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Review:
I'm not sure I'm really qualified to 'properly ' review Wicked City. I haven't watched much anime. I can't discuss styles of animation. I definitely can't compare this film's examples of wrinkled-brown-midget sex with any other's. Also, I don't really like it when I think I know what I'm looking at only I don't because now its got teeth and...eugh.
Demonic gang rape doesn't really give me a great deal of joy either. I'm generally fairly ambivalent about animated characters copping it off with oneanother, but frankly...well, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but a tentacle is never just a tentacle.
Wicked City has all these things, so why am I about to score it an 8 out of 10? Because, tentacles or no, this film is damn cool. It takes a neat little premise (Demons! Humans! Killing each other!) and develops it into just enough plot (Demons! Humans! Killing each other...for a reason!) to sustain 80 minutes of stylish action and atmosphere. I may not know anime, but I know what I like -- and I like this! 8 bleeding statues out of 10 by Jonathan McCoy
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