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The Bus's Transit of Anime Realities
Devil Hunter Yohko Without a doubt its one of the funniest and raciest anime I've seen (I thought that title belonged to Burn-Up W, but they got all the T&A out in the first two files). Its a great parody on the teenagers v. the monster type movies which gives it an edge. All the animation is good, but you can tell that there was a lot of improvement from volume 1 to volume 6. May not be a must buy, but it won't hurt you to check it out. |
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If your asking why I bought Devil Hunter Yohko 6 first, it because of SunCoast placing a label saying must be 18 to purchase on it(14 days and that will change for me). I do have Volume 1 now so I hope to reviewing it soon. Its a normal day of school for Ms. Yohko Mano which is basicly looking at attractive boys. This day, her taste tends to change every few hours, she's trying to get Tatuno to pay attention to her, but he seems to be going out with a girl in a slutty outfit with a hair do that resembles Yohko's. Her depression doesn't last long now that there is a new student teacher at school, Mr. Sato, but again she sees him with the same girl. Only with this encounter do they see eye to eye, and the two girls are identical. Yohko's best friend Chigako does some investigating into this girl, Ayako, but during her telephone debriefing, Yohko's apprentice, Azusa, lures her into a dual with Ayako who gets some help from Azusa. After Yohko's grandmother, Madoka, stops the dual, we find out about that Madoka had a twin sister who she beat out for the title of Devil Hunter, and she is pretty bitter. Now Yohko must be prepared to face Ayako again to protect her title, that is if she can stay focused on the battle instead of Mr. Sato. It may not be a must see, but its still fun to watch. The battle scenes have their own sense of humor and all the classic emotions literally being shown in character looks concept (hearts for eyes, etc) make it even more comical. At some points the humor becomes a little to ridiculus and its attempts to be serious can get a little boring, but otherwise everything works well. Another great thing about it is that you don't have to buy the other 3 dubbed volumes, 4 if your buying subtitled versions, because it isn't really a continuing series (I do know that the first volume was made in 1990 and this was made in 1995). Maybe something that other fans will be glad to hear that there are still a lot of risque moments in the action, especially the final battle. ***Additional*** The dubb is good, but I doubt that lines like "the truth is out there" and to a lesser extent "there can be only one" were in the original Japanese version, so its not exactly the most direct dubbed. |
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It seems to be a normal day for Yohko Mano, her grandma and mom are fighting over their views about virginity, she's late for school, but this time the principal of the school decides to punish one of Yohko's friend for it (the friend's name isn't overly important since this is the only show he's in. Okay I'm to lazy to pop the video in while I'm writing the review). It keeps getting more hectic as the day goes a long when a tentacled monster attack her, and her grandma pulls her out of bed with a demon who was before that the punished friend (when you forced to... wink wink nudge nudge your principal I'd call it punishment). All this leads to her grandma telling her she's the 108th Devil Hunter of the Mano family and she's has to prevent the rise of the new dark queen. Maybe even the more dificult part is staying a virgin until she gets the ring of the Hunter, or there will be no 108th Devil Hunter. As I said in my overall review, you can obviously tell the superior quality in the 6th tape animation wise, but aside from that it's a pretty good anime. It's pretty racy and maybe to racy for a cartoon, but it does use this to get in as much humor as possible. For a series opening show its well done, I feel usually the best episodes come a long when all the viewers are familiar with the show which allows for better plot construction. The best thing about the video is that it doesn't go half way with any of the concept which may be why the Viz Communication's catalog requires an 18 or older id to purchase it. The series is good enough that you can buy any video it seems in the series and not be wasting your money. Heck the only thing I'm confused about is why everyone gives so much attention to the series's music when its pretty nonessential. Devil Hunter Yohko 6 copyright 1995 Toho Co., Ltd. / MADHOUSE copyright 1997 Toho International Co., Ltd Distributed by A.D.V. Films Review on this page © 1998 Russ Stevens |
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