Share your pain

OMEGA_HunTer said:
Why hate so much hand shakers ?

Werty800 said:
Besides all the obvious things and all the details that I spotted in the show itself, the pain haunts me even now for two major reasons:
1. I have yet to even hear or see a clip of something that's a bigger mess than Hand Shakers is on a visual level, at least for a 12 episode series, so every time I watch something and I think it's bad, I always think about Hand Shakers and how it's not as bad as that, which is a straight up torture, because it instantly reminds me about all the shit that this show did. It's a never ending circle.
2. I went through all of it, and at the very end, I didn't even have enough creative energy left to write something about it. It sucked me dry to the point where I couldn't even write anything about it, because I'd have to remember some of the things or even rewatch certain elements to make sure about some of my points. After all that I endured, it all ended up being technically meaningless.

CodeBlazeFate said:
It's ok my friend. It's regrettable that your pain was mostly meaningless until now, but you're at least somewhat safe from the hell. It's truly baffling how visually horrific the series is and man, let us hope we never have to go through it again.

Except for me of course. There's still the upcoming OVA I'll have to deal with.

Werty800 said:

Hey, I'll watch it. Gotta finish what you started right? You can't just approach the devil after 4,5 hours of walking up to him through the utter despair that are the depths of hell and say "You know, this kind of sucks, I'm just going to go back okay?" and then actually leave. Quitting isn't an option anymore.

CodeBlazeFate said:
Exactly. Gotta punch Lucifer in the fact otherwise it was all for naught.

Symphyon said:
Well I'll share my two cents here for a bit because why not?

Iniciating how I even started the show: I heard bad things about it, so one time during winter season I decided to watch it with someone I met on MAL (which I don't know where he even is anymore) and decided to watch 2 episodes or so of the show itself. Admittedly I thought it wasn't that bad or, as bad as people were saying. It was the type of "I just don't care about it" type of feeling.

But after episode 3 I really got pissed off because of how much the show triggered me, because of how much they contradicted in the span of 3 episodes, and it was a lot. Not as much compared to the previous shows I've seen but still. From there I took the chance to drop it, never gave it a score because I don't give scores to dropped anime series.

Months later, I said I was going to watch it when I do have the chance of it, and oh boy did I did something wrong with this one. I made someone that I know of (which is Spanish btw) watch something horrible that was worth 1 hour, so as a payback, the guy told me to watch episodes 4-6 of Hand Shakers. I accepted it, and well... You know this is bad, when an episode for once literally made you go and shit. I'm not joking, for Episode 5 of Hand Shakers, I went to the bathroom to literally go and take a shit. I was already feeling sick though, but still. As a witness or at least who was apart of this entire me watching the entirety of Hand Shakers, I have @AnimeHolicTops to be the guy that was with me for the rest of the showcase.

At that time my mind wasn't working well, so I decided to go full-on masochist mode and said "You know what? Let's just watch every single episode of this shit." That was a bad decision but regardless it was good popcorn for Holic :T and for Kami (TheAnimeWind). I was cringing and dying, it was so bad that its actually just entertaining for both to see me suffer through it and I deserved that for saying that sentence though. At the end, its one of the worst things I've seen but I don't consider it my most hated show.

As for the Prequel OVA, I'm only going to watch it for two things:

- The lulz
- Because of my nature of having some masochism, I'm going to sit through it, and not to mention I'm not gonna let you guys sit through this alone in a sense right? :P

Symphyon said:

Glad you liked it, though even writing it makes me feel the drastic pain in the ass because of my mind and how it worked out in the end (I mean why in the fuck did I accepted that?!)

I mean I'm technically dead at this point because I watched some stuff that made me feel like ass, but let's hope the OVA doesn't become the nail in the coffin for anyone involved or anyone watching it because, being real: Depending on the time length, it will not be pretty.

Symphyon said:

I mean I got myself prepared for whatever date this airs.

*prepares lists of shows to watch/rewatch by the time she watches the OVA*

Lieuphist0 said:
I stumbled across this anime, probably sometime early to mid 2017 - I can't quite remember, but most likely during the spring of 2017. It was presented on my frontpage as I entered MAL. I had some time to spare in the morning before heading off from home, and I clicked in on it, excited to find something new and interesting to start, and I thought Hand Shakers was just the right thing: it had a low rating, it seemed extremely off just from MAL's page, and the reviews were abysmal.

The perfect show to watch and make fun of, because it seemed like any other bad show that had been copy/pasted over the years, and skimming over the reviews, not actually reading them, I decided I'd give it an episode. Before I did, I Googled Hand Shakers, and I was greeted by a .gif of a woman with bouncing breasts, thinking it was some flamboyant maid I'd be seeing a few episodes in.

I didn't even make it through the introductory screen, with the main character's monologue, and everyone that had worked on the show have had their names on screen. I made it to the fisheye lens, downwards panning skyscraper shot, where I had to take a quick break for my eyes to recover and me to fully brace myself for this episode. It was by this point I realised, that my expectations that were non-existent; my expectations being that it would be a bad generic anime, had been demolished. This was on another scale of bad, and it didn't even take 5 minutes for me to understand that this was going to be the worst thing I've ever witnessed.

Lo and behold, the bouncing tits were on screen - not even halfway through the first episode - that I thought was going to be some stupid fan service scene a few episodes in, and I had to pause at around the 10 minute mark to call for backup. Little did my backup know, that this was going to be his final 20 minutes of his life. I brought him through the first episode with me, and he could not believe how bad it was. I looked at MyAnimeList again, thinking this had to be some old, abandoned art project from 2013, only to see that it was made in 2017. Every person I knew that watched anime were warned to stay away from Hand Shakers, and those that didn't listen soon regretted their choice of watching it. It was so bad that I, personally, could not ridicule or make fun of Hand Shakers - it was bad enough for me to not be able to joke about this anime.

In conclusion, it basically crippled me or caused a mental block from watching anime. I couldn't watch past the first 2 or 3 episodes of an anime before I lost all will to continue the series, until December of 2018, where I binge watched Samurai Champloo and found inner peace. It was also late December of 2018 I saw that W'z was going to air mere days after the new year had started. That experience will be for another time.

CodeBlazeFate said:
That is terrible. man, my experience with W'z was also a story. I dreaded watching it, and it was not by my choice that I started it. Man, this anime was just the worst. My condolences.

Lieuphist0 said:


I have made a vow, though. I will watch all of Hand Shakers and W'z if a 3rd season ever appears. I will, of course, also watch this 3rd season if it does come to existence - until then, I've stayed away from it because I'm afraid I won't be able to continue anime if I do such a dangerous thing. I will pray for the best, nonetheless.