I find it funny that she voiced Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat in Yugioh GX. And in the Sun & Moon anime Ash got Litten (Also. Speaking of the Pokemon anime. If they let him catch a Fuecoco for the Scarlet & Violet anime. I REALLY hope they don't give it some sort of sad backstory. They've done it for all the Fire Starters he's had. With the exception of Cyndaquil)
A better explanation to why hell was devastated is that one guy got in and he was so pissed that he killed everybody, it works for DOOM so i guess it should work here
I have the entire manga sitting on my shelf. the anime is seriously sane and timid in comparison where the story eventually goes. one is for sure, most, if not almost all of the stuff from the anime does not matter to the "actual" plotline. pretty sure most of the characters barely make it to act 2 ;D
my first exposure to her was fairy cube. It's really tame overall but the art in it was beautiful. I will admit though it was still bizarre. That author just does weird really well
cleary Miss Yuki is a time traveler for ripping off Black Butler... ;) I wonder how I missed this back when I was more "actively" reading manga, maybe it was simply not available over here back in the day. I am excited now :D
Yeah it's nice, but there are a few issues, some jackass energy business is ruining the local environment to get at the natural resources, some assholes called UFC or UHF or some shit.
Eh, there are many ways to become desensitized to that stuff real quick. 1: Watch too much animemes. 2: Read too much bible while not a christian 3: Live in the lands of the Appalachian area. 4: Be extremely liberalist in mindset, done by reading a lot of Locke.
BLACKIESBOY well it’s gross when you think of fucking someone so closely related to you it’s like fucking your mother or father only technically twice as bad (also incest leads to horrible genetic problems with any offspring produced
You’re a pice of shit. It’s repulsive! You call it “love” just because they say so, it’s NOT! You really need help bc you think it’s real. Science showing proof that babies of an inscestious relationship can be fucked up proves that god (if there is one) hates this. Not everything humans do god approves of, bastard.
This anime did test my patience with so much being left unsaid and unanswered; so I read the manga. The story is FULL of curses, wars, blasphemy, elements, angels, demons, repeated reincarnations, and so on. There was no way an OAV could have covered even the beginning of this story correctly.
The beginning of this reminds me of our Japanese foreign exchange student, Natsumi. She knew how Americans are about it so she tried to be careful, but then she found out we're not religious, so she finally told us "In Japan, we see it more like interesting fairy tale"
The Bible is the worlds best selling piece of fiction, has been for at least four hundred years. Makes sense that most people would see it as a novelty.
Angel Sanctuary is a mediocre anime adaptation of a rather great manga. I am not actually joking. The manga starts rather stupid and then the Apocalypse happened and the plot went epic. In short, here is some stuff we learn latter: - the incest plot is actually part of a curse put on the main character, that all of his reincarnation are to live tragic lives - the black haired guy is Lucifer - the bully that died early in the anime returns as a cast member and get very well written back story and character arc - the manga ends with an epic war between heaven and hell - the demons are actually an innocent race living in Hell, that has been oppressed by Heaven. They literally have done nothing wrong....ok maybe some stuff - God is a mad scientist and angels are his biomechanical creation that live in a fascist society.
I’m pretty sure that alexiel had a inscestious relationship with her brother before the curse even started and saying that he is apart of a curse to live tragic lives doesn’t justify the fact that everyone involved in the production of angel sanctuary are trying to make it seem like it’s right to have a relationship like that. The one who wrote the manga of angel santuary is definitely going to Hell for making god a bad person. I hope he burns.
I'm among the Christian faithful and you know what? I don't care. If Japan wants to use Christian symbols for their media, fine, whatever. They're not hurting anyone and any insult that could be gleaned from it is petty at best and diminutive of one's own faith at worst. Christianity is about being peaceful, loving and accepting and if a Christian person is going to rapid fire their offended feelings at an anime for using those symbols, I'm willing to bet they don't have the best handle on the faith.
+Jennifer Ellison Agree, from Japanese perspective it is basically like how Buddhist monks are portrayed on west.. hilarious. If someone is seriously offended it typically mean that he is unsure his own fate on the first place (not mentioning ignorant).
Guys, don't turn this into a religious debate. I don't want to have to delete my comment because I'll get flooded with emails from people arguing with each other
Minor correction, Sage. High School starts later in Japan than in the USA. So he would be 15/16, she would be 14/15. That said, it's still an incredibly creepy relationship. And this is one of few animes you've reviewed that I've actually seen, back in the days when anime was much harder to find, so I grabbed almost anything my local video rental store had available.
One must admit there's a lot more lead wherever he goes in Hell, and bullet cases litter the ground. So wasteful! You know, along with all the twisted, mangled and pulped remains he leaves everywhere. Just brings the value of the property way down.
Those are magical beings and you seriously ask about aerodynamic? Not that you can't as MLP pegazi use magic to fly, but you shouldn't expect that on the first place.
I love how Sage uses the phrase "Pimps in from out of nowhere". I don't really hear "Pimps in" used by anybody else but it's uniquely badass in a certain way and funny as well.
Why can Crispin Freeman not avoid being in shit? Also I swear that if you added an accent to the immortal guy's voice, we would be hearing Joey from Yugioh, someone tell me that they can hear it?
I last heard Freeman in Eureka Seven. That show was ... all right. Preposterous and a little shmaltzy, but okay. My Blu Rays had an interview with Freeman which really shows how thoughtful and analytical he is.
It's a shame because... the manga is SOOOOO much better. After reading it, I was sorely disappointed with the OVA series, to the point where while the manga is one of my all-time favorites, the anime is one of the worst I've ever seen. It's astonishing how much of a difference there is between the two, while only loosely sharing the first couple volumes of plot. Angel Sanctuary the manga goes deeper into Rosiel's psyche, which is very much like the Joker: pure insanity, the kind that you love to hate. It also shows more depth and turmoil with the siblings' forbidden love, and the celestial war between Heaven and Hell just gets crazier and more heavily layered. It's complex, mind-boggling, and thoroughly entertaining dark stuff. The anime.... *sigh* barely scratches the surface, while simultaneously tries to be deep and it just.... doesn't work. If Angel Sanctuary made a fully fleshed-out 26+ episode anime series, it just might be more successful. As it is... I prefer the manga.
I had to laugh a little in the beginning about how the animators treated Christianity. Here in the US we treat the religions of other people to be mysterious and exotic too. Most of the time the details were incorrect because they didn't bother to do basic research. I remember growing up how the bookstores wouldn't put books about Buddhism and Hinduism in the Religion section, they were put under Philosophy, New Age, or Occult (those that even HAD those sections).
Setsuna and Sara's whole love is actually out of their hands. It is part of the punishment handed out to the angel Alexial's soul. She is doomed to be infinitely reincarnated into a ridiculously hard and tragic life only to die young. According to God.
Missing a few pages there. Sara is the reincarnation of an angel meant to oversee Alexial as she is reincarnated and made to suffer over and over. The incarnation of the seven-pronged sword (which is Buddhist symbolism, not Christian symbolism, by the way), killed Alexial early in an act of mercy in a previous life and screwed up the reincarnation cycle by doing so (she was an abused concubine who was set to be murdered by an angry mob as the cruel finale for THAT life, which is why the act of mercy screwed things over). Sara , as an angel, was not supposed to end up THAT close to Setsuna/Alexial. Not that Sara is complaining. She didn't agree with the severity of Alexial's punishment from the start. Her getting THAT close, in more ways than one, is something of a preference to her. And this was after several hundred lifetimes. There is even evidence that some of the things Alexial reincarnated went through were not the will of the God who punished her, but of another, less benevolent individual. Either way, of all of Alexial's lifetimes, "Setsuna" as far as her lives went, was probably her best one thus far.
Gonna be honest, after watching this review for the who knows how many time, I was so curious to see where Angel Sanctuary went that I bought the entirety of the manga. Now Kaori Yuki is one of my favorite shojo manga artists. I've collected all of her manga that was released in english. I swear this would have been a 2000s cult classic if not for the very close incest. So thanks for leading me to a creator I love, Sage.
The anime is absolutely terrible. The manga isn't bad, and even has some interesting story arcs. All the stuff that doesn't make sense in the anime? That's stuff they changed for the anime. The manga has a radically different plotline.
Yeah I hear the manga fucking amazing I wish he would mention it or at least said something about it I mean it not the manga fault it got one of those shitty anime adaptation
Except Anno confirmed that he deliberately blow up everything as he was pissed by otaku autistic bullshit.. the issue is that they think that he touched they spirit when in reality he was sarcastic.
He feels EVA is important to the medium, even if he doesn't actually like it or think it is that good (I person agree with that sentiment). He feels the same way about the Dragon Ball.
Garland Mueller I don't think so.. original design material about the show don't show much more as Ideon inspirited show what meant to end in bad way. And in fact if you look close in those they could be quite decent. Yes, Anno is artsy guy but fact that he abandon anime after that show is quite meaningful. Most of those stuff like fact that he get life treats come out long after show emission ended and many Eva-fanboys still don't acknowledge critic of creators themselves. if you ask my personally RahXephon is definitive Evangelion knock off what even make romance between boy and adult women rational (it is in fact my favorite romance ever, and before someone call my pervert he should check why).
Caitlin Brewer No one deny it is important. It was first shows what wasn't horribly censored or D2V and it opened Yanks eye that anime is an art. Still story in it is a trash and so much potential was wasted, not mentioning fact that most haters and fanboys are idiots.
To be fair, the manga this anime is based on is much better, but it's still insane. Except it's the good kind of insanity that keeps you wanting to read more.
Exactly! It's because it's epic and twisted out that it's not possible to adapt in anime form. The insanity isn't edginess, in the sense a demon from hell or a clueless teen inhabited by a supreme angel abused by god himself can only be insane as damn. It's all part of a realistic construct.
Finally, someone, who doesn't shred that apart. Sry, but I can't really take anime reviews serious, especially in this case. The anime was just a short summary of the first two or three books (out of twenty) to promote the Manga and shouldn't be seen as a representation of the whole work. Most of the stuff makes sense later on, but for those, who only watched the anime, they will never get it.
Oh for the love of... If you thought this was stupid but saw a single thing in it you thought might have potential if handled better, please read the manga. This was a super-compressed re-written adaptation of a 20-volume series that only covers a worse version of the very beginning. Almost everything that doesn't make sense here does in the manga. It's freaking amazing. Their relationship goes through so much opposition it becomes compelling. They deny it themselves, she tries to set him up with someone else, their parents try to split them up, her mother tries to get religious intervention, before it's over they get PUT ON TRIAL IN HEAVEN over it. The fact that their relationship basically pisses off God is the whole point. The series goes through Hell and Heaven and if you ever wanted to read a manga about angels it is THE series. And even if you don't like the leads there's countless other fascinating and mentally damaged characters to choose from who also get plenty of focus. It's still melodramatic as hell, but don't you typically want that in a shoujo?
Sage, High School in Japan starts in 10th grade, so the main dude would actually be somewhere between 15 to 16 years old. As for his sister, yeah, not sure.
Yeah, in Japan elementary school is six years, junior high school is three years, and senior high school is three years. According to official sources, main dude is 16, and his sister is 15.
Saying Christianity and Japan have an "Interesting" relationship is similar to saying the Carthagenians and Romans had an "Interesting" relationship. I can understand why you didn't go through it all given that this isn't a historic lecture, but for those curious... *deep breath* After Daimyo Oda Nobunaga became the first Shogun of Japan and went on a bloody warpath, he opened the ports to Christian explorers from England, Portugal and Spain because he believed Christianity was another religion coming from India, same as Buddhism. Under his reign, Christian missionaries were able to spread the Holy Word, up until the Uprising in 1582, and a huge anti-foreign influence campaign in Japam.was undertaken by people like Mitsuhide. And it got a lot more heated when Toyotomi Hideyoshi took the place of Chancellor of the Realm in 1586, and he initiated both a war effort on China that roped Korea into it because ports, and began a huge cultural Purge on the Christians from Europe and especially on natural born Japanese Christians. To make gruesome details more quick, those from Europe were either forced off the Archipelago or killed dead with all remnants of their existence wiped off the face of Nippon; sometimes they weren't given a choice. The Japanese citizenry were given a similar ultimatum: either forego their salvation and return to either dominant religion in the country (Shintoism or Buudhism) or end up like their Lord and Savior: death by crucifixion. Anything Christian was burned, torn; any variation of destroyed outright, and most Christian practices still happening in the country were carried out in secret with secret churches and so on. The only exception was a trader named William Adams who became a noble under Tokugawa Ieyasu due to uncovering a plot by a would-be successor and the previously allied Portuguese. Christians overall wouldn't see Japanese lands officially until ports opened again in the mid 1800's, and wouldn't be given freedom of practice until the post-war reformation after WW2.
I know, even the christian one's have awful corny writing. You'd think they'd try and make the writing more western considering that Christianity adds a big ol' dose o' western shit.
I never heard of this but good lord...And now I can't get the image of a Demonic Ash Katchum...So this is going to be a fun mind freak. I did learn some stuff about after life and stuff.
It is confusing. Primarily you have Sheol for most people, which is basically a jewish ripoff of the Asphodel fields. Places like Gehenna are iffy because they don't really specify all that much who exactly goes there, save for vague statements. Most of what we have about hell actually comes from a few extra-biblical sources, such as the Book of Apocalypse and The Divine Comedy.
The problem is that the OVA doesn't explain anything that the manga actually has. All of the complaints Bennet has here are fully explained in the books. That's kind of the sad thing about it. Two big themes are the nature of love and that there is no TRUE evil, even in Hell. It's a lot less creepy than it comes off. Imagine if your favorite long-running show got reworked into three episodes that cover the first 3 seasons. That's kind of what happened here.
If your a fan of Avatar: The last airbender, then you only have to take a look at the airbender movie. Same concept really, it's just that an entire tv season put into a single movie. Either way, the result of either things is not for the franchises.
The narrative is so break neck because they decided to take 3 volumes of manga, remove half the main characters INCLUDING the biggest antagonist of the first 3 volumes, and make a 3 episode ova out of it *sighs*
23:13 holy shit i laughed so hard i got a headache. You're funny, dude. I saw the preview for this video pop up on my feed somewhere, and I hesitated to click on it at first because this was *literally* my very first anime (not counting Pokemon or Digimon as a child). I kind of didn't want to remember the experience. But then I remembered that I'm a masochist. Then clickity-clack, here I am now. Thanks for the giggles.
The manga makes a lot more sense, considering one of the primary themes is that there is no true evil. The demons in Hell aren't tormenting people, they're just the natives there.
I read the manga and I didn't even know there was an anime. I'm surprised it's so goofy. The manga straight up made me want to walk into a church and confess my sins after reading it. It's messed up and takes itself very seriously.
Am I the only one that thinks Suave reviewing hentai could be a hilarious prospect? I'm not talking about full 30 minute reviews or big grandiose plotlines, I'm talking like 5 minute reviews with a quick punchline.
its also worthy to note that Japan "brackets" their age of consent. I dont remember the speicifcs, but its like 13-16. 15-18 and such.. age groups do the smexy
This in fact differ from region to region.. in some it is basically like on west but in some.. well.. pedobear to the rescue. In reality it is more a old tradition reference in media then real thing.
oh yeah, i knew there was a lot of specifics but i didnt remember what exactly. i also heard that themes like rape, incest and other strange sexual shit comes up so often in anime because of the detachment of Japan and the christian morality but i dont know how accurate this is.
I actually dig this one. In so many ways it makes no apology for its weirdness, and that works for me. It allows the central taboo to remain taboo instead of looking for an easy cop out. It allows Heaven and Hell to be complex metaphysical planes because that's how it would have to be if such places existed. If you could get to the afterlife by subway, we would have mapped the route by now. It doesn't answer all of the questions posed by its own lore, but that just makes it feel more like real history to me. Even the strange turns in the dialogue made it sound more like my high school then almost anything else I've seen. I remember one girl checking people's auras while the dude behind her declared his love for Bob Dylan. Meanwhile, a group of blondes adopted their version of "California valley" dialect. Nothing wrong with all that, but it was a bit out there. Angel Sanctuary is just one of those odd experiences where all the broken pieces fit together perfectly, in my opinion.
In terms of sincere depictions of Christian ideas in anime, Yasuhiro Nightow actually converted to Christianity before he wrote Trigun, which heavily informed that series' themes, while Chiaki Konaka was raised Christian yet drifted away from the faith as he got older, which definitely informs the existential themes in his work and explains the occasional presence of realistic Japanese Christian characters in his work even if their faith rarely comes up directly. I think the former is Catholic and the latter a lapsed Protestant but I can't recall exactly...
I have read the manga and let me tell you, AS goes waay deeper than the anime. You find out that the two demons are actually siblings and there story is complicated. The Angels in heaven are very complicated and deep too and their stories are sad also. You really have to read the manga to get the depth of the story and the journey everyone goes through.
@12:35 I actually…NOT JOKING ABOUT THIS…actually took off my glasses and pinched the bridge of my nose like a facepalm. Yes I really did do that, that might be the first time I've ever done this in my life while feeling a genuine feeling of "omg you can not be fucking serious."
My high school actually had quite a few issues of the manga for Angel Sanctuary. It caught my attention because the art was really nice (though, eventually it boardered being very very cluttered within itself and confusing) and I stuck with it for a while, despite the gross incest and confusing as hell plot line that jumped from place to place. Let me say: It gets a whole lot fucking worse.
My god, the voice actor for Setsuna sounds like he was ripped out of the Abridged version. There's no way anyone can take that hammy, over-the-top delivery even remotely seriously.
I was waiting for you to review this one! One of first non mainstream anime I rented from my collage video store! I thought the art style was pretty, and actually my introduction to incest in anime!
Because of course Suave owns a copy of Anal Sanctuary... Also, a story involving forbidden love can only end in tragedy? Me thinks Sage hasn't read Bunny Drop...
That ending never happened. There was no timeskip. The real way Bunny Drop ended was that Daikichi takes in Rin as his daughter and he ends up with Yukari and marries her. That's the real way it ended. I SWEAR! Cross my heart and hope to... NOT LIVE!
@kevin willems An anime and manga series about a man who takes in his grandfather's illegitimate child as if she was his own daughter. The anime's a better version mainly because it doesn't cover that part we don't speak about and has our main guy end up with the single Mother he clearly likes.
The brother and sister hug... and someone spreads it around as salacious BLACKMAILING MATERIAL? THEY'RE SIBLINGS, It's not likenthey were caught in flagrante delicto, for Christ's sake! What the hell is a HUG gonna prove?!
Sarah: "Why do you think our folks split up? I suppose it had something to do with dad having an affair." Sage: "I think you cracked the case there, Nancy Drew." Me: (Thinking back to "Tekken: The Motion Picture"). Jun Kazama (talking to Kazuya): "Why are you so upset? Is it because your father threw you off that cliff?" Spoony: "Well done, Holmes! I think you've solved this mystery!" A wasted opportunity.
Gehenna is actually a real place, a small valley in Jerusalem. Kings of Judah used it to sacrifice their children by burning them and was considered cursed as a result. Could be the inspiration for the "humans ruined Hell by polluting it" stuff.
I haven't been this brain-f**ked by an anime on this show since.... Jungle De Ikou? Sin of the Sisters?....Tenchi 2?.....Apocalypse Zero?.....Ninja Resurrection?.....Mad Bull 34. You know, I've been scarred by this show so much, I've lost track of which thing scarred me the most.
I would honestly like to see Sage review a straight up hentai someday, since he apparently has a fairly extensive collection. Also, Lillith is nowhere in Christianity. She's from medieval Jewish mysticism, ie Kabbalah.
I read the manga one afternoon sitting at a Starbucks in middle school, then forgot about it and never saw/heard of it again until just now. I knew I didn't dream it! I only read the first manga but I didn't think it was bad...
I remember reading part of the manga in like...middle school, the only things I remembered were the incest & angels. Didn't even realize this thing had an anime adaptation, thanks for that.
Wait, humans and angels destroyed hell by causing pollution on Earth?! So Captain Planet was really spreading the word of Satan the whole time.
HOLY CRAP!
It all makes sense now...
Crispin Freeman taking a moment to openly question the line he just read aloud is a beautiful thing.
In a New York dub
the fact he does it in character too lol
Veronica Taylor must have so many interesting stories about the anime she's dubbed for.
Simple she lost a bet and her contract demanded she records her lines or be fired and work at starbucks XD!
I would definitely buy that autobiohraphy! And I don't read autobiographies!
lmfao
I find it funny that she voiced Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat in Yugioh GX. And in the Sun & Moon anime Ash got Litten (Also. Speaking of the Pokemon anime. If they let him catch a Fuecoco for the Scarlet & Violet anime. I REALLY hope they don't give it some sort of sad backstory. They've done it for all the Fire Starters he's had. With the exception of Cyndaquil)
wait wait, if pollution destroys hell... does that mean Captain planet is actually a demon?
Well, by abrahamic religions, yeah. He is powered by Gia, a pagan god and is pretty much magical. So yeah, demon
And then he eventually became Thanos because people wouldn't listen to him.
I have SEVERAL(!) questions...
@@MysticMorigan1998 So Captain Planet and Shin Megami Tensei are connected?
5 special young children, 5 points on a pentagram...
"A woman acquires beauty and grace when she learns to let someone protect her!"
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... How the FUCK does that work???
It does in a shit prono
I love your ever creative euphamisms. ''cleaning out a basement with a womb broom'' is now my favorite naughty phrase
A better explanation to why hell was devastated is that one guy got in and he was so pissed that he killed everybody, it works for DOOM so i guess it should work here
he went back in time to RIP and TEAR! as the demons came to hell originally
*****
not really, it was already shit, he just killed everyone
basically yeah
'Miracle of Sound's Hell to Pay starts playing'
ShadowWolfRising
meh, the actual soundtrack of doom is much more fitting
I have the entire manga sitting on my shelf. the anime is seriously sane and timid in comparison where the story eventually goes. one is for sure, most, if not almost all of the stuff from the anime does not matter to the "actual" plotline. pretty sure most of the characters barely make it to act 2 ;D
I think I read some one shot of hers. she is... weird. In an entertaining way, so not complaining :D
Holy shit, I think I need to read Alice in Murderland. leave it to Miss Yuki to make me go "WTF" during a plot summary
my first exposure to her was fairy cube. It's really tame overall but the art in it was beautiful. I will admit though it was still bizarre. That author just does weird really well
cleary Miss Yuki is a time traveler for ripping off Black Butler... ;) I wonder how I missed this back when I was more "actively" reading manga, maybe it was simply not available over here back in the day. I am excited now :D
Her manga while well regarded never lasted on shelfs. Which is a shame because even if they were weird or disturbing were very gripping.
Kazuya Tsurumaki: * confirms the christian symbolism in NGE is meaningless eye candy *
Me: They called me a madman.
It all ways have been. But EVA fans will not except.
Humans helped destroy Hell, we ran out of places to build new Condos. You should see the view, its to die for.
Shiirow thank you!
So that explains Florida.
i see you know the way of the shad
Yeah it's nice, but there are a few issues, some jackass energy business is ruining the local environment to get at the natural resources, some assholes called UFC or UHF or some shit.
Too much Asian immigrants in Downtown Sulfur Lake.
Gendo: "Finally, a son I can be proud of."
Alright, you got me with that one, Sage xD .
Aww, an incestuous couple and Sage took it without batting an eyelid. I'm so proud of you!
Eh, there are many ways to become desensitized to that stuff real quick.
1: Watch too much animemes.
2: Read too much bible while not a christian
3: Live in the lands of the Appalachian area.
4: Be extremely liberalist in mindset, done by reading a lot of Locke.
BLACKIESBOY well it’s gross when you think of fucking someone so closely related to you it’s like fucking your mother or father only technically twice as bad (also incest leads to horrible genetic problems with any offspring produced
You’re a pice of shit. It’s repulsive! You call it “love” just because they say so, it’s NOT! You really need help bc you think it’s real. Science showing proof that babies of an inscestious relationship can be fucked up proves that god (if there is one) hates this. Not everything humans do god approves of, bastard.
This anime did test my patience with so much being left unsaid and unanswered; so I read the manga. The story is FULL of curses, wars, blasphemy, elements, angels, demons, repeated reincarnations, and so on. There was no way an OAV could have covered even the beginning of this story correctly.
The beginning of this reminds me of our Japanese foreign exchange student, Natsumi.
She knew how Americans are about it so she tried to be careful, but then she found out we're not religious, so she finally told us
"In Japan, we see it more like interesting fairy tale"
The Bible is the worlds best selling piece of fiction, has been for at least four hundred years. Makes sense that most people would see it as a novelty.
Fair enough. I think, many western people see the shintoism ans buddhism in the same way.
I'm with you, Suave. Such a missed opportunity, man.
Can't wait for the next Suave episode.
Maybe he should do a List.
Anal Sanctuary, the Best kind of Sanctuary…especially after this Dumpster fire.
I lost it at "Anal sanctuary"
Same here XD
I'm pretty sure I have actually seen anal sanctuary >.>
Angel Sanctuary is a mediocre anime adaptation of a rather great manga. I am not actually joking. The manga starts rather stupid and then the Apocalypse happened and the plot went epic.
In short, here is some stuff we learn latter:
- the incest plot is actually part of a curse put on the main character, that all of his reincarnation are to live tragic lives
- the black haired guy is Lucifer
- the bully that died early in the anime returns as a cast member and get very well written back story and character arc
- the manga ends with an epic war between heaven and hell
- the demons are actually an innocent race living in Hell, that has been oppressed by Heaven. They literally have done nothing wrong....ok maybe some stuff
- God is a mad scientist and angels are his biomechanical creation that live in a fascist society.
I’m pretty sure that alexiel had a inscestious relationship with her brother before the curse even started and saying that he is apart of a curse to live tragic lives doesn’t justify the fact that everyone involved in the production of angel sanctuary are trying to make it seem like it’s right to have a relationship like that. The one who wrote the manga of angel santuary is definitely going to Hell for making god a bad person. I hope he burns.
@@stormyeclipse5214 Have you read the bible? God is a fucking dick.
@@V3xxe have you read the bible because it is quite the opposite. Since when did being a parent mean that?
@@andresmarrero8666 I'm slightly confused as to why you think me saying God is a dick has any relationship to parents?
@@V3xxe hebrew bible>>>>>>>new testament
I'm among the Christian faithful and you know what? I don't care. If Japan wants to use Christian symbols for their media, fine, whatever. They're not hurting anyone and any insult that could be gleaned from it is petty at best and diminutive of one's own faith at worst. Christianity is about being peaceful, loving and accepting and if a Christian person is going to rapid fire their offended feelings at an anime for using those symbols, I'm willing to bet they don't have the best handle on the faith.
Based on today, we're too late on that comparison.
Besides, Christians do it to with other faiths, so, I mean. Yeah. Fair's fair.
+Jennifer Ellison
Agree, from Japanese perspective it is basically like how Buddhist monks are portrayed on west.. hilarious. If someone is seriously offended it typically mean that he is unsure his own fate on the first place (not mentioning ignorant).
"I just hope people don't think that THAT ANIME is Christianity."
And you think that Mortal Kombat is about Buddhism?
Guys, don't turn this into a religious debate. I don't want to have to delete my comment because I'll get flooded with emails from people arguing with each other
Minor correction, Sage. High School starts later in Japan than in the USA. So he would be 15/16, she would be 14/15.
That said, it's still an incredibly creepy relationship. And this is one of few animes you've reviewed that I've actually seen, back in the days when anime was much harder to find, so I grabbed almost anything my local video rental store had available.
Unless pollution is a nickname for Doomguy I don't buy it being the central reason for Hell getting the crap kicked out of them.
And Doomguy wielded the BFG, the Big Fucking Garbage to decimate hell.
Oh, he is.
*HELL'S POLLUTED BY HIS PRESENCE.*
One must admit there's a lot more lead wherever he goes in Hell, and bullet cases litter the ground. So wasteful! You know, along with all the twisted, mangled and pulped remains he leaves everywhere. Just brings the value of the property way down.
@@Skulljack17 wouldn't have that problem if the UAC would stop becoming satanic cultists...
or spawn
While I absolutely love the wing designs here...three wings? Wouldn't that throw off the aerodynamics something fierce?
Those are magical beings and you seriously ask about aerodynamic? Not that you can't as MLP pegazi use magic to fly, but you shouldn't expect that on the first place.
You can't argue that it's an awkward design choice. When was the last time in ANY media that a winged anything had three wings?
Jennifer Ellison Take it up with scripture. Wings in religion get more than a little weird
***** Plain? That is a joke.. sorry.
Hey it earned a chuckle anyway
As far as christianity representated in anime, Trigun is the closest to getting the spirit down.
probably because the Author is a Catholic.
Ba dum tss.
ShadowWolfRising seriously?
Yep, though the link it referenced is long dead. The influence on Trigun though is pretty clear
Luke Johnson
yes, at least i think he's Catholic (he's a Christian, not sure which branch, i'm gonna recheck.)
Yeah, he seems to be a Roman Catholic.
I love how Sage uses the phrase "Pimps in from out of nowhere". I don't really hear "Pimps in" used by anybody else but it's uniquely badass in a certain way and funny as well.
Why can Crispin Freeman not avoid being in shit? Also I swear that if you added an accent to the immortal guy's voice, we would be hearing Joey from Yugioh, someone tell me that they can hear it?
nyeeeh
I last heard Freeman in Eureka Seven. That show was ... all right. Preposterous and a little shmaltzy, but okay. My Blu Rays had an interview with Freeman which really shows how thoughtful and analytical he is.
cause Crispin Freeman was just starting out at the time of this anime so unfortunately he had to be in some garbage.
Fair enough but still, yikes!
The same thing can be said for Dan Green, and he got a fucking Oscar for it!
It's a shame because... the manga is SOOOOO much better. After reading it, I was sorely disappointed with the OVA series, to the point where while the manga is one of my all-time favorites, the anime is one of the worst I've ever seen. It's astonishing how much of a difference there is between the two, while only loosely sharing the first couple volumes of plot. Angel Sanctuary the manga goes deeper into Rosiel's psyche, which is very much like the Joker: pure insanity, the kind that you love to hate. It also shows more depth and turmoil with the siblings' forbidden love, and the celestial war between Heaven and Hell just gets crazier and more heavily layered. It's complex, mind-boggling, and thoroughly entertaining dark stuff. The anime.... *sigh* barely scratches the surface, while simultaneously tries to be deep and it just.... doesn't work. If Angel Sanctuary made a fully fleshed-out 26+ episode anime series, it just might be more successful. As it is... I prefer the manga.
Agree the manga is awesome
I honestly couldn't keep up with the manga and was more annoyed by how confusing it becomes, and note this is coming from a male perspective.
@@ErebusXanti what about being a male made it confusing for you lol.
I had to laugh a little in the beginning about how the animators treated Christianity. Here in the US we treat the religions of other people to be mysterious and exotic too. Most of the time the details were incorrect because they didn't bother to do basic research. I remember growing up how the bookstores wouldn't put books about Buddhism and Hinduism in the Religion section, they were put under Philosophy, New Age, or Occult (those that even HAD those sections).
I think a lot of book stores STILL put those under Philosophy, New Age, and Occult.
how did the humans destroy hell?
it was actually easy really.
one man.
Doom Slayer
Gonna get mine, Get out of My Way, there's gonna be, gonna be, gonna be Hell to Pay!
RIP AND TEAR!
.....And I thought I was the only one who had Doom in mind when that came up.
Praise the Slayer testament.
Emmett Leone-Woods UNTIL IT IS DONE!!!
Setsuna and Sara's whole love is actually out of their hands. It is part of the punishment handed out to the angel Alexial's soul. She is doomed to be infinitely reincarnated into a ridiculously hard and tragic life only to die young. According to God.
Missing a few pages there. Sara is the reincarnation of an angel meant to oversee Alexial as she is reincarnated and made to suffer over and over. The incarnation of the seven-pronged sword (which is Buddhist symbolism, not Christian symbolism, by the way), killed Alexial early in an act of mercy in a previous life and screwed up the reincarnation cycle by doing so (she was an abused concubine who was set to be murdered by an angry mob as the cruel finale for THAT life, which is why the act of mercy screwed things over). Sara , as an angel, was not supposed to end up THAT close to Setsuna/Alexial. Not that Sara is complaining. She didn't agree with the severity of Alexial's punishment from the start. Her getting THAT close, in more ways than one, is something of a preference to her. And this was after several hundred lifetimes. There is even evidence that some of the things Alexial reincarnated went through were not the will of the God who punished her, but of another, less benevolent individual. Either way, of all of Alexial's lifetimes, "Setsuna" as far as her lives went, was probably her best one thus far.
Dragonpit I was trying to be concise, but yeah.
Allen Babylon Sorry. It's just that there's sooooooo much subtext...!
Dragonpit I know. But the last time I explained something in depth, people went nuts trolling my thread.
Allen Babylon So you lose either way. In which case, I say ignore the haters, and do what you want.
Gonna be honest, after watching this review for the who knows how many time, I was so curious to see where Angel Sanctuary went that I bought the entirety of the manga. Now Kaori Yuki is one of my favorite shojo manga artists. I've collected all of her manga that was released in english. I swear this would have been a 2000s cult classic if not for the very close incest. So thanks for leading me to a creator I love, Sage.
The anime is absolutely terrible.
The manga isn't bad, and even has some interesting story arcs. All the stuff that doesn't make sense in the anime? That's stuff they changed for the anime. The manga has a radically different plotline.
Yeah I hear the manga fucking amazing I wish he would mention it or at least said something about it I mean it not the manga fault it got one of those shitty anime adaptation
Kanade 1111 33 minutes and 32 seconds says otherwise
Doesn't help one bit that the demon kid sounds like Ash Ketchum from Pokemon.
Drakkenmensch Silverflare was this really abandoned as a story?
TheBoundFenrir it funny cus he not the real main character his sister is lol in the manga
Hmm, It seems regardless of Sages' opinions, he keeps coming back to EVA in some way...yes, he's starting to see the truth
Except Anno confirmed that he deliberately blow up everything as he was pissed by otaku autistic bullshit.. the issue is that they think that he touched they spirit when in reality he was sarcastic.
He feels EVA is important to the medium, even if he doesn't actually like it or think it is that good (I person agree with that sentiment). He feels the same way about the Dragon Ball.
Garland Mueller I don't think so.. original design material about the show don't show much more as Ideon inspirited show what meant to end in bad way. And in fact if you look close in those they could be quite decent. Yes, Anno is artsy guy but fact that he abandon anime after that show is quite meaningful. Most of those stuff like fact that he get life treats come out long after show emission ended and many Eva-fanboys still don't acknowledge critic of creators themselves. if you ask my personally RahXephon is definitive Evangelion knock off what even make romance between boy and adult women rational (it is in fact my favorite romance ever, and before someone call my pervert he should check why).
Caitlin Brewer No one deny it is important. It was first shows what wasn't horribly censored or D2V and it opened Yanks eye that anime is an art. Still story in it is a trash and so much potential was wasted, not mentioning fact that most haters and fanboys are idiots.
TheRezro I agree
To be fair, the manga this anime is based on is much better, but it's still insane. Except it's the good kind of insanity that keeps you wanting to read more.
Exactly! It's because it's epic and twisted out that it's not possible to adapt in anime form. The insanity isn't edginess, in the sense a demon from hell or a clueless teen inhabited by a supreme angel abused by god himself can only be insane as damn. It's all part of a realistic construct.
Kinda helps that the manga art is gorgeous. Kaori Yuki's art is one of the best I've seen.
good incest?
Finally, someone, who doesn't shred that apart. Sry, but I can't really take anime reviews serious, especially in this case. The anime was just a short summary of the first two or three books (out of twenty) to promote the Manga and shouldn't be seen as a representation of the whole work. Most of the stuff makes sense later on, but for those, who only watched the anime, they will never get it.
This was a 20 volume Manga series, that ended in 2000. Yet they decided to condense it down to 3 OVAs.
Vikinglumberjack she's done some other works since then with her two latest works being licensed by Yen Press
This OVA only poorly covers the first arc on earth.
Little over 3 volumes of manga while leaving out pretty much every sub-plot involving angels.
No different than Akira. Manga spanned 6 volumes the size of a phone book & they condensed it to a 2 hour movie.
"One day... One day..."
And then he actually did it, the utter madman
OH hey it's Thing #143 on the list of things my friends were obsessed with in high school that I suppressed.
Oh for the love of... If you thought this was stupid but saw a single thing in it you thought might have potential if handled better, please read the manga. This was a super-compressed re-written adaptation of a 20-volume series that only covers a worse version of the very beginning. Almost everything that doesn't make sense here does in the manga.
It's freaking amazing. Their relationship goes through so much opposition it becomes compelling. They deny it themselves, she tries to set him up with someone else, their parents try to split them up, her mother tries to get religious intervention, before it's over they get PUT ON TRIAL IN HEAVEN over it. The fact that their relationship basically pisses off God is the whole point. The series goes through Hell and Heaven and if you ever wanted to read a manga about angels it is THE series. And even if you don't like the leads there's countless other fascinating and mentally damaged characters to choose from who also get plenty of focus.
It's still melodramatic as hell, but don't you typically want that in a shoujo?
Sage, High School in Japan starts in 10th grade, so the main dude would actually be somewhere between 15 to 16 years old. As for his sister, yeah, not sure.
I think the OVA or manga suggested that they were within one or two years in terms of age.
Yeah, in Japan elementary school is six years, junior high school is three years, and senior high school is three years. According to official sources, main dude is 16, and his sister is 15.
Oh most certainly, and still fucking gross.
But I think the main correction had to do with the ages of the kids.
I can't be the only one who gets a big giggle at Sage's tasty vindication about Evangelion after reading the quote at 1:49, am I?
Saying Christianity and Japan have an "Interesting" relationship is similar to saying the Carthagenians and Romans had an "Interesting" relationship. I can understand why you didn't go through it all given that this isn't a historic lecture, but for those curious... *deep breath*
After Daimyo Oda Nobunaga became the first Shogun of Japan and went on a bloody warpath, he opened the ports to Christian explorers from England, Portugal and Spain because he believed Christianity was another religion coming from India, same as Buddhism. Under his reign, Christian missionaries were able to spread the Holy Word, up until the Uprising in 1582, and a huge anti-foreign influence campaign in Japam.was undertaken by people like Mitsuhide. And it got a lot more heated when Toyotomi Hideyoshi took the place of Chancellor of the Realm in 1586, and he initiated both a war effort on China that roped Korea into it because ports, and began a huge cultural Purge on the Christians from Europe and especially on natural born Japanese Christians. To make gruesome details more quick, those from Europe were either forced off the Archipelago or killed dead with all remnants of their existence wiped off the face of Nippon; sometimes they weren't given a choice. The Japanese citizenry were given a similar ultimatum: either forego their salvation and return to either dominant religion in the country (Shintoism or Buudhism) or end up like their Lord and Savior: death by crucifixion. Anything Christian was burned, torn; any variation of destroyed outright, and most Christian practices still happening in the country were carried out in secret with secret churches and so on. The only exception was a trader named William Adams who became a noble under Tokugawa Ieyasu due to uncovering a plot by a would-be successor and the previously allied Portuguese. Christians overall wouldn't see Japanese lands officially until ports opened again in the mid 1800's, and wouldn't be given freedom of practice until the post-war reformation after WW2.
Thanks for the information
"You don't love me the way I do"
OH GOD DAMMIT EVEN THE CHRISTIAN ANIMES
I know, even the christian one's have awful corny writing. You'd think they'd try and make the writing more western considering that Christianity adds a big ol' dose o' western shit.
You can't show that in a christian anime, but you can talk about it ad nauseam!
YEEEESSS!!! LOL I remember watching this anime DUBBED! It was one of the first shows I found online! It was hilariously awesome!
Never have I heard laying pipe described as "cleaning out her fish tank." Haven't laughed that hard in a while. Thanks, Sage.
I failed to identify that lil' devil's voice is Ash's English dub VA. xD
Haha, it's been long since i heard that voice after he got a replacement VA.
holy shit Sage these past few reviews have been top form. Keep it up man.
I never heard of this but good lord...And now I can't get the image of a Demonic Ash Katchum...So this is going to be a fun mind freak.
I did learn some stuff about after life and stuff.
Luna PrincessNinjato gehenna is the jewish concept of hell
really? But did'nt they say they don't believe in hell?
Learn something new every day
It is confusing. Primarily you have Sheol for most people, which is basically a jewish ripoff of the Asphodel fields. Places like Gehenna are iffy because they don't really specify all that much who exactly goes there, save for vague statements. Most of what we have about hell actually comes from a few extra-biblical sources, such as the Book of Apocalypse and The Divine Comedy.
ah I see, I never expanded what I knew but this did teach me some new things
The immortal guy is Alexial's Seven Blade Sword. He possessed the boy specifically to reunite and look after Alexial.
This show seems creepy as hell. Even by anime standards. WTF JAPAN?
The problem is that the OVA doesn't explain anything that the manga actually has. All of the complaints Bennet has here are fully explained in the books. That's kind of the sad thing about it. Two big themes are the nature of love and that there is no TRUE evil, even in Hell. It's a lot less creepy than it comes off. Imagine if your favorite long-running show got reworked into three episodes that cover the first 3 seasons. That's kind of what happened here.
If your a fan of Avatar: The last airbender, then you only have to take a look at the airbender movie. Same concept really, it's just that an entire tv season put into a single movie. Either way, the result of either things is not for the franchises.
Oh you mean like Berserk
So basically they are lying to the world.
I watched the anime when it was airing on TV and I was like 14 so I was really confused
8:03 I cannot believe that voice, how on earth did someone think that is a good dubbing voice?
Honestly if I was their mother I would send one to live in another country until they're older.
8:10 Wait what? *listens closely* ...HOLY SH*T F*CKERY THAT IS ASH!!
Riku-The-Thief yup...not gonna kms
funny....i can actually. hear this in ash's voice.
Ketchum is going through a rough time at that point.
The narrative is so break neck because they decided to take 3 volumes of manga, remove half the main characters INCLUDING the biggest antagonist of the first 3 volumes, and make a 3 episode ova out of it *sighs*
After watching the anime: Dafuq did I just watched!?
After reading the manga to understand what I saw in anime: Dafuq did I just read!?
23:13
holy shit i laughed so hard i got a headache. You're funny, dude.
I saw the preview for this video pop up on my feed somewhere, and I hesitated to click on it at first because this was *literally* my very first anime (not counting Pokemon or Digimon as a child). I kind of didn't want to remember the experience.
But then I remembered that I'm a masochist. Then clickity-clack, here I am now. Thanks for the giggles.
I read all 20 volumes of Angel Sanctuary way back in the day. It was bonkers but way entertaining.
The manga makes a lot more sense, considering one of the primary themes is that there is no true evil. The demons in Hell aren't tormenting people, they're just the natives there.
I read the manga and I didn't even know there was an anime. I'm surprised it's so goofy. The manga straight up made me want to walk into a church and confess my sins after reading it. It's messed up and takes itself very seriously.
Makes me relieved that The Cain Saga, and Godchild never got this treatment of terrible OVA's.
I didn't see that FF-XIII2 reference coming.
At 5:33.
We'll get that FFXIII-2 reference eventually. Hopefully, with a Spoony cameo.
i forgot it but that's cuse it's been literal years since spoony's review lol.
Tom Tinker or any of his reviews for that matter.
Am I the only one that thinks Suave reviewing hentai could be a hilarious prospect? I'm not talking about full 30 minute reviews or big grandiose plotlines, I'm talking like 5 minute reviews with a quick punchline.
You are not alone. :-D
Sometimes I wonder, what is it with Japan and putting 14 years old kids into incestious relationships.
Sir Moustachington The III well, i think this a largely spread fact, but in case you dont know, the age of consent in Japan in 13.
2 bros and 1up this still does not explain, what's up with incestious relationships. Especially between 14 years olds.
its also worthy to note that Japan "brackets" their age of consent.
I dont remember the speicifcs, but its like 13-16. 15-18 and such.. age groups do the smexy
This in fact differ from region to region.. in some it is basically like on west but in some.. well.. pedobear to the rescue. In reality it is more a old tradition reference in media then real thing.
oh yeah, i knew there was a lot of specifics but i didnt remember what exactly. i also heard that themes like rape, incest and other strange sexual shit comes up so often in anime because of the detachment of Japan and the christian morality but i dont know how accurate this is.
I actually dig this one. In so many ways it makes no apology for its weirdness, and that works for me. It allows the central taboo to remain taboo instead of looking for an easy cop out. It allows Heaven and Hell to be complex metaphysical planes because that's how it would have to be if such places existed. If you could get to the afterlife by subway, we would have mapped the route by now. It doesn't answer all of the questions posed by its own lore, but that just makes it feel more like real history to me. Even the strange turns in the dialogue made it sound more like my high school then almost anything else I've seen. I remember one girl checking people's auras while the dude behind her declared his love for Bob Dylan. Meanwhile, a group of blondes adopted their version of "California valley" dialect. Nothing wrong with all that, but it was a bit out there. Angel Sanctuary is just one of those odd experiences where all the broken pieces fit together perfectly, in my opinion.
In terms of sincere depictions of Christian ideas in anime, Yasuhiro Nightow actually converted to Christianity before he wrote Trigun, which heavily informed that series' themes, while Chiaki Konaka was raised Christian yet drifted away from the faith as he got older, which definitely informs the existential themes in his work and explains the occasional presence of realistic Japanese Christian characters in his work even if their faith rarely comes up directly. I think the former is Catholic and the latter a lapsed Protestant but I can't recall exactly...
She's thirteen and has such pretty hair?
If things don't work out with that setsuna boy, call daddy Joe!
I don't always agree with Bennett, but on this he did really good job.
I have read the manga and let me tell you, AS goes waay deeper than the anime. You find out that the two demons are actually siblings and there story is complicated. The Angels in heaven are very complicated and deep too and their stories are sad also. You really have to read the manga to get the depth of the story and the journey everyone goes through.
This is what happens when you convert an 18 volume, intricately written and convoluted series into a 2 hour movie
@12:35 I actually…NOT JOKING ABOUT THIS…actually took off my glasses and pinched the bridge of my nose like a facepalm. Yes I really did do that, that might be the first time I've ever done this in my life while feeling a genuine feeling of "omg you can not be fucking serious."
"You look awful" - "Thank you..."
"You look pretty good for someone studying for exams" - "You certainly got sexy!"
I. GET. THE. REFERENCE.
OMG I remember watching this on vhs when I was young I'm so glad found this
Setsuna used his abilities to move the car without realizing it. That's why the car flew. Kurai is a girl dressed as a guy. She's also a lesbian.
Talk about timing. I was just thinking about this piece of crap last week, and couldn't remember its name.
Thanks, and I love your channel.
My high school actually had quite a few issues of the manga for Angel Sanctuary. It caught my attention because the art was really nice (though, eventually it boardered being very very cluttered within itself and confusing) and I stuck with it for a while, despite the gross incest and confusing as hell plot line that jumped from place to place.
Let me say: It gets a whole lot fucking worse.
That Alexia bit was perfect. Well done, Bennet.
'Touring the Japanese countryside by rail....' Never heard it called that before. XD
6:04 Are sure it's not because his father threw him off a cliff?
My god, the voice actor for Setsuna sounds like he was ripped out of the Abridged version. There's no way anyone can take that hammy, over-the-top delivery even remotely seriously.
I was waiting for you to review this one! One of first non mainstream anime I rented from my collage video store! I thought the art style was pretty, and actually my introduction to incest in anime!
You sick pervert!
My sister had the manga, it's pretty good when it comes to the art at least.
Freshman in Japan are 15-16 years old. Their 9th grade is our 10th grade.
Because of course Suave owns a copy of Anal Sanctuary...
Also, a story involving forbidden love can only end in tragedy? Me thinks Sage hasn't read Bunny Drop...
The story still ended tragically, just not in the way you'd expect at first. Ending was dumb...
That ending never happened. There was no timeskip. The real way Bunny Drop ended was that Daikichi takes in Rin as his daughter and he ends up with Yukari and marries her. That's the real way it ended. I SWEAR! Cross my heart and hope to... NOT LIVE!
@kevin willems An anime and manga series about a man who takes in his grandfather's illegitimate child as if she was his own daughter. The anime's a better version mainly because it doesn't cover that part we don't speak about and has our main guy end up with the single Mother he clearly likes.
Just discovered this. What a treat this is! Oh my goodness
What's the anime shown at 17:27?
The brother and sister hug... and someone spreads it around as salacious BLACKMAILING MATERIAL? THEY'RE SIBLINGS, It's not likenthey were caught in flagrante delicto, for Christ's sake! What the hell is a HUG gonna prove?!
Sarah: "Why do you think our folks split up? I suppose it had something to do with dad having an affair."
Sage: "I think you cracked the case there, Nancy Drew."
Me: (Thinking back to "Tekken: The Motion Picture").
Jun Kazama (talking to Kazuya): "Why are you so upset? Is it because your father threw you off that cliff?"
Spoony: "Well done, Holmes! I think you've solved this mystery!"
A wasted opportunity.
All that's left is the Hardy Boys. Or Encyclopedia Brown.
Gehenna is actually a real place, a small valley in Jerusalem. Kings of Judah used it to sacrifice their children by burning them and was considered cursed as a result. Could be the inspiration for the "humans ruined Hell by polluting it" stuff.
This appeared 13 seconds ago? What is this?! :D
No shame in having seen Love Actually! Hell, the CD scene still gets me every time!
I haven't been this brain-f**ked by an anime on this show since.... Jungle De Ikou?
Sin of the Sisters?....Tenchi 2?.....Apocalypse Zero?.....Ninja Resurrection?.....Mad Bull 34. You know, I've been scarred by this show so much, I've lost track of which thing scarred me the most.
I don't why but, I suddenly get the idea of sage driving through a vast desert wasteland as his outro is playing.
lol I could see that, both his outro and intro are really good.
I would honestly like to see Sage review a straight up hentai someday, since he apparently has a fairly extensive collection.
Also, Lillith is nowhere in Christianity. She's from medieval Jewish mysticism, ie Kabbalah.
Lol you have Genocyber in your opening, that's cool. That show tripped me out but I enjoyed it.
I'm dumping my used motor oil in a duck pond tomorrow.
Take that, Satan!
I read the manga one afternoon sitting at a Starbucks in middle school, then forgot about it and never saw/heard of it again until just now. I knew I didn't dream it! I only read the first manga but I didn't think it was bad...
sage why don't you do a "revolutionary girl utena" review?
Ive been waiting for you to do this one for so long!!!
What is that Mr. Spectacle guy screaming "How dare you!? I'll send you to your grave!" reference from?
Some dude in MD Geist.
The end of MD Geist 2.
27:51 "THE RING WAS BUPKIS I FOUND IT IN A CRACKER JACK BOX!"
15:41 SHUT UP MOKUBA
I remember reading part of the manga in like...middle school, the only things I remembered were the incest & angels. Didn't even realize this thing had an anime adaptation, thanks for that.
Thank god. I can have a decent nights rest after watching Sage rip into a shitty Anime.
at beginning of video "Oh no! someone activated swords of revealing light! Now no one in the world can attack for three turns!"