Jashin-chan Dropkick

The demon Jashin-chan has been summoned to Earth by Yurine Hanazono, a girl with a knack for the occult. Unfortunately, Yurine does not actually know how to send Jashin-chan back to Hell. Now stuck on Earth, she must live at Yurine's apartment as her familiar.

The only way for Jashin-chan to return would be to kill her summoner, but this is easier said than done for the incompetent demon. Since Jashin-chan is immortal and can regenerate her body, Yurine does not hold back in attacking her with a range of weapons, punishing her in gruesome manners for her evil schemes. Jashin-chan is also often visited by her demon friends: the kindhearted Gorgon Medusa and the energetic minotaur Minosu, who seem much more well-behaved in contrast, and disapprove of her plans to kill Yurine.

Jashin-chan Dropkick is a comedy focusing on these two reluctant roommates and their bizarre antics as they get by with their cat-and-mouse relationship.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Hanazono, Yurine Main

Oomori, Nichika Japanese

Jashin-chan Main

Suzuki, Aina Japanese

Pekora Supporting

Kozakai, Yurie Japanese

Medusa Supporting

Kubota, Miyu Japanese

Minos Supporting

Omigawa, Chiaki Japanese

Devil A Supporting

Yusa, Kouji Japanese

Poporon Supporting

Sasaki, Rico Japanese

Persephone II Supporting

Iida, Riho Japanese

Tachibana, Mei Supporting

Hara, Natsuko Japanese

Kori-chan Supporting

Terada, Miko Japanese

Oomori, Shinji Producer

Takagi, Takayuki Producer

Satou, Hikaru Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Imaizumi, Yuuichi Sound Director

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Apr 7, 2024

c---5

Recommended

I'm using this to review all the seasons and OVAs since I'm not about that "um actually the second season is a different show" BS because "um actually it's all the same show"

With that out of the way, I love this show and it's super entertaining, but also in the awkward spot of being a kind of janky adaptation of the manga, to the point where it works better as a compliment to it than a straight adaptation, so maybe read the source material first. Episode one is actually around chapter 58 or so of the manga and they skip almost every character introduction and ... even the inciting incident that kicks things off in the first place which means viewers who haven't read the manga will feel a bit lost. The basic premise is sort of "Ultra-violent Tom & Jerry crossed with Seinfeld but with demons and angels" and granted, it isn't really plot driven so you can kind of pick up the archetypes in media res, but even as far as the third season the effects of skipping so much are still felt to the point where they make meta jokes out of it and point out which volume of the manga the skipped plot-point is in.

That said though, it makes a fantastic companion piece to the manga if you have read it. Unlike a lot of shows that are 1 to 1 shot for shot retellings of the source material, but in a different medium, the Jashin-Chan anime is more like a remix. You'll get scenes, stories and gags from the original, but small gags from the manga will be expanded into their own little storylines and there's a lot of new glue holding things together. Sometimes when I read a manga or watch an anime after consuming the source, it kind of feels like going through the motions because I know what happens, but Jashin-Chan actually keeps things fresh even if you've read every page. My favorite character ended up being the Baphomet Devil Narrator who doesn't even have any lines in the manga, but fills in the scene transitions of the anime with all kinds of wacky gags and strange trivia. The voice actors are all perfect and almost exactly match how I imagined them reading the manga, the artwork is constantly gorgeous (especially for a gag series), and the characters are as lively and fun as ever.

The real charm of the Jashin-verse is how the more you consume it, the more it feels like a living world. It's not just Jashin-Chan and her battles with Yurine, but all the characters around her have their own lives that just happen to intersect with Jashin's antics, and even the smaller background characters like the three otakus who follow the angels everywhere or Pekora's part-time manager kind of have their own rhythms and gags that develop over time. There are some gags that just straight up wouldn't be doable in a manga (like Jashin-chan's impressive but insane song she works on over the course of the series) so they know how to take advantage of the medium. Most of all I think it's the tone that I really appreciate about this series. When doing a dark comedy it can be tempting to make everyone unrelentingly awful or just have cruel things happen for the sake of laughs, but while Jashin-Chan is a very violent series, it also has a ton of sincerity and knows when to let the characters be nice, have a good moment, or even grow as people without pulling the rug out from under it as a joke. Most of the cast is deranged, evil, or insane to some degree and there's maybe 4 characters total you could call "well-adjusted" but somehow they all generally get along at the end of the day and you want to tune in to see what else they're doing next.

While I do think this series is best-served after reading the original manga, the anime version still grows into something complex and beautiful with a lot of original material, and the fun thing about this type of comedy series is that anything extra isn't really "filler" so much as it's more hilarious chaos with characters you already love. I eagerly await whatever comes next.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Sep 30, 2023

AtlasEarth

Mixed Feelings

Don’t hate but also don’t really care for this sort of anime. It’s just not my thing. I can sometimes do gag humor and cute girls doing cute stuff, but i don’t know if it’s the cast or what, but I was not jelling with it.

I would say character designs are pretty strong, along with the animation in general. But I think the characterization just also isn’t for me. Feels more obnoxious than funny personally. I can’t really enjoy it all on its own.

The voice work is also just fine. Not particularly noticeably good or bad either way from my viewing.

Some gags and episodes in ... the season were fine but others just dragged and I was totally not having a good time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 12, 2023

ElectricMayo

Not Recommended

Jashin-chan Dropkick is a show for anyone who likes characters with bad, irredeemable, one note personalities and no story development whatsoever.


The show is basically a gory buddy comedy about a chuuni gothic lolita girl named Yurine and a devil snake girl named Jashin that she apparently summoned. Jashin wants to return to her home (hell) but has to kill Yurine to do that. But she sucks at her attempts to do so and gets brutally punished for it by Yurine who is also a massive sadist.

For me this show has not a single good vibe, it's toxic all around, which completely muffles every attempt at ... comedy. Yurine is cringily cool, skilled and collected at all times and enjoys to hurt Jashin. Jashin loud, overconfident, clumsy and mean, but she is basically Yurines kidnapping victim and gets held in the human world for Yurine's entertainment.
Of course the show never acknowledges this Dilemma and expects me to just go along with it.

The rest of the show is incoherent and weird. It's constantly trying to parody itself, completely overdoing it in parts. The rest of the cast are other demon and angel girls with even less interesting one note personalities. There is no story, just days going by with different antics but always a big portion of violence and toxicity.
Again, the show kind of relies on the viewer accepting everything with a shrug, including the implication that Jashin deserves the violence she suffers under. But keep in mind, she's not there by choice, she got summoned by Yurine and now Yurine refuses to take any responsibility.

Idk, I can't even really muster up any more actual criticism. Good character dynamics are the basis of a good show for me, and Jashin-Chan Dropkick fails in this regard.

If you like bullying, abuse and gore though, this might be the show for you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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