Audience reviews
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niktrick
Rewatching this OVA in 2025 really made me reminisce and go back to the manga and read it again.
This short OVA covers the prelude part of the series - vol 0, Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark. It's main focus is getting us to know the main characters and set the tone and plot that is to transpire.
The plot was good at setting up the stage and its players, but not much could be addressed as this is an introductory to the plot and characters.
The soundtrack was ok, and the art style is cool. The setting is interesting and the characters are unique.
There could've been a pretty cool show if the manga were to be an anime, here's to hoping that we might see an adaptation in the future.
Read at the sourceSgtSalamander
Dogs: Bullets & Carnage is an inoffensive little OVA from 2009 that barely takes an hour to watch in full and definitely feels like a product of its time. It is nostalgically edgy in that particular late-2000s fashion, but beyond that it's a fairly unremarkable show. Beginning with the story, it consists of a series of self-contained vignettes connected in some way to the criminal underground of a city "somewhere in Europe", as the anime puts it. It's perfectly serviceable, and only lays about as much groundwork as is strictly necessary for the vignettes to make sense. Even so, it does feel a little disjointed, and the dramatic moments feel both sudden and unearned due to a total lack of buildup, which I have seen done well in even shorter shows before.
The art is this anime's strongest…
Read at the sourceXxWolfy98xX
My thoughts about this anime is that it's badass, weird, funny and mixed with different stuff, it's really fun to watch interesting but bad side its very short and there's no second season, also it doesn't go that much its basically a quick fast paste story unlike others where in here it's just one episode for each character and it summarize the whole thing. I'd say who ever wanted to explore more of this anime most likely there'll be no second season, so Manga is probably is the best gateway.
Yah overall sometimes to make a great anime doesn't mean that it always gotta be long sometimes short ones can make a difference, welp I guess to each their own, so I'd say this one is pretty good.
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Ok first things first. I did not know there was a Manga nor did I read this Manga. My review is therefore only based on this anime OVA.
How did I get to his anime if I never heard from the manga before? Recommendations. I do like Black Lagoon and Jormungand and this anime shows both shows in the recommendations, so I thought I give it a shot.
Based on the picture and the intro I thought this anime is about a group of 3-4 people doing, you know, action stuff. Like in Black Lagoon. Well it isn't, or maybe it is in the manga but not in this 4 episodes.
Every episode of this 4 episodes tells a short story about one of the characters. Don't expect big story split up in 4 parts. The characters seem to be connected a bit. They know each other or are "friends".
Since the episodes are so short t…
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This is fundamentally a panel-by-panel, frame-by-frame remake of the manga book Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark, which is part 0 of the manga series Dogs: Bullets and Carnage.
Short version: Just read the manga. You don't have to read the whole series, just the one volume. The art is fierce, active, and evocative. And while each of the 4 short stories varies quality, they weave together into a powerful whole.
As I said, these OVAs are frame by frame from the manga. Some of the drawings are literally the exact drawings from the manga. Except the art/animation quality of the OVAs is very poor, and it just retells the story literally, with none of the power or heart of the originals. There are truly scary, violent people in these stories and on screen they just kind of stand around loo…
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Be warned: this review contains /spoilers/, as well as many references to the manga counterpart. (While the anime is rated 5, I'd rate its manga counterpart a 7. Given that this review combines both the anime and the manga rather solidly, I'm foregoing writing a separate review of the manga.)
The DOGS Bullets and Carnage manga/four episode OVA are a prequel to the ongoing series DOGS. The manga contains six chapters, and the aforementioned anime contains four episodes. Each episode/chapter revolves around a particular character.
The first chapter, “Weepy Old Killer”, introduces Mihai Mihaerrof, a former assassin/hitman who must confront someone from his past, specifically the son of a mob boss whom he had tutored. This boy, Ian, killed Mihai’s lover, Milena (who, notably, was a prostitut…
Read at the sourceMessyrats
"Fuck up. Gentlemen"
First of all, let me point out I am a huge fan of the Dogs manga, originally I never intended to watch the OVA's because I had heard that they were a very disappointing adaptation of the manga. I decided to give them a watch because of the more recent chapters of Dogs: Bullets and Carnage that I had been reading and wondered how it would be if it was actually animated, so it was with some trepidation that I watched the OVA's.
Secondly, this is not an adaptation of Bullets and Carnage, so anyone coming here expecting to see that will just have to do with watching the original manga play out being animated.
Thirdly, it's very disappointing.
Dogs doesn't seem to work as an anime, I can't describe why it doesn't work, it just doesn't. If you want to understand what I'm…
Read at the sourceJoony
Dogs: Bullets & Carnage is a 4-episode OVA adopted from the DOGS Manga. This is a bite-sized series; at 15 minutes per episode, an hour is all that you need to spare.
Even though the episodes are short, all the ingredients necessary in a good, conventional story are incorporated. Each of the episodes focus on individuals' story and their imminent dilemma. - A lot happens in the 15 minutes; action-filled, emotional and energetic scenes are sufficiently delivered. Though you may think that this may cause a content overload, the story lines do not have that crammed, sloppy, or hastened feel to it, as the OVA is extremely well-paced.
But, upon completion, most people will agree that they felt as though something was missing... I believe this is so because 1. a single 15-minute episode is n…
Read at the sourceDaffodils
(First of all I would like to warn you that I'm French, so forgive me for my bad English ;) )
After having seen many fanart about this anime/manga, I decided to give it a try... The story isn't bad, and lays somewhere between the classical mafia story and something more «supernatural». Surprisingly, even if the OAVs are short, the characters are well built, being caricature (not in the wrong way) whenever the story allows it, and serious other way. A plus : the charadesign isreally good, and the animation fluent.
However, that was not the thing that stroke me most while I was watching. As a big fan of Tarantino's movies, I couldn't help drawing a paralel between some of his films and DOGs : in both (or at least some ofHis movies) characters have separated stories, but in the end they hap…
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In my personal opinion, one of the best seinen anime ever.
Though a short one, each of the 4 OVAs presents each of the main characters fully enough. Stories twist with each other, so that even in the episode about Mihai we meet Badou, who in his personal episode calls Haine, and then, for a few second, Naoto appears before we can learn her story.
As for the plot. You spend just an hour (and it never goes to waste) to watch all OVAs, but yet it may seem to you that there is much, much more. Of course, the story continues in manga, and the fourth episode, Haine's story, has an open end. Yet each of the stories is finished in it's own way, and though consequences come, they become the beginnings of new stories - just the way the life flows and takes us from one episode to another.
Of course,…
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Meh, I read the manga for only a bit (actually, when I stopped reading the manga, it was also the point where the anime stopped).
Art: I must say I was very disappointed. Repeated action scenes, mediocre gun fights, time delay on gun shots, but the character illustrations are ok, the background scenes were only very mediocre. All in all, for an "action" and supposedly "dark" anime, it just doesn't give that feeling. It gives it a normal setting, nothing interesting. There were also very corny action scenes. If your a pro hitman or killer, how do you miss 15 shots when the target is standing still. Also when it shows Heine "jumping around", I laughed at the slow movement. I can't say much more about the art, but in short, I was disappointed.
Sound: This was also a point where I didn't lik…
Read at the sourceSaffy
Okay, this was recommended to me by a friend, but I haven't read the manga like he did, so this is just my opinion based solely on this OVA. :)
Story
I...tried to understand it. It gives you glimpses, possibly, of the main plotline, but each of the four eps don't really pick up from the previous one. It's more like overlapping parts of stories told by 4 or 5 main characters, each with their facet of intrigue. It's main purpose is probably to make you want to read the manga and find out more. ^^
Art
Animation was smooth, and I liked each of the characters' unique designs. It's semi-realistic; be prepared for orange hair. XD Blood, thankfully, didn't look like it was MS-Painted on.
Sound
Again, not much to say here; this was an OVA, so no opening to critique. ='( Voice actors are nice,…
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This short, four-episode OAV corresponds to the DOGS prelude, Stray dogs howling in the dark (I have no idea why MAL has it labeled as BULLETS&CARNAGE, because that's not what this is), but while it captures the sequence of events well enough, it fails to communicate the oddly charming harshness and raw energy of the manga.
STORY - The story for the first volume of DOGS has always been a little loose and haphazard; each of the four sections focuses on a different character, and the lot of them are strung together almost forcibly as their individual stories don’t necessarily mesh meaningfully with the others around them. The manga’s presentation did manage to find some kind of connecting thread between the four though, and each story also worked well enough as a standalone chapter. Unfortu…
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I haven’t read either of the manga series for this, so this review is purely from the 4 episodes OVA point of view. Warning contains minor story spoilers
Story (6/10)
The four 15 minute episodes which make up this OVA don’t have a common plot or story between them , more to say the OVA’s seem like they are introducing the main characters for a longer anime or OVA series which is yet to come. In saying that the stories do seem to be in chronological order, in the same city and it is set sometime in the future. The other main characters are also sometimes involved with the introductions to the other episodes main characters. The episodes break down as thus;
Episode 1 – Introduction to Mihai – This shows Mihai’s return to the unnamed city for the first time after being fired from the mafia…
Read at the sourceGumGumSaiyan
If you're looking for a short, quick, little series about guns, killing, and aren't looking for a long dragged out story, thi is the anime you've been looking for.
The series spans 4, 15min episodes, just long enough to get the point across, and not leave you w/ an anime hangover (you know, that feeling of, good when will this end, my head hurts). Each episode tells the tale of a sigle character, and explores thier past and thier problem at hand. however, each character is unique, and brings something new to the table, making each episode a different experience from the last.
The animation was alright, however it did lack some when the gun fights were going on (like the bad guys not shooting back and just standing in fear while holding guns). But other than that everything looked pretty…
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