What are you most hated novels, why?

[Hoshino]

From the novels/animes/mangas you’ve read, which one do you hate the most, and why?

Or do you simply enjoy everything you read, or not care enough about it?

 

[Macha]

I hate the ones with systems because I hate numbers.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Kisei Kanojo Sana ~Parasistence SANA~ - MangaDex

You have the sexually curious imouto, the erotic school nurse, and the cute, over-protective parasite that comes out of our MC, Karato’s, stomach.

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It bothers me. The story has little to no substance, and the pacing is awful. The idea is intriguing, but not worth reading the 13 chapters I believe it has.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Of the ones I've finished reading Portrait of the Lady by Henry James. 400 pages of nothing - girl makes an obvious mistake in chapter two, ruins her life, and is about to make a better choice for the same bad reason at the end, as if she learned nothing.

 

[Eldoria]

The stories I hate the most are those that betray the moral premise of their own stories. For example, SoL or Shoujo novels that use family-themed synopses and/or titles: mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, son, daughter, and brother. But halfway through the story until the end, it turns into a mainstream romance story where the family characters are reduced to supporting characters or background characters. That's a complete narrative betrayal.

Imagine yourself expecting a warm family bond, a mother and her little daughter telling a bedtime story, but suddenly the author inserts a random male character between the mother and her little daughter, and in the end, the little daughter becomes a supporting character.

It's really annoying. I've seen this pattern a lot, especially in shoujo and SoL (and it makes it a bit hard for me to trust pure shoujo or SoL stories with family-themed titles).

I don't hate romance, but please... can the authors be more honest with their story? If an author wants to write a romance story, please write a romantic title, instead of a family one. This is a minor complaint.

In other stories, authors often betray the moral premise of the story, whether for market reasons, content sensitivity, or the author's lack of courage to realize their own ideas.

And the one that sticks in my mind the most is, of course, Attack on Titan, where the beginning of the story promises a dark fantasy about humanity's struggle to survive within the walls amidst the threat of brutal titans and free humanity from their oppression. But we know the ending is reduced to a tale of fatalism, and even the protagonist, initially depicted as a liberating feature with his famous slogan "tatakae!" is instead reduced to a slave to fate whose only motive for fighting is love for a childhood friend. I was very disappointed with this change.

I don't mind how the story ends, whether it's a happy ending, a bittersweet ending, or even a tragic ending; but betraying the story's premise is a serious problem, my friends. You order steak but get a salad. This is truly terrible.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

Anime/LN - I got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World Too.

I loved the anime for the eyes on the characters at first, but the story...just sucked. The MC, despite being a tragically nice guy, is such a miserable human being that I could not rally behind him even though he went from ugly fat to an Adonis.

LNs - Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World / The World's Strongest Rearguard - Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker

The worlds 'systems' made zero sense, the MCs gathered a huge harem but failed to use them, even off screen, and each novel seemed like a cookie cutter of the previous novel, so while the words were different, it felt like reading the same story, the same beats, the exact same tempo.

Manga - HOTD

No one finished it after the writer died! I want to know what happened to Alice!

Novel - The Wheel of Time

Robert Jordan did an amazing job with the first...4-5 novels, then shit the bed for the remainder. After he died and Brandon Sanderson took over, he started George RR Martin'ing all the extras in the the books, getting rid of all the crap filler plots RJ put into his works in the later novels.

Fanfics - Anything Futa...and most gender benders.

"But JD, its kink shaming." Nope don't care, its f'ing weird. Almost as bad as foot fetishes.

Fight me =P

 

[ElijahRyne]

From the novels/animes/mangas you’ve read, which one do you hate the most, and why?

Or do you simply enjoy everything you read, or not care enough about it?

I once read 1.2k chapters of a CN where every ten chapters was a cycle of face slapping scenes. The only reason I stuck by for so long was the good worldbuilding, but somewhere around the 700th chapter every part of the story was slowly hijacked by the face slapping scenes…
Found it:

End of the Magic Era - Novel Updates

www.novelupdates.com

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Novel - The Wheel of Time

Robert Jordan did an amazing job with the first...4-5 novels, then shit the bed for the remainder. After he died and Brandon Sanderson took over, he started George RR Martin'ing all the extras in the the books, getting rid of all the crap filler plots RJ put into his works in the later novels.

Well, Jordan found out he had a fatal medical condition that was going to impact his mental acuity during book five, and started looking for a person to work with at about the time he sent book six to the publisher. He and Sanderson plotted out, IIRC, two books completely, one of which he'd written about four chapters for when he passed...

But book ... either seven or eight was an unreadable fiasco, just made no sense, despite being the slimmest volume in the series, and called back to stuff in one book I'd somehow missed earlier (believe I owned seven and read eight of the first nine books and then stopped).
Funny thing, when I was reading the first book, I kept wishing I had his ability to describe scenes and settings because they often felt real - occasionally more real, even, than his characters. But by book four, I was wishing HE had merely MY ability with scenes and settings because I just couldn't wade through another four-page scene description, no matter how beautiful it was...

 

[melchi]

Anything that sexualizes minors

 

[LuoirM]

Six People On A Cross, the Japanese name is Juujika something something

The amount of shitification the author made after changing the story from Monthly to Weekly was astonishing, if you're a woman in this world, you have 3 choices:
- Gets Rape
- Gets Rape
- Gets Rape

Choose wisely

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

Well, Jordan found out he had a fatal medical condition that was going to impact his mental acuity during book five, and started looking for a person to work with at about the time he sent book six to the publisher.

Now THAT I was unaware of. He knew that early? Interesting

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Now THAT I was unaware of. He knew that early? Interesting

I think it was that early. Been a while so I may be off by a book or, at most, two, but it was halfway through the part he wrote on his own. Rumors got out shortly after the next book came out, and he confirmed them when he announced his search for a partner to take over in case he couldn't finish it.
For a while, it really felt like the story and characters had grown beyond his ability to control....

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

I think it was that early. Been a while so I may be off by a book or, at most, two, but it was halfway through the part he wrote on his own. Rumors got out shortly after the next book came out, and he confirmed them when he announced his search for a partner to take over in case he couldn't finish it.
For a while, it really felt like the story and characters had grown beyond his ability to control....

Still, that was the early to mid 90s. I was in junior high at the time, and the internet was just becoming a somewhat mainstream thing, with our 56kb modems and the search engine wars. Honestly, I am surprised a few of those books made it past his editor before going to print. That would be an interesting biography to read, or even a better drama for Prime than the WoT show was.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Still, that was the early to mid 90s. I was in junior high at the time, and the internet was just becoming a somewhat mainstream thing, with our 56kb modems and the search engine wars. Honestly, I am surprised a few of those books made it past his editor before going to print. That would be an interesting biography to read, or even a better drama for Prime than the WoT show was.

It still amazes me that, as good as he was at SCENE descriptions, I only really knew what three of his CHARACTERS actually looked like (Rand, Perrin, Nynaeve) ... and the show only really got one of them (Perrin, though they came very close on Rand) right... The rest just had general age (or "ageless") notes, hair colors and roughly how attractive they were in general and not much else. And ... well they couldn't really get Mat WRONG because he was just "dark" as far as I remember.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

It still amazes me that, as good as he was at SCENE descriptions, I only really knew what three of his CHARACTERS actually looked like (Rand, Perrin, Nynaeve) ... and the show only really got one of them (Perrin, though they came very close on Rand) right... The rest just had general age (or "ageless") notes, hair colors and roughly how attractive they were in general and not much else. And ... well they couldn't really get Mat WRONG because he was just "dark" as far as I remember.

I actually thought the show nailed Moraine with Rosamund Pike. She seemed pretty close to how I pictured that Aes Sedai... I was actually enjoying the show despite the inconsistences, then they ruined it with killing the sisters off when they linked...

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I actually thought the show nailed Moraine with Rosamund Pike. She seemed pretty close to how I pictured that Aes Sedai... I was actually enjoying the show despite the inconsistences, then they ruined it with killing the sisters off when they linked...

We're taking this pretty far afield. I kept trying to picture Moiraine and never could; the show was about as close as I could come to her but never quite felt right. Lan felt ... more accurate than what little detail Jordan provided on the man.
But I didn't hate any of the books, just "grew away" from them.

Ah, and to take this kind of back to the original topic - one comic book series I WANTED to like but just hated from the start and gave up on in issue 3 was Punisher 2099 - one of the better written 2099 books but just nothing else worked for me - main character who made Frank Castle seem like a genial, cuddly nice guy, bland story, lackluster art (especially for that line - the only series with less impressive art work was my favorite of the line - Doom 2099, though I did love Spider-Man 2099 too) and way too many "cool weapons" that felt ... not futuristic, just destructive.

 

[Wenlock]

Mirai Nikki / Future Diaries. Not gonna elaborate.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

Re Monster.

The MC is a hypocrite who constantly goes back on their word, which isn’t inherently a bad thing, but when the ’words they back on’ are ‘I’m not gonna rape people’ and ’I’m not gonna own slaves’ its off putting to say the least. Don’t know if I’ve ever hated an mc more.

Honorable mention for ‘Realist Hero’. Would have been fine isekai junk food slop, but after you get like 9 volumes in the author introduces a ‘charismatic villain’ and it’s a surprise he was able to write these volumes because he can’t seem to get the guys cock out of his mouth. I’m serious, I dropped the story after the Author had an entire novel volume dedicated to following only this antagonist and showing how cool he is and how he succeeds at everything he does.

’Not to mention you get ten volumes in and MC suddenly devolves into having the political wit of Neville Chamberlai, constantly appeasing and even helping the enemy who is currently becoming a mass murder, and shows express interest in destroying the mc and everything he holds dear.

On top of the fact if blind sides you 9 volumes in that it’s actually an apocalyptic fantasy story and it ’was earth all along’

Actually you know what I change my answer. It‘s ‘Realist Hero rebuilds the kingdom’ or whatever stupid shit it’s called. I actually hate this story because it had the audacity to waste my time, at least Remonster you find out that the mc has no moral values and will rape and pillage however he pleases decently early on.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

Re Monster.

The MC is a hypocrite who constantly goes back on their word, which isn’t inherently a bad thing, but when the ’words they back on’ are ‘I’m not gonna rape people’ and ’I’m not gonna own slaves’ its off putting to say the least. Don’t know if I’ve ever hated an mc more.

Dude...on a lark, I gave re:Monster as one of the options for one of the worlds my MC will reincate into...and it got voted for...

I was concerned since my MC really isn't that type, but I've decided to go ham with him there, as a Goblin Goblin Slayer.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Wheel of Time. It's the most, "women being imbeciles" series I tried to complete. Book 6 meant nothing!

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/506877/i-reincarnated-as-a-minor-villain-in-an-anime/ This abomination is my hate-muse.