Rascal

*spoiler-lite review*

Give yourself to the anime

Animegataris is a series that's going to get swept under the rug. You know by watching it that it's a boring slice of life about an anime club and that's all it needs to be with its underacheving artstyle and animation. By all means there's nothing special about it so there's no real need to watch it, besides its reference-heavy narrative for those of you that like shoutouts and its commentary on the anime industry every once in a while. Besides that it trips over every trope imaginable into a pool of muddy grey. 

The situations in the story the characters get into aren't intreguing in the least so the only thing keeping the story scored where it is is the weirdness. Just imagine you're looking at the most boringly shaped cloud in the sky you've ever seen. Then right as you're bored and are about to look away the could shifts into the shape of a burger king logo for a second then disperses. That's animegataris, but less entertaining and completely forced.

I won't spoil what happens but basically it tries to do something different and WEIRD too close to the end and falls completely on its ass trying to do it because there's no reason to care about the characters or what's going on even remotely at all, but you've gotta give it props for trying all the same.

The animation is consistant, that's all i'll say. It's not noteworthy at all. The Sound is charming as long as you're just listening to it but it's nothing to the show itself. The opening is ok and it's very self-aware.

References are another thing. Like, I get that in a show about anime itself you want to callback to popular anime but it seems like this show doesn't even want to stand on its own as its own seperate thing because literally every other line is a reference to another, probably better, anime.

the only funny joke the anime has.

A few of the characters had potential but none of them stepped up besides the weird glasses guy. Then there was this godforsaken stuffed rotten peanut that they said was a cat, talking like it knows whats going on all the time and they think its SO funny they shove it into the camera every second and make it say some stupid shit that you never wanted or needed to hear. It does nothing for the story at all and it's the stupedist fucking thing of all time, it makes no sense, but then again neither does the resolution so fuck it why bother.

Mediocre 4th wall breaks, pointless characters, unconvincing story, In the end it's not even worth watching for its insane story twist and i'd reccomend avoiding it altogether if you don't feel like sitting through 10 episodes of lameness only to get 2 episodes of outright cringeworthy stupidity.