Grateful indeed, that in 2009 we can still manage to achieve such an amazingly bad anime release.

The 80s and 90s were a time when bad OVAs were everywhere and being put in Blockbusters across America, but I thought that time had passed. We may have gotten true winners such as Musashi Gundoh and Zaizen Joutarou, but I was always sad that the era of BAD anime, the kind of bad so terrible that it causes five different forms of Space Cancer, seemed to be over.

“Not so!” say Kano Mika and Kano Kyoko, two women known collectively as the “Kano Sisters” who appeared at Otakon 2008 alongside JAM Project and other guests to announce their new anime: an anime about them. And apparently, all they had at the time were some drawings of them as characters by a guy who makes Japanese baseball team mascots, which they just used over and over.

It appeared to be the kind of project destined to fall over and die. Lucky for us, it looks like the Grim Reaper won’t swing its ironic comedy scythe at this production until after the DVD release. And now it’s your chance to see the first episode for free(!!!) on Anime News Network. The title is Abunai Sisters. Abunai means “dangerous.” Sisters means “my eyes appear to have spontaneously imploded.”

Abunai Sisters is a 90-minute DVD release with 30 3-minute episodes. It’s being made by Production I.G. Yes, PRODUCTION I.G. You like Ghost in the Shell? How about Innocence? Stand Alone Complex? That’s all Production I.G and so is ABUNAI SISTERS. It also has the most hilarious pricing scheme ever, one which lowers the cost of each individual DVD if more people end up buying it overall. The lowest it goes is $65, the highest $340. $65 minimum for 90 minutes of bad tits jokes and an English-with-Japanese-subtitles-only release. At least Bandai Visual had good properties! So if you run any sort of bad anime panel at a convention, this should probably be on your list.

A new form of Space Cancer is out, and boy does it feel…something.