Now for a history lesson.
Oedo is home to a plethora of crime that normal police aren't cut out for so it's left to Hasegawa to offer three highly dangerous convicts a chance to reduce their sentences by dealing with these crimes instead each under threat of execution by bomb collar. The convicts reluctantly agree and set off to fight some pretty bizarre crimes.
Our convicts are: Sengoku, a street wise smart talker who usually has a good one liner to go with each takedown.
Gogul, a hacker who has a big enough reputation that he's targeted by the military.
And Benten, an effeminate assassin who looks like David Bowie with even more 80s hair, he was supposed to be female but it was overruled which was a better call as he's a lot more memorable and not because of his hilarious British dub dialogue.
This was British dubbed and in a very 90s way, so expect plenty of swearing which actually improves the experience as it's unapologetically dumb and fun, I miss anime like this.
One of the reasons why I deviate to older anime is because I want to watch something fun and action packed; Cyber City fits the bill well as it benefits from being a Cyberpunk show that can forge any kind of plot possible. From episode 1 we get a beyond the grave revenge from a corpse wired up to a skyscraper, episode 2 has an experimental psychic cyborg powered by a human corpse and episode 3 has immortal vampire battles on a space station.
It's easy to like this show for how well it can create stories from it's setting and still work without going so insane that it pulls me out the anime. The only shows I know that can pull this off are Dirty Pair, Slayers and Black Lagoon of which all three shows are in my top 5.
Anime struggles to come up with this today as much of it relies on trying to please certain demographics and trends, even with legit decent anime around I can't go five minutes without someone writing a page on why a certain character is trash or writing bullshit on how the current trendy anime offends everyone.
I openly praise streamers like Retro Crush (where's my british version dammit) for reminding everyone that anime can be fun.
Final Verdict: Cyber City is a perfect blend of cheesy cyberpunk action that only serves to entertain the viewer. It's not complex, it's just pure unapologetic fun and that's how I like my anime.
