I've decided to review a god awful Yaoi title for LGBTQ Pride Month! I believe the last time I did this was for "Boku no Sexual Harassment" back in 2016, so it's been far too long! This is the story of Kimera: Gender/Sexuality or as its better known in America, Kimera: Gay Vampires from Outer Space!
Kimera was created by the same woman who wrote Boku no Sexual Harassment, so we're off to a great start! The animation studio behind Kimera was Animate Film, who mostly did in-between animation for larger studios. However, they did create a few independent projects apart from Kimera, most notably
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the ecchi classic Plastic Little, directed by Satoshi "King of Breasts" Urushihara. Here is where things get messy. Myanimelist doesn't actually list a director for Kimera. If I go to Anime News Network, it lists "Kazu Yokota" but that name doesn't pull up any other results outside ANN. So likely the director used a pseudonym because he was too embarrassed to be credited with this piece of shit. One of the few people who wasn't too ashamed to be credited was veteran animator Yasuomi Umetsu. This is a man I've talked about in many of my reviews. He was the founder of Studio Arms and worked on a lot of schlocky, hyperviolent OVAs during the 90s and early 2000s. He directed Kite, Mezzo Forte, and was lead animator on several popular anime. Notably, he was the lead animator on the first and last episodes of Elfen Lied.
Kimera was based on a shonen-ai manga that ran for 20 chapters or 2 volumes. However, the anime tries to cram those 20 chapters into a single 40 minute OVA. Unsurprisingly, the anime is an incoherent mess of random asspulls and rapid fire exposition dialogue that has no emotional impact and just leaves the viewer dazed. One of the villains tries to cram the vampire race's entire tragic backstory into the last 5 minutes of the OVA! It's basically that scene in Mars of Destruction where the aliens randomly say "We were the real Earthlings all along!" about 20 seconds before the ending and expects that to be meaningful to the audience!
The plot is about a Japanese cereal salesman going overseas for a business trip and discovering an alien capsule containing a beautiful, androgynous alien. Seriously...a cereal salesman?! There aren't even any Japanese brand breakfast cereals available in America! Of course, this is the writer of Boku no Sexual Harassment and this is very consistent with her poor knowledge of international business in that series. Anyways, the cereal salesman is driving through the desert and suddenly is stopped by a military barricade. He gets out of his car to ask questions when suddenly there is a series of explosions and police start fighting the alien vampires. The salesman runs for safety into some kind of warehouse and sees Kimera inside what looks like one of the healing tanks from DBZ. He then does the logical thing and immediately starts kissing the glass. Kimera wakes up and starts kissing the glass in return. Talk about love at first sight! After killing some police and army dudes, the vampires fly off and it cuts to the next scene where cereal salesman and his business partner are being grilled by some government scientist. Fortunately, they get released because the lead scientist is the father of salesman's partner. What happens next are a series of battles and exposition dumps in which we learn that alien vampires abducted humans and created a bioweapon named Kimera who can wipeout Humanity. However, one of the alien vampires had second thoughts at the last second and is now teaming with human scientists to kill Kimera and avert the extinction of Mankind. The other alien vampire wishes to wipe out humanity as revenge for humans killing hundreds of Vampires in the Middle Ages, who came to Earth as peaceful ambassadors and were killed despite never actually doing anything to humans. The vampires end up killing each other and the salesman is told that he must finish off Kimera or else all of Mankind is doomed. Salesman decides to breed with Kimera and likely sacrifice all of Mankind purely out of passionate lust. The sex was just THAT good! Sure, all of Humanity is a heavy price to pay, but Kimera really hits that G-spot when he's getting plowed from behind.
The art is this anime is pretty sloppy and was definitely rushed. However, some of Umetsu's character designs are decent. That's honestly the only good thing I have to say about Kimera. This is a Yaoi series that kind of forgot the actual Yaoi scenes and relied on its plot...which was rushed to death and made no sense. I've seen this piece of shit twice now and there is still SOO much I don't understand about this plot.
Kimera was released by ADV as an ecchi series, but they were instructed by the Japanese producer to not refer to it as a yaoi. Kimera is instead referred to as female and this was marketed towards heterosexual males in the US, since they were seen as a larger fanbase than fujoshi. However, Kimera is clearly drawn to be male and this strategy did NOT work. Horny teens bought this hoping for boobs and instead got gay shit! lol. I think that's a huge part of the reason this has a 3.20 rating on Anime News Network and is rated there as one of the top 10 worst anime of all time. Don't get me wrong, Kimera is fucking horrible. It's a BAD anime, but it's not as technically bad as the only other series to score in the low 3s on ANN. It's honestly pretty funny to imagine a horny male otaku in 2001 paying 40 dollars for this on DVD thinking it was like Plastic Little and getting gay vampires from outer space. The nerd rage that this series caused on release here in America is honestly the best thing about this series. I would give this a 2 if ADV did this purely to be trolls, but sadly it was just the Japanese producer trying to make money through dishonesty. So sadly Kimera will have to settle for a 1.
Alternative Titles
Synonyms: Ki*Me*Ra
Japanese: 祈明羅
Information
Type:
OVA
Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Jul 31, 1996
Producers:
Studio Tulip
Licensors:
ADV Films
Studios:
animate Film
Source:
Manga
Theme:
Vampire
Duration:
47 min.
Rating:
R+ - Mild Nudity
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I've decided to review a god awful Yaoi title for LGBTQ Pride Month! I believe the last time I did this was for "Boku no Sexual Harassment" back in 2016, so it's been far too long! This is the story of Kimera: Gender/Sexuality or as its better known in America, Kimera: Gay Vampires from Outer Space!
Kimera was created by the same woman who wrote Boku no Sexual Harassment, so we're off to a great start! The animation studio behind Kimera was Animate Film, who mostly did in-between animation for larger studios. However, they did create a few independent projects apart from Kimera, most notably ... Dec 7, 2013
Selected scene from Kimera, 1996: An Air Force official maintains a roadblock on a rural mountain path. He is armed, and there are numerous uniformed soldiers clearly visible in the background, as well as the flaming wreckage of an overturned army-green transport. As a bystander approaches to, y'know, see what all the fuss is about, the official levels his assault rifle, its muzzle six inches from the man's head, and says “you can't be here, it's dangerous, run!” The bystander does the absolute last thing that any thinking human being would do: Pushes the barrel of the gun aside with his hand and demands to
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Apr 4, 2011
I picked this anime up a long time ago on a whim, boy I didn't know what I was getting into.
STORY: It's about a vampire wanting to use Kimera to continue the race. During this there seems to be a lot of Damsel in Distress on top of her being a vampire. The weirdest thing about her is that she has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a female. There appears to be a rape scene of some sort too, but it's just odd because Kimera looks like a woman/man or something. She doesn't talk, which ... Oct 2, 2013
This is one totally underrated piece.
I watch low rated films with my finger on the "skip" button, just to make sure that I'm not missing out. This time I didn't use it even once. Story: One of the rarest occasions when you watch fantasy/Sci-Fi/supernatural and in the end everything make sense. The plot is not too twisted, but well thought through. No Deus ex Machina, no "figure it out for your self" parts. The story flows smoothly and the ending is not trivial, but conclusive. Art: The style is a bit old, yet thoroughly done, nothing extraordinary, except for the fight scene, that was pretty intense and visual (blood ... Apr 6, 2018
This anime would have been more tolerable if the music wasn't so terrible. Most notable, 38 minuets into the show one song during the only fight scene included dialog from what sounds like a phone call. A woman saying something like "Your payment for your insurance is approximately 4 weeks overdue, no insure company will ever take you with your insurance...". All of the music and stock sound effects were just bad. And yes this was the original Japanese version. Maybe they did a better job on the English dub, but I haven't seen it. If this anime was
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Mar 13, 2017
Rate a 5
English Dubbed Story Odd putting to say the least. Story is about vamps but doesn't really stick to what equals a vamp. Also, the 'Green creature' concept is puzzling. I am aware of what the green creature is but the makes it seem somewhat natural to the characters when it actually confusing to the viewers. Let's just say when it comes to frisky things you need matching tools which set of the two is missing on the 'green creature?'' Aside from those confusing elements it was an original story. As for the ending... Not quite what i was hoping/expecting but it works i guess. It was ... Jul 24, 2020
Me being me, I love seeking out & watching really awful anime OVAs. With me also liking to write reviews on these said atrocities on occasion, I have come across some real stinkers such as Dark Cat, Sword For Truth, Kennel Tokorozawa, & Kite to name a few. Kimera just so happens to be another victim about to face my wrath. I’m kinda hoping this will be somewhat bearable, but we’ll find out I guess.
Story: 1/10 The story is completely incomprehensible. The “plot” is supposed to be about this guy named Osamu finding the titular character & protecting her I think? The only thing we ... Oct 1, 2017
Its an anime with late 90s aesthetics. While it may not appeal to a lot of people (because the last 20 minutes of this anime are consumed with an exposition dump and an ending which leaves a lot of head scratching - even though it makes sense, but its more short term sense rather than long term), the overall art style, english dub quality, and general competent direction is acceptable. I think its a decent work, even though I wouldn't see it a second time.
With that said, it is under 50 minutes, so that works in its favor. You can watch the OVA without prior ... |