Story 5/5

The anime itself focuses around Sakura, a young boy who has just entered his first year of high school. After entering high school, Sakura comes across a weird girl named Dokuro, who surprisingly, is an angel. After letting the young Dokuro stay in his house, Sakura learns that in the future, he will create technology that will give people immortality. Oddly enough the technology freezes the aging of women at the age of 12. The world, in the future, become a pedophile’s dreamland. Apparently, God has been angered and has sent Dokuro back in time to kill Sakura and to stop the technology from being created. The catch is that when Dokuro arrives in the past, she gains feelings toward Sakura and refuses to kill him. Even weirder is that whenever Dokuro gets upset, she draws her mighty spiked bat, Excaliborg, and smashes Sakura into a bloody mess (Bokusatsu Tenshi means "club-to-death angel" in Japanese"). Fortunately, with her trademark "Pipiru-piru-piru-pipiru-pi" chant, Dokuro-Chan can make Sakura instantly come back to life. If you’ve had the high amount of sanity to read this far, congratulations, because Dokuro-Chan has one of the most over-the-top, ridiculous, and purely entertaining concepts in a long time. Weird as it is, throughout the series, some interesting twists arise, and the comedic romance continues down the path of confusion. But who cares? It’s original and it’s perfect.

Art: 4/5

The anime style of Dokuro-Chan is nothing particularly special, but is so bright, colorful, and vibrant that it’s hard not to care. Characters, especially Dokuro-Chan, are brilliant. Dokuro looks young enough, but beautiful enough to get anyone’s interest. Sakura isn’t very original, but the plethora of expressions the guy makes is funny. The other characters are very interesting. The over-the-top deaths are hilarious. Just hilarious. Not much going on in Dokuro-Chan, but it keeps the concept strong with some appropriate scenes and hilarious animations.

Audio 4/5

The theme song will get in your head and stay there for a LOOONG time. Trust me, I’ve been punished for exposing some people to the maddeningly-catchy opening theme (*cough* my girlfriend *cough*). Saeko Chiba does an excellent job on both the opening and closing themes, although the closing theme doesn’t follow as strong a momentum as the opening. Voice acting is very well done. I can’t make as strong a judgment in audio, but from what I heard, it does a good job.

Length 3.5/5

This is the only part of this anime that I can see as a problem. Although I won’t spoil the ending, it just feels like it came too fast. The anime itself is eight episodes long, with each episode being about 15 minutes long, so right there it feels short. The climactic finisher feels forced. I can’t help but compare this to FLCL, a short anime which somehow got a powerful story completed in six episodes. Dokuro-Chan, however, has some hilarious moments, but right when the madness gets you laughing, you must face the true story, and by the time that’s over, the whole anime is over. The whole concept of Dokuro-Chan is so original and entertaining, it could’ve gone for many more episodes, but sadly, it doesn’t. Don’t get me wrong; the ending is a happy one, and the whole use of romantic comedy is great, but the entire anime could’ve been longer. Hilarious, but I just wish the hilarity lasted a bit longer.

Tilt 5/5

Take the satirical comedy of Excel Saga, the dysfunctional romance of Love Hina, the magical girl work of Nurse Witch Komugi, throw in some mass violence and you have an excellent anime. Dokuro-Chan, somehow, someway, merges the many genres into a satisfying package, while keeping the overall structure in tact. Dokuro is one of the most adorable and funniest characters released in years, and Sakura is so much of a dork you have to laugh. This is some romantic comedy with so many twists it’s enjoyable.

Final Verdict 5/5

So many genres have been seamlessly merged together to create Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-Chan, and none of those genres are hindered by each other. The relationship between Sakura and Dokuro is funny enough, but this anime threw in some crazy dialogue for good measure and some hilarious violence for better measure. There is absolutely nothing like Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-Chan in anime today and every piece of this anime is laugh-out-loud enjoyable. I’m keeping a close watch on this anime, and I’m begging for someone like ADV to license this gem. But why wait? Check this anime out now! Now!