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Mobile Police Patlabor 2 is the second sequel movie to the Patlabor OVA. It was produced by Production I.G, and directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell). Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue) was also involved in this project as he worked on storyboards and layouts for the movie.

This movie takes place after the events of movie 1. The year is now 2002, and the destruction of a United Nations Labor team in South East Asia works as the build up to a terrorist attack that sends shockwaves through Japan and it's military. With signs of corruption and an impending military takeover, the scattered memebers of ... the Special Vehicle Division have to get back together to defend the city from the threat of Tsuge, who was Nagumo's former lover.

The main cast is still the same, though this movie mostly follows Kiichi Gotou and leader of division 1 Shinobu Nagamo. For more background on the characters read my Early Days review.

The animation in this movie was really good. The attention to detail was really impressive and where I felt like it was generally good looking before, I thought this movie was way better visually and in terms of animation than any of the previous installments.

The music for this movie was superb. Kenji Kawai did a great job on the music, like one would expect from him. But not only was the music really good, when and if it was used was also really clever. A lot of scenes were made all that more serious and dramatic due to the lack of any background music and only things you could hear other than talking was the ambience in the background. And when the music was brought out, it really enhanced the scenes.

I'm sure this movie would split the Patlabor fanbase a bit. The reason is that, while being more Patlabor, it's also quite different. The first installments were more comedic in tone. Not too much so that it was annoying, but it didn't want to go all out on being dramatic or comedic. It managed to find a nice middleground that worked well. However, this movie is a lot darker in tone. Not a surprise concidering that this movie focuses more on terrorism and military takeovers. Not exactly a laughing matter, so the comedy is very sparse and really take a backseat. That said though, I thought this movie was fantastic. Oshii really shows us what a great director and storyteller he is, because this movie was everything I wanted and expected from a Oshii movie. Only complaint I have is that the beginning was a bit strange and made parts of the setup seem a bit weird, but once it fills in the gaps it's just gold. This is my favorite installation of the Patlabor franchize, and I highly recommend watching the Early Days OVA and movie 1 so that you can experience this movie.

Aa! Megami-sama! or Oh! My Goddess is a 5 episode OVA series that released from Feb 21 1993 to May 17 1994. It's an adaptation of Kousuke Fujishima's manga of the same name. It was produced by studio AIC and directed by Hiroaki Gohda.

The story follows Keiichi Morisato. He's a college student who's been left alone in the dorms as his friends have gone out. He ends up dialing the wrong number as he's trying to order some takeout and ends up summoning a beautiful goddess named Belldandy. She promises to grant Keiichi any wish he has, and he wishes for her to stay by ... his side forever. Because of this, Keiichi gets kicked out of the mens only dormitory and ends up moving out to an old shrine, where more goddesses and other people show up to get involved in his love life.

Keiichi Morisato is a normal college student and our main character. He has no luck with women because he is short, but somehow ends up getting a beautiful goddess as a girlfriend. He's also a part of his college's racing club.

Belldandy is the goddess who first visits Keiichi and makes the contract with him to stay with him forever. She is kind, warm, beautiful and makes a lot of heads turn. She's also really good at cooking.

Urd is the second goddess that shows up. She's the cupid of love and she is also Belldandy's older sister. She comes down to earth in order to help close the distance betwee Keiichi and Belldandy and get them further in their relationship, although it mostly ends in failure.

Skuld is the third goddess to appears in this OVA. She is Belldandy's younger sister and has come to bring her back to heaven. She does not like Keiichi and wants to try to seperate him and Belldandy.

The animation and visuals in this OVA is nothing to write home about. For the most part I would even say that it's kinda poor. There is a lack of concistency in the designs and characters proportions, even when it's not moving, and the animation itself is very basic. Not that there is anything wrong with basic animation, but it is also not impressing anyone.

The music in this OVA is also not that great. It feels like it always overpowers whatever is going on. Like in a lot of the dramatic scenes. It's usually very light drama, but the music seems to want you to think that the world is ending tomorrow. It's very off-putting to say the least.

Despite these flaws, I have to say that I enjoyed this OVA. It was very short and sweet, but it didn't stick around on pointless moments, and got on with it and let you experience a lot of what happened between the characters, making the bonds between them feel more real. Sure, it could have been a few episodes longer so as to avoid some of those pretty huge timeskips, but it didn't really bother me that much. I really enjoyed the characters, and none of them got on my nerves. That in itself is a pretty good feat, cause I always tend to find at least one character that annoys me. Overall it was a short and sweet OVA that I enjoyed watching. I would recommend people check this out. It's only 5 episodes at 35 - 30 mins each, so it's not a huge investment either.

Yu Yu Hakusho is a 112 episode long series that adapts Togashi Yoshiro's (Hunter X Hunter) battle shounen manga of the same name. The anime was produced by Studio Pierrot, and it was directed by Noriyuki Abe (Great Teacher Onizuka) It aired from Oct 10 1992 to Jan 7 1995.

The story follows Yuusuke Urameshi, a 14-year-old delinquent with a dim looking future, who only seems to like getting into fights. One day Yuusuke saves a child from getting hit by a car, but he's hit himself and ends up dying. He gets sent to the spirit realm where he meets air to the throne of ... the spirit realm Koenma. Koenma gives Yuusuke the opportunity to get his life back through a series of tasks, and upon the completion of these tasks he finds himself getting involved with the dealings of the spirit realm, as well as being appointed spirit realm detective and have to deal with demons who are causing problems in the human realm.

With this being a long shounen series there are quite a lot of characters who's relevance to the story changes a lot from arc to arc. So I'm only going to be touching on some of the characters.

Yuusuke is the main character of this story and is our eyes and ears into what is going on. He's a delinquent who loves getting into fights, but after saving a kid ends up losing his life, and gets involved with the spirit realm and also the demon realm. He's not got a great life at home with a mother that doesn't really seem to care about him. He's also always cutting class and seems to be throwing away his entire life on meaningless fights. However, after coming back from the dead he starts working as a spirit realm detective and his life seems to get more meaning.
Botan is a guide that shows Yuusuke to the spirit realm after he died. She helps Yuusuke regain his life and is also Yuusuke's assistant in the spirit realm detectives.
Kazuma Kuwabara is another delinquent who is always getting beat up by Yuusuke. However, he is determined to keep fighting Yuusuke until he can one day defeat him. Kuwabara ends up getting involved with Yuusuke's affairs as a spirit realm detective because Kuwabara has a high spiritual sensitivity, and because of this Kuwabara and Yuusuke becomes friends.
Kurama is a demon that has possessed a human that Yuusuke runs into on his first proper mission as a spirit realm detective. Kurama had been attacked by a demon hunter and escaped to the human realm and possessed a yet unborn child to regain his strength. After Yuusuke helps him out, Kurama ends up joining forces with Yuusuke.
Hiei is another demon that Yuusuke ends up fighting on his first mission. Hiei also ends up joining the spirit realm detective team as he's gained an interest in not only Yuusuke's strength, but also his actions and how he cares for others.

The animation in this show is very up and down. As one can expect from a long show like this, there are times where the animators have to cut corners to save time. It is very apparent when it happens, and because of that I can not say that the show is well animated overall. However, the most important fights in the show have better animation in them. Sadly though, it's still not a fantastic looking show.

The music and sfx work in this show is very interesting. They went with some very unusual music choices at times during the anime, but I feel like they help playing up the supernatural element in this show. Also the jet engine sfx used at times when someone punches another very hard was fascinating.

First I want to make something clear. I'm not a shounen fan. That's not to say that I always dislike shounen shows, but there is not a lot of shounen shows I can say that I really like. Despite that though, I feel like Yu Yu Hakusho is a good show. I really enjoyed the ride, through the highs and lows. The easy times, and the frustrating times. The fights were awesome, and especially the Dark Tournament Arc really lived up to the expectations I had for it. No, I don't think it's the greatest tournament in anime, but it was pretty good. But it's not like I don't have any issues with the show. I think the first arc of the show is just down right boring at times. Long anime often suffers from this, and sadly Yu Yu Hakusho is no different. I also have issues with the ending. I understand that Yoshiro had a bit of a mental breakdown and decided to end the manga pretty abruptly, but it's still pretty sad that a lot of the going ons of the final arc was either left unresolved or resolved off screen. I don't think I'm alone in thinking that if the ending had been a bit more fleshed out, this show could have been better. However, as it sits it's still a good show, and despite it's length I would recommend it. And if you do decide to check it out, at least try to hold out through the Dark Tournament arc.

Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water) is a 39 episode anime that aired from Apr 13 1990 to Apr 12 1991. The anime is based on the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. The story concept was made by Hayao Miyazaki, and it was produced by studio Gainax and directed by Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion.)

In 1889, the world is on the pinnacle of great discoveries in technology. We're introduced to Jean Roque Ratlique. He's a young inventor who, together with his grandfather, are joining a competition in order to make a flying machine. Jean see's a ... girl that he takes a fancy to at first sight and ends up following her. It turns out that this girl named Nadia is being chased by some strange people who are trying to take the gem hanging around her neck from her. Jean ends up "saving" Nadia from them, but neither of them has any idea of what's in store for them going forward. Everything from submarines to Neo-Atlantis and Gargoyle, it all seems like too much for two kids to handle.

The two most important characters to the story are Jean and Nadia. Jean is a young inventor from Le Havre who's in love with machines and technology. Nadia is a dark skinned girl who knows little about her past. She's basically been working for a circus her entire life and doesn't even know where she's from, who her parents are, or even when her birthday is. Because of the color of her skin she is certain that she has to be from Africa, and Jean is trying to help her get to Africa.
Other important characters are Captain Nemo. The captain of a submarine that ends up rescuing Jean and Nadia. And Gargoyle who is the main bad guy of the series.

The animation in this show follows what seems to be Anno's usual pattern. It doesn't look half bad, but the animation takes a turn for the worse towards the second half of the show, and even more so towards the end. Despite this, the show doesn't really look bad, just not as good as it could have looked.

Overall this show was a lot of fun to watch. I didn't know much about this going into it, so I was not sure what to expect, but it got off to a strong start. The show ended up lulling a bit in the middle which I wasn't too happy about, but then it gets weird. I was not expecting it to get as weird as it did, but I was not against it. It wasn't just Jean that was tripping on shrooms during this show. Then it all came to an ending that I enjoyed quite a lot. They decided to put just a tiny bit too much into the last episode in my opinion, which made some things feel a bit forced, but even so the ending was solid. I really enjoyed this show and I would recommend anyone to check it out. It might not be your cup of tea, but I still think it's worth checking out.

Mobile Police Patlabor: The Movie is the first of three sequel movies to the OVA Early Days. The movie was made by Production I.G, and came out on July 15 1989. Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) was the director for this movie.

The movie takes place in 1999 and it still focuses on the same cast of characters from Special Vehicle Division 2. All the Labors have had a new OS installed called HOS, but it seems like this is making the drivers lose controll of their Labors. When SV2 looks into this it all seems to tie into a mysterious man who have commited ... suicide on the massive Babylon Production construction site sets of a cascade of events that may signal the destruction of Tokyo.

The characters are the same as in the Early Days OVA. If you wanna know more about them I suggest watching the OVA or read my review of the OVA. This movie doesn't really focus much on the characters in any way.

The animation during the Labor fights are still as good as ever. They also liked to use a fisheye effect to add to the comedy during some scenes. Sadly though, I was expecting a bit more from the animation with this being a movie. It's not bad by any means, but there are times where it looked a bit wonky.

I was not super impressed by the music in the OVA, so when I learned that Kenji Kawai had done the music for it I was even more disappointed. However, Kenji Kawai really stepped up his game for this movie. The music was a lot better and it made the movie that much more enjoyable to watch.

Overall I thought this movie was good. The beginning of the movie was a bit slow, but come the middle point it starts to get a lot more interesting, and towards the end it got really exciting. The Patlabor franchize is good and I really recommend it for anyone who is on the fence about it. The mix between comedy and more serious police business is handled very well, and even if you're like me and not the biggest fan of mecha, I'd say that there is so much to enjoy here that you're not even gonna think about the fact that it's a mecha show.

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket is a 6 episode OVA produced by studio Sunrise. The first episode was released on Mar 25th 1989 and the last episode was released on Aug 25 1989. The OVA was directed by Fumihiko Takayama. War in The Pocket is one of many installments in the Mobile Suit Gundam franchize that started back in 1979 and is still releasing new shows today.

The story of War in the Pocket is set in Universal Century 0080. The setting is the neutral colony cluster of Side 6, and we follow a 10-year-old boy named Alfred Izuruha. He, just like most ... boys his age, are very interested in the war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon. He's also very interested in mobile suits. One day Al runs into Christina, who Al used to know before she left for Earth, but she has now moved back next door to him. What Al does not know is that Chris has become the test pilot of a prototype Gundam that is being developed in secret by the Earth Federation in the colony. A Zeon special forces team has snuck onto the colony to find and steal, or destroy the thing that the Earth Federation is hiding. One day Alfred stumbles upon a Zaku mobile suit that has been shot down. There he meets Bernard Wiseman, who Al becomes friends with, and ends up helping Bernie and the Zeon with finding out what the Earth Federation is hiding.

The three most important characters in this show is Alfried Izuruha, also known as Al. He's living with his mother on Side 6 and lives a fairly boring everyday life away from all the fighting. However, he is very interested in the war, and as the war reaches Side 6, he ends up befriending Bernard Wiseman and ends up helping the Zeon.
Bernard Wiseman, also known as Bernie throughout the show, is one of the Zeon soldiers who ends up coming to Side 6. They are tasked with finding out what the Earth Federation has brought to Side 6. However, Al starts trying to get involved with them and ends up drawing unwanted attention to them, so they end up letting him "join" them and help them out. However, Bernie ends up being very fond of Al, and through them playing brothers they end up becoming quite good friends.
Christina Mackenzie, also known as Chris, is an older girl who Al used to know, but she ended up leaving for Earth. There she ended up joining the Earth Federation and now she has returned to Side 6 as a test pilot for the new Gundam that they are developing.

The animation in this OVA is pretty good. The mobile suit fights move very well and they don't keep pulling the camera away from the fight all the time, so you get to see most of what happens. I have nothing really to complain about when it comes to the animation. The character designs and background art is also pretty good, thought the character designs could look a bit wonky at times due to a lot of the lines in their faces.

The music was decent. While no music in it stood out to me as particularly perfect, it did it's job fairly well. That said though, I would not say that music is not the strong suit of this series.

Before I get into my final thoughts I'm gonna have to say that I'm not really a Gundam fan. I have not watched a lot of Gundam shows, and mecha is probably my least favorite genre. That said though, I was looking forward to watching this OVA. From what I had heard it was kinda different from a lot of other Gundam shows, while at the same time maintaining what makes a Gundam show, and it does this by focusing a lot more on the civilian side rather than mostly focusing on the military. This is a change in angle that I really liked from this OVA. As such I ended up really enjoying watching this show. I liked seeing how the war affected the civilians who are not a part of this war, and it really does a great job in showing just how serious this is. It's easy to force blame for lost lives over on others, which you see the soldiers do sometimes in this series, but that still doesn't change that a war between two factions still end up affecting people that doesn't really have anything to do with this war. I really enjoyed that. This OVA definitely gets a recommendation from me.

Mobile Police Patlabor: Early Days is a 7 episode OVA produced by Studio Deen. It was releasing from April 25th 1988 to Jun 25th 1989. Episodes 1-6 was directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) and episode 7 was directed by Naoyuki Yoshinaga (Maison Ikkoku).

In the future, technology is increasing rapidly, and that has given birth to giant robots called Labors. The name Labors comes from their usefulness in heavy industry. However, this gives the rise to Labor Crimes. This results in the need for a new branch of law enforcement that's equipped with their own Patlabors, and are dedicated to the policing of ... Labors. One day a bunch of new recruits join Special Vehicle Division 2, and a dragged into a series of crazy adventures.

Noa Izumi is a female police officer and one of the new recruits who ends up joining Special Vehicle Division 2. She loves Patlabors and wants to control one. The other reqruits are Asuma Shinohara who's the son of the head of Shinohara Heavy Industries. A company who makes Labors. Isao Oota, a loose cannon who loves guns. Mikiyasu Shinshi, the lone married man of SV2, and Hiromi Yamazaki, who's the soft-spoken and kind-hearted giant. Other than them you have Kiichi Gotou who's the captain of division 2 of SV2. Seitarou Sakaki who's the head mechanic of SV2. Kanuka Clancy who's a temporary member of SV2 division 2 assigned from NYPD. And last but not least we have Shinobu Nagumo who's the leader of division 1.

The animation in this OVA is ok. Nothing to write home about, but it's not bad either. I would say they played it fairly safe with the animation in this OVA, so that when they needed to step it up they could, but it didn't do anything to make it stand out from other shows at the time.

The music in the OVA was servicable. The music fit the show well and added to the scenes, but it also didn't stand out in any way.

Overall I have to say I enjoyed this OVA. I went into this show fairly blind, so I was not aware that it was a comedy, so that took me a bit by surprise. However I think the comedy worked well in the show. I was afraid it could take away from the more serious moments of the show, but luckily it didn't. If I have any issues with the OVA it would be that there were a lot of things I would have liked for them to dive more into, like the characters could have been fleshed out a bit more, but due to the OVA only being 7 episodes there was limited time to work with. So taking that into concideration I liked this show. It was decently funny, and when it wanted to be serious it could do that without seeming out of place or ruining the show.

Violence Jack: Harlem Bomber-hen is an OVA that came out in 1986. It is the first of in total 3 OVAs about Violence Jack, that adapts the manga Violence Jack by Go Nagai. Violence Jack: Harlem Bomber-hen was directed by Ichiro Itano (Gantz.)

Violence Jack is about Jack. A beast in a mans body. After the Kanto Hell Earthquake had destroyed everything, a powerful man known as the Slum King rose to power. Being the most powerful man he goes around and does what ever he wants, from killing innocent people, to kidnapping girls and selling them as sex slaves. However, Violence Jack is out to ... kill this man. While this is all going on, we have also got a girl named Mari, who has been seperated from her boyfriend and is trying to find him again, while trying to avoid being captured and sold as a slave.

There is not really all that much to this story. It is mostly a backdrop to the violence and sex of this series, but then again that is also why we watch this in the first place.

The characters in this OVA are pretty much nothing. Violence Jack is the strong beast of a man who kills almost everyone, but for some reason he does not kill the "good" people. Mari is the girl who is looking for her boyfriend, but gets captured and almost becomes a slave. Kenichi is Mari's boyfriend who is now working for Harlem Bomber. Harlem Bomber is the Slum King's right hand man. That is more or less it when it comes to the characters that mean anything. I normally would not even have mentioned the Harlem Bomber if it was not for the fact that he is the Slum King's right hand man and is tied to the story of Mari and Kenichi, cause he is barely even in the show.

The animation in this OVA is ok at best. They clearly went for style over movement here with the character designs having a lot of lines and scars and shades and little details that is hard to animate without it being wonky.

I am not even gonna talk about the music, cause I do not even remember if there was any. If there was any it was very unnoticeable.

I thought that this first OVA was very weak. I went into this show expecting nothing more than violence and gore porn, and on that it delivered, but if you are looking for anything else from this series, then you should just stay away, because there is nothing here for you.

Area 88 is a 3 part OVA that adapts the manga Area 88, written by Kaoru Shintani that was published between 1979 and 1986. The OVA released between Feb 5 1985 and Jun 15 1986, and produced by Studio Pierrot. It was directed by Hisayuki Toriumi (Tekkaman)

Area 88 follows Shin Kazama, a pilot working for Yamato Airlines. Shin gets tricked by his best friend into signing a contract that ties him to the foreign legion of a remote country called Aslan, where he gets stationed at Area 88. The foreign legion are almost like hired mercenaries. Aslan has been split into two sides and a ... civil war has broken out, and both sides are doing everything they can to win this war. Shin just wants to get out of this hell and get back to his normal life and his girlfriend, but there are only three ways to do that. One way is two serve his three years, another is two earn 1,5 million dollars to pay himself out, and the third way is to desert.

I have to say, the story in this OVA series sounded fairly interesting going in to the show. However, after a while I realized that it wasn't quite as interesting as I thought it would be. The dogfights were cool and all, and I liked seeing Shin struggle with having to kill people just to buy his own freedom, however, when we first meet Shin he has already killed quite a lot of people, so I also feel this disconnect from him since he's already turned into a very capable killer. I feel like one of the things this show is going for is trying to sympathy towards Shin and his situation, cause it is a very shitty situation for him, but ultimately it just felt kinda cheap to me. Especially when his "friend" who tricked him into signing the contract is portrayed as such a one dimensional villain.

The characters in this show felt very standard in my opinion. You have our protagonist Shin Kazama who's the unlucky soul who got tricked into fighting in a war he wants nothing to do with, and all he wants to do now is go home. Then you have Micky Simon, who ends up becoming one of Shin's friends at Area 88, but again there is not really that much to him apart for a little backstory that explains why he's there. You also have Shin's girlfriend Ryoko Tsugumo who's the daughter of the owner of Yamato Airlines. Her entire role in this is basically just to worry about Shin and eventually trying to bring him back from Area 88 when she realizes that he has been tricked and sent there. The last character I wanna touch on is Satoru Kanzaki. He has been Shin's best friend since they were at the orphanage, and together with Shin they both became pilots working for Yamato Airlines. Satoru is very jealous of Shin though, cause he is a better pilot than him and he got the daughter of the company, and Satoru just hates people who are more successful than him in general, so he plots to send Shin away, take over Yamato Airlines and steal Ryoko away from Shin.

The animation in this series is something I have to give credit. It looks really good, and no, I am not just talking about Shin's fantastic hair. The movement is very smooth and the attention to detail in the fights were extremely cool to look at. It made me very immersed in the aerial combat which is a huge part of the OVAs.

The music in this show was pretty decent in my opinion. While nothing I would listen to outside of the show, it did complement the series fairly well. But at the same time, there is not a single piece of music that I felt stood out in the series.

Overall I have to say that I'm disappointed in this series. I was expecting something a little better than what I got. We basically got two stories wrapped up in one. One story was about a man who had been unwillingly drafted into the millitary to fight in a war that he has nothing to do with, and the other story was that of a long distance relationship and believing and trusting the other. However, I do not think that any of those things were handled all that well. I will even go so far as to say that if it were not for those fantastic dogfights on display I would not have liked this at all. That more or less saved this series for me and made it an ok watch, since it is such a big portion of the series. But when they were diving into backstory or trying to explain why things had worked out the way they did for everyone, I just felt like it was lacking all the way through. I wish I could be more positive on this show, but sadly I just feel like it has a few too many problems when it came to telling it's story, and I think it would have been way better as simply a series about millitary pilots with cool dogfights.

Crusher Joe is a sci-fi action movie was produced by studio Sunrise and directed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko who's not really done much in terms of directing, but more in terms of animation direction and character designs on series such as Mobile Suit Gundam. It's adapted from a series of sci-fi light novels Haruka Takachiho that were initially published in 1977.

In this movie we follow a team of Crushers comprised of Joe, Alfin, Ricky and Talos. Crushers are intergalactic jacks-of-all-trades who will take on any task for the right price. Joe and his team are tasked with helping escort a cryogenically frozen heiress to a medical ... facility. However, something happens during warp and they end up nowhere near where they were supposed to go, and the heiress and the people who hired them are nowhere to be found. The pirates have been playing them for fools in order to escape, but Joe doesn't like being fooled and goes to track the pirates down to get his revenge and to rescue the human cargo.

I have to give props to the animation in this movie. The movie was pretty well animated. I also really love the more cartoonish stretch and pull techniques they use to make the characters so much more expressive and alive. I am a huge sucker for things like that and I really liked that in this movie. The space dogfights and general hand to hand combat was also animated pretty well, so I have no real complaints in terms of the visuals of the movie.

The music in this movie let me down a little to be honest. I can not really remember any music at all. It almost felt like it wasn't even really there at all. Some better music definitely would have helped out during the fights and could have made the entire movie seem a lot more epic.

Overall I have to say that I really enjoyed this movie. I had been told before hand that I was probably gonng to like it, but I did not think I was going to like it as much as I did. The action in this movie was really good. They did a nice job making it so that our main characters felt strong and good at what they are doing, but at the same time they managed to keep them from being so overly strong and cool that no one would ever be a threat to them. This was shown especially during a fight at the disco where they would both beat people and get swarmed and overpowered. Other things I thought the movie did really well was the animation. The way they portrayed expression in the characters using more cartoonish animation techniques really did wonders for this movie. I also really liked that instead of having what the characters were thinking and feeling show through inner monologue, they used the animation and expressions of the characters to get that through to the viewers.

Now I have a lot of praise for the show, but I also have a few complaints. One of the complaints which you could read earlier was in the music department. I don't really remember any music from the movie, cause it really did not make an impression on me. I wish they would have got some better music cause it really could have elevated some of the scenes in this movie. Other than that it's just minor things that I think they could have explored a bit more, such as the whole Crushers organization and some more villain motivations and how they were connected to the events that took place, but I think they did an ok job at that. I would really recommend people give this movie a watch. I don't understand why it's got such a low rating on MAL, cause I think it's a lot better than what it's given credit for. I know I enjoyed it a lot.