I stumbled upon this anime as I was browsing an interest stack containing 'so bad it's good' shows, and at first I couldn't understand what was going on. I read the ridiculous over the top synopsis. I took a look at the 3.82 average rating, and even the stats that showed nearly 20k people had dropped this show (more than had completed it). Yet oddly enough I thought this would be the perfect anime for me. This seemed like an eccentric, overly edgy yet serviceable anime with awful cgi and melodrama that was very typical for the early 2000s and though I can't necessarily say they are good, for me they always scratch a sort of nostalgic itch. Then I realized wait, this was not made in 2002, but rather in 2020. I was literally determined to watch this anime and enjoy it in spite of every piece of information suggesting that it would be an absolute trainwreck.
Having made it to the end, I gotta say there was no exaggerating at all when people say this is truly bad. The fact that somehow something like this could have been made in this day and age astounds me, its like an anime out of time. Somebody watched these episodes, read the dialogue, the script, the storyboard and signed off on it all. The sound design, fight choreography, scene composition, dialogue, 'art' and cgi, plot, characters, writing... it all gradually declined until the final act, where it takes an absolute nosedive and enters wtf-levels I havent encountered in an anime in a while. To actually describe any of the egregious faults this show has would be to spoil the surprise for those who have yet to encounter them.
Is Gibiate the worst anime ever made? No. Is it so bad that it is comedic? Depends on if you. The ending will leave you absolutely bewildered as to why you wasted your time watching 12 episodes to get there. But it is absolutely a must watch for any fellow pilgrims that are on a quest to consume the worst of the worst.
