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Nov 3, 2014
Overview:

Dokuro-chan is one of the most infamously stupid anime of the last decade. It came out in 2005 and raised eyebrows with its heavy use of gore, painfully unfunny attempts at humor, insanely obnoxious characters, and sheer failure at being a "magical girl" genre parody. Dokuro-chan is like the poor man's version of Excel Saga or FLCL. Actually, the show it reminds me of most of all is Panty and Stocking, but Gainax had nothing to do with Dokuro believe it or not.

Story and characters: 1/10

Oh dear GOD! The plot is that a pathetic, squirming male protagonist is on the brink of discovering a technology that will make mankind immortal. He wishes to make all women permanently 12 years old and be the only mature human so he can live as a pedophile God. The plot thickens when the real God is upset by this plan and sends angels down to Earth in order to kill the pedophile mad scientist. One of these angels is the annoying beyond all belief Dokuro Chan. Dokuro chan is so rage inducing it can't really be described by my meager English skills. Imagine a character that makes Jar Jar Binks look as cool as Miles Davis! Dokuro falls in love with the pedo scientist named Sakura (unusual name for a man), and the series is about their romance. What makes this series suck besides being VERY pro-loli and having the most obnoxious characters ever, is that it was created to spoof the magic girl genre and it fails miserably as a parody. It never demonstrates anything beyond a very shallow understanding of magical girl anime and therefore isn't able to parody the style very effectively. Imagine a version of Young Frankenstein if firstly, Mel Brooks had never actually seen a Universal Monster film before and had only heard of those films, and secondly this alternate Mel Brooks has a brain the size of a jelly bean. That is what watching Dokuro is like!

Art: 5/10

The art isn't THAT bad for 2005, but this was drawn by Genion, who did Ergo Proxy the same year! They are capable of doing a LOT better!

Sound: 2/10

The music sucks, but at least you have the choice of listening in English or Japanese. In the English dub, the pedophile scientist is voiced by Johnny Young Bosch in probably the single worst role of his distinguished career. WHY!?? In Japanese, the pedo is voiced by a fairly obscure actress, but she is good at voicing young male characters that piss off the audience. She also voiced that little shit that beat the puppy to death in Elfen Lied. Seriously!

Enjoyment: 2/10

Remember that segment of the movie Idiocracy called "Ow my Balls!". Really crude physical humor can be funny the first time, but if you reuse the joke where the same character gets hit in the nuts OVER and OVER, it stops being funny to all but the stupidest of audiences. This is the anime version of "Ow my Balls!"

Overall: 2/10

The mediocre art that came with being backed by a major animation studio managed to save Dokuro from the unholy 1/10 rating. Everything else in this anime is feces. Oh yeah, before I forget: PIPIRU PIRU PIRU PIPIURU PIIII! God DAMN is that shit annoying!
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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