Demon City Shinjuku
Alternate Titles: Monster City, Makai Toshi Shinjuku (魔界都市＜新宿＞)
Original Japanese Release Date: 1988
Episode Length/Run-time: 82 minutes
Summary:
A really famous demon fighter comes against this powerful demon who is trying to open a portal to hell in Shinjuku. The fighter loses to the demon who then opens the portal in Shinjuku. The descendant of the demon fighter gets pulled into the portal headed after a young women who has fallen into the demon world.
Review:
It’s very cool to have this completely normal world with a place that’s inhabited by Demons. It has a gritty creepiness of an older anime which newer anime just doesn’t have. It is very good at making the viewer uncomfortable.
The anime is predictable, and you do know what’s going to happen and how things will work out. Of course it’s frustrating that the girl is so clueless that has to get saved but what else is new in anime?
It’s good if you have some time on a weekend and some darker enjoyable series despite its predictableness.
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