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SOME MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD.
I started out reading "Jashin-chan Dropkick" as a manga, and was happy to discover there were a few anime made of "Jashin-chan".
The ONLY complaint I have about the animated version is that the "origin" episode is not shown until season 2 - season 1 launches the viewer right into the mayhem. Newcomers might be advised to start off with Season 2, or to read some the mangas from the first episode onwards.
PLOT: Goth student Yurine Hanazono, who lives in Tokyo's "second-hard book district" (which is a real location, called Jinbocho) finds a grimoire, so she decodes to ascertain whether demons and ... devils truly exist. Lo and behold - the titular Jashin appears! Yurine's curiosity is now satisfied - devils and demons ARE real - so she tells Jashin to return to Hell.
Jashin CANNOT be sent back,though, as the grimoire does NOT tell the spellcaster how to dispel her physical embodiment back to Hell, so Jashin decides, on the spot, an attempt to kill the caster of the spell, which would free her from servitude to Yurine.
This is her first mistake...
Yurine, despite her subdued and restrained nature, is a sadist with a fascination for weapons, and her potential for over-the-top violence is unleashed when she finds out Jashin can regenerate. Oh, dear...
Jashin suffers quite a lot, but this is usually her own fault, as she is a bully, a coward, a liar, and soon becomes addicted to gambling other people's money on pachinko. Well, Jashin IS an evil devil after all, albeit a somewhat petty one...
The pair come round to face the truth - they are stuck with each other, for better, or for worse, until Yurine can send Jashin back to Hell.
More characters appear as the show develops - angels, devils, vampires - and, somehow, a message emerges amidst the slapstick gore and silliness:
We may all be different, but we should try to get along with our fellow beings, regardless of their origins. Amen!

MUSIC, SOUND FX, ETC: First-rate. Season 3 even has a few guest appearances by Hatsune Miku!

"Jashin-chan Dropkick" is one my favourites, and I would award it 8.5 out of 10, if I could so an 8 will have to do.

DIRE AND DISMAL ANIME SHOCK HORROR
(contains spoilers)

I’ve been watching anime since 1970 when “Marine Boy” first came to Western audiences, so I’d like to think I have some experience to draw upon when criticizing this effort.

THE ART: Studio 4°C, who produced this anime, have a “unique style” ), say the fans - but "Tekkon" looks, to me, like one of the ugliest animes ever.
What’s so bad about the artwork?
It resembles the closeups you would see on “Ren and Stimpy”, where the POV goes up one of the MCs nostrils, showing us snot, nasal hairs, and other unsightly things you never planned on seeing.
Studio ... 4°C may have some rep for being daring, taking chances, etc, but this was my first encounter with their output, and I’m not impressed so far. By a roundabout comparison, the composer, Stockhausen, is also said to have a “unique style”, but his work is, for the most part, unlistenable cacophony... which brings us to the soundtrack, voice actors, foleys, etc:

THE SOUND: Music was OK-ish, but be warned - have a remote control to hand if you are going to sit this one out...
The second half of this OVA will have any sane person reaching for the volume control as the mentally-ill half of the two brothers gets captured, and then starts screaming - and he just doesn’t stop screaming.
FFS, Studio 4°C, the little guy was enough of an assh*le without all the screaming. The animal-like noises coming from the TV completely alienated me from what was already a horribly unlikable character.
I started rooting for the bad guys at this point, and wished they would simply euthanize him quickly and (most important of all) quietly.

For what it's worth, I never chose this to watch, my GF recorded it from TV and I was a captive audience (and she didn't like the screaming either).

SUMMARY: Avoid it like a radioactive zombie plague rat with Super-Coronavirus.