Pop Team Epic and other weird crap from this past week

So first of all, last week was the premiere of Pop Team Epic on Toonami, proving to me, once and for all, that 7th Moon must be good enough if they will approve of this crap. Pop Team Epic is absolutely the worst thing I have ever watched, and I say this with confidence that it is the worst, because not only is it so bad that I feel that I need to invent a new adjective to properly describe it as no such word exists that contains enough venom to describe my loathing of this show, but then after you watch it, youare immediately subjected to watching it a second time only with new voice actors doing everything exactly the same as before. I can appreciate that this show has to have the lowest production costs of any show due to the fact that using the same animation means half the cost of any other show, but beyond that there is nothing positive to say about this show. Perhaps something is lost in translation and there are some jokes that make more sense to the original Japanese audienc, but to Americans, it's crap.

The show consists of a series of skits that fire off at a rapid pace similar to Robot Chicken, except that Robot Chicken hits a punchline and reveals there was a point to what you watched, while Pop Team Epic sems to be just random frames of animation with absolutely no coherence except that they al feature two girls named Popuku and Pipimi who dont really have any constant traits other than their appearance as two Japanese school girls one tall and blue-haired and one short and blond. The blond one seems to have a short temper and is prone to violent fits of rage, and that seems to be the only consistent trait throughout the sketches. Otherwise they are simply fillers chaining together scenes that are random not only in story content, but also animation styles. At the very beginning of the show, there is a teaser for a fake anime which appears to be vastly superior in every way and at the end, I felt like I would have rather actually watched the fake anime.

I kind of wonder about the voice actors that they got to do this show, which are different every time so they quite literally go through every voice actor that works in anime. Perhaps they found it fun since they are used to jumping around to different projects and perhaps if they don't know about the repetition joke, since each actor only voices one half of the show and never has to be there for the other half, they may find this refreshingly original. Personally I'm disappointed that respectable actors have conceded to doing such crap, but they may just be too isolated to know how bad it is. Mind you, I don't blame the actors, it's not their fault the show is crap, they just do what's written for them,we have to blame the Japanese crew for giving them crap to work with and whoever agreedto make this a project that talents who should recognize they are above this, are apparently contractually obligated to do this drivel. At least that's the excuse I want to give them so none of them feel blamed, for those actors that actually believed in this one with all their heart and enjoyed and embraced it, I fear for their mental health.

Okay, that's all for now, I am really short on time between writing Children of the Crystals (not much progress to report, still stuck in chapter 1) and playing Dissida as well as live tweeting with Toonami. I need to get back to work and just wanted to share my feelings on this show. See you later, or sooner on Twitch.