Firstly, I find it hard to categorize this anime, because of it's uniqueness
The story is about a young man called Souichi Negishi, due to his love for music decides to move from the country side to the city(to attend school of arts or whatever...) wishing that one day he will become a famous stylish POP singer and singing happy songs about love and peace and all idealistic subjects, finally, his wish came true, he did become a famous singer and gained a huge popularity using the alias: Johannes Krauser II,but with some details that he never expected, like becoming a member of a DEATH METAL BAND (yes DEATH METAL band lml) and being considered as the demon-lord while all his songs are about: RAPE, MURDER,or being a TERRORIST STRAIGHT OUT OF HELL.All this changing will make his life harder and harder so a lots of questions come to mind : how can he survive in the death metal scene without exposing his true identity?can he really maintain a balance between his 2 personalities ?and finally,how will the world accept him is it as :Soichi Negishi or Johannes Krauser II.
The story was honestly very appealing you don't something like that every day and the way that they put a lot of messages in this work makes it really a masterpiece,So I will state them as conclusions:
1) Life can be really hard on everyone, making us do things we didn't even thought about or opposing what we were hoping for, you can see that clearly in this story, what the MC was doing not because he likes it or anything but the irony of fate did missed with his life.So if we want to conclude the first message: DON'T JUDGE PEOPLE FROM THEIR DEEDS, BUT, YOU SHOULD JUDGE THEIR(DEED) BACKGROUND.
2) People will only care about your evil side, the way is Johannes Krauser II famous and taking the media's and people interests, while Soichi Negish is considred just a human being whose existence doesn't mean anything.Second message:a recipe to become well known : just be evil, you won't need anything else.
3)Once you start doing something: work, hobby... etc.Be sure that there's a way back or else you'll be put in a situation where there's no going back,and no matter how much you hate that situation one day you'll start to being used it and enjoy it.
3rd message :Stay away from Quicksand.
After analysing these messages we will discover that this isn't a pure comedy but in reality is a dark humour where we laugh about things we shouldn't.
Finally, let's leave all the disappointment and bad feelings and enjoy this work.
ART:
the story was unique,but you could see clearly that even the art is unique ,it isn't great nor the low quality.The studio based their animations on making scenes that move quickly and a little bit dark ,we can explain this by the following thesis: the whole anime is about a death metal band and knowing that the metal music usually consist on fast rhythms and deliberate stresses, as result they create an accordance between the story and the art and that's really brilliant.
SOUND:
I think what I said about the art can be applied either on the sound, because if you watch it you will notice that the voice acting is a little bit fast and that also can be explained by the THESIS I stated above.Also, you can feel the coldness in the voice acting I don't know why I keep feeling that but I think it exists anyway, is it because the story's Vicissitudes and they made the sound acting cold to absorb it so that they can create a balance
ENJOYMENT:
With DETROIT METAL CITY I discovered a new meaning of enjoyment.The fact that no matter how many times I watched it and every time was like my first time was like my first. And like I said in the beginning of this review it's rare to find something like this, because , anime with music as a theme are always about how can the characters achieve their goals, friendship, teamwork... While this anime has nothing like that.Also, what make D.M.C so enjoyable is every time you watch an episode you'll watch the next and the next unconsciously like a magnet field that keeps dragging you until the end.
Now I reached the end of my review I just want to say that DETROIT METAL CITY is one of it's kind. I highly recommend it,also it won't take a lot of time to watch it.You will experience a new way of entertainment and a new meaning of life if you like to know what behind the stories.
Notice: if hesitate watching it(D.M.C) because of the theme is about death-metal don't let that scare you or anything the death-metal thing is just a spice to make the story enjoyable and memorable.
