I'm almost hesitant to review Legend of the Overfiend, as I am only familiar with the dubbed version of the movie. The uncut version is nearly impossible to find, so I had to settle for the edited dub. To put it mildly, it left something to be desired. Aside from the fact that the edit cuts out much of what made the film infamous in the first place, it is a very cheaply done effort.To start with, the voice acting and dialogue is terrible. The actors frequently over-emote, with many of them putting emphasis on random words in their dialogue. This gives the film a very stilted feeling, taking viewers out of it. Furthermore, the editing is at times rather choppy, with bits of dialogue cut midway at times.However, some of the animation is very good, with some scenes of destruction disturbingly rendered. Furthermore, although the soundtrack itself is rather generic, it features some early work by Masamichi Amano, composer of the Battle Royale soundtrack. All in all, it's worth seeing if only to say that you have.

First of all if you are a person against porn it will be intensely hard.. I mean "HARD" to sit through it. But importantly this movie is one of the founding fathers of anime porn tied in with Sci-Fi,complex storyline, action packed, and when I say action I mean intense fights against each other, intense hot sex one scenes on top of another--raping of beautiful women crying rampantly with alien tentacles malfunctioning in all the wrong places where all your wildest and twisted dreams comes true in satisfaction....and I'll leave the rest to your imagination but I bet it will be too difficult to even try to think in the middle of it. I enjoy watching it and highly recommend watching this over your usual everyday same boring porn.

This movie is prevalent with scene's of extreme sex and sadistic violence. Women / Girls are repeatedly raped through every orifice by what appear to be huge tentacle penises, causing their body to violently erupt into bloody pieces. Penises that are miles long and fire a constant stream of projectile semen more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan during WWII. Creatures with more penises than fingers. Slashing, dicing, ripping, beating, decapitation and raping of women / girls. This is NOT animated afternoon fun for the children, or even adults with any morals. To sit through this amazing animated adventure, and the others in the series, one must throw any sense of morality outta the window.... From the opening credits with the picture of a red-skinned demons, every muscle group shaded, doing what you might imagine demons to do with an ominous narration about the legend of the Overfiend (also known as the CHOJIN) and the collapse of the three worlds in the background, the story is completely entertaining. These opening credits also serve as a good warning as to the adult content of the rest of the movie - if you are already feeling queasy or covering your eyes, I recommend you avoid anything in this genre.The characters are fully developed throughout the film, changing over time as one might expect with the sudden addition of paranormal forces into their ordinary lives. It is a story of love, war, desperation, misunderstanding and ultimately change, following the lives of children becoming adults in a world where demons, super-humans and gods can interact with humans on a very intimate level.In the beginning of the actual story, a sharp contrast is drawn between the demon world experienced in the prologue and the brightly lit world of the humans. Nagumo is a silly pubescent Japanese high school kid, whom enjoys peeping into the female locker room, obsessed with the girls in his school and enamored by a beautiful Japanese cheerleader named Akemi. Akemi is a carefree, smiling girl-next-door in these opening scenes, when she is summoned in for a conference with a teacher, the true horror begins. The teacher, a Ms. Togami, turns out to be a Makai, a demon from one of the three realms explained in the opening narrative. This is the audiences first introduction to Amano Jyaku, the 300 year old anti-hero from the world of the Jyujin-kai, or "man-beasts", battling the now demonic - Ms. Togami.From here the story takes off as Amano Jyaku and his sister Megumi search for the Chojin, each following a different character. Nagumo is Megumi's pick, although he seems a small and weak introvert compared to the star basketball player Ozaki (his complete opposite), whom Amano is convinced is the true Chojin, an thus decides to pursue. The story follows the lives of the characters, and although there are strong scenes of extreme violence and rape, none are excessive or distracting from the plot. The violence that surrounds the characters is what drives them, it is the force that promotes the changes necessary to live in the ever changing world of the story itself. A lot would be lost to this story were the violence to be removed or even toned down. However, keep in mind, that it is strongly present before watching this movie, or showing it to others.To tell any more of the plot would reveal entirely too much of the story. Much of the enjoyment is following Amano and Megumi on their 300 year closing quest for the all powerful Chojin, a search which leads them to a shockingly unexpected conclusion.If you can forgive the English dubbing (I recommend watching this with subtitles if you can locate the uncut PERFECT COLLECTION DVD), it's a classic piece of Japanese animation.Not for the faint hearted or easily offended....or those of a nervous disposition.

LEGEND OF THE OVERFIEND is absolutely my favorite anime, and one of my favorite films of all time. The only anime I had seen before OVERFIEND was AKIRA and FIST OF THE NORTH STAR...imagine my surprise when a friend popped this one in the VCR...LEGEND OF THE OVERFIEND is an extremely in depth film, but I will give the briefest of synopses, as there is NO WAY to do this film justice unless you see it for yourself. My review is based on the completely uncut/uncensored 3 episode series that makes up the first "part" of the OVERFIEND story : The universe is divided into three realms, human, demon, and man-beast. Every 3000 years the Overfiend is reborn to unite the three realms. But is the Overfiend the all-powerful benevolent force of unity and peace...or a power-drunk devil bent on chaos and mindless total destruction? OVERFIEND is ABSOLUTELY not for all viewers. There are EXTREME scenes of sex, rape, murder, gore...basically all forms of viewable chaos. Pretty much anything you can think of that falls into the sick and depraved category is graphically detailed in this film. But what sets OVERFIEND apart from many other hentai-style animes is the depth of story. The whole concept and execution is absolutely amazing, it staggers my mind to think that someone could have thought this sort of concept up, much less gather a team of artists to render it into a 3 hour film. The story is so involved that I have literally watched it at least 20 times, and I still find new elements. Again, NOT FOR THE CASUAL ANIME VIEWER, if you're into DRAGONBALL Z, or even some of the more "adult" stuff but haven't viewed any hentai material, do your research first. All other daring souls should grab this one fast. One of the only films I give a 10 out of 10....