Audience reviews
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mailboxspiders
It's a movie about summoning demons with a 90s Windows computer, which makes total sense.
Obviously, if you play enough Solitaire on one of those things, you'd probably start summoning demons out of sheer boredom, too.
In other words, it's a very meme-able experience from the opening scene to the finale.
The animation is fine, the English translation is acceptable, the music is generic but inoffensive, the story is as stupid as it is forgettable, and the excessive nudity is little more than your expected fanservice from straight-to-video 90s anime.
The violence is, likewise, as gratuitous as it is unmemorable.
If you're into so-bad-it's-good anime though, you'll strike gold with Akito Kobayashi's US English voice acting.
Kobayashi in the dub is impossible to take seriously as a villa…
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There are the times when you play a game, its roots gritty, dark, imbalanced but, overall, passionate and full of life. Then you come across a later entry of the franchise which was able to channel the old spirit, being only a bit more balanced and bit tweaked for the mainstream. Then you see the fond franchise of yours being cast into the 9th circle of Hell and become something that completely undoes the nuance and fondness of the franchise and sends you down a downward spiral of hate, your own Kaz Miller arc. The reason why I am singing the tragic ballad of Fallout franchise is because, well, I want to emphasize that Tokyo Revelations does not fall under this specific category. But is this a sole reason to love it? Nope. Just because it didn’t fall victim to one cliché doesn’t mean that…
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This one is not scary, in fact it was a pretty sweet story, closest thing to a good boy love story I can stand to see . One of the main character Kobayashi is gay. When he was small, he was bullied for that and his friend Kojiro helped him. Now Kobayashi comes back in the same high school to show his friend Kobayashi how much awesome he turned now he knows occult and can summon demons. However, Kobayashi gets jealous of Kojiro's other friend Yosuke. I like this one more because it was emotional cause it tries to care about the characters. They got soul, they try to survive. The character you feel are important aren't thrown away. Many times I thought oh he gonna be slaughtered for some nice gory scene, then we can move on from him like bye. The alternative setting was just like that, more…
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This may seem like a joke and I know that a lot of people don't like this anime, but this was just fantastic in my opinion. Yes, this was mainly due to the terrible voice acting in some parts, (At least in the dub) but I unironically love this OVA because of the amount of charm, weird voice acting, and the insane story. This OVA has so many memorable moments and quotes. The two things I disliked about this OVA were that we didn't get to see more Akito, and if I'm remembering correctly Ose was called Satan which was a little annoying. All in all this OVA is not very good, I think this OVA is best enjoyed with the dub and maybe with some friends if you have any.
Read at the sourceCelesteForbes
Don't go into this expecting a masterpiece, it's still watchable up until the ending where it falls apart.
Story: 5
Not memorable at all really, basically some edgy teenager who wants to summon demons to get revenge on humanity except the one guy at school who protected him from homophobic bullies as a kid, the demon he's working with uses him and betrays him and wants to kill the childhood friend who has a god in him I guess? You pretty much figure this all out in the intro but the thing is we really don't learn much about these characters or the lore to understand their motivations, like we're supposed to feel sorry for the bullied kid but he calls some female classmates getting to know him "stupid ugly girls" and then sacrifices them to demons? I still watched onwards due to my love of…
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
Rate a 7
English Dubbed
Story
Introduction was good. Had a similar flair as to one of the final destination movies. As for conclusion mixed feelings. On one had the way the story was present the conclusion really did a good job at making one connect emotionally. That sacrifice will stay with me for awhile. Although, they over did it by repeating their closer over and over and over again.
Art
No complaints. Characters looked good.
Sound no complaints
Character
Above the normal for most characters involved, moderate.
Enjoyment
Best viewed if you felt wronged in your life. A real life lesson on what can go wrong and how it is never to late change it back.
Read at the sourceLIQfilms
"Ah! It's getting longer!"
-Kojirou Souma, 1995.
Oh boy! It's that time again to talk about an awful OVA from the nineties and today we have Shin Megami Tensei, based off the popular game series which I know nothing about. Aside from, that is, that many monsters seem to based off sexual organs such as Arioch, who seems to be in the shape of a vagina, and Mara, who is in the shape of a dick, along with a plethora of others who look like strange sexual...things. I literally found a top ten list in which the writer goes over the monsters that look like some sort of sexual organ. JESUS CRISUS.
Anywhore, from what I could gather from general consensuses and from a friend who had played the games and watched this OVA too, is that this show has little to nothing to do with the games in the seri…
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Although the OVA aren't related to the games released at the time, they still hold the themes of the games (cults, demons, etc). The story itself was not the greatest, although it felt decent enough to follow. The characters were decent enough to move along. Art & Sound were decent for the time (dub).
I believe that without knowing the origins of the Shin Megami Tensei story, many people may be thrown off by this OVA. For anyone coming in blind, I would recommend to read up prior to learn some history to understand more than what is being shown.
These episodes feel more of a little treat for the hardcore SMT fans who enjoy the games.
tl;dr: Play the games, then watch the OVA
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Demons, ninja clan demon hunters, reincarnation and a naked loli
I studied Buddhism in college and there were a lot of references to Gods and demons in this OVA that I didn’t understand. They also referred to one demon as Satan, which is a Western religious reference. In my opinion, this anime needs to remain locked in the vault of bad 90′s anime.
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I have memories from watching this late at years about, it almost threw me off watching anime altogether. That's how bad it was. Thankfully Spriggan came on after that, it cleared away my desire to throw up at least.
I admit, this is an impression from watching it more then half a dozen years ago...but I have no intention of watching this again just to confirm that impression.
Read at the sourceanimegorey
I was on the fence for a long time with this one. I finally gave in and bought it on eng dub (cheaply). It was a mistake. I couldn't find it anywhere to sample it. I didn't like the style of character animation or action scenes. Everything gave me the impression of a cheaply made mistake of an anime, like Kimera or Apocalypse Zero. Judge is another one that this reminded me of. Odd relationship going on between male lead and male villian. Sound was poor and characters were bland. It's one of those short and cheap OVAs. Unfortunately, this is a bad one. I like these short OVAs like BioHunter and Vampire Wars. Both are way better than this one.
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