Review of Suicide Squad Isekai

Suicide Squad Isekai is an inconsistent but enjoyable watch. As a massive DC comics fan I really enjoyed seeing characters from the universe I love so much brought to the medium I love so much. WIT weren’t always perfect during this show’s run, but when they cooked, they really cooked. At its peak the animation is stellar and the characters are great. The main weaknesses you’ll find here are the pacing and inconsistent production values. That aside, a really good watch that I will miss. Isekai Suicide Squad is basically your run of the mill isekai plot except with the Suicide Squad characters and theusual Amanda Waller “I’ll blow your head off if you disobey me gimmick” now for me, that’s more than enough to hook because I freaking love Harley Quinn and these characters. Ever since the 2016 suicide squad film I’ve been a fan of the team and I’ve been a Harley stan since BTAS. So just having those sort of diverse personalities, which is a total contrast to the usual anime characters you get in a fantasy, is more than good enough for me. The team helps out a kingdom in the midst of war and we see our DC group form some really cool friendships with people in the isekai world. Some cool fights, couple cool plot twists and your expected foul mouthed dialogue. It ain’t revolutionary but damn it’s fun as a comic fan.

Now, that’s the good, but unfortunately this show did have some bad. For starters the pacing is pretty bad for like the first half of the show. It takes a really long time building up and a couple episodes felt like they could’ve been filler. Now in a show with only 10 episodes that’s obviously not good. The animation also went to abysmal levels around episode 4, reaching its worst point during the dragon fight scene in episode 5. It does seem like that was an outsourced episode and things got gradually better from that point onwards culminating in a solid close to the series and some great action in episode 9. But beware. The other issue I have with this is how claustrophobic the world felt. I mean the entirety of the show basically takes place in one country’s castle. We don’t do much exploring, adventuring or really getting that proper isekai experience other than the fantastical medieval setting. That was a bit of a bummer for me because I think they could’ve done more with the world.

Character rise let’s be real, we know any show with Harley Quinn is going to be dominated by her and she’s definitely the protagonist of this one and gets the bulk of the focus. Her relationship with the princess as well as joker are big in this even though the latter isn’t in the story a lot physically he is omnipresent due to his influence over Harley and for once it’s pretty positive. Clayface and King Shark I thought were dope and then Deadshot, peacemaker and Flagg in that order in terms of story relevance. Could’ve been better but with only 10 eps you’re a little limited.

I think on the whole WIT did a solid job. It’s not the best show ever but it was very fun and I hope it leads to us getting more DC superhero content in anime form soon, especially with the popularity of My Adventures with Superman and DC turning to manga for characters like Superman and Joker.

Isekai Squad Suicide gets 7 bats out of 10.