Audience reviews
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LuxuriousHeart
Sukeban Deka is a quick watch with loads of action and a badass protagonist with a yoyo. What's not to love?
Saki is an ex-delinquent turned secret detective. She's investigating the Mizuchi family. The dad and his three daughters, who are attractive and popular in school. Saki then meets two other students, Sanpei and Junko. Sanpei is basically the perverted comedic relief. Junko has more depth. She's a poor student attending an elite school, and she has to work a job after school. She's a talented painter. She's rescued by Saki one night, which starts their friendship. The principal is a good guy that wants to get the school under control, and to actually teach his students. He's a perceptive guy who knows when something bad is about to happen, and he can tell when people aren't good.…
Read at the sourceKristiwazhere
First off, I watched this, and all of the other OVAs on my watched list as part of a project where I'm watching every subtitled OVA I can get my hands on. I watch each of them mostly blind, so this following review, which is my first attempt at one, is not coming from a mindset of being a fan of the manga, artist, or tv show, as many of these reviews seem to be.
Personally, I thought the story was ok for the first half of the anime. There was a certain point though where it all went down hill for me, with a plot device that I found so terrible that it dropped my opinion of the anime by quite a bit. I am not going to say what it is here since the guidelines say no spoilers. It wasn't that the story as a whole was ridiculous (it was, but really that was to be expected with this sort of anime…
Read at the sourceTyumace
Sukeban Deka is perhaps mostly known nowadays in the west as one of the biggest influences to the show Kill la Kill. In particular the live action tv show and movies were quite popular and Kill la Kill even directly copied the ED of that show. The OVA, though lesser known, is nothing to sniff at either, even if it has it’s problems.
Sukeban Deka started out as a manga in 1975 and would have been considered a classic by the time this OVA came out. It was inspired by the rise of Sukeban, gangs of violent highschool girls that tried to defy gender expectations and were by some viewed with loathing and disgust and by others admired. Just like the Gyaru from the early 2000’s, cultural interest in in the Sukeban was longer lived than the Sukeban themselves and so the media started romanticizing…
Read at the sourceLuquillo
Organized crime has risen and a group of students are killed in a bus crash which is said to be an accident. The police trace the source to Takanoha High School. The people under suspicion are three ruthless sisters named the Mizuchi Sisters. These girls rule the high school and they're lead by their wealthy father Gozo Mizuchi. Lacking the evidence to put them behind bars due to Gozo's financial influence. The police black mail Saki Asamiya to infiltrate the high school, with the mission being to provide evidence to bring them down. Saki was a student at the school who ruled with an iron fist, and is currently serving a prison term. Her mission soon becomes personal, when one of the sisters see her as a threat and decide to get rid of her.
Sukeban Deka throughout the years has been consi…
Read at the sourceTuttle1
It's a one shot OVA as far as I know. There were manga but you can't find them in the United States. You get a little backdrop as to why the main character is in jail, but not much, then the story progresses into her taking back her old school from three evil sisters. Everything wraps up well for it being two episodes long, I just with there was more in genral. Saki Asamiya is a great character. If dropped into the right hands there could have been an awesome TV series. Its short, cheap, and worth the watch. I reccomend it to everyone, including my non-otaku friends, and they love it.
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