I like to think that Ive sat through some terrible anime in my time. Black Bullet Comet Lucifer Mayoiga Another you name it. Im a NoDrop watcher so Ive seen my fair share of shit shows. Never did I think that a show would come along that was so incredibly bad so intellectually bankrupt that it would completely redefine what I would consider a bad anime series. Ill spoil the score for you right now: Taboo Tattoo is a legitimate 0/10. It has zero merit as a piece of art animated work or general entertainment. I would have much rather gouged out my own eyes than watched this series and given the choice Id have reached for the nearest rusty spoon in an instant. This show has no idea where its going what its doing or what it wants to do. At first I thought this show was going to this seasons Bungou Stray Dogs where the story is retarded but at least the character designs and fights were cool enough to keep me halfway interested but the animation quality for Taboo Tattoo took a complete nosedive after episode 1 devolving into commonplace CG and slideshowlike animation from that point forward. I distinctly remember a scene where a walking character simply didnt have an animated walk cycle and instead her drawing translated about the screen freely. The music and art are also incredibly generic and bad especially for a studio like J.C. Staff who at the very least produces consistently endearing character designs. With a show this bad youd think that it was trying to be some sort of parody but its not. The characters of the show are its standout terrible feature with all of them having contrived and ridiculously plot convenient super powers that manifest out of tattoos of all things. Our MC is literally named Justice and has the best super power that is activated for free by the nature of him being the biggest most tired trope. We have childhoodfriendbigtits McGee who is overused for the short half of the series that she is alive for the purposes of otaku pandering fanservice shots and light novel powertrip fantasies. We have Rin Tohsaka lookalike Antagonist Hime who is incredibly gay and not much else. Like no shes actually a lesbian and the occasional yuribait jokes of which there are maybe 4 or 5 total are the only thing that even got me to look up from my phone. Theres also the best fucking character ever Bluesy Fruesy the American secret services agent thats been sent to Japan to oversee tattao collection. Bluesy. Fruesy. That is a characters fucking actual name. This show is an absolute dumpster fire. It regularly set new lows for the entire medium every single fucking week. Avoid it like the plague. I sat through it so you dont have to. The worst about it is that MAL and AL wont let me rate it a 0 because the site doesnt support a rating that bad.