Roots Search: Shokushin Buttai X

For many this just another piece in the long catalogue of AIC properties that were made by nobodies and can be only enjoyed by riffing on them. The two names that stand out in the production are the script writer, which is closer to what the US calls "script doctors" and just tries to make sense of the director's idea; and the mecha designer that you could know from Nadesico or Rayheart S2.

The production costs are divided between the gore scenes (with some decent blood splashes because 90's) and set designs. If there's something to enjoy here is the biologicaly infected spaceships, the later ... is what made me watch this in the first place. On the other hand the characters look like a poor imitation of generic anime designs, there are barely any inbetweens and the general plot could not be there.

The main idea is an alien that dispenses justice on the guilty, but we only find out who is guilty and of what right before they die. There are espers, because it's japanese scifi, and very basic metaphors to explain things that require more, for the same reason.

If this hadn't been taken by Manga Corp no one would know about it, I'd risk to say that it was made as a cheap export as AIC used to do. In that way it serves as a way to understand that brief moment in the anime market and that's more use than it deserves to have. It also has very cool promo art, the laser disc cover in particular. I'd heavily recommend checking those images out.