Cyber City Oedo 808

I'm always happy to watch anime from one of my favorite anime director , yoshiaki kawajiri.

Every time I watched an anime from him. I am hit by beautiful character design funny and entertaining fight scenes and just a mood and settings that I always find beautiful.

and of course godly amount of violence and blood and just all the detail of the human body getting exploded or maybe just caught in half. That is also part. I love in his anime.

And this time I am belief with a very funny cyberpunk anime that is on the edge to become fantasy, but is always there to ... tell us about all this is really sci-fi b*** instead of horror fiction.

What we have some lovely characters, some real badasses that keeps saying all the swear words in the dub and one of them have the pulpador so we are in good hands. It's so fun. It's always nice to just sit and watch something and my head is empty. I'm not thinking about anything else but the movie because it's just so entertaining and the music has just good sound to everything that's happening.

3 episodes every one of the is about a certain character their background. I mean a little bit of background. Not much and just that doing awesome stuff my favorite is episode 2 but god damn it's just good wholesome sci-fi fun and the City is just Future blue.

the only thing I dislike about the anime is that it is gonna destroy your eyes when you watch it because god damn. Why did they use so many flashing lights 80s?

I've just finished watching this OVA. In summary, the animation is flawless, almost at a movie level, and the design and aesthetics are even more outstanding. However, for me, this OVA was a missed potential. Many things happen without apparent reason, with little development, especially concerning the villain from the first episode, and several loose ends are left unexplained.

I believe "Cyber City Oedo" is the typical anime that you need to turn off your brain to enjoy. For those who enjoy more surreal anime or just want to watch something for entertainment, I recommend it. However, if you're expecting something more profound, I wouldn't recommend ... it.

“Cyber City Oedo 808” is a gritty, yet aesthetically pleasing, 3-episode OVA about 3 convicts in the distant future who are given the opportunity to have their prison sentences reduced by working for the police to catch criminals themselves. While on the whole it’s a solid OVA, the frequent strobe effects used in every episode make it difficult to watch.

Each episode features a self-contained story that focuses on one of the three main characters. The plots are futuristic and sci-fi in nature, although the third one is a bit more fantasy than sci-fi. The basic elements of all three stories are easy to follow, but ... some of the finer details are either glossed over or inserted haphazardly, which can be frustrating.

Since there are only three standalone episodes, there is little to no character development, and we’re only given hints here and there about some of the main characters’ backstories. The characters’ personalities are rather strongly defined, though, making it easy to tell them apart.

The art is the main draw of this series. Against the backdrop of a stunning futuristic city, the main characters drive hover cars and giant tanks, infiltrate secret bases and travel to the top of a space elevator and Tokyo Tower. The overall look for the series is dark, but the colors themselves are vivid. The character designs are unique, memorable and suit the characters’ personalities well. The animation and direction are also well done.

The music is above average. Both the opening and ending themes are nice; in particular, the ending, which is a ballad, fits the mood of the series well. The background music is also decent. The voice acting is good.

With so many positive aspects, why am I rating this series so low? Because it has frequent flashing lights in every episode that render it essentially unwatchable for anyone who’s photosensitive, and would probably even give anyone who’s not photosensitive a headache. The action scenes, in particular, often feature rapid strobe effects, but there are plenty of other scenes throughout that have flashing, like computer screens, so it’s difficult to predict when the flashing will start and end. To be safe, you pretty much have to watch it at half speed, which isn’t very enjoyable.

Other than the flashing lights, most of the potentially objectionable content in “Cyber City Oedo 808” is related to violence and gore. There is a fair amount of gruesome killing and deaths in this OVA. There is no nudity or anything like that, but there are a couple of brief references to sex in the dialogue (Japanese version).

It’s unfortunate that this otherwise decent show is marred by the use of so many strobe effects. I would have rated it one or two points higher if not for that. If flashing lights don’t bother you, I recommend watching this, but if they irritate you even in the slightest, you should steer clear of this one.