HOTTEST TRASH Anime of Summer 2023 

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We need an Isekai where the MC starts out overpowered but then is slapped with "Your free trail of Lv100 has expired" like how some RPGs tease you with a very high level in the prologue and then bam, you're level 1.

The trash inspector’s barely restrained laugh at “Trash Inspector open up” made at 0:48 made this bit even funnier oddly enough

I'm calling it now; 300 more chapters until "Rent-a-Girlfriend" reveals that Chizuru was actually aro-ace the whole time.

Can we talk about Rent a Girlfriend literally had to introduce characters who's entire purpose is to drag story forward?

Yazy barely containing her laughter while reading her first line was very endearing

"another thing they wrote stupid is the whole ass script for the entire show" got me rolling

The fact that rent a girlfriend is 300 chapters in and still hasn't finished is absolutely insane

Considering how harem animes go; Tenpuru's protag of trying to get OUT of that life before it even became a thing was at least commendable. Even if he just ended up basically walking into a Love Hina set up.

Zom 100 had me clapping my hands and giggling. I'm not usually into zombie shows but it was such a darkly humorous delight

There are three kinds of trash (in terms of entertainment just to clarify, and more specifically, anime in this context, but anyway) in my mind: 1) An anime so bad you have to show it to others so you can laugh at it together 2) An anime so over the top and ridiculous it actually somehow manages to outdo what should be objectively better shows in entertainment value & 3) An anime so awful, that you feel like you wasted 10% of your remaining life just by watching it

Rental Girlfriend is never going to end, because I'm starting to believe the writer don't know what romance is.

Zom 100: "Do the things you love. Dont overwork yourself to the bone" Also Zom 100: Starts delaying episodes not even halfway through its run because they're not even finished yet

How to make an Isekai 101: - OP Protagonist - RPG system - Horny harem (no other boys allowed unless if they make the protagonist look stronger) - Demon Lord (optional, but recommended) - Plot (optional)

This scoring system is so much better and more understandable than most other

Man I can't believe we live in a world where "Isekai Smartphone", "Masamune-kun Revenge", "Classroom of the Elite" and "Arifureta" got a second season, "Classroom for Heroes" got an anime adaptation and "Rent A Girlfriend" got THREE FREAKING SEASONS ! I know there are also good other stuff that got the same privileges, but still...

I appreciate the use of "start to stat screen" as the isekai equivalent of the era-defining, nation-toppling "start to crate" rating system.

It's amazing how Rent a Girlfriend still gets a season and probably another one. If it gets to chapter 218 I'll just laugh at the meltdown on the NTR fantasy.

There's gotta be a case study on why SO MANY isekai have to deal with OP protags and Demon Lords, you have a medium that let's you tell practically any story you want and yet they choose practically the same setup every single time

"Am I Actually the Strongest?" could be interesting if the sister's enthusiasm for mundane otaku stuff was contrasted against the hero's interest in the fantasy world that seems mundane to the sister. But that second part is the exact opposite of the series's actual premise, so...

Tenpuru is honestly one of favourite shows this season. Between Kagura blatantly manipulating Mia, Kurage trying to set up one of her sisters with Akagami so he keeps cooking her meals, and Kiki's burning hatred for the one priest - the supporting cast is so delightfully warped.

I read the Vending Machine manga recently, and 2 things I wanna point out: 1. They changed the method of death. In the manga, MC was on a street corner thinking about how much he likes vending machines when he successfully dodged truck kun, only to realize that truck kun clipped the vending machine and it was about to fall over, so he willingly threw himself under the vending machine and got crushed to save it 2. They added in the eyes in the anime. In the manga he didn't have any, a completely normal looking vending machine. I guess they thought he wasn't expressive enough.

"trash isnt always a bad thing, I adore trash" bro doesnt discriminate and appreciates hottest trash imaginable, respect

I gave up on Liar rail when I realized that it was never gonna be about clever strategy, just waifus bailing the guy out of everything.

Vending Machine is one of those shows that knows it's stupid at times, but plays it straight because it knows that's what you're here for. It's got the same appeal that its own vending machine food does. Not necessarily great, let alone even good, but dang if it isn't comforting sometimes.

It's an absolute mystery to how the hell Kanokari is still running and even getting its later materials adapted.

I'm truly adoring Zom 100 so far. Show is fully aware of what it is at every point and indulges in it.

Ah, I had wondered why the zombies had multicolored paint on them. Thanks for clearing that up!. Normally I don't care for ... well anything zombie, but the first episode with Akira and his life-crushing job and his exuberant glee at not having to go back to work while being chased by a horde of zombies made me want to watch more. Enjoying the dark comedy of it.

you can absolutely hear the smile holding back the laugh at 0:50 edit: absolute fire sponsor segment

The sad thing about Rent a Girlfriend season 3 is that no matter how good the arc it's adapting is, the story will majorly go down hill after it's done.

Zom100 is honestly my favorite new show this season. I think it's been fantastic. It doesn't follow a lot of the usual tropes, and the characters feel pretty authentic.

The biggest issue with Vending Machine Isekai is tht the whole time I was watching it, I was thinking more about how it would make for a fun game.

each episode of this series fills me with happiness Geoff truly mastered his art

Absolutely loving Zom 100. We started watching it for the "hey lets watch the nutty zombie anime" hype and stayed for the lovably simple "Survival is not enough, I WANNA LIVE" story. Absolutely worth it if you like some wtf fun with an actual heart in it.

I love how Reborn as a Vending Machine made both the best of and best trash videos lol, it’s so fun

This was already your best and most refined Hottest Trash video yet, and then you dropped a Garth Marenghi reference that had me literally standing up and applauding. This was absolute fire, keep up the amazing work! Edit: also surprised that Sweet Reincarnation didn't make the cut considering the MC's name is Pastry, son of Casserole.

Level 1 Demon Lord and the One Room Hero is the best romantic comedy this season and maybe even the year. As an 30+ adult I feel catered to.

Level One Demon Lord and One Room Hero is very, very good, maybe a bit cheesecakey, but it's repeatedly pointed out how weird it is that the secretary always wears a swimsuit, and it's congruent with her being a gigantic weirdo. the thing about it is that the manga is REALLY GOOD. seriously, it's a very good manga with great, dynamic paneling and expressions, and the show does a solid job translating that. Also, yeah, there's some increasingly strong romantic subtext between the Demon Lord and Max. And it's kind of cool that the Demon Lord kind of doesn't give a shit about gender, and takes the cute girl form initially just because they think Max will like it. I...really ship it, lmao. Enemies to lovers is hot to begin with, but the added bit of a formerly buff strong Demon Lord taking on a cute girl form to play house with the Hero is....come on that's gotta be a turn on for a lot of people, right?

As someone who got to see this video the hour it was released, I still haven't stopped smiling stupidly and laughing my ass off at it. So, the usual. Keep it up man

I love how Zom 100 manages to feel so fresh even though there are so many zombie manga ou there.

Demon Eye for the Hero Guy (Lv 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero) is really, really good. It's really well paced with the first "Will they or won't they?" I've actually been invested in for the first time in aaages.

Zom 100 is really fun, and I'm happy to see how much the anime reinforces the tone that the manga has.

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

great editing! creative use of greenscreen and color grading gives the sense of an environment

I love how we start with Zom 100, which admittedly is a trash anime BUT it is so over the top embracing how trash it can get that it becomes amazing and a work of art, is hilarious. Ep 1, while super dark, hooked me immediately with its clash of tones, and I find it balances the horror and comedy aspects of the story quite well. It truly is too much of a work of art to be in this list. Also, I want an anime about the background cast of Classroom for Heroes, just them living their lives and reacting to the bland antics of the protag and harem. And for my wish for Trash Manga I wish would get a full adaptation: Dragons Rioting. Where Hentai Syndrome is a thing and our Protag lives the harem ecchi life like it's his personal Hell.

I feel like you and Best Girl put so much extra effort into the skits and I'm loving it 💜

I would also add reign of the 7 spell blades. At first it seems like a self insert hogwarts story with an isekai mc mc and his one dimensional friend group who are pretty much the only non-assholes in the entire school. And everyone loves the mc! He’s the leader whose magic is so good, the only reason he’s not more popular is because he’s SO good, only an expert would be able to notice how good he actually is. So to make up for it, all of his female friends want to make out with him. Sounds generic right? Well, it is that… until the REALLY edgy twist in ep 6. Spoiler warning Turns out he’s secretly here on a revenge quest to kill all his teachers one by one for killing his mom, and he secretly has a super op sword, and he has this secret army of students who all see him as a king, and he has this secret bodyguard secretly sent by his cousin, who promises to secretly make sure he and his sister handle all the boring shit so he can secretly do all the cool shit like secretly killing all his teachers. And he has a secret coronation for his secret organization. CID from eminence in shadow would be jealous of this guy. Also, the animation during th fight scenes is actually pretty good

Zom100 is so glorious, it gave me a serotonin overdose that has yet to wear off, I'm not even kidding, been dealing with depression a bit on and off and this anime just straight up skyrocketed my spirits up!

The Zom 100 anime is what's keeping me going man. There are missing chapters ( ones that haven't been fan translated ) and the official ones are releasing sometime this month. They really did an awesome job with the anime.

Zom 100 is legitimately a good time with some incredibly relatable and based messaging, least ways the episodes I've see so far. It's not Full Metal Alchemist, but it is damn good in a different way. If anyone has ever worked, EVER, they will probably be able to relate to the protag, at least a smidge. Also, the bromance warmed my damn heart.

My favorite thing about this series is how much fun you are clearly having making it. Thank you for the lol’s!

Oh yeah!! I've been waiting for this one!!! Always love your praise and seriousness for "the ones to watch" and the comedy and trash talk for "the hottest garbage!"

I regret nothing about getting a Sumi plushie for her English actress to autograph. I figured she could use a break from all the Makima merch.

11:10 the way Geoff said "massive carrot" had me laughing so much lmao

Idk if you can call ZOM 100 Hottest Trash. It genuinely might be in my top 5 anime of the season! The first episode had me rolling on the floor laughing and I was so not prepared for the Ep 5 Zombie Shark either so best believe I was dying the whole time (get it?). While also getting hype that our boi Akira taser-punched a shark in the face and got the girl ('s number). So glad Geoff recommended this show I'm totally hooked.

I love these videos, and this summer one was spot one. Surprised Sweet Reincarnation didn't make this list. I have been enjoying the fact that protagonist desperately wants it to be cozy cooking anime, but normal isekai adventure stuff keeps getting in the way.

“bear in mind” with a panda bear in the green screen background made me spit out my tea. my keyboard is now sticky from anime and not for the usual reason; thanks mr basement

It's been a great season for Mid Isekai. I appreciate that this batch has an abundance of 'MC-kun interacts with the world in an unusual way' setups rather than the usual absurd powers.

I heard a phrase i kind of unironicaly stan now: “Corny Horny” Basically that genre of ‘trash fanservice’ where it isn’t supposed to be intelligent or relatable, just extremely dumb, silly, and sexy. I’m gonna start using it to describe those kinds of animes instead. Feels more reflective of the intended spirit of something like bikini warriors or samurai bride.

4:55: I am exactly the kind of nerd who dismissed Zom100 after reading one manga chapter, but is intrigued by the promise of Das Kapital. Thanks!

I thought about picking Rent-a-Girlfriend back up this season, but found much more enjoyable to pay someone to violently wake me from my sleep and just scream the wiki cliff-notes at me before smacking me with a dead herring. Got through it much faster. Also.....Thigh Clops?..... Well done.

I love that like half of these were part of or honorable mentions in the ones to watch video for this season. Guess it’s just a good time to be an anime watcher

(the currently out 5 episodes of) Zom 100 is one of my favorite anime of all time, I just hope they don't fumble the second half

I read the Zom100 manga ages ago and watched the anime recently, which made me want to go back and read the manga to remember what happens. It's a really fun anime! Akira can be kinda dumb sometimes, but he's got such a good heart, and it's uplifting to watch him get back his will to live and do his best to help people. It's nice to see a zombie anime show that there can be hope. Also it's just very funny to watch Kencho and Akira be dumbasses.

I love when channels make the ad sponsorships fun, great job.

The chairman's granddaughter just wanting to go to a normal school is the most realistic motivation a character in one of these "elite gamified high school" anime ever

The vending machine one has been a journey I didn’t expect. 😂 Thought I’d be meh about it, actually enjoy it and think it’s pretty funny.

Great Cleric gets quite a bit better during and especially after the next arc. The politics and world building improve dramatically as well as getting genuinely interesting side characters

I’ve become such a huge fan of your Chez Garbage videos, and loving the Mothers Basement figurine I received in the mail a couple months ago ❤ Funny enough today I was driving home and Zom100’s opening shuffled up to blare out my car 🚗 💨

"Another thing they wrote stupid, is the whole ass script for the entire show..." HAHAHAHAAHAH

How is Zom 100 trash? The animation and the artwork are both really good. It's a fun loving horror comedy doing something pretty uncommon for the zombie genre and it executes pretty well on everything it's trying to do.

Love, love, love, LOVE Tenpuru and I consider it the highest of honors that it was included in this particular review. The manga is also amazing and highly recommended.

Your sponsor bits are the best in the platform, the only one that makes me watch it all

I love how more and more you got into the bit each episode

With each new season, Geoff is committing more and more to the Chez Garbagé restaurant concept. One day we'll all sit in his newly acclaimed back alley dinery, getting to witness first hand how he prepares all the finest rubbishous dishes for his audience. I'm already booking reservations!

Goddamn your writing and editing was on point! I was nearly crying laughing during the Rent a Girlfriend segment, fuckin gold!

Every time I see/hear the "Nevermind" parody cover with Geoff screaming in agony to the song I just burst into laughter. It's such a brilliant illustration of pain.

I've not watched Zom 100 yet but I'm glad to hear that it is both the highest of art and the hottest of trash

Still looking forward to "The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You" I hope it's good since the manga is pretty crazy but I'm not familiar with the animation studio.

I must say I don't often see these videos, but Jeff's dry monotone reading of Liar Liars plot was hilarious and I haven't laughed that hard in ages

I'm entertained that many of the titles in this video are shared in your best of :D

the long awaited installment is finally here we eating good tonight

Really enjoying Zom 100 so far. I've been meaning to check out Lv1 Demon Lord some time too.

The repeat recommendations from this season's "Ones to Watch" has made me more convinced that it came out too early. Not because I think you can't recommend trash - I'm watching this video after all - but because the way Geoff is able to talk about things like Zom100 and Vending Machine Isekai in this video (after he's got a better feel for the shows and isn't just summarising the first episode's plot/a very general synopsis) has made me way more interested in checking them out.

Thank you for another great video!!

I think in "am I the strongest" not wanting to touch grass is a character motivation, because later on the clone also doesn't want to touch grass.

Honestly, I've found a lot of animes I've really enjoyed through this series, sure, some of them are kinda generic or poorly animated, and sometimes the characters have the personalities of cardboard cutouts, but it's still entertaining and it's nice to be able to turn your brain off and enjoy something mindless

The only channel in the world that can make me look forward to the ads😂

I lost it at "Liar Rail" haha!

The video got me to watch Zom 100…and then immediately find and binge the manga too. Thanks for the based trash recommendation, it was really fun!

Look forward to the hottest trash episodes every season and this one was as great as always! Yazy had me cracking up too! After hearing you mention early 2000s harems near the end, I just have to throw out there that I would love more videos on that topic like your Maburaho video. Even a video on stuff that takes that genre in different directions (the bad ending-bound dumpster fire that is School Days or even a reverse harem series like Fushigi Yugi or Haruka) would be cool.

You earned an 'up vote' for the Calvin Ball reference.

“These photos are in the school’s database” had me in tears

People shouldn't be so sensitive about another person's opinion about what is and isn't trash. If you love it, continue to love it. No need to get all caught up that other people don't think it's high art. 😂

Im just waiting for Mami to appear most of the time in Rent-A-GF since she is the only 1 who moves the plot. the rest are just i wike u kazuya uwu.

Another great installment in one of my favorite series :) I love the scientific method of measuring time-to-stat-screen.

whenever you post these i am surprised I'm watching and enjoying like 3-5 of them. I should stop being surprised.

I don't even watch much anime, but I always look forward to these hottest trash videos.

"lvl 1 demon lord & one room hero" is actually a decent show. Its getting better each episode also.👍👍👍

Ok, I’ll admit that was a Smooth Segway into the add at the beginning lol😂😂❤️😜