Anime 579 Battle Programmer Shirase Reviews

Story: Unfortunately, the story was cut off after 15 episodes, and although the 15 episodes do tend to stick out on their own, the story quickly falls into a routine of Shirase being in his house, through some accident ends up in an uncomfortable position, and his next employer(always an Akizuki) walks in and sees him like this. The story quickly progresses through the various cybercrime cases Shirase takes, this routine repeating itself across each one.

Art: Standard anime artwork, nothing new or innovative

Sound: The voice actors for this anime are spot-on. No men with girly voices, rather, they all have the voices corresponding to their ... characters. The sounds of everyday life such as that of Shirase's fingers clicking on a keyboard add a small sense of realism.

The characters: If you looked up Shirase on a dictionary, you'd find him associated with ecchi and other such words. He is an easygoing rouge programmer who only cares about his programming and Misao-chan. Shirase is great-uncle or something like that to Misao, and she is just barely finishing elementary school, which might feel very improper to mainstream audiences who aren't accustomed to this aspect of japanese culture (lolicon).

Enjoyment: I personally enjoyed this short series, although the rather abrupt end was a source of disappointment to me. When you see the ending, you just know they could have kept this series going a bit longer. All in all, it leaves you wanting more, even if you feel it gets repetitive after a while, it does add a certain light-heartedness to this genre of hacker anime, typically dominated by anime similar to Ghost in the Shell. The inclusion of a possible love interest in the last 2 episodes is something I enjoyed, but again, due to the abrupt end, you are left wondering what might happen after, especially with the subtle hint at Shirase's future in that last image they show.

Overall: A decent anime, considering it is only 15 minutes long. Don't expect much, the abrupt end will leave you feeling cheated, even though the episodes are only 15 at 12 minutes each. Recommended to the hard-core programmer crowd for a few laughs, and to everyone else, this is rather a parody of programmers.

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.

This series are entertaining, the most interesting part is making a story about a programmer and his works in a fun way.
The story is a little of suspense, a little of romance, a few of fanservice and a lot of comedy, the fun part is how he manipulates the computers be by PC or cell phone by its programming to help the people hiring him in turn but instead of asking for money for his services he asks for very rare gadgets or nerd items.

Not the best anime I've seen but more entertaining than most anime that had come out in last years mostly because ... the concept and idea of the story is a little more original and each episode you'll be expecting in what kind of situation he will be and how he'll overcome it.

By the way the lolicon factor comes by the character Misao whom the protagonist has a "very close" relation, and if you didn't notice or didn't know Misao come from another not very related series, Pretty Sammy from the Tenchi Muyô universe you can tell by watching the character designs.

No spoilers. Short review.

Battle Programmer Shirase is underrated.

The story is simple yet it doesn't lack much as it's a sci-fi comedy. Some jokes are repetitive, but every time they are presented in different ways which make them work.

There are recaps here. You can skip them, nothing wrong with it. BPS was airing at the beginning of the 21st century on TV once a week, that's why they are here. I admit that they're quite long though.

Characters are the strongest point of this anime. Main characters have unique and memorable personalities. Akira Shirase, even though he seems to be your typical perverted weeb at first, is ... a kind man who does his amazing job as a programmer and is not afraid to look strange, he is being himself. Misao Amano is a caring primary school girl, a relative of Shirase that visits his house nearly every day to do the chores and cook for him. There's some amazing chemistry between those two, but it's not like Misao is the only female in the cast. Don't get the wrong idea, this anime is not a harem failure.

Side characters are mostly being the comedy relieves, however, a decent part of them is good plot-wise. There is only one hateable character, but thankfully, she appears rarely and only in the last episodes, as I recall.

The art is slightly above average. This anime is a lightweight ecchi with not much fanservice, so I guess the animation and artwork are okay.

Sound is better than visuals. Voice actors match their characters greatly. OP and ED are catchy and memorable.

To conclude, Battle Programmer Shirase is not complex. What makes it work is the execution, which is not top-notch, with its mistakes, yet is beautiful and inspired. They had really put soul into this anime before releasing it.

Thank you for reading my review. I appreciate the feedback.

First, saying this anime has 15 episodes isn't really correct. Even though there were 15 airings, it took 3 or 4 airings to complete an episode. So there are really only 4-5 episodes. So don't expect a fully developed plot line. In fact, the anime ends when you feel like it should begin.

With that said, it is extremely funny. The main character is hilariously apathetic to everything except antique computer parts and his hormones.

The situations he is put in are equally entertaining, and his superhuman feats of programming to solve them make the concept have a tremendous amount of potential which battle programmer Shirase ... doesn't quite reach.

Definitely worth watching though, because it's so short. The biggest shortcoming is not having more time to have a real plot.

The story follows Shirase a super hacker known as BPS and its this name that is (in)famous for being able to use a phone or a computer to create defense barriers and the like and gets him hired by all sorts of government people.

The show tends to run on a certain formula, through out 15 episode arcs are split into three episodes each, and each arc we find Shirase being hired to solve a case using his computer skills, he also tends to end up in a compromising situation every time his employer comes to visit him in which said employer will ramble to himself ... about morale before deciding to ignore it accompanied by a laugh track, and many other recurring jokes.

The art is not great, it is very simple and uses rather dull colors and not a lot of detail is put into it such as character designs are unoriginal and simple, backgrounds as well aren't brilliant but do fit in with he dull colors again. Animation is bellow average with characters barely moving when speaking and background characters don't move when they should be.

Opening song is quite amazing, sounds a lot like Rick Astleys Never Gonna Give You Up which does give you quite a good laugh listening to it, especially the first time. Ending is fun but no original but does fit the show, all other music sounds like something from very early Nintendo games and doesn't really add much to the scene. Voice actors are ok, a couple of characters give a really annoying voice but tend to fit there over the top character.

Shirase is known as BPS or Battle Programmer Shirase and tends to be and act like a bum, often found in a small apartment sleeping and having his meals made by his great niece Misao, they have a somewhat complicated relationship, Shirases sister is Misaos grandmother, and then of course Shirase is a bit of a pervert who tends to like younger girls as he is often persuaded to do a job for either a computer part or some otaku merchandise and tries to peak up Misaos skirt. Misao herself tends to be a bubbly girl who helps out Shirase. Shirase is employed by a different guy each arc whose name is always Akizuki. Other characters tend to be cliche, a genius kid working for the navy, a teacher and a bad guy that seems to think too much of himself, they maybe rather simple but do add a few jokes that tend to repeat.

Overall Battle Programmer Shirase may lack in all areas but it is fairly enjoyable watching Shirase kick the bad guys ass each time. Its also not all that ecchi but does provide a few laughs through out, just as long as you do not go and watch having high expectations.

This anime is about a god tier hacker who is famous as BPS(battle programmer shirase).He lives alone in his apartment and is daily visited by her grand niece Misao who is more like a little sister to him.
BPS is hired by different agencies to for cyber security and the way BPS creatively makes use of his hacking abilities to achieve his goals is really entertaining.
also the relationship between him and Misao provides cute and charming moments.
It was aired in 2003 so the artstyle looks old but it doesn't make the experience bad but instead it gives it a certain kind of charm.
Overall a fun watch.
7/10

It was interesting to see how he fares in his daily life with his unique and dramatic way of programming. You won't expect him to hack using normal conventions rather he does stuff which you won't see it coming. And it was also funny.

The art work for this isn't anything special. Sth you'd expect from an anime released at 2003.

The music is moderately fair.

For someone his age, puberty isn't in his dictionary.

It was sad to see some dialogues and scenes used repeatedly which wasn't fun.
The experience wasn't entirely bad but as someone who consumes lots of animes I wished they had done sth about ... their repetitions.

Bad, simply bad AND borderline criminal.

First let me start out with the good-
1. King of America is a hilarious name for a character.
2. Akizuki's many variants having their conflicting inner monologues after seeing Shirase do, well... "Things" with Misao, his niece/sister is actually hilarious and made me laugh once or twice.

Now, the bad- Straight up pedophilia. They don't even try to hide or sugarcoat it like other BAD anime. I've never been this uncomfortable watching something that isn't hentai. Only the first few episodes feature somewhat cool computer stuff all latter episodes are filled with early 2000s anime bs.

It's not a good anime, ... it's straight up not worth watching for any reason.

This is basically a minor production, done with minimal funds and with hope of a better sponsored sequel. This never happened and the whole project was scrapped. Back when I originally watched it I was still new to the medium and I was amazed with its bold humour and fast pace so I was really hoping they would one day pick it up again. After all these years though, I now don’t care much about it since it didn’t really have much of a context to work with and was even going in circles with the scraps it had laid out.

The story is about a ... super genius programmer, used by the government to prevent a criminal hacker from doing various major acts of terrorism. He is a slob so his underage female cousin comes to his house to help him in his life. So in every case, the exact thing happens. A government official would come to inform Shirase of the danger and would always meet him at the moment the little girl has accidentally bumped onto him in a very naughty way. He will immediately imagine a lot of erotic and psychologically depressed stuff before Shirase will take a computer and do his thing to prevent the opposing hacker… And that is pretty much all of it.

It sounds typical the way I describe it and frankly speaking it doesn’t try to mess with its formula much. Heck, even the jokes are repeating in the exact same way. But in practice the show manages to be very funny because each episode is short in duration and has fast pace. Plus the jokes are both bold and despite bordering paedophilia and being rehashed, they are always based on misunderstandings and not on the real thing; thus nobody is insulted. The protagonist is also the lazy but smart type of hero, who is always liked by most viewers for simply not belonging to the shounen lead archetype or the harem lead archetype which plague most anime. Having his cousin as a contrast to further boost his presence, as well as nobody else in the cast with similar traits to steal some spotlight, Shirase is one heck of a guy.

In all, it is not that great of a comedy. The jokes are hilarious but it is questionable if you laugh after the third time they are used in the exact same way. The production values are poor, the story is going in circles, the hacking battles aren’t exciting, and there isn’t any actual progress in any way. Not exactly a throw away title, but it could have been a lot more than what we got. Wasted potential, although you can get a somewhat similar feeling from another anime titled Irresponsible Captain Tylor.

Battle Programmer Shirase is a funny show with jokes all through it. The show has only 15 episodes and features Akira Shirase, or BPS. He uses his computer-hacking abilities to help people in need. However, he is quite lazy. Shirase doesn't charge for his help; instead, he likes getting hard-to-find computer stuff. His great-niece, Misao Amano, helps him with making food and tidying up. The program has some jokes about Shirase and Amano accidentally getting into sexual situations, which is a joke that continues all through the show. The story has parts, but the same bad guy makes most of the trouble. In every round, ... BPS gets into the enemy computer. This is usually simple to do. Later in the series, jobs get harder and characters from earlier stories help or change what happens. But, the surprise turns in the story aren't very good. In the end, it is a good show. I would suggest you to watch all episodes if you enjoy comedy type of programmes.