Introduction
Set on the planet Yietta, whose colonists make their living by exploiting the planet's unique liquid-gas oceans, Plastic Little begins as the Yietans are finally about to pay off their debts to the Galactic Federation. Unfortunately, there are those who would rather not let Yietta slip through their fingers...
Enter Tita, 17 year old captain of the Cha Cha Maru. Together with her crew, Tita specializes in capturing Yietta's exotic life forms for intergalactic pet shops, but through plain bad luck she finds herself, instead, at the core of a sinister plot to take over Yietta! By rescuing 16 year old Elysse from the very clutches of the military, Tita puts the lives of both herself and her crew in mortal peril... but a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do!
As the plotters mobilize their forces in a desperate bid to retrieve Elysse, whom they believe possesses a vital computer code, Tita must play a dangerous game of tag with an entire army of professional killers! It's Cat and Mouse on a planetwide scale, with one crucial difference: Mice don't shoot back, but Tita's does!
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Audience reviews
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Divine_Death
In a time where OVA's ruled supreme, Plastic Little was...certainly one of them.
It's the classic tale of girl meets girl, Girl B is pursued by villainous group as she may or may not know a password to a world-destroying weapon. Girl A also apparently collects animals, but that never factors into the plot, so who cares? It's also quite short at 40-ish minutes, so that doesn't leave a whole lot of time to explain much of anything.
One of the highlights was the smooth animation. Or to be more specific, the copious amount of boob bouncing (apparently, by the same director as Another Lady Innocent. If you know, you know...). So much so, that ADV made a whole special feature on the DVD called the Jiggle Counter that keeps track of it (they don't make bonus features like they used to anymore).…
Read at the sourceElara1321
Plastic Little is synthetic, short-lived, fun pulp. Don’t expect meaning. Enjoy the shine!
It is a short (~40 minutes) OVA that comes from a creative environment that no longer really exists: strong production values, a clearly defined niche audience, and absolutely no interest in smoothing edges or justifying itself. What you see is exactly what the creators wanted to make. Confidence first, restraint optional.
From a sci-fi perspective, Plastic Little delivers surprisingly effective world and atmosphere building for its runtime. Everything feels right without ever stopping for any explanation. Ships, technology, and scenes of public places suggest a larger universe. The animation and overall production quality are excellent, and the visual world-building carries far more weight than th…
Read at the sourceSapphireloid
Ah, Satoshi Urushihara, we meet again.
Despite having never peeped the source material, I found myself enjoying Plastic Little in a sort of guilty-pleasure sort of way while knowing the story and pacing were messy with how much they were trying to fit into one OVA. It's a simple-ish story though and I managed to follow most of it.
Per Urushihara's style, of course, there's fanservice but I feel like I would have enjoyed it if it like, wasn't two underage girls lmao. Aside from that, the art is pretty and the style really appeals to me.
I feel like if it came out today the femboy lovers would be clamoring for Nichol the moment he came on screen.
I don't know if I'll ever read the source material. All I know is whatever the OVA presented to me. But, if you're bored and looking for some…
Read at the sourceGonzyChan
There are a lot of silly OVAs from the late 80s to early 90s. While not every one of them is of the type of high quality you’d want out of an anime in terms of production and narrative quality, you get a sense of nostalgia from watching them. Even if you never grew up during the early 90s, at least for me. I’m only at the tip of the iceberg during my journey, watching many OVAs that became ever-present during its golden era. I decided that Plastic Little would be the one to start it off.
Why exactly did I want to start with this one? It is directed by one of my favorite character designers, Satori Usushihara. You may remember him for many contributions to character designs for dozens of games, manga, and anime. He even sold artbooks based on franchises he has worked on. Lastly, it seemed…
Read at the sourceIshitani
Tita is a cute, energetic 17-year-old with a heart of gold. She's also the captain of the pet-shop hunting ship Cha Cha Maru, a battleship that cruises the Sea of Clouds to capture whale-sized creatures for export to rich collectors offworld. One day while her ship is in port, Tita rescues teenage girl Elysse from a squad of government thugs, placing herself and her crew at the focus of a murderous conspiracy. Evil Lord Guizel has converted the gravitational engine that keeps the port city afloat on the Sea of Clouds into a terrifying weapon--but he needs Elysse's knowledge to activate it. It will take all of Tita's courage, together with the power of the Cha Cha Maru and the skill of her gallant crew, to protect Elysse, defeat Guizel, and save the day.
Don't be confused by the title. Pla…
Read at the sourceThedude3445
Honestly, this was almost alright. I liked the protagonist Captain Tina quite a bit, and the whole production didn't take itself too seriously... until it did. It's another one of THESE anime OVA movies. The action and animation are okay, the characters aren't much of anything, but it's nice enough... except for the parts that bring it down.
It's also super pervy with showing off the topless main characters and constantly focusing on their breasts. Sure, fanservice and whatever, but it went too far beyond what's acceptable, and even had some of that awful "boys creeping on the bathhouse" stuff that makes people hate the entire medium. There's even some undercurrents of gayness between Captain Tita and her new princess-y friend, but absolutely nothing is done with it. Sad.
Basically, Plas…
Read at the sourceVoivodian
In between the uneven pacing, exposition dumps and wtf deus ex machina moment at the end, its pretty clear this ova is more a vehicle for Urushihara's legendary boob - I mean character designs! All things considered, for a boob slideshow, this is a pretty decent ova.
Aside from Oppai, the main thing I found entertaining was how the colony's big bad military are SO backwater their gear is overshadowed and outmatched by the civilian equipment of one space whaling ship. It's no wonder this colony is going to such lengths to develop a superweapon!
Of course most people aren't going to over analyze the world building of fictional universes like I do. What you will get here is a beautifully animated and drawn celebration of Urushihara's gorgeous character designs tightly packaged into that ic…
Read at the sourcepk6
I never saw Plastic Little until today, so I did not watch it with Nostalgia Glasses on, Nor have I ever seen the ENG version of it and its Jiggle counters. That could be why I felt like I had a hard time actually getting into it compared to a lot of viewers.
The plot i think has the biggest problem. The story follows a girl named Tita, who rescues another girl named Elysse from strange men. Elysse tells Tita that her father accidentally created a weapon and tried to shut it down, with Elysse being the only one to either reactive it or completely destroy it. Together they try to bring down the weapon for good. Its pretty simple, but for a 40 minuet OVA, its lacking in a lot of information. What is really given is very basic stuff. "Weapon is bad. Dad made it. We need to destroy it." Its…
Read at the sourceratchet573
In forty-eight minutes Plastic Little manages to create a confusing world. I can’t tell whether it was made to be a sci-fi action adventure or a full on hentai. Not enough tits for hentai and not enough story for action adventure…so what does that make it? Despite the fact the story is weak, the characters are underdeveloped and uninteresting, and there is a jiggle counter on the DVD, it does manage to have fantastic animation for the time. Our two heroines are downright adorable and anything the anime does lack it makes up for in perfectly drawn breasts and very cute girls. Otherwise, the villain looks ridiculous, the plot is barely there, the action is uninteresting, and the only thing you’ll remember about this show, sadly, is the bathhouse scene and perhaps the yuri subtext.
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Ever since MST3K became a hit in the 1990s, it has been well known that many people (including myself) love to laugh at bad movies. However, it is difficult to describe exactly what makes a movie enjoyably bad vs. irritatingly bad. I believe that bad + boring + pretentious = irritatingly bad. Whereas sheer ineptitude creates the unintentional comedies that people love.
Plastic Little is a movie so stupid you can't help but laugh at it. Even the title makes ZERO sense. The writer simply took two random English words and stuck them together! This 1994 movie was one of the first anime titles licensed in the US by ADV before they got HUGE after licensing Evangelion. As a result, almost the entire English cast of Eva also worked on this monstrosity, which brings extra comedy to English speaki…
Read at the sourcekekekeKaj
"Plastic Little" (or, to give it its full title "Plastic Little: The Adventures of Captain Tita",) is an action anime that manages to fall short of mediocrity despite having a pretty good opening. Filled with fan service and a half-arsed plot, it turned out to be a very dull affair. My concentration wandered so many times during this boring anime, that I totally lost track of what was going on. And you know what? I don't really care - this turned out to be a complete waste of my time... good job it only wasted 45 minutes of it.
In this truly unsatisfying OVA, nothing really stood out. The comedy is forgettable - I can't even remember a single joke they attempted. In fact I can barely remember whether it's meant to be comedy or not, but since it's got "Comedy" down as one of its genre labe…
Read at the sourceskankfish
This is an absolute classic.
The premise is fairly interesting - some girl, Tita, is the captain of a spaceship which collects rare animals. Nice idea, which turns out not to be the focus of the OAV at all. Tita saves a girl who just happens to be being hunted by some evil guys. The chase begins!
But that doesn't matter, because the real charm and brilliance of this anime doesn't lie in the dodgy story, bad music or waifs of character personalities. It's in the most beautiful and stunningly designed breasts in anime. That's right; the reason I've watched this dozens of times in the last dozen or so years is the awesome tits. Satoshi Urushihara is the king of drawing truly beautiful female characters. Not just the boobs, the whole character is stunning, and invariably beautifully coloured…
Read at the sourcemartinezjkind
This is one of the classic animes that came to america many yeas ago. I myself saw this rare gem about 15 years ago when in a video store and decided to rent it. The art and music were both great in my opinion. I had only watched about 10-15 other types of animes at the time when i first saw this OVA , it is still an old fav of mine
Read at the sourceIlyaoh
I had never heard of this title before, I downloaded it, but when I saw the actual name, (and noticed it was an 1 episode OVA), I thought it would be a hentai. But it isn't, although there's nudity in it (top only).
The art is pretty normal, looks like the old basic art anime had at that time, although the animation involving the nudity was like it should be in reality, (looked smoother tho'), they did a better job on it then most of the good hentai's do, that was kinda ironic, bu...t yet funny.
The story is cool too, yet, old. Our heroïn helps a stranger and brings her to her base (She's a pet hunter). And the enemy's who are after the one that was in trouble find out the base/hiding place and come to get her, after almost dying, they decide to actually take it up against the (corr…
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