Audience reviews
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JellyFilledDonut
I never would have watched this show if it didn't turn up in my Youtube recommends. Well, I'm glad I did because this one was a blast.
I'm not sure if the setting could be considered cyberpunk, or more like Judge Dredd. The setting is only casually presented and only giving out details where it has use for the plot. It doesn't lore dump. The story is not that complicated and not really deep but that doesn't really matter. The characters are the most important part of any story after all and DTP has great characters and knows how to use them and blend them together.
The members of the Tank Police are introduced as some very frat boy gung ho bad cops who have tanks and basically rip up half the city with them with little regards to its wellbeing. A few years ago, this might have been seen…
Read at the sourcePylgrim
Dominion is an extremely strange anime. Masamune Shirow has many ideas and many things to say. Anybody who knows more than the superficial about him knows that he's hard to neatly categorise as an author. Ghost in the Shell is a thought-provoking milestone in the medium coming from that mind and although Dominion is also thought-provoking, it is so in a much meta-textual way. I will presently attempt to articulate why.
From the very second it starts, Dominion appears to present itself as biting commentary on police brutality and excess. The first minutes are spent hearing (voice-off) a heated discussion between a police chief and the mayor of that city. As the mayor struggles to keep her composture and argue rationally about the necessity for the police to minimise civilian casualties ste…
Read at the sourceSgtSalamander
Dominion, better known as Dominion Tank Police, can best be described as an utterly goofy depiction of a truly dystopian world. Beginning with the story, the viewer is presented with the backdrop of Newport City. This is a place where a crime occurs every 36 seconds, all while most of the earth is enveloped in a toxic "bacterial cloud', and the police ride around in tanks and torture suspects for fun. However, it is all played for comedy, which in its own way adds to the bizarre, irreverent charm this show puts on. The story itself is disjointed and focuses more on gags and jokes than the progression of any kind of plot. There are two separate storylines which are covered 2 episodes a piece, and they're both unceremoniously dropped, bereft of any satisfying conclusion.
The art is probabl…
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Dominion Tank Police is strange. It has good animation, well designed characters, good music, and good world building. But it is so slow. It is first and foremost a comedy series, and while there are bits of action they are mostly used for comedic effect. (In my opinion the comedy has not aged particularly well, but because of its subjectivity this does not affect the overall review.) The characters while well designed are underutilized. The overall narrative is contrived. There are a lot of good ideas in the series but they never come together. Dominion Tank Police ultimately struggles to find an identity, and while there are many positives they don't outweigh the negatives.
Read at the sourceKamuiX1999
I have such nostalgia for Dominion Tank Police, as I saw it for the first time back in 1994 at 12 years old when it premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel during anime week. It turned out to be one of my favorites of that week, and I've loved it ever since. Having the ability to see the unedited version over the years, in its original language, has only increased my fondness for it. The gags all hit, it's super funny, it has incredibly memorable characters, the animation is excellent, the story is fun; if you thought Masamune Shirow could only do hard cyberpunk the likes of Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed, and Black Magic M-66, this will open up your eyes. There's a reason this one is considered one of the hallmarks of classic, old-school anime.
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For me, there's two kinds of anime I like: The kind that's just good TV but from Japan (uncommon because good TV itself is hard to find), and batshit insanity that could only have been written by an Easterner fried off his block on samurai spirits and also alcohol.
Anyways, Tank Police is an OVA set in a distant future city where the corrupt government has given law enforcement armored vehicles and carte blanche to fight against crime, there's a pollution cloud that means you can't stay outside for too long without a respirator, and the remains of scientific experiments gone wrong are on the streets blowing up hospitals. In case it wasn't obvious, it's a raunchy comedy with a side of fun action.
If you watch all four episodes totaling about two hours, you will not leave a better or wiser p…
Read at the sourceSCLFI
Dominion is a bit of an outlier. Usually, action anime (or any anime under 12 episodes) likes to get to the point, establish a general story and aesthetic, have a bunch of firefights, and then resolve the conflict, but Dominion decided to do the very opposite.
The story is told from the perspective of the Tank Police, whose name is rather self explanatory, they do regular police things (bureaucracy and homicide), but they have tanks. As for the tanks themselves, I can’t say I’m a fan of the design, I’m not sure what science fiction mumbojumbo they came up with to explain why they look like that, but these tanks look more like inflatable dummy tanks than actual tanks. Another major issue is that these tanks are almost never used, you see them plenty, but for the most part it’s just decorat…
Read at the sourceshinigami1987
Funny...A Little Confusing in places.....Loving the 80's 'Streets-Of-Ragey' Music over the battle scenes......Every Character has something to bring.......Very Silly at times but the better for it.
Read at the sourceColonelfancy
Dominion Tank Police is a timeless classic from the master himself, Shirow Masamune. It quickly became one of my favorite ovas ever and it's rewatch value has never diminished, even after watching it for the last 14 years.
STORY: A very simple story about policemen who patrol the city, keeping it safe from crime............IN BIG-ASS FREAKING TANKS!!! That concept alone had me sold! A young lady cop, Leona Ozaki, joins and she gets the cutest, most badass little tank you've ever seen!! The primary targets are Buaku and Annapuna and Umipuma, two sexy, gun-crazy catgirls. It's so incredibly simple and so effective at the same time. Most of the story probably takes place in the manga, which I can't get my hands on, so there isn't much I can say about plot aside from Buaku's past, so if it suf…
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Pretty decent short ova. Lots of action and some comedy. On the whole I enjoyed the series pretty much, good to have shorter series to watch that arent 200+ eps marathons.
Since it is an ova there isnt much character development and we barely get to know who they are. Although they are mostly stereotypes so it doesn't matter that much.
For the age of the anime, the animation and sounds are decent enough to watch without any complaints.
It made me laugh at some parts, wich is enough for me to recommend the series to anyone.
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