August 10, 2007

Series I'll never watch 2: Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

In maybe 20 years, a genius will invent immortality for humans. Because he's a perv, one side effect of it is that all female humans stop aging at physical age 12.

God doesn't like this and decides he has to perform a miracle to prevent it. He sends an angel back in time to kill said genius while he's still in high school. The assassin angel is named Dokuro-chan, and her weapon is a spiked club she calls Excalibolg.

But Dokuro-chan falls for our perv. So she studies up on how romance in our era is supposed to go, by reading mangas about tsunderes. Then she sets up those scenes -- but gets the Tsun-tsun part rather wrong. After making it so that Perv walks in on her while she's dressing, or trips and falls on her, or all those other classic moldy things like that, she proceeds to horribly and brutally murder him with her club. Then she uses her magic to bring him back to life. (Presumably this also cleans up the mess and removes all the blood and body parts.)

It's based on a manga, which has been reprinted. And the covers of the later volumes rather confuse me: I thought Dokuro-chan was supposed to be a loli. How'd she get so curvy?

"Beat-to-death Angel Dokuro" is the five-bladed razor of tsundere shows, and I want nothing to do with the thing. 8 13-minute episodes is 8 too many. God help us, there's going to be a second series, beginning very soon.

Good thing I don't live in Japan. Good thing I don't have a TV. Good thing I don't speak Japanese.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Never Watch at 11:25 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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1 I watched the first two episodes, and to be fair, it's kind of funny for five minutes, and passable for ten.  After that it goes downhill rapidly.  From what others have said, it keeps going downhill for the next six episodes.

If they'd made the just the opening credits and stopped there, the world would have been much better off.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2007 12:24 PM (PiXy!)

2 From those pictures, she certainly seems to be getting bigger in later novels (nine(!) of them now, plus a collection that includes CLAMP's take on the character), but I don't think she was ever supposed to be a loli. In the present time, at least, Our Hero doesn't have a lolicon; he's accused of it due to the results of his future work, but in the first pair of episodes, his behavior is simply "horny teenage boy".

-j

Posted by: J Greely at August 10, 2007 01:04 PM (9Nz6c)

3

What does tempt me is the cast. Three of the four top roles are seiyuu I like a lot. Dokuro-chan has the voice of Akina from UFO Princess Valkyrie. And Kugimiya Rie and Kawasumi Ayako are in it.

But ultimately that's not enough.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at August 10, 2007 01:05 PM (+rSRq)

4

Oh god, I tried so hard to forget this thing existed.  The therapy was progressing nicely, and the lobotomy was successfully performed.  Other than a few remaining shock treatments, I had managed to wipe all references to Dokuro-chan out of my brain.

Then you had to post this... AND remind me that there'll be a second series, too.

Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep Hurting.

Thanks, Steven.  I'll have to increase the patrols around your area soon...

Posted by: Wonderduck at August 10, 2007 02:20 PM (fEnUg)

5 "Minions! ... prepare the Dokuro-chan appreciation chair for Mr. Den Beste!"

"Piri piri piri piri, piri pi pi!"

Posted by: kbarrett at August 11, 2007 10:09 AM (eMN3a)

6 That's pipirupirupiru pipirupi!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 11, 2007 03:39 PM (PiXy!)

7 Your knowledge of this fine series is far better than mine, Pixy.

I bow to your superior dedication to Dokuro-chan.



Posted by: kbarrett at August 12, 2007 08:25 AM (eMN3a)

8 Thppppt!

I'm just dedicated to opening credits.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 12, 2007 08:40 AM (PiXy!)

9 > I'm just dedicated to opening credits. Yea ... that excuse will probably work.

Posted by: kbarrett at August 12, 2007 03:09 PM (eMN3a)

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