Lets talk about bad anime. Now you have lots of ways anime can be enjoyed. You have the legitimately good anime like Cowboy Bebop or Evangelion or JoJos Bizarre Adventure 2012 and you have bad anime like Inferno Cop Ghost Stories or insert recent title here. Now just because anime is bad doesnt mean it cant be entertaining. When I say Inferno Cop is bad I dont mean it as a bad watch. Objectively by seeing the lack of animation or a cohesive story its bad. But thats the point. Shows like Xavier Renegade Angel look like crap but can be incredibly funny. Inferno Cop is incredibly funny and even if it lacks an animation budget that was the entire point of the series. Stuff like Axe Cop notoriously written by an 8year old is very poor in its storytelling ability but it is still very entertaining. You also probably know about stuff like Ghost Stories which was an average anime saved in the dub where they just didnt care and the dubwork was so bad its good. I could keep going on bringing up stuff like The Room but the point of the matter is bad doesnt mean completely unwatchable. A lot of stuff now is ironically made its 90 of whats on Adult Swim. This anime is actually awful. There was a trope going around about how anime is all just pervert stuff high school girls constantly flashing their panties for no reason and everyone is apparently just a pervert. Also power of some oddly specific thing usually friendship. Unlike stuff like BoBoBo this doesnt feel like its done in terms of being funny it comes off as just... creepy. It comes off as a genuine attempt at a joke and has no sort of ironic factor whatsoever. Its played completely seriously. I only bring this up because apparently this was supposed to be a gag anime. You want a good gag anime? Inferno Cop. Ghost Stories probably. Pop Team Epic. This is everything wrong with anime and unfortunately its played with no irony whatsoever. God this reminds me of Neptunia another garbage series that is incredibly shallow and is nothing deeper than girls that are video game consoles. They dont really do anything special with the concept and every game in that series plays the exact same or is a regurgitation of a regurgitation of a bowel evacuation of the original game that inspired it. It legitimately gives me a headache and makes me feel like I wasted my time. Ill give Arcade Gamer Fubuki one thing: it ends pretty quickly. Although its so bad it makes me feel like its 3 times as long as it really is. I dont think it helps the term gamer has gone from a term of slight pride to a term of ironic cringe to a term that is just cringe. This anime has aged horribly. The dub is full of 4Kids voice actors even though 4Kids didnt dub this under their license from what I can tell. So maybe if youre a Sonic YuGiOh or Pokemon fan you might find some enjoyment out of that. The evil organization logo looks exactly like the Wu Tang Clans symbol too but that might not hit with everyone who watches this and is most certainly unintentional. I like poorly produced anime because it can end up being funny. Goldenboys dub was done off the cuff and they had some guy around the office dub it from what I remember and its one of my favorite anime because of that. Perhaps at the time this was at least... acceptable but now it just comes off as hard to watch and completely lacking in substance. I like old stuff and dated can have a really appealing charm but the stuff in this anime has made it rather hard to watch especially considering how the medium has evolved over the last 20 years... or hasnt depending on the viewer.
30 /100
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