Shin Yaranai ka

Rarely do you get a show that has that sense of completeness, that je ne sais quoi that's currently lacking from mainstream anime. Everything is overambitious, overproduced, and overhyped, and forgotten by the time the next new shiny thing comes out. Consumed and discarded by the unenlightened masses that are fed seasonal shows by brainwashing algorithms and ragebait discourse.

This is different. Based on the vintage classic "Kuso Miso Soup" and entirely funded by the people, this 30-minute tour de force manages to gently yet firmly whelm the viewer with sodomic imagery. A true testament to how you can joke anything into existence. Is it two ... decades late? Possibly. It exists now and that's what counts. There's a warning at the start that this isn't suitable for children under 12, which I can attest to, it's all tastefully censored with roses, except the stock blood spray effects in one part. I'd watch this with my children.

The OVA is split into three chapters, the first one being a fairly faithful adaptation of the classic manga and the other two being essentially fanfiction that becomes increasingly baroque in its plot. The gaping plot holes remind me of lustrous days of yore when I'd click on a link and have my eyes blessed by a gentleman displaying his rectum to the world. The theme song can't be used to kill smaller creatures instantly. One of the VAs is the director with a voice changer. The climax is.

Some scenes use antialiasing for the characters, some don't. The backgrounds are mostly 3D with a shitty shader. For some shots, AI generated backgrounds are used, which I would usually be against, but I have to admit it adds a certain tinge of trashiness that wouldn't have been possible years ago. The generation is reminiscent of what it looked like a while back, with shapes melting together. They use 3D models sometimes and what I'm pretty sure is a dance animation that comes prepacked with some 3D animation software, it looked familiar to me at least. Objectively, it's awful. It works, in way.

Suggesting this, I felt like Mort from Gunshow's Anime Club chapters pulling out his copy of Smegma Princess, if anyone remembers that. I recommend getting a similar constellation of characters in your viewing party for maximum lulz. This is a future classic fresh out of the oven and I implore you to watch it so in a decade you can brag about how you had the luxury and foresight of having watched Shin Yaranaika when it was new, it will one day stand among the greats like Cipher, Hametsu no Mars and Eiken.

Is it good? No. Is it fun? Maybe. I had fun.

This is so bad it's good levels of entertainment, that level of The Room and Birdemic Shock and Terror where you know what you're watching is trash but you could watch it with a group of friends and just laugh your ass off with the insane plot, animation and voice acting.

This is one of the progenitors of the Bara genre and it definitely shows it age at times but that makes it even more iconic, and given how big meme culture is it honestly came at the best time.

I would recommend this to people who want a good laugh and don't take things too seriously ... so while I give it a low rating because objectively it's bad I give it a 7 in humor and entertainment.