Have you ever finished something and thought to yourself: Boy that sure was bad 440https://i.ur.com/sMdl64o.png Weve all been there at one point or another of our lives. With all the media we consume its statisically impossible for us to look at every single thing we watch read or listen to and honestly say: Wow thats a ten out of ten for sure Sometimes you just strike out. Everybody knows that anything below a 9.5 out of 10 is mediocre at best but what about true stinkers that fall even lower? What about things that are just so bad that you just want to point at and screech the word bad but your vocal cords fail you and you cannot utter the word to show you that truly detest this work of fiction and therefore think it is lacking of any and all quality? 440https://i.ur.com/1Iaz3kv.jpg What are some alternatives to the word bad? Terrible? Awful? Horrible? Stupifyingly horrendous? But what if all of these alternatives fail as well? What if something truly is just that bad? Well I have a foolproof alternative for you Wow what a fucking Aguu 440https://i.ur.com/044VROA.png Aguu Aguu Ga Ga also Im gonna spoil the entire fucking show so Aguu is a 2018 original mistake brought to us by Studio Deenhttps://anilist.co/studio/37/StudioDEEN and its... 440https://i.ur.com/U8SzgGJ.png I learned in the process of writing this review that Aguu is actually originally a Chinese web manga. So this is actually an adaptation and not an original anime. Which explains various things about it... ...its just so bad. Its just so... goddamned bad. Not even in the same vein as EVIL OR LIVEhttps://anilist.co/anime/100226/EVILORLIVE/ as well. Like that show was so bad that I found myself at least laughing at some points. But this? 440https://i.ur.com/snsjMOQ.png This was just misery. Even if I were to try and force myself to attempt to write a positive review of this series theres just absolutely nothing I could say without it being a blatant lie. Like if Im at the end of your series wondering what the fuck the point of it all was and youre like obviously trying to hint at a season two or continuation... 440https://i.ur.com/4at3Z8x.png Like why. Who greenlit this? More importantly who wrote this? Because in addition to nothing interesting or compelling happening throughout the entire show the writing is just stupifyingly horrendous. When the show introduced this horrifically irritating mother character and her son I didnt think that was going to become the main core of the show. Nor did I think there were gonna be multiple twists to her character. An initial twist and then they twisted it even further. 440https://i.ur.com/4xkIAlF.png Wow not only was she perfectly aware that the fortune teller was scamming her and her son but she herself was a major pillar of this evil organization that harvests and distributes Aguu? Wow holy shit that totally wasnt an asspull And to do it right at the very end of the show after she makes this big show of her leaving her son to the old man after clinging to him in every single other scene. I also didnt think the blonde apprentice character who just flies off the handle and starts setting shit on fire was gonna be exiled from the show a handful of episodes in. Meaning since the main character contributes absolutely nothing to the show the old man character would have to do 100 of the fighting. 440https://i.ur.com/IhYgJ3Q.png I mean if youre not gonna actually teach her to do any of this Taoist supernatural bullshit or whatever then why exile the only other character who can actually fight just because hes an idiot when youre up against a global wide organization who harvests the souls of every famed or talented person whos lived and also sometimes just straight up Gods and/or Goddesses??? Thats a pretty fucking stupid thing to do if you ask me. Especially when you know one of the members of this organization has murdered at least over one hundred Saviors by himself. 440https://i.ur.com/JI4bpC1.png To be exact hes murdered at least 139. I also didnt think that the relationship between the main character and her friend was going to be treated as a subplot even though that would have been infinitely preferable as the actual main plot. 440https://i.ur.com/pabEwwX.png No instead she gets burned alive as a result of the main characters actions then gets revived and made evil by the big bad evil man and you spend like what feels like thirty episodes waiting for her to come back to try and get the main character. Meanwhile the mom character is still just all like AND THEN TO HIDE MY GENIUS SON FROM THE EVIL BAD GUYS I MADE A DEAL WITH ONE OF THEM BUT THAT MEANT I HAVE TO GIVE HER MY PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER HUSBAND 440https://i.ur.com/sywoLVC.png 440https://i.ur.com/y19kqQU.png and then youre just like please for the love of god stop. Like the opening which is the ONE even remotely good thing this series has makes it seem like this series is gonna be this out of control crazy and insane horror action show. https://www..com/watch?v=PPg9yj3QILE Instead its just complete shit. I should not be able to call a series centered around the trafficking of harvested human souls a BORING NIGHTMARE. Like the early episodes certainly werent good but you at least had some goofy and weird stuff this like oompa loompa bug creature man they had to fight. 440https://i.ur.com/dYiH1tu.png But then this woman and her son gets introduced and I really cannot understate how terrible she is. For the show to make such a big deal out of her leaving presumably for good only to just have her immediately come back to save the day amidst the climax of the show was... just such a perfectly Aguu of a turn. Granted something had to happen since before this point the final battle is her son waging a math war with the evil bad man of the entire series. This is not a joke or a fabrication in any way. Math wars. Like the idea of them waging a battle of intellect because both the big bad guy and the kid possess deities of wisdom isnt a bad idea in theory. The problem comes when you actually have to illustrate this said battle and its required to look and act as an actual battle. So what do you get? Each of them doing rapid fire increasingly more difficult addition while trying to be faster than the other. 440https://i.ur.com/r2vHpcb.png 440https://i.ur.com/xCtPOKV.png 440https://i.ur.com/WmScnoX.png 440https://i.ur.com/usZsrF3.png And thats really the closest thing to an ultimate showdown we get. The old man who was supposed to fight the bad guy got his shit kicked in singlehandedly. So thats how we end up with the ending of the annoying mom pitching season two to the big bad guy in exchange for sparing her dear darling son who she had managed to keep hidden from the big bad Aguu man up until this point by purposely making her son dumber than a box of rocks with voodoo magic or some shit. Also like at one point the mom literally betrays the old man and the main girl and the way she does away with the main girl is accusing her of... having inappropriate sexual relations with her son??? 440https://i.ur.com/BQzvp97.png GET AWAY FROM MY SON YOU FILTHY FUCKIN PEDOPHILE. but mom what about the bad people who want to turn me into a small creature soul thing to harness the power of the goddess Im possessed by POLICE PLEASE DONT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO WHAT MY SON IS SAYING. HES A FUCKING IDIOT. THIS GIRL IS A FUCKING PEDOPHILE PLEASE TAKE HER AWAY TO THE DUNGEON. oh............. 440https://i.ur.com/0Xeinmp.png 440https://i.ur.com/ivsIssq.png Yeah okay the mom is already really unlikable and... like that is not a light accusation to just fucking throw at someone. Especially someone who has more or less done nothing but go out of their way to try and help you. But yeah then this leads to main girl ending up in the slammer where she meets probably the second worst character of the show. Like in most of my reviews I dont even bring up character designs but holy mother of christ what foul manner of beast is this. 440https://i.ur.com/6Omyh5f.png 440https://i.ur.com/HVJpVch.png She talks in an annoying way shes easily the ugliest character of the entire show barring the mom and she herself and thus also the original creator of Aguu admits and thinks shes annoying and ugly. But our protagonist for some reason takes a liking to her I guess because of how just open and honest about herself she is? But you could still be open and honest while not striving to be as obnoxious as you possibly can be??? 440https://i.ur.com/pxqA1RL.png But hey befriending this creature worked out for our protagonist because as a result she busts the protagonist out of jail because apparently I guess the police were 100 sure she was a confirmed pedophile??? Anyways the ugly girl leaves the prison too but in a limousine or some shit with servants and you dont have any fucking clue what the fucks the deal with that until the end of the show because she never shows up again. 440https://i.ur.com/H4Qvui9.png But when the annoying mom at the end of the show started going on about the like different pillars of the Aguu community it clicked in my head and I realized that ugly being from before is totally another Aguu pillar. Because thats the only thing that would explain that character. But at the end of the day her entire purpose in these twelve episodes was to bust our main character out of jail for being accused of BEING A PEDOPHILE. I mean why was that not a conversation that happened between the protagonist and the annoying mom when they ended up meeting again after that??? But no I guess its just water under the bridge 440https://i.ur.com/30reCSI.png Oh actually speaking of the Aguu pillars thing again guess who also is a pillar of that? The old man Savior. Or rather the Saviors this whole time were in fact originally a part of the Tailor community. Even though the rest of the series really makes it seem like the Saviors are a completely separate organization that arose in response to the Tailors? I mean it makes sense that if your group was formerly a part of this other group that deals in harvesting essentially human souls that you wouldnt exactly be open about how your group was originally part of them. But why would the big bad evil Aguu man still need confirmation from the Saviors to create the ultimate super Aguu??? 440https://i.ur.com/J9baX6M.png Like if a group leaves your group in the aims of taking down your group then wouldnt removing any authority or privileges in your group be the very first thing you did in response? Instead no the annoying mom assures the big bad evil Aguu man that in addition to getting the rest of the Aguu pillars on board with letting him create the ultimate Aguu that shell like I guess water board this old man into saying yes as well??? The most important character of the show: SPARE MY IDIOT CHILD AND HIS MATH GODDESS AND I SHALL SINGLEHANDEDLY WORK TIRELESSLY TO ENSURE THAT YOU WILL CREATE THE ULTIMATE AGUU AND THUS BECOME AN ULTIMATE GOD RULING THE EARTH. Ai the protagonist: IM SO FUCKING GLAD WE TRIED SO HARD TO HELP YOU. THANKS. 440https://i.ur.com/oloqjnF.png So the moms second betrayal essentially defuses the entire climax of the show and even though the big bad Aguu man was fully winning accepts her deal and just fucks off and then the show ends. Oh yeah and that whole plot with Ai and her friend which was supposed to be the main plot of the show? Well her friend finally confronts Ai and kind of reconciles with her but only after scarring her face because Ai abandoned her to burn to death and she actually kind of has every right to be pissed at her. But then rather than fully reconciling with her she also just fucks off and despite that entire conversation still decides shes evil? 440https://i.ur.com/pUrMRYn.png ...So the show ends with nothing. Nothings been solved whatsoever. Just a whole bunch of time has essentially been flushed down the fucking drain unless Aguu season 2 actually genuinely emerges from the darkness one day. But hopefully that day never fucking comes. 440https://i.ur.com/uyrQMrU.png Conclusion ...Honestly I just want to note I wasnt even going to fucking review this. https://i.ur.com/3jCKOp3.png Even halfway through when the show had already transitioned into a horrifically boring nightmare I still was just not gonna review this. When the big bad antagonist shows up and starts wreaking havoc and one of the only characters you have to throw at them is this kids dad who is like a basketball player that got traded to this evil Aguu lady for the sons safety and he Like sure he almost kind of successfully battled off some Tailors earlier in the show while donning his basketball attire but hes just a fucking normal human being. What the hell is he possibly gonna do? Also how did he even know where they were? What? 440https://i.ur.com/bGUiRfs.png ...Its just too bad. I cant take this seriously. Nobody should take this seriously. And thats the reason why I wasnt gonna review this whatsoever. Its not bad in an interesting way its not bad in a funny way and theres no fucking single piece of criticism that I could offer to make it not bad. Other than you know to just throw the entire fucking thing out and start from scratch. But the farther I sank into this show the worse it got. I kept thinking theres absolutely no way it could get any worse but then it did. https://i.ur.com/fQmkf1i.png All I wanted was crazy horror nonsense. Hell didnt even need to be horror even though it clearly tried to appear as such on the outside. I mean what the fuck the show is about harvested HUMAN SOULS. Please sow three human souls into me so I can be better ballerina Even if I actually did somehow enjoy this... this show I wouldnt be able to defend that terrible fucking climax. Every single character except for the blonde Savior guy who blew shit up and I guess ugly girl comes back into the show just in time for this fight against this evil big bad Aguu man whos finally entering the scene himself. And everybody else fails. The old man Savior basically immediately gets taken down basketball player dad is just a fucking basketball player his new Aguu wifes strings are completely ineffective against him math kids sick arithmetic skills pale in comparison and Ais busy getting her face scarred up by the friend she effectively tricked as well as abandoned to burn to death. Not that she could have done anything anyways. 440https://i.ur.com/KTW9klz.png Whos going to stop the big bad Aguu man? The blonde guy who after getting scolded just disappeared from the show entirely and thus is due to appear again? Certainly it couldnt be the mom character who is singlehandedly the worst part of the entire show and yet for some reason becomes the character the show is entirely centered around They had an entire scene dedicated to the mom leaving her son to the Saviors implying that she would finally trust her son to someone else rather than investing in an Aguu person to make charms that would decrease his intelligence to hide that hes walking around with an actual Goddess perched on his soul. There hadnt even been that many episodes since that happened ...WHAT SENSE WOULD IT POSSIBLY MAKE FOR IT TO BE THE MOM? https://i.ur.com/0pBbWDa.png ...Aguu is a fucking Aguu of a show and I give it a 5 out of 100. Please dont watch this. Even masochism has its limit. 500https://i.ur.com/DWmkvWY.png