We, the Animasochists, do hereby ordain and establish the Slaines Court. We gather today to cast judgment upon Crunchyroll Originals, a collection of anime series partially funded by the titular streaming service in exchange for exclusivity, a practice with its own set of issues outside the scope of this article. Every show produced under this banner thus far has demonstrated problems of one kind or another, which we are about to gleefully excoriate.
For those who haven’t already heard of us, it’s not too late! You can still run! But more seriously, we’re a subset of AniTAY crew who write about terrible shows, in what’s effectively an anime version of the Razzies. Our ‘award’ is named for the Undisputed Worst Anime Character In History: Slaine Troyard from Aldnoah Zero. …