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This page is for anime and manga you wouldn't admit watching to like-minded friends, [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|but you just can't look away]].
 
Sometimes a show can do good or bad, but the dub job falls into that rare niche of, while still listenable, being impossible to hear with a straight face.
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== General ==
* ''[[Speed Racer (Anime)|Speed Racer]]''. Featuring some of the crudest animation possible, the show is filled with so many plot holes, you just can't help it to smile the whole time watching it. The theme song is an [[Ear Worm]] to boost. The characters, while having odd names, are actually pretty enjoyable. [[The Scrappy|EXCEPT FOR SPRITLE]].
* The 3-episode [[OVA]] ''[[ICE]]'' is thoroughly amateurish, prone to every possible [[Girls Love|Girls]]/BoysLove and [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]/[[Mundane Made Awesome|Awesome]] cliche out there, has the weirdest main heroine's voice in anime history, and is generally so incoherent story-wise that you can't just drop watching it. And when you are done, you'll write a five page review [[Bile Fascination|telling the world how bad the OVA is]].* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh the Movie Pyramid of Light (Anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Movie Pyramid of Light]]'' could be considered one of the worst anime movies ever pumped out by [[Four Kids Entertainment|4Kids]], for taking the bad plots, dialog, voice acting, and [[Product Placement]] leaps and bounds farther than even ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'' has managed to do. There are reasons, though, that some find the movie so hilariously bad that it was entertaining: the entire lack of explanation as to why anything was happening, or why Yami was suddenly able to summon a gigantic glowy dragon, plus the random [[Everybody Was Kung -Fu Fighting|kung fu fights]] with mummies led to [[Narm|much inappropriately-timed laughter]]. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9-3mzm9MEw Abridged Version] sums it up: "I can't help but feel as if it was some sort of cheap cash-in made to promote a bunch of cards." Japan got a novelization and some extra scenes that explained more of the plot (which helped little to none at all.)
** Plus, the movie gave us the immortal line, ''"But even eternity doesn't last forever."''
** [[Dan Green|In the dub]] Yugi, while screaming in horror, suddently has a virile but incredibly funny voice for about 5 seconds ("[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jov86ufPL5M TALK LATER, RUN NOW!]").
* ''[[Musashi Gundoh]]'' must be the epitome of this trope for anime. It is so unintentionally hilarious in how badly it was executed that the DVD version with improved quality animation is actually less popular than the original broadcast version (with just plain [[Off -Model|QUALITY]] animation). It's never been translated, but it's been reported that it becomes even funnier if you actually understand what the characters are saying, because ''entire scenes'' that were crucial to the story never made it into the show itself due to budget constraints or animators claiming they were too difficult to draw, resulting in the show making almost no sense whatsoever.
** That and it has the most [[Brown Note|ear-shattering]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYkDP5xDoO8 theme] in any anime.
* ''[[Chargeman Ken]]'' really must be seen to be believed. It would have been long forgotten had it not been for one person uploading it on [[Nico Nico Douga]], and the nonsensical [[Narm]] has underwent [[Memetic Mutation]] since.
** A lot of shows produced by Knack is this (check out ''Dame Oyaji'' if you have a chance). It's amazing that they managed to churn out a few series that were actually successful.
* ''Diatron-5'' (a.k.a. ''[[Space Transformers]]''), a Korea-produced anime, has [[Off -Model]] animation, a hero who sounds like both a 25-and-8-year-old (if you're going to leave his [[Non Dubbed Grunts|grunts undubbed]], it might help if his original voice matches the dub voice...), the grandest case of [[You Fail Biology Forever]] (Ivy, the "world's most talented girl", has a ''goddamn galaxy'' in her body, which is what the heroes have to be injected into...and no blood either, since they didn't drown after injection), a plot that starts off incoherent and [[It Got Worse|gets worse from there]]...Gods. The clincher is the voice acting--not only does everyone sound bored out of their minds, half of the cast don't sound like native English speakers (the other half are British). And that's not counting the DVD cover, which has artwork (and character designs) ripped straight from ''Gundam'' and possibly ''AKIRA''. Despite all this, it still manages to be entertaining--after all, what other anime claims that the immune system of a cybernetically-enhanced girl is comprised of tribal, bumbling "White Soldiers"?
* The ''[[Gundam]]'' offshoot ''Doozy Bots'' would more than likely have been [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] had it aired. [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e8um1N78AhY See the promo video here.]
* ''A.D. Police'', a bastard offshoot of [[Bubblegum Crisis]], which focused on a super-cliched team of police who specialize in combating berserk Boomers (or Voomers, depending on the dub/sub). It has some... interesting... animation lapses, and is accidentally hilarious from beginning to end. Given that it is both a cheesy action movie, cheesy police procedural, and a cheesy anime, it becomes a veritable trope goldmine.
* The anime adaptation of ''[[Violinist of Hameln|The Violinist Of Hameln]]'' was an attempt to make the the plot of the manga, a comedy that parodied similar [[Shounen]] series (albeit with a dark and serious [[Myth Arc|overarching plot]], resulting in strong [[Mood Whiplash]] every time something important happened), [[Darker and Edgier]] by removing almost all of the comedy. <s>Un</s>fortunately, they had almost no budget to work with (rumor has it that they spent most of it on the rights to Hamel and Raiel's classical music), meaning that the writing was incredibly shoddy and they didn't have enough money to actually animate most of it, making 90% of the anime a sort of slide show of [[Pastel -Chalked Freeze -Frame|Pastel Chalked Freeze Frames]] with <s>[[Wangst|endless whining]]</s> voice acting on top. In the end, it was cut off at 26 episodes (as opposed to a planned 31) due to poor ratings and ended up with an incredibly unsatisfying [[Downer Ending|Downer]] [[Gecko Ending]]. The anime still manages to be popular today because it's so [[Narm|Narmtastic]] that it's almost funnier than the manga.
* ''[[Fourteen]]'' is a horror manga about the mad mutated chicken professor Chicken George. It's probably the narmiest work of fiction ever. And you won't be able to stop reading.
* ''Hoshi no ko Polon'' (''Starchild Polon''), like ''[[Chargeman Ken]]'' above, has also gone through (albeit minor) [[Memetic Mutation]] on [[Nico Nico Douga]]. In addition to its horrid animation and nonsensical storyline (if there's any "story" at all) are the constant use of stock music composed by Jean Jacques Perrey.
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** An overload of [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]] that included a self-leveling bridge, a [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]-like force-shield, rocket-powered anchors, and the inexplicable--and plot-irrelevant--ability to fly. Each of these abilities were shown exactly once with the exception of flight, which was shown a second time during the closing credits of the second part.
** However, it did have a very kickin' and epic soundtrack.
* The sexual content in the ''[[Zeorymer]]'' manga is so [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|random]] and [[Coitus Ensues|clumsy]] that one can't help but laugh. Notable examples include the title robot's IUD power source, the [[An Ice Person|icicle rape]] scene, and an abrupt shot of female lead Miku's elderly adopted father giving her oral sex. To make things even funnier, despite Miku having a teenage body while clothed, she often [[Off -Model|suddenly has little girl's body]] while nude.
* The one shot manga ''[[Kuso Miso Technique (Manga)|Kuso Miso Technique]]'', the plot is simple as is the artwork. The characters are vague and... special but there's something wonderful about it.
* ''[[Mars Of Destruction]]'' a short tie in to an [[Adaptation Displacement|obscure dating game]] universally has some of the lowest ratings on almost any major Anime Site ([[Anime News Network]], [[My Anime List]], etc) but many will deem it to be so bad it's good with its obvious [[Shout Out]]'s to ''[[Evangelion]]'' horribly stiff animation, virtually no conceivable plot, and bad dialogue. People have given it Perfect Scores and written reviews of how much they enjoyed it.
* ''[[Guilty Crown]]'': A new work from [[Production IG]], directed by [[Death Note (Manga)|Tetsuro Araki ]], written by [[Macross Frontier|Hiroyuki Yoshino]] with help from [[Code Geass|Ichiro Okouchi]], music composed by [[Supercell]] and character designs by redjuice?! What could possibly go wrong? Everything. The phenomenal animation and music failed to cover up the unlikeable, inconsistent characters that lacked interesting motivations and the constant [[ClicheCliché Storm]] with an ending that answered absolutely nothing. Nonetheless, a lot of people were glued to the screen when it aired, despite the constant bashing.
* ''I-zenborg'', a mix of anime and [[Tokusatsu]] from the late 70's. First, the villain is a talking T-Rex, which tries to take over the [[Tokyo Is the Center of The Universe|world]]. Add to that the [[Off -Model|no budget animation]], laughably bad live SFX, backgrounds made from photographs that never match the perspective the characters are drawn and [[Idiot Plot|ridiculous storylines]] with cringe inducing dialogue. To top it off, each [[Monster of the Week]] will meet a gruesome end, usually getting some limbs hacked off by the eponymous [[Mecha]]'s saw blades. In short, it's hilarious!
 
 
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* Buying the ''[[Bible Black]]'' (and ''Origins'') DVD set is actually a good deal: if you go by the Japanese audio, you get a nicely-voiced, exceptionally detailed hentai anime - if you switch the audio to English however, you get a dub that is so extremely bad that it unintentionally ends up turning ''Bible Black'' into a comedy anime. With sex. Very disturbing violent creepy sex.
** [[Desu Des Brigade|Oh you wonderful bitch!]]
** Hentai in general are well-known for their [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]], [[Fetish Retardant]] dubs.
* ''[[Transformers Armada|Transformers: Armada]]'' 's dub: "Stairs? This keeps getting weirder and weirder!", the fight scenes where nobody seems to move, the [[Inaction Sequence|long pauses between responses from characters]], the lack of movement in ''non''-fight scenes... the failure to keep track of which character has which name...
* Most of the 1970s dubs of most any anime can easily fall under this. From the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALzDcMDhf2o old dub of] ''[[Speed Racer (Anime)|Speed Racer]]'', to the ''[[Getter Robo]] G'' dub known as ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGPNDvkcaiw Starvengers]''. Even the utterly horrid dubbed form of the ''[[Tekkaman Blade (Anime)|Tekkaman Blade]]'' precursor known as ''Space Knight [[Tekkaman (Anime)|Tekkaman]]'' makes it here because the dubbers decided to ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MURDGxx7FJo explain everything.]''
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{{quote| '''Scorponok''': Fortress Maximus has come himself! Okay! Then I shall get Fortress Maximus to fight me! Heh heh huh!}}
* Corrine Orr and Peter Fernandez...normally, very talented with a wide range. [[Speed Racer (Anime)|Speed Racer]]? Oh, it's the best [[Ham and Cheese]].
* The infamous [[Cluster F -Bomb]] ridden English dubs of such 90s anime as ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo1gm4pC1ck Cyber City Oedo 808]'', ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLsLpUwE6Rw Mad Bull 34]'' and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVpwJbLLivU Angel Cop]'' combines with the over the top sex and violence to make them fit squarely in here.
* On its own ''Garzeys Wing'' is generally considered to be horrible. A stunningly inept English dub, however, elevates it straight into this category.
* The Colombian Spanish dub of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' also counts, due to the thicker accents of many of the characters and the inability (due of how Colombian Spanish works) of pronouncing correctly many of the Japanese names and techniques.
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* The version of Yuzurenai Negai used in the Latin American dub of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' has this quality. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65IRCa0TJC0 original song] is pretty, but for the dub they inexplicably choose male singers with deep voices, and that's before we talk of the changes on the lyrics. It's known among the fans as "the mariachi version'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kV-STGlPwo and you can see why].
* To those who didn't grow up with it, the Philippines English dub of ''[[Voltes V]]'' almost sounds like a [[Gag Dub]]. The actors sound unmotivated and their accents render some sentences incomprehensible. They also [[Dub Name Change|changed]] Kenichi's name to the [[Inherently Funny Words|inherently funny]] Steve and Daijiro's to the ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]''-esque "Big Bert".
* Normally ''[[Pilot Candidate]]'' would be unwatchably dull, but the English dub makes it highly entertaining. [[The Hero]] sounds like [[Woody Allen]], [[The Smart Guy]] has a [[Canada, Eh?|stereotypical Canadian accent]], [[The Rival]] sounds like he's voiced by someone who doesn't normally act, and if the credits are to be believed, [[Cross Dressing Voices|most of the women were voiced by]] [[Michael McConnohie]] doing his best [[Family Guy|Lois Griffin]] impression.
* The ''[[Guin Saga (Light Novel)|Guin Saga]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEESOXQJso English dub] is ''so'' full of this. Taking advantage of it being a [[ClicheCliché Storm]], the characters either [[Large Ham|overreact]] or [[Dull Surprise|underreact]] in the non-action scenes, sadly, however, it caused plenty of [[Hate Dumb]].
** It could possibly go to [[Gag Dub]] territory, as there's even a man who suspiciously sounds like [[Droopy]].
* In Finland, ''[[Digimon (Franchise)|Digimon]]'' was originally translated and dubbed by a group called ''Agapio Racing Team''. Their dubbing was so bad it was even lampooned on newspapers, and they got replaced by a more professional team. Even though Agapio's dubs have been off-air for years now, online videos of their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_TLBZxY4U weirdest moments] as well as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KR2ove20a0 parodies] are still popular.
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== Animation ==
* The [[Off -Model|low quality of the animation]] from ''[[Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica]]'' is so bad it has to be seen to be believed. [[MS Ted]] here in the infamous "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48T5fZJpXmk QUALITY Van]" chase scene.
** Said [[MS Ting]] is in the form of text ballons that pop up to describe every individual flaw with the animation, there are [[Rapid -Fire Comedy|so many of them, and they come at you so fast]], it's impossible to keep track, meaning it's still just as funny on the replay, as you see things you missed before.
* In both ''[[Chargeman Ken]]'' and ''[[MD Geist]]'', characters walking are often represented by sliding the cel up and down.
* The ''Skelter+Heaven'' OVA gives us a [[Special Effects Failure|ludicrously failed]] attempt to mix cel animation with [[Conspicuous CG|CGI]]. It's... impressive, really. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBf22oeMtlg Here's a sample].
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