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@firstlast7510 I never care for what this "basic weeb" thinks about anime. I actually watch this for the opposite of the title. To fins something new to try. His reviews are the CNN of anime review.
@@stormhawkdude and it's kinda funny because I legitimately like Amelia as a character and think she's pretty sweet and not your usual annoying tsundere (she even herself admitted that she hated being a tsundere lol). Some have even being calling her best girl in the series lol.
"I am ATOMIC" is simply one of the best quotes I have ever heard. That powerful whisper, the pizazz he puts on it, and the beautiful purple lights dancing across the screen with increasing intensity really make it amazing. But the thing that makes it so perfect is the surprise aspect. I was almost 100% sure he was going to say "powrar" again, so when he delicately whispered that beautifully pronounced "atomique" in my ear, I could not help myself from laughing in surprise. Great anime.
It both gave me chills at how well the studio executed the scene and caused me to snort with laughter because of how over the top it was. The show is such a great parody of the some of our favorite tropes.
What I love about this anime is that he's an absolute weeb and the author knows and just has fun LARPING it up. It's unapologetically bad in the best way possible.
Akiba maid war seems like it's going to run it's joke of "what if mobster underworld stuff but they're all dressed like maids" dry pretty fast. However, then you come to realize the critical factor that you didn't really understand in the first episode or two. This factor being that the entire protagonist cast are complete dipshits, being just streetwise enough to get themselves into trouble but nowhere near smart or competent enough to get themselves anywhere but *further* into trouble. It's beautiful every time.
When by episode 2 they nearly get trafficked an then proceed to kill off multiple important other people nearly losing their insides in the process The MC is indeed the biggest bruh just leave
Or... realize it is just a Cyberpunk/Shadowrun Gang-turf show only... based in 1999 Akiba Maid Land. >.< That's not going to run dry at any point soon. >.> Kind of like how Gran Budapest Hotel is one of the most 'Shadowrun' movies that have come out lately, only in the 1920s or whatever. >.>
Honestly I would still love Maid War if every episode just ended in a ridiculous shootout with best maid Ranko killing everyone that moves. It will never stop being stupid, which is why it will stay good.
My favourite thing about Akiba Maid War is that it wouldn't be half as fun if it didn't deliver its bizarre carnage with a completely and totally straight face. The ED for the show is literally one of the maid girls singing a slow jazz ballad about how she - and I quote - "goes to the pigsty to get my moe moe kyun". The crucial thing is that as far as the characters in the show, and the show itself for that matter, are concerned, NONE of it is played for laughs, and all of the comedy is on the viewer. It pretty much gaslights you into believing that there's an underground war of cute maid girls by presenting it to you like you're a fly on the wall, and I cannot stress enough how much that adds to how hilarious and bizarre the show is.
You know what it makes me think of?? When Animal House was being made, John Landis went to the great composer Elmer Bernstein, to compose the music for it, and asked him to go with a serious dramatic score as if it wasn't a comedy. And it works So Damn Well that way. Even the theme for the college sounds like it belongs in a movie with the Late John Houseman and Cate Blanchett as faculty members
I LOVE The Eminence in Shadow. So many good screencaps from the manga. "The chuuni protag's delusions are actually real and he thinks he's just gaslighting everyone" is just an amazing concept. Asshole protagonists are hard to get right but this one 100% does just that.
@@Zergonapal I think it was firmly established he was totally insane as soon as it was divulged he was dedicating his entire life to training for his chuuni fantasies, only to die because he got delirium from beating his head against a tree too much (from training), which happened at the very start.
The best part of Shinobi no Ittoki was that it inspired me to finally watch the entire first season of Spy X Family so that I could feel something again.
Tried that drinking game with eromanga sensei once, we manage to episode 3 tho one guy quit the moment a 12 year old loli knocked on de dor to say how much she loves D^#*
Someone made a joke about alcohol suicide cult by demanding everyone take a shot every time the words "He Man" were said during the 68 second into song. It was 28 times. That's basically a shot every other second for over a minute.
What some people might miss about Akiba Maid War is it's specifically a yakuza fiction parody. People who are familiar with the tropes of yakuza fiction would recognize that everything is mapped from yakuza fiction, they just replace "yakuza" with "maid." For example, the scene in the first episode where the main characters are given money to eat ramen before sending a message to a rival group office, it's a specific yakuza trope of a goon given money for last meal before being sent to their death attacking a rival group's office. How each maid cafe is under a publishing group is how Yakuza families are part of specific yakuza group with certain hierarchies. That kind of thing.
Basically, it's parodying a specific thing, more than just "mobster story." It's like the difference between "parodying musical movie" and "parodying bollywood musical movie", there's a specific things and expectations that's being parodied here.
At this point it's not even a parody, it's just a really solid yakuza drama with a surreal Akiba maid café backdrop and an appropriately warped sense of humour. (Also, Aya Hirano voices a key side character in the latest episode and her performance is fucking haunting.)
"I Am Atomic!" must be the coolest and also the cringyest catch phrase I've ever heard in anime. But he always says it during the coolest times in the webnovel, I've fallen in love with it.
The madlad wanted to be able to defeat an atom bomb by becoming one himself. He then proceeded to one up himself by becoming an atom bomb, but harder. Truly inspirational.
@@rickchakraborty2087 I mean the point of these videos is precisely to find the most entertaining trash there is. Difference is that eminence in the shadow is doing it intentionally and very well.
Total honesty I do enjoy ittoki actually its not so bland as to be unbearable Plus at least the Characters have very good approximations of personality
@@SupaDanteX Poe's Law, although it's less about *good* satire than satire which fails to make its nature evident. I think that Love Flops is to some extent trying to be a parody or a satire of visual novel clichés, but it's just really badly executed across the board. The harem shenanigans are rancid, the post-twist episodes were listless and dull, and the wannabe heartstring-pulling climax (hurr hurr) has been utterly catastrophic. Truly, we have reached Peak Trash with that and the almost mesmerisingly dreadful adaptation of The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer earlier this year.
The ironic thing about Beast Tamer is that you can occasionally see how a writer with less wish-fuliment tendencies could have taken the same setting/charecters and made a really solid shonen battle story out of it.
yeah i was thinking about that listening to the description. I mean you can make the beast regular beast, cut the power boast beyond slowly able to control more and more power beast as he progress. Have him relied on ability to spy on his quest so he can set the field and best put his beast in the right position to overwhelm his target. I mean beast taming can be overpower very easily depending on the quality of beast you tame. Half the story could be just him trying to catch them but then we have a pokemon ripe off if we are not careful :P
The story would be much more interesting if he had to rely on the skills he does have. Namely, scouting and supply management. Plus, imagine if he could tame a bear, or a pack of wolves. Then he'd definitely be useful in a fight.
@@MarverynI’m thinking if the protag was more like like a no game no life type protag where they use like game theory and take the logic of the universe to the extreme to beat enemies then it could be really interesting Like it could just be a Pokémon rip off but each Pokémon battle is like a mini jojo battle but at much lower stakes
@@Marveryn tbh you could even have some of the beast girls hanging around him just give them personalities beyond affection for protag kun and not have him literally tame them. Just understand them very well because he gets their beast nature
That second anime started off so promising when you started describing the concept, of how being kind and selfless will get you way further in the long run than just being focused on strength and power. Cause all of that concept seemed to be really watered down to "my old party may have been stronger than me, but I will become stronger thanks to convenient buffs handed to me on a silver platter"
Plus, tell me it wouldntve have been sick to see a Disney princess fight the generic hero party fighting off wizards with birds, that would’ve been sick as hell
If you haven't seen it, Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside might be up your alley. It's not harem, but it kept me hooked (don't ask me how, it's more slice of life than my usual lol) all the way through.
The writers really went "Hey, you know how our protag has a neat ability that could be useful but his team is too stupid to utilize it?" "Yeah we could totally do something fu--" "How about we give him magic and a group of anime girls and cool magical powers and--" ". . . dude what are you on about?" *"TOO LATE, THE EXECS ARE EATING IT UP! SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE!"* _"Well at least we tried to be creative."_
@@Baiswith I second this. Not really into the whole slice of life thing, but it has enough action and world building to keep you entertained. It was way better than I expected, and I recommend it for a nice "feel good" anime.
I wish it was a series with the worldbuilding chops to make plausible ninja accounting plotlines. Is that a weird reaction to the phrase "high-stakes ninja accounting trick"?
Basically they did the same as Boruto. They modernized every weapon and costume and turned them in to unrecognizable scifi tropes just to call it ninja tec™. What people like about ninjas is the mystery, the mystic and the well made acrobatics, with an exception being Naruto for being more of a ninja themed battle shonen than a proper ninja story and it even nailed at the cultural and action aspects.
@@henriquebecker4453 wouldn't really go that far considering there's plenty of high tech ninjas people enjoy, and Naruto still had technological discrepancies.
@@fightingmedialounge519 this is because the author wanted to mix modern culture with traditional Japanese mysticism to create a more unique theme, something that wasn't so common at the time, not to mention that the vast majority of the fantastic technologies of the original and Shippuden are more magical gadgets powered by chakra than futuristic cyfi technologies.
The fact that all the gratuitous violence of Maid War doesn't need a drop of censoring, but you can never tell if you've put enough censoring for even the slightest of ranchy anime scenes, says so much about what advertisers think is viewer friendly.
is like feauturing the 1940's and 1950's looney tunes cartoons sure the racial stereotypes will get you instant BAN, but you can put the "them shooting guns" scenes as much as you want without problem
@@ianr.navahuber2195 The racial stereotypes won't get anyone banned. Someone will make a comment about them being insensitive, and then Tucker Carlson will be on Fox News in 12 hours talking about how woke culture is trying to cancel Bugs Bunny.
Watching YT reviews of mature 90s action OVAs is exhausting. You'll be subjected raw to buckets of painstakingly animated gore, but then - _aah!_ why'd she take her shirt off??? Those nipples will traumatize the audience! _Quick,_ keyframe a jpg over it!
@@Axterix13 I (un)fortunately had the (dis)pleasure of watching it. After every other scene I start picturing scenes of a knight squadron using guerilla tactics against the demon king army and then go "Damn, why wasn't that a thing, I'd rather watch that instead of whatever this is"
Ok but if Love Flops actually goes the matrix route and is in a simulation, it’d be pretty sick. Update: Holy shit it actually did go the Matrix Route.
I fully expect there to be some kind of twist. I haven't seen the show, and never heard of it until this video, but...I mean its just TOO on the nose with every single tripe possible for there not to be a shoe that drops by the end, right?
Akiba Maid War is my pleasant surprise of the season. I never in a million years would have thought an anime that mapped yakuza media plots/tropes/characters one for one to maids would exist, much less be this good. Plus the OP and the ED are delicious icings on the cake.
I was really wowed initially by the one trick but sadly it got pretty old after the first few episodes. It feels sort of like getting Rembrandt to paint your hobby-horse. Like yeah, in a certain way it's masterpiece but at the end of the day it's just a hobby-horse.
I do like how this is less about "hey these shows are all rubbish and you shouldn't watch" and more "they are for a certain kind of fan, some will love, others will just laugh at"
Renai flops went off the fucking rails. It's amazing. Eminence in shadow is also absurd. I'm not sure if it's actually self-aware or not, but it's pretty great. I feel like I am the only person not watching Chainsaw Man. Been waiting for the season to end before I watch it and mob psycho 3 all at once.
Not gonna lie Renai Flops is just your harem anime but some actual idk, funny comedy to its characters. Eminence of the Shadow, while good action but man I can not stand the MC in that anime! because he is just so jerk and stand-offish all the while pulling off his greatest fantasies but he almost never connects with his family like say his only sister or almost any of the characters because he just doesn't want to deal with the hassle. Which I can understand if not relate, but there is nothing to make me emotionally invested in the characters or almost any of the characters at all.
@@puppymonkey I think people play up the parody aspects of the show. It takes itself more seriously than fans would like to admit. That goes for the source material too, though it's worse in the anime. Not gonna go into a whole ass review, but if it actually tried to be parody/self aware at heart, it does it pretty badly. It's like, "isn't this thing isekai stories does pretty dumb? We think so too! But we're still gonna execute it completely unironically and faithfully."
"the one from the thumbnail" God that is the best and most perfect chapter I've ever seen on a UA-cam video. And it's exactly what I was looking for thank you
It's actually the good type of trash, tbh I've been watching it mostly as a turn-your-brain-off ecchi guilty pleasure of the week, but the show actually has more to it than meets the eye. There's definitely a plot twist coming soon.
And even when it gets serious, is still so ridiculous. It really reminds me why I started watching anime, just to see stuff I would never thought about in the dumbest or more over the top ways possible
Akiba Maid War feels like classic era comedy where none of the characters realize they’re in a comedy (Airplane/ Naked Gun). This shit is so serious but they always punctuate their hardcore lines with “moe moe kyun” and I just die laughing
the manga for eminance in shadow is actually incredibly entertaining, without too much lewd stuff. Its actually funny, stll has good action, and has a surprisingly decent plot with a whole bunch of Irony. The whole series is based off the idea that "if you act like you know what you are doing, people will think you know what you are doing."
Love Flops is the kind of harem where the makers said, "Let's just have some fun, screw making any basic sense." They took known tropes and ran with them to their logical conclusion. And as bad as it is, it'd be one of those anime you watch just to see what crazy and stupid thing they'll do next.
They put in all the different genres they could think off, it's like they can't decide the target audience for the show. It feels like they want to appeal to a huge variety of audience.
The show is the perfect definition for "so bad but so good". The way they just didn't give a shit and decided to double down on the stupid plot was astounding
Okay, I love how the ninja one pushed me from grossed out when you started, to “okay wait that actually sounds kinda funny”mana the premise got more ridiculous, to “nope never mind” when it got to the ninja school, to “wait oh my god I’m actually curious” once you got to ninja supply chains and the ninja economy.
I want to see a ninja story with ninja accounting and ninja supply chains, written by someone who both understands all that dry economic stuff and is willing to embrace the absurdity of a ninja-based economy.
@@timothymclean god damnit it’s four in the morning and now I’ve got “I wonder if there’s any good Spice and Wolf/Naruto fanfic out there” planted in my head.
Everyone's all like "ninja ninja ninja". But I want to be a pirate! I want to be ME! and no pink haired tart and an old woman who smells of formaldehyde is gonna tell me otherwise!
My mom's thoughts as we watched this together: During the ad: "Am I too old to get into video games? I like Animal Crossing and Doom." First anime: "Why are harems always straight? I know I'm not a wibble-" "You mean a weeb?" "Yeah, that. I know I'm not a wibble, but surely there's some bi people in Japan. Also, why aren't there every any interesting animal people? I'm tired of cats. An iguana now and again would be nice, you know?" Second anime: She paused the video and squealed at 7:36 because of the bear with a backpack, then went, "I want this guy's powers! And he seems like a nice guy. I hope he gets married, has a wonderful cottage on the outskirts of the village and lives happily ever after." Third anime: "This entire plot could be resolved with a threeway marriage between him, the girl he likes and someone from the ninja clan trying to kill him. But I guess that'd ruin the fun fight scenes." Fourth anime: "Did a fourteen year old write this? This feels like something I'd find in your computer history from when you were that age." "MOM!" "What? It's fine, I read VC Andrews books when I was that age." Later: "Ilya needs a hug. And therapy. I know I'm not licensed to practice in Japan, but she could just come here. Poor kid." Fifth anime: "Oooh. This anime is pretty. And I like the army being mostly women. That's nice. Um, not sure about the suicide bit, though. That's... well, I guess that lands differently in Japan. But if there's a psychologist he can find in his new universe, he might want to talk to them for a bit." Sixth anime: "This anime looks like being sleep deprived and anxious feels. Which makes sense. That was what the 90's were all like for me." "Mom, that's super concerning." "No, that's just college." PSA: "That sounds like a 90's riot grrrl band whose lead singer is a prettier boy than actual boys."
Coming here after watching the most recent episodes of Love Flops. I started watching this show expecting hot garbage, as MB implies by putting it on this list - and it 100% starts out that way. But if you've ever seen what happens in Doki-Doki Literature Club, you might want to check out this anime as well.
No kidding, I did not have this show suddenly pulling tropes from the BSG prequel "Caprica" the last two episodes... Plus introduce a grown up Rio Futaba from Bunny Girl Senpai
I laughed way too hard about the love flops one. A girl treated like a trash and the guy literally deflowered TWICE by a dog lmao how crazy does it gets x'D
First exposed to Eminence in Shadow through the manga, I was quietly disappointed that the anime (which is unfortunately adapting the source light novels) wasn't as over-exaggerated as the manga. The anime does a satisfactory job but the manga truly elevates the ridiculousness to a whole new level whilst keeping the tension of the franchise's more serious moments. If anyone was mesmerized by this relatively unique show and doesn't mind looking at still pictures, I would personally recommend checking the manga out as a fresh medium to experience this show.
And even then the manga is missing some key pieces from the LN(which isn’t a slight against it, cut content is standard in these situations and it’s still great), so I’d recommend that as well for maximum stupidity lmao
I haven't read the manga but I read the LN. I'm also a little bit disappointed because a lot of the comedy in the LN comes from Cid's monologue in his head and how that contrasts with everyone else's perceptions. But a lot of the internal monologue is not adapted in the anime, so the scenes are just played straight without that comedic contrast. I think it gives off a different impression in the anime about who Cid really is, whether it's the normie or edgelord version. In the LN, Cid's thoughts show that for both personas he is deliberately acting (or attempting to act) in a way that best fits the role, while everyone else thinks it's real. But in the anime I think it can make it seem like he is being completely genuine as a mob or Shadow. Overall it's a pretty good adaptation though.
@@himanbam It's a BIT unusual how TRotSH, Overlord AND EiS all rely on character monologues differing from the perspectives of the people around them for comedy and nuance... I'm starting to notice a trend here.
@@bodaciouschad Idrk what you mean about the rising of the shield hero. And yeah the gag in overlord is pretty similar to eminance in shadow. Idk what your point is though. Also tbf they do bring a bunch of the inner monologue to the anime. There's just some scenes that seem a bit weird without it. For an example, there are some things he does as shadow where his actual thought process is like "heh that'll sound really cool and mysterious if I say that" and then everyone else takes it at face value (humorous). But the anime just shows him saying it, so at that point it's not really a joke, it's just being an edgelord.
At the Start, I was right there with you on "eminence in shadow". However, I got carried away and started reading the manga. In so doing, I discovered its fatal flaw. When the running gag hits its expiration date, it goes from funny to rage inducing real quick. At that point, it also turns super depressing with how bad you start feeling for the shadow garden girls. In summery, I have now reached a point where any mention of this series makes me moan in emotionally induced nausea. So, for those of you who like this show, please be on the lookout for this threshold, and run the moment you reach it.
I mean, the leader doesn't get that everything is real, but he at least acts as though it is and is always ends up right via Deus Ex Machina, so they don't have it too bad methinks. but yeah I can see how following a whole manga with one gag as the crux of it's design could get more stale than bread left outside on a dry summer's day.
I started watching Love Flops just because I wanted some fun garbage show to enjoy. & then the beach episode happened & I realized… *oh no* *I’m invested*
Also Nagomi and Ranko are such a fantastic comedic duo. One is full of bright-eyed naive youth, while the other one doesn't bat an eye as she guns down enemies and fails at wooing customers.
Me too,it's a suprise to me that it was in this list,i thought it was mediocre but fun,i understand that some people would not enjoy it and i fine with it,over all it May be trash but it's at least a good trash
Call it generic, at least it isn't exactly boring or bland, not my top 5, but there's much worse stuff in the same genre that came out this year *I'm looking at you Cheat Pharmacist*
Love Flops' ending got me, man. Some of it is just so insane (the magic girl familiar got me and I seriously questioned my life choices) but it pulls your heartstrings like a ventriloquist.
So I kinda binged Love Flops for... research. Episode 7 took it from extremely horny to 'WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON' in less than 15 minutes. I am actually interested what's gonna happen
The show was fk'ing incredible. It's sad so many reviewers out there pretend to have watched it, then pass it off as a generic harem show......it's as generic harem as Madoka is generic magical girl.
Ya know Jeff ... Every season I watch a ton of anime and I try to figure out ahead of time if it's one that will appear on this list. I have been right exactly 0 times. Your pervasive skills at find and outlining what is the hottest trash is mind boggling and impressive. I look forward to this each season and then indulge is these anime. Thank you for your time and effort.
He should've waited to make this video, but if I am being honest I completely understand why it made this list at the time it was posted. The show DID NOT look like it was going to be anything other than a silly harem anime up until the most recent episodes and now it has become a hidden gem for me too.
@@ThePhanpyMeister "DID NOT look like it was going to be anything other than a silly harem anime" umm, were we watching the same show? There were so many hints and foreshadowings since episode 1 that the show had more to it than meets the eye. Like, they weren't even subtle about it. Not to mention it was an anime original too, at that. It was all so bizarre most of us even called that this is all just a simulation. It was obvious they were building up for some plot twist.
you know, when he said "If a pretty girl invites you back to her room on the first date, you probably aren't the first guy to be there, and there's probably still other guys hanging around." I assumed he meant that the protag was getting non-consentually pulled into a couple's cuckhold fantasy. Not that there were ninjas hiding under the bed waiting to kill him. 15:38 idk I think that custodial robot is probably onto something. It has malfunctioned in such a way that it has managed to pull back the veil, realize that it is in a shitty harem anime and has correctly identified that the love interests are, shocker, garbage. Its random bullshit like this that makes me constantly come back to the hottest trash videos despite the fact that I neither watch nor care about anime anymore.
If only that robot would be an MC. Imagine it going around, putting a stop to cringy plot lines by plucking trash characters. For example, after witnessing a typical "tsundere physically and verbally abuses MC", the robot would tow away that tsundere.
The Eminence in Shadow is such a great show. It reminds me so much of The Misfit at Demon King Academy and frankly, thats a good book to take a page or 3 out of
@@bodaciouschad The best part about both of them is that you can answer that question with another question: "does it really matter which it is, though?", because they're equally fun whether seen as a parody or a straight telling of a comedy story.
Kinda reminds me of Overlord to be honest. Everyone body thinks the protagonist is smart but in reality, his subordinates are the ones who are plotting the scheme and it just so happens to happen that way.
This get better and better. You are slowly merging “hottest trash” and “roast of” in places and I am here for it! (Though you owe me the cleaning bill for my shirt after I laugh/cough/choked/spat out my tea during the Ninja Hogwarts bit). A tip of the cap and a like button pressed for you my good man
Now that Love Flops episode 7 and 8 is out, I would like to suggest pushing it away from this list because now episode 1-6 makes so much sense it's depressing
His Eminence in Shadow and Maid War look like they could be actually fun I got to say. An isekai that proved surprisingly decent this season is Reincarnated as a Sword. I did not expect much of it but it turned out to be a pretty good watch so far.
The trick to Eminence in Shadow is to realize the MC is actually insane and totally ignores the existence of the Cult even when they are like- "hey we are from the Cult" and his followers are equally crazy for thinking he is a thousand steps ahead of everyone.
If Reincarnated is getting 1 cour for the show it seems like they're on track to end the season with the Dungeon Test arc, which is gonna do a lot for even further character building. The manga is a great read - I started it after the anime started airing and haven't read the LNs, but the show is p faithful to both as far as I can tell!
I forget the name of the show, but there’s an anime from I think 2016 or 2017 that was a pastiche “inside story” about an anime production studio that made a show that bombed spectacularly. I’d love for Geoff to do a clinical dive into stories about anime that had everything going for it, but some factor like direction, budgeting, marketing, or just plain not finding an audience, led to its downfall on the market.
*Regarding Shinobi no Ittoki* It made no sense for the mom to leave her son in the dark about being the heir to the ninja clan. Her terrible decision left him utterly uninformed, untrained, and unprepared, leaving him at a complete disadvantage against any and all opposing clans that she knew that he inevitably had to face.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Yeah she was cute, but other than that, I didn't like her; she constantly gave him an attitude, and other than defending him against enemies, hardly even helped him in terms of progressing as a ninja.
A lot of people seems to overly hate the MC, who had no idea about anything ninja related and was literally thrown into the fire. Like he ain't my favorite, but its not his fault the people around him are idiots.
I suppose it plays into the fantasy that a normal guy discovers he is actually part of an awesome secret world. Like Harry Potter discovering he is actually a wizard. It does fall apart pretty quickly here though as somebody absolutely should have told the guy that he was the heir to a very important ninja clan. Something like that requires lots of training/preparation and is not something to be shoved onto a person at the last minute. It would have made some sense if the Mom was trying to get out of the ninja business altogether only for them to be forced back in, but it looks like their whole family is still very involved in the ninja life so not telling him until they have absolutely no choice really seems like a dick move.
@@toddclawson3619 This series at its core relies heavily on this part of the premise, but it doesn't work and is left being seen as a glaring and detrimental plot contrivance.
As the first original series done by Troyca since Re:Creators, I was incredibly disappointed by "Not a ninja learns ninja things while everybody shows him how to be a ninja using ninja tools". Luckily, Akiba Maid War was the next thing I decided to check out. Holy hell, that first episode did not disappoint.
I will never stop stanning Akiba Maid War. It is legitimately one of the best things airing in a stacked season with only Chainsaw Man as its true rival, and like, Chainsaw Man is literally a cinema-quality production, so that ought to tell you something about how I feel about this deeply strange little show. It's also Chainsaw Man's only rival this season in terms of raw emotional gut punches, which… also says something if you know anything about Chainsaw Man.
the thing that annoys me the most in shonibi no ittoki is that they expect a kid that didn't know ninjas existed to be able to do ninja stuff, his childhood friend litteraly ignores him when he asks for help with his equipment, because he should naturally know how to use it, somehow. It made me feel pain every time he would screw something up because i knew the whole situation could have been avoided if his clan just taught him all the stuff he needed, like every other clan did.
I appreciate you acknowledging just how wholesome Beast Tamer is. Sometimes we just need something nice that isn't groundbreaking but still fun/enjoyable and there's nothing wrong with that.
As if anyone is capable of outrunning Truck Kun, if Truck Kun wants you dead he'll run you over even if you're fleeing the galaxy at a thousand times the speed of light.
Man I wish the third ones pitch stopped before the ninjas. it sounded like a legitamitly amazing concept about a kid wanting to experience being a high schooler, like imagine this really amazing popular kid who has perfect grades and dodges trucks but is severly naive because he’s never gotten to do normal teenage things fumbling trying to date this girl he’s never talked to before. I could see a really good romance coming of age anime anime there
The absolute glory and complete lack of irony that the team tackling 'Eminence in Shadow' approaches everything they present is pure gold. I'm glad the dumpsters are golden and I'm glad you recommended the show early in the season.
Yo, Renai Flops just finished and I gotta say, when _that_ moment happened in one of the prior eps, I was actually pretty thrown for a loop. No spoilers, but it actually ended up being pretty good. Well played on the writers, honestly.
"the only point he got wrong is that the girls have demon blood, not hero blood" All i can say about this is HAHAHAHAHA Also Futoku no guild has some surprisingly good animation scenes for some fucking reason
@@Flint_the_uhhh that Tokishiko licking Kikuru scene was, I'm happy to declare, even more spicy in the anime than the manga. The way they directed the scene my dirty mind started thinking she was giving him head.
We need an isekai anime about truck-kun dying in a terrible accident with a tractor trailer then coming back as a handsome protagonist-kun who keeps having to dodge being hit by cars due to karma. Of course, he’d accumulate a harem of girls who are mechanics and don’t realize they love him because he used to be a vehicle and they all love engines.
I love Beast Tamer. Except the part where the main character "tames" sentient creatures. The girls all love him because he's the sweetest guy, and forming contracts with powerful creatures is an Isekai trope (see Moonlit Fantasy), but it still seems wrong. Fortunately it's so clean and wholesome that a few dirty jokes by one of the fairy twins is enough to make everyone blush. It's reminiscent of "Banished from the Hero's party" except that the entire party bad mouths Rein, whereas Gideon just had the crazy mage. What they did with the "hero" in Beast Tamer is fairly unique, too. My biggest problem with BT is not that Rein is OP, it's that he keeps pulling powers out of his butt. Not the borrowed abilities of his ultimate friends but new Beast Tamer abilities. First it was just that he's able to form temporary contracts with multiple creatures. Then he can also tame insects, then he can project his mind into one of his creatures, he can overwrite another's tamer's bond, and so on and so forth. Every new episode, he keeps breaking the rules of his class. If the writers wanted him to be able to do these things, they should have led into it, instead of just revealing it when it's needed. Anyway.... Beast Tamer is not trash, it's just another harem anime with some writing problems.
Trash from Geoff’s videos don’t mean bad per se. It’s like junk food. Like two of my favorite isekais I got from his last Trash video and they’re both my fav (Black Summoner and My Isekai Life)
The fact that you included Eminence in Shadow and Akiba Maid war on this last and the recommends list shows that both shows are excellent and could be improved in certain ways. Either way I am loving both shows.
No lie, what caught my attention about Beast Tamer was that the catgirl’s panties remained unseen no matter how many flip kicks she did. Honestly refreshing.
Eminence in Shadow is one of my favorite manga still in production. I cant get enough of its intentionally over-the-top plot twists and action scenes, cut with pure distilled edgelording.
If you like the manga adaptation you should read the source material being the Light Novels, as the manga changes some things and leaves out some jokes/content from the LNs, the LNs are also farther ahead.
I really enjoy The Eminence in Shadow manga and was looking forward to the anime, which I honestly had pretty low hope for. Glad to see that it received such a good animation treatment! I can’t wait to clear my anime backlog and watch it! I’m interested in Akiba Maid War, too! Also, admittedly, the first two anime on the list are on my guilty pleasure playlist.🤣
should go read The Eminence in Shadow LNs if you enjoy the manga adaptation. LNs have more content and are farther ahead as they are the source material.
@@Branden13able Thanks for the suggestion and I get that LN in general are better than their manga and anime adaptations, but I’m not so much of a “reader”, even if they have some illustrations in the novels.😅
I checked out the manga of The Eminence in Shadow and they were right, the director of the anime played everything completly straight but it is supposed to be a parody of edgy isekai mc's
Actually they are adapting from the LN. It was just the manga adaptation which took more liberties with the comedy. But I actually do wish they used the manga as a reference when it came to the comedy scenes, cuz the comedy in the manga is definitely the way to go.
@@rickchakraborty2087 Reading the web novel back in the day was quite the ride for me because it reads like it is written completely straight, and when I read it like that, it wasn't very good. It took me some 70 chapters, iirc, before I realized that it's not supposed to be read straight. It is a comedy. Once I changed my approach to it, the series became great.
Your chapter titles are SPOT ON for this selection. Also, this time I 10,000% agree with your recomendations and ratings. I will take the entire menue please.
Honestly, I thought you would not make Trash video this season simply because this is that good. Even the trashest shows this fall are somewhat palatable.
Like many others, I'm coming back to comment after watching Renai Flops (Love Flops). Dude thank you so much for introducing this to me. I won't spoil anything for anyone but at a certain point I was like "dude this is giving me school days vibes." I watched because I wanted to see some trash harem anime. But fuck me the roller-coaster ride panged my heart. Anyone reading this: it's worth the watch. The first half of the anime is average but it's purposely done so. Thanks again mate! Earned a sub! :)
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I have also been posting more casual anime content on TikTok. Go check the videos out if that’s your thing! www.tiktok.com/@geoffthew?_t=8XXvvzpbZos&_r=1
You seen 'Basilisk' ? it's older but I feel like it never got the love it deserved, was ahead of its time
I don't care what you say, most of this anime looks fun to watch so Imma watch most of them later UoU
Gotta put vagrock on a tshirt
I think u might want to do a video about love flops when it finished because episode 7 explains why the plot is so dumb
@firstlast7510 I never care for what this "basic weeb" thinks about anime. I actually watch this for the opposite of the title. To fins something new to try. His reviews are the CNN of anime review.
I am not ashamed to admit that the idea of a custodial robot following a girl around because it thinks she’s trash made me laugh.
Author using their Voice of God to objectively say *WORST GIRL, DO NOT FUCK* and it kind of can't get better than that
Little does she suspect that it is actually detecting the entire anime as trash and she just happens to be the thing standing in front of it.
this is 100% something that would happen with a mr. handy in the fallout universe.
@@stormhawkdude and it's kinda funny because I legitimately like Amelia as a character and think she's pretty sweet and not your usual annoying tsundere (she even herself admitted that she hated being a tsundere lol). Some have even being calling her best girl in the series lol.
Was not surprised to find out she was American lol
"I am ATOMIC" is simply one of the best quotes I have ever heard. That powerful whisper, the pizazz he puts on it, and the beautiful purple lights dancing across the screen with increasing intensity really make it amazing. But the thing that makes it so perfect is the surprise aspect. I was almost 100% sure he was going to say "powrar" again, so when he delicately whispered that beautifully pronounced "atomique" in my ear, I could not help myself from laughing in surprise. Great anime.
I haven’t even watched the video yet but that quote made me cackle
@@Havanah-ov4yt The show is a great comedy show, it's absolutely brilliant.
Why destroy a full city block!... It's not like he's got to pay for the damages...
It both gave me chills at how well the studio executed the scene and caused me to snort with laughter because of how over the top it was.
The show is such a great parody of the some of our favorite tropes.
What I love about this anime is that he's an absolute weeb and the author knows and just has fun LARPING it up. It's unapologetically bad in the best way possible.
Akiba maid war seems like it's going to run it's joke of "what if mobster underworld stuff but they're all dressed like maids" dry pretty fast. However, then you come to realize the critical factor that you didn't really understand in the first episode or two. This factor being that the entire protagonist cast are complete dipshits, being just streetwise enough to get themselves into trouble but nowhere near smart or competent enough to get themselves anywhere but *further* into trouble. It's beautiful every time.
When by episode 2 they nearly get trafficked an then proceed to kill off multiple important other people nearly losing their insides in the process
The MC is indeed the biggest bruh just leave
Or... realize it is just a Cyberpunk/Shadowrun Gang-turf show only... based in 1999 Akiba Maid Land. >.< That's not going to run dry at any point soon. >.>
Kind of like how Gran Budapest Hotel is one of the most 'Shadowrun' movies that have come out lately, only in the 1920s or whatever. >.>
Honestly I would still love Maid War if every episode just ended in a ridiculous shootout with best maid Ranko killing everyone that moves.
It will never stop being stupid, which is why it will stay good.
@@zephodb I like your evaluation of Grand Budapest Hotel. LOL.
It's like watching the everyday life of Yakuza substory cast
My favourite thing about Akiba Maid War is that it wouldn't be half as fun if it didn't deliver its bizarre carnage with a completely and totally straight face. The ED for the show is literally one of the maid girls singing a slow jazz ballad about how she - and I quote - "goes to the pigsty to get my moe moe kyun". The crucial thing is that as far as the characters in the show, and the show itself for that matter, are concerned, NONE of it is played for laughs, and all of the comedy is on the viewer. It pretty much gaslights you into believing that there's an underground war of cute maid girls by presenting it to you like you're a fly on the wall, and I cannot stress enough how much that adds to how hilarious and bizarre the show is.
You know what it makes me think of?? When Animal House was being made, John Landis went to the great composer Elmer Bernstein, to compose the music for it, and asked him to go with a serious dramatic score as if it wasn't a comedy. And it works So Damn Well that way. Even the theme for the college sounds like it belongs in a movie with the Late John Houseman and Cate Blanchett as faculty members
I LOVE The Eminence in Shadow. So many good screencaps from the manga. "The chuuni protag's delusions are actually real and he thinks he's just gaslighting everyone" is just an amazing concept. Asshole protagonists are hard to get right but this one 100% does just that.
Pretty sure he is actually insane with how he keeps ignoring all the clues flung at his face.
@@Zergonapal I think it was firmly established he was totally insane as soon as it was divulged he was dedicating his entire life to training for his chuuni fantasies, only to die because he got delirium from beating his head against a tree too much (from training), which happened at the very start.
@@jacobnorris8256 In the manga, he got hit by a truck due to blindly following a light on another side of a road.
@@peacefullolvitp7893 I know. He died of delirium either way.
Ah that Manga. Never thought it'll get one.
Though another Manga just like it that would be cool as an anime would be.
"Stronger than 1000 people"
The best part of Shinobi no Ittoki was that it inspired me to finally watch the entire first season of Spy X Family so that I could feel something again.
Cue Kermit singing "Hurt"
🤣🤣🤣
Oh. The plot sounded somewhat fun, but apparently it's abysmal ?
@@professeurgideere5856 I'm 4 eps in and really liked it so far so this video and comment section are really crushing my spirit
@@nbucwa6621 You are allowed to enjoy and like what others dont like. Just have fun!
Art is subjective
I don’t think it counts as a drinking game if everyone would have alcohol poisoning before the end of the first episode
there’s a fine line between “drinking game” and “suicide cult” and I think we’ve just pinpointed exactly where it’s drawn
I mean, someone turned the whipcracks in Johnny Test into a drinking game so surely it can't be as bad as that
Tried that drinking game with eromanga sensei once, we manage to episode 3 tho one guy quit the moment a 12 year old loli knocked on de dor to say how much she loves D^#*
Someone made a joke about alcohol suicide cult by demanding everyone take a shot every time the words "He Man" were said during the 68 second into song. It was 28 times. That's basically a shot every other second for over a minute.
Whomever survives is clearly the winner 🤷🏿♂️
I love how this has become a staple series of the channel.
It is my favorite video type from this channel. I laughed at it when he first started them but became my favorite type rather quickly.
I do like the roast videos since it singles out in particular show. But yes... Hot Trash is the best thing he does.
I watch every one and I will unabashedly watch every anime mentioned because I am also trash
What some people might miss about Akiba Maid War is it's specifically a yakuza fiction parody. People who are familiar with the tropes of yakuza fiction would recognize that everything is mapped from yakuza fiction, they just replace "yakuza" with "maid." For example, the scene in the first episode where the main characters are given money to eat ramen before sending a message to a rival group office, it's a specific yakuza trope of a goon given money for last meal before being sent to their death attacking a rival group's office. How each maid cafe is under a publishing group is how Yakuza families are part of specific yakuza group with certain hierarchies. That kind of thing.
Basically, it's parodying a specific thing, more than just "mobster story." It's like the difference between "parodying musical movie" and "parodying bollywood musical movie", there's a specific things and expectations that's being parodied here.
Facts!!
At this point it's not even a parody, it's just a really solid yakuza drama with a surreal Akiba maid café backdrop and an appropriately warped sense of humour. (Also, Aya Hirano voices a key side character in the latest episode and her performance is fucking haunting.)
I was hearing Whore, not War. I'm not sure which one is better/more appropriate, but at least I now know what to look for.
Unfortunately, audiences unfamiliar with these tropes, completely miss the appeal of the series
"I Am Atomic!" must be the coolest and also the cringyest catch phrase I've ever heard in anime.
But he always says it during the coolest times in the webnovel, I've fallen in love with it.
I legit thought for a moment he was going to end that with “the bone of my sword,” which somehow made the “atomic” drop even funnier to me.
That series seems like chuunibyou incarnate and I’ll probably not be able to resist it for long
The madlad wanted to be able to defeat an atom bomb by becoming one himself. He then proceeded to one up himself by becoming an atom bomb, but harder. Truly inspirational.
Good to know the grey/silver-haired, boy-who's-secretly-a-girl harem trope is alive and well.
Or the inverse - see Little Lies We All Tell
Wait my Femboy is a lie?
FUK he was so adorably stumbling
Tsugumi Seishirou really broke the mold when she had blue hair
😆
when will harem protagonists be allowed to be bisexual for real? who am I kidding... we may never achieve this. the science hasn't caught up yet. T_T
You know an anime is a true gem when it lands a spot in both the recommendations video AND the Hottest trash video!
Well sometimes an anime has done that because it heavily disappointed, but whatever.
@@CORV3TT33 Except an anime being called hot trash in this context is actually a good thing.
@@CORV3TT33 sometimes trash can be entertaining too
@@rickchakraborty2087 I mean the point of these videos is precisely to find the most entertaining trash there is. Difference is that eminence in the shadow is doing it intentionally and very well.
I actually enjoyed all the trash anime here so yeah bring it on
Video Idea: Good Ninja Anime That Isn't Naruto
Honestly I'd watch that
Great suggestion! I may have to steal that
heres another one: the hunt for a single pirate anime that isnt one piece
"Video idea for the sole purpose to hear Geoff talking about the original Basilisk"
Total honesty I do enjoy ittoki actually its not so bland as to be unbearable
Plus at least the Characters have very good approximations of personality
I am wildly 50/50ing over whether Love Flops is genius-level satire or the natural endpoint of harems trying to one-up each other to be the haremiest
I would really like to know what you think after episode 8
I think there's a saying or law or something about that lol.
Something something sufficiently good parody is indistinguishable from the real thing?
@@SupaDanteX Poe's Law, although it's less about *good* satire than satire which fails to make its nature evident. I think that Love Flops is to some extent trying to be a parody or a satire of visual novel clichés, but it's just really badly executed across the board. The harem shenanigans are rancid, the post-twist episodes were listless and dull, and the wannabe heartstring-pulling climax (hurr hurr) has been utterly catastrophic. Truly, we have reached Peak Trash with that and the almost mesmerisingly dreadful adaptation of The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer earlier this year.
100 girlfriends is peak harem and manga has already gottem s anime in the works
@@cyanmarine They can't tell you that, for the same reason our UA-camr can't: They dropped the show before then and pretend like they watched it all.
The ironic thing about Beast Tamer is that you can occasionally see how a writer with less wish-fuliment tendencies could have taken the same setting/charecters and made a really solid shonen battle story out of it.
yeah i was thinking about that listening to the description. I mean you can make the beast regular beast, cut the power boast beyond slowly able to control more and more power beast as he progress. Have him relied on ability to spy on his quest so he can set the field and best put his beast in the right position to overwhelm his target. I mean beast taming can be overpower very easily depending on the quality of beast you tame. Half the story could be just him trying to catch them but then we have a pokemon ripe off if we are not careful :P
The story would be much more interesting if he had to rely on the skills he does have. Namely, scouting and supply management. Plus, imagine if he could tame a bear, or a pack of wolves. Then he'd definitely be useful in a fight.
@@MarverynI’m thinking if the protag was more like like a no game no life type protag where they use like game theory and take the logic of the universe to the extreme to beat enemies then it could be really interesting
Like it could just be a Pokémon rip off but each Pokémon battle is like a mini jojo battle but at much lower stakes
@@Marveryn tbh you could even have some of the beast girls hanging around him just give them personalities beyond affection for protag kun and not have him literally tame them. Just understand them very well because he gets their beast nature
One day we will get a battle harem AND an interesting plot/power system in the same series.
Just not today.
Edit: or maybe... 19:00
BABE WAKE UP! GEOFF JUST DROPPED HIS SEASONAL TRASH VIDEO
"Well, yeah. But what about the various anime in the video?"
That second anime started off so promising when you started describing the concept, of how being kind and selfless will get you way further in the long run than just being focused on strength and power. Cause all of that concept seemed to be really watered down to "my old party may have been stronger than me, but I will become stronger thanks to convenient buffs handed to me on a silver platter"
Plus, tell me it wouldntve have been sick to see a Disney princess fight the generic hero party fighting off wizards with birds, that would’ve been sick as hell
If you haven't seen it, Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside might be up your alley. It's not harem, but it kept me hooked (don't ask me how, it's more slice of life than my usual lol) all the way through.
@@braindavidgilbert3147 i have one word for you
*FIONA*
The writers really went "Hey, you know how our protag has a neat ability that could be useful but his team is too stupid to utilize it?"
"Yeah we could totally do something fu--"
"How about we give him magic and a group of anime girls and cool magical powers and--"
". . . dude what are you on about?"
*"TOO LATE, THE EXECS ARE EATING IT UP! SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE!"*
_"Well at least we tried to be creative."_
@@Baiswith I second this. Not really into the whole slice of life thing, but it has enough action and world building to keep you entertained. It was way better than I expected, and I recommend it for a nice "feel good" anime.
I have to admit, I appreciated the visceral frustration of not being able to hang up by slamming down the phone in the opening skit.
It’s what I always liked about flip phones: you could preserve something of the aggravated hang-up by snapping it shut
What about those phone/tablet covers that automatically turned off the screen when the “book cover” was closed?
@@UGNAvalon that would also work unless you accidentally tore the cover off, I guess?
It is impressive how much Geoff can convey about an anime by describing a dumpster.
I can’t believe they managed to make modern ninjas do boring.
I wish it was a series with the worldbuilding chops to make plausible ninja accounting plotlines.
Is that a weird reaction to the phrase "high-stakes ninja accounting trick"?
Basically they did the same as Boruto. They modernized every weapon and costume and turned them in to unrecognizable scifi tropes just to call it ninja tec™. What people like about ninjas is the mystery, the mystic and the well made acrobatics, with an exception being Naruto for being more of a ninja themed battle shonen than a proper ninja story and it even nailed at the cultural and action aspects.
@@henriquebecker4453 wouldn't really go that far considering there's plenty of high tech ninjas people enjoy, and Naruto still had technological discrepancies.
@@timothymclean Now I want a show titled "Steve: Ninja Accountant"
@@fightingmedialounge519 this is because the author wanted to mix modern culture with traditional Japanese mysticism to create a more unique theme, something that wasn't so common at the time, not to mention that the vast majority of the fantastic technologies of the original and Shippuden are more magical gadgets powered by chakra than futuristic cyfi technologies.
Art vs trash debate has been my most favorite discussion recently
My answer is "why not both?"
@@JackgarPrime good sir you make an excellent point
@@JackgarPrime Artful trash has become my favourite genre.
@@megamage911 god damn you are a genius
The fact that all the gratuitous violence of Maid War doesn't need a drop of censoring, but you can never tell if you've put enough censoring for even the slightest of ranchy anime scenes, says so much about what advertisers think is viewer friendly.
is like feauturing the 1940's and 1950's looney tunes cartoons
sure the racial stereotypes will get you instant BAN, but you can put the "them shooting guns" scenes as much as you want without problem
American culture.avi
Yeah it's annoying really. Violence and gore is okay, but lewd scenes/shots are always a big no no.
@@ianr.navahuber2195 The racial stereotypes won't get anyone banned. Someone will make a comment about them being insensitive, and then Tucker Carlson will be on Fox News in 12 hours talking about how woke culture is trying to cancel Bugs Bunny.
Watching YT reviews of mature 90s action OVAs is exhausting. You'll be subjected raw to buckets of painstakingly animated gore, but then - _aah!_ why'd she take her shirt off??? Those nipples will traumatize the audience! _Quick,_ keyframe a jpg over it!
Akiba Maid war is one of the most pieces of art this year
thank you! finally someone with good taste!
It's a piece of something, that's for sure...dropped it after the first ep
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Someone has to watch the likes of Beast Tamer, so we don't have to.
@@Axterix13 I (un)fortunately had the (dis)pleasure of watching it.
After every other scene I start picturing scenes of a knight squadron using guerilla tactics against the demon king army and then go "Damn, why wasn't that a thing, I'd rather watch that instead of whatever this is"
Akiba Maid War's kanji is a play on "Meido" which sounds like Maid but actually means "Underworld/Realm of the Dead". It's brilliant
Can I just say, that thumbnail choice is pure art.
It is the type of thumbnail that would instantly make you want to check out the anime just out of curiosity.
What is the thumbnail from. Just curious, no particular reason I want to know or anything.
@@KillaManReaper2 I think it's from Overflow
@@KillaManReaper2 did you even watch the video?
@@KillaManReaper2 In case you haven't seen yet, Renai Flops. First episode is horrible, the rest of it is pretty damn good.
Ok but if Love Flops actually goes the matrix route and is in a simulation, it’d be pretty sick.
Update: Holy shit it actually did go the Matrix Route.
They have been building up to something big and secret since episode 1, I'm expecting some type of big twist in the future.
I fully expect there to be some kind of twist. I haven't seen the show, and never heard of it until this video, but...I mean its just TOO on the nose with every single tripe possible for there not to be a shoe that drops by the end, right?
At this point, it's safe to assume that Love Flops is going on the Matrix route
The show actually starts with a random tv horoscope predicting in detail what would happen to the hero.
Meh I dropped it just wasnt worth the payoff to watch mid for the ending twist that may or not happen
Akiba Maid War is my pleasant surprise of the season. I never in a million years would have thought an anime that mapped yakuza media plots/tropes/characters one for one to maids would exist, much less be this good. Plus the OP and the ED are delicious icings on the cake.
I was really wowed initially by the one trick but sadly it got pretty old after the first few episodes. It feels sort of like getting Rembrandt to paint your hobby-horse. Like yeah, in a certain way it's masterpiece but at the end of the day it's just a hobby-horse.
As soon as I saw the wotagei gun kata bit I knew it was something special.
I don't understand why it's even included here. It's not salacious, an isekai, or a harem.
@@ChurchHatesTucker because it's just plain ridiculous; even if I love it with all my heart, I am still _scoffing_ at it
@@alexanderenrique3058 I mean, if *ridiculous* is the criteria for trash this could just be a season round-up.
I do like how this is less about "hey these shows are all rubbish and you shouldn't watch" and more "they are for a certain kind of fan, some will love, others will just laugh at"
Immoral Guild is my guilty pleasure 😌
Anime is trash, and so am I.
Renai flops went off the fucking rails. It's amazing. Eminence in shadow is also absurd. I'm not sure if it's actually self-aware or not, but it's pretty great. I feel like I am the only person not watching Chainsaw Man. Been waiting for the season to end before I watch it and mob psycho 3 all at once.
I'm going to binge on Chainsaw Man as well, you're not going it alone
Eminence in the shadow is self aware at least in the manga, so it probably is in the anime too
It so good that BasementMan even made an apology video about it on his second channel.
Not gonna lie Renai Flops is just your harem anime but some actual idk, funny comedy to its characters. Eminence of the Shadow, while good action but man I can not stand the MC in that anime! because he is just so jerk and stand-offish all the while pulling off his greatest fantasies but he almost never connects with his family like say his only sister or almost any of the characters because he just doesn't want to deal with the hassle. Which I can understand if not relate, but there is nothing to make me emotionally invested in the characters or almost any of the characters at all.
@@puppymonkey I think people play up the parody aspects of the show. It takes itself more seriously than fans would like to admit. That goes for the source material too, though it's worse in the anime. Not gonna go into a whole ass review, but if it actually tried to be parody/self aware at heart, it does it pretty badly. It's like, "isn't this thing isekai stories does pretty dumb? We think so too! But we're still gonna execute it completely unironically and faithfully."
"the one from the thumbnail"
God that is the best and most perfect chapter I've ever seen on a UA-cam video.
And it's exactly what I was looking for thank you
Every single line you said about Love Flops increased my trash hype for it by 100 fold.
The Femboy deserves their own show an I cannot wait for the dub since the harem is supposed to have accents the nurse is Chinese fuk yeah
It's actually the good type of trash, tbh I've been watching it mostly as a turn-your-brain-off ecchi guilty pleasure of the week, but the show actually has more to it than meets the eye. There's definitely a plot twist coming soon.
@@rickchakraborty2087 today
The tone shift Akiba Maid War has pulled in the last few episodes has been insane. The characters are better written than I wouldve expected
And even when it gets serious, is still so ridiculous. It really reminds me why I started watching anime, just to see stuff I would never thought about in the dumbest or more over the top ways possible
@@isaiascanete6651 like the potato chip scene in Death Note
When does the tone shift start? Cuz I’ve read comments saying that beyond episode 3 it’s the same stuff
@@ma.2089 Episode 6 I believe. The MC goes through some growth and it really brings the show up a level.
Akiba Maid War feels like classic era comedy where none of the characters realize they’re in a comedy (Airplane/ Naked Gun). This shit is so serious but they always punctuate their hardcore lines with “moe moe kyun” and I just die laughing
I'm amazed you threw in Cid's "I am..." line, but it's so damned good that I have a hard time getting it out of my head.
The wisdom of Shadow
@Tin Watchman I now have a mental image of Cid saying "I am batman"
Use headphones u can feel the reverb
@@iloveowls1924 oh I do
atomique
the manga for eminance in shadow is actually incredibly entertaining, without too much lewd stuff. Its actually funny, stll has good action, and has a surprisingly decent plot with a whole bunch of Irony. The whole series is based off the idea that "if you act like you know what you are doing, people will think you know what you are doing."
This was PROFOUNDLY entertaining. You've got yourself a hell of a style.
Love Flops is the kind of harem where the makers said, "Let's just have some fun, screw making any basic sense." They took known tropes and ran with them to their logical conclusion. And as bad as it is, it'd be one of those anime you watch just to see what crazy and stupid thing they'll do next.
They put in all the different genres they could think off, it's like they can't decide the target audience for the show. It feels like they want to appeal to a huge variety of audience.
this anime is so funny bruh
The show is the perfect definition for "so bad but so good". The way they just didn't give a shit and decided to double down on the stupid plot was astounding
That anime look like a what if ai made a harem anime
Me: I never watched Love Flops bcoz of vulgar sexual puns i rather watch Bocchi the Rock instead it was better
Okay, I love how the ninja one pushed me from grossed out when you started, to “okay wait that actually sounds kinda funny”mana the premise got more ridiculous, to “nope never mind” when it got to the ninja school, to “wait oh my god I’m actually curious” once you got to ninja supply chains and the ninja economy.
I want to see a ninja story with ninja accounting and ninja supply chains, written by someone who both understands all that dry economic stuff and is willing to embrace the absurdity of a ninja-based economy.
@@timothymclean god damnit it’s four in the morning and now I’ve got “I wonder if there’s any good Spice and Wolf/Naruto fanfic out there” planted in my head.
@@Jarakin I...... Did not.know I needed this in my life.....
Everyone's all like "ninja ninja ninja". But I want to be a pirate! I want to be ME! and no pink haired tart and an old woman who smells of formaldehyde is gonna tell me otherwise!
@@sarafontanini7051 Fena, pirate princess. Though to be entirely fair her crew are kinda ninjas. But also pirates.
My mom's thoughts as we watched this together:
During the ad: "Am I too old to get into video games? I like Animal Crossing and Doom."
First anime: "Why are harems always straight? I know I'm not a wibble-" "You mean a weeb?" "Yeah, that. I know I'm not a wibble, but surely there's some bi people in Japan. Also, why aren't there every any interesting animal people? I'm tired of cats. An iguana now and again would be nice, you know?"
Second anime: She paused the video and squealed at 7:36 because of the bear with a backpack, then went, "I want this guy's powers! And he seems like a nice guy. I hope he gets married, has a wonderful cottage on the outskirts of the village and lives happily ever after."
Third anime: "This entire plot could be resolved with a threeway marriage between him, the girl he likes and someone from the ninja clan trying to kill him. But I guess that'd ruin the fun fight scenes."
Fourth anime: "Did a fourteen year old write this? This feels like something I'd find in your computer history from when you were that age." "MOM!" "What? It's fine, I read VC Andrews books when I was that age." Later: "Ilya needs a hug. And therapy. I know I'm not licensed to practice in Japan, but she could just come here. Poor kid."
Fifth anime: "Oooh. This anime is pretty. And I like the army being mostly women. That's nice. Um, not sure about the suicide bit, though. That's... well, I guess that lands differently in Japan. But if there's a psychologist he can find in his new universe, he might want to talk to them for a bit."
Sixth anime: "This anime looks like being sleep deprived and anxious feels. Which makes sense. That was what the 90's were all like for me." "Mom, that's super concerning." "No, that's just college."
PSA: "That sounds like a 90's riot grrrl band whose lead singer is a prettier boy than actual boys."
I want to watch anime with your mother.
Your mom is so base 😃
I hate that this comment is so low on the list.
For bi harem I would suggest “My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!” Which is the closest I’ve seen.
@@qtheplatypus true!
Coming here after watching the most recent episodes of Love Flops. I started watching this show expecting hot garbage, as MB implies by putting it on this list - and it 100% starts out that way. But if you've ever seen what happens in Doki-Doki Literature Club, you might want to check out this anime as well.
No kidding, I did not have this show suddenly pulling tropes from the BSG prequel "Caprica" the last two episodes... Plus introduce a grown up Rio Futaba from Bunny Girl Senpai
The reveal was a bit of a trip, though some people definitely got it more or less right. I'll be interested to see where they take it.
I fucking love doki doki. Thanks for your comment!!
Those were the exact vibes I was getting from his description. Glad to hear it paid off; that might get me to watch it.
I laughed way too hard about the love flops one. A girl treated like a trash and the guy literally deflowered TWICE by a dog lmao how crazy does it gets x'D
And that doesn't even begin to describe how much more crazy it can get until you actually start watching the show for yourself.
please watch the show it's so fucking insane you have to
The contraception-themed magical girl episode fucking broke me.
_i have so many questions_
I wanna know
But I am... I am so worried
@@ConvincingPeoplethe fucking WHAT EPISODE?!????
Akiba Maid War is genuinely such a fun anime lkadjflakjdfkd Also, thank you for cursing me with the knowledge that Vadge Rock exists.
I remember watching the first episode. I was like what 😵💫😵🤯
First exposed to Eminence in Shadow through the manga, I was quietly disappointed that the anime (which is unfortunately adapting the source light novels) wasn't as over-exaggerated as the manga. The anime does a satisfactory job but the manga truly elevates the ridiculousness to a whole new level whilst keeping the tension of the franchise's more serious moments. If anyone was mesmerized by this relatively unique show and doesn't mind looking at still pictures, I would personally recommend checking the manga out as a fresh medium to experience this show.
And even then the manga is missing some key pieces from the LN(which isn’t a slight against it, cut content is standard in these situations and it’s still great), so I’d recommend that as well for maximum stupidity lmao
I haven't read the manga but I read the LN. I'm also a little bit disappointed because a lot of the comedy in the LN comes from Cid's monologue in his head and how that contrasts with everyone else's perceptions. But a lot of the internal monologue is not adapted in the anime, so the scenes are just played straight without that comedic contrast.
I think it gives off a different impression in the anime about who Cid really is, whether it's the normie or edgelord version. In the LN, Cid's thoughts show that for both personas he is deliberately acting (or attempting to act) in a way that best fits the role, while everyone else thinks it's real. But in the anime I think it can make it seem like he is being completely genuine as a mob or Shadow. Overall it's a pretty good adaptation though.
@@himanbam It's a BIT unusual how TRotSH, Overlord AND EiS all rely on character monologues differing from the perspectives of the people around them for comedy and nuance... I'm starting to notice a trend here.
@@bodaciouschad Idrk what you mean about the rising of the shield hero. And yeah the gag in overlord is pretty similar to eminance in shadow. Idk what your point is though.
Also tbf they do bring a bunch of the inner monologue to the anime. There's just some scenes that seem a bit weird without it. For an example, there are some things he does as shadow where his actual thought process is like "heh that'll sound really cool and mysterious if I say that" and then everyone else takes it at face value (humorous). But the anime just shows him saying it, so at that point it's not really a joke, it's just being an edgelord.
yeah it seem like the director has no idea what make the series stand out. imo the anime is kinda bland despite having pretty good production value
Beast Tamer is Dismissed from the hero's party meets Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies.
thought this was the show's full title for a second
which is crazy when you consider that both of those are like, actually fun shows
At the Start, I was right there with you on "eminence in shadow". However, I got carried away and started reading the manga. In so doing, I discovered its fatal flaw. When the running gag hits its expiration date, it goes from funny to rage inducing real quick. At that point, it also turns super depressing with how bad you start feeling for the shadow garden girls. In summery, I have now reached a point where any mention of this series makes me moan in emotionally induced nausea. So, for those of you who like this show, please be on the lookout for this threshold, and run the moment you reach it.
I mean, the leader doesn't get that everything is real, but he at least acts as though it is and is always ends up right via Deus Ex Machina, so they don't have it too bad methinks.
but yeah I can see how following a whole manga with one gag as the crux of it's design could get more stale than bread left outside on a dry summer's day.
I started watching Love Flops just because I wanted some fun garbage show to enjoy. & then the beach episode happened & I realized… *oh no*
*I’m invested*
yep, love flops did the fucking imposible, it turn around a shitshow to a legit good show with a fucking twist that puts m night shyamalan to shame.
Really surprised you didn't mention Akiba Maid War's amazing cold openings. They're so insane you have to watch the episode.
Also Nagomi and Ranko are such a fantastic comedic duo. One is full of bright-eyed naive youth, while the other one doesn't bat an eye as she guns down enemies and fails at wooing customers.
Beast Tamer is unironically one of my top 5 anime of the year partly because of the cat puns, but also because it's just so fun.
and also, characters aren't dumb dumb, except the hero party. XD
Yeah. Those oddballs are fun. Catgiris fans are eating good this season.
Me too,it's a suprise to me that it was in this list,i thought it was mediocre but fun,i understand that some people would not enjoy it and i fine with it,over all it May be trash but it's at least a good trash
Call it generic, at least it isn't exactly boring or bland, not my top 5, but there's much worse stuff in the same genre that came out this year *I'm looking at you Cheat Pharmacist*
The dub is the only way to watch the Dragon with the Cat is too much for this world show is meh but the characters are neat
Love Flops' ending got me, man.
Some of it is just so insane (the magic girl familiar got me and I seriously questioned my life choices) but it pulls your heartstrings like a ventriloquist.
Yeah, you finished the show.....you get it. That wasn't a generic ultra-ecchi harem show, not even close.
So I kinda binged Love Flops for... research. Episode 7 took it from extremely horny to 'WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON' in less than 15 minutes. I am actually interested what's gonna happen
Looks like studio Passione has done their job.
The show was fk'ing incredible. It's sad so many reviewers out there pretend to have watched it, then pass it off as a generic harem show......it's as generic harem as Madoka is generic magical girl.
Coming back to this after having watched the latest episodes of Love Flops and PLEASE you guys need to watch it.
I have to say that Akiba Maid war is hilariously insane and absolutely batshit crazy, but very entertaining!
I can’t tell you how happy I am that you talked about Akebi Maid War (again). Great video!!
It's gotten to the point where you can just glance at the design of the main character and tell if it's an Isekai or not
Ya know Jeff ... Every season I watch a ton of anime and I try to figure out ahead of time if it's one that will appear on this list. I have been right exactly 0 times. Your pervasive skills at find and outlining what is the hottest trash is mind boggling and impressive. I look forward to this each season and then indulge is these anime. Thank you for your time and effort.
Love Flops is not harem anime. It is Doki Doki Literature Club the animation with ARG elements. A hidden gem so to say.
He should've waited to make this video, but if I am being honest I completely understand why it made this list at the time it was posted. The show DID NOT look like it was going to be anything other than a silly harem anime up until the most recent episodes and now it has become a hidden gem for me too.
@@ThePhanpyMeister Man I don’t think I’ll recover after watching episode 8 its so sad and scary at the same time 😮
@@NefariousLoto I agree. Next week's episode is now all of a sudden my most anticipated episode for the week! I never could have expected that lol
@@ThePhanpyMeister Same!! I never expected a harem anime would be so misleading and heartbreaking at the same time lol
@@ThePhanpyMeister "DID NOT look like it was going to be anything other than a silly harem anime" umm, were we watching the same show? There were so many hints and foreshadowings since episode 1 that the show had more to it than meets the eye. Like, they weren't even subtle about it. Not to mention it was an anime original too, at that. It was all so bizarre most of us even called that this is all just a simulation. It was obvious they were building up for some plot twist.
you know, when he said "If a pretty girl invites you back to her room on the first date, you probably aren't the first guy to be there, and there's probably still other guys hanging around." I assumed he meant that the protag was getting non-consentually pulled into a couple's cuckhold fantasy. Not that there were ninjas hiding under the bed waiting to kill him.
15:38 idk I think that custodial robot is probably onto something. It has malfunctioned in such a way that it has managed to pull back the veil, realize that it is in a shitty harem anime and has correctly identified that the love interests are, shocker, garbage.
Its random bullshit like this that makes me constantly come back to the hottest trash videos despite the fact that I neither watch nor care about anime anymore.
If only that robot would be an MC. Imagine it going around, putting a stop to cringy plot lines by plucking trash characters. For example, after witnessing a typical "tsundere physically and verbally abuses MC", the robot would tow away that tsundere.
The Eminence in Shadow is such a great show. It reminds me so much of The Misfit at Demon King Academy and frankly, thats a good book to take a page or 3 out of
But was tMaDKA a satire, parody or straight telling of an over-the-top story? I still can't decide.
@@bodaciouschad we can't know, and that's the beauty of it.
@@bodaciouschad The best part about both of them is that you can answer that question with another question: "does it really matter which it is, though?", because they're equally fun whether seen as a parody or a straight telling of a comedy story.
I'm getting Overlord vibes from it. It's more the fact that the mc has no clue what's going on but every improvised answer is seen as brilliant.
Kinda reminds me of Overlord to be honest. Everyone body thinks the protagonist is smart but in reality, his subordinates are the ones who are plotting the scheme and it just so happens to happen that way.
This get better and better. You are slowly merging “hottest trash” and “roast of” in places and I am here for it! (Though you owe me the cleaning bill for my shirt after I laugh/cough/choked/spat out my tea during the Ninja Hogwarts bit). A tip of the cap and a like button pressed for you my good man
Now that Love Flops episode 7 and 8 is out, I would like to suggest pushing it away from this list because now episode 1-6 makes so much sense it's depressing
To think that Akiba Maid War managed to somehow unironically earn top billet on both the "things to most watch" and "things to most avoid" lists.
His Eminence in Shadow and Maid War look like they could be actually fun I got to say.
An isekai that proved surprisingly decent this season is Reincarnated as a Sword. I did not expect much of it but it turned out to be a pretty good watch so far.
The movements of the young girl are amazing bouncing off the Sword man if only the plot did something already for them to take part in soon
I’m watching both and they *are* fun as fuck
The trick to Eminence in Shadow is to realize the MC is actually insane and totally ignores the existence of the Cult even when they are like- "hey we are from the Cult" and his followers are equally crazy for thinking he is a thousand steps ahead of everyone.
I really liked the Reincarnated as a Sword Novel and the adaptation so far is surprisingly really good. Not a rushjob like Spider, so what? was.
If Reincarnated is getting 1 cour for the show it seems like they're on track to end the season with the Dungeon Test arc, which is gonna do a lot for even further character building. The manga is a great read - I started it after the anime started airing and haven't read the LNs, but the show is p faithful to both as far as I can tell!
love how the final two entrees were also in the best fall 2022 vid, goes to show how proper comedy makes everyone happy
I forget the name of the show, but there’s an anime from I think 2016 or 2017 that was a pastiche “inside story” about an anime production studio that made a show that bombed spectacularly. I’d love for Geoff to do a clinical dive into stories about anime that had everything going for it, but some factor like direction, budgeting, marketing, or just plain not finding an audience, led to its downfall on the market.
That sounds like girlish number to me
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i think the anime you mean is "New Game!" but i can be wrong.
@@silluete isn't new game about game development?
I haven’t been watching you for very long, but that psychonauts poster in the back is all I need to know that you are a very, very based man
"We don't have battletoads" hiding there in the chapter titles like an ancient spell of meme judgment.
"I am ATOMIC" is arguably the best scene of the season. It was *chef's kiss*
*Regarding Shinobi no Ittoki*
It made no sense for the mom to leave her son in the dark about being the heir to the ninja clan. Her terrible decision left him utterly uninformed, untrained, and unprepared, leaving him at a complete disadvantage against any and all opposing clans that she knew that he inevitably had to face.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Yeah she was cute, but other than that, I didn't like her; she constantly gave him an attitude, and other than defending him against enemies, hardly even helped him in terms of progressing as a ninja.
A lot of people seems to overly hate the MC, who had no idea about anything ninja related and was literally thrown into the fire. Like he ain't my favorite, but its not his fault the people around him are idiots.
I dropped that show after his uncle gaslighted him into becoming a ninja.
I suppose it plays into the fantasy that a normal guy discovers he is actually part of an awesome secret world. Like Harry Potter discovering he is actually a wizard. It does fall apart pretty quickly here though as somebody absolutely should have told the guy that he was the heir to a very important ninja clan. Something like that requires lots of training/preparation and is not something to be shoved onto a person at the last minute. It would have made some sense if the Mom was trying to get out of the ninja business altogether only for them to be forced back in, but it looks like their whole family is still very involved in the ninja life so not telling him until they have absolutely no choice really seems like a dick move.
@@toddclawson3619 This series at its core relies heavily on this part of the premise, but it doesn't work and is left being seen as a glaring and detrimental plot contrivance.
As the first original series done by Troyca since Re:Creators, I was incredibly disappointed by "Not a ninja learns ninja things while everybody shows him how to be a ninja using ninja tools". Luckily, Akiba Maid War was the next thing I decided to check out. Holy hell, that first episode did not disappoint.
I will never stop stanning Akiba Maid War. It is legitimately one of the best things airing in a stacked season with only Chainsaw Man as its true rival, and like, Chainsaw Man is literally a cinema-quality production, so that ought to tell you something about how I feel about this deeply strange little show. It's also Chainsaw Man's only rival this season in terms of raw emotional gut punches, which… also says something if you know anything about Chainsaw Man.
the thing that annoys me the most in shonibi no ittoki is that they expect a kid that didn't know ninjas existed to be able to do ninja stuff, his childhood friend litteraly ignores him when he asks for help with his equipment, because he should naturally know how to use it, somehow. It made me feel pain every time he would screw something up because i knew the whole situation could have been avoided if his clan just taught him all the stuff he needed, like every other clan did.
i know its been a while, but i really just have to say, i love this segment. im so glad you started doing it.
Akiba maid girls is basically an side quest from the Yakuza series stretched out in a series. So it's glorious as expected.
*Amen.*
THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING VAZZROCK EVEN IF IT WAS JUST FOR THE NAME THANKS YOU HAVE MY APPRECIATION
Is it another bait and switch anime title like Yuri on Ice?
I appreciate you acknowledging just how wholesome Beast Tamer is. Sometimes we just need something nice that isn't groundbreaking but still fun/enjoyable and there's nothing wrong with that.
As if anyone is capable of outrunning Truck Kun, if Truck Kun wants you dead he'll run you over even if you're fleeing the galaxy at a thousand times the speed of light.
Bro your videos are always one of the best parts of every anime season. So thank you bro
Man I wish the third ones pitch stopped before the ninjas. it sounded like a legitamitly amazing concept about a kid wanting to experience being a high schooler, like imagine this really amazing popular kid who has perfect grades and dodges trucks but is severly naive because he’s never gotten to do normal teenage things fumbling trying to date this girl he’s never talked to before. I could see a really good romance coming of age anime anime there
The absolute glory and complete lack of irony that the team tackling 'Eminence in Shadow' approaches everything they present is pure gold.
I'm glad the dumpsters are golden and I'm glad you recommended the show early in the season.
Yo, Renai Flops just finished and I gotta say, when _that_ moment happened in one of the prior eps, I was actually pretty thrown for a loop.
No spoilers, but it actually ended up being pretty good. Well played on the writers, honestly.
17:49 wait this is actually a brilliant character gimmick holy
Your vids are soooo much better than most of the anime that you review - quicker and more fun! Thankyou and don't leave the basement!
"the only point he got wrong is that the girls have demon blood, not hero blood"
All i can say about this is HAHAHAHAHA
Also Futoku no guild has some surprisingly good animation scenes for some fucking reason
Yeah. I was pleasantly surprised at how good the action scenes in this week's episode were.
It also made me want more Tokishiko and Kikuru episodes.
yes, the * ahem * animation is really good 😏
Yes, I do believe "some fucking" is definitely a large part of the reason for them putting a lot of effort into the animation. ;)
@@Flint_the_uhhh that Tokishiko licking Kikuru scene was, I'm happy to declare, even more spicy in the anime than the manga. The way they directed the scene my dirty mind started thinking she was giving him head.
Eminence in Shadow is the best comedy anime of the season and nobody can convince me otherwise
Except that is just a stepping stone... to the best drama of the season
Immortal Guild and Love Flops actually have good comedy too tbh
Best comedy? Not when Bocchi the Rock exists
I will never stop pushing Little Lies We All Tell. That's been consistently funny for me. Colonel Psychic Ninja Boy 4 life!
I think the Anime was less funny than the manga
Dodging Truck-kun is sacrilegious!
It means he's the chosen one!
That means some generic fantasy world is missing the hero who was supposed to get reincarnated into it, and the demon king will take over unopposed.
We need an isekai anime about truck-kun dying in a terrible accident with a tractor trailer then coming back as a handsome protagonist-kun who keeps having to dodge being hit by cars due to karma. Of course, he’d accumulate a harem of girls who are mechanics and don’t realize they love him because he used to be a vehicle and they all love engines.
@@laurenwasinger9436 that would be something worth watching!
The one from 15:00 onwards, like goddamn it just went on and on and on and on. Harem animes are so convoluted now, what the hell.
I wasn't even slightly interested in Futoku no Guild until I heard that none of the streaming services are carrying it. Now you have my attention.
17:18 We were on the verge of greatness. We were this close.
Akiba made war is art. Glorious art
I love Beast Tamer. Except the part where the main character "tames" sentient creatures. The girls all love him because he's the sweetest guy, and forming contracts with powerful creatures is an Isekai trope (see Moonlit Fantasy), but it still seems wrong. Fortunately it's so clean and wholesome that a few dirty jokes by one of the fairy twins is enough to make everyone blush. It's reminiscent of "Banished from the Hero's party" except that the entire party bad mouths Rein, whereas Gideon just had the crazy mage. What they did with the "hero" in Beast Tamer is fairly unique, too. My biggest problem with BT is not that Rein is OP, it's that he keeps pulling powers out of his butt. Not the borrowed abilities of his ultimate friends but new Beast Tamer abilities. First it was just that he's able to form temporary contracts with multiple creatures. Then he can also tame insects, then he can project his mind into one of his creatures, he can overwrite another's tamer's bond, and so on and so forth. Every new episode, he keeps breaking the rules of his class. If the writers wanted him to be able to do these things, they should have led into it, instead of just revealing it when it's needed. Anyway.... Beast Tamer is not trash, it's just another harem anime with some writing problems.
Trash from Geoff’s videos don’t mean bad per se. It’s like junk food. Like two of my favorite isekais I got from his last Trash video and they’re both my fav (Black Summoner and My Isekai Life)
The fact that you included Eminence in Shadow and Akiba Maid war on this last and the recommends list shows that both shows are excellent and could be improved in certain ways. Either way I am loving both shows.
No lie, what caught my attention about Beast Tamer was that the catgirl’s panties remained unseen no matter how many flip kicks she did. Honestly refreshing.
Can't get a pantyshot if she's not wearing panties to begin with!
Eminence in Shadow is one of my favorite manga still in production.
I cant get enough of its intentionally over-the-top plot twists and action scenes, cut with pure distilled edgelording.
If you like the manga adaptation you should read the source material being the Light Novels, as the manga changes some things and leaves out some jokes/content from the LNs, the LNs are also farther ahead.
I really enjoy The Eminence in Shadow manga and was looking forward to the anime, which I honestly had pretty low hope for. Glad to see that it received such a good animation treatment!
I can’t wait to clear my anime backlog and watch it! I’m interested in Akiba Maid War, too!
Also, admittedly, the first two anime on the list are on my guilty pleasure playlist.🤣
should go read The Eminence in Shadow LNs if you enjoy the manga adaptation. LNs have more content and are farther ahead as they are the source material.
@@Branden13able
Thanks for the suggestion and I get that LN in general are better than their manga and anime adaptations, but I’m not so much of a “reader”, even if they have some illustrations in the novels.😅
I checked out the manga of The Eminence in Shadow and they were right, the director of the anime played everything completly straight but it is supposed to be a parody of edgy isekai mc's
Actually they are adapting from the LN. It was just the manga adaptation which took more liberties with the comedy. But I actually do wish they used the manga as a reference when it came to the comedy scenes, cuz the comedy in the manga is definitely the way to go.
@@rickchakraborty2087 Reading the web novel back in the day was quite the ride for me because it reads like it is written completely straight, and when I read it like that, it wasn't very good. It took me some 70 chapters, iirc, before I realized that it's not supposed to be read straight. It is a comedy. Once I changed my approach to it, the series became great.
I really enjoyed that intro… well done my friend 👌🏾👨🏾🍳
Your chapter titles are SPOT ON for this selection. Also, this time I 10,000% agree with your recomendations and ratings. I will take the entire menue please.
The "Otakuza" line made me chuckle
Honestly, I thought you would not make Trash video this season simply because this is that good.
Even the trashest shows this fall are somewhat palatable.
In France we have the uncensored version of Immoral Guild on ADN!
Like many others, I'm coming back to comment after watching Renai Flops (Love Flops).
Dude thank you so much for introducing this to me. I won't spoil anything for anyone but at a certain point I was like "dude this is giving me school days vibes."
I watched because I wanted to see some trash harem anime. But fuck me the roller-coaster ride panged my heart.
Anyone reading this: it's worth the watch. The first half of the anime is average but it's purposely done so.
Thanks again mate! Earned a sub! :)