Dominion

Dominion Tank Police is a timeless classic from the master himself, Shirow Masamune. It quickly became one of my favorite ovas ever and it's rewatch value has never diminished, even after watching it for the last 14 years.
STORY: A very simple story about policemen who patrol the city, keeping it safe from crime............IN BIG-ASS FREAKING TANKS!!! That concept alone had me sold! A young lady cop, Leona Ozaki, joins and she gets the cutest, most badass little tank you've ever seen!! The primary targets are Buaku and Annapuna and Umipuma, two sexy, gun-crazy catgirls. It's so incredibly simple and so effective at the ... same time. Most of the story probably takes place in the manga, which I can't get my hands on, so there isn't much I can say about plot aside from Buaku's past, so if it suffers from anything, this would probably be it, but it's not too much of a concern. You won't feel left out of anything significant.
ART: The animation is very good for it's time and still holds up well today. The character designs are colorful and vibrant, in stark contrast to the gray-blue, smog-covered tone of the city. The design of the tanks look amusing, especially Bonaparte (I think I spelled that right). A highlight is Liutenant Britian's facial expressions when he's screaming and barking out orders. This Masamune never fails with captivating backgrounds or great character designs. A definite win.
Sound: The english dub is classic and gets funnier with repeated viewing. Watching the criminals bicker with each other in the museum is just friggin hilarious. The musical score is nice and transitions well from scene to scene, so you can't get tired of the BGM.
CHARACTER: Every personality in this show is just just fantastic, from Leona's mother-like affection for her tank, Britian's insanity, the Police Chief's screaming and ranting over files and paperwork, to the perfect chemistry amongst the crooks and their banter back and forth along with their hair-brained schemes that barely work, everything just works with these characters, even the bit player in the police force.
ENJOYMENT: This is a fun one to watch anytime. It has high rewatch value off of it's humor alone, and it's only two episodes long, so you won't lose any time at all. The opening theme will get stuck in your head after a while, but it's kind of catchy in a late 80's, early 90's sort of way, like Captain Planet or something (maybe not the best example, but have you tried to drill it out of your head?)
OVERALL: This is just entertainment all around. I can recommend this anyone, but the language may be a bit harsh. The first episode is drop dead hilarious, the second episdoe takes a shift from humor to tell a story about the bad guys, but it's just as entertaining. It's a must have in any anime collection.

Pretty decent short ova. Lots of action and some comedy. On the whole I enjoyed the series pretty much, good to have shorter series to watch that arent 200+ eps marathons.

Since it is an ova there isnt much character development and we barely get to know who they are. Although they are mostly stereotypes so it doesn't matter that much.

For the age of the anime, the animation and sounds are decent enough to watch without any complaints.

It made me laugh at some parts, wich is enough for me to recommend the series to anyone.

Dominion is a bit of an outlier. Usually, action anime (or any anime under 12 episodes) likes to get to the point, establish a general story and aesthetic, have a bunch of firefights, and then resolve the conflict, but Dominion decided to do the very opposite.

The story is told from the perspective of the Tank Police, whose name is rather self explanatory, they do regular police things (bureaucracy and homicide), but they have tanks. As for the tanks themselves, I can’t say I’m a fan of the design, I’m not sure what science fiction mumbojumbo they came up with to explain why they look like ... that, but these tanks look more like inflatable dummy tanks than actual tanks. Another major issue is that these tanks are almost never used, you see them plenty, but for the most part it’s just decorative scenery that doesn’t get properly implemented. Of all the combat encounters in Dominion, only a fraction actually utilised the tanks. Sometimes that’s because it’s in a particular time and place in which there are no tanks, but more often than not it seems the Tank Police use their tanks as regular patrol cars, and seem to completely forget that they have big guns on them they should probably be using. In fact, the main character, Leona, has a customised tank, which usually coincides with being a lot better than all the other tanks, but it’s not really, it never saves the day, the police probably would have gotten more done if they stopped using tanks, and just started carrying rocket launchers in their patrol cars. For a unit with a psychotic squad leader who likes to blow everything up, they are remarkably patient with when they decide to actually open fire.

Secondarily, for such a short series, the plot is needlessly convoluted, for a four episode series, just one macguffin would have gotten the job done, a central figure in this story is Greenpeace (a person, not the organisation), who isn’t mentioned by name until the last episode, and isn’t actually seen until it’s about 5 minutes from ending. When it comes down to it, a more effective story would be showing the sort of crime that actually lead to the formation of the Tank Police, having a criminal organisation commit bank robberies and drug trafficking and the like would make the most sense to me, but instead they’re stealing things for some shadow government who have been engaging in a several hundred year conspiracy. They say at one point that in this city there’s an emergency every 36 seconds, but we never see it, the only people who commit crimes are this one fat bloke and his two catgirls, and I have no reason to believe that there’s anyone else engaging in criminal enterprise. There is more concrete detail about ecological damage than there is about crime, which is a bit backwards for a show about police.
But, it’s not irredeemable, the firefights, though lacking majorly in tanks, are certainly enjoyable, the fighting’s well orchestrated and there’s definitely a good sense of scale, it’s hard to be that disinterested when you’ve got buildings collapsing and that, and also it’s the 80s so the soundtrack is peak as. Dominion certainly isn’t bad, but it could be a lot better, and they could start by designing tanks that don’t look pure gobshite.