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** Fun fact: The voice for Yuri Sakazaki in this clunker is J-pop singer [[Ayumi Hamasaki]], who made her first (and thankfully only) voice acting role.
* ''The Cosmopolitan Prayers'', a.k.a. ''[[Cos Prayers]]'' (not "Cosplayers", ''Cosp'''r'''ayers''). The broken English in the title is the least of its problems. The characters are incredibly idiotic, inconsistent, and one-dimensional. The girl who loves the male lead [[Les Yay|makes out]] with the main (female) protagonist, and the other girl also likes the guy, and there is no motivation for the [[Triang Relations]]. There is random unnecessary [[Fan Service]] alongside loads of rape imagery [[Fetish Retardant|which makes anything potentially titillating just plain creepy]]. There are no transitions — one minute, everyone's chained up in a cave; the next, they're on a pier fighting with tennis rackets (a power upgrade, by the way). It has a plot that must have been thrown together between rounds and the conflict and characters never give the audience any reason to care. It culminates in an extremely lazy [[Gainax Ending]] with [[Tastes Like Diabetes|singing and rainbows]]...no, seriously. The whole thing was made by the company M.O.E. (Masters of Entertainment), but they don't show their mastery here.
** To add insult to injury, there's '''''two''''' spinoff shows which portray this as ''[[Stylistic Suck|bad]]'' in the [[Recursive Canon]], to the point where in the second series, it turns out the identity of ''Cosprayers''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s writer is kept secret from the public eye.
* The anime adaptation of the otome game series ''Diabolik Lovers'' tries excessively hard to be a [[Guilty Pleasure]] but fails mostly due to
* The ''[[Eien no Aselia]]: Spirit of Eternity Sword'' OAV adaptation. The game's great; the OAV... not so much. The plot is nothing like that of the game. The pacing is ''horrible'', the animation below average, and the background music is copypasted from the game. The characters have almost no resemblance to their video game counterparts. It's as if the staff made this anime on a lunch break. Thankfully, it's only two episodes long.
* The OVA adaptation of ''[[Eiken]]'' is particularly infamous. Originally a very generic harem manga whose main gimmick is that it takes place in a [[World of Buxom]] where almost every female character sport enormous [[Gag Boobs]] (and the biggest set [[Squick|is attached to a 12-year old girl]] with all the implied sexualization), it evidently appealed to ''someone'' given that it lasted 18 tomes. Its OVA adaptation, on the other side, takes all the [[Fanservice]] and the [[Gainaxing]] [[Up to Eleven]], but it's done [[Fan Disservice|so ineptly]] that it becomes [[Nausea Fuel]]. That the plot is incredibly nonsensical even for ecchi comedy standards, that the characters are all either dull or unlikable, and that the voice acting in both Japanese or English is very grating <ref> The English dub has a place in [[So Bad It's Horrible/Voice Acting|the voice acting section of So Bad It's Horrible]]</ref> only adds to the disaster. The reviewers of THEM Anime [http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=814 aren't very fond of this OVA], and they aren't the only ones.
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* ''Ijime'' ("Bullying"), a short OAV that was released for free by shōjo manga magazine ''Ciao'' (that alone should speak volumes). While ostensibly created to create awareness about childhood bullying, the combination of inept treatment of the theme (with a bullying scene that [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|plays a lot like a gang rape]]), terrible designs from the depths of the [[Uncanny Valley]], flat animation and terrible voice acting killed what was probably a good idea in the bud. No wonder it was the only ''Ciao Ciao TV'' OAV that wasn't expanded into a miniseries.
* There are a myriad of reasons on why the 2007 film version of ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure]] Phantom Blood'' has not been released on home video. Terrible animation quality (even lower than contemporary TV series, despite this being a film for ''theatres'') that reduced the awesome combats of the manga to boring fistfights, [[Compressed Adaptation]] [[Up to Eleven]] that nipped off so many things its plot actually made no sense at all and either reduced the characters to [[Flat Character|cardbord versions]] of their manga selves (Dio becomes a [[Generic Doomsday Villain]] and Johnathan is just as flat) or just nipped them off ([[Ensemble Darkhorse|Speedwagon]] infamously), mediocrily mixed audio, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and the poster tries to pass off an image of Joseph as if of Johnathan.]] [[Hirohiko Araki]] wasted no time in disown this turd.
* ''[[Koi Koi 7]]'' takes a manga with an interesting premise (a young man gets an [[Unwanted Harem]] of [[Cyborg]] girls and soon gets involved in the net of conspirations surrounding them), and manages to ruin it by compressing the plot so much it leaves no space for things like character development, meaningful actions or internal coherence. The animation quality is shockingly bad and takes pleasure in ripping off characters and mecha designs from [[Gundam]]. And the audio is equally terrible too: it becomes very obvious that everybody, from the music composer to the seiyuus,
* When the time for an animated adaptation of the light novel series ''Mahou Sensou'' came, they had the terrible misfortune of having being animated by Studio [[Madhouse]] when they were in the middle of a restructuration, and it showed. The plot was reduced at [[Cliché Storm|its most generic form]] who got a lot of plot holes added, the characters were written at their most unpleasant, the animation was flat and boring, and they decided to avoid a [[Gecko Ending]] by picking a [[Gainax Ending]] instead. The resultant trainwreck was so despised that [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2014-01-16/even-magical-warfare-original-creator-didnt-think-the-anime-was-a-good-idea even the author of the original novels disowned it].
* The animated adaptation of manga ''Makai Tensho'', which was renamed ''Ninja Resurrection'' in a transparent attempt to market in the US as a sequel to ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' despite being completely unrelated, has '''horrible''' no-name voice acting that makes the words "Tokugawa Shogunate" a [[Brown Note]], extremely gross and misogynistic fanservice, and a nonsensical plot about [[Stupid Good|Amakusa]] with a [[Devil in Plain Sight]] [[Evil Chancellor]] leading to the pointlessly [[squick]]y resurrection of Amakusa into [[Satan]] where his new evil cronies begin slaughtering townspeople...and on top of all that, the series ''finally'' ends there due to people wisely avoiding any further trick-marketing.
** Some could argue that the series ended just as it was about to get good (it actually ends as the antagonist groups leap off-screen, implying a big showdown and/or massacre to come). It also features Mataemon Araki, the only
* ''[[Master of Martial Hearts]]'' clearly tries to be a shocking deconstruction of the [[Panty Fighter]] genre, not unlike what ''[[School Days]]'' was to harem anime or ''[[Funny Games]]'' was to slasher films. In practice, it's four episodes of fanservice with only a vague hint of [[You Bastard]] (so it's less thematically clear than ''[[Funny Games]]''), then one episode of awful things happening to characters who, while bland, weren't really that objectionable (so no catharsis like when the selfish and shortsighted protagonists of ''[[School Days]]'' came to ruin).
* The OVA series ''Mars of Destruction'' tried to be [[Darker and Edgier]] in the vein of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' but failed in every account. Whatever plot it has is generic and forgettable, and so are the characters too. The animation and the fighting scenes aren't any better, and at times it seems to just be a PowerPoint presentation of screenshots. Fun fact: this series was created by [[Idea Factory]] (who produced the videogame this was adapted from) and directed by the so called [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]] of anime, Yoshiteru Satou. Between this one, and the animated adaptation of ''Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven'' (which was equally bad, but at least has slightly better visuals), Idea Factory was disabused of the notion of becoming an anime studio and limit themselves to videogame creation, and when the time came to produce an adaptation of their hit game series ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia (video game)|[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]'', they kept Satou out of the process.
* ''Mechander Robo'', a [[The Seventies|1970's]] series created in [[Follow the Leader|the wave of imitators]] for ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' exclusively to [[Toyetic|promote a toy of the same name]] by the then dying toy company Bullmark. A total failure even for toyetic and for 70's animation standards, full of generic and flat characters (where the only
* The 4-part ova adaptation of yaoi manga ''[[Okane
* ''Ousama Game The Animation'' quickly became the [[Snark Bait]] series in Japan and abroad for the 2017 season for virtue of its [[Idiot Plot]] alone (not that the low quality of its animation and its extremely generic character design and soundtrack helped to its perception). For some reason the geniuses who decided to adapt this web novel and its sequel decided to begin to tell the story from the ''sequel'' first, leading to waste several episodes in a conflict that viewers that have not read the original work simultaneously had no context to place it within but that also they [[Foregone Conclusion|know where the thing was going to lead]]. They also stripped the plot to its bare bones, with the consequence that the characters were left as more or less brain-dead morons and a villain full of incompetence that still manages to win because the good guys ''are really that dim''. The plot pace was terrible, with the plot of the original novel being told in [[Flashback Cut]]s while the story of the sequel is running concurrently, the sexual content added to "[[Fanservice|spice]]" the plot made the story more ridiculous instead, and the cherry in this sundae of suck is that the anime ends in a [[Shocking Swerve]] that doubles as a [[Cliffhanger]] and renders the whole plot [[All for Nothing]]. The result was the worst adaptation of anything in the [[Deadly Game]] Genre, widely mocked on both sides of the pond.
* ''[[Pilot Candidate]]''/''Candidate for Goddess'': [[Special Effect Failure|Horribly-integrated]] [[Conspicuous CG|CGI]] even for its era, [[Plot Hole|plot holes]] practically from the start ("Only men can be Goddess pilots... except for the lady here"), and Zero Enna is possibly [[The Scrappy|the most aggressively unlikable]] [[Shonen]] or [[Seinen]] protagonist ''ever''. He's like [[Pokémon (anime)|Ash Ketchum]] crossed with [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Amuro Ray]], only without the redeeming qualities of either and with a failed attempt at [[Hot-Blooded]]. The greatest failing, however, is that every piece of the story is incomplete. Several characters and concepts are introduced but never explored, each battle is an unfollowable mess with key points missing, and while the focus on cadets should make for an interesting angle, the main characters are barely involved with the plot. And to top it all off, even though the story is too thin and weak to support twelve episodes, it still has a [[Gecko Ending]] with [[And the Adventure Continues...|And the Adventure Continues]] overtones. The only positive quality this anime has is its soundtrack, which incongruously is of far better quality than the rest of the series.
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** The version shown in America had, in top of the above problems, an [[So Bad It's Horrible/Voice Acting|awful dub]], and was [[Macekre|edited]] to comply with [[Toonami]] standards (back when Toonami was an afternoon action block) in a way that made the series even ''more'' nonsensical. For some inexplicable reason, ''this'' version was the one broadcast in [[Adult Swim]], from where was pulled after the sixth chapter. One [AS] bumper declared "Pilot Candidate: never again".
** ''Locomotion'', a (now disappeared) Latin-American animation channel, gave the series a very good dub into Spanish, but that only means that the series had very nice voices saying the terrible lines of the nonsensical plot. They gave it a first run in prime time, and then, years later, a second run just in time for the closing of the channel.
* ''Pupa'', a horror manga about a brother and sister who become infected by a virus, is known for its disturbing [[Gorn|gore]]. Its anime adaptation, however, sabotages any potential the manga had with its short runtime (each episode is four minutes long), making a proper adaptation of the story impossible. Instead, it offers a butchered storyline, horrible pacing, terrible character development, and baffling censorship in its TV airing, which destroys the manga's horror appeal. Anime News Network gave it a "Flushable" score in its [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/shelf-life/2014-03-31#pu Shell Life review], and Marow of Anime Viking called it [https://web.archive.org/web/20140724051514/http://animeviking.com/2014/04/13/pupa-is-the-worst-anime-i-have-ever-seen/ the worst anime he has ever seen.]
* ''Root Search'', a 1980s OVA with stiff animation; unlikable, poorly-developed characters; and a pretentious and incoherent plot ripped off from ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' (it was even released under several misleading ''Alien''-related titles in several markets). [http://www.animenewsnetwork.cc/buried-treasure/2008-03-20/buried-garbage-roots-search Here's a review.]
* Are you a fan of the famous shooter [[Sin (video game)|SiN]]? You are probably still furious for the existence of ''[[Sin: The Movie]]'' and still pretending that it didn't exist (not that difficult since it achieved [[Canon Discontinuity]] when ''SiN Episodes: Emergence'' was released). Everything in this was wrong, beginning with the title (it was called "[[The Movie]]" despite being a 2-episode miniseries), it tried to cheaply retcon aspect of the game, has terribly lame [[Canon Foreigner]]s, has a bland plot filled with holes, and its animation and art was mediocre at best. It was a product to cheap cash on the popularity of the game, and truly cheap it was.
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* The anime adaptation of ''[[Togainu no Chi]]'' has been panned by fans of the original game for good reason. Admittedly, given the [[Porn with Plot|nature of the game]] and its [[Road Cone|multi-route system]], some elements had to be removed for the censors, but it still doesn't excuse the fact that ''so many'' things were removed from the story, people being introduced to the series for the first time didn't know what the hell was going on. Terrible animation (to the point that Episode 12 nearly completely consisted of [[Stock Footage|animation recycling]]), [[Off-Model|constant deviation from character styling]], and a mediocre script combined to make a fairly celebrated BL game into an animated train wreck.
* That the famous [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Tsukihime]]'' needed to streamline and [[Bleached Underpants|sanitize a bit]] its plot for its animated adaptation, given the [[Porn with Plot|content]] and [[Road Cone|nature]] of the game, was expected. What was not expected ''at all'' was the butchering of the storyline (where plot points were introduced and then forgotten or decontextualized), the atrocious pacing, the astonishingly low quality of the animation (where a character falling was accomplished by ''merely moving a cell down''), and the incredibly dull and boring soundtrack (where only the opening song has some sort of quality). The result was a 12-episode mess that only got worse in localization, and you get the kind of series [[Fanon Discontinuity|the fans of its source deny their existence]]. Rubbing salt in the wound was that the manga adaptation, who followed the same route the anime adapted, was infinitely better done and is universally loved by the fandom.
* When ''[[Transformers]] [[Kiss Players]]'' was announced, most American fans generally chuckled at the concept of girls [[The Power of Love|kissing Transformers to bond with them and power them up]]... but the manga scans depicted vore, blatantly suggestive scenes (such as the Legions' infamous "penis-tongues" and the endless stream of implied-rape imagery), the [[Unfortunate Implications|misogynistic]] antics of Atari Hitotonari, and [[Older Than They Look|late teenagers appearing to be eight years old]] (and before you ask, they were
** It's sad because [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]. The EDC, led by Marissa Faireborne, alongside the Autobots in an ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion]]''-ish battle against [[Eldritch Abomination|mutated cyborg beasts]] and what turns out to be a [[Gambit Roulette]] by the creator of the technology? If they'd made a serious effort instead of just going for shock value (which the creator admits to), then this could have been a worthy addition to the ''Transformers'' saga.
* And yet, ''Kiss Players'' wasn't even the worst Japanese Transformers product. That "honor" is shared with ''Transformers: Super Link'' (known as [[Transformers Energon|''Transformers: Energon'']] in the West) Very thin plot (even for toyetic franchise standards) that's even repetitive within self to boot, stock footage galore, horrible animation, characterization decay, an English dub that killed
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