Isekai Suicide Squad

The Joker and his best girl, Harley Quinn, are tearing through the streets of Gotham with sacks full of cash and the law in hot pursuit. Unfortunately for them, though the jester manages to escape, the night ends with Harley being captured by a mysterious, katana-wielding woman.

Meanwhile, Amanda Waller, the head of the government security organization A.R.G.U.S., has commandeered a team of supervillains for a ruthless mission into another world. After losing contact with the first suicide squad sent through the portal, Amanda sends Deadshot, Peacemaker, Clayface, King Shark, and Harley as replacements. However, shortly after entering the portal, their helicopter crashes in the middle of a battle between horse-mounted troops and vicious orcs.

With all of the accompanying A.R.G.U.S. members dead on impact, the villains break free of their shackles and rampage through the army of orcs, unwittingly aiding the human soldiers—only to be rewarded with imprisonment. Now bound by magic-infused shackles, Harley and company must hurry back to the portal they came from, or else the bombs A.R.G.U.S. implanted in their necks will detonate.

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Quinn, Harley Main

Nagase, Anna Japanese

Clayface Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Peacemaker Main

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

King Shark Main

Kimura, Subaru Japanese

Deadshot Main

Yamaguchi, Reigo Japanese

Joker Supporting

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Katana Supporting

Anzai, Chika Japanese

Killer Croc Supporting

Kiuchi, Tarou Japanese

Waller, Amanda Supporting

Kujira Japanese

Enchantress Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Ootani, Joe Producer

Tsuruoka, Shinya Producer

Yoshinobu, Keita Assistant Producer

Ariga, Keisuke Assistant Producer

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Sep 3, 2024

APolygons2

Recommended

I finished this show being left with only 1 question, what the hell did people expect?

My confusion when it comes to this show's reception was only matched by the time I stepped on a Lego, for it to just disappear and never be found...

So bare with me for a sec.
From episode 1 I was seeing a dangerously notable amount of complaints about the animation being bad which if you have ever held a pen in your hand you would realize how absurd that claim is.

As if I hadn't already been convinced that the anime community didn't know what good animation is, this was ... going to be the final nail on the coffin, but against all odds as the show went on... there was some level of truth to it. So the thing is, aside from episode 5 that had a decent amount of let's just say, not so great cuts, every episode of the show looks great in a vacuum, but when you look at them together....

There is a pretty serious lack of consistency. the show changes visuals, the characters change models (except Harley cause she hot), the way the fights are drawn, the way the movement is handled, everything is constantly changing. and the thing is none of it is bad, and if like me you're on the lenient side with visual consistency as long as it looks good, it won't bother you that much.... but it makes the show's visual as a whole feel messy.

Extremely polished messy, but messy. It's like a dish 20 chefs made using top class ingredients while not communicating and passing the dish together hoping it works out by the end. and It probably won't taste horrible, but you clearly taste the.... wait, what was I talking about?

oh yeah, the show.

Everything else is exactly what you expect.

It's a suicide squad anime held back by being forced to follow a generic isekai outline. The soundtrack is amazing and the op and ed are also both really good. Anime Harely Quinn is hot and entertaining in the best way possible.... the rest of the cast are fine too I guess.

The best (and worst) part of the whole thing is, the way it has been set up, a s2 would top this one in every way possible. As you see in the final episode, the conflict they set up for the sequal is infinitely more interesting than the generic shlob that was the villain of s1.

and the princess actually was set to become really interesting going forward. Idk about you, but I smelled a bit of a yuri in the air. could just be my imagination though.

Anyway, go in expecting it to be what it is, and you won't be disappointed.

If you're a fan of suicide squad, firstly, I'm sorry for the sheer amount shit you have went through. but also this is actually in the great zone as far as none comic suicide squad media goes.

If you're an isekai trash enjoyer, I see no reason for why you wouldn't enjoy this. I guess it's not as much of a power fantasy, but it has all the other elements that make the genre what it is. to me that's a negative, but that's besides the point.

If you want a great story, or top tier writing, or an emotionally rich experience in a fantasy world, go watch frieren or made in abyss or something. This is popcorn entertainment at it's (almost) finest. And there is a severe lack of rule34 from it. Like let's not lie to ourselves, 90% of us watched this for anime Harely.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 8, 2024

LilyVarbik

Mixed Feelings

The low-score people have for this anime is justified. There are multiple problems. However, if you love Isekai-anime and/or love suicide squad, you will likely enjoy this! Also a certain someone has some mad dance moves in the ending ;)
Content-wise it's a general save the other world type thing, but with a suicide squad twist. Since it's an isekai world, not DC-world, it allows some interesting abilities.
Style-wise it's kind of nice but seems to be kind of low-tier in a lot of ways, while also being very pleasing to me.
I love the fun and incoherent teamwork that just manages to work. The squad is so ... much fun to watch and ~every-other episode gets a Joker memory which is both fun to watch and fun to have Harley bring up.

The villains (Director lady (in my eyes) and obvious person who's obvious) disgust me and hate seeing or hearing them. If you don't like it after the first episode, you probably won't like it at all.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Sep 6, 2024

whiteflame55

Not Recommended

I want to like this series more than I do.

As pure turn your brain off fun, it's not a bad time by any means. The sakuga goes hard when they go all out, the characters are varied and have the kind of zany personalities you would expect for something like this, and the setting lends itself to some ridiculousness.

The trouble is two-fold. One, and the lighter of my complaints, I just don't think it does much to justify the setting beyond "wouldn't this be cool!?" Maybe that's kind of the point, that this fantasy world is a playground where our characters can have ... wild adventures, but they keep hinting at deeper dynamics with its monsters, kingdoms and magic that just never manifest. Worse yet, at least from where I'm sitting, they don't use that setting to the fullest. You would think that bringing these characters into a magical world would mean we'd get to see all kinds of crazy interplay between magic and their various powers and skillsets, but there's surprisingly little of it until very near the end. It's a wasted opportunity to make this as crazy as possible, though admittedly when its at its craziest, there's not a lot you can make out behind all the magic circles and colorful attacks.

Two, this series is based on existing IP. The Suicide Squad has canon behind it, and while I don't know a lot of it and don't expect this series to mirror everything (I personally don't mind that the relationship between Harley and The Joker is significantly lighter and more loving on his side - the abusive relationship has been done to death), I think it should get some of the major beats right. Haven't given my thoughts on this one up til now, but generally speaking, I expect three things from my Suicide Squad content: characters should die, their allegiances should always be in question, and they should wreck some shit. On all three fronts, I'd say this work fell short. It never felt like any of the main characters were in any substantial danger, though I'll hand it to the show that they're not exactly kind to the villains who they defeat. The characters just align with the main kingdom and there's rarely an indication that they're even considering working their own angles beyond doing what they have to in order to stay alive. And while they do cause a good deal of damage, it's usually to the enemy. There's generally very little sense that our main characters are or were villains.

I think hitting these marks were the low-hanging fruit to make this anime work, and while it hits some of them from time-to-time, but misses more often. So while this was a decent enough popcorn watch, it's almost all empty calories that surprisingly doesn't go as hard as it could while failing to capitalize on the best parts of the IP.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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