Reviews

I truly believe the 1980s OVA boom was the greatest time for anime. But despite that era churning out amazing stuff, there's the inevitable duds. So enter 1987's Hell Target. It's about a group of space travelers who go to the dubiously named planet Inferno II in order to find a missing ship, and run afoul psychic illusion casting space demons with plans of targeting Earth to turn it into hell. It's their hell target. They actually say that. I watched this back to back with the similarly themed Roots Search (which featured a psychic illusion casting vagina mouthed alien...or space demon...or god, who knows), and while both are silly fun, I can also say largely forgettable. With just passable art, decent enough animation, and a meh story, there really just anything terribly memorable about Hell Target. The thing I remember most is when it came down to the final two crew members, the man bangs the rightfully hysterical woman to calm her down. His actual post coitus words to her were "are you calm now?" Hell Target keeps it classy. I can't imagine how this ever could've been forgotten.