Most Overrated Anime Series?

While I really loved the show, a lot, FLCL is considered overrated by many. There is no middle ground to that show, it's either you love it or despise it. To each of their own I guess.

Also while were talking about overrated anime, I wanted to mention one that was underrated. Seirei no Moribito. No one ever talks about that show and it is brilliant. Animation is of very high quality, and the characters (at least Balsa) are amazing. If you haven't seen it I definitely recommend it. It may still be on Netflix if you search for it.

Who the hell would vote Full Metal Alchemist? It earned the love it receives.

Gundam Wing is without a shadow of a doubt the most overrated Mecha Anime Series ever and believe it or not it's true!

1.Dragonball/Z
2.Narto
3.One Piece
4.Bleach

Most overrated anime in the history, of ever.

As a super fan of DragonBall I don't think it's overrated. DragonBall is freakin awesome and it deservers his reputation, but that's just my opinion.
FullMetal Alchemist isn't overrated either. FMA Brotherhood is one of the best animes I've ever watched.
Sooooo.... I vote for Naruto. I mean, I like Naruto, but many times it is boring and THERE ARE SO MANY MOTHERFUCKIN FILLERS!

Sailor Moon Seasons 1-5 Is also the best overrated anime series ever made in the West & in Japan,but the U.S. and/or the European shores didn't get the final season of it so that way the series will be complete in no time.

Naruto's story is getting boring :/
and i dislike his change of artstyle in shippuden, looks dull.

If you ask me, Pokemon is the most overrated of them all. With the repetitive episodic plots. Despite this, it has grown into a large franchise and still gets a lot of attention in the US and probably Japan...

Maybe Naruto? it's taking too damn long. power-up here,there, learn a technique, hero rule applies.
repeat until another chapter/episode.

well, it is cool at the first few episodes, but it's kinda dragging anyway.

Dang that sounds exactly like Bleach!

Bleach has a good story on the early episodes, but it gets worser when there's arrancar stuff and blah blah blah

While Naruto is boring in the beginning but picks up after Sasuke Vs Naruto. Also there's far less asspull.

Totally between Naruto, Bleach, or DBZ(all of them). They air on many channels expecially adult swim. Any wannabe otaku or fanboy/girl can watch them at their leasure and claim to be an anime expert. A true fan will go out of their way to find anime; Not just tv at night time. They also run to long just to sell merchandise and dvd's. Their concept seems out of date to me anyway. I see the anime scene shifting to Young females not teen boys or muscle bound "good guys". Moe girls sell now not Goku and Vegita. Just my rambling opion anyway.

I agree so much! I used to be a fan of Naruto, before a lot of people started claiming it as one of the best animes ever. The way I see it, It's just a rip-off from Flame of Recca.

In my opinion, Neon Genesis Evangelion, I just don't understand why people call it "The greatest anime ever". Although K-On! ties for the number one spot, an average anime that is extremely popular because of its moe characters.

It's true Naruto is awesome but not as awesome as many other series.
Also it has started to become a little long even though it's divided in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden :/

And do you know why is Fullmetal Alchemist only with 2%?
Because it's not over rated it deserves every single round of applause that are given to it!!

All of the list, except DBZ. DBZ is cool as shit.
Also Clannad. Shit is too much overrated.

EDIT: Didn't see FMA in the list. I hereby approve that FMA is cool, thus is an exception.

Naruto because it's way to long long running, slow, has annoying characters, and too much talking during the battles.

The first 3 are very overrated but i still enjoy one piece so very much

There's a fine line between overrated and popular. This is what I've noticed in most threads concerning these stuff. I never really hear much people say Naruto is the anime with the greatest plot, characters, development, music w/e w/e ever anyways. Nor do I hear it for most of the animes in that list.

In that sense, most of the more overrated animes will probably come from those which you will call "classics". Take, some guy somewhere saying NGE was overrated. To some extent, it is. Maybe for that certain guy, something didn't appeal to him, maybe Shinji was too much of a prick for him to take lol. On the other hand, you have these die-hard supporters who, although not really mistaken, sure NGE had it all imho, but may be a little biased.

What am I driving at? Basically grab classic animes. Those that people regard as "the best of the best", the "must watch" and keep watching until a certain one doesn't appeal to you. Take Beebop. Then look for Beebop fanboys, rub it in their faces the facts (Beebop sucks lol, stupid Spike) and watch them defend their beloved Beebop. As they defend, it gets "overrated".

Long post is long? Yeah, I was bored lol.