Suicide Squad ISEKAI, on Tokyo MX & BS11
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The story begins with the Joker and Harley Quinn (who is pretty badass) wreaking havoc in Gotham City. But then Harley is captured by Katana and sent to Belle Reve penitentiary. Some time later, Harley is recruited by the director or A.R.G.U.S., Amanda Waller, for a special mission. Harley and other criminals including Deadshot, Clayface, Peacemaker, and King Shark are sent through a portal to an Isekai (Japanese for "another world"). The A.R.G.U.S. agent who was sent with them is killed, but the criminals are soon joined by another agent, Rick Flag, who had come through the portal like six months ago. He'd been in charge of another group of supervillains, who escaped and joined an empire that's at war with the kingdom where the new "suicide squad" now find themselves. The criminals all have had bombs implanted in their necks that must receive a signal from Waller periodically, or else they'll explode and kill all the members of the suicide squad. Which is why they agree to work for Waller. Anyway, throughout the first season, they help the Kingdom fight against the forces of the Empire, even though Queen Aldora keeps having them thrown in the dungeon after each battle. Aldora's daughter, Princess Fione, wants to help the suicide squad as repayment for their helping the Kingdom, but her mother is very strict, to say the least. Also, the head knight, Cecil, is initially distrusting of the newcomers, and loyal to the queen, but also to Fione. And he eventually comes to fight alongside the suicide squad. Toward the end of the season, a plot twist is revealed about Queen Aldora, which makes her prior behavior make more sense, I'd say. But I don't want to spoil any more details of the story.

Well, most of the time I thought the story was just sort of okay. A lot of what happened seemed pretty random and disconnected, to me, so I didn't follow it all as well as I would have liked. But the characters were reasonably interesting, I guess. And I liked Harley's relationship with the Joker more here than in probably any other incarnation I've ever seen. I was hoping the story would wrap up at the end of the season's ten episodes, but it seems like only half the story was resolved, with yet another major plot twist seeming to set up another season. That twist actually made me more interested than I thought I'd be in seeing a second season. Though for now, I'm not sure whether or not there will be one.