I believe Upotte!! to be the crappiest series I’ve ever watched to its full length(10 episodes), though from the 5th episode onwards I think I was only watching for the purpose of completion. Given it only a 4 in my anime list, and thought to give it a 3. And I speak as someone who doesn’t really mind the excessive fanservice-ness, which you named as your primary objection to it...
My own objections to it is that it doesn’t bother with world building, I couldn’t care about any of the characters, and it has no real story. One of the ultra-fanservicey scenes (gur sberfg cfrhqb-encr ol gung cflpubgvp tha/tvey) was actually one of the only memorable things, and thus one of the few things that is placed in my “pluses” column regarding the show.
On the other hand, I heartily recommend the first three suggestions.
I enjoyed the gun battles, and I too enjoyed that ‘ultra-fanservicey scene’ once I got past my sheer incredulity; but yeah, the world-building in Upotte! is a repeated series of WTFs.
That said, I did consider ranking it above Evangelion 3.0 because that was such a disappointment.
I believe Upotte!! to be the crappiest series I’ve ever watched to its full length(10 episodes), though from the 5th episode onwards I think I was only watching for the purpose of completion. Given it only a 4 in my anime list, and thought to give it a 3. And I speak as someone who doesn’t really mind the excessive fanservice-ness, which you named as your primary objection to it...
My own objections to it is that it doesn’t bother with world building, I couldn’t care about any of the characters, and it has no real story. One of the ultra-fanservicey scenes (gur sberfg cfrhqb-encr ol gung cflpubgvp tha/tvey) was actually one of the only memorable things, and thus one of the few things that is placed in my “pluses” column regarding the show.
On the other hand, I heartily recommend the first three suggestions.
I enjoyed the gun battles, and I too enjoyed that ‘ultra-fanservicey scene’ once I got past my sheer incredulity; but yeah, the world-building in Upotte! is a repeated series of WTFs.
That said, I did consider ranking it above Evangelion 3.0 because that was such a disappointment.