# Blue Flames

Perhaps one of the worst OVAs in anime history. But you don't have to take my word for it. Just look at this entry from TVTropes' So Bad It's Horrible page on anime and manga. Blue Flames is a deservedly obscure and aggressively horrible 45-minute OVA from 1989. It concerns a stoic social climber named Ryuichi Kaizu who wants to go to Tokyo University. He is a sex-addicted Invincible Villain Protagonist who uses women as stepping stones to achieve this goal, and he doesn't care if he hurts them at all. For example, the father and brother of one woman he sleeps with ask him to break up with their daughter, so he makes the breakup as harsh as possible, driving her to attempt suicide. Another one of his targets objects to his sleeping around, and when she confronts him about it, he rapes her into submission. Ryuichi has been compared unfavorably to Light Yagami because he lacks any of Light's cool or redeeming qualities. The anime never gives any indication that Ryuichi is in the wrong, and he gets away with everything in the end. As if those reasons weren't enough for it to be considered horrible, the anime also fails technically; it is hideous, with bland designs and animation almost completely devoid of style, which is especially egregious considering that OVAs have higher budgets than TV series. The tone is utterly misogynistic, the pace is sluggish, the voice acting is lackluster, and the soundtrack sounds more like something from a melodramatic soap opera.

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 1989
- By: Kimio Yanagisawa
- Genres: Animation
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/blue-flames)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/blue-flames?play=1)