Anime & Donghua

tbh, your description of it in that other thread almost makes it sound like "so bad it's good" schlock.

I cannot emphasize strongly enough that it is not. It's just kind of dull and gross and it doesn't really go anywhere. It starts off iffy and just gets gross and then grosser and then also sad and then even grosser and this just goes on at a jerking pace while the whole time you can just feel the author's quivering, breathless arousal seeping into the story and controlling the pacing in a very uncomfortable way. I have an extremely high tolerance for absolute garbage, I like piling up a big platter of weird, creepy nonsense to watch as a spectacle, and Made in Abyss actually ruined my week when I watched it.

If you want a rubbish spectacle, Sword Art Online and particularly the SAO: Alicization seasons are great for something to hate watch and riff on. It's problematic, it has pacing problems in the early seasons, and the worldbuilding is literal nonsense through and though, but it does still have some redeeming qualities alongside its admittedly decent sakuga action scenes, and the themes of the Alicization arc are actually pretty good, it's just that even Alicization is still SAO and has more of the other kind of SA than ever at least one instance of which just actually happens on screen out of nowhere in the middle of a fight. However, Alicization does do the best thing any SAO season has ever done and that's put Kirito in a coma and just have him sitting there in the background of scenes, vacant eyes staring off into space and drooling on himself, while the female characters have all of the agency and do everything.