While there are plenty of original anime, the anime that tend to get the most attention are the adaptations of manga and other works. Any anime that’s an adaptation has the benefit of a built-in fanbase helping to prop it up, and more often than not, the popularity of the manga leads to their anime adaptations becoming some of the biggest anime a person can watch.

Anime adaptations tend to dominate the community, but unfortunately, that isn’t always the case. While many adaptations are fortunate enough to get the proper attention needed to make their stories shine, just as many end up falling short, and sure enough, there are plenty of anime adaptations with such terrible animation, direction, and overall handling of their source material that it’s often hard to justify watching them, at all. A few anime like that are especially worth noting, as while they...