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Now in Japan
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Monday, 18 April 2005 12:06 |
 You get your first idea of what this show is about when you translate the title - Club-you-to-Death Angel, Dokuro-chan,
and lead male Sakura is duly decapitated within about 2 seconds of the
first episode starting. Fortunately, Dokuro-chan also possesses
the ability to reincarnate her victims, or this would be a very short series. Expect large doses of animated blood and gore...
1 - I'm the Club-you-to-death Angel, Dokuro-chan!
Middle-school kid Kusakabe Sakura has an unusual housemate - angel from
the future Mitsukai Dokuro-chan, sent on a mission from God. We
find out later that her orders are to kill poor Sakura to prevent his
lolicon fetish getting our of hand, but she seems to have decided not
to follow her orders just yet. She does have a disturbing
tendency to remove his head
with her heavy-duty spiked metal club Excaliborg, though, while
terrible things
seem to happen to anyone who comes between Dokuro-chan and Sakura....
2 - The Assassin from the Future
Another angel has appeared, and Sakura's not about to refuse when she
asks him to go somewhere private with her (in her best seductive
voice). Her name's Sabato, but she hasn't come to let Sakura have
his wicked way - rather, she has orders to kill. Dokuro-chan
comes to the rescue, but Sabato's powers of persuasion (or is that
seduction?) are just too powerful. Is this already the end for
our hero? At least he gets to find out why he's been marked for
death first...
Blood, guts, and a whole lot of ecchi scenes - there's a huge market
for this series right there. The 'episodes' come as two 15-minute
shorts shown together (similar to how Galaxy Angel was done) - which
may be pushing it a bit, as the comedy is very over-the-top and not
something you could watch for too lkong at a time. 15-minute
chunks are fine, but don't overdo it.
It is funny, though, especially if you enjoyed the cartoon violence in
Itchy & Scratchy or Tom & Jerry. Other people will no
doubt complain about the excessive violence being inflicted on poor
Sakura (Love Hina's Keitaro doesn't even know what pain is, compared to
what Sakura gets put through), but that's missing the point of the show.
Plot? Depth? Character progression? None, and to be
honest, don't expect any. Slapstick? Lots of it, and it's
fun in small doses.
Dokuro-chan will never set the world alight, but it's a fun way of passing a few minutes...
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