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Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990)

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Posted on May 6, 2007 by Deni

There’s something indelibly 80’s about well known Madhouse Studio director Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s anime. I don’t know; maybe it’s the tendency towards big hair, or maybe it’s just that it was during the 80’s (well, actually more like the early 90’s) that titles like Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D, and this three part series, Cyber City Oedo 808, were among the few anime titles available here in Australia. It’s therefore hard not to look back on those VHS … (read more)

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Demon City Shinjuku (1993)

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Posted on March 3, 2007 by Eugene

What do you do when its been 10 years since an inexplicable horror has descended upon a sizable part of Tokyo city and made its own? What recourse do you have when that same monster has spent the last 10 years building up the power and resources to visit the same calamity upon the entire world? What options are left when the greatest diplomat in the world, on the verge of solving the world’s greatest conflicts, is attacked and is … (read more)

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Wicked City (1992)

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Posted on January 25, 2006 by Jonathan

I’m not sure I’m really qualified to ‘properly’ review Wicked City. I haven’t watched much anime. I can’t discuss styles of animation. I definitely can’t compare this film’s examples of wrinkled-brown-midget sex with any other’s. Also, I don’t really like it when I think I know what I’m looking at only I don’t because now its got teeth and… eugh.

Demonic gang rape doesn’t really give me a great deal of joy either. I’m generally fairly ambivalent about animated … (read more)

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