I'd say Colleen Clinkenbeard 1-up'd everyone else here with her "Carlotta Tinklegoatee" pseudonym. Even her "Carmen Smith" alias had standards, apparently.
It's an entire genre in Japan. Ryona. The word combines the terms for "seeking the bizarre" and "masturbation", but the limits of its imagination are just strong women being abused in the worst ways the writer can think up. And the unsuspecting viewer.
Now now John, that's not being inclusive of the 30-something/40-something adult with a chip on his shoulder that never emotionally matured past that edgelord "Disney happy endings are a lie! The world sucks because it's mean to MEEEEE!" phase of his life, who also won't shut up about how everything was better when he was a kid, while perpetuating an air of pseudo-intellectualism he uses to convince everyone else that he's smarter than he really is. (You know, like Doug Walker and his brother Rob. 😏)
And the fact they even got great talent to take part in this show like Julie Maddelena (well known for voicing Toonami-era anime’s), and Cherami Leigh (Lucy Heartfilia from Fairy Tail). I... I can’t even...
The ending makes sense if this is supposed to be a deconstruction of fan service fighter anime, sort of like an Evangelion for mecha or Madoka for magical girl anime. However, that requires actual effort and talent that this show lacks.
Yup. I think Madoka (haven’t seen the other) gets it right by not just focusing on the deconstruction, but actually telling a coherent story that just so happens to deconstruct mahou shojo.
Yes, I was wondering where you were going with that up until that last sentence! I thought "you're putting this in the same vein as Madoka Magica? Do you need help?"! But, like I say... Never mind!
@@CD-Gaming yeah. It’s ATTEMPTING to be in the same vein as Madoka or Eva, but the emphasis needs to be on the word ATTEMPTING, because as it stands, me mentioning this trash in the same breath as Madoka and Eva insults the very concept of good anime.
@@zak22wolftheultramanzenith35 Yeah, even there I think you're giving it way too much credit... I still maintain that Madoka Magica is the best Animé with which to introduce someone to Animé! Forget Pokémon (especially the current English dub by DuArt), never mind Gundam (well, any but Wing), not even Dragonball! I still say Madoka Magica!
This feels like an anime adaptation of those kinky, obscure fighting games where the gimmick is cute anime girls fighting in different fetishized uniforms (nurse, teacher, school girl etc.) and overtime their clothes get torn off or something.
@@shouta1255 the Variable Geo anime atleast had a strong aesthetic appeal, especially in the animation budget. This... however... this is just nothing.
@@petertilton7004 If only they would make a 6th and 7th episode but no, I think they wanted to leave it on a dark and mean spirited ending just so they could be done with it.
@@autobotstarscream765 Funimation has been gaining controversy after controversy post-2015 due to their shady business practices, so yes. The only things that's been keeping Funimation afloat from that point on are Dragon Ball sales, the fact that they practically have a monopoly over the anime licensing industry and the goodwill people give them for not being 4Kids (and even then, the latter two are running out pretty quickly)
@@autobotstarscream765 Now that's some exquisite schadenfreude the likes of which I haven't experienced since I saw the Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0+1.0 threads on 4chan
"If you don't want to be spoiled on this . . ." I am scared of the possibility that there are people out there who would actually care about spoilers on this.
On one hand I agree, but on the other hand there are really just so few anime out there that can give you this kind of experience on the level that it does. I think other than this there's School Days and that's about it, but even School Days' ending isn't nearly as cruel and twisted as this.
@@BennettTheSage Sage, be carefull of DVD disk rot. You have quite the collection that I know you love a lot. And you should have some pretty rare DVDs that may degrade with time. I recomend you to back those up to a hard drive, where they may be safer. Love the show for 8 years. Stay healthy 👍
I really don’t understand why Aiya’s “friends” went out of their way to get revenge on a girl who had nothing to do with the death of their family members. 🤨
Think it's the whole make her mother feel the pain they went through thing Me personally I have skipped the middleman and convoluted plan and just shot the Mom
@@Zezlemet The kids clearly have messed up morals since they have no problems running the awful tournament and just blame Aiya. I can almost buy that since I've known messed up people who'll blame bystanders on their awful things. They didn't have a response when Aiya's mother pointed out they and their parents are really awful except just to attack her. They're just laser-guided tykebombs.
This anime feels like it should’ve been a Hentai, but the budget for the Actual Hentai studio was so Bad that they pretty much shoved this Hentai into some other fucking Studio with an equally worse budget lol
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 oh snap, that’s hilarious that Ryona are basically categorized, by using this show. I just looked it up. It’s their go to example, the first result haha
The US trailer for this made it look like this was an anime about a bunch of schoolgirls trying to raise money to keep their local American burger franchise from going under. As dumb as that would be, that would have been an infinitely better show then what we got.
Yeah, I remember when you tormented another anime reviewer with this title about a decade ago. I was curious about the ending, but not enough to actually watch it, and then forgot about until this episode. This most depressing part about this anime is that Funimation brought it over and how many Funimation voice actors got stuck doing voices for this. I know a paycheck's a paycheck but it's still depressing.
16:08 I'll never understand when shows do stuff like this. Especially when there's no greater point and meaning to it. The mc wasn't a villain or did anything villainous and it's all really out of left field to drop these bomb shells on her. Feels like something out of a bad end hentai imo.
None of this happened in the manga the anime is based on. Everything from character dialogue to the dark plot seem to have been changed intentionally to maliciously deatroy the IP.
Show of hands; who else besides me remembers having seen MoMH on the old JesuOtaku livestreams, way back before he came out transitioned? He tried to warn us about that final episode, but we watched anyway. We deserved what we got.
Jacob: The first 4 episodes of the anime is boring but for the love of god don’t watch the ending it’s the dumbest, most nonsensical, mean-spirited endings ever! 16 yo me: bet
I remember this anime. God the plot twist at the end was so terrible. I'm digusted I invested my time watching and the worst part is alot of the charcters in this anime were voiced by my favorite female English VA'S.
Hey Bennett, as a new subscriber, and watching your older and newer videos, its increble to see your evolution here on RUclips. I wonder with, in time, i can have a similar growing in my art.
@@AkuTenshiiZero That was a running joke among Channel Awesome reviewers that Sage was secretly the devil, and in JesuOtaku’s case occasionally forced him to look at really trashy anime.
For some reason I was thinking that the ending feel just like how School Days ended. It starts out as something slightly ok but then BOOM! ends with an insane bang.
I think the difference is that School Days was never really light hearted or fluffy. In fact, School Days was basically setting the audience up for the ending, while this seemed to be the anime version of a rickroll.
School Days at least had a buildup to the gory end throughout the series. By the time shit hits the fan, you do have the sense that the characters had it coming. By contrast, this comes out of nowhere. It's like if the first episode of School Days was directly followed by the 12th episode, and all the writers, animators, and voice actors had also gone through recent lobotomies.
I once forgot to put on mitts when taking pizza out of the oven. The noise I made then is the same noise I made when I got a notification for this upload.
I actually stumbled across this anime on RUclips years back, like around 2010 or so. I dropped it when it got to the part where the main character was thinking way too hard about why a fight was happening in the street.
I first heard of this show when it was the focus of a weird crossover episode of JesuOtaku about 10 years ago. And now, learning more of this show and the creepy, gruesome undertones it entails... it's like I've been exposed to a Lovecraftian nightmare that the more I gaze upon it, I will go mad.
I remember watching Sage back in the "channel that should not be named" days and it is fascinating to sit here over 10 years later and see how mature and concise his critics have become. It's almost like a microcosm of how video essays evolved from cringy, mean spirited "reviews" to what they are now.
The ironic thing is of all the reviewers from Channel Awesome, Sage and Todd In The Shadows are the only ones I still watch. All of the others either stopped reviewing, or became intolerable in one way or another. Even Linkara, who I would have guessed would have been the last one standing years ago went vulgar and political with his humor/comments too often.
@@Martynde It was in one of his halloween reviews years back, where Moarte yelled at Linkara to do something obscene. Or maybe it was in one of the Longbox of the Damned videos, as a one off joke. That was the moment where I stopped watching Linkara.
Remember when Sage dared a Pre transition Jacob Chapman into watching and reviewing this for his JesuOtaku channel? Good Times.... I read somewhere that Miko's English VA (Alexis Tipton) considers working on the dub for this to be one of the biggest regrets of her career.
Is it weird to assume that these kind of shows with "final act syndrome" are usually low-budget and made by people who don't have much stake in it until they are able to finish it?
I didn't know that clothing was that fragile and disintegrated after being tapped. Or that scripts could be that excruciatingly bad. Sage, thank you for watching it so that we don't have to (and in my case will run away from, screaming).
I remember buying this anime at Goodwill for $1.50 and thinking "Wow, this is really cheap, even for 5 episodes." And I watched the whole thing. Yeah, I resold it for $1 because I didn't want it on my shelf LMAO
I remember when this first came out and was being advertised and thinking, "Wow, this looks terrible." Turns out I was right. This is such a prime example of, "what not to do." This feels like something media blasters would have dubbed, in fact that could have made this a little fun. I'm not sure why Funimation though this was a good idea, even having some of their best voice actresses, Cherami Leigh, Alexis Tipton, Luci Christian, Colleen Clinkenbeard, and Monica Rial. They couldn't do anything with this.
Yo, I remember the crossover you did with JesuOtaku for this! Good times my dude. I can safely say the 2 of you have both been instrumental to a lot of criteria I have for watching and recommending anime. Thanks for being such a positive and entertaining fixture in my life Bennett; I always look forward to your work. Oh yeah, this anime sucks ALL the ass! 😄
QUEEN’S BLADE! Man, now that’s a name I haven’t heard from in a long time. That and Ikki Tousen were like the first lewd fan service shows back when anime wasn’t so mainstream and easily accessible in the early to mid 2000s. I literally had to watch both of those shows on RUclips in parts. Good old middle school to high school years. lol
Yeah. School Days had a consistent theme of kids being stupid and gradually built to more and more hurtful acts. It's final episode, while shocking, was a logical conclusion to what had been set up throughout the series. Master of Martial Hearts just blindsides you, going from dumb cheesecake fluff for most of the series to an episode of nothing but an exposition dump of dark plot twists, some of which are such sharp turns they border on retcons. And ultimately they collectively make every event and line of dialogue that happened in the first 4 episodes meaningless.
After seeing the anime myself, I have to say that SOME of the negative things I heard about even BEFORE I watched this review were SLIGHTLY exaggerated. I can't emphasize it enough when I say SLIGHTLY though. This anime had some hints of creepiness to it before the final episode, but those hints were ALL you were given. Fair warning that these hints I'm about to list have some spoilers to it. Also, some of these details are easy to miss when you first watch it! These details are as follows: 1.) ALL of Aya's opponents cough up blood when she defeats them. Some might have been too distracted to notice this because of the T & A, but it seems to hint at how brutal Aya is being in her fights. It's not handled well, but it's there. 2.) ALL the episodes prior to the final episode leave unsubtle hints that the losers in the tournament are kidnapped. In fact, two of the fighters (the cop & the nurse) are in professions that would allow them to kidnap people more easily! Yes, both women are used for fanservice too but my point still stands! 3.) The main character's best friend is WAY too calm during the tournament. It may not be so obvious on your first watch, but she seems REALLY unconcerned about both a mutual friend of hers AND a teacher they both like being kidnapped! In fact, she was so unconcerned that I'd have said she was being callous about it! As I previously stated though these are JUST hints & these hints weren't sufficient enough for ANYONE to guess how dark the final episode was! I also think this series has a "second order idiot plot" because these women believe in the wish granting MacGuffin WAY too easily! The anime NEVER establishes whether such things exist in the series itself so it raises a LOT of questions with regard to how the participants came to believe in such a thing!
I used to see "Master of Martial Hearts" listed on a TV Tropes page titled "Indecisive Deconstruction." It's not up on their site anymore, but the description for the show used to mention how the show couldn't decide whether it wanted to ACTUALLY BE a fanservice "panty fighter" show or if it wanted to be an examination of such shows. Unfortunately for the individual (or individuals) who wanted the show to be the latter, it seems that they were pretty much ignored for the most part which would partly explain the mean-spirited ending for this OVA. This is all just pure speculation on my part though so I admit I could be WAY off the mark. If anyone wants to see this dumpster fire for themselves, it's up for streaming on the "Funimation Now" service. I think the OVA is restricted to members only, probably so Funimation doesn't get angry calls & emails from inattentive parents who find their kids watching it.
So...just to understand the ending: It was Aya's friends who wanted punish HER over something her mother did...which Aya likely had NO idea about since it happened before she was born?! Sins of the mothers and fathers I guess?! Talk about disproportionate retribution.
Holy crap, someone else knows about Butt Attack Punisher Girl. I used to inflict that on friends ages ago when a fan sub showed up online. For those wondering, it's much weirder than it sounds.
The anime is based on a visual novel game but it clearly deviates from the source material (like how the Aya's best friend is supposed to be a robot/cyborg but she isn't in the anime). I'm basing this solely on the one trailer of the game I was able to find because there's very little information about the game's story and characters. I also remember you did a crossover review of this anime with JesuOtaku years ago, comparing the ending to School Days. Good times but I like this review much better. Keep up the good work.
I've tracked down a bunch of the material from the original franchise. Yeah this anime is a shit adaption. The cyborg thing is one of many alternate storylines planned for the franchise. The manga as the intended cannon was much better. The story was much more lighthearted and comedic. Only getting serious for the fights. The competitors themselves are given more actual character and much more likeable in the manga. And no one dies because the twist at the end is no where else in the franchise. I can't say for sure obviously but all the changes appear to have been malicious. The differences go beyond just misinterpriting scenes. They often times, get every single tiny detail about a scene backwards. Other times they get Most of a scene right only to then get the characters backwards. One of the fight in particular, I kid you not, is frame by frame the exact opposite of what happens in the manga. From the character interactions, context, the actual fight, result, and even location. ALL of wich mind you, played a part in the emotion behind that fight in particular. That goes beyond just being bad at adapting something. It was done on purpose.
@@neonnwave1 yeah. At first I thought this was just a really crappy franchise. But the more I dug, the more it becomes apperent the franchise itself, as strange as it sounds, had actual heart and effort put into it. I even found an interview by the creator where they planned to continue the manga itself and give other characters their own stories as the main character after the anime. Then the creator walked in on the studio to check on the anime a little bit before they released the anime. What follows is a dramatic retelling of what whent down that day. Creator: walks in: hey guys. Now that the animes ready to air. I got a whole bunch of story arcs to continue the main manga and spin offs to make. The studio: continue? Spin offs? That's gonna be a problem. The creator: what? Why? Wasn't that the whole point of making the anime? To expand this small franchise with a decently strong fanbase(me talking: I've seen the og fanbase of this series interact on twitter. It's crazy wholesome with how they all quote their favorite lines and stuff from the actual series at eachother. And it's still active to this day.) The studio: yeah well you see. We kinda burned it down. Creator: what? Studio: we changed the personalities of all the competitors to make them unlikeable. Made the legit magical stone fake We made the MCs friends evil. And we offed the entire cast brutally. Creator:... Studio:... Creator:... Studio: say something Creator:... Studio:.... Creator: WTF! WHY?!!!!
You want more details on how f**ked up the ending is, slow down Jene's speech to Travis in No More Heroes and you won't be too far off. Now for an Oldtaku New Tricks of Redo of Healer to see what a real contender for worst anime ever looks like!
I'm just in time! Hey bennett thanks for making videos that made me smile through the years. Especially during these tough times. You are one of the most genuine anime youtubers out there and I appreciate the work and heart you put into your content.
I wonder if the gem is a real working artifact cause if so, Aya could easily undo the damage done by the antagonists and render their revenge quest moot just by getting hold item. The antagonist would have to destroy that artifact to screw over Aya and any chance of unfucking all the vile crap. Hell, the antagonists could easily have used the gem to just undo all the drama that led up to the years of conflict.
I had the worst luck with anime in high school. I was a sensitive kid who got really emotional about fictional characters and only had internet access for about the length of two episodes a day. When I started a series I devoted myself to investing in it emotionally. Pickings where slim and I didn't have any way of knowing about a series before trying it out. Because of that I ended up with Master Martial Hearts being one of my first fan service anime. I took this thing seriously. I could tell it wasn't as serious as the few others I had watched up until that point, but it never occurred to me how bad it could get. This was the first anime I'd ever seen shit its bed. My first harem anime was Shuffle! freaking Shuffle! scarred the crap out of me. Bitter Virgin made me go to bed and cry. (granted, I should have known from the title but I was a sheltered idiot) When I decided to take a break from anime for a bit and try something a bit lighter I PUT ON THE CROW then just went back to my room to think for a while!
I imagine that the creator of this anime based the main girl off of someone they actually knew and this was their twisted little way of getting "revenge" on them. Either that or they just never got of their edgy phase.
I've sadly seen, without hyperbole, the worst Anime ever made. Which yes the one time I mentioned before this I got the whole "The Manga was better" argument. It's called Ichi the Killer: Episode 0, a prequel to the film Ichi the Killer. It's an Anime that fails 100% at everything; art, animation, audio, plot, characters and even the dub followed suit. It's not so bad it's good, it's just a failure that I'm convinced no one wanted to work on, so they rushed it and threw it out the door as quickly as possible. It's supposed to really Grimdark, but it's attempt is pathetic and unconvincing.
The creeper was basically asking her to run in her standard P.E. uniform while he watched...thats what makes me think it may of been self aware. Doesn't make it any better though since it fails in everything it goes for either way.
At least School Days was adapted from a H-Game that was famous for its bloody Bad Endings, and the anime could maybe be interpreted as a deconstruction of its source material. And at least School Days built up to its infamous finale. Martial Hearts pulls its ending completely out of left field just for the sake of being edgy, while under the guise of being meaningful.
I really dig the Brand on Sage's shirt. I only recently found out that Kentaro Miura, the creative genius who created Berserk, my favorite Manga/Anime (the '97 version) and one of my favorite works of fiction in general, recently passed away. I must admit, I'm still a bit shaken up but not necessarily because Berserk was left unfinished (I've heard that his apprentices might continue it themselves) but because I've heard that he had a rough go of it in life and died at only 54. I have so much respect for him and his brilliantly creative mind that even if he never finished Berserk but it meant that he had longer to live and could do so in whatever way would've made him happiest I would gladly live in such a world. Berserk was one of the very few fictional works that if it does in fact go unfinished, I would still feel like it was more than worth investing my time and interest into. Usually with most works that go without a conclusive ending I tend to feel as though it wasn't entirely worth it for no payoff. In the case of Berserk however, even if I had known it wouldn't be finished by its original creator's own hand from the beginning, I would've eagerly read it from the beginning to its last pages. I know I'm gushing right now, but I want others to recognize how much I value the work Miura brought to life so that they might appreciate him as a creator and as a person. For those who may not know or haven't read the manga, etc., if you have even the slightest interest in finding out more about Berserk or Miura's work in general, I implore you, nay beg you, to please do so. Whatever you might feel at the end of such a journey, regret for having experienced it will most certainly not be one of them.
I stumbled across a show called Macademi Wasshoi! many years ago during the golden age of torrent-based anime. No idea what it was, where it came from, or how I found it, but I downloaded it and watched it anyway. I actually liked it in spite of just how incredibly weird it was. It was a goofball comedy for 11 of the 12 episodes. Then episode 12 initiated final act syndrome. Yeesh.
I saw this anime's DVD in a store maybe in 2009-2015 and I could tell it was a train wreck. Glad I never gave it a chance and bought it. I'd clearly have wasted my money
Ooh, queens Blade. I’d have picked ether that or Ikki Toaen. Looking forward to it. Also love to hear you’re thoughts in a Old taku new tricks for Redo of a Healer. Also I remember you doing this with JesOtaku. Or at lest tormenting them with it. Good times. Good times.
Not actually rip off, though...shatter like glass instead of actually ripping, as if it was an adaptation of some really old fighting game with primitive animations...
I think I need to apologize to the Variable Geo anime adaptation. At least there was a story from the very beginning, and the animation was much, much, MUCH better than this shit!
This seems more like the animators getting revenge on the company and the viewers, and deliberately sabotaging the show. Sort of like the rugrats vent storyboards.
That's basically what happened. The manga it's based on is nothing like the actual anime. Comparing the manga to it, it's alperent that all the changes to the plot and story were done maliciously.
I've literally watched this show through twice, and I still have no idea what it was going for. It's so bad that it almost feels like a parody of itself; it doesn't commit to, or justify, any of it's characters or plot elements; all of the characters are extremely one dimensional and paper thin, and the ending just comes the heck out of nowhere. Hands down THE most nonsensical, convoluted and baffling ending I've ever seen. Nothing adds up or is really justified, and there's about 5 plot twists lol. It's an absolutely astonishing, and fascinating, mess.
Considering that there's Boku no Pico; along with anime adaptions for King's Game, Pupa, and Ex-Arm; I would say this still has competition for worst anime.
This anime changed me when I saw it all those years ago. With its intricate plot, twists and turns, and a conclusion I could only say made me burst out laughing uncontrollably... it was all a clumsy revenge story gone horribly wrong.
Ooh, che bella! Un'altro video da Bennet. Grazie per la video, son' certo che e bouno, come sempre. Posting in Italian because the man lives in Italy now.
Sometimes Anime Abandon lets me revisit anime I remember watching when I was younger. Sometimes it teaches me about other ones that I missed. And sometimes it dredges up long repressed memories like some kind of traumatic flashback.
WOW! Didn't recognize her voice. That's how good it is as someone who only knows her voicework from the Fire Emblem games (Which is funny considering that had an anime in the 90's that BlazingKnight talked about a while back)
Now with a proper comment after finishing the video. So the premise reminds me of Variable Geo a PC Fighting game (that later got toned down console versions) where the girls fight toward a big goal. The Martial Heart actually reminded me K' Talisman from SNK's Gals Fighters (not to be mistaken for SNK Heroines) where such a silly premise is done better and is just made goofier. Now boiling that down to the base elements based on what I've observed this looks like it was inspired by VG but written by somebody who only knows how to write the bad endings to visual novels. Does that sound about right?
I remember when JesuOtaku reviewed this. How upset she(now he) got at the ending made me imagine the dumbest possible thing that a buxom brawler anime could do. Then I watched the series and couldn't be mad at it because I was right. The show may be terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad trash, but I can't hate it when I can get so much joy out of making other people watch it.
Y'know, as painful as it is listening to a bad dub, if its for an already bad show it's kinda part of the fun. Personally I think it's more painful hearing a GOOD dub for a just terrible show. Hearing all of my fav Funi dub actresses giving great performances for this clearly terrible show just had me like "NO, This show isn't worth your talent! DX"
I have been watching anime for over 25 years and this easily one of the top 5 worst anime I have ever seen. Just a cruel mean anime. Best way I ever heard it described was Ikki Tousen mixed with Elfen Lied and topped with the ending of School Days. NEVER WATCH THIS ANIME!!!!!
I’m really loving the direction your videos have been going since you stepped back and reevaluated how you run the channel for your health. I can’t articulate the little differences right now because brain bad but they’ve got a tone or something about them that’s really nice to see. I hope I’m not imagining this, but you seem more into it, and it’s infectious.
Compare this to something that always leaves a good feeling, Tokyo Godfathers. a feel good ending to a somewhat convulated trip through tokyo during christmas and new years to find a childs parents. id rage destroy this dvd if i sat through this one and got to that crap ending.
Gotta say, Bennett, I'm really interested to see how you talk about Queen's Blade. It's one of my favorite ecchi's for obvious reasons, but I'm curious to see what you'll say that makes it that kind of show done right.
I remember Ikki Tousen and also remember that that spawned 3 sequel series + several OVAs, one even coming out in 2019 (no joke), iirc, while this has the same premise but managed to just get 5 OVAs. I think Ikki Tousen had a bit more established clout beforehand, so it was unfair when someone might compare the two. Both are pretty shallow, Ikki Tousen only had the history buff's interest, since there was the whole weird reincarnation plot with the Romance of the 3 Kingdoms characters as sexy girls fighting with flimsy exploding clothes
Wait, a bunch of girls fighting in order to get a wish granting crystal heart.
That the plot of Skullgirls.
A man of culture, i see
I was about to say. This is Skullgirls without style or class.
@@laughingfurry or the fun roster of Characters.
@@ChristianRodriguez-hz2qb well I will give points to the flight attendant for going hard on the gimmick but thats about it
Even if the majority of what she said makes no sense in context?
Alexis Tipton hated working on this. Trina Nishimura credited herself in an amusing alias named "Anita Neukar". That about sums it all up.
Third time and I finally got it
XD
🤣🤣🤣
I'd say Colleen Clinkenbeard 1-up'd everyone else here with her "Carlotta Tinklegoatee" pseudonym. Even her "Carmen Smith" alias had standards, apparently.
I had to read that a few times before I got it lol 😆
Anita Neukar = I need to nuke her?
The end feels like one of those edgy fanfics some teenage kid with a giant chip on his shoulder writes.
It's an entire genre in Japan. Ryona. The word combines the terms for "seeking the bizarre" and "masturbation", but the limits of its imagination are just strong women being abused in the worst ways the writer can think up.
And the unsuspecting viewer.
Ounce.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633...Yikes.
Now now John, that's not being inclusive of the 30-something/40-something adult with a chip on his shoulder that never emotionally matured past that edgelord "Disney happy endings are a lie! The world sucks because it's mean to MEEEEE!" phase of his life, who also won't shut up about how everything was better when he was a kid, while perpetuating an air of pseudo-intellectualism he uses to convince everyone else that he's smarter than he really is. (You know, like Doug Walker and his brother Rob. 😏)
Bad then completely Craps out on like the Sopranos Finale!
The nihilistic ending makes me tempted to compare it to MD Geist, but MD Geist at least never pretended to be anything but pure late 80s edge.
And unlike this train wreck, Geist _did_ get a sequel.
At least MD Geist had some good music
No you’re mistaken. There’s 90s edge and then there’s 80s CHEESE.
MD Geist is pure Provolone Mozzarella Swiss 80s melted cheese
Trina Nishimura, the voice of Aya, was smart to "Alan Smithee" her name on the credits of this anime.
Really? She’s credited on IMDb - maybe she confessed to it at a convention or something 😅
MIKASA FREAKIN' ACKERMAN WAS IN THIS SHOW? I didn't even realise it was her in the clips as I was more distracted hearing Asuna's voice.
That us a telling sign...
I just have to imagine what the voice actors were told. Like they seem to be giving it a decent go no matter how bad or absurd the dialog.
And the fact they even got great talent to take part in this show like Julie Maddelena (well known for voicing Toonami-era anime’s), and Cherami Leigh (Lucy Heartfilia from Fairy Tail).
I... I can’t even...
Lady Plutia is in this
Alexis Tipton has gone on record saying she disappointed about her involvement in the dubbing
All voice actors have that one role they regret.
@@channelwithout That is true. After all, Tomokazu Sugita's (voice of Gintoki and Young Joseph) debut was in the Cybuster anime of all things.
The ending makes sense if this is supposed to be a deconstruction of fan service fighter anime, sort of like an Evangelion for mecha or Madoka for magical girl anime. However, that requires actual effort and talent that this show lacks.
I was thinking the exact same. Like if your going to deconstruct a anime genre then at least do it right.
Yup.
I think Madoka (haven’t seen the other) gets it right by not just focusing on the deconstruction, but actually telling a coherent story that just so happens to deconstruct mahou shojo.
Yes, I was wondering where you were going with that up until that last sentence! I thought "you're putting this in the same vein as Madoka Magica? Do you need help?"! But, like I say... Never mind!
@@CD-Gaming yeah. It’s ATTEMPTING to be in the same vein as Madoka or Eva, but the emphasis needs to be on the word ATTEMPTING, because as it stands, me mentioning this trash in the same breath as Madoka and Eva insults the very concept of good anime.
@@zak22wolftheultramanzenith35 Yeah, even there I think you're giving it way too much credit...
I still maintain that Madoka Magica is the best Animé with which to introduce someone to Animé! Forget Pokémon (especially the current English dub by DuArt), never mind Gundam (well, any but Wing), not even Dragonball! I still say Madoka Magica!
This feels like an anime adaptation of those kinky, obscure fighting games where the gimmick is cute anime girls fighting in different fetishized uniforms (nurse, teacher, school girl etc.) and overtime their clothes get torn off or something.
For the longest time, I thought that that was the case for the title. But nope, completely original IP. Wanted that Ikki Tousen money, I suppose.
@@BennettTheSage See, now I'm curious what you think of *that* trainwreck of an anime. lol
@@BennettTheSage
Ξ:ΞΞ am was probably thinking of Variable Geo. To be fair, this anime sounds looks like it cribs everything from that, just worse.
@@shouta1255 the Variable Geo anime atleast had a strong aesthetic appeal, especially in the animation budget. This... however... this is just nothing.
@@chukolance Ikki Tousen at least has a followable, understandable plot, as awfully written as it is. This anime though... I have no words.
I read the plot summary of this thing in TVTropes and my assessment was: "Avoid this overly edgy juvenile shit."
Episodes 1-4: this is just awful cheesecake I've seen wor--
Episode 5: Oh....Oooooh oh ho ho ho ho ooooooooooh god I wanna die.
Episode 6: other girls brought back under evil dude's control and fueled with rage.
Episode 7: Power of friendship saves the day.
Well that took a dark turn...
Episodes 1-4 are the best.
@@sammygreen9652 yeah, 5 just makes you feel dead inside. Which is why I have head cannon for a 6 and 7.
@@petertilton7004 If only they would make a 6th and 7th episode but no, I think they wanted to leave it on a dark and mean spirited ending just so they could be done with it.
I'm baffled that Funimation actually spent money to license this anime
That's because it happened before they went down the shitter
@@BananaChicken21 Are you sure this qualifies as "not yet down the shitter"?
@@autobotstarscream765 Funimation has been gaining controversy after controversy post-2015 due to their shady business practices, so yes.
The only things that's been keeping Funimation afloat from that point on are Dragon Ball sales, the fact that they practically have a monopoly over the anime licensing industry and the goodwill people give them for not being 4Kids (and even then, the latter two are running out pretty quickly)
@@BananaChicken21 So's the first one.
ruclips.net/video/A0XuoJ8-_gw/видео.html
@@autobotstarscream765 Now that's some exquisite schadenfreude the likes of which I haven't experienced since I saw the Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0+1.0 threads on 4chan
"If you don't want to be spoiled on this . . ."
I am scared of the possibility that there are people out there who would actually care about spoilers on this.
Force of habit? Or just courtesy?
XD
On one hand I agree, but on the other hand there are really just so few anime out there that can give you this kind of experience on the level that it does. I think other than this there's School Days and that's about it, but even School Days' ending isn't nearly as cruel and twisted as this.
It sure is a scary thought isn't it.
*Sits down upon the throne of VCR tapes and DVDs, Zangetsu in hand and a copy of Baka and Test on my lap*
... let’s weeb.
I'm game if you are!
@@BennettTheSage you should do a lupin month
@@hfwentertainment1432 I’d be Down for that !
Probably do the series then next year when lupin month comes around He should do the movies
@@BennettTheSage Sage, be carefull of DVD disk rot. You have quite the collection that I know you love a lot. And you should have some pretty rare DVDs that may degrade with time. I recomend you to back those up to a hard drive, where they may be safer. Love the show for 8 years. Stay healthy 👍
I really don’t understand why Aiya’s “friends” went out of their way to get revenge on a girl who had nothing to do with the death of their family members. 🤨
Think it's the whole make her mother feel the pain they went through thing
Me personally I have skipped the middleman and convoluted plan and just shot the Mom
@@Zezlemet The kids clearly have messed up morals since they have no problems running the awful tournament and just blame Aiya. I can almost buy that since I've known messed up people who'll blame bystanders on their awful things. They didn't have a response when Aiya's mother pointed out they and their parents are really awful except just to attack her. They're just laser-guided tykebombs.
@@wdcain1 Yeah, they are seriously messed up.
They just need an over the top dark and hard core and unnecessary edgy ending to pull a joke on us the audience.
That twist comes out of nowhere because the anime is one of the worst adaptions to ever exist.
That never happens in the intended cannon of the manga.
This anime feels like it should’ve been a Hentai, but the budget for the Actual Hentai studio was so Bad that they pretty much shoved this Hentai into some other fucking Studio with an equally worse budget lol
It's a hentai. It's just catering to a very specific fetish. リョナ Ryona.
This anime comes up immediately in DuckDuckGo's Japanese search results.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 oh snap, that’s hilarious that Ryona are basically categorized, by using this show. I just looked it up. It’s their go to example, the first result haha
@@auralunaprettycure Damn!
The US trailer for this made it look like this was an anime about a bunch of schoolgirls trying to raise money to keep their local American burger franchise from going under.
As dumb as that would be, that would have been an infinitely better show then what we got.
That sounds like something I'd see on USA Up All Night.
End of Evangelion - our ending is confusing and mean spirited
Master of martial hearts: hold my 30% off bento.
Or "Hold my gas station sushi."
Pffft. You guys win. Take my likes, my amusement, and all my lols.
@@hariman7727 Uh oh, there was a roofie in our gas station sushi.
Woah, really reminded me of Jesuotaku's video on it like a billion years ago
Oh yeah, I remember that too.
Was it one of those episodes where JesuOtaku was forced to review the show by Bennett or am I recalling it wrong?
@@vcom741 Nope, you're remembering right
Yes ^_^ Poor Jake :( the trauma was shared i watched it aroudn the same time as that vid came out.
Satan's decade-long redemption arc was pretty good.
Yes that anime where clothes get ripped off for no reason whatsoever. Clothes that must be made out of the most flimsy material known to humans.
Seriously, the clothing in Ikkitousen was sturdier than this
@@erichfiedler1481
That’s saying something.
@@erichfiedler1481 I was thinking the same!!!
Only thing that's accurate is the attention to detail afforded to characters twitching after their necks are snapped.
Only negative about no script is that we don't get Suave gawking at the girls.
Yeah, I remember when you tormented another anime reviewer with this title about a decade ago. I was curious about the ending, but not enough to actually watch it, and then forgot about until this episode. This most depressing part about this anime is that Funimation brought it over and how many Funimation voice actors got stuck doing voices for this. I know a paycheck's a paycheck but it's still depressing.
16:08 I'll never understand when shows do stuff like this. Especially when there's no greater point and meaning to it. The mc wasn't a villain or did anything villainous and it's all really out of left field to drop these bomb shells on her. Feels like something out of a bad end hentai imo.
None of this happened in the manga the anime is based on.
Everything from character dialogue to the dark plot seem to have been changed intentionally to maliciously deatroy the IP.
That ending caught me *completely* off guard, even with Sage talking a bit beforehand.
Ye gods.
Show of hands; who else besides me remembers having seen MoMH on the old JesuOtaku livestreams, way back before he came out transitioned? He tried to warn us about that final episode, but we watched anyway. We deserved what we got.
Jacob: The first 4 episodes of the anime is boring but for the love of god don’t watch the ending it’s the dumbest, most nonsensical, mean-spirited endings ever!
16 yo me: bet
I remember too.
Yup. Sage even cameo'd in that review. It feels like the secret handshake for a certain kind of anime fan from a certain era.
Ok pop quiz, what was the last anime he reviewed and what was he playing to review afterwords?
I was there... I wish I wasnt but I remember... what in the FU--
I remember this anime. God the plot twist at the end was so terrible. I'm digusted I invested my time watching and the worst part is alot of the charcters in this anime were voiced by my favorite female English VA'S.
You mean the plot twists at the end?
God bless Trina Nishimura for still putting in the work for this sorry affair as the main characters English VA.
if she quitted voice acting after this crap, then she didn't landed big roles such as Kurisu "Christina" Makise, Mikasa Ackerman, and Kyouka Jiro.
Hey Bennett, as a new subscriber, and watching your older and newer videos, its increble to see your evolution here on RUclips. I wonder with, in time, i can have a similar growing in my art.
Thank you so much. And as long as you continue to produce your work, and you are open to good-natured and thoughtful criticism, you will grow :)
@@BennettTheSage ow. Thank you. This in one of the very few times where a RUclipsr actually responds in one of my comnents
Man, I don't think I've heard anybody talk about this anime since JesuOtaku did like 10 years ago.
No, she did a crossover with Sage about it. Wonder why that wasn't mentioned here.
Wasn't Sage the one who made her watch it?
JO, aka Jacob, uses he/him pronouns now guys.
Also, yes, he and Sage did a crossover on this one. Also Highschool of the Dead.
@@AkuTenshiiZero That was a running joke among Channel Awesome reviewers that Sage was secretly the devil, and in JesuOtaku’s case occasionally forced him to look at really trashy anime.
Oohh THAT'S WHERE I REMEMBER IT FROM
For some reason I was thinking that the ending feel just like how School Days ended. It starts out as something slightly ok but then BOOM! ends with an insane bang.
Seen Jacob Chapman's review of this?
I think the difference is that School Days was never really light hearted or fluffy. In fact, School Days was basically setting the audience up for the ending, while this seemed to be the anime version of a rickroll.
School Days at least had a buildup to the gory end throughout the series. By the time shit hits the fan, you do have the sense that the characters had it coming.
By contrast, this comes out of nowhere. It's like if the first episode of School Days was directly followed by the 12th episode, and all the writers, animators, and voice actors had also gone through recent lobotomies.
I once forgot to put on mitts when taking pizza out of the oven. The noise I made then is the same noise I made when I got a notification for this upload.
I actually stumbled across this anime on RUclips years back, like around 2010 or so.
I dropped it when it got to the part where the main character was thinking way too hard about why a fight was happening in the street.
Jacob Chapman just let out the biggest sneeze of his life.
I first heard of this show when it was the focus of a weird crossover episode of JesuOtaku about 10 years ago. And now, learning more of this show and the creepy, gruesome undertones it entails... it's like I've been exposed to a Lovecraftian nightmare that the more I gaze upon it, I will go mad.
Sage was part of that crossover episode!
Here I thought I was going insane again
I remember watching Sage back in the "channel that should not be named" days and it is fascinating to sit here over 10 years later and see how mature and concise his critics have become. It's almost like a microcosm of how video essays evolved from cringy, mean spirited "reviews" to what they are now.
The ironic thing is of all the reviewers from Channel Awesome, Sage and Todd In The Shadows are the only ones I still watch.
All of the others either stopped reviewing, or became intolerable in one way or another. Even Linkara, who I would have guessed would have been the last one standing years ago went vulgar and political with his humor/comments too often.
@@hariman7727 political sure, but I’ve not known Linkara to be vulgar.
@@Martynde It was in one of his halloween reviews years back, where Moarte yelled at Linkara to do something obscene.
Or maybe it was in one of the Longbox of the Damned videos, as a one off joke.
That was the moment where I stopped watching Linkara.
Remember when Sage dared a Pre transition Jacob Chapman into watching and reviewing this for his JesuOtaku channel?
Good Times....
I read somewhere that Miko's English VA (Alexis Tipton) considers working on the dub for this to be one of the biggest regrets of her career.
Sad Bennett didn't bring that up
Bennett: "I have never seen so many fights basically boil down to the characters getting in the buff."
Me: "Even worse than Ikki Tousen?!"
I saw a fee episodes in Funination
At least there’s some quality in that one!
XD
Is it weird to assume that these kind of shows with "final act syndrome" are usually low-budget and made by people who don't have much stake in it until they are able to finish it?
Somewhere JesuOtaku is grinding his teeth.
I miss their rivalry.
I forgot his old gimick was being weird,crazy and creepy.
This confirms no cameo, sadface
@@Sonicfalcon16 It helped him rob the Nostalgia Critic, so it wasn't all that bad.
I didn't know that clothing was that fragile and disintegrated after being tapped. Or that scripts could be that excruciatingly bad. Sage, thank you for watching it so that we don't have to (and in my case will run away from, screaming).
I remember buying this anime at Goodwill for $1.50 and thinking "Wow, this is really cheap, even for 5 episodes." And I watched the whole thing.
Yeah, I resold it for $1 because I didn't want it on my shelf LMAO
Jesus Christ it's like they looked at Yuri and King's clothing rip animations from KoF and just went, "Hold my sake."
And that’s saying something!
XD
I remember when this first came out and was being advertised and thinking, "Wow, this looks terrible." Turns out I was right. This is such a prime example of, "what not to do."
This feels like something media blasters would have dubbed, in fact that could have made this a little fun. I'm not sure why Funimation though this was a good idea, even having some of their best voice actresses, Cherami Leigh, Alexis Tipton, Luci Christian, Colleen Clinkenbeard, and Monica Rial. They couldn't do anything with this.
Because Funimation lived long enough to become the villain and went insane?
Yo, I remember the crossover you did with JesuOtaku for this! Good times my dude. I can safely say the 2 of you have both been instrumental to a lot of criteria I have for watching and recommending anime. Thanks for being such a positive and entertaining fixture in my life Bennett; I always look forward to your work.
Oh yeah, this anime sucks ALL the ass! 😄
QUEEN’S BLADE! Man, now that’s a name I haven’t heard from in a long time. That and Ikki Tousen were like the first lewd fan service shows back when anime wasn’t so mainstream and easily accessible in the early to mid 2000s. I literally had to watch both of those shows on RUclips in parts. Good old middle school to high school years. lol
The ending reminds me of the School Day's anime ending. It was dark, but at least it was entertaining. This was just stupid dark.
Yeah. School Days had a consistent theme of kids being stupid and gradually built to more and more hurtful acts. It's final episode, while shocking, was a logical conclusion to what had been set up throughout the series.
Master of Martial Hearts just blindsides you, going from dumb cheesecake fluff for most of the series to an episode of nothing but an exposition dump of dark plot twists, some of which are such sharp turns they border on retcons. And ultimately they collectively make every event and line of dialogue that happened in the first 4 episodes meaningless.
Sage was part of a review of this anime 10 years ago where that reviewer compared the ending to school days
After seeing the anime myself, I have to say that SOME of the negative things I heard about even BEFORE I watched this review were SLIGHTLY exaggerated. I can't emphasize it enough when I say SLIGHTLY though. This anime had some hints of creepiness to it before the final episode, but those hints were ALL you were given. Fair warning that these hints I'm about to list have some spoilers to it. Also, some of these details are easy to miss when you first watch it! These details are as follows:
1.) ALL of Aya's opponents cough up blood when she defeats them. Some might have been too distracted to notice this because of the T & A, but it seems to hint at how brutal Aya is being in her fights. It's not handled well, but it's there.
2.) ALL the episodes prior to the final episode leave unsubtle hints that the losers in the tournament are kidnapped. In fact, two of the fighters (the cop & the nurse) are in professions that would allow them to kidnap people more easily! Yes, both women are used for fanservice too but my point still stands!
3.) The main character's best friend is WAY too calm during the tournament. It may not be so obvious on your first watch, but she seems REALLY unconcerned about both a mutual friend of hers AND a teacher they both like being kidnapped! In fact, she was so unconcerned that I'd have said she was being callous about it!
As I previously stated though these are JUST hints & these hints weren't sufficient enough for ANYONE to guess how dark the final episode was! I also think this series has a "second order idiot plot" because these women believe in the wish granting MacGuffin WAY too easily! The anime NEVER establishes whether such things exist in the series itself so it raises a LOT of questions with regard to how the participants came to believe in such a thing!
I used to see "Master of Martial Hearts" listed on a TV Tropes page titled "Indecisive Deconstruction." It's not up on their site anymore, but the description for the show used to mention how the show couldn't decide whether it wanted to ACTUALLY BE a fanservice "panty fighter" show or if it wanted to be an examination of such shows. Unfortunately for the individual (or individuals) who wanted the show to be the latter, it seems that they were pretty much ignored for the most part which would partly explain the mean-spirited ending for this OVA. This is all just pure speculation on my part though so I admit I could be WAY off the mark. If anyone wants to see this dumpster fire for themselves, it's up for streaming on the "Funimation Now" service. I think the OVA is restricted to members only, probably so Funimation doesn't get angry calls & emails from inattentive parents who find their kids watching it.
Damn, remember seeing the JesuOtaku review back in the day. I miss all the old anime reviewers.
Even Mr anime?
@@kostajovanovic3711 NO. Not him.
@@kostajovanovic3711 no, especially not him, i'm not sure why your brought him up
@@kostajovanovic3711 I see someone didn't learn what happen to Mr Anime.
So...just to understand the ending: It was Aya's friends who wanted punish HER over something her mother did...which Aya likely had NO idea about since it happened before she was born?! Sins of the mothers and fathers I guess?! Talk about disproportionate retribution.
Not wanting to give credit to this nonsense, but believe in Japan they have a thing about kids carrying the sins of the parents?
Holy crap, someone else knows about Butt Attack Punisher Girl. I used to inflict that on friends ages ago when a fan sub showed up online. For those wondering, it's much weirder than it sounds.
I’ve seen memes of it but never actually knew what the anime was
The anime is based on a visual novel game but it clearly deviates from the source material (like how the Aya's best friend is supposed to be a robot/cyborg but she isn't in the anime). I'm basing this solely on the one trailer of the game I was able to find because there's very little information about the game's story and characters. I also remember you did a crossover review of this anime with JesuOtaku years ago, comparing the ending to School Days. Good times but I like this review much better. Keep up the good work.
Surprised it's not a one-on-one fighting game since everything I see of it in this review screams "bad adaptation of an old-school fighting game".
I've tracked down a bunch of the material from the original franchise.
Yeah this anime is a shit adaption.
The cyborg thing is one of many alternate storylines planned for the franchise.
The manga as the intended cannon was much better.
The story was much more lighthearted and comedic. Only getting serious for the fights.
The competitors themselves are given more actual character and much more likeable in the manga.
And no one dies because the twist at the end is no where else in the franchise.
I can't say for sure obviously but all the changes appear to have been malicious.
The differences go beyond just misinterpriting scenes. They often times, get every single tiny detail about a scene backwards.
Other times they get Most of a scene right only to then get the characters backwards.
One of the fight in particular, I kid you not, is frame by frame the exact opposite of what happens in the manga.
From the character interactions, context, the actual fight, result, and even location.
ALL of wich mind you, played a part in the emotion behind that fight in particular.
That goes beyond just being bad at adapting something. It was done on purpose.
@@1skeith648 Wow... You did your research O_O I guess I should have looked at the manga in order to know anything about the franchise.
@@neonnwave1 yeah.
At first I thought this was just a really crappy franchise.
But the more I dug, the more it becomes apperent the franchise itself, as strange as it sounds, had actual heart and effort put into it.
I even found an interview by the creator where they planned to continue the manga itself and give other characters their own stories as the main character after the anime.
Then the creator walked in on the studio to check on the anime a little bit before they released the anime.
What follows is a dramatic retelling of what whent down that day.
Creator: walks in: hey guys. Now that the animes ready to air. I got a whole bunch of story arcs to continue the main manga and spin offs to make.
The studio: continue? Spin offs? That's gonna be a problem.
The creator: what? Why? Wasn't that the whole point of making the anime? To expand this small franchise with a decently strong fanbase(me talking: I've seen the og fanbase of this series interact on twitter. It's crazy wholesome with how they all quote their favorite lines and stuff from the actual series at eachother. And it's still active to this day.)
The studio: yeah well you see. We kinda burned it down.
Creator: what?
Studio: we changed the personalities of all the competitors to make them unlikeable.
Made the legit magical stone fake
We made the MCs friends evil.
And we offed the entire cast brutally.
Creator:...
Studio:...
Creator:...
Studio: say something
Creator:...
Studio:....
Creator: WTF! WHY?!!!!
I'm having a Mandela Effect moment: I would've sworn that this came out around '89-'91.
@@AnimeSpellweaver Wait, Ikki Tousen's THAT old? I thought it was mid 2000's.
@@AnimeSpellweaver Now I gotta look it up
@@AnimeSpellweaver Let's see the original manga came out in 2000 and the first anime series came out in 2003.
And Here We Are!! Not since JessieOtaku have we Seen this Crazy fucking Anime :)
You want more details on how f**ked up the ending is, slow down Jene's speech to Travis in No More Heroes and you won't be too far off. Now for an Oldtaku New Tricks of Redo of Healer to see what a real contender for worst anime ever looks like!
An anime so bad that it has mostly a female audience. No joke.
@@neonnwave1 I know, I know. :) And I'm fairly certain that those women are Cheryl/Carol from Archer.
@@OnDavidsBrain Or what's her face from Shield Hero?
I can't help but to feel that there was this "Sudden Depressing Ending" thing going on in anime for a while.
I'm just in time!
Hey bennett thanks for making videos that made me smile through the years. Especially during these tough times. You are one of the most genuine anime youtubers out there and I appreciate the work and heart you put into your content.
Thank you so much, man! I am glad to know that I was able to help you through my work.
I wonder if the gem is a real working artifact cause if so, Aya could easily undo the damage done by the antagonists and render their revenge quest moot just by getting hold item. The antagonist would have to destroy that artifact to screw over Aya and any chance of unfucking all the vile crap. Hell, the antagonists could easily have used the gem to just undo all the drama that led up to the years of conflict.
We were probably intended to get the answers to those questions in the Season 2 that never was.
I had the worst luck with anime in high school. I was a sensitive kid who got really emotional about fictional characters and only had internet access for about the length of two episodes a day. When I started a series I devoted myself to investing in it emotionally. Pickings where slim and I didn't have any way of knowing about a series before trying it out.
Because of that I ended up with Master Martial Hearts being one of my first fan service anime. I took this thing seriously. I could tell it wasn't as serious as the few others I had watched up until that point, but it never occurred to me how bad it could get. This was the first anime I'd ever seen shit its bed.
My first harem anime was Shuffle! freaking Shuffle! scarred the crap out of me.
Bitter Virgin made me go to bed and cry. (granted, I should have known from the title but I was a sheltered idiot)
When I decided to take a break from anime for a bit and try something a bit lighter I PUT ON THE CROW then just went back to my room to think for a while!
>My first harem anime was Shuffle!
Ouch. Can we get an F for this man ?
Jesus I forgot this anime even existed. So you ever gonna do an episode on Generator Gawl or Gasaraki >,,>
Never watched Gasaraki, but I did see Generator Gawl.
i live by these words when watching anime "creativity is a spark try to embrace it no matter how fucked up it might be"
Ah yes, the early days of Netflix anime, where most of the time it was a wild west of quality
XD
Sometimes you got an underrated gem like Needless, sometimes you got... Master of Martial Hearts
@@kainhighwind2 and then there's the live actions
I imagine that the creator of this anime based the main girl off of someone they actually knew and this was their twisted little way of getting "revenge" on them. Either that or they just never got of their edgy phase.
I think its edgy phase, let's not assume random stuff on creators
I've sadly seen, without hyperbole, the worst Anime ever made. Which yes the one time I mentioned before this I got the whole "The Manga was better" argument. It's called Ichi the Killer: Episode 0, a prequel to the film Ichi the Killer.
It's an Anime that fails 100% at everything; art, animation, audio, plot, characters and even the dub followed suit. It's not so bad it's good, it's just a failure that I'm convinced no one wanted to work on, so they rushed it and threw it out the door as quickly as possible. It's supposed to really Grimdark, but it's attempt is pathetic and unconvincing.
That Berserk shirt hits differently now 🥺
RIP Kentaro Miura 😢
Alexa, play Guts’ theme
The creeper was basically asking her to run in her standard P.E. uniform while he watched...thats what makes me think it may of been self aware.
Doesn't make it any better though since it fails in everything it goes for either way.
is basically a "Great Value" Ikkitousen or Skullgilrs with "Despair" as prize
The moment he said "successful fan service," I knew it had to be Queen's Blade or Sekirei.
I actually like both of those anime. And not for the fan service, surprisingly. As kinky as they both are the plot actually kind of works.
I honestly went "Tenchi Muyo?".
Successful…yeah
Makes you think of the crappy ending…oh hell yeah (sekirei)
@@ShadowWolfRising shin tenchi Muyo?
(Tenchi in Tokyo)
I see your "Master of Martial Hearts" and raise you one "School Days".
Nice boat
At least School Days was adapted from a H-Game that was famous for its bloody Bad Endings, and the anime could maybe be interpreted as a deconstruction of its source material. And at least School Days built up to its infamous finale.
Martial Hearts pulls its ending completely out of left field just for the sake of being edgy, while under the guise of being meaningful.
I really dig the Brand on Sage's shirt. I only recently found out that Kentaro Miura, the creative genius who created Berserk, my favorite Manga/Anime (the '97 version) and one of my favorite works of fiction in general, recently passed away. I must admit, I'm still a bit shaken up but not necessarily because Berserk was left unfinished (I've heard that his apprentices might continue it themselves) but because I've heard that he had a rough go of it in life and died at only 54.
I have so much respect for him and his brilliantly creative mind that even if he never finished Berserk but it meant that he had longer to live and could do so in whatever way would've made him happiest I would gladly live in such a world. Berserk was one of the very few fictional works that if it does in fact go unfinished, I would still feel like it was more than worth investing my time and interest into.
Usually with most works that go without a conclusive ending I tend to feel as though it wasn't entirely worth it for no payoff. In the case of Berserk however, even if I had known it wouldn't be finished by its original creator's own hand from the beginning, I would've eagerly read it from the beginning to its last pages. I know I'm gushing right now, but I want others to recognize how much I value the work Miura brought to life so that they might appreciate him as a creator and as a person.
For those who may not know or haven't read the manga, etc., if you have even the slightest interest in finding out more about Berserk or Miura's work in general, I implore you, nay beg you, to please do so. Whatever you might feel at the end of such a journey, regret for having experienced it will most certainly not be one of them.
ah, i still remember the days when Sage used this anime to torture JesuOtaku. good times
I stumbled across a show called Macademi Wasshoi! many years ago during the golden age of torrent-based anime. No idea what it was, where it came from, or how I found it, but I downloaded it and watched it anyway. I actually liked it in spite of just how incredibly weird it was. It was a goofball comedy for 11 of the 12 episodes. Then episode 12 initiated final act syndrome. Yeesh.
I saw this anime's DVD in a store maybe in 2009-2015 and I could tell it was a train wreck.
Glad I never gave it a chance and bought it.
I'd clearly have wasted my money
Ooh, queens Blade. I’d have picked ether that or Ikki Toaen. Looking forward to it.
Also love to hear you’re thoughts in a Old taku new tricks for Redo of a Healer.
Also I remember you doing this with JesOtaku. Or at lest tormenting them with it. Good times. Good times.
This anime is like if Senran Kagura overdosed on Ketamine & was going to die.
*girls clothes rip off after getting hit*
Me: Senran Kagura, is that you?
Not actually rip off, though...shatter like glass instead of actually ripping, as if it was an adaptation of some really old fighting game with primitive animations...
Senran kagura is better then this.
Comparing Senran to MOMH is an insult to Senran. Senran at least had a somewhat decent story, while MoMH was just flat-out horrendous.
I think I need to apologize to the Variable Geo anime adaptation. At least there was a story from the very beginning, and the animation was much, much, MUCH better than this shit!
The sense of bafflement makes me hope that he'll someday review Shadow Star Narutaru
This seems more like the animators getting revenge on the company and the viewers, and deliberately sabotaging the show. Sort of like the rugrats vent storyboards.
That's basically what happened.
The manga it's based on is nothing like the actual anime.
Comparing the manga to it, it's alperent that all the changes to the plot and story were done maliciously.
I've literally watched this show through twice, and I still have no idea what it was going for. It's so bad that it almost feels like a parody of itself; it doesn't commit to, or justify, any of it's characters or plot elements; all of the characters are extremely one dimensional and paper thin, and the ending just comes the heck out of nowhere. Hands down THE most nonsensical, convoluted and baffling ending I've ever seen. Nothing adds up or is really justified, and there's about 5 plot twists lol. It's an absolutely astonishing, and fascinating, mess.
This hole review made me think of another infamous bad anime: School Days.
It kinda hits the same notes in just how terrible it is.
Considering that there's Boku no Pico; along with anime adaptions for King's Game, Pupa, and Ex-Arm; I would say this still has competition for worst anime.
This anime changed me when I saw it all those years ago. With its intricate plot, twists and turns, and a conclusion I could only say made me burst out laughing uncontrollably... it was all a clumsy revenge story gone horribly wrong.
Ooh, che bella! Un'altro video da Bennet. Grazie per la video, son' certo che e bouno, come sempre.
Posting in Italian because the man lives in Italy now.
Sometimes Anime Abandon lets me revisit anime I remember watching when I was younger. Sometimes it teaches me about other ones that I missed. And sometimes it dredges up long repressed memories like some kind of traumatic flashback.
I remember when the evil Bennett used this to try and break Jesuotaku.
Man I feel old now.
RIP Kentaro Miura.
My goodness does Cherami Leigh have range!
WOW! Didn't recognize her voice. That's how good it is as someone who only knows her voicework from the Fire Emblem games (Which is funny considering that had an anime in the 90's that BlazingKnight talked about a while back)
@@GatorRay She's female V in Cyberpunk 2077 as well.
@@NessieNep Okay.
My Favourite roles of hers are A2 in Nier Automata and Makoto Nijima in Persona 5
If they wanted women fighting in skimpy outfits, why not just make a Rumble Roses Anime? Hell, you already got a main character in Reiko
Now with a proper comment after finishing the video. So the premise reminds me of Variable Geo a PC Fighting game (that later got toned down console versions) where the girls fight toward a big goal. The Martial Heart actually reminded me K' Talisman from SNK's Gals Fighters (not to be mistaken for SNK Heroines) where such a silly premise is done better and is just made goofier. Now boiling that down to the base elements based on what I've observed this looks like it was inspired by VG but written by somebody who only knows how to write the bad endings to visual novels. Does that sound about right?
*Looking at the comments seeing mention of the JO review from over a decade ago*
We've got some real ones here.
Raise your hand if you remember the _first_ time he was involved in a review of this. On someone else's show you can't watch anymore.
I remember when JesuOtaku reviewed this. How upset she(now he) got at the ending made me imagine the dumbest possible thing that a buxom brawler anime could do. Then I watched the series and couldn't be mad at it because I was right.
The show may be terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad trash, but I can't hate it when I can get so much joy out of making other people watch it.
Why does this feel like Kroger brand Ikki Tousen?
If the Kroger brand gave you the stomach flu the next day, then yes
Korger brand is too much of a compliment. This is Family Dollar.
@@MechaG You're right XD
At least Kroger brand gets the job done in a pinch.
Y'know, as painful as it is listening to a bad dub, if its for an already bad show it's kinda part of the fun. Personally I think it's more painful hearing a GOOD dub for a just terrible show. Hearing all of my fav Funi dub actresses giving great performances for this clearly terrible show just had me like "NO, This show isn't worth your talent! DX"
I have been watching anime for over 25 years and this easily one of the top 5 worst anime I have ever seen. Just a cruel mean anime. Best way I ever heard it described was Ikki Tousen mixed with Elfen Lied and topped with the ending of School Days. NEVER WATCH THIS ANIME!!!!!
I’m really loving the direction your videos have been going since you stepped back and reevaluated how you run the channel for your health. I can’t articulate the little differences right now because brain bad but they’ve got a tone or something about them that’s really nice to see. I hope I’m not imagining this, but you seem more into it, and it’s infectious.
Compare this to something that always leaves a good feeling, Tokyo Godfathers. a feel good ending to a somewhat convulated trip through tokyo during christmas and new years to find a childs parents. id rage destroy this dvd if i sat through this one and got to that crap ending.
Gotta say, Bennett, I'm really interested to see how you talk about Queen's Blade. It's one of my favorite ecchi's for obvious reasons, but I'm curious to see what you'll say that makes it that kind of show done right.
The stewardess isn't a 90's wrestler, the whole cast are 90's wrestlers.
It feels like a botched adaptation of a fighting game that doesn't exist!
It hurts seeing that shirt knowing kentaro passed away
I remember Ikki Tousen and also remember that that spawned 3 sequel series + several OVAs, one even coming out in 2019 (no joke), iirc, while this has the same premise but managed to just get 5 OVAs. I think Ikki Tousen had a bit more established clout beforehand, so it was unfair when someone might compare the two.
Both are pretty shallow, Ikki Tousen only had the history buff's interest, since there was the whole weird reincarnation plot with the Romance of the 3 Kingdoms characters as sexy girls fighting with flimsy exploding clothes