Synopsis: Detroit Metal City is about Negishi Soichi, a recent college graduate with a very mild-mannered disposition who dreamed of The post Detroit Metal City Anime Review appeared first on Anime [...]
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Oh boy. It’s been a while since we’ve gone on so many tangents that we forget to provide a synopsis. So I better do one here. All Soichi Negishi wants to be is a twee indie pop star, but he’s been [...]
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How can a battle between heavy metal and freestyle rapping be so boring? Once upon a time, a young anime fan who was catching up on all the Japanese cartoons he missed out on over the years noticed [...]
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I thoroughly enjoyed Detroit Metal City and this special serves as a summary for said series. It gives a glimpse of life in a death metal band. It’s funny (hilarious) and it’s short. Only 13 minutes long. I watched this only recently. About a year or more after I watched the main series. I understand that … Read more
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I don’t think it’ll come as a surprise to anybody that’s seen Detroit Metal City that it’s one of my favorite anime series. Hell, it’s one of the few that I show to non-anime fans, and it has universal approval from every single one of them that have seen it. It’s not just the comedy [...]
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I don’t think it’ll come as a surprise to anybody that’s seen Detroit Metal City that it’s one of my favorite anime series. Hell, it’s one of the few that I show to non-anime fans, and it has universal approval from every single one of them that have seen it. It’s not just the comedy [...]
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Soichi Negishi is a sweet and shy young man who dreams of becoming a trendy singer songwriter. But for some reason, he is forced into joining the worshipping death metal band “Detroit Metal City”. In full stage make-up, he transforms into his alter-ego "Johannes Krauser II", the vulgar-mouthed lead vocalist, and against Negishi’s will, DMC rises to stardom. The band is adored by their head-thrashing fans, but Soichi himself is too embarrassed to admit he's in the band and even worse, the girl of his dreams hates DMC even more than he does. Even worse for Soichi, the now the legendary king of death Jack II Dark himself is challenging DMC to a duel. What is the fate of the innocent Negishi as he climbs to the top of the death metal world?
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This past weekend Kris and I met the VCinema Show‘s Coffin Jonat New People‘s J-Pop Summit, in Japantown, San Francisco. We had an awesome day filled with great discussions, but didn’t actually get down to covering the fest until the very end, with the Detroit Metal City US premier. What followed was a 45 minute [...]
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      Krauser II interupts a DMC tribute band concert in the park and afterwards Negishi and his other band-mates go out drinking and karokeing with Yuri and her friends. After...
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クラウザさま じごくに かえらないで くれ! Krauser Sama… jigoku ni kaeranaide kure! The mangaka of Detroit Metal City – Kiminori Wakasugi – announced in the latest issue of “Young Animal” that the series is going to end in the ninth issue in April. So this means there are two more chapters and then it will be all over. To thank [...]
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  “PV” Meet Souichi Negishi, a mild mannered, soft spoken young man straight out of college wanting  who likes swedish pop, he dreams of persuing his life dream of being a japanese pop...
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A must see if you are a fan of either show. No related posts. No related posts.
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Detroit Metal City was on my radar for a while, but after reading another set of positive reviews about the series, coupled with my desire to start of 2010 with something hilarious and enjoyable, I sat down and marathoned the series on New Year’s Day before I went to work. And it left me so [...]
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Emperor challenge: Village People couldn’t know It would come to this.
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I was going to write a first impressions post, but then I discovered that I had already finished the entire anime, so here is a review. What should I write about this? I think that the above picture sums up my feelings of this show, which I was reminded into watching by Baka-Raptor (who also reminded [...]
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Real men begin a concert by hanging themselves. Actually, the title is a lie. This is not a Behind the Music spoof but more an analysis of the show’s leading character, Souichi Negishi, and his more famous Death Rock alter ego, Johannes Krauser II. If you don’t like it, get lost before I summon Krauser-sama from [...]
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I first heard about Detroit Metal City when it was topping the manga charts as one of Kodansha’s most popular titles a couple of years back. I didn’t get it; Kodansha has a lot of fun & cute series, yet this manga about a guy who leads a double life as the lead of a [...]
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The Anime Blog reader and contributor Liz Ohanesian has a feature on Detroit Metal City over at L.A. Weekly. Here’s an excerpt: Like the popular animated series Metalocalypse, Detroit Metal City lampoons the conventions of death metal, the obsessive adherence to “evil” images and “brutal” music. The language is coarse, really coarse, but there’s a purpose [...]
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