oh. oh no. okay so let me... let me just rant about Dokuro-chan for a bit, because that's one from back when I was doing reviews on Twitter (and I forgot to save all of those before deleting my account on there, oops)
this might be long so i'm gonna hide it behind a click-through
When I got back into anime a few years back, it was mostly because of some friends playing Anime Music Quiz. In case people don't know, it's as simple as it sounds: you get 20 seconds of a song, and you have to name what show it's from. There's a bunch of settings and stuff, but mostly we just played (and still play) with only shows from our own lists.
So, this is Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan:
these images shamelessly taken from the Anilist page, because I refuse to search further than that.
This kept showing up in AMQ, in part because there are two seasons: the first is 4 episodes, the second is 2 episodes.
I have still not watched S2, notably.
Some of us were just in the mood to watch anything and everything (which I still mostly do anyways), including the person who'd already seen Dokuro but couldn't remember much of it. So the three of us hopped in a call and watched Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan.
Typically, if I'm group-watching something, I'll wanna be muted while watching - focus on the show, chat about it in text chats to the side or between episodes - but less than halfway through the first episode, we all unmuted and just started chatting through it.
You see, Dokuro is a comedy about a guy who invents a way to become immortal in the future, which causes untold problems, so an angel goes back in time in order to kill him. Except, she decides that he doesn't need to be killed - she can just 'pester' him (read: kill him and revive him) so relentlessly that he never figures out how to develop immortality in the first place. That sounds like a kinda fun concept on paper, and I was blissfully unaware of exactly how bad that could get at the time.
One of the running gags in the show is that if someone removes an angel's halo, they get violent diarrhoea. It's that kind of show.
I remember us genuinely laughing at one joke, where Dokuro turns someone into... a moose, I think? for getting paired with Sakura in some event, and it's just a fully photo-realistic animal head on an anime human body. And then that joke got used like 6 more times in 4 episodes and run into the ground so hard that I felt bad for finding it kinda funny to begin with.
So I burned like 2 hours of my life on this absolute shit and have mostly refused to burn another hour on S2 in the 3 years since. I probably will at some point and I will regret absolutely every decision I've made in life that leads me to that point. It's one of three things on my list that I gave a 1/10 to - the others are Naria Girls, a '''comedy''' short that tries to riff on mahou shoujo while offering nothing original or funny, and Ladyspo, which is closer to being a slideshow than an anime and also makes unfunny toilet humour jokes!
Dokuro-chan is still worse than either of those two. If I want someone to suffer, I'll recommend they watch Disgaea or Danganronpa before playing the games. If I want someone to regret existing in the first place, it has to be Dokuro-chan.

