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PsychoFreaX Card-Carrying Villain >:D from Transcended Humanity Since: Jan, 2010
#1: Jan 8th 2011 at 8:48:51 PM

Beyblade, try and top that.

I mean, I admit I do enjoy the show. Just really bewildered about it.

edited 8th Jan '11 8:55:38 PM by PsychoFreaX

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Sackett Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Jan 8th 2011 at 9:30:07 PM

Beyblade?

More confusing than Neon Genesis Evangelion?

Now I wouldn't be surprised if there are even more confusing anime out there then NGE. I've probably even seen one and just can't think of it right now.

But Beyblade?

Really?

Epic top spinning is more confusing and nonsensical then giant bio-cyborg mechas powered by giant extension cords, controlled by dead mother soul power and driven by 14 year-old psychotic orphans with Oedipus Complexes and enough backstory trauma to keep whole university Psychology departments busy with a decades worth of case studies and papers?

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#4: Jan 8th 2011 at 9:31:34 PM

Backstories actually aren't all that complex. "This person has mother issues, caused by Y, responded to it in X manner."

But yeah, uh, Beyblade?

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NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#5: Jan 8th 2011 at 9:32:00 PM

Complex and convoluted and Nonsensical don't have to mean the same thing. Evangelion is the former, but not as much of the latter as Beyblade is.

edited 8th Jan '11 9:32:22 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#6: Jan 8th 2011 at 9:32:01 PM

Maybe it's because I read the manga, but I really didn't find NGE to be confusing.

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#7: Jan 8th 2011 at 9:33:25 PM

[up] It isn't. Complex and convoluted, yeah, to some degree, and only when you get into the details and way below the surface, but otherwise it's easy to understand... until the finale hits.

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#8: Jan 8th 2011 at 9:34:19 PM

Evangelion's confusing-ness is really exaggerated.

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
ShayGuy Since: Jan, 2001
#9: Jan 8th 2011 at 9:45:58 PM

I know it doesn't remotely qualify (just using it as a measuring stick), but is there an anime that makes less sense than this?

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#11: Jan 8th 2011 at 9:51:07 PM

...there's more than one kind of not making sense.

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#12: Jan 8th 2011 at 9:53:05 PM

I don't think there's any sense to be had from that video. I don't think that counts. It's like putting my dinner into a blender and turning the results into a story.

edited 8th Jan '11 9:53:40 PM by Arha

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Malkavian What is this from madness Since: Jan, 2001
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#14: Jan 8th 2011 at 10:09:24 PM

No one's said FLCL yet?

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Vanitas Since: Jan, 2013
#15: Jan 8th 2011 at 11:55:28 PM

[up] You beat me to it. I was young when I first watched it though, but I couldn't figure out the plot and things were popping out of Naota's head. I should rewatch it again

NatTheWriter Since: Oct, 2011
#17: Jan 9th 2011 at 5:42:32 AM

Kanon. Okay, that's an exaggeration and definitely a matter of subjectivity, but it's still the most contrived thing I've seen that isn't a deliberate mind-screw. I mean...astral projections? Foxes becoming human? Mai's arc in its entirety? The wackiest things went without explanation.

edited 9th Jan '11 5:42:44 AM by NatTheWriter

Sackett Since: Jan, 2001
#18: Jan 9th 2011 at 6:35:46 AM

FLCL, that was it. I knew there was an Anno anime that was confusing and nonsensical. Even more than NGE.

Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
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#19: Jan 9th 2011 at 8:09:46 AM

FLCL was not made by Anno, although confusing him and Tsurumaki is pretty forgivable. Also: not really all that nonsensical. It was just a Coming of Age Story with a bunch of random stuff thrown in.

I guess it is.
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nohaynicklibre Harkinian & The Bois from Spain Since: May, 2010
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#21: Jan 9th 2011 at 8:39:30 AM

Paranoia Agent for the serious kind of WTF.

Bobobo Bobobobo for the comedic one.

edited 9th Jan '11 8:39:42 AM by nohaynicklibre

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Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#22: Jan 9th 2011 at 8:45:06 AM

If by "nonsensical" we mean "stupid", then I will see OP's Beyblade and raise him with Idaten Jump.

EDIT: What, no trope page? I'm actually surprised.

edited 9th Jan '11 8:45:53 AM by Watchtower

Cogito Blazing Hero from The Legendary Battle Since: May, 2010
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#23: Jan 9th 2011 at 8:56:33 AM

FLCL makes sense when you realize it is about puberty and growing up.

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#24: Jan 9th 2011 at 9:04:51 AM

And that all the over-the-top ridiculousity is a metaphor for puberty being confusing as hell.

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Belian In honor of my 50lb pup from 42 Since: Jan, 2001
In honor of my 50lb pup
#25: Jan 9th 2011 at 9:06:11 AM

My sister would disagree with FLCL being confusing. Personally, I agree with you guys.

A some things that have always confused me:

  • How can all the Power Rangers seasons share the some time line?
  • How can all the Pokemon seasons/generations share a continuity at all?
  • Ultimate Muscle. Western Animation and Complaing About Shows You Dont Watch, but still...
  • How could they make squeal series for Bakugan after that ending? And without half the original cast? And so much worse than the first one?
  • Bleach. I won't go into the list, but there is something to all the Fan Wank it gets.
  • Agree that Bobobo-bo bo-bobo, the little of it I have seen, is utterly confusing
  • I know that TTGL is all about the Humongous Mecha, but I have yet seen anyone who compliments it for its story or sensibility.
  • The end of Serial Experiments Lain completely confused me.
  • Denno Coil is completely confusing most of the time.
  • Something is wrong with you if you are never confused by Megas XLR. Still fun to watch.
  • The Macross series enemies and how they are defeated are always somewhat confusing.
  • Macademi Wasshoi. If only because the Myth Ark was never really explained.
  • Ichiban Ushiro No Daimaou. It did not have enough time to eplain half of what it needed to.
  • Much as I love Xamd Lost Memories, the ending is fairly confusing.

Yes, I started going through a list of Anime near the start of that list.

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