Jashin-chan Dropkick X

What The Fuck? Jashin-Chan Dropkick X, the third season, oh did I pray for your sublimity to correspond to a type of humor like Happy Tree Friends. Oh did I pray to you to give us moments as absurd as also pitiful with your angels and demons. Oh did I pray you to re-use the running gag that could still work after three seasons straight, namely Jashin-Chan’s Dropkick (Duh!). Oh did I pray to your humor more meta than ever. Of course that I'm angry. Even extremely disappointed with the beauty it could give us. This season could not exist if our dear Japanese friends did notgive to the crowdfunding enough a few months after the second season was broadcast. The hype was insane when I saw that it was finally in production. And goodness gracious how I overestimated it. I do not want to summarize the other seasons, thinking that all of you had already seen them before looking at the third, unless you are attracted only by the presence of Hatsune Miku. I'll let you know that I feel disgusting to say that this season was the worst that I saw for now. The first episodes were magnificent, especially the first in terms of "haha, we finally have a third season" as well as the presence of Hatsune Miku, who is actually important for a few episodes. There was that beautiful usual layer of humor, so nothing wrong could happen, but I don't know who was largely in charge of the script of almost half of the anime, but I feel that this person really wanted us to share their touristy vacations. It was here that I felt sold by a company, an individual being stupid enough to be the type to consume everything that has a name of something I really enjoy watching/playing. A complete arc of five episodes was dedicated to the promotions of cities in Japan with the use of Jashin-Chan Dropkick's characters, as in order to sell us the desire to go there. On the other hand, the main reason for why they present them to us, is because at some point in the anime, Jashin-Chan finds herself in dept of billion and billion yen. And so, she simply travel through the entire land of Japan to find a way to remedy her debts, by also presenting the "do not miss" monuments from the cities she visits. Except that I don't care about that. I'm someone who lives in North America who can't afford a trip to Japan yet, and who still studies at school in audio-visual. If by pure chance I want to watch a tourist anime, then someone needs to call a studio for making them decide to pull their fingers out of their ass and decide to animate one, unless it exists, which wouldn't even surprise me. I watch this anime in order to laugh without having to think about why the snake girl regenerates every time you cut her tail like a piece of ham. And even if it comes straight from the original manga, now I could understand the author's desire to try new things, the end result shows us a huge filler arc with no progression to the main storyline. Our group of characters seemed more here as people giving reactions rather than playing their own initial roles. It was just as horrible to watch as some think it was horrible to watch Endless Eight in Haruhi Suzumiya. Otherwise, the rest of the anime remained fine, yet very disappointing that an arc lasting almost half of the anime ruins the hype I had for almost a year. When I'd seen the last three episodes and they went all out on new characters, I wondered if they just couldn't show them from the start, like... Directly in the 5th episode. Not now, because someone wanted to show their vacations, I guess. For those who saw this anime because of Hatsune Miku, just know for now that you will be served. Oh yes! The first time I saw her while having the chance to know the anime before it blow up made me burst out laughing and she still stays in character despite the circumstances. Please, however, if you like meta and bloodthirsty humor, watch the other seasons first, then just find the moments with Hatsune Miku in the Escape Arc and skip it after all five episodes! *Finished writing the review* “Aaah! I hope there won't be people who will believe that I don't like Japan or think that I'm an hypocrite after what I wrote :)”

It's Snek & pals season 3! Featuring Miku from the Hatsune Miku series and probably funded by Hokkaido's tourism bureau! Well if you're already a fan of the raunchy, often violent humor of Jashin-chan, you're probably gonna watch this anyways, as it is more of what you'd come to expect. Jashin-chan is still goofy and selfish as ever in her antics to get one over Yurine, and her humorous interactions with characters old and new are still the crux of the series. This season however, has some bizarre features such as several episodes back to back seemingly promoting tourism in different regions of Hokkaido, which brings toquestion if this season was in fact funded by their local government. In addition, Hatsune Miku is somehow shoehorned into every episode, which is no doubt some form of paid for marketing. I have not read the original manga for this series, but I know for a fact that there was no Miku shoved in; still, at least she's tastefully implemented in as both a gag and marketing tool for this rather niche series. Overall, because of the aforementioned "tourist" episodes that drag on, as well as a VERY lukewarm last episode, this is definitely not the best season of Jashin-chan but it still has it's original charm and laugh at loud, sometimes 4th wall breaking humor. I would still highly recommend this to existing fans who have watched the previous seasons. Otherwise, go and watch the first two seasons first before starting this.

–Spoiler Free Compact Review– Jashin chan dropkick X is the sequel to the Jashin chan series. The show is overall very laid back and fun to watch; however, this doesn’t make it good. The show is painfully average. If you didn’t like the other seasons the show just isn’t for you. Even if you enjoyed the other seasons this might not be for you. Overall: There are a few hehe and haha’s but the gags are often mediocre and often fall flat. The show seems artificial compared to the other seasons. Many of the episodes seemed dragged out. Feels like a massive marketing scheme topromote tourism and Hatsune Miku. Doesn’t live up to its name and seems messy To sum it up its ‘mid’

When I originally started watching the first episode of the first season when it originally came out in 2018, I didn’t think much of it. I mainly wanted to watch it, because it sounded like it would be an ok anime to watch, if I don’t have anything else on my plate…now it’s 2022, season 3 ended and I already want a 4th one or at least a special. That should give a good idea, how I feel about this show… As with the seasons before, this series continues being a bloody fun time, as we watch Jashin-chan, Yurine and all the other demons and angelsaround them in their day to day life, being jerks to each other, yet at the same time, they make for some of the most fun interactions I have seen in a show. All the characters are still a big highlight and watching their diverse (and sometimes disturbing) personalities play off of each other is still what makes this show in my opinion. And all the new ones are just as much a welcome addition as all the ones were. While because of how large the cast has gotten not every character gets to shine anymore, even the ones that appear like for only a couple of minutes in it still do their best to be as strong as ever. As for the jokes, well it's the same as the older seasons. While some fall flat, quite a few of them are pretty funny, going from dark humor where Jashin-chan gets brutally murdered to reference humor where they mention shows like Esper Mami…to not even pretending, that they have a 4th wall anymore (with the first episode having an entire segment about each of the characters being drawn in a different style, ranging from childrens anime all the way into FF character designs). (Plus, gotta give Studio Nomad credit for knowing that by adding Hatsune Miku into every episode of this season, their show will garner some more attention as usual) If I have one thing to criticize, it’d be that one of the later arcs focuses on Jashin-chan being on the run across different japanese prefectures and the characters going after her. While these episodes still are fun and they definitely do their jobs of making me wanna visit those places well, it felt a little much after a while. I remember that after 3 episodes into this arc, I did feel a little annoyed that the next one again is another one. Plus, since the arc appeared right after new characters were introduced, it did make the introduction of these characters feel weaker. I still enjoyed them and they had some good running gags as well as a variety what they were about, but I was definitely glad, once they were all back home. So yeah, all in all, a solid season and I hope we will see a season 4 soon. Or at the very least, that they’ll do another special/OVA. And if you're in the mood for seeing characters being jerks to each other and having some dark humor, I can definitely recommend this whole series.

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