Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989)

Excellent, a Must See

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Urotsukidoji - Legend of the Overfiend is as far on the extreme end of the animation scale as you can go. It's violent, bloody, has several borderline hentai scenes and is disturbingly apocalyptic. Between all the guts, dismembered limbs and destruction there is some romance too, why not. The story is rather messy, chaotic and garbled and lacks clear narrative structure and decent character development. But I guess this is one you like or you don't. Disney fans and people who insist on family friendly entertainment can move right along. The ones who are not easily unsettled and like some of the old Ultra-Violence should check it out.

The story reminded me of a later film that I saw before this one called "Nightmare Campus" in the United States. It also lived up to its hype in the violence department, but it really lacked in the sex department. Which being the pervert I am was rather disappointing. Seems the version I got was cut to shreds and most of the best sex scenes were cut down to little more than what you would find in your typical Hollywood movie, a thirty second clip that does not really go anywhere. I do not understand why they do not sell this movie uncut, they sell so many other adult anime movies uncut that it makes little sense that the grandfather of them all, I am thinking the first one can only be found in cut form. Well that knocked it down a point or two I really wanted to see the movie in all its glory. Still, it had a somewhat interesting story till near the end where it just went on a bit to long after the one dude went crazy and the world was pretty much in danger. Still, it had some good scenes of demons and such fighting here and there during the trip and the disappointing short sex scenes. The story of the strange being that is destined to unite the three worlds (human, beast, demons) is rather good, but like I said it reminded me a lot of the "Nightmare Campus" movie. The sex in that one was a bit obscured too, and I am betting I watched a cut version of that film as well. The animation is rather good, especially for the time as it is a notch above a couple of other movies during that period though I would still give the edge to "Akira" as far as looks of the film goes. I would also say that one had the better plot too as I did not even care that it had no sex.

First of all if you are a person against porn it will be intensely hard.. I mean "HARD" to sit through it. But importantly this movie is one of the founding fathers of anime porn tied in with Sci-Fi,complex storyline, action packed, and when I say action I mean intense fights against each other, intense hot sex one scenes on top of another--raping of beautiful women crying rampantly with alien tentacles malfunctioning in all the wrong places where all your wildest and twisted dreams comes true in satisfaction....and I'll leave the rest to your imagination but I bet it will be too difficult to even try to think in the middle of it. I enjoy watching it and highly recommend watching this over your usual everyday same boring porn.

This is the perfect example of an animated series that begins with 100% full force, but somehow forgets its footing, its actual roots, or plain disregards the foundation it was built and quickly destroys from within. I began watching "Legend of the Overfiend" with some hesitancy. I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into, but I knew that it was going to be both violent and sexual. Boy, I wasn't wrong, but what made this first film stand above was the story itself. "Legend of the Overfiend" may have quite a bit of rape, violence, and nudity, but the science-fiction story behind these actions is incredible. It reminded me of the first time that I watched the film Ghost in the Shell, it broke some boundaries, but the story was incredible. Sadly, that is what hurt the other three films. While I was watching these series, I made a note, if I could take the sex, nudity, and rape, put it all to the side, and still enjoy the story, then the animators and storytellers were doing a great job. With "Legend of the Overfiend" I was successful. "Legend of the Demon Womb" was slim, and it failed with "Return of the Overfiend". By the last of this series, the animators had grown too big for their britches, the story was completely destroyed, and our familiar faces seemed like strangers by the end. Everything that you never wanted to see happen to a series happened with Chôjin densetsu Urotsukidôji.I must admit, this was a shocking series. It is impressive to see the leaps and bounds that Japanese animation is taking, and how they are bringing adults into a very child infested market. I have always thought that is what American animation needs to do, but alas, we just haven't caught on. Here we have amazing stories coming from overseas that are not afraid to push the sexual envelope and instead of embracing them, we shun them as pornographic and dismiss them as garbage. While I agree that half of the second film and all of the third could literally be labeled as garbage, you have to give some credit to the creative mind behind this series. This is not an easy storyline. It is deeply embedded in science-fiction themes, strong folklore characters, and imagination. It was like reading Dune and watching Akira simultaneously. It would be difficult, but once you got fully immersed in the stories, you would be lost in the sheer beauty of the world. That is exactly what happened here. It is a beautiful story of survival, of humanity, of heroism, but because of the graphic nature of the sexual scenes, it is not regarded as important outside of cult circles. We could argue all day behind the power of the sexual scenes, but again, if you look back to the story … if the story is what draws you back to the remaining films, then you know that you have found a winner.With those good remarks said, it is now time to shred the rest of this to pieces. "Legend of the Demon Womb" bordered on idiotic. The entire beginning references to Hitler and the door to Hell nearly made me laugh. It did not seem to follow the groundwork that "Legend of the Overfiend" seemed to have laid. While the segments concerning Nagumo's cousin's disaster were intense (as well as secret form), the story began to fault when the focus fell less on the imagination of the world, but instead on the scenes of rape. You could see a distinct difference between these two. Then, there is the third installment, which is just disastrous. I could not watch it all, but instead continued to fast forward through the ¾'s scenes of rape just to find any remnants of the story. Sadly, there wasn't any. Again, all of our characters seemed to be forgotten, the original story was completely shelved, and we were left with nothing creative, nothing original, and nothing enjoyable … just random sex with overly clichéd beasts. It just wasn't worth the time. With that said, this final installment ruined the whole series for me. If a team cannot follow the beginnings of their story throughout the course of their characters, then what is the point of continuing? By the end of "Return of the Overfiend" I felt tired, apathetic, and bored.Overall, I wasn't happy with this series. Again, the beginning installment, "Legend of the Overfiend" was my definite favorite (if I had to name one) which boasted a great story and original characters. After that, it just quickly fell downhill. The inability to continue a story that remained true to itself hugely disappointed me and irritated me. Urg. I started with curiosity and ended with aggravation. For those looking to start this series, watch "Legend of the Overfiend" and end, if you watch either "Legend of the Demon Womb" or "Return of the Overfiend" you will only find chaos, disappointment, and a complete lack of respect. BLAH! Grade: ** out of *****