DNA²

I have seen too little reviews here, so I'll add my two cents about the anime.

To be honest, what made me give this anime a try was its synopsis, I mean, an average guy with some allergy towards girls ends up being a mega playboy due to a bullet from the future and impregnates a lot of women, sounds not as cliche as the shows of today right? I actually didn't know what to expect here, maybe just some rom-com which it's, in fact, something like that.

The show's indeed somewhat cliche after all this anime was from the previous century, but the plot ... it's fun and odd at the same time. I think this show has a good pace for the most part, but that's the thing 'most', it starts well, three episodes later it fully hooked me but at some point on the 8 or 9 episode the plot devolves instead of going up, all this because of the inclusion of the antagonist and his ridiculous power and toxic behavior, the cast of characters is generally ok with some flaws but the antagonist is really awful both in the plot and on the writing side.

Another thing's that even if I didn't know what to expect from this I knew this wasn't supposed to be a battle shounen anime but toward the end, it heads toward that direction (BTW I heard that DNA2 mangaka and Dragon ball creator are friends so it's clear he received some inspiration from that). And I won't spoil anything but the end is good and bad, decent, but a questionable execution.

summary:
Story - 7: Interesting premise with a rom-com feel and a simple development but I think it works for the most part.
Art - 8: Decent, but being a 1994 anime it has very good animation and a nice art style
Sound - 8: I liked very much the opening performed by L'arc~en~Ciel and has good ending and insert songs.
Character - 7: I especially liked the mc and Kotomi, Karin it's alright, but I especially disliked Ryuji which I think is 'somewhat' intended as he's the antagonist.
Enjoyment - 7: Good at the beginning and middle part of the show but it lost its charm in the last episodes.
Overall - 7

As I said, the most interesting about this was the premise which has some elements of time travel on it, I liked the first 8-9 episodes but after that was like watching Dragon-ball with the super saiyan transformation and all, and the ending is acceptable but left some bitter taste on my mouth.

So im going to give this my honest review, cause i think people for some reason were expecting too much from a show where its synopsis is trying to stop a playboy. Like no shit its suppose to be cheesy.

Story:
As i said before main story is girl from the future goes to the past to stop someone from becoming a playboy and overpopulating the planet. By the way this someone has a bodily reaction towards girls that gets near him in which he throws up. Right here tells me this anime is more for jokes/comedy/harem then an actual serious story. Thats not a reason to ... call this show bad at all. However there are major issues i have with this show which i give it a fair score. Episodes 1-8 or 9 were fine. Gave me some laughs and you kinda get interested in karin's schemes on how she tries to stop the growth of the mega playboy, kinda episodic. Around 9 or 10 is where i have a big problem and for some reason the author wanted to include some super antagonist for some reason. It literally starts becoming DBZ/yuyu hakusho like which not a bad comparison but doesnt fit the flow of the show. It literally comes out of left field and had me in a wtf moment. Going into 12-15 the author kinda does a better job toning down the dbz nonsense and back to the shows reality a little bit by introducing a more realistic plot to the story. Imo this is what should have happen earlier ignoring all the DBZ stuff. However even with this introduction everything still felt rushed and out of nowhere. The ending was kinda meh. Could this have been written better? Of course? Is it that bad?? No. Compared to some of these newer nonsense ive seen worst.

Characters:
Karin: Future girl, seems alright. Was kinda annoying especially how many times she says mega playboy. Shes the whole im here for a paycheck attitude, though like most shows she starts developing feelings and has conflict between juntas feelings and her materialistic goals.

Junta: Typical MC with typical MC hair. Clueless sometimes but clearly has a heart of gold and caring for his friends. Cant say hes bad when he has the typical MC role. Could have been written better.

Ami: Oh japan here you go again with these "read the air" girls. For those that dont know what it means, it is notorious in japan. Its pretty much Junta having to guess what ami is thinking, and ami getting mad at junta cause he didnt guess properly instead of speaking her damn mind. So we get the whole "ugh you're so inconsiderate >.<" nonsense for no reason. So yea i found her annoying as i do with characters like that.

Ryuji: Dont really want to talk much bout him for spoilers but i was just fine with him being just a jock or whatever. Your ACTUAL typical playboy. Kind of a weird dude talking about DNA(which i think he means sex but w/e) He starts becoming junta's rivial or enemy, he starts going into extreme stuff early on that caught me off guard

Art:
Im a sucker for retro art so my opinion is very biased

Overall:
Its kind of a coin toss on whether id recommend this, if you dont mind alot of silliness then jumping into serious stuff without connection then yeah go watch. Again not bad just very hard to recommend this to people.

The story is cool but full of inconsistencies and holes. That would be alright but it's not funny either so it just ends up being boring most of the time. The only reason to watch is for nostalgic purposes.
I watched the dubbed version. The main character was decent and even sounded as though he enjoyed his job at certain points. The same can't be said for any of the other characters who sounded like random pedestrians taken off the street before they had their morning coffee and were offered 5 dollars to read lines off a paper. Especially Tomoko, what the heck.