Shinesman, if you can find it, has an amusingly silly dub that you should be able to follow without paying too much attention to the visuals. They took an already rather silly sentai show parody and just let the English voice actors run away with it.
Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20]
Ilixtze@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I continue on my quest to listen to bad Anime while I work; This week I listened to chaos;head and it was delightfully terrible. It was basically an audio novel, everything was expressed in dialog, I especially love the long pseudo science exposition dumps:
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“we are putting a delusion in the blank spot on your mind!” I had to glance at my second screen from time to time to make sure that the otaku guy and his harem of psychic girls were battling… Dudes with back packs.
The final fight was also funny in how anticlimactic it was. I noticed it’s based on a visual novel or something and tried listening to chaos;child what seemed to be an adaptation of an alternative route but I could not do it a second time. Then tried Heavenly Delusion and that one seemed good, so I’m putting it on hold to watch while paying attention next.
Currently looking for another bad Anime to listen to
nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Ilixtze@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I Think I found it! and added it to the watchlist! thanks for the rec! =D
mo_lave@reddthat.com 1 month ago
They’re not bad anime afaik (but maybe they are for you), but go try for an audio-only experience
Spirited Away
A Silent Voice
Spy x Family
Hunter x Hunter (2011)
Howl’s Moving Castle
Cowboy Bebop
Death Note
One Piece
One Punch Man
Your Name
Chainsaw Man
Ilixtze@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I think I’ve seen a lot of these recommendations; and I have liked them a lot! I don’t think I could “just listen to them” in good conscience because a lot of these shows and movies have good visual language and engaging stories; I need to put Spy X Familly in my watch list because it sounds like a good show!
My platonic ideal for a “bad anime” to listen while working is something like “King’s game” (in fact I think that was the one that got me down this road.) It is so consistently bad that I don’t mind missing anything visually; It is so consistently outrageous and bat chist crazy that listening to it keeps me entertained, and it has that weird quality in scripting where everything is expressed verbally. I got so much stuff done that week; I don’t know why it makes me super productive.
Then there is another category I have; The “so outrageous it’s good” anime: I tried “just listening” to Baki son of ogre And I just couldn’t do it. The moment Baki took a child to his basement to watch him train against an imaginary giant mantis, I was all like “Ok; I can’t ignore this shit.” I ended up binging the series :,)
Unboxious@ani.social 1 month ago
I’ve never seen anyone else looking for bad anime to listen to before! I have a few suggestions:
wjs018@ani.social 1 month ago
Garzey’s Wing is the stuff of legend. I have only seen clips, but it has a bit of a cult following in my area because it is a recurring feature in the Bad Anime, Bad! panel at my local con.
Ilixtze@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Thank you for the recommendations! Garzey’s wing and way of the husband sound just like I am looking for, I ended up being mesmerized by cipher simply because I have a soft spot for 80’s shojou aesthetics and 80’s music, the vibes are immaculate!
I think I just found crystal triangle on youtube so it’s added to my watchlist!
Unboxious@ani.social 1 month ago
Glad you liked Cipher!
Yep, that’s the one!