Kusoge Tte Iuna Animation

For those who love playing video games, we all know the state of the industry, right? Greedy developers who create games just to milk money out from players rather than focusing on giving great gaming experience. Sighs… Worse, there are those who half-heartedly implement bad mechanics and other designs and release them quickly just to make a quick buck. Yeah, those f*cking crappy junk games. I guess the only thing we could do to counter all that is to not buy their games. Or make a meme out of it! At least in Kusoge Tte Iuna Animation, it centres around NPCs in a really crappy game. They need to make changes to turn the game into a better one but they realize it is no easy task as the situation spirals out of control. Once a crappy game, always a crappy game? Yeah, can sh*t turn into a diamond? Uh huh. Thought so…

Episode 1
Our heroes have defeated the evil and reached the good ending. Hence Leedis and the whole gang celebrate their achievements. They’re feeling pretty good that they have some off time until the game restarts. I guess they have so much time till then that the main heroines, Lillia, Mellie and Louise start fighting over Leedis. Marius the sage returns. Leedis wants to know reviews of the game. The verdict is in. It’s a crappy game!!! SAY WHAT?! Everyone feels bad for the developers who put in extra hours and effort to make the game. Wait till they read the comments on why it’s a crappy game. From incoherent story to having no depths to easy heroines, yeah, those complaints are legit. This game isn’t anything special at all. This means gamers won’t replay it. Hence Leedis has no choice but to use edit mode. As it grants players total freedom, this puts the story at risk of falling apart. However everyone is on board to make this game a better one themselves so that it will never be called a crappy game ever again!

Episode 2
The opening sequence is played out… And it is skipped! The king delivers his slow long ass lines. Leedis and Marius hope that as long as he doesn’t flub his lines, all will go well. The king manages to do so until he gets to the important part. Uh huh. He sneezes. So now the hero’s name is recorded as Achoorius. Then for the character recruitment scene, the original game was unpopular since players can only choose guys. So the king presents the usual knight and wizards but adds one on his own: Maid! Instantly players choose her! And so the king summons Mina the castle’s maid to accompany the heroes. We approve! This leaves Lillia and Mellie jealous as their heroine status is in danger.

Episode 3
Mina hopes to be of use to the hero. But as a maid, can she fight? Don’t worry. She claims she has done some training as she demonstrates her knife attacks. SHE SUCKS!!! Oh… Where did the knife go? It got stuck on Leedis’ head! Don’t worry. He only lost 2 HP! As the game goes offline, the characters converge as Leedis blames the king for his slipup. Then they discuss about getting info and weapons in the next town of Lynx. This is when Pyurius the sorcerer pops up with a scripted event of fighting him. The hero will fight him and die. But this will cause the hero’s power to awaken. However no time to think further as the game is back online. Everyone scrambles back to their post so they leave it to Pyurius to do whatever that works.

Episode 4
Our heroes flee every battle. No wonder they couldn’t level up at all. Arriving at Lynx, they head to the shop to get some items. Oh well, the player sell everything at hand! So what will the player buy with the money? A frilly skirt for Mina. Aesthetics > functionality. There is a scene that will trigger Mina being taken away and the player is trying to avoid that. This is where Pyurius comes in as he decimates this scene. Then he tries to zap Mina but some barrier blocks it and deflects it back at him. Pyurius is shocked to learn Mina is some holy sister and flees. Of course all this is just him adlibbing and Mina didn’t do anything in particular.

Episode 5
With Mina now a holy sister, she doesn’t have to leave the party. Leedis thinks this means he is still stronger than her. WTF… When they encounter monsters, of course being the weak ass guys they are, they couldn’t do much damage. But with Mina, she destroys them! Is Mina a broken character?! Heck, she evens defeat her own comrades?! Poor Leedis and Marius taking a lot of beating as Mina defeats the enemies. Well, as long as they have 1 HP remaining, they can revive and continue. As they continue their journey, stalking Lillia and Mellie continue to be jealous because despite they are also holy sisters, they are more of clerics and can’t journey with the hero no matter how much they want to. They need to come up with a plan to change all that.

Episode 6
Despite it’s not her turn to appear yet, Lillia adlibs by feigning a monster is attacking her and wants the heroes to save her. This cute little baby bunny is the threat? Leedis lets it loose into the woods… Wow! My hero! So brave! Let me join you! So can Lillia join them? The players say no! Now it’s Mellie’s turn. What now? A cute kitten is stuck to her hands! Leedis lets it loose… Wow! My hero! So brave! Let me join you! Can Mellie join them? The players reject her! Lillia then accuses Mellie of copying her tactic. They get desperate as they tell the players to choose them and the other will strip! A mad Mina punches a hole in the ground! Stop this pathetic sales pitch! She runs away as the heroes go after her. Uhm, so the heroines get to follow or not?

Episode 7
With the townspeople b*tching about wolves terrorizing the forest in the north, I guess our heroes have to take up the quest to eliminate them. Yeah, Leedis and Marius are so weak ass so they get their asses handed to them. It’s Mina turn. Although she couldn’t kill them, she does some heavy damage on the wolves. Then they realize the wolves were protecting their pups. Aww… How cute. Can we not kill their parents? However the players choose to kill them! This is when Mina turns to the camera and pleads with her teary eyes if they could be spared. Instantly the players change their mind! This leaves Lillia and Mellie jealous since this never happened for them. Yeah, Mina getting real popular with the players now… And double happiness since the wolves return to their cubs.

Episode 8
Looks like Lillia and Mellie gave up being heroines and just do support. With this role, they are able to boost their main party’s powers during battles. Too bad this means Mina does more damage to Leedis and Marius before defeating the monsters. And she levels up???!!! In this water town, looks like there is a main quest for the hero to get a sealed shield underwater. From the info they gather, the caves will only be accessible during low tide. That sounds like bad news… So they enter the cave and the usual happens. Yup, Mina defeating the guys first before taking out all the monsters. It’s amazing they’re still at level 1 and not build up and resistance.

Episode 9
Now that they’ve found the shield, as Leedis tries to touch it, a barrier zaps him. Don’t worry, Lillia will say some prayers to dispel the barrier. Did it work? ZAP! Nope. Mellie mocks her uselessness. She’ll show everyone how it’s done. Mellie says some prayers too. Did it work? ZAP! Didn’t. Now it’s Lillia’s turn to mock her. Since both won’t give up, they continue to try but the zapping still remains. How shameful… Leedis suggests Mina should try…

Episode 10
Mina tries to pray. Looks pretty normal and polite. Lillia and Mellie and mock her that she might get zapped too. Well, what do you know? Mina gets the shield! You could say it’s another round of shock for Lillia and Mellie. The irony that they’re clerics but couldn’t take the shield… With the Shield, Mina further levels up and easily kills more enemies. Yeah, who’s the hero here? During the break, the gang discuss where they went wrong. Mina feels guilty that ever since she became a holy sister, the clerics’ powers have decreased. Even the Demon Lord feels sorry for them. Yeah, his underling Pyurius has gone fishing ever since! They start arguing about everyone doing as they please but this goddess, Elouisa tells them all to shut up.

Episode 11
Elouisa is supposed to be a wise and magnanimous character. Well, that’s on screen, right? Here, looks like her true nature is a spoilt selfish b*tch. The heroes need her help to solve this problem but after complaining, she’ll look at what she can do. First, she has them open their stats. Then she laughs at Lillia and Mellie’s class now rated as loud woman and grumpy brat respectively! As Mina is the only true holy sister, as long as they can fix her up, they’ll maintain consistency. Can they? She hints that Mina might be the true hidden cleric and the rest were fakes. Having Mina open up her action algorithm, Elouisa now laughs her ass off at her 95% action to attack her allies! Like as though she is the kingdom’s assassin! Elouisa freezes this set so it’ll be rare for her to attack them. A tearful Mina is glad she doesn’t have to hurt her friends anymore so Elouisa tries to guilt trip the rest to be a good girl like her. But how can the rest defeat any enemies as they are still at level 1? Don’t worry. Elouisa has fixed that too… Oh no… That devilish look… We’ll see because the game is booting up again.

Episode 12
When an enemy attacks, oh no, Mina is too scared to attack! She is paralyzed in fear! How now?! When the enemy is about to kill her, suddenly it’s like her inner evil switch flipped and she becomes a badass-cum-kickass character to kill the enemy! Scary! But thanks to that, Leedis and Marius also power up. The game and adventure proceed smoothly until the end. The NPCs celebrate their replay and are feeling good the reviews will be better because this means it will have a trickle down effect to make other formats better. They can’t wait for Marius to return with his report. However Elouisa smokes him out from his hiding. Looks like he is too scared to go as he begs to us viewers to give them a high rating!

This Anime Is Clearly Junk!
Well, people? What do you think?! I think the verdict is very clear. Yeah. We’re giving it the thumbs down! And make it double. Low scores all the way! Boos and jeers! We’re not going to replay this sh*tty game ever again! HAHAHAHA!!! All you NPCs can carry on with your idyllic life forever as we players and viewers move along to other better games! And with that said, this anime isn’t going to get a sequel, right? And that also means this game will not be getting a sequel too, right?! Hey. Can’t blame this one entirely on us. You messed up with all the weird shenanigans at your second chance of replay. Having an overpowered Mina as a novelty was just good for 1 try. There wasn’t any replay value to begin with. Uh huh. And we’re out of here.

Unfortunately, even if the story is a simple and straightforward one, it seems quite boring. I mean, even with the seemingly jokes and funny stuffs happening, it is just barely funny. Even if I wasn’t laughing out loud or even laughing, the smirk I put on when those supposed funny scenes come to play feel forced and obligated. For example when bad stuffs happen to the fallen heroines, it just felt like a cue for me to grin because that part is supposed to be funny, right? Sure, the whole premise is for these NPCs to do something about their crappy game reputation. However the rate that they are going, they just fall flat on their faces. Things that are supposed to spiral out of control because of that attempt of theirs feel very tame. Yeah, like as though they didn’t really put enough effort into it. Are they sure they really want to turn this crappy game around? Oh wait. Maybe I got all this from the wrong point of view. Do the producers actually really want to make a crappy anime???!!!

The characters are boring too. I mean, how much can they try and change? How far can they deviate from the norm? I know it’s supposed to be the game developers’ job but screw it. One of those times where taking things into your own hands didn’t produce any good results. So we have Leedis and Marius as the main characters but fail being so because they become the running joke of being beaten up by Mina. As well as that gag that they are so weak ass and can never rise beyond level 1. My conspiracy theory is that the players already have the all-powerful Mina. They just need her to do all the monster killings. So screw Leedis and Marius! She herself is enough to kick ass! You boys just stay as your role to be punching bags and comic relief characters. They’re just useless.

I guess Mina is the only character why this game has a slight replay value in the eyes of players. I mean, who doesn’t love a maid character???!!! Even more so, I freaking (although accidental) powerful one!!! HUZZAH!!! BANZAI FOR MAID CHARACTERS!!! Making her character even more adorable is her clumsy and polite ways. Yeah, she sure scores right into the hearts of players. But character wise if you want to think deeply about it, she’s just mediocre. Don’t let that cute girl outlook fool you. Sure, she’s the reason why the party managed to complete their quests. Doesn’t that make her an overpowered character? Oh right. Who cares as long as you have a cute maid main character, right?! Too bad, like I said, no enough to save the game and anime, thus not really much of a replay value either.

Making the series even cheesier are the shameless and sleazy ex-heroines, Lillia and Mellie. Another bunch of low level characters written to be comic relief characters. Their running joke is that they want to impress Leedis because they like him but often fail because, that’s right, they’re comic relief characters. There’s no pity in seeing them get their just desserts as Mina unconsciously owns them. Too bad, they’re also unpopular with players to begin with. Proof that despite having sexy boobs or cuteness, those factors alone won’t help save your characters or make them likeable if you’re actually real b*tches. One day they’ll be just like Elouisa who screws everything and just have fun at their own pace. Hey, this is a crappy game after all, right? Gotta not give a sh*t because if players don’t, would you?

Other minor characters fail to make any impact. Like that other heroine, Louise whom I thought was going to be part of the gang and hence turn the ex-heroines to the legendary status equivalent to the Three Stooges. But I think it is better for her to have not made her forced presence like Lillia or Mellie because we’ve seen how low they have gone. Louise not making such appearance means it saves her from such utter humiliation and in our eyes, she’s totally tolerable. Then there’s the absentminded king (f*ck, I thought he was Santa Claus!) who is just forgettable and the devil characters who are just, well, uh, forgettable. Yeah, this series already has trouble with its plot and characters, you think having more of these minor characters will do any good? I’m surprised people are still playing it. Oh right. Mina.

This anime is clearly done in 100% CGI fashion and Flash based (or at least its equivalent since Flash is already dead today). It doesn’t suck but it isn’t anything new and most of the scenes are like retro RPG interface style (like dialogue boxes popping up). And since everything is in chibi mode, there’s your cuteness factor. Yeah, they should’ve had better graphics if they wanted to attract more players and turn around the fate of this game. This animation is done by Charaction who did Boku No Imouto Wa Osaka Okan, Mameneko and Micchiri Wanko Animation. If there was one thing that brought me a slightly bigger smile, it would be the ending theme. Bearing the same name as this title and sung by Otaya, it’s not that I actually like this song nor this piece is good in the first place. You see, this song sounds more like a hard rock punk outfit. Yeah, some screaming somewhere in the song! It’s like they screw this animation and decided to take it all out here in the ending theme. Let it all out! Yeah. I can understand why. No wonder I’m laughing (slightly) at the best part of the entire episode!

Overall, everything about this anime is crappy! Even if crappiness is intentional and part of the satire (because all their episode titles are about something is junk!), it still doesn’t hide the fact that this anime itself is pretty much crappy and low tier. Everything is so uninspiring and boring that if they thought of making it such a way as a great reverse psychology (everything is so bad that it is just good?) well, they got it all wrong. Yeah, they actually live up to their name in the most literal sense. Therefore we’re not just calling it a crappy game. We’re going to deny it even exists! HAHAHA!!! That’s what sh*tty games and animes deserve, right?! But hey, it could’ve been a lot worse. Of all the failed improvising and adlibs, at least this game isn’t a live service! Phew?

N/B: But what if there’s a limited edition of super sexy maid outfit of Mina, would we throw our money to buy that?! WE MIGHT! Hence crappy games made by crappy developers for crappy people. Ah, such a vicious cycle.