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Detroit Metal City
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Animation - 6.3 |
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Sound - 7.3 |
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Story - 7.0 |
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Character - 6.7 |
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Value - 7.0 |
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Enjoyment - 8.0 |
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Average - 7.1 |
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| Average |
7.8 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
7 |
| Character |
7 |
| Value |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
10 |
| I WILL F---ING MURDER YOU IF YOU DO NOT WATCH DMC AFTER THIS SENTENCE.
Despite the "average" scores, DMC is still one of the funniest comedies every created. Sure its got loud music (and I fucking love it), vulgarity, crude adult humor, and anything soccer moms thinks are absurd, but at the core is the development of the double-life Negishi must deal with: one being an ambitious trendy pop musician with a love interest, and the other to earn money as the death metal (not really) band Detroit Metal City (KISS reference... but you know that already). What Japanese people will do for money is not beyond - Tokyo's cost of living is very high even with a quarter of the island's population living in it. But enough about the social issues present in the story... I'm just telling you that DMC is f---ing awesome.
I'll admit the humor wore off on me after episode one, but be delighted that the situations are still so hilarious and vulgar that you must pause and catch your breath before readying the next period of time without air in your lungs. At ~12 minutes per episode 12 times, there is a fair amount of humor to be found fresh every time. If you can handle crude adult humor, you will enjoy this to the max.
I do wish they put out more songs from the metal side of the band - "Satsugai" can only last for so long before my instrument-sensitive ears get bored. However, the ending song is EXTREMELY CATCHY, the point of Negishi's dream of trendy pop music being made.
The voice acting here is superb, but they use two different actors for Negishi which I found disappointing (live-action movie counterpart has the same person doing both). The manager's engrish swearing is some of the best I've every heard.
The animation style is quite good, though the quality is only average (did not like the human anatomy here). The use of blackout panels helps focus on the visual humor and saves time from drawing everything. Actually, there are quite a lot of visual references to look out for; the scenarios are also frame-by-frame adaptions straight from the manga.
Not for the easily-offended (and for other obvious reasons), I fully recommend DMC to your metalhead or crude joke loving friends.
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| Average |
8.0 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
8 |
| Character |
8 |
| Value |
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| Good comedy, thought short. Each episode runs for about 13 minutes, and there are only a total of 12 episodes. Each episode gets more and more amusing. Good and not staying predictable. Does a good job of drawing you in to wondering what crazy adventure or event will happen next. I would certainly recommend watching this one.
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| Average |
5.3 |
| Animation |
5 |
| Sound |
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| Story |
6 |
| Character |
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| Value |
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| If there's one thing I have to give to the creators of Detroit Metal City: this series is definitely a horse of a different color, especially considering its musical themes and structure. Yet, there are several caveats with Detroit Metal City that I couldn't quite look over.
The story revolves around a rather awkward, humble protagonist named Negishi, who has a rather bold alter-ego as the lead singer of Detroit Metal City (DMC). Kauser II is the Hyde part of this Jekyll meets Hyde mentality, and the series plays towards humor in noting the complications with his dual identity. Negishi's side is lighthearted, timid, and his only dream is to play in a surf pop group that makes music that he, his family and friends can be proud of. Not to mention rekindle a love interest with his high-school sweetheart. However, he *accidentally* becomes the leader of DMC, which performs songs that aren't so much in his line to be proud of. Yeah...you wouldn't necessarily want to be associated with a dual personality that sings songs about raping and killing people, performing um...rather overt acts in public that are totally misinterpreted by the people who observe you. :P Unfortunately for the poor sap that is Negishi, that's exactly what he finds himself falling into.
The series, at times, executes this in such a humorous way, particularly in the beginning episodes where it makes note to shift him from his regular personality to Krauser's persona. It's an original concept and when I first came into the series, I did genuinely like it on a few measures.
Then the overbeaten whip started to crack.
Granted, this is a series with predominantly crude humor (it drops more than its share of f-bombs and four letter words. Sexual humor intact in the same notation as something like Ebichu, for those who have seen or know the series, but more verbal than visual. Only exception to the visual note was when I saw Krauser's character doing something questionable to the Tokyo Tower...yeah XD). That's fair game, and it should be noted that people who are looking for a series with crude, adult humor could well find it here and like it for what it offers.
What made it difficult for me was that some of the same elements of humor were reused and wore thin as the series went on, especially if the humor isn't quite natural, invested humor and you don't connect with the collective cast all that much. For a 12 episode series with each episode lasting about 13 or 14 minutes a pop, the experience is shortchanged. I liked some of the bit music references interspersed through the series (including a rather interesting impersonation of Sid Vicious about midway through the series), but it isn't necessarily something that enhances the story all that much.
The animation is a bit odd, as the character designs did genuinely throw me off at first, but as I came into the series and noted the backdrops and environment, I noted how appropriate they were.
Music: I really wish this series had more variety here. I'm not really into death metal specifically, but I didn't treat it as a measure to count off for. What i graded down on it was the seeming lack of variety within the genre. There are only so many times you'd like to hear "Satsugai" throughout the context of the series, though the song's use in the OP theme might actually appeal to those who like the progression. I did hear a few places where other bands would perform songs (such as the female fronted metal band who had a grudge against DMC, that was actually rather funny, even if I thought the lyrics were really warped XD). The ED theme I preferred personally because it was a cute, easily singable pop song that reminds you of Negishi's natural personality. The voice acting seemed fine, at least in tandem with the character personalities, which are sometimes OTT for humor's sake.
Characters suffer a bit in the same note as the storyline: they're constructed in their respective guises well, but the repetitiveness factor mar some of the ways they're presented. Examples include the manager, who actually manages to be funny in some measures when she chews poor Negashi out for not acting in character, but the number of times she drops four letter bombs is ridiculous. I guess that's a part of what was intended for her character, but I felt like the series tried to overdo it. Instead of making her character simply snarky, they made her out to be overachingly crude. I liked the interplay between Negashi and Krauser, because the series really does try to portray Negashi with the best intentions, just haphazardly awkward, even when he's dressed as the DMC leader. The side characters are there, but only as pawns in the overall scope of the series, I couldn't really come into them all that much.
In the end, I feel rather neutral about Detroit Metal City, and the audience for this series is understandably limited, as its mature humored notation connotes. I would recommend it for someone looking for a short series revolving around metal who doesn't mind crude adult humor. Other audiences might want to test the waters before they try this one out, because it does take an open sense of humor to be able to laugh at both the situations and the elements that make this series what it is.
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