In these two pictures, Shirase is doing two different things:

1) Hacking an enemy’s computer and making it explode
2) Ogling lolis

If you can tell in which activity he is doing which, you’re already halfway to being a LEET COMPUTER HAXOR like Shirase.

Other good tips Battle Programmer Shirase teaches us about LEET COMPUTER HAXORS:

  • All LEET COMPUTER HAXING is done by little ASCII cute things that control your computer screen and make your boss think you’ve gone crazy
  • It’s entirely possible to do all your LEET COMPUTER HAXING using only your right hand, wielding a five-buttoned mouse. In a pinch, a cell phone will do, if you really need to take someone’s computer down and you’re away from home.
  • Salarymen like big breasts, and LEET COMPUTER HAXORS like lolis
  • LEET COMPUTER HAXING can make computers explode over the internet by overloading a circuit at the ‘electricity storage point’ and pumping gasoline into the ‘gas plumbing’.
  • All true LEET COMPUTER HAXORS program in hex. With hex. Whatever. 23AB8C8D8E8F8A9F99973289B etc.
  • LEET COMPUTER HAXOR BATTLES are fought on the stage of one guys computer, as they fight to send the computer commands using LEET COMPUTER HAXING skills.
  • On that note, there is no such LEET COMPUTER HAXOR skill as ‘unplug the computer from the internet or the wall to stop it from being attacked’.

At least one of these statements is true.

Additionally, Battle Programmer Shirase also teaches us that laugh tracks DO exist in anime.
(Hahahahahahahaha!)

Basically, I can’t imagine Battle Programmer Shirase is taking itself seriously, to the point where it seems it HAS to be tongue-in-cheek, what with the salaryman’s three-minute long Internal Monologue About Pedophilic Programmers set against an epic space backdrop and the programming computers to explode using a cell-phone.

To that end, BPS is kinda fun in how ridiculous and nonsensical it is. It looks to be a nice little fluff show after 1 episode, and I think I’ll have fun with it, given how it’s a different kind of ‘random funny show’ than the typical slice-of-life. More like the slice-of-HAX, am I right? (Hahahahahahahaha!)

Or what passes for one episode. Each file I have is 12 minutes long, but they’re labeled ‘episode 1, part 1′, ‘part 2′, and ‘part 3′.

So either I’ve watched 1 episode, 3 episodes, or maybe a quantum state existing somewhere between the two. I must not be LEET COMPUTER HAXOR enough to understand the episode naming.

(Hahahahahahahaha!)

-CCY