Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend

Megumi is a total wild card and the fact that she is related to Amano makes their search for the Overfiend even weirder than it already was

I went in expecting something weird but the jump from a teen romance to that brutal assault in the city was way too fast for my brain to handle and the lore about the three realms is actually cool but the sheer amount of gore and the grosser sexual scenes makes it hard to focus on the prophecy stuff at all

The way the music stays all bouncy and light while everything turns into a bloody nightmare is the most unsettling part of this whole thing

I can see why this got banned in like every country because those tentacle scenes are genuinely hard to look at even for a horror fan

Nagumo just seems like a regular loser so seeing those demons go after him was a lot and that elevator scene is actually insane

You really feel the age of the animation during the action scenes, but the sheer level of violence makes it feel modern in a sick way and it is so nihilistic and nasty

I finally tracked down an uncut version of this and it lived up to the reputation. The hand-drawn detail on the gore is actually incredible, even if the content is hard to watch at times. I keep thinking about that prophecy and how Amano seems so desperate to protect a guy who has no idea what is happening to him

Nagumo being a total slacker while everyone is fighting over his soul is such a weird dynamic and it makes the world feel even more unhinged than it already does

Seeing the Makai come out of nowhere to attack a high school is so dark and the atmosphere is just pure dread from the second those tentacles show up on the screen

That prophecy about the Overfiend is so ominous and it is hard to tell if Nagumo is going to save the world or just finish destroying what is left of it

Poor Akemi did nothing to deserve that level of trauma and my skin was crawling during that whole sequence in the building because it felt so hopeless and mean

Amano searching for 300 years just to find a guy like Nagumo is actually hilarious and he seems like such a loser but then everything around him just starts exploding into gore

I was not prepared for how fast this went from zero to a hundred and one minute Nagumo is just a student and the next I am watching some of the most graphic stuff ever

The hand drawn art in this is so detailed and gritty and you can tell they put so much work into the disgusting monster designs even when the screen is just panning over a still

That transition from a normal school day to the absolute madness with the tentacles was insane and the way those demons just tear through everything is genuinely terrifying

That transition from a normal school setting to total carnage caught me off guard and the detail on the gore is really gruesome

Amano Jyaku is such a cool lead and I love how he just kicks that demon in the face during the first encounter

The animation for the demon transformations looks amazing and fluid but the amount of sexual violence is a lot to handle for a first episode

The way the prophecy about the Choujin frames Nagumo as this total loser is actually kind of funny, but the moment the demons started tearing through people it got dark fast. It is way more intense than I thought it would be from the title and that elevator scene is going to be stuck in my head for a long time.

I never expected those tentacles to go that far and my brain is still trying to process the pool scene