DNA²

Time for another nostalgic review! Today we look at a 1994 harem anime with an intriguing plot, but really stupid execution. Unless you are an older fan born before 1993 or so, I will place a wager you haven't heard of this series. It has been almost completely forgotten, but honestly that isn't such a tragedy. This is DNA^2.

The future is dangerously overpopulated, so scientists worked to find the mysterious cause of the population explosion that occurred in the late 20th century. It turns out it is largely the fault of 1 man-whore called the "mega playboy" who possesses genes so good that women ... are hypnotized by him. This guy knocked up 100 women, who each gave birth to sons, who all went on to knock up 100 women of their own, and so on. A time cop is sent back to the past in order to shoot the "mega playboy" with a mutagen dart that will give him the DNA of a loser, so no women will want him. In the mind of the man who wrote this shitty series, women can instantly assess the DNA of any male with a quick glance and always make romantic decisions entirely based on eugenics. I'm guessing that was his excuse that he wasn't getting any when he wrote this.
The time cop finds the mega playboy, but discovers he is a complete loser and figures that she must have the wrong guy. However, she shoots him with the dart anyways and he ends up becoming the mega playboy as a result. The moment she went back in time to stop the mega playboy, she was guaranteed to create the mega playboy or else she wouldn't have had a reason to go back in the first place. This logic is based on Novikov's self consistency principle named after the theoretical astrophysicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov. It states that you can't go back in time and change the reason you were going back in the first place. In fact, you may even be responsible for the event happening, like the Twilight Zone episode where a time traveler kills the real infant Adolf Hitler and replaces him with an orphan lookalike, who actually grows up to become the Hitler he went back in time to kill. The show later completely undermines this, but I never said it was well executed. I just said it had a few ideas that COULD have been interesting. The rest of the show revolves around the time cop chick trying desperately to cock block the mega playboy from scoring with various hot chicks.


The character art is actually quite well done. The women looked pretty hot for 1994! At least if you were a geeky teenage male trying to fantasize about cartoon women. The animation is also fairly smooth for its time and the color pallet is very bright and jovial.

Would I highly recommend this series? Not really. However, if you are an anime historian and want to see how harem anime have changed in the early 90s vs. the current age, I would in that case check this out!

n the new episode of "A Blast from the Past" we have DNA² which is an anime...And the fact that i have to state it is because most people after watching even a sample vid from this turn into chinese psychopaths and sacrifice their daughters to the gods of Olympus to find salvation. And naturally it was deemed by the EU-which is a big thing in Brussels-as a psychological warfare strike from the land of the rising east and was banned.

No not really..Unfortunately this anime survives to this day so people of younger generations can also experience the terror.

So far this sounds like any of ... my reviews but this anime is so bad actually it's hillarious.DNA² may be the most ridiculous anime in existence. Wanna listen to the story? There's a DNA hunter named Karin,who was sent from the future to stop the so called Mega-Playboy,Junta, from fathering 100 kids that led to the overpopulation of the world.....Haven't passed out laughing, have we? Still with me?

Right...Then, as a plot twist i suppose, we learn that Junto isn't a playboy at all..In fact he’s allergic to girls and vomits at the slightest sign of skin. So you might think that ok, maybe he's gay or something.. NOPE, wrong wrong wrong..I wish he was, cause at least that would be some form of explanation. As for his condition there are no explanations given..He just throws a pink coloured rocket when he sees a woman naked..

My first thoughts-just by reading the story-were "oh fuck" and "somebody pass me the Glock"..You have time travel and the first thing to do with it was stop a lad from impregnating 100 women and not stop Hitler? But they didn't.. Instead they sent the blue haired gal to shoot the unstoppable fucker from..Well..Fucking!

"So how do you stop the sexual beast", you might ask and the answer is with a DNA altering bullet to the head.But since this is an anime and the story had to last for 12 eps, Karin accidentally shoots him with the very bullet that awakens his inner playboy thus making him Caligula incarnate..With funnier Shayan-esque hair.

Of course ALL the girls start dehydrating from lady juice overflow. Don't expect anything than the usual cast here. First of the bunch is Saeki, the hot girl that mocked Junta when his was an ordinary barfing loser, then there's Ami, the childhood friend who secretly loves him and is immune to his playboy trickery and last but not least Kotomi who farts whenever someone pays attention to her...........I have no words..And to end things the antagonist/ex Saeki's boyfriend who hates Junta and his new power up.

What can you expect from this anime? Many nosebleeds, farting, vomiting, boobie grabbing scenes, face-to-ass trip overs and all the usual stuff we have come to expect from these type of anime.Other than that? No, not really much apart from the silly as fuck factor that keeps increasing as the episode count does.

Be that as it may, it had it's funny moments. Like i said it's so ridiculous and bad it makes it hillarious. Its' badness gives it character..Not a good one mind you, but still a character nonetheless.

Animation was bad to the point of blindness even for it's time but then again i didn't expect anything grand from it. If i wanted Dragonball looking characters i'd watch Dragonball.

Voice acting was..I know i keep repeating myself but it was ridiculous. I think i've heard more passionate book reading from morgue keepers but maybe that's just me..Still since the anime itself is bad the bad voice acting makes it even more of a character building experience.

So it all comes down to this..Should you watch it?

Fucking yeah you should. It's bad, it's silly, it's the laughingstock of the anime world but you should give it a whirl just for kicks with your mates over drinks.

Wow I never thought I would find an anime that I would give a 1/10. This was a trash show that I could not finish. Not because it was boring or just did not interest me, but it was just that bad.

Story: the concept was easy to fallow but the reason for why the plot happened was just like why? The idea of an over population of the earth in the future is a real Ecological idea, but how it came to be was just dumb. I only made it to the 4th episode and I gave up. Usually when I quit a show early ... is due to lack of interest.

Characters:

Junta: Our MC is okay but he is lacking in so many areas and the writers gave him some weird hidden ability to make up for it. I did not hate the guy, actually I think he was the only person I liked.

Karin: A time traveler who gives most of plot. She was annoying for she constantly had to remind me of her dream which was kind of normal I guess.

Ami: Junta’s childhood friend and just annoying.

Everyone Else: I was not completely sure but they were useless.

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.

The entire experience is a complete waste of time. 13 episodes done, and I feel as if I've gotten no further in life. Absolutely nothing is achieved by watching this show, not even a slight improvement in your knowledge. All you need to know is that the main concept is that the main character has superpowered genetics that allow him to utilize the "ultra-playboy" powers of seduction and physical strength / intimidation. Basically, the MC can swoon any female in his presence and can intimidate / beat up any man in his sight. He becomes a saiyan-lite practically invincible character, the stakes are always low ... since you know it's going to be resolved, and the dub does it no favors. Absolutely one of the lowest-effort shows I've seen. If this has somehow made you more interested in the show then I've failed. Just trust me when I honestly say that your life will be much better if you didn't even know this show existed. All you need to do is walk away and never think of this show ever again and you'll be ahead of me in life. Good luck.