Battle Programmer Shirase

I expected to like this show. An ecchi comedy about a programmer who doesn't work for money seems like just the kind of trash that I love. But now I can say with confidence that this is the worst anime I've ever watched. It's a masterclass on how not to make a good show. Sexualisation of minors and incestuous relationships. Short episodes with long and unnecessary recaps at the start of half of them. Offensive treatment of a trans character. Lazy animation, with lots of scenes being obviously re-used. Characters being introduced, set up as if they are going to be significant, and then never seenagain. A female character moaning orgasmically and uncontrollably from having her hip groped. And then there's the "hacking", which requires a paragraph of its own. Many shows portray hacking with terrible tropes, and you would be hard pressed to find a sin on /r/itsaunixsystem that this show DOESN'T commit. But, not satisfied there, the show comes up with some new and original awful hacking tropes. Such as, instead of typing frantically, the main character executing an immensely implausible hack by just pressing one key, the "return" key. Talk about making it look easy. Using a computer without looking at it is nothing new and is possible in real life, but the main character in this show is somehow able to read a report without being able to see the screen. None of these things are enough to break a show. The issue with BPS is that it has nothing except these things. The storylines are boring. The characters are boring. The show has exactly one joke, and it knows it because it re-uses it 5-6 times throughout the series and follows it up with canned laughter each time. And the joke isn't even very funny. All of this makes me wonder if perhaps BPS is a parody. If so, it fails on that level too, because parodies are meant to critique and make fun of stupid tropes, not just to emulate them. Instead the kindest thing I could say about this show is that maybe the staff's goal was to make the worst anime ever, and in that case I believe they succeeded.

This series are entertaining, the most interesting part is making a story about a programmer and his works in a fun way. The story is a little of suspense, a little of romance, a few of fanservice and a lot of comedy, the fun part is how he manipulates the computers be by PC or cell phone by its programming to help the people hiring him in turn but instead of asking for money for his services he asks for very rare gadgets or nerd items. Not the best anime I've seen but more entertaining than most anime that had come out in last years mostly becausethe concept and idea of the story is a little more original and each episode you'll be expecting in what kind of situation he will be and how he'll overcome it. By the way the lolicon factor comes by the character Misao whom the protagonist has a "very close" relation, and if you didn't notice or didn't know Misao come from another not very related series, Pretty Sammy from the Tenchi Muyô universe you can tell by watching the character designs.

No spoilers. Short review. Battle Programmer Shirase is underrated. The story is simple yet it doesn't lack much as it's a sci-fi comedy. Some jokes are repetitive, but every time they are presented in different ways which make them work. There are recaps here. You can skip them, nothing wrong with it. BPS was airing at the beginning of the 21st century on TV once a week, that's why they are here. I admit that they're quite long though. Characters are the strongest point of this anime. Main characters have unique and memorable personalities. Akira Shirase, even though he seems to be your typical perverted weeb at first, isa kind man who does his amazing job as a programmer and is not afraid to look strange, he is being himself. Misao Amano is a caring primary school girl, a relative of Shirase that visits his house nearly every day to do the chores and cook for him. There's some amazing chemistry between those two, but it's not like Misao is the only female in the cast. Don't get the wrong idea, this anime is not a harem failure. Side characters are mostly being the comedy relieves, however, a decent part of them is good plot-wise. There is only one hateable character, but thankfully, she appears rarely and only in the last episodes, as I recall. The art is slightly above average. This anime is a lightweight ecchi with not much fanservice, so I guess the animation and artwork are okay. Sound is better than visuals. Voice actors match their characters greatly. OP and ED are catchy and memorable. To conclude, Battle Programmer Shirase is not complex. What makes it work is the execution, which is not top-notch, with its mistakes, yet is beautiful and inspired. They had really put soul into this anime before releasing it. Thank you for reading my review. I appreciate the feedback.

First, saying this anime has 15 episodes isn't really correct. Even though there were 15 airings, it took 3 or 4 airings to complete an episode. So there are really only 4-5 episodes. So don't expect a fully developed plot line. In fact, the anime ends when you feel like it should begin. With that said, it is extremely funny. The main character is hilariously apathetic to everything except antique computer parts and his hormones. The situations he is put in are equally entertaining, and his superhuman feats of programming to solve them make the concept have a tremendous amount of potential which battle programmer Shirasedoesn't quite reach. Definitely worth watching though, because it's so short. The biggest shortcoming is not having more time to have a real plot.

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