(TLDR at the bottom, as always, thanks for reading)
Revamp of my MAL Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven review, also short review.
Obligatory Dream moment note:
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"1/10" anime is often thrown around by ~~"critics"~~ people with very high standard, usually depicting that said anime is so bad it is the worst of the bunch. But then you have anime like Tenkuu Danzai Skelter Heaven where everyone will throw a "1/10" score. The opinion is more absolute, but not factual. What I mean is that at the end of the day, it does depend on standard and values in which will never correlate perfectly with everyone as to what is what universally. Tenkuu Danzai Skelter Heaven is one of those cases, because, as I just said, I will be one of the few to tell you that this anime unironically isn't a 1/10.
Spoilers from here on out, but I am sure you didn't care :p
The narrative sucks so bad that it is hilarious. There was a strange object in the air. And these good guys obviously tried to defeat it with their power rangers Megazord. It works obviously because good guys always win. In between, there was a love story, some jealously, some love is war going down? I can tell you know I haven't the slightest clue anymore, story pretty bad, with no sense of direction with random things thrown into the plot, the characters are the same, are they even human, they kinda just blindly go on some path no one really has any idea about? They are about as blank as me from time to time too. There was a strange object in the air.
Audiovisuals, I know they suck, but no one will talk about how the characters actually look fine, this isn't some Utsu Musume Sayuri shit, the characters have design comparable to Elfen Lied or School Days character design. It genuinely isn't that bad lol.
fine character design
There was a strange object in the air. Their animation was decent for the most part too (8:10 - 8:14 was one decent part), with more somewhat noticeable flaws with movement but I can't say anything else went wrong. The CGI is something to hate though, no real excuse to use that CGI in 2004 now is there.
no clue as to what in the everlasting fuck is this
Audio is good, atrocious character voicing, they could have picked even me up to do a better job, no conveying of characters, literal robots lmao. There was a strange object in the air. But the vocals in the OP and ED are actually well made really. Again, no one will tell you this, and whilst the OP and ED will leave you as quickly as they came, "in the moment" I remembered them, they actually were decent. After just watching the OP I will tell you hand on heart, that yes, you probably won't remember this, but considering how this is an OVA the OP has a lot more say
if you will, watch this whilst reading on I suppose lmao.
also, ED is 17:26 - 18:56 (on og vid), sounds pretty good too.
I can't say I didn't enjoy this anime, I don't have the emotion necessary to hate something to the point where I unironically slap arbitrary 1/10s to convey how much I disliked a cartoon. There was a strange object in the air. Really, this is more to like than dislike. This feels dumb as hell at times like why is there a random confession midway, what?? And then the dude looking something I could meme his face out of when someone did a thing. If you have an "I don't take anything seriously" attitude like me, then you will probably enjoy this. Otherwise, you won't really, but this isn't really offensive, more just very stupid, how anyone takes this seriously, I am not sure honestly. There was a strange object in the air.
TLDR: Not a bad as people say it is, there are legit some things here that were fine. Everything else is pretty damn stupid though.
So, overall, this doesn't suck, this is just a really really dumb anime. But it isn't that offensive, because, no one really tried in the first place, and the audiovisuals are somewhat liveable, hell, maybe good if you look over the negative stuff like the CGI. I find dumb things funny (with some exceptions) rather than taking them seriously, I think a lot of other people do too, but I am not sure anymore, given the reaction to this. I have still yet to find some true 1/10 anime, and I can't really tell anyone that you will find some here, if anything Mars of the Destruction is worse than this. So the journey continues, maybe actively not now, I have plans to go through other anime, but sometime soon I will go through more "bad anime" for sure.
I would give this a 6/10 if it didn't try to incite a real story too. And yes, there was a strange object in the air.