Break out your brain bleach and prepare to be thoroughly bored out of your mind, here are 8 of the worst animes I’ve ever seen. I’ve done the dirty work and suffered through countless terrible animes to bring you this list. While some verge on "so-bad-it’s-good" territory, others are just downright awful. Bear in mind, I am only human, so I’m sure this list only uncovers the tip of the cringe-worthy iceberg.
(Disclaimer: Excluded from this list are any works of hentai (Japanese anime porn), any blatantly pedophilic content (nope, nope, nope!) or meme-tier animes like Shitcom because those are such low-hanging fruit they’re not even worth mentioning anyway.)
School Days
Starting off this list is School Days, an anime that falls under the "so-bad-it’s-good" category. School Days is sure to grace nearly every "worst anime ever" list out there, and for good reason, too. This infamous harem anime is a complete and utter train wreck from start to finish, with an extremely bland cast of characters and over-the-top violence.
The two acts feel incongruous: the beginning ambles along while the second act is equivalent to an extravagant but low budget gore porn flick. Fans of the series argue that School Days is a misunderstood deconstruction of the popular harem genre akin to Puella Magi Madoka Magica and the magical girl genre. While I did appreciate the series for its treatment of the main character and how it subverts common tropes in the harem genre, the execution was so poor that it was more comedic than enlightening. If you’re looking for a good laugh and are willing to suffer through more bad than good, I suggest giving School Days a try.
Mayoiga
Like School Days, Mayoiga also falls into the class of "so-bad-it’s-good" anime. Given that this treats viewers to one of anime’s first ever male yandere characters and features a hilarious scene where our protagonists are being chased by a giant silicone breast implant on crab legs, how could it not be?
Mayoiga follows a group of social misfits who find themselves stuck in an abandoned village and terrorized by a host of fantastical monsters for no apparent reason. Initially, I was super hyped for this anime, but as it progressed I soon realized how totally awful it was destined to be. The plot is both incomprehensible and painfully simple, and the main character is insufferably dense and incompetent. Except for a few with names like Soy Latte, Pink Goddess and Lovepon, the ridiculously large cast is also mostly forgettable. The story and characters are all so absurd that I’m almost convinced Mayoiga is actually a satirical comedy instead of a supernatural mystery, as it claims.
Mars of Destruction
With a mere 2.38 on My Anime List, Mars of Destruction is the lowest rated entry on this list. The problem with Mars of Destruction is that it tries to do too much and subsequently accomplishes nothing. Interspersed between pointless battle scenes, Mars of Destruction tries to introduce half a dozen original characters and jam in a complicated plot about alien "Ancients" and the true origins of humanity all in a mere 20-minute time frame. Everything about this original video animation (OVA) is senseless and offensively basic, so do yourself, and your brain cells, a favor and skip this anime completely.
Eiken
If I had to describe Eiken in one word, it would be: boobs. Boobs, or breasts for the more dignified crowd, are the stars of this one hour OVA. The well-endowed females are mere props to carry the boobs from one location to another. If this sounds like an exploitative, demeaning premise, it’s because it is. The worst part is that Eiken isn’t even content to embrace its true nature as pornographic wish-fulfillment, but instead tries to masquerade as a slice-of-life romantic comedy with a threadbare plot about a boy named Densuke Mifune who is forced to join the Eiken club, which otherwise admits only the bustiest of ladies. True to its form, Eiken goes so far to sexualize an 11-year-old with a 111 cm bust. So there’s that. Going to go rinse my brain with sulfuric acid.
Glasslip
Don’t be fooled by Glasslip’s stunning visuals; underneath the lush colors and fluid animation is a vague and pretentious sci-fi about a group of friends whose tranquil lives are disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious boy who holds the secrets to Earth’s survival. Plot wise, Glasslip goes nowhere and substitutes gimmicks for real substance. The only memorable thing about this anime is how totally unmemorable it is. While far from the worst entry on this list, the series suffers from devastating mediocracy.
Sky Wizards Academy
Sky Wizards Academy is one of those anime so mind-numbingly generic that I can immediately identify one just from the promotional videos or the posters. Much in the same vein of The Asterisk War but even worse, Sky Wizards Academy is so generic that it attempts almost every genre — magical girl, harem, mystery, mecha, action, drama, fantasy, romance, comedy — yet commits to none. Even the art style is generic, a mix between Sword Art Online, whose art style I actually enjoy, and a lesson out of a How to Draw Manga 101 textbook you can buy on Amazon for $12.99.
The plot could be used to describe dozens of other anime (or young adult novels) as well: in a dystopian future, teenagers are enrolled in special universities that teach them how to fight against giant armored bugs (in this specific case, bug can replace it with any type of menace) that threaten to wipe out humanity. Like I said, generic.
Pupa
Pupa is one I’m sad to include on this list. Having read the manga and mostly liked it, I was disappointed with how utterly WTF the anime was. Each episode is only four minutes long and the entire 12-episode season is basically unintelligible. Normally I’m a fan of anything experimental, and I applaud creators for trying something new even if they don’t do a great job. Pupa, however, feels lazy, relying mostly on fairly tame shock and gore to keep viewers mildly engaged. By breaking it up into four-minute episodes, all the suspense and anticipation that makes horror so addictive and thrilling is lost. Worst of all, for a psychological horror series, it’s just incredibly boring.
Momo Kyun Sword
Closing this list is Momo Kyun Sword, based on the Japanese folk tale of a mythical warrior born inside a peach who, accompanied by the animal gods Inugami, Saurgami and Kijigami, travels in search of the devil king who is stealing the sacred treasures that protect the Earth.
With an awesome premise, it’s even more tragic that this anime is so superficial and banks on such blatant fan service to keep audiences watching. Although Momo Kyun Sword has a premise, it certainly doesn’t have a plot — each episode is so pointless and predictable it’s like the entire series is comprised solely of fillers, the bane of all anime fans. I even liked Mayoiga and School Days more than Momo Kyun Sword because at least they were entertaining at some points. The anime is so bland and inoffensive that I can’t believe anyone (myself included) even watched through all 12 episodes.
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