Comically Bad Anime: So Bad It's (Almost) Good
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Anime so utterly appalling that they go full circle and become worth watching in the process. Must watch for people who want to dive head first into hell and learn first hand how truly awful anime can be. Some works here are ironic and intentionally bad, but most are just plainly awful.
CW: Many of these are quite offensive and full of tasteless, gratuitous and disgusting stuff.
CW: Many of these are quite offensive and full of tasteless, gratuitous and disgusting stuff.
OVA, 1996,
3 eps
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Author:3
*ENG DUB
A short OVA connected to the first isekai anime ever, Seisenshi Dunbine, by Yoshiyuki Tomino. This is a brain splitting stinker that does have some interesting sociopolitical plot elements, but presented in such a way that is utterly headache inducing and hilarious.
Please, please watch this masterpiece in the English dub, as this likely has the single worst, most iconic, most unintentionally hilarious and most absurd dub in history.
A short OVA connected to the first isekai anime ever, Seisenshi Dunbine, by Yoshiyuki Tomino. This is a brain splitting stinker that does have some interesting sociopolitical plot elements, but presented in such a way that is utterly headache inducing and hilarious.
Please, please watch this masterpiece in the English dub, as this likely has the single worst, most iconic, most unintentionally hilarious and most absurd dub in history.
OVA, 2004,
1 ep
Me:-
Author:1
Barely coherent clusterfuck of fanservice and cheap attempts at cosmic horror and character drama. Awful animation and direction don't make this strange piece easier to understand or like. Look forward to a, let's say surprising, ending.
OVA, 2005,
1 ep
Me:-
Author:1
The classic of classics, the most (in)famously terrible anime. When you think of awful anime you think of this OVA. As in Skelter Heaven, lots of awful production and hardly coherent story and character work condensed in a short format.
TV, 2021,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:1
Atrocious animation mixing 2 and 3D inconsistently, terrible voice acting, empty characters, directionless plot and a shallow interpretation of cyberpunk themes. Just generally one of the most infamously janky, low budget, low effort and hilariously cheap shows out there.
OVA, 1985,
1 ep
Me:-
Author:1
The worst animated show ever, and utterly insane to boot. Even Ex-Arm can't compete with Nora in this regard. It is genuinely puzzling how this was greenlit to be published when the roughly half an hour OVA has less frames in total than minutes in its run time.
OVA, 1986,
1 ep
Me:-
Author:3
Pure and straightforward violence brimming with stupidity and testosterone. Self aware and fun piece of dogshit for drunken movie night with the lads.
ONA, 2015,
1 ep
Me:-
Author:1
Cheap and janky 2 second ONA about a love story with definitely no plot twists.
Movie, 2003,
1 ep
Me:-
Author:1
Tries too hard to be revolting and edgy but kind of actually succeeds. Actually icky, bizarre and disgusting prank material.
TV, 2021,
12 eps
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Author:1
The Rising of the R*** Hero, I guess? Tries too hard to be edgy, offensive and outrageous and ended up being one of the grossest cases of misogynistic incelslop in the medium. Some entetainment value purely from how over the top it is.
TV, 2022,
11 eps
Me:-
Author:1
A classic display of the modern anime trend of making "I can't believe it's not porn!" shows, at least if you watched the even more awful censored version. This show kind of tries to mask its pestilent lack of quality and pretend it's a bit more than incelslop but fails. Hilariously stupid but if you wanna jack off you should just go to a hentai page.
OVA, 1989,
1 ep
Me:-
Author:2
Nothing about this makes any semblance of sense. Out of all shows here this doesn't look so bad nor is it offensive, but it is certainly one of the most incoherent, absurd, unnatural and stilted. A masterpiece.
TV, 2019,
12 eps
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