Much like Johnny Cash sang a song about A Boy Named Sue, Bokusatsu Tenshi Doku-chan is about a boy named Sakura. That is just one part of this multifaceted schizophrenic romp of an anime that translates into Club to Death Angel Dokuro-chan. The title alone should give away the insanity of this series which aired on Japanese TV in 2005 and turns the magical girl genre on its head.
The story is about Sakura Kasukabe, a bright and likeable character. He goes to school, engages in normal school activities, has a girl he likes and hangs out with friends. There’s just one problem, as an adult Sakura will develop a machine that grants people eternal youth. This angers the Judeo-Christian god greatly and he decides that Sakura must not be allowed to invent the ability to have eternal youth, since it turns all women into prepubescent girls. In order to stop this from happening he orders the warrior angles to go back in time and kill him to prevent its invention.
The artwork is the quality of an OAV, which makes sense as the series was only 4 half hour episodes. This show is not for children, there isn’t any nudity but there is plenty of graphic violence and sexual humor that is quite overt. In 2007 a second series started as an OAV set that picks up the story after the original ended. So, if you can find a copy of this or the second one enjoy and watch everything, it’s all incredibly funny, even the opening credit song. Pipiru Pipiru Pi!!!
The story is about Sakura Kasukabe, a bright and likeable character. He goes to school, engages in normal school activities, has a girl he likes and hangs out with friends. There’s just one problem, as an adult Sakura will develop a machine that grants people eternal youth. This angers the Judeo-Christian god greatly and he decides that Sakura must not be allowed to invent the ability to have eternal youth, since it turns all women into prepubescent girls. In order to stop this from happening he orders the warrior angles to go back in time and kill him to prevent its invention.
One angle, Dokuro-chan, catches wind of the plan and feels Sakura can change. She goes back in time ahead of the death squad to save him. Although, with Dokuro-chan around, Sakura is in worse shape than if she didn’t come to his rescue. Dokuro is short tempered, manipulative, jealous and just down right evil. Wielding the holy spiked club of death Excalibolg, Dokuro decimates Sakura in graphic and fatal ways as punishment for the slightest misunderstanding. Luckily for Dokuo-chan’s mission, she has the ability to bring him back to life with her magical prayer of rejuvenation. This allows Dokuro to constantly decimate Sakura for such things as; being a pervert, thinking about being a pervert, misunderstanding thinking about being a pervert and so on. Once he has been killed by her she does a magical girl routine and utters the spell to restore him to the way he was.
Sakura has to live with Dokuro-chan to make sure he is safe. This causes Sakura a small amount of trouble, aside from his constant death and resurrection. Sakura is 100% infatuated with a fellow classmate named Shizuki; Dokuro consistently interferes with his attempts at courting her. When Dokuro decides she needs to come to school, to better protect Sakura, everything in his life takes a turn for the worse. Her decision comes not a moment to late though. The same day she starts school another angle names Sabato, shows up bent on taking out the pervert Sakura. With an angel now after his life Sakura is beginning to think that Dokuro was right. Although the biggest threat to his safety is still Dokuro-chan her self. Sakura does have one weapon at his disposal, if an angle loses its halo they are stricken with violent diarrhea until it is returned. This is a good thing and a bad thing, the bad thing is that the halos are as sharp as a katana, thus cutting heavily into his hand when he grabs one. The good thing is that it completely distracts the angle until their halo is returned, yet makes them want to take extreme revenge against him when they are back to normal. Sakura must survive not only the angles out to kill him but the one that’s out to save him
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This is an incredibly funny and raunchy series. The story is stupid but the premise is what drives, actually what drives it is waiting so see all the messed up stuff Dokuro does not only to Sakura but pretty much everyone else around him. The drive for the series is Dokuro tormenting Sakura; the characters don’t put any effort into accomplishing their goals, with the exception of Sakura trying to get with Shizuki. This is a great joke on the magical girl series’. Dokuro doesn’t transform but every time she casts the resurrection spell she goes through a little sequence to do it, saying the spell and twirling around over a magical background. The spell doesn’t just bring people back from the dead either; she uses it frequently to morph Sakura’s classmates into wild animals.
This is an incredibly funny and raunchy series. The story is stupid but the premise is what drives, actually what drives it is waiting so see all the messed up stuff Dokuro does not only to Sakura but pretty much everyone else around him. The drive for the series is Dokuro tormenting Sakura; the characters don’t put any effort into accomplishing their goals, with the exception of Sakura trying to get with Shizuki. This is a great joke on the magical girl series’. Dokuro doesn’t transform but every time she casts the resurrection spell she goes through a little sequence to do it, saying the spell and twirling around over a magical background. The spell doesn’t just bring people back from the dead either; she uses it frequently to morph Sakura’s classmates into wild animals.
The series is hyperactive and fast paced, not just in action but in speech, Sakura being the most hyperactive one. It is also filled with plenty of sadistic and perverted humor. My favorite running gag is a TV show they watch called the Overly Sensitive Salaryman about a man who is prone to premature ejaculation at the slightest touch, even a brisk breeze on his skin will set him off. Another great moment is when Sakura hallucinates he is a solider fighting an epic land battle in a great Curry war after he is purposely poisoned by Dokuro with bad mushrooms.
The artwork is the quality of an OAV, which makes sense as the series was only 4 half hour episodes. This show is not for children, there isn’t any nudity but there is plenty of graphic violence and sexual humor that is quite overt. In 2007 a second series started as an OAV set that picks up the story after the original ended. So, if you can find a copy of this or the second one enjoy and watch everything, it’s all incredibly funny, even the opening credit song. Pipiru Pipiru Pi!!!
UPDATE: This title and the follow up, was licensed by Media Blasters in North America and is available on DVD.
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