Kotetsu no Daibouken

While walking through the streets of Tokyo, Linn Suzuki comes across a strange device sticking up from the sidewalk. Suddenly, she is set upon by thugs and is helped by a beautiful stranger who takes them all down. It seems young Linn has fled Deep Kyoto from her cruel mistress and has traveled to Edo where she hopes to find her long lost brother, who was last seen working for the Kuon Detective Agency. By chance, this stranger happens to be Miho Kuon and lets Linn stay with her (nicknaming her Kotetsu, or Little Tetsu after her brother, Tetsujin). However, a mysterious agency called the Syndicate are after Miho and Linn is now in the thick of things.

(Source: ANN)

Suzuki, Linn Main

Miyamura, Yuko Japanese

Kuon, Miho Main

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Mikado, Tatsuya Main

Kikuchi, Masami Japanese

Kagari Supporting

Hyoudou, Mako Japanese

Youko Supporting

Matsumoto, Sachi Japanese

Kamisaka, Ryouno Supporting

Kosugi, Juurouta Japanese

Mukai, Kenichi Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Daimonji, Azami Supporting

Araki, Kae Japanese

Moriyama, Yuuji Director

Iwanami, Yoshikazu Sound Director

Watanabe, Tetsuya Episode Director

Haishima, Kuniaki Music

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Feb 2, 2018

Arboria

Recommended

A cute girl swings a sword really fast, she fights stuff and sometimes is nude. Sound like fun? Yeah I bet it does and guess what it totally is fun. It has a general mix of things that makes a lot of 80s-90s OVAs great, and this one does those things well. The action scenes are engaging, the fan service is great, and Rin is super cute. If this is the kind of stuff you like I would say this one's definitely worth the time.

There are a couple of things that I found particularly cool in this OVA. One was Gassan, the inverted katana supposedly ... crafted by a Demon. I thought that was really cool sword design and I enjoyed seeing it swung around. Rin is badass enough that even though the katana's blade is inverted, she doesn't swing it backwards. She doesn't use the sharp side of it and she still dominates in combat. The other is that this OVA uses a lot of traditional Japanese instruments and styles in it's music and I think it sounds great, something I wish was more common in certain kinds of anime. It really enhances the atmosphere.

Also the English subtitled VHS sleeve has some hilarious text on it, look it up.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jul 20, 2024

needmorecampari

Mixed Feelings

I really wanted to like this one, but the positives just don't outweigh the negatives enough to recommend this vintage OVA.

A young lady escapes the martial arts training of a hundred-year-old hag to seek her older brother. Along the way she encounters her brother's old workmates and fights off some magic users. There's a pervy nerd, a vengeful dryad, and a number of mysterious folks who bark orders from the shadows.

But little of it gets explored. The first episode features a number of nice fights and a bit of fan service (even during the fights!) and seems to set up a direction for ... the series. Then the second episode goes in a completely different direction with a visit to a hot spring, where the characters can get naked and fight again.

The series just drops the ball in the second episode, leaving loose threads and established characters in favor of a silly love story and embarrassing boner gags. In fact, watching the opening credits, one might imagine there's an entire world of sorcery and action awaiting the viewer, including a white tiger. That world, tiger included, never shows up. Thankfully the fight scenes were competently animated, but are nice fights and bare breasts enough?

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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