Plastic Little

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Synonyms: Plastic Little: The Adventures of Captain Tita

Japanese: プラスチックリトル

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 21, 1994

Producers: KSS, Movic, Sony Music Entertainment

Licensors: ADV Films

Studios: animate Film

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Ecchi

Themes: Mecha, Military

Duration: 47 min.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 6.16¹ (scored by 6,881 users)

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Ranked: #8942²

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Popularity: #5255

Members: 16,250

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Set on the planet Yietta, whose colonists make their living by exploiting the planet's unique liquid-gas oceans, Plastic Little begins as the Yietans are finally about to pay off their debts to the Galactic Federation. Unfortunately, there are those who would rather not let Yietta slip through their fingers...

Enter Tita, 17 year old captain of the Cha Cha Maru. Together with her crew, Tita specializes in capturing Yietta's exotic life forms for intergalactic pet shops, but through plain bad luck she finds herself, instead, at the core of a sinister plot to take over Yietta! By rescuing 16 year old Elysse from the very clutches of the military, Tita puts the lives of both herself and her crew in mortal peril... but a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do!

As the plotters mobilize their forces in a desperate bid to retrieve Elysse, whom they believe possesses a vital computer code, Tita must play a dangerous game of tag with an entire army of professional killers! It's Cat and Mouse on a planetwide scale, with one crucial difference: Mice don't shoot back, but Tita's does!

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Koshigaya, Titaniva Mu

Main

Fuchizaki, Yuriko
Japanese

Aldomordish, Ellyse

Main

Shiina, Hekiru
Japanese

Hawking, Nichol

Supporting

Yamaguchi, Kappei
Japanese

Roger

Supporting

Nakao, Ryusei
Japanese

Gaizel

Supporting

Naka, Hiroshi
Japanese

Aldomordish, Nalerof

Supporting

Akimoto, Yousuke
Japanese

Balboa, Joshua L.

Supporting

Wakamoto, Norio
Japanese

Diagilev, Mikhail

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Otsuka, Chikao
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Jones, Mei Lin

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Yokozawa, Keiko
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Urushihara, Satoshi

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Animation Director, Key Animation, Character Design, Creator

Yoshimoto, Kinji

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Fujiyama, Fusanobu

Sound Director

Itano, Ichirou

Key Animation

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"You Are Everything" by Keiko Toge

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Jun 14, 2022

Sapphireloid

Recommended

Ah, Satoshi Urushihara, we meet again.

Despite having never peeped the source material, I found myself enjoying Plastic Little in a sort of guilty-pleasure sort of way while knowing the story and pacing were messy with how much they were trying to fit into one OVA. It's a simple-ish story though and I managed to follow most of it.

Per Urushihara's style, of course, there's fanservice but I feel like I would have enjoyed it if it like, wasn't two underage girls lmao. Aside from that, the art is pretty and the style really appeals to me.

I feel like if it came out today the femboy ...

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Feb 14, 2021

Ishitani

Mixed Feelings

Tita is a cute, energetic 17-year-old with a heart of gold. She's also the captain of the pet-shop hunting ship Cha Cha Maru, a battleship that cruises the Sea of Clouds to capture whale-sized creatures for export to rich collectors offworld. One day while her ship is in port, Tita rescues teenage girl Elysse from a squad of government thugs, placing herself and her crew at the focus of a murderous conspiracy. Evil Lord Guizel has converted the gravitational engine that keeps the port city afloat on the Sea of Clouds into a terrifying weapon--but he needs Elysse's knowledge to activate it. ... It will take all of Tita's courage, together with the power of the Cha Cha Maru and the skill of her gallant crew, to protect Elysse, defeat Guizel, and save the day.

Don't be confused by the title. Plastic Little is an entertaining science-fiction adventure that will appeal to anyone who loved Star Wars but wished that Carrie Fisher and Natalie Portman would wear more revealing costumes. Explosions, gun battles, and chase scenes abound. Occasional bits of slapstick humor and exaggerated facial expressions keep the atmosphere light. The uncomplicated 45-minute story is paced rapidly, but it does take time to cement the friendship between Tita and Elysse and to explain why the adults on the Cha Cha Maru respect the authority of their young captain. There is one outstanding plot weakness, which is Guizel's drive to destroy the port city. No motive is given, and it appears that he is wiping out his own home and livelihood. And why turn the gravity machine into a weapon when the same result could be achieved by just turning it off and letting the colony sink? Viewers unwilling to forgive such oversights should watch something else.

Everyone else is in for a visual treat. The strength of Plastic Little is its art. The mechanical designs are detailed and weird. Tita's motorcycle, with its high handlebars and spiked rear axle, is an extreme-chopper enthusiast's wet dream; another vehicle skims across the clouds on legs like a water-strider's. Guizel is deliciously malevolent, with a build and wardrobe like Darth Vader and the beautiful face of a Noh mask. The Sea of Clouds flows like a gas, but its surface reflects sunlight like water. Sunlight is also used for dramatic effect when the sun is off-camera, with streaks of light across the screen. The character designs are standard for light sci-fi anime, with a few notable exceptions. Only Nichol, pilot of the Cha Cha Maru, has a hair color not found in nature. When shown in profile, the younger characters have snoutlike faces--their noses are nearly horizontal, with their mouths well forward of their eyes. This style was common in early '90s anime, but it may seem dated to modern viewers. The adult characters look more realistic.

A showcase of Plastic Little's art is its bath scene, a helping of fanservice so lovingly presented that it threatens to unbalance the plot. This part of the show is all about breasts. What meticulous attention to anatomic detail! What careful rendering of fluid mechanics! What cunning selection of camera angles! For those tempted to watch the bath scene over and over, the DVD comes with a reversible cover sheet. On the back is an illustration of the girls wearing swimsuits about one molecule thick.

Thankfully, it's not just female bodies that are capably animated in this show. Motion is smooth and professionally executed. In crowd scenes, most of the people move independently. The backgrounds are detailed and interesting. A scene of destruction does an impressive job with collapsing buildings, and portrays billowing clouds of dust comparable in quality (if not duration) to those in the last minutes of Akira. There are a few shortcuts and derivative scenes. Tita races past at least one repeating background, and a "thermal limpet" melts through a metal door in a way that might make a robot from Laputa sue for copyright infringement.

As easy as it is on the eyes, Plastic Little is somewhat less fun for the ears. The voice acting on the dub is mediocre. The voices match the characters well, but Tita sounds inauthentic at times. Other characters have foreign accents that drift in and out. None of those difficulties are evident in the Japanese version, but reading subtitles leaves the viewer less bandwidth for the visuals. An interesting feature of the dub is the use of Russian accents for two of Tita's crewmates, one of whom also reads a Cyrillic newspaper. The dub also adds a few Russian words not heard in the Japanese track. With a few exceptions (such as a dozen guards charging across a metal catwalk sounding like only two) the sound effects are a good complement to the visuals. The incidental music is generic and unobtrusive. The closing theme is forgettable, but the Wagnerian anthem that accompanies the climactic ship battle is brilliant.

In summary, this is by no means a perfect anime. It's shallow, it's dated, it's incompletely developed, and the dub is weak. But if you're looking for a fun, futuristic, action-packed romp with plenty of eye candy and fanservice, you can't do much better than Plastic Little.

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Feb 21, 2022

GonzoLewd

Not Recommended

There are a lot of silly OVAs from the late 80s to early 90s. While not every one of them is of the type of high quality you’d want out of an anime in terms of production and narrative quality, you get a sense of nostalgia from watching them. Even if you never grew up during the early 90s, at least for me. I’m only at the tip of the iceberg during my journey, watching many OVAs that became ever-present during its golden era. I decided that Plastic Little would be the one to start it off.

Why exactly did I want to start with this ... one? It is directed by one of my favorite character designers, Satori Usushihara. You may remember him for many contributions to character designs for dozens of games, manga, and anime. He even sold artbooks based on franchises he has worked on. Lastly, it seemed like a fun little OVA that lasted for only about 40-50 minutes from what I could gather from reading the synopsis.

At about the 20-minute mark, I had to think to myself: “Was this story ever thought out beforehand?” I already felt that this was supposed to be an OVA series stretched out into several other episodes, but maybe they did not have the budget, or there were time constraints to make that happen. Knowing that Satoshi’s artwork has caused a hentai studio to shutter because they blew their budget on using his designs in animation form, this might not be too far off from the truth.

Would it have been better if this show had more episodes to fill in more character development and world-building to make it more exciting? Sure, it would have at least been a solid OVA. However, the story itself is as basic and formulaic as you could get. It’s just: The girl escapes from an evil villain, the girl meets another girl who saves her, and the girls then decide to destroy the villain’s plot to destroy their world. Again, very basic. There are no exciting motivations or twists to the story to make it unique from any other sci-fi story. The side characters are almost non-existent and don’t contribute much except for mildly funny gags here and there.

If one thing saves this OVA from being terrible, it is the art and animation. That expectation was met with great satisfaction. The girls all look exceptionally well from the oppai to their other physical features. I can’t say much for the male characters. They all look pretty generic, which is weird considering Satoshi also draws guys just as beautiful as the females. While I won’t put the animation as outstanding for an OVA in the early 90s, it’s still pretty nice to look at with the chase sequences.

There will be people expecting an OVA with some hentai elements. I can assure you that this can be barely described even as hentai-lite. Keep that in mind if that is what you might be looking for when you see the posters online of this OVA. The only real scene with titillation is when the two central girls are bathing in a giant bathhouse that looks like an indoor swimming pool that somehow fits inside a tiny submarine. But even then, it’s no more titillating than your average episode of Kiss x Sis or Highschool DxD. The 2nd half is just our main characters trying to stop the evil villain and forming a lesbian relationship that comes out of nowhere near the end. I guess you got to fit in that yuri element somehow.

Would I classify Plastic Little as a terrible OVA? No, but if someone had told me that they thought it was awful, I wouldn’t bother arguing with that take. It was short enough that it didn’t elicit any big negative feelings. It felt like a proof of concept that the writers didn’t bother to expand on further, which is disappointing. Satoshi-san deserves to have at least one anime show or OVA that showcases his incredible talent and is not just an anchor for a boring story or lackluster characters.

Grade: C-

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