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Buried Garbage - Angel Cop

I forgot all about this one;i have the colletion on VHS.My memory of this is not quite clear since i have not watched it in years.Perhaps it is worse than i reamember but i just remember Angel as a character trying too hard to be a hard-ass ,it became laughable.Still i plan on rewatching this again just for laughs.Thanks for reminding me of this awful but stiil enjoyable garbage.

P.S.I remember buying another piece of garbage at the same time called Explorer Woman Ray;i can t find it anywhere now but it was truly bad.Perhaps a future prospect to look at someday

Last edited by Psycho 101 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:44 pm; edited 1 time in total

Yes, let's drop this line of OT arguments and get this back on track please.

I bought the Angel Cop DVD at an anime festival last year and have watched it a few times since. Crappy politics aside, as though xenophobia never occurs in other anime, it is not a bad show. Its animation is better than that of GITS: SAC in my opinion. Sure, it has its fair share of flaws such as amoral characters (once again, not unique to Angel Cop: NGE did not have a single sympathetic character either), and the metaphysical turn it takes is not necessarily my cup of tea (Akira, anyone?), but it does not deserve the bashing it has taken. If you go into it to for an uplifting, moral message, you should avoid it like the plague, and a good chunk of the rest of the genre as well. However, it delivers the goods as far as entertainment and action are concerned, and is better than much of the generic crap coming out today. And yes, I prefer it to Akira.

You know, Boomer, I think you nailed it.

The cool thing about this show is that it IS what it IS. Amoral, strange, exploitative, badly-done in some respects, what-have-you... it is still completely by and of its own logic and pathos.

It's not as botched as it is terribly singular and representative of C-level cyberpunk. Just look at the odd character interaction in and of itself... resolution doesn't exist, just anger and exploitation.

Fun times.

I knew this anime from the hilarious review Justin did and must say thanks! The story is obviously crap to a level beyond comprehension, but it´s nice to watch and I got amazed by the animation. Surely I´d like to see that kind of visuals on a modern show, since anime turned digital, the quality of the animation and designs is very low on average.

How I´d pay for seeing this visuals on shows like blood+ or gundam seed.

I loved it, though I´ll not recommend it easly.

Thanks again!

WOW! I've never seen Angel Cop, but after reading you review I now know it's an xenophobic, ideological piece of crap that I'll thankfully never come across!

BTW could you do some other buried garbage reviews like the mindless "Soul Taker" and hentai suckfests like "Venus 5", "Tales of Tokyo", "Magic Girl Meruru", and "Battle Team Lakers"?

i only own 1,3 6 on VHS will try to get the others, but i like it........you don't watch it for the story you watch it to see things go boom. the english version is funny cause they tried to make the cops all bad-a**. i've shown episode 1 at an anime party i had and the people that were there want to see the rest.

This happened to be in a collection of VHS tapes I bought on eBay a while back - not for this title, but for a couple of others that didn't seem to have a DVD release. Angel Cop: The Collection. So I finally sat down and watched it the other night (what the heck, it's better than anything on Cartoon Network!).

My impression is while it starts strong, it's like they threw a bunch of plots into a bowl and stirred it up and whatever came out is what you got. There's a mad scientist, Robocop, Charlie McGee from Firestarter (Freya) and her dad (Asura, with a makeover right out of an 80s hair metal band), political conspiracy, a tough elite cop unit just like we got in Ghost In The Shell, and lots more. By the end of it it was hard to believe I was watching the same show.

But for me, the single, laugh my butt off fall out of the chair moment is towards the end, when Raiden, spoiler[ after having suffered some damage fighting Lucifer, fixes the gear on his arm... by wrapping it up with what looks like duct tape !!! ]

Sorry to bring up this old thread, but no one had mentioned that... overall, I just thought this had too many elements mixed into too little space - it tries to be too much, to appeal to too many people maybe. Most of the other criticisms I agree with, too, the dialogue in places is just (bleeping) bad. But if you have 2 1/2 hours you can afford to lose, it's worth watching just for the things that are unintentionally funny. That bit where Freya turns "But I Must Punish You" ... and the way her face changes... wait, is this a horror movie too?

still need to watch ep. 4-6 on VHS......finally got all 6 about 3 months ago.

AC was great for a guilty pleasure as were Baoh and MD Geist.Yes, I own the Manga version, however disapointed that the controversial dialog was left on the cutting floor. Crying or Very sad

the uncensored version was upped a week ago for those who are a wee bit curious.

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