Reincarnated Into Another World As A Melancholic Indian Where I Must Slaughter All Minorities

Reincarnated Into Another World As A Melancholic Indian Where I Must Slaughter All Minorities is a 2014 anime based off of the heavy novel of the same name, Reincarnated Into Another World As A Melancholic Indian Where I Must Slaughter All Minorities (Novel) by an anonymous writer under the name of Beast of Bakhmut. Produced by Shiba Shaker Studios, it was directed by the well-known Sicilian Cracker, and the OST was produced by Niżyński Bogusławski. It is made up of two seasons each containing 24 episodes, with season 1 airing on Cartoon Network in two parts from 13 January 2014 to 29 June of the same year. Season 2 aired from October 4 2016 to March 15 2017. It is well known for having many production delays, an 18+ version known as 'Reincarnated Into Another World As A Melancholic Indian Where I Must Slaughter All Minorities: Ecstasy', and a fairly shit first season but a critically acclaimed second season. 
== Plot ==
Plotwise, the story follows 18-year-old Glaze Chaterjee Khandelwal, an orphan living a mundane, depressing on the streets of Mumbai, who is kidnapped, experimented upon, and killed by a group of scientists at the University of Mumbai. He finds himself in Bombay, British Raj in the year of 1929. He also finds that this world is very different; AI-controlled humanoid robots known as 'Gänglergurkhas' have destroyed a large chunk of humanity after they were developed by a group of British satanic scientists and went rogue rougly 30 years prior. Pockets of civilisation remain in about 70 countries in the world, held together by very primitive communication.
Glaze finds himself trapped in an invasion by a wave of Ganglergurkhas on the outskirts of Bombay, with death seeming imminent until he is saved by the a squad of Rajensteiners, people with artificial supernatural powers whose jobs it is to protect civilisation from the Ganglergurkhas. Each Rajensteiner has personalised powers. Glaze decides to undergo training but is rejected by the committee as they are somehow aware of his time travelling, and he is given a different job - to eliminate all other pockets of civilisation to allow India to become the primary power in the world. The rest of the series follows him travelling around the world, fighting Ganglergurkhas and foreign powers. 
== Production ==
The production of RIAWAAMIWIMSAM was very turbulent. It was the first anime produced by Shiba Shaker Studios to gain significant hype due to the popularity of the novel. Sicilian Cracker was tasked with directing the show, after having worked on many shows such as Fred, Borat: The Animation, and Sword Art Online. Executive producer AmazingAndy3832 volunteered to work on it due to his fascination with gay reincarnation tales.
Niżyński Bogusławski composed background music and both openings: "Tale of a Cruel Shitter" and "Starsign Gujurati ~ One's Apathy from Vagabonds of Karachi". He also composed the ending, "Sweet Bombay".
There were many production delays, caused by strikes, the 2013 Shiba Shaker Studio 1 Arson Incident which killed many employees and nearly pushed the company to bankruptcy, a major lack of investment, a struggling recovery from the 2008 Financial Crisis, and more. This led the release to be pushed from 2011 to 2014. A popular meme within fans of the bakhmutverse franchise (all novels written by Beast of Bakhmut) was 'Check Cartoon Network', where person A would troll person B by claiming that the anime was finally released, getting B's hopes up, only to be extremely disappointed when they find that it was not in fact released. All in all, brilliant trolling.
=== Season 2 ===
Production of the second season began in mid 2015, and was much more streamlined than the production of season 1, due to SSS having largely recovered from the arson incident, better working conditions for employees, increased investment and a full recovery from the 2008 crisis. All staff retained their roles, including Bogusławski, who composed the two new openings "Thesis of Gurdwara" and "Waheguru's Candid Lover ~ Charge of the Blaze Brigade". There was also a new ending, "Harmony of Princely State".
=== Reincarnated Into Another World As A Melancholic Indian Where I Must Slaughter All Minorities: Ecstasy ===
To celebrate the 5th anniversary of season 1, in January 2019 the series aired once again, this time adapting the many 18+ scenes from the source material. This would be labelled the 'Ecstasy Version', and was aired on Chaturbate as opposed to Cartoon Network due to it containing the S-word act.
== Reception ==
Season 1 is frequently called 'Schrodinger's Anime', due to just about every person in the world having a different opinion on its success or failure, and if you asked a random person they'd have an exactly 50% chance of calling it a success, and a 50% chance to say the opposite. This split breaks all social boundaries such as appearance, media taste, wealth, age, gender, as each person could literally say either with a perfectly even chance. You could interpret any one person as being both a Melancholic-Indian-Optimist and a Melancholic-Indian-Pessimist until you ask him.
No, this phenomenon has nothing to do with radioactive particles. Rather it's due to the reception of the anime upon release - it was pretty universally treated as on the lower end of the quality scale, anywhere from mid to shit. Certain episodes had choppy animation, some non-18+ scenes were cut from the novel, the pacing was described as 'ridiculously bad' (see Endless Gurdwara Shitting under 'Controversies'), and the voice actors didn't do too outstanding of a job. However, it also became extremely popular and made a shit fuck metric ton of money due to the sheer hype surrounding its release. The OST was also rated positively. Overall, season 1 was both a success and a failure.
=== Season 2 ===
Due to the financial success of season 1, Shiba Shaker Studios was able to alleviate some of its internal problems and was set on creating a much better season 2.