Audience reviews
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Honestly, this OVA felt pretty mediocre. It is a very beautiful looking piece of work, nicely animated, elegant with pretty colours, giving it a cool atmosphere. The music is also nice, which further contributes to the atmosphere. Cool looking action scenes as well.
The story was honestly not very engaging, and confusing. This seems like it was was rather meant for people who had already read the manga/source material and not really to stand on it's own, which is a bit fair. The side characters were meh, and the whole OVA honestly felt more like a chance for Tsunami to show off.
If you want to see it for the pretty animation, you like the vibe of of retro animes with demons in it, or you just want to see the pretty male MC, then you'll probally be fine watching it. But if you are lookin…
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I don’t really know what to think about this anime. On one hand, I really liked the graphics and character designs (especially Shijo), but I totally agree with someone who mentioned in their review that this should’ve been a 12-episodes anime instead of a 45-minute OVA.
Trying to fit this story into such a short runtime really hurt the plot. Everything felt rushed and chaotic, and sometimes it was hard to keep track of what was going on. Both the storyline and the characters were undeveloped, which made it hard to connect with anything emotionally and understand everything at all.
It’s a real shame, because the concept had potential. With more time, it could’ve been something really solid — but as it stands, it just doesn’t deliver, which is honestly really disappointing.
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The vibes were good and the story was entertaining at the beginning. Then it went off the rails and we met up with yapmaster 3000. It's aesthetic AF and the art was good. The woman going after her fiance was an interesting character. The cast itself was solid, but they were ultimately wasted. I get the themes of the work. While people are living day to day, greater forces are at play. Forces far better than humans can even hope to comprehend. Even when they enhance themselves. Even the otherworldly creatures that looked down on mortals, were ultimately not true playmakers.
The problem is, the story just went off rails and was a bit rushed. Almost like we needed more time with the show.
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The easiest way I can describe Twilight of the Dark Master for you is to imagine a 12 episode (at least) anime getting compressed into a 45 minute OVA. The art and animation are both really great and heavily influenced by Blade Runner - but everything else is a complete and utter mess. The story barely makes any sense and the characters are paper thin. It's not a surprise that this OVA has been long forgotten to the point that even YouTube had very little videos available on it. I can only imagine what went on at the studio behind the scenes that led to this being the end result.
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If you are here that means you are already aware of the 80s Anime style, the brutal visceral and atmospheric take from the Japanese talent. Yes this one got it all.
The story is very thin, and as mentioned already here. I will just keep it short. Demons vs Angels as the Prologue itself defines, but this anime is purely for the art, the original hand drawn masterpiece is what makes this OVA shine. It's very similar to the art style of Mr. Kawajiri. And the mystery of the plot keeps it going. That's why you won't even remember the prologue once you are in the narration.
Extreme gore is missing for a Cyberpunk work like this, but it will still satisfy for the ones who are looking for something very dark, as the opening itself hits perfect. The screenplay is fantastic, since the story is not…
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Overview:
Twilight of the Dark Master is THAT anime of 1998 with an appealing title and description, that is pretty much it. There are a lot of shortcomings of this film that could have gone beyond the shallow antagonizing force, non-existent romantic elements between a human and a demon etc. Vintage anime films are often glorified because apparently every aged anime is a masterpiece, that may be true with series such as Initial D, Cowboy Bebop, Ghibli Films etc. but that's about it. No-name vintage anime films have a reason why they're no-name; it is either because studios have taken risks and invested in poorly written source material or the entire project is just terrible. I'd say this film was the latter, the main character doesn't feel like the main character, the villain doesn't fee…
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Ah, the good old days of renting anime OVA from your local video store, back when you just picked up something because the cover looked appealing, and you were young and didn't care how good or bad it was, as long as it was anime. That's pretty much how I ended up watching Twilight of the Dark Master. I was but a young lass, and for weeks I stared at the front cover of the VHS (the older one with the main characters profile gazing at the grimace of a very discontented looking woman), and just knew that my mom wasn't going to let me take this one home. So, I asked my grandma. Success!
So is Twilight of the Dark Master worth watching. Well, if you like older 90's anime and don't need an in-depth backstory to fill in the gaps, then yes. Although, I honestly think that anyone who watches anim…
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This is a very atmospheric 1990s anime with monsters, superpowered people, cyberpunk-ish atmosphere. In a sense, it is somewhat similar - in atmosphere - to Wicked City. With less sexual content, however.
The main reason to watch it is 1990s atmosphere - with hand-drawn everything, specific old-style music, and atmosphere of the city which feels vaguely cyberpunk in nature.
Breakdown below:
Story: 6/10:
There's a shot timeframe for the movie, but it does decent job presenting the storyline, characters, and showing you how the event unfolds. The events are presented in sort of indifferent way, so you sorta get glimpses and hints of what the people there are, what events happened in the past, etc. Narration style is similar to, for example, "the humanoid". They just show you the story un…
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As humans go through their daily lifes they are left unaware of the battle that is being waged between good and evil.It is a battle that has existed from the beginning of time,a battle between demons and the guardians of mankind.Tsunami Shijo a fire manipulator and the last of the guardians one day meet a woman seeking to find a demon who she wishes to kill,Tsunami later finds out that this demon once had a close relationship with the woman and investigates to find it.
Tsunami search leads him to a conspiracy in which drugs is being used on human test subjects and behind it all is an old enemy,the worst demon of them all.Tsunami must once again stop his old enemy before he destroys all mankind.Firstly may i just say that the animation is great,.It is absolutely gorgeous.Im a sucker for th…
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