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Science Fiction Anime Reviews: Demonbuster
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Posted by:
TaranAndreas on May 12, 2007
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Demonbuster As a foreword, or perhaps a forewarning, the reviewer is bound to tell you that this is his first anime review. That is not to say that he has not watched very much anime! He did, in fact, as a small child watch the first Astroboy in its run on NBC. That was the year in which C S Lewis and President Kennedy died. Quite frankly, your parents were still crapping their diapers when this writer was a confirmed otaku. So sit still and read this, now that you have him, the reviewer, started.
For one who has delved so deeply into Lovecraftian nonsense as this reviewer, the show was more amusing than it was mind-numbing with unspeakable horror. Honestly, what a relief! The idea of all of these beings turning out to be mere puppets in the hands of men (and a nekko-shoujo) was farcical. And West, the Re-Animator, as a 1980's coke-sniffing rock-star type... what a hoot!
The real bright spot was saved... o no, one ought to have said dark spot, and stygian dark, at that... for the end. Dear readers, even the Great Cthulhu (ia! ia! Cthulhu f'tagn R'lyeh!) is a stooge for the Blind Chaos, AZATHOTH. Yog Sothoth is the Gate! He is also the father of more than just the Whately twins. And Nyarlathotep also makes an appearance. Of course! That sneering panther, that sly devil. He (or sometimes, apparently, she) is never far from anywhere that anything at all is happening.
The reviewer has discovered that he is cackling. He apologizes. Yes, he must.
The music was loud and ugly. In Japan, only young women should sing. And the art was almost as good. I did love the steam-punk look of the answering machine. Too bad that it was not continued throughout the rest of the anime. And the one person who should have had some power against the Old Ones did not.
If the reviewer were left to himself to recommend, he would recommend that someone somewhere should buy a single copy of this and offer it freely for copying by Lovecraft fans, for inclusion right between their Plushie Cthulhus and their PokeCthulhu cards... simply as an example of the sort of kitschy impulse that produced Sesame Street's Count from Lugosi's brilliant interpretation of Stoker's Dracula.
And so, in brief, feh!
And, by the way, Ia! Cthulhu f'tagn R'lyeh!
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