Wicked City and Demon City Shinjuku - Double Feature [Blu-ray]

Excellent anime films featuring, my favourite style,drawn anime styles from the 80s; genuine all round quality in my opinion.

Wicked City was a favourite of mine as a teen getting into anime. The mix of sex and violence, film noir stylings and creative demon designs were something which blew my young mind. I had the Manga VHS release, which I didn't know had some small BBFC trims here and there to some of the more hentai-like scenes. The bluray is uncut, but still there's nothing here that comes close to things you'd see in the Urotsukidoji films. Sadly the Manga dub that I was familiar with isn't included here, it is a different dub. I think the new one is probably better at describing the convoluted plot, but I do miss the old voices. Especially the old man Mayart, in this he sounds like a bored 30-year old. I always found it a shame there was no sequel to Wicked City, although there was a live action adaptation that sadly changed a lot of the plot.Demon City Shinjuku was one I knew as 'Monster City' back in the day. It was never one of my favourites but it's entertaining enough, with some decent action scenes. I feel the 18 rating is a bit overzealous, there's nothing too graphic in here, it doesn't have the mild hentai of Wicked City, mainly just occasional violence against demons. The dub on this one is horrendous, with some weird accent choices.The picture and sound quality are good for both films, nothing to complain about here. Both good representations of the two films, it's just a shame all the available dubs weren't included.

Great classic manga.Glad to now have them

Classic anime and worth watching

watched both as a kid, still got demon city (tho called monster city originally) on a vhs, wicked city with its infamous spider scene i hadnt even forgotten despite years of not watching this, memorable characters too and is clearly the best of the two, demon city i feel is not quite as good but still worth the watch, as a whole for a double package at the price for some real old skool anime from my youth days was worth it

Spicy gory and horror, must have for lovers of anime

A good hd transfer of a classic 90s anime. Aspect ratio is 4:3 no windscreen but the colours pop amd the new digital trak is fantastic.if you had it on vhs buy this!

It's been very difficult to find either of these movies with English subtitles, and suddenly they're released with English subs on Blu-ray! The picture quality is superb, no artifacts or pixelation.The movies themselves are great: quintessentially 80s, dark, and stylish. A must-have for fans of classic anime and horror.