Audience reviews
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Riki-Oh: The Wall of Hell is one of those anime that’s so absurdly violent and over-the-top, you can’t help but laugh. It belongs to the "it's so bad, it's good" category, and honestly, that’s part of the charm. There's a something especial to these old-school ultra-violent OVAs from the late '80s and early '90s, and this one delivers.
The Hokuto no Ken influence is obvious, especially in the post-apocalyptic prison setting, the hyper-stylized martial arts, and the way characters literally explode. The animation is rough around the edges, but it fits the chaotic and exaggerated tone.
The story is pretty much barebones, but it doesn’t matter. You’re here for the spectacle: exploding heads, ridiculous strength, and some of the most hilariously grotesque death scenes in anime. I genuinely enj…
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If you like mindless gory violence set to a 1980s soundtrack, then “Riki-Oh: Toukatsu Jigoku” is for you. From start to finish, this 48-minute long OVA is packed with blood, guts, torture and death, leaving little room for much else.
The gist of the story is that Riki-Oh Saiga, a mysterious man with superhuman strength, is arrested and put into prison for killing someone. Why he kills this person isn’t made clear in the anime, but according to the synopsis here (which is likely based on the manga) it’s because the person killed his girlfriend. This prison is filled with people who enjoy killing. The prisoners kill. The guards kill. Heck, even the warden and the warden’s boss kill. Riki-Oh does not enjoy killing — he’d rather walk around playing a blade of grass like a harmonica — but he’l…
Read at the sourceShellshock123
This series adapts the Prison arc in the manga. Well it says it does it only really adapts the first 5 chapters and then just kinda ends.
The series is as stupid as it looks. If you can see the similarity between Fist of the North star its because the author was an assistant of FOTNS author.
The series is about the Male character trying to find his family right. Thats the overall story. Its set in a dystopian future. But this was made in the 1980's understand so even if its called Dystopian future, floppy disks are capable of saving/destroying the world type dystopian future. Our main character is trying to find his family while making sure every bad guy dies. Like this guy absolutely ridiculous and there is so much blood in this series you think everyone is secretly holding a ketchup b…
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I watched a very low quality sub. The res had likely been truncated/adulterated even further down to 480x360 to create a small file size. (appropriate low quality badness. this aint no rolls royce OVA) no idea where i got it or who made it.
The story and realism is farfetched and over the top but it's stylish and everything is presented in a way that communicates a cause/explanation. (It's kinda like American wrestling actually...) It's one of those things that might not 'make sense' because its over-exagerrated but it does an excllent job fooling you into going along with it and being believable because of it's presentation. I've watched a lot of 'great' stuff that was very hard to interpret and left me scratching my head wondering WHAT THE F~! and as rediculous as this gets, it never le…
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Overview:
Today we are looking at a fairly obscure 1980s anime that is only remembered thanks to an awesomely terrible Chinese movie adaptation. This adaptation from the 1990s is one of the only Chinese adaptations of a Japanese manga/anime to ever exist and it was BAD, coming across as more of a spoof than an honest adaptation. However, the spoof was actually far superior because unlike this piece of shit, it didn't take itself seriously!
Story and characters: 2/10
Riki is a superhuman kung fu master that was sentenced to jail after killing some Yakuza thugs with his fists to avenge his girlfriend's murder. Riki takes place in a future were prisons have become privatized and corrupt, handing out extra long sentences in order to use the inmates for unpaid labor. I would laugh at this pl…
Read at the sourceSetsura1
Saiga Riki-oh is a man with a strong sense of justice and a knack for brutally killing people (understatement). He can be distinguished by his supernatural strength and the "Six Pointed Star" (Star of David) on his right hand. He has been sent to prison charged with assault. Shortly after entering the prison he has already made a name for himself as someone you don't want to mess with. Riki-oh punishes and helps those who deserve it, which catches the attention of the higher authority figures of the prison.
"Riki-Oh: Toukatsu Jigoku" covers the first arc of the manga, the "Prison Arc". The original manga which was published in 1989 is a relatively unknown diamond in the ruff. It is a brutally violent series riddled with scientific impossibilities, that being said, it's a great time killer…
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