Animes You really dislike

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I'm trying to get into Fairy Tail for my teenage daughter's sake (or for the sake of sharing common interests with my teenage daughter), but so far, no go.

One Piece has always driven me buggy. Just can't do it. Wish I could, teenage daughter and hubby love it, but...

...I'm one of those people who actually enjoyed most of the filler episodes of Naruto, precisely because they were emotional and resembled a Mexican soap opera.

My teenaged daughter (14, to be precise) has recently discovered Black Butler. Not sure how I feel about that. I'M intrigued. SHE'S 14. I can't exactly justify forbidding anything short of hard hentai. She's a sensible girl. But. She's. Fourteen.

Parental guidance strongly advised, maybe?? Is that TOO uncool????

The first season of Black Butler is fine, the second season is crap and more than a little disturbing.

except for DBZ I have always unjustifiably disliked long running series like Naruto, one piece, and bleach.
I have recently realized I never gave any of them a shot and I'm trying to watch some Naruto and one piece but haven't went back to watch more because I'm not sure I want to start watching something that has 600 episodes lol.

I've never really been able to get into mainstream, long-running shounen except for Yugioh, which I grew up with (I still watch it subbed on occasion, when I have run out of other things to watch). I did manage to get through the first 185-episode series of Fairy Tail, but by the end I just didn't care any more, it's not the kind of thing I want to rewatch time and time again. I appreciate that the longer episode count allows more time for character development, but it gets really annoying when a significant percentage of the show is filler. To keep me interested I need a coherent, UNINTERRUPTED continuing story. I find it really hard to get into anime that are mainly episodic in nature, or ones that start out this way.

I've had a hard time understanding humour in anime, I guess most of it is too specific to Japanese culture for me to understand.

I couldn't stand Stein's;Gate. 4 or 5 episodes in I had absolutely no clue what was going on. I didn't give a damn about any of the characters and I had no idea what all the fuss was about. I appreciate the realistic, well thought-out interpretation of time-travel, but that's all the show has going for it to me.

Hey Nist498!
I love Yu Yu Hakusho.

Elfen Lied is the worst anime series I have ever endured.

And it is frustrating, because there are many scenes in it that work very well on a gut-wrenching and emotional level. Yet it cheapens the effect of those scenes by switching back and forth between those well-done moments and overly cutesy anime harem cliches. The tonal inconsistency tears the whole series apart right at the very beginning, and it only gets worse as the series goes on.

None that I necessarily hate, but worth mentioning since they're well regarded:

Ghost in the Shell - Bought this blind after learning of the hype/influence....couldn't finish it on any of three tries. Couldn't grab me, despite seeming like something I'd love.

Akira - Same story as above mostly. Despite being meant for mature audiences, felt too juvenile and silly. Apparently the manga being reeeeally long doesn't help.

Spirited Away - Feels like Disney, but not in the right way, which is a weird thing to say seeing as I really enjoy [mostly Renaissance and "Renaissance-Renaissance"] Disney.

But everyone seems to be talking about shows here, my only "don't-understand-hype" for that would be "Puella Magi Madoka Magica". Despite being an apparently highly-praised deconstruction, nothing about the first three episodes was appealing. The annoying young girl voices, "magical girl" genre, half the setting being teen girls in school....

Here is my list:
Naruto.
Bleach.
One Piece.
Attack on Titan.

Jigoku Shoujo. Don't ask me why I watched the entire first season. I hated it with every fiber of my being and I still kept watching. It's like I wanted to have something to hate on that month.

Elfen Lied. I don't know why I watched every episode. I think I expected it to get better and it just never did. Pretty much everyone but Lucy got on my last nerve.

Dragon Ball Z. The fights are overly repetitive. I might as well be watching paint dry.

There are probably others I don't like, but I think this list is long enough.