Digital Juice

Digital Juice is a collection of terrible shorts that are largely not worth your time even despite their short length. Only two of the six are even worth mentioning, so I'll cover them right now.

The first is In the Evening of a Moonlit Night. It's the only good one, thus my 2/10 rating - only 1/6 of the shorts are worth watching, thus 1.67/10 rounded up to being a 2/10. It's a neat music video about a girl with a deformed chin and fingers for toes - in other words, pretty neat. Go watch it here and don't bother downloading ... the rest of the garbage shorts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l2M5K5yk9s

The second is Chicken's Insurance. Chicken's Insurance, much like the other four bad ones, is a piece of shit. But it's worth mentioning because of the song playing in the background. It's some mediocre hip-hop song with poor vocal delivery. But I noticed one line in it - "come on, girl, let me rock your world". Right away this stood out at me as a line from the song "Iwatodai Dormitory" from Persona 3. But surely it's a coincidence, right? That sort of sounds sort of like a generic rap lyric, it's probably nothing. But then, one second later, I hear "triple brown, triple brown, triple brown meow". This is a lyric right from the song "Joy" from Persona 3. Here's proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrL5hTIbQ7o#t=40

This clearly isn't a coincidence. At first, I thought Digital Juice had just lifted lyrics from Persona 3, but then I checked and the game came out in 2006, while this collection of shorts was released in 2002. What's going on here? I decided to investigate. After scraping about on the SMT wiki for a bit, I found out that one of the rappers that provided vocals for the Persona 3 OST was named "Lotus Juice". "Lotus Juice"? "Digital Juice"? There's something going on. It doesn't take a detective to see a connection here. But further research turned up nothing. There was no discernible link between Lotus Juice and Digital Juice, or even Studio 4C or any of its employees. Google came up dry. It seems that my search has come to an end.

What is the link here? Was Lotus Juice on staff providing vocals for Digital Juice, possibly even being such an influence to Studio 4C staff that the collection of shorts was partially named after him? Could it be that it's just a coincidence, and Shoji Meguro, Persona 3's OST composer, just happened to watch Digital Juice and lifted the lyrics from this random background music for some reason? Or maybe it's something I haven't even thought of yet. What really happened? The world may never know. If you ever find any information about this bizarre occurrence, please leave a comment on my profile so I can get some closure to this mystery.

But ultimately, what I'm getting at is this: if the fact that Persona 3 lyrics are in a short section of this short collection is by far the most interesting thing about it, it's probably because it's shit. Because it is. Don't bother watching this.

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.