One of the most frustrating things about being an anime fan is having high hopes for a new, promising anime, and then watching helplessly as it craps the bed right in front of you week after week. Maybe it did a terrible job adapting high-quality source material, had a creative concept that got buried under bad production values or studio mandates, or dumped its best story ideas like a sack of disappointed potatoes, but the end result is always the same – a lackluster mess that could’ve been so much more. Let’s check out 5 bad anime that were almost brilliant!

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