Jun Asuka is supposed to meet with a variety of suitors and become engaged to one of them on her 18th birthday. Instead, she breaks tradition and escapes into the night to avoid the schemes of her mother. With her mother resorting to increasingly extreme tactics to bend her daughter to her will, Jun must use all of her strength in order to protect her virginity.
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literaturenerd
Overview: It is well known that Go Nagai is one of the most influential and controversial mangaka in the industry's history. He gave us the giant transforming robot genre and Sentai with Mazinger Z. He gave us the Magical Girl genre with Cutie Honey. He even helped give us the seinen demographic with the bold and brutally violent twin works of Devilman and Violence Jack during the 1970s, which showed that manga could be for older readers as well. However, if you write 2,000 different comics, one shot doujins, and anime, you are going to have a few flubs. Stan Lee has written plenty of badcomic issues by his own admission and even Alan Moore has been known to occasionally write something less than stellar. Go Nagai is no exception to this rule. So what is generally considered to be the nadir of Uncle Go's insanely prolific career? I've looked into it and most would say Iron Virgin Jun. Having seen this anime and the manga it was adapted from...yeah I can see why.
Before we begin the review, we must sing the obligatory Go Nagai tribute song!
Go Nagai! His violence is over the top!
Go Nagai! So much blood you will need a mop!
Go Nagai! The guy that wrote Mazinger Z!
Go Nagai! The guy likes likes to draw women pee!
Go Nagai! His rape scenes incur censors wrath!
Go Nagai! Dude might be a sociopath!
HOORAH UNCLE GOOO!!!
Plot:
Iron Virgin Jun, as you can probably surmise, is about a young maiden named Jun. On her 18th birthday, Jun is forced into an arranged marriage by her giant ogre of a mother. Jun refuses to accept this and runs away into the woods, so her mother sends a bunch of minions after her. Jun beats up the minions and joins with a young butler of her household named Kuratta, who is basically her only friend. When Jun's mother learns her minions have been defeated, she goes into a rage and puts a "virginity bounty" on Jun. Whoever manages to catch and rape her gets to marry her! This soon leads to Jun fighting against rapist ninjas using robot penises that transform into giant drills. "Mine is the dick that will pierce the heavens!!!" Jun comes across her kindly aunt, who states that she and Kuratta can live with her on her magic island, but unfortunately the island will appear upside down until Jun has set her own life right. This means confronting the source of her family's evil, her demonic grandmother! Jun teams up with her good guy father, who jumps at the chance of finally killing his bitch mother in law! It turns out she is already dead and they must defeat her ghost, which they do without much effort because this is a 1 episode anime. Jun and Kuratta then basically live happily ever after. The end.
Art:
This OVA came out in 1992 and it looks like SHIT! Despite the fact that movies and OVAs tended to have better art than long running anime series in the early 1990s, Jun's art and animation is repugnant. Jun makes other schlock OVAs from the same time period look like their art cells belong in the Louvre!
Sound:
The voice acting here is BAD! The English dub is unsurprisingly abominable and even the Japanese dub is so lazy and underwhelming that non-Japanese speakers can tell it sucks! Jun can't even claim to have enjoyably cheesy music like so many of its fellow 90s OVAs.
Overall:
While a few of the jokes are at least sort of funny, mostly this show just falls on its face. The manga is MUCH more risque and insane with its humor, so it at least has that vintage Go Nagai feel. The anime is a watered down version of an already shitty manga, that was only passable because of shock humor. With most of the shock humor removed, this just feels like an empty husk. I really wouldn't recommend this anime unless you just HAVE to see what Go Nagai's worst looks like.
alucard_hellsing
In one word: Avoidable. There's the barest apology of a story, no real character development, bad animation, and sub-par voice acting. It is one of the fe anime, whre the japanese dub is even worse than the english one. If you have the time to watch this, you should be asking yourself what are you doing in front of the tv/monitor.?
bloodandcandies
A funny OVA of about 40 minutes. If you are know on your 20's you will remember the cartoons you watched when you were a little kid. Bear in mind that this is from 1992, so don't expect the design to be that of the 2000's, and an OVA so don't expect character development, or at least a lot. It's a simple story about an "Oujo-san" who is being forced to marry, runs away, and her mother uses everything in her power to drag her back. A really good point is that it depicts the female protagonists as Amazones. They are the ones in charge and theones who fight!
I found it enjoyable, I got to remember the type of cartoons I watched when I was a kid and it's funny.
Watch it when you don't know what to do!
ktulu007
Iron Virgin Jun is a comedic action OVA based off of a manga by Nagai Go. I’ve never reviewed anything by him. He’s best known for Devilman and Devil Lady. It was handled by Dynamic Planning. Which is Nagai’s own baby company. So, you know they’ll handle his vision properly at least. Story: Jun is having her 18th birthday and, as per family tradition, she’s “required” to get married. So she does what any sensible person would do and nopes out of there followed by the loyal servant, Kurata. Her mother responds by… sending a group of rapists after her. Because, clearly, if she doesn’t want toget married to some random man getting brutally assaulted by random men will assuage her fears. Seriously though, this is supposed to be a comedy there shouldn’t be the threat of rape.
The OVA basically follows Jun as she tries to escape her mother and the gang of rapists in order to determine her own fate. There are some huge problems. First off, sexual assault and comedy don’t mesh. I don’t care if you make their genitalia floaties with ducks, turtles and other various bollocks. It doesn’t work. So, having a group of rapists as major antagonists don’t work. The lack of logic from characters (Jun refusing to throw away her tracker, her mother wanting her to get married at 18 but not having a fiancée set up or anything) could work in a comedy if there was strong humour. There are no good jokes in this. About the “height” of its jokes is Jun being cornered, flexing out of her party clothes and beating up some guys. Which isn’t really funny, it’s just unexpected.
Characters:
The characters are one note and rubbish. Yes, comedic characters can get by with being somewhat shallow if they’re endearing and they have strong comedic dynamics. The characters in this don’t have that because there are no funny jokes. So, they just come across as paper thin, low effort characters. Nagai tries to add some depth by giving the mother some informed characteristics at the end but it doesn’t work to tell us a character has these motivations or these traits when those traits are never demonstrated.
Art:
The artwork is really bad. The action doesn’t flow well. It’s clumsy and disjointed. Nagai is clearly going for a Wrestling aesthetic with it. Not Olympic style, the fake one. But it just fails to deliver any excitement or flair. The character art is lazy at its best and absolute rubbish at worst.
Sound:
The acting is of the “nobody gives a shit” variety. Yokoyama Chisa, Komiya Kazue, Nakamura Daiki… none of them seem to be putting in any effort. And these aren’t bad actors. Yokoyama was the voice of Biscuit Kreuger. It just sounds like they got their scripts and decided they didn’t need to try. The music is probably the best part of the OVA because it’s, at least, sub-par.
Ho-yay:
There isn’t any.
Areas of Improvement:
1. Have some comedy. Because wading through these non-jokes is painful.
2. Develop your characters enough to give them comedic quirks and dynamics. Characters in a comedy don’t need to be all that complex but they do need to be funny.
3. Get the Basics down. I realise that a lot of bad anime don’t give their actors enough to work with for them to give good performances, but you could at least direct them so they sound like they’re trying and put any kind of effort into the art.
Final Thoughts:
Iron Virgin Jun is pretty horrendously bad. No effort. Terrible comedy. There are many, many better things you can do in forty six minutes. To name a few examples, you could play with your pet, shiny hunt in Pokemon, watch any episode of any Star Trek series that isn’t Discovery, grind some levels in an RPG or light some candles and play with your genitalia. I mean, most things are going to be better than this. My rating is a 1/10.
