Venus Senki

I don't usually do review but after seeing this movie I had to, because I can't really recommend this to anyone.

Basically the story is very ordinary! I have seen many movies from late 80s that are written in same way and this also borrows many elements. I felt that this movie was re-written less bloody version of Akira. These two movies have many things in common!

And the characters are forgettable. I didn't even remember anyone's names.

Only one thing that is good in this anime is its artwork. I really liked how the tanks and other vehicles were drawn.

Overall an unfinished anime, which ... needed deeper more complex story and better written characters.

Honestly. Nothing special.

Beautiful animation, a lot of gifs from this movie cycle all over anime aesthetic and vintage anime type forums.

But the story is as cliche as it gets. Your basic boring "war is hell" drama cept it can't even get the HELL part right. Hardly anyone dies, zero gore. The protagonist "Hiro" is just a jerk who disagrees with everyone around him all the time no mater what unless the plot absolutely needs him to honour his word or get involved in something stupid.

The plot also doesn't kick in until way too late, and for the dumbest reasons. The protagonist just decides ... to commit terrorism and kill the crew of some random tank because its parked at the race track he used to drive at??????

Multiple key characters never get named. Even once, and yet the movie expects me to care for them? Why. It never gives anyone time to breathe or much motive, Hiro could be cool but we never get into his reasons to be. He's just a rebel jerk who doesn't take no guff from no one not even military officers who could have him killed at a moments notice.

Almost nothing happens action wise is good I guess.
The scenes are very well animated and scored but the action is also highly predictable and full of plot armour that leaves everything feeling floppy with no meaningful sense of danger. Like I said earlier hardly anyone dies, I think a total of three named characters die and one of them only got a single speaking line before he was game ended.

Unless your a really big fan of old school animation, skip this one.