Review of Suicide Squad Isekai

This anime despite all it's flaws, ended up being a really fun watch. That being said, I can't look over said flaws. Let's starts with the inconsistent animation an art style, some of these characters look like they're from completely different shows. If you put Harley Quinn and Deadshot or Clayface side by side, it looks like they came from alternate universes. Now the animation, I get it was most likely budget cuts, but the fight scenes in the beginning and middle portion looked like they were either missing frames or just slow in general. Thankfully, when they start fighting with other DC villains, thefight scenes increase tenfold and have way more of that Studio WIT charm we all expected.

Now the characters, other than Harley Quinn, I couldn't really get invested in anyone else apart of the squad. Clayface is an actor and references media and tropes, that's about all they do with him. Peacemaker is straight-faced and stoic, but can get scary. Deadshot is.. I can't really explain him, he seems like the straight man of the group I guess. and King Shark is..well, a shark that is always hungry. Along with the main group, there is also other DC villains thrown into this isekai world that are also part of the suicide squad comics such as Enchantress and Katana. They're fine, I guess. They don't have any major role other than being an obstacle later on.

Now let's get into the big reason why this show isn't as good as people anticipated, the actual isekai part. It. is. boring. As the suicide squad find a battle between human soldiers and orcs, they decide to intervene and kill all the orcs. However, since they can't communicate with them, the soldiers capture them and throw them in prison. They meet the queen and her daughter, they participate in some fights for the kingdom, and then they get thrown in jail again. rinse and repeat until the last few episodes of the series. The people from the isekai world are just so. freaking. boring. they don't like the otherworlders, except for the daughter of the queen. That's about it.

the pros like I mentioned are definitely the last 4 episodes, they go all out with the animation and fanservice for DC fans. The music is a plus too, the ending is by Vtuber Mori Calliope and it's a super fun song, the opening is pretty unique too, doing a more Baccano approach where it's just an instrumental, except instead of jazz, it's music you'd hear from a superhero action scene.

Is this show worth watching? I'd say so, not for the plot, but for the action. My expectations were let down a bit, this was not nearly as good as I was hoping, but it's a fun watch. it's only 10 episode long too, so you can probably finish it in a day if you had the time.