If there was a show that I would proclaim having "a bloody good time" at, it would be Jashin-chan Dropkick, and 2 seasons later with a 2-year gap on each release, with Season 3, it's still the same show I remember with an insane record for being crowdfunded by the people, for the fans. Guess this goes to show that even anime can be made with the dedication of its people. The Snake Girl and her "minions"...er I mean her dominator and friends are back with yet another passing realm of 2 years, and to make things better for Season 3, Hatsune Miku is here tojoin aboard not just as a cameo, but being of a meme advertising material of screenshots for people thinking what is this show all about. And it certainly got its popularity being the only constant even when the jokes fell flat at times. However, like some of you whom have stuck through the series since its inception in 2018 as a dark, supernatural comedy that was a legit surprise when it was released, Jashin-chan Dropkick is still that insane show where people have fun killing and spreeing the hell outta the happy-go-lucky but deceptive Jashin-chan, and none is so the wiser with Yurine Hanazono being her babysitting guardian to take care of and pummel her if she goes by left. The cast of Jashin-chan Dropkick has always been both the source material and the anime's shining point, and they are still hilarious to watch, though "gullible" is the word to use when the cast has grown up learning to live with Jashin-chan's extremist personality of dodges and finger-pointing for this long. Regardless of how the Snake Girl has treated them with animosity, she is still being regarded as the family between the devils and angels, and it shows from Medusa still being the unequivocal ATM to the cheap Pekola doing some job hopping, hoping to earn enough just to live by daily. The "same same, no different story" carries on with the production staff's crazy antics over at Nomad, as did the same for now 3 seasons straight, which is the baiting constant to go atypical with whatever it desires to showcase, and it never gets old. Though in the case of the OST, I would say that while halca feat. Aina Suzuki does a decent job on the OP that's just as good as Season 2's OP (that both can't dethrone Season 1's highly nostalgic and god-like entertainment excellence of an OP), the ED by VTuber KAF and virtual singer Kafu is the best out of the 3 seasons, bar none. So, decent OP, and vice versa on the ED. There is just something special about Jashin-chan Dropkick that stands out on the myriad of the anime space. More than its crowdfunding success and its crazy-ass marketing tactics (which this season's mindless brandishing of Hatsune Miku gets people talking for attention, more than the whole "escape across Japan" tourist arc), the series itself that's based on a web comic as consistently impressed to those whom like it, and this trend has never stopped since the anime adaptation begun. Love it or hate it, Jashin-chan Dropkick is really enjoyable if you turn off your brain to loose scrambles if you can take its dark, supernatural, and definitely a satirical take on the outlook of life. Be it a runaway journey across the country or back at home, it has its ups and down, but make no mistake that this series is a modern cult classic in the making, and I for one, will not stop brandishing its wild success. Will there be yet another crowdfunding for Season 4? Who knows, but if it gets greenlit, I will lift up my hands to the anime gods and say: "Let the praises ring".

What The Fuck? Jashin-Chan Dropkick X, the third season, oh did I pray for your sublimity to correspond to a type of humor like Happy Tree Friends. Oh did I pray to you to give us moments as absurd as also pitiful with your angels and demons. Oh did I pray you to re-use the running gag that could still work after three seasons straight, namely Jashin-Chan’s Dropkick (Duh!). Oh did I pray to your humor more meta than ever. Of course that I'm angry. Even extremely disappointed with the beauty it could give us. This season could not exist if our dear Japanese friends did notgive to the crowdfunding enough a few months after the second season was broadcast. The hype was insane when I saw that it was finally in production. And goodness gracious how I overestimated it. I do not want to summarize the other seasons, thinking that all of you had already seen them before looking at the third, unless you are attracted only by the presence of Hatsune Miku. I'll let you know that I feel disgusting to say that this season was the worst that I saw for now. The first episodes were magnificent, especially the first in terms of "haha, we finally have a third season" as well as the presence of Hatsune Miku, who is actually important for a few episodes. There was that beautiful usual layer of humor, so nothing wrong could happen, but I don't know who was largely in charge of the script of almost half of the anime, but I feel that this person really wanted us to share their touristy vacations. It was here that I felt sold by a company, an individual being stupid enough to be the type to consume everything that has a name of something I really enjoy watching/playing. A complete arc of five episodes was dedicated to the promotions of cities in Japan with the use of Jashin-Chan Dropkick's characters, as in order to sell us the desire to go there. On the other hand, the main reason for why they present them to us, is because at some point in the anime, Jashin-Chan finds herself in dept of billion and billion yen. And so, she simply travel through the entire land of Japan to find a way to remedy her debts, by also presenting the "do not miss" monuments from the cities she visits. Except that I don't care about that. I'm someone who lives in North America who can't afford a trip to Japan yet, and who still studies at school in audio-visual. If by pure chance I want to watch a tourist anime, then someone needs to call a studio for making them decide to pull their fingers out of their ass and decide to animate one, unless it exists, which wouldn't even surprise me. I watch this anime in order to laugh without having to think about why the snake girl regenerates every time you cut her tail like a piece of ham. And even if it comes straight from the original manga, now I could understand the author's desire to try new things, the end result shows us a huge filler arc with no progression to the main storyline. Our group of characters seemed more here as people giving reactions rather than playing their own initial roles. It was just as horrible to watch as some think it was horrible to watch Endless Eight in Haruhi Suzumiya. Otherwise, the rest of the anime remained fine, yet very disappointing that an arc lasting almost half of the anime ruins the hype I had for almost a year. When I'd seen the last three episodes and they went all out on new characters, I wondered if they just couldn't show them from the start, like... Directly in the 5th episode. Not now, because someone wanted to show their vacations, I guess. For those who saw this anime because of Hatsune Miku, just know for now that you will be served. Oh yes! The first time I saw her while having the chance to know the anime before it blow up made me burst out laughing and she still stays in character despite the circumstances. Please, however, if you like meta and bloodthirsty humor, watch the other seasons first, then just find the moments with Hatsune Miku in the Escape Arc and skip it after all five episodes! *Finished writing the review* “Aaah! I hope there won't be people who will believe that I don't like Japan or think that I'm an hypocrite after what I wrote :)”

It's Snek & pals season 3! Featuring Miku from the Hatsune Miku series and probably funded by Hokkaido's tourism bureau! Well if you're already a fan of the raunchy, often violent humor of Jashin-chan, you're probably gonna watch this anyways, as it is more of what you'd come to expect. Jashin-chan is still goofy and selfish as ever in her antics to get one over Yurine, and her humorous interactions with characters old and new are still the crux of the series. This season however, has some bizarre features such as several episodes back to back seemingly promoting tourism in different regions of Hokkaido, which brings toquestion if this season was in fact funded by their local government. In addition, Hatsune Miku is somehow shoehorned into every episode, which is no doubt some form of paid for marketing. I have not read the original manga for this series, but I know for a fact that there was no Miku shoved in; still, at least she's tastefully implemented in as both a gag and marketing tool for this rather niche series. Overall, because of the aforementioned "tourist" episodes that drag on, as well as a VERY lukewarm last episode, this is definitely not the best season of Jashin-chan but it still has it's original charm and laugh at loud, sometimes 4th wall breaking humor. I would still highly recommend this to existing fans who have watched the previous seasons. Otherwise, go and watch the first two seasons first before starting this.

–Spoiler Free Compact Review– Jashin chan dropkick X is the sequel to the Jashin chan series. The show is overall very laid back and fun to watch; however, this doesn’t make it good. The show is painfully average. If you didn’t like the other seasons the show just isn’t for you. Even if you enjoyed the other seasons this might not be for you. Overall: There are a few hehe and haha’s but the gags are often mediocre and often fall flat. The show seems artificial compared to the other seasons. Many of the episodes seemed dragged out. Feels like a massive marketing scheme topromote tourism and Hatsune Miku. Doesn’t live up to its name and seems messy To sum it up its ‘mid’

When I originally started watching the first episode of the first season when it originally came out in 2018, I didn’t think much of it. I mainly wanted to watch it, because it sounded like it would be an ok anime to watch, if I don’t have anything else on my plate…now it’s 2022, season 3 ended and I already want a 4th one or at least a special. That should give a good idea, how I feel about this show… As with the seasons before, this series continues being a bloody fun time, as we watch Jashin-chan, Yurine and all the other demons and angelsaround them in their day to day life, being jerks to each other, yet at the same time, they make for some of the most fun interactions I have seen in a show. All the characters are still a big highlight and watching their diverse (and sometimes disturbing) personalities play off of each other is still what makes this show in my opinion. And all the new ones are just as much a welcome addition as all the ones were. While because of how large the cast has gotten not every character gets to shine anymore, even the ones that appear like for only a couple of minutes in it still do their best to be as strong as ever. As for the jokes, well it's the same as the older seasons. While some fall flat, quite a few of them are pretty funny, going from dark humor where Jashin-chan gets brutally murdered to reference humor where they mention shows like Esper Mami…to not even pretending, that they have a 4th wall anymore (with the first episode having an entire segment about each of the characters being drawn in a different style, ranging from childrens anime all the way into FF character designs). (Plus, gotta give Studio Nomad credit for knowing that by adding Hatsune Miku into every episode of this season, their show will garner some more attention as usual) If I have one thing to criticize, it’d be that one of the later arcs focuses on Jashin-chan being on the run across different japanese prefectures and the characters going after her. While these episodes still are fun and they definitely do their jobs of making me wanna visit those places well, it felt a little much after a while. I remember that after 3 episodes into this arc, I did feel a little annoyed that the next one again is another one. Plus, since the arc appeared right after new characters were introduced, it did make the introduction of these characters feel weaker. I still enjoyed them and they had some good running gags as well as a variety what they were about, but I was definitely glad, once they were all back home. So yeah, all in all, a solid season and I hope we will see a season 4 soon. Or at the very least, that they’ll do another special/OVA. And if you're in the mood for seeing characters being jerks to each other and having some dark humor, I can definitely recommend this whole series.

The Devil is an Unemployed Bum. If you’ve watched the past two seasons of “Jashin-chan Dropkick” and you’ve enjoyed them then you’ll be pleased to know that you’ll probably enjoy this new season too. It’s more of the same. “Jashin-chan Dropkick” has always been an absurdest comedy that relies on 4th wall breaks, references and unconventional humour so if you’re the kind of person who like that sort of thing then you’ll have a good time with this. This season brings new characters to add to the already eccentric cast. My favourite of which is Lierre-sama, the head of angels who came to heaven to exactdivine judgement upon the other angels who would be friends with devils, only to end up living on earth in the manner of a literal child, and causing Pino to become deranged and unhinged over her intentions. Also, Hatsune Miku is in this season a lot, but I honestly don’t know enough about Hatsune Miku to know why she’s there. I want to know what deal went down for the show to have access to her likeness. The art and animation and sound design are still solid and the voice actors have a lot of fun performing these roles. There isn’t a lot to say. It’s more “Jashin-chan Dropkick”. I’m not sure it’ll be worth sitting through 2 seasons to catch up to "X" for some people though. It will depend on your kind of humour, but if you’re willing to give it a try then laughs plenty is what you might find. People apparently agree because this season was successfully crowd funded which is pretty cool. 7/10 Good.

Jashin-chan's third season is as expected yet another wacky fun romp through Jimbocho starring everyone's favorite snake perpetually stuck in an abusive relationship. As with many other comedy shows that end up running for this many episodes, one would expect the series to start running out of ideas or to start over-relying on poor gimmicks that rarely stick, but Jashin-chan's third season still manages to pull in several laughs despite the occasional repetition and lacking the novelty that came with it when it first came out. The newly introduced characters are a bundle of fun, and I do like how Liere got more focus afterher one-episode debut special back in season 2. A shame the show is only 8 episodes now instead of the usual 11. Wait 8? You say. Yes. I have neglected to mention the elephant in the room for the preceding paragraph, and allow me to introduce the necessary evil that is, funding and the hometown tax system. Anime isn't cheap, and not especially for a show looking this good. So, in the true spirit of Jashin-chan herself, the hometown tax system essentially partially funded the show, and as thanks/compensation, Jashin-chan shills Hokkaido for 3 episodes and Nagasaki for 1. Now, I'm generally not opposed to ""Prefecture-shilling" shows, hell, I love Zombieland Saga to bits and it was unashamedly a prefecture advertisement, but you gotta do these kinds of things with class. The first time they did it, it was an OVA for S2 and was at least fairly novel for the series. And however much Suzuki Aina may love her home prefecture, it really didn't justify 3 soulless episodes where you were being constantly sold on assorted touristy locations and businesses with the thinnest of plot/comedy to string things around. The quality drop was so bad, that when the show returned to its usual setting of Jimbocho for the actual adapted material (of which there is plenty and more than enough to fill several more seasons), I was genuinely shocked the show was actually funny. In all fairness, the Nagasaki episode was fine, but there they did keep the shilling to a minimum at the very least, and it wasn't Hokkaido again. All in all, you can either view the show as if it were a sandwich made with the finest bread, lettuce and tomatoes you can find, but the ham is a paper flier advertising another sandwich made somewhere else. You can certainly enjoy the rest of it without issue, but it does feel like a lesser season because of it. Oh and the Miku cameos were weird. 7/10

This is a review about the series as a whole from season 1. Surprisingly, this show has a chronological plot. Which is why I had to be detailed. Whenever I think about what constitutes a good show, I’ve always been worried to express my opinion and put it objectively. It’s like I’m on quiz show. The host would ask every participant the same question: “What is the best anime?” and my neuron-activated monkey brain would just answer them with whatever comes at the top of my head: Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater, Kekkai Sensei. But truly, even the audience can see all theflies gathering around my body due to how much bullshit I brought upon. So, anyway, in between these two, what the hell is Jashin-chan Dropkick? There is nothing about this show to defend from how stupid this is, essentially akin to an empty Pringles can; and something that amazes the audience with its absurdities and nonsenses. Just a simple show for simple-minded ass-hat like me who doesn’t like to think much and wants to have fun. Bullshit anime with zero-context has gone on since long periods of time ago. Pop Team Epic, +Tic Nee-san, Carnival Phantasm, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, my beloved Kill Me Baby, and many others. For long periods of time as well did I adore these animes. This review is written from the perspective of someone who loves this kind of anime. I can’t seem to unattract myself from the heavy gravity of nothing-burger craps like Jashin-chan along with her shenanigans. Something about these kinds of anime put a special place in my heart. I can’t say much about the author apart from the fact that she also made Haganai and Noucome novels, and how he got the localization title. The series is literally called “Jashin-chan’s Dropkick.” The name “Dropkick on My Devil” implies that Jashin-chan, The Devil, gets dropkicked all the time while, in fact, she doesn’t; in fact, it’s much worse. The dropkick is, in fact, her signature WrestleMania move. I didn’t think there would come a point in my life where I had to go “WELL ACKSHUALLY” like this and explain this but I just did. That’s how much I love Jashin-chan, that’s how much I can’t stop enjoying this piece of shit. Where to begin to review this clusterfuck of a show lies absolutely within the discussion of all the personalities combined which constructs the entire show as a whole, which is why there’s no other way to do this but to delve deeply into the minds of the characters, especially Jashin-chan’s. The characters are wilder than the bee-stepping-dog Amber Heard’s domestic abuse trial. Noticed how I kept using the suffix “-chan” in Jashin-chan? No, I fucking shit you not, one of the episodes explains that if you use the suffix “-san,” her name would be Jashin-chan-san. Imagine putting both “Sir” and “Mister” in your name. I might be a demented weeb, but even I have never something this heinous. Jashin-chan’s real name is so long and agonizing to extensively memorize that if you ever asked to record her spelling her full name, may God have mercy upon your soul because you need to fasten the recorder by x30 afterwards just to get to the 20 seconds of the entirety of spelling, until she told you that that’s not even halfway done. Believe it or not, her long ass name is a token of her nobility for that Jashin-chan is a demon noble heir. None of it was said since season 1, but that’s just the fact of life we had to swallow and choke on. So is putting Hatsune Miku in this season 3 with her original VA. “Waste any human lives all you want, but don’t you fucking dare throw away homemade foods!” Such inspiring quote from Jashin-chan too deeply philosophical beyond humanity’s tiny grasp of understanding. Out of all the Gods, she’s definitely one of them. This apathetic hyper-durability half-snake motherfucker that Hidan from Naruto canonically worships is not some “thing” you can negotiate or reason with. She has no remorse, no regrets, and the biggest asshole I’ve ever seen so far. Not only does she want to watch the world burns, but she will also hold its ashes and cinders for ransom. If the show ever goes downhill, Giga Chad Jashin-chan would just doxx all her viewers and blackmail them into buying all the BDs and every printed manga if needs be. She teases the poor and humiliates the unfortunate just for fun, and she deserves all the karma that get to her. To scrutinize the uniqueness of Jashin-chan’s anime embodiment of shitposting, we must talk about her “roommate” Yurine. Yurine is one hell of a full-metal witch. She is a kind human girl who has no bad intentions, just terrific hobbies. Terrific. Her highest personal interest consists of collecting a high variety of armaments, weapons, torture devices and anything similar, and utilizing them to full effect. Ultimately, she practices all her weapon combat techniques with her partner, Jashin-chan. Emphasize on “practice.” Anarchy in the Jinbocho ensues when Yurine decided to summon a Demon Lord, among other things. I think there’s something here that tells us about lazy writing when the same witch who summons shit out of thin air somehow doesn’t know how to return them back to the realm it belongs. From there on, both Yurine and Jashin-chan found out that the only way Jashin-chan can return is by killing the summoner. You know how this goes. What this is as a result, is a Tom-and-Jerry-esque cartoon combined with a mix of dark comedy and Japanese comedy, where Jashin-chan is Tom as the dumbass punching bag of comedic relief and Yurine is Yurine as Yurine. This anime could be a physical comedy at times and then completely shifts its mood into wholesome cute-girls vibe at another. This is exactly why I think Jashin-chan is special. One example being how she keeps manipulating her friend Medusa, which she nicknamed as her “ATM.” Although I appreciate how much she keeps her friends precious and how serious she is when it comes to doing anything for her friends, it doesn’t change the fact that she keeps lying to Medusa about being out of money to ask her lending some while promising to return the money back without telling her that she used all Medusa’s money for horse-race betting and fucking gacha pachinko. I honestly think this kind of anime would not work in the first place the first time I watched since season 1. Back then, I didn’t think the anime would keep going due to how mediocre it would be, or for the majority at least. To my surprise, this actually went off in Japan because I forgot the main factor this series has: CGDCT. One thing that keeps flying over my head when I watched this is that this show has another target audience with its “Cute Girls Doing Cute Things” trope. Most of the time, this show is about Jashin-chan’s nonstop scumbagginess in full display. However, putting aside the dark comedy, of course; from the unmistakable animation style to the slice-of-life theme being substantiated in the series, we can assume that Jashin-chan’s cute friends are here to make the show brighter and more cheerful. At some point after watching the anime, you wouldn’t be able to tell which one character and story is canon in the manga or not. You have Minos, daughter of demon yakuza; Yusa and Koji, the Yuki Onna siblings named after narrator’s VA; Pekora the homeless angel; Poporon the idol angel; Pino the mentally unstable paranoid angel, Persephone, and so on. I’ve been following both anime and manga and even I think this shit is too much. In one point of view, I think watching this kind of shitshow would be a breath of fresh air. Not a lot of anime wants to market itself to be nothing but chaotic fun, but Jashin-chan excels in it. In my experience, this series can only fall under the category of guilty pleasure. Jashin-chan’s Dropkick is the kind of anime that’s so bad that it’s so good. Apart from the animation looks good and the characters are really whacky to follow their own stories through, everything else feels average. What am I supposed to say to other aspects like the story and the soundtrack? Even if there’s a noticeable plot, none of them connect to each other; you can start watching this from any episode in any season and still left amused. You wouldn’t really care about chronology and plotline relevance when all you want is seeing Jashin-chan split into two vertically or horizontally. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.