Introduction
Meet Bolt Crank, mercenary extraordinaire, and the man who eats metal! Through his travels, he stops along the way to make a few bucks and occasionally rescue damsels in distress. His taste for metal gives him quite an edge as he becomes capable of generating an assortment of weapons from his hand! It's a strange ability, but it seems to come in handy, so to speak. Bolt has an edge over his adversaries, but will that be enough?
(Source: AnimeNfo)
Audience reviews
8 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
TheColonel
A completely meaningless series of disconnected fables starring a strange and nihilistic main character who chooses nigh inexplicable courses of action at every turn. It often discards narrative logic entirely and concludes stories on notes that have little to no clear relation with all the preceding events. The ending is strange and nonsensical. It's a perfect gestation point for the surreal works Kouichi Mashimo would come to produce in the following decade and one of the most entertaining and hilarious sci-fi adventure shows I've ever watched, easily recommended if you want an over the top, irreverent post-apocalyptic black comedy structured in a similar vein to Kino's Journey.
Read at the sourceMashadaar
I am truly baffled at the above average rating this show received. It's absolutely atrocious. I watched Eat-Man '98 many years ago and remember enjoying it well enough. Expecting a similar experience from this was clearly a mistake. Thankfully it is only 12 episodes and the pure disbelief of how bad each and every episode was stunned me long enough to finish it. The writing and directing seem to be the primary offenders of what make it so awful. You can pretty much bet on every episode having a segment of 30+ seconds of Bolt and another random character staring back and forth at one another or even just a slow zoom on Bolt's immobile face because they were too lazy or too unfunded to fill the time with actual content. It would be safe to bet this happens multiple times in an episode. There…
Read at the sourcemaverick_hunter
This first EAT-MAN adaptation has a veeeery abstract atmosphere, and I see a lot of people shitting on this anime because they can't understand the pseudo symbolism behind each episode, when in fact not everything there has or needs an explanation, and what happens during the series is up to your own interpretation, just like our dreams, for example. Could it be that the director really wanted to say something in all this batshit crazy stuff? Maybe. But it could also be that he was simply out of his mind when he decided to adapt a manga that hadn't even started being serialized. YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, EAT-MAN STARTED OUT AS A MANGA AND A SIMPLE BUNCH OF CHAPTERS WAS ENOUGH TO CONVINCE A PRODUCTION COMMITTEE TO ADAPT IT INTO AN ANIME! FOR ME THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE AND AMAZING!
It's as if th…
Read at the sourceSgtSalamander
Eat-Man is a fascinating 90s anime that bewilders from the very start, doing whatsoever it pleases and never apologizing for it, which is an admirable thing, even if the end product is a pretty eclectic title that won't be everyone's cup of tea. Beginning with the story, I must be immediately clear that there isn't one. Eat-Man is an entirely episodic compilation of vignettes, these self-contained sci-fi short stories that sometimes touch on certain themes, but most of the time happen just because the dudes putting this together thought it'd be cool. Even though a good coherent story is always a good thing, Eat-Man still manages to make this a fun ride from start to finish, even if you are left wondering why or how certain things work every now and then. Regardless, you can always count on…
Read at the sourceAllwynd
I'm writing this review after watching both Eat-Man 97 (this) and Eat-Man 98. When I began watching it, I had different expectations, but I soon learned that this series was not made after the manga, but instead it was random stories by a different person who uses Bolt Crank as a centerpiece of his stories.
So this is an anthology series loosely based around Eat-Man's character Bolt Crank. Each episode is its own story and they aren't necessarily very engaging, at least not for me. The personality of Bolt Crank is more or less in line with what the original character is - silent, stoic, enigmatic, mysterious, hard to read and hard to predict. On a few occasions he is shown smiling or making weird faces, which, I learned is not canon for his personality.
As for the stories, I found them t…
Read at the sourceYahooligan
Eat-Man is one of those shows that you'll pick up on whim based on the title alone and then the pace will either cause you drop it or you will slog through until the final couple of episodes because that's where any of the overarching story is.
Story: 3
The story is rather poor being a very episodic show. Until the last 3 episodes, there is almost no plot progression. The general plot for all of the other episodes follows around some girl that Bolt Crank has met this week and he will do some "mercenary" work which is just odd jobs.
Characters: 5
The characters are interesting enough with our main character Bolt Crank having a fairly unique power. He can turn metal and other items that he ingests into more useful items like guns. Seems like a very helpful skill if he ever needed to wa…
Read at the sourceWhatDothLife
Eat-Man. The title alone is provocative. As you watch Eat-Man, you may ask yourself several questions. Here are some questions I asked myself.
1. What is this? 2. Who is this lumbering fool of a protagonist? 3. Is there an overall theme tying this show's episodes together? 4. What is the point of the broken flying airship? 5. What is the point of all this?
To answer these in order:
1. This is the show Eat-Man from 1997. Not the 1998 one.
2. Bolt Crank, greatest mercenary of all time in the world and universe ever.
3. Bolt Crank, greatest mercenary of all time in the world and universe ever.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.
With these questions answered, I basked in the horrendous, edgy, and hilarious glory of this show.
This show was a random encounter for a friend and I, and watching it would change o…
Read at the sourcejyagan0
A good but not great show for fans of YK and kino. for anyone who likes slow pacing. The art is slightly above average but the character design besides the main characters are lacking. The sound is very good considering. Plenty of good moment, at least in the first episode where the main character has a slapping contest twice with a female bounty hunter. Each episode seems to be a different theme. The stories and character are about the same rating wise.
Some of the episodes are varying in tone.
Don't expect many answers/explanations to most of the plots, the majority of it is conjecture.
The genre/cover is fairly misleading, there is very little action, and the superpower is there, but only to serve a purpose. Dont expect epic superman fights.
Regardless, its definitely not best to go int…
Read at the source