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Rectum Ravager said:
Canary is a one episode OVA adaptation of a visual novel of a group of highschoolers in a band where the keyboardist leaves and the group comes together to get him back. The plot is nonsensical, but there's absolutely nothing of note. It's inoffensive and completely forgettable, which to me is worse than something like Pupa
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Canary at least is consistent in what it was going for and delivered a beginning, middle, and end, even with how much it condensed the visual novel's plot into 25 minutes. Pupa couldn't even fucking do that, it literally skipped around and dropped plot-points (despite each episode being four fucking minutes long), the censorship was laughable and inconsistent, and there was an entire episode of the sister erotically eating her brother while "Onii-chan" was on a goddamn loop. I think only three instances of the word was recorded separately and then they just reused each recording. Also the ending was nonsensical because it was like they couldn't end on a dark note for some stupid reason.

Both are wastes of time, but Canary is just the one episode meant to advertise the visual novel. Pupa aired weekly and it never got better despite supposedly adapting the entire manga, I will never understand why it is DEEN decided four-minute episodes was a good thing, There's a reason why it's hard to come across good horror anime.
 
Rectum Ravager said:
With a lot of shitty shows and OVAs, there's at least some redeeming quality about them that you can find unintentionally funny. The terrible CG of Ex-Arm, the absurdity of killing yourself over a hamster in Juliet, ridiculous tit physics in Eiken, and so on. Canary is a one episode OVA adaptation of a visual novel of a group of highschoolers in a band where the keyboardist leaves and the group comes together to get him back. The plot is nonsensical, but there's absolutely nothing of note. It's inoffensive and completely forgettable, which to me is worse than something like Pupa, Tenshi no Drop, or the previously mentioned Skelter Heaven or Mars of Destruction.
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Even some of the deaths in Ousama Game, despite the show being completely nonsense and awful, and the anime being VERY rushed in pacing since it adapted two seasons of the Manga at once (as in 10 people dying in the FIRST episode), somehow unintentionally had funny moments to them.

Now on the other hand, a show like Glasslip, which the only good points are the graphics and the chicken characters (unironically), would probably fit into your said category of inoffensive and completely forgettable. I still don't understand why some people defended that show even after it finished, since it was literally Nothing Happens: The Animation.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
Now on the other hand, a show like Glasslip, which the only good points are the graphics and the chicken characters (unironically), would probably fit into your said category of inoffensive and completely forgettable. I still don't understand why some people defended that show even after it finished.
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This. What the fuck even was that show? I feel like I need to apologize to Red Data Girl for being so harsh on its forgettable nature because I was more confused than bored.
 
Thiletonomics said:
Now on the other hand, a show like Glasslip, which the only good points are the graphics and the chicken characters (unironically), would probably fit into your said category of inoffensive and completely forgettable. I still don't understand why some people defended that show even after it finished, since it was literally Nothing Happens: The Animation.
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You can still have a show where nothing happens and have it be absolutely incompetent. Pilot Candidate/Candidate for Goddess is a great example of this since it didn't have an ending and it couldn't be bothered to have good robots (seriously? Freaking MECHA MUSUME?! How low can this show go?). People say AWOL: Absent Without Leave and Next Senki Ehrgeiz fit into this category as well, but they're actually very cool shows people tend to hate for no good reason. At the end of AWOL, they blow up a planet, and Ehrgeiz has robots that shoot Macross-style missile volleys, making them more powerful than most Gundams aside from Virtue and Kyrios and the obvious powerscaling bait ones like Turn A. They're also very respectable shows; AWOL is probably the best anime to recommend to normies because it has an entirely adult cast, no ecchi, and very cool stuff.
 
Space Police said:
You can still have a show where nothing happens and have it be absolutely incompetent. Pilot Candidate/Candidate for Goddess is a great example of this since it didn't have an ending and it couldn't be bothered to have good robots (seriously? Freaking MECHA MUSUME?! How low can this show go?)
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I think it was by episode four when I realized "Oh, shit" that I was stuck with the series to the end (I'm a completionist ass). We never got an official statement about why it got canned and aired half-finished, didn't we?
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I think it was by episode four when I realized "Oh, shit" that I was stuck with the series to the end (I'm a completionist ass). We never got an official statement about why it got canned and aired half-finished, didn't we?
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The show didn't have an ending because the manga didn't have one, but they dragged out the author's intended ending and put it in the OP.
 
Oh speaking of Glasslip, remember Classroom☆Crisis and the boredom that spawned from it? Did anyone ever catch on to what it wanted to be about?
 
Anyone seen the donghua called Ling Cage/Long: Incarnation? It's the second donghua I watched on a whim because the opening sequence reminded me of the HBO Westworld intro sequence. The rest of the show delivered too and didn't have the typical donghua tropes like the adventures of a super op main character who fights everyone and wins every time thanks to a hidden superpower. The scifi elements are like a mix from Aliens and post apocalyptic bits from The 100. So far it's a great series in both story and animation quality.
 
Allmightyloli (or as i like to call him, allmightyfuckhead) made a decent video of a show i really liked but felt it never got the attention it deserved, Shiki.


I remember watching it as it was airing and the threads on 4chan at the time was a real roller-coaster. While it was slow, the climax made it all worth it.
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
Allmightyloli (or as i like to call him, allmightyfuckhead) made a decent video of a show i really liked but felt it never got the attention it deserved, Shiki.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0H77bcUTx7Y
I remember watching it as it was airing and the threads on 4chan at the time was a real roller-coaster. While it was slow, the climax made it all worth it.
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Shiki is great, but God do they fail at making me feel any sympathy towards the shiki as their leadership and how they went out about everything was so retarded.
 
Finished Panty and Stocking today. The show truly was a love latter to shows like south park and drawn together with the sheer amount of vulgar language, fart and dick jokes, nudity and dumb action.

I really hope they follow up right were the show ended but i have a feeling they just going with "remember the end of last season? yeah, we solved all those issues off-screen. dont worry about it".

 
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Endless Torment said:
Shiki is great, but God do they fail at making me feel any sympathy towards the shiki as their leadership and how they went out about everything was so retarded.
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Yeah, you can do sympathetic vampires but the Shiki go the extra step to actually mentally torture their targets, when the human go TSD you can't help but clap on one of the best feelings of justifiable genocide in anime history. The anime pretending otherwise creates a dissonance.
 
Shiki's fun to watch in the dark with someone, it brings about the right mood to be able to enjoy the show and go along with the ride. It's due for a rewatch, but I'm purposefully putting it off because the OST is so fantastic by itself that I don't really want to keep thinking of certain scenes listening to it.
 
Natural reaction of seeing a tranny in public

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Are there any other music videos that are basically live-action MVs translated into anime, sort of like Two-Mix's White Reflection video? Also Two-Mix is a very underrated Japanese band:
 
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