Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven

Welcome to my 7th review apart of my shitty anime review series.: The infamous Skelter Heaven! This show has somehow garnered the lowest possible score on MAL (in terms of anime), so how in the hell could I possibly recommend it? Well, that's just it - it is *the* lowest rated anime, that's a huge selling point in and of itself.

Skelter Heaven is bad, there's no getting past that, but to be fair to it - it's a 20 minute OVA that doesn't exactly get much time to do itself any justice. So here we go:

OST - 6/10, the best part of this OVA, ... the OST is solid and the opening is alright.

Animation - 2/10, the animation is laughably bad, I mean, the big "villain" of the OVA is the most hilarious, squid-like creature I've ever seen. The mecha suits looked like shit and really put into perspective how god awful animation truly can be. But, hey, it's so bad it's kind of amusing to look at, at the very least.

Characters/Story - ?/10, to be fair, this is so ass it was a struggle to pay attention to. What I can confidently say, is: they sucked. (But, in a way that might make you chuckle).

Overall - 3/10, I'll be honest, writing a positive review for this show is pretty difficult, but since that's the premise of the shitty anime review series, I have to do it. Skelter Heaven is by no means the worst thing I've ever seen and I think it being at the very bottom of the anime scoring on MAL is a bit much all things considered. It's super short and worth checking out for the sake of checking it out.

I am so confused with the plot but you know, this isn’t the worst. Honestly I’m able to enjoy most Animes, good or bad. Also, the characters are pretty, The Art style is what you see in a few other Animes, The Mech designs don’t look too bad, and at least this Anime HAS a Plot. There is worse Animes and this doesn’t deserve a 1 star in my opinion. It’s actually pretty entertaining for me to watch. Also, the Girl’s outfits looked really well done if you know what I mean. Although the Plot is hard to understand, Maybe you can enjoy it if ... you’re bored.

I can see why this is the lowest rated anime on MyAnimeList... that was absolute ass

The Anime does a piss poor job at explaining literally anything. You're going to have a hard time trying to figure out what the plot for this is because it doesn't really explain it at all other than a news broadcaster saying a monster has appeared. That's all there is to really take away from this one. It goes from scene to scene at such a fast pace that I felt like I was watching a heavily condensed movie on TikTok or something

The animation was also pretty ass for 99% ... of it, most of the character designs were fine but it was mostly ass. The anime aired in 2004 according to MAL which for context, some others that also aired in 2004 was Bleach, Elfen Lied, Howl's Moving Castle and School Rumble. When I was watching Skelter Heaven I honestly thought it was an 80s anime but I was shocked to see this was released in the same year as some of the big names in anime. Even Naruto, a show that came out in 2002 was visually way better.

Skelter I feel does have potential to be something decent, but it's over shadowed by the pacing and the pretty ass story. I may be biased because I don't tend to like Mecha anime. I can't really think of any that I have enjoyed so far. It's why I dropped Darling in the Franxx because I plain didn't like it. This one kept my attention, but it failed to be interesting. If the pace wasn't so bad, I may have liked it. Also the random love confession from Rin at the end was so unnecessary and just came out of nowhere. It did nothing for the plot, she just randomly said it.

Not sure what they were trying to do with Skelter Heaven, not even sure they knew themselves. Just another forgettable anime to add to the list I suppose

2/10