The once peaceful city-state of Lisvalletta has found itself beset by a dangerous new drug called Anthem. The side effects of the drug allow the user to enter a state of Overdrive, wherein they mutate into superpowered beasts with inhuman abilities. With the police powerless to stop this new threat, the responsibility falls upon the Special Crime Investigation Unit SEVEN-O. To offset the dangers of this work, the investigators work under the patented "Double Decker" system, which requires them to team up in "buddy cop" pairs.
As a child, average police officer Kirill Vrubel fantasized about being a hero who would save his school from a random terrorist attack. His chance to be a hero arrives when his landlady blackmails him into searching for her lost cat. Upon arriving and falling asleep in an abandoned warehouse, Kirill finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation involving an Anthem user. By teaming up with SEVEN-O detective Douglas "Doug" Bilingam, Kirill earns his spot as the newest member of SEVEN-O. Now, with the help of this secret organization, he may finally achieve his dream of becoming a hero.
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Stark700
I can’t really imagine a society in our world today without laws. Hell, I can’t even begin to fandom what would happen if the police force disappeared in my neighborhood. As a police story, Double Decker runs with a plot that managed to capture the essence of crime fighting. I’m not going to lie, this show made me realize that sometimes, we can make the simplest ideas and turn it into a blockbuster. As an anime original, Double Decker may look familiar especially those who have experienced a show in the past known as ‘Tiger & Bunny’. Produced by studio Sunrise, it didn’t take long torealize the familiar character designs by Masakazu Katsura. Even after all these years, it feels like his talent never left us with these T&B aesthetics. I would also assume the setting of the show takes place in the same universe although that’s not clear. Regardless, watching Double Decker is a profound experience that I did not regret.
Initially, the first few episodes introduces us to the main character cast. The most prominent characters consists of the SEVEN-O Special Crime Investigation. It shouldn’t take long for viewers to understand the experience level between investigator Doug Bilingham and rookie cop Kirill Vrubel. To me, they are like Batman and Robin. In other words, Doug plays the role of an action hero while Kirill presents himself as a sidekick. I don’t want to undermine Kirill’s credibility because he does have some potential. However, my impression of his character in the beginning was not enthusiastic. He lacks experience and often ends up being the butt monkey for feminine jokes. It doesn’t help that he looks like a bishounen rather than a cop. This is an antithesis to his partner Doug as he looks much more mature, experienced, and always gets the job done. There’s a lack of chemistry in the beginning due to their conflicting personalities. However, the two does get along on a professional level and Kirill begins to learn more on the job.
Joining them includes Deana, Katherine, Maxine, Yuri, Travis, Sophie, and Apple. Each of them play a different role that compliments the team overall. For instance, Deana’s sniper skills is valuable during missions that targets dangerous individuals. Yuri possesses computer skills that provides intelligence to the team. Apple is in charge of maintaining the team’s equipment and works well with technology. You get the idea. In order to fight crime, it’s definitely important to establish character roles so this show managed to get that point across from the start. On individual levels, each character has also personalities that sometimes clashes with one another. Because let’s not forget one thing, it’s not always easy for everyone to get along on such a dangerous job. Being part of a crime fighting force is not easy when you have a group known as the Esperanza who deals with a powerful drug known as the “Anthem”.
That actually takes to the core plot of the story. Initially, I had thought the show would involve monster of the week format episodes. The plot evolves more and more as conspiracies, corruption, and the dark side of Lisvaletta is revealed. Esperanza also begins to show to the world more of their dark ambitions that clashes with law enforcement. To me, Double Decker managed to make its antagonists marketable as an international threat in their world. Slowly but surely, their sinister plans come together that really throws off SEVEN from their ordinary cases. Speaking of cases though, I regrettably admit that most of them aren’t as executed as I had anticipated. Most of them uses recycled ideas such as investigating clues, following up on leads, tracking down the suspect, and bringing them to justice. If you’re familiar with media like Batman or even Spiderman, you can probably get a sense of these cases are like. Not to mention, the criminals they deal with often resort to using dangerous chemicals and experimentations. It’s only later in the show we how far the plot deepens to test the limits of our crime fighters.
It would be unfair to say this show is a poor man’s Tiger & Bunny to be honest. Double Decker works as a successor by using its character relationships to sell its story. We find out more about some of the main characters’ past too in order to understand them more. And while this show may be goofy at times, it manages to work well for its character partnerships. There are moments where I couldn’t help but feel attached to them. Make no mistake, you don’t need to understand law enforcement to watch this show or see Tiger & Bunny. In fact, jumping into Double Decker is perfectly fine with its playful humor and oddball set of characters. It still contains its emotional content as the main characters tackles on social issues. An elephant in the room also exists with the same gender relationships. However, it’s far off from a shounen-ai and works more as a buddy cop police tale.
You probably noticed that character designs in this show looks stylish with their looks. Some of them don’t even look like detectives or like they belong in the police force. An easy finger to point at is Kirill as he’s often made fun of for his feminine features. Sunrise managed to make Kirill into a comic relief in the beginning for his lackluster skills. It’s not until later that he becomes more useful to the team. But still, I do applaud the director and studio for recreating a society of these colorful characters. Not to mention, I feel the setting of Double Decker runs well with its technology concepts; namely the Anthem used by criminals and their consequences.
It’s been around 7 years since Tiger and Bunny made its premiere. This isn’t really an upgraded or downgraded version as Double Decker is fully a show of its own. What this anime managed to do is creating a story in this fictional society that makes us believe in. Here, we have characters that risks their lives to deal with criminals and showing the dark side of their society. Yet at the same time, it also shows how partnerships can truly be meaningful when the right people work together.
Markezzo
Double Decker has a strong enough start with ridiculous episodic adventures and a cast of lovable idiots, with an over-the-top narrator as a nice cherry on top. However, the comedy and characters that are the show's main selling points become less inspired toward the mid-point. An example would be that only a small portion of the characters get any kind of backstory, and the team-work they need to form as cop duos rarely gets any focus. The action doesn't help in elevating the experience either, due to the odd mix of 2D and CGI animation that makes the action too clumsy to be enjoyed onits own.
Double Decker’s greatest downfall however is the plot-twists. Comedies love to subvert expectations and go for the less expected outcome, which is great in exploring stories and characters. Doing something unexpected is however not enough in and of itself. Twists need to either be equally as fun or even more interesting than what you normally would've expected. It's the difference between 'playing' with expectations, and 'betraying' expectations. Examples would include rushing out answers to mysteries in anti-climactic ways, robbing characters of their agency by trivializing their goals, awkwardly changing genre from crime comedy to sci-fi action, among other things I won't mention to avoid spoilers.
Double Decker is ultimately a bumpy ride, not without its merits in the first half, but I can't recommend it due to untapped potential with the characters, a plot that becomes a train-wreck in the second half, and the comedy and action that fails to shine compared to other shows one could be watching.
Injenss
"Mmmm...not bad." That's the feeling I walked away from this anime with. It was pretty funny at times, it had lots of action, the characters were likable. But, it just has the feel of something you'll forget you saw a year from now. If I could point to two things that make it feel more like a B-rate anime, it would be the fact that it never really felt like it had an identity of its own, but was trying to appear to. It looked like it was pulling from Tiger & Bunny (Without being nearly as good), and addingaspects of Wizard Barristers and Samurai Flamenco into it. It didn't really seem to know what kind of anime it wanted to be which is why it started as a vice detective comedy, but ended up with space colonies and attacks on military bases. And while they properly explained the transition from back alley's to jet bombers, it just felt a bit too far fetched.
The second thing that hurt it was the needless pushing of the crossdresser agenda throughout the anime. I'm not the type to automatically hate on crossdressing in anime. I really enjoyed animes like Princess Jellyfish, Maria+Holic, Tokyo Godfathers and Gokudolls. But, if you're going to do it, do it well. Episodes like the one about Max's back story and prom was just stupid and out of place and brought the anime down. It seemed more like an agenda driven episode that was shoved into the middle of the anime, trying to convince kids to accept crossdressers than a strong attempt at a back story. While that was poor, the repeated mix ups with Kirill looking like a woman was actually funny. But, they even went too far with that and broke the logic. (MINOR SPOILER): If the whole time he doesn't like it when people mistake him for a woman, why would he ever dress up in a bride's gown? Logically, they would get Rookie to do that. They really wanted to hammer home the acceptance of cross dressing in this anime for some reason, but the attempts were ham-fisted and cringeworthy. But, mostly, they were completely unnecessary to the story.
Other than that, it's really not a bad anime. It's not a great anime, but it's not bad. The animation was mostly solid, although you could tell the parts where they mixed in some pretty mediocre looking 3D animation. If studios are going to do 3D animation, they need to make it look like Land of the Lustrous. Otherwise, it's just off putting. But, I think they'll get there in time. The soundtrack was cool, especially the ending theme song.
Overall, it's an entertaining anime. It's not a waste of your time to watch it. But, even though it will give off strong Tiger and Bunny vibes, don't expect Tiger and Bunny quality. It's just not there.
Story: 6
Art: 6
Sound: 9
Character: 7
Enjoyment: 7
Overall: 7
JiangHaoyi1979
7 year after Tiger and Bunny, sheees I hate that anime, thought the graphics were nice, but you know this anime kinda has a different beat since this was the only time that the police genre has made a come back after a quite a while , after "You are under arrest", also I jaz don't see any reason why this anime would be related to "Tiger and Bunny" except for the part that they both were with studio "Sunrise and both were original works that were not taken from a manga. Anywayz , if we're to consider the plot of the anime, it wasbasically your run of the mill good guys versus bad guys , that involves a group of specialize police officers called "Seven -O" which was headed by a Clark Gable look alike named, Travis with his secretary that has a resemblance to that of Becky from the anime Norin whom were tasked of arresting users and suppliers of Anthem, a drug that can give one some super powers a the cost of one's sanity, health and humanity, but the plot wasn't about the drug, but more like the conspiracy behind it and we later found out that it was them military headed by Cooper aka Bamboo Man , who basically was responsible for the distribution of the drug to perform some kind of experiment on unwilling subjects which was the populace. But the confusion about the anime was Kirll being a Nikai just like his brother Valery Vrubel whom also belong to the same species or wtf so ever, quite frankly even with the info dump that the antagonist, Cooper, one would still be confuse as to what does them Nikai have to do with creating chaos in earth and what the military's GMS wanted with them Nikai. In the end it was nice to see the main antagonist get beaten in his own game and some a veteran and was finally finished off by another antagonist who wanted some payback for betraying them or at least it was the kind of ending that I like. Now for the art , what see around here were the ff: Clark Gable Hollywood actor who lived during the 50's up to the early 60's , Becky from the anime Norin, some 70's fashion chick and 80's Punk, White Haired girl from Nyaruko-san, 80's cop show guy, and a guy from Utapri, well we can say for sure that art director, Mizuno, Yuusuke and character designer ,Tomizawa, Kayano's inspiration came from what I've mentioned, which was pretty obvious. The characters , well they're pretty much as to what we see in any office politics , we have distraction someone who serves as the office fool Vrubel, Kirill, who serves as a in fact he does a very good job of being used as a distraction than anything else so forget about his expertise in genetics, next is the office wise guy, Bilingam "Veteran" Douglas whom has the wits but pretty much a laid back guy, next the office bully which was played by Del Rio, Deana and her control freak sidekick Rochefort, Katherine, and let's not forget the office romance between a bisexual Silverstone, Maxine and her robot lover Fujishiro, Yuri, shees I hate those two, cu'z to me Max was more like a kind of woman whom sees Yuri as her sex toy . if were to look at these characters , they're more like a bunch of homos , where we see Deane and Kay whose relationship were like that of bickering couples that make up afterwards , Max and Yuri more like a woman who goes around with a sex toy, Doug and Kirill wher pretty much gay, and Travis and her Secretary, Sophie could be compare to that of an old man and a young girl relationship. So without any more bush baeting , here were my ratings:
Story- Fair 6: Thought, the plot has some direction, the addition of Kirill and his Bro/ sis being Nikai adds to the confusion of the story as a whole.
Art-Good 7: When it come to the character design and their attire, they're pretty a hodgepodge of fashion from different era's and places, like Deane's fashion was 60's , Max's 80's punk rock, Doug's 80's Miami vice look , Kirill's Utapri look, Sophie's Norin anime look of Beckey, Kay's office lady in pant suit look , Cooper's Gen Bison's look from Street Fighter , Apple's 90's cut and Travis' 50's fashion, but the coat's that them Seven O's wore, were pretty much a fashion crime.
Sound- Very Good 8: That's for the ending theme, " Buntline Special" by VickeBlanka and Deane's voice Hayami, Saori whom doesn't have to force herself to her signature cutie voice.
Don’t give a shitto now i’m just in a rush, lallalalalala, I hate bothersome things oh my gosh lalalalalalalala, mendou wa gomen da ne dance with me, lalalalalala, don’t give up don’t give in I’m on the run lalalalalala.
Character- Good 7: Though the Doug X Kirill partnership was good, there's just a lotta indirect homosexuality that goes around this anime.
Enjoyment= Very Good: Cu'z Kirill being this office fool was something else.
Overall- Very Good: Season 2???? Why not?
Eymen say to you face to face
nigekireyo kun e machi o watare today
deadend surinukete sly
busted baby por favor
don’t call my first name i’m just in a hush
I hate unfair things oh my gosh
koko de deatta no ga un no tsuki datta ne
don’t give up don’t give in I’m on the run
Eymen say to you face to face
nigekireyo kun e machi o watare today
dead end surinukete sly
busted baby por favor
dark___devil
The anime it self is mediocre,run of the mill action anime 7/10. It have decent sound/music,and the character development is just like in any other anime of the type. Half the side kicks get an episode focused on their story. But it have a lot of negatives for me. So i decided to put them out for people that care about it. -Censorship,rude parts are scratched off and words are changed with *. It had it on the version that i watched and i have the feeling that it is part of the anime and not put on by the distributors. -Really bad CGI that is aneyesore at best. It is the main reason that the battles feel so bad.
-Far too americanized for me,if i want to watch american things i have plenty of serials to rewatch. I don't watch anime to just see another USA cartoon. The writing,the art,the setting...all of them feel american. If that is your thing,then you could enjoy it.
-Finally the politics. I am not from the west and i personally don't care about all those things,their countries,their people and their political vies. But i am getting tired to see it hamfisted in to everything i watch,read and play. I really do hope that i will still be able to watch animes in the upcoming years,but seeing how this is the second one to do it....i am not too optimistic.
I do hope that this review helps you to make a decision,no matter if you see those things as positives or you agree with me.
nerdmeetslife
I won't say this is a top-tier anime but it was definitely binge-able. I liked the diversity of the characters but it felt like they didn't necessarily blend all that well as a community of characters. That's just my opinion though! In fact I loved the main character and I thought his personality was nice and fresh. The plot was rather unique so if you wanted to watch something a bit different that involved crime, solving mysteries, but with some drugs that make people monstrous then yeah this is great. Voice acting- no complaints. Soundtrack- loved it. Art- yeah this is where most my 'complaints'would be. The art was rather inconsistent. It would look like a typical drawn anime in some scenes but other scenes (typically the ones with a lot of movement) suddenly looked like cgi that was trying not to look cgi (looked like a ds game to me tbh) but it wasn't like the worst thing my eyes have ever been laid upon. You can see what I am talking about if you watch the trailer. Overall- I binged it with no regrets!
maxiburger
If you come to this show expecting a sequel, or at least a spiritual successor to Tiger & Bunny, return whence you came. The overly smug narrator and the direction will try to convince you otherwise, but this is not the show that you were looking for. My main gripes with Double Decker are threefold: - The genre shift - The needlessly complicated sci-fi elements - And the fact that everything has to be a plottwist The first point is pretty self-explanatory. If you go into the sequel of a samurai show after it has been advertised as the new samurai show, but for some reason they changed the settingto a modern day highschool drama where only one character is a major samurai fanboy, you'd be disappointed too. Now the genre switch from superhero to supernatural detectives isn't too big. Especially when they kept some key similarities. Both shows are set in an ambiguously America-inspired world. The heroes in Tiger & Bunny work for agencies with strict rules, almost like a police department. Both shows feature a fujoshi-baiting buddy cop duo as the main characters with a quirky support cast on the side. And they also fight criminals who abuse superpowers in a rigid Monster of the Week format. Wow, it's almost like they're not so different after all, huh?
But that's exactly the problem. The fact that they changed the concept from superheroes to regular cops, but still had to incorporate the supernatural aspects, forces them to waste a lot of time on introducing stupid gadgets and technology that only serves the purpose of Monsters of the Week or Deus Ex Machinas, rather than intriguing you by exploring how this technology would change society. Most of the time they don't even explain the technology - in fact one of the main plotpoints is that nobody knows how anything really works. At that point it might just be magic or regular superpowers. So if they had just set the story in the same world as Tiger & Bunny where the audience accepts that some people have superpowers, it would've worked much better, even if the plot only focusses on regular cops (as opposed to superheroes).
Some of the supernatural contrivances are extremely stupid. And just like with their audience's expectations, Double Decker is VERY aware of that. The most obvious indicator for that is the obnoxious narrator who constantly lampshades how stupid or convenient some of the events are, as if that made them okay somehow. But some events don't need a narrator to rub the show's overbearing attitude in your face that "you totally thought we'd play out this old stereotypical plot for the entire 20 minutes, but lol psyche we tricked you". A twist at the end of a story arc, isn't bad at all. But Double Decker throws around twists at any moment of any episode for minor and major things alike. There's a limit on how often you can do this before turning into a parody, and unfortunately Double Decker crosses that line and just keeps driving while pretending to be serious.
If this doesn't discourage you from wasting your time on a show that's just milking your leftover goodwill from a better show, at least let me warn you that the plottwist which kicks off the final arc is David Cage levels of stupid. And I'm not talking Detroit era Cage. I mean Indigo Prophecy era Cage.
Drakestalker
For the life of me, I couldn’t tell you why I ever decided to watch this and downloaded it some 3 years ago. I can, however, tell you why I intuitively put off watching it for 3 years. Most of the team responsible for Double Decker also worked on Tiger & Bunny and the two shows share the same character designer, Masazaku Katsura. The series was even billed as a "Tiger & Bunny New Anime Series Project" when it was first announced. Alas, Double Decker is to Tiger & Bunny what Mac and Me is to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, that’s if E.T. were a huge pileof shit to begin with. T&B felt like a candy-colored shampoo commercial with a variety of plastic characters put on screen, which were all more believable as dolls and figurines, rather than real people. I understand that was kind of the central conceit of the show, that the so-called superheroes in T&B were nothing more than corporate shills, kind of like in The Boys (though way, way, way less dark), but even if it was done intentionally, it didn’t change the fact that the show felt superficial. I don’t feel like really going into the subtleties of presenting pretense in fiction.
Double Decker is really nothing more than a shitty clone of the same show, same characters, same protagonist duo, same supporting cast, same-looking setting, same everything. The only difference is that they dispensed with the at least vaguely interesting figurehead superhero theme, and instead went for a buddy cop show about detectives trying to fight the distribution of some sci-fi drug that gives people superpowers and makes them go crazy, just like you’ve seen in, well… every sci-fi show that has some kind of drug that gives people superpowers and makes them go crazy… which is quite a fair number of them. If you’re looking for a show with a comprehensive overarching story, you ain’t gon’ find one here. That not to say it doesn’t have some hazy notion of an overarching narrative, but it’s weak. What you’re essentially dealing with is a case of the week grind, with only the last 3 episodes being a continuous arc.
Doug is the veteran sensei-figure detective whose personality is defined by… uh, really not much of anything. He’s just smart and gives vaguely sardonic answers to questions sometimes. It’s not that he’s uncaring or jaded, or to consider the opposite side of the spectrum, he’s not really a sarcastic jokester either. He’s just whatever the script wants or needs him to be in any given moment. Rather than “What would make sense for his character to do or say?”, it felt like more of a “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool or funny if he did or said this, that, or the other?” type situation. Motherfucker felt like he was written by an AI, and definitely nothing as sophisticated as ChatGPT. Whenever he appeared on screen, at no point, not even for one solitary second, did I think: “Oh, shit, look, it’s Doug Billingham! He’s so cool! I’m so hyped!” I’ve barely finished the show 30 minutes ago, and he’s already blurry in my memory. What about this dude was I supposed to find inspiring? Honestly, who the fuck was this guy? We’re talking about a guy with less charisma and personality than Asuma from Naruto. Remind me, why is his name in the title again?
As for the, so to speak, proper protagonist of the story, Kirill, I suppose the highest praise I can bestow upon him is that his personality is clearly defined and consistent. The problem is that he’s just plainly obnoxious. I don’t mean it in an Asta (Black Clover) or early Naruto-type way, that he’s too loud and annoying, or that he’s too hot-headed, too aggressive à la Bakugo, or too much of a horndog à la Mineta – it’s none of that. In extremis, he’s some kind of haphazard combination of most of those things, but there was nothing really that stood out to me in a love-to-hate type way. I was just not keen on him. His whole shpiel is that he’s got main character syndrome. At the start of the show, he’s a regular beat cop, but nurtures dreams of being some John McClane type badass hero. The problem is that he’s really got nothing going for him. Underdog protagonists are a dime-a-dozen, but no matter how much they suck at everything, they all have one thing going for them, one thing they can do really well, which they ultimately leverage to overcome their station. Kirill is not just like a regular guy fantasizing about being an action hero. He legitimately is a regular guy fantasizing about being a superhero.
Nevertheless, though contrivance upon contrivance, shit seems to somehow work out for him? I guess? It most likely doesn’t happen the way you think it does, with the plot being so kind to him as to allow him to miraculously be the hero. He never really gets to properly be a hero or succeed, and yet, the main cast still allow him to join their super elite taskforce for… some reason. He just awkwardly sort of fails upward, you know? This state of affairs honestly doesn’t change at any point in the story. After the show’s finale, I didn’t feel like he underwent any meaningful performative or personal growth or change. He’s still just the same old largely useless dickhead. I don’t have the faintest why the taskforce feels he’s so necessary. I never got the impression he was in any way, shape, or form good at his job or that he had real chemistry to speak of with any given member of the cast.
Just about the most significant character development he undergoes is the realization that detective work is not all about gunfights and car chases, and instead mostly about boring paperwork, endless interrogations, and stakeouts. Wow, what a revolutionary idea. I’ve never seen this story hook before. How ever did you come up with it? We better call the Academy Awards people in here quick! Are you taking notes, Simon Pegg? Oh, and I almost shit myself from hysterical laughter when the show made a gag about how he looks like a girl for the 478th time.
Easily the best part of Double Decker was the over-the-top narrator, who plays it up like he’s constantly high on cocaine and pretty much exclusively makes fun of the show and its tropes. I’ll admit I laughed in spite of myself a couple of times. Trouble is, he gets played out after a while. It’s not that he becomes unfunny, I was just over the whole shebang after about 4 episodes. Besides, just because you use self-deprecating humor to joke about your own show’s plot holes and contrivances and make fun of how there’s nothing interesting going on in a self-aware manner, which the narrator does explicitly in exactly so many words on several occasions, that doesn’t obviate the fact that there is in fact nothing interesting going on. Scores of authors seem to be laboring under the delusion that as long as they toy around with the 4th wall and point out the flaws of their own stories to the audience in a tongue-in-cheek manner, that makes them somehow acceptable. It don’t work like that, son. It was less “Oh, haha, wink, wink!” and more “Uhm, well, yeah…”
Regardless, forget about all that, because frankly, who fucking cares? The worst aspect of both Tiger & Bunny and Double Decker is that they are poor attempts at Westernizing anime. Setting aside the fact that they fail in doing so, why would anyone attempt it in the first place? You know how cringeworthy it is when weebs mix in Japanese words in real life conversations and express themselves with anime gestures as part of their body language? Yeah, it’s kind of like that. I call this version of cringe Americaboos or Westaboos – except the cringe factor is turned up to 11 by the political angle.
Anime is the last haven of non-pozzed entertainment in existence. Adding Western ideas of diversity, inclusivity, and equity into it defeats the whole fucking point. There were traces of this cancer in T&B, as well, but the shit hits the fan in Double Decker. Early on in the show, Doug says that his goal in life, which is incidentally the reason he became a cop, is to eradicate poverty and inequality in the world. Mind you, this is never narratively relevant or revisited in any way, but the writers felt you needed to know that. Thank you, Kanye. Very cool. There’s unsurprisingly an arc about a trans character and plenty of dialogue about gender identity and stereotypes, discrimination, the works. I’m not joking when I say that another episode goes so far as to feature feminization hypnosis. Yes, it really is that kind of show.
The entire elite taskforce of Doug & Kirill feels like it was designed along the same lines as a modern American sitcom cast. There’s Doug, your irrelevant straight, white male who agrees with the current things, then you have Kirill, your resident femboy beta with progressive ideas, then a butch dyke with the obligatory Skrillex haircut, a robot, a boss babe who takes no shit, a huge effeminate black guy, a disabled chick with a cartoonishly thick lisp, an authority figure who sounds like a gay pimp, a crossdresser, a dude literally named Bieber, and a young girl who joins at the same time as Kirill (effectively supplanting him) shattering all kinds of glass ceilings. Brave! Stunning and brave!
Probably the thing that pissed me off the most is that the disabled chick was their “guy in the chair”, as it were. She’s the one always at HQ relaying all manner of vital information and enabling the team to do their jobs. Are you fucking kidding me? Bro, I wouldn’t have minded if she were just a generic member of the team to show that even people with disabilities can be of use, yes, very inspiring, but you’re putting the chick with the thickest lisp I have ever heard in any anime in charge of verbally communicating information? Am I being Punk’d right now?
In Banana Fish, every character was either gay, a rapist, or both, and the show featured gay sex or gay rape every 5 minutes of runtime. And yet, Double Decker somehow managed to be even gayer than that. And you know what the real tragedy of it is? You know why I asked what the point of even making something like this was? Because you go to all this trouble to inject woke cancer into the anime medium only for the very people whom you were trying to pander towards to hate it. Of course they hate it. You absolute buffoon, you cannot appease creatures who are fundamentally animated by resentment and a primal desire to tear down everything of value and prestige. There’s no filling the all-consuming hungering void in their hearts. It’s such a wide-spread problem that there’s a consecrated term for it, woke scolding. There is no limit to how petty the woke scolding can be. You may side with them, but sooner or later, they will cannibalize you. I’ve done some reading and imajun moy shock when I found out that the woke brigade holds Double Decker in contempt for not being woke enough, presumably because the dyke doesn’t smash the patriarchy hard enough or some bullshit like that. I don’t know, don’t ask me to divine the mental musings of the inane.
The one detail that makes Double Decker markedly better than Tiger & Bunny is that it’s only 13 episodes long, so you would hypothetically only have to subject yourself to this dogshit for one cour – how far that goes in terms of redemption is a different matter altogether. Forgive me, I am just feeling enormous trepidation at the prospect of watching the T&B sequel.
There’s no reason for this show to exist. There’s even less reason for you to watch it.
cocolita22
This was fair, all the way through. I was pretty bored most of the time and only watched because the music was incredibly cool, and the funny moments were downright hilarious. They just didn't come up very often. I came into this expecting a really great relationship between the main characters, Doug and Krell, but they literally had the worst development I have ever seen. I don't even think they had a bond, so I don't know why that was advertised all over tumblr. Maybe I didn't pay close enough attention but I can't say that this show had any level of bromance or partnershipbetween two characters who were literally supposed to be partners in crime for the show's plot purposes.
I really wanted to like this show. But now I'm telling you... don't waste your time. Just don't.
SmashedTomatoes
I'll start this quoting a running gag: Double Decker is not an anime about heroes and dreams, It's about a bunch of people who can seamlessly turn between 2D animation and CGI. art: No, seriously, the whole series has a combination of 2D animation and 3D animation, and while the 3D segments look and move really good, the 2D animation sometimes fails, not because the movement is bad, but rather because the lines seem more like a rough sketch than the final deal, it's especially noticeable right in the opening, where there is a rather large sections where the images pass from these solid illustrations to something notquite as good looking, it still retains it's good looks when it's important.
Sound, Music:
Talking about the opening, while rather generic, when it comes to soundtrack, it is not terribly bad. The soundtrack and ending tho, is really good to the ears. The ending might lack animation, but it's quite the bashing song (if you like it), you can tell the band itself made a couple of changes for the official release of it, but that only fixes little things that don't impact the feel of the song. The other music in the anime is also good, but you'll have to pay attention for it as it doesn't stand out as much as other anime soundtracks. The sound effects are rarely unfitting, so I'd say that's not evidently bad, the guns actually sound really good, and so do the voices as you'd expect.
Story and Characters:
And all of the voices fit the Characters well, although most of them don't get over an episode to develop, but when they do, they become better. Kiril is the main guy, but also the guy who develops the most, and definitely the most enjoyable, that said, all of the characters bounce well with each other as soon as they apear for over 2 minutes at a time, because some characters are definitely left to the side and barely explained and one of them specifically only starts being "part of the group" towards the latter episodes.
That doesn't mean that the characters are perfect, some characters just get a cool trait for the sake of giving them a cool trait and some others do stuff for no interesting reason other than "Something like this happened to me" or a bunch of uninteresting reasons.
The way the anime tells a story is really unique, see, the characters do develop over the episodes, but each episode can be viewed individually and you'd understand them just fine. That does break the immersion, but the fact that it works towards the latter episodes is really good. Each episode has some sort of story development that will come on latter episodes, and similarly to older anime series, the important stuff does come back on the latter half of the anime but it's heavily wiped out in the last episode, so that was rather disappointing.
TLDR: The characters are good, but they are much better towards the latter half of the series.
Finally, I do gotta say that if you like detective story anime, your experience will be much more solid. It's a great anime regardless!
So when watching this series; Don't Think! Feel so Good!
brunnoloss
It is not a bad anime, but not entirely good either. The premisse is very interesting, a detective agency that focuses on solving special drugs related cases, and a it follows a rookie cop that joins this agency and is paired with an experienced detective to learn the ropes. Also, it is tagget here as 17+ and "adult themed". So yeah, it got my attention, even though it has CGI blended with 2D and the cast is overly colorfull for a 17+ adul themed anime... The story starts very good, the humour blends well with the action scenes, the contrast between characters are nicely done, the rookiecop been that naive, young adult who has a big dream and hopes to achieve it by joining the detectives and the expert detective, very talented, just trying to do his job. It is a nice combo. But it starts and ends there, they don't evolve in their relationship nor in their psyches along the series, they stay the same, an it is unfortunate, since the anime constantly hints at their relationship deepening, which, doesn't happen, at least I couldn't see it happening. Plot wise, it feels like it is moving forwards to something, until it just looses track of whatever goal it was aiming, to then suddenly resume going towards that goal in a disorganized, out of pace and lacking way.
Even so, the comedy did get to me, I laughed quite a bit and those moments of contrast from the detectives were very good.
Well, tough recommendation, but I'd say to watch it if you don't have a huge backlog to attend to or something else that caught your attention
