HOTTEST TRASH Anime of Spring 2023 

Kamikatsu is literally a dnd campaign I played once, 7 bards and a wheel of cheese. We all played bards and pretended to be clerics praying to a wheel of cheese, using bardic inspiration and bard spells to perform "miracles" until the cheese actually gained sentience and then godhood.

Kamikatsu might just be the ultimate shitpost anime. Especially with the way they handle animating farm equipment!

21:23 the funniest part about that live action footage is that the character literally says "WOW this is so much easier than doing it by hand!" which is both in reference to of course him plowing the fields with a machine instead of by hand, but also a meta joke about the animators just throwing an anime filter over live action footage instead of animating it by hand

Honestly ‘I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, too’ feels like the writer sent this idea to their publisher as a joke and the publisher actually liked it and published it.

That cheat skill in another world/real world isekai sounds like something I would write in high school, but would never publish due to abject embarrassment

I can’t believe Wit Studio went from Attack on Titan to… shilling NFTs. They’ve still got Ranking of Kings and Spy x Family to fall back on, but I think we can all agree that’s still the LOWEST of lows.

I think Kamikatsu may be the first anime to save so much money on animation that they are generating actual revenue from making the art alone.

Kamikatsu looks like if you put an isekai and Pop Team Epic in a blender and paid the entire production staff in cigarettes.

Shilling NFT's in this year is like shilling radium treatments after Marie Curie and her daughter died.

Best gag of the first episode from The Hero Is Dead was when he declared out loud "any man would put stocking on their best radish!" And then two older men reacted and tried to hide their radishes with stocking deeper in their coats

14:32 "And everyone claps" is absolutely the most accurate description for most things that happen in the show. It almost feels like a fever dream

Geoff's commitment to pronouncing every single French word wrong is truly commendable

It’s only just occurred to me that Mr. Basement has to commission some poor artist with the prompt “sexy radishes in a flaming coffin”

“I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too” is the most unapologetic self insert anime you will ever see. Most if not all of the episodes consist of Yuuya saving at least one girl, character(s) mentioning how good looking Yuuya is, and Yuuya showing off how OP he is.

Kamikatsu is honestly the hardest I’ve laughed at an animé this season. It knows exactly what it is, has no shame, and will somehow make you consider deeply philosophical topics seconds before hitting you with truly atomic levels of tonal whiplash.

Cheat Skill *could* have become passable if focused more on Yuuya overcoming his image issues. Even something as small as having trust issues would have been good since he still isn’t used to people being nice to him. Just because his body changed doesn’t mean his mental and emotional trauma goes away. It wouldn’t be “good”, but at least it would give the main character some potential development and give him more depth than a puddle.

We are not laughing at kamikatsu, we are laughing with it.

In the same way that Kaguya Sama Love is War gets praised for its creativity and animation quality, Kamikatsu deserves praise for the same reasons but on the opposite side of the spectrum. It's a prime example of making all the wrong decisions in the absolute best way possible. It's for sure not the best show of the season, but I don't remember being this invested in something this unhinged since like FLCL

Each new isekai getting more self-indulgent than the previous makes me realize I was far too harsh on SAO.

So apparently the 'Everyone claps for Shinji in a fever dream' scene is now a trope and at risk of becoming a genre. We live in a society XD

I'm glad Kamikatsu is getting recognized for being a bonkers shitpost anime. Frankly, I think them just giving up on the idea of going for quality and just bullshitting their way through the animation is pretty fuckin' punk rock.

“And then the whole other world clapped” is such a perfect way to describe that lmao. I was watching it as one of those ironic watches for the season, but it was almost TOO exaggerated for me. It was funny a few times (especially that one bicycle kick scene), but I don’t know if I can keep going multiple times an episode every episode.

Kamikatsu is Geoff's low-key favorite Anime of this Season. You can tell from his sarcasm during his commentary. We know Geoff. We love it too.

My mom watches these with me ever since Geoff got her into anime. She was in the hospital when this video came out yesterday, but now that she's back, here are her takes on the anime presented, in order. "This feels like the anime with the weird kid with the blonde hair and deep tan." "Love Hina?" "Did that have that girl with the hair like-" /puts her hands up to her head like hair antennae/ "Yes." "Yeah. Like that. But I actually remember how this main guy looks. I don't remember the guy from the other one." "He has shaggy hair like a sheepdog!" /cooing noises/ "Aw, he has friends! That's so cute! He's a sword baby with pals." My mom fell over laughing because radish is slang for d!ck in her native language so for a second she thought Geoff was implying this guy ran a gay brothel. Which she then thought would be a great idea for an anime. She had no thoughts on the actual anime being discussed. (Context: my mom is a psychologist.) "I can't tell if I really want to have a session with the writers and find out where this premise came from or if I want them to sign an agreement they'll never come near me." Also, repeatedly: "This is so pretty. I love her hair." "His FAMILY bullies him?" /actual angry sputtering/ "I'm adopting him." "Mom, he has magic and stuff, I'm sure he's fine." "I'm making him soup, I'm talking to him about self-worth and then I'm going to explain to his parents that they should have valued him at any weight because PLENTY of people struggle to have kids and they didn't treasure the one they had-" "Mom, you're talking over the plot." "I don't CARE, he can be a Mickey Stu-" "Mary Sue." "-he can be a Mary Moo and it doesn't make his parents less bad!" "If there's baptisms, is there Isekai Jesus?" Later: "If they weren't cowards they'd give him a mom as a love interest. The sister thing is boring. More MILTS." "MILTS?" "Moms I'd like to smooch." "Having worked with actual cult survivors, this is genuinely less insane than their actual lives." Later: "I like the parallels between cults and authoritarian governments. I kind of wasn't expecting that much good writing from something that looks, uh. Um." /visibly trying to be nice/ "Unconventionally medium-blending." "NFTs are still a thing? I thought your generation had moved on from them, like how mine got over capris after a few years."

Kizuna no Allele is basically the starting plot of Little Witch Academia with a non-fungible coating of something that makes it glow under a UV-A lamp...

Fun Fact: There's another KamiKatsu manga being made at the moment where the dude's invincible sister goes to the same isekai world to get pregnant with his kids, I'm not joking

the fact that Kamikatsu did all of their CGI, IRL footage and Pixel Art on purpose is hilarious, especially because there are actually moments with good animation here and there AND it's ON PURPOSE, it's part of the batshit insanity of the series, the author actually posted a tweet about one of the staff (i believe it was the producer but i could be wrong) literally came up and asked him about using IRL Footage for a bit, besides that the Voice Acting is so f***ing good at times for the weirdest stuff, it's clear the entire team behind the anime just had fun while making it and it's so heart warming to see that, i mean hell, the part where we first see the IRL Footage the guy literally says word for word "So much easier then doing it by hand" and then the same guy later on has a moment of Movie Quality animation just for him freaking out in the same episode we see a CGI monster explode like a Lego Build in a 3DS Lego Game, it's probably one of my favorite anime's this season because the amount of passion put in to make it goofy and fun is very notable from just about every person from the staff I should also point out the guy that wrote the story did a good few episodes of script for the Konosuba Anime

At 21:41 it’s worth noting that from the start, the director of Kamikatsu pitched that he wanted to intentionally do the CGI monsters, 16-bit pixel, and real life tractor scenes. All for the sake of having a laugh which the author thought was brilliant.

I really like Kamisatsu. It uses bad animation to its fullest to make us laugh. Anime was always about making some scene great using a low cost budget. But this anime completely innovates in this aspect and push it to an extreme.

I don’t care what anyone else says, both *Kamikatsu* and *The Legendary Hero Is Dead* are the equivalent of a art piece displayed in the Louvre that happens to be made out of trash. Edit: Just to clarify, I love both of them though.

I'd love to know how people in Japan feel about Cheat Skill in Another World. Back when the LNs first got released in English, a pretty common complaint was that the series felt like it was written by a middle schooler. Some of us even referred to it with terms like "And Then Everybody Clapped: The Series". Just boggles my mind that a series that was so obviously awful right from the get-go managed to somehow get an anime adaptation. I mean, I get that a lot of tropey and generic stuff has that "guilty pleasure" vibe for a lot of people, but that series? It doesn't even have that imo.

Cheat skill IRL had the funniest thing this season excluding the shinda intro. The entire world did such a 180 after he hot abs that it made me stop and process the entire thing. Being fat is such a subhuman attribute that 99.9% of ppl are absolutely incapable of compassion. The thought of a little kid being "He's just like me" in the first scene, then having everything in his life crash just was incredible. Got a bonafide life lesson right there, don't be fat if you still want a chance in life.

12:30 "he is the fattest, also the ugliest, even uglier than he is fat" this man doesnt sugarcoat his opinion and I respect that

Cheat skill from another world is such incredible dog trash that it’s become some of my favorite trash in a while. Every episode is a challenge of finding out how the author is gonna make self insert protag kun be the bestest best at every possible thing. I love it

I honestly think that if the "Everyone Clapped" anime did all it's wish fulfillment, while either keeping him looking the same or letting his weight loss be gradual, then it would be at least slightly above average.

The bit about "and then everyone clapped" for Cheat Skill is funny, but you stopped before getting to the part where he literally wrestles a bear.

There's nothing this season as utterly cursed as "My Life As Inuki-San's Dog," but by god is Kamikatsu trying to get there.

Lemme tell ya, Cheat Skill In Another World made a whole lot more sense when I found out it was written by the same guy behind Fruit of Evolution.

Cheat Skill's protag has got to be one of the dangerous people to be around, mainly because the universe keeps trying to kill him every 30 minutes for being so handsome everyone around him looks just as beautiful...

I am extremely angry and disappointed that Kizuna no Allele exists. Thank you for alerting me to its existence so I can be just as upset as you, MB.

Kamikatsu's "bad animation" is intentional while at the same time a workaround the anime's low budget by making it a part of the joke.

That french prononciation though xD Horrendously funny, extremely fitting.

The aristocrat’s otherworldly adventure also has a pacing bad enough to cause actual whiplash.

Honestly, the the guy who got bullied story could've gone pretty badass if he had kept being chubby Seriously, we could use more diversity apart from the usual "tall, slim, fit, black haired" mc, and he looked honestly cooler before getting thin

I am going to wind up with a blu-ray of Kamikatsu some day, and I'm not going to know why.

Kamikatsu is unironically my second favourite anime this season only after Oshi no Ko simply because Its been years since I couldn't predict the flow of an anime(im 24 and have been watching anime for the past 20 years) since the 2010s every episode something had me floored and I loved it, made me feel like I was watching anime from my kid years again I hope it gets a season 2

I couldn't stop laughing at the entire "And Then The Whole Other World Clapped" section with how accurate it was. Well done, thanks for the laugh! 😂

Kamikatsu is actually enjoyable. It's definitely not boring, pretty funny and even unpredictable sometimes. The "bad animation" probably worked in it's favor, because it got people talking about the show.

After Yuuya suplexed the bear and they made it a guard animal, I was hooked.

I’m not a Kizuna Ai fan, but as someone who loves Vtubers, I was curious to see what the anime would be like. I went in with low expectations but it was worse than I could have imagined. Given everything that happened to her in the last years of her career, and how much of an impact she had on the Vtubing world, this just feels like a slap in the face to her fans and legacy. Imagine someone doing this to your oshi, or favorite manga/LN you’d be furious too. I watched 4 episodes and quit. Shameless NFT shilling aside, it’s just boring and uninteresting. The people who made it clearly don’t know anything about Vtubers, or just skimmed a Wiki page. The animation is stiff, the 3D scenes look worse than thr mocopi streams I’ve seen a lot of Vtubers trying out and the music is acceptable at best. And why even bother putting Ai in rhe show when she rarely ever shows up? Just make this about 4 students who want to become Vtubers. But no they gotta milk whatever money they can out of Ai’s brand while they’re still able.

You’re not giving Kamikatsu enough credit. It *does* look good when it wants to, Art and all. The show runner is literally the mangaka, so it’s most definitely all intentional for comedy, not just corner cutting. He was also one of the scriptwriters for Konosuba, so he’s no stranger to absurdist comedy.

Thank you for saying all the French words correctly. I can't stand it when people leave half their words unpronounced

As a huge isekai manga fan, i'm glad that other people get to experience the bad mangas I have read in another art form

I swear this is the best series you’ve ever conceived. It doesn’t have one video that hasn’t made me bawl my eyes out with laughter

Kamikatsu has such a cool buried msg of explaining how religion actually works in real life and how people get manipulated.. it changed my views on religion. Made me question a lot of things

Trivia about Kamikatsu: not only it is the only isekai this season based on a manga rather than a novel (if we exclude reverse isekai Dead Mount Dead Play), it has a very curious spin-off about protag-kun's older sister, a woman who took bodybuilding to godly levels and is thoroughly obsessed with her little brother. To illustrate both points, in reverse order, let's say that on one side not only did she get isekaied on purpose to follow after him in chapter 1, she basically starts chapter 2 shouting to the whole world her intention of getting with child by her brother, while on the other side she attempted every classic method of isekai transfer with results such as completely trashing Truck-kun, destroying blades with her abs or raising the profits of a slavedriver company through the roof just on power level alone, only to finally be allowed to undergo the same ritual as her brother as a reward for converting the charismatic rival cult leader that had been informing her on isekai transfer strategies to their cause thanks to her exploits, but with the following differencs: instead of being thrown in a ceremonial vessel among much rejoicing, she's thrown trapped in a metal barrel filled with concrete (which she explodes with a muscle flex once isekaied) among relief tinged with dread.

Gotta watch it as soon and as quickly as I can before it’s age restricted

As a french guy, it physically hurt to hear Geoff mispronounce EVERY french word coming out of his mouth ! (Yes, i know it's on purpose but it still hurt all the same)

Kamikatsu is unironically a contender for best anime of the season. love it every week

When I saw that Kamikatsu scene with the real-life footage with a filter and a headshot on, I bursted out laughing so hard! Absolute madlads to release that!

Sissekai has an incredible ED that is vastly better than it deserves.

This series always raises my core temperature. It's like you've activated my flight-or-fight response. EDIT: And then I heard "fox pass" and had to defenestrate my computer. I'll send you an invoice for the repairs.

The most correct sounding pronunciations of French words anyone in Canada has ever uttered.

Having read the manga, The Legendary Hero is Dead does end up having a decent plot and interesting world building while continuing to be unapologetically ecchi. It quickly ended up in my “God damn it Japan” list.

I'm sold. Time to let my inner raccoon out and dig in on Kamikatsu.

The thing is, I'd adore a show with a hero who gets summoned back to his old world with a bunch of his classmates and he just... vibes. Let the rest of the class go off and play hero, he's gotta go say hi to his old girlfriend(s), check out that restaurant he used to like, maybe finally visit that one resort town he swore he'd go to when all the the trouble died down. Basically, I want an isekai version of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Incidentally, pretty sure that's getting an anime, so that's something to look forward to.

Honestly the isekai about being summoned to the world a second time would've been *way* more interesting if the premise was he had been the great hero of a fantasy world, saved the day but when sent back home had to deal with the mundane reality of no longer being the super OP chosen one. Having to adjust from that high and re-integrate himself back to our world.

Man I'll never get bored of MB's pristine pronunciation of the french lexicon

The best part about kamikatsu is that it switches from being a really unhinged shitpost to a pretty well animated show randomly like mitamas entrance actually looks pretty amazing and the main characters are never cgi unless it’s for a joke their drawn very fluidly it’s just everything else looks like a ps1 game

Ok so I actually followed “The Hero Is Dead” manga for a while a few years ago and it’s actually very clever and has some great sincere moments. Don’t get me wrong it’s still ecchi and ridiculous, but the main character Touka is a pretty crafty dude and really evolves as as he has to find his own way of taking up the role of a hero. Then again, I don’t entirely trust my middle school opinions on manga so I’m definitely gonna have to revisit this one.

Personally I'm a huge fan of The Legendary Hero is Dead manga. Practically every character has a gag associated with them and it continues to find ways to try and up the stakes on how far those gags can go while having some pretty great character development as the core plot itself is fairly serious and decently written. The finale is probabably the most ludicrous thing I have ever read and I hope somehow it gets some kind of animated adaptation.

Not an episode of Kamikatsu goes by where I'm not constantly laughing out loud and asking myself what the fuck I just watched. Those animators are masters of using a mixture of bad and good animation for maximum comedic effect.

Protag-kun sure has an interesting isekai, it almost made me think he was talking about multiple characters.

Sigh, I am supposed to be on a trash-free diet... but this menu is giving me some terrible cravings. Gonna have to take a cheat day.

I want an entire summary of the whole world clapped. Your reading is hilarious.

“4 flaming coffins ( the trash cans for people)” Killed me

Just found out the Barbie movie is an isekai

Cheat skill is 100% wish fulfillment but I will say that I think it does two things particularly well. The art style and the fact that Yuuya, after a life of scorn and ridicule, does not immediately think he’s the hottest thing in the room. He’s been conditioned to assume the position that there’s no chance anyone would ever find him attractive. I don’t know much about the original material besides that the anime and manga adaptations have things in slightly different orders so I don’t know if he suddenly gets a complex or not later. Of the trash isekai this season I personally thinks it’s on the better side. Though the constant, “he’s so hot, is he a model,” stuff we hear every time he steps outside is completely and utterly annoying.

I can never decide if Kamikatsu is completely dumb or pure genius. Either way I couldn't stop watching if I tried.

Lmao the NFT one made my eyes rolle so hard, wtf were they thinking 😂

I bet the creators of Kamikatsu were just trolling. They do have the funds to make quality work, but they deliberately choose to use this “hot garbage” style

Aristocrat has great facial expressions that'd really all I can say

As a vtuber myself, the first red flag in Kizuna no Allele was that all the main characters look pretty much just like their avatars. Which is a huge letdown, and also not at all how vtubing works!! One thing I find really interesting about vtubing is the relation between the model's appearance and the appearance of the human behind it: in the case of companies, they tend to pick people who match the vibes of the models they commission , and in the case of indies who picked or designed the model themselves, it essentially becomes a way of expressing what their ideal self would look like. Very few people commission models that look 100% like them, and those who do are usually people who do both facecam streaming and vtubing on the same channel, and none of the characters in that show seem to be doing that at all. I think it would be really neat to have an anime about vtubing that actually examines it properly but evidently that is not what Allele is going to end up being.

I love how each hottest trash video Geoff goes deeper and deeper into the trash cafe rp, and I'm here for it

The beasts in KamiKatsu is the biggest troll job ever 😂. I’m pretty sure they just used the worse AI imaginable to do just for giggles.

YES! Your Hottest Trash videos have been my most watched videos on RU-vid lately 😂❤️

The way he mispronounces French words in the most creative ways possible is infuriating yet impressive.

"Fateful date with truck-kun" is a phrase I never thought I'd hear and now I'm definitely stealing it.

The one thing I will give kamikatsu is that at least the knowledgeable mc is not a dumbass, pervert, or scumbag and the amine is actually kinda fun.

kamikatsu no doubt is the best comedy of this season

All these isekai really make me appreciate how well written and humble Mushoku Tensei is. Can’t wait for July 2!

17:02 "... and their levels are supposed to cap at 5." Is the bit that broke me. Fking LOL

The words "Fox Pass" activates my fight or flight response, and I'm not even French

*Looks at thumbnail* Hey, I'm watching all those animes 😁

I was hoping Rokudo’s Bad Girls would be included here. Not enough people are talking about it.

A small thing to add about the cheat skill isekai is that the MC is voiced by Kirito, because of course he is.

It's interesting that I started watching this series to get recomendations, but now I'm just, yup, that's about right, watched every single one of them.

Kamikatsu and the legendary hero is dead are a treasure

The way you explained Cheat Skill IRL just made me think of Monty Python's "and there was much rejoicing".

That final show...dear lord. It was like watching motion capture of a person wearing a person suit. I haven't seen such creepy animation since the late 90s...