Proving that romance isn't dead in anime is this title.
Yukimura and Himuro are scientists at Saitama University when out of the blue, Himuro confesses her love to Yukimura, the shock of the confession prompts the two to discover the science behind the concept of love with help from the rest of the lab.
This is how I thought Big Bang Theory would go, scientists falling in love and working out why, while Yukimura is played pretty straight, Himuro drops a number of cute emotions while carrying out the experiments, the dub suits the environment as science jargon is easier to decipher through spoken language rather than reading a sub, a rare moment that the dub is superior, but it's not immune to the trappings of anime romance, like "My Senpai is annoying" the anime has a lot of needless drama with two moments in particular being a massive mood whiplash from the light hearted series, made more irritating by the fact that they close both season 1 and 2, but I honestly believe our lead couple as well as the supporting cast can power through it, Himuro especially is ten kinds of adorable.
Final Verdict: A strong cast that does have a few story hiccups that can be easily over looked.
Back to the Grindhouse for more lost anime.
The story revolves around a planet featuring a band of mercenaries who discover a sacred weapon that can wipe out their inorganic foes but take the planet with it, the whole feature is basically them running from these mechas but the only thing anyone will remember about this feature is the unique art and the space girl Rasa who has the most well drawn butt in animation and they spare no expense in showcasing these assets, otherwise you will barely know what's going on, the manga is an artistic master piece but doesn't translate nearly as well to animation, it's best saved for the art books unique to the 80s anime era, the dub is nothing to write home about either but at least it's competent.
Final Verdict: I haven't a clue for this one, it's history is far better explained by an actual anime historian than me.
More PC-Engine trash.
Known by the subtitles as Galaxy Cougar's Trap, Cosmic Fantasy is a cheesy space series about intergalactic crime fighters.
Yuu and Saya are on their day off when their comrade Nyan messes it all up by sending a distress beacon, while Saya sulks in her room, a real alarm activates and Yuu is in battle with a lady space pirate, when Yuu gets injured, Saya steps up to fight but fails to defeat the pirate, Yuu releases his hidden power and ends the battle saving Saya as the pirate vows to return.
The game series is popular enough for a modern re-release, it's anime however hasn't done enough to convince me it's worth playing, for all it's universe building, it really fails in trying to make me give a crap about Yuu and Saya.
Yuu is clueless and one dimensional while Saya is very petty and selfish, if I don't like the leads, it's already a bad start.
If Yuu and Saya were allowed to actually go on a full date, I probably would've got more out of them but I get the sense that Nyan the cat mechanic is the type of character who is going to cock block every scene, whether we want him to or not.
Dub is non existent.
Final Verdict: An underwhelming sci fi space action with a little bit of cheesy music thrown in.
This series is really the most bizarre of the 80s and that says alot.
Rem is a young looking girl who works as a private detective able to jump into dreams and nightmares in order to stop demons from draining the life force of it's victims, her default form being a short woman with a gun who could easily be mistaken for a child yet drives a car while her battle form is more akin to a warrior girl in a battle bikini or for the sake of it, aerobics leotard in her more adult forms, despite being brutally murdered in many gruesome ways, Rem always seems to escape unharmed, a testament to her abilities of being able to take charge in dreams.
Dream Hunter Rem is hard to categorise as the jarring whiplash in genres can range from thriller to fantasy to graphic horror in the space of one scene, the addition of mascots, a monk and detectives along with child characters makes this one of the 80s most bizarre anime, it really doesn't know what to do with itself.
Dub's existence is questionable, I've no knowledge of one.
Final Verdict: It doesn't know what it wants to be, nor does it know what main character Rem is supposed to be? It's too bizarre to work as anything.
I heard someone categorise this as Grindhouse, yeah I can see that being used to describe the often confusing old anime era.
Dr Watson is a brilliant scientist who brings to life a humanoid called Antoinette. Arriving to meet the scientist are duo Eric and Alan who are returning to the planet mostly to meet with Dr Watson's daughter Sheri, but plotting to takeover is Governor Proud who seeks to claim an ancient spaceship who has a pretty easy job of it considering how easy it was to overthrow the princess and Watson's friend, however said spaceship could devastate the planet, so it's left to Antoinette to jump into action to save the day backed by a cheesy 80s soundtrack.
This OVA really clutches at straws to form a basic plot relying heavily on the Star Wars text crawl for exposition dumping, the so called title character probably has the least screentime bar maybe the princess and lacks much development bar being able to jump into action and trying to work out the concept of love, if not for the soundtrack this would be a bust, dub is pretty mediocre but not terrible, although I think coffee is brought up eight times in the whole 45 minute run time.
Final Verdict: It's not great but there's enough of a curiosity to at least see it as another 80s inspired grindhouse anime that isn't as violent as it's contemporaries.
