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#18: Wanna-Be's (1986)
Director: Yasuo Hasegawa
Screenplay: Toshimichi Suzuki
Based on the manga by Toshimichi
Suzuki
Voice Cast: Eriko Hara (as Miki
Morita); Miki Takahashi (as Eri Kazama); Akio Nojima (as Oki Sonada); Demon
Kogure (as Himself); Eiko Yamada (as Bloody Matsuki); Shozo Iizuka (as Dr.
Sawada); Shuuichi Ikeda (as Tetsuma Kidou); Urara Takano (as Buster Horiguchi)
Abstract Spectrum: Psychotronic/Surreal
Abstract Rating (High/Medium/Low/None): None
As premises go for a short
animated work, pitting two female wrestlers against a conspiracy to inject them
and others with a superhuman serum that may be of alien origins is certainly strange
by anime's standards. Aside from this though, this doesn't mean that the result
is abstract in the slightest, but that it belongs to a catalogue of eighties
and nineties straight-to-video anime that sadly could never be made today;
probably too ridiculous to be considered legitimately good but compelling and
infectious in what it actually succeeds in.
For my full view, follow the link
HERE.
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#19: Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Director: Toyoo Ashida
Screenplay: Yasushi Hirano
Based on the light novels by Hideyuki
Kikuchi
Cast: Kaneto Shiozawa/Michael
McConnohie (as D); Michie Tomizawa/Barbara Goodson (as Doris Lang); Satoko
Kitô/Edie Mirman (as Lamika); Seizo Katou/Jeff Winkless (as Count Magnus Lee);
Ichirô Nagai (as Left Hand); Kazuyuki Sogabe/Kerrigan Mahan (as Rei Ginsei)
Watched with English Dub
Abstract Spectrum: Fantastique/Psychotronic/Surreal
Abstract Rating (High/Medium/Low/None): None
An anime that's grown on me -
while it's the later adaptation - Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) - that's
seen as the superior take on the light novel character, the original adaptation
does grow on you even when viewed with a less than stellar English dub. Atmospheric
and kind appropriately horrific with some of its character and background
designs, it's exactly in the same wheelhouse as Wanne-Be's baring that this does feel like a legitimate gem despite
its few flaws.
For my full view, follow the link
HERE.
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