Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Monster City Shinjuku Japanese: 魔界都市〈新宿〉 English: Demon City Shinjuku German: Demon City: Shinjuku French: Wicked City and Demon City Shinjuku More titles InformationType: OVA Episodes: 1 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Oct 25, 1988 Producers: Japan Home Video Licensors: Central Park Media, Discotek Media Studios: Madhouse Source: Novel Genres: Adventure, Horror, Romance, Supernatural Theme: Gore Duration: 1 hr. 19 min. Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) StatisticsScore: 6.171 (scored by 11,331 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #89322 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #4455 Members: 26,910 Favorites: 70 Available AtResources |
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Jan 18, 2009 animegorey Not Recommended Worst of the shorter OVAs from the 90's. Titles like BioHunter, Wicked City, Twilight of the Dark Master and Baoh put this one to shame. Action is weak and re-hashed. Story was boring and there was no part of it that stands out. Characters are really bad. The main villain looks ok, but rather uninspiring. Uninspired actually sums up this one quite nicely. There are a ton of better OVAs to watch, but if you must, download it for free and watch it when your REALLY bored. You will be disappointed. Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 28, 2010 Prede Mixed Feelings I have a sneaking suspicion that Yoshiaki Kawajiri really likes John Carpenter movies. Because Demon City Shinjuku could be summed up as an OVA that mixes both Escape from New York and Escape From L.A. (despite being made after this OVA) together, has a little bit of Halloween thrown in there, and some has supernatural elements added for good measure. Good thing I'm a Carpenter fan then, right? In Cyber City Kawajiri lifted the basic premise of criminals having to do complicated missions for the state, with the chance of being pardoned (and with the risk of being blown up if they failed), just ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 25, 2015 Filidecht Recommended Contrary to my overall score (which is brutally honest), I absolutely adore this. Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 18, 2023 tarunnihariya Not Recommended I didn't like Wicked City because it was nothing more than sleazy porn, a visual representation of someone's weird rape fetish, which had no point except to fulfill people's disgusting inner fantasies (hey, it's not harmful unless it hurts anyone). It had great visuals, creature designs, and decent action, but the over-the-top sexual exploitation of our main heroine did not gel well with me. Kawajiri would do it again in his more famous work Ninja Scroll, but that one at least seemed to be making a point out of it rather than simply trying to give people boners. Demon City, fortunately, does not have that ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 17, 2012 barcaman101 Recommended The evil Rebi Rah is about to open the portals to hell in exchange for immense power that was bestowed upon him by the demonic underworld.Kyoya Izayoi a young man and a practitioner of the art of Nempo one day encounters a spiritual medium called Master Rai .Master Rai tells Kyoya about Rebi Rah plans and how his father tried to stop him ten years ago but was killed.Master Rai implores Kyoya to go to the city of shinjuku, at the heart of Tokyo where Rebi Rah intends to open the portal and defeat him before he destroys the world. Firstly if you like deep plots,dislike ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 19, 2013 gknight Not Recommended Just an awful movie, non sensical character development, no rational story, characters come and go from scenes with no rational explanations, relationships are done badly, bad convey of world and atmosphere, weak character motivations, I was only suffering through this, sorry I watched it! Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 21, 2020 SELFAN Not Recommended Bad movie, easily Kawajiri's worst. Stopped reading the subtitles after like 20 minutes and mostly just posted on discord for the rest of the film. Uh... the main girl is pretty hot. She has nice legs and feet and there were a few solid upskirt shots which bumped my rating up a point or two. The scene near the end during which her arms and legs were bound was pretty hot too. That's all I have to say. Thanks for reading my review. Huh... I guess I have to write a longer review than that to submit it... umm... Watch Haibane Renmei, it's really good ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 9, 2020 ggultra2764 Not Recommended Demon City Shinjuku is a horror-action anime that focuses on the district of Shinjuku falling prey to demons, with the villainous Levih Rah having made a contract with them for ultimate power and to open up a gateway from hell to allow the demons to take over Earth. A young ninpo master named Kyouya Izayoi, whose father was slain by Levih years earlier, is given the task of stopping Levih’s plans, under motivation from the pleas of the young daughter of the world’s president, Sayaka Rama. As far as plot and characters go with Demon City Shinjuku, they’re as paper-thin and cliched as you can get ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 7, 2019 matthigh Mixed Feelings Have you seen "Escape From New York?" Yeah? Well, then you pretty much have already seen Demon City Shinjuku in spirit. They're not exactly the same, but enough that you can almost feel like you're wandering through the prison city of New York. Plus demons. Maybe a better comparison would be to compare Demon City Shinjuku to an old-style person-to-person fighter game. Where you have special powers and moves, and you face off against mid-level bossman #1, then mis-level-bossman #2, then mid-level bossman #3, then Big Bad Guy at the end. Overall the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 19, 2021 Motokogummi Recommended Well, to keep it very short. The story is bare minimum you don't get much of an exposition, nor high stakes ultra violence for which Kawaijiri is known for. But don't fret, the art style is what you are after. And this delivers plenty. Characters are not much explored, however to not spoil much, Sayaka is a beautiful young girl with a heart just like her, Kyoya is of course the hero of the story, he has a bit of personality of being into women but unfortunately the show is too clinical so not much explored. Likes of Wicked City. Rest of the characters are mysterious ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 26, 2017 nullgolem Not Recommended I watched an overdub version Visually ok for it's age. Not consistent, some shots are better than others. Fighting scenes and certain action shots should have looked better. (there arent that many) colors are nice. To me it felt a bit lazy at times and made more apparent by its flaws (such as demons not really looking that cool or standing out when they show up) The overall look is probably the only highlight here and its merely 'okay' Music/Sound is not notable, and rather low quality (could have been the rip but its very subdued compared to the voices/overdub which was okay so i'm guessing ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 24, 2020 Awoo4U Mixed Feelings I was trying to look for so bad its good anime to watch with a friend, so that we can rip on it. We came across this movie. Since the story is not too long, all the characters do not have much development. The characters were super generic and unmemorable, especially the main villan whose goal was FOR POWER or FOR THE EVILZ. I believe the worst sin a movie can commit is to be boring, this movie is a great example of that. At least with bad movies, you can laugh at it if you are not frustrated. I was not frustrated or did ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 7, 2020 unimportantuser Mixed Feelings Demon City Shinjuku is an old school anime film animated by studio Madhouse & Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri of Ninja Scroll & Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust fame. This is actually gonna be a 2 (potentially 3) part review series of Demon City, Wicked City, & if I’m up for it, Ninja Scroll. Aside from Kawajiri directing Wicked & Demon City, along with both of them being novel’s originally, they aren’t related to my knowledge. Lets go Story: 4/10 The story in Demon City is kinda bad. The plot itself on paper isn’t too bad. It’s merely about this guy trying to save the world from being consumed ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 2, 2023 No-LifeKing_26 Mixed Feelings Demon City Shinjuku was in that era of anime where dubbed ruled, profanity was everywhere, and anime was making its appearance. I loved drawing style of Yoshitaki Amano. He was the character designer for Vampire Hunter D (1985) and Hellsing (2001). Both series which favor this dark and gritty design with cyberpunk aesthetics which are also similar to Akira. The dubbed version of this was horrible. If you watch to closely you'll notice that there were multiple scenes where Chibi will be speaking but there will not be a English dub to voice his words. The waitress that appears at around the 5 minute mark sounded like ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 24, 2019 Starfleeting Not Recommended What a shame coming from the director of Ninja Scroll. The animation had good moments and the idea itself isn't bad but the characters, writing, and English dub were just abysmal. I was so bored during this movie I actually started doing other things while watching it. It barely held my interest at all aside from a few well-animated fight scenes. Even Wicked City with all its flaws (and believe me, there are many), was still entertaining and the two leads compelling enough for me to be invested in. Demon City is just straight-up not a good time. The male lead was just mediocre at best ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 23, 2023 Hellspawn28 Recommended NOTE: This review was originally posted on 12/29/2020. I plan to post all of my Letterboxd anime reviews on MAL. It's been a while since I have seen Demon City Shinjuku and I recently bought the Discotek Blu-Ray from Right Stuf's Holiday Sale. Seeing that the year is almost over, I wanted to revisit this film soon. I have a lot of nostalgia for this anime because I used to watch anime on the Sci-Fi channel when I was a little kid. I was watching anime from a younger age than most Millennials around my age group did (People born in the late 80s and early ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 29, 2024 AniNexus_Reviews Recommended I'd like to take a brief moment of your time to request the following of you: Stop reading reviews for Demon City Shinjuku, and discard everything that you have read about it thus far. Then, go watch the anime. I don't care if you read any further, but I will justify my plea with the following statement: The appeal of an anime like DCS is driven by its gorgeous visuals, and co-piloted by its sound design. Because of this fact, and partially also because of a particular sense of aesthetic creativity which dominates the set, the experience of watching DCS almost feels more like watching ... Read more Open Gift Report |
