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Buried Garbage - The Humanoid

Honestly, that pop-up video thing sounds like a great selling point to me, I'll have to track this down when I have somewhere to put it.

Did someone just say "Roots Search?" Cause I think I just heard someone say "Roots Search." I eagerly await walking into the spleen with the space baby in the future! And you thought the sex scene in Enemy at the Gates was mindblowing.

One of the deadliest aspects to The Humanoid (aside from the coffee endorsements, that's the main part) is that as a side effect of the nonexistent budget, the character's faces all have their, shall we say...Downy moments. This is one of the "finer" screenshot examples. Sure, it's not quite on the level as say, the woman in the last scene of that last episode of the Starship Troopers anime (ooh! ooh! Do that one after Roots Search!), but if anyone looked at me like that, I would RUN.

If the DVD extras are better than the anime itself, that admittedly isn't setting the bar all that high. I think the craziest part of the pop-up video notes was when the pink parakeet flew by in one scene, thus prompting a pop-up mentioning the existence of the John Waters film Pink Flamingos. This makes me wonder if anyone who saw The Humanoid then proceeded to track down and watch Pink Flamingos afterwards.

It's not easy to make The Humanoid interesting or even fun to watch in a "ho ho, this is hilariously bad" kind of way. It's the sort of terrible anime for which there's not really one particular scene that's so bad that you could take it and show it to people as a clip to demonstrate "boy oh boy does The Humanoid suck." You have to just take in the entire 45 minutes and let the sum total kill you spiritually. As Keanu Reeves once said, time freezes when you're in Hell. And 45 minutes of The Humanoid is an eternity.