Digital Juice

Essentially, Digital Juice is a collection of very short pieces of animation, each of which tell a story of some description. Unfortunately, most of these stories are mediocre at best. Let's Review:

Part One: KEIKAKU
This segment is basically some sort of trailer for some sort of samurai film. It has an incredibly unfitting soundtrack, is poorly animated, and is basically incredibly odd. Probably the worst segment.

Part Two: Chicken's Insurance
This segment is considerably better than the previous one. It basically consists of an old chicken attempting to sell insurance to two delinquent chickens. It doesn't end well. The animation was alright, but certainly not the best ... the studio has to offer. Overall, it's a fairly decent segment.

Part Three: TOJIN KIT
This is the shortest segment in the OVA, and honestly one of the best. It has no legible story, but is well animated, and very intriguing.

Part Four: In the evening of a Moonlit Night
Alright, this is, for me, the best segment, hands down. It has little story, but is basically about sexual awakening. The animation is exquisite, the song that soundtracks the segment is great, and the whole thing is enjoyable. Again, easily the best part.

Part Five: Table and Fisherman
To be honest, I did not really get this sequence. I will say that whatever plot it had was interesting, but that's about all I can really say that's positive about it.

Part Six: The Saloon in the Air
Again, I didn't really understand this segment.The animation is not very good at all, and the segment's plot is about a group of ...things in a bar. That's in the sky. Yeah. That's it. Pretty disappointing end, really.

So, all in all, Digital Juice is Decent. Decent. That's really all. I would suggest watching the better parts of it, like In the evening of a Moonlit Night, or Chicken's Insurance. I suppose the whole thing is worth watching, but it's really not the best thing Studio 4°C has to offer.

Overall, this was interesting to put the big Studio 4C productions next to modest projects like this one. Although it has very uneven content from each animators and clearly isn't their most interesting and intricate release, it was nice to see Osamu Kobayashi's Table and Fisherman - I suggest to watch End of the World by him on the Sweat Punch release, if you liked his absurd storyline and his character design - and my favorite definitely was Kazuyoshi Yaginuma's In the Evening of a Moonlit Night. Great discovery on that one.

I can understand that for some people liking more linear narratives and classic animation/chara ... design, this will be appaling and feel like a waste of time. However, if you're interested by experimental animation and something else than the more polished Studio 4C productions, I'd suggest to give it a try. It's less than 30 minutes long, and two of them, in my opinion, are quite enjoyable.

Worth watching because it is so short, but probably not a must-see.

Rate a 3
English subtitled

Story
An anime is suppose to be a continued show. However, there are some like this one that don't abide to that logic. They experiment per say. Option 1 was okay but what if we go with option 2 for art and let's go with option 3 for story plot and option 4 for characters. Depending on how gradual the change is and the overall plot i can see a potential for the anime to work out. Not here. The change is entirely random. A true statement to the art/plot, hell even a fair rating of this show comes down to a literal ... dice roll. Meaning anywhere from 1 to 6. Why might that be? You know how when you watch a show you see a trailer in the introduction. Normally, it is followed along by a song of sorts. Now, imagine that are the episodes you are seeing. What a mess. Don't get me wrong some introductory trailers in episodes are straight forward like C.S.I. or Las Vegas (both American television shows) are straight forward. For they provide the general premise of the show. Other episode intros are either quite short or too broad by not providing anything substantial of what to expect.

That was the plot logic in short as for the play out... hahaha that is where i find the comedy aspect comes into play. For some you can see coming but with others you may find your jaw hanging open for you are perplexed at what you just witnessed. In short by comedy they went with not a slip and fall approach but confusion. You know, when a teacher may give a completely out of the blue test and expect an overall good turn-out.

Art
was just as wacky as the plot. You don't know what you are in for until you see it. Even if you watched the episode before. For there is constant changes. In short good luck at finding similarities between episodes.

Overall: unless you find the bizarre funny i would find humor elsewhere.