Burn Up!

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Burn Up
Japanese: バーンナップ


Information

Type: OVA
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Mar 21, 1991
Producers: Media Rings
Studios: AIC
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, ComedyComedy, Sci-FiSci-Fi, EcchiEcchi
Theme: DetectiveDetective
Duration: 45 min.
Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 6.041 (scored by 42774,277 users)
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Ranked: #95622
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Popularity: #6479
Members: 10,493
Favorites: 6

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Synopsis

To the unsuspecting eye Maki, Reimi and Yuka may not look like ace crime fighters, which might explain why they're stuck on traffic patrol instead of more "exciting" police duties.

All that changes when Yuka gets herself kidnapped by a white slave organization run by a politically connected businessman who's got the rest of the police cowed.

Now it's up to Maki and Reimi to don skin-tight battle armor, liberate a tank, and make sure that a certain slaver learns that when you play with fire, you're going to get your ass burned!

(Source: DVD Back Cover)

Characters & Voice Actors

Yuka

Main
Nishihara, Kumiko
Japanese

Reimi

Main
Itou, Miki
Japanese

Maki

Main
Shibata, Yumiko
Japanese

Ryuji

Supporting
Umezu, Hideyuki
Japanese

Banba

Supporting
Akaboshi, Shoichiro
Japanese

Sayaka

Supporting
Shiratori, Yuri
Japanese

Captain Hashima

Supporting
Tanaka, Nobuo
Japanese

Suzuki

Supporting

Takeda

Supporting
Nagai, Ichiro
Japanese

Chief

Supporting
Iizuka, Shouzou
Japanese

Staff

Matsuda, Akio
Producer
Ide, Yasunori
Director, Planning
Iwanami, Yoshikazu
Sound Director
Kawai, Kenji
Music


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Ending Theme

"Burn Up My Heart" by Yumiko Shibata, Miki Ito and Kumiko Nishihara




Reviews

Aug 30, 2013
There is NO excuse in my eyes to write about the sequels, but not the very 1st ova-movie of the franchise?? Damn right it is! One of the reasons I like old school anime is because stuff like this still had entertainment when the credits roll, in a small corner you saw production sketches, extra deleted scenes, further development of the series and unfinished drawings with nice popmusic to listen to, I miss that. This is the 1st installment of the Burn Up serie's started in 1991, so that means EVERYTHING was handdrawn, probably not everyone's taste these days since some animation, especially the girls ...
Oct 2, 2015
Story: Mostly conforms to your typical, over the top 80s police thriller flick. Buddy cops going rogue to take on the bad dudes with some serious artillery. However, while most 80s villains deal with drugs, these ones happen to traffic female slaves. A serious and rather dark issue for an other wise extremely light hearted OVA. Indeed, this story aspect and all its implications is never seriously touched upon by the OVA. There is overall nothing wrong with the very standard plot apart from the ending which seems rushed and abrupt.
Also keep an lookout for 80s pop culture references that do not add anything to ...
Nov 18, 2020
Hey, let's get into the Burn Up! OVA, the one that exploded into a multi-TV series/OVA-spanning franchise. The original OVA is like a gust of smog, that turns a shroud of clouds grey, before the cleansing rain comes to wash away the pollution! It's a concept that was alright-looking, but never really got far, in its original form!

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—Story/Characters

The main heroines can be summed up with the "Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt" archetypes: Maki ("the audacious, loud-mouthed blonde-bimbo stereotype") and Reimi ("the soft-spoken, raven-haired beauty—in other words, the less impulsive and more rational of the two"). I use Panty and ...

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