Ai City

It's sometime in the future and the story starts off with Kei and Ai running for their lives. Ai is a little girl who holds a terrible secret which could destroy the current world. The world is now populated by Headmeters, people who have psychic powers and their strength is shown on their forehead when they fight. However, Kei was an experimental subject and his strength never went above level 5 while other surpasses his ability effortlessly. While escaping, when in desperate moments, Kei could increase his ability to infinity when Ai is in trouble.

The one who's after her have a deep secret, aided by a small dwarflike man living in a robotic suit. Eventually Ai is captured and Kei, a sherlock holmes detective and another Headmeter who was converted to the good side when Kei unleashed his horrible powers through Ai must go and rescue her.

Together they must save Ai and the secret which she holds. What is the secret of Ai? Who is she?

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K2 Main

Koyama, Mami Japanese

Kei Main

Suzuoki, Hirotaka Japanese

Ai Main

Ueda, Yuki Japanese

Lai Lou Chin Supporting

Nagai, Ichiro Japanese

E Supporting

Ginga, Banjou Japanese

Ryan Supporting

Futamata, Issei Japanese

Mr. J Supporting

Horiuchi, Kenyuu Japanese

Genetic Alloy Supporting

Watabe, Takeshi Japanese

Lee, Kuu Ragua Supporting

Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Japanese

Yoshioka, Raiden Supporting

Nozawa, Nachi Japanese

Mashimo, Kouichi Director

Matsuura, Noriyoshi Sound Director

Yamazaki, Tatsuji Episode Director

Sonoda, Hideki Script

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Apr 16, 2018

FongKanCheung

Recommended

I read the manga version many many years ago.....since then I forgot the name of that already, I tried to search without a clue for long. Once in a while, I came across with this anime version and recognized the plot and the characters. Thanks to the awesome Internet (and MyAnimeList), I could finally put my long-time search to an end.

This anime version is somehow different than the manga version, and I am not going to include so here.

And I want to say that, this Ai City anime kind of makes me like the bad guys more than the good guys, which is ... a rare case to me.

Despite the fact that Ai City was made in the 1980's, there were some revolutionary sci-fi ideas being added to make this a unique classic.

Lastly, I just want to mention again that, I was able to retrieve the manga name of Ai City, all because of my discovery of this anime version.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 7, 2019

Typ055

Mixed Feelings

Even as an 80s nostalfag I really couldnt get into this. Its trainwreck, really. Its like they took every bad cliche of the time and threw it in a pot and this came out. Plot is all over the place and the soundtrack is really bad. They also repeat the same tracks too much for a 90 minute movie.

Also, way too many flashback scenes. Again, this is a fucking 90 minute movie. We dont need this.

It does have some pretty colorful psychedellic scenes though, and the first car chase sequence was pretty cool.

But franky, only watch this if you have OCD about seeing every 80s ... cyberpunk movie/ovas out there. If not, stay away

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 25, 2016

ObscureObsidian

Not Recommended

Sometimes, people criticize something saying it doesn't make sense. With anime this happens a lot. You can say that sometimes people just don't get, or didn't want to, but sometimes, when someone says something doesn't make sense, it's because, yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Ai City is a good example.

Imagine an anime whose script didn't have any sense of pacing, without explaining or exposing anything to you jumps right to an action scene which you can get engaged or excited because you're still wondering what the hell it's going on. That's your first scene. Yeah, didn't sound very promising, but don't worry, the rest ... is worse.

But the premise, if it wasn't for the weird story telling, if there's some story to tell here, is actually pretty conventional. There's an evil scientiffic organization that creates superpowered humans, the most powerful one, who's a little girl, escapes, and the organization want her back. Yeah, pretty cliché.

Flash-backs are used pretty commonly on anime, and sometimes can be really helpful to understand characters' motivations, make them more synpathetic and give us clues about the plot resolution. But here? Flash-backs suddenly interrupt, and many of them, until they end, you won't know they were flash-backs, making it even more confusing that it already was.

But the worst part is the climax, when, suddenly, cheap and misinterpreted phylosophy starts to get throw to viewers eyes and minds, showing that the screenwritters didn't have any idea about what really those phylosophy tesis where, which is pretty funny because it's actually really basic. Many animes has attempted to talk about the darkness in human nature, but dear God, this it was the most cheap, clumsy, hammy and poorly-written example.

Evan in the more shallow aspects the movie can't redeem itself. Animation and soundtrack are pretty dated, and even the cheesy nostalgia factor can save the music. Ai City is a pretty obscure title, and it's perfectly understable why. The few people who had seen it rather erase the memories they've watched it, and i'm one of them.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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