History Horrible / AnimeAndManga

* '''''Ladyspo''''' is not so much an anime as it is a barely-animated slideshow that, unlike an outright manga, consists of stills that show no sense of motion. Since this title is about sports, it's the one factor that damns the show. The plot is no better: it's a generic affair - teams of MsFanservice women competing in sports in outer space - delivered by a cast of bland characters. Last but not least, there's inexplicable and out-of-place ToiletHumour, used to ''open'' the show no less. Audience is [[https://www.anikore.jp/anime/11638/ not]] [[https://myanimelist.net/anime/37448/Ladyspo/reviews kind]].

* '''''Rusted Armors''''' is the first, and probably only, anime based on a [=2.5D=] mixed-media project - and will likely be the last one for the foreseeable future. Based on a stage play that obviously appealed to someone considering it ran for three years, it features the stage actors reprising their roles as both the voice and motion capture actors for the 3D characters. However, just like ''EX-ARM'' and ''Tesla Note'', the animation design serves as another example of why 3D animated characters don't mix with 2D backgrounds. Impressive fight choreography on the stage just looks dull in animation, as the character models don't take advantage of all that animation has to offer to make exciting fights, instead just clunkily swinging swords at each other. It's not an exaggeration to say that the character models are the ''only'' things that move in the anime apart from cheap steam and fire filters - the backgrounds are obviously flat, and the juxtaposition of the characters on them makes it look like a cheap Unity game. It's not like the backgrounds themselves are particularly impressive, either - they look like photos that have had the cel-shading effect spammed on them in Apple Photo Editor. The plot of the anime, already painfully generic (a group of [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys handsome samurai warriors]] using superpowered guns and swords to fight an InNameOnly version of the colonial Spanish army), is obviously [[{{Padding}} dragged out to feature-length]] through copious amounts of flashbacks, unfunny comedic skits, a two-episode TrainingFromHell arc, and attempted {{Fanservice}} for the YaoiFangirl crowd that fails because of how cheap and clunky the characters' models are. The characters range from bland to offensive stereotypes, and what little time is spent advancing the plot bizarrely attempts to make viewers feel sympathetic for the AxCrazy, mass-murdering villain. Even the sound direction is bland, with the music being generic and most of the cast [[DullSurprise phoning it in]], save for Creator/ToshikiMasuda (who plays Saburou, and the only one who's actually a voice actor). Both [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20O2DGJoFR4 Trumann]] and WebVideo/MothersBasement [[https://youtu.be/fE5x6H-XxEY?t=1041 declared it to be terrible]].

* '''''Rusted Armors''''' is the first, and probably only, anime based on a [=2.5D=] mixed-media project - and will likely be the last one for the foreseeable future. Based on a stage play that obviously appealed to someone considering it ran for three years, it features the stage actors reprising their roles as both the voice and motion capture actors for the 3D characters. However, just like ''EX-ARM'' and ''Tesla Note'', the animation design serves as another example of why 3D animated characters don't mix with 2D backgrounds. Impressive fight choreography on the stage just looks dull in animation, as the character models don't take advantage of all that animation has to offer to make exciting fights, instead just clunkily swinging swords at each other. It's not an exaggeration to say that the character models are the ''only'' things that move in the anime apart from cheap steam and fire filters - the backgrounds are obviously flat, and the juxtaposition of the characters on them makes it look like a cheap Unity game. It's not like the backgrounds themselves are particularly impressive, either - they look like photos that have had the cel-shading effect spammed on them in Apple Photo Editor. The plot of the anime, already painfully generic (a group of [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys handsome samurai warriors]] using superpowered guns and swords to fight an InNameOnly version of the colonial Spanish army), is obviously [[{{Padding}} dragged out to feature-length]] through copious amounts of flashbacks, unfunny comedic skits, a two-episode TrainingFromHell arc, and attempted {{Fanservice}} for the YaoiFangirl crowd that fails because of how cheap and clunky the characters' models are. The characters range from bland to offensive stereotypes, and what little time is spent advancing the plot bizarrely attempts to make viewers feel sympathetic for the AxCrazy, mass-murdering villain. Even the sound direction is bland, with the music being generic and most of the cast save Creator/ToshikiMasuda (playing Saburou) [[DullSurprise phoning it in]]. Both [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20O2DGJoFR4 Trumann]] and WebVideo/MothersBasement [[https://youtu.be/fE5x6H-XxEY?t=1041 declared it to be terrible]].

* The 13-episode anime adaptation of '''''Manga/SamuraiGun'''''. Low-budget animation, uniformly one-note and unlikable characters and repetitive story beats combine to derail an interesting concept (elite secret agents in an anachronistic feudal Japan). What would've been below average and forgettable is pulled firmly into SBIH territory by the show's rampant, hateful misogyny: Every VillainOfTheWeek plot seems to involve the gratuitous and brutal abuse and deaths of random big-breasted women, and the show seems to relish showing women being slaughtered more than showing the good guys kicking ass. See what ''WebVideo/{{Animerica}}'' had to say about it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tCQCogMQWI here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRWhXq_FGIM here.]]

** '''''Anime/{{Gibiate}}''''', possessed (and squandered) an all-star production team which included Creator/YoshitakaAmano, Creator/YuzoKoshiro, and Creator/TheYoshidaBrothers. Meant as a throwback to the heydays of ultraviolent [=90s=] anime, it instead embodied the era at its worst. There's no denying the premise of a samurai, a ninja, and a monk being sent forward in time into a post-apocalyptic world could've been great. But in practice, the OffModel character designs make the action scenes dull and the characterization scenes unappealing. [[FlatCharacter Not that there was much to speak of]], save for monologue scenes edited almost exactly like [[RealityShow reality TV]]. The story is a ClicheStorm revolving around characters already TooDumbToLive occasionally [[IdiotBall acting even stupider as the plot required]]. The climax of the show features an intelligence-insulting AssPull that renders the main characters' journey AllForNothing--and bafflingly, the anime [[EsotericHappyEnding tries to sell it as an optimistic ending]] despite the fact that [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDiesEnding all but two of the characters are dead]]]]. The end result is an utter failure that does nothing but tarnish its creators' reputations.[[note]](This anime was the brainchild of Ryo Aoki, who was also responsible for the critically-panned ''Anime/{{Endride}}''. While he doesn't yet have the track record of someone like Yoshiteru Satou, he's quickly gaining a similar reputation for delivering back-to-back bottom-tier anime. Meanwhile, lead animation producer Creator/StudioElle has mostly retreated back to doing subcontracted work for other companies.)[[/note]] Trash Tier Waifu tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLF6g0A2Q0 here]], and in the list of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTKRS71whE the worst anime of 2020]], WebVideo/MothersBasement places it squarely in the bottom of the barrel.

** The "all"-CGI anime adaptation of '''''Manga/ExArm''''' illustrates why a staff and production team with no experience in the industry [[note]](they only had experience in the live-action film and video game industries)[[/note]] is ''not'' a selling point. The story {{compresse|dAdaptation}}s and {{bowdlerize}}s the much better source material into something mediocre at best, but its defining flaw is the animation. Characters emote in [[UnintentionalUncannyValley unsettling]] and [[DullSurprise strange]] ways, and the backgrounds are bereft of any detail. Any attempts at anything as involved as making two models interact was buried under filters and effects that only sort of hid the animators' ineptitude. This infamously included a lesbian kiss scene, where the characters' lips were covered with a flash of light to hide the models' insufficient rigging. Several characters didn't even ''have'' models, which wouldn't have been as bad if [[OffModel the artists could draw]]. The end result drew comparisons to cheap mobile game ads, and plummeted to the bottom of My Anime List with a 2.26/10 rating as soon as it premiered, [[https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1888165 below even the likes of]] ''Manga/{{Pupa}}'' and ''Anime/{{Gibiate}}'' on the site. Watch WebVideo/LostPause tear it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8MAVaiV9eo here]], and read Anime News Network's autopsy of the show's disastrous reveal trailer [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2020-11-09/why-does-the-crunchyroll-original-series-ex-arm-look-so-awful/.166117 here.]] WebVideo/MothersBasement also tore into it as his #1 choice for the worst anime of 2021 [[https://youtu.be/k6EDqXuSaRc?t=1468 here.]]

# To ensure that the work is judged with a clear mind and the hatred isn't just a knee-jerk reaction, '''[[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease examples should not be added until at least one month since release]]'''.

* The two-episode OVA of '''''VisualNovel/HourglassOfSummer''''' is a prime example on how ''not'' to do a CompressedAdaptation. It tries to squeeze a 10-hour character route (Kaho's true ending route, to be precise) into a ''45-minute anime''. There's a distinct lack of explanation of many major plot points (the time-traveling aspect, most notably), some things no longer make sense (the romance near the end), and the pacing seems to suffer due to being so tightly crammed into such a short runtime. Making things worse are a ton of OffModel animation, and many unwanted fanservice moments, despite the original visual novel being clean.

** The 1996 three-episode OVA '''''Anime/GarzeysWing''''' has gained some fame for two things: being based upon the ''Byston Wells'' novels by Creator/YoshiyukiTomino[[note]](of which the well-regarded ''Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine'' is a much looser adaptation)[[/note]], and a scene in which a bird carries off a man's soul. Yet it has bottom-tier animation that looks far older than its release year suggests and a story that is such a CompressedAdaptation that most of the dialogue is hurried exposition and it still fails to explain anything. It feels both confusing and generic, despite featuring a man with glowing wings and soldiers riding dinosaurs. See it be trashed by Emer Prevost of ''WebVideo/ReactionAndReview'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEi1rl0BSr8 here.]] [[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" (a description also used by [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-09-20 a reviewer on Anime News Network]]). The review from the ''Gundamn!'' podcast agreed that it was the worst thing Tomino was ever involved with.
** The '''''Manga/KyoKoiOHajimemasu''''' OVA, similar to ''Honey X Honey Drops'' by the same producers[[note]](J.C. Staff animated this one under Shogakukan's contract instead of the now-defunct Radix of ''Honey X Honey Drops'')[[/note]], suffers immensely from the same issues as that title did: flat animation and voice acting, unlikeable 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]].

* '''''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 about a high school that encourages its students to enslave each other and a teenage girl forced into that system. Nearly every review on [=MyAnimeList=] is a warning to avoid it.
* The two-episode OVA of '''''VisualNovel/HourglassOfSummer''''' is a prime example on how ''not'' to do a CompressedAdaptation. It tries to squeeze a 10-hour character route (Kaho's true ending route, to be precise) into a ''45-minute anime''. There's a distinct lack of explanation of many major plot points (the time-traveling aspect, most notably), some things no longer make sense (again, time-traveling), and the pacing seems to suffer due to being so tightly crammed into such a short runtime. Making things worse are a ton of OffModel animation, and many unwanted and unneeded fanservice moments, despite the original visual novel being clean.

* The short promotional OVA adaptation of {{Shoujo}} manga '''''Marimo no Hana''''' has poorly fitting voices for the characters (Masaru, 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 about a young girl with a badass SplitPersonality, thanks to the awakening of her PowerTattoo; sadly, the lore behind her power only appears in the manga, so good luck figuring that out for those who don't read the manga). Its only saving grace is that it's actually decently animated, but sadly not enough to make it worth watching.

* '''''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; unsurprisingly, only one episode was made due to its low budget. WebVideo/BennettTheSage dedicated [[http://benthesage.com/anime-abandon-psychic-wars/ his very first Anime Abandon review]] to it.

* '''''Blue Flames''''' is a deservedly obscure 45-minute OVA from 1989. Its production values are very lacking for an OVA (which usually have higher budgets than TV series) - bland designs, uninspired and simplistic art and animation, a sluggish pace, lackluster voice acting, and an ill-fitting soundtrack. But what makes it awful is its [[DesignatedHero protagonist]], a stoic social climber named Ryuichi Kaizu who wants to enter Tokyo University. He abuses his family and a string of women he seduces, driving one to attempt suicide, in order to fulfill his goals. In one of the worst examples of misogynistic wish fulfillment in [=OVAs=] of the time, when one woman confronts him, he rapes her and she submits to him. He [[KarmaHoudini never faces punishment for any of this]]. It is little talked about, but reviews can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luhdx1vWCRw here]] and [[http://www.theanimereview.com/reviews/blueflames.html here]], though be warned of disturbing sex scenes.

* The short promotional OVA adaptation of {{Shoujo}} manga '''''Marimo no Hana''''' has ''awful'' voice acting (Masaru, 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 about a young girl with a badass SplitPersonality, thanks to the awakening of her PowerTattoo; sadly, the lore behind her power only appears in the manga, so good luck figuring that out for those who don't read the manga). Its only saving grace is that it's actually decently animated, but sadly not enough to make it worth watching.

* '''''Wonder Momo''''' was an anime adaptation of the obscure Japan-only Namco [[VideoGame/WonderMomo arcade game of the same name]] created by Platform/ShiftyLook (though actual production of the show was mostly handled by Creator/{{Graphinica}}, whose non-post-production work is usually more contentious than outright horrible). Released in 2010 and taking place after the arcade game, it was a 5-episode ONA (Original Net Animation, meaning it went directly to the internet) as part of Bandai-Namco's attempt to turn the game into a full-blown franchise, works in this effort being a comic also produced by [=ShiftyLook=] (with this anime reusing character designs from the comic) and a tie-in game to the comic ''Wonder Momo: Typhoon Booster'' by [=WayForward=]. This is considered to be the worst work of the bunch, the worst thing to come out of [=ShiftyLook=] (compare that to the ''Mappy'' and ''Bravoman'' adaptations, which were reasonably well-liked), and one of the worst anime of all time. Reasons being for its nonsensical story that tries to tell too much in the short timeframe it's given and has the audacity to end on a cliffhanger that is [[NoEnding never followed up on]] (possibly due to the closure of [=ShiftyLook=]), the flat, uninteresting characters, choppy animation, and bad voice acting, special mention going to the main character herself Momoko, [[VocalDissonance who sounds nothing like an actual teenager and more like a woman well into her 30s.]] Being a parody of old tokusatsu shows, it accomplishes this by [[ClicheStorm playing all of the tropes of the genre completely straight.]] The only redeeming qualities are its intro theme by Music/Area11 and the fact that each episode is mercifully short, clocking in at 7 minutes each. It's in the top 50 lowest-rated anime of [=MyAnimeList=] and has made the site's [[https://myanimelist.net/featured/1254/10_of_the_WORST_Anime_of_All_Time 10 of the Worst Anime of All Time]] list.

** '''''Anime/{{Gibiate}}''''', possessed (and squandered) an all-star production team which included Creator/YoshitakaAmano, Creator/YuzoKoshiro, and Creator/TheYoshidaBrothers. Meant as a throwback to the heydays of ultraviolent [=90s=] anime, it instead embodied the era at its worst. There's no denying the premise of a samurai, a ninja, and a monk being sent forward in time into a post-apocalyptic world could've been great. But in practice, the OffModel character designs make the action scenes dull and the characterization scenes unappealing. [[FlatCharacter Not that there was much to speak of]], save for monologue scenes edited almost exactly like [[RealityShow reality TV. The story is a ClicheStorm revolving around characters already TooDumbToLive occasionally [[IdiotBall acting even stupider as the plot required]]. The climax of the show features an intelligence-insulting AssPull that renders the main characters' journey AllForNothing--and bafflingly, the anime [[EsotericHappyEnding tries to sell it as an optimistic ending]] despite the fact that [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDiesEnding all but two of the characters are dead]]]]. The end result is an utter failure that does nothing but tarnish its creators' reputations.[[note]](This anime was the brainchild of Ryo Aoki, who was also responsible for the critically-panned ''Anime/{{Endride}}''. While he doesn't yet have the track record of someone like Yoshiteru Satou, he's quickly gaining a similar reputation for delivering back-to-back bottom-tier anime. Meanwhile, lead animation producer Creator/StudioElle has mostly retreated back to doing subcontracted work for other companies.)[[/note]] Trash Tier Waifu tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLF6g0A2Q0 here]], and in the list of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTKRS71whE the worst anime of 2020]], WebVideo/MothersBasement places it squarely in the bottom of the barrel.

** '''''Anime/{{Gibiate}}''''', possessed (and squandered) an all-star production team which included Creator/YoshitakaAmano, Creator/YuzoKoshiro, and Creator/TheYoshidaBrothers. Meant as a throwback to the heydays of ultraviolent [=90s=] anime, it instead embodied the era at its worst. There's no denying the premise of a samurai, a ninja, and a monk being sent forward in time into a post-apocalyptic world could've been great. But in practice, the OffModel character designs make the action scenes dull and the characterization scenes unappealing. [[FlatCharacter Not that there was much to speak of]], save for monologue scenes edited almost exactly like {{Reality|Show}} TV. The story is a ClicheStorm revolving around characters already TooDumbToLive occasionally [[Idiot Ball acting even stupider as the plot required]]. The climax of the show features an intelligence-insulting AssPull that renders the main characters' journey AllForNothing--and bafflingly, the anime [[EsotericHappyEnding tries to sell it as an optimistic ending]] despite the fact that [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDiesEnding all but two of the characters are dead]]]]. The end result is an utter failure that does nothing but tarnish its creators' reputations.[[note]](This anime was the brainchild of Ryo Aoki, who was also responsible for the critically-panned ''Anime/{{Endride}}''. While he doesn't yet have the track record of someone like Yoshiteru Satou, he's quickly gaining a similar reputation for delivering back-to-back bottom-tier anime. Meanwhile, lead animation producer Creator/StudioElle has mostly retreated back to doing subcontracted work for other companies.)[[/note]] Trash Tier Waifu tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLF6g0A2Q0 here]], and in the list of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTKRS71whE the worst anime of 2020]], WebVideo/MothersBasement places it squarely in the bottom of the barrel.

** '''''Anime/{{Gibiate}}''''', possessed (and squandered) an all-star production team which included Creator/YoshitakaAmano, Creator/YuzoKoshiro, and Creator/TheYoshidaBrothers. Meant as a throwback to the heydays of ultraviolent [=90s=] anime, it instead embodied the era at its worst. There's no denying the premise of a samurai, a ninja, and a monk being sent forward in time into a post-apocalyptic world could've been great. But in practice, the OffModel character designs make the action scenes dull and the characterization scenes unappealing. [[FlatCharacter Not that there was much to speak of]], save for monologue scenes edited almost exactly like {{Reality |Show}}TV. The story is a ClicheStorm revolving around characters already TooDumbToLive occasionally [[Idiot Ball acting even stupider as the plot required]]. The climax of the show features an intelligence-insulting AssPull that renders the main characters' journey AllForNothing--and bafflingly, the anime [[EsotericHappyEnding tries to sell it as an optimistic ending]] despite the fact that [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDiesEnding all but two of the characters are dead]]]]. The end result is an utter failure that does nothing but tarnish its creators' reputations.[[note]](This anime was the brainchild of Ryo Aoki, who was also responsible for the critically-panned ''Anime/{{Endride}}''. While he doesn't yet have the track record of someone like Yoshiteru Satou, he's quickly gaining a similar reputation for delivering back-to-back bottom-tier anime. Meanwhile, lead animation producer Creator/StudioElle has mostly retreated back to doing subcontracted work for other companies.)[[/note]] Trash Tier Waifu tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLF6g0A2Q0 here]], and in the list of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTKRS71whE the worst anime of 2020]], WebVideo/MothersBasement places it squarely in the bottom of the barrel.

** The ostensibly all-CGI anime adaptation of '''''Manga/ExArm''''' proves once and for all why having a staff and production team with ''zero experience in the anime industry'' [[note]](they only had experience in the live-action film and video game industries)[[/note]] is a detriment instead of a selling point. The story, which is a {{compressed|Adaptation}} and {{Bowdlerize}}d adaptation of a comparatively much better manga about a boy named Akira whose brain is transferred to a superweapon by a policewoman, is mediocre at best, but what pushes the series into Horrible territory is its borderline-unwatchable animation. Characters emote in [[UnintentionalUncannyValley unsettling]] and [[DullSurprise strange]] ways, and the backgrounds are bereft of any detail while the otherwise competent action sequences are marred by cheap smoke filters and a sense of slippery weightlessness. Infamously, a kiss scene between two female characters has their lips covered by an inexplicable flash of light--not for censorship reasons ([[HideYourLesbians though one can see why it might be that way at first]]), but to poorly disguise the fact that the models' lips can't pucker (and that their noses are clipping through their faces). A good number of characters don't even have CGI models, instead being traditionally animated by hand, and [[OffModel not very well at that]]. The end result has received unfavorable comparisons to cheap mobile game ads, and it plummeted to the bottom of My Anime List with a 2.26/10 rating as soon as it premiered. It has since beaten out all-time "greats" like ''Manga/{{Pupa}}'' and ''Anime/{{Gibiate}}'' as the lowest-rated TV anime [[https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1888165 on the site.]] Watch WebVideo/LostPause tear it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8MAVaiV9eo here]], and read Anime News Network's autopsy of the show's disastrous reveal trailer [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2020-11-09/why-does-the-crunchyroll-original-series-ex-arm-look-so-awful/.166117 here.]] WebVideo/MothersBasement also tore into it as his #1 choice for the worst anime of 2021 [[https://youtu.be/k6EDqXuSaRc?t=1468 here.]]
** '''''Anime/{{Gibiate}}''''', despite possessing an all-star production team including the likes of Creator/YoshitakaAmano, Creator/YuzoKoshiro, and Creator/TheYoshidaBrothers, utterly fails to live up to the reputation of its creators. Intended to be a throwback to the days of ultraviolent [=90s=] anime, it instead winds up embodying everything that was wrong with the anime of that decade. While the premise is utterly ridiculous (a samurai, a ninja, and a monk being sent forward in time into a post-apocalyptic world), it at least had the potential to be entertaining; unfortunately, the piss-poor animation and consistently OffModel character designs make the action scenes dull and the characterization scenes unappealing. [[FlatCharacter The characters have all the depth of an inflatable kiddie pool]], and the story is a blatant collection of post-apocalyptic {{cliche|Storm}}s crossed with a plot that mostly revolves around [[TooDumbToLive characters dying easily avoidable deaths]] from all the {{Idiot Ball}}s flying around. What the show assumes passes for CharacterDevelopment is ''characters monologuing directly into the camera'', framed like RealityShow segments. The climax of the show features an intelligence-insulting AssPull that renders the main characters' journey AllForNothing--and bafflingly, the anime [[EsotericHappyEnding tries to sell it as an optimistic ending]] despite the fact that [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDiesEnding all but two of the characters are dead]]]]. The end result is an utter failure that does nothing but tarnish its creators' reputations.[[note]](This anime was the brainchild of Ryo Aoki, who was also responsible for the critically-panned ''Anime/{{Endride}}''. While he doesn't yet have the track record of someone like Yoshiteru Satou, he's quickly gaining a similar reputation for delivering back-to-back bottom-tier anime. Meanwhile, lead animation producer Creator/StudioElle has mostly retreated back to doing subcontracted work for other companies.)[[/note]] Trash Tier Waifu tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLF6g0A2Q0 here]], and in the list of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTKRS71whE the worst anime of 2020]], WebVideo/MothersBasement places it squarely in the bottom of the barrel.

* The broken English in the title of '''''Anime/{{Cosprayers}}''''' (short for ''The Cosmopolitan P'''r'''ayers'') is the least of the show's problems. The characters are incredibly idiotic, inconsistent, and [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional]]. The girl who loves the male lead [[GirlOnGirlIsHot makes out]] with the main (female) protagonist, and the other girl also likes the guy, and there is no motivation for the LoveTriangle. 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 [[EightDeadlyWords never give the audience any reason to care]]. It heavily rips off ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and is much less entertaining. It culminates in an extremely lazy GainaxEnding with singing and rainbows. The whole thing was created by the company [[{{Pun}} MOE]] (Masters of Entertainment), but they don't show their mastery here. The Cartoon Hero took it down [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pSeOT3dOlbS1d59oKeq5vPtbhqd725gW/view in]] [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LkM9B6Igp9sFTbgWGKB8I4DPAR5aKYUk/view three]] [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-TJm5iVQkOPg9m_hqgXN668hqlwktBuf/view parts.]] To add insult to injury, there's '''two''' shows (''Hit wo Nerae'' and ''Love Love?'') made in the same year, by most of the same staff, set in the present day which portray ''Cosprayers'' as [[StylisticSuck a bad anime in-universe]] in the RecursiveCanon, to the point where in ''Love Love?'' it turns out the identity of ''Cosprayers''[='=] writer is kept secret.

* '''''Vampire Holmes''''' is a short 12-episode promotional anime of a mobile video game of the same name, with each episode lasting about 3 minutes. Despite being based on a RoomEscapeGame, most of the anime's runtime is dedicated to annoying, unfunny humor between the main characters rather than solving mysteries. It also fails as good Franchise/SherlockHolmes media, as the titular character is written as an unlikable LazyBum who spends most of the series never showing any of his inspiration's detective skills. To add insult to injury, the animation is painfully awkward, lazy and amateurish. [[NeverTrustATitle It doesn't even have vampires in it!]] Audience reception is almost [[https://www.anikore.jp/anime/9094/ uniformly]] [[https://myanimelist.net/anime/28929/Vampire_Holmes/reviews negative]]; Leo Hashee talks about it [[https://youtu.be/coK3Zg_a5Hw here]].

* The broken English in the title of '''''Anime/{{Cosprayers}}''''' (short for ''The Cosmopolitan P'''r'''ayers'') is the least of the show's problems. The characters are incredibly idiotic, inconsistent, and [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional]]. The girl who loves the male lead [[GirlOnGirlIsHot makes out]] with the main (female) protagonist, and the other girl also likes the guy, and there is no motivation for the LoveTriangle. 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 [[EightDeadlyWords never give the audience any reason to care]]. It heavily rips off ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and is much less entertaining. It culminates in an extremely lazy GainaxEnding with singing and rainbows. The whole thing was created by the company [[{{Pun}} MOE]] (Masters of Entertainment), but they don't show their mastery here. The Cartoon hero took it down [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pSeOT3dOlbS1d59oKeq5vPtbhqd725gW/view in]] [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LkM9B6Igp9sFTbgWGKB8I4DPAR5aKYUk/view three]] [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-TJm5iVQkOPg9m_hqgXN668hqlwktBuf/view parts.]] To add insult to injury, there's '''two''' shows (''Hit wo Nerae'' and ''Love Love?'') made in the same year, by most of the same staff, set in the present day which portray ''Cosprayers'' as [[StylisticSuck a bad anime in-universe]] in the RecursiveCanon, to the point where in ''Love Love?'' it turns out the identity of ''Cosprayers''[='=] writer is kept secret.

** The OVA '''''Anime/MarsOfDestruction''''' is clearly a pathetic attempt at being dark and edgy in the style of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', only the plot is non-existent, and the characters don't ever get any development and end up completely forgettable. The animation and fight scenes aren't any better, either. It's as if the animators weren't even ''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://channelawesome.com/anifile-mars-of-destruction-review/ here.]] You can also watch it in its entirety [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcn4ndi4Gcw here]] [[BileFascination if you really want to]]. To assess how bad this series is, both the OVA and game have overwhelmingly negative reception. It holds the '''absolute worst''' rating on [=MyAnimeList=] (a 2.2), [=AniList=] gives it a pitiful 19%, and [=IMDb=] clobbers it with a 1.8. Google users have not much love for the game or OVA, with only 16% liking them.

* The broken English in the title of '''''Anime/{{Cosprayers}}''''' (short for ''The Cosmopolitan P'''r'''ayers'') is the least of the show's problems. The characters are incredibly idiotic, inconsistent, and [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional]]. The girl who loves the male lead [[GirlOnGirlIsHot makes out]] with the main (female) protagonist, and the other girl also likes the guy, and there is no motivation for the LoveTriangle. 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 [[EightDeadlyWords never give the audience any reason to care]]. It heavily rips off ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and is much less entertaining. It culminates in an extremely lazy GainaxEnding with singing and rainbows. The whole thing was created by the company [[{{Pun}} MOE]] (Masters of Entertainment), but they don't show their mastery here. To add insult to injury, there's '''two''' shows (''Hit wo Nerae'' and ''Love Love?'') made in the same year, by most of the same staff, set in the present day which portray ''Cosprayers'' as [[StylisticSuck a bad anime in-universe]] in the RecursiveCanon, to the point where in ''Love Love?'' it turns out the identity of ''Cosprayers''[='=] writer is kept secret.

* '''''[[Anime/AbunaiSisters Abunai Sisters: Koko & Mika]]''''' is a series made to promote Kyoko and Mika Kano, real-life Japanese celebrities, that landed a spot on many "worst" lists shortly after release. The animation is about on par with a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]] CG cutscene despite the show being released in ''2009'' (and [[https://myanimelist.net/anime/5877/Abunai_Sisters__Koko___Mika made by]] ''Creator/ProductionIG''), the voice acting is incredibly annoying (and in broken English for some reason), and there's little if any plot. It tries to be a comedy, but in a critical flaw 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 only thing the show has left to rely on is its {{fanservice}}, with not only an uncanny number of scenes focusing on the central characters' breasts, but unfortunately, the characters (who were designed by famed manga artist Susumu Matsushita) resemble [[UnintentionalUncannyValley bobbleheads]] (and the BigBad suspiciously resembles [[Anime/SpiritedAway Yubaba]]), and their vaunted cleavage looks like they've shoved basketballs down their shirts. Coupled with the awful animation, [[FetishRetardant this renders any attempt at fanservice utterly unappealing]]. The result is something with one hell of an UncertainAudience, as the show is too sexual for children but its simplistic {{slapstick}} is too childish for adults. Ten episodes were produced but only two aired; the rest were only released on DVD, where the voice acting on all ten episodes was pitched up for some reason, making it unbearably grating to listen to (which is only alleviated by the show's short runtime of three minutes per episode). If you have any doubts, allow Demolition D+ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetluD1E5aw to relieve them]].

** While the DeadlyGame genre is loaded with contentious titles, '''''[[Literature/KingsGame King's Game The Animation]]''''' is an easy contender for the worst. As adaptations go, it had a lot to live up to; the film version is still a CultClassic among {{Exploitation Film}} fans. But while that (and the manga) just stuck with the original, the anime covered that ''and'' the sequel, but in the opposite order, with stop-and-start {{flashback}} sequences that have no sense of timing. The result is an utter nightmare of a plot; what portion of it can still be followed builds up to a long-ForegoneConclusion made all the more confusing by terrible pacing. They also had to [[CompressedAdaptation hack down the material considerably to fit in the format]]; perplexingly, this means certain plot twists appear [[AssPull minus the setups provided in the original]]. That, and almost every character, including the leads, is pared down [[FlatCharacter to one or two traits]]; even the {{deuteragonist}} is no more than a SatelliteLoveInterest. What's left of the setting is [[{{Narm}} far too dark to be taken seriously,]] and the portion of the plot that is shown depends upon [[IdiotBall all of the characters acting braindead.]] All that aside, the story ''adds'' inane, nonsensical plot points (writing whole classes out via mass suicide, for one); badly-executed, pointless sexual content; and one last AssPull that diminishes its potential to be mocked. The animation and soundtrack budget both clearly went in full to [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic the opening and ending sequences.]]

* '''''Manga/TheIslandOfGiantInsects: The Movie''''' was one of the first anime to release in TheNewTwenties - and what an inopportune start it was, as it most likely will go down as one of the decade's worst. The movie manages to make the characters [[TooBleakStoppedCaring even more stupid and unlikable than they were in the manga]], as most of them seem to share one collective brain cell; the only one who has any sort of competence is the main character, who the others frequently bully. In addition, [[CompressedAdaptation the movie completely cuts out significant chunks of the manga's storyline]] to fit in more off-putting {{Fanservice}}. But what truly renders this movie Horrible is the [[NoBudget insane cheapness of the animation and art]]: the titular giant bugs are rendered in low-poly CGI that makes them [[UnintentionalUncannyValley scary in the wrong way]], the only moving parts in most frames of the characters are their mouths, and [[SpecialEffectFailure a scene that is supposed to represent bugs dropping from trees is clearly done by moving a still frame back and forth over the background]]. The crowning example of the laziness and cheapness is a scene that is meant to make the main character seem like a badass but is instead ''two minutes'' of the same looped footage of her walking down a hall, set to music that is both incredibly generic and [[SoundtrackDissonance incredibly unfitting]]. But don't just take our word for it - take that of Theron Martin of Anime News Network, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/island-of-giant-insects/movie-and-ova/.155279 who considers this movie too cheap and poorly-made to even be entertainingly bad]]. When a [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kyochu-retto/the-island-of-giant-insects-dubbed-and-uncensored Kickstarter for a dub was announced]], it was only given support because they plan on making a GagDub, much like ''Anime/GhostStories''.

*** What's worse is that it was originally going to be on Toonami (back when Toonami was a daytime action cartoon lineup) and was edited down to Toonami standards, making it ''more'' incoherent. When Adult Swim decided to air it, it was the Toonami-edited version.

* '''''Manga/TheIslandOfGiantInsects''''' '''''The Movie''''' was one of the first anime to release in TheNewTwenties -- and what an inopportune start it was, as it most likely will go down as one of the decade's worst. The movie manages to make the characters [[TooBleakStoppedCaring even more stupid and unlikable than they were in the manga]], as most of them seem to share one collective brain cell; the only one who has any sort of competence is the main character, who the others frequently bully. In addition, [[CompressedAdaptation the movie completely cuts out significant chunks of the manga's storyline]] to fit in more off-putting {{Fanservice}}. But what truly renders this movie Horrible is the [[NoBudget insane cheapness of the animation and art]]: the titular giant bugs are rendered in low-poly CGI that makes them [[UnintentionalUncannyValley scary in the wrong way]], the only moving parts in most frames of the characters are their mouths, and [[SpecialEffectFailure a scene that is supposed to represent bugs dropping from trees is clearly done by moving a still frame back and forth over the background]]. The crowning example of the laziness and cheapness of the movie is a scene that is meant to make the main character seem like a badass but is instead ''two minutes'' of the same looped footage of her walking down a hall, set to music that is both incredibly generic and [[SoundtrackDissonance incredibly unfitting]]. But don't just take our word for it -- take that of Theron Martin of Anime News Network, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/island-of-giant-insects/movie-and-ova/.155279 who considers this movie too cheap and poorly made to even be entertainingly bad]]. When a [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kyochu-retto/the-island-of-giant-insects-dubbed-and-uncensored Kickstarter for a dub was announced]], it was only given support because they plan on making a GagDub, much like ''Anime/GhostStories.''

* '''''Ladyspo''''' is not so much an anime as a barely animated slideshow that, unlike an outright manga, consists of stills that show no sense of motion. Since this title is about sports, it's the one factor that damns the show. The plot is no better: it's a generic affair -- teams of MsFanservice women competing in sports in outer space -- delivered by a cast of bland characters. Last but not least, there's inexplicable and out-of-place ToiletHumour, used to ''open'' the show no less. Audience is [[https://www.anikore.jp/anime/11638/ not]] [[https://myanimelist.net/anime/37448/Ladyspo/reviews kind]].

* '''''Mahou Shoujo? Naria Girls''''' is a three-minute all-CGI short which makes ''Abunai Sisters'' and ''JK-Meshi!'' look like Studio Ghibli productions by comparison. As a bit of background information, the studio behind the short, gdgd, had released a series called ''gdgdFairies'' which had very low-quality CGI models and no plot to speak of, but was saved by the characters' top-tier voice actresses ad-libbing and doing what amounted to improv comedy, and it developed a small cult following. gdgd had the bright idea to repeat the formula for their next series, but this time outright told the voice actresses to go out there and ad-lib; unfortunately they weren't nearly as high quality as the previous series, and it showed. The plot and jokes are nigh-incomprehensible (trust us, "magical girl" is about all the information you're going to pick up from it). The CGI for the characters is even worse than ''fairies'', featuring [[UnintentionalUncannyValley models that jerk and twitch every second like marionettes being controlled by someone having a seizure]], and the audio quality is terrible; the voice actresses sound like they're recording through wool socks, which makes it impossible to even tell if a joke was going to be there since you can't understand what they're saying at all. Apart from the characters, the budget was so cheap that there were only a couple (hand-drawn as opposed to CGI) backgrounds used throughout the series. Even worse, beginning at the seventh episode, the studio couldn't even afford to use the CGI models and had to use pans of still images with the voice actresses talking over them. Somehow the still images managed to be considered ''better quality'' than the CGI, mainly because they were actually competently drawn and didn't shake and spaz all the time. Anime Randoms takes a look at it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b1YDADCNTg here]], but doesn't have many kind words to say on the matter.
* The short promotional OVA adaptation of {{Shoujo}} manga '''''Marimo no Hana''''' has ''awful'' voice acting (Masaru, 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 about a young girl with a badass SplitPersonality, thanks to the awakening of her PowerTattoo. But sadly the lore behind her power only appears in the manga, so good luck figuring that out for those who don't read the manga). Its only saving grace is that it's actually decently animated, but sadly not enough to make it worth watching.
* The InNameOnly anime adaptation of Toshio Maeda's {{Hentai}} manga '''''Nightmare Campus''''' heavily rips off almost everything from Creator/GoNagai's ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}'', including the plot, the characters, and the art style (to the point where it can be assumed that the production was most likely doing it to try and fool the audience into thinking they're watching a Go Nagai creation). The sex scenes are largely FetishRetardant, take up most of the plot, and seem to go on forever. And when the plot doesn't focus on the gratuitous sex, it shoves in incredibly gross and equally gratuitous {{gorn}} seemingly only for shock value.
* '''''Ninja Collection''''' is a spin-off of ''Anime/YamishibaiJapaneseGhostStories'' that does nothing except for tarnishing the reputation of it. It's allegedly about a group of teenage {{Ninja}} fighting monsters in Tokyo, but good luck at figuring that out from the show itself. For starters, the title characters get only a few seconds of screentime each episode, if they're lucky; each episode instead revolves around a different generic and often nameless everyman or woman. Each episode is a collection of bizarre non sequiturs, stilted dialogue, horror cliches, and ridiculous {{Jump Scare}}s, and either end with the generic character either [[DeusExMachina being saved in a contrived manner]], or [[ShootTheShaggyDog suddenly dying]] [[DiabolusExMachina in an equally contrived way]]. In fact, more information is given about what is going on ''in the trailer for the show'' than the show itself, including the fact that it's even a spinoff of ''Yami Shibai'' at all -- but it's not like it makes the show any less of a confusing mess to try to make sense of. As for the animation, calling it {{limited|Animation}} would be generous; it's more akin to a slideshow running at a maximum of ''one frame per second'', with not even the characters' mouths moving with the dialogue. And unlike ''Yami Shibai'', where it was justified by the kamishibai stylization, here it's just done for the hell of it. The only saving grace of this shitshow is that the ending song is pretty nice. Watch KHANTEHNT eviscerate it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJN5k4KitHw here.]]

* '''''Omae wa Mada Gunma o Shiranai (You Don't Know Gunma Yet)''''' is a short 3-minute anime miniseries that's a blatant ad for tourism in Gunma Prefecture, but the only thing it succeeds at is driving people away from ever wanting to visit there. It's presented as a comedy, and many of its "jokes" come from acting like Gunma is a PlaceWorseThanDeath, as a bit of SelfDeprecation, but there's never any attempt to show why that perception is wrong or even any punchlines at all. You're more likely to learn random facts like that people from Gunma drown the most out of any prefecture in Japan (yes, really) more than you are any reason why you should come for a visit. The art doesn't help, as it could have been taken straight out of a cheap 1990s OVA when the series was made in 2018. Instead of presenting Gunma as a misunderstood but nice place (which the creators were obviously aiming for but seriously botched), this anime will probably convince anyone viewing that the only things that the prefecture has are residents who hate outsiders and terrible weather, and to only take a trip there as a last resort.
* '''''Manga/PilotCandidate''''', a.k.a. ''Candidate For Goddess'', has [[SpecialEffectFailure horribly integrated]] [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects CGI]] even for its era, {{plot hole}}s practically from the start (it's stated early that only men can become Goddess pilots, except the best pilot on the protagonist's squad is a woman), and an aggressively unlikable protagonist in Zero Enna (who can best be described as a mashup of [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]], and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi Kamiya]] [[note]](and ''voiced'' by Tai's voice actor in the English dub)[[/note]], but with none of their redeeming qualities). The greatest failing, however, is that every piece of the story is [[AbortedArc 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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8PpooHKv8M make fun of it]] along with ''Anime/BlueGender'' (which, while [[SoOkayItsAverage mediocre]], is nowhere near as bad as this anime) for his "Creator/AdultSwim Month" feature, and watch WebVideo/TheCartoonHero tear it apart [[http://theherooftomorrow.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-cartoon-hero-vs-pilot-candidate.html here.]]
** Interestingly, the series is based on a longer manga by Yukiru Sugisaki, the author of ''Manga/DNAngel'', but its failure made her ''very'' hesitant to allow ''Manga/DNAngel'' to get an anime adaptation. Eventually, Creator/{{XEBEC}} would learn from their mistakes from ''Pilot Candidate'' and make a competent adaptation.
** Creator/AdultSwim aired the anime once, when the block was still finding its legs... and we do mean ''once'' –- this is one of the very few shows that was never shown again after its initial airing. A commercial bumper over five years later said, to paraphrase, "''Pilot Candidate'': [[CreatorBacklash Never Again]]."

** Locomotion, a (now defunct) Latin-American animation channel, dubbed the whole series into Spanish, and in the period before they changed hands, they repeated it daily since it was one of their few anime left. Not even the (surprisingly good) dub could save this series.

* The anime adaptation of '''''Manga/{{Pupa}}'''''. Fans of the horror genre had high hopes for it due to the lack of quality horror anime, but then it was postponed from its original Fall 2013 lineup and pushed back to the Winter 2014 lineup, where it was revealed the episodes would only be four minutes long (its only saving grace, according to viewers). It has been universally panned for horrid writing and piss-poor pacing (including a subplot that gets dropped the moment it's introduced), uninteresting characters, mishandling of the manga's disturbing material, inconsistent censorship as it was airing, simultaneously disgusting and dull "scares", and a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment final episode]] that does nothing to wrap up the plot. Special mention goes to the infamous Episode 6 (and Episode 8 when it comes to censorship). [[http://myanimelist.net/anime/19315/Pupa Not only is it one of the lowest-ranked TV anime series on My Anime List]], 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. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140508210132/http://animeviking.com:80/2014/04/13/pupa-is-the-worst-anime-i-have-ever-seen/ Anime Viking also has a few words to say regarding the matter.]]
* '''''Rusted Armors''''' is the first, and probably only, anime based on a [=2.5D=] mixed-media project for the foreseeable future. Based on a stage play that obviously appealed to someone considering it ran for three years, it features the stage actors reprising their roles as both the voice and motion capture actors for the 3D characters. However, just like ''EX-ARM'' and ''Tesla Note'', the animation design serves as another example of why 3D animated characters don't mix with 2D backgrounds. Impressive fight choreography on the stage just looks dull in animation, as the character models don't take advantage of all that animation has to offer to make exciting fights, instead just clunkily swinging swords at each other. It's not an exaggeration to say that the character models are the ''only'' things that move in the anime apart from cheap steam and fire filters--the backgrounds are obviously flat and the juxtaposition of the characters on them makes it look like a cheap Unity game. It's not like the backgrounds themselves are particularly impressive, either--they look like photos that have had the cel-shading effect spammed on them in Apple Photo Editor. The plot of the anime, already painfully generic (a group of [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys handsome samurai warriors]] using superpowered guns and swords to fight an InNameOnly version of the colonial Spanish army), is obviously [[{{Padding}} dragged out to feature-length]] through copious amounts of flashbacks, unfunny comedic skits, a two-episode TrainingFromHell arc, and attempted {{Fanservice}} for the YaoiFangirl crowd that fails because of how cheap and clunky the characters' models are. The characters range from bland to offensive stereotypes, and what little time is spent advancing the plot bizarrely attempts to make viewers feel sympathetic for the AxCrazy, mass-murdering villain. Even the sound direction is bland, with the music being generic and most of the cast save Creator/ToshikiMasuda (playing Saburou) [[DullSurprise phoning it in]]. Both [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20O2DGJoFR4 Trumann]] and WebVideo/MothersBasement [[https://youtu.be/fE5x6H-XxEY?t=1041 declared it to be terrible]].

* The "plot" of '''''Shojo Shikkaku''''' is about a class of young schoolgirls being forced to participate in a DeadlyGame where they're paired up and forced to kill each other. The pacing is terrible; absolute nil for the first half, then breakneck speed throughout the second. Characterization is virtually non-existent, with many characters [[WeHardlyKnewYe appearing just to die]] and be forgotten. The plot is hopelessly inconsistent, and features, among other things: [[InstantExpert 12-14 year-olds who use weapons perfectly with no training,]] chains which at once do and do not poison the duos attached at the slightest tug, a degree of government involvement [[WhateverHappenedToTheMouse which never comes up again]], a romantic subplot which hardly comes up and abruptly ends when [[spoiler:the leads turn out [[SurpriseIncest to be sisters]]]] without foreshadowing, and an EsotericHappyEnding, in which the BigBad [[KarmaHoudini get everything she wanted without consequence]] and nothing else is resolved.

* The anime adaptation of '''''VisualNovel/TogainuNoChi''''' was 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 to placate the censors, but it still doesn't excuse the fact that ''so many'' things were removed from the story that 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 consists of StockFootage), [[OffModel constant deviation from character models]], and a mediocre script combine 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).
* '''''Touhou Project Side Story: Memories of Stars''''' was among the first animated adaptations of the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' franchise. It was created by [[Music/SoundHolic SOUND HOLIC]], one of the biggest names in ''Touhou'' fan music. Sadly, it is plain to see that outside of music videos, animation was not SOUND HOLIC's forte. Ambitious though this OVA was, its plot was incredibly slow and plodding (in addition to contradicting canon), the original characters were not compelling in the slightest, the animation was painfully limited, the special effects were archaic, and the fight scenes (what few there were) fail to impress.

* '''''Wonder Momo''''' was an anime adaptation of the obscure Japan-only Namco [[VideoGame/WonderMomo arcade game of the same name]] created by Platform/ShiftyLook (though actual production of the show was mostly handled by Creator/{{Graphinica}}, whose non-post-production work is usually more contentious than outright horrible). Released in 2010 and taking place after the arcade game, it was a 5-episode ONA (Original Net Animation, meaning it went directly to the internet) as part of Bandai-Namco's attempt to turn the game into a full-blown franchise, works in this effort being a comic also produced by [=ShiftyLook=] (with this anime reusing character designs from the comic) and a tie-in game to the comic ''Wonder Momo: Typhoon Booster'' by [=WayForward=]. This is considered to be the worst work of the bunch, the worst thing to come out of [=ShiftyLook=] (Compare that to the ''Mappy'' and ''Bravoman'' adaptations, which were reasonably well-liked), and one of the worst anime of all time. Reasons being for its nonsensical story that tries to tell too much in the short timeframe it's given and has the audacity to end on a cliffhanger that is [[NoEnding never followed up on]] (possibly due to the closure of [=ShiftyLook=]), the flat, uninteresting characters, choppy animation, and bad voice acting, special mention going to the main character herself Momoko, [[VocalDissonance who sounds nothing like an actual teenager and more like a woman well into her 30s.]] Being a parody of old tokusatsu shows, it accomplishes this by [[ClicheStorm playing all of the tropes of the genre completely straight.]] The only redeeming qualities are its intro theme by Music/Area11 and the fact that each episode is mercifully short clocking in at 7 minutes each. It's in the top 50 lowest-rated anime of [=MyAnimeList=] and has made the site's [[https://myanimelist.net/featured/1254/10_of_the_WORST_Anime_of_All_Time 10 of the Worst Anime of All Time]] list.
* '''''Manga/WorldWarBlue''''', also known as ''Aoi Sekai No Chuushin De'' or ''The Center of the Blue World'', a three-episode {{OVA}} adapting the first story arc of the comparatively much better manga of the same name. While the concept (an action series heavily based on the UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars between Creator/{{Nintendo}} and Creator/{{Sega}}) is interesting, it's 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, [[NoBudget a complete lack of any kind of budget]], giving the series an incredibly cheap feeling (both the opening and closing consist largely of still images). Whatever the manga's like, it was done an incredible disservice by this OVA. Watch [=ConnerTheWaffle=] rip into it [[https://youtu.be/MyzUc_khtrg here.]]
* The '''''Wounded Man''''' OVA, based on a comparatively decent manga by Creator/KazuoKoike (Yes, [[Manga/LoneWolfAndCub THAT Kazuo Koike.]]) is one of the worst examples in the already shlocky genre of the ultraviolent exploitation [=OVAs=] of the 80s. The hero [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes the female lead]] six minutes into the first episode (and again in the fourth), and to make matters worse, she joins him because [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization the sex was really good]]. As for the other women in this series, they either [[FlatCharacter have the personality of a brick]] or are StuffedInTheFridge as quickly as possible. Add in a bizarre plot involving a pornographic studio (God's Pornographic Films, or GPX for short) funded by the FBI that [[spoiler:turns out to have gone bust years ago, making the plot all for nothing]], skips in time that make no sense, and trying to make the hero look like a JerkWithAHeartOfGold despite his rapist status, and you've got yourself an OVA with '''''very''''' bad writing. And don't think the animation will save it, because it's as shoddy as it comes, abusing speed lines and [[PastelChalkedFreezeFrame Postcard Memories]] to hide a clear lack of budget. Compare this to ''Manga/MadBull34'', another [=OVA=] based on a Kazuo Koike work by [[Creator/MagicBus the same studio]], which is seen as merely SoBadItsGood. WebVideo/KyotoVideo reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffM5vEMiFIM here.]]

** The OVA '''''Anime/MarsOfDestruction''''' is clearly a pathetic attempt at being dark and edgy in the style of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', only the plot is non-existent, and the characters don't ever get any development and end up completely forgettable. The animation and fight scenes aren't any better, either. It's as if the animators weren't even ''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://channelawesome.com/anifile-mars-of-destruction-review/ here.]] You can also watch it in its entirety [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcn4ndi4Gcw here]] [[BileFascination if you really want to]]. To assess how bad this series is, both the OVA and game have overwhelmingly negative reception. It holds the '''absolute worst''' rating on [=MyAnimeList.net=], a 2.2, [=AniList=] gives it a pitiful 19%, and [=IMDb=] clobbers it with a 1.8. Google users have for the game or OVA, with only 16% liking them.
** There's another Creator/IdeaFactory anime with the same director, '''''Anime/TenkuuDanzaiSkelterHeaven''''', which is a very similar failure to ''Mars of Destruction'', except with much better visuals. Not that is saying much when the bad CGI used for the squid and mechs [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects don't even try to blend in with the hand-drawn animation]], which is so cheap that the LimitedAnimation opening ([[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic which admittedly has a pretty good song]]) looks more like something out of a visual novel than an anime. The plot can hardly be called one for the same reasons as ''Mars of Destruction'', and there is blatant {{Padding}} with an overly long establishing shot of the Earth followed by the same exposition being repeated several times before the opening has even played. 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. Watch the Black Critic Guy review it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8899ktUEhNE here]], and the anime itself can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJxJh7zObec here.]]

* '''''[[Anime/AbunaiSisters Abunai Sisters: Koko & Mika]]''''' is a series made to promote Kyoko and Mika Kano, real-life Japanese celebrities, that landed a spot on many "worst" lists shortly after release. The animation is about on par with a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]] CG cutscene, despite the show being released in ''2009'' (and [[https://myanimelist.net/anime/5877/Abunai_Sisters__Koko___Mika made by]] ''Creator/ProductionIG''), the voice acting is incredibly annoying (and in broken English for some reason), and there's little if any plot. It tries to be a comedy, but in a critical flaw 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 only thing the show has left to rely on is its {{fanservice}}, with not only an uncanny number of scenes focusing on the central characters' breasts, but unfortunately, the characters (who were designed by famed manga artist Susumu Matsushita) resemble [[UnintentionalUncannyValley bobbleheads]] (and the BigBad suspiciously resembles [[Anime/SpiritedAway Yubaba]]), and their vaunted cleavage looks like they've shoved basketballs down their shirts. Coupled with the awful animation, [[FetishRetardant this renders any attempt at fanservice utterly unappealing]]. The result is something with one hell of an UncertainAudience, as the show is too sexual for children, but its simplistic {{slapstick}} is too childish for adults. Only two episodes were ever aired, with the eight remaining ones only being released on DVD, where the voice acting was pitched up for some reason, making it unbearably grating to listen to (which is only alleviated by the show's short runtime of three minutes per episode). If you have any doubts, allow Demolition D+ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetluD1E5aw to relieve them]].
* The anime adaptation of '''''VisualNovel/{{Amnesia|Memories}}''''' ([[SimilarlyNamedWorks no relation to]] ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'') 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, garish character designs; characters who are either bland or completely unlikeable (including a nameless TooDumbToLive FlatCharacter as ''the main protagonist''); one of the worst handled {{yandere}}s in anime history; and oodles of sexism. When Creator/SentaiFilmworks announced both an English dub and a Blu-ray release, there was actual ''outrage'' from anime fan communities as to why it deserved such treatment (it was allegedly to promote a possible English release of the original visual novel).
* The anime adaptation of '''''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting''''' often ends up on a lot of "[[WorstWhateverEver Worst Anime Ever]]" lists, and for good reason, too. The art direction is duller than dirt, the character design is inconsistent at best, and often with AdaptationalDyeJob; and the plot (the main characters, who come across as dumbasses here, don't even learn about the MacGuffin until ''halfway through'' the anime), while less than 45 minutes, ''still'' feels padded (at one point, the anime repeats exposition that was given not ''five minutes earlier''), and without stakes. But worst of all are the "[[FightSceneFailure fight scenes]]", as the characters seem to have no weight, and they're boarded in a bland and uninspired manner. Compounding matters is the editing, which makes the choreography (such as it is) hard to follow. ''WebVideo/KyotoVideo'' tears it apart [[https://youtu.be/YXvUUxJz4Bg here]], while WebVideo/BennettTheSage snarks at it [[https://youtu.be/S2lBcYZ23gA here]].

* '''''Blue Flames''''' is a deservedly obscure 45-minute OVA from 1989. Its production values are very lacking for an OVA (which usually have higher budgets than TV series), with bland designs, uninspired and simplistic art and animation, a sluggish pace, lackluster voice acting, and an ill-fitting soundtrack. But what makes it awful is its [[DesignatedHero protagonist]], a stoic social climber named Ryuichi Kaizu who wants to enter Tokyo University. He abuses his family and a string of women he seduces, driving one to attempt suicide, in order to fulfill his goals. In one of the worst examples of misogynistic wish fulfillment in [=OVAs=] of the time, when one woman confronts him, he rapes her and she submits to him. He [[KarmaHoudini never faces punishment for any of this]]. It is little talked about but reviews can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luhdx1vWCRw here]] and [[http://www.theanimereview.com/reviews/blueflames.html here]], though be warned of disturbing sex scenes.
* The broken English in the title of '''''Anime/{{Cosprayers}}''''' (short for ''The Cosmopolitan P'''r'''ayers'') is the least of the show's problems. The characters are incredibly idiotic, inconsistent, and [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional]]. The girl who loves the male lead [[GirlOnGirlIsHot makes out]] with the main (female) protagonist, and the other girl also likes the guy, and there is no motivation for the LoveTriangle. 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 [[EightDeadlyWords never give the audience any reason to care]]. It heavily rips off ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and is much less entertaining. It culminates in an extremely lazy GainaxEnding with singing and rainbows. The whole thing was created by the company [[Main/{{Pun}} MOE]] (Masters of Entertainment), but they don't show their mastery here. To add insult to injury, there's '''two''' shows (''Hit wo Nerae'' and ''Love Love?'') made in the same year, by most of the same staff, set in the present day which portray ''Cosprayers'' as [[StylisticSuck a bad anime in-universe]] in the RecursiveCanon, to the point where in ''Love Love?'', the second series, it turns out the identity of ''Cosprayers''[='s=] writer is kept secret.
* The {{yaoi|Genre}} manga '''''Dog Catalogue''''' has ridiculously {{flat character}}s who receive absolutely no attempts at development, a frightfully generic storyline, and [[https://i.imgur.com/VonvU.jpg some of the worst art put to paper]]. Every page is an artist's nightmare -- the characters look like someone partially deflated their heads and used the air to inflate their hands. A perfect example of how deep in the [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]] the stereotypical yaoi art style can go.
* '''''Anime/GenmaWars''''', the 2002 anime adaptation of Creator/ShotaroIshinomori's 1979 manga ''Genma Taisen: Shinwa Zenya no Shou''. It tried to be a self-standing adaptation, itself questionable given the source's place in the ''Genma Taisen'' franchise, and it did so by keeping or eliminating things from the manga very arbitrarily. These included elements of lore that tied the source back to the rest of the franchise, and gave it its identity and depth, most notably its trademark {{Downer Ending}}s. Even more went unexplored, making the story even more confusing to newcomers. They also tacked on gratuitous amounts of violence and nudity (which were censored, pretty clumsily, in the English localization), screwing with the tone and alienating the old guard. And yet, none of these changes actually did anything to update the manga, by this point more than 20 years old and [[FairForItsDay very obviously so.]] Anything that could be salvaged from all this is done in by the awful, cheap-as-chips animation and incredibly lazy art direction -- especially inexcusable considering the source was visually one of Ishinomori's most ambitious works. [=MercuryFalcon=], who is a big fan of Ishinomori's work, takes a look at it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4QXbT6uhQU here.]] WebVideo/BennettTheSage also examines it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ3FkD6umEY&ab_channel=BennettTheSage here]], but in the end considers other anime (including fellow folder entry ''Anime/GarzeysWing'') to be more apt contenders for the title of "Worst Anime Ever".
* '''''Anime/HandShakers''''' became notorious almost instantly after it began airing due to its horrendous animation style full of janky frames, poor color mixing, awkward movement, [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects abundance of poorly-integrated CG]], and a number of other issues which has led to many labeling the anime unwatchable (to the point that it's even caused migraines and motion sickness in some viewers). Those who ''try'' to watch the anime for the plot aren't going to get anything out of it either, with bland characters, a non-existent plot driven solely by the IdiotBall, terrible pacing (with very little in the way of plot happening over more than half the anime) and a heaping amount of off-putting IncestSubtext. The anime especially became notorious on Anime News Network, where [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/hand-shakers/episode-4/.111708 its fourth episode ended up being one of the very few anime episodes to ever get an "F" ranking]], with the rest of the series almost ''never'' raising above a pathetic "D". This led to many watching out of pure BileFascination. Watch WebVideo/MothersBasement tear it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2L5Q2601n8 here.]]

** The ostensibly all-CGI anime adaptation of '''''Manga/ExArm''''' proves once and for all why having a staff and production team with ''zero experience in the anime industry'' [[note]](they only had experience in the live-action film and video game industries)[[/note]] is a detriment instead of a selling point. The story, which is a {{compressed|Adaptation}} and {{Bowdlerize}}d adaptation of a comparatively much better manga about a boy named Akira whose brain is transferred to a superweapon by a policewoman, is mediocre at best, but what pushes the series into Horrible territory is its borderline-unwatchable animation. Characters emote in [[UnintentionalUncannyValley unsettling]] and [[DullSurprise strange]] ways, and the backgrounds are bereft of any detail while the otherwise-competent action sequences are marred by cheap smoke filters and a sense of slippery weightlessness. Infamously, a kiss scene between two female characters has their lips covered by an inexplicable flash of light - not for censorship reasons ([[HideYourLesbians though one can see why it might be that way at first]]), but to poorly disguise the fact that the models' lips can't pucker (and that their noses are clipping through their faces). A good number of characters don't even have CGI models, instead being traditionally animated by hand, and [[OffModel not very well at that]]. The end result has received unfavorable comparisons to cheap mobile game ads, and it plummeted to the bottom of My Anime List with a 2.26/10 rating as soon as it premiered. It has since beaten out all-time "greats" like ''Manga/{{Pupa}}'' and ''Anime/{{Gibiate}}'' as the lowest-rated TV anime [[https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1888165 on the site.]] Watch WebVideo/LostPause tear it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8MAVaiV9eo here]], and read Anime News Network's autopsy of the show's disastrous reveal trailer [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2020-11-09/why-does-the-crunchyroll-original-series-ex-arm-look-so-awful/.166117 here.]] WebVideo/MothersBasement also tore into it as his #1 choice for the worst anime of 2021 [[https://youtu.be/k6EDqXuSaRc?t=1468 here.]]
** '''''Anime/{{Gibiate}}''''', despite possessing an all-star production team including the likes of Creator/YoshitakaAmano, Creator/YuzoKoshiro, and Creator/TheYoshidaBrothers, utterly fails to live up to the reputation of its creators. Intended to be a throwback to the days of ultraviolent [=90s=] anime, it instead winds up embodying everything that was wrong with the anime of that decade. While the premise is utterly ridiculous (a samurai, a ninja, and a monk being sent forward in time into a post-apocalyptic world), it at least had the potential to be entertaining; unfortunately, the piss-poor animation and consistently OffModel character designs make the action scenes dull and the characterization scenes unappealing. [[FlatCharacter The characters have all the depth of an inflatable kiddie pool]], and the story is a blatant collection of post-apocalyptic {{cliche|Storm}}s crossed with a plot that mostly revolves around [[TooDumbToLive characters dying easily avoidable deaths]] from all the {{Idiot Ball}}s flying around. What the show assumes passes for CharacterDevelopment is ''characters monologuing directly into the camera'', framed like RealityShow segments. The climax of the show features an intelligence-insulting AssPull that renders the main characters' journey AllForNothing - and bafflingly, the anime [[EsotericHappyEnding tries to sell it as an optimistic ending]] despite the fact that [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDiesEnding all but two of the characters are dead]]]]. The end result is an utter failure that does nothing but tarnish its creators' reputations.[[note]](This anime was the brainchild of Ryo Aoki, who was also responsible for the critically-panned ''Anime/{{Endride}}''. While he doesn't yet have the track record of someone like Yoshiteru Satou, he's quickly gaining a similar reputation for delivering back-to-back bottom-tier anime. Meanwhile, lead animation producer Creator/StudioElle has mostly retreated back to doing subcontracted work for other companies.)[[/note]] Trash Tier Waifu tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLF6g0A2Q0 here]], and in the list of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTKRS71whE the worst anime of 2020]], WebVideo/MothersBasement places it squarely in the bottom of the barrel.

** The '''''Manga/KyoKoiOHajimemasu''''' OVA, similar to ''Honey X Honey Drops'' by the same producers[[note]](J.C. Staff animated this one under Shogakukan's contract instead of the now-defunct Radix of ''Honey X Honey Drops'')[[/note]], suffers immensely from the same issues as that title did - flat animation and voice acting, unlikeable 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]].

** While the DeadlyGame genre is loaded with contentious titles, '''''[[Literature/KingsGame King's Game The Animation]]''''' is an easy contender for the worst. As adaptations go, it had a lot to live up to; the film version is still a CultClassic among {{Exploitation Film}} fans. But while that (and the manga) just stuck with the original, the anime covered that ''and'' the sequel - in the opposite order, with stop-and-start {{flashback}} sequences that have no sense of timing. The result is an utter nightmare of a plot - what portion of it can still be followed builds up to a long-ForegoneConclusion - made all the more confusing by terrible pacing. They also had to [[CompressedAdaptation hack down the material considerably to fit in the format]]; perplexingly, this means certain plot twists appear [[AssPull minus the setups provided in the original]]. That, and almost every character, including the leads, is pared down [[FlatCharacter to one or two traits]]; even the {{deuteragonist}} is no more than a SatelliteLoveInterest. What's left of the setting is [[{{Narm}} far too dark to be taken seriously,]] and the portion of the plot that is shown depends upon [[IdiotBall all of the characters acting braindead.]] All that aside, the story ''adds'' inane, nonsensical plot points (writing whole classes out via mass suicide, for one); badly-executed, pointless sexual content; and one last AssPull that diminishes its potential to be mocked. The animation and soundtrack budget both clearly went in full to [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic the opening and ending sequences.]]
** The manga '''''Nobunaga-sensei's Child Bride''''' and the anime adaptation of its first half. If the title didn't already give a vague idea of what watchers were in for, what little plot there is revolves around a dorky schoolteacher who is the descendant of UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga. He has the ability to resurrect certain members of his ancestor's harem by touching objects they once owned, as well as temporarily awaken the spirits of others through physical contact with their human hosts. All of them, be they resurrected or possessed, want to marry him and are 14 at the oldest. This leads to 12 deeply-uncomfortable episodes of barely-teenage girls trying to seduce an adult man. And for those few who can get past that, the hideous art style, atrocious animation, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking obsession with the horribly-animated nipples of the only adult female in the cast]] that render everything the least sexy it can possibly be will certainly turn you off. Add to that a wholly disgusting scene where the (straight) male protagonist is gaslit into almost having sex with a male student, as well as bigoted claims about transgender people and transvestism (in short, it flat-out states that such people ''[[EskimosArentReal don't exist outside of straight male fantasies]]''), and you have a FetishRetardant garbage fire of an anime. Perhaps the only saving grace of this anime is the fact that each episode is only nine minutes long. Ki no Shirayuki of Blog/DasSporking takes a spork to it episode-by-episode [[https://das-sporking2.dreamwidth.org/1594624.html here]] and [=pan2000=] gives a more concise review [[https://pan2000.dreamwidth.org/2089.html here.]]

** '''''JK-Meshi!''''' is a [[FourGirlEnsemble Three-Girl Ensemble]] four-minute anime about cooking airing in the Fall 2015 anime season. Sounds promising, but it's gained a fair bit of infamy from just how low the production values are: the series is animated in ''horrible'' CG (seriously, better-looking character designs can be made in UsefulNotes/MikuMikuDance), and for a series about cooking, the budget is too cheap [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything to show the characters actually doing what the show is supposed to be about]]. While the animation is bad enough, the "plot" condemns the show entirely - most of the episode is taken up by unfunny, forced, and stilted "comedy" consisting of the girls complaining about school, and all of their voice actors sound bored out of their minds. It got so bad ''the actors announced they would not be returning to the series after the fourth episode'', and an episode late in the series features the characters admitting that the anime is the worst-produced and worst-received of the year, followed by begging for the audience's sympathy. Just as an example of how poorly-received this series was, [[https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1809457 on MyAnimeList, anything with a community rating below 5 is widely considered to be awful.]] ''JK-Meshi'' scored a '''4.67''', placing it on the same tier as some other luminaries mentioned here.
** And if that wasn't enough, the next season brought with it '''''Bishoujo Unit Senshi Crane Game Girls''''', straight from the creative team behind ''JK-Meshi!'' and just as bad. While the animation could be said to be [[DamnedByFaintPraise of slightly better quality]], the show is still beset with the dullness and phoned-in voice acting of its predecessor, and the comedy somehow manages to be even less funny. Despite all this, it managed to get a second season, which was worse ''still'' since a large part of the episodes consisted of tedious dragged-out ads for the Internet crane game company they managed to lure into sponsoring the show.
*** To compare, the internationally-beloved Season 1 of ''Anime/KemonoFriends'' was made under the exact same circumstances as low-budget shows like these.

*** To give a better idea on how ''bad'' this thing is, Website/TFWikiDotNet [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Energon_(cartoon) provides]] an ''extremely''-critical look at the series, complete with sections in the episode articles dedicated to how badly the dub fails.
** When '''''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 then the manga scans showed up, depicting 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 [[invoked]][[UnfortunateImplications sexist overtone-plagued]] antics of Atari Hitotonari (along with the EthnicScrappy Shaoshao, and Marissa Fairborne, a character dating back to Season 3 of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original series]]), and [[OlderThanTheyLook late teenagers/young adults appearing to be eight years old]] (no, this isn't an [[ArtisticAge art style quirk]], ''they're intentionally drawn that way''). On top of this, the radio drama (the other major piece of Kiss Players media) suffers from many of the same problems. Series creator Yuki Ohshima openly admitted to making the series this way for no reason other than shock value. The second half of the series attempted what can only be damage control by shifting gears and becoming a ContinuityPorn series which happened to star cute girls, but by then it was too late - American fans were left disgusted, and Japanese fans feared this would set [[StopBeingStereotypical 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 franchise's fanbase, it's one of the few ''Transformers'' series that's universally hated (joined by ''Energon'' and ''Combiner Wars''), which is a real accomplishment. WebVideo/ComicTropes delves further into how awful it is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS34CFd754s here]], while Chris [=McFeely=] gives a basic overview [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw2lS3wnne4 here.]]

** There's another Creator/IdeaFactory anime with the same director, '''''Anime/TenkuuDanzaiSkelterHeaven''''', which is a very similar failure to ''Mars of Destruction'', except with much better visuals. Not that is saying much when the bad CGI used for the squid and mechs [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects don't even try to blend in with the hand-drawn animation]], which is so cheap that the LimitedAnimation opening ([[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic which admittedly has a pretty good song]]) looks more like something out of a visual novel than an anime. The plot can hardly be called one for the same reasons as ''Mars of Destruction'', and there is blatant {{Padding}} with an overly-long establishing shot of the Earth followed by the same exposition being repeated several times before the opening has even played. 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. Watch the Black Critic Guy review it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8899ktUEhNE here]], and the anime itself can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJxJh7zObec here.]]

* '''''[[Anime/AbunaiSisters Abunai Sisters: Koko & Mika]]''''' is a series made to promote Kyoko and Mika Kano, real-life Japanese celebrities, that landed a spot on many "worst" lists shortly after release. The animation is about on par with a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]] CG cutscene, despite the show being released in ''2009'' (and [[https://myanimelist.net/anime/5877/Abunai_Sisters__Koko___Mika made by]] ''Creator/ProductionIG''), the voice acting is incredibly annoying (and in broken English for some reason), and there's little if any plot. It tries to be a comedy, but in a critical flaw 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 only thing the show has left to rely on is its {{fanservice}}, with not only an uncanny number of scenes focusing on the central characters' breasts, but unfortunately, the characters (who were designed by famed manga artist Susumu Matsushita) resemble [[UnintentionalUncannyValley bobbleheads]] (and the BigBad suspiciously resembles [[Anime/SpiritedAway Yubaba]]), 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 utterly unappealing]]. The result is something with one hell of an UncertainAudience, as the show is too sexual for children, but its simplistic {{slapstick}} is too childish for adults. Only two episodes were ever aired, with the eight remaining ones only being released on DVD, where the voice acting was pitched up for some reason, making it unbearably grating to listen to (which is only alleviated by the show's short runtime of three minutes per episode). If you have any doubts, allow Demolition D+ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetluD1E5aw to relieve them]].

* '''''Blue Flames''''' is a deservedly obscure 45-minute OVA from 1989. Its production values are very lacking for an OVA (which usually have higher budgets than TV series), with bland designs, uninspired and simplistic art and animation, a sluggish pace, lackluster voice acting, and an ill-fitting soundtrack. But what makes it awful is its [[DesignatedHero protagonist]], a stoic social climber named Ryuichi Kaizu who wants to enter Tokyo University. He abuses his family and a string of women he seduces, driving one to attempt suicide, in order to fulfill his goals. In one of the worst examples of misogynistic wish-fulfillment in [=OVAs=] of the time, when one woman confronts him, he rapes her and she submits to him. He [[KarmaHoudini never faces punishment for any of this]]. It is little talked about but reviews can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luhdx1vWCRw here]] and [[http://www.theanimereview.com/reviews/blueflames.html here]], though be warned of disturbing sex scenes.

* '''''Anime/GenmaWars''''', the 2002 anime adaptation of Creator/ShotaroIshinomori's 1979 manga ''Genma Taisen: Shinwa Zenya no Shou''. It tried to be a self-standing adaptation, itself questionable given the source's place in the ''Genma Taisen'' franchise, and it did so by keeping or eliminating things from the manga very arbitrarily. These included elements of lore that tied the source back to the rest of the franchise, and gave it its identity and depth -- most notably, its trademark {{Downer Ending}}s. Even more went unexplored, making the story even more confusing to newcomers. They also tacked on gratuitous amounts of violence and nudity (which were censored, pretty clumsily, in the English localization), screwing with the tone and alienating the old guard. And yet, none of these changes actually did anything to update the manga, by this point more than 20 years old and [[FairForItsDay very obviously so.]] Anything that could be salvaged from all this is done in by the awful, cheap-as-chips animation and incredibly lazy art direction -- especially inexcusable considering the source was visually one of Ishinomori's most ambitious works. [=MercuryFalcon=], who is a big fan of Ishinomori's work, takes a look at it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4QXbT6uhQU here.]] WebVideo/BennettTheSage also examines it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ3FkD6umEY&ab_channel=BennettTheSage here]], but in the end considers other anime (including fellow folder entry ''Anime/GarzeysWing'') to be more apt contenders for the title of "Worst Anime Ever".

* '''''Ijime''''' ("Bullying"), a short anime OVA released for free in an issue of ''Ciao'' (which should tell you a lot). It has amateurish voice acting, flat animation, a ''[[https://simkl.in/posters/96/96531265646138_w.webp hideous]]'' art style so deep in the [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]] it hurts, and incompetent handling of serious subject matter (childhood bullying). There's also a scene that [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything plays out like a gang rape]]. It's very telling that it's the only ''Ciao Ciao TV'' short so far that never became a mini-series. Watch WebVideo/TheCartoonHero review it [[http://theherooftomorrow.blogspot.no/2017/04/patreon-request-ijime-review.html here.]]

* '''''Ladyspo''''' is not so much an anime as it's a barely animated slideshow that, unlike an outright manga, consists of stills that show no sense of motion. Since this title is about sports, it's the one factor that damns the show. The plot is no better: it's a generic affair -- teams of MsFanservice women competing in sports in outer space -- delivered by a cast of bland characters. Last but not least, there's inexplicable and out-of-place ToiletHumour, used to ''open'' the show no less. Audience is [[https://www.anikore.jp/anime/11638/ not]] [[https://myanimelist.net/anime/37448/Ladyspo/reviews kind]].

* '''''Mahou Shoujo? Naria Girls''''' is a three-minute all-CGI short which makes ''Abunai Sisters'' and ''JK-Meshi!'' look like Studio Ghibli productions by comparison. As a bit of background information, the studio behind the short, gdgd, had released a series called ''gdgdFairies'' which had very low-quality CGI models and no plot to speak of, but was saved by the characters' top-tier voice actresses adlibbing and doing what amounted to improv comedy, and it developed a small cult following. gdgd had the bright idea to repeat the formula for their next series, but this time outright told the voice actresses to go out there and adlib; unfortunately they weren't nearly as high quality as the previous series, and it showed. The plot and jokes are nigh-incomprehensible (trust us, "magical girl" is about all the information you're going to pick up from it). The CGI for the characters is even worse than ''fairies'', featuring [[UnintentionalUncannyValley models that jerk and twitch every second like marionettes being controlled by someone having a seizure]], and the audio quality is terrible; the voice actresses sound like they're recording through wool socks, which makes it impossible to even tell if a joke was going to be there since you can't understand what they're saying at all. Apart from the characters, the budget was so cheap that there were only a couple (hand-drawn as opposed to CGI) backgrounds used throughout the series. Even worse, beginning at the seventh episode, the studio couldn't even afford to use the CGI models and had to use pans of still images with the voice actresses talking over them. Somehow the still images managed to be considered ''better quality'' than the CGI, mainly because they were actually competently drawn and didn't shake and spaz all the time. Anime Randoms takes a look at it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b1YDADCNTg here]], but doesn't have many kind words to say on the matter.

* '''''Ninja Collection''''' is a spin-off of ''Anime/YamishibaiJapaneseGhostStories'' that does nothing except for tarnishing the reputation of it. It's allegedly about a group of teenage {{Ninja}} fighting monsters in Tokyo, but good luck at figuring that out from the show itself. For starters, the title characters get only a few seconds of screentime each episode, if they're lucky; each episode instead revolves around a different generic and often nameless everyman or woman. Each episode is a collection of bizarre non-sequiturs, stilted dialogue, horror cliches, and ridiculous {{Jump Scare}}s, and either end with the generic character either [[DeusExMachina being saved in a contrived manner]], or [[ShootTheShaggyDog suddenly dying]] [[DiabolusExMachina in an equally contrived way]]. In fact, more information is given about what is going on ''in the trailer for the show'' than the show itself, including the fact that it's even a spinoff of ''Yami Shibai'' at all -- but it's not like it makes the show any less of a confusing mess to try to make sense of. As for the animation, calling it {{limited|Animation}} would be generous; it's more akin to a slideshow running at a maximum of ''one frame per second'', with not even the characters' mouths moving with the dialogue. And unlike ''Yami Shibai'', where it was justified by the kamishibai stylization, here it's just done for the hell of it. The only saving grace of this shitshow is that the ending song is pretty nice. Watch KHANTEHNT eviscerate it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJN5k4KitHw here.]]
* The four-part OVA adaptation of the {{yaoi|Genre}} manga '''''Manga/OkaneGaNai'''''. The animation and anatomy are 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 content is very brutal and rape-y, there are attempts to be "deep and dark and edgy" that just come off as [[RatedMForMoney horribly immature]], and the story doesn't even make much sense. This is even believed to be the basis of the genre's most negative stereotypes. To top it off, because it's so infamous in the field of male/male romance, it often overshadows several SimilarlyNamedWorks, including a 90s J-Drama that has been taught in universities.
* '''''Omae wa Mada Gunma o Shiranai (You Don't Know Gunma Yet)''''' is a short 3-minute anime mini-series that's a blatant ad for tourism in Gunma Prefecture, but the only thing it succeeds at is driving people away from ever wanting to visit there. It's presented as a comedy, and many of its "jokes" come from acting like Gunma is a PlaceWorseThanDeath, as a bit of SelfDeprecation, but there's never any attempt to show why that perception is wrong or even any punchlines at all. You're more likely to learn random facts like that people from Gunma drown the most out of any prefecture in Japan (yes, really) more than you are any reason why you should come for a visit. The art doesn't help, as it could have been taken straight out of a cheap 1990s OVA when the series was made in 2018. Instead of presenting Gunma as a misunderstood but nice place (which the creators were obviously aiming for but seriously botched), this anime will probably convince anyone viewing that the only things that the prefecture has are residents who hate outsiders and terrible weather, and to only take a trip there as a last resort.
* '''''Manga/PilotCandidate''''', a.k.a. ''Candidate For Goddess'', has [[SpecialEffectFailure horribly-integrated]] [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects CGI]] even for its era, {{plot hole}}s practically from the start (it's stated early that only men can become Goddess pilots, except the best pilot on the protagonist's squad is a woman), and an aggressively unlikable protagonist in Zero Enna (who can best be described as a mashup of [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]], and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi Kamiya]] [[note]](and ''voiced'' by Tai's voice actor in the English dub)[[/note]], but with none of their redeeming qualities). The greatest failing, however, is that every piece of the story is [[AbortedArc 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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8PpooHKv8M make fun of it]] along with ''Anime/BlueGender'' (which, while [[SoOkayItsAverage mediocre]], is nowhere near as bad as this anime) for his "Creator/AdultSwim Month" feature, and watch WebVideo/TheCartoonHero tear it apart [[http://theherooftomorrow.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-cartoon-hero-vs-pilot-candidate.html here.]]

** Creator/AdultSwim aired the 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'': [[CreatorBacklash Never Again]]."

* The anime adaptation of '''''Manga/{{Pupa}}'''''. 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 lineup and pushed back to the Winter 2014 lineup, where it was revealed the episodes would only be four minutes long (its only saving grace, according to viewers). It has been universally panned for horrid writing and piss-poor pacing (including a subplot that gets dropped the moment it's introduced), uninteresting characters, mishandling of the manga's disturbing material, inconsistent censorship as it was airing, simultaneously disgusting and dull "scares", and a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment final episode]] that does nothing to wrap up the plot. Special mention goes to the infamous Episode 6 (and Episode 8 when it comes to censorship). [[http://myanimelist.net/anime/19315/Pupa Not only is it one of the lowest-ranked TV anime series on My Anime List]], 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. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140508210132/http://animeviking.com:80/2014/04/13/pupa-is-the-worst-anime-i-have-ever-seen/ Anime Viking also has a few words to say regarding the matter.]]

* The 13-episode anime adaptation of '''''Manga/SamuraiGun'''''. Low-budget animation, uniformly one-note and unlikeable characters and repetitive story beats combine to derail an interesting concept (elite secret agents in an anachronistic feudal Japan). What would've been below average and forgettable is pulled firmly into SBIH territory by the show's rampant, hateful misogyny: Every VillainOfTheWeek plot seems to involve the gratuitous and brutal abuse and deaths of random big-breasted women. And the show seems to relish showing women being slaughtered more than showing the good guys kicking ass. See what ''WebVideo/{{Animerica}}'' had to say about it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tCQCogMQWI here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRWhXq_FGIM here.]]

* '''''Manga/TeslaNote''''' is the living proof that the anime industry learned ''nothing'' from the debacle that was ''Manga/ExArm''. Just like the latter, this show consists of poorly-integrated 3D CGI models on two-dimensional backgrounds, with the characters occasionally themselves switching into 2D animation for reasons unknown; said character models consistently squirm and move during scenes, presumably in an attempt to make them look more lifelike, but instead it just comes across as [[UnintentionalUncannyValley looking wrong]] (the series looking the worst in Episode 6, where even the camera moves around wildly like it's drunk). Even disregarding the animation problems, the writing is bad on its own merits. Even though an international espionage thriller about a group of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ninja secret agents]] fighting another organization of evil secret agents to gather a set of {{MacGuffin}}s may sound like it will be entertaining at the very least, all the charm of that premise is drained by a host of questionable writing choices that make the show a chore to watch. The protagonists are unlikeable and [[FailureHero incompetent]], the plot is constantly derailed by [[InfoDump random facts and asides]] that add little to the story, the villains are {{generic|DoomsdayVillain}}, the [[AnAesop morals]] have [[CluelessAesop absolutely nothing to do with the story of the anime]], and the tone [[MoodWhiplash attempts to combine Saturday-morning cartoon-style characters and action with serious plots about such weighty topics as discrimination, childhood bullying, and the morality of taking life]]. When WebVideo/MothersBasement talked about this anime in his [[https://youtu.be/aSeqJdqTqD8?t=101 video about the worst anime of the Fall 2021 season]], [[DamnedByFaintPraise the only praise he could give it was that it was more competent than]] ''EX-ARM'', and that the voice actors [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously seemed to enjoy their roles]]. It currently sits at a 4.72/10 on [=MyAnimeList=] and a 39/100 on [=AniList=].

* '''''Vampire Holmes''''' is a short 12-episode promotional anime of a mobile video game of the same name, with each episode lasting about 3 minutes. Despite being based on a RoomEscapeGame, most of the anime's runtime is dedicated to annoying, unfunny humor between the main characters rather than mystery-solving. It also fails as good Franchise/SherlockHolmes media, as the titular character is written as an unlikable LazyBum who spends most of the series never showing any of his inspiration's detective skills. To add insult to injury, the animation is painfully awkward, lazy and amateurish. [[NeverTrustATitle It doesn't even have vampires in it!]] Audience reception is almost [[https://www.anikore.jp/anime/9094/ uniformly]] [[https://myanimelist.net/anime/28929/Vampire_Holmes/reviews negative]]; Leo Hashee talks about it [[https://youtu.be/coK3Zg_a5Hw here]].

* The '''''Wounded Man''''' OVA, based on a comparatively decent manga by Creator/KazuoKoike (Yes, [[Manga/LoneWolfAndCub THAT Kazuo Koike.]]) is one of the worst examples in the already shlocky genre of the ultra-violent exploitation [=OVAs=] of the 80s. The hero [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes the female lead]] six minutes into the first episode (and again in the fourth), and to make matters worse, she joins him because [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization the sex was really good]]. As for the other women in this series, they either [[FlatCharacter have the personality of a brick]] or are StuffedInTheFridge as quickly as possible. Add in a bizarre plot involving a pornographic studio (God's Pornographic Films, or GPX for short) funded by the FBI that [[spoiler:turns out to have gone bust years ago, making the plot all for nothing]], skips in time that make no sense, and trying to make the hero look like a JerkWithAHeartOfGold despite his rapist status, and you've got yourself an OVA with '''''very''''' bad writing. And don't think the animation will save it, because it's as shoddy as it comes, abusing speed lines and [[PastelChalkedFreezeFrame Postcard Memories]] to hide a clear lack of budget. Compare this to ''Manga/MadBull34'', another [=OVA=] based on a Kazuo Koike work by [[Creator/MagicBus the same studio]], which is seen as merely SoBadItsGood. WebVideo/KyotoVideo reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffM5vEMiFIM here.]]

* Website/{{Crunchyroll}}, under its '''''Crunchyroll Originals''''' brand, has funded the production of anime since 2020, and while they may be responsible for several beloved series, these two anime are widely considered to be the worst they ever had a hand in:
** The ostensibly all-CGI anime adaptation of '''''Manga/ExArm''''' proves once and for all why having a staff and production team with ''zero experience in the anime industry'' [[note]]They only had experience in the live-action film and video game industries.[[/note]] is a detriment instead of a selling point. The story, which is a {{compressed|Adaptation}} and {{Bowdlerize}}d adaptation of a comparatively much better manga about a boy named Akira whose brain is transferred to a superweapon by a policewoman, is mediocre at best, but what pushes the series into Horrible territory is its borderline unwatchable animation. Characters emote in [[UnintentionalUncannyValley unsettling]] and [[DullSurprise strange]] ways, and the backgrounds are bereft of any detail while the otherwise competent action sequences are marred by cheap smoke filters and a sense of slippery weightlessness. Infamously, a kiss scene between two female characters has their lips covered by an inexplicable flash of light--not for censorship reasons ([[HideYourLesbians though one can see why it might be that way at first]]), but to poorly disguise the fact that the models' lips can't pucker (and that their noses are clipping through their faces). A good number of characters don't even have CGI models, instead being traditionally animated by hand, and [[OffModel not very well at that]]. The end result has received unfavorable comparisons to cheap mobile game ads, and it plummeted to the bottom of My Anime List with a 2.26/10 rating as soon as it premiered. It has since beaten out all-time "greats" like ''Manga/{{Pupa}}'' and ''Anime/{{Gibiate}}'' as the lowest-rated TV anime [[https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1888165 on the site.]] Watch WebVideo/LostPause tear it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8MAVaiV9eo here]], and read Anime News Network's autopsy of the show's disastrous reveal trailer [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2020-11-09/why-does-the-crunchyroll-original-series-ex-arm-look-so-awful/.166117 here.]] WebVideo/MothersBasement also tore into it as his #1 choice for the worst anime of 2021 [[https://youtu.be/k6EDqXuSaRc?t=1468 here.]]
** '''''Anime/{{Gibiate}}''''', despite possessing an all-star production team including the likes of Creator/YoshitakaAmano, Creator/YuzoKoshiro, and Creator/TheYoshidaBrothers, utterly fails to live up to the reputation of its creators. Intended to be a throwback to the days of ultraviolent [=90s=] anime, it instead winds up embodying everything that was wrong with the anime of that decade. While the premise is utterly ridiculous (a samurai, a ninja and a monk being sent forward in time into a post-apocalyptic world), it at least had the potential to be entertaining -- unfortunately, the anime's piss-poor animation and consistently OffModel character designs make the action scenes dull and the characterization scenes unappealing. [[FlatCharacter The characters have all the depth of an inflatable kiddie pool]], and the story is a blatant collection of post-apocalyptic {{cliche|Storm}}s crossed with a plot that mostly revolves around [[TooDumbToLive characters dying easily avoidable deaths]] from all the {{Idiot Ball}}s flying around. What the show assumes passes for CharacterDevelopment is ''characters monologuing directly into the camera'', framed like RealityShow segments. The climax of the show features an intelligence-insulting AssPull that renders the main characters' journey AllForNothing -- and bafflingly, the anime [[EsotericHappyEnding tries to sell it as an optimistic ending]] despite the fact that [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDiesEnding all but two of the characters are dead]]]]. The end result is an utter failure that does nothing but tarnish its creators' reputations.[[note]]This anime was the brainchild of Ryo Aoki, who was also responsible for the critically-panned ''Anime/{{Endride}}''. While he doesn't yet have the track record of someone like Yoshiteru Satou, he's quickly gaining a similar reputation for delivering back-to-back bottom-tier anime. While lead animation producer Creator/StudioElle has mostly retreated back to doing subcontracted work for other companies.[[/note]] Trash Tier Waifu tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLF6g0A2Q0 here]], and in the list of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTKRS71whE the worst anime of 2020]], WebVideo/MothersBasement places it squarely in the bottom of the barrel.
* Not even a juggernaut of a studio like '''''Creator/JCStaff''''' is immune to falling into this trap once in a while:
** The 1996 three-episode OVA '''''Anime/GarzeysWing''''' has gained some fame for two things: being based upon the ''Byston Wells'' novels by Creator/YoshiyukiTomino[[note]]Of which the well-regarded ''Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine'' is a much looser adaptation[[/note]] and a scene in which a bird carries off a man's soul. Yet it has bottom-tier animation that looks far older than its release year suggests and a story that is such a CompressedAdaptation that most of the dialogue is hurried exposition and it still fails to explain anything. It feels both confusing and generic, despite featuring a man with glowing wings and soldiers riding dinosaurs. See it be trashed by Emer Prevost of ''WebVideo/ReactionAndReview'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEi1rl0BSr8 here.]] [[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". A reviewer on Anime News Network [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-09-20 also referred to it as "the Battlefield Earth of Anime"]]. The review from the ''Gundamn!'' podcast agreed that it was the worst thing Tomino was ever involved with.
** The '''''Manga/KyoKoiOHajimemasu''''' OVA, similar to ''Honey X Honey Drops'' by the same producers[[note]]J.C. Staff animated this one under Shogakukan's contract instead of the now-defunct Radix of ''Honey X Honey Drops''[[/note]], suffers immensely from the same issues at that title did. Including flat animation and voice acting, unlikeable 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]].
* '''''Seven''''' (no relation to Creator/SevenArcs) has tried to make attempts to break free from their earlier output of Hentai titles. How well have they succeeded in that? They usually fall into the mediocre or forgettable tier of anime, but some of their earlier efforts aren't as lucky:
** While the DeadlyGame genre is loaded with contentious titles, '''''[[Literature/KingsGame King's Game The Animation]]''''' is an easy contender for the worst. As adaptations go, it had a lot to live up to; the film version is still a CultClassic among {{Exploitation Film}} fans. But while that (and the manga) just stuck with the original, the anime covered that ''and'' the sequel -- in the opposite order, with stop-and-start {{flashback}} sequences that have no sense of timing. The result is an utter nightmare of a plot -- what portion of it can still be followed builds up to a long-ForegoneConclusion -- made all the more confusing by terrible pacing. They also had to [[CompressedAdaptation hack down the material considerably to fit in the format]]; perplexingly, this means certain plot twists appear [[AssPull minus the setups provided in the original]]. That, and almost every character, including the leads, is pared down [[FlatCharacter to one or two traits]]; even the {{deuteragonist}} is no more than a SatelliteLoveInterest. What's left of the setting is [[{{Narm}} far too dark to be taken seriously,]] and the portion of the plot that is shown depends upon [[IdiotBall all of the characters acting braindead.]] All that aside, the story ''adds'' inane, nonsensical plot points (writing whole classes out via mass suicide, for one), badly-executed, pointless sexual content, and one last AssPull that diminishes its potential to be mocked. The animation and soundtrack budget both clearly went in full to [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic the opening and ending sequences.]]
** The manga '''''Nobunaga-sensei's Child Bride''''' and the anime adaptation of its first half. If the title didn't already give a vague idea of what watchers were in for, what little plot there is revolves around a dorky schoolteacher who is the descendant of UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga. He has the ability to resurrect certain members of his ancestor's harem by touching objects they once owned, as well as temporarily awaken the spirits of others through physical contact with their human hosts. All of them, be they resurrected or possessed, want to marry him and are fourteen at the oldest. This leads to twelve deeply uncomfortable episodes of barely-teenage girls trying to seduce an adult man. And for those few who can get past that, the hideous art style, atrocious animation, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking obsession with the horribly-animated nipples of the only adult female in the cast]] that render everything the least sexy it can possibly be will certainly turn you off. Add to that a wholly disgusting scene where the (straight) male protagonist is gaslit into almost having sex with a male student, as well as bigoted claims about transgender people and transvestism (in short, it flat-out states that such people ''[[EskimosArentReal don't exist outside of straight male fantasies]]''), and you have a FetishRetardant garbage fire of an anime. Perhaps the only saving grace of this anime is the fact that the episodes are only nine minutes long. Ki no Shirayuki of Blog/DasSporking takes a spork to it episode-by-episode [[https://das-sporking2.dreamwidth.org/1594624.html here]] and [=pan2000=] gives a more concise review [[https://pan2000.dreamwidth.org/2089.html here.]]
* '''''Studio Kyotoma''''' (not to be confused with Creator/KyotoAnimation) was an obscure 3D animation studio that was active in the middle part of TheNewTens. These two execrable anime should give you a good idea of exactly why they're no longer around today:
** '''''JK-Meshi!''''' is a [[FourGirlEnsemble Three-Girl Ensemble]] four-minute anime about cooking airing in the Fall 2015 Anime Season. Sounds promising, but it's gained a fair bit of infamy from just how low the production values are: the series is animated in ''horrible'' CG (seriously, better-looking character designs can be made in UsefulNotes/MikuMikuDance), and for a series about cooking, the budget is too cheap [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything to show the characters actually doing what the show is supposed to be about]]. While the animation is bad enough, the "plot" condemns the show entirely - most of the episode is taken up by unfunny, forced, and stilted "comedy" consisting of the girls complaining about school, and all of their voice actors sound bored out of their minds. It got so bad ''the actors announced they would not be returning to the series after the fourth episode'', and an episode late in the series features the characters admitting that the anime is the worst-produced and worst-received of the year, followed by begging for the audience's sympathy. Just as an example of how poorly-received this series was, [[https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1809457 on MyAnimeList, anything with a community rating of below 5 is widely considered to be awful.]] What did ''JK-Meshi'' score? A ''4.67'', placing it on the same tier as some other luminaries mentioned here.

*** To compare, the internationally beloved ''Anime/KemonoFriends'' was made under the exact same circumstances as low-budget shows like these.

** While ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' got off to a bad start, the show [[GrowingTheBeard did improve as it went on]] and eventually became fairly decent by the end. The same can '''not''' be said for '''''Anime/TransformersEnergon''''', which was (and to some extent, still is) widely considered the worst show the franchise has had, though ''WebAnimation/TheTransformersCombinerWars'' is a viable contender for that dishonor. The story itself is fraught with {{Padding}}, plot points are introduced and immediately dropped, and an unlikable jerk leads the main storyline. Animation for the robots is [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects done almost entirely with CGI]], albeit [[OffModel very badly]] and [[DullSurprise with all the emotional range of a potato]] (though they do become hand-drawn in particularly intense scenes where emotional range is required). All this is topped off by an incredibly rushed production schedule, resulting in lines that don't fit the onscreen action, making the already confusing story nigh-incomprehensible. Even though the series does have one or two SoBadItsGood moments, trying to watch the whole thing to find them is considered an act of torture. This is all summed up by what Alpha Q said in the finale:

* '''''Yoshiteru Satou''''' is a director who gained the nickname of "the Creator/EdWood of anime" among the English-speaking anime community. These two anime he directed show exactly how he got that reputation:

** While the DeadlyGame genre is loaded with contentious titles, '''''[[Literature/KingsGame King's Game The Animation]]''''' is an easy contender for the worst. As adaptations go, it had a lot to live up to; the film version is still a CultClassic among {{Exploitation Film}} fans. But while that (and the manga) just stuck with the original, the anime covered that ''and'' the sequel -- in the opposite order, with stop-and-start {{flashback}} sequences that have no sense of timing. The result is an utter nightmare of a plot -- what portion of it can still be followed builds up to a long-ForegoneConclusion -- made all the more confusing by terrible pacing. They also had to [[CompressedAdaptation hack down the material considerably to fit in the format]]; perplexingly, this means certain plot twists appear [[AssPull minus the setups provided in the original]]. That, and almost every character, including the leads, is pared down [[FlatCharacter to one or two traits]]; even the {{deuteragonist}} is no more than a SatelliteLoveInterest. What's left of the setting is [[{{Narm}} far too dark to be taken seriously,]] and the portion of the plot that is shown depends upon [[IdiotPlot all of the characters being braindead.]] All that aside, the story ''adds'' inane, nonsensical plot points (writing whole classes out via mass suicide, for one), badly-executed, pointless sexual content, and one last AssPull that diminishes its potential to be mocked. The animation and soundtrack budget both clearly went in full to [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic the opening and ending sequences.]]

* The anime adaptation of '''''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting''''' often ends up on a lot of "[[WorstWhateverEver Worst Anime Ever]]" lists, and for good reason, too. The art direction is duller than dirt, the character design is inconsistent at best, and often with AdaptationalDyeJob; and the IdiotPlot (the main characters, who come across as dumbasses here, don't even learn about the MacGuffin until ''halfway through'' the anime), while less than 45 minutes, ''still'' feels padded (at one point, the anime repeats exposition that was given not ''five minutes earlier''), and without stakes. But worst of all are the "[[FightSceneFailure fight scenes]]", as the characters seem to have no weight, and they're boarded in a bland and uninspired manner. Compounding matters is the editing, which makes the choreography (such as it is) hard to follow. ''WebVideo/KyotoVideo'' tears it apart [[https://youtu.be/YXvUUxJz4Bg here]], while WebVideo/BennettTheSage snarks at it [[https://youtu.be/S2lBcYZ23gA here]].

* '''''Anime/HandShakers''''' became notorious almost instantly after it began airing due to its horrendous animation style full of janky frames, poor color mixing, awkward movement, [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects abundance of poorly-integrated CG]], and a number of other issues which has led to many labeling the anime unwatchable (to the point that it's even caused migraines and motion sickness in some viewers). Those who ''try'' to watch the anime for the plot aren't going to get anything out of it either, with bland characters, a non-existent plot [[IdiotPlot driven by stupidity]], terrible pacing (with very little in the way of plot happening over more than half the anime) and a heaping amount of off-putting IncestSubtext. The anime especially became notorious on Anime News Network, where [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/hand-shakers/episode-4/.111708 its fourth episode ended up being one of the very few anime episodes to ever get an "F" ranking]], with the rest of the series almost ''never'' raising above a pathetic "D". This led to many watching out of pure BileFascination. Watch WebVideo/MothersBasement tear it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2L5Q2601n8 here.]]

* '''''Manga/TheIslandOfGiantInsects''''' '''''The Movie''''' was one of the first anime to release in TheNewTwenties -- and what an inopportune start it was, as it most likely will go down as one of the decade's worst. The movie manages to make the characters [[TooBleakStoppedCaring even more stupid and unlikable than they were in the manga]], as most of them apart from the main character seem to be sharing one collective brain cell, not to mention their frequent bullying of her, who is the only one shown to have any sort of competence. In addition, [[CompressedAdaptation the movie completely cuts out significant chunks of the manga's storyline]] to fit in more off-putting {{Fanservice}}. But what truly renders this movie Horrible is the [[NoBudget insane cheapness of the animation and art]]: the titular giant bugs are rendered in low-poly CGI that makes them [[UnintentionalUncannyValley scary in the wrong way]], the only moving parts in most frames of the characters are their mouths, and [[SpecialEffectFailure a scene that is supposed to represent bugs dropping from trees is clearly done by moving a still frame back and forth over the background]]. The crowning example of the laziness and cheapness of the movie is a scene that is meant to make the main character seem like a badass but is instead ''two minutes'' of the same looped footage of her walking down a hall, set to music that is both incredibly generic and [[SoundtrackDissonance incredibly unfitting]]. But don't just take our word for it -- take that of Theron Martin of Anime News Network, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/island-of-giant-insects/movie-and-ova/.155279 who considers this movie too cheap and poorly made to even be entertainingly bad]]. When a [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kyochu-retto/the-island-of-giant-insects-dubbed-and-uncensored Kickstarter for a dub was announced]], it was only given support because they plan on making a GagDub, much like ''Anime/GhostStories.''