Isekai Suicide Squad

The Joker and his best girl, Harley Quinn, are tearing through the streets of Gotham with sacks full of cash and the law in hot pursuit. Unfortunately for them, though the jester manages to escape, the night ends with Harley being captured by a mysterious, katana-wielding woman.

Meanwhile, Amanda Waller, the head of the government security organization A.R.G.U.S., has commandeered a team of supervillains for a ruthless mission into another world. After losing contact with the first suicide squad sent through the portal, Amanda sends Deadshot, Peacemaker, Clayface, King Shark, and Harley as replacements. However, shortly after entering the portal, their helicopter crashes in the middle of a battle between horse-mounted troops and vicious orcs.

With all of the accompanying A.R.G.U.S. members dead on impact, the villains break free of their shackles and rampage through the army of orcs, unwittingly aiding the human soldiers—only to be rewarded with imprisonment. Now bound by magic-infused shackles, Harley and company must hurry back to the portal they came from, or else the bombs A.R.G.U.S. implanted in their necks will detonate.

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Quinn, Harley Main

Nagase, Anna Japanese

Clayface Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Peacemaker Main

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

King Shark Main

Kimura, Subaru Japanese

Deadshot Main

Yamaguchi, Reigo Japanese

Joker Supporting

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Katana Supporting

Anzai, Chika Japanese

Lich Supporting

Tamura, Yukari Japanese

Killer Croc Supporting

Kiuchi, Tarou Japanese

Cecil Supporting

Fukushima, Jun Japanese

Ootani, Joe Producer

Tsuruoka, Shinya Producer

Yoshinobu, Keita Assistant Producer

Ariga, Keisuke Assistant Producer

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Aug 15, 2024

dadnaya

Recommended

The plot doesn't make sense, but that's also what makes it so good.
In short, I feel like they did a pretty good job in making a fun show to watch without really fussing on having to think deeply about its content.
The only experience I had previously with Suicide Squad was the 2021 movie, which got me to know a couple of characters here (some are from other DC works) but even then they all felt varied and fresh.
The fights were generally good and well animated (barring episode 1 which was pretty bad, and barring the random CGI monsters).
OST was also on point, and the ED ... song was really good (the original reason I came to watch this show).

If you want to turn off your brain and have fun, I feel like this show does just that.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Aug 15, 2024

Marinate1016

Mixed Feelings

Suicide Squad Isekai is an inconsistent but enjoyable watch. As a massive DC comics fan I really enjoyed seeing characters from the universe I love so much brought to the medium I love so much. WIT weren’t always perfect during this show’s run, but when they cooked, they really cooked. At its peak the animation is stellar and the characters are great. The main weaknesses you’ll find here are the pacing and inconsistent production values. That aside, a really good watch that I will miss.

Isekai Suicide Squad is basically your run of the mill isekai plot except with the Suicide Squad characters and the ... usual Amanda Waller “I’ll blow your head off if you disobey me gimmick” now for me, that’s more than enough to hook because I freaking love Harley Quinn and these characters. Ever since the 2016 suicide squad film I’ve been a fan of the team and I’ve been a Harley stan since BTAS. So just having those sort of diverse personalities, which is a total contrast to the usual anime characters you get in a fantasy, is more than good enough for me. The team helps out a kingdom in the midst of war and we see our DC group form some really cool friendships with people in the isekai world. Some cool fights, couple cool plot twists and your expected foul mouthed dialogue. It ain’t revolutionary but damn it’s fun as a comic fan.

Now, that’s the good, but unfortunately this show did have some bad. For starters the pacing is pretty bad for like the first half of the show. It takes a really long time building up and a couple episodes felt like they could’ve been filler. Now in a show with only 10 episodes that’s obviously not good. The animation also went to abysmal levels around episode 4, reaching its worst point during the dragon fight scene in episode 5. It does seem like that was an outsourced episode and things got gradually better from that point onwards culminating in a solid close to the series and some great action in episode 9. But beware. The other issue I have with this is how claustrophobic the world felt. I mean the entirety of the show basically takes place in one country’s castle. We don’t do much exploring, adventuring or really getting that proper isekai experience other than the fantastical medieval setting. That was a bit of a bummer for me because I think they could’ve done more with the world.

Character rise let’s be real, we know any show with Harley Quinn is going to be dominated by her and she’s definitely the protagonist of this one and gets the bulk of the focus. Her relationship with the princess as well as joker are big in this even though the latter isn’t in the story a lot physically he is omnipresent due to his influence over Harley and for once it’s pretty positive. Clayface and King Shark I thought were dope and then Deadshot, peacemaker and Flagg in that order in terms of story relevance. Could’ve been better but with only 10 eps you’re a little limited.

I think on the whole WIT did a solid job. It’s not the best show ever but it was very fun and I hope it leads to us getting more DC superhero content in anime form soon, especially with the popularity of My Adventures with Superman and DC turning to manga for characters like Superman and Joker.

Isekai Squad Suicide gets 7 bats out of 10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 15, 2024

beeper2beeper

Not Recommended

The one good thing I can say about this show is the characters are animated well and are drawn beautifully. The CGI doesn't feel out of place like the bad ones we tend to notice. The good aspects of the show ends there. This show was unneeded for the franchise. The plot is all over the place and doesn't establish itself as knowing what it wants until the last few episodes (way too late into the game). It felt like I was watching a cash-grab. Isekai as a genre is already oversaturated; I was betting on this to be good based on the team ... behind the serie. But what I got was something half baked

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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