Jashin-chan Dropkick X

What The Fuck?

Jashin-Chan Dropkick X, the third season, oh did I pray for your sublimity to correspond to a type of humor like Happy Tree Friends. Oh did I pray to you to give us moments as absurd as also pitiful with your angels and demons. Oh did I pray you to re-use the running gag that could still work after three seasons straight, namely Jashin-Chan’s Dropkick (Duh!). Oh did I pray to your humor more meta than ever.

Of course that I'm angry. Even extremely disappointed with the beauty it could give us. This season could not exist if our dear Japanese friends did not ... give to the crowdfunding enough a few months after the second season was broadcast. The hype was insane when I saw that it was finally in production. And goodness gracious how I overestimated it.

I do not want to summarize the other seasons, thinking that all of you had already seen them before looking at the third, unless you are attracted only by the presence of Hatsune Miku. I'll let you know that I feel disgusting to say that this season was the worst that I saw for now.

The first episodes were magnificent, especially the first in terms of "haha, we finally have a third season" as well as the presence of Hatsune Miku, who is actually important for a few episodes. There was that beautiful usual layer of humor, so nothing wrong could happen, but I don't know who was largely in charge of the script of almost half of the anime, but I feel that this person really wanted us to share their touristy vacations. It was here that I felt sold by a company, an individual being stupid enough to be the type to consume everything that has a name of something I really enjoy watching/playing. A complete arc of five episodes was dedicated to the promotions of cities in Japan with the use of Jashin-Chan Dropkick's characters, as in order to sell us the desire to go there. On the other hand, the main reason for why they present them to us, is because at some point in the anime, Jashin-Chan finds herself in dept of billion and billion yen. And so, she simply travel through the entire land of Japan to find a way to remedy her debts, by also presenting the "do not miss" monuments from the cities she visits.

Except that I don't care about that.

I'm someone who lives in North America who can't afford a trip to Japan yet, and who still studies at school in audio-visual. If by pure chance I want to watch a tourist anime, then someone needs to call a studio for making them decide to pull their fingers out of their ass and decide to animate one, unless it exists, which wouldn't even surprise me. I watch this anime in order to laugh without having to think about why the snake girl regenerates every time you cut her tail like a piece of ham. And even if it comes straight from the original manga, now I could understand the author's desire to try new things, the end result shows us a huge filler arc with no progression to the main storyline. Our group of characters seemed more here as people giving reactions rather than playing their own initial roles. It was just as horrible to watch as some think it was horrible to watch Endless Eight in Haruhi Suzumiya.

Otherwise, the rest of the anime remained fine, yet very disappointing that an arc lasting almost half of the anime ruins the hype I had for almost a year. When I'd seen the last three episodes and they went all out on new characters, I wondered if they just couldn't show them from the start, like... Directly in the 5th episode. Not now, because someone wanted to show their vacations, I guess.

For those who saw this anime because of Hatsune Miku, just know for now that you will be served. Oh yes! The first time I saw her while having the chance to know the anime before it blow up made me burst out laughing and she still stays in character despite the circumstances. Please, however, if you like meta and bloodthirsty humor, watch the other seasons first, then just find the moments with Hatsune Miku in the Escape Arc and skip it after all five episodes!

*Finished writing the review*

“Aaah! I hope there won't be people who will believe that I don't like Japan or think that I'm an hypocrite after what I wrote :)”

If there was a show that I would proclaim having "a bloody good time" at, it would be Jashin-chan Dropkick, and 2 seasons later with a 2-year gap on each release, with Season 3, it's still the same show I remember with an insane record for being crowdfunded by the people, for the fans. Guess this goes to show that even anime can be made with the dedication of its people.

The Snake Girl and her "minions"...er I mean her dominator and friends are back with yet another passing realm of 2 years, and to make things better for Season 3, Hatsune Miku is here to ... join aboard not just as a cameo, but being of a meme advertising material of screenshots for people thinking what is this show all about. And it certainly got its popularity being the only constant even when the jokes fell flat at times. However, like some of you whom have stuck through the series since its inception in 2018 as a dark, supernatural comedy that was a legit surprise when it was released, Jashin-chan Dropkick is still that insane show where people have fun killing and spreeing the hell outta the happy-go-lucky but deceptive Jashin-chan, and none is so the wiser with Yurine Hanazono being her babysitting guardian to take care of and pummel her if she goes by left.

The cast of Jashin-chan Dropkick has always been both the source material and the anime's shining point, and they are still hilarious to watch, though "gullible" is the word to use when the cast has grown up learning to live with Jashin-chan's extremist personality of dodges and finger-pointing for this long. Regardless of how the Snake Girl has treated them with animosity, she is still being regarded as the family between the devils and angels, and it shows from Medusa still being the unequivocal ATM to the cheap Pekola doing some job hopping, hoping to earn enough just to live by daily.

The "same same, no different story" carries on with the production staff's crazy antics over at Nomad, as did the same for now 3 seasons straight, which is the baiting constant to go atypical with whatever it desires to showcase, and it never gets old. Though in the case of the OST, I would say that while halca feat. Aina Suzuki does a decent job on the OP that's just as good as Season 2's OP (that both can't dethrone Season 1's highly nostalgic and god-like entertainment excellence of an OP), the ED by VTuber KAF and virtual singer Kafu is the best out of the 3 seasons, bar none. So, decent OP, and vice versa on the ED.

There is just something special about Jashin-chan Dropkick that stands out on the myriad of the anime space. More than its crowdfunding success and its crazy-ass marketing tactics (which this season's mindless brandishing of Hatsune Miku gets people talking for attention, more than the whole "escape across Japan" tourist arc), the series itself that's based on a web comic as consistently impressed to those whom like it, and this trend has never stopped since the anime adaptation begun.

Love it or hate it, Jashin-chan Dropkick is really enjoyable if you turn off your brain to loose scrambles if you can take its dark, supernatural, and definitely a satirical take on the outlook of life. Be it a runaway journey across the country or back at home, it has its ups and down, but make no mistake that this series is a modern cult classic in the making, and I for one, will not stop brandishing its wild success.

Will there be yet another crowdfunding for Season 4? Who knows, but if it gets greenlit, I will lift up my hands to the anime gods and say: "Let the praises ring".

It's Snek & pals season 3! Featuring Miku from the Hatsune Miku series and probably funded by Hokkaido's tourism bureau!

Well if you're already a fan of the raunchy, often violent humor of Jashin-chan, you're probably gonna watch this anyways, as it is more of what you'd come to expect. Jashin-chan is still goofy and selfish as ever in her antics to get one over Yurine, and her humorous interactions with characters old and new are still the crux of the series.

This season however, has some bizarre features such as several episodes back to back seemingly promoting tourism in different regions of Hokkaido, which brings to ... question if this season was in fact funded by their local government.

In addition, Hatsune Miku is somehow shoehorned into every episode, which is no doubt some form of paid for marketing. I have not read the original manga for this series, but I know for a fact that there was no Miku shoved in; still, at least she's tastefully implemented in as both a gag and marketing tool for this rather niche series.

Overall, because of the aforementioned "tourist" episodes that drag on, as well as a VERY lukewarm last episode, this is definitely not the best season of Jashin-chan but it still has it's original charm and laugh at loud, sometimes 4th wall breaking humor. I would still highly recommend this to existing fans who have watched the previous seasons. Otherwise, go and watch the first two seasons first before starting this.