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As other reviews have mentioned, the story is very simple. The characters are bland and shallow. You have to believe in love at first sight, because certainly there are never any reasons for the characters to fall in love.

The art style has moments where it's excellent, but the animation is frequently very lazy. Even by OVA standards, the budget here feels low. Even when the art style is at it's best, to me it feels like a SHAFT wannabe.

For me the saving grace of this show is the soundtrack. The first episode in particular has a wonderfully emotive soundtrack that perfectly accompanies the events of ... the episode. The soundtrack alone elevates this show from a 5 to a 7 for me.

I expected to like this show. An ecchi comedy about a programmer who doesn't work for money seems like just the kind of trash that I love. But now I can say with confidence that this is the worst anime I've ever watched. It's a masterclass on how not to make a good show.

Sexualisation of minors and incestuous relationships. Short episodes with long and unnecessary recaps at the start of half of them. Offensive treatment of a trans character. Lazy animation, with lots of scenes being obviously re-used. Characters being introduced, set up as if they are going to be significant, and then never seen ... again. A female character moaning orgasmically and uncontrollably from having her hip groped.

And then there's the "hacking", which requires a paragraph of its own. Many shows portray hacking with terrible tropes, and you would be hard pressed to find a sin on /r/itsaunixsystem that this show DOESN'T commit. But, not satisfied there, the show comes up with some new and original awful hacking tropes. Such as, instead of typing frantically, the main character executing an immensely implausible hack by just pressing one key, the "return" key. Talk about making it look easy. Using a computer without looking at it is nothing new and is possible in real life, but the main character in this show is somehow able to read a report without being able to see the screen.

None of these things are enough to break a show. The issue with BPS is that it has nothing except these things. The storylines are boring. The characters are boring. The show has exactly one joke, and it knows it because it re-uses it 5-6 times throughout the series and follows it up with canned laughter each time. And the joke isn't even very funny.

All of this makes me wonder if perhaps BPS is a parody. If so, it fails on that level too, because parodies are meant to critique and make fun of stupid tropes, not just to emulate them. Instead the kindest thing I could say about this show is that maybe the staff's goal was to make the worst anime ever, and in that case I believe they succeeded.

Clannad: After Story is an excellent anime. It's really well illustrated, paced, voice-acted, etc... It's really great to watch. But sadly the story is incomplete and in order to understand what took place you will NEED to read an explanation afterwards.

If Visual Novels are your thing, PLEASE play the VN before or instead of watching the anime. The VN has the whole story. I really want to give this a 10/10 because of how much I enjoyed watching it and how good the story is once it's been explained, but the fact that the story has to be explained means I just can't consider this ... show a masterpiece.