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%% Only anime which are near-universally considered bad, please. For example, ''Anime/AfroSamurai'' and the 4Kids' version of ''Manga/OnePiece'' don't count as they still have their fans.
Ignore for a few moments the great SubbingVersusDubbing debate among the anime fandom. There are certain shows or works in that medium that fail on their own merits and prove that being DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible is not exclusive to any one side of the Pacific. You know it's bad when even fans looking for a WidgetSeries exclaim "WTF?!?!?" after viewing. Feel free to curse these titles, [[FanHater anime haters]] — the fans don't bother defending them, anyway.
'''''Important Note:''''' Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as So Bad It's Horrible. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this.
'''''Second Important Note:''''' An anime isn't horrible just because WebVideo/BennettTheSage, [[Website/DesuDesBrigade Professor Otaku]], Don East, Podcast/TheOtherSide, [[TheCartoonChroniclesOfConroyCat Doggy D. Dachshund and Conroy Cat]], or any other CausticCritic reviewed it. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual professional pannings, to list it. (Though once it is listed, those critics can provide the detailed review(s).)
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!!Examples (more-or-less in alphabetical order):
* ''Abunai Sisters Koko & Mika'' landed a spot on many "worst" lists shortly after release. The animation (all CGI) is about on par with a PS1 CG cutscene, despite the show being released in ''2009'', the voice acting is incredibly annoying (and is in flawed English for some reason), and there's basically no plot. It tries to be a comedy, but crucially for a comedy, it's not even slightly funny (once the shock of "oh god this thing exists" has worn off). With no jokes and no plotting, the show leans heavily on its fanservice, with an [[GagBoobs uncanny number of scenes focusing on the central characters' breasts]]. Unfortunately, the characters are designed like bobbleheads, and their vaunted cleavage looks like they've shoved basketballs down their shirts - which, when coupled with the awful animation, [[FetishRetardant renders any attempt at fanservice useless]]. Only two episodes were ever released, with the studio locking the remaining eight up and never showing them - and frankly, it's easy to see why. If you have any doubts, allow Demolition D+ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetluD1E5aw to relieve them.]]
* The anime adaptation of ''VideoGame/AmnesiaOtome'' is often used as a shining example of why anime of otome games are usually awful. It has a convoluted plot that tries to be intriguing but instead comes across as confusing and pretentious, ugly and garish character designs, characters that are either extremely bland or unlikable (including a nameless TooDumbToLive FlatCharacter as ''the main protagonist''), quite possibly the most [[UnfortunateImplications poorly handled]] {{yandere}} in anime history, and oodles of sexism. When Creator/SentaiFilmworks announced both a English dub and a Blu-ray release, there was actual ''outrage'' from anime fan communities as to why it was deserving of it (it was allegedly to promote a possible English release of the original visual novel).
* ''Aoi Sekai no Chuunshin de'', a three episode OVA adapting the fist story arc of the comparatively much better manga of the same name. While the concept (an action series heavily based off of the ConsoleWars between Nintendo and Sega) is interesting, it is ruined by bland characterization, poor pacing, very few actual fights despite being purportedly an action series, a large amount of gratuitous fanservice, phoned-in audio and, most glaringly, a complete lack of any kind of budget, giving the series an incredibly cheap feeling (both the opening and closing comprise largely of still images).
* ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'' had an absolute mess of a [[VideoGameMoviesSuck 45-minute OVA]], with a ridiculous story, depressingly predictable plot twists, and not ''one'' interesting or likable character. Heck, the one thing you'd expect it to be able to deliver (spectacular fights) falls flat. And from a video game player's point of view, it has nothing to do with the story of the games beyond the premise of "Yuri gets kidnapped, Ryo and Robert try to save her", none of the signature special moves appear and [[AdaptationDyeJob Ryo has black hair for some reason]]. About its only saving graces were the decent music and turning ButtMonkey Ryuhaku Todoh into a hilarious nutcase police chief. [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/the-sage/anime-abandon/40272-anime-abandon-art-of-fighting Watch Bennett the Sage tear it apart here.]]
** Fun fact: The voice for Yuri Sakazaki in this clunker is uber-famous J-pop singer Music/AyumiHamasaki, in her first (and only) voice acting role.
* ''Anime/BlazBlueAlterMemory'', a 12-episode anime based on the popular video game franchise, is a horrible mess due to its [[http://i.imgur.com/r52aKKA.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/aCxtnq6.gif cheap animation]], rushed execution (the 15+ hour-long story from [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger the first game]] is burned through in just ''[[CompressedAdaptation two episodes]]''), [[OutOfCharacter characters that behave little to nothing like their video game counterparts]], a mediocre soundtrack in stark contrast to the video games' [[AwesomeMusic/BlazBlue awesome music]], phoned-in voice acting in spite of reprising the entire cast from the games, and worst of all, a convoluted story that doesn't bother to tie the JigsawPlot of the videogames together and actually makes the plot ''even more confusing''.
* ''The Cosmopolitan Prayers'', a.k.a. ''Anime/{{Cosprayers}}'' (not "Cosplayers", ''Cosp'''r'''ayers''). The broken English in the title is the least of its problems. The characters are incredibly idiotic, inconsistent, and one-dimensional. The girl who loves the male lead [[LesYay makes out]] with the main (female) protagonist, and the other girl also likes the guy, and there is no motivation for the TriangRelations. There is random unnecessary {{Fanservice}} alongside loads of rape imagery [[FetishRetardant which makes anything potentially titillating just plain creepy]]. There are no transitions — one minute, everyone's chained up in a cave; the next, they're on a pier fighting with tennis rackets (a power upgrade, by the way). It has a plot that must have been thrown together between rounds and the conflict and characters never give the audience any reason to care. It heavily rips off ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', only it's much less entertaining. It culminates in an extremely lazy GainaxEnding with [[TastesLikeDiabetes singing and rainbows]]... no, seriously. The whole thing was made by the company M.O.E. (Masters of Entertainment), but they don't show their mastery here.
** To add insult to injury, there's '''two''' spinoff shows which portray this as ''[[StylisticSuck bad]]'' in the RecursiveCanon, to the point where in the second series, it turns out the identity of ''Cosprayers'''s writer is kept secret from the public eye.
* ''[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2009-10-01/buried-garbage-dark-cat Dark Cat]]'', an obscure horror OVA from 1991, suffers from many problems such as an unfocused narration, lifeless, uninteresting characters and ugly, practically artless animation. Not to mention the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wR91v-97HM horrific]] English dub, with some of the worst and most soulless voiceovers you will ever hear. One of the many direct-to-video [=OVAs=] that flooded the market in the late 80s/early 90s, it is best to be left forgotten. Bennett the Sage remembers, though, [[http://a.blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-dark-cat-7015870 and he really wishes he hadn't.]]
* The anime adaption of ''Demon Beast Invasion'' suffers from terrible animation, extremely lousy art, poor characterization, and an awful and sexist story about an alien demon (who constantly shouts 'MOTHER' to the point where it becomes irritating) that wants to rape women and take over the world.
* The ''VisualNovel/DiabolikLovers'' anime tries to be a GuiltyPleasure, but manages to fail ''even at that''. It contains bland animation, ''extremely'' unlikable characters (the male leads are all creepy assholes and the female lead is supposed to be TheWoobie but is as flat as cardboard personality-wise), loads of {{squick}}, boatloads of sexism, ''incredibly'' insensitive and disgusting attempts to fetishize DomesticAbuse and StockholmSyndrome, and a stupid and contrived plot. Each episode's only about 15 minutes, but they feel like ''hours''.
* The [[YaoiGenre yaoi]] manga ''Dog Catalogue'', with its ridiculous use of 2D characters, a frightfully generic storyline with absolutely no development in the characters and with arguably some of the [[http://i.imgur.com/VonvU.jpg worst art put to paper]]. Every page is an artist's nightmare.
* ''VisualNovel/EienNoAselia: Spirit of Eternity Sword'' is a great visual novel, but its OVA adaptation... not so much. The plot is nothing like that of the game. The pacing is ''horrible'', the animation below average, the background music is copypasted from the game, and the characters have almost no resemblance to their video game counterparts. It's as if the staff made this anime on a lunch break. Thankfully, it's only two episodes long.
* ''Fall in Love like a Comic!'' is a two-volume manga released in English by VizMedia, and is widely considered to be one of the worst shojo manga they've ever licensed. It has a dumb and boring story that takes itself too seriously, flat characters, ridiculous usage of ArtisticAge that makes everything awkward (the male LoveInterest looks like an adult man and the main girl looks like an eight-year-old, yet they're both teenagers) and zero grasp of its target audience (it's supposedly a cute romance for little girls, but there's lots of {{squick}}y fanservice). The only thing making it even remotely tolerable is the somewhat competent artwork.
* ''Anime/GarzeysWing'', a 1996 OVA set in the world of [[Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine Byston Well]], has bottom-tier animation that looks far older than its release year suggests. It also has an utterly generic story that, despite featuring such weirdness as people's souls being kidnapped by giant geese and soldiers riding freakin' ''velociraptors'', utterly fails to entertain. And that's before touching upon the English "adaptation", which earned its place [[Horrible/VoiceActing on the linked page of infamy]] – it's got wooden dialogue, almost no localization, and even ''less'' effort actually put into dubbing it. [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Sage]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] are willing to share [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/12/20/garzeys-wing-a-sage-and-spoony-special-review/ their review]] with you, with the former referring to it as "the ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' of Anime". Another review on Website/AnimeNewsNetwork can be read here, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-09-20 also referring it as "the Battlefield Earth of Anime"]], additionally comparing the dub to an Creator/EdWood production. The review from the ''Gundamn!'' podcast agreed that it was the worst thing Creator/YoshiyukiTomino was ever involved with.
* ''Anime/GenmaWars'', a spinoff of ''Harmageddon'', of all things. There are two major reasons why this series from 2002 failed so very, very hard:
** The GratuitousRape. Now, to be fair, the series is ''predicated'' on one sexual assault: a young woman offers herself up to the Evil King to save her clan from raiders, and conceives half-breed twins. But then, one of the twins is taken to eke out a miserable existence among the Evil King's subjects. After he grows up and leaves the King's castle, he meets a woman and, after being at least somewhat friendly and decent to her, decides to assault her, too. Without so much as a "get away you bastard", she doesn't fight him off. She doesn't even seem to understand the way that she was violated, and pontificates to the effect of, "It felt like his life force was entering me..."
** The horrible, ''horrible'' animation. It is often recycled, cheap, awful, and so very digital. For example: the "good" WildChild twin has a wolf for a guide after his mother perishes, and he can talk! The problem? The wolf's jaw literally just flaps up and down. In a better series, it may have been justified, but in this series, it just adds to the seeming laziness of the production crew. His jaw literally hangs open for a few seconds at a time as he "talks", and his English VA has a hokey, SpeechImpairedAnimal voice to boot.
* Every episode of the ecchi series ''{{Gokujo}}'' is an ExcusePlot to get the characters in sexual situations, sometimes [[IdiotPlot for very stupid reasons]]. For example, the first episode was about the protagonist, Aya, trying to steal her friend's panties because she negligently [[GoingCommando went commando]]. The characters are flat ecchi archetypes, while [[DesignatedHero Aya is completely unlikable]]. She is superficial, talks down to her friends, and sexually harasses them against their will. While she is often humiliated in the end, [[KarmaHoudini the punishment never fits the crime]].
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Himegoto}}'' suffers from OffModel animation (even in ''the intro''), unimpressive voice acting (nearly all of it is screechy, even the supposedly male characters), [[FetishRetardant degrading fanservice]], [[TheScrappy unlikable]] and {{flat character}}s, poor attempts to integrate [[CanonImmigrant new characters]] into the main story, a WholesomeCrossdresser aspect that's clearly there just to exploit a DoubleStandard (and also makes the whole thing seem unpleasantly transphobic), and a sense of humor that falls into DudeNotFunny territory (99.9% of the jokes involve the main character being bullied, humiliated, and sexually harassed). To add insult to injury, most of its four-minute running time is dedicated to bland opening and ending songs. It's very likely that it'll be the ''only'' OtokonokoGenre anime [[GenreKiller made in the forseeable future]]. Its only redeeming factor is the occasional stealth {{Take That}}s at the manga it was based on, but they sadly don't come up nearly enough to redeem the show.
* ''Honey X Honey Drops'', a two-part OVA adaptation of the shoujo manga of the same name. Unlikable and flat characters, underwhelming art and animation, and a very degrading and sexist premise that's basically about a teenage girl forced into prostituting herself. Nearly every review on Website/MyAnimeList is a warning to avoid it.
* ''Ijime'', a short anime OVA released free in a issue of ''Ciao'' (which should tell you a lot). It has amateurish voice acting, flat animation, a ''hideous'' art style so far in the UncannyValley it hurts, and incompetent handling of serious subject matter (childhood bullying). There's also a scene that [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything plays out like a gang rape]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sa6lO04I1o You have been warned]]. It's very telling that it's the only ''Ciao Ciao TV'' short so far that never became a mini-series.
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' does everything one should ''not'' do when adapting from a manga. The animation quality is shockingly bad and [[{{Plagiarism}} the design of the mechs and the characters is blatantly ripped-off]] from far superior shows (the mechs from ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'', for example). As if the technical shortcomings aren't bad enough, [[CompressedAdaptation the plot is compressed]] to the point of being totally bland and leaving virtually no sign of character development nor meaningful action whatsoever. Above all, it's crystal clear that the seiyuus and the music composer phoned in their performances, as the voice-acting and the soundtrack are bland and utterly ''terrible'' to listen to.
* The ''Manga/KyoKoiOHajimemasu'' OVA was made by the same people who did ''Honey X Honey Drops'', and suffers from pretty much the same problems, including flat animation and voice acting, unlikable and/or bland characters, a cliché and uninteresting plot, sexism, and [[ContinuityLockout zero attempt to make sense to viewers who haven't read the manga]].
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/MamotteLollipop'', made by Creator/SunshineCorporation[[note]] with assistance from StudioComet of ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' fame. Also responsible for the aforementioned ''Art of Fighting'' OVA.[[/note]] as a cheap cash-in on a mildly popular series. The manga itself is SoBadItsGood, but this is just ''bad''. Bland and/or unlikable characters with designs that are either generic or garish, cheap animation (even for 2006) that's [[StockFootage constantly reused]], a very poor grasp of its target audience, an atrocious English dub that mostly consists of screaming and yelling, an uninteresting romance subplot, and a downright ''stupid'' ClicheStorm plot with a GeckoEnding even though the manga was already finished long before it came out. Website/AnimeNewsNetwork states the only people who could possibly like it are little girls who don't know any better. It's one of the very few anime Creator/{{Funimation}} seems to treat as an OldShame (in fact given their handling of it they likely ''knew'' it was terrible when they got it).
* The short promotional OVA ''Marimo no Hana'' has ''awful'' voice acting (a preteen boy has [[VocalDissonance the voice of a screechy little girl]], among other examples), terrible pacing, stupid characterization, and a vague, borderline nonsensical plot filled with MoodWhiplash (it's apparently about a young girl with a badass SplitPersonality, but good luck figuring that out). Its only saving grace is that it's actually decently animated, but sadly not enough to make it worth watching.
* The OVA ''Anime/MarsOfDestruction'' is clearly a sad attempt of being dark and edgy like ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', only the plot is totally non-existent, and the characters don't really have any development whatsoever and are completely forgettable. The animation and fight scenes aren't any better, either, as if the animators weren't even ''[[TheyJustDidntCare trying to make an anime.]]'' And the title has nothing to do with [[EarthShatteringKaboom planetary explosions]], which would've been far more interesting. Creator/MasakoX of Creator/TeamFourStar reviews it [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/masakox/anif/43754-mars-of-destruction here]].
** There's an another Creator/IdeaFactory anime with the same director, ''Tenkuu Danzato Skelter Heaven'', which is a very similar failure to Mars of Destruction, except the visuals are much better. It's no wonder why Idea Factory stopped producing anime and instead focused on video games, and Yoshiteru Satou didn't get the rights for directing the ''{{Anime/Hyperdimension Neptunia|TheAnimation}}'' anime.
** Most anime by Yoshiteru Satou seems to be this. One comment on My Anime List called him as the Ed Wood of anime, and his best anime only got 6/10.
* ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'', (a.k.a. ''Zettai Shougeki -Platonic Heart-'') [[IndecisiveDeconstruction isn't certain whether or not it wants to deconstruct]] the PantyFighter genre, as it starts out using many of the very same tropes of the series it appears to mock. The OVA series is only five episodes long, blundering its way into a DarkerAndEdgier final episode with a [[ShockingSwerve baffling plot twist out of nowhere]] in a last-ditch attempt to give the series some substance despite very little reason for the viewer to care about any of the one- and two-dimensional characters. Watch JesuOtaku [[http://blip.tv/jesuotaku/master-of-martial-hearts-review-5500755 rip it a new one.]]
* ''Ninja Resurrection'', based on the novel ''Makai Tensho'' by Futaro Yamada, and falsely marketed in the US and UK as a sequel to ''Anime/NinjaScroll'', has '''horrible''' no-name voice acting that makes the words "Tokugawa Shogunate" a BrownNote, extremely gross fanservice, and a nonsensical plot about the StupidGood Amakusa Shiro Tokisada with a DevilInPlainSight EvilChancellor leading to the pointlessly {{squick}}y resurrection of Amakusa into {{Satan}} where his new evil cronies begin slaughtering townspeople... and on top of all that, the series ''finally'' ends there due to people wisely avoiding any further trick-marketing. [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Sage]] [[http://channelawesome.com/anime-abandon-ninja-resurrection/ has some harsh]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmX8BIIO8XU words on the matter]].
** Some could argue that the series ended just as it was about to get good (it actually ends as the antagonist groups leap off-screen, implying a big showdown and/or massacre to come). It also features Mataemon Araki, the only likable character by virtue of being a gigantic badass who kills ninjas with {{combat tentacle|s}} entrails. He has barely three lines, but is somehow one of the most fleshed-out and interesting characters.
* The 4-part OVA adaptation of the {{yaoi}} manga ''Manga/OkaneGaNai''. The animation and anatomy is awful, none of the characters are likable (and it suffers from some of the worst ProtagonistCenteredMorality in all of anime), it manages to feel deeply homophobic despite being a yaoi series, the sexual stuff is so brutal and rape-y that it becomes borderline NightmareFuel, there are attempts to be "deep and dark and edgy" that just come off as horribly immature, and to top it all off of the story doesn't even make much sense. This is even believed to be the series most negative stereotypes about the genre come from.
** To top it off, because it's anime and because it's yaoi, it always ends up topping searches for the title, much to the dismay of people looking for the 90s J-Drama by the same title that certain universities use in their curriculum.
* ''Pure Love'', a.k.a. ''Rhythm'', is a ''horrible'' excuse for a hentai that has dreadful animation and artwork that literally looks like it was done on MS Paint, a non-existent story, ugly sex scenes, awful characterization, and a terrible English dub. Luckily, it's only two episodes long.
* ''Manga/PilotCandidate'' / ''Candidate For Goddess'' had [[SpecialEffectFailure horribly-integrated]] [[ConspicuousCG CGI]] even for its era, {{plot hole}}s practically from the start ("Only men can be Goddess pilots... except for this lady"), and an aggressively unlikable protagonist in Zero Enna (imagine an [[{{Keet}} easily-excitable]] combination of [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi Kamiya]][[note]]as noted by Bennett the Sage, both Zero and Tai are voiced in English by Joshua Seth (working under a pseudonym for ''Pilot Candidate'')[[/note]], but with none of the redeeming qualities of any of them). The greatest failing, however, is that every piece of the story is incomplete. Several characters and concepts are introduced but never explored, each battle is an unfollowable mess with key points missing, and while the focus on cadets should make for an interesting angle, the main characters are barely involved with the plot. And to top it all off, even though the story is too thin and weak to support twelve episodes, it still has a GeckoEnding. Watch Bennett the Sage make fun of [[http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-pilot-candidate-and-blue-gender-6642064 it]] along with ''Anime/BlueGender'' (which while mediocre, is nowhere near as bad as ''Pilot Candidate'') for his "Creator/AdultSwim Month" feature.
** Interestingly, the series was based on a longer manga by Yukiru Sugisaki, the author of ''Manga/DNAngel'', but the company who animated the series declared itself bankrupt after releasing the last episode as an OVA. It also made her ''very'' hesitant to allow ''Manga/DNAngel'' to get an anime adaptation. Eventually, Creator/{{XEBEC}} (producer of this series and of ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'') made a competent adaptation.
** Creator/AdultSwim aired this anime once, when the block was still finding its legs...and we do mean ''once'' – this is one of very few shows that [as] never showed again after its initial airing. A commercial bumper over five years later said, to paraphrase, "Pilot Candidate: Never Again."
*** What's worse is that it was originally going to be on Toonami (back when Toonami was a daytime action cartoon line-up) and was edited down to Toonami standards, making it more incoherent. When Adult Swim decided to air it, it was the Toonami-edited version.
** Locomotion, a (now defunct) Latin-American animation channel, dubbed the whole series to Spanish, and in the period before changing hands they repeated this daily since it was one of their few anime left. Not even the (surprisingly good) dub could save this series.
* ''Psychic Wars'', a 1990s OVA that suffers from a nonsensical plot, boring characters, flying plot leaps, and bad pacing. It was originally going to be a three episode miniseries, and unsurprisingly, only one episode was made due to its low budget.
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Pupa}}''. For one thing, fans of the horror genre had high hopes for it due to the lack of good-quality horror anime, but then it was postponed from its original Fall 2013 line-up, and pushed back to the Winter 2014 line-up, where it was revealed the episodes would only be four minutes long (which is its only saving grace, according to viewers). It's been universally panned for horrid writing and piss-poor pacing (including a sub-plot that was the dropped the moment it was introduced), uninteresting characters, mishandling of the manga's disturbing material, shoddy censorship as it was airing, simultaneously disgusting and dull "scares", [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment and a final episode]] [[TheyJustDidntCare that did nothing to wrap up the plot.]] Special mention goes to the infamous episode six (and eight when it comes to the censorship). [[http://myanimelist.net/anime/19315/Pupa Not only is it currently the lowest-ranked TV anime on MAL]], it also [[BrokeTheRatingScale broke]] Anime News Network's rating scale in [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/shelf-life/2014-03-31 its Shelf Life review]], earning the column's first "Flushable" score in over a year. [[http://animeviking.com/2014/04/13/pupa-is-the-worst-anime-i-have-ever-seen/ Anime Viking also has a few words to say regarding the matter.]] Oh, and the studio who produced it? Creator/StudioDEEN (nearly considered this trope when it comes to studios).
* ''Root Search'', a 1980s OVA with stiff animation; unlikable, poorly-developed characters; and a pretentious and incoherent plot ripped off from ''Film/{{Alien}}''. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2008-03-20/buried-garbage-roots-search Here's a review.]]
* Fans of the first person shooter video game ''VideoGame/{{Sin}}'' absolutely loathe its horrendous anime adaption ''Sin: The Movie'' and they like to pretend it doesn't exist for several good reasons. The misleading title is a bad start (it's called 'Sin: The Movie' even though it's actually a two-episode miniseries), but to make matters worse, major unnecessary changes have been thrown in. Examples include John Blade being changed to a cyborg (even though he wasn't one in the original game), JC Armack being [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome killed off]] and replaced with his SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute sister (whose sole purpose seems to be {{Fanservice}}) and the setting being moved to the 2070s (even though in the original video game is set in 2037). Other problems include mediocre animation and art, lame new characters that never appeared in the original game have now been thrown in, a few giant plot holes, and a bland story. Tt's painfully obvious that ''Sin: The Movie'' was created just to cash in off the success of the original video game it was based on. Watch Bennett the Sage make fun of it [[http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-sin-the-movie-6634240 here.]]
* The anime adaptation of ''VisualNovel/TogainuNoChi'' has been panned by fans of the original game for good reason. Admittedly, given the nature of the game and its multi-route system, some elements had to be removed for the censors, but it still doesn't excuse the fact that ''so many'' things were removed from the story, people being introduced to the series for the first time didn't know what the hell was going on. Terrible animation (to the point that Episode 12 nearly completely consisted of [[StockFootage animation recycling]]), [[OffModel constant deviation from character styling]], and a mediocre script combined to make a fairly celebrated [[YaoiGenre BL]] game into an animated train wreck. There are even rumors that the anime's staff ''deliberately sabotaged'' it (the reason why is currently unknown).
* While it isn't surprising that certain parts of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' were changed for its animated adaptation, given the original visual novel's content and structure, what ''was'' changed is completely awful. The writing is littered with plot holes, outright bringing up important details from the VN and then ignoring the actual cause or context, the animation is cheap enough that [[TheyJustDidntCare a character falling is shown as a moving still frame]], the music is dull and repetitive (the only good song is the opening, an awesome instrumental that makes the rest of the soundtrack even more boring in comparison) and, despite only being 12 episodes long, the plot often slows down to a dull crawl. Predictably, it was savaged by critics, did terribly and to this day Type-Moon fans [[FanonDiscontinuity pretend it never happened]].
* While ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' got off to a bad start, the show did improve as it went and eventually became fairly decent by the end. The same can'''not''' be said for ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'', which is widely considered the worst show the franchise has. The story itself is fraught with {{Padding}}, plot points get introduced then quickly dropped, and an unlikeable JerkSue leads the main storyline. Animation for the robots is stiff and lazy, looking as if the animators tried everything they can to avoid giving them too much movement. All this is topped off a terrible translation that makes the already confusing story nigh incomprehensible. Even though the series can occasionally have one or two SoBadItsGood moments, trying to watch the whole thing is considered an act of torture. This could all be summed up by what Alpha Q said in the final episode:
-->''"Something cool'' finally ''happened!"''[[note]] In every preview in the ''Super Link'' version, he would remark that "Something cool might happen" in the next episode.[[/note]]
* When ''Franchise/{{Transformers}} Kiss Players'' was announced, most American fans generally chuckled at the concept of girls [[ThePowerOfLove kissing Transformers to bond with them and power them up]]... but the manga scans depicted characters being swallowed whole and alive, blatantly suggestive scenes (such as the Legions' infamous "penis-tongues" and the endless stream of implied-rape imagery), the [[UnfortunateImplications sexist]] antics of Atari Hitotonari (and the EthnicScrappy Shaoshao), and [[OlderThanTheyLook late teenagers/young adults appearing to be eight years old]] (no this isn't an artstyle quirk, ''they're literally and intentionally drawn that way'') American fans were left disgusted and [[StopBeingStereotypical Japanese fans feared this would set a very poor example]] for the perception of anime in the West. As a result, most fans tuned out. Even with the [[BrokenBase heavily fractured nature]] of the series' fan base, it's pretty much the only thing in the ''Transformers'' franchise that's universally hated, which is a real accomplishment.
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Ignore for a few moments the great SubbingVersusDubbing debate among the anime fandom. There are certain shows or works in that medium that fail on their own merits and prove that being DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible is not exclusive to any one side of the Pacific. You know it's bad when even fans looking for a WidgetSeries exclaim "WTF?!?!?" after viewing. Feel free to curse these titles, [[FanHater anime haters]] — the fans don't bother defending them, anyway.
'''''Important Note:''''' Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as So Bad It's Horrible. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this.
'''''Second Important Note:''''' An anime isn't horrible just because WebVideo/BennettTheSage, [[Website/DesuDesBrigade Professor Otaku]], Don East, Podcast/TheOtherSide, [[TheCartoonChroniclesOfConroyCat Doggy D. Dachshund and Conroy Cat]], or any other CausticCritic reviewed it. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual professional pannings, to list it. (Though once it is listed, those critics can provide the detailed review(s).)
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!!Examples (more-or-less in alphabetical order):
* ''Abunai Sisters Koko & Mika'' landed a spot on many "worst" lists shortly after release. The animation (all CGI) is about on par with a PS1 CG cutscene, despite the show being released in ''2009'', the voice acting is incredibly annoying (and is in flawed English for some reason), and there's basically no plot. It tries to be a comedy, but crucially for a comedy, it's not even slightly funny (once the shock of "oh god this thing exists" has worn off). With no jokes and no plotting, the show leans heavily on its fanservice, with an [[GagBoobs uncanny number of scenes focusing on the central characters' breasts]]. Unfortunately, the characters are designed like bobbleheads, and their vaunted cleavage looks like they've shoved basketballs down their shirts - which, when coupled with the awful animation, [[FetishRetardant renders any attempt at fanservice useless]]. Only two episodes were ever released, with the studio locking the remaining eight up and never showing them - and frankly, it's easy to see why. If you have any doubts, allow Demolition D+ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetluD1E5aw to relieve them.]]
* The anime adaptation of ''VideoGame/AmnesiaOtome'' is often used as a shining example of why anime of otome games are usually awful. It has a convoluted plot that tries to be intriguing but instead comes across as confusing and pretentious, ugly and garish character designs, characters that are either extremely bland or unlikable (including a nameless TooDumbToLive FlatCharacter as ''the main protagonist''), quite possibly the most [[UnfortunateImplications poorly handled]] {{yandere}} in anime history, and oodles of sexism. When Creator/SentaiFilmworks announced both a English dub and a Blu-ray release, there was actual ''outrage'' from anime fan communities as to why it was deserving of it (it was allegedly to promote a possible English release of the original visual novel).
* ''Aoi Sekai no Chuunshin de'', a three episode OVA adapting the fist story arc of the comparatively much better manga of the same name. While the concept (an action series heavily based off of the ConsoleWars between Nintendo and Sega) is interesting, it is ruined by bland characterization, poor pacing, very few actual fights despite being purportedly an action series, a large amount of gratuitous fanservice, phoned-in audio and, most glaringly, a complete lack of any kind of budget, giving the series an incredibly cheap feeling (both the opening and closing comprise largely of still images).
* ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'' had an absolute mess of a [[VideoGameMoviesSuck 45-minute OVA]], with a ridiculous story, depressingly predictable plot twists, and not ''one'' interesting or likable character. Heck, the one thing you'd expect it to be able to deliver (spectacular fights) falls flat. And from a video game player's point of view, it has nothing to do with the story of the games beyond the premise of "Yuri gets kidnapped, Ryo and Robert try to save her", none of the signature special moves appear and [[AdaptationDyeJob Ryo has black hair for some reason]]. About its only saving graces were the decent music and turning ButtMonkey Ryuhaku Todoh into a hilarious nutcase police chief. [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/the-sage/anime-abandon/40272-anime-abandon-art-of-fighting Watch Bennett the Sage tear it apart here.]]
** Fun fact: The voice for Yuri Sakazaki in this clunker is uber-famous J-pop singer Music/AyumiHamasaki, in her first (and only) voice acting role.
* ''Anime/BlazBlueAlterMemory'', a 12-episode anime based on the popular video game franchise, is a horrible mess due to its [[http://i.imgur.com/r52aKKA.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/aCxtnq6.gif cheap animation]], rushed execution (the 15+ hour-long story from [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger the first game]] is burned through in just ''[[CompressedAdaptation two episodes]]''), [[OutOfCharacter characters that behave little to nothing like their video game counterparts]], a mediocre soundtrack in stark contrast to the video games' [[AwesomeMusic/BlazBlue awesome music]], phoned-in voice acting in spite of reprising the entire cast from the games, and worst of all, a convoluted story that doesn't bother to tie the JigsawPlot of the videogames together and actually makes the plot ''even more confusing''.
* ''The Cosmopolitan Prayers'', a.k.a. ''Anime/{{Cosprayers}}'' (not "Cosplayers", ''Cosp'''r'''ayers''). The broken English in the title is the least of its problems. The characters are incredibly idiotic, inconsistent, and one-dimensional. The girl who loves the male lead [[LesYay makes out]] with the main (female) protagonist, and the other girl also likes the guy, and there is no motivation for the TriangRelations. There is random unnecessary {{Fanservice}} alongside loads of rape imagery [[FetishRetardant which makes anything potentially titillating just plain creepy]]. There are no transitions — one minute, everyone's chained up in a cave; the next, they're on a pier fighting with tennis rackets (a power upgrade, by the way). It has a plot that must have been thrown together between rounds and the conflict and characters never give the audience any reason to care. It heavily rips off ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', only it's much less entertaining. It culminates in an extremely lazy GainaxEnding with [[TastesLikeDiabetes singing and rainbows]]... no, seriously. The whole thing was made by the company M.O.E. (Masters of Entertainment), but they don't show their mastery here.
** To add insult to injury, there's '''two''' spinoff shows which portray this as ''[[StylisticSuck bad]]'' in the RecursiveCanon, to the point where in the second series, it turns out the identity of ''Cosprayers'''s writer is kept secret from the public eye.
* ''[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2009-10-01/buried-garbage-dark-cat Dark Cat]]'', an obscure horror OVA from 1991, suffers from many problems such as an unfocused narration, lifeless, uninteresting characters and ugly, practically artless animation. Not to mention the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wR91v-97HM horrific]] English dub, with some of the worst and most soulless voiceovers you will ever hear. One of the many direct-to-video [=OVAs=] that flooded the market in the late 80s/early 90s, it is best to be left forgotten. Bennett the Sage remembers, though, [[http://a.blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-dark-cat-7015870 and he really wishes he hadn't.]]
* The anime adaption of ''Demon Beast Invasion'' suffers from terrible animation, extremely lousy art, poor characterization, and an awful and sexist story about an alien demon (who constantly shouts 'MOTHER' to the point where it becomes irritating) that wants to rape women and take over the world.
* The ''VisualNovel/DiabolikLovers'' anime tries to be a GuiltyPleasure, but manages to fail ''even at that''. It contains bland animation, ''extremely'' unlikable characters (the male leads are all creepy assholes and the female lead is supposed to be TheWoobie but is as flat as cardboard personality-wise), loads of {{squick}}, boatloads of sexism, ''incredibly'' insensitive and disgusting attempts to fetishize DomesticAbuse and StockholmSyndrome, and a stupid and contrived plot. Each episode's only about 15 minutes, but they feel like ''hours''.
* The [[YaoiGenre yaoi]] manga ''Dog Catalogue'', with its ridiculous use of 2D characters, a frightfully generic storyline with absolutely no development in the characters and with arguably some of the [[http://i.imgur.com/VonvU.jpg worst art put to paper]]. Every page is an artist's nightmare.
* ''VisualNovel/EienNoAselia: Spirit of Eternity Sword'' is a great visual novel, but its OVA adaptation... not so much. The plot is nothing like that of the game. The pacing is ''horrible'', the animation below average, the background music is copypasted from the game, and the characters have almost no resemblance to their video game counterparts. It's as if the staff made this anime on a lunch break. Thankfully, it's only two episodes long.
* ''Fall in Love like a Comic!'' is a two-volume manga released in English by VizMedia, and is widely considered to be one of the worst shojo manga they've ever licensed. It has a dumb and boring story that takes itself too seriously, flat characters, ridiculous usage of ArtisticAge that makes everything awkward (the male LoveInterest looks like an adult man and the main girl looks like an eight-year-old, yet they're both teenagers) and zero grasp of its target audience (it's supposedly a cute romance for little girls, but there's lots of {{squick}}y fanservice). The only thing making it even remotely tolerable is the somewhat competent artwork.
* ''Anime/GarzeysWing'', a 1996 OVA set in the world of [[Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine Byston Well]], has bottom-tier animation that looks far older than its release year suggests. It also has an utterly generic story that, despite featuring such weirdness as people's souls being kidnapped by giant geese and soldiers riding freakin' ''velociraptors'', utterly fails to entertain. And that's before touching upon the English "adaptation", which earned its place [[Horrible/VoiceActing on the linked page of infamy]] – it's got wooden dialogue, almost no localization, and even ''less'' effort actually put into dubbing it. [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Sage]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] are willing to share [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/12/20/garzeys-wing-a-sage-and-spoony-special-review/ their review]] with you, with the former referring to it as "the ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' of Anime". Another review on Website/AnimeNewsNetwork can be read here, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-09-20 also referring it as "the Battlefield Earth of Anime"]], additionally comparing the dub to an Creator/EdWood production. The review from the ''Gundamn!'' podcast agreed that it was the worst thing Creator/YoshiyukiTomino was ever involved with.
* ''Anime/GenmaWars'', a spinoff of ''Harmageddon'', of all things. There are two major reasons why this series from 2002 failed so very, very hard:
** The GratuitousRape. Now, to be fair, the series is ''predicated'' on one sexual assault: a young woman offers herself up to the Evil King to save her clan from raiders, and conceives half-breed twins. But then, one of the twins is taken to eke out a miserable existence among the Evil King's subjects. After he grows up and leaves the King's castle, he meets a woman and, after being at least somewhat friendly and decent to her, decides to assault her, too. Without so much as a "get away you bastard", she doesn't fight him off. She doesn't even seem to understand the way that she was violated, and pontificates to the effect of, "It felt like his life force was entering me..."
** The horrible, ''horrible'' animation. It is often recycled, cheap, awful, and so very digital. For example: the "good" WildChild twin has a wolf for a guide after his mother perishes, and he can talk! The problem? The wolf's jaw literally just flaps up and down. In a better series, it may have been justified, but in this series, it just adds to the seeming laziness of the production crew. His jaw literally hangs open for a few seconds at a time as he "talks", and his English VA has a hokey, SpeechImpairedAnimal voice to boot.
* Every episode of the ecchi series ''{{Gokujo}}'' is an ExcusePlot to get the characters in sexual situations, sometimes [[IdiotPlot for very stupid reasons]]. For example, the first episode was about the protagonist, Aya, trying to steal her friend's panties because she negligently [[GoingCommando went commando]]. The characters are flat ecchi archetypes, while [[DesignatedHero Aya is completely unlikable]]. She is superficial, talks down to her friends, and sexually harasses them against their will. While she is often humiliated in the end, [[KarmaHoudini the punishment never fits the crime]].
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Himegoto}}'' suffers from OffModel animation (even in ''the intro''), unimpressive voice acting (nearly all of it is screechy, even the supposedly male characters), [[FetishRetardant degrading fanservice]], [[TheScrappy unlikable]] and {{flat character}}s, poor attempts to integrate [[CanonImmigrant new characters]] into the main story, a WholesomeCrossdresser aspect that's clearly there just to exploit a DoubleStandard (and also makes the whole thing seem unpleasantly transphobic), and a sense of humor that falls into DudeNotFunny territory (99.9% of the jokes involve the main character being bullied, humiliated, and sexually harassed). To add insult to injury, most of its four-minute running time is dedicated to bland opening and ending songs. It's very likely that it'll be the ''only'' OtokonokoGenre anime [[GenreKiller made in the forseeable future]]. Its only redeeming factor is the occasional stealth {{Take That}}s at the manga it was based on, but they sadly don't come up nearly enough to redeem the show.
* ''Honey X Honey Drops'', a two-part OVA adaptation of the shoujo manga of the same name. Unlikable and flat characters, underwhelming art and animation, and a very degrading and sexist premise that's basically about a teenage girl forced into prostituting herself. Nearly every review on Website/MyAnimeList is a warning to avoid it.
* ''Ijime'', a short anime OVA released free in a issue of ''Ciao'' (which should tell you a lot). It has amateurish voice acting, flat animation, a ''hideous'' art style so far in the UncannyValley it hurts, and incompetent handling of serious subject matter (childhood bullying). There's also a scene that [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything plays out like a gang rape]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sa6lO04I1o You have been warned]]. It's very telling that it's the only ''Ciao Ciao TV'' short so far that never became a mini-series.
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' does everything one should ''not'' do when adapting from a manga. The animation quality is shockingly bad and [[{{Plagiarism}} the design of the mechs and the characters is blatantly ripped-off]] from far superior shows (the mechs from ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'', for example). As if the technical shortcomings aren't bad enough, [[CompressedAdaptation the plot is compressed]] to the point of being totally bland and leaving virtually no sign of character development nor meaningful action whatsoever. Above all, it's crystal clear that the seiyuus and the music composer phoned in their performances, as the voice-acting and the soundtrack are bland and utterly ''terrible'' to listen to.
* The ''Manga/KyoKoiOHajimemasu'' OVA was made by the same people who did ''Honey X Honey Drops'', and suffers from pretty much the same problems, including flat animation and voice acting, unlikable and/or bland characters, a cliché and uninteresting plot, sexism, and [[ContinuityLockout zero attempt to make sense to viewers who haven't read the manga]].
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/MamotteLollipop'', made by Creator/SunshineCorporation[[note]] with assistance from StudioComet of ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' fame. Also responsible for the aforementioned ''Art of Fighting'' OVA.[[/note]] as a cheap cash-in on a mildly popular series. The manga itself is SoBadItsGood, but this is just ''bad''. Bland and/or unlikable characters with designs that are either generic or garish, cheap animation (even for 2006) that's [[StockFootage constantly reused]], a very poor grasp of its target audience, an atrocious English dub that mostly consists of screaming and yelling, an uninteresting romance subplot, and a downright ''stupid'' ClicheStorm plot with a GeckoEnding even though the manga was already finished long before it came out. Website/AnimeNewsNetwork states the only people who could possibly like it are little girls who don't know any better. It's one of the very few anime Creator/{{Funimation}} seems to treat as an OldShame (in fact given their handling of it they likely ''knew'' it was terrible when they got it).
* The short promotional OVA ''Marimo no Hana'' has ''awful'' voice acting (a preteen boy has [[VocalDissonance the voice of a screechy little girl]], among other examples), terrible pacing, stupid characterization, and a vague, borderline nonsensical plot filled with MoodWhiplash (it's apparently about a young girl with a badass SplitPersonality, but good luck figuring that out). Its only saving grace is that it's actually decently animated, but sadly not enough to make it worth watching.
* The OVA ''Anime/MarsOfDestruction'' is clearly a sad attempt of being dark and edgy like ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', only the plot is totally non-existent, and the characters don't really have any development whatsoever and are completely forgettable. The animation and fight scenes aren't any better, either, as if the animators weren't even ''[[TheyJustDidntCare trying to make an anime.]]'' And the title has nothing to do with [[EarthShatteringKaboom planetary explosions]], which would've been far more interesting. Creator/MasakoX of Creator/TeamFourStar reviews it [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/masakox/anif/43754-mars-of-destruction here]].
** There's an another Creator/IdeaFactory anime with the same director, ''Tenkuu Danzato Skelter Heaven'', which is a very similar failure to Mars of Destruction, except the visuals are much better. It's no wonder why Idea Factory stopped producing anime and instead focused on video games, and Yoshiteru Satou didn't get the rights for directing the ''{{Anime/Hyperdimension Neptunia|TheAnimation}}'' anime.
** Most anime by Yoshiteru Satou seems to be this. One comment on My Anime List called him as the Ed Wood of anime, and his best anime only got 6/10.
* ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'', (a.k.a. ''Zettai Shougeki -Platonic Heart-'') [[IndecisiveDeconstruction isn't certain whether or not it wants to deconstruct]] the PantyFighter genre, as it starts out using many of the very same tropes of the series it appears to mock. The OVA series is only five episodes long, blundering its way into a DarkerAndEdgier final episode with a [[ShockingSwerve baffling plot twist out of nowhere]] in a last-ditch attempt to give the series some substance despite very little reason for the viewer to care about any of the one- and two-dimensional characters. Watch JesuOtaku [[http://blip.tv/jesuotaku/master-of-martial-hearts-review-5500755 rip it a new one.]]
* ''Ninja Resurrection'', based on the novel ''Makai Tensho'' by Futaro Yamada, and falsely marketed in the US and UK as a sequel to ''Anime/NinjaScroll'', has '''horrible''' no-name voice acting that makes the words "Tokugawa Shogunate" a BrownNote, extremely gross fanservice, and a nonsensical plot about the StupidGood Amakusa Shiro Tokisada with a DevilInPlainSight EvilChancellor leading to the pointlessly {{squick}}y resurrection of Amakusa into {{Satan}} where his new evil cronies begin slaughtering townspeople... and on top of all that, the series ''finally'' ends there due to people wisely avoiding any further trick-marketing. [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Sage]] [[http://channelawesome.com/anime-abandon-ninja-resurrection/ has some harsh]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmX8BIIO8XU words on the matter]].
** Some could argue that the series ended just as it was about to get good (it actually ends as the antagonist groups leap off-screen, implying a big showdown and/or massacre to come). It also features Mataemon Araki, the only likable character by virtue of being a gigantic badass who kills ninjas with {{combat tentacle|s}} entrails. He has barely three lines, but is somehow one of the most fleshed-out and interesting characters.
* The 4-part OVA adaptation of the {{yaoi}} manga ''Manga/OkaneGaNai''. The animation and anatomy is awful, none of the characters are likable (and it suffers from some of the worst ProtagonistCenteredMorality in all of anime), it manages to feel deeply homophobic despite being a yaoi series, the sexual stuff is so brutal and rape-y that it becomes borderline NightmareFuel, there are attempts to be "deep and dark and edgy" that just come off as horribly immature, and to top it all off of the story doesn't even make much sense. This is even believed to be the series most negative stereotypes about the genre come from.
** To top it off, because it's anime and because it's yaoi, it always ends up topping searches for the title, much to the dismay of people looking for the 90s J-Drama by the same title that certain universities use in their curriculum.
* ''Pure Love'', a.k.a. ''Rhythm'', is a ''horrible'' excuse for a hentai that has dreadful animation and artwork that literally looks like it was done on MS Paint, a non-existent story, ugly sex scenes, awful characterization, and a terrible English dub. Luckily, it's only two episodes long.
* ''Manga/PilotCandidate'' / ''Candidate For Goddess'' had [[SpecialEffectFailure horribly-integrated]] [[ConspicuousCG CGI]] even for its era, {{plot hole}}s practically from the start ("Only men can be Goddess pilots... except for this lady"), and an aggressively unlikable protagonist in Zero Enna (imagine an [[{{Keet}} easily-excitable]] combination of [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi Kamiya]][[note]]as noted by Bennett the Sage, both Zero and Tai are voiced in English by Joshua Seth (working under a pseudonym for ''Pilot Candidate'')[[/note]], but with none of the redeeming qualities of any of them). The greatest failing, however, is that every piece of the story is incomplete. Several characters and concepts are introduced but never explored, each battle is an unfollowable mess with key points missing, and while the focus on cadets should make for an interesting angle, the main characters are barely involved with the plot. And to top it all off, even though the story is too thin and weak to support twelve episodes, it still has a GeckoEnding. Watch Bennett the Sage make fun of [[http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-pilot-candidate-and-blue-gender-6642064 it]] along with ''Anime/BlueGender'' (which while mediocre, is nowhere near as bad as ''Pilot Candidate'') for his "Creator/AdultSwim Month" feature.
** Interestingly, the series was based on a longer manga by Yukiru Sugisaki, the author of ''Manga/DNAngel'', but the company who animated the series declared itself bankrupt after releasing the last episode as an OVA. It also made her ''very'' hesitant to allow ''Manga/DNAngel'' to get an anime adaptation. Eventually, Creator/{{XEBEC}} (producer of this series and of ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'') made a competent adaptation.
** Creator/AdultSwim aired this anime once, when the block was still finding its legs...and we do mean ''once'' – this is one of very few shows that [as] never showed again after its initial airing. A commercial bumper over five years later said, to paraphrase, "Pilot Candidate: Never Again."
*** What's worse is that it was originally going to be on Toonami (back when Toonami was a daytime action cartoon line-up) and was edited down to Toonami standards, making it more incoherent. When Adult Swim decided to air it, it was the Toonami-edited version.
** Locomotion, a (now defunct) Latin-American animation channel, dubbed the whole series to Spanish, and in the period before changing hands they repeated this daily since it was one of their few anime left. Not even the (surprisingly good) dub could save this series.
* ''Psychic Wars'', a 1990s OVA that suffers from a nonsensical plot, boring characters, flying plot leaps, and bad pacing. It was originally going to be a three episode miniseries, and unsurprisingly, only one episode was made due to its low budget.
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Pupa}}''. For one thing, fans of the horror genre had high hopes for it due to the lack of good-quality horror anime, but then it was postponed from its original Fall 2013 line-up, and pushed back to the Winter 2014 line-up, where it was revealed the episodes would only be four minutes long (which is its only saving grace, according to viewers). It's been universally panned for horrid writing and piss-poor pacing (including a sub-plot that was the dropped the moment it was introduced), uninteresting characters, mishandling of the manga's disturbing material, shoddy censorship as it was airing, simultaneously disgusting and dull "scares", [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment and a final episode]] [[TheyJustDidntCare that did nothing to wrap up the plot.]] Special mention goes to the infamous episode six (and eight when it comes to the censorship). [[http://myanimelist.net/anime/19315/Pupa Not only is it currently the lowest-ranked TV anime on MAL]], it also [[BrokeTheRatingScale broke]] Anime News Network's rating scale in [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/shelf-life/2014-03-31 its Shelf Life review]], earning the column's first "Flushable" score in over a year. [[http://animeviking.com/2014/04/13/pupa-is-the-worst-anime-i-have-ever-seen/ Anime Viking also has a few words to say regarding the matter.]] Oh, and the studio who produced it? Creator/StudioDEEN (nearly considered this trope when it comes to studios).
* ''Root Search'', a 1980s OVA with stiff animation; unlikable, poorly-developed characters; and a pretentious and incoherent plot ripped off from ''Film/{{Alien}}''. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2008-03-20/buried-garbage-roots-search Here's a review.]]
* Fans of the first person shooter video game ''VideoGame/{{Sin}}'' absolutely loathe its horrendous anime adaption ''Sin: The Movie'' and they like to pretend it doesn't exist for several good reasons. The misleading title is a bad start (it's called 'Sin: The Movie' even though it's actually a two-episode miniseries), but to make matters worse, major unnecessary changes have been thrown in. Examples include John Blade being changed to a cyborg (even though he wasn't one in the original game), JC Armack being [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome killed off]] and replaced with his SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute sister (whose sole purpose seems to be {{Fanservice}}) and the setting being moved to the 2070s (even though in the original video game is set in 2037). Other problems include mediocre animation and art, lame new characters that never appeared in the original game have now been thrown in, a few giant plot holes, and a bland story. Tt's painfully obvious that ''Sin: The Movie'' was created just to cash in off the success of the original video game it was based on. Watch Bennett the Sage make fun of it [[http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-sin-the-movie-6634240 here.]]
* The anime adaptation of ''VisualNovel/TogainuNoChi'' has been panned by fans of the original game for good reason. Admittedly, given the nature of the game and its multi-route system, some elements had to be removed for the censors, but it still doesn't excuse the fact that ''so many'' things were removed from the story, people being introduced to the series for the first time didn't know what the hell was going on. Terrible animation (to the point that Episode 12 nearly completely consisted of [[StockFootage animation recycling]]), [[OffModel constant deviation from character styling]], and a mediocre script combined to make a fairly celebrated [[YaoiGenre BL]] game into an animated train wreck. There are even rumors that the anime's staff ''deliberately sabotaged'' it (the reason why is currently unknown).
* While it isn't surprising that certain parts of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' were changed for its animated adaptation, given the original visual novel's content and structure, what ''was'' changed is completely awful. The writing is littered with plot holes, outright bringing up important details from the VN and then ignoring the actual cause or context, the animation is cheap enough that [[TheyJustDidntCare a character falling is shown as a moving still frame]], the music is dull and repetitive (the only good song is the opening, an awesome instrumental that makes the rest of the soundtrack even more boring in comparison) and, despite only being 12 episodes long, the plot often slows down to a dull crawl. Predictably, it was savaged by critics, did terribly and to this day Type-Moon fans [[FanonDiscontinuity pretend it never happened]].
* While ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' got off to a bad start, the show did improve as it went and eventually became fairly decent by the end. The same can'''not''' be said for ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'', which is widely considered the worst show the franchise has. The story itself is fraught with {{Padding}}, plot points get introduced then quickly dropped, and an unlikeable JerkSue leads the main storyline. Animation for the robots is stiff and lazy, looking as if the animators tried everything they can to avoid giving them too much movement. All this is topped off a terrible translation that makes the already confusing story nigh incomprehensible. Even though the series can occasionally have one or two SoBadItsGood moments, trying to watch the whole thing is considered an act of torture. This could all be summed up by what Alpha Q said in the final episode:
-->''"Something cool'' finally ''happened!"''[[note]] In every preview in the ''Super Link'' version, he would remark that "Something cool might happen" in the next episode.[[/note]]
* When ''Franchise/{{Transformers}} Kiss Players'' was announced, most American fans generally chuckled at the concept of girls [[ThePowerOfLove kissing Transformers to bond with them and power them up]]... but the manga scans depicted characters being swallowed whole and alive, blatantly suggestive scenes (such as the Legions' infamous "penis-tongues" and the endless stream of implied-rape imagery), the [[UnfortunateImplications sexist]] antics of Atari Hitotonari (and the EthnicScrappy Shaoshao), and [[OlderThanTheyLook late teenagers/young adults appearing to be eight years old]] (no this isn't an artstyle quirk, ''they're literally and intentionally drawn that way'') American fans were left disgusted and [[StopBeingStereotypical Japanese fans feared this would set a very poor example]] for the perception of anime in the West. As a result, most fans tuned out. Even with the [[BrokenBase heavily fractured nature]] of the series' fan base, it's pretty much the only thing in the ''Transformers'' franchise that's universally hated, which is a real accomplishment.
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* ''Aoi Sekai no Chuunshin de'', a three episode OVA adapting the fist story arc of the comparatively much better manga of the same name. While the concept (an action series heavily based off of the ConsoleWars between Nintendo and Sega) is interesting, it is ruined by bland characterization, poor pacing, very few actual fights despite being purportedly an action series, a large amount of gratuitous fanservice, phoned-in audio and, most glaringly, a complete lack of any kind of budget, giving the series an incredibly cheap feeling (both the opening and closing comprise largely of still images).
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Eiken is close but not quite here considering it was able to run 16 volumes, and does have a niche which is did appeal to. A person from Media blaster even stated it sold pretty well.
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* The ecchi series ''Eiken'' is a poorly-written and nonsensical manga defined by most of its female characters having ridiculously huge and unnatural GagBoobs (including a girl who ''can't be any older than twelve'' having the largest chest, [[{{Squick}} and she's sexualized just as much as the other characters]]), not helped by all of them having generic and/or unlikable personalities. The two-episode OVA tries to compensate for its lack of plot with a wall-to-wall parade of every FanService trope possible but it's done so ineptly that it [[FetishRetardant fails to titillate]] or even catch the audience's interest and becomes pure NauseaFuel. In addition, the voice acting in both Japanese and English is nearly unlistenable (despite the English dub having a respectable cast). The reviewers at [[http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=814 T.H.E.M.]] and [[http://www.nihonreview.com/anime/eiken/ The Nihon Review]] are willing to share their thoughts on the OVA's failings. About the only nice thing you could say about it is that ''AMVHell'' got some gags out of it (generally along the lines of "audio relating to boobs/random clip of ''Eiken'' GagBoobs [[BuffySpeak Gag Boobing]]"). JesuOtaku takes it on [[http://blip.tv/jesuotaku/eiken-review-4562054 here.]]
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* ''Ninja Resurrection'', based on the novel ''Makai Tensho'' by Futaro Yamada, and falsely marketed in the US and UK as a sequel to ''Anime/NinjaScroll'', has '''horrible''' no-name voice acting that makes the words "Tokugawa Shogunate" a BrownNote, extremely gross fanservice, and a nonsensical plot about [[StupidGood Amakusa]] with a DevilInPlainSight EvilChancellor leading to the pointlessly {{squick}}y resurrection of Amakusa into {{Satan}} where his new evil cronies begin slaughtering townspeople... and on top of all that, the series ''finally'' ends there due to people wisely avoiding any further trick-marketing. [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Sage]][[http://channelawesome.com/anime-abandon-ninja-resurrection/ has some harsh]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmX8BIIO8XU words on the matter]].
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* ''Ninja Resurrection'', based on the novel ''Makai Tensho'' by Futaro Yamada, and falsely marketed in the US and UK as a sequel to ''Anime/NinjaScroll'', has '''horrible''' no-name voice acting that makes the words "Tokugawa Shogunate" a BrownNote, extremely gross fanservice, and a nonsensical plot about [[StupidGood Amakusa]] the StupidGood Amakusa Shiro Tokisada with a DevilInPlainSight EvilChancellor leading to the pointlessly {{squick}}y resurrection of Amakusa into {{Satan}} where his new evil cronies begin slaughtering townspeople... and on top of all that, the series ''finally'' ends there due to people wisely avoiding any further trick-marketing. [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Sage]][[http://channelawesome.Sage]] [[http://channelawesome.com/anime-abandon-ninja-resurrection/ has some harsh]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmX8BIIO8XU words on the matter]].
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* ''Pure Love'', aka ''Rhythm'', is a ''horrible'' excuse for a hentai that has dreadful animation and artwork that literally looks like it was done on MS Paint, a non-existent story, ugly sex scenes, awful characterization, and a terrible English dub. Luckily, it's only two episodes long.
* ''Manga/PilotCandidate'' / ''Candidate For Goddess'' had [[SpecialEffectFailure Horribly-integrated]] [[ConspicuousCG CGI]] even for its era, {{plot hole}}s practically from the start ("Only men can be Goddess pilots... except for this lady"), and an aggressively unlikable protagonist in Zero Enna (imagine an [[{{Keet}} easily-excitable]] combination of [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi Kamiya]][[note]] Joshua Seth (working under a pseudonym for ''PC'') provided the English dub voices of both Zero from ''Pilot Candidate'' and Tai from ''Digimon''[[/note]], but with none of the redeeming qualities of any of them). The greatest failing, however, is that every piece of the story is incomplete. Several characters and concepts are introduced but never explored, each battle is an unfollowable mess with key points missing, and while the focus on cadets should make for an interesting angle, the main characters are barely involved with the plot. And to top it all off, even though the story is too thin and weak to support twelve episodes, it still has a GeckoEnding. Watch Bennett the Sage make fun of [[http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-pilot-candidate-and-blue-gender-6642064 it]] along with ''Anime/BlueGender'' (which while mediocre, is nowhere near as bad as ''Pilot Candidate'') for his "Creator/AdultSwim Month" feature.
** Interestingly, the series was based on a longer manga by the author of ''Manga/DNAngel'', but the company who animated the series declared itself bankrupt after releasing the last episode as an OVA. It also made the author ''very'' hesitant to allow ''Manga/DNAngel'' to get an anime adaptation. Eventually, Creator/{{XEBEC}} (producer of this series and of ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'') made a competent adaptation.
** Creator/AdultSwim aired this anime once, when the block was still finding its legs. And we do mean ''once'' – this is one of very few shows that [as] never showed again after its initial airing. A commercial bumper over five years later said, to paraphrase, "Pilot Candidate: Never Again."
* ''Manga/PilotCandidate'' / ''Candidate For Goddess'' had [[SpecialEffectFailure Horribly-integrated]] [[ConspicuousCG CGI]] even for its era, {{plot hole}}s practically from the start ("Only men can be Goddess pilots... except for this lady"), and an aggressively unlikable protagonist in Zero Enna (imagine an [[{{Keet}} easily-excitable]] combination of [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi Kamiya]][[note]] Joshua Seth (working under a pseudonym for ''PC'') provided the English dub voices of both Zero from ''Pilot Candidate'' and Tai from ''Digimon''[[/note]], but with none of the redeeming qualities of any of them). The greatest failing, however, is that every piece of the story is incomplete. Several characters and concepts are introduced but never explored, each battle is an unfollowable mess with key points missing, and while the focus on cadets should make for an interesting angle, the main characters are barely involved with the plot. And to top it all off, even though the story is too thin and weak to support twelve episodes, it still has a GeckoEnding. Watch Bennett the Sage make fun of [[http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-pilot-candidate-and-blue-gender-6642064 it]] along with ''Anime/BlueGender'' (which while mediocre, is nowhere near as bad as ''Pilot Candidate'') for his "Creator/AdultSwim Month" feature.
** Interestingly, the series was based on a longer manga by the author of ''Manga/DNAngel'', but the company who animated the series declared itself bankrupt after releasing the last episode as an OVA. It also made the author ''very'' hesitant to allow ''Manga/DNAngel'' to get an anime adaptation. Eventually, Creator/{{XEBEC}} (producer of this series and of ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'') made a competent adaptation.
** Creator/AdultSwim aired this anime once, when the block was still finding its legs. And we do mean ''once'' – this is one of very few shows that [as] never showed again after its initial airing. A commercial bumper over five years later said, to paraphrase, "Pilot Candidate: Never Again."
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* ''Pure Love'', aka a.k.a. ''Rhythm'', is a ''horrible'' excuse for a hentai that has dreadful animation and artwork that literally looks like it was done on MS Paint, a non-existent story, ugly sex scenes, awful characterization, and a terrible English dub. Luckily, it's only two episodes long.
* ''Manga/PilotCandidate'' / ''Candidate For Goddess'' had [[SpecialEffectFailureHorribly-integrated]] horribly-integrated]] [[ConspicuousCG CGI]] even for its era, {{plot hole}}s practically from the start ("Only men can be Goddess pilots... except for this lady"), and an aggressively unlikable protagonist in Zero Enna (imagine an [[{{Keet}} easily-excitable]] combination of [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi Kamiya]][[note]] Kamiya]][[note]]as noted by Bennett the Sage, both Zero and Tai are voiced in English by Joshua Seth (working under a pseudonym for ''PC'') provided the English dub voices of both Zero from ''Pilot Candidate'' and Tai from ''Digimon''[[/note]], Candidate'')[[/note]], but with none of the redeeming qualities of any of them). The greatest failing, however, is that every piece of the story is incomplete. Several characters and concepts are introduced but never explored, each battle is an unfollowable mess with key points missing, and while the focus on cadets should make for an interesting angle, the main characters are barely involved with the plot. And to top it all off, even though the story is too thin and weak to support twelve episodes, it still has a GeckoEnding. Watch Bennett the Sage make fun of [[http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-pilot-candidate-and-blue-gender-6642064 it]] along with ''Anime/BlueGender'' (which while mediocre, is nowhere near as bad as ''Pilot Candidate'') for his "Creator/AdultSwim Month" feature.
** Interestingly, the series was based on a longer manga by Yukiru Sugisaki, the author of ''Manga/DNAngel'', but the company who animated the series declared itself bankrupt after releasing the last episode as an OVA. It also madethe author her ''very'' hesitant to allow ''Manga/DNAngel'' to get an anime adaptation. Eventually, Creator/{{XEBEC}} (producer of this series and of ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'') made a competent adaptation.
** Creator/AdultSwim aired this anime once, when the block was still finding itslegs. And legs...and we do mean ''once'' – this is one of very few shows that [as] never showed again after its initial airing. A commercial bumper over five years later said, to paraphrase, "Pilot Candidate: Never Again."
* ''Manga/PilotCandidate'' / ''Candidate For Goddess'' had [[SpecialEffectFailure
** Interestingly, the series was based on a longer manga by Yukiru Sugisaki, the author of ''Manga/DNAngel'', but the company who animated the series declared itself bankrupt after releasing the last episode as an OVA. It also made
** Creator/AdultSwim aired this anime once, when the block was still finding its
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* Fans of the first person shooter video game ''VideoGame/{{Sin}}'' absolutely loathe its horrendous anime adaption ''Sin: The Movie'' and they like to pretend it doesn't exist for several good reasons. The misleading title is a bad start (it's called 'Sin: The Movie' even though it's actually a two-episode miniseries), but to make matters worse, major unnecessary changes have been thrown in. Examples include John Blade being changed to a cyborg (even though he wasn't one in the original game), JC Armack being [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome killed off]] and replaced with his SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute sister (whose sole purpose seems to be {{Fanservice}}) and the setting being moved to the 2070s (even though in the original video game is set in 2037). Other problems include mediocre animation and art, lame new characters that never appeared in the original game have now been thrown in, a few giant plot holes, and a bland story. Tt's painfully obvious that ''Sin: The Movie'' was created just to cash in off the success of the original video game it was based on. Watch Bennett the Sage make fun of it [[http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-sin-the-movie-6634240 here.]]
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* Fans of the first person shooter video game ''VideoGame/{{Sin}}'' absolutely loathe its horrendous anime adaption ''Sin: The Movie'' and they like to pretend it doesn't exist for several good reasons. The misleading title is a bad start (it's called 'Sin: The Movie' Movie' even though it's actually a two-episode miniseries), but to make matters worse, major unnecessary changes have been thrown in. Examples include John Blade being changed to a cyborg (even though he wasn't one in the original game), JC Armack being [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome killed off]] and replaced with his SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute sister (whose sole purpose seems to be {{Fanservice}}) and the setting being moved to the 2070s (even though in the original video game is set in 2037). Other problems include mediocre animation and art, lame new characters that never appeared in the original game have now been thrown in, a few giant plot holes, and a bland story. Tt's painfully obvious that ''Sin: The Movie'' was created just to cash in off the success of the original video game it was based on. Watch Bennett the Sage make fun of it [[http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-sin-the-movie-6634240 here.]]
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Spicing it up with more jesu
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* The ecchi series ''Eiken'' is a poorly-written and nonsensical manga defined by most of its female characters having ridiculously huge and unnatural GagBoobs (including a girl who ''can't be any older than twelve'' having the largest chest, [[{{Squick}} and she's sexualized just as much as the other characters]]), not helped by all of them having generic and/or unlikable personalities. The two-episode OVA tries to compensate for its lack of plot with a wall-to-wall parade of every FanService trope possible but it's done so ineptly that it [[FetishRetardant fails to titillate]] or even catch the audience's interest and becomes pure NauseaFuel. In addition, the voice acting in both Japanese and English is nearly unlistenable (despite the English dub having a respectable cast). The reviewers at [[http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=814 T.H.E.M.]] and [[http://www.nihonreview.com/anime/eiken/ The Nihon Review]] are willing to share their thoughts on the OVA's failings. About the only nice thing you could say about it is that ''AMVHell'' got some gags out of it (generally along the lines of "audio relating to boobs/random clip of ''Eiken'' GagBoobs [[BuffySpeak Gag Boobing]]").
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* The ecchi series ''Eiken'' is a poorly-written and nonsensical manga defined by most of its female characters having ridiculously huge and unnatural GagBoobs (including a girl who ''can't be any older than twelve'' having the largest chest, [[{{Squick}} and she's sexualized just as much as the other characters]]), not helped by all of them having generic and/or unlikable personalities. The two-episode OVA tries to compensate for its lack of plot with a wall-to-wall parade of every FanService trope possible but it's done so ineptly that it [[FetishRetardant fails to titillate]] or even catch the audience's interest and becomes pure NauseaFuel. In addition, the voice acting in both Japanese and English is nearly unlistenable (despite the English dub having a respectable cast). The reviewers at [[http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=814 T.H.E.M.]] and [[http://www.nihonreview.com/anime/eiken/ The Nihon Review]] are willing to share their thoughts on the OVA's failings. About the only nice thing you could say about it is that ''AMVHell'' got some gags out of it (generally along the lines of "audio relating to boobs/random clip of ''Eiken'' GagBoobs [[BuffySpeak Gag Boobing]]"). JesuOtaku takes it on [[http://blip.tv/jesuotaku/eiken-review-4562054 here.]]
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* ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'', (a.k.a. ''Zettai Shougeki -Platonic Heart-'') [[IndecisiveDeconstruction isn't certain whether or not it wants to deconstruct]] the PantyFighter genre, as it starts out using many of the very same tropes of the series it appears to mock. The OVA series is only five episodes long, blundering its way into a DarkerAndEdgier final episode with a [[ShockingSwerve baffling plot twist out of nowhere]] in a last-ditch attempt to give the series some substance despite very little reason for the viewer to care about any of the one- and two-dimensional characters.
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* ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'', (a.k.a. ''Zettai Shougeki -Platonic Heart-'') [[IndecisiveDeconstruction isn't certain whether or not it wants to deconstruct]] the PantyFighter genre, as it starts out using many of the very same tropes of the series it appears to mock. The OVA series is only five episodes long, blundering its way into a DarkerAndEdgier final episode with a [[ShockingSwerve baffling plot twist out of nowhere]] in a last-ditch attempt to give the series some substance despite very little reason for the viewer to care about any of the one- and two-dimensional characters. Watch JesuOtaku [[http://blip.tv/jesuotaku/master-of-martial-hearts-review-5500755 rip it a new one.]]
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Fan Disservice is for when it\'s intentional.
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* ''Abunai Sisters Koko & Mika'' landed a spot on many "worst" lists shortly after release. The animation (all CGI) is about on par with a PS1 CG cutscene, despite the show being released in ''2009'', the voice acting is incredibly annoying (and is in flawed English for some reason), and there's basically no plot. It tries to be a comedy, but crucially for a comedy, it's not even slightly funny (once the shock of "oh god this thing exists" has worn off). With no jokes and no plotting, the show leans heavily on its fanservice, with an [[GagBoobs uncanny number of scenes focusing on the central characters' breasts]]. Unfortunately, the characters are designed like bobbleheads, and their vaunted cleavage looks like they've shoved basketballs down their shirts - which, when coupled with the awful animation, [[FanDisservice renders any attempt at fanservice useless]]. Only two episodes were ever released, with the studio locking the remaining eight up and never showing them - and frankly, it's easy to see why. If you have any doubts, allow Demolition D+ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetluD1E5aw to relieve them.]]
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* ''Abunai Sisters Koko & Mika'' landed a spot on many "worst" lists shortly after release. The animation (all CGI) is about on par with a PS1 CG cutscene, despite the show being released in ''2009'', the voice acting is incredibly annoying (and is in flawed English for some reason), and there's basically no plot. It tries to be a comedy, but crucially for a comedy, it's not even slightly funny (once the shock of "oh god this thing exists" has worn off). With no jokes and no plotting, the show leans heavily on its fanservice, with an [[GagBoobs uncanny number of scenes focusing on the central characters' breasts]]. Unfortunately, the characters are designed like bobbleheads, and their vaunted cleavage looks like they've shoved basketballs down their shirts - which, when coupled with the awful animation, [[FanDisservice [[FetishRetardant renders any attempt at fanservice useless]]. Only two episodes were ever released, with the studio locking the remaining eight up and never showing them - and frankly, it's easy to see why. If you have any doubts, allow Demolition D+ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetluD1E5aw to relieve them.]]
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* The ecchi series ''Eiken'' is a poorly-written and nonsensical manga defined by most of its female characters having ridiculously huge and unnatural GagBoobs (including a girl who ''can't be any older than twelve'' having the largest chest, [[{{Squick}} and she's sexualized just as much as the other characters]]), not helped by all of them having generic and/or unlikable personalities. The two-episode OVA tries to compensate for its lack of plot with a wall-to-wall parade of every FanService trope possible but it's done so ineptly that it [[FanDisservice fails to titillate]] or even catch the audience's interest and becomes pure NauseaFuel. In addition, the voice acting in both Japanese and English is nearly unlistenable (despite the English dub having a respectable cast). The reviewers at [[http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=814 T.H.E.M.]] and [[http://www.nihonreview.com/anime/eiken/ The Nihon Review]] are willing to share their thoughts on the OVA's failings. About the only nice thing you could say about it is that ''AMVHell'' got some gags out of it (generally along the lines of "audio relating to boobs/random clip of ''Eiken'' GagBoobs [[BuffySpeak Gag Boobing]]").
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* The ecchi series ''Eiken'' is a poorly-written and nonsensical manga defined by most of its female characters having ridiculously huge and unnatural GagBoobs (including a girl who ''can't be any older than twelve'' having the largest chest, [[{{Squick}} and she's sexualized just as much as the other characters]]), not helped by all of them having generic and/or unlikable personalities. The two-episode OVA tries to compensate for its lack of plot with a wall-to-wall parade of every FanService trope possible but it's done so ineptly that it [[FanDisservice [[FetishRetardant fails to titillate]] or even catch the audience's interest and becomes pure NauseaFuel. In addition, the voice acting in both Japanese and English is nearly unlistenable (despite the English dub having a respectable cast). The reviewers at [[http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=814 T.H.E.M.]] and [[http://www.nihonreview.com/anime/eiken/ The Nihon Review]] are willing to share their thoughts on the OVA's failings. About the only nice thing you could say about it is that ''AMVHell'' got some gags out of it (generally along the lines of "audio relating to boobs/random clip of ''Eiken'' GagBoobs [[BuffySpeak Gag Boobing]]").
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* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Himegoto}}'' suffers from OffModel animation (even in ''the intro''), unimpressive voice acting (nearly all of it is screechy, even the supposedly male characters), [[FanDisservice degrading fanservice]], [[TheScrappy unlikable]] and {{flat character}}s, poor attempts to integrate [[CanonImmigrant new characters]] into the main story, a WholesomeCrossdresser aspect that's clearly there just to exploit a DoubleStandard (and also makes the whole thing seem unpleasantly transphobic), and a sense of humor that falls into DudeNotFunny territory (99.9% of the jokes involve the main character being bullied, humiliated, and sexually harassed). To add insult to injury, most of its four-minute running time is dedicated to bland opening and ending songs. It's very likely that it'll be the ''only'' OtokonokoGenre anime [[GenreKiller made in the forseeable future]]. Its only redeeming factor is the occasional stealth {{Take That}}s at the manga it was based on, but they sadly don't come up nearly enough to redeem the show.
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* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Himegoto}}'' suffers from OffModel animation (even in ''the intro''), unimpressive voice acting (nearly all of it is screechy, even the supposedly male characters), [[FanDisservice [[FetishRetardant degrading fanservice]], [[TheScrappy unlikable]] and {{flat character}}s, poor attempts to integrate [[CanonImmigrant new characters]] into the main story, a WholesomeCrossdresser aspect that's clearly there just to exploit a DoubleStandard (and also makes the whole thing seem unpleasantly transphobic), and a sense of humor that falls into DudeNotFunny territory (99.9% of the jokes involve the main character being bullied, humiliated, and sexually harassed). To add insult to injury, most of its four-minute running time is dedicated to bland opening and ending songs. It's very likely that it'll be the ''only'' OtokonokoGenre anime [[GenreKiller made in the forseeable future]]. Its only redeeming factor is the occasional stealth {{Take That}}s at the manga it was based on, but they sadly don't come up nearly enough to redeem the show.
