Audience reviews
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Apocalypse Zero
You know those people who have never really watched an anime and think it's all demon tits and tentacle porn ? well this show is probably the one they caught a glimpse of to make them all think that. If this comes on when anyone but the most die-hard anime fans are in the room you will either lose or make some friends - no middle ground here.
The character design and art is gross , the monsters and sexed up combat is hilariously gross . This one isn't an anime one watches to enjoy it’s something you watch it because it was actually made by real people and you want to say that you sat down and watched one of the worst anime of all time. It is a genuine spectacle. I’m not even going to bother getting into plot details because why bother with this one .. really.
The basi…
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This anime is surprisingly not bad, for context more episodes were intended however due to the show getting cancelled only 2 were produced, but despite this it does a good job in telling a story start to finish with a reasonable ending despite only having a short run time. The whole premise is a guy and his sibling get this super cool robot armour but his sibling turns evil. Essentially we see the MC fight a bunch of ridiculous looking monsters and its pretty gory. The animation is OK but is still watchable, its a fun little anime that will have you going WTF at times and i think its enjoyable for this reason. There isn't much else to it and of course there is barely any character development due to how short it is but they did a reasonable job with the time frame they had and the ending i…
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This is the biggest injustice i've seen on MAL. Somehow Genocyber has a higher score. I'll use it as a parameter: If the gore in Genocyber can give you the ick and put you away, the gore in Apocalypse Zero is tasteful, funny, and peppered in correct dosage. This OVA is the perfect blend of funny, interesting and insightful, with a brisk and breezy pace covering the first 3 volumes of the manga. I'm hooked, and I will be reading the manga to know more.
The design is lovely, both in human characters and monsters. The background setting, the story, will make you see the connections between then and now, historically. It's a very thoughtful piece done up with the fun colors of violence. For an OVA made in an era where the norm was to take the gore you pornographically display super seriously,…
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Dear God what the fuck did I just watch?? I don't think it's a spoiler to say that the penis and vagina monsters were present and got a lot of screen time. The style is fucking weird but it's at least consistent, every character looks like they were mutated from a nuclear Holocaust. The sheer ridiculousness is enough to take out a frail Victorian child. In terms of animation, plot, and violence, this is a lot. I personally am not a fan, and I'd die before watching it again, but I can appreciate it's cultural importance (to an extent lmao) and I understand why people like it. Idk, the animation was the main thing for me. Watch it if you dare, and if you don't, well you just saved yourself a whole lot of time
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Congratulations Apocolypes Zero. You are officially the worst anime I have ever see. Considering I have watched a decent amount of series', you have managed to achieve quite the feat.
I honestly don't know where to begin. I'll start with the animation I guess. It's definitely below the standard that had been set for the time. The backdrops of the show are generic,post apocalyptic city landscapes. The character art is also truly awful. The protagonist 'demons' are hilariously poor and completely soulless which is also how the regular characters are animated.
The music and sound are dead, and at best, generic. There is very little else to say about it to be completely honest. It's boring, is lifeless and just like the animation, soulless.
Believe it or not though, it gets worse. The story…
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We were ROBBED, Kakubros. Of the originally planned 10 episodes, only 2 ever made it into production, a crying shame for a masterwork such as Kakugo. Heavily Inspired by the Tokus of the time, mixed with the then popular post apocalyptic setting and harsh violence, Kakugo no Susume in its original incarnation as a manga stands tall against many of its contemporaries, even today. The pure spirit it emanates is hard to describe, but if you're a high power level individual you will surely notice it. The OVA sadly did not get to live up to this standard, as it was cancelled without a real reason. The parts it does adapt, while still cool, are sadly too early into the manga to truly tell of the IMPACT that the manga ends up leaving later on. Interestingly, it does adapt the flashbacks that orig…
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This is the stupidest thing ever made.
The deranged fever dream of what parents in the 90's thought anime must have been like, Apocalypse Zero is an obscenely violent, bizarrely sexual nightmare of utter absurdity that reaches a gradually increasing fevered pitch until everything about it fades into a stream of consciousness bout of nonsense.
The entire anime feels like someone took a sample combination of random cliche shonen scenes and put it into a GPT-3 Bot and then added hentai samples randomly, and then they took the script that came out of it and animated it. The plot legitimately feels so derivative to be written by a botnet combo of edgy 80's shonen action anime, but it was written by real people and is completely serious.
Objectively, this is a 2, maybe a 3. In terms of my pe…
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This anime is truly awful, this is easily the lowest score I've ever given for an anime. This should probably be titled "cliche: the anime." The anime couldn't be fucked to come up with an original name for their "world" so they called it neo-tokyo. The villain wants to "destroy all humanity!" And the henchmen seem totally cool with this idea even though some of them are human too. Of course, the villain puts one of her henchman in line for bragging about killing 65 people by essentially saying "oh yeah, well I've killed 3,000!" And then going on to massacre everybody in the most absurdly gorey manner possible. Because she's literally "the best fighter in the world."
The anime also seems to feel the need to explain even the most mundane details to you. The world has essentially been compl…
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Bear Tits! No I am not kidding at all folks. Yep I hope you like your bears and fond memories of Yogi Bear! Elderly Seniors will forever being ruined once you see the epic glory of it all and the faithful companion that helps said 98 year old elderly fight. Breakout the popcorn because I hope you like Missy Piggy as this anime's nightmarish take it and a BDSM wearing Smurf with a dick microphone sings songs of sweet nothings that would make even Simon Cowell stand up and applaud this years winner of American Idol. Or America's Got Talent. *pick your poison: I don't judge. Except I'm starting to judge myself for actually watching this anime.*
Have I mentioned I"ve dragged my poor friend into watching this carnival of beauty in all of it's MAJESTIC GLORY AND PRESTIGE? Yes he'll probably have…
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Despite how weird this OVA is I'm surprised by the low score it has because this was actually pretty entertaining and seems like a gem among anime itself because we'll probably never see something like this ever again.
In a world gone mad the human race must do whatever they can to survive so a boy named Kakugo is gifted with his martial art skills and a super powerful suit of armour called Zero to protect Humanity however his sister Harara wants to destroy Humanity and Kakugo is the only one who can stop her.
Despite how weird the situations are in this OVA it actually has a solid story, the training that Kakugo and Harara had to go through so the armour would accept them since the armour they both wear is actually alive so the training they have to go through…
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i cant stress this enough don't watch this pile of crap...unless you like bad guys that clap there balls together and shoot lighting out of there rear end...then this is the anime for you..its the one of the worse anime i have ever seen. Normally i like wired power anime but this one went hard into the dirt . the biggest part is that the fist episode lies to the viewer and make it look as if this will be alot like guyver or fist of the north star but then the second and thankfully last episode is just the pathetic attempt at anime...
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I absolutely loved this anime! I love crazy stuff like this! I watched this because one of my favourite actors Mona Marshall was voicing the villain in the English dub! Because I watched this I love Harara! She is freaking awesome! I don't care about good plots as long as it catches my attention I will watch any anime!
The music is badass and very catchy! The funniest scene was when the protagnist Kakago pimp slapped another character I was like random comedy! I know this show is not for everyone it's like wine an acquired taste but I for one loved it!
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Apocalypse Zero doesn't take itself seriously and neither should you. It has the potential to be a great guilty pleasure which is loaded with blood, gore, nudity, and references to other anime/movies. Its a total joyride with plot and characters that are exactly what you expect them to be; shallow. Im surprised to find so many negative reviews of this OVA here, i find that many must simply be offended by gore, nudity, or possibly have Zero grasp of scope. (pun intended) Apocalypse Zero knows what it is, and knows what it is and never tries to be anything greater, this is what allows it to have old men with hydra penises and morbidly obese women sucking the skin off of a characters bones. My only complaint is that it left me hanging at the end with another "go read the manga" ending. Overal…
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This show is fucking amazing. OK, so basically, there's this guy fighting a mutant tit-bear in the Himalayas or something. His dad is some sort of kung fu master, and also he has an intersex brother or something. His brother has tits. Anyway, something happens, and he ends up with this Kamen Rider robot armor. He enlists in this post-apocalyptic Mad Max high school for some reason and randomly fights giant leather daddy gimp frogs with weaponized dildos, demon nurses with vagina teeth & tit rockets and various other abominations against god. I'm so glad I live in a universe where this show exists. Basically, Apocalypse Zero should be worshipped and cherished forever. Also, all the characters are weirdly cheerful and nonchalant considering people get their faces ripped off and their guts sq…
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This is everything I want in a terrible anime. Usually, terrible anime will not quite do it for me in one aspect or another, but Apocalypse Zero hits the nail right on the head.
The story can't decide if it wants to be apocalypse fighting, high school in an apocalyptic setting, or a hentai. It's delightfully terrible at mashing these together, which results in hilarious fight scenes against a hentai monster at a run down high school in the post apocalypse. A lot of people found the series boring, but since I could never tell how they'd next attempt to mix these awful genres together next, I was entertained the whole time.
The characters all look like they were beaten with an ugly stick, simple as that. And if your innocent school characters are that fugly, you can bet the monsters are ev…
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Apocalypse Zero is a two part mid 1990s OVA which ticks every box that either made this era utterly brilliant or one to completely avoid depending on your preferences. It has excessive violence from the start with people exploding from the inside out, being diced into small pieces and having their faces sucked off to name but a few, it has nudity, it has hysterical localisation and over the top moves. While plenty other anime and OVAs have done this before Apocalypse Zero turns the volume up to 11 and then stands there with a smug grin on its face as the lunacy explodes on the screen throughout its just over an hour running time. Needless to say this is not a series for everyone or indeed probably the majority of the anime watching community but from that brief overview you should be able…
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Apocalypse Zero is a completely insane, surreal and over the top Kamen Rider-esque OVA based on a manga by Takayuki Yamaguchi, the artist of hyper-violent yet wonderfully drawn Chanbara manga Shigurui: Death Frenzy. It is also one of the most absurdly loathed pieces of Japanese animation of all time, especially among English-speaking anime fans - there is something about this OVA that has a very special effect on anime reviewers and manages to send them on indignant nerd rage frenzies like no other work. To most viewers, it is to anime what The room is to cinema, or more accurately, what the pixely rape simulator Custer's Revenge is to video games - a work that is not only devoid of any talent, skill or effort but also, in the eyes of many people, a disgusting and irredeemably vile story t…
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Apocalypse Zero is one of, if not THE most over-hated anime title in history. This little OVA containing a piece of a much bigger manga story has been hammered and spat-on by countless “oh-so-smart-and-civilized” types. Usually I can ignore differences in opinion, even if its from all-round ass-hats, but this series is one I cannot just look over because frainkly it doesn’t deserve such negative vitriol, especially when you take into consideration the stupefying criticisms. Oh yeah, and even though this is a post-apocalyptic Fist of the North Star-esque series, many seem to be outraged that it is gory. Yes, you heard me, with that kind of mindset I might as well rent a kung-fu movie and bitch about there being too much corny fighting.
This is a post-apocalyptic action-oriented work influ…
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Note: Under no circumstances should you watch this pathetic excuse for an anime.
Grand Totals:
Story - 1/10 (Pathetic)
Art - 1/10 (Pathetic)
Sound - 1/10 (Pathetic)
Character 1/10 (Pathetic)
Enjoyment 1/10 (Pathetic)
Overall -1/10 (Pathetic) Story:
There is no story. If you have seen Guyver or Hokuto no ken, then combine the plots of both of these, take out the awesomeness, and you have this show. If you haven't seen either of those shows; then I'll attempt to explain the plot in a few words. Nuclear holocaust, giant demon monsters, and school children. Yeah. It sucks.
Art:
Horrible art. Nothing looks good at all. All of the character designs suck beyond belief. All the monster that the main character fights have fucked up beyond reason attacks such as their penis transforming into a dr…
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Apocalypse Zero is an anime that lives up to its name. Zero merits, zero reasons to watch it, zero out of ten.
The rating system thing doesn't allow me to assign zeroes and I don't like numerical rating in general because I don't believe that a complex opinion such as a review can be properly simplified with math. However, I will talk about numbers and reviews here. Numerical ratings of anime are approximately earned with merits. Everything the show does to advance its entertainment purpose raises its number. That is why my real overall rating for Apocalypse Zero is zero. This show literally goes nowhere. I gained nothing but despair in watching this, and I would have better spent my time looking at a blank monitor, which would have earned the same score (so shouldn't the rating really be…
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