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Roujin Z, tells the story of a government experiment to create a robot that can take care of the elderly every need without making it a hassle for their family to care for them. This is a theme that is very prevalent throughout the film, but is dragged down by the film's poor characters, and worse execution.

The premise of the film is one you would associate with a serious drama, as it tackles the struggles of Japan's healthcare system, and the battle between traditional values and modern technology, but instead the creators decided to put this delicate and thought provoking premise inside a action comedy ... filled to the brim with giant robots, asshole characters, and sexual harassment. While at the start I was expecting this movie to be a satire dark comedy, I quickly found that it was instead a poorly thought out movie about nothing really.

Roujin Z’s strongest points are, one that it is only a little over an hour long making it a quick and easy watch that doesn't take up to much of your time, and two its animation, which while not doing anything groundbreaking, lends the movie a nostalgic feeling that many anime from the 90s were filled with. Sadly Roujin Z is filled with many more faults than pros, starting with its poor choice of voice actors. While I try not to pick on voice acting too much, especially when the movie in question is from the 90’s, it is incredibly obvious that the people in charge of casting had little idea what to look for. The main cast is filled with inexperienced voice actors with little experience under their belt, and while sometimes it's good to give new actors a shot, you need to balance them out with an experienced cast to help cover up their faults, something Roujin Z failed to do.

The biggest problem of all was the borderline insane “plot” of the film. While it started out simple enough, following Haruko as she deals with a old patient she cared about forced into this experimental machine that was obviously causing him pain, it quickly devolved as the machine suddenly grows a conscious mind, that inexplicably takes on the persona of the patients dead wife, just because they fed the machine a picture of her. And as the plot starts to crumble no amount of cheesy villains can save it as what could have been a heartfelt story of the problems of the healthcare system quickly becomes your average mediocre mecha showdown.

At Least my boy Mitsuru got some in the end.

Blame is a manga that starts off confusingly but 20 chapters in it starts to explain a lot of the world in its own way. But after those 20 chapters they stop trying to explain themselves and instead just drag you on for a confusing ride.

The only thing that kept me from dropping blame is that I liked the art, the characters are not amazingly drawn but the action panels and two page spreads make it all look better.

Even though i enjoyed the art all the amazing panels cant make up for the fact that the story is incoherent and insane. Blame is the only ... series that i read that i had to look up a synopsis of the plot just so i could try and understand what i just read.

Overall i cant genuinely recommend Blame to anyone unless you want to have a terrible time