I mean, what is it? Demon Womb makes out as if none of the events in Overfiend
took place. Is it an alternate reality? A dream? Or have all the characters just got real short memories?
I'd be most grateful for some help. This has always bugged me.
Urotsukidoji: Legend Of The Demon Womb is a sort of prequel that takes place in between the events of Urotsukidoji: Legend Of The Overfiend. The reason is that they failed to address some of the details in Legend Of The Overfiend and there was some previously unseen backstory that wasn't shown because the main plot was taking precedence over the secondary story. It doesn't makes sense in a linear way because in the American versions, everything about Overfiend is so heavily edited for content that a lot of things get lost in the translation. In the Japanese version, it makes slightly more sense because you can see where the story takes place more accurately. In Urotsukidoji Perfect Collection, there are five chapters. Chapter one, two and three comprise part one, chapter four and five comprise part two. In the original uncut format, the story is presented in the same non-linear way as the American versions, but at least you can see what the point of Demon Womb was to the story much more clearly than the cut up mess that the U.S. recieved. Think of it like this. Imagine that Legend Of The Overfiend is a three-part graphic novel series. Now imagine that Legend Of The Demon Womb is a two-part graphic novel series that shows a special back story that takes place between the first and second part of Overfiend, but before the third part of Overfiend. I know, it's dumb. They should have just made the five-part story in chronological order. But that's the best way to make some sense out of it. At least the American version of Demon Womb is strangely enough uncut while the Japanese version of it is edited. I find that to be one of Anime 18 and Central Park Media's best moves.
shareThanks for that. Still mind-boggling, but I think I understand.
shareWhat i don't get is how do they fit it in if they make it out to be a prequel. I mean, what's been described makes sense, but having seen both movies again, i thought 'how do they piece it all together?'. It's as if the whole story takes place within a week, eg. LOTO Day 1: Akemi gets attacked by demon, Amano rescues her, Ozaki dies, Nagumo dies but comes back to life. Day 2: Niki is introduced and mutilates himself to try and pull Akemi, Amano takes Akemi and Nagumo to his homeworld. Day 3: Amano and the rest of them are cast out of his homeworld, Niki turns evil, Amano fights Suikakujyu, Nagumo kills Niki, etc. up to the end of the movie.
LOTDW Day 1: Nagumo already become Chojin, Takeaki survives crash. Day 2: Takeaki spars with Megumi, finds out he's the one killing folk. Day 3: Takeaki and Megumi grow closer, he fights Kohoki. Day 4: Tries to kill Nagumo etc. up to the end of the movie.
What messes it up is that Myuni Hausen tells Amano about the whole thing about the Evil King that Suikakujyu told him in the Overfiend, yet both times Amano looked as though he knew nothing about this. This last bit is the part that messes it up for me.
You can chalk it up to three things. One is that Central Park Media added their own two cents in by making the extra story involving part three and four. Two, the translation of Toshio Maeda's original manga into an anime series was only partly correct(lots of stuff never shown that would clear up a lot of things), and three C.P.M. and Anime 18 just don't know how to keep continuity in the series. Put all of this together and you've got one big, fat, convoluted mess of a story. This is why to this day, about 20 years later, people are still having discussions like the one we're having right now. I just decided that since the creators of the anime aren't explaining anything, I'll just give up and make my own assumptions. It's easier that way instead of giving myself a headache trying to psychoanalyze something thast was never meant to be thought too much about anyway.
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