Ranked #1355

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan is a moderately clever anime disguised as a magnificently stupid one.

It is primarily an exercise in hammerspace and a parody of nearly everything under the sun. If I were to define it in terms of comedy, I would say that it's a little smarter than just clown humour, but not as smart as stand-up comedy.

The story follows a young boy named Sakura who lives with an extremely violent, vindictive but "sweet-natured" angel named Dokuro-chan. There is a mind-numbingly idiotic reason for their relationship: Sakura grows up to be the inventor of a lolicon machine that stops female bodies from developing at the age of twelve, and Dokuro-chan has been sent through time to ensure that his "paedophile ways" don't ruin mankind's future. Let that ferment a little in your head. No anime that is honestly serious could have a plot that is purely ridiculous garbage, hence it is intentionally comical. The one problem and also one of the major jokes in Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan is the delivery of the violence. It does eventually get a little old that 75% of the anime is spent looking at Sakura's entrails after Dokuro-chan beats the life out of him. While it is rather humorous as a parody for the 'rough tsundere hits the protagonist constantly' theme, eventually seeing Sakura ripped to shreds becomes a tad tiring. But it does win points for parodying the magical girl and gore-fest genres. Instead of a wand, Dokuro-chan's weapon is a giant spiked bat. There is no real plot in any way, just a lot of hijinks and crude humour, which also sort of leads to the story's downfall. It does absolutely nothing. It pokes its fun but never really get into the meat of the jokes.

Most of the artwork is spent detailing the blood and guts that appear as much as any other regular character. For the most part, it is good but it isn't great. There are a lot of super-deformed moments and various art styles are used, such as making the characters look realistic at moments or the incorporation of actual live pictures into the mix.

The sound is a little more commendable than the art. The OP theme song alone is comic genius. It's a very light and poppy song that can easily be miscontrued as the theme song for another harem anime or some school comedy, but if you pay attention to the lyrics (or lack thereof), the OP is utilised as a satirical joke. Half the lyrics consist of Dokuro-chan's catch phrase, and the rest are utterly ridiculous. It even pokes fun of her being a parody of a tsundere, with lines describing over-the-top torture followed by lines saying, 'But that's the way I show my feelings for you.' Surely. The music is a dead giveaway that this entire series is not meant to be taken seriously. The background music suits the anime for the most part. Poppy, comical. And there have even been times where it becomes excessively dramatic for scenes where Sakura's life is being threatened. Again, another sign that this is a parody of those scores for the sweeping, power ballad, synth-driven anime.

As for the characters, well, I can't say they were any good. Nobody changes at all, nobody develops, nobody has an original personality. I've seen comedies with excellent characters who are the butt of jokes, so it doesn't really excuse the characters from Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan from simply being plot devices. Sakura is a typical ecchi/harem anime protagonist--he's extremely perverted and everything is misinterpreted as sexuality concerning him. Dokuro-chan is supposed to be a parody of a mahou shoujo/tsundere. On a surface level, she does work, but there is no real sympathising with her as a character with a personality. She isn't a nice person, she pretty much has a one-track mind, there is no depth to her at all. While a truly good comedy understands that the characters are just as valuable as any slapstick joke, Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan seems to ignore them and use them solely to get the job done.

Let's see, laughably awful storyline, mindless violence, tremendous amounts of gore and service, parodies that rarely manage to be satirical, stagnant characters--I should hate this anime, right? However, I don't. Sometimes you don't need the extremely heavy, very smart jokes to make you laugh. A guy getting smashed in the head a lot could suffice. It just depends what you're in the mood for. Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan is the anime version of a stand-up comedian ironically getting pie thrown in their face by a clown.

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Well I thought long and hard before deciding to sit down and actually write a review on this anime. As you can see I am not a fan. When I sat down to view this series it was partially because I had seen references to it in other shows I had watched and a friend had recommended it telling me how funny he thought it was. I looked it up and thought the characters looked cute and was intrigued by the alt title "Club to Death Angel" ... hmm what was that about? God, how I wish I that I could have that moment back now.

So let’s give you the premise of Dokuro-chan. Basically she is an angel from the future who is here to protect Sakura from other angels from the future who want him dead for something he will do in the future... making all future women loli's. Ooooooooook. There have been far sillier anime plots so I can go with that. But that isn’t all of course, because Dokuro really loves Sakura and naturally is a jealous tsundere and in her fits of rage and jealousy kills Sakura...a lot. She beats him to death, she turns him into bloody soup, she impales, she decapitates, and dismembers in every way you can. But she’s always really sorry and being an angel buy saying her really cute "Pi-piru-piru-piru-pi-piru-pi!" she can bring him back to life. Of course Sakura is always quite upset (you think!?) and needs to remind Dokuro to stop beating him to death. Aww. Now I imagine this is supposed to be funny. Well maybe I woke up on the wrong side of the bed before I watched this or I was PMSing, but I thought this blatant cruelty was about as funny as, well being bludgeoned to death. Oh and you think it can’t get much worse than that? Add that an angel having his or her halo removes causes them to immediately have uncontrollable explosive diarrhea. Nice.

You’re probably thinking... aren’t you being a little harsh? Its only cartoon violence! I've seen shows that have been pretty raw before, Inukami! comes to mind, but many other shows that involve similar character types often have some pretty crude and sometimes cruel behavior. Such as Louise horse whipping Saito from ZnT, etc. This is different though the amount of spraying blood and gore is just so over the top that it is hard to top. Even some of the most violent anime out there like an Elfen Lied or Claymore were not bloodier than this one. And those weren’t comedies.

Now that I have gotten of my soapbox lets discuss the other parts of this series. Like I said at the start the art was one of the things that initially interested me in the show. It doesn’t disappoint there, Dokuro and all her friends are very cute and adorable, which in a way makes the way they behave so hard to accept. The music and voice acting is pretty good too. The OP song is pretty cute and cuddly sounding, well unless you read the translation.

I made it through this anime, because it was short 12 min episodes... and I really wanted to like it. I thought if I kept watching that eventually I would get some entertainment from it? I even watched the even shorter second part, honestly because I had already gotten it and I figured I might as well watch it too. This show truly disturbed me and I don’t think I have ever been more offended by something in my life. If it was possible to give it a "0" in enjoyment I would have. Reading the other reviews for this I see that I am probably in the minority on my thinking here. I don’t know what to say to you if you liked this show. Personally I think you need to see a shrink. If you’re reading this and wondering if you should watch it, I recognize that we all have different tastes, if you’re a fan of dark comedy shows like South Park (I am not) then you would probably enjoy this. Otherwise I would stay very very far away.
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