Supernatural The Animation

Before starting, we are very fans of the TV series. We recommend to see it 'cause is very amazing. When the first time we watched it. we've said "yeah,Looks amazing". Okay. Then, This animation is only the first season of the tv series. So, we felt like writing a review about it. for first thing, we are so happy that Supernatural to be an Animation serie. The story is about Dean and Sam, two brothers who hunts demons and evil spirits and here, there's a lot brotherly love. Sam and Dean are not perfect and flawless superheroes, they are normal persons.They can make mistakes, they ... can be paranoid, confused or angry and they always argue with each other. Because of that, they are so realistic. the best of Supernatural The Animation are definitely the story full of unexpected situations and the bloody scenes. we was so thrilled by the last episodes.

Disclaimer: I have watched the first 6 or 7 seasons of the live-action series, which I genuinely loved, so this fact may bias my review in one way or another.


✪Genre: action (gunfights), dark fantasy (vampires, demons, djinns etc.), drama, seinen, violence


✔ Positive Aspects ✔

◧ The quality of the animation is typical of any Madhouse production, low saturated colors, with that trademark lack of vibrancy – nothing overly enticing, but not too shabby either.

◧ Personally, I adore the concept of this series that’s why I actually made the decision to watch this series. To anyone who loves dark fantasy/action/seinen anime but who’s nonetheless unfamiliar with the ... live-action series, this anime series is right on his alley.

◧ Probably the strongest aspect of the show was its character development, since the protagonists’ emotions, personal histories (both individual and joint), and thought processes were being shown clearly and consistently throughout the series.



✘ Negative Aspects ✘

◧ As far as the unfolding of the plot goes, this was a major bummer for me. I am not sure whether or not I was influenced by the live-action series, but throughout my viewing experience, I was feeling that the plot was being rushed somehow. Each episode seemed to be unfolding in an emotionally unexciting manner, that even though I had not re-watched the live-action series, and let alone the first 2 seasons, in 6 or 7 years. It somewhat picked up during the last 3 episodes, but even then the result was fairly muted.

◧ On the sound department, there was not much to speak of, since I can barely recall anything besides Kansas’s ‘Cary on my Wayward Son’ in the ending scene.

◧ The action scenes were pretty poorly done, in the sense of being executed within very few frames, escalating very quickly, and consequently, concluding very quickly, not allowing the viewer to take any pleasure in them.


Overall: A very mediocre anime series that surely had excellent potential, an opinion which I am basing on the fact that this was produced when the live-action series was well into its 5th season but was adapted very poorly.

As someone who's watched all 15 seasons of Supernatural, I was curious about the anime/animation, because why not? I have to say I dropped it after 2 episodes. The biggest reason was how women are shown on screen. Within one minute of the first episode, you see a beautiful woman bound to her chair, wearing nothing but her underwear, a fact that is emphasized by the director when the shot lingers on her clothes (or lack thereof). The other is where the female detective bends down and the viewer gets a generous view of her ass.

One of the reviewers stated the show was directed ... by a woman, and I refused to believe a woman would treat female characters with such disdain. And I was right. A simple Google search showed me the show had a male and female director, and you don't need to tell me who shot which episodes.

Anyway, the show is reminiscent of the first 1-2 seasons of SPN where they had a Mystery-of-the-day story line, with little to no overarching plot. The animation is shoddy, the character movements are stunted, the characters have their facial expressions frozen for 1-2 seconds extra (bc of budget constraints, but it's still a turn off) and as someone else pointed out, the dialogue delivery sometimes doesn't match the characters' lip movements.

All in all, watch if you're a massive SPN fan with no standards. Otherwise, the show is a disappointment.