"We aren't men disguised as dogs. We're wolves disguised as men"

A detail I love about Jin Roh is the impact of the bullets. While most anime just have the bodies fall like they slipped on a banana peel, this movie has limp bodies flailing around as it gets riddled with lead while their dead eyes just stare into the abyss. beautifully brutal.

One thing that always intrigues me about Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is how the story wrongfoots your expectations. With the opening riot scene and chasing down the revolutionaries in the sewer you think it's going to be a fairly standard Red-vs-Blue tale, but then it swerves off in a completely different direction and becomes a tale of an internal power struggle within the Blues where the Reds barely even have a passing role. It definitely doesn't resort to common tropes.

this movie always been on my ever increasing "to watch list"

19:30 just a small nicpick, there's actually a modern MG42 called the MG3 that's in use by the German military that's literally just a MG42 chambered in 7.62x51 NATO, so it wouldn't be too crazy to think they'll still use MG42s.

The sneedclave will never die.A video about fallout the frontier will be hilarious.

kinda surprised how you didn't talk about the subtle body language of everyone in the movie. the reason the red riding hood blew herself up at the start is mostly because she didn't understand fuse didn't want to mag dump her. the scene right after she pulls the wire, where you see fuse reacting in shock, and it's good enough for the audience to understand what face he makes even though he has a mask on. it's shit like that which makes the movie really stand out from the minimal viable product that gets released nowadays.

I'm impressed you managed to make it through this without saying "gun porn" even a single time.

I want everyone to take a moment just to appreciate the design of the armor. So many other anime use ridiculously impractical armor designs that either serve little protection or would in reality be more cumbersome than helpful. But Jin Roh's armor is practical, and more importantly, effective, and perhaps most usefully, inspires real fear in the people who see it. Demonic armor or evil looking armor, while occasionally looking awesome, strikes more fear into its victims due to the reputation of the wearer. But here? There's no face to the armor. Just cold, red eyes staring at you down the barrel of an mg42. Bullets bounce off them, and the entire time, that piercing red glare just stares into you. More shows need to take inspiration from Jin Roh.

You got through this entire video without making reference to Berserk. This is despite the fact that the main character has a near identical face to Guts, just detailed using a different type of anime art style. 👏👏👏

The version of Jin-Roh homage is the game Operation Darkness where you encounter mechanized German infantry. There is a "hidden" character in a level if you kill everyone else except this one enemy, triggers a cutscene. A Panzertrooper named Max joins your party. So it was sick as fuck to have a badass Wolf Brigade soldier helping you beat Hitler and stop his cloning program.

the most badass looking armor in media history period. It inspired countless designs like my favorite example: NCR Ranger Combat Armor.

Good to see Guts trade his Dragonslayer and Berserker Armor for an MG42 and Protect Gear. And in the end, he still suffers. And aside from that, the Korean version just doesn't mesh well for me when it couldn't even try to make something comparable to the original WW2 Alternate History but trades it for the Korean Reunification and that paranoia against China, Japan, Russia and the US that doesn't explain the German weaponry and why they are using Protect Gear. Nice aesthetic and costume design but too much action K-movie stuff.

Jin Roh’s animation comes shockingly close to the visual quality of older Disney movies with how natural everyone moves, as opposed to the usual, um, stiffness of most anime shows and movies.

My favourite anime film of all time. That climax in the sewer is fantastic.

The comparison to Starship Troopers is really accurate. I reread the book every couple years, but I still haven't been able to make it through the movie once because of the tone shift

The Helghast were made by dutch people who had no clue what the wolf brigade was, according to them: everything being so similar was an accident, and even the iconic glowing eyes of the Helghast were done as a way to help playtesters score headshots, as the poor-fidelity ps2 era graphics combined with the gritty environment of killzone one made that a bit challenging.

"Sneedclave: Fuck Commies and Jannies" sounds like a great movie. Maybe we can get Elon Musk to fund it.

Funnily enough this was actually one of the first animes I ever watched I remember watching it years ago expecting it to be the rwds anime but instead ended up loving it for how grim and brutal it was. Its still one of my favorites all these years later

I do appreciate that this alternative history doesn’t have nazis ruling the world like always. Because to me a lot of people who do alternate history have a bad habit of making Nazis the rule of the world and I really appreciate that they do something that’s pretty new also we get bad ass Nazi looking soldiers and that’s a win,win in my eyes.😺

“It’s best Jin Roh stays quite for now” *for now*

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Loli literally has an insane work ethic. He just pumps out banger content every couple weeks and I love it. What drugs are you taking for this to happen? Asking for a friend.

I remember on a lonely rainy night after binging Black Clover and the 90s Fist of the North Star on VRV, I stumbled upon Jin Roh. I saw the description and the soilders and put it in my watch later tab simply for the armor looking like the Killzone characters. Point being for this paragraph is to say I eventually watched it and it was… great. Only bad thing I can say is it left me wanting more. As do most anime series (tasteful ones of course)

God that Negative XP intro lmao

I’ve been waiting for this one. Excellent timing too since halo infinite just added a armor set that is literally called “Kerberos”. Now they just need to add a semi futuristic MG42. SAW42 anyone? 🎩 🐍no step on Snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

God the level of detail not just in the animation makes it a masterpiece Why don’t they animate films like this in the style they did in the film or Akira or ghost in the shell?

The one thing that stood out and made me fall in love with this movie, is its contextual reveal for the protagonist's internal struggle. It's so easy for this kind of story to be about a dude who did wrong on the job, agonize over it, then realize "he's on the wrong side after all", in which it's climax and resolution involves him having a change of heart, and a rebellion/uprise third act as his redemption. In Jin-Roh, the twist is that his "soul searching" and attempts at connecting with Kei (which is the bulk of the film's focus) was never about him contemplating on his conflicted conscience. No, it's actually just him trying to see if his humanity COULD get in the way of fulfilling his role in the Wolf Brigade--The slow, emotionless suit-up scene being his stone-cold proverbial reply. Also why I really like the ending, it's an incredible personal climax. Fuse, despite his emotions in great protest, still managed to do what "has to be done" and executed Kei. A very grim and fucked-up "character growth", and I love it. The Korean action-flick/adaptation is okay, reminded me of another K-action movie "Steel Rain" so I can't hate it. At least, for me, the deviations are not as monumentally stupid or downright insulting/condescending to the og work, as when typical modern hollywood "adapt" something.

nice present after the stream

You know I do genuinely wonder why you don't have more subs, not trying to downplay the youtube algorithm ass fucking many good channels but after your berserk videos, im convinced you're one of the best reviewer's/commentators on the site. I do find your commentary not overly biased and also entertaining enough to binge everything you've made. Cheers loli

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What makes me quite me amused about this series is that the "alternate history" aspect in the form of the Nazis winning WW2 is just an excuse for German iconography, from both the perspective of a casual viewer (myself) and a more serious viewer. A Jin Roh style style story, with all of its plot beats and themes, can be made without the German iconography. You could have an alternate WW2 that still results in Japan being occupied by another power, but its still the Americans in our timeline, but more brutal and invasive. Say Operation Downfall occurs and the Martial plan that rebuilds Europe has far more American control than our own timeline. A fascist Japanese government with a death squad with low public approval ratings, created in an attempt to avoid breaking a no armed forces clause in a constitution that was forced onto it by a former occupier, is all still possible. The Jin Roh we actually have explicitly went through the route it did for German iconography because of its symbolic importance. An entire series created an alternate history set in Japan to create a more thematically immersive story, all because of the (well deserved) hatred and fear associated with the symbols of Nazism. This is a ramble, but the idea that a story explicitly made an alternate history to fit a certain aesthetic to enhance the themes of the story just seems amusing to myself. What do you think, Loli? On an unrelated note, if Loli is reading this, what exactly did you think "Jin Roh" as a brand was actually going to be? While you did dub it the "Rightwing Death Squad the Anime" as a description of what others thought of it, I do wonder if you had a similar preconception before discovering what its actually about. In addition to this, do you think the Illang film is more in line with what most people thought "Jin Roh" as a brand actually is from the outside?

The MG3 is still used by militaries, and is basically an mg42 rechambered in 7.62 nato even has the iconic shroud So the modern thing still holds up in the Korean version

love the video your channel really helped me through my transition

Everytime i watch your videos theres always an absolute banger at the start of the video and other sick songs throughout. You got me into the sword, wolfmother and now Negative XP. Cheers for that

Omg i was waiting for this for ages thanks for the man that requested this and thank you❤❤❤❤

I just finished Part 4 of the Berserk Saga and as I'm sitting here, thinking to myself "I wonder if he has something on Jin Roh" ... I see your movie review, uploaded 10 days ago. Thank you so much for your great work man! Can't wait for Part 5 and more from you to come.

New to channel but have been recommended many times. The opening bit had me a little worried lmao, but you handled the memery of the aesthetic really well. Excellently put together essay, and I liked the Liana Flores song! Really fits the tone, more than I realized. Subscribed! Edit: Also, not to excuse Illiang but just a fun fact, the MG42 was rechambered for 7.62 NATO and is still in service as the MG3!

Tbh, i'm surprised ya hadn't done a vid on this sooner, either way, i'm glad ya got around to it!

Jin-Roh is a classic I'd put right up there with Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Perfect Blue, Redline, and most of Hayao Miyuzaki's films.

Even Loli's non berserk videos are getting longer I love it

I really love the music you use in your vids

One of my favorite anime of all time. It's one of those movie that I look at differently as I get older. I was always low key hoping we'd get to rock similar gear when I joined the army, lol.

I’ve been waiting for this for a while now 👍

Now I am wondering if the creators of the Halo TV show called themselves trying to make their own version of Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade updated for modern sensibilities rather than a video game adaptation.

There's something about these grim dark tales that don't end well that are way more interesting than ones that have happy endings

Negative XP at the start? Excellent taste, my dude

Didn’t think you’d cover this anime. It’s so good.

You convinced me to actually give this a watch after four years of it being on my "watch someday" folder, thanks.

We can just say the MG42’s are MG3’s in the Korean adaptation. The MG3 is pretty much a modernised MG42

I noticed another thing inspired by Jin-Roh. Resident Evil. Particularly Hunk and members of the Umbrella Security Service. They’re modeled after the Wolf Brigade.

Wasn't expecting this, but since I was hyped for this, couldn't go to sleep without watching it. (Also, I can see what ya mean about the Korean Wolf Brigade being different. Might check it, but I kind of felt hearing that it wasn't Jin-Roh was gonna turn me off from it if I ever did see it. Like it seems cool, but I like the bleakness of the Wolf Brigade - men who lost their humanity in order to become the best killing machines. Tragic, yet satisfying.)

great review homie, very enriching.

No dark skinned tomboys? Oh well. Depression is a good alternative. Good review, I’ve constantly seen the fights of Jin-Roh in gun sakuga so I’ll check it out. Great review yet again Loli, cheers. I’ll probably make a subscribestar request this month, since I’m actually turning 20 this year. God, I’m old.

this guy always plays awesome music in the background i love the velvet underground

Love your content, keep it up

I love these Reviews/AMVs

this is why i love this channel

Watched this in the fall, and damn it beautiful and not what I was expecting.

Saw the movie once (anime adaptation) back in, 2018 or 2019, never forgot it. Kinda surprised you didn’t make a video on this sooner seeing how part of your channel background is from Jin Roh ^^

MC: Why do I have to kill her? Leader: Cuz we need to have this wicked awesome big bad wolf reference. MC: ...Is that really the reason you're asking me to murder this woman I care for? Leader: Basically.

I really need to listen to more Negative XP. Seriously, he rocks and is basically my generation's version of PUNK.

That intro was amazing!

Hats off to covering genuine perfection my man.

By far one of my favorite pieces of entertainment, what an incredible story and brutal kinetic action. This series along with firing the weapon in person made the MG-42 my favorite light machinegun of all time. The armor alone is some of the most iconic armor in any genre I've seen, and the story is honestly a beautiful encapsulation of love, death, and political intrigue done respectfully and interestingly.

Great music taste on all your videos!

One my favorite underrated classic anime movie friends hook to this movie going back to see again after the great reviews video thank loil

Amazing film, saw it a few years back with friends, loved the direction :]

thanks for convincing me to watch the movie before dropping your review

I think a key difference in the comparison between Jin Roh vs Illang, and the Starship Troopers book vs the movie, is the fact that the Starship Troopers movie deliberately railed against the content of the book, whereas Illang feels like it just missed the point. That's why the Starship Troopers movie was able to succeed on its own.

Semi new to your channel. Great no BS content and reviews.

After years of seeing Jin-Roh on your channel banner and even your stream background you’ve finally fucking made a video on it

Great music choice!

You are the successor to demolition d that we have been waiting for

Never thought I'd see Negative XP in an anime video.

The little detail of them using MKB42 rifles for training was neat

I started the live action version I just hope its still up on streaming. This movie is an underrated masterpiece its a more grounded Akira that focused on uprising.

Thanks for the video brother

To me, it reminds me of metro 33. I know you have incredible taste, with berserk and such. And I love the aesthetics of the movie and the entire franchise. So I guess there’s another cool series to become obsessed with XD

One important thing to note is, that the version of Little Red Riding Hood is not an interpretation by the creators. Its the original version. The classic european fairytales usually do not have a happy end. The Brothers Grimm collection, Disney and the sorts cemented the versions we all know. The original might be harsh but from my point of view, is the better or at least more "effective" kids tale. I mean, she is told two times: " Girl, open your dame eyes and stop eating your granny!" Then she gets eaten and there is no woodsman coming to save her. There is a consequence to her running into the most obvious trap ever.

yet another banger intro loli if they wanted a modern MG-42 they could have used the MG-3 but thats also just a nitpick on my end, another good video

Jin Roh sounds poggers and now I want to watch it.

The next film Okiura made was a sweet children's story, Momo e no Tegami. Check that one out.

One of a handful of anime I count on my list of enjoyable works. Its all about the art for me and the more realistic the better. Jin-Roh does a good job of grounding you in its story.

God that armor suit is iconic

Kicking this off with edits to rival KnightSGC I see.

Did not know you were a fellow Grimbeard enjoyer. I love his Supernatural retrospective series where he just talks about the x-files instead.

What is the ending music theme with the patrons, its familiar but i cant reall from where

Love the Marty Robbins choice for the intro

Feeling really old now when you mention people only knowing this movie from the RWDS memes; I remember seeing it for the first time around 14 years ago because of a Jin Roh AMV set to Suicide Commando music and torrented it because I thought it looked like a cool action movie. How time flies.

I would have watched it sooner but I wanted to watch your stream end. Now let the Havoc begin.

That song in the beginning is now the one I listen to all the time :D

I remember watching this movie a while ago. It reminded me of Ghost in the Shell in many ways, and I like that. The ending was shocking and depressing, though. But to be fair, that’s probably most fitting for the sake of the story and it’s setting. I recommend this for anyone who likes serious anime movies!

The intro was dope

oh hell yeah! this is gonna be a good one

Does anyone know where I can purchase an English version of the manga???

So there was a Korean Live Adaptation with an English Dub with Johnny Yong Bosch casted as the MC.

This might sound pretentious as fuck, but I _hate_ the "wow, cool Wehrmacht armor" crowd that's gathered around this movie. There's nothing wrong with thinking the Kerberos armor is cool, 'cause it absolutely is, but if the cool armor and the guns going pew-pew is someone's only takeaway, they sound like the type who only watches Apocalypse Now for the village strafing scene, the Ride of the Valkyries one. Anything of substance slips over their head. Also: this is my sister's favorite movie, or at least one of them. She'd always tell me how she cried for about an hour after she watched it for the first time. Very happy Loli didn't play Grace Omega over the Patron roll. Even out of context, that might have destroyed us.

what a edit at the beginning. not only is it satisfying when you done know the context, it really is almost disgusting after you watch the video. im assuming thats kinda how most people think about the movie as a whole after watching it, after only having seen the gory awesome actions scenes on tik tok or youtube shorts.

13:22 that JonTron clip always gets me