Cosmos Pink Shock

Cosmos Pink Shock is a 35-minute OVA about a young, rebellious girl Micchi traversing the galaxy at high speeds and a fan club of admirers she amasses by the end of it. We see robot baseball games and intergalactic wars interrupted by her little pink ship bursting straight through them. The universe calls this infamous ship the "Pink Shock" although its real name is "The Whole Galaxy is Stupid."

Being a short OVA, it'd be foolish to grade it based the complexity of its plot which is very straight-forward. Micchi crash lands on a planet and has to escape to continue her search for her beloved ... Hiro-chan. There is some good music, apparently by the God-like composer Kenji Kawai and some exaggerated Yoshinori Kanada-inspired animation.

Micchi's light-speed quest through the galaxy in her comfy cockpit filled with stuffed animals encapsulates the rebellious spirit of Showa-era anime. If you like short, self-aware anime like Daicon IV and Blazing Transfer Student, you should definitely give this a watch. Unfortunately at this time there are no high-quality copies.

I could never recommend this to anyone for the pure fact the only method available to watch it is the ugliest. I'm too spoilt from the crispness of modern format and unable to get past how bad the quality was on the version of this I watched.

It feels like blue balls. The main girl is cute to look at, and there's... some 'cute teen girl on a space ship' aesthetic but it's not great. It's most interesting when you get to some cute dynamics, but like blue balls, it's a release and continuation that will never come.

Maybe if this ever gets a release that ... actually looks good, I'll reevaluate my take. The girl is cute though, but you'll never get a good look at her through the bad quality of the video.

What sort of fresh hot mess is this? Seems like they settled on a cool-sounding title, then tried to create some sort of cutesy sci-fi comedy to go along with it.

A mysterious pink spaceship is racing across the galaxy. No one knows why. No one knows who. They just know it can't be captured, it's too fast. Until it runs out of fuel, that is. And then, the secret behind Pink Shock is revealed.

It's a silly, stupid little comedy. No harm there - except it's not done very ... well. The character designs are wonky, the animation is a bit exaggerated, and the story is, well, there really isn't a coherent storyline. Just a premise.

You can add this one to the big pile of forgotten eighties OVAs that are best left forgotten.