Urotsukidoji: Legend Of The Overfiend

A classic adult-anime adapted from a 1985 manga by Toshio Maeda.

There are 2 worlds that exist parralel (sP!?) to ours- the demon world, and the man-beast world (those who are half human, and half beast). There is a legend that proficizes the coming of a God called 'the Chojin' (translates as Super being) every 3,000 years, who will unite the 3 worlds of the humans, the demons, and the man-beasts. The legends says that he will appear through the body of a human. Amano Jyaku, sent from the man-beast world, along with his debauched sister, Megumi, having been searching for the Chojin for over 300 years now, reckons he has tracked down the most likely candidate, Ozaki, an A-star basketball wizz, who Amano believes meets all the credentials to be the Chojin. The demon world does not want the unification of the 3 world to take place, and sends out it's hoards to aprehend and destroy the Chojin. Amano has to find the Chojin before the demons do.

You either hate this anime or you love it. I seen it when I was 14, and I love it. It's probably up there in my all time fave anime. I think it's the perfect angst-type horror-our de-force of the imagination for boys aged 15-18. Amano Jyaku is just the coolest anime hero ever, and the sex scenes in Urotsukidoji are tastefully done. The only other hentai anime before this was Cream Lemon. I've never seen it, but it was released a year before Urotsukidoji, in 1986.

When Urotsukidoji was first released in Japan it got negative reception, this is the devil's work, blah blah, etc etc. But by the mid 90s, there was a ton of hentai anime in Japan, and now noone even bats an eye lit at it. Urotsukidoji is one of those anime that was designed for video to appeal to people who just wanted to see sex and violence on video. In the 80s, that's what people went for- Arnold Schwatzenigger tearing the arms off a scientist, and then sticking a pipe through the other's neck was what made great viewing. Now, it's a great plot and script that makes for great entertainment, but back then, the best thing a company could make was a video nasty. The actual manga, released in 1985; I've read it, and it's okay, the artwork is a cross over between American and Japanese comics, but I think the anime created something so much more than what the manga was. The anime stretches the boundaries of imagination, and, it could have either been done great, or badly. Had it stayed 100% faithful to the manga, it may have been crap.

I'm againgst all those people who say that the rape in this is evil also. This anime was aimed at the 18 year old male. Almost all the scenes in which rape occurs, the instigator is a monster/demon, and it would be impossible for a human being to duplicate the act (unless they had tentacles). Also, I watched an interview with creator Toshio Maeda, and Maeda said that back in the 90s there were a ton of girls who came to him asking him to 'do them.' So, you can't exactly say that all women hated seeing girls getting groped by demons and what not right?

Great animation, great characters, great designs, exellent story, my rating:

9.5/10