Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Aika
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Type: OVA
Episodes: 7
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 25, 1997 to Apr 25, 1999
Duration:
30 min. per episode Rating:
R+ - Mild Nudity
L represents licensing company
StatisticsScore: 6.171 (scored by 2614 users)
Ranked: #34732
Popularity: #902
Members: 4,400
Favorites: 12 1 indicates a weighted score
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SynopsisA catastrophic earthquake has left Tokyo, and most of the Earth for that matter, under the sea. Aika is a salvager who retrieves various remains from the watery ruins. When Aika accepts the dangerous mission of locating and obtaining the mysterious Lagu, she discovers that she's not the only one after it. |
Related AnimeSide story: Agent Aika Moving Out
Prequel: AIKa: ZERO
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Skadi
51 of 71 people found this review helpful
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7 of 7 episodes seen
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| Overall |
3 |
| Story |
1 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
5 |
| Character |
1 |
| Enjoyment |
4 |
I have to say in all the shows I have watched up to this point; Agent Aika succeeds in being probably the most dreadful one to date. As has been stated in some of the other reviews I have seen for this show, you can find plenty of unintentional comedy gold in this show. But even that can’t save this from being a completely uninspired waste of time.
This is where I usually write about the story. Except in Agent Aika, the director decided to skip such trivial matters and focus on what is really important. Namely panty shots, boobs, tentacle inspired action, camel toe, and nudity. Yes it’s true; I challenge anyone to find ONE shot in any episode that contains a female character that does not show a panty shot. Yes there really is that many. I didn’t even bother to count them. I would imagine if you strung all these shots together they would take up at least 80% of each episode. And it’s not like this is something that offends me, but all of these things from the pantsu to the nudity are done in such a tacky and exploitative manner that really that’s the plot of this series. Panties and how many we can show in one episode. All of the action revolves around panties or ripping off clothes. Everyone falls in the same way; face down ass up exposing themselves. It’s so pathetic that it actually becomes a bit humorous after awhile.
Supposedly this show is about the main characters being salvagers. In 3 hours of show I think they spent less than 60 seconds actually "salvaging". The director didn’t have time for more than that, must show more panties! Nothing the main characters do is adequately explained. Aika has strange mysterious super powers which involve her becoming naked and wielding tentacles. We are given a name for this power but honestly I forgot what it was 5 minutes after they told me. There are lots of gun fights, classic military vehicles battles, and martial arts action but these are just tools to de-cloth the heroes and villains or show their underwear.
I know I have spent a lot of this review talking about underwear. Well that’s because that’s what this anime is about. The biggest problem is it even fails and this. If you’re going to show me 200 pairs of panties per episode then at least show me some different kinds! Apparently in the world of Agent Aika everyone shops at the same store and buys the same style and color panty. You can tell that a man was in charge of all of this too because any woman knows you don’t wear white panties under a black miniskirt. Note to the director: mix in a little color, some blacks, pinks, reds, or blues. The animation continuality also sucked. Characters would be wearing one outfit and the next episode in a scene that is supposed to be taking place immediately following events from the previous episode they would be wearing different clothes. We also were treated to panty shots from people who were not even wearing panties 30 seconds previously! In the one scene I saw a main put on something other than plain old white when she exposed herself 5 minutes later guess what? Yep standard white! Come on if you’re going to do something at least do it right!
Maybe the only thing worse than the story though is the characters. Aika gives us perhaps the most uninteresting cast in the history of anime. The characters have zero personality, we learn nothing of their pasts, and they just conform to whatever stereotype they were put in. Aika as the hero is completely uninteresting besides her physical measurements. Rion plays the sidekick and she is probably the only genuinely interesting character in the show. Almost all of the "intentional" comedy flows through her. All the other supporting characters are ridiculously shallow and boring. Some are downright stupid. Namely the idiotic girly man they introduce halfway through the show whose sole purpose seemed to be getting beat up by Rion or cross dressing or saying other creepy lines while talking through a puppet.
The villains are also a train wreck. There are two story arcs. The first involves a creepy purple haired lipstick wearing bishounen who at least has an evil plan that makes a bit of sense. Of course he has a creepy sister who is obviously involved in an incestuous relationship with him. Later we have underlings from the previous villain who have probably the stupidest motivation ever. None of them are the slightest bit interesting either, but at least they are all girls so we get to see their boobs and panties.
The only thing Aika does right is the artwork. Despite my problems with continuality and the boring panty designs the characters all look really good. Especially given this shows age and some of the garbage that came out of its era. At least all the naked girls look good, that’s something I guess. The audio is pretty mediocre. The OP/EN songs are not inspired but the voice acting is ok in parts.
In the end I can’t recommend this show to anyone. If you like tits and ass there are better shows out there than this you can get your fill from. Go watch Ikkitousen instead, at least that has a few interesting characters and a rudimentary plot. You would be more usefully occupied spending the time you would use watching this show to surf the internet for porn than in watching this crap. Stay far away.
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errorabbit
20 of 31 people found this review helpful
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7 of 7 episodes seen
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
3 |
| Animation |
6 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
3 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
If you intend to watch this series: Be warned!
Depending on your point of view, it's either a catastrophal train-wreck of an anime series or actually so damn bad it's absolutely hilarious again.
It is apparently trying to be an ecchi light-hearted action-comedy, but it puts it on so thick that it can only count as a parody of that genre.
If it excels at anything , it's how the producers managed to cram so very many panty shots into it: Girls in other series wear t-shirts and sweaters that reach farther down than the skirts of the characters in this series. It also helps that the villain's underlings are all female and wear the same skimpy uniforms. And if all else fails, there's still frog's perspective.
I actually got so captivated by the sheer amount that I started counting them...
By the end of the first episode I had reached 140 and stopped counting. With an episode length of roughly 30 minute that makes about 4.6 panties on screen every minute.
That almost deserves credit... but that's not all! Aside from the general stereotypical stupidity of the plot (Some sort of catastrophe has destroyed the planet a little and made the water rise, so now special divers called Salvagers dive up valuable sunk junk but you'd barely even notice that if it wouldn't be mentioned occassionally) it's plot has some very precious highlights of mental retardation:
The main Villain, Hagen, is an effeminate man who actually wants to destroy the world with the power of a mysterious substance called Lagu only so that he can repopulate it with the offspring of - yes, you might have guessed - himself and every member of the all-female crew of his spaceship/submarine/headquarters.
Which sadly, seems to include his own sister.
(Although details are shaky. They're both test tube children as far as got)
But alas, that's not yet the deepest deep of this really awful plot, the main part hasn't even been mentioned yet: The heroine is in possession of a sentient artifact created by science (could as well be magic) that gives her super powers (and also transforms her into an tanned, sexier version of herself with long blue hair and a white bikini).
It has the form of a golden bustier.
And of course, Hagen, who eventually crushes on the name-giving heroine of the series, eventually makes his own super-powered panty to give his sister.
Add to that wacky hi-jinx of various useless side characters like Aika's stupid meganekko-sidekick, a manly salvager who yells "Bip-Bop-Balooba!" while fighting in rhytm, a mysterious (also female) secret agent that inflitrates Hagen's group and is as inept as all the others and you have a piece of truely outstandingly stupid piece of Animated Entertainment.
I kept thinking constantly: "They're.. they're not actually serious, are they?" read more
Recommendations
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Same Director, Katsuhiko Nishijima
Same character design, action+sci-fi "plot", and same exaggerated amount of pantyshots.
Same studio, same director, same chara-design, same amount of pantyshot. But Najica takes itself more seriously and there's less comedy.
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Holy cow! Are Daphne in the Brilliant Blue and Agent Aika lame excuses for panty shows? Lets find out!
Pantyshots in every scene? check!
Little or no plot? check!
Girls or young women running around in useless costums and lingerie? check!
Bad story? check!
Women doing things that aren't natural for women to do like being physically and emotionally strong, gutsy, doing stunts that are impossible even for a man, while acting macho? check!
Splashy action scenes? check!
Lots of weird or make-believe vehicles? check!
Lame humor? check!
Overly simplified art? check!
Overly emphasized buttcracks and nipples? check!
A catastrophic event leaving most of Earth under water? check!
Women walking down the street half naked and wearing extremely provactive clothing while at work on a daily basis? check!
Bad acting + weak storyine + simply art but overly emphasized nipples & buttcracks + no real plot = lame excuse for a panty show.
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Opening Theme#1: "Silent City" by Mari Sasaki (eps 1-4)
#2: "Manatsu no Seiza" by Mink (eps 5-7)
Ending Theme#1: "More Natural" by Hiroko Konishi (eps 1-4)
#2: "Dance With Me Tonight" by PUNKY FRUITES! (eps 5-7)
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