The Humanoid: Ai no Wakusei Lezeria

This was aired before I was born and, to me, was one of the masterpieces of the 80's. I can't expect people to hold high expectation for it nowadays though... I watched it around age 6 and, just today, the name Antoinette and the memorable tune of the old days popped up in my mind. I still remember how much I enjoyed and was moved by this show when I watched it again at age 7.

Story: 7/10
I think the story was still innovative around the time it was made - a female android who develops emotion and holds the key to world destruction.

Art: 8/10
I was ... deeply moved by the characters' expressions when I was small. I can't have the same feeling as then any more but it's still good. Antoinette is the most beautiful artwork in this show. The mechanic designer did a great job.

Sound: 10/10
This is exactly what brought my mind back 15 years to the past today. The theme songs are good and memorable. There's nothing to complain about the voices too.

Character: 8/10
Human moves by love, so does humanoid.

Enjoyment: 10/10
This was great enough for me or anyone as a kid .

The music's good and the animation is good.
The complete lack of character and the complete go-nowhere ending is either a total trainwreck or a brilliant, nihilistic reflection on the lack of meaning in love, life and death.
Not long enough to elicit any negative reactions but the barebones storytelling doesn't exactly give any enjoyment either.


Everything below is fluff:
Why is there a minimum word limit? Brevity is king. I hate myself when I overwrite, it's a really simple, forty minute 80s OVA that is perfectly middling. I guess the music is cool. I said that already. "All in all this is an OVA that is worth ... a watch, if only to experience what a pure 5/10 is like." There, conclusion statement.

Probably the most impressive thing about this is the cover artwork. And it's mostly all downhill from there.

Kind of a weird story -- it seems like there is a much larger story that is yearning to be told, but we can only get a 45-minute window of it. There's a conflict that crosses the stars, a rudimentary love story, android jealousy, ancient ruins hiding planet-busting technology, an evil governor, a brilliant scientist and his lovely granddaughter. It seems like there were the inklings of a possible strong story in all of this, but instead we end up with ... these broken-down parts that fit together poorly.

And the somewhat subpar quality artwork paired with even more substandard quality animation doesn't help, either. The titular character, the sexy android, you would think based on the promo artwork has almost a Sorayama-type appeal. But as she appears in the story is...much less impressive.

Overall, a sub-par effort all around.