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Beware the Batman (2013)
The Dark Serious Batman Flies Again!
This is definitely an improvement over the campy 60's style Brave and the Bold. Though I'm not crazy about the choice of villains, the overall tone and writing is sharp! I also love the realistic edge of things like Batman having to pop his dislocated shoulder back in. I do wish they would have gone with the Young Justice style of animation, but I can definitely get past that. Also, this is more or less Year One Batman which I love. He's new and unexperienced and still finding himself. Overall, unless Batman can eventually get an HBO series like Spawn, I feel this is the closest us fans are going to get to the dark, gritty realism of Batman: The Animated Series, outside of the wonderful DC Animated Universe films like Under the Red Hood and Batman: Year One. Make sure to check those out if you're a Bat Fan. Definitely give this a shot though!
Maô Dante (2002)
entertaining, well-thought out
The last anime I actually bothered to watch all the way through was Paranoia Agent. Overall, I'm not a big fan of anime. I'd heard this series, Demon Lord Dante, was the precursor to Devilman, so I decided to check it out. I liked it quite a bit. A lot of people complain there isn't enough gore or action, but if that's the sole reason you watch something, well, I think that's ridiculous. The story is engaging and entertaining enough to carry the series - In short, it presents Satan as the kind, benevolent, ruler of Sodom and Gomorrah, and God is an evil tyrant in the form of an energy being (a mass of light)- Dante, who inhabits the body of a human, and who can turn into a large demon, and his sister, are actually Adam and Eve, and their embrace at the end of the series, flings God once again into space, to find another universe to conquer. Overall, if you enjoyed Devilman, Violence Jack, etc., you should at least give this a chance.