Review of Pop Team Epic

Sometimes you come across a show that's so bad it's funny. A great example would be the dub of Ghost Stories, which has become (in)famous for its ridiculous voice acting antics. Or you could point to something like Garzey's Wing, which accidentally became a cult classic thanks to its nonsensical story and people that never know how to use their inside voices. Pop Team Epic is in neither of these categories. Pop Team purposefully tries to be funny by being bad, and fails miserably at it. It throws out random jokes and overdone faces and scribbled animation that I would have found funny about 10 yearsago, and find downright painful to watch now. I can't blame anyone for their own sense of humor, but for me the "lolrandom" humor of the internet stopped being funny when I was about 13. This show actually had me with my head in my hands several times because I wanted to just shut it off. I forced myself through it because I hate leaving things unfinished, but it was like Chinese water torture, like the Iron Maiden, like the Skyrim intro over and over and over again.

This show wanted to be so-bad-it's-good, but almost every joke, every reference, every visual had me cringing as if it was written by a board of directors somewhere that were browsing through the internet and said: "Hey, people like this random shit don't they? People will laugh at this right?" To be fair I laughed 3, maybe 4 times throughout (you got boost power!), but a total of 20 seconds enjoyment does nothing to make me hate this show less when I suffered through 98% of it.

An unironically unfunny dumpster fire. Bury it and never dig it out again.