DNA²

I enjoyed the first 10 episodes and then it turned into a Dragon Ball Z feel to it that turned me off right then and there. At first it seemed great, different kind of story, funny and full of drama. And then it did a complete 180 and kinda ruined it for me, the extra episodes (13 - 15) was more of the same DBZ style plot line.

DNA^2 as a comedy has aged marvelously. I think this is a show that gets more hilarious with age. But if you decide to take it too seriously I don't think you will get as much out of the show as you could.

Story: Hilarious Premise but gimme moreee

The premise of this show is great. A lady from the future visits our MC in order to prevent the disaster in her timeline where a man with tremendous charisma is so charming that he impregnates countless women and causes a crisis. I love it. The story seemed a bit rushed especially since the show claims to be ... a harem. With a harem there should be proper attention given to all the chars in the love-triangle/love-decahedron. Especially the ending seemed extremely disorganized and abrupt as if the studio was on a schedule. Unfortunate.

Art: Ehhh

This the one area where time has not been gracious to the show. Art is a bit dated in the grand scheme of things though amongst the shows of it's era the art style is average. Because the action-packed scenes are fairly limited the animation is bearable.

Sound: Noice

The music delightfully upbeat and despite it being slightly cheesy does accurately color the hilarious character personalities. Especially the OP. Although you may not remember a great deal about this show after watching the music in the Opening is truly top tier. To the point of providing motivation to keep watching lol.

Character: Funny but kind of in an ironic way.

Because of the way the Characters interact with the silly premise allows for lots of laughs but also because of how ridiculous some of the situations were, there will be laughs from an ironic standpoint. Overall they enrich the world and setting in a great way.

Overall Enjoyment: Definitely worth a watch, if only to add it to your library.

This show is very amusing but the plot is a little out of the ordinary and it is not a legendary anime nor an epic anime by any means. Hell I'm not quite sure if there's much of a takeaway lesson at the end, but I was entertained all the way through. The only thing that will ruin the show is having high expectations so lower your standards rofl. Can be painfully slow to watch depending on the person.

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.