I regret not watching it drunk with friends; It’s the kind of show that is fun to riff at

I felt a Little self conscious reading you there, because on one hand, My drive to reach out for something we might call “bad anime” responds to a need to see something that is rough around the edges, based around the experiences or obsessions of a single author; I feel there is an enjoyment on what I perceive as flaws. I feel so much media feels corporate-made and sanitized these days and Manga , Anime and some literature are the only places I find some unadulterated dirty, fallible, human voice.

On the other hand Kingdoms of ruin is bad in more ways than just the “technical” aspects and I would not recommend it to anyone without an encyclopedia of content warnings.

But yeah, I would not want to come off as excessively negative; I recently rekindled my love for Anime and a big part of it is that I enjoy it’s unapologetic roughness.

As for Gundam; It is really weird for me because until recently I have never been a big mecha fan; Gundam in particular was intimidating for me because it has such a monumental history. So I’m jumping in blind; Aside from a few Charr memes I am very unaware of the meme ecosystem; But I have been enjoying the show 5 episodes in; I am kind of surprised how “modern” the story telling feels for a show from back in the 70’s

These last two weeks “Listening to bad anime while I work”, turned into watching at “kingdoms of ruin with shocked pikachu face for self harm purposes” I wouldn’t know where to begin:

I could go on, this thing is endless it is a non Euclidean construct of bad.

Now off I go to watch “Conception” (2018)

On the good side of anime I watched Code Geass and at first I was baffled at the aesthetic until I noticed everything was designed by CLAMP , once I settled down with the medieval knight mecha designs and Shojo sensibilities I enjoyed it quite a bit. As a matter of fact I learned something about myself: I am not inmune to power fantasies. It seems that to my particular neurosis Power fantasies of being an edgy Oc in another world with surrounded by a harem of girls just don’t cut it. I’m not like other boys, What really floats my boat is the idea of:

Anyway, I can’t criticize this shit, I had a ball with it; It had the silliest political subplots, grandiose high stakes battles, the most convoluted schemes and machinations, load bearing suspensions of disbelief and an ending that had me both hollering at the screen and thinking: “yeah they can’t end it any other way.”

Now off to watch “Mobile suit Gundam” (1979)

I Think I found it! and added it to the watchlist! thanks for the rec! =D

Thank you for the recommendations! Garzey’s wing and way of the husband sound just like I am looking for, I ended up being mesmerized by cipher simply because I have a soft spot for 80’s shojou aesthetics and 80’s music, the vibes are immaculate!

I think I just found crystal triangle on youtube so it’s added to my watchlist!

I think I’ve seen a lot of these recommendations; and I have liked them a lot! I don’t think I could “just listen to them” in good conscience because a lot of these shows and movies have good visual language and engaging stories; I need to put Spy X Familly in my watch list because it sounds like a good show!

My platonic ideal for a “bad anime” to listen while working is something like “King’s game” (in fact I think that was the one that got me down this road.) It is so consistently bad that I don’t mind missing anything visually; It is so consistently outrageous and bat chist crazy that listening to it keeps me entertained, and it has that weird quality in scripting where everything is expressed verbally. I got so much stuff done that week; I don’t know why it makes me super productive.

Then there is another category I have; The “so outrageous it’s good” anime: I tried “just listening” to Baki son of ogre And I just couldn’t do it. The moment Baki took a child to his basement to watch him train against an imaginary giant mantis, I was all like “Ok; I can’t ignore this shit.” I ended up binging the series :,)

I continue on my quest to listen to bad Anime while I work; This week I listened to chaos;head and it was delightfully terrible. It was basically an audio novel, everything was expressed in dialog, I especially love the long pseudo science exposition dumps:

The final fight was also funny in how anticlimactic it was. I noticed it’s based on a visual novel or something and tried listening to chaos;child what seemed to be an adaptation of an alternative route but I could not do it a second time. Then tried Heavenly Delusion and that one seemed good, so I’m putting it on hold to watch while paying attention next.

Currently looking for another bad Anime to listen to