Mother's Basement Hottest Trash Anime of 2023
Anime
This is a compilation of the hottest trash anime of Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall 2023, as proclaimed by the Mother's Basement YouTube channel. This is "gaaarbaage" served fresh by "shaaay gaaarbaaage". You'll get the idea if you watch the videos or maybe you can figure it out from the shows stacked here.
"You guys need to understand, trash isn't always a bad thing. I adore trash. The whole reason I do this in the first place is so I can get paid roll around in the stuff." -- Geoff Thew
"When I call an anime trash, I'm not saying it's of inherently poor quality. That would be garbage. Trashiness isn't about quality at all. It's about taste. Or rather the deliberate and often delightful lack thereof. Trash is gaudy. Casually offensive. Nakedly self-indulgent, pun full-frontally intended... But some trash uses its unparalleled creative freedom to break truly new narrative ground." -- Geoff Thew
I try to pull a few amusing or informative quotes and include the trash rating. The rating system is based on trash receptacles and fire. A dumpster fire is probably considered a five or six on a scale of one to ten, but the system is definitely not rigorous or linear.
There isn't a particular order or implied rank in the presentation but I'll try to keep them listed here in the order they appear.
You can find the YouTube videos in this blog post: https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=900440. There are chapter markers to help you get to specific portions of the video, though sometimes the titles are a bit cryptic. You can also follow these links:
Winter 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVBjpewizQo
Sprint 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIPJaiVcjoo
Summer 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SYms74s6Sc
Fall 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g
"You guys need to understand, trash isn't always a bad thing. I adore trash. The whole reason I do this in the first place is so I can get paid roll around in the stuff." -- Geoff Thew
"When I call an anime trash, I'm not saying it's of inherently poor quality. That would be garbage. Trashiness isn't about quality at all. It's about taste. Or rather the deliberate and often delightful lack thereof. Trash is gaudy. Casually offensive. Nakedly self-indulgent, pun full-frontally intended... But some trash uses its unparalleled creative freedom to break truly new narrative ground." -- Geoff Thew
I try to pull a few amusing or informative quotes and include the trash rating. The rating system is based on trash receptacles and fire. A dumpster fire is probably considered a five or six on a scale of one to ten, but the system is definitely not rigorous or linear.
There isn't a particular order or implied rank in the presentation but I'll try to keep them listed here in the order they appear.
You can find the YouTube videos in this blog post: https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=900440. There are chapter markers to help you get to specific portions of the video, though sometimes the titles are a bit cryptic. You can also follow these links:
Winter 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVBjpewizQo
Sprint 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIPJaiVcjoo
Summer 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SYms74s6Sc
Fall 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Winter. [This one went on hiatus mid-season and hasn't returned as of summer. -ed.]
"Also, those genetics apparently make her thighs delicious to everyone..."
"You could see the stress the studio was under in the quality of the animation long before [the] delay was announced."
"Mostly it just feels predictable, rote, and boring."
Rating: I give it two steel trashcans full of bootleg Naruto headbands and those things that aren't kunai but nonetheless change that one Amazon cosplayer's life, soaked in cheap extra-flammable sake with a match floating in the air above them, frozen in time for going on three weeks now."
"Also, those genetics apparently make her thighs delicious to everyone..."
"You could see the stress the studio was under in the quality of the animation long before [the] delay was announced."
"Mostly it just feels predictable, rote, and boring."
Rating: I give it two steel trashcans full of bootleg Naruto headbands and those things that aren't kunai but nonetheless change that one Amazon cosplayer's life, soaked in cheap extra-flammable sake with a match floating in the air above them, frozen in time for going on three weeks now."
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Winter.
"Top-tier fan service animation from the studio behind Mushoku Tensei."
"There's more to Onimai than meets the eye."
"If you can look past the questionable aspects of its premise and presentation... you'll find a story brimming with character and heart that uses its unconventional perspective to explore some deep, often overshadowed parts of the human condition..." [I get the feeling there's a lot to "look past" so this one is not for everyone. -ed.]
Rating: I give it four bins full of trash which is very on fire and if you look under it, you definitely won't find any priceless paintings in flame retardant bags.
"Top-tier fan service animation from the studio behind Mushoku Tensei."
"There's more to Onimai than meets the eye."
"If you can look past the questionable aspects of its premise and presentation... you'll find a story brimming with character and heart that uses its unconventional perspective to explore some deep, often overshadowed parts of the human condition..." [I get the feeling there's a lot to "look past" so this one is not for everyone. -ed.]
Rating: I give it four bins full of trash which is very on fire and if you look under it, you definitely won't find any priceless paintings in flame retardant bags.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Winter.
[Convoluted. -ed.]
Rating: I give Spy Classroom three industrial waste barrels full of extremely contrived spy gadgets and weapons cleverly, but not that cleverly, disguised as waifu figurines, many of which have caught fire due to faulty wiring and/or poorly designed tiny fuel tanks.
[Convoluted. -ed.]
Rating: I give Spy Classroom three industrial waste barrels full of extremely contrived spy gadgets and weapons cleverly, but not that cleverly, disguised as waifu figurines, many of which have caught fire due to faulty wiring and/or poorly designed tiny fuel tanks.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Winter.
"The first male idol anime to hold my attention long enough to make one of these lists by virtue of being ever so slightly completely fcckin insane."
"Quite impressive CGI, all things considered."
"There's some surprisingly subtle world-building here for a show that starts with an infomercial explaining what androids are."
Rating: Technoroid Overmind gets two robot factory dumpsters full of defective cybernetic yaoi hands and whatever product makes everyone's hair shine in complementary colors in the future which is super duper flammable but in a very specific way that makes promare(?)-style polygonal fires.
"The first male idol anime to hold my attention long enough to make one of these lists by virtue of being ever so slightly completely fcckin insane."
"Quite impressive CGI, all things considered."
"There's some surprisingly subtle world-building here for a show that starts with an infomercial explaining what androids are."
Rating: Technoroid Overmind gets two robot factory dumpsters full of defective cybernetic yaoi hands and whatever product makes everyone's hair shine in complementary colors in the future which is super duper flammable but in a very specific way that makes promare(?)-style polygonal fires.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Winter.
"It's about as generic and dumb as fantasy anime come, but there is a certain charm in that."
"The cast here is hardly original, but it is undeniably fun to watch them interact."
Rating: ... gets three trash cans full of the worst Harry Potter fan fiction you can imagine, burning cozily in a well-sheltered underpass.
Runners up: One waste basket [each] full of discarded home-brew DnD rules and character sheets for poorly drawn elf girls in bikini armor.
-- The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World
-- Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀
"It's about as generic and dumb as fantasy anime come, but there is a certain charm in that."
"The cast here is hardly original, but it is undeniably fun to watch them interact."
Rating: ... gets three trash cans full of the worst Harry Potter fan fiction you can imagine, burning cozily in a well-sheltered underpass.
Runners up: One waste basket [each] full of discarded home-brew DnD rules and character sheets for poorly drawn elf girls in bikini armor.
-- The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World
-- Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Winter.
[Yikes! I'm too scared to write anything about this one. -ed.]
Rating: I give Inukai-san's Dog five medical waste bins full of all the eyeballs people have clawed out their skulls after seeing it, soaked in enough napalm to burn an entire city down, which somehow still isn't nearly enough.
[Yikes! I'm too scared to write anything about this one. -ed.]
Rating: I give Inukai-san's Dog five medical waste bins full of all the eyeballs people have clawed out their skulls after seeing it, soaked in enough napalm to burn an entire city down, which somehow still isn't nearly enough.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Winter.
"... this is anime junk food through and through. Every bit as conceptually unrealistic and shamelessly wish-fulfilly as the raunchiest harem thing you can think of."
"... it's fully committed to making its signature waifu as desirable as possible in every way conceivable for its lonely, poor male target audience while still maintaining that low-key, down-to-earth vibe."
Rating: ... gets four dumpsters full of extra-plain crackers and body pillows soaked in chloroform.
"... this is anime junk food through and through. Every bit as conceptually unrealistic and shamelessly wish-fulfilly as the raunchiest harem thing you can think of."
"... it's fully committed to making its signature waifu as desirable as possible in every way conceivable for its lonely, poor male target audience while still maintaining that low-key, down-to-earth vibe."
Rating: ... gets four dumpsters full of extra-plain crackers and body pillows soaked in chloroform.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:8
Spring.
"If you miss the humor and vibes of harems from the mid-2000s [Ai Yori Aoshi], but not their limp-dccked, wet-blanket protagonists, this one's for you."
"But all those girls have hidden depths to them that are revealed in time and Hayato's actually got a personality and a bit of a backbone which makes for a refreshing change of pace..."
Rating: I give it two modest restaurant waste bins full of slightly stale bread sticks and half-eaten cake.
"If you miss the humor and vibes of harems from the mid-2000s [Ai Yori Aoshi], but not their limp-dccked, wet-blanket protagonists, this one's for you."
"But all those girls have hidden depths to them that are revealed in time and Hayato's actually got a personality and a bit of a backbone which makes for a refreshing change of pace..."
Rating: I give it two modest restaurant waste bins full of slightly stale bread sticks and half-eaten cake.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:5
Spring.
"The concept of this show certainly has potential, but the execution here is just excruciatingly boring."
Rating: ... gets one waste basket full of emails to former co-workers clearing up minor mis-communications that were printed out and framed, for some reason.
"The concept of this show certainly has potential, but the execution here is just excruciatingly boring."
Rating: ... gets one waste basket full of emails to former co-workers clearing up minor mis-communications that were printed out and framed, for some reason.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:4
Spring.
"... a light yet deeply trashy dish steeped in the delicious flavors of anime girl thigh and daikon radish..."
"... this anime's humor is pretty bog standard, if a touch more morbid than your typical ecchi fantasy harem thing..."
Rating: I give The Legendary Hero Is Dead four flaming coffins, the trash can for people, full of stupid sexy root vegetables and bootleg necronomicons.
"... a light yet deeply trashy dish steeped in the delicious flavors of anime girl thigh and daikon radish..."
"... this anime's humor is pretty bog standard, if a touch more morbid than your typical ecchi fantasy harem thing..."
Rating: I give The Legendary Hero Is Dead four flaming coffins, the trash can for people, full of stupid sexy root vegetables and bootleg necronomicons.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Spring.
"... it is exponentially incestier than you can possibly imagine..."
"... any time you're tempted to roll your eyes... you risk missing some of Spring's most insanely beautiful action sakuga."
"Fans of gorgeously gratuitous cartoon violence will not want to miss this one."
Rating: I give My One-Hit Kill Sister three dumpsters full of flaming piles of money and Alabama marriage licenses.
"... it is exponentially incestier than you can possibly imagine..."
"... any time you're tempted to roll your eyes... you risk missing some of Spring's most insanely beautiful action sakuga."
"Fans of gorgeously gratuitous cartoon violence will not want to miss this one."
Rating: I give My One-Hit Kill Sister three dumpsters full of flaming piles of money and Alabama marriage licenses.
TV, 2023,
13 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Spring.
"... he levels up a whole bunch, causing him to spontaneously become superhuman and also tall, skinny, and hot when he goes to bed."
"... and... everyone claps."
"I honestly don't know if I've ever seen an isekai this nakedly self-indulgent that wasn't hentai."
Rating: Even if the most sexual thing cheat skill IRL actually does is the author furiously rubbing his own self-insert protag-kun raw, the friction of which specifically is what ignited the full-blown five-alarm dumpster fire rating that I have chosen to award this glorious piece of anime. [The run-on sentence was even longer but I had to cut it off somewhere. -ed.]
"... he levels up a whole bunch, causing him to spontaneously become superhuman and also tall, skinny, and hot when he goes to bed."
"... and... everyone claps."
"I honestly don't know if I've ever seen an isekai this nakedly self-indulgent that wasn't hentai."
Rating: Even if the most sexual thing cheat skill IRL actually does is the author furiously rubbing his own self-insert protag-kun raw, the friction of which specifically is what ignited the full-blown five-alarm dumpster fire rating that I have chosen to award this glorious piece of anime. [The run-on sentence was even longer but I had to cut it off somewhere. -ed.]
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Spring.
"All told, like, half this anime's entire run time is just people praising Cain for things he did..."
"... I love it when anime just throws European words in a blender."
Rating: I give ... two dumpsters full of suspiciously stained couch cushions with like, three factory-defect Mushoku Tensei nendaroids hidden somewhere among them.
"All told, like, half this anime's entire run time is just people praising Cain for things he did..."
"... I love it when anime just throws European words in a blender."
Rating: I give ... two dumpsters full of suspiciously stained couch cushions with like, three factory-defect Mushoku Tensei nendaroids hidden somewhere among them.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Spring.
"As for the animation part of the equation, that goes so far beyond terrible that it somehow loops back around to being good again."
"I think it could have been genuinely great if it weren't so aggressively, hilariously terrible."
Rating: I've got to give Kamikatsu one septic truck left on the tracks of the 7pm fireworks and vodka express.
"As for the animation part of the equation, that goes so far beyond terrible that it somehow loops back around to being good again."
"I think it could have been genuinely great if it weren't so aggressively, hilariously terrible."
Rating: I've got to give Kamikatsu one septic truck left on the tracks of the 7pm fireworks and vodka express.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Spring.
"The first ever official VTuber TV anime..."
"The concept of an elite digital academy training the next generation of virtual YouTubers sounds... insanely fcckin boring."
"Well, actually, the big questions driving most episodes are stuff like, 'what's protag-chan gonna eat for lunch today?'"
Rating: I award Tiny-Tuber Adventures five concert hall trash bins full of herbal life supplements, Cutco knives, and hastily discarded Kizuna Ai merch that is fat too sweaty to ever catch fire.
"The first ever official VTuber TV anime..."
"The concept of an elite digital academy training the next generation of virtual YouTubers sounds... insanely fcckin boring."
"Well, actually, the big questions driving most episodes are stuff like, 'what's protag-chan gonna eat for lunch today?'"
Rating: I award Tiny-Tuber Adventures five concert hall trash bins full of herbal life supplements, Cutco knives, and hastily discarded Kizuna Ai merch that is fat too sweaty to ever catch fire.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Summer.
"Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is a radical, deeply philosophical, artistic statement about what it truly means to live. It's also a gleefully violent, unapologetically sexy tribute to grind house horror greats in the very specific tradition of High School of the Dead."
"Zom 100 is all about lookin' on the bright side of undeath."
Rating: I give HOTD But It's Based Actually five dumpsters full of fireworks, horny B-movie posters, and some helpful literature with a flaming zombie fart jetting in to set the whole show off.
"Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is a radical, deeply philosophical, artistic statement about what it truly means to live. It's also a gleefully violent, unapologetically sexy tribute to grind house horror greats in the very specific tradition of High School of the Dead."
"Zom 100 is all about lookin' on the bright side of undeath."
Rating: I give HOTD But It's Based Actually five dumpsters full of fireworks, horny B-movie posters, and some helpful literature with a flaming zombie fart jetting in to set the whole show off.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:5
Summer.
"But no, of course not, they're doing the same thing every fcckin isekai does where bro only gets out of bed in the morning for his adopted little sister."
Rating: ... gets three waste bins full of busted Amazon Fire tablets, siscon self-help books, and curdled demon ttttie milk.
"But no, of course not, they're doing the same thing every fcckin isekai does where bro only gets out of bed in the morning for his adopted little sister."
Rating: ... gets three waste bins full of busted Amazon Fire tablets, siscon self-help books, and curdled demon ttttie milk.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Summer.
"Turns out the kind of modern neo-liberal society that arises in the absence of demonic invaders doesn't really have much use for an old-fashioned JRPG hero. Especially not one who doesn't know how to stay out of bar fights or keep it in his pants."
"Oh, did I forget to mention that the non-binary little gremlin can transmorgrify itself into a sexy schoolgirl at will?"
Rating: I give it four dumpsters full of suspiciously sexy cosplay outfits and all the potions that you didn't use even in the fight with the final boss, which, as it turns out, are a lot more flammable than you think."
"Turns out the kind of modern neo-liberal society that arises in the absence of demonic invaders doesn't really have much use for an old-fashioned JRPG hero. Especially not one who doesn't know how to stay out of bar fights or keep it in his pants."
"Oh, did I forget to mention that the non-binary little gremlin can transmorgrify itself into a sexy schoolgirl at will?"
Rating: I give it four dumpsters full of suspiciously sexy cosplay outfits and all the potions that you didn't use even in the fight with the final boss, which, as it turns out, are a lot more flammable than you think."
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:4
Summer.
[The review covers both Unique Skill and Great Cleric together. -ed.]
"... places them both firmly at the bottom of the isekai barrel."
Rating: I give the Not So Great Cleric one artis[huh?] dumpster full of Shea Arifureta posters and soggy tissues. Something, Something OP Skill Whatever gets two. Also, the tissues are a little bit less soggy so it might plausibly catch fire one day.
[The review covers both Unique Skill and Great Cleric together. -ed.]
"... places them both firmly at the bottom of the isekai barrel."
Rating: I give the Not So Great Cleric one artis[huh?] dumpster full of Shea Arifureta posters and soggy tissues. Something, Something OP Skill Whatever gets two. Also, the tissues are a little bit less soggy so it might plausibly catch fire one day.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Summer.
[The review covers both Great Cleric and Unique Skill together. -ed.]
"... places them both firmly at the bottom of the isekai barrel."
Rating: I give the Not So Great Cleric one artis[huh?] dumpster full of Shea Arifureta posters and soggy tissues.
[The review covers both Great Cleric and Unique Skill together. -ed.]
"... places them both firmly at the bottom of the isekai barrel."
Rating: I give the Not So Great Cleric one artis[huh?] dumpster full of Shea Arifureta posters and soggy tissues.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Summer.
"So when I tell you I have never seen a protag-kun fight quite like this before, I know from whence I speak."
[I'm really enjoying this one too. -ed.]
Rating: Reborn as a Vending Machine gets four roadside trash bins full of Mentos - Diet Coke bottles ready to blow.
"So when I tell you I have never seen a protag-kun fight quite like this before, I know from whence I speak."
[I'm really enjoying this one too. -ed.]
Rating: Reborn as a Vending Machine gets four roadside trash bins full of Mentos - Diet Coke bottles ready to blow.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:5
Summer.
"... at first I honestly thought this might be trying to parody the genre."
"Honestly, I'm struggling to think of stuff to say about this one."
"The only thing saving this show from being *the* most forgettable harem in years, is the designs of the background cast, who'd look right at home in a medieval version of My Hero Academia or something."
Rating: The best rating I can give it is a waste bin full of plain cracker crumbs.
"... at first I honestly thought this might be trying to parody the genre."
"Honestly, I'm struggling to think of stuff to say about this one."
"The only thing saving this show from being *the* most forgettable harem in years, is the designs of the background cast, who'd look right at home in a medieval version of My Hero Academia or something."
Rating: The best rating I can give it is a waste bin full of plain cracker crumbs.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:5
Summer.
"... another thing they wrote stupid is the whole-ass script for the entire show."
Rating: Liar raiL gets two smoldering waste baskets full of bootleg Catapult Turtle(?) and Gaia the Dragon Champion(?) cards.
"... another thing they wrote stupid is the whole-ass script for the entire show."
Rating: Liar raiL gets two smoldering waste baskets full of bootleg Catapult Turtle(?) and Gaia the Dragon Champion(?) cards.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Summer.
"... the sexy cosplay live-streamer who just moved in next door is honestly one of the most gaudy self-indulgent things I've ever seen a harem author write. The implications of that sentence should terrify you."
"She just can't help seeing our pathetic pay-pig protag as the ultimate IRL role model." [She's a simp for the MCs story, which is the author writing a character who is a simp for the story he is writing. Or something like that. -ed.]
Rating: Rent-a-Girlfriend 3 gets what at first seems like a regular empty garbage can, but then you realize it has... no... bottom? You feel this oppressive heat rolling out of its dark, empty mouth, and when you strain your ears, you can faintly hear... is that... screaming? [Appraently, the story has not progressed much or at all in the preceding two seasons. -ed.]
"... the sexy cosplay live-streamer who just moved in next door is honestly one of the most gaudy self-indulgent things I've ever seen a harem author write. The implications of that sentence should terrify you."
"She just can't help seeing our pathetic pay-pig protag as the ultimate IRL role model." [She's a simp for the MCs story, which is the author writing a character who is a simp for the story he is writing. Or something like that. -ed.]
Rating: Rent-a-Girlfriend 3 gets what at first seems like a regular empty garbage can, but then you realize it has... no... bottom? You feel this oppressive heat rolling out of its dark, empty mouth, and when you strain your ears, you can faintly hear... is that... screaming? [Appraently, the story has not progressed much or at all in the preceding two seasons. -ed.]
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Summer.
"If Rent-a-Girlfriend is a throwback to the worst excesses of early 2000s harems, then Tenpuru is a throwback to the best of them. A simple yet thoroughly entertaining story of ridiculous people doing ridiculous things while trying and failing to not think about how ridiculously horny they all secretly are."
Rating: I give Tenpuru four of them big cozy anime bonfires where they burn all the props and shtt from the school culture festival ... only instead of a school culture festival it's for that penis festival that you've no doubt read a weird Japan article about.
"If Rent-a-Girlfriend is a throwback to the worst excesses of early 2000s harems, then Tenpuru is a throwback to the best of them. A simple yet thoroughly entertaining story of ridiculous people doing ridiculous things while trying and failing to not think about how ridiculously horny they all secretly are."
Rating: I give Tenpuru four of them big cozy anime bonfires where they burn all the props and shtt from the school culture festival ... only instead of a school culture festival it's for that penis festival that you've no doubt read a weird Japan article about.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:5
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=183s
"Both the show and Rentaro are sincerely interested in understanding what makes each of these girls tick, and exploring the unique challenges that come with their unique circumstances. And, more importantl, overcome those hangups in the long term over some very solid, gradual, character development."
"It's easy to get distracted by how... goodly... animated this show is... wow." [you have to see the accompanying video. -ed.]
"What impresses most is just what a herculean feat of writing the whole thing is... The quality of these female characters is better than like, 95% of all the harems ever."
Rating: I simply have no choice but to award... five solid gold dumpsters full of the complete works of William Shakespeare with all the old-timey swear words highlighted plus a f<bleep>load of fireworks.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=183s
"Both the show and Rentaro are sincerely interested in understanding what makes each of these girls tick, and exploring the unique challenges that come with their unique circumstances. And, more importantl, overcome those hangups in the long term over some very solid, gradual, character development."
"It's easy to get distracted by how... goodly... animated this show is... wow." [you have to see the accompanying video. -ed.]
"What impresses most is just what a herculean feat of writing the whole thing is... The quality of these female characters is better than like, 95% of all the harems ever."
Rating: I simply have no choice but to award... five solid gold dumpsters full of the complete works of William Shakespeare with all the old-timey swear words highlighted plus a f<bleep>load of fireworks.
TV, 2023,
13 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=581s
"Geez. Where to even begin."
Rating: "This show gets four big honkin industrial Kobe beef packin' dumpsters full of extremely questionable fan fiction and even more questionable meat packages which smell like pork, not beef when you burn 'em. Oh. Right. Also, the dumpsters are very, very on fire."
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=581s
"Geez. Where to even begin."
Rating: "This show gets four big honkin industrial Kobe beef packin' dumpsters full of extremely questionable fan fiction and even more questionable meat packages which smell like pork, not beef when you burn 'em. Oh. Right. Also, the dumpsters are very, very on fire."
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:5
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=737s (titles are mixed up but the time is correct)
"Ironically, this is one of the most unique VRMMO anime to come out lately - at least on paper. By sole virtue of the fact that its Kirito is like, an adult with a fulltime job and stuff. Which means he can't just No Life his way to over-powered status because he's already No Life-ing for an exploitative corporation."
Rating: "... gets two wastepaper baskets full of Nexon game cards and a certain funny ... thing? ... substance? Ehh. This anime's not trying why should I?"
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=737s (titles are mixed up but the time is correct)
"Ironically, this is one of the most unique VRMMO anime to come out lately - at least on paper. By sole virtue of the fact that its Kirito is like, an adult with a fulltime job and stuff. Which means he can't just No Life his way to over-powered status because he's already No Life-ing for an exploitative corporation."
Rating: "... gets two wastepaper baskets full of Nexon game cards and a certain funny ... thing? ... substance? Ehh. This anime's not trying why should I?"
TV, 2023,
25 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=932s (titles are mixed up but the time is correct)
"An anime about gamers that actually understands gaming."
"This show gets the behind-the-scenes shtt. It's clearly written by someone who both plays a lot of games and actually knows what goes into developing them."
Guest rating by Josh Strife Hayes: I'll award... this waifu who I'd totally let kill me. Or player-kill me.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=932s (titles are mixed up but the time is correct)
"An anime about gamers that actually understands gaming."
"This show gets the behind-the-scenes shtt. It's clearly written by someone who both plays a lot of games and actually knows what goes into developing them."
Guest rating by Josh Strife Hayes: I'll award... this waifu who I'd totally let kill me. Or player-kill me.
TV, 2023,
24 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1132s
[not available in Canada where MB lives so the award goes to Disney and Hulu management: a box of dead rats. -ed.]
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1132s
[not available in Canada where MB lives so the award goes to Disney and Hulu management: a box of dead rats. -ed.]
TV, 2023,
13 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1185s
"It's the anime of choice for old otaku this fall."
"It is undeniably about trash. Generaltional eroge trash, and the wonderful sorts of weirdos who made it back in the golden dumpster age of Japanese PC gaming."
Rating: It's less a flaming trash heap than a cozy little dumpster full of body pillows with an exactly U-shaped hole right in the middle.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1185s
"It's the anime of choice for old otaku this fall."
"It is undeniably about trash. Generaltional eroge trash, and the wonderful sorts of weirdos who made it back in the golden dumpster age of Japanese PC gaming."
Rating: It's less a flaming trash heap than a cozy little dumpster full of body pillows with an exactly U-shaped hole right in the middle.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1343s
[the gag with the darts was funny. -ed.]
"And thus he must do all the isekai stuff despite only being able to do pig stuff. Plus, like, a little bit of human thinky stuff. Also DDR stuff. He's very good at DDR. Two episodes in a row fill an entire minute of screen time with just him doing DDR. Inside his head. While various poorly animated villagers look on and react."
Rating: I give Butareba three toxic waste barrels full of surprisingly feminist soft-core beastiality doujins.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1343s
[the gag with the darts was funny. -ed.]
"And thus he must do all the isekai stuff despite only being able to do pig stuff. Plus, like, a little bit of human thinky stuff. Also DDR stuff. He's very good at DDR. Two episodes in a row fill an entire minute of screen time with just him doing DDR. Inside his head. While various poorly animated villagers look on and react."
Rating: I give Butareba three toxic waste barrels full of surprisingly feminist soft-core beastiality doujins.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Fall
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1494s
(reviewed with "The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy")
"It manages to take a seed of a sort of unique idea and develop it into something genuinely interesting."
"So the story isn't really about killin' all the monsters to save the world. It's about fixing the systemic oppression that stands in the way of true monster-killing progress."
"There is some surprisingly solid fantasy writing buried in all this magic school anime bullshtt."
Rating: ... gets two trash bins full of slightly smoldering printouts of surprisingly political Harry Potter slash-fic
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1494s
(reviewed with "The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy")
"It manages to take a seed of a sort of unique idea and develop it into something genuinely interesting."
"So the story isn't really about killin' all the monsters to save the world. It's about fixing the systemic oppression that stands in the way of true monster-killing progress."
"There is some surprisingly solid fantasy writing buried in all this magic school anime bullshtt."
Rating: ... gets two trash bins full of slightly smoldering printouts of surprisingly political Harry Potter slash-fic
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Fall
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1494s
(reviewed with "A Returner's Magic Should Be Special")
"No bones about it, that is some genuinely original world-building and the show has a lot of it."
[some man-in-a-boys-body v. teenage girls shenanigans you have to get past. -ed.]
Rating: .. gets four flaming dumpsters full of just the tags for all the other Harry Potter fan-fics.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1494s
(reviewed with "A Returner's Magic Should Be Special")
"No bones about it, that is some genuinely original world-building and the show has a lot of it."
[some man-in-a-boys-body v. teenage girls shenanigans you have to get past. -ed.]
Rating: .. gets four flaming dumpsters full of just the tags for all the other Harry Potter fan-fics.
TV, 2023,
24 eps
Me:-
Author:-
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1767s
(reviewed with Kingdoms of Ruin and Berserk of Gluttony)
"Starring quite possibly the edgiest guy ever named Ragna."
"You know what they say: double the edge lords, double the edge." [so, I guess both Ragna and Crimson are edge lords? -ed.]
"If you want to watch some very cool, beautifully animated magic turn vast swaths of people into equally beautiful bursts of blood and giblets... This anime is all that and a bag of extremely pointy potato chip shards."
Rating: ... four trash cans full of blood and razor blades that are also on fire somehow and also also, that fire is black, like my soul.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1767s
(reviewed with Kingdoms of Ruin and Berserk of Gluttony)
"Starring quite possibly the edgiest guy ever named Ragna."
"You know what they say: double the edge lords, double the edge." [so, I guess both Ragna and Crimson are edge lords? -ed.]
"If you want to watch some very cool, beautifully animated magic turn vast swaths of people into equally beautiful bursts of blood and giblets... This anime is all that and a bag of extremely pointy potato chip shards."
Rating: ... four trash cans full of blood and razor blades that are also on fire somehow and also also, that fire is black, like my soul.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1767s
(reviewed with Ragna Crimson and Berserk of Gluttony)
"World building and the whole story situation here is... not... great. Some might even call it garbage."
"If anything, the boring bits just make the carnage more cathartic."
Rating: ... gets three of that same sort of trash bin
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1767s
(reviewed with Ragna Crimson and Berserk of Gluttony)
"World building and the whole story situation here is... not... great. Some might even call it garbage."
"If anything, the boring bits just make the carnage more cathartic."
Rating: ... gets three of that same sort of trash bin
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1767s
(reviewed with Ragna Crimson and Kingdoms of Ruin)
"This show definitely isn't a thinly veiled metaphor for getting back at all the popular kids in high school."
Rating: ... gets two trash cans full of tomato juice and safety scissors.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=1767s
(reviewed with Ragna Crimson and Kingdoms of Ruin)
"This show definitely isn't a thinly veiled metaphor for getting back at all the popular kids in high school."
Rating: ... gets two trash cans full of tomato juice and safety scissors.
TV, 2023,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Fall.
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=2283s
" [character designs] ... rendered in terrible CGI by a brand new studio that's clearly still figuring their tech out... It's so bad it's already locked in for my best worst and most cursed anime of 2023 list."
[worst anime of 2023 coming in Dec 2023 -ed.]
Chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW3DnC0i1g&t=2283s
" [character designs] ... rendered in terrible CGI by a brand new studio that's clearly still figuring their tech out... It's so bad it's already locked in for my best worst and most cursed anime of 2023 list."
[worst anime of 2023 coming in Dec 2023 -ed.]
