Detroit Metal City

It's a blast at the beginning – you laugh, you have fun, you can’t wait to see what happens next. But even though the episodes are only 12 minutes long and even though there are only 12 episodes, it starts getting old. Yes, it's still entertaining, full of vulgarity, metal, and a love of pop, but not as much. Negishi talks so fast I had to pause at times to read the subtitles. I'm sure metal won't become my favorite genre even after watching this, and I'm sure I'll quickly forget about it. But it did have its strong moments (like the part where there's the spit battle on stage and Krauser hacks it up all the way out of his heels, I saw it with my younger sister: "Oh my God, what are you watching? Yuck, that's disgusting!!! Aren't we gonna watch the next episode?" :-D) and its originality. A weaker 4 stars. (02/01/2011)

This anime series is a crazy and completely overblown show built on insane contrast and driving all sorts of stereotypes to absurd heights. This show makes you think that the screenwriters think they know everything about metal, although really they do not know anything about it. Of course, there have to be several obligatory references to various famous bands and what a show it would have been if they had not eaten a bat! It is a massacre that makes someone like me laugh a lot, feel a little sick at times, even a little chilly at times, even though I still feel like I want to watch more. Everything is very exaggerated, crazy coincidences are the order of the day here, and you know that Krauser II is the leader of (anime) death metal even before he officially gets that title. Once again, I was convinced that you should not judge someone by what he listens to or how he looks because even deep in the sensitive heart of someone who makes baskets for a living, the soul of a madman could be hiding. This madman will then "fuck" the keyboardist on stage with an artificial dildo and give the fans a "golden shower" - sorry, that is actually a completely different story. Back to DMC - the soundtrack is, of course, very good, and the contrast between the opening and the ending beautifully underlines everything that is so often discussed during the series. The animation is weak, although, as has been said, it is enough to keep the audience entertained. Well, I enjoyed it, probably not as much as the manager of DMC, even though it was still a massacre. 8.7/10. (09/11/2017)

Ugh, this wasn't a blast or a rush, but a literal bump! It's not exactly anime for princesses with kid gloves, as the tale of one curmudgeonly schoolboy's transformation into a demon of metal hell is not for the squeamish. Parodying people who love or hate either Scandinavian pop or totally ripped-from-the-chains death metal bands, it rides the most absurd verses of death or rape, whether it's a competitor, a masochistic capitalist pig, or a straight-up TV tower. The scissors between these worlds are stretched over and over like Krauser's legs during "GO TO DMC!" and the main character acts as an unrealistic link, who never quite has things under control. Most of the time, we're watching satirical escapades full of convenient coincidences, and if you get used to the unbridled swearing and desecration of everything on the wound, you'll get metaphorically wet. It gets a little tiresome eventually, because we're kind of expecting Krauser to run over or fuck everything and it'll work out somehow, but it doesn't matter at all. The problem I had was more with the form, where I witnessed perhaps for the first time the absolute irregularity of the shooting format (at least the running time was stable at a quick 12 minutes). One minute it's slanted, then standing, then a tiny square (we get a slanted one too) and the drawing is plainer than Negishi's Bracoid tearjerkers. And as mentioned, the speed of speech didn't impress me twice either. I thought long and hard about what rating I'm going to kill this with, but masochistically I'm going to stuff it with a weaker 4 stars. (12/12/2020)