Review of Detroit Metal City

Detroit metal city is a succinct piece of comedy that leaves no time wasted to meaningless fluff, as it uses every minute possible to give the audience a hell of a performance from beginning to end. It has production values that work well within the shows parameters giving it a feel of a manga that has come to life, or an anime that looks similar to a manga. It has directing where the aspect ratio of the shows is constantly fluctuating ethier to give it a manga feel or the director really wanting the audience to only focusing on the important thing, and leaving everythingelse ass pointless fluff not worth putting in the show. While metal might be in the name if the show, it’s not the only music genre the show puts out as it has a mix of rap, punk, pop, and several other genres to have a more broader scope about music. The plot may at times come off as predictable but it doesn’t take away to how haywire the show becomes. The characters can also come off as being flat which could be because most of it is happening from the main character's perspective, and/or it’s short run time so there’s no real point in adding any more to some of the characters as it would take away from other parts of the show.

Of course the main draw of this show is its comedy which it waste no time on doing. The show has its fair share of vulgarity and slapstck which is expected from a show such as this. However what had me most intrigued was its satire on performing arts in music especially focusing on that of metal. While this first part is more of a parody its more of a stepping off point, and that’s how it’s very similar to the band Kiss. it’s very apparent from the way the band members dress for the show, the name of the band being a spoof of one of their songs, and the crazy performances that they do which Kiss is very well known for. The real satire comes from the separation of the art (the band members personas and performances), and the artist being the actual band members themselves. Because on stage the main character is known as Krauser some hardcore metal player who has probably done many terrible things in his life, but outside that persona Negishi a dopey boy who grew up in the country with a good up being who aspires to make light pop songs. The show makes it clear by these two distinctions as Negishi has to juggle his two lives like some weird version of hannah montana. It just a fun look at how most people especially performers aren’t really who they present themselves to their fan to be, almost like a facade that some of them buy into and the bizarre performance only heighten that idea. Not only is this presented on negishi, but also to other performers that are present in the show as well. However it’s not like the show is mean spirited and that everything you like about this is phony. Instead it has sentimentality placed within the show via some of the characters from the people making the music to the fans themselves. Even Negishi at moments will get caught up in certain moments and become krauser showing that even if he believes it may be a facade there is still a part of him that is the character at heart.

Sadly the show ended and while it did leave a good enough end, there was still stuff worth examining in the show that is worth an encore. However that never came to be. Nonetheless the show is good enough for anyone's time if they are in for a good laugh, and short enough that it doesn’t go dry by the end