busterbeam said:The idea that it's 'so bad it's good' is ridiculous. So much shit is extremely low-brow and people unironically love it because it's WELL MADE. Drop the meme opinion and admit that you're laughing with it, not at it - and that if an action-comedy is making you laugh and have fun, IT'S A GOOD ACTION-COMEDY. No one says they like Ping Pong club "ironically" or that it's "bad". Same for Detroit Metal City. Same for Azazel-san. Same for Dead Leaves. Same for Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. The only thing keeping people from earnestly considering this series good is the meme opinion from old-school western anime fans that you need to look down on such works because anime is supposed to be high art or whatever nonsense. Everyone is introduced to it as something "objectively bad" and no matter how much they enjoy it they have to agree with it because they don't want to disagree with the consensus.
The OVA is definitely above-average in terms of production quality but the manga beats it visually; nonetheless I highly doubt things like technical drawing and animation quality are what's making people say it's "objectively bad, but I like it". It's peer pressure and double standards.
The idea that it's too disgusting to watch/read is ridiculous. The same author's Shigurui is a million times more over the top with the gore porn, and makes it far more obvious that it's fetishistic for the author and that he's really into ero-guro. Yet everyone considers that "high art".
You're not wrong.