Supernatural: The Anime Series Reactions

On Wednesday of last week,  I received Supernatural: The Anime Series.  I held in my excitement for the whole week waiting with anticipation until Saturday, when my best friends came over for Best Friends Day (yes that is a real holiday, just ask Google).  I was so excited for it that I decided that I was going to put a quick little post, because I was going to write about a different subject for this week (which will be posted next week). Now after actually watching the show I thought it would be fun and interesting to do a "before and after" reaction post about the show, since they differ so much.

BEFORE:

I want to share my utter excitement for what I received in the mail today:  Supernatural: The Anime Series!!!  God bless the Japanese and their need to animate everything!  First off, I would like to thank Netflix for bestowing this wonderful gift upon me, and second I would like to acknowledge that this will be the best Best Friends Day ever (4/14/12)!

AFTER:

I am so furious! As you see, I was very excited upon receiving this DVD, but now after watching more than half of it, I can't even... UGH! I do understand that it is a show based off of the original Supernatural, but they should have at least tried to get most of it right instead off just using the same characters in totally wrong settings!

First of all, Dean's voice is not even Jensen Ackles!  He is some guy named Andrew Farrar! Who is that? No offense to him but, I feel cheated.  It totally messes up the brother relationship between him and Sam.  I know it’s a little thing, but that plus the fact that they took away Dean's green eyes, I don't think my fragile heart can take that! (Insert dramatic music).

Second, in the first episode with Bobby, the boy’s father figure, I was overly displeased. The artists made him look like Danny Devito in a fedora! What is that!  Bobby is supposed to be a suicidal, paranoid, drunken redneck!  That is one of the character's most important features!  For God’s sake, his most famous line is "Idjits!" How can he say that if he sounds like a really cheap comedian?  The Japanese version of him didn't even know how to perform an exorcism!  That is supposed to be his specialty.  In his house, all over the rooms are spells and symbols to trap and summon everything, from demons to ghosts, and your telling me that this Bobby can’t even perform a simple exorcism?  That is messed up.

Third, in the original show, Sam and Dean are supposed to start hunting because they see the yellow-eyed demon kill their mother. In the anime series, they don't explain that, in fact the boys think that the yellow-eyed demon is the Devil.  


Lastly, a very important character, Meg Masters’s back-story is explained wrong. In the original show, she is just a normal college girl who gets possessed by a demon.  In the anime show, she is a terminally ill little girl whose mother trades both of their bodies to the yellow-eyed man so that Meg can be well again.  Not only is this extremely off but if she was possessed by another demon, wouldn't her name change?  For example, in the original show, the body that Castiel possessed was really named Jimmy Novak; shouldn't it work the same for demons?  Or do they just take the hosts name?


Even though I am outraged by the state of this particular show, my fandom for both Japanese anime and the original Supernatural continue to take the better of me, and I will continue watching Supernatural: The Anime Series and complete the rest of this terrible series, even if it kills me.