Battle Programmer Shirase

It was interesting to see how he fares in his daily life with his unique and dramatic way of programming. You won't expect him to hack using normal conventions rather he does stuff which you won't see it coming. And it was also funny.

The art work for this isn't anything special. Sth you'd expect from an anime released at 2003.

The music is moderately fair.

For someone his age, puberty isn't in his dictionary.

It was sad to see some dialogues and scenes used repeatedly which wasn't fun.
The experience wasn't entirely bad but as someone who consumes lots of animes I wished they had done sth about ... their repetitions.

Battle Programmer Shirase is a funny show with jokes all through it. The show has only 15 episodes and features Akira Shirase, or BPS. He uses his computer-hacking abilities to help people in need. However, he is quite lazy. Shirase doesn't charge for his help; instead, he likes getting hard-to-find computer stuff. His great-niece, Misao Amano, helps him with making food and tidying up. The program has some jokes about Shirase and Amano accidentally getting into sexual situations, which is a joke that continues all through the show. The story has parts, but the same bad guy makes most of the trouble. In every round, ... BPS gets into the enemy computer. This is usually simple to do. Later in the series, jobs get harder and characters from earlier stories help or change what happens. But, the surprise turns in the story aren't very good. In the end, it is a good show. I would suggest you to watch all episodes if you enjoy comedy type of programmes.

I expected to like this show. An ecchi comedy about a programmer who doesn't work for money seems like just the kind of trash that I love. But now I can say with confidence that this is the worst anime I've ever watched. It's a masterclass on how not to make a good show.

Sexualisation of minors and incestuous relationships. Short episodes with long and unnecessary recaps at the start of half of them. Offensive treatment of a trans character. Lazy animation, with lots of scenes being obviously re-used. Characters being introduced, set up as if they are going to be significant, and then never seen ... again. A female character moaning orgasmically and uncontrollably from having her hip groped.

And then there's the "hacking", which requires a paragraph of its own. Many shows portray hacking with terrible tropes, and you would be hard pressed to find a sin on /r/itsaunixsystem that this show DOESN'T commit. But, not satisfied there, the show comes up with some new and original awful hacking tropes. Such as, instead of typing frantically, the main character executing an immensely implausible hack by just pressing one key, the "return" key. Talk about making it look easy. Using a computer without looking at it is nothing new and is possible in real life, but the main character in this show is somehow able to read a report without being able to see the screen.

None of these things are enough to break a show. The issue with BPS is that it has nothing except these things. The storylines are boring. The characters are boring. The show has exactly one joke, and it knows it because it re-uses it 5-6 times throughout the series and follows it up with canned laughter each time. And the joke isn't even very funny.

All of this makes me wonder if perhaps BPS is a parody. If so, it fails on that level too, because parodies are meant to critique and make fun of stupid tropes, not just to emulate them. Instead the kindest thing I could say about this show is that maybe the staff's goal was to make the worst anime ever, and in that case I believe they succeeded.