Arg, I have a great one, I cant find on a quick YouTube search. I'll have to deepen my search tonight.

Otherwise, just watch Hare & Guu or Dokuro-chan, and this contest will end quickly. :D

Those are almost TOO easy winners. I'll have to brainstorm tonight for some alternates...

Neon Genesis Evangelion probably has a thousand ludicrous moments but thats probably too easy.

This may be cheating as Dead Leaves is just batshit crazy but probably the most ludicrous moment I've ever seen was when the yellow baby emerged from Pandy wielding two handguns and proceeding to shoot the shit out of the red haired cyborg.

Code Geass- Nina humping the table.
That is all.

THAT IS FUCKING ALL!

The final episode of Gurren Lagann. A big mech, which was made by jamming one small mech on top of another one, takes control of a spaceship, and proceeds to become a giant mech. That giant mech takes control of an even larger spaceship, which then proceeds to become a giant mech. This humongous mech somehow winds up in an alternate dimension, and make their entrance in this dimension by bursting out of the ring of a normal sized girl, who happens to be the love interest of the show's main character. This mech then proceeds to take over an entire galaxy, WHICH TRANSFORMS INTO A GIANT FUCKING MECH!!!

There was this one moment in "Ragnarock: The animation" that is weird enough to cause brains to melt. For some reason, Ragnarock seems to be homage to every single bad anime based off of a RPG ever made. Its got your annoying main character who wants to be a big hero and his best friend the mage that has to shout "HEAL!" every time someone is injured.
The makeshift heroes find out that there are evil monsters in the sewers. Being the heroic heroes they are, they must go destroy the sewer monsters. So, after the characters shout the names of their super special moves a couple of times, the monster is destroyed and the day is saved from ambiguous terror! Thats when the townspeople come down into the sewers and throw fruit and vegtables at the main characters as thanks. Seriously. They say "Thanks for saving the day! Here's some fruit!".
Its like saying thanks in Ragnarok language!

Queen's Blade. It's dumb but I ended up seeing it at a buddies house. One moment stands out, at the ending of episode 1.

There's a pink haired chick, who shoots some corrosive substance, one can assume it's an acidic breast milk, from her tits. She proceeds to battle the scantly clad heroine and traps the woman between her lethal boobage. The boobs then proceed to grow and expand, like a over taxed balloon and then explode.

Not the craziest thing I've seen an anime, but it the most perplexing.

The episode of Naruto where Naruto pisses on everyone - while in his Sexy no Jutsu form.

'Twas like being kicked in the balls, but for your brain cells.

Half of them exploded and died.

So you want a WTF moment?
Also i think you could have done better with lady une by showcasing her split personality. ie: hair down nice lady like ;hair up...well watch the video.
and this is not my entry.

does this include NSFW stuff?

Krauser II unleashing his "10 rapes per second" move in Detroit Metal City (SFW)

seriously....that WASN'T in the hentai section... It was even in a box set rated 16 XD

Short and simple.

Max & Myria... have a blond baby

Blue and green can make many things - blond (yellow) is not one of them.

While I am not as well versed in the world of anime as many here, I did see some cool stuff, and some horrific stuff in my younger years.

My favorite and frankly totally ludicrous moment came from the Fist of the North Star movie. When I saw this late one night I thought it was the most over the top and totally fucking awesome thing I had ever watched. Despite the little buggy kid and mute sister...

But the bat shit craziest, most out there scene is when Ken fights the giant viking/biker guy who can turn his body to steel. Everything seemed to be progressing as normal when the biker turns and does the speech which is ingrained in my mind since that night:

"(hahahahaha) I've turned my body to steel, you can.... gagarggaklalallrla *ping* *ping* *ping*"

The pinging is from large dents poping into the steel skin from the inside out as his brain explodes and then colapses.

If I wasn't at work I'd find the video.

I don't really know if this counts but...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-3q2fs5PI

So. Lemme get this straight.

Son Goku took like, dunno, 9001 [GET IT, HUH?!] episodes to SCRATCH Frieza...and then...in LES THAN ONE EFFING MINUTE; TRUNKS COMES OUT OF NOWHERE AND CUTS FRIEZA IN HALF.

LIKE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE HE'S EVEN STRONGER NOW THAT HE'S MECHAFRIEZA. BUT SINCE TRUNKS IS GODDAMN AWESOME AND A PERFECT DEUS EX MACHINA ELEMENT...

I seriously got angry when I saw that. Really, really angry.

And also wet myself, even though I'm a guy.

Are multiple entries allowed? Eh, what the hell, I'll throw this in to see if it mentally scars anyone.

Amon: Apocalypse of Devilman OVA. Akira the main character has just transformed into his monstrous Devilman form, and shreads a few demons to pieces. An insectoid female demon comes running up. Devilman grabs her breasts, rips them off, and proceeds to eat one.

There.

My entry for most ludicrous anime moment is Sailor Moon's final battle (episode 200) with Sailor Galaxia.

links to part 1 & 2 of ep 200 found on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8dYHcvxv94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-YzkUnxwP4&NR=1

Who the hell needs weapons and armor to defeat a final boss when all you have to do is fly naked and reach out your hand to defeat the enemy with love...

*shudders*
I'm going to go and play Call of Duty now and blow up the enemy instead. "Ka--boom."

One of the most ludicrous things I've seen in anime was the ending of Utawarerumono;

It goes like this, for 20+ episodes we've had a fairly decent story set in a medival/feodal fantasy world, populated by anthros.
In the begining; Que our hero, a guy with a weird metal mask glued to his face, whom, of course, has lost his memory. He is found wounded in the woods by a girl from a small village who nurses him back to health.
The dude, who's name is Hakuoro, starts protesting the feodal rule of the land, and starts a rebelion, gathering all sorts of colourful characters along the way who helps him and his ever-growing army. They eventually manage to overthrow the ruler of the land, and Hakuoro becomes the new emperor. What's next is defeating the the bordering countries which all are out to enslave the people of Hakuoro's country. With his charisma and his wits, he defeats the enemies one after one, until there is only one country left, a country lead by a strange man who's been seen working behind the scenes of every other enemy of Hakuoro.

At this point, we suddenly start to get weird "flasbacks" of a man who looks like Hakuoro living in a lab, interacting with humans. Things go sour and Hakuoro kills them all, enraged because they dissected his partner.

It's time for the big revelation; Hakuoro is in fact not a man at all, he's some sort of giant mecha-dragon, and the mysterious dude who's been working behind his scenes, is his other -evil- self. Turns out humanity died out thousands of years ago and the anthros that now populate the world are the offspring of the creatures from the lab seen in the flasbacks (wich were never hinted at all during the course of the show)

Hakuoro and his evil-self both revert back to their mecha forms and start duking it out, Hakuoro wins, but loses his form and sort of walks in to the light, leaving his friends and loved ones to fend for themselves.

This is so retarded for a multitude of reasons, and left me thoroughly baffled as why they would throw a perfectly good fantasy anime and turn it in to a steaming turd of sci-fi cliché mecha during the last episodes.
It's just as if the director got bored during the final episodes and said; Fuck it, this fantasy crap isn't doing it anymore for me, let's turn it into a sci-fi mecha instead!

The saddest part was that I was really enjoying the show.

(Bonus retardism, as if the entire "fuck you, I'm gonna go with sci-fi now" wasn't enough:)
In one scene, two guards are standing around talking, during broad daylight, when suddenly, one of them is impaled buy a bunch of arrows, he falls to the ground, dying. His friend looks in shock, and asks; What's wrong? to the corpse on the ground, with arrows sticking out of his body.

The fuck you think is wrong, are you blind? GAWD!
http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j235/un_suede/?action=view¤t=wrong.jpg

Wow, I'm surprised I'm the first person to put out Fooly Cooly. Quite possibly the most insane moment in any anime that I've seen (In a show that's FULL of them) Honestly let me give brief synopsis for you people not in the know.

An alien woman, Haruko, who rides a vespa and uses a gasoline powered guitar as a weapon comes to live as a house maid with a gradeschool student, Naota, after hitting him directly in the head with her guitar, causing robots from another planet to begin appearing out of the boy's head. The alien is trying to find the space pirate king Atomsk, while Naota is just trying to be an adult like his brother.

This was the most Bat-shit insane series, only 6 episodes long this show did so many different animation styles, ranging from the complex and beautiful to the simple and dynamic but most insane was the episode where the went a completely manga style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLfKl29sd_w

They seriously talk about fondling for two minutes straight, and it's awesome.

They did this not just ONCE but TWICE, one of the characters of the show mentioning they had to stop doing it because the budget wouldn't allow it.
Odd that the most insane moment of an anime where guitars are weapons, robots come out of heads and highschool girls befriend giant gun wielding arms is two minutes about breasts.

My vote for most ludicrous anime moment comes from the gem that is Gundam Seed Destiny. To set up the scene for people who don't watch gundam there's always a launch sequence where the Gundam shoots out of a launch pad to go into battle and Destiny is no different (for an example see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzmaIMj8Y9w)

The ludicrous moment comes when in one of the last episodes where the crew clearly stopped caring and got into the booze. As the main character Kira Yamato launches his Gundam it starts out as his ultimate-ass-kicking machine the Strike Freedom, then as it goes up the launch track it changes to his older and crappier Strike Gundam from two upgrades ago and was blown up in the previous season!!! Then as it changes to the shot outside the ship it's back as the Strike Freedom and continues on it's merry way.
I had to watch it over 3 times to make sure I wasn't just tired and there's no excuse as to why it happened because they have already made the launch sequence for the Strike Freedom. Of course it's not like that was the only thing wrong with Destiny...

Sorry if I went too long but I really couldn't find a youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEu9qz_Ykpc

This Right here

I guess at least it confirms that Naruto doesn't change "everything" when he transforms...

But seriously...what were the Filler writers thinking when they thought having Naruto piss on Ino. On a kids show complete with Piss Rainbow and evertyhing was a clever idea.

Sorry Dexo... I beat you to that one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QjMbf0z6Gk&feature=PlayList&p=21C59DC070BFB250&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=6

The part that really takes the cake for me is at the end of Getter Robo Armageddon. The Shin Getter, while on top of the Shin Dragon, Pulls out an axe big enough to CLEAVE ALL OF JUPITER'S MOONS, the Axe itself was so large it blew off the arms of the mech using it. If that wasn't enough, after they were done killing off the big bad. A giant space vagina comes and tries to devour the whole of the solar system. They decide to perform a bigger version of Getter Dragon's move. The Shine Spark, They succeed. They penetrate the Space Vagina. And they end up in another universe, To learn that the original getter team's fate is to fight alongside countless versions of themselves against countless evil forces in a giant robot Valhalla. Now thats fucking awesome.

Eight words: "I'll take a potato chip... and eat it!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-yD9RmgrSo

The Trippy .Hack//Sign Intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDE_QT_fJWU
Enough Saidd;

Four terrible, magical words:
Nazi Death Rape Machine.

From the otherwise delightful anime, Urotsukidoji 2: Legend of the Demon Womb, comes a large machine with tentacle dildos, simultaneously raping multiple women at one time. The victims sat around a large circular console and were penetrated in every orifice at once until they died. The fact that it was named the Nazi Death Rape Machine makes it completely offensive on every single level. I think they made a model of it in Japan.
Classy.
I was afraid of linking to a video for fear of a Overfiend resurgence (and I couldn't find a good one). I'm not proud of having seen this movie (nor the others in the series) but I did it for the comic shop I worked at once upon a time. I was dedicated that way.

I'm not going for a prize (and do not want another one), but I need to mention the Vision of Escaflowne because it has one of the stupidest plot twists I've ever seen in a fictional narrative.

This is a pretty weird show. Here are some examples: It has medieval mecha, characters with noses longer than swords, a city ripped straight out of Final Fantasy VI, furries, takes place on an invisible planet that we of Earth cannot see, and Dilandau, the show's sadist, who by all appearances seems to be a dude, turns out to be one of the main character's long lost sisters. It's the kind of show where airships and dragons are as normal as it gets.

After a while, I got used to the weird (and, honestly, I liked it), but then it turns out that the evil Emperor Dornkirk, the gnarly, ancient, long-bearded, Santa Claus reject of an old geezer, is Sir Isaac fucking Newton.

Sir Isaac Newton. This guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg

That famous mathematician and physicist that developed a famous theory on gravity. He's the big bad in Escaflowne. According to Escaflowne, he did not die in 1727 at the age of 84, but was instead whisked away to the mystical land of Gaia because he could not understand the gravitaional pulls of "destiny." Once he set foot on Gaia, rather than dying of old age, he uses his great knowledge of "science" to take over the entire planet and somehow live for an extra 250 years or so, just long enough so he can harass some teenagers in the present time.

Err...yeah.

Was there any reason why he couldn't just be a regular old tyrant? I was totally ready to accept him as an evil, fictional man. Really. I seriously did not need this plot twist.

Sorry for the English dubs, but I'd say this one, right around the 2 minute mark.

Wow I blow at life, let me try that again:

Again, right around the two minute mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_yvG-S2dWU

Chibiusa (Rini/Sailor Mini-Moon) from Sailor Moon came back from the future only to find out that Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask were younger versions of her parents. That doesn't stop her from constantly hitting on her future dad, the aforementioned Tuxedo Mask. Battles between Sailor Moon and her daughter ensue over who Tuxedo Mask "belongs to." Seriously, was Chibiusa planning to grow up and have an inbred baby with her future father? Would the baby have 11 toes and transform into Sailor Malfunctioning Immune System? ugh. wtf.

I am thinking Robotech and Yellow Dancer's revelation of being a guy. Now keep in mind it was the 80's and this was a cartoon. In this time, things like this were not normal for our cartoons here in the states, unless it was done for comicical reasons (Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker..etc..etc..). Here we have an episode where we are introduced to the new segments "Pop Idol" and she turns out to be a guy.
This was at a time when Robotech came on before I left for school and I will not forget going to school that day and looking at my friends going, "What the fuck?"
It was after this episode that the next one shown was the first one over again. There was no internet, we had no clue what happend, turned out the remaining episodes were being held due to full season something or another. But we all wondered what happend, if somehow crossdressing cartoon characters were not supposed to be portrayed on tv unless they were a rabbit.
I am going with the american translation on this for 2 reasons, I have not seen the full Mospeadea yet and again, this was not the norm for American cartoons ro take the subject the way Robotech did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwkveulfDz4 An early opening scene in FOTNS the movie. An enraged kenshiro punches down two skyscrapers and then walks right through one as it's falling, eventually splitting it in two with his head. And then the generic biker gang dressed like motley cru doesn't even have the sense to shit their pants and run away. HE BROKE A FUCKING FALLING SKYSCRAPER WITH HIS HEAD!!.

Here's a good one...haven't seen it in a while, so my recollection may be a little off...in "Angel Blade", one villian is a hot, nearly naked chick. She gets horny during her fight with heroine, and starts fingering herself. Then the weird shit begins...not 1, not 2, but THREE DICKS grow out of her pussy! BIG ONES! AND THEY SHOOT LASERS! WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK OF FUCK?!

*Shoujo Kakumei Utena, a deeply complicated show but ridiculous as all hell. The chairman is screwing anything in the school that moves, including his sister and possibly her monkey. Oh wait, he may BE the monkey. Cars drive around on two wheels at fast speeds as two teens duel with swords in the middle of all this... Well for a specific incident, there's one character named Nanami who is cursed to always have issues with animals: boxing kangaroos, elephants falling on her, etc... Well, in one episode Nanami gets a "necklace" that is supposedly made by Sebastian Dior. It ends up being a cowbell made by Cowshtian Dior. She wears it not knowing any better and takes on cow-like traits until she finally TURNS INTO A COW. A cow with the same pattern as her clothes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lM2CF5A9zg This weird incident is never explained, and neither is her disturbing dream of her brother fattening her up and eating her.

The most ludicrous anime moment? I don't watch a lot of anime, but I'm gonna have to go with the moment someone green lit Beyblade. 'These Pokemons and Yu-Gi-Ohs are pretty popular, but you know what kids'll go apeshit for? Tops? And if that does well, we'e making a show about magical Pogs'

Uh i would have to say the Robotech episode where the "singer" Lynn Minmei causes all of the Zentradi to become retarded because she sings a song...

We are evil aliens bent on destroying Earth we flew all of these light years to do so...hey wait what is that oh that girl is singing well then let's call the whole thing off...

GOD HOW STUPID!!

I was about 16 and decided to go on an anime binge after watching Ninja Scroll and Akira so much my brain hurt. One night I rented a bunch of unknown titles assuming that they would all be as kickass. One of these was titled "Devilman" and the crappy title alone made me save if for last.

At about 3:00am, I could barely stay awake, but I made myself watch the opening to Devilman. What I witnessed in the opening minute of this movie still creeps the ever lovin behjesus out of me. The rest of the film was pretty lame and odd, but the first minute is still embedded into my psyche and is the most ludicrous Anime moment I have seen.

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_LPs_ql0KE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV5iFXAPMDw&feature=PlayList&p=7E1F7214B1E51FF0&index=1

Samurai X Trust and Betrayal.

One of the most skilled assassins of all time, after plowing through an entire army to get to the woman he loves, DOES NOT NOTICE HER STANDING IN FRONT OF HIM!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!

I know he was in a TON of pain, but shouldn't he be trained to keep focus through pain?

But no, he FRACKING KILLS HER IN BATTLE.

This is KENSHIN!!!! THE SUPER MEGA SKILLED SAMURAI.

I think i should stop now, because i could just keep going on.

I'd have to say that the most WTF moment is Anime had to in the Pokemon episode ""Beauty and the Beach."

Check the 2:30 mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDVCXP_nFYM

That's right. James has breasts. And quite a lovely pair o boot. For quite some time, this episode didin't air in America, and when it did, James' bountiful blessings were cut from the show. This moment was so WTF that money hungry corporate America thought, "You know, forget the advertsing, maybe it's better if we just don't air this." I mean, the did end up airing it, but there was a moment of pause, and that's saying something.

What about the moment from "The End of Evangelion" where the mass produced Eva's eat Asuka and Eva 02? That part messed with me for weeks, first time I'd ever actually seen a main character be disemboweled and torn apart in such a way.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. All of it. I have never said WTF so many times in such a short period as when I watched that entire series over the course of three days.

(SPOILERS LOL)

If you want to get really specific. How about the part y'know where our giant robot combines with the fucking MOON, which is also a giant robot, and then we combine with the UNIVERSE, WHICH IS ALSO COMPATIBLE WITH GIANT ROBOTS. WHAT THE FUUUCCCKKKKK.

Hanagata's dance from Saber Marionette. Twirling nipple coverings AND sock puppet snakes! All my best friend and I remember from that show is that dance.

Oh, I have this one in the BAG.

Those Who Hunt Elves is a somewhat obscure older fantasy anime about a group of modern-day adventureres who get transported into a fantasy setting (ie, elves and such) along with their tank (yes, their TANK, as in a military tank) which is possessed by the spirit of a cat. The only way they can get home is by tracking down and stripping the various female elves that have parts of the return spell tattooed on their bodies. Each tattoo is COMPLETELY visible without the bodice-ripping, but the characters strip them anyway.

And that's not even my entry.

My entry is for the TWHE episode which revolves around one of the adventures having to poop and finding out that in Fantasyland toilet paper is a precious commodity hoarded by one particular village. In order to get him a roll, the adventurers have to save the village from some threat which I can't recall. And what's more the villagers may have the best supply of toilet paper in all the land, but they refuse to reveal where they get it from.

Now, throughout this episode we've seen adorable little fluffy white anime mascot creatures. At the climax of the episode, promised all the free toilet paper the party can carry, our constipated friend gleefully grabs a roll and goes into the bushes to do his thing. He drops his pants and prepares to take his long-held-back dump.

There he sees one of the fluffy white creatures squatting down... and pooping out a perfect roll of toilet paper. The hero screams in horror and bolts for it.

Trust me, TR readers. You don't have a prayer of topping this one.

- BHS

Pom Poko by Studio Ghibli, a cute little film about a group of tanuki loosing their home to land developers. The tanuki decide to fight back...with their testicles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kTcJAg84os

Not sure if anyone posted this yet, but the oddest anime moment in my opinion would have to be the entire film of "Akira" This video basically sums up the entire film in a nice 1 minute and 27 second package!. Let the utter randomness begin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPA2hBNJvQ

Allow me to preface: I know shit about anime. That being said, I've been exposed to some through friends and Adult Swim. So I'm going to talk like an expert even though I'm more "anime autistic". Yeah, stew on that a moment.

I was going to reference the final movie for Evangelion, but someone already has...Fuck it, I'm doing it, too.

The moment where the crazy redhead chick gets pinned down by the opposing army's respawning robot guys, and gets her FUCKING ARM SPLIT IN TWO. Now, it is eventually revealed that it's all in her head. My friend Dave who shall remain nameless didn't explain dick to me about this show before showing me this movie. So I sit there, thinking "Ooh, cartoon robots. This is going to be like Voltron!" How Ralph Wiggum of me.

So I sit there, watching some cool battles, and then the crazy redhead chick gets pinned down and they start going to town on the robot (or "Eva" as they refer to them). She tries to reach out to pick herself up, and the arm of the Eva is split. Laterally. From middle finger, to wrist, to elbow.

"Shit", I thought. "That's pretty intense."

Then the shot changes to a POV of crazy redhead, looking at her own arm, which is ALSO LATERALLY SPLIT DOWN THE MIDDLE. Dave never mentioned to me that what happened to the Eva is felt and perceived as happening to the pilot, so this was a bit surprising to me to say the least.

Then crazy chick figures out how to activate some hidden Jesus battery in the robot, calls it "her mother", goes into a coma and the world ends, with a creepy stalker who can't pilot a robot for shit is left crying over her limp, brain-dead body.

This is somehow supposed to be a Japanese allegory for the Creation story from the Bible. I still get migraines just thinking...ow...owwww....here comes another one....how is the big white blobby guy in basement Adam if he's....owww.

Not a big anime fan, but from my very limited experience I have an entry.

I was pretty young when Robotech first aired in the U.S. I was a big Star Blazers fan, and while I wasn't as big a Robotech fan, I did watch it pretty regularly.

But I didn't see every episode, and I'm assuming I missed something pretty damn important. Because one day I tuned in and there was...an entirely different show. I don't know who the producers were kidding.

Now I didn't watch every day, but I watched often enough to notice that all of the characters from the show were missing, that the villains were completely different, the drawing and storytelling were completely different, and that rather than fighting space battles, the characters now spent most of their time walking around and attending pop concerts.

I mean, I was probably twelve at the time. But even I could tell that something seriously weird was going on. Some of my friends had a theory that they'd taken two completely unrelated Japanese television series and spliced them together in the hopes that American kids wouldn't notice, but I figured that was just some sort of crazy playground rumor.

Looking at Wikipedia, it appears that in between the two series, the Earth "swiftly degraded from advanced mecha and starships to late 20th century technology," all governments collapse, pretty much everyone from the previous "season" is killed, and a previously unknown alien race invades and conquers and colonizes the earth.

So, yeah. That moment in between the second and third seasons of Robotech was pretty much the most ludicrous thing I'd ever seen on TV at that point. Not to mention the moment when someone decided they could do something like that and nobody would notice.

kenshiro said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwkveulfDz4 An early opening scene in FOTNS the movie. An enraged kenshiro punches down two skyscrapers and then walks right through one as it's falling, eventually splitting it in two with his head. And then the generic biker gang dressed like motley cru doesn't even have the sense to shit their pants and run away. HE BROKE A FUCKING FALLING SKYSCRAPER WITH HIS HEAD!!.

Posted 06/12/2009 at 03:40:43 PM

That whole sequence is perfection, not in animation or film, but in whole and total just perfect.

The dude has wandered so long through the wastelands he's caked in dirt and mud, and then with the smallest of effort punches a building right the fuck down... Yet the boss still has the brass huevos to step to him only to get his brain hemoraged right out his skull.

FOTNS is so effing great... I need to get that DVD. My VCR doesn't work anymore.

The wonderful weirdness that is anime reached its apex with Mr. Cat in Princess Tutu. You know you're in for a ride on the freak train when you meet the main character: a duck who turns into a girl who turns into a ballet-dancing magical girl superhero.

But then there's Mr. Cat. One of the protagonist's dance teachers, he is a six-foot-tall cat that walks around on his hind legs. Not an anthropomorphic cat, either. An actual CAT, that walks upright, dresses in a vest (and nothing else) and talks.

And, oh yes, there's his habit of threatening to force his female students to MARRY him if they flunk his class. Naturally, his students are terrified of him, and not just because they spend a couple hours a day locked up in a distressingly small gymnasium with a predatory mammal twice their size.

In Queen's Blade episode 10, Cattleya, the sword maker sleeps besides her son who dresses and acts like little girl, used her -I don't know- Double-H sized breasts as pillows.

The only anime I've ever seen is Dragon Ball Z, partly because in Belgium (Flanders) they don't show much anime on TV, and partly because I think it sucks. So after playing some DBZ mods (Earth's Special Forces, a half life mod), I thought it was pretty decent, until I saw the tv series itself. What I saw was indecribably awful.

It was the gigantic battle between Frieza and Goku on Namek. Only thing was, the battle didn't just last one episode. It was just two guys FlOATING in the air talking (SCREAMIN) and huffing and puffing at each other, until they did like one attack at each other. Then the episode ended, BUT you got a preview of the next episode, which had... two guys screaming at each other, with some shots of them battling each other. And the next episode started with a recap, featuring... indeed:two guys screaming at each other, with some shots of them battling each other. And after TOO MUCH episodes, Goku finally killed Frieza (although he kinda killed himself), and some episodes later, not only does Frieza REAPPEAR, he's got his even stronger evil dad with him, but they're all killed in ONE second by some character that hadn't been introduced for a few seconds (or in BDZ time, three f*cking episodes)

So, after that ordeal, I stopped watching it. (And to be fair, I doubt flemish television hasn't showed anime since, and I can only applaud them)

Mine may be the only entry that contains no violence, so I'm at a disadvantage here.
I'm nominating the entire run of Dr. Slump.
Specifically an episode I saw in Japan where Arale (the Doctors super-strong robot daughter) feeds him ice cream that she made herself.

As he's eating it she shows him HOW she made it. By feeding huge amounts of milk to an (I think) alien baby who she then stuffs into a freezer and then forces it to poop into a cone.

The whole series is like that. And it was created by the same guy who does Dragonball. So if you ever wonder about messed up stuff in that, now you know where it comes from.

I know you've said it before, but the incredible fighting candy episode of DBZ is beyond special ed.

The japanese are pretyt much obsessed with the whole "tournament style action anime, to the point where they will make them about pretty much anything... including baking bread... yeah, well anyways, sports are the obvious choice for shows like these, but how intense can you possibly make, say, tennis?

observe- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj-nfYMcJpk

He KILLED the fucking dinosaurs. With a fuzzy green tennis ball. Tennis apparently got much cooler since I played in high school...

How about Paprika?

Black Lagoon:
Destroying a Helicopter with a torpedo boat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ_6jx_s670&feature=fvw

the good stuff starts about 3:00, (some language warnings for those that need it)

err, last post button didnt work (here's hoping its not delayed!)

Black Lagoon
Torpedo Boat vs Helicopter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ_6jx_s670&feature=fvw

Starts at about 2:30

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet. In the series Desert Punk, while there are numerous wtf moments, the worst comes at the end of a two-parter (Ep. 15 and 16). Punk and the Machine Gun Brothers are hired to guard a fertilizer truck, which is captured by Rain Spider. So what does Desert Punk do? HE BLOWS THE SHIT TRUCK UP. Of course poo goes flying everywhere, clogging the air intakes of the soldiers. They of course take them off and promptly begin barfing in the shit lake. Then there is a fight, with weapons exploding because of the methane and continuing spewing of bodily fluids.

But that is not the worst part.

That honor goes to the fact that Punk and Kosuna choose to hide in the shit. No masks, no filters, just bamboo rods for air.

Let that sink in for a second.

And then realize this is a desert, so they are now covered head to toe in warm, liquid poop.

And they are grinning and laughing about it.

Okay I sincerely hope no one posted this yet but I ain't reading the 50+ comments already posted to find out so here goes.

Elfen Lied episode 11. Now Elfen Lied is a fucked up anime and even worse manga but episode 11 of the anime introduces Mariko, the daughter of one of the chief scientists at the lab and also what is known as a Diclonius, which is apparently some mutated human thing that has horns and invisible arms. Now Mariko is a little kid (8-12? it's never made clear) who has apparently 26, that's right 26, invisible arms that can be used as deadly weapons. The scientists plan to control this kid by having one of the girls pretend to be her mother. All goes well until the following dialog takes place.

Mariko: "are you my mohter?"
Girl Scientist: "yes, I am."
Mariko: "NO YOU'RE NOT"

At which point Mariko disembowels the poor girl with her crazy invisible arms and proceeds to throw her dismembered body at the other scientists who soon meet a similar fate.

Oh and for added fun this whole scene of death and gore ends when Mariko's arm blows off because apparently the scientists implanted large quantities of explosives in her body to kind of try and keep her in line... yeah.

I have to go with one of my favorite shows: Hand Maid May. In this series, there is one of the most effed up characters in the history of anime: Nanbara. Nanbara is the king of random moments and makes Jinnai look like a stable, noble individual. He's completely loopy for the most part, and says some of THE most random things ever. He scares me. He's egocentric, nutty, and completely nuts at times. He does show a softer side later in the show, but I digress.

My nomination goes to episode 1 of this series (and I cannot find a clip to save my life). Kazuya, the main male character of the series, is at school when Nanbara tries to approach him...if approach is the correct word. He goes on this entire tirade about being Saotome's "best friend and worst enemy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0t2FvLvPQY Just watch from about 3:50 to 4:15. The scene goes on, but honestly? "At the donuts center you will find a HOOOOLE!"

I want to know wtf they were smoking when they wrote this. I love this show, but for real? ;)

Cormartie High School: First Episode: One of many recurring characters appears:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ6nZMgzIHw

Freddy F***ing Mercury. Forget the gorilla and the robot, Freddy Mercury (or a clone/impersonator/cyborg thing) is IN AN ANIME. It just screams of both ludacris and awesomeness.

Really? No Serial Experiments: Lain?

If you care about spoilers stop now.

Too late now!

In the final episode, it turns out that Lain is actually the created daughter of the person who replaced God. She then tells her father to manifest himself and proceeds to kill him. And then she rewinds time so that she was never born and everything that happened in the series never happened. And Lain ends up having tea with what we presume is the god that was replaced who looks a lot like her father.

To sum up.

Lain's creator replaces and becomes God.
Lain kills God.
Lain aborts herself.
Lain has tea with God.

I haven't watched as much anime as some other people, but from what I've seen this is probably the craziest moment ever, the ending of Season 2 of Big O.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UAlIM8GAo

To sum up...well, I can't really sum it up. It's a huge clusterfuck that feels like the matrix with giant robots. I loved the show, but I still don't entirely understand how everything went down here.... but there it is.

I once started watching a random anime that someone sent me a link to. Kids, never accept anime from strangers. It starts out looking like a interesting thriller of some kind. Here's a woman sending a man off from her palatial home and pocketing some jewels. Everything indicates she either a high class whore, or a gold-digging bitch. There are shots of a man in a ski mask with solid gold eyes watching her from dark spaces. This should have tipped me off, but I didn't make the connection at first. This guy comes running out and clubs her in the head. When she comes to, she's now tied up (nude of course) in an incredibly elaborate spiders-web of bondage ropes high above her foyer. Ski mask guy stands on the railing of the balconey nearby. Using all the agility of both Altair and Prince of Persia combined, he leaps at her, and somersaults. Then he calmly walks across the ropes and we finally get to the point we all knew was coming. Frankly, I'm amazed by this time. I've seen tons of hentai, but this is even more ridiculous than usual. But so far, it's nothing compared to the climax (pun intended). She asks who is. Suddenly wearing clothes again, he stands up, spins in a spotlight and strikes a super pose screaming out (NSFW!) "I am the fucking RapeMan!" Absolutely god damned insane.

But that's the ludicrous part!!!

This show is about a guy who is paid to rape woman. Okay.

He does this to teach them a lesson about being bitchy or something. Uh....huh?

His assignment this episode to rape a teenage girl because she has a lousy prick of a boyfriend. Ummm....uh...

The "hit", as it were, is being ordered by the girl's own mother. *Whiskey'd*

I wish I could say this premise was ridiculous parody, but it's from Japan.

Paranoia Agent.

The ninth episode is a series of stories by housewives about Shounen Bat, who had struck several times by then. Rumors have begun about new incidents where the boy has struck, each more strange than the last.

There are some good ones, such as a man studying for an entrance exam vomiting up millions of math formulas. Another good one shows a baseball pitcher getting different pitching instructions from every member of his team, only to find that the next batter up is Shounen Bat himself.

The best one is a story about a boxer, jogging through his neighborhood and throwing punches like a pro. Every so often, he finds mysterious plates of food lingering in the haze. Each time, he punches the fuck out of each of them. (I suppose all boxers do that.) The dishes get bigger and better until he finds a buffet lineup with Shounen Bat standing behind it. He throws in the towel. According to the story, he ate all of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYG2ziYZvlU

Oh and also, how about THE ENTIRE EFFING SERIES of FLCL???!?!

to start with a robot comes out of a kids head and becomes a main character. and this kid randomly switched genders. and this kid has a crush on his babysitter....I think. all of this I'm saying is subjective because if you've ever seen the show you'll know it's a huge mess that makes no sense.

not

Not the ludicrous part. Damn my inability to read my own posts.

How about the 4kids One Piece dub? Or I could call it the Acme One Piece dub, as I think the plot holes they used to wedge the series into the shape they wanted it might've appeared in the warehouse at the end of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" (143 episodes down into 104; they had to've used a lot of lube to shove everything in there).

Potentially the most scorn-worthy part (and ludicrous implies scorn, I checked!) would be how badly they screwed up future plotlines when they turned a whale into an iceberg.

Diebuster, or Gunbuster

Being a sequel to a sci-fi anime that was known for scientific accuracy and realism, it's pretty hard to overlook the wackiness of this show. To me, the part that takes the cake of weirdness is when the main character turns into a humanoid mecha big enough to hold the Earth.

The main character turns into a humanoid mecha big enough to hold the Earth.

SHE TURNED INTO A MECHA BIGGER THAN THE WHOLE EFFING PLANET!

WHY WOULD ANYONE MAKE A MECHA THAT CAN TURN INTO A TEENAGE GIRL! HOW CAN ANYONE BUILD A MACHINE BIGGER THAN THE ENTIRE PLANET! WHERE WOULD YOU FIND ENOUGH MATERIALS TO MAKE IT! WHERE WOULD YOU EVEN GET FUNDING FOR THAT KIND OF PROJECT!

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni

This anime is litter with disturbing scenes, the fact that I actually watch this entire series says something about my psyche. I mean if what can I say about psychotic high school girls that go on killing sprees and mutilate one another.

Rika kills herself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Dq3OcZuKQ&feature=related

Rika Kills herself, Despite being the first scene my friend showed me on youtube to watch this video, nothing else trumps this scene as more disturbing. Sure talking about cutting up a boy to cook him in stew was disturbing but it didn't happen. Here you see two girls fight it out the little girl clearly overpowered by Shino, so what's a psychotic serial killer to do against another psychotic serial killer. She kills herself in one of the most messed up ways possible by stabbing her own neck. It wasn't enough to just slit her wrist she had to make sure she died otherwise Shino might have well I don't want to know what Shino would have done as shown above.

But its not just that she takes the knife and stabs herself once no this girl is determined and no Bug spray in her face is going to stop her she. Placing the knife against the wall she begins to push her own head against the Knife. Not just once no no no, multiple times, now that's takes some matzo balls. What makes this even more disturbing is the girl is like 10 or younger so it's a child killing herself the most disturbing way possible.

Ok.... Most ludicrous anime moment....?

Beating Angel Dokuro-chan

That's my answer. The anime as a whole is bat-shit crazy.

But I guess I have to pick moment so...

The pure random story Dokuro-chan was reading in episode 3 when they were in the library. Its a two part thing. First was towards the beginning and then it comes up again at the end.

Sorry, but I think we all the know the answer to this.

The scene from the movie Ninja Resurrection where Jubei (a ninja in case you were wondering) is forced to FIGHT JESUS IN THE FROM OF A GIANT ASIAN-STYLE DRAGON MADE OF ROOF TILES SUMMONED BY A CULT OF JAPANESE CHRISTIANS.

Case closed.

The last episode of Excel Saga had many messed up the moments. Hell, the entire show was pretty weird. But the one that always stuck most with mw was this moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL2XOxuUX-A

The director of the anime Nabeshin takes a car that flies and blows up a robot for no reason. Then he crashed his car into a love gotel and proceeds to kill a buch of guests with AK-47s (which he keeps in his afro). Then he runs into the friends/relatives of the main villain That Man and blows them all up with a cannon that he just happened to have in his arm. Finally he finds the main characters trapped in a robot body and fixes them by blowing them up as well.

I really liked the clip slightlyoffki posted. Truly insane, especially when taking it completely out of context.

But shibbee's post. Oh my. What a tennis match. A shot that shook the universe, then just lazily bounced off the wall. That took the crazy cake for me.

I haven't read all the entries above me, so I apologize if someone already mentioned it. I'm going old school.

Akira.

Now, back when I was...ya know...12 that shit blew my mind every single second, but we have to all recognize just how ridiculous it was the first time (the real first time, back when that glorious movie came out) when those cops were all
"Hey, stop or we'll shoot!" and he's all like, "How about I explode your entrails all over this fucking hallway with my mind? That cool?"

I was scarred.

I wanted to go on an unnecessarily long rant about how Neon Genesis Evangelion ruined my life, but we all know.

A personal favorite of mine comes from the Pokemon anime show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67wtA17xC9A

What occurs in the episode isn't that ridiculous, but what happened when it was aired originally in Japan in December of '97 was ludicrous. The special effects around 8:10 of the clip suddenly caused over 700 Japanese viewers ranging from 3 to 58 years old to seize up and start frothing at the mouth. A pretty great way to spend the holiday season.

The show was canceled for four months, and American syndication came down harder on editing out dangerous clips and violence in the U.S. cut, helpfully removing bits of humans slapping each other. Because Pokemon isn't about animals brawling to the death anyway.

my taste for the ludicrous turns to the sex, (sigh) always the sex. between erm's acidic breast milk and ballooning, exploding breasts, and Zann's ripping off of breasts and eating them, and FuryofFirestorm's woman growing three dicks out of her pussy and shooting laser beams from said dicks, i'm beat.

but just to pour one on the ground for my homies, hears a good, old fashioned hentai of frustrated, repressed, housewife mom who smurfs her son.

http://www.sexyandshocking.com/videos/489/taboo_charming_mother_ep_1_repost

Ah, Detroit Metal City. The heartfelt story about a Swedish pop nerd who becomes the lead singer - Krauser - of death metal band DMC. This series is packed with ludicrous moments, from when Krauser wields his signature cry of "10 rapes a second" (and then tries to top it with "11 rapes a second" in the name of a sick fan), to him raping Tokyo Tower and getting her to light up and get wet. Hell, Krauser even caused a Power Ranger to turn evil. You know this guy means business.

Ah, but nothing can top this moment in sheer lunacy. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Krauser-tan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLj8530fBUU

Marvel at the young kid urged by her mother to sing a sweet song about only needing a woman's lower half in order to fuck her, with DMC's fans cheering her on. Thrill as they roar with delight as she deep-throats bottle filled with a white substance. Be amazed as they're overjoyed when she rapes her father in front of everyone.

Krauser-san had better watch out, for Krauser-tan shall murder him and skull-fuck him for good measure...just as soon as she finishes her vegetables, of course.

eden of the east.

in the middle of the fourth episode the main character goes to see another character, and runs across a crater from a previous terrorist attack on tokyo. while watching the crater he suddenly jumps off the unfinished bridge he was standing on, lands perfectly safely on his feet (which is kind of a big deal since he's just an ordinary guy) and advances towards a massive pile of of broken TV's and electronics that are in the middle of the crater for some reason. as he's walking towards them, robot ghosts start coming out of the broken televisions and advancing towards him. suddenly he starts screaming out their names and the army of robot ghosts come and dogpile on him and start taking off his clothes. now the main character apparently doesn't like being undressed by robot ghosts and so he starts hitting them and drives of the pack of robotic ghost molesters. he then starts screaming and surprise! the entire thing was a hallucination. he then wishes the construction wokers working on the bridge a good day and drives off into the sunset. the entire thing is never mentioned again, and the only purpose it seems to serve is so that the show can appeal to the demographic of people that like to watch hallucinatory robot ghosts forcefully take off people's clothes.

you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvDqPUtWPE4 starting at 4:40

I stand by my earlier statement, so this isn't my entry, but I'd also like an honorable mention of the 'last episode' of Outlaw Star on Cartoon Network. I've never done any research into what happened, cause it's more fun just mocking it. But I have to assume that cartoon network cut so much out of the last two episodes that it became one confusing ass episode. And this was already a show where a naked girl drove a spaceship for a guy who was firing black holes from a revolver that sucked his life force. And THEN it got confusing.

Elfen Lied....just Elfen Lied...the whole damn show!

(Spoliers)

When an anime opens with a severed arm twitching on the floor, you know you're in for good times. Sure around the first 8 minutes of the show consist of the main character named Lucy escaping from a facility where she was being experimented on for her "special abilities", which she uses to bloodily kill about 30 armed security guards...while naked.

But the part that I though was really ludicrous was when Lucy fights a younger girl named Nana that tries to take her back to the facility. Does Lucy just walk away after an epic fight and defeating Nana by cutting off one leg and the fingers of one hand? Nooooooo...she calmly and slowly PULLS off Nana's remaining limbs, one by one, while asking "Does it hurt now?".

Oh so very NSFW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oodVyBdqyt4

The most ludicrous moment in an Anime happened in the 12th Dragonball Z Movie Fusion Reborn. In the movie at one point all the evil villains from Dragonball Z and history apparently get released from hell and at some point an obvious Hitler parody starts destroying the town with tanks only to be taken out by Super Saiyan Goten and Trunks. Anime Hitler has the best line at the end "Blonde hair, blue eyes super strength, I should be recruiting them!" The link is below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Juz1MjMXZE

I'm seconding what Robo Ky about the fake squeal to Ninja School. That was pretty insane.

I know Neon Genesis Evangelion has been mentioned several times, especially the End of Evangelion. Now true, the end fight is brutal, but what about the opening sequence? You know, the one were the 14 year old protagonist who, while visiting his friend that's in a coma at the hospital, accidentally manages to partially disrobe his friend, and then proceeds to masturbate over her broken body.
Of course, even the character realizes how ludicrous this is as he looks at the mess he's made on his hand by saying "I am so fucked up."
So, there's my suggestion.

"...fake sequel to Ninja Scroll."
I've been drinking too much
...or not enough.

Holy-fucking-shit massive galaxy-sized robots.
Using galaxies like they're fucking throwing stars.
Explosions with more power than the Big Bang.

The final battle of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op5XPLyZHwg

....is hentai included? because my god, there is some fucked up shit going on in some of that hentai.

i will have to say the most ridiculous moment i ever saw came on the cd my one friend borrowed from this kid because it had some (non hentai) anime or other on it. we decided to check out the rest of the cd to see what was on it, and among some ridiculously unmentionable stuff, we found this hentai called "tales of titillation". there were some pretty hilarious (and actually rather tame by hentai standards) segments, including a pizza delivery guy unable to make his delivery in under 30 minutes because his sexy female customers keep shoving their boobs and vaginas in his face. and his nose absolutely geysers blood. then there was the one that was basically a big middle finger to china, where this chinese tv personality gets basically kidnapped but is none the wiser because, you know, chinese people are stupid. so she ends up a sex worker and makes dudes ejaculate with her crazy psychic powers. and i think maybe there was a salary man who got gigantified like godzilla and shoved his johnson into a building and made sweet love to it.

BUT THOSE ARE NOT THE MOST RIDICULOUS MOMENTS. the weirdest one was this one about this guy who has a crush on this girl he always sees out the window, when she stops at a nearby playground to spend some time with some local toddlers. turns out she lets them POKE HER PANTIES IN THE VAG AREA WITH STICKS WHICH GETS HER OFF LIKE CRAZY. THESE ARE TODDLERS. so the dude devises this genius plan to bury himself mostly in the sand so he dress himself up like a toddler, and poke this girl in the vag the next day. all goes according...to...plan...?...until the actual toddlers the guy scared off come back for revenge and dump a bunch of rocks on his head, just as she orgasms and right when he's about to finish himself off in his underground chamber or something. then he ends up in the hospital.

seriously i can't remember if we gave the kid his CD back or not. i don't think any of us could look him in the face after that, i think we might have just destroyed it office space style.

Wow. I can't believe no one has said anything from Excel Saga yet.

Just...the whole series is about as WTF as you can get in anime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZiSzKhP7-o&feature=related

I could not pinpoint a specific scene except maybe the episode with Key, the J-Rocker, and Ilpalazzo in Excel's yaoi fantasy...and they roll down a hill in each other's arms going, "Rolling...rolling...rolling!" all the way down. XD

On the topic of ludicrous anime moments, I can't stand by without mentioning my favorite terrible OVA Garzey's Wing. The whole thing really could be described as ludicrous, as it is the story of an "easy-going" (to a fault) high school grad who gets half of his soul whisked off and dumped naked into another world by a GIANT EFFING DUCK. My favorite moment, however, is the point when Chris in Byston Well discovers he can psychically communicate with Chris of our world. Chris in Japan wakes up in bed with a start, screaming "OH MY GOD! I felt like I was having a dream." Given his reaction, one can only assume that this is a rare occurance. Byston Well Chris then proceeds to explain that "I have bruises all over my body because I had to fight naked," which information, of course, comes as a great relief to Japan Chris, since Mom's been telling him that he has bruises all over his body, too (which also begs the question of why Chris can't notice this for himself). Given Japan Chris's ignorance of his own states of body and mind, we all hope that his resolution to practice "chi, spiritual unification" is the first step towards increased self-awareness.

The following links to a compilation of the best scenes from Garzey's Wing; the scene I've described is at 1:40.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWru5o07j_I

I'm afraid I'll have to go after a favorite of the site, Space Battleship Yamato (or Star Blazers), but rest assured, for the most part I love the series. In fact, it's because it's such a good series that this stands out so much.

So, after discovering the series on this very site, I sought it out, but quickly realized I couldn't stand the dubbed and sanitized version, and so I sought out a (very good) fansub by http://www.centralanime.net/ Now, the moment I'll discuss was definitely cut out of the American version, and isn't even that strange in the grand scheme of anime, but is absolutely bizarre in the context of a show like Yamato.

Space Battleship Yamato is, as most readers of this site know, a pretty serious show (for kiddie fare) in which a group of stern astronauts sail off in hopes of saving a doomed Earth--it's beautifully designed, engaging, and good sci-fi. Also, like most older anime, it doesn't have a lot of the trappings of the medium that I am, say, less into.

So, you can understand my surprise when they spent all of episode number four with a wonderfully slow building of tension to the activation of their experimental warp drive. There were urgent discussions of the danger that traveling between dimensions would hold, and the slim chances of success if the helmsman wasn't on top of his game, etc. etc. Then, they hit warp, slide between dimensions, and everything goes 70's psychedelic.

This long sequence is all kinds of good crazy, at first. Mirror images of characters in different primary colors, the ship passing over cavemen, between amoebas, and past another version of itself, and so on. Then, for no goddamn reason, we get a shot of the female lead as her clothes, and then her underwear fade off, before we move back to other insanity.

Now, I'm not saying that random nudity is surprising in an anime. Not at all. But in THIS anime, with absolutely NO reasonable context, (not even a "ha-ha, peeking tom" type joke) it was pretty fucking ridiculous.

I don't watch a helluva lot of anime so my most ludicrous Anime moment would have to be trying to explain to my mom just what the hell I'm watching.

"Yes mom she's a ninja/schoolgirl.
Yes mom that's a giant robot that's aparantly powered by song.
Yes mom they just commited suicide...
...again.
Yes mom that giant dog/dragon is either supposed to be her subconcious or some kind of earth spirit.
No mom I have no freakin clue what's realy going on here."

You know, I am so apalled that no one has mentioned The Adolescence of Utena that I feel I have to remedy this GRAVE ERROR.

After a long elevator ride to the dueling arena, Utena is reunited with Anthy. Anthy proclaims Utena to be her TRUE PRINCE of their world for as long as she stays. As Anthy grabs Utena's hands and forces Utena to grope her breasts while the sword releases itself from her chest, Utena pushes the sword back in and proclaims that no, she doesn't want to be prince of that world. SHE WANTS TO TAKE ANTHY TO THE REAL WORLD.

Suddenly, a magical carwash randomly appears in the middle of the dueling arena and sucks Utena in. Eventually, the car wash releases Utena... who has somehow mysteriously turned into a pink car. That also happens to be shaped like a uterus. The pink Utena!Uterus!Car, then proceeds to rust and rot away while a video of Anthy's brother, Akio, talking about his car keys are stuck in the ignition and how that leads to rust plays in the background.

But wait! ANTHY HAS THE KEY! THE KEY TO UTENA'S UTERUS!CAR! So Anthy hops in the driver's seat, and turns Utena on. So that they can GO OUTSIDE.

After a bunch of strange mishaps on their RACE TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD, Anthy and car!Utena are quickly approaching THE EXIT TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD when the Utena!Uterus!Car suddenly changes its shape and prepares to PENETRATE the OUTSIDE WORLD by going through an obstacle course. At the end of the obstacle course, Utena-the-car is slowly getting crushed and Akio approaches her and begs her to go back to the closed world where she can be a living corpse for forever.

Utena and Anthy finally make it past Anthy's brother, and Utena is returned to human form (but naked) while Anthy's dress explodes in a shower of rose petals. The pair crash through the End of the World, and it turns out that the two of them were nothing more than dolls made out of straw THE WHOLE TIME.

The Adolescence of Utena was the first anime I ever saw fansubbed. (Back in the old tape trading days of the year 2000.) Absolute craziest shit ever. All I know is that that Kunihiko Ikuhara guy must've been on some REALLY GOOD drugs.

Code geass,

scenario:

Green haired girl nerd mastrobates to a princess, then the innocent blind 12 year old cripple girl walks in, do I need to say any more?

Hmmm... well, do you know the anime Sexy Commando Sugoiyo! Masaru-san? Seriously, that thing is so full of crazy mentioning it is pretty much cheating. It's great.

Basically, the plot revolves around this weirdo high school student who figured out the most effective fighting style on earth, which pretty much consists of confusing the hell out of your opponent. Thus, "Sexy Commando" was born. One of the most WTF moments that stuck with me was when he made pigeons fly out of his crotch. Yeah.

My vote is for "Be Invoked" the ending movie of the anime Space Runaway Ideon and the grandfather of all anime mindfucks over a decade before anyone ever heard of Evangelion. This was the show that gave Yoshiyuki Tomino his "Kill 'em All" Title.

In the final battle the robot Ideon clashes with a massive enemy warship Ganda Rowa. A Massive blast ensues, engulfing the Ideon, The Granda Rowa, the Solo Ship and possibly the whole universe. Everyone dies horribly but no... this is not the end. The finale sees the show's entire cast as ghosts, happily flying around space buck naked. Oh and of the cast memeber's baby becomes the messiah of all mankind.

Watch for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VHeDosbsNU

If you want ludicrous, go no further than Dragonball-Z. Remember when Goku and Freeza were fighting for about 100 episodes? While that was going on, the alien planet they were fighting on was about to explode. So every few seconds one of the Kais kept telepathically screaming at him, "Goku, the planet is going to blow up in fifteen seconds!" There was a continuous countdown. So two minutes lasted about five 22 minute episodes. You do the math.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgRynwdrpgo

See this?

This is a short amv for an anime I know called Queen's Blade.

I want you all to look at the end of said vid, and realize that there IS NO FUCKING CONTEST compared to that moment.

Kind of a long "moment" but I hope it's close enough. The anime series of Berserk is only 25 episodes and it closes just after beginning the second arc of the story from the manga in the last episode of the series, which causes an abrupt break from its own reality. A medieval fiction about a band of mercenaries who become famous for their battle prowess in a non-magical world changes instantly into a fantasy where Guts (the main character) has to survive by killing dozens or hundreds of demons/monsters who tentacle rape his love interest while his former commander turns into a winged demon and brings about the death of his thousands of soldiers by making an egg with a face on it cry tears of blood. And then the series ends. It's maybe not so ludicrous if you see it after having read the manga and you know that the anime was just cancelled too soon, but it's gotta be pretty damn strange for those people who just pick up the show and watch it. Oh, and by the way, there's no video of that to be found on YouTube.

Two things, first the cheap shot.
End of Evangelion movie starts with Shinjin masterbaiting over Asuka's limp comatose body.That was probably do as an apology to the otaku fans who found the fact Shinji had a very intense homoerotic experiance with the angel guy in ep 22-23 quite disturbing...
So, Shinji went from closet homosexual to a pervert who jacks off to unconscience girls in two episodes?
Inukami... know that anime? Probably not. This is the original ending theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkZgqa4x7TE
In inculdes badly drawn ultracute girls dancing about and the lyrics talk about what girls like and need.
And this master piece is the "alternate" ending theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMCcKXzpOcU
Which includes... holy shit what the hell?!

Hajime no Ippo answers the age old question,
who would win in a fight? japanese boxer or giant freaking bear!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTct40HZoU

This has been said many times before my post (probably, usually I read all posts but it's one of THOSE Friday nights...)I'm not a huge anime fan. It's more quality than quantity with me. I've seen the classics; Akira, Miyazaki films, etc...What's not fucking insane in all anime? psychics and motorcycles? A boar god getting shot and becoming a demon composed of black worms? It's too much to comprehend.

The moment that comes to my mind is Shin Chan. More specifically the network. Ten years ago I watched Toonami religiously. DBZ and Gundam were edited but I didn't give a shit. I loved it. I even watched Sailor Moon (don't tell my friends). Then when Midnight Run premiered I was super thrilled...finally the blood and violence I was promised. Which of course I mean SLIGHTLY more blood and violence. The idea evolved into adult swim and the rest is history. I lost interest in anime and got into comedy shows. Then Shin Chan came along. Shitty anime and comedy? Which leads us to my ridiculous moment: a five year old's dick and balls. I don't know where in the fine print of presentable bullshit it's okay to show preschool dicks and not a special beam cannon ripping through flesh (fuck you Raditz),but I'm totally appalled.
The End. haha.

Ok, so I'm seriously glad no one beat me to this. My money is on the entirety of Angel Cop. For the condensed version of this awesome OVA see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVpwJbLLivU.

The basic premise of the original show is that America is trying to buy out Japan and turn it into a nuclear waste dump. But it's not really Americans doing it. It's the Jews! The show is so ridiculously anti-semitic that when they dubbed it they had to completely change everything in order to not offend every decent person in America. The subtitled version is a little closer to the original except the Jews are replaced by communists. Here's a cool side-by-side of the official subtitles and a more literal translation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDdr-1iOqag

As a conisseur of wierd shit I wpould say ALL od Excel Saga, FLCL and anything fro Legend of the Overfiend (Which got into Britain's top 100 cartoons thanks to me and block voting.)

But my nomination goes to AD police. A 3 episode OVA set in the Bublegum Crash/Crisis universe. For those not in the know this universe has machines called Voomers-Robotic slaves that have started going Psycho violent on people from time to time.

Now the first 2 parts of this are fairly normal sci-fi action stuff. Guns, gore, explosions etc etc. Micheal Bay film stuff. In episode 1 we see one of the police officers who specifically deal with rogue Voomers die. By episode 3 he has been re built into Robocop Japanese version. So far so boring.
BUT!
It seems are man craves sensation as he can no longer feel things in his robotic body. So do they try and give him artificial nerves or somehing?
No they give him mind altering drugs to get him good and stoned. And this isn't the WTF part. Apparently the senior scientist on the projec decides to give him sensation by.....Humping and grinding against him. On his Mechanical leg. Which feels nothing.

WHAT THE CHRIST ARE YOU THINKING WOMAN!? DO YOU NOT REALISE HE CAN'T FEEL ANYTHIN THERE? Get up in his face molest his tongue (which somehow also survives being splattered).
Maybe not horrific/hillarious like some others but WTF for lack of thought process and attempting to start a robotics fetish in young British males, starved for anime so they'll watch any old shit on SCI-FI.

I'm going to go
with Ninja Scroll, Headbutt Death!
Do I need to say
more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8MhgvfavLk&NR=1

megazone 23 part 3 when the animation changed randomly like in the episode of family guy when peter talked about being threatened to cut the production of their show and there was animation delays. its just like that but it involves the main characters being chased by cops....you know what here is the link of that video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp72dFs

Now once upon a time there was a Hentai called Bible Black. It is one of those animes that almost everyone has seen. A bunch of high school girls try and call the devil up through sex orgies. Thats it pretty much in a nutshell. Its also pretty standard as far as sex and magic are concerned. SO what's my problem?

Why does making deals with the DEVIL give you a PENIS? I mean really its not like its always there, like he turned you into a hermaphrodite. Noooooooo it hides in your clit and until you will it to appear.

"Hey I am your hot school nurse, wanna have sex?" KAPOW Surprise Penis!

In true hentai fashion I think only one person gasps, "hermaphrodite!" but this isn't explained. She isn't really a chick with a dick because it isn't always there!

The series (yes it is a series) does take a really odd chick with a dick turn. There is a girl who seems to be a ghost of Aleistar Crowleys daughter who can summon a dick that looks like a.....mushroom. Yes a mushroom. I can't say anything else about that.

My brain hurts...i need to lie down.

Wow, there's been a lot hentai submissions...

Well, my vote would have to be from the OVA MadBull 34 that was released back in 1991.

It's a four episode cop drama that's based off of the 1986 manga of the same name.

Well, before I get to the "moment" let me me explain a bit about the main character.

He's a cop named Sleepy.

He's gigantic!

He's not a very big fan of actually arresting the criminals because he usually just kills them as fast as he can.

A quote of his best summarizes his stance on criminals:
"If they can still stand , then you have to keep pulling the trigger till they lie down!"

He can flex his muscles so much that he can remove bullets out of his body after being shot.(seriously.)

Well, my moment would have to be in episode two when after being caught and out gunned by some gangsters during a sting operation, Sleepy pulls out his secret weapon, or more correctly "pulls down" to reveal his secret weapons.

Grenades, about twenty of them, attached to his pubes, in which he then begins to pull the grenades(pubes and all) and hurls them at the helpless mob.

After taking that in for a moment, check out the video.
It's at 2:10.
Of course it's NSFW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZApzbXkFg0&feature=related

Wow, there's been a lot hentai submissions...

Well, my vote would have to be from the OVA MadBull 34 that was released back in 1991.

It's a four episode cop drama that's based off of the 1986 manga of the same name.

Well, before I get to the "moment" let me me explain a bit about the main character.

He's a cop named Sleepy.

He's gigantic!

He's not a very big fan of actually arresting the criminals because he usually just kills them as fast as he can.

A quote of his best summarizes his stance on criminals:
"If they can still stand , then you have to keep pulling the trigger till they lie down!"

He can flex his muscles so much that he can remove bullets out of his body after being shot.(seriously.)

Well, my moment would have to be in episode two when after being caught and out gunned by some gangsters during a sting operation, Sleepy pulls out his secret weapon, or more correctly "pulls down" to reveal his secret weapons.

Grenades, about twenty of them, attached to his pubes, in which he then begins to pull the grenades(pubes and all) and hurls them at the helpless mob.

After taking that in for a moment, check out the video.
It's at 2:10.
Of course it's NSFW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZApzbXkFg0&feature=related

My entry has to be Visions Of Escaflowne.
Not just the whole show, because it has thousands of rather insane moments springing up from its deep dark anime crevice to throttle you with nonsense.
The show itself is about a girl called Hitomi who get teleported to a strange world called Gaea where she has to help a pirnce from a fallen kingdom stop an evil empire from stomping the world.
Strap on some weird Tarot related future-seeing, the fact that no one stays dead without Hitomi reaching into their brain to fuck with their thoughts and plots about Issac Newton discovering the lost city of Atlantis and its already strange, but there is one bit that strikes me as being frigging odd.
But that fact that we sit there wondering if the leader of the Elite mech pilots is intentionally given the most womanly voice actor for a dude in any series ever on purpose. Dilandau, that being his odd name, suffers from is it a guy is it not a guy disease. Then at the end of the series we find out he is actually both. He is one of the main characters long lost sister who was kidnapped, brain washed and turned into a dude.
Thats Animes most Ludicruios moment. When a hard bastard turns out to be someones long lost sister, and starts having flash backs to his childhood where he is a tiny girl with the same face.

I include a video of him being a generally mad man lady as proof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkoTj6Klct8

Irresponsible Captain Tylor, simply because the main character pretty much almost wipes out and dooms his crew/humanity several times due to his good natured goonery, but the fact the man gets promoted to the Space Navy Grand Admiral rank towards the end despite the fact all he did was dick around, flirt with the female officers and get boozed up the traditional space battle ship drunkard of a surgeon.

Before I make my entry, I have to say this to all of you that mention FLCL, Elfen Lied, and the one that mentioned Paranoia Agent: Shame! Pointing at those shows and calling one moment ludicrous is like pointing at Michael Bay's left arm and saying 'That arm is such a douche.' Not only are you singling out only one part of the whole, but everyone knows it.

To the one that mentioned Dokuro-Chan, extra shame on you for getting the title wrong. It's Club-to-Death Angel not Bashing Angel. That would be silly. You get some bonus points for reminding me of that treasure trove. That leads me to my entry:

The Club-to-Death Angel Dokuro-chan(Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan) opening animation. I don't even need to get into the actual series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ELRZ08hNaU

You know, you really gotta love children. All smiles and laughs and always willing to share their S&M experiences with their friends. I mean, who doesn't love as a child? Can't you just picture them in your mind as they appeared to you back then? Didn't they look so so cute at they talked with their friends, played during recess, carried their medieval spiked bludgeon that was almost as large as them around and beat the hell out of people with it? What about how beautiful they looked to you as they sat across the room from you in class, or when playing with their sweet smelling hair as they stepped on your genitals and made you wear a leash as they flashed you? Sigh... so much nostalgia in those old burn scars from the hot wax.

There are some things very wrong with the above paragraph. Can you find them?

How the hell did I forget to type 'remember their first' in the sentence "I mean, who doesn't [remember their first] love as a child"? I mean, reading it without puts a whole new subtext on my entry that I can not endorse.

Ok I'm going to claim Rumble Roses. It's a video game I know but it's the story line which is kinda done like anime (right?)

So we have Reiko who comes over from Japan to find her lost mother and sister. In the course of the investigation she learns that her sister has been brainwashed and is now an evil gimp suit wearing warrior. She was made this way by an evil slutty nurse who was analysing "Evil Rose" for information to make a super soldier. Also dispatched from Japan is a sexy female ninja who is planning to stop said slutty nurse.

Elsewhere a cowgirl who doesn't wear much is jeleous of Reiko and takes every oppurtunity to confront her. The cowgirl is herself chased by an R&B hoebag for....erm I forget. Something to do with her being jeleous of her.

A lolita style punk/cheerleader escapes from school detirmined to win money to save her orphanage. Her dominatrix style teacher is in hot pursuit to drag her back and force her to take mid terms or something.

A mongolian in a bikini faces off against a Judo girl who doesn't know how to tie belts properly to prove who is best.

Back to the main storyline. Reiko finds out her mum has been turned into a crazy cyborg woman by slutty nurse. Shame on her.

All of this sounds pretty off the rail normally. But when you tie in the fact that it's all based around mud wrestling it really blows the mind. Okay it's not an anime yet but dear lord why hasn't anyone made it into a 70 ep series? I'd buy them all.

I will have to go with the series I purchased for my fiance, Princess Princess. Let me explain. At this all boys private school, they have come up with a method of keeping all the boys from committing suicide due to lack female. They pick three reasonably effeminate freshman, and pay them, with free tuition, spending money, free food, and private rooms, and in exchange these three boys spend the entire year dressed as girls. All the boys of the school worship them and treat them as royalty (AKA Princess).

@DE12: By you informing of that anime's existence, I can only surmise that God wants me to watch it.

Okay so this is going to be a long moment but the whole thing definitely ranks as one of the most bizarre sequences of any anime I've seen (and hasn't been mentioned already).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv51zeP03L4

Welcome to the NHK is a messed up series all together but episode 1 takes the cake for me. The story revolves around Satou who is a NEET (Not in Employment, Education, or Training) and a hikikomori (meaning acute social withdrawal). At some point in this episode (6:42 ish) Satou realizes that his situation (being a lazy ass wasting his life away) is due to the NHK (a Japanese broadcast company) who wants people to become just like him so they will stay in their house and watch more of their programs. Upon realizing this conspiracy (conspiracy is used about 50 times) Satou basically snaps and starts hallucinating all to sounds of some bizarre anime theme playing from his neighbor's apartment.

Let's break this down:

1. He see's these fucked up NHK alien anime something or others laughing at him as his room begins to spin
2. He flashes back to high school where his friend explains to him the "conspiracies do exist" (no shit really!?)
3. Another flashback to some kid being beaten up, Satou tries to help and gets the crap kicked out of him as well (not sure what the hell this had to do with anything)
4. ANOTHER FLASHBACK of like 3 seconds of Satou yawning in homeroom...
5. Back to reality where Satou proclaims he has discovered the conspiracy... at which point his appliances come to life and begin agreeing with him... to which Satou doesn't even seem surprised, he just goes along with the fact that his refrigerator, tea kettle, computer (which looks fucking evil), TV, chair and printer are all talking to him and have crazy creepy faces... what did I say about returning to reality, yeah not so much...

I rpobably love Yuusha-Ou GaoGaiGar FINAL more tha nany person should. It is quite simply the "Spinal Tap" of anime because everything is turned up to eleven. I mean let's go over what you get:

1. Aprotagonists who screams 90% of all their dialogue

2. Female transforming robots with flashing boobs to indicate when they should combine to make their gestalt

3. Female characters who have all gone up a cup size or two from their TV series incarnations

4. An antagonist dressed as a doctor, with butterfly wings and a giant hyperdermic needle strapped to his arm full of what is basically mood altering drugs and Space Steroids

5. The Goldion Crusher - The most absolute over the top final attack ever seen in anime... EVER !!

So that being said, how can combining points 1 and 5 not be the most over the top insane thing EVER in anime?

God bless Sunrise and Studio for making GaoGaiGar, the Anti-Evangelion.

@Telvaren leave Bible Black alone! It's the only anime I watch! lol Kitami for life!

La Blue Girl
At first this seems to be your standard tentacle raping henti. Ya she has a giant clit that she can fuck people with, but that is not the shocker.
She can turn her pubic hairs into little steal spears and shoot them at, well the demon that is currently raping her. This magical clit porcupine is ludicrous not just because it is... well a clit porcupine, but due to censorship laws stemming from injunctions imposed on Japan by the USA after wwII they could not actually show the pubic hair, but it became ok to show when she turned them into the demon darts.

You can watch it here if you really want, as a matter of fact you should since I had to find the thing.
http://www.megaporn.com/video/?v=53RTHMM3
About 18:15 and this is about as NSFW as you can get. Since someone would comment, I also realize porcupines cannot shoot their quills, but I like the term clit porcupine.

Im really nobody has mentioned the series Gantz yet. Just wow, the violence and craziness of this series is probably the most insane ive ever seen and ive been watching anime since I was fairly young.

The premise of it its Gantz, this weird black orb with an old comatose guy inside it, clones people at theier moment of death and makes them play a sorta of death match game, where these people have to fight aliens that exist on a different plane of reality as ours.

Off the top of my head here are some of the aliens they have to kill.

The Onion alien... week little dude obsessed with green onions... they kill him and piss of its older scarier deadly brother.

The horde of robot guys who scream sonic waves, who actually have giant bird people inside of em.

Gigantic Budha/warrior like statues that come to life. Smaller ones too, and then crazy gold statues of a Shiva like god who sprays acid and shoots lazers.

Not to mention the batshit insane character interactions. Mianly between the male and female Kei's. The female Kei is just in a wolrd of messed up because she's the only one who cant go home after survivng. She died by suicide, but her other self ended up survivng death.

I can go on and on about this, but watch this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reosOp0u9yA

and while your at it, just watch the series on youtube, theyre on there.

Okay so I have not seen a lot of anime,but some how i end up watching some of the weirdest shit. The one I would like to nominate is Bobobo Bo bo-bo-bo... no really that its name.

Basically this guy by the same name is, well, a 7 foot tall 300lb rebel, Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo, who fights the Hair Hunt Troop (the bad guys) with his powerful "Fist of the Nose Hair"... Yes, his superpower is his NOSE HAIR.

So I am well aware that this is lazing out a bit... but I can not even begin to explain the plot because the whole thing is nonsensical. So I added the link to the wiki page. Sorry but its the only way!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobobo-bo_Bo-bobo

Don't worry there is a clip too, I could only find an English dubbed one though.. lame.

dude, have you seen DETROIT METAL CITY? its just insane!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q7i8AISGkc

just the ending of this trailer should win this contest

i'm retarded... link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMz26UXRD7g

at about the 2 minute mark... look for the nose hair.

gooooo Bobobo-Bobo-Bobo!

the anime sequence in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 for Oren Ishii

Hmmm, a lot of people have snapped up the obvious anime that have their share of ludicrous moments: Eva, Utena, FLCL, Paranoia Agent, Gurren Lagann, Fist of the North Star, and good show, but they slowly ease into the ludicrousness so you get used to it. (I think at least)

Now, for my entry, I could mention one of the myriad "wacky" comedy anime, but that's just too easy, they thrive on that kind of stuff.

Let's talk about a serious (or semi-serious) action show: Hellsing. Now, bear with me, becuase most of what I describe is still manga and hasn't been animated yet (right now the animation studio has animated into volume six) so SPOILERS BEWARE! Okay, so you basically have Alucard, this crazy powerful nigh immortal vampire who has killed tens of thousands of people throughout history. Then you have this Paladin from the Catholic Church, Anderson, who's job is to hunt down and kill vampires. They meet in London, and Anderson, who previously tried to kill Alucard but couldn't becuase he wasn't powerful enough/didn't have the right equipment, takes one of the nail's from Christ's cross, and sticks it into his heart. This then turns him into a creature that consists of thorny vines, yes, Christ's nail turns him into a plant. However, this plant is strong enough to actually stop bullets and do real damage to Alucard, but Alucard manages to rip out the nail, heart included, from Anderson's body and defeat him, and that's not even the most ludicrous moment, which come's later.

So after this and a few more giant mega fights, Alucard ends up eating this little Nazi catboy named Schodinger, who could regenerate and teleport (he was the nazi's messenger boy of sorts). He was described as being "everywhere and nowhere", sort of like the famous cat in the Physicist Schodinger's thought experiment, which was alive and dead at the same time.

After absorbing Schodinger into his body, Alucard all of a sudden has a problem: becuase he absorbed him into his body, Alucard now cannot exist as a living being anymore, becuase he has created a paradox and now has become "No more than a set of imaginary numbers." So he dies. Yes, the biggest, baddest, most powerful being in the entire world is killed by a mathematical paradox. Let that sink in for a minute, a vampire was KILLED BY MATH!

ALL anime is ludicrous, if you think about it.

ALL anime is ludicrous, if you think about it.

I don't watch Anime, nor am I particularly fond of it. However, the most ridiculous anime moment for me is Naruto, both it's existence and popularity. Think about it for a second, Ninja's are stealthy, so why make a show where the main character is whiny, loud and draped in orange. A ninja should be able to drop from behind you and kill you in a moment's notice, not drape themselves in a color that any person could spot from 10 miles away.

I hate anime, and after reading these, I fully understand and believe I am right in doing so.

I suspect I'm a bit older than most of the other people who've posted here (most, I said), because I remember the early 90s before shows like Dragonball were hot.

So, all of these I'm going to mention are old-school. And to tell the truth, the last anime show I watched was Ghost in the Shell. Really, I think I realised that most of it is just random, insane shit.

Now in the early 90s, just after Akira hit it big, we had a company here in the UK called 'Manga Entertainment'. They released anime, dubbed (often quite badly) all over the UK. I think they're still around, but I haven't checked. Anyway, because it was the early 90s, they wanted to do two things-

1- Make their name synonymous with this new 'anime' stuff. So everything they released, they called it 'manga'. Perfect product branding; like when you think of miniature wargaming, you think of Warhammer. For that reason, a large number of British people over 25 still only really know what you mean if you mention 'manga', not 'anime'.

2- Make it EXTREME!!!

Now, I don't mean 'extreme', I mean EXTREME!!! Manga Entertainment's releases were chosen or edited to be the Rob Leifeld of the anime world. And if a film wasn't EXTREME!!! enough, they'd change it.

Yes, you youngsters may get your panties in a bunch because 4-Kids translate honorifics differently or some piddly shit like that, but in our day, changes meant something. For example...

Violence Jack

I'm not sure when I first seen Violence Jack. Made by the same person as Devilman (more on that later), Violence Jack is an excellent example of EXTREME!!! Take for example, this clip -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dsyQuRoM5U

How charming. But still, was this show going to be EXTREME!!! enough for Manga Entertainment? Fuck no. How could they make it even more 'adult'? Well, tacking in as much gratuitous swearing as possible might work, eh? Presenting, the perfect example of the anime that we in the UK had in the early 90s!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipr-wS5iBv0

This OVA was made by Go Nagai, a man who (with the possible exception of Love Hina) is so talentless and so purile in his approach to creating shows, that he felt that a 'subtle' conclusion for his Devilman OVA would be to have a topless, large-breasted enemy demon woman screaming "Help me Lord Satan, help me!" (Manga Entertainment translation again).

Manga Entertainment were evil, evil people. If you want further proof, consider that they released the full 12-episode series 'The Guyver' in half-episode VHS tapes. That's one tape per cassette. At roughly £10 a tape. With the same quality dubbing seen above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMTVoa5Elo - Would you pay £120 for THIS? Not even the mutant lovechild of The Riddler and Magneto would think up something so diabolically evil.

Now, with that example fresh in your minds, let me introduce you to...

Legend of the Four Kings

This series was DREADFUL. It was an unforgotten shoujo series made by CLAMP, who only the endless purveyors of crap Manga Entertainment were willing to touch with a 10-foot pole. It wasn't in itself a bad show; it had a decent premise, four brothers who transform into dragons. But in execution, it was abominable.

It's really hard to pin down what was worst about this show. The dialogue is possibly the worst, with translation leading to lines like "You mean I was born an orphan?".

Picking on the lines makes me sound like I'm blaming this show's awfulness on the translation. No, it sucks even in the original Japanese.

I've picked some especially awful sequences from the show, but really, the entire thing needs to be watched to see just how mind-numbingly dreadful each series of events possibly is. Some of the highlights include:

- A bad guy who feeds his minions to his pet giant goldfish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnBvaWn6jE

- The four brothers accidently wondering into the middle of an army firing range
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHQAT3dW_RE

- A fairground getting held up by men in mascot costumes with guns hidden inside their trumpets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbr_qRiIiX4

- Their river cruise being interrupted by Doctor Claw, who proceeds to blow himself up for some reason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9qqHgBTyAM

- The vile enemy, Lady L (to which one of the brothers quips "I wonder if that's because she has an L-sized bust") trying to get one of the brothers to change into a dragon by hopping his balony pony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP3ns_OU734

- an evil doctor who eats human flesh and makes lampshades out of people's skin, and creates masked cyborg assassins out of dead people, and whose only goal in life is to tie naked teenage boys to tables and stroke them in a sinister manner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_5hjwPwAg

- Frequent 'just bloody idiotic' sequences such as destroying the crazy machine from Robocop 2 using a coin, wine bottles, and various other bits of useless crap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_QfmDVVqis

- Stealing a tank, riding it around Tokyo, and in the process making quips about the poor state of the Japanese military. The tank eventually is stopped by running over a stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb-myTB41EQ

- Gratuitous teenage boy nudity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgHBM-b9ds4

- The entire Tokyo police force chasing the four brothers all around town, waving their batons and making 'oi oi oi' noises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dcInLyT6oQ

- Crazy doctor unable to cut through one of the brother's dragon scale skin, and eventually ripping his eye out instead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwFxOH8BmBA&

- And at the end, it was all a dream!

This show blows! It blows so hard that it sucks, it sucks so hard that it blows, it sucks and blows at the same time. It's just packed full of this bizarre, fucked-up and generally insane shit, and yet at the same time manages to be SPECTACULARLY BORING.

I mean, some of it may SOUND fun, but actually watching it is like having your teeth pulled out one by one, only to have them replaced with a giant mechanical metal jaw that only opens when it's oiled with the tears of baby seals.

I think a lot of that's down to the fact that the 'comedy' moments never work, veering from slapstick to political satire without any rhyme or reason. The action sequences are uninspired, the characters are all very, very boring, the voice acting is about as enthusiastic as a home full of very sedated old people, and when you consider this it's pretty clear just why this show is out of print and has been since its initial release.

It's all on youtube if, for some reason, you want to see it (maybe you're feeling suicidal, and want your brain to try to burst free from your skull in rebellion), and the curses of a thousand dying suns on you all for making ME go back and dig this lot out.

Every single damn minute of this show was ludicrous in ways you can't possibly imagine. So why did we ever watch such a thing? Well, because that's really all we had. They eventually stuck it on Chanel 4 at their 2am on Saturday slot, as part of their Manga lineup for a while (something akin to the 9th circle of hell), where it screened with some other shows. But even compared to them, Legend of the Four Kings was bad.

And the company it kept during that tv run was, well...

We had Fist of the North Star,

We had Genocyber,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63_bylHgHlw

We had Mad Bull,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbXZz7VEdHE

We had 3x3 Eyes,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuYnPJFgBM8

We had Wicked City,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXOP6rbUvlM

And we had heavily edited Urotsukodoji, which I am NOT going to look for. Find it yourselves if you must. My brain can't handle any more fucked-up shit today.

In short, we had shit anime. But even compared to the worst, most putrid and godawful dregs that Manga Entertainment could drag from the pits of Japan's anime barrel (and trust me, I fully expect that half of the shows Manga got licence for, was given away by the Japanese companies as a form of torture to inflict on the west), Legend of the Four Kings was undoubtably the worst.

Every living second of this show is like having your eyesockets raped by a buffalo. I hate this show, I hate you if you like it, I hate everyone who was involved in making it. Every existing copy of it should be burned, as should everyone responsible for making it. If it wasn't so unknown, it would be locked away in a vault beneath the Antarctic, along with the last strain of smallpox and Britney Spears' sanity.

Marsten; I actually payed 340SEK for GenoCyber on VHS, (26£/45$ for ONE tape). Being an anime nerd in Sweden before broadband and fan-subs was a blast ^^

However, I found GenoCyber enjoyable. Not even close to "good" and not memorable for anything but the violence, but it was kind of how you enjoy a cheesy sci-fi movie from the 80s, today.

Jojo. Tank Lorry. This was a meme itself, and spawned a few more:

http://dagobah.biz/flash/Tank_Lorry.swf

Wow, after reading some of these posts I'm pretty glad that I don't watch anime.

I am so surprised I haven't seen this on the comments so far, and if it is, sorry I didn't search hard enough.
Its very hard to pick BAT SHIT CRAZY anime moments, because they typically are an entire series. 80's anime is full of these moments.
Everyone is on the right track, Dragonball. A HIGHLY Revered (in both contexts) anime. For some, the only one they've seen. And that's fine, but they only watched the Namek stuff. Here's the kicker. Piccolo trains Gohan, and this is the beginning of the show so Dinosaurs and Pig Men are still among the "z-Warriors." Gohan has a tail, and can turn into a big monkey man, we all know this. You can't train a kid with a propensity for simian transformation, he could get caught in a maassive monkey mudball. Instead Piccolo, rightfully, has an incredible plan. Get the tail, but lets take that further. TAKE OUT THE MOON! Yeah Piccolo, we don't need that shit! I believe physicists have found that the moon is not too essential to the ocean's tidal formation, but I'm sure there would be some repercussions there, as well as or orbit and a plethora of werewolves with no hope for "fine dining." Is it the craziest thing? No, but for an anime that people have adored for years (and some hate, ah well) this has to top any ridiculous event that occurs. A strong second is the remastered version on funimation's new releases. When Goku dies the first time, watch the episode and see how "timely" the break music/animation is. (Hint, it is not at all timely, and emotionally jarring for anyone under the age of 10). There is my nominee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFA_XBAfsRw

Forgot to send my link.

To be fair, the moon had already been destroyed once or twice in the older Dragon Ball series (and did, in fact, create an angry werewolf, sort of)--I don't know if it's weirder for it to be destroyed, or for it to constantly regenerate.

Jaysun Lynch; I think it's even more ludicrous that Master Roachi had already destroyed the moon to make Goku revert back from his Oozaru form when Piccolo destroyed it ;)

Hehe, Elijah beat me to it

You people leave Escaflowne alone >_>

My most ludicrous moment comes from the god awful english dub of Tokyo Mew Mew. Despite my love for the show, I will be the first to admit that it's whole premise is completely ludicrous: Take Sailor Moon, replace the main characters with various kemono-mimi (a cat girl, a wolf girl, etc.) and thats your show.

But putting that aside, the good people at 4kids made many mind-numbing alterations when they tried to put the show on Saturday mornings. In this particular episode one of the characters is conflicted and goes to a christian church to pray. Thankfully the good folks at 4Kids knew what to do: they removed the horizontal bar from all the crosses. Yes, that's right, our character is now wearing a big stick around her neck and is praying to a giantic pillar in the church. No explaination is given; I can only imagine that the poor souls who saw the english dub now believe that Japan has some crazy stick worshiping cult.

Images where hard to come by and I can't bear the dub (or knowingly subject others to it) so here's the best I could find:
http://mmpu.smuncensored.com/ep10a.jpg
http://mmpu.smuncensored.com/ep10b.jpg

Going waaay back into the anime archives, I must submit Future Boy Conan (the entire series) for this contest. I know you asked for a single moment, but the whole damn thing is just so goofy. THe world was destroyed (in July 2008 no less), and Conan thinks he and his grandfather are the only people left in the world. A girl washes up on shore and eventually gets kidnapped, leading Conan on a grand adventure. This is one of the earliest works by Hayao Miyazaki. Unfortunatly, approximately 50% of the dialogue is either "Lana" or "Conan". Also, there are several occasions where Conan takes out a plane using only his hunting spear, and then jumps from said plane to the ground, without any real repercussions. However, the high point of ridiculousness has to be when Conan scales the outside of the Triangle Tower, (The Bad Guys' HQ) and knocks on the window of Lana's jail cell, which is about 30 stories up. The window has a ledge approximately an inch wide, and Conan is standing on his tiptoes. Then when they come into the room, he hangs below the window, falls off, lands on his legs, and in the next scene, is seen walking comfortably. (Just like real life).

I couldn't find the scene, but here is an AMV of the show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdbjztapk6o&feature=related

Marsten

I remember Manga Entertainment, I think I saw a few of theirs Wicked City, and MD Geist, after that I knew it was known for crap and stayed away from majority of their titles.

If i saw the Manga Entertainment symbol I knew never to get, I was a quick learner.

To all the haters of anime, its just like any other medium their is crap in all genres in all shapes and forms, this is just showing the lowest of the lows, so don't try and take it that all animes are bad. A lot of these examples are being taken out of context. I know the one I posted was, I just didn't want to get into a length explanation of the show.

All i can say is watch Cowboy Bebop if you somehow hate this show, than you can be safe to say their wouldn't be anime in the world you would ever like.

I honestly can't think of an entry myself (bad memory, but I am an anime fan). But something to get out here :p

It's just evident how many readers ARE anime fans, judging from the number of entries already. I do wonder though, why people whine about anime news? What if I don't care about Star Trek news or something to do with RP dice? Deal with it and accept it, because it's all a part of something called the nerd community :p

...beside I found this site through the plug on Anime News Network where Rob reviews anime toys, so you know he's a fan :p

I always liked the part in Wicked City where Taki punches straight through his opponent's face. Actually, many of the action scenes had some kind of crazy-awesome thing happening. I think the face-punch begins around 1:05.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK3rx4VpXCU

I've watched so much animu over the years that I can't honestly pick a single moment that I think is crazier than everything else. And I've been waiting for an honest-to-god anime contest, too. Dammit.

I can narrow it down to three (and at this point I'm just sharing, not entering, I suppose):

- The first six minutes of Elfen Lied (after the minute and a half intro). When I was in my sophomore, the president of our anime club (which I went on to helm my senior year) brought this in, and my good friend (and fellow TR reader) Lee had the common sense to go "NO YOU CAN'T SHOW THAT IN A HIGH SCHOOL." A year later, I downloaded the show (two years later, I bought it, so don't call me out on killing the industry), and after the first 8 minutes, I was fully aware of why my friend killed the meeting. Multiple murders with all types of dismemberment? A naked girl covered in blood? My club president must have been on crack. There are other portions of the series that are just as ridiculous, or more so (some have been pointed out here), but that's the one that sticks with me.

- Obligatory hentai mention: I was at a convention, and there was late night in the hotel room, and someone had the bright idea to watch hentai, and we decided we needed messed up stuff, and a show I can't even remember the name of (hereafter referred to as Pollen Girls, because I think that was the title) was put on.

What. The. Hell. The premise of this show: When people get allergies, they don't sneeze, they suddenly get blowjobs and sex from girls with little antennas. Like, pollen floats in the air. You smell it. Then it turns into a totally hot babe who starts blowing you, because you NEED TO BE BLOWN. Now, I'm not saying this is a bad thing (a world with no sneezing and blowjobs all the time? Hot damn!), but goddamn if it isn't messed up.

- The final bit of lunacy: the fact that Saki deals with Kosaka throughout the entirety of Genshiken. Seriously, whoever thought that happens in real life was dead wrong. Here's how it really pans out:

- Saki meets Kosaka
- Kosaka is a giant nerd, but is really good looking
- Saki tries for a week to convert Kosaka, but Kosaka's obsession with porn games comes into play
- As soon as that comes into play, Saki is GONE

Yeah. That's relationship ludicrousy. One might even call it madness.

This is a manga moment rather than an anime moment, but it involves a paraplegic cowboy, raptors and Jesus in a perfectly logical context, so I think it's worth it.

Part 7 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: The villain of the week Dr. Ferdinand has the ability to turn people into raptors, and then control them. Ferdinand, like most of the villains in Part 7, is after the body parts of The Saint (Aka Jesus Christ). Absorbing these body parts grants you additional cool powers. Hero Johnny Joestar has absorbed the arm, which in addition to letting him launch his fingernails like bullets, purifies his body, protecting him from Ferdinand's power. The bad news is, Johnny is paraplegic and lying on the ground, so Ferdinand and his raptors are getting ready to waltz over and curb stomp the unfortunate crippled cowboy.

But wait, Dr. Ferdinand! Johnny doesn't understand your personal philosophy and motivation! It would be immoral to kill him before taking a few pages to explain that. So yada yada yada, respect the earth, geology is cool (Yes, it turns out the evil doctor is an evil geologist.), background information over, let's get back to the fighting.

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/9784/43784515.jpg

But what's this? While Ferdinand was dictating his life story to his army of maneating dinosaurs, Johnny completely disregarded his bullshit and ripped Jesus's arm out of himself. Now that he no longer has built in protection against devolution, he uses his shiny new pair of raptor limbs to leap up and beat the geology out of Ferdinand, undoing the transformations before he loses control of his mind.

To summarize, in a shonen, the genre generally known for battle plans that consist of "I'll just keep using my signature attack while being more endearingly determined than my enemy!" Johnny came up with "I'm going to ignore this 'talking is a free action' crap, rip Jesus's arm out of body, turn into a raptor, and start tearing shit up." And that is beautiful.

The last Devil Man OVA ,at the flashback of the awakening of Devil Man ,where he takes out the boobs of the wasp monster woman and swallow it whole @__@

And then the anti-demon angry mob cut off the head of devil man's girl friend's head and stick it on a spear and parade on the street just because they can and just because she makes out with him (burning her would be more appropraite) and just because it's a fucking anime.

@McTool

Now now now, my girlfirend knows I play eroge and is fine with it. I use the fact that she likes Twilight (blargh) to balance it all out.

Now, haven't played one with her around. There was a guy over on ANN like last week who says he not only got his gf to play an eroge together with him, but the one they played was saya no uta. SAYA NO UTA, where you have sex with a girl who turns out to be Cthulhu (I am not making this up) and take part is several gruesome murders. yeah.

So it can happen, its just not the likeliest of outcomes.

I started mentally flashing on Riki-oh (live action and anime versions), then I remembered my first encounter with legend of the overfiend (urotsukidoji), and finally I remembered a fateful anime club moment when we watched episode 1 of Angel Tales.

Get this, A guy that failed at taking care of his pets when he was younger, has them reincarnate into 12 moe girls(angels) whom vie for his affection! Yes, a dead pet reincarnation harem anime! /shiver. WRONG, very wrong.

Most ludicrous moment I've ever seen in an anime is easy. In Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack they have Inflatable Battleships to confuse radar and act as decoys, in fucking space.

I'll take my prize now.

Alright, I'm throwing the towel in. My most ludicrous moment comes from Fushgi Yuugi. Bit of background first: Fushigi Yuugi is about a girl called Miaka, who I'm fairly certain is the stupidest and most irritating character in the history of anime (yes, I have seen Naruto), who reads a magic book and gets sucked into ancient China, where she becomes a priestess and has adventures with a bunch of gorgeous men, yada yada yada.
Anyway, my personal WTF moment comes in episode 6, when Miaka is lured into an alternate dimension by a lavish feast and sealed in (told you she was dumb) and her evil mirror duplicate is sent to attack her friends. So Miaka decides (without even thinking about it) that she and the duplicate must be connected so if she kills herself, her friends will be saved. So she does. With a plate. Yes, she has an entire table, presumably with cutlery on it, and she commits suicide with a smashed piece of plate. Which somehow works.
This isn't even the end. On being informed that she's lost too much blood and is going to die (from being stabbed by a plate), her two love interests announce that they'll give her their blood. Which they do by cutting themselves and dripping blood on her (note that by now the wound has been bandaged so they're not even bleeding into an open wound, they're just messing up the bandage). Our heroes, ladies and gentlemen.

So very many insane anime moments to choose from... I guess i have to go with the hilariously excessive Angel Cop. The OVA series revolves around a sociopatic ice queen who is part of a secret government operation to irradiate left-wing terrorists, then for some reason ultraviolet physic vigilantes who look like an 80's hair metal band come into play,as do armed to the teeth cyborgs and a shady nuclear waste dumping conspiracy.

One of the most ludicrous moments involves our aforementioned operatives raiding a terrorist hideout and employing horribly excessive force. The new-york accented, chest bearing numb nuts who burst into the hideout guns blazing is now interrogating the leader for information, with absolutely no knowledge of the pistol wielding chick about to cap him from behind. Before she can kill the dumbshit, she is shot through the chest, painting the walls with blood. No one could still pose a threat after that? right?Apparently so, because another bullet goes straight through the poor gals forehead,at this point she is obviously dead, with brains and blood leaking from her head and all, but no the shooter is against open casket funerals and shoots another bullet into gals head, resulting in her brains exploding all over the place. Apparently this is standard procedure because the dumbshit cop muses how this act of overkill was EXACTLY by the books. Seriously watch the video I have linked if you need proof, and stay tuned shortly after the epic brain exploding to see that the savior of the dumbshit cop is A. A woman!!! and B,. what follows is one of the most ridiculous helmet-taking off to reveal the stranger is really chick in the history of ever. Also the English Dub is hilariously terrible :"Fuck and Piss!" and "If this is justice, than I'm a banana!" are true gems.

So very many insane anime moments to choose from... I guess i have to go with the hilariously excessive Angel Cop. The OVA series revolves around a sociopatic ice queen who is part of a secret government operation to irradiate left-wing terrorists, then for some reason ultraviolet physic vigilantes who look like an 80's hair metal band come into play,as do armed to the teeth cyborgs and a shady nuclear waste dumping conspiracy.

One of the most ludicrous moments involves our aforementioned operatives raiding a terrorist hideout and employing horribly excessive force. The new-york accented, chest bearing numb nuts who burst into the hideout guns blazing is now interrogating the leader for information, with absolutely no knowledge of the pistol wielding chick about to cap him from behind. Before she can kill the dumbshit, she is shot through the chest, painting the walls with blood. No one could still pose a threat after that? right?Apparently so, because another bullet goes straight through the poor gals forehead,at this point she is obviously dead, with brains and blood leaking from her head and all, but no the shooter is against open casket funerals and shoots another bullet into gals head, resulting in her brains exploding all over the place. Apparently this is standard procedure because the dumbshit cop muses how this act of overkill was EXACTLY by the books.

Seriously watch the video I have linked if you need proof, and stay tuned shortly after the epic brain exploding to see that the savior of the dumbshit cop is A. A woman!!! and B,. what follows is one of the most ridiculous helmet-taking off to reveal the stranger is really chick in the history of ever. Also the English Dub is hilariously terrible :"Fuck and Piss!" and "If this is justice, than I'm a banana!" are true gems.

Fuck and Piss! sorry about the spell check tom foolery in the first paragraph.

While the previous scene from Prince of Tennis was pretty freaking ridiculous, I could at least pass it off as a goofy metaphor for how powerful a character is, since that idea gets used a lot in anime and the end result is jut the ball bouncing past the kid. This clip, on the other hand, can't be reasoned away. There are rocket tennis balls, columns of fire, a tidal wave that looks like a scene from the Poseidon Adventure, underwater tennis, an electrically charged explosive tennis ball, and glowing young boys flying through the clouds in pursuit of the ball like they're playing quidditch (one of whom ends up as a naked being of pure light). When the camera turns back to the court, it has been destroyed because all of this madness actually happened! As the poster of the video says, even the creator of the manga laughed at how bad it is. What really makes this ridiculous is that the premise of the show isn't people in giant robot suits killing interdimensional vampire demons who have tentacle genitalia or whatever generic psychological-problem-as-anime-plot you want to start from; it's about kids playing tennis, albeit with finishing moves as if Mortal Kombat took place in Arthur Ashe Stadium. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLYjEOD6AsA&feature=trelated
Also, tekkie, thank you. I've been trying to remember the name of Paranoia Agent for weeks. There is a part in a Jason Mraz song that make me think of the Paranoia Agent theme every time I hear it. That was a wonderfully odd show

Can I just say that, Capsulesn'Coffee, Angel Cop was licenced in the UK by Manga Entertainment.
Are we surprised? Nah!

wow.. just.. wow, i thought mine was pretty ludicrous but... Captain EO, i tip my hat to you.

Captain EO ends. All future entries are pointless. Everyone: Thank you for playing. I hope we can all do this again some time.

Gah, damn my typos. That was 'Captain EO wins.' Noticed that less than a full second after I hit 'post'.

The entire final episode of Gurren Lagann. Brace for spoilers.

With only the power of love, fighting, and spirit, Simon and about 20 other people form a giant, flaming robot that's about 1,000 square trillion parsecs large to fight another, more evil robot the same size. They battle through the universe, throwing galaxies at each other like blade disks and then the bad guy fires a beam that's as powerful as the big bang, CREATING new galaxies while blasting the good guys. Then a guy becomes an enormous drill which Gurren Lagann absorbs and blah blah crazy holy crap awesome.

Spoilers over.

I am going with the Raping of Tokyo Tower(who loved it by the way) care of a Mr. Krauser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvfSDPT-Rw

Despite of the absurdity of it all, the followers reactions really make this scene(and that's impressive, given the main character is truly giving his all into pleasing the tower). I laugh every time. Krauser Jr. was also mint

I'm with Bill and C. This entire contest has been a reaffirmation of my dislike of anime. I don't blanketly hate the genre, as some of my all time favorite animated series/movies are anime. But the glut of ridiculous crap sure makes it hard to really give the Japanese the credit they're due. I mean they can make visual masterpieces like Paprika and Spirited Away. But the 1% of awesome anime, seems to get blotted out by the 99% of utterly bizarre crap they produce.

My ludicrous anime moments are a few. The first being the movie "X". At the time it came out in the states, I was at the height of my love for Anime. Things like Princess Mononoke, Akira and Cowboy Beebop had blown my mind. And I was pretty sure that the Japanese were the new Gods of animation. Then I went to go see X, because it sounded like badass action. It was the first Anime movie I'd seen released into a theater, so it had to be awesome, right!? What it ended up being was a movie about a boy who cradled severed heads like babies, and extensive exposition. Someone would turn into a dragon or something, and spend 5 minutes explaining that they just turned into a dragon. Way to tell the story in the least engaging way possible. Scriptwriting 101: show don't tell. Then ultimately someone would lose their head in a fight, and the stereotypical emo-boy lead character would get distraught over that persons death, and hug their recently severed head close to his heart. What the fuck dude? I mean once was fucking weird, but it happened entirely too many times in that movie.

This was when I began to question Anime. Surely this was a one-off film, and anime wasn't really bad storytelling with obscenely fucked up plot elements!

The next step in my fall from Anime's grace was a series I can't even remember the name for. My friend started renting it thinking it'd be cool. It was about a guy and girl, and super powers and robots. Typical anime stuff. Except it turns out the boy and girl are brother and sister, and they've been slowly falling in love since the first episode. As the series continues it becomes their struggle to stay incestuously together, while the forces of evil (or as I would call them, common sense) try to pull them apart. After a few episodes I refused to continue watching them try and make incest seem normal and acceptable.

The final straw was Fooly Cooly (FLCL) or whatever it's called. I only saw most of the 3rd episode. The one where it jumps to manga for entirely too long and goes from making no sense, to making nonsense. I'm pretty sure that show was created with the intent of making people think that the creators were on drugs. The fact of the matter is that people on drugs can't come up with the kind of ridiculous nonsense that happens in Fooly Cooly. If they had been on drugs it might've actually been good. But this reminded me of when people who haven't done drugs try and recreate what being on drugs is like, and are completely wrong. Well this was people trying to make a show that looked like it was created by people on drugs, by people who had never done drugs, hoping that people would assume they had. This show is just absolute nonsense for the sake of being nonsensical. It's one of those shows that people only know about because it's about a girl on a moped who smacks a kid in the head with a guitar so that robots can grow out of his forehead. It's because this show is so over the top in it's out-of-the-box concepts, that people feel the need to watch it and share the utter insanity with others. Is there actually a story or a plot? I've never heard of anyone talk about it. All that's worth repeating is that it makes no goddamned sense, and apparently that makes it awesome....or in my book, horrible.

Basically if you go over this whole list, it pretty much reminds me of why I stopped watching random anime. For the most part, they're just absurd and stupid. A quality anime series or film, can be the best of their kind on the planet. Hands down. But everything else, is just about the worst of it's kind on the planet. The exposition, the nonsense, the bad flapping mouth static animation, the chibbi silliness, the sense of humor that doesn't translate, and the pervasively creepy perv factor doesn't add up to awesome in my book these days. Anime itself has ruined me on anime.

Now a days, for me to actually watch an anime movie/series, it has to come with a spec-fucking-tacular review from someone who isn't blindly devoted to the genre.

....or it just needs to be made by Studio Ghibli or directed by Satoshi Kon.

You know, i really get bugged by people who judge all anime by just a few described scenes. Yes some Anime get to be way off the deep end, and most hentai are just f*&%ing ridiculous, but come on, you are judging an entire cultural life style based on a few random things. There are plenty of Good series out there. Reading through this, I see a ton of responses to the same shows in this contest. There are other shows out there, and plenty of good movies too.

In american television there are limits to what you would normaly see in a cartoon. And pretty much all of it will be for children. In Japan, animation is for everyone, and can cover any genre, from comedy to action to romance.

It just aggravates me that I see a bunch of people saying all anime sucks, because some of them are weird or out there. Maybe in a couple weeks Rob can do a Greatest Anime Moment, and people will see there are some great shows out there too.

And with all that said. I vote for whoever first brought up the fact that the Universe turns into a giant mecha in Gurren Lagen, that is definitively the most Ludicrous thing I have ever seen.

While the whole of Dead Leaves could pretty much fit into this category I have to nominate the scene where Retro is in prison, strapped up in a straight-jacket and a giant hose is inserted to remove all his pooh, leading to the line, "You crap too much!".

It was the first anime I ever saw and I have been scarred ever since.

While the whole of Dead Leaves could pretty much fit into this category I have to nominate the scene where Retro is in prison, strapped up in a straight-jacket and a giant hose is inserted to remove all his pooh, leading to the line, "You crap too much!".

It was the first anime I ever saw and I have been scarred ever since.

A few people have mentioned Sailor Moon either in passing or for having a ludicrous moment. Someone even mentioned the end battle with Sailor Galaxia from the Sailor Stars season.
Sailor Stars is a seriously fucked up season. It's more bizarre than the other seasons for sure. Each season of the Sailor Moon anime had at least a few moments that were so "strange" or "shocking" that they were censored in America. But Sailor Stars takes the cake because the new soldiers that are introduced are boys....BUT TRANSFORM INTO GIRLS. That's right. The Sailor Starlights are male pop idols (albeit androgynous ones) in their everyday lives, but become busty, feminine female soldiers when it's time for battle.
If that wasn't weird and non-sequitur enough, check out this gem. It's a video of one of the Sailor Starlight's main attacks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AOpt-xxuys&NR=1

You heard it. You can't unhear it. He/she said "Star Gentle Uterus". Besides the attack name being unbelievably ridiculous (and a little grody), it's also really convoluted. How the hell can an attack be gentle? And since when is a uterus dangerous?
We'll never know, I don't think. Maybe I'm just not Japanese enough to figure it out.

@Shannon Townsend:

"A-ra-ra-ra-ra!"

Also, Hand Maid May was a big disappointment. For about three seconds I thought that show might be a cool merge between a Chobits-flavored lovey show and a harem comedy, but it didn't go anywhere, had one-note characters, and had a laughably convenient and lame ending.
But I still, to this day, think that blonde robot (quoted above) is fucking funny.

This is the last comment, I promise.

First of all, a lot of you people are mentioning hentai, not anime, which I think someone pointed out. And yeah, hentai can be pretty darn ludicrous.

Second, this isn't an entry, but if you want to hear about a show that's pretty ludicrous, in that it shouldn't exist AT ALL, read this (it's awesome): http://www.animejump.com/index.php?module=prodreviews&func=showcontent&id=641

Also, from the same site comes a pretty amusing tirade about a show "Leppy" mentioned, Mad Bull: http://www.animejump.com/index.php?module=prodreviews&func=showcontent&id=115

Ok, you want weird? Land Defense Force Mao-Chan.
Here a link to the intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXSQzFb5j90

Three 8 year olds, granddaughters of 3 high ranking members of the JSDF (Air Force, Army and Navy) have to fight off an alien invasion. Why? Because only they can withstand the cuteness of the aliens, which are animated plushies. To that end they transform into marching band costumes, which give them NO ABILITIES. And to help them? They get 1:1 plastic scale models of a Harrier jet, a Tiger tank (ww2), and the Alvin deep sea vehicle. To top it all off, Most of the BGM is a single piano.

It's a good thing that the eps are just 10 minutes because I can only handle that much sweetness per day or I'll get diabetes.

If you think you can handle this much sugar, here's the first ep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFokB3WQSd4

Okay, I'm going to go old school and nominate Voltron episode 19. Yeah, all of Voltron (Golion. Whatevs.) is ludicrous, but "The Buried Castle" is especially awesome.

So, these really stupid children discover a castle that no one noticed before sitting in the middle of the woods. It also shows up on camera, where the V-Force scratch their heads while Coran babbles something about a legend. So Pidge says he's going to go check it out, taking a space mouse with him, just in case of you know, an emergency. Pidge and the kids enter the castle, only to be yanked up by a mysterious force and held upside down in the bell. Not the bell tower, inside the actual bell. Then, because I guess of the high roaming fees on Arus, Pidge sends the space mouse back to the castle to get help, rather than call.

Six months later, the mouse arrives at the real castle, and the Voltron Force leap into action. Attacked by skeletons, all but Keith rush inside, only to end up trapped with Pidge inside the bell. Keith is left on the roof, so he has a front row seat for the robeast that pops up, attaches some cables to the castle, and proceeds to take off with it, so it can fly it through space to the planet Doom.

And then it gets ludicrous. Keith climbs one of the cables, gets shot at, hangs upside down, is shot at some more, is knocked off, falls, lands on an enemy ship that just happens to be going past, climbs it, smashes the windshield, shoots the pilot, crawls in, and crash lands it right at the feet of his robot lion. He then proceeds to take off so he can cut the cables and send his team falling to a horrific crushing death.

I don't remember what my 10 year old self thought, but re-watching it after I got the DVD left me speechless from the insanity.

The episode is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eWTVGdlskU the true ludicrousness starts around the 16 minute mark.

Of course, it looks less like what actually happened and more like what Keith *said* happened later at the bar. "No shit, there I was..."

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say, Buddy. Just keep paying for rounds."

i dont know name of the movie, someone if u know it post, some buffed out guy named raspution after jumping off a pyrimid in the sky while being shot by 3 helocopters machine guns pulls one down with his bare fists and then tosses it at the other 2 ~_~ while bleeding....he then gets hit by sniper fire and it just gets wierder

also, gurren langun ending has my vote, its like WTF O_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUJzYSswcj0

samurai with pink hair and a weird fashion sense driving a car for the first time? i don't think this could get any more ludicrous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34P4iArGXKg

Hmm, the competition here is incredibly stiff. It seems that I have no choice but to exploit a loophole in the rules.

Anime, as I'm sure we all know, is the Japanese term for animation, and the rules state that it is looking for the most ludicrous moment in anime. However, what the rules do not state is that it has to be Japanese animation.

And it is through this that I submit what is no doubt my only hope in hell at garnering as little as an honorable mention.

I submit the works of Don Hertzfeldt; I'm sure we're all familiar with "Rejected," so here's one I hope is less familiar to those looking at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUBBsA9wvXQ

"Don Hertzfeldt 's Shorts from The Animation Show [High Quality]"

I know single entries are allowed only, but I have to try again because people are seemingly blocking out the most truly godawful and ludicrous of all that could be mentioned:

Heavy Metal.

Canadians think they can make anime. Even get John fucking "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" Candy to soil his career with this film.

I'll repeat that: CANADIANS! ANIME! BAD!

There is nothing good, interesting (unless you're a creepo who likes poorly drawn breasts) or redeemable about this film. The whole runtime of this film is like some kind ripoff of Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen shorts, only not funny on purpose. To reference my last post, I'd rather watch the final movie for Evangelion, on loop.

Fuckin' Canada.

i submit an anime that i never knew the name of.

come along with me on a journey of a boy and his first "adult kiss".

sitting on a park bench, alone in the night, a young couple bask in the passions of first love. it comes time for the kissin, and the young girl and boy share their first kiss with tongues.

a scene follows of the boy describing this sensation in voice over, while we admire two extremely detailed tongues rubbing and stroking eachother. no faces, or heads, or mouths. just the tongues.

the screen goes black.

when the next scene starts, we are looking through the boy's eyes. he is looking in front of him, confused. he wonders why he blacked out and where his sweet heart has gone. then we switch our point of view.

he had turned into a gruesome monster. as he opens his mouth to call for his lady, the upper half of her body falls out of his enormous mouth much to his confusion. he coughs up all of her blood with it. and that is all i saw.

if you've seen this, or know what it is, tell me so that i know i didn't see this in my own dreams.

Carmelldansen.
That is all.
Also, though it is not anime, those naked guys who sing and just wear fig leaves. They sing "Yatta!".
Scarred for life. That can never be unseen.

The episode of Keroro Gunso, a normally fun kids show that turned into something horribly, horribly awful in one afternoon for me, as I recall... Normally I have no problem watching it in the same room as my family, but this one made me ashamed to live.

In this episode in particular main cast got infected with a "drill disease" that made them grow a drill-style horn on their head. How did they transmit the disease from one person to the next? Why a drill up the ass of the uninfected, of course. Once it stopped, it didn't stop. What was normally a good show quickly turned into eye rape. I woke up and found myself crying in a cold sweat later that night.

One character's eyes got replaced for drills, and the unsaid gay character purposefully allowed for his booster shot. The noises the characters were emitting through all of this can only be described as satanic. Incidentally, this show has had a Happy Meal Toy line. Incidentally, I can now never look at a Happy Meal and be happy ever again.

It might not be the most ridiculous thing out there, but the best weird anime moment that I’ve ever seen, by far, would have to be the opening scene from Weiss Kreuz. WK is already one of those shows that just sounds like a punchline. It’s about four pretty-boy assassins who kill off bad guys bent on nefarious acts of villainry, which, based on the show, mostly involves kidnapping random teenage girls and chopping them up into pieces for little or no reason. And the assassins are all codenamed after cat breeds, and they run a flower shop, because apparently nobody suspects the florist. It’s pretty godawful.

Anyhow, the show opens with a generic lovey-dovey pair of teens kissing in the rain. Girlfriend has papers to write; boyfriend teases her about working too hard and promises to see her in the morning. He climbs onto his motorcycle, turns back to wave…and is promptly killed when a flying van falls off the overpass and hits him. I mean goddamn. It’s obvious that a cute, happy couple in the first three minutes of a series about assassins are doomed from the start, but a flying minivan?? “How’d your boyfriend die?” “God dropped a ’91 Chrysler on him.” It’s a toss-up for me which is the best part of the whole thing; that the explosion looks like something a four year old drew while having a seizure, or that the boyfriend drives away from the safe sidewalk, pauses exactly underneath the falling death-mobile and then waits for it to hit him.

It’s like he somehow understood what kind of series this was going to be and decided to get out while he still could. Smart move, buddy. As for me, I’ve seen a lot of anime before and since, but I’ve never seen anything that made quite as much of an impression—or made me laugh so hard—as WK’s Death From Above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRXfLLt0pXM

@Marsten:I am certainly not surprised, Manga Entertainment is like Troma for anime(with Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell and Blood being rare exceptions).

@Sean:HEAVY METAL FOREVER!!!

Full Metal Panic is a series that establishes a norm, does so quickly, and sticks through it through the series. There are allowances made for domestic zanyness and slapstick, but you really don't see anything TOO shocking, which is what makes this all the more ludicrous. This is anime, after all.

During the 42nd episode of the franchise (that's The Second Raid series, ep 6 if anybody is counting), we witness a phone call received by the villain Gates, who is known at this point to be irrational, violent, and emotionally unstable. Here, we get to see his softer side.

He answers the phone, not wearing a shirt. Pan out--okay, he's not wearing anything. Playing on a projector screen behind him is video of adorable kittens playing. In his hand is a box of tissues, from which he pulls at least 30 during the course of the call, and gestures wildly with the wad of kleenex while his junk is discreetly hidden behind a gyrating wind-up monkey. Cut to a close-up of his blushing face as he gazes with tenderness at the kittens, as if in apology for redirecting his attention elsewhere and a promise to return quickly.

The video switches to a visual report of the latest battle that he's being briefed on, and then when the call is disconnected, reverts to video of a squirrel. At the sight of the squirrel, he flies into a rage, yelling and leaping about the room. Evidently, squirrels are not Gates's favorite creature.

You think you get to know a series and BAM! It drops kitten masturbation with wind-up monkeys on you. Suddenly everything you *thought* you knew was suspect, you turn every corner with the fear of finding all you know and love desecrated, your innocence shattered. You know, as if by watching anime you hadn't already given up your innocence. Hey, can't blame a girl for wishful thinking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hedSZ9BCX4

At 17:30.

I think for me, it was when when Shinji jacked off over a comatose Asuka in some Evangelion movie.

I mean for fuck's sake - here's a series with enough bullshit in it at the end to make your head spin so badly that you never want to even bother taking a stab at it again. The ending for that series was so damned bad that it caused a mini riot in Tokyo. THEN they get more funding (from the anime gods that apparently hate us half the time) to make a couple of movies that would apparently explain it all. But no, instead of doing that - you get Shinji jacking off, cumming and it being shown dribbling in his hand.

People will argue that Shinji is a complex character till the cows come home - but really, he's just a kid who beats off over a redhead in a coma.

Kitten masturbation... I remember that scene well. I really liked the first season of that show, but the second was pretty bad, in my opinion. The number 1 reason for that was Gates. I can deal with the main character turning the emo dial to 11 suddenly when he was no more than a 3 before that, and I can deal with tunnel systems worth of plot holes, but Gates was just annoying.

"Welcome To Ogenki Clinic". Google it. Or the phrase "penis has a mustache" would probably work just as well. Is that ludicrous? I can't even tell. That's what anime is to me, just a rapid series of inexplicable juxtapositions accompanied by high-pitched gibberish. And sometimes, if you are lucky, enormous boobs.

intresting.

i dont see my entry i submitted at 1 am est.

(Kayla said:

Carmelldansen.
That is all.
Also, though it is not anime, those naked guys who sing and just wear fig leaves. They sing "Yatta!".
Scarred for life. That can never be unseen.)

Carmeldansen isn't anime either it's a Swedish dance song.

If Yatta scared you I hate to think what you would do if you ever saw two girls one cup. Pry retire from the human race.

YATTA YATTA happy go lucky.

mia; pretty sure you're talking about Kemonozume

Piccolo blowing up the moon in DBZ, 'nough said!

Now, I have already made an entry, so this will not be an attempt to qualify, but rather SHAME ON YOU guys for not mentioning one of the most famous catchprases of all of videogame history

I know it doesn't quite compare to TTGL or Prince of Tennis, but still good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw

@ BadNflu3nce:
that wasn't his punch that caused that.

Is the contest already over?
What the hell,I'll just go ahead and post :)

Ok,I have quite a few moments that were just...weird,but this one kinda takes the cake(for now...)

This one's from a little anime called "Sayonara,Zetsubou Sensei".It's basically about a super pessimistic high school teacher(who likes to hang himself...a lot) who meets a eerily super positive girl and a whole class chock full of weirdos.This class includes a crazy stalker girl,a social recluse who lives in the school ,a girl who's obsessed with tails and suspected victim of domestic violence and a girl who's so shy she can only communicate trough nasty text messages.
In one episode,the teacher goes to his hometown to take part in his family's marriage ceremony and since they're absurdly rich,pretty much everyone in the entire fucking town has to be involved.They then kidnap the girls,put them in kimonos and proceed to explain how it takes place.

Here's the part where it gets weird:
It starts at midnight and lasts 24 hours,and if you make eyecontact with someone,you're married!

So all you have to do to get married is just look at some poor sucker's eyes?

And it doesn't matter who,once it happens(even by accident!),you're hitched

And his students are there too,so he might get hitched to a little girl?

I do not want to imagine the divorce rates there...

And yet it still had me in stitches!

LOL

Azumanga Daioh
The episode entitled "pool pool" A class of high school girls go to swim class. They go get changed and when they leave their pedophile English teacher Asks "How was it?" they say "umm it was.." The Teacher then cut them of by screaming "DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!!!!!!!" for a whole minute.

That scene was death of the month in anime invasion 1 if I remember correctly.

Code Geass R2
warning-spoilers
Seen a lot of anime but this is the most ludicrous moment I have seen. In case people were wondering it doesn't make any sense in context.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-n8ao6ljk
5:14-5:44

Yes, I know the contest is over and done (and congrats to the winners!) However, I feel that this list would be remiss if we did not have any mention one of the greatest unexpectedly f**ked up Anime series ever to be aired in America. I speak, of course, of that delightful brain-tulip from the halcyon days when Nickelodeon would air any damn thing they could get the rights to, even if it could do lasting damage to an entire generation. Yes, I speak, of course, of "The Noozles".
Get a cold beer and a comfortable seat; this one's going to take some explaining.
So as the innocuous opening sequence shows, the series concerned an irritating little girl who receives a plushie koala named Blinky as a gift. Turns out that the koala can come to life and he has a fairy-like sister, Pinky, with magical powers. They go on magical adventures together. So far a little trippy but not too weird.
That is until we get to the first episode set in Koala-Wala-Land.
See these two koalas are from another dimension that is starting to either merge with or separate from our world. And it is populated entirely by talking animals. Talking animals with advanced technology and a violent hatred of humans. It turns out that:
a) Blinky is a clone who was raised inside what amounts to a cutesy-poo version of those nightmare fuel human tanks in "The Matrix".
b) Annoying girl's grandfather was lost in Koala-Wala-Land while exploring and has voluntarily trapped himself inside a magical crystal that forms the center of the Koala-Wala-Land universe. Which turns out not to be a bad idea because...
c) ...if a human is sighted within Koala-Walla-Land, the alarm is sounded and the cute little Nazi Koalas in their Nibblonian-looking spaceships will come and hunt said human down.
Repeat: Nazi Koalas. In cute little spaceships. Hunting humans.
You cannot make this kind of shit up if you wanted to. It's the kind of thing that will seriously fuck with your head when you are six years old, and it remains the most ludicrous Anime moment I have ever seen.
And just for perspective: I've watched "End of Evangelion".

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