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Ex-Arm Makes Gibiate Look Like a Masterpiece

Ex-Arm Makes Gibiate Look Like a Masterpiece

Mary Lee Sauder
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The Winter 2021 anime season is packed to the gills with fantastic programming: Attack on Titan Final Season, Wonder Egg Priority, SK8 the Infinity, Beastars Season 2... but one anime in particular, seems jarringly out of place among these juggernauts. Ex-Arm, a mostly CGI show based on writer HiRock and artist Shinya Komi’s 2015 manga of the same name, is so unabashedly terrible that it’s already plummeted to one of the lowest spots on MyAnimeList - yes, even below Summer 2020’s infamous Gibiate. But what exactly makes it such an utter waste of our precious human lives, and how did it wind up this way in the first place? Let’s figure out why Ex-Arm makes Gibiate look like a masterpiece.

3 Post-Apocalyptic Anime Better Than Gibiate

3 Post-Apocalyptic Anime Better Than Gibiate

Mary Lee Sauder
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Summer 2020’s Gibiate is a fetid pile of month-old fish skeletons and rotten eggs, as anyone who sacrificed even a moment of their life watching it already knows painfully well. It’s the lowest ranked full length anime series on MyAnimeList.net with a whopping 3.94 out of 10 at time of writing, which is especially heinous because the minds behind this project consisted of such luminaries as Yuzo Koshiro (composer for the Streets of Rage series, among others), the Yoshida Brothers (world-renowned shamisen players), and even Yoshitaka Amano (character designer/illustrator for the Final Fantasy series).