Audience reviews
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CorrectorYui
It is rare that I label reviews mixed feelings as I tend to usually strongly go for one side or the other. But, this deserves that label.
Mamono Hunter Youko is a 90s ecchi that exhibits the magical girl warrior type and surprisingly predates the most well-known warrior magical girl Sailor Moon by 2 years.
To start, the good. The ecchi aspects of this series remind me a lot of Go Nagai's Cutie Honey (especially the transformation sequences) and it has a similar fun vibe, with Youko reminding me of Honey in 2004's Re: Cutie Honey. Youko and Azusa are very cutely designed and their voice actresses put on great performances with it making sense that they later go on to voice in iconic magical girl series such as Sailor Moon and Magic Knight Rayearth, respectively. The fights are very well…
Read at the sourceTrashDax
If Yohkos clothes all disintegrate every time she transforms...being Devil Hunter must be quite expensive.
Story:
Well, it's your standard magical girl story. Yohko is destined to become Devil Hunter, is reluctant, has to fight, accepts her fate and keeps on fighting. Sure, this anime is over 25 years old, but it wasn't revolutionary back then either. But hey, I still prefer a solid, unoriginal story over a creative mess that falls flat and DHY is very solid. Being an OVA series that ran 6 episodes over 5 years, every episode pretty much stands for itself. All of them were entertaining, with exception of episode 4, which wasn't an episode but a music video compilation. Why would you release that as an official episode?
6/10
Art:
For 1990, this isn't bad. If I have a problem, it's that in…
Read at the sourceRuriTenshi
I have been on a quest to watch obscure 80s, 90s and early 00s animes and this one I really enjoyed. This show is so weird and it left me wanting more cause sometimes I want to see what other weird shit that would have appeared after only 6 episodes. If you thought Sailor Moon did it first think again. This had the transformations first but was never a big hit. The transformations showed everything tits and ass galore. The story had a lot of weird elements put into it. Like it had serious,creepy, comedic, and other elements slammed and usually that doesn't work but in this case it was what actually worked. That what was so funny about it. The story itself was wacky but entertaining. Its got some interesting points and I like it. Sound is pretty nostalgic. I loved the music during the fight…
Read at the sourceDuckmanTheTyrant
Devil Hunter Yohko can be best described as “Sailor Moon for boys.” It has a mix of action, violence with some gore, magical girl themes, and even some light-hearted comedy revolving around teen girls. At face value, this sounds like the recipe for disaster, but much to my surprise, this was pretty enjoyable as a “mindless fun” anime.
A lot of people have compared Devil Hunter Yohko to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; I'm sure most of them are talking about the TV series but since I haven't seen the show, I actually think of the campy 1992 film of the same name since both aren't meant to be taken seriously and are fun to watch. Officially, there's six episodes in this OVA, but I say there's five since “Devil Hunter Yohko 4Ever” is a compilation of j-pop music videos using footage from the first…
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Devil Hunter Yohko is listed as a magical girl horror comedy anime from Madhouse. No, I have no idea how that works. But it's from the same studio that brought us Ninja Scroll, Perfect Blue and Claymore. So how bad could it be?
The story is about a fifteen year old girl named Yohko who comes from a long line of devil hunters and must take on the role to save the world. Each episode covers a different adventure of Yohko's in her efforts. It's a simple enough story and it could work, but in this case issues start popping up right away. Whether it's the over-reliance of cliches, the plot holes, the erratic pace that moves really slowly at some points in an apparent effort to create tension, the bits that just make no sense, the plot points that are downright moronic it's just one poorly exe…
Read at the sourceWizardJo
Devil Hunter Yohko is a short series from the 90s that's perfect for fans of panty flashes, girls with weapons, and 90's anime artstyle (I do). I first watched this when I was about nine (totally not okay) but it's better suited to teens and young adults. I used to rent it from a local video place that had lots of anime (most of it innapropriate for small children, but I watched it anyway. -_-) and I found the whole series cheap at a Half Price Bookstore when I was in high school. Because I idolized sexy kick ass women like Yohko when I was a kid, I may be a little partial. ^^; The story is far from complicated. The action facet of it is actually pretty good from what I remember. There's not really any fluff or nonsense, the episodes are all fairly to the point; things seem normal and then…
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