VIEWTIFUL JOE
STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
51
RELEASE
September 24, 2005
LENGTH
21 min
DESCRIPTION
- Based on a game by CAPCOM
“Movie Land” is a world where movie characters were real. There was en evil syndicate, Jado, they altered the movie contents at their own will, and they tried to rule the people in the real world by showing the modified movie to them.
One day, Joe went to the theater with his lover Silvia to watch a hero movie, “Captain Blue”. However, the movie ended with a tragedy no one expected. “Captain Blue” was helplessly beaten by the evil syndicate Jado. Then, the leader of Jado declared that they would conquer the real world, and they took Silvia into the screen.
To take her back, Joe turns into a super hero to battle against them. In the world of “Movie Land”, now begins the beautiful battle of Viewtiful Joe.
(Source: AniDB)
CAST
Joe
Tomokazu Seki
Alastor
Shinichirou Miki
Silvia
Natsuko Kuwatani
Captain Blue
Banjou Ginga
Junior
Makoto Tsumura
Gran Bruce
Shouto Kashii
Charles the Third
Mitsuru Ogata
Coordinator Sprocket
Mayumi Asano
Bianky
Fire Leo
Yuuji Ueda
Hulk Davidson
Akimitsu Takase
EPISODES
Dubbed
Not available on crunchyroll
REVIEWS
alcorwind
This game-inspired anime is actually REALLY GOODContinue on AniListWhy was this anime so good?
Like damn, I played the game afterwards and it was embarassing how much better the anime was (story-wise of course, gameplay-wise the anime sucks because it's not a game you genius)
I'm sorry but how the heck am I supposed to write 2200 characters about an anime I watched 20 years ago?
What? I don't have to write this? Well, I'M WRITING IT ANYWAY
Look I remember I really enjoyed the characters. Let's start with the villains.
The villains felt very Team Rocket-esque, being really funny and all, but each of them had a personality and were really cool looking, and they all had their moments within the anime, so they were great and a joy to watch.
The main characters were pretty cool too, and all had their time to shine as well.
Oh yeah man, the music!! The music was so good! The openings and endings still live rent-free in my head...I remember the second opening showed up in my head one day and I was like "wait, what the heck is this?". Then once I figured it out I was overjoyed by viewtiful memories.
By the way I still carry a big lesson from this anime, which was that ketchup is actually REALLY GOOD. And that I shouldn't be worried about wasting the fries with ketchup because it actually enhances its flavor. I haven't learned that lesson yet, but I sure as hell remember it
This anime just had a lot of charm man. But we gotta enter some ground-breaking territory here and I hope you're ready for a bumpy road: the art style!
"The art style SUCKS!" said animeweaboouser234. People just have no taste these days. You see, every freaking anime and their anime-moms already has that generic-beans visual with super cute anime girls and stuff. Either that or they're chibi.
This anime DOES. NOT. CARE.
It has neither chibi nor human-esque characters. It has tiny, kinda chubby, funny-looking characters. And I love all of them and wish them the best. Ok, maybe not all of them are chubby, Alastor exists.
SPEAKING OF Alastor, he's a great character. I like him, his character has quite the developments that I wouldn't spoil even if I remembered them.
Back to the art style: it makes sense with the game and I think it fits well with the overall atmosphere. It also feels great to watch an anime that is actually somewhat different than the usual. I wouldn't want that ALL the time, but who would want ketchup ALL THE TIME, am I right? Probably not.
Anyway I really have some fantastic nostalgia feelings for this show, so I hope you don't mind my terrible review, I just wanted to express these feelings. Maybe I'll eventually be able to rewatch it and have some clearer thoughts about it, but then my feelings will probably change. Don't know if it'll be for the better or for the worse, but I'm just happy Viewtiful Joe exists.
Thank you.
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Ended inSeptember 24, 2005
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