Disaster Report: GATE
Whenever I’m asked to talk about bad anime that I’ve seen, I usually don’t have much to talk about. That seems to be kind of unusual, at least from my perspective. Most of my peers in this fandom grew up in the bad old days of the 1990s when the vast majority of anime available were crappy OVAs, and there are plenty of others that will watch something bad yet popular so they can keep up with the latest social media discourse. As for me, I’m heading into my seventh year as an anime fan and I’m still playing catch-up with older classics and a seemingly endless backlog of notable shows from more recent years. Making time for bad shows didn’t seem like a good use of my time. Recently, though, I’ve been rethinking this point of view. It’s not like I’m a stranger to enjoying so-bad-its-good media. I grew up on Mystery Science Theater 3000 . I hung around sites like The Agony Booth ...