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Popular/Notable shows to not make the list.

These are some shows that I think are either popular or have gotten a lot of acclaim from a niche that missed the list for whatever reason. They are listed in order of premier.

Space Brothers
-Nothing to really say about this. I dropped it half way through (well its like a 100 episode show). It's just painfully slow.

Fate/Zero 2nd Season
-I think my dislike for the main line fate series is pretty obvious by now. I think there are a lot of problems with the way the show is formatted as a whole. I remember I was watching UBW, which was pretty good at the start, but in a later episode Shirou was talking to Lancer and the dialogue was so bad I wondered in what world was this considered to be a good show. (I'll talk about UBW a little too). Fate/Zero did some good things like have more character backstory that seemed meaningful but a lot of the stuff that happens in the show just seems to have very little relevance to the grand story they are trying to construct.

Jormungand
-I often see this compared to Black Lagoon. The difference is that Black Lagoon has two amazing leads that get great development and have complex personalities. The characters in Jormugand are nothing like this. Only Koko (and to an extent that eyepatch girl) is entertaining and she lacks that badass charm that Revy has. On top of that the animation is not that great which leads to issues in an action show.

Kids on The Slope
-I think this is one of higher profile niche picks. No one talks about this any more so I don't know how well its held up within the fandom. By no means do I think it's a bad show, it's actually just outside the cut zone. I guess the best comparison would be to Your Lie in April. I think there are some key differences in the characters and the melodrama. A lot of the melodrama in this show seems dumb, like its been manufactured through teenage angst and brooding. It gets annoying. Reveals are set in weird places and they don't really use the characters in ways that sync with the show. The characters in YLIA have significant problems that would make anyone on edge. They mix both ones where you can understand why they might be acting out and also more common ones that every viewer can relate to. Kids on the Slope does not do this effectively enough.

Sword Art Online
-I'm only including this here because it's a popular show. I don't even think anyone here actually thinks this show is that good. But a lot of people do. In any case the issues with this show are well documented all over the internet but I think my biggest gripe is the complete lack of focus the show has. I guess the second was that Kirito has to save everyone. I don't even mind him being strong, it's that him being strong actively takes way from every other character in the show. Like it was bad enough with Asuna, but fucking Sinon too. And I legitimately like Sinon.

Shinsekai yori
-I think this is the big one. Like the title that I find a lot of people will find to be the biggest absence from the list. If i had a gripe about this one it would be that nothing is resolved. Like people didn't even like this show until an information dump on episode 4 and I'm thinking that they basically gave you world info in the most boring way possible and now you think it's the best show of the season? Or when they do Squealers ending and they think it erases everything he did all of a sudden. Stuff doesn't work like that. Like they get the atmosphere and everything down very well. The show has a lot of good ideas that never get explored fully.
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Updated: July 27th, 2016.