AniWorthShuten Doji - The Star Hand Kid
Introduction
As a baby Jiro was delivered to his foster parents by a massive oni, who said he would return for Jiro in 15 years. When the time comes Jiro must contend with enemy oni, dark cultists, and their minions while attempting to protect both his parents and girlfriend from their depredations. Ultimately he must embark on a journey through the past, future, and other dimensions to embrace his destiny as Shuten Doji reborn.
(Source: ANN)
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.91/10 · 1373
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Audience reviews
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Kamezuki
“Shuten Doji” is an OVA that attempts to do a lot of things, and although it’s not quite successful, it deserves credit for trying.
The 50-minute, four-episode series starts out with a relatively standard plot involving demons, a teenager who is discovering that he may not be human, and an evil group out to get him for seemingly simple reasons (“he’s good; we’re evil; he’s destined to slay us so we have to kill him”). Jiro, the main character who has the personality of a log, somehow immediately gains friends willing to sacrifice their lives for him, and they fight the demons together. There’s also a girl named Miyuki who inexplicably loves him, even though he hardly shows any emotion towards her. She has the habit of getting kidnapped by the demons and tortured in their nefarious plots t…
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Note: the following comes from a video review, links on my profile page.
Shuten-dōji is a myth from the Heian era, as indeed the anime explains, but whereas in history this was perceived as an oni, in this series they are not as much, or perhaps what it tries to do is present a spectrum of this perception of fear. It tries to answer, as so many tales have done that mostly use the analogous concept of 'demons', but mainly asks "why is this felt so, or even, how is it conceived?"
Oni in this sense (could be generally when the creatures are a topic, but in this anime it seems to be indicated) is a psychological state that mainly represents negative emotions - whereas kitsune could be symbolic of deceit, or tanuki playfulness, oni are the darkest depths of the psyche.
It is abstractly confl…
Read at the sourceShoopDaBoot
The series starts off okay with what seems like a standard dark vs light story. However midway through the series they throw a curve ball and from there this series kicks into overdrive with 2 fantastic episodes.
The 3rd episode is mostly an action horror and does a great job at it with the intimidating villain that cuts his way through everyone in his path.
Very sad well thought out ending. If I were to keep a list of the best endings in anime this would be on it. I have a weakness for parent child stories and the ending hits that weakness very hard.
Read at the sourceBunnyBake
I actually rather liked this anime, it's one of those good old ones where there's a girl that ALWAYS loses all of her clothes at some point and ALWAYS has to be saved.
The actual storyline is pretty sweet, and does actually make sense eventually, and completely fullfills all the supernaturalness it promises.
The amount of blood and guts is satisfactory, and mixes nicely with the amount of 'love' (both maternal, friend and sexual).
Overall i'd say it's worth a casual watch, if only for the sake of having seen yet another anime where the main charecter is a supernatural being that get's blonde hair when they power up... not that it's common or anything *wink wink*
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