Cosmo Police Justy

Wow! 80’s Sci-Fi cheesy feast anime at it’s best.
When you look at the cover you make an idea out of what you might find inside of the OVA and it is indeed really all of what you had anticipated.
If you re into eighties sfi-fi anime and old sfi-fi in general and if you enjoyed the cover, you’ll certainly enjoy the content.

I did enjoy pretty much everything in this OVA, the character designs, the characters themselves (they were not outstanding characters but they did fit their roles well), the “1985” very good animation, the story was a straight story and did well for it’s 43 minute ... run, the concept could have been better elaborated if we had more time, but it’s still okay. The music was excellent 80’s music for this kind of stuff, especially near the end, I guess the soundtrack is discontinued since way back, because I’d love to hear the full OST out of this title.

The only bad thing was the running time. It was too short in it's 43 minutes run. You just can help it but feel unsatisfied when it reaches the end. It's a pity that it hasn't been made into a full feature film, otherwise we would have a very good eighties anime flick here.

There were some aspects that made me remind of 1980 “Terra e…” Film, Justy himself looks a lot like Blue. He is a strong esper and has the same blue hairstyle and is probably a strong esper like Blue was in his most strong days. The art style is also pretty similar and the character design of the rest of the characters are similar too.

A curiosity about this is that Justy was released as a double feature with Area 88, another excellent OVA of the eighties, so you might get a clue on the quality you’ll find inside.

Rate: 7.7/10

My God this ova Jawn is ridiculous, words cannot describe the asininity that is this ova. This “film” is only 43 minutes long and is available on youtube, which is probably this anime’s main selling point. I found this “series” because, a while back, I made a habit of watching these terrible, retro anime films on youtube at 2x speed while I practiced tech skill in Smash Bros Melee (yeah I am in that fandom). So, naturally , this “cancer” was prime real estate for my viewing pleasure. And, unlike all the other terrible 80s films I’ve ... watched, this one somehow managed to get a four instead of a two out of ten.

I just want to make it clear, this film is terrible. If you don’t take my word for it, watch it--with 2x speed it is only twenty plus minutes. I believe the films’ lack of quality will speak for itself, but if it doesn’t feel free to fight me on it (another_Fiend#2240). Here is my discord, if you’re brave enough, give me a call anytime <3. Since I know you won’t, I’ll instead talk about the value this show has and why I think people should take time out of their lives to watch this in 2019 (or any year plus).

There is this idea that goes around in many different art fandoms (anime, music, films, etc…) that asserts a time period or style is better than another without fully looking at the individual works. I distance this line of thinking because of how, by nature, the idea generalizes vague traits and similarity rather than looking at things more deeply. For example, if we were to talk about dad rock in a generally sense, it would assert that Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel are in the same category of music, despite their music being very different. Under the same logic, saying retro anime asserts that Akira is in the same category as Cosmo Police, despite the works being as different as night and day.

With that being said, I hate it when anime fans make opinions of retro anime as a whole without looking at the individual titles. I’m sure we’ve all heard someone Albert Einstein say “Retro is better than modern.” Retro anime might seem better than modern because when we think about old shows, we think of the classics: Eva, Akira, Legend, Gunbuster, Berserk, Angel’s Egg, FLCL, and the list goes on. But what we don’t remember is all the garbage that came out alongside them. Modern anime seems so bad now because we are seeing first hand all the trash that airs, whilst bad retro shows get forgotten.

Which brings me to Cosmo Police Justy. This is one of the terrible retro shows that time has forgotten. This is the show that the elites who think retro is better than modern has definitely never seen, and there are many more bad examples like this. This “cinematic masterpiece” is just another overpowered MC protecting his waifu and beating up some ugly bad guy. And since this show is retro, this all takes place in space and everyone has psychic powers. And by the way, his waifu is this b!tch who sounds just like the b!tch from eromanga, except she’s been saying “Uni-chan” like a mentally disturb loli 30 years before it became cool.

Overall, this film is not good. But I do think people should take twenty plus minutes out of their day to give it a watch just to see that loli’s yelling for their brothers is an ancient art that has its roots diving deeper than most normies could ever imagine. I ended up giving this a four instead of a two just because the main girl was really cute--what can I say, I want to protect that smile too :). But the jawn was still bad though.

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Story is all over the place. It feels like it's a condensed version of something bigger to the point where things happen with very little explanation.

Characters are dumb. Villainous villains are evil (but in fact they want to reunite a girl with her family from which she was stolen by the good guys or something, I know, it makes no sense but that's how it is). Main girl is acting like a puppy towards his owner, the MC. The plot twist is that main character is more OP than I thought.

The animation is actually pretty good.

In the end, I'm not sure why this exists, maybe ... the people who read the 5 volumes of source material would appreciate it for the animation?



Sadly I need to enter a longer review, and since there's not much else to say about this OVA the only thing left is:
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