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NacchaA
I thought the anime was very fun and polished. I get that the plot was a little all over the place, but if they had actually made a show rather than this tiny pilot, I think it could've been something iconic. The writing was well put together, the animation wasn't horrible, and the music was very charming. The only flaw seemed to be the story, but there's only so much you can shove into a pilot. I thought the art style was good, compared to most 80s anime. The only character that really annoyed me was Shizuka, but that mostly stemmed from the fact I don't really like high pitched anime characters all too much.
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Personally I don't get the hate this OVA gets. Imagine you have to make a stand alone anime with a 30ish min runtime and you DON'T have some super amazing story written by some genius. What do you do? You cannot have some drawn out character development or amazing world building. So why not just have some fun and go for the easy wins. Go cute girls with ecchi moments, guns, and simple humor. And tada, you have Katsugeki Shoujo Tanteidan.
This is a mid show that is very light. Play it for some background noise while you do dishes or something. Good for a few cheap laughs and ecchi moments.
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Horrible title. There is almost no detectiving going on here, and they are hardly a club. They are girls, though.
This OVA sucks, kind of like a store brand version of Project A-ko, complete with an obsessive lesbian (literally attaching herself to the main girl at nearly all times) and overly goofy action.
Really, it's got its moments, but the animation is terrible, and it's simultaneously too long for how thin the story and characters are, and too short for how its silly mystery action plot needed to be. Kind of the case for a lot of these 80s/90s anime OVAs.
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What can I say? This has to be one of the worst one-shot stories I have seen in a long, long time. Not even "so bad it's good", but rather "so bad it really is bad" bad.
Not sure where to start with this one. First of all, the title has nothing to do with the story (well, it does have girls in it...that's about it). But then again, I'm not even sure there's a "story" here - three girls at a private school, one goes missing, and the other two head out to rescue her. Massive, massive plot holes, completely irrelevant plot devices, actually forget the whole "plot" bit. Thoroughly unlikable characters, including one clueless brat that is even more annoying than C-ko. Rapidly increasing levels of violence, as we go from machine-guns to tanks to a high-tech flying fortress that is able to leve…
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Katsugeki Shoujo Tanteidan (KST from now on) is a veeeeery long 30 min OVA, created in the mid eighties by TMS. In this OVA they didn't aim for greatness, that's for sure. Just to begin with, KST can be translated as "Girl Detective Club"... and I can think of two things wrong with that title: there is no club, nor detectives. But don't worry, there are girls...
The... hmmm... story, I suppose, shows us Yuriko, Midori and Shizuka, three friends that study (and live) in Katrina, one of those typical ginormous and rich academies... But the wealth wasn't enough for the chairman, so he sends three members of the student council (all female, by the way, since this is a girls only school... see? the title was very precise in that regard) to kidnap Midori!…
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