Introduction
Tomoe Shiro, a formidable racer with a very promising career, experiments a U-turn when a serious accident puts his life at stake. He recovers miraculously though when his heart is replaced with the engine of his own racing car. However, because of that very reason, race regulations demote him to the category of a mere mechanical part of the vehicle and is deprived from the right to participate as a pilot in regular races. Only in a far away colonial planet, along with a multitude of other charismatic pilots also vetoed from participating in regular competitions, will he be given the opportunity to race for his pride and the money of the prize. And so this exciting rally starts!!
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Audience reviews
6 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
supedeglupe
Mid.
Thats the only word to describe it. Its so far from being a disappointment, its worse. After you watch redline you are ITCHING for more of the same. This felt like a rushed idea that had been funded only KINDA. Character sucked, race sucked, stakes undersold, no time to understand wtf is with this tore up ass earth, and everything had a proper noun. 0 time to understand and even less time to care. Nothing charming, not even pulling a lick of wit from Redline. Character design and dialogue too gimmicky to go for entertaining. Very disappointed and very okay with never watching or mentioning Tailenders again.
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Disappointing. The "Movie" gives no time for character development, so as you go through the badly explained and clichéd script you don't even care about the characters. Also the movie seems to be extremely scruffy, I felt seeing a reupload of an all cut movie from youtube, actually I thought that was it and right after I was done I tried to find info about his missing pieces, but in fact there wasn't, that was the movie. But it has some good features of the movie, like the character design, I was really hyped to see what the pink haired girl would do in the movie (Tomoe), I really enjoyed her design and I was expecting a very crazy girl who liked running, it also let me down, but that's my thing. Also the art that takes inspiration from the movie Redline, which was not so well executed. I…
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Rollerblading T-Rex catches fire after fucking up, and a beautiful love story between woman and man car gundam ensues. Also Dio Zeus on a robo horse. There's also a sub-plot about terraformers, but who gives a fuck about that when you have infinite super sanic speed horse Zeus car man race, did I mention prism head robo man? He's a character that is kinda of relevant. All in all, great short, would absolutely recommend the watch. Side note, I'm willing to wager this will be the only review left for another two years, in which case, hello to the person who reviews this in 2021.
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Back in 2009, when Redline was released, it got a lot of praise and attention for it’s fantastic animation and artstyle as well as it’s great fast paced action and colorful characters. But there was another similar highly stylized and fast paced racing anime that was released around the same time. That went relatively unnoticed due to the attention that Redline was getting. That anime was Tailenders, released only two months after Redline.
The plot takes place on planet Terulus, long after terraformers were used to try and repair the environment, only for them to go haywire and ravage the surface of the planet for centuries, creating mutations to the wildlife and devastating earthquakes. Because of this, giant cities that could drive around the planets surface were created to house what w…
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I spent a couple of minutes trying to find info on Tailenders but came up with very little. This 27-minute short movie has often been compared to the phenomenal full movie Redline, either favorably or derisively for being a copy. Oddly enough, Tailenders aired a mere month after Redline’s debut at the Locarno International Film Festival. It would’ve basically been impossible for it to have been made in that timeframe even as short as it is. It’s much more likely Tailenders took inspiration from what little they saw in the Redline pilot in January 2009, because if they went completely without encountering it than this is surely anime’s greatest coincidence because of all the similarities. I als…
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I never thought that a single 27 min episode would be good enough for a movie.. stunningly enough Tailenders broke the record in this case, utilizing a meager half an hour this movie gave me an unexpectedly good and entertaining experience.
The story is set in future when mankind plants Terraformers on planets in an attempt to colonize them. By going haywire Terraformers produce disastrous consequences of tectonic shifts, environmental changes and 'stampede'.The protagonist, having an engine as his heart, must now participate in a precarious race with the Terraformer as the final destination risking his life to achieve what the Loser King couldn't 100 years ago.
A rapid plot development and simple sci-fi imagination about racing form the core of the movie. The plot is fast-paced but not r…
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