Audience reviews
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KotoBotoJoto
Fun little OVA based off of the two Download games from the TurboGrafx-16/ PC Engine console.
90s animation with 80s style illustration. Super cool music from the late Hiroshi Kamayatsu in a mostly bluesy style.
Very fun ride if you're an animation head that really likes 80s colors, the greens and pinks kill me, with the fluid animation that came to be standard in most OVAs in 90s anime.
Haven't played the games but it's better than most video game adaptations I've seen.
Not much else to say, if you like anime pre 2000, give this OVA a try, it's just 50 minutes so not much to lose.
Read at the sourceBuRizzle
Do you know how annoying it is to have to search for an anime called ‘Down Load’ of all things (well there’s a subtitle but it’s a mouthful and the first part is much easier to remember)? Pretty darn hard. Was it worth the 10 minute hassle of having to track down the PC Engine video game this is based off (also called Down Load which just made things even more confusing), just so I could find a mention of this somewhere in article? Yes actually, I’d say it was.
Down Load: Song in Loving Homage to Amida Buddha is an obscure and more or less completely forgotten one shot OVA very very loosely based off a side scrolling shooter for the PC Engine/Turbografx 16. I did play a bit of the game before writing this and it’s a perfectly average and unremarkable shoot ‘em up, one of dozens that plag…
Read at the sourceMagical_Brainrot
It’s a great study for animation students and something I’m definitely going to study myself when I get the time. The premise of a spam email that actually kills you sounds like dumb fun. But it loses me with the main character trying to assault his boss within the first five minutes and how much xenophobia is in the movie. I’m not even exaggerating, the big bad company is Chinese and everyone who works for it looks like they came out of a WWII propaganda poster. Even his love interest ends up being a “evil Chinese woman”. I’m not going to lie and say that I didn’t enjoy the movie but it’s hard to ignore the glaring flaws. Honestly if you’re going to and enjoy the movie it’s important to also acknowledge how xenophobic it is. So yeah I see what you were going for but you lost me with the r…
Read at the sourcejitenshaotakumo
This is an interesting little OVA if you like quirky art projects, but it's all style without much in the way of story or interesting ideas. It's enjoyable if you can pick up on all the pop culture visual cues and references, and there are some delightful moments of character animation that are remarkable for how well they convey fluidity and weight of movement - but unless you're the sort of person who likes watching animation for the sake of appreciating the technical aspects, and recognizing trademark elements that the staff on this project used elsewhere, you probably don't need to invest 48 minutes to see this.
Read at the sourcesomaisbatman
Download is an earlier Madhouse work that up until last week (at the time of writing), had never been translated. Well, now we've got some subs courtesy of Burger. We can finally watch this 50-minute OVA how it was meant to be viewed: in VHS quality with solid yellow subtitles.
To be honest, it's not great. The story, which centers around an email that kills its recipients, is largely forgettable. The main character is an unlikable sex-crazed teen, and he's accompanied by his formulaic pals Stripper Girl, Tsundere Sister, Gangster Pals, and Nerd Boy. This page tags the show as sci-fi and psychological, but the latter just isn't true and the former is wasted potential. Instead of a full cyberpunk thriller, this OVA's definition of sci-fi is a nighttime city and head-mounted computers.
But…
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