Audience reviews
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It’s hard not to speculate on its terribly bad rap when watching the first episode. It doesn’t seem offensively bad; rather, it seems like a bold product of its time, and one with explosive and colourful expressive ideas concerning a relevant topic it had to struggle with communicating. It has this great gusto in unpacking fantasy situations emerging from technology-mediated global interconnectivity, and on its sleeve wears the hallmarks of the typical 90s OVA adaptation of a video game. We sort of get what we expect from glancing at art and a synopsis. Some of us have a healthy interest in its place in history, others might just be in the mood for old animation, but either way, expectations are reasonably low. The main characters draw power from the unconscious to fight together as mahou…
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Alice in Cyberland is a totally listless, directionless show. The idea of a Tron-style adventure immersed in 90s futurism, where the function of tech improves rather than its form, is an interesting concept on paper, but this show totally fails to bring those ideas to life in a way which is at all compelling. There are "cyber anarchists" afoot, and some ill-defined goddess of cyberspace grants a girl and her friends special powers to manifest in the virtual world. It makes sense that this is based on a video game, because it feels as though the audience is missing some vital context from the very start, as though we are being dropped right in the middle of a story. Then, the fight scenes that ensue feel disjointed, and actions are disconnected from each other between one shot and the next…
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This ova being subbed is such a dangerous double edged sword for it. The first episode is gorgeous but the second episode is basically entirely irrelevant to both the previous episode and, importantly, the entire video game following it, which remains untranslated. Taken on its own this ova is not very good but I can't say it's actually... bad? The animation in the second episode is terrible and the core plotline of it is flatly not very good, but it still has pretty entertaining dialog and some decent jokes.
Having played the game, it shares some of the same problems as this ova but for having more casual downtime with the characters, and an actual ending, they're both much more satisfying placed in that fuller context. There's a lot of weird grey space between the ova and the game where…
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Definitely a product of its time with a moderately strong start and a pretty weak finish. Fans of the early internet's promise may find this entertaining, back when the world wide web was imagined as an alternative world for users to explore. Here, "cyberland" comes in layers to be delved by the avatars of heroes and misfits alike.
The first episode is definitely the superior one. The animation is better, the story is stronger, the jokes hit better, the stakes are higher. The end-boss monster is tentaclicious per the era's norms. Its tendrils are probably the best animated things in the OVA.
The second episode is a let down by comparison. The budget must have been blown on episode 1, because the animation is shoddy and stilted. The characters even appear to have been drawn from different…
Read at the sourceACornelis
First of all, if you're reading this, why are you here? Anyways
I stumbled upon this OVA on youtube after searching for ''90s anime OVAs'' and just clicked on something random and I decided to finish it for whatever reason. It doesn't make any sense, weird monster-like creatures and space girls fighting them. The main character is a pink haired girl with daddy issues, I don't fucking know.
No need to elaborate more, if you just wanna consume every show imaginable and add it to your watched list go ahead, it's not insulting but it's pretty damn catshit even for 90s OVA standards.
Read at the sourceThedude3445
It had a good 90s retrofuture aesthetic for a bit, but this was really gross and pervy and not worth watching because it's too short. The file I have for it has some neat ads attached to it at the end, though. I always liked the Sega Saturn/Playstation era of Japanese games aesthetically even if they didn't age well.
There was also an ad for a second episode, but I am 90% sure that doesn't exist. Oh what it would be to live in that era where they made promotional anime episodes for stupid video games and whatnot. Oh wait, they still do that? Nevermind then.
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Here we go again. A series without a review and considered one of the worst anime shows in existence and I just I have one single question.
HOW THE HELL IS THIS ONE OF THE WORST ANIME IN THIS SITE? Please someone can explain to me how this is so terrible and hideous for some reason.
First of all, this short OVA is based on an old videogame promotion of a PS1 game, with the same name and honestly it is just OK. But not signifcantly a piece of garbage like the mean score makes it out to be.
The story is about a girl called Alice who is a prodigy in computers and one day a cyber attack occurs in the city she lives and since everything is connected to the internet, this attack causes a lot of trouble to the citizens. She discovers the problem and decides to transport herself and her friends…
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