Viewtiful Joe

I remember this when it came out on the WB as a kid, and it was because of this show that I played the games. The anime itself is quite entertaining, with cheesy movie lines, the fact that the show doesn't focus too much on the hero but the supporting cast as well as the villains. Due to their bumbling efforts to stop Joe, as well as their little quirks, it makes you want to sympathies with them. Which colors them as not such a bad bunch of guys. It's nice that you get a better understanding of each one (or sometimes three!), which makes you want to root for Joe even more, not because he's the hero, but because you understand the care he has for each individual he saves.

Some of the lines are dodgy and at times really out of place, but it all works out, and each character isn't like the other and despite lacking in facial expressions, their emotions come out better, all due to great voice acting.

The music is really cute and juvenile, and matches really well with the actions taking place at that moment.

The animation for the most part is really wonderful, except for a couple of episodes mid season where it looks like they either got a new animating director, needed to cut cost, or just got lazy! But it gets bumped up again in the last 5 episodes, where it really needs to count!

This is a great series (game and anime), that is highly unrecognized. Maybe if more people new that, Crunchyroll would go ahead and upload season 2 with subtitles!

I was really looking forward to watching the anime after the amazing games that led to it but, something was amiss. The plot is rather the same yet what really deterred me from watching past the first episode(even though I continuously skipped through it) was the voices. All the characters voices were just terrible compared to the game. Instead of Joe being depicted as an awesome new hero I just feel they make him look really lame and cliched in this anime. Everything was okay and no complaints about the animation.

viewitful joe was a great anime.i in joyed it vary much.the sory plit was good but it made more seans in the end.it is great i give it 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 out of -100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Viewtiful Joe was a game that originally came out on the Gamecube and was known to be stupid hard, but it had a grace to it and the powers looked and worked great. So along came someone who said let turn it into a T.V show, but if what we have learned from mario and zelda stays true, games aren't great on T.V (or in your case on the internet). The show follows the same plot as the game that Joe is trying to save his girlfriend, but some crappy plots, bad guys, and voiceing. If you what to get to know the Viewtiful Joe universe, just play the games and stay away. The show does has some good fight's but that's about it. Overall 3.0, but just because this was one of the funnest games I played as a kid. PLAY THE GAME!!!