Audience reviews
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Crowelicious
It is not a bad anime, but not entirely good either.
The premisse is very interesting, a detective agency that focuses on solving special drugs related cases, and a it follows a rookie cop that joins this agency and is paired with an experienced detective to learn the ropes. Also, it is tagget here as 17+ and "adult themed". So yeah, it got my attention, even though it has CGI blended with 2D and the cast is overly colorfull for a 17+ adul themed anime...
The story starts very good, the humour blends well with the action scenes, the contrast between characters are nicely done, the rookie cop been that naive, young adult who has a big dream and hopes to achieve it by joining the detectives and the expert detective, very talented, just trying to do his job. It is a nice combo. But it start…
Read at the sourceDrakestalker
For the life of me, I couldn’t tell you why I ever decided to watch this and downloaded it some 3 years ago. I can, however, tell you why I intuitively put off watching it for 3 years. Most of the team responsible for Double Decker also worked on Tiger & Bunny and the two shows share the same character designer, Masazaku Katsura. The series was even billed as a "Tiger & Bunny New Anime Series Project" when it was first announced.
Alas, Double Decker is to Tiger & Bunny what Mac and Me is to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, that’s if E.T. were a huge pile of shit to begin with. T&B felt like a candy-colored shampoo commercial with a variety of plastic characters put on screen, which were all more believable as dolls and figurines, rather than real people. I understand that was kind of the centr…
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A shame to be honest.
I loved this anime. The characters were fun and the story was interesting, even if some parts were really cliche lol, at the beginning the art was great. But as the series progressed, the art got worse and worse. I love it, but the bad mix of CGI and 2D animation was just terrible. But this anime was really great, character and story-wise. If only it had received the same animation level as Tiger & Bunny :( I wonder why it didn’t, even after being made so many years afterwards.
As I said, I love the characters, they were great. If only the anime wasn’t 13 episodes, we might have been able to see the characters backstories in a more in-depth way.
The comedy was great, and the anime was a great watch. It’s sad about the animation… it could’ve been so much better! :(
Read at the sourcecocolita22
This was fair, all the way through. I was pretty bored most of the time and only watched because the music was incredibly cool, and the funny moments were downright hilarious. They just didn't come up very often.
I came into this expecting a really great relationship between the main characters, Doug and Krell, but they literally had the worst development I have ever seen. I don't even think they had a bond, so I don't know why that was advertised all over tumblr. Maybe I didn't pay close enough attention but I can't say that this show had any level of bromance or partnership between two characters who were literally supposed to be partners in crime for the show's plot purposes.
I really wanted to like this show. But now I'm telling you... don't waste your time. Just don't.
Read at the sourcenerdmeetslife
I won't say this is a top-tier anime but it was definitely binge-able. I liked the diversity of the characters but it felt like they didn't necessarily blend all that well as a community of characters. That's just my opinion though! In fact I loved the main character and I thought his personality was nice and fresh. The plot was rather unique so if you wanted to watch something a bit different that involved crime, solving mysteries, but with some drugs that make people monstrous then yeah this is great. Voice acting- no complaints. Soundtrack- loved it. Art- yeah this is where most my 'complaints' would be. The art was rather inconsistent. It would look like a typical drawn anime in some scenes but other scenes (typically the ones with a lot of movement) suddenly looked like cgi that was t…
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The anime it self is mediocre,run of the mill action anime 7/10. It have decent sound/music,and the character development is just like in any other anime of the type. Half the side kicks get an episode focused on their story. But it have a lot of negatives for me. So i decided to put them out for people that care about it.
-Censorship,rude parts are scratched off and words are changed with *. It had it on the version that i watched and i have the feeling that it is part of the anime and not put on by the distributors.
-Really bad CGI that is an eyesore at best. It is the main reason that the battles feel so bad.
-Far too americanized for me,if i want to watch american things i have plenty of serials to rewatch. I don't watch anime to just see another USA cartoon. The writing,the art,the…
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If you come to this show expecting a sequel, or at least a spiritual successor to Tiger & Bunny, return whence you came. The overly smug narrator and the direction will try to convince you otherwise, but this is not the show that you were looking for.
My main gripes with Double Decker are threefold:
- The genre shift
- The needlessly complicated sci-fi elements
- And the fact that everything has to be a plottwist
The first point is pretty self-explanatory. If you go into the sequel of a samurai show after it has been advertised as the new samurai show, but for some reason they changed the setting to a modern day highschool drama where only one character is a major samurai fanboy, you'd be disappointed too. Now the genre switch from superhero to supernatural detectives isn't too big. Espe…
Read at the sourceInjenss
"Mmmm...not bad."
That's the feeling I walked away from this anime with. It was pretty funny at times, it had lots of action, the characters were likable. But, it just has the feel of something you'll forget you saw a year from now.
If I could point to two things that make it feel more like a B-rate anime, it would be the fact that it never really felt like it had an identity of its own, but was trying to appear to. It looked like it was pulling from Tiger & Bunny (Without being nearly as good), and adding aspects of Wizard Barristers and Samurai Flamenco into it. It didn't really seem to know what kind of anime it wanted to be which is why it started as a vice detective comedy, but ended up with space colonies and attacks on military bases. And while they properly explained the transi…
Read at the sourceJiangHaoyi1979
7 year after Tiger and Bunny, sheees I hate that anime, thought the graphics were nice, but you know this anime kinda has a different beat since this was the only time that the police genre has made a come back after a quite a while , after "You are under arrest", also I jaz don't see any reason why this anime would be related to "Tiger and Bunny" except for the part that they both were with studio "Sunrise and both were original works that were not taken from a manga. Anywayz , if we're to consider the plot of the anime, it was basically your run of the mill good guys versus bad guys , that involves a group of specialize police officers called "Seven -O" which was headed by a Clark Gable look alike named, Travis with his secretary that has a resemblance to that of Becky from the anime Nor…
Read at the sourceSmashedTomatoes
I'll start this quoting a running gag:
Double Decker is not an anime about heroes and dreams,
It's about a bunch of people who can seamlessly turn between 2D animation and CGI.
art:
No, seriously, the whole series has a combination of 2D animation and 3D animation, and while the 3D segments look and move really good, the 2D animation sometimes fails, not because the movement is bad, but rather because the lines seem more like a rough sketch than the final deal, it's especially noticeable right in the opening, where there is a rather large sections where the images pass from these solid illustrations to something not quite as good looking, it still retains it's good looks when it's important.
Sound, Music:
Talking about the opening, while rather generic, when it comes to soundtrack, it i…
Read at the sourceMarkezzo
Double Decker has a strong enough start with ridiculous episodic adventures and a cast of lovable idiots, with an over-the-top narrator as a nice cherry on top. However, the comedy and characters that are the show's main selling points become less inspired toward the mid-point. An example would be that only a small portion of the characters get any kind of backstory, and the team-work they need to form as cop duos rarely gets any focus.
The action doesn't help in elevating the experience either, due to the odd mix of 2D and CGI animation that makes the action too clumsy to be enjoyed on its own.
Double Decker’s greatest downfall however is the plot-twists. Comedies love to subvert expectations and go for the less expected outcome, which is great in exploring stories and characters. Doin…
Read at the sourceStark700
I can’t really imagine a society in our world today without laws. Hell, I can’t even begin to fandom what would happen if the police force disappeared in my neighborhood. As a police story, Double Decker runs with a plot that managed to capture the essence of crime fighting. I’m not going to lie, this show made me realize that sometimes, we can make the simplest ideas and turn it into a blockbuster.
As an anime original, Double Decker may look familiar especially those who have experienced a show in the past known as ‘Tiger & Bunny’. Produced by studio Sunrise, it didn’t take long to realize the familiar character designs by Masakazu Katsura. Even after all these years, it feels like his talent never left us with these T&B aesthetics. I would also assume the setting of the show takes plac…
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