Without a doubt, Devil Hunter Yohko is one of the funniest and raciest anime I've seen (I thought that title belonged to Burn-Up W, but they got all the T&A out in the first two files). Its a great parody on the teenagers v. the monster type movies, so it has an edge. All the animation is good, but you can tell that there was a lot of improvement from volume 1 to volume 6. May not be a must buy, but it won't hurt you to check it out.
Volume 6
If your asking why I bought Devil Hunter Yohko 6 first, it is because of SunCoast placing a label saying must be 18 to purchase on it.
Its a normal day of school for Ms. Yohko Mano. Normal is her spending most of her time looking at attractive boys. This day, her taste tends to change every few hours, she's trying to get Tatuno to pay attention to her, but he seems to be taken by a girl in a slutty outfit with a hair do that resembles Yohko's. Her depression doesn't last long. Now that there is a new student teacher at school, Mr. Sato, but again she sees him with the same girl. Only with this encounter do they see eye to eye, and the two girls are identical.
Yohko's best friend Chigako does some investigating into this girl, Ayako, but during her telephone debriefing, Yohko's apprentice, Azusa, lures her into a dual with Ayako. After Yohko's grandmother, Madoka, stops the dual, we find out about that Madoka had a twin sister who she beat out for the title of 107th Devil Hunter, and she is pretty bitter. Now Yohko must be prepared to face Ayako again to protect her title, that is if she can stay focused on the battle instead of Mr. Sato.
It may not be a must see, but its still fun to watch. The battle scenes have their own sense of humor, and all the classic emotions literally being shown in character concept (hearts for eyes, etc) make it even more comical. At some points the humor becomes a little too ridiculus, and its attempts to be serious can get a little boring. Otherwise, everything works well. Another great thing about it is that you don't have to buy the other 3 dubbed volumes, 4 if your buying subtitled versions, because it isn't really a continuing series (I do know that the first volume was made in 1990 and this was made in 1995). Maybe something that other fans will be glad to hear that there are still a lot of risque moments in the action, especially the final battle.
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The dub is good, but I doubt that lines like "the truth is out there" and to a lesser extent "there can be only one" were in the original Japanese version, so its not exactly the most direct translation.
Volume 1
It seems to be a normal day for Yohko Mano. Her grandma and mom are fighting over their views about virginity, she's late for school, but this time the principal of the school decides to punish one of Yohko's friend for it (the friend's name isn't overly important since this is the only show he's in. Okay I'm to lazy to pop the video in while I'm writing the review).
Things become more hectic as the day goes a long when a tentacled monster attacks her, and her grandma pulls her out of bed with a demon. All of this leads to her grandma telling her she's the 108th Devil Hunter of the Mano family, and she's has to prevent the rise of the new dark queen. The more dificult part maybe staying a virgin until she gets the ring of the Hunter, or there will be no 108th Devil Hunter.
As I said in my overall review, you can obviously tell the superior quality in the 6th tape animation wise, but aside from that Volume 1 is apretty good anime. It's pretty racy and maybe too racy for a cartoon (that isn't hentai), but it does use this to get in as much humor as possible.
For a series opening show its well done. I feel that usually the best episodes come a long when all the viewers are familiar with the show which allows for better plot construction. The best thing about the video is that it doesn't go half way with any of the concept which may be why the Viz Communication's catalog requires an "18 or older to purchase". The series is good enough that you can buy any video in the series and not be wasting your money. The only thing that I am confused about is why everyone pays so much attention to the series music when it is not an essential part of the series.
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