Audience reviews
6 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
SlateDBiggs
The vibes are immaculate.
It's really sad to see that the small amount of people who took the time to give this a review haven't seen or don't appreciate older classic anime. They just cry about the main character and how "there's no plot"
So I felt compelled to give my quick 2 cents.
The art and animation is absolutely gorgeous and high quality, especially for the time that it came out.The dialogue is fantastic. There are some scenes that are laugh out loud. Hilarious. The music is absolutely fantastic everything about this OVA screams hidden gem.
Yuki Tamura is so fucking cool that chase scene in the car was insane, she looked damn good doing it too!!!
Ryo matsumoto is a little silly but also very suave. A fun protagonist to follow.
A really fun action flick. For 1986 this ova…
Read at the sourceAnimeEnjoyer420
A lesser known work from Kazunori Ito, more popularly known for his work on Ghost in the Shell, among many others, this is a straightforward crime thriller about an average Joe getting caught up in a criminal conspiracy. Personally, I love these kinds of movies, so
I was already inclined to be generous, but this is just a really nice little movie. It moves along at a brisk pace, the animation is solid, the soundtrack is filled with bitchin' 80s guitar solos, and the action scenes are appropriately ridiculous and fun for the genre.
There are certainly some bits and pieces here that you can nitpick. Yuki is kind of superfluous, the plot is pretty conventional, and the length is a bit too short (under an hour even if you include the credits). But this is a very fun and easily watchable movi…
Read at the sourceKamuiX1999
I love coming across an obscure OVA from anime's golden era that's different from the pack and good to boot, and this certainly fits the bill. Not only is it well done, but it's quite unique in that it's a rather serious crime noir, something you don't often see in the genre. There's not a whole lot of ha-ha or goofiness on display here, which is a hallmark of a lot of crime anime from the period, such as City Hunter or Lupin III. This makes it all the more odd that as far as I can tell, it's never been officially licensed for an English language release, as I feel like this would have stood out as something very different amongst the samey stuff that would get licensed and translated for English speaking audiences. It could have been another Blackjack, an anime about a surgeon that sat si…
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This was infuriating crap, holy shit was it stupid. The MC is fucking retarded. In the 80s/90s you get these goofball MCs. The joke with these idiots is that they're always trying to cover their ass, and it seems they are getting into trouble but the god awful scriptwriting always saves them. Every bullet fired misses the MC and the bad guys seriously never win cause the scriptwriting demands they are always fooled. If you wanna know what's so bad, you can read my forum post. The MC is stupid. The good cop is stupid too if he knew what was so wrong, but would always be one step late. It is kinda ridiculous really, two instances, he was there but somehow late to open the door and another instance which he knew the criminals were coming but didn't even warn his officer of the danger. It's tr…
Read at the sourcematthigh
A fair-to-middlin' OVA action/murder/mystery from the eighties.
From a time when practically every other anime movie or OVA featured characters with mysterious extra-sensory powers, it's actually refreshing to come across a story that features REAL people behaving in REAL situations, doing REAL things. Well, the story does get a little over the top at times, but what I mean is there's nothing supernatural in this story. A rarity in eighties OVAs!
Granted, the plot of the story is a little far-fetched, as a mild-mannered writer gets unwittingly involved in a murder mystery, faces off against a honest-to-god Bruce Lee karate guy in his apartment, hard-boiled detectives, hanging from a helicopter by one leg, and, well, you get the picture. No more ridiculous than, say, Die Hard. This shor…
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Based on a story by Kazunori Ito (the scriptwriter for Ghost in the Shell & Patlabor movies), Urban Square: Chasing Amber is a very unusual OVA as it can be perceived in two different ways, and the way you choose pretty much determines whether you'll like it or not.
STORY
Essentially, it's a classic detective story where the main character witnesses a murder and gets into trouble with the mafia; eventually, he ends up an action hero, fighting the criminals and protecting the girl he likes. Not only the plot is rather simple in general, but it also contains quite a lot of cliches typical for this kind of stories.
However, if you look at the story from a different angle, all those cliches were initially supposed to be there. You see, the main character is a scriptwriter who factually ends u…
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