The WORST Anime of 2024

[@mothersbasement]

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[@Hawkatana]

Didn't that get an anime adaptation that featured on last year's worst anime list?

[@eb-the-gamer6287]

For #7 - It's funny to me that if this worked like an actual rpg, his status ailments only strat would never work as well, because it would take too long as a battle of attrition. Plus many rpgs that have accurate status moves, also tend have "silence" status too so that the player is at a disadvantage with spells only builds. It amazes me how many anime forget something like Silence exists in games, even (ostensibly) good ones like Overlord and Spider.

[@landphil7535]

i'm a bit drunk , but started this because Ilove channel.,But I Have imbraced my my inner Grandma to tell you to cool it . and you suck. Much Love His Inner Grannma.

[@joewalsh4713]

So... Xenonaughts but waifu-doll? That actually sounds interesting and looks good. Shame about the gatcha-mechanic.

[@heinshaaine8153]

29:45 Jeff, its the end of the year and i have to tell you something important... I really really really hate you for this fing joke, that made me choke in the worst way possible... This year is almost over but nobody got me this offguard... Stay how you are

[@josephsherby]

Can’t believe Geoff didn’t mention how in Re:Monster, none of the human female members of his harem get names until they’ve birthed his child

[@OnDavidsBrain]

FUCKING WHAT?!

[@hazzg3163]

@@OnDavidsBrain yep, they´re "alchemist girl" "twins 1 & 2" "blacksmith girl" etc, but as soon as they get a child " oh btw, her name is ******"

[@Alabenson]

That was one of the few anime that so bad I dropped it midway through.

[@ma.2089]

@@OnDavidsBrain the fact that this sorta reminds me of how a top college in Japan would deliberately fail women cuz they wanted them to leave college and give birth instead. Something about looking at their gender over their name and deciding that their skills mean nothing, other than their reproductive parts. Funny how they took their money, made them think they couldn’t accomplish anything no matter how they tried, failed perfectly competent ppl while allowing less competent men to take the positions they didn’t deserve just cuz of their. How many ppl lost their lives cuz there were less doctors that could’ve saved them? They really thought a woman who lost so much money in college and couldn’t make a lot of money would go on to have kids? So many lives ruined over sexism.

[@WanderedIn]

Please, please Ex-Arms, please

[@warotm.590]

The trope of weak but strong is so annoying. They want a smart protag who can utilize his weak but unique abilities to win fight but are not smart enough to write it

[@andrewowens4421]

Yeah, using "weak" abilities to fight stronger enemies _can_ be good, but you have to put a lot of skill into the writing to make it work. Which means you can't just do the goofy anime nonsense you want because you actually have to build up the power system in a way that makes it engaging.

[@Alkeeros]

I think (and execution is everything. Maybe the "protagonist stuck with awful ability" could work really well) that it'd make more sense if the protagonist chose low level abilities and found a way to combine them. Imagine a world where every mage basically only learns 2 or 3 closely related spells at max level (level 9 fire damage against one enemy, level 9 fire damage against a group, level 9 debuff enemy water attacks) but the protagonist instead learns 50 spells at level 1. It costs less so he can cast more, and you could even be self-aware about it. Have a tagalong character (could even be the love interest. Or maybe best friend or just hanger on desperate for protag-kun's attention) who tries to chronicle protag's every battle and is continuously like "when did he learn that spell?!? This is the 3rd new one this week!" Which would also explain that stupid trope of "the name of a skill is briefly flashed on screen but the protagonist read the long description which we hid from the audience for shock effect when this attack has a secondary effect." In this version, the protagonist basically tries to keep his strategies unknown to everyone. So we, the audience, don't feel like the information was arbitrarily hidden for a second act twist

[@MisterNightfish]

Handyman Saitou (or something like that) did that well, I thought. The format was a bit odd with the vignette stories, but once I got past that, I got a good laugh out of it and he doesn't suddenly discover that he's secretly OP. He can just do handyman stuff and helps his party out with stuff like remembering the incantations that the senile wizard keeps forgetting. But he doesn't suddenly realise that actually he is the superior mage.

[@twelfthknight]

It's particularly vexing when virtually everyone in the entire setting is absolutely convinced the supposedly underpowered main character is worthless and will needlessly antagonize them at every given opportunity, just so the writer can paint them as the unjust victim prior to their abrupt arc of become boringly overpowered and lording it over everyone who underestimated and derided them.

[@jessnalulila5552]

Sometimes the "weak" power isn't really weak

[@bhagwanbill]

Healer who was banished angers me because he joined a party as a healer despite knowing he was best at punching things.

[@radordekeche947]

You know, that's kind of the whole premise underlying that whole trope. "I got kicked out of my party even though I'm the best!" (but I hid all my accomplishments / I handled all the gruntwork without telling anyone / I wasn't playing to my strengths). And then they turn around and make the party out to be the bad guys? I mean, in this case they actually are, but that still doesn't absolve the MC their responsibility.

[@kingsleycy3450]

To be fair I chose to play a lot of medic back in my multplayer days, despite normally being my teams' best fighter

[@SinHurr]

Sometimes I want the faster dungeon queue :(

[@jedislayer7378]

The thing that made me mad about the Healer who was Banished anime adaptation was that everything after episode 2 was either changed completely or out of order from the manga. Also the whole thing about the mc growing a horn durning the hydra fight, which the mc and fmc never showed up to in the manga, was a power he never had in the manga as far as I remember.

[@ppunch7050]

@@radordekeche947 "I Got a New Skill Every Time I Was Exiled, and After 100 Different Worlds, I Was Unmatched" is a current running manga that puts a twist on this trope. The MC has to get kicked out of 100 parties in order to return home and the story starts as he is getting kicked out of his 100th. It's handled really well where the MC isn't a jerk about it, and his party is genuinely sad to have to let him go. Before he returns home he decides to check up on the first party he ever left to see what happened... and that's where the real story begins.

[@GeminiTasiri]

Geoff: "So this setting has dungeons in the real, modern world and they are getting advertised as themeparks and tourist attractions" Me: "Oh shit, that actually sounds like a really fun concept. Sure, I'd watch a funny slice-of-life anime about th-" Geoff: "Anyway, the story's actually about a clueless nobody and his accidental harem" Me: "Ah, god damn it." Geoff: "Also his harem consists of underage-looking summons that call him "oni-chan"" Me: *sigh* "Naturally"

[@Tomwithnonumbers]

Dungeon People is an actually good anime this year about a dungeon that's become a tourist attraction for the local village, so the locals have to keep restocking it so adventurers can run it

[@KillahMate]

If you want to play something that executes this concept successfully, as Geoff mentioned Dungeons of Hinterberg is a pretty cool recent cel-shaded action RPG with this exact premise but competently written - more slice of life and no oniichan harem bullshit.

[@tedweird]

@@Tomwithnonumbers And if you want the concept done even better, but in manga form, check out Dungeon no Osananajimi

[@MirageGSM]

Well, it did make it on THIS list...

[@adamkaufman724]

This was my exact reaction.

[@LevinQGame]

31:11 "You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese".

[@LynnHermione]

I mean, it would work on me, I love cheese

[@Sk0p3r]

This sounds like a hint you'd get during a loading screen in some weird JRPG or smth

[@Zerolink30]

​@@LynnHermionesometimes all you need is for someone to hand you a some Mozzarella, Swiss, Provolone or Gouda to make you think "maybe, they could be the one......."

[@LevinQGame]

@@Sk0p3r It's dating advise for men from a book on witchcraft written by a woman, I think she wanted more cheese.

[@hihigocat]

@@Sk0p3r its from an old book about magic and witchcraft, so close enough

[@paperclipperson]

32:19 the disappointment i felt when the big beautiful angel lady turned in to a 8 year old girl..

[@hihigocat]

for real, robbed of tall angel/succubus ladies

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

anything having to do with "purity" is almost always some sus shit

[@gimo6881]

Ice king: "Ah dang it! Well, i'm out of here, goodbye everyone"

[@Zezlemet]

I was denied anime milfs

[@tabathacarruthers5122]

@@paperclipperson The succubus does become full size near the end. Explains their child size bc level 1. Once they get leveled up, they'll grow up. So, in a year of grinding, could go from children to adults.

[@andrewsheppard1940]

You missed the part of banished former hero, where the protag considers not saving some children from horrible death because they might not thank him afterwards. It really was something else!

[@Nr4747]

Well, the title promised that he was a "former" hero and "lives as he pleases" - at least the story stuck with its premise 🤣. Edit: This comment was supposed to be a joke, forgot to add a fitting emoji.

[@CoalCollector]

​​@@Nr4747 Huh? So he's always been a bad person then? Imagine if someone is considering not saving a kid that's drowning in front of them because they are a *former* lifeguard

[@ReidvinK]

@@CoalCollector when we trust lifeguards to save people we are also trusting them to drown people they deem worthy of death, at some point we as a society came together and accepted their role as judge, jury and executioners

[@lawrencehan7385]

@@ReidvinK we certainly are not.

[@sampatkalyan3103]

@@CoalCollector he is not bad for not saving someone

[@acarr9377]

Seeing all the terrible isekai MCs on this lists really makes wish we had more positive and likeable characters in these things. Guys (and more girls) who are genuinely invested in getting back to their home world or excited and eager to go on an epic adventure or help out their new otherworld friends. We're so burnt out on these self centered, listless, asshat self inserts whose only concern is flexing on everyone who wronged them, nailing as many hot ladies with low standards as they can collect, and generally just fucking around because who cares, they're in Dragon Quest now, nothing else matters.

[@chimichangae5794]

We have had a lot of positive isekai mcs this year tho this video itself has 2 unedgy isekai mcs. Yearly and seasonally the isekais are always overwhelmingly just as you described positive mcs if you’re burnt out on the edgy MCs good news that’s not even half of the isekais that get released so you have plenty to choose from

[@DigitalStarry]

Old isekai used to be like that, it used to be that they wanted to go back home. Not anymore

[@chimichangae5794]

@@DigitalStarry isekai are still like this

[@jackmist]

Well sir, my advice for you is: Just watch Digimon.

[@elcuartetodeeren6507]

My goat rimuru got us covered

[@tinyetoile5503]

10:19 "What should this girl's name be?" [Looks at pokemon games on shelf] "Perfect!"

[@GentleIceZ]

My first thought was "someone just finished binging Steven Universe," but this works, too

[@lrgogo1517]

PFP checks out

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

​@@GentleIceZPearl and Diamond are games from the same generation so it makes more sense than, they are "gemstones".

[@Cheetahgirl_Studios]

Then when naming the angel, the brain rot of the writing got to the poor soul doing the script and they proceeded to have a stroke while writing his last name.

[@scottwoodward7103]

The horrifying part is that she was the most reasonably named of everyone on the list.

[@natekiellach2940]

I swear Geoff, with each one of these videos at least one joke or gag ends up living rent free in my head and for this one it’s definitely “the crime of being the lowest tier pull on her school bus gacha banner” 😭

[@mothersbasement]

Let me know if any of the later ones end up as its roommates

[@Oh_the_humanity]

​@mothersbasement When you were discussing the depths of elf-assaulting cartoon villainry oozing out of every single antagonist/justified-murder-target in Failure Frame, I couldn't help but laugh at the impression you did of the King/Slave-owner-but-ALSO-rapist!?!?!.

[@jessnalulila5552]

​@@Oh_the_humanity I was shocked with how lazy the writer was when writing the villains

[@hackermanfromwalmart]

Wait how'd i miss that line, where was that? 😂

[@samsprague3158]

@@mothersbasementyou are an irredeemable elf-fcking bastard for infecting me with these lines

[@TheOneTrueErica]

"Calvin Ball Anime" is the PERFECT title for those (usually) schlocky garbage shows. Bravo, Geoff. Another amazing list.

[@JorgeMarquezIO]

I wasn't expecting a Calvin and Hobbes reference at all, but yeah.. it is the PERFECT title for those show XD

[@Cesaryeyo]

I really like high stakes games anime, so I gave birth Liar Rail and God's Games We Play several episodes of a chance I'll probably keep giving a chance to similar ones so I hate that they might become a trend

[@CowMaster9001]

Like Dragonball?

[@PrinceOfKenya]

12:21 Excellent argument, unfortunately paralyze, dark, poison.

[@TheXell]

It's like the fantasy equivalent of "L+Ratio+No bitches" etc.

[@shadeknight6537]

Bro could've at switched it up with Freeze, Dizzy, Burn.

[@PrototypeSpaceMonkey]

Vanish, X-Zone

[@cbbblue8348]

Failure frame mc gonna get bodies when he meet average Etrian odyssey/Persona/Square enix RPG boss

[@Lily-iu9ms]

I remember hearing about how the guy who wrote Goblin Slayer started making it because of just how much he hated Re:Monster

[@andrewowens4421]

Re:Monster could have been good if it focused on the protag getting revenge on the girl who initially killed him. Or at least tried to figure out _why_ she killed him; which is what I thought the manga was going into. But it quickly forgets she even exists and just goes with bog-standard isekai questing. So I can understand why someone would hate this story. It really is a story about a guy getting away with anything he wants by making convoluted rules that make him out to be the good guy without any introspection as to why that line of thinking is bad.

[@flampagan1994]

fair

[@CherryAnime203]

That’s kinda hilarious

[@Future_Vantas]

Spite is a great motivator

[@mysmallnoman]

That never happened

[@kingsleycy3450]

Actual BS that the elite/boss characters don't all know a cure-all-statuses spell in the Failure Frame anime

[@andrewowens4421]

The idea is that buffs and debuffs are so looked down upon in this world that nobody bothers to learn them is why these villains fall apart so easily to the overpowered status effect. It's a big part of the reason why the goddess got rid of him in the first place; status effects, be they positive or negative, are seen as a detriment.

[@TupocalypseShakur]

Imagine if it was like a later game boss in. Strange Journey where targeting a weakness also gives an advantage and you have to plan around it. It would be better than just watching spam moves

[@youtube-kit9450]

Yeah, it's hilarious how little the author seems to know about RPGs, because nearly always are bosses eithe rimmune to those effects or can just remove them.

[@Alarios711]

@@andrewowens4421 Makes no actual sense.... The paralyze effect looks like it completely disables anyone or anything regardless of their strength. This immediately looks busted at a glance and anyone would see it right away. I'm so confused.

[@darkolli]

Status effects only worked because MC had 100% to inflict them, otherwise most higher level enemies would just shrug them off or just ignore the effects as nobody would have the stats/levels to inflict anything as potent as the MC can. Its a BS thing but its the gimmick that the writer has gone for.

[@OribaNS]

Forget having a skip OP/ED button, Banished Former Hero’s bop of an ED is the only good aspect it has, we need a skip show button.

[@trashotaku]

Re:Monster trying to convince the viewers that the MC isn't a grapist because he didn't use brute force gives me the same energy as the main antagonist of Don't Breathe trying to convince the protagonists he's not a grapist because he used artificial insemination

[@Jayfive276]

Rapist. The word is rapist. Say rapist. Grow up.

[@Chihirolee3]

@Jayfive276 The word is a red flag word that gets comments deleted. It's not about maturity, but the algorithm, stupid.

[@kairo3201]

​@@Jayfive276 WOAH WOAH WOAH WE GOT A TOUGH GUY HERE!!!!! 😮😮😮😮 💀💀💀

[@ossi5013]

​@@Chihirolee3 That isn't true for KZbin comments.

[@CelioHogane]

@@Chihirolee3 Wierd that the comment is still there.

[@therandombag2121]

What I really like about Failure Frame though was that they really stuck their monster designs, never once did the slime or the tigress (?) ever begin to look more human like other isekai try to do, key examples like Reincarnated as a slime (me when evolution means you look more human) or Tsukimichi (though tbf minor characters are not human, the more relevant characters are all very human looking)

[@andrewowens4421]

True. I like Eve because she's an actual cheetah woman. Not a cute girl with cheetah features, but a bipedal cheetah. You really don't see that often. At least with the females. There tends to be male furries but not female ones.

[@therandombag2121]

@@andrewowens4421 Yeah lol, at first I was thinking, “can’t wait for the slime to turn into an anime girl after ep 3” and then they slowly lost relevance for a bit but then came back as a pretty relevant upgrade for the mc that actually made sense and fit the theme of a slime, I was honestly impressed with the design aspect of the show

[@MrQwertysystem]

Tsukimichi at least does give an explanation to why they turn more human-like in appearance if I remember correctly.

[@julianfirdauz5839]

But still the 3d animation feels like ps1

[@Raiethstar]

Fatal frame is something I actually really enjoy. It pure revenge fantasy. I can already call the twist too. Status magic is the only thing that the goddess is weak to. She had a specific barrier against it, and it never misses but everyone thinks it’s so weak you should unalive yourself. I’ve rematches even when I just need someone killing people. I just wish they would stop with the grapists it’s so overplayed at this point.

[@Wiles731]

17:20 "all edge no point" ... like a pizza cutter

[@potatoflow536]

Glorious

[@darks_gene707]

cookie cutter anime

[@evanheid5336]

16:45 Basically, if Garth Ennis wrote an isekai anime

[@holyelixir4580]

Lets not forget the supposed 6ft fall "dwarf" in the banished hero. Or when the princess lets her paladin nearly die then later on heals someone in the brink of death. Or when the Banished Hero instantly repairs a destroyed cart and heals the paladin but then cant fix the sword he breaks? I rarely drop a series even if its bad but good fucking lord this was unwatchable. I genuinely feel bad for you for sitting through the whole thing

[@gyptice]

one of the most 1/10 shows probably in existence for me next to cheat magician

[@jessnalulila5552]

Someone was drunk while making the script for banished hero

[@timothymclean]

I know what you're trying to say, but Captain Carrot is also a 6-foot-tall dwarf, and I don't like the implications that including such a guy is inherently a flaw in fantasy works.

[@jaywerner8415]

@@gyptice 0 out of 10 is technically an Option.

[@criticaltipper7699]

@@timothymcleanit is

[@brianpack5479]

Didn't even mention the scene in Banished Hero where the animators didn't bother to give a character legs as they walked through town.

[@princessthyemis]

Seriously!?!?!? I wanna watch that scene hahaha!!!!😂

[@YoungRaw478]

😭 i remember reading the comments on Crunchyroll and going back to check... It was so funny

[@UniversalControl-13]

That's quite a nice excuse to cut animation but also the fact you were able to point that out must have looked goofy

[@Cheetahgirl_Studios]

Ah yes. My favourite fantasy spell. Torso Levitation.

[@misterprickly]

One of the things I hated the most, about the recent crop of anime, is the sorry excuse for *relationship building.* It's gotten to the point where "party member" is the best description for them. They're not a love interest because, at no point does any loving take place. They're not a friend because friends actually care about each other. This is more like "the lab partner, the teacher is making me work with". Heck, my old writing teacher told my class (after seeing a slew of relationships build too nothing) to "let your characters have sex; even if it's only implied". "Either they have sex or they break up! You can't just keep them hanging"... and they were right! We need more of THAT in anime.

[@jessnalulila5552]

Some of the "love interests" in this video made me ask: why? What happened that lead this girl to be in love with this guy?

[@misterprickly]

@@jessnalulila5552 Agreed! That's another big part of the whole "relationship" building process. Half of them seem to have Stockholm syndrome. Others are with the guy *because reasons!*

[@YOSSARIAN313]

​@jessnalulila5552 it's the japanese version of what I call the "edward Cullen problem" (based on twilight) basically the charachter is written to be the unrealistic romantic fantasy of "nice girls/guys". A hot boy/girlfriend that worships you no matter how terribly you behave. Thats how isekai love interests are written. Konasuba picked up on this with the darkness charachter

[@fernandotrevinocastro1018]

​@@YOSSARIAN313the problem the reach is getting the girl/dude is the ultimate goal, so if they get together that goal is over, and now they have to figure out how to write relatinships, or getting over one...

[@YOSSARIAN313]

@@fernandotrevinocastro1018 yeah anime romance is trash because they don't act like real people in their teens and twenties

[@PsychoSubSandwich]

15:10 Honestly, this genre's lack of anything resembling a compelling villain is something that should be studied.

[@mattwalker5689]

Because a compelling villain would be a good character, which is beyond these writers.

[@andrewowens4421]

Yeah, it's not that people think rapist is a boring villain. But when _every_ villain is a rapist it's just a slog. By having different villains you can explore the motivations of their distinct brand of villainy as opposed to making copy-paste ones over and over again.

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

They can't write good antagonists for the same reason they can't write interesting girls or convincing heroes: because once a story has an actually interesting element in it, it starts to suck up everything else like a whirlpool. As an example, if you had an interesting antagonist, people would prefer watching them over the hero and the harem, so you write the harem out to save time and make the hero actually work instead, and thus suddenly you have a Shonen story somebody might actually want to watch instead.

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

If you’re making an MC whose supposed to be a blank slate, you need to make a villain that’s evil enough that most of the audience can universally agree needs to be stopped without considering whether they’ve got a point. When you have a bland hero, bland love interest, and a bland world, you get a bland villain.

[@JohnHarrison-yq2zv]

What's the genre called?

[@asgeras]

My I can't believe it moment from the banished hero anime is when the hero finds out the demon children, who have been nothing more than innocent children to this point, were in mortal peril. And the "hero" tried to defer, saying that maybe the kids deserved it.

[@flampagan1994]

When you want to write morally complex characters but you lack the skills

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

He really said “fuck them kids”

[@jsnap1]

Love the Yamcha crater motif 😅

[@mothersbasement]

I do too! It was editor Trey’s idea and they deserve huge props for it

[@DCPTF2]

29:20 god damn that anime butchered the source material for some unknown reason The childhood friend is a creation of the show both Familiars are adults not to mention there is a bigger focus on how the MC is not fooling anybody and is likely being recorded by the Dungeons owners to be made into a TV show based on his adventures to sell their dungeon

[@andrewowens4421]

Pretty sure it's also a fantasy world as opposed to a fantasy world coming to a modern world and the backstories of boy loli girls are a lot more interesting than what the anime does.

[@shouta1255]

Even the manga version is like way better than this and like perfect for a fun, anime adaptation.

[@BandGGaming]

The changes are due to the backlash to how the demoness was introduced. She's absolutely over the top evil

[@tabathacarruthers5122]

@@DCPTF2 Except they said familiars don't show up on camera. Source material sounds less boring.

[@bhikku23]

"there is nothing meaner i could possibly say about this anime than simply telling you more things that happen in it" omg you weren't kidding!

[@timothymclean]

0:20: Remember when Geoff called this an ordeal he wouldn't inflict on his worst enemy? Character development!

[@andrewowens4421]

He was so innocent back then. Unmarred by the deluge of crap anime he would subject himself to over the years.

[@kennethrapp1379]

Pearl Diamond... OK. Could actually be a real name. Dax Gear Scimitar... A bit edgelordy but not ridiculous for anime. Pizaristed Plinkethewmerkelbrilliant... uhh ... III. Ok f*ck all the way off.

[@hellowendy1029]

The exact thought process that I went through lmao

[@ludo_narr]

Pearl Diamond IV of House Remake

[@thefoxesmind]

I miss No Game, No Life. It was a stupid kind of fun.

[@jessnalulila5552]

I still remember my brother's reaction at the final episode

[@stormhawkdude]

Thank you Geoff, Yazzy, your editors, and the little fur babies that help you all deal with the massive amounts of garbage you guys do to bring all of us entertainment and an escape from the BS of the real world. May your 2025 be filled with double the joy than this year gave you stress and anger combined

[@ZelotKing-dk1qh]

When you talked about Failure Frame I was very surprised that you didnt mention the CONSTANT EVERY EPISODE random switches to CGI. I mean like really the people in this anime would literally just switch to CGi randomly for no god damn reason

[@bentoomet8805]

I thought that was on purpose and kinda funny. There was an anime last year that was on the list (can’t remember the name) where they’d do the goofiest CGI for no reason like a scene where a character is riding the poorest CGI’d tractor around a complete dead background. It gave me those vibes so it didn’t bother me much.

[@-ZH]

@@bentoomet8805 Kamikatsu

[@zerofox641]

⁠@@bentoomet8805You’re talking about Kamikatsu. See that felt intentionally ridiculous and shitposty. The show’s tone and level of “we have no budget let’s go ham with what we do have” is clear from the first episode. Whereas FF I don’t ever get that sense. Now I did not watch more than 2.5 episodes but the show’s tone never felt “we do a little trolling”. I think it’s more they have a bunch of action scenes they want to do, had no time or budget for them and had to use CGI to make do. In a bubble it’s not terrible. There’s been much worse CGI anime. But the contrast is so insane, if they just did it all in CGI maybe it would’ve been better. Or just do what Blue Lock S2 did and use static PNGs.

[@bentoomet8805]

@@zerofox641 Yeah that was it. In FF they do some goofier stuff around the 6th episode and on, especially with the horse which I swear is made to look intentionally bad. Idk though, it seemed like a “this is so bad it’s good” kinda anime and when you view it like that I thought it was somewhat enjoyable. Pure slop though.

[@mawandembatha6622]

It was definitely a lack of time cause they would switch to CG ONLY when the characters are just standing and talking like it genuinely made no sense. When the characters were running ut was animated but not when standing The only saying grace is that after a week break, they fixed their problems and stopped doing that after like episode 7 so it became actually decent

[@WannabeCanadianDev]

I think to be fair if there was a romcom where the protagonist was that level of nerd (explaining what school and money is for) that'd be way more personality than a lot of harem romcoms lets be fair here, that's like legit sounds hilarious.

[@withercat]

Honestly, I think you could swing it as a fun quirk as long as you're careful to not overuse it if you play it to the be that the protag be some level of neurodivergent, my autistic ass is constantly scripting how I would explain something super mundane if asked, an autistic romance protagonist who shortcircuits when asked something by someone cute and accidentally ends up heavily overexplaining because they panicked sounds cute

[@timothymclean]

It's an amusing character quirk, but still a terrible way to deliver exposition. It doesn't work so good if the drivel dribbling out of the nerd's mouth wasn't stuff the audience can eyeroll through without missing anything of potential importance.

[@ppunch7050]

I go to anime for a lot of different things, romcoms aren't one of them. That's what kdramas are for.

[@warotm.590]

​@@withercatThat's who I thought Deku would be at first

[@-ZH]

@@timothymclean Just have him going off in the background about stuff that everybody already knows

[@imhigh6371]

ah yes the renowned sir name Plinkethewmarkelbrilliant

[@andrewowens4421]

When you make names from Gundam sound normal in comparison then you know you're doing something special.

[@skyshroud4104]

The third!

[@Flower_Mom]

It was his hat, Mr. Krabs! He was #1!

[@JamesEDonaldson]

I had to stop watching Re:Monster, it was clear something was 'wrong' with how the story was told. Like the guy outright says he made sure the male elves would die so the girls would live (while eating their bodies) and the old Goblin is like "I'm old let me f**k these beautiful elves" -who look on horrified and MC even gives his okay, then later randomly shows the elves in a cage looking perfectly fine. Never mind his harem gets mad and all banging him after he banged a Nymph all day, so I Google and yeah, he literally has a passive skill that mind breaks the woman around him and the anime at least attempted to make it not so obvious that's why all the women he saved love him. He's defending and fighting with the elves, against the humans, while he has a group of elves at home who are now 'happy' goblin sex slaves. It wasn't good or bad, it was just so warped, like he's literally wiped out the old "rape goblins" because he doesn't agree with that, but he's doing basically the same thing, but the show makes it out as a good thing.

[@andrewowens4421]

And it's implied that he was like this before he reincarnated. That the reason he was killed in the first place is that his girlfriend had had enough of his antics and decided to take him out to get out of an abusive relationship. So the main character was never "moral" he just didn't want to let the "spoils" become broken so he created a system that lets him get away with heinous shit and gaslights his victims into wanting more.

[@KhanMann66]

I’m shocked this even got green light and that it has a decent fanbase supporting this too.

[@SinHurr]

I know Slime has a lot of meetings, but they never really feel boring to me because every national represented has it's own distinct interests to consider, and the world has a cohesive geography that makes otherwise obvious alliances and choices have knock-on effects that proficient rulers have to consider.

[@TheTank1900]

I’m almost sad that Crunchyroll turned off comments because I could no longer see people malding that they thought they were in for Shonen Battle Slop when they were actually in for a reasonably interesting if not terribly deep city builder sim with a politics addon and the occasional fight to keep things spicy. I’m having a good time but watching people still baffled by this reality was comedy gold.

[@eXpriest]

Yeh but they keep talking about the same stuff. Like they bring up rimuru is a demonlord now in like eight separate episodes, each time like its new information.

[@darkocelot7342]

Personally the issue for me isn't meetings persay, it's meetings all in the same room with nothing to break them up AND the meeting scenes being poorly done in comparison to the many other talking or political scenes in the show before and after that showcase how the anime can totally do those scenes in dynamic or at least not-boring ways. The endless meeting arc as i'll call it just, was just badly done even compared to the rest of the season imo.

[@ohthatswild1755]

Which I would be all for, but Slime lost all stakes when it became apparent that any mistake the mc could possibly make wouldn't result in concrete consequences. When the purple-haired Oni died and was subsequently revived, I realized that it was highly unlikely that any of the maim cast was actually in danger. Not to mention how the diplomacy in Slime is just for appearances when he himself is enough to just Overlord most nations. At that point, why should I care if the talks work out or not?

[@zeyadgabr8682]

​@@ohthatswild1755huh the anime didn't clearfy that what rimuru did needed the harvest festival to happen? It's not a thing rimuru can just casually do again

[@raven_g6667]

I am so glad that I found an anime commentary channel that has the ability to call out the ridiculous r*pe and loli stuff in anime. I'm sure most of you that see this understand this, but even pointing out these things within anime communities has a 90 percent chance of getting you dogpiled with either excuses or insulted by saying you have "western" sensibilities, whatever tf that means.

[@lordxmugen]

Most anime has been trash post 00s. IDK why, but unless you're willing to sift your hands through the trash, it's hard to find anything anymore of value like you could before.

[@michaeltrujillo4149]

Yeah it's become so bad I can't even recommend One Punch Man or AOT to regular folk because anime has become solely known as being for "SA/Loli lovers." It's sucks that so many people miss out on great shows like Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken or Death Parade because all they've seen of anime are YT shorts of panty shot compilations. I tried watching Summer Time Rendering with someone recently and they literally walked away because of the upskirt shot in the first 5 minutes. It's like the entire industry has become obsessed with catering to high schoolers. I miss the variety of the 80's and 90's.

[@Hetsu..]

@@michaeltrujillo4149 Who are you talking to that only thinks of an entire animation form as solely porn wtf

[@Fruckert]

I would indeed like a roast of Tasuketsu. It sounds like a riot that I don't really want to put myself through.

[@bbd121]

Geoff, Ito's Uzumaki actually says a lot about duality. And the anime actually contains some of this; depending on the episode, the anime can be considered both the best anime of the year and the worst. This is actually a re-examination of the human condition... ... I'm just kidding. I hated the anime and it butchered the source material. :P

[@thierryntoh24]

IDC I gave Uzumaki a chance and almost 'died' just three episodes in. Easily one of my worst anime so far..

[@bbd121]

@thierryntoh24 Did you click on "Read More" or "Show all"?

[@thierryntoh24]

@@bbd121 I did now. 🥲

[@BR0984]

That moral stance when he's drugging them just put me off so much I dropped it altogether. Glad you mentioned that

[@whiteraven181]

That was the point where I gave up too. I wanted to like Re:Monster. I really, really wanted to like it and to turn off my brain and watch without worrying about morality. Drugging them while they were imprisoned and assaulting them with a “for their benefit” framing was where I felt too gross to keep reading

[@Florkl]

There’s a lot of fiction with protagonists who do horrible things because they are horrible people. The author knows it. The reader knows it. But it’s okay, because nobody is hurt. It’s a safe way to explore the dark desires of humanity. The author is not advocating anything except for introspection. Humanity can be monstrous, and we are humans. But then you have an author who doesn’t seem to get that they’ve written an evil protagonist, and that just feels awkward as you get the sense the author is saying that heinous stuff is good, or at least permissible.

[@calamelli209]

The absence of Whisper Me A Love Song, AKA the worst production dumpster fire of this decade, is simply unacceptable. That show literally had its entire animation staff walk out on the project on episode 3 due to terrible working conditions, the rest of the show was outsourced trash, the studio originally making the anime shut down, they cancelled the blu-ray release, and the last 2 episodes were delayed for several months only to look almost as bad as the first 10. It makes every other show on this list look like Demon Slayer by comparison. Even if the writing itself was pretty good, at the very least it deserves an honorable mention for just how fucking awful the production itself was. Aside from that glaring omission, this list is pretty good.

[@HaganeNoGijutsushi]

Production Committee: "...so we'll put that down as a mixed success."

[@Greebs229]

To be fair, the months long break isn't because they spent all that time working on it. It's because they needed to wait for an open spot on the TV schedule to broadcast it. Which seems to mean 'Christmas' more often than not. Expecting a bit more polish than before is fair, but it is still the same staff as before, burning an exhausted budget to try and complete the project.

[@Future_Vantas]

Surprised Tower of God Season 2 didnt get a nod like Blue Lock did. The drop-off from Season 1 is severe and disappointing. At least the OP and ED are pretty good.

[@danielehartmann2787]

And beside ALL OF THIS - I had a ton of enjoyment with this show. So I can argue against putting it on this list. But I have to watch the last 2 (new) episodes, so thats to it.

[@ajinurfajri1952]

Speaking of production dumpster fire. Anyone remembers Kimisen s2? Id like to see it on the list but damn it got delayed after eps 4 to this day

[@Minihood31770]

So there I am thinking Dax Gear Scimitar is a pretty silly name, and then you hit me with Pizaristed Plinkathewmerkel III Plinkathew!?? Plinkathewmerkel!?? I'm fucking dead

[@PrototypeSpaceMonkey]

At least it's ridiculous enough that I can believe that some alien or otherworldly being or different species might have a name like that. Dax Gear Scimitar just makes me think of european fiberglass kitcars.

[@PineappleLiar]

Man Failure Frame really could have had something if the status application wasn’t just pointing and ‘boom’, instant death spiral. Do like a Soi Fon thing from Bleach where, so long as you are able to hit your opponent, you can get the guaranteed status off. I also find it deeply unlikely that at least half of the enemies don’t have status immunities; how am I supposed to believe this is an RPG world without that? So the plot progression would be hitting a wall because enemies in a given area are immune to the current damaging status effect, so the options are level elsewhere to gain an ability that can be applied, or find a clever way to use non-damaging spells that do work to defeat an enemy. I’m annoyed at this piss poor execution!

[@andrewowens4421]

The first part of this I agree with, a little extra strategy to the status effects would do wonders for story progression. But a big part of why the enemies don't have status abilities of their own is because the world so looks down on them they don't bother to learn them. The goddess herself basically admitted that status effects are the lowest of the low and having them makes you a loser. I wish the story did a better job of portraying that though.

[@PineappleLiar]

@@andrewowens4421 it could be fun getting into why status effects have such an ingrained social stigma! Like, as the goddess of this world, presumably she had some say in the presence/absence of what magic exists, so why even include status spells if she hates them so much? Is there a greater power than her forcing it to exist, so she instead uses social capital to vilify the thing she can’t remove, or is it a willful inclusion to create social pariahs to make the villains of the story? In the history of this world is there an example of other people with guaranteed hit status effects, or is this an unprecedented event? Do we ever see anyone hiding an ability to paralyze people, or higher ranked individuals being pressured away from certain skills for being ‘low tier trash’? I suppose also asking the question of why the protagonist received such an incredible ability should be given a Watsonian explanation too, beyond the Doylist isekai standard of ‘shameless wish fulfillment’. Hmm… Faustian bargain with a devil-like opposite to the goddess would make sense to me. Wanting oppose the controlling force in this world, the devil takes something she discarded and twists the rules of the game to something that can defeat her; and using the leverage of revenge against his bullies would make for a reasonable main character motivation.

[@thatnerdygaywerewolf9559]

To be fair, it was stated that stat effect abilities/spells in this world have an abysmal infliction rate and short effect time, making them never worth it. Hence the idea of immunity isn't really needed (though the goddess does have an anti-status effect barrier, just in case). The main character's unique ability breaking that trend is the only reason it is viable. ...Though this is barely a "to be fair", since it basically means the MC is only strong because everyone else's status effects are nerfed by the author (not that there are any other stat effect users out there).

[@appelofdoom8211]

Seriously using berserk and make the enemies mikill each other while trying to stay out of the way of their rampages. Use blind to lead enemies into traps. Etc

[@julianfirdauz5839]

Ikr, some enemies should have resistance/immunity, some boss should fully immune until a certain requirement fulfilled, some boss just plain op for the sake of team fight

[@android19willpwn]

Re:Monster is so weird because it's one of those shows that doesn't *quite* seem to get that it has a villain protagonist, despite otherwise having a fairly decent setup for a schlocky villain-protagonist story. Like "evil monster guy fucks girls and eats people" isn't a *good* show, but it could be fun for that specific kind of person who's into that kind of thing. But it never quite leans into the grime. The protagonist is out there acting like he's better than anyone when the story is all about him being the absolute worst. Idk, I think that whole genre may have been ruined for me because none of it ever clears the fairly low bar set by this one webnovel about a mimic chest that accidentally gains a little too much power. It's a story that's bad in a wide variety of distinct ways, but at least when its protagonist is an inhuman man-eating monster it fully owns that and makes it the central thrust. It's a despicable little thing that makes the world worse for everyone around it and the story never tries to convince you otherwise, which Re:Monster really could have learned something from. When good people appear you should just hope that they can survive their intersection with whatever insane plan the protagonist is currently working, and *sometimes* they do!

[@HaganeNoGijutsushi]

Are you talking about Everybody Loves Large Chests?

[@shadowacesonic2827]

I think Overlord does this type of story well, especially in season 2 when you switch to some new secondary protagonists (the lizard people) and hope desperately that they'll survive their run in with Ainz. And he certainly stays evil/ruthless through most of the story, enough to make it feel like he really has lost most of his humanity. If you haven't seen it or haven't seen far into it, I recommend it -- not just the anime, but also the light novels, which are phenomenally gripping

[@Ka_chi1]

You should try overlord its peak and he truly is..... An overlord

[@FblueAnimation]

Yeah MC did alot of thing that pretty bare minimum and act like he is a chessmaster mastermind when he did the bare minimum of manipulating people in war. A commentor once said, the author or artist can just have Rou flex his muscle for 24 pages chapter straight and nothing differenciate it with normal chapters.

[@Silcha22]

Give us the Ex Arm roast please and thank you

[@MadMadNomad]

I dunno. Asking Geoff to do that feels a bit like expecting wrestlers and football players to get CTE for our amusement.

[@timothymclean]

Don't do it! Think about your own well-being!

[@Silcha22]

@MadMadNomad counterpoint, it would be funny to watch

[@ludo_narr]

@@MadMadNomad He already got his brain TheRingGrudged by King's Game.

[@acarr9377]

I wouldn't say no to a roast of Ex-Arm, I feel people get so focused on the bad animation, they don't understand just how ridiculous the plot is too, especially the things that happen in the final story arc.

[@PrecursorIdeliron]

34:28 “Wait, hold on, this was Number Two?!” - said so loud at night that I think I scared awake my neighbors. I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing, I’m still stunned this was only Number Two after making it three episodes in and smelling burnt toast.

[@DMBLaan]

Holy shit! Curtis Craig is literally the name of the protagonist of the FMV Game Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh. Who was also the first Bisexual video game protagonist in history, AND he was into being a Sub in BDSM! And the Number One Worst Anime's villains are named "Curtis" and "Craig"?!

[@flampagan1994]

Phantasmagoria 2? that is a name i haven't heard in a long time

[@Ijustusethistocommentstuff]

Fate of The Majority's idea of characters who die due to the death game being resurrected is honestly interesting. Maybe something where, when they die, they are sent to a different world with a different death game, and different rules. Maybe even a battle royale to re-enter the original death game. The literal Fate of The Majority. Edit: Also, could they NOT think of any other "low level spells" in Failure Frame? In fact, by DND standards, those are pretty decently high-level spells. 3rd level at least. GIVE HIM DANCING LIGHTS, YOU COWARDS.

[@PrimRooks]

OK but Geoff's kitty shirt fit?! 🤩

[@LorewithouttheE]

right??? like i want that patterned shirt so much actually lol

[@notreallythere477]

You know, I think it *is* important to remember that the job of a critic isn't easy. Like, even if one could do it full time, "watch anime all day every day" may *sound* like a cushy gig, but anime are of fixed duration, and following potentially dozens of series every week means several hours of the stuff each day, and there's a lot of shitty, boring crap in there, and once you're done in the anime mines, then comes the at this point fairly well-known grind cycle of scripting, shooting, and editing videos to keep up the sort of pace that the KZbin Algorithm wants. There are certainly worse jobs out there, but I don't envy anime critics. Also, as someone who doesn't necessarily auto-watch every one of your videos, I would *absolutely* be there for a deep-dive roast of Tasuketsu.

[@DMurphysLore]

The thing that gets me about Tasuuketsu, and it's a tiny thing but bear with me because if we focused on all the big things wrong with it we'd be here until the sun dies, is why do people keep sacrificing important or valuable organs for their abilities? The price is 'you pick an organ that you lose,' and at the point I watched up to, it could seemingly be any organ. Pick a tooth. Pick an ear. Pick one or both nipples. Don't jump straight to 'one of my lungs.'

[@IsaacIsaacIsaacson]

Appendix. Spare kidney. Spleen. Gall bladder. Tonsils. Lots of organs humans can live without. Even the guy who lost his gonads is gonna be fine in day to day life, better than the guy with 1 lung anyway.

[@timothymclean]

It only seems like a problem because there are so few rules. There _should_ be some kind of rule where getting a good ability requires sacrificing a useful organ. Or at least one where the specific ability you get is tied to the organ you sacrifice. (If you sacrifice a lung, you can control the wind! If you sacrifice a nipple, you can spray them with milk.)

[@Bleyuio]

What would the ability of the guy who sacrificed his junk?​@@timothymclean

[@flampagan1994]

just go ''grab as many ass hair as you want''

[@IridumSky]

So lungs guy didn’t choose to sacrifice it unlike scrotum guy, someone else sacrificed his lung for him. (There was an evil science organization experimenting with the Rights.)

[@TheRandomAustralian]

28:05 "you don't have to explain this s**t because all your viewers already play generic-a$$ RPGs" hey I resemble that remark.

[@nikkorin]

Bro, I had a penguinz0 pop up over your video going "Woooo! This is what I've been waiting for, this is what it's all about!" that looped around overshadowing what you said, and I stared at it for like 5 minutes thinking it was a bit, but then it just never stopped. I have no idea what that was, but I managed to close it.

[@silverwings920]

4:54 Say what people will about Blue Lock season 2, frame lock, barely animated colored manga panels with filters to fake extra animation when there isn’t cgi, and all that, but the last episode was actually really good. It’s so clear all the budget went into this one episode, and getting to see the NEL announcement, Kunigami, and Kaiser was quite exciting (as a manga reader, though). But, most importantly, getting Miyano Mamoru to voice Kaiser????? (Literally the only reason why I got through this season was for a Kaiser glimpse, sue me.) Well, if nothing else, the last episode managed to give me hope for the NEL adaptation.

[@BudewFan_]

God I hope all the money they saved by doing S2 like that goes into making the neo egoist league increduble

[@Oh_the_humanity]

These huge Year-in-Review videos are something I look forward to every winter! Behind some of your huge love-letter-to-a-series videos, these are what I look forward to the most! Great work this year!!

[@LizzieShiro]

After this year kicked my ass, the video I always look forward to every year is out.

[@MasterXSakuga]

7:47 Lol this is the exact sentiment I have towards PuraOre: Pride of Orange. Has its place as the first hockey anime but I’m hoping literally anything else will come along to give the sport some better rep in animation cause wow was it just a whole lotta nothing 😭

[@mothersbasement]

You should read DogsRed on the shounen jump app

[@MasterXSakuga]

Watching the first few episodes of PuraOre was actually my push to read & keep up with Dogsred! It’s been amazing so far, so I’d love to see that get adapted in the future so more people get into it

[@severalcakes3267]

A while back, I was talking to my friends about how the culmination of the isekai genre would be someone who was a loser in their first life travelling to another world and being a loser there. Lo and behold, we’ve reached that point spectacularly.

[@chimichangae5794]

They go from getting bullied sitting inside all day gaming and gooning to dying being transported to a world where they are admired get the girl and defeat big bads in what way shape or form are they still a loser

[@severalcakes3267]

Tōka’s situation does change for the better, but he still emerges into the system of the new world outclassed by his peers and shat on by the universe.

[@chimichangae5794]

@@severalcakes3267 what anime is toka from?

[@severalcakes3267]

@@chimichangae5794 The one with the title like, “I Got Reincarnated in Another World and Annihilated Everything With Weak Spells.”

[@Nobere]

I felt monumentally let down by Demon Lord Retry R. It was like the time I thought I was getting another season of Teen Titans, and then I watched Teen Titans Go. I mean, a large number of the main characters are not even recognizable from the way they looked in the first season.

[@phoebe4450]

Actual Calvinball sports anime when??

[@EpsilonRosePersonal]

24:38 I can make ReMonster even more disappointing. There's another manga where the protagonist reincarnates as a goblin. Except in that manga the goblins aren't horrible monsters, the MC's true cheat power is both recognized as impactful and comes with a meaningful downside, and the power fantasy is about working together to build up a community. Oh, it's also actually fun to read.

[@whiteraven181]

You can’t say all that and then NOT give us a name!

[@crystaljon]

@@whiteraven181 I'm assuming they're talking about "Tensei Goblin dakedo Shitsumon aru?"

[@EpsilonRosePersonal]

That's the one.

[@LT-dn7mt]

The Healer one is also stuffed with weird generic isekai morality. Cop guy: Your horrible human trafficker party is sentenced to death. Healer: Can you, like, let them go with a warning instead? Killing is bad. Cop: So they can just do it again somewhere else? Cool, I'll circumvent the legal system just because of your speech.

[@thierryntoh24]

Sounds like Naruto tbh.

[@dreww1459]

10:29 I'm sorry...Pizaristed Plunk.........iant III. That...that is someone fucking with us. And this is coming from me, someone who found humor in Lichdragon Fortissax

[@ankokuraven]

First Yes Roasts please But also Since you brought up Jellyfish That one was a little extra special to me because after decades of wanting to visit Japan I finally got to and a bunch of the locations it takes place in are places I visited, so it was the first anime I got to be like "YO I SAT ON THAT BENCH!" And stuff.

[@GriffinPilgrim]

Let the hate flow through you...

[@hellowendy1029]

Yes... Yes...

[@DankShamwow]

At least the people making Gods' Games We Play cared somewhat, maybe, because there is a full-on reference to I Wanna Be The Guy in there, which explains a lot about things being somewhat arbitrary and nonsensical but also doesn't absolve it from sucking shit.

[@warpspeedscp]

Wait, like, the meme game thats just annoying parkour with too many spikes that ppl like to speedrun, and which has a million spinoffs?

[@Kalatash]

Dear lord, some of those names are FANTASTICALLY awful. I need a full cast list stat.

[@robertfaulkkner5508]

The other girl who joins the Gods Game party with the purple ponytail is named Nel Reckless. yup.

[@mournwood]

I am unapologetically stealing "all edge, no point".

[@DAsrada]

Fate of the Majority, aka, someone played all the Drakengard games one weekend, got really, really high, and went "you know, boss, I have some crazy ideas."

[@thierryntoh24]

I actually liked Tasuuketsu. ;) or at least i was way better than others ive seen.

[@DAsrada]

@@thierryntoh24 I mean it's entertaining, and I like it in the same way I enjoy the sheer lunacy of Drakengard writing. I do hope it ends on a similar level of utter insanity as Ending E.

[@raistlarn]

Re:Monster, the anime that had the dubious honor of being both one of the if not the first monster isekai city builder mangas (yes older than if I was reincarnated around a board meeting table,) and also being one of the last monster isekai city builders. I'm honestly surprised it was even made into an anime.

[@andrewowens4421]

I didn't realize it was that old. No wonder it's so bad. It never had the opportunity to look at other LN and learn from them.

[@HaganeNoGijutsushi]

BING BONG LIKE KING KONG I would say its age is no excuse, it had the opportunity to look at _the rest of human literature_ and learn at least how to have a story that does not suck.

[@raistlarn]

@@HaganeNoGijutsushi ehh. It was one of the very first of its type. This isn't to say it was good or even ok. It's just that it hobbled out of the gate and broke ground on the thought process behind the isekai monster city builder type LN. Remember this did come out 2 years before reincarnated as a slime(RaaS), and like it or not RaaS did take a few of the ideas from R:M and do them better.

[@raistlarn]

@@andrewowens4421 it kinda did LNs have been around since the 70s. It's just many of the ideas have been taken and done better...and worse (yes there are way worse LNs/manga that do the same thing that have been made after.)

[@HaganeNoGijutsushi]

@@raistlarn my point is that it doesn't take having read another novel with the _specific_ premise of "guy reincarnates as a monster" to figure out basic stuff like that there has to be a functional plot or that maybe having your MC serially rape women and treating this as an ok thing is not great character writing. You only need to have read... something. Anything. Then you could make some mistakes specific to the premise due to it being the first iteration but these aren't those kind of mistakes. They're just "I have never read anything and can't write" mistakes.

[@Forever_Rayne]

I can't believe we keep getting shows with isekai/RPG elements every damn season for years. You could combine all of them together and I won't be able to tell any of them apart.

[@timothymclean]

10:25: I would like to formally apologize to Chuatury Panlunch for making fun of her relatively normal name. Chuatury Panlunch is, in most contexts, a hilariously absurd name, but anime is no longer one of those contexts. 21:20: Add "ornithology" to the things isekai gets wrong. 39:44: Did I spy a We Have Todoroki At Home?

[@MadMadNomad]

When you're up against Gundam in a silly name contest and you still manage to win....

[@kingsleycy3450]

Hilariously bad names are actually the biggest telltale of an amateur writer. Good/professional writers research their cultures and mythologies. Terrible writers repeat what they have heard in a game or a movie

[@andrewowens4421]

Are we sure those were names and not the author having a mild stroke when he was writing and couldn't bring himself to change it after the fact? That last "name" made no fucking sense.

[@themaplesamurai]

"The whole show looks like that crippled toddler was taught to draw again using only his feet by the animators of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon." I'm assuming you meant Link: Faces of Evil, since that was the one with the horribly drawn animated cutscenes, while Wand of Gamelon used live-action FMV cutscenes, and how do I know enough about the CD-i Zelda games to know that?

[@swiftsteve8774]

Literally no? These two games use the same art style and character designs. There is a third CDI Zelda title with more realistic visuals, but I am not familiar with it.

[@joshuamarks4425]

The saddest part about Tasuketsu is that this adaptation was the brainchild of director Tatsuya Sato, once best known for legendary shows like Martian Successor Nadesico, Bodacious Space Pirates, and Shifogumi, and he's sadly showing just how utterly washed up and gassed out he is, given that not only did he do this adaptation, but also worked on the deeply average adaptation of Helck from the prior year, both of them coincidentally suffering from Satelight's visual jank and being vastly inferior to Lord Marksman and Vanadis, which he helmed at Satelight a decade prior. Can't believe that I realized that the director of the Banished Hero adaptation was also the unlucky guy who helmed Rent-A-Girlfriend seasons 1 and 2 as well. And Marvy Jack who did the abysmal Seven Deadly Sins season helmed this one too. Really says something. Also, good lord. Keitaro Motonaga is just fated to be cursed after the cancellation of the equally cursed New Life+ adaptation that he was expected to helm, the ending of Digimon Adventure tri and being kicked off the Date A Live adaptation before its *fourth season*. Because at least you could say prior to all of that that he was a reliable workhorse (even if he was the guy who cursed the earth with the School Days anime) with an acceptable quality baseline like the three Date A Live seasons and Jormungard, but now he's putting out all of these abysmal shows with his writing partner Takamitsu Kono like 2022's She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, 2023's Kingdom of Ruin, 2024's Highspeed Étoile, and now they're about to crap out another stinker next year with The Beginning After the End based on the Tapas webtoon.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

The bizzare names in that one anime makes me think of the essentially author-approved Death Note fanfiction novel, "LA BB Murder Files", where the three murder victims are named things like Backyard Bottomslash or Quarter Queen. I can't remember the third victim's name right now but all of them were ridiculous 😅

[@Moocow2003]

I haven't read it but I remember the name Beyond Birthday.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

@Moocow2003 Yes, he was the villian and also had a weird name, lol.

[@Oh_the_humanity]

I like to think the immense financial success of Classroom of the Elite, relative to it's middling quality, is how the industry realized that Calvinball is the future of low-effort, derivative, middling shonen anime. Isekai has some competition.

[@withercat]

honestly if that means we get a handful that are actually good I'd be so down for that, as someone who was big into yugioh something that could genuinely capture some of the vibes of season 0 mixing of gaming, horror, and comedy, would be awesome

[@AndrewManook]

COTE actually has good characters like Koenji

[@penguincpickles225]

In the hands of a better/more caring writer, "Guy joins high stakes/high rewards games against the gods because he just likes gaming THAT MUCH" could be fun. A comedy? A dark comedy? Something that starts as a comedy but gets dark when he realizes he's in over his head? Any of them could work. With effort. Unfortunately, it seems all the creativity went into ridiculous names.

[@viron3664]

Is there a subgenre that has wore out its welcome as quickly as the misanthrope-isekai subgenre? I don't like isekai, pretty much at all, but I don't think I've ever had anything nice to say about this kinda shit, it is like all the protagonists have big fedora tipping redditor energy. I will take a billion shitty shounen protags over a single one of these losers any day.

[@Ergeniz]

Modern day Japanese Isekai is pretty much built on foundation of escapism and loathing the world we live in so why would anyone not expect this?

[@shawnjavery]

It makes a lot more sense when you realize it basically just replaced the shitty harem tv anime that'd have like 12 episodes of nothing plot to just show the waifus around. Its a bit better than that I suppose, but you can kinda tell what's worth a watch by the production values a given anime has, because that shows how much faith the studio has for the project.

[@SecretIdentityStudio]

My list of 10 worst: 10) Delusional Monthly Magazine 9) Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included 8) Tonbo! 7) Tasuuketsu: Fate of the Majority 6) The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil 5) Highspeed Étoile 4) Trillion Game 3) 2.5-Dimensional Seduction 2) Uzumaki 3) Re:Monster

[@frankzajac3158]

Thanks for actually putting the names of anime down, and being a better youtuber than this guy. Good work.

[@knightmare5097]

@@frankzajac3158 He does, though?

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

@@knightmare5097 Geoff describes himself as a pile of trash in his own videos so dissing him is agreeing with Geoff.

[@alsinakiria]

I mean, I don't think Re:Monster was good but it was... I was expecting far worse. I think people hyped it up as bad so much that I almost felt like defending it at a few points. People made it sound so bad that I was expecting it to be just Goblin Slayer from the goblin perspective. It felt more stupid, insensitive, tone-deaf and tasteless than completely irredeemable scum. "What if an esper was isekaied as a Goblin Slayer goblin baby" is a unique enough story concept that I got some mild enjoyment out of a few scenes. Not enough to redeem the show but it's not the worst show I watched. I actually watched this one until the end so that's something. A concept that would do so much better in the hands of another author. Like, maybe get rid of the r*pe entirely instead of "mostly" in goblin society and only have the girls sleep with him after they have the opportunity to go home if you really need your harem. They don't get pregnant until afterwards anyway so it wouldn't hurt the story in any way. Not even the excuse of "he was raised in a medieval fantasy world. He wouldn't know modern progressive values". He's from a society with views like ours. He knows better. Solid 2/10 show. I was expecting a 1/10.

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

@@alsinakiria sorry i didn't read all that im illiterate but yeah i got out of remonster exactly what I was expecting. a no budget studio deen adaptation that, considering the studio and the budget, is a good adaptation with limitations considered. I only watched 4 episodes it's enough for me. I've watched over 200 anime im allowed to skip stuff now.

[@Vercalos]

I can't help but think it would have been hilarious if, after the two gave him the potion mouth-to-mouth, he reacts with an over-the-top "WTF?! Next time just pour the potion into my mouth directly from the bottle!" Then again, sometimes the things I see in my head are far funnier than what actually happens in some anime

[@andrewowens4421]

The funny thing is the manga isn't nearly this bad. It's still trash, but it's trash that actually goes out of its way to at least tell an _interesting_ story. The anime just wanted to get to "cute" antics so it rearranged everything in order to do that.

[@Doodlesthegreat]

And 2025 is looking to be chock full of entrants for the next worst list, because "Beheneko" is basically Fantasy Inuki-San's Dog...

[@andrewowens4421]

The manga is _tame_ compared to the Light Novel. In the first light novel volume a female slave hunter literally gets raped by a giant cat monster in heat. Not the _main_ character monster cat, but a different monster cat. But still. And it gets crazier from there.

[@shadebug]

There was a point at around episode three of failure frame where it looked like they were gonna do this whole Western style man with no name thing where he walks into towns and saves them. They did not do that (I realise that it’s actually a samurai/ronin trope but they straight up used western music)

[@soraniostaur3839]

ya know, thank you for wokring so hard with all the uploads this year Geoff. Between the last 3 videos, my introspective media literacy, and seeing a ton of controversy surrounding a certain blabbermouth. I'm deeply appreciative of you, Yazzy, your channel, and the content you put out; doubly so because you're nothing like Jellopaclyspe. Please keep up the amazing work and thank you the amazing recommendations 80% of the time and comedy you slided into each video. (You've genuinely grown a ton as a comedian since I first started watching your channel)

[@Cyromantik]

The thing that really made me drop the Re: Monster manga was beyond the drug/brainwashing of each new waifu candidate, was that the protag-kun couldn't bother remembering anybody's ne unless they became pregnant with him. Bad enough that there are no actual characters in the story, but the female "characters" don't even register as people unless they're his brood mares. It sucks.

[@justinrodriguez5957]

"T-pose to assert dominance over time." Okay that sounds hilarious. 🤣

[@GustavoMartinez-op9gs]

"That time I got reincarnated as a guy in a bunch of meetings " 😂😂😂 fantastic writing Geoff

[@DelaneAtalanta]

Paralyze Poison started okay, but the author remembered he was making an isekai manga so he decided to throw it straight to the trash as is customary.

[@andrewowens4421]

The storyline itself is actually good, but getting through that storyline can be a drag. In the manga I'm super invested in understanding the motives of the "witch" and how she relates to the goddess and I think Eve is just the best. But the progression of the plot as it pertains to his abilities just... ugh. If you're going to do a guy who uses status effects as an ability you really need to thoroughly find a way to balance it so that it flows better into the story and doesn't become mundane.

[@ClockFink]

Petition here for Ex Arm Roast!

[@Zecko19]

28:53 Made our Sunday Post Lunch Icecream Perfection. Chef's Kiss 🧑‍🍳😘

[@mothersbasement]

Happy to be of service!

[@jeanpitre5789]

Imma be honest. I was NOT prepared for "immobalize" to freeze a head in mid-air while the rest of the body just kept hurdling by. 😂 Dawg im WHEEZING!!😂😂😂

[@supercomputer276]

Eve Speed being one of the best parts of Failure Frame is an objective fact.

[@andrewowens4421]

If the main character wasn't so overpowered she would legitimately be a good party member for an RPG. But after meeting him she doesn't really get to do much since the story focuses on him.

[@littlerelief]

Boy, those moe-ass female character designs sure do deflate the mega grimdark aesthetic a lot of these shows seem to be going for. it's like if Naoki Urasawa's Monster randomly had Kyoani do all of Nina's design and animation but kept everything else the same.

[@Aquadoren]

'Temu Gilgamesh' really got me.

[@GonickuDB]

I immediately judge the quality of an isekai anime by the ratio of guys to girls in the party and the name. Having 1 guy with nothing but babes and a name like "All The Bad Things Happen to Me Cuz I'm the Weakest, but Now I'm The Strongest in the Universe" 9 times outta 10 I know what it is

[@XavierAcosta-lf5kt]

22:18 I shit you not, i had a toy gun EXACTLY like that one back in 2005

[@Theycallmetomu]

If you had a nickle for every time you used the "I'd have two nickles" reference in one of these references, you'd have well over two nickles, because this is like, the third time this year at LEAST you've used that reference I swear.

[@jsnap1]

Nice work Trey for the Yamcha Crater 👏👏

[@Jjk58174]

Number 1 is truly the worst anime that I have had the displeasure to scar my eyes with in years. The protagonist honestly is the reason that every"bad" thing happens anyway. There was some complete crap on this list, but number 1 was uncontested even with the combined failures of all these other garbage shows could muster stacked against. I could laugh at the other shows' appalling tropes because they failed in a way that was sometimes hilarious. All number 1 did was piss me off that the MC was such a self-centered asshole who caused almost every second of misery that the show came up with. Not to mention all the other cardboard that just instantly threw themselves at his feet.

[@jamestelford1694]

It would be so dope if they went all the way with the revenge porn anime and just animated the count of monte cristo

[@mothersbasement]

Funny you say that - Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the best anime ever made

[@Moocow2003]

​@@mothersbasement this is really good to hear, I've been meaning to watch that show for ages

[@user-ow1bc4sx2r]

Uzumaki was crappy but I think the first episode sort of disqualifies it. It shows that the whole thing was completely hamstrung by production bullshit. Number 10 makes sense. If the whole thing was as bad as the bad episodes I think we’d basically just be ignoring it, it would be “another crap ito adaptation” and it would make no splash as it sunk beneath the waves