#so bad its good
The crazy-nuts horror cheesefest, The Manitou – featuring Tony Curtis as a psychic who discovers that the lump on his girlfriend’s back is the gestating reincarnation of a demonic Native American spirit – was delivered into theaters on April 15, 1978.
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The horror-lite, fantasy rom-com, Highway To Hell – one of the great overlooked, give-‘em-hell, but don’t-forget-to-entertain independents, starring Kristy Swanson, ever made – hit theaters on March 13, 1992.
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There is a very important distinction to be drawn between an anime being good and an anime being fun. An anime can be of incredible quality, with top notch animation, art style, characters, and pacing, and yet not be fun. Anyone who has watched Grave of the Fireflies knows what I’m talking about. On the other hand, a show can be terribly designed, with bad design, poor pacing, and miserable characters, and still be very fun to watch. For example, the Central Park Media dub of Garzey’s Wing.
As a contrast to his earlier panel, The Toddfather’s panel “Anime You Must Miss” is about that second category of anime. It’s about garbage anime for people who enjoy watching terrible media. Here are a few of the series he mentioned:
Darling in the Franxx-DitFis not a good anime. It starts out with an interesting concept, has a strong first half, but then it loses its way and completely melts down. This is a 24 episode case study in wasted potential, but once it goes off rails it becomes a true train wreck, worthy of watching but only from a distance.
Hand Shakers: Anime with an incomprehensible plot is fairly common. Hand Shakers stands out by pairing a nonsense plot with an overly fluid animation style that is legitimately nausea inducing.
My Sister My Writer:IfDarling in the FranXX is a show with potential melting down, then My Sister My Writer is a show that had no chance from the start, with the people making it realizing that in the middle of making it. This is a show where the animation quality deteriorated so badly that one animator was credited with a pseudonym that roughly translates into “Honestly, I’m screwed.”
My Wife is the Student Council President: Here’s a show that had no chance due to its structure. A harem anime can be good if the show allows the characters to develop and establish connections with the target of their affections. My Wife is the Student Council President is a harem series made up of 13 episodes, each 7 minutes in length. The result is a show that consists only of the insufferable hijinks of harem animes, with none of the substance.
It may seem odd to intentionally watch a bad anime, but I firmly believe that watching bad anime can make you a better media connoisseur. It helps you calibrate your taste for what is or isn’t good, and see what does and doesn’t work. After all, there are only a few ways to do something correctly, but there’s no shortage of ways to fail. Just make sure it’s entertainingly bad anime, and not unwatchably bad anime (sup, Disgaea).
- Andrew, AB Staff Blogger
“we’re a losing game
i know that
but a sick part of me
loves the torture”
- d.c.
Brad was SOOOOOOO ready to watch ‘Showgirls’!!!! If you crop out the bad parts, there’s nothing left. Hey, these melons are ripe… right?!?
