Hand Shakers has the distinct honour of being the only anime I've ever seen that's physically painful to watch. Which sounds like an exaggeration, but I'm being quite literal- flashing colours, rapidly changing images, and insane spinning cameras lead to nausea and headaches.
And, like, there is a fair amount of effort put into it, but that only makes the fact that it fails on just about every level all the more remarkable. It's a unique cocktail of ambition, resources, effort and utter incompetence. and so it manages to a level of infamy that the low-effort shows forgettable shows that compose the worst anime in most seasons can't hope to match.
I will say that it managed to land in So Bad, It's Good territory for me at times, though- like the blatant sequel hook ending, which had me cackling at the sheer misplaced confidence on display. And the fact that a sequel was eventually made only makes that funnier.
Edited by Gilphon on Mar 11th 2019 at 3:11:34 PM
I've physically had worse reactions to watching some anime. But Gankutsuou is more of a "bold artistic decision that an unfortunate minority of people have bad physical reactions to" than the hot mess that was Hand Shakers
Y'know turning largely lighthearted material Darker and Edgier to this degree is usually only something I see people make jokes about, it's strange to see it actually happen.
In my opinion, Dark Magic is not necessarily wholly evil. Yeah I've seen its True Power-esque effects, but just because something is in the natural order, does not make it right and good.
Humans make use of the meat, organs and skin of animals in order to grow stronger and clothe ourselves, this is not unusual.
Edited by NickTheSwing on Mar 19th 2019 at 3:47:57 AM
MB saw the latest One Punch Man Season 2 trailer and ..... he wasn't impressed.
... I ... didn't ... see any worse... animation from the new OPM Season 2 trailer. It was widely panned?? By who? Then again, I didn't SEE the trailer, I just saw what MB included in this episode and what he showed was only 10 seconds! You cannot judge one whole season's animation by 10 seconds! Which makes this entire video .... kinda needless to me.
The trailer starts out with 8 seconds of a black screen, constantly flickering of black as if to cover up shitty animation, a single fight for a show known for its awesome fight scene that is inferior in quality with most of the trailer having scenes with little to no animation necessary and all seem to be taken from the first two episodes, so nothing to actually inspire confidence here.
Reddit, Myanimelist and You Tube all think it's shit.
OPM's season 2 looking like shit has been the major talking point all over every anime-related social media. He can hardly be blamed for expecting people who follow an anime-based channel to have heard about it. It's been all the anime community's been talking about all week.
Edited by Ghilz on Mar 23rd 2019 at 9:19:19 AM

That's some high-grade low-hanging fruit… but I had never seen a detailed analysis of this show, now that I think of it. And I thought the visuals were the only thing outrageous in this…
Still, I can't help but feel like this show had some kind of effort put into it. In all the wrong places, but still. The characters designs, for example, don't actually look that bad if you ignore the atrocious lighting and coloring. Can you really call it worse that Master of Ragnarok…?
PS: Also, bonus points for the "Thanks, I hate it."
Edited by Lyendith on Mar 9th 2019 at 10:53:04 AM