With the DCU about to start up in 2025 next year is going to be a big year for DC Comics however that doesn't mean that there still aren't some good stuff coming out this year. Take for example the very show that i;m about to talk about today as this is a show is going to fly under the radar for quite alot of people due to the fact that it's an anime but it's also a show that's really so strange and so out there that you really do have to do see in order to really believe that it's actually a thing and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE first impressions of the show that sees a group villains magically transported to another world with the show in question being called simply just "Suicide Squad Isekai" enjoy.
The plot of this show is Task Force X are magically transported to another world where they are then taker prisoner only they have 72 hours to get back to there helicopter before the bombs in there necks exploaded. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty just as bonkers and just as insane as you'd expect from something that's involving Task Force X and yet at the exact same time the plot of this show really isn't strong enough to carry an entire ten episode series of a TV show as it's something that could have been covered in the shows first two episodes with the bigger plot being something more dangerous and something that only Task Force X can help with and yet be giving them a weak plot fort these first three episodes it doesn't start the best show of with it's best foot forward with the plot of this show show being really entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
This post is being based off of the dubbed version of the show which does have a draw back in the fact that there's no cast list for the dubbed cast anywhere online. With the only cast available being that for the Japanese cast of the show which is odd as this is show is being released with both the subbed and dubbed versions of the show being released and yet there's only one cast list available for the show with not even the shows own end credits saying who is playing who in the dubbed version but one thing is for sure we don't have either Tara Strong or Hynden Walch as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn as the person that they did get to play her doesn't sound anything like either of them which does make sense but at the same time when there her two most recognisable voices in terms of modern day Harley Quinn then it would have made sense for the makers of this dub to at least reach out and see if they were interested in playing her in this show as all that's going to happen is that this new voice actress is going to compared to those two.
Now then interms of what I personally thought felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in ll honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with all of the shows cast members turning some really good performances. With all of the characters sounding good and having some really good sounding voices however with that being said there is one character that has a terrible sounding voice and that's The Joker who instead of sounding like a menacing villain who could be a legit scary scary now just sounds weird and off putting and not in the way that makes him scary rather it's in the way that makes him laughable and someone that you want to laugh at instead of someone that you want to run away from while the actor playing him turns in a decent performance there's no getting past the fact that the voice for the character is all kinds of wrong with the script for these episodes not really helping the cast for these episodes as the script for all of these episode is just so bad as it gives none of the cast members of these episodes absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which so something that really doesn't help with the overall quality of the acting that's in these very episodes.
Doing the animation for these episodes is of course the legends and the greats that are currently over at Wit Studio. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good and was alot better then what it really had any right to be as when you think of an anime featuring the Suicide Squad you don't typically think of good looking animation and yet that's exactly what we got in all three of these episodes as the animation in all three of these episodes really a visual treat for the eyes to see as not only did all of the characters have alot of really nice looking fluid movements to them but all of the backgrounds for all three episodes looked really good as well with the animation also managing to make each of the episodes backgrounds feel unique and different and making each one of them standout from each other with the animation in all three episodes also being helped by the shows rather unique looking art style which looked fresh and different and not something that you'd expect to see in an anime at all.
As was to be expected they do introduce some new characters in these first three episodes with perhaps the best one being Fione. With the character being pretty much the princess of this new world that Task Force X fund themselves on and while the character doesn't really have that big of a role in these first three episodes it is quite clear that she will go onto have a least a small recurring role in the show with her acting as kind of like an ally to Task Force X with her willing to give them a chance to do whatever it is that they've got to do but at the same time tho just based off of these first three episodes there's not really alot to this character outside of the fact that she's princess type of character and that's really it and that's not enough to make her an interesting character but on the flip side of that is the fact that if she is a recurring character and not a major character then you don't really want her to be all that interesting of a character ahs she does have the potential to be all the more interesting then the shows main characters as even the shows main characters aren't that interesting either but that does kind of make of sense as there are seven other episodes to make these characters all the more interesting then what there make out to be in these first three episodes.
In what is a rather strange move is the fact that this show technically premiered in America before Japan. As the first three episodes of the show premiered on Max and Hulu both dubbed and subbed a week before episode one of the show is due to premier in Japan where the first three episodes will be releasing weekly this is something that really hasn't been done before now as usually when a new anime debuts it debuts in Japan first before heading over to America and yet while it does make sense for this show to premier in America first as these are after all American characters it still feels odd getting a brand new anime a week before the Japanese get it as they could have released the show at the exact same time so that no one can be spoiled and yet by releasing the show in American a whole week before the Japanese get it it means that the Japanese now have to avoid spoilers for three weeks before then having to avoid spoilers on a week to week basis as the Americans are getting each new episode a week before the Japanese will be getting it and while these are American characters and as a result the Americans should get the top priority as they are the franchise holders for these characters but there has to be a fairer way to do a release like this without making sure that spoilers get dropped online via something like X for example.
Without giving away what the alot of the jokes are in these first three episodes but it's safe to say that alot of the jokes in this show based off of these first three episodes aren't going to be that good. As alot of them just boil down to making references to other American products which is funny the first time that they do it as it's apart of this characters character to make a joke like that but when it's all of the jokes that are in these first three episodes then you really do have a problem as it makes all of these jokes feel repetitive and they get less and less funny the more chance that they do them and while the Suicide Squad characters have never really had that many funny jokes the one character that has always have some really funny jokes was the only character to get a laugh in these first three episodes and that was Harley Quinn and even then it's due to the fact that the writers of these first three episodes got alot of the characters down perfectly from a writing point of view and as a result of that is the fact that the characters that were funny back in the comics do also come across as being funny in these first three episodes as well.
Now then all three of these episodes has / had an exact grand total running time of no longer then twenty five minuets with all three episodes also having an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty four minuets and four seconds. Which is a solid running time for episodes two and three to have but episode one really did need to be longer as it had so much to set up both from a storyline perspective and from a world point of view as well and still tell a somewhat good story and that's not something that it can do with that running time and as a result of that is the fact that key things that should have been set up and should have been explained either aren't explained at all or if they are explained then it's not very well done as the episode just brushes over it instead of really giving the time and focus that it really needs and really does deserve this is isn't really an issue with the other two episodes as something does happen in either episode two or three which they don't explain but it's something that's important to the overall plot of the show and in that regard it makes sense not to explain that thing away but I will admit that all three of these episodes really do have some really good pacing to all of them tho.
So now then as this an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With all of this shows action scenes looking really good and all of this shows main characters getting the chance to do alot of really cool looking things in all of the action scenes that are all of these three action with the action in these first three episodes also giving us the audience a chance to see what each of member of the team bring to the team which also makes the alot of the action scenes in all three episodes all the more exciting and this is helped by the fact that something happens to the team that makes the action feel different from something that you'd see in say one of the live action Suicide Squad movies for example as due to the fact that this is animation the action in all three of these episode being fun crazy and over the top and that is something makes the action in all of three of these episodes really fun to watch as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this show isn't as good as Batman Ninja was so far this show is of to a good start and it does have plenty of potential to be a really fun anime that people who love anime and comics can come together and watch and hopefully they'll both be able to enjoy this show as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these episodes in this very post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if this post does decently well and if you guys want me to check out another episode then I will do it and that post would then be a review of that episode and that episode only and not a review of the show as a whole.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official DC Database fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to really use to get the images from these very episodes that I really used in this very post being the really great Google Images simply just because of the fact that really due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are in this post really are all really from these very episodes and are really of course up and really on the really great Google Images are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.