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That depends an awful lot on the party you run and whether or not you add mercenaries and know how to game the system*. With a smite mercenary coupled with a Court Poet, you can easily get over 30 CHA, that does a lot with Mark of Justice, and you can just stack Smites too. With Guarded Hearth, every attack bonus buff in the book, plus some extra cheese on top (like an extended duration Fortune) and debuffs on PD, and it's not impossible to actually hit Playful Darkness with some regularity. The problem is withstanding its attacks, and generally, even with a Last Stand tank, it's just much easier if you can use Creeping Doom, the summoned swarms can tank Playful Darkness for the entire duration of the spell with no real issues as they are immune to PD's attacks. The trick is to stack Pillars of Life so that the swarms don't accidentially go after the Shadows because they all die the moment they come into contact with the pillars. Oh, and use turn based mode for the fight, otherwise you'll probably not be able to control PD enough. From there you just pelt it dead. It's also not immune to mind affecting spells, or at least it wasn't before 1.2, so in theory Gromnir's Thug approach could work too, but I don't really know if the roll works out all right on Unfair. I just blocked it with Creeping Swarm and used the smite mercenary's long spear from behind the swarms while Ember used her supercharged Hellfire Rays and the Oracle threw Bolts of Justice. That'll do a some 200+ damage per round, and that's enough. Still managed to kill one of the animal companions, but that's just a minor setback. That's pretty much what they're there for anyway. 94 AC isn't enough for full immunity to physical attacks outside of natural 20ies, but it's not very far away from that either. For all intents and purposes though, that fight is very much designed to be cheesed. I have no idea if they hired Westley Weimar to design it, but Kuroisan the Acid Kensai felt pretty similar. Except that was a mod made to provide the player with a threat on the level of their own party (or rather, to make the player see how it feels to be on the receiving end of some fine cheese). The other is just questionable game design. *Like casting all four Geniekind variants on your frontline with Elemental Barrage on the Brown-Fur Transmuter (that works and yields very funny results), then size buffs afterwards as it doesn't work the other way around. You can really roll some ludicrous numbers with that. By the time you reach Playful Darkness buffing 4x Geniekind + Legendary Proportions should be possible.

Playful Darkness has 94 AC against regular attacks on Unfair. Good thing it can't do anything against Creeping Doom swarms but wait and sit until Ember is done Hellfire Raying his behind while the Angel MC nukes it with Bolts of Justice. Several Pillars of Life made the Shadows go boom after the ran into the fray. I don't see a way to defeat this thing in a non-cheese way on Unfair. Well, if you have a front-line with Last Stand, you can tank it for three turns, I guess. Not necessarily enough to nuke it dead, but it's doable. Still, bringing Creeping Doom along is probably the best way. Swarms suck, huh? Good thing when they suck on your side. Ember got her Cross-Blooded Sorcerer level and spell focus Hellfire Ray, so she's pretty much one-shotting dangerous things that aren't bosses left and right now. Pretty much over the hump now. Sure, ludicrous 300 damage crits can still randomly make any given mook battle an instant reload, but those are getting sparser.

I honestly have no idea. That's just random stuff strung together without any rhyme or reason as far as I can see. I have no idea how old the author is, but I'm guessing having seen Sailor Stars in teenage years is kind of out of the question if they're about as old as one would expect an editor at a magazine to be, unless they were serious anime nerds and watched fansubs of Stars and had both the internet access necessary to get the episodes as well as the know how. It's not impossible though. Or maybe they're really young, that could explain a thing or two. Although, why would you let someone who just recently watched the series for the first time write a 30 year nostalgia piece. That seems silly. I can confirm that in part. My perception of certain things in Sailor Moon certainly changed during the recent rewatch, most notably my intense dislike for Chibi-Usa disappeared, and my appreciation for Hotaru as woobie dropped a little. My overall favorite season stayed the same with Sailor Moon S, the second place once again went to Sailor Stars (but it's close, so close, in spite of all the problems of Sailor Stars), but Sailor Moon R dropped a bit. SuperS is dead last now and something I barely remember from the first watch, so I'm going to assume it was dead last too. The biggest surprise (which really wasn't not hating Chibi-Usa ) of the rewatch was that I really enjoyed the first season, more so than parts of R, but overall they're kind of equal now. As far as the storyline episodes go, back when I was a teenager, I really liked the S storyline, and the end of Stars, in the sense that I didn't really think they were strange or out of whack with the rest of the show, nor did the inconsistencies bother me all too much. R was a mixed bag even then, the Doom Tree arc I thought was thoroughly enjoyable (never mind making sure that I actually fell in love with the show), the DEATH PHANTOM storyline was so-so - the middle parts were fine, the ending was a tad too silly. Now, as an adult, the R storyline at the end is complete pants, while I actually liked the middle parts, or some of it, at least. The redemption of the Spectre Sisters, for instance, or how effortlessly the show made me feel bad for Saphir and especially Petz. I still get the feeling that having watched this much earlier makes me less negatively disposed towards the storyline episodes, even though it's very plain to see how much of a break they represent compared to the other episodes. There's also something else to consider. For instance, the pacing issues of the Sailor Stars finale aren't as bothersome when you're on a TV station controlled watch schedule and they just air one episode a day. You watch that for 20 minutes, are glad that there's Sailor Moon on TV and that's about it. Having control over when you want to continue, you suddenly run into the issue that the finale of Stars is mired in issues that kind of make you want to not click on "next episode" - something that never even could up during the regular TV watching. It's probably even more different for a weekly schedule like Japan had. Overall, I think my impressions of the story episodes would change again on another rewatch, mostly because I now read parts of the source material and watched Crystal, and it's really hard not to appreciate how much effort the writing team of the anime had to put into making a passable anime adaptation at all, never mind one that's semi-coherent, has consistent characterization (outside of SuperS of course) and produced some of my most favorite anime moments of all time. The writers for Crystal did nothing of that, and the result was a disaster. Crystal was way worse than the manga, which is interesting overall because it was rather faithful (not in all things). That also harkens back to the manga being a monthly issue. Reading it all at once reveals an immense amount of issues that one would be more willing to forgive when you read the 20 or so pages an issue has after a month.

That's just going to be the best film ever. It has to be. It cannot be anything else.

Here comes the big one, I guess I cannot say no to meat when it so readily presents itself in my lair. No, I'm not doing a creepy impression of a freaking spider swarm in a dark wood. I also have no idea how Aragog managed to procreate, I mean look at the size of that thing, and where's the... never mind, never mind. I tried to read this as unbiased as I could, and I did not get very far into the article before failing. Alas, even as much as the second paragraph confirmed my wildest fears. The filler content in Sailor Moon is a lot of things. In some cases it's frustrating, in some cases it's boring, in some cases it tries to do something and falls flat, however, there is one thing it barely ever is, especially when compared to the non-filler story material: Forgettable - never mind that almost all (and you could make a case for really all) of the best episode of this wonderful anime are, well, filler. Technically, many of the episodes on the list are. I can agree on it being by no means perfect, but when you look at the source material, even that statement can be looked at in a very different light. It's by no means perfect, but unlike the source material, at least it's not incoherent nonsense at the best of times. Sweet mother of Jesus, at least read the source material before you post about it. There's no character development in the first two arcs of the manga, and very little in the third. It's not until Dream where the characters get much of a personality even - and by then the anime already did the job. Famously, Naoko Takeuchi hated the changes made, especially to Rei, but Rei in the manga is pretty boring. Harping on about this lost a lot of its fun though, after actually reading her commentary about the manga and the working conditions, so there's that, and I won't say much more, at least for the time being. Let's go through the list: This is one of the forgettable filler padding. It's one of the funniest episodes, has a whacky monster and Minako and Usagi at their very comedic best, and at the end of the day it toys heavily with gender roles and expectations without being obtrusive and annoying, however, to the manga's credit, that part of Haruka was there too. I can agree with placing this in the top 10, even. We're off to a good start. So we're doing Black Lady as top 10 episode. If I wasn't convinced that this Wilson Chapman character doesn't know what they're talking about, well, now I'm certain. Granted, the anime version of Black Lady at least doesn't dominate the mind of her father and make out with him in front of her mother (with the implication of much worse having happened) like the manga version did, but it's best to not think too much about this Electra complex stand-in gone too far. This one is hard for me. I absolutely love the episode because if - and only if - you can ignore the nature of Sailor Moon, the impact this potentially has is enormous. On the other hand, it also highlights the very core of the issue of the story episodes in the anime, even in the first season where they are at their most focused and consistently good: They break with the rest of the show so hard you can't fault anyone for either not caring, losing immersion or quite frankly realizing that there's no stake at all to be had, and when you just know everything will be all right in the end, then what does it matter if everyone dies? It won't stick. In a way, this is also the major contrast between the anime and the manga. The manga is almost always this dour and serious, while the anime only is when it can no longer avoid adapting the manga chapters into story episodes. In a way it's a bit like with the Marvel vs. the DC movies of the recent decade. Many films of the former realize that superheroes are inherentily silly and ridiculous, and the films reflect that, while the latter simply takes itself far too seriously most of the time. You might get some entertainment out of the DC films (the recent ones were supposedly good, but I stopped after being subjected to Batman v. Superman), but if you want to have a good time, you're much better off watching the Marvel films. Before someone tries to bash my head in, I'm not saying the MCU is as good as Sailor Moon. It is a good episode, I think, but a far cry from top 10 material. R's filler arc is certainly a treasure trove of fun, and something that only the complete filler arcs in the series managed to do. However, as a top ten episode, I don't know. It showed Usagi accepting her role as Sailor Moon, but the truth is, we already did that in the finale in the last season, kind of. The finale of the first season had her accepting being Princess Serenity, this one is about her being a defender of love and justice. It works, it's great, but... huh. No. Also, we're now 2:2 with the filler padding versus storyline episodes. Okay, so for this resident Sailor Jupiter fanboy, it's hard to disagree that this is one whammy of an episode, and the Sailor Stars filler arc is pretty great. Just about the only time Sailor Moon does a story arc that's somewhat serious so well that it doesn't feel alien to the rest of the series, all the characters are more or less behaving the way they should with perhaps the exception of Minako being a more serious leader type for a change (carrying over her manga personality more than her anime one). 3:2 filler versus manga content, by the way. Huh. Also, there's this gem in the text: Amen. If there's nothing else I could agree with in this list, it's this. This, this, and a thousand times this. SuperS is the worst. Okay, so personally I am of the opinion that if you really want any super serious storyline episode in a top ten list, then this is simply the contender for it. Not only the contender, but potentially the only serious mode episode one could potentially put near the very top. It's also the highest rated Sailor Moon episode on IMBD, although that doesn't say too much, like all user ratings (and critical ones to boot, just look at this list). Minor interesting thing first: This is also filler, because nothing of the sort happens in the manga. The entire talisman storyline is made up for the anime, in the manga verison, they just always have those. While it's a story episode, it's also padding, in a way. What sets it apart is that while it is more serious in tone, it also follows more directly from the rest of the season. Neptune and Uranus were built up the entire season, not just get dropped on you (like, oh, pretty much every evil energy entity behind the villains in like, oh, every season!). It is also the only time any thematic exploration in Sailor Moon really works and it's just heartbreaking to see Uranus and Neptune fail in their promises and their utilitarian outlook, best exemplified when Haruka asks Usagi, of all people, to continue her work. I absolutely love this episode, but I can also see why one wouldn't, although it cleverly avoids the watcher knowing that none of them will die in the end. They're side characters and sacrifices were a theme before. One that goes through character development even, like with Minako when she wonders if it is all worth it. Generall, S is by far and large the best season, and some of the best entertainment of all time, period. Let's bring the counter to 3:3, if only because of the serious nature, and it does advance the basic manga storyline too, in some minor way. Yeah, uhm, no, just no. I get it, after like 33 episodes the mythology of the series finally moves a bit, but how is this in a top 10 list. It wouldn't even make a top 10 list limited to the first season, outside of maybe having the most ridiculous DiC dub moment when Usagi finds out who Tuxedo Mask really is. Give me more filler with Naru and Nephrite over this. If you want a serious first season episode, take Nephrite's redemption out of the honorable mentions, and put it... maybe not here exactly, but in the list. Even that can be argued against. 4:4 Filler vs. Story now. Considering that there are less story episodes than filler, this is looking good for the story episode, but that's only if you agree with their placements, which I really don't. There's nothing wrong with picking this episode as a top 10, it's a perfect representation of Sailor Stars, makes fun of the neurotic forumla Sailor Moon has by making a mockery of everything, including the secret transformations, and shows how ridiculous Usagi's wings are when in a cramped situation. Honestly... there's nothing wrong with placing this at #3, outside of the top 5 being reserved for the best character moments of the show as a matter of course, so it really can't be there simply because other episodes are both funny and meaningful, instead of just funny. I liked that episode more than most other posters here, I think, but number two? Nope, no dice. 4:5 for Filler vs. Storyline in the list though. Not sure what else to say about this, other than this being an episode that in many ways not only influenced but is directly referenced in Steven Universe and Steven's little tussle with Bismuth. Much of the Sailor Stars story arc is referenced in Steven Universe, not very surprising since it was a major source of inspiration for Rebecca Sugar. And now for the absulte biggest huh moment: Huh? How is this episode any better than the one you put at #5? How? In what way? Once again, I might want to add that I was the least hard on Sailor Moon's story stuff in our watch here, and I probably liked the story culmination of S more than the other season's, but we're talking about the best episode of the show here, and nothing in the final story episode of Sailor Moon S is top 10 material, let alone a contender for the best episode of the anime. I'm not sure if The Death of Uranus and Neptune: The Talisman Appears is, even if the users of IMDB disagree. Final tally 4:6, not too bad for the author's idea of Sailor Moon. In my top 10 that would probably be more like 9:1. Naru's Tears is a fine episode, and one of the more serious ones you could easily place in a top 10 list if you wanted one of those in them. The season two episodes, well, no, not really. The Labyrinth of Water: Ami Targeted is honestly one of the best episodes of S even if you don't like Ami all that much, and therefore one of the best in the series, and I'd place it in a top 10 list, probably. Along with all the other Sailor Moon S character focus pieces except the one that explores Uranus and Neptune's past. That was a fine idea in theory that didn't work out in practice. Mirrors of Dreams: the Amazon’s Last Stage I already complained about, Farewells and Encounters: the Transitioning Stars of Destiny is nice, but there are better Sailor Stars episodes. The Shining Power of a Star: Chibi-Chibi’s Transformation is the one with Usagi and Seiya playing softball, and for that sequence alone it deserves a spot in the list, not just one in the honorable mentions. Well, so not everything the author said was wrong. Just most if it! Also, there's clearly ONE thing that's wrong with Sailor Moon, and that is it doesn't have enough... Just because I can.

Yes, exactly. Anyone who rates an episode where a pedophile horse rescues three rapists from their well deserved punishment, fulfills their every wish and takes them to watch what he does at his lake where he brings his little girl(s)... even as much as an honorable mention... I don't even... that's just vile, man. Vile. edit: In all fairness (and that is REALLY hard to do when it comes to SuperS), the episode did do a good job at showing how little agency these three SOBs had over their own "life" and sparked a modicum of understanding for their position and made their sacrifice somewhat meaningful, in the end. Then comes Pegasus and everything falls hard apart. Because, really, even without agency, these three were just terrible people all in all. Could have been a really nice episode if they just stayed dead after giving up their "life" as pseudo-humans to save Usagi.

Well, not every single thing, but more on that later...

Fun fact there, watching on Amazon Prime and turning on the subtitles, the words "Look up" uttered by the Borg Queen are actually captioned as coming from Yvette (Picard). Rich is probably right about that, and this isn't the first time subtitles spoiled who characters are before they are supposed to be revealed. edit: Fun fact 2: I started out hating Wesley Crusher in TNG, and I still hate him on rewatches, but less and less with each rewatch. This is an inverse of Wil Wheaton. The more I see of the guy, the more I just loathe him. That he apparently lives in Alex Kurtzman's rectum doesn't help that impression. Sheesh. Golden age of Star Trek? Forget brown-nosed, he's got a brown neck already. Yikes.

Of course not, you're just being you, as usual. Something we're all guilty of, of course.

Pretty much my impression as well.

Not sure if it was linked before: https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine Celeste alone would be worth the asking price, but it ALSO has THIRSTY SWORD LESBIANS. Plus 989 other games...

No freedom toast? Count me out.

You should really try Attack No. 1 at some point. There's a whole class of girls and outside of Kozue and Midori, I can't seem to retain any of the names. Well, no, not right, there's this Tsutomu guy, but who cares about Kozue's first half of the show's romantic interest.

I have no idea how anyone can take my post as recommendation, just because it's not painful enough to stab yourself over doesn't really mean it's worth watching. Also: ^ Very much this. I hated every second of the first season of Picard, so the first episode of the second season being sort of all right - outside of making up a family trauma for a long established character to explain something that needs no explanation for the sole sake of having romance drama in your show - was indeed a pleasant surprise. I'm pretty sure it won't last. It never does with nuTrek.

It is for Germany and Austria, but that doesn't mean it's available in Serbia. Distribution licencing is a mess, streaming services are springing up left and right making everything even worse and the executives then wonder why everyone's turning to easier alternatives. Yeah, wonder why. No idea, really.

Yes, we did, because everything happens in cycles, just like the Timless Prophet said. I mean, ehm... well, yes. Sekiro for sure was more straightforward, but it also felt like a whole lot more was missing from the game. I don't exactly mind indirect storytelling or having to go look for backstories. The best part about Dragon Age: Inquisition for me was looking at elven ruins trying to figure out what really happened in the past. The actual plot not so much, and the gameplay, well... erm, nope. It's just that I for some reason bought into the hype and ended up being sorely disappointed by virtually everything about Dark Souls, from the supposed difficulty to the fantastic and deep story. I still enjoyed playing Dark Souls very much because it's a good game, it just wasn't what I thought it would be. Going in without expectations would probably have been a lot better. Dark Souls is well worth the price of admission, although 40$ is a bit pricey considering it's age. From that you can gauge if you'd actually like the other games, except Sekiro, because that's a very different game and forgoes many of the elements found in the Soulsbourne games. For some, like @Bartimaeus to the detriment of the game. I liked Sekiro's focus, although I can understand why the relative lack of variety in combat styles and enemies can be a problem. Regarding the game's fabled difficulty, I can't say much. Dark Souls is home to an iconic pair of bosses you fight at once that I heard a whole lot about that I ended up beating on my very first attempt, but I struggled with a boss that is supposed to be an early pushover learning experience. Mostly, like I posted once or twice already, because I really gimped my character. I read that magic users have an easier time, so I started out as one, then noticed that I just can't kill anything with magic (because I didn't get how the system works, oh my!) then switched to pyromancy which is flat damage that doesn't depend on anything but gear upgrades and also noticed that it's not enough to kill things (because I didn't get how the system works, oh my!) and so I had a character with 45 agility for the highest pyromancy casting speed, some other casting stats and a whole lot of nothing else wading into melee. Which wasn't very pleasant, but hey, school of hard knocks and all that, the rest of the game was smooth sailing, especially after finding a good agi-scaling weapon. Turns out playing a quick melee glass cannon works too. Except it was not the easy mode I hoped for. That said, while I don't think of myself as the greatest of players, the above statement was made from one of the 1% of players who were able to achieve Embrace the Void in Hollow Knight. Not that the games are comparable at all (and achievement trackers aren't the most reliable source of information), just as a point of reference. There's some fun jank in Dark Souls too. Fans claim it's always fair and you never die unless you make mistakes, but that's not entirely true. There's the usual, hits that shouldn't have been there, invulnerability frames that don't always work the way they should, ridiculous gotcha moments and the funny archers in Anor Londo... which, sorry fanboys, is just bad, bad, BAAAAAAAAAAD game design. Ugh.

I'm very, very sorry. If/when you try the series be sure to explain in detail what you think of Spike.

Star Trek Picard, season 2, episode 1: "The Star Gazer" So... time travel Q alternate reality plot aside, this wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. At the very least I didn't feel like gouging my eyes out and piercing my eardrums to make it stop, which is a big improvement over all the other episodes of this show, even though it still took an awful lot of stupid contrivances to get everyone back in action and everyone is quite frankly at their dumbest, not being able to see the forest for the trees. Let's see how disappointing it will get.

Welcome to the club, I've made more than my fair share of such comments, and apparently in reply to the same posters.

What can I do to purge my mind of some of the thoughts that accumulated over watching Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and Wicked City? I look at that BR cover and... don't look if you can't... you know, yeah. Probably not the intention of the image and it's for sure just harmless. Huh. Oh dear, oh dear.

I wish I could like this post ten times over. While I enjoyed playing Dark Souls, it's fandom fandumb also caused it to be one of the bigger disappointments for me. I was looking forward to a dark, excessively hard game with this supposedly amazing story... and it ended up being all right in terms of difficulty (even accidentially gimped my character pretty hard) and the story is basically just you being the chosen one who can either keep the world alive as it is, or let it start over. Such wow, much awsome, <more meme stuff goes here>. Sure, the world building in the game was pretty good and the way you can unlock shortcuts is fantastic, and you could read item descriptions and look at the world design to gather a lot of the history of the setting, but that's just not what I was looking forward to. Not the game's fault. Fandumb's gonna fandumb: QED.

Uh, no, thanks, but I'm not losing sleep* over the situation, just said it was surreal. *Not any more than my messed up sleeping cycle from the lockdowns does, anyway, or the usual sort of insomnia that's normal for me, anyway.

St... St... Discovery, thing. Episode something, season whatever. "We're in orbit around a former gas giant. The gas was burnt off by meterorite impacts." Except for the beginning, the episode was fine, actually. Not good, but in the context of the endless sea of stupid this is, it was passable.

We have colleagues in both Russia and the Ukraine (who are all fine, luckily, for the time being at least), it's pretty surreal.

Speaking of Madhous stuff, time to give an opinion, I guess. Not sure why, but I, ahem, decided to watch: 妖獣都市 / Yōjū Toshi / Wicked City (1987) If one does a quick google search for the title and looks at images, one could get the impression that this is tentacle porn. Hard to deny that there's one scene that fits the bill, there's also a visit in a brothel by a rather energetic old man and not one, but four separate rape scenes (assuming one counts a demon posing as a girlfriend to seduce a man as sexual assault, I'd say it is, but your mileage may vary), which is always a plus. The erotica is softcore by far and large, there's some very explicit tentacle/mouth penetration going on at some point, but that's the worst of it. Well, let's not forget that there's a spider demon with a vagina with teeth and one of the demons has a full body vagina the male protagonist eventually gets, dunno, sucked into, more or less. Let's just say that stuff is pretty Japanese all in all, but it's not as bad as the uncensored version of Legend of the Overfiend, for instance. This film also happens to be one of the few instances where still images look better than the actual film in motion. The animation is choppy and feels pretty constricted, if you've watched any of the old animated Superman or Batman cartoons you know what I mean, scenes where only the mouth moves, animations that seem to be only key-frames strung together, that sort of stuff. It looks a whole lot better than a Saturday morning cartoon, but the animation quality is on par with that, which is somewhat strange for an actual animated feature of the area - much less one made by Madhouse. With that out of the way, let's discuss the films biggest failures. Wait, you say, that wasn't it? No, sadly, it's also tremendously boring. At first its ponderously slow, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it squanders its time on useless erotic scenes that don't look good enough to be interesting and only have a very limited link to the actual plot. What do I mean by that? Well, the entire opening of the film has one very simple goal: The demons want to obtain a DNA sample of the male lead character Taki. They do so by replacing his girlfriend - or rather the girl whose pants he spent the last three months trying to get into - and cue one very long, excessively boring (albeit quite stylish) scene that ends with a spider demon with the aforementioned toothy vagina absorbing his man-goo. No, we couldn't just had a scene where they'd take his glass in the bar, or something. Pluck out a hair with follicle, or anything else that doesn't waste 15 minutes of the runtime of the film. Normally that would be fine, but the movie stays this ponderous until the end where everything is rushed to a conclusion with no setup, and the final fight between the "Black Guard" (original Japanese means Dark Guard) and the bad guy lasts all but half a minute because the film needs to be wrapped up, folks. Not that I need protracted action scenes or anything, but it sure feels rushed. The subject matter - a tenous peace treaty between demons and humans scheduled to be renewed soon, and the signing ceremony is under threat by extremists - might have been interesting, maybe even original, in the year the film came out, in this day and age that's simply par for the course, but I'm not holding the plot against the film, but the fact that it was boring. There's a plot twist too, one that's silly and links back to the aforemntioned DNA check by the spider demon. Taki is paired with the female lead of the film - after being, well, raped by the spider demon, I guess so props for making a man the victim of something for a change... I think... not sure if that makes it better, but sex with demons is said to be so great many times through the film it should probably tide Taki over any misgivings with the teeth and all that - the demoness Makie, to protect an old geezer who is necessary for the peace treaty signing. Plot twist: As a final insult, none of the characters are actually interesting. Taki is a philandering macho who poses as a pseudo-film noir hardass Dark Guard, and Makie has all the personality of an ice block. Makie is sexually assaulted no less than three times, by her demon ex in the beginning, once by a parasite demon shoving their tentacle down her throat and once in a great gang rape scene where the extremists capture her and the leader decides to let his underlings have fun with her before she's executed in order to lure Taki to the demon realm. Right, there's also the scene where the spider demon catches Makie and Taki, and, ah, she shoots her spider webs at them, in what I can best only describe as a scene looking an awful lot like animated bukkake (editor's note: Do not google if you're unaware) with spider "silk". All in all, this is pretty much a waste of time. The plot is, eh, not very interesting, the plot twist is stupid, the movie at first doesn't go anywhere storywise then wraps everything up in ten minutes, there's a whole lot of not very interesting erotica (and I presume not very interesting even for people who otherwise like animated erotic scenes), some action which is universally boring, choppy animation and... yeah. There's really no point in watching this. Like, at all. Google pictures yourself, I'd rather not post those.