Demon City Shinjuku

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Summary: A great adventure
Review: I won't bore you with a recap of the plot, except to say that this is an exceptional example of the relucant-hero genere. This movie is very violent, with plenty of blood & guts, but there is no--repeat, *NO*--sex! There is brief partial nudity by a female demon, and the human heroine is almost raped by demons, but the rape attempt is broken up before much skin is shown. Also, the heroine's clothes seem to magically repair themselves afterwards.

The (relucant) hero lusts after his gorgeous companion, but somehow restrains himself. He doesn't even make a pass at her until...well, see for yourself. I give it 5 out of 5 stars.

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Summary: 4 AND A HALF REALLY!
Review: In the TRADITION of excellent Japanimation films, (like:Ghost in the Shell, Akira, and Venus Wars) comes the next frontier. And that is Demon City Shinjuku. This movie is just great. An innocent girl is in the charming hands of a sword-swilling hero who has plenty of potential. Lots of violence, a beautiful girl, loads of demons and a great story all explode on the screen in this most outstanding film.

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Summary: Not Much to Recommend Itself
Review: Less than average, predictable, by the numbers 'gates of hell opening' anime seen numerous times before. Reluctant, angst ridden, lazy son of previous guardian of the world must enter the demon city to do battle with demonically supercharged bad guy. The bad guy of course killed the father in an earlier flashback, both practitioners of 'nembo' which apparently is a energy flow type of traditional kendo. Memorable more for the inordinate amount of profanity for its own sake compared to some other animes, and the odd English dub accents [English, Hispanic, Russian], than the plot. Requisite demon bosses are easily dispatched and have no originality, mysterious neutral 'Mephisto' never explained or fleshed out. Heroine is particularly annoying, dispensing a Pollyanna air of cheer and hope while generally either getting in the way or carrying the spent hero after battles. Compared to the seminal favorites reviewed before, this really pales in comparison. At least it was a freebie on the Action Channel.

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Summary: Nada de nada
Review: No hay mucho que esperar de esta produccion. A mi no me gusto

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Summary: Buy this and watch the sub of it
Review: Normally the only choice I have for anime is dubs. But with this movie I made an excepttion, the dub stinks!! What's with the English accent on some characters and a country accent on some others, and then to top it off the little kid has a Mexican accent, he sounds like Speedy Gonzalez. The sub on the other hand sounds very realistic and is much easier to get into than the dub. The movie has a pretty good storyline and is always a pleasure to watch. The disk itself is a boring purple color,but hey who's complaining? There are little extras on the disk which include a few trailors of other anime on DVD from U.S. Manga Corps. There is also character introductions including main characters and some of the monsters. The only problem I had with this is that the character introductions are taken directly off of a scene from the movie and kinda spoils what happens if you were to look at them first and then watch the movie. Overall this is an above average disk which is in no way a waste of money.

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Summary: Excellent Character Designs, Artwork and BGM!
Review: O.K., I the plot is somewhat derivative. However the animation quality, character designs and background music (BGM) are excellent. I recommend the subtitled VHS version because in the dubbed version the BGM is not as clear. I also found the BGM to be somewhat muted in the DVD.

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Summary: very cool
Review: okay, I know a lot of you people did not like it, but I did! I think it had good animation (not as good as Princess Mononoke, remember, it was made 9 years ago), a good plot, cool demons, and good characters! Just one thing is bad : the english voices! They are SO dumb sounding! Other then that, I loved it! ...

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Summary: mephisto mephisto mephisto mephisto!
Review: Okay, so this movie hasn't got the world's most original plot or plot resolution, but it still comes close to the best anime I've yet seen. This is mostly because of the characters. Before I saw Demon City, I didn't think that you could compensate for an exessively stereotypical plot, but... Mephisto does. If you're into anime, see this move. END

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Summary: DEMON CITY : SHINJUKU
Review: Possibly one of the best anime's on DVD, next to Ninja Scroll, this tale of evil is very interesting and action packed...but kinda short and a not too bad ending. But the most think i got a kick out of was the Spider demon at the near middle of the film, this thing is wicked.

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Summary: One for your collection
Review: The dvd is great - the story, characters and plot are great making this an anime worthy or one's collection. There is one problem though - do not watch the english dubbed version: the characters' dialogue seem sappy at times, the southern drawl and hispanic accent don't work as well as one would hope, plus dialogue is added and or changed from the original japanese version. If you do decide to purchase this dvd, make a commitment of watching it with english subtitles. You get an accurate translation and more darker/indepth feel for characterization and what they truly say. Don't get me wrong, the dubbed version is fine but the english subtitles are much better!