by CLAMP. Neat artwork, interesting story, but it couldn't hold my interest. Not to mention all the damn characters.

Tenchi Muyo GXP!: Saw some of this on Toonami/AdultSwim. Ultimately, never really cared about it that much. My Tenchi fandom heydays were around the beginning of the century; I will still read the occasional one-shot or small series, but for the most part, I still prefer the stories I've collected. Most of which are left undone.

Negima!: Loved the manga when I came out in the U.S., but could never really get into reading fanfics for it.

YuYu Hakusho, Utena, xxxHolic, Spirited Away, Samurai Champloo: Aside from a few one-shots and the small fic series from authors I like, I could never really get that deep in these fandoms.

Almost all modern video games: I don't really play many video games these days, and when I do, I tend to stick to oldschool stuff (Mario, Donkey Kong, Ducktales, Street Fighter). I've never played a FPS since high school, when Doom was big, and most RPGs are just too frustrating for me to get into. As such, I prefer that crossover elements stick to small stuff.

 

[PCHeintz72]

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This is getting annoying, wonder what is causing that for me.

In any case:

MGLN, I actually liked this series. Those whom I have argued with on line about it still seem surprised I can make such a statement, but despite that it is true. HOWEVER, I can read very little if any fan fiction for it. The reason is simple. I walked away from that series with views diametrically opposed to the fans. I liked MGLN *BECAUSE* of its darkness and grey areas, and the fact the TSAB was *not* good, not just, not in the right, merely out for its own self interests. I compare them to Stargate SG1, and how they operated. That is a compliment. I want to see stories where Graham really gets what is coming to him, where the TSAB cannot get away with forced conscription and trumped up charges, stories where they are shown in a dark or black light. That rarely happens because most authors seem to follow the views or write to the views of the predominant fan boys. The few stories that appealed to me on this front that I bothered to follow have been on hiatus for a long time now, and doubt will see much out of it. Waste of a good series.

I know this is hard for you, but try not to insult other people when criticizing a series.

Scratches head... other than the sometimes bad perception of the term 'fan boy', I see no insult in that paragraph. No specifics and no names were mentioned.

 

[PCHeintz72]

There is another reason I do not read some Haruhi Suzimiya fan fiction. A basic problem of formatting. I realize in that series Kyon acts as a narrator but the issue I have is some writers even if they have a good story ruin it by making *everything* Kyon says, even direct verbal dialog, as thoughts with no parenthesis around the words.

I had forgot to list that problem when I originally posted, but just came across another story doing it...

 

[A_T_Sigma]

Oh Boy; let's see, series I could never get into...

well, I never was interested in the Marvel/DC comics or stories; even now I wouldn't know much about the characters and their universes.

The Twilight Series is fun to poke at by just watching the movies. Speaking of Vampire Series; Vampire Diaries just not for me; also Teen Wolf and Supernatural. The only one I watch is True Blood but I don't read fics for it.
I also like the Manga venison of Rosario + Vampire better than the anime. Can't bring myself to really read fics for it.

There's also The Walking Dead, I dunno, I guess I don't get the whole Zombie craze.

Lucky Star; I tried couldn't get passed 1st Episode, I like cuteness and randomness but even I couldn't do it.

Negima prefer manga over Anime don't read fics for it.

Naruto I loved up until after the 1st Arc of Shippuuden and then after that I am convinced Kishimoto trolls his story. I still read fics every now and then.

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I LOVE THOSE MULTI COLORED PONIES AND THEIR AWESOME RIDICULOUS NEED TO BREAKOUT IN SONG!
I just cannot read fanfiction of it at all.

Yea, I think that's it.



Series

 

[goldenarms]

Twilight -- I tried to give it an honest read one day in K-Mart while waiting on my sister. I got to the third line of the first book before I found myself wandering in a gloomy swamp, hearing a dirge playing in the background and the urge to slit my wrists with rusty spoons. 100% no exaggeration -- my mind was just suddenly in another world for about five seconds before snapping back to reality, and I did what any sane person would do... Okay, that's a lie, as I didn't appear on the news for trying to burn every copy of that series in the stores and denounce it as the work of Satan, but I did close the book shut, put it down, and backed the fuck away from it like it was a rabid wolverine. Any reading I do of it will be interpreted by a third-person party cheerfully sporking it to pieces.

One Piece -- I read it when I was getting Shonen Jump, but that's only because it was right there. I tried reading it online after SJ ended its digest format, but to be frank, it's kind of boring. I never found pirates to be all that interesting, and the series takes forever to get to the damn point. It's like Bleach with drunks and bigger idiots in that sense. Plus the artwork has never appealed to me -- when I saw fansubbed copies of it before it officially hit stateside, I seriously thought it was a slice-of-life about a bunch of happy-go-lucky winos based on the cover.

Shonen-ai/Yaoi stories in general -- Good god, are these folks so damned unbelievable! Melodrama to the nines, everybody is disgustingly effeminate and beautiful (even the ugly people!), and their situations are just chocked full of "adorable" things that would have people the world over baying for blood if the uke of the story was actually female instead. And the less said about yaoi fanfics, the better.