I really need to stop doing this to myself.
Half the reason I started digging up ovas to review in the first place is to find a diamond in the rough or a cheese fest I could watch with actual cheese and a red cabernet sauvignon blanc, but the titles I seem to come across are awful for a reason and Psychic Force is no exception.
Based on a fighting game that no one bought, Psychic Force tells the story of Keith Evans, a psychic who becomes a target for the military only to rise up against humanity and lay waste to the world as a form of revenge for the way he and others like him were treated, while his best friend Burn tries to snap him out of his new found taste for genocide.
The first episode is Burn and Keith's past among other psychics as well as setting things up while the other episode just sees crappy fight scenes.
This anime is awful; it barely passes for video game cutscenes, the editing is so dreadful that it removes any emotional weight in scenes were meant to care about, the characters barely have any personality, the dub talent was wasted and for a fighting game anime there was no bloody fighting!
As bad as some of the other fighting game anime were, there was at least fighting and as rough around the edges as they were they at least had some shred of confidence in what they were making even if it was bad but this is embarrassing.
Final Verdict: This anime is so awful it actually pisses me off.
Oh boy I can certainly pick them.
The Sacred Book of the land of Eija has been rediscovered and with it the legends of a mysterious and all powerful ship called Ellcia. The Kingdom of Megaronia has set forth on a quest to recover the ship and its ultimate weaponry. All that stands between the Kingdom and total domination of the world is a small group of pirates led by a girl unaware of her destiny as the chosen one.
I have a friend that makes fun of anime by sprouting a story similar to this all with random foreign words that sound like all the terms and places mentioned in this very title all spoken in the most terrible of dub voices. I really don't care for this anime at all, in fact this would be the worst anime to show to a newbie, it's colour palette is horrible, the characters scream all the time and the dub is easily ADVs worst.
A better story is hidden within and a couple of standout characters prevents it from being a write off but ADV wasted money on this.
Final Verdict: It's not even so bad it's good, it's just boring bad, I'll likely forget this after today.
So my look through bad anime continues with Darkstalkers.
The anime starts with a war between the families of Morrigan and Demitri but Huitzil interrupt the battle as Pyron the fiery deity of space starts destroying the Darkstalkers in order to destroy the Earth.
Meanwhile on his own mission, Donovan Bane is on a journey of trying to rid himself of the darkness with Hsien-Ko and her sister following, some of the other Darkstalkers appear and just leads up to Pyron vs Donovan.
It's been many years since I watched this and I was only reminded of it recently and I remembered why I forgot it.
It's dull, depressing and drags it's sorry ass between shoe horning characters that don't do nothing for the plot to Donovan spewing out his emo nonsense, it shouldn't be that difficult to mess up a fighting game title but my god, if not for the fight scenes being good this would be unsalvageable.
Dub is fine, nothing to comment on that.
Final Verdict: this anime made a fighting game boring, one made by Capcom that shouldn't be boring but it did and that's probably why it hasn't come back as a franchise.
Continuing where I left off yesterday we come to Battle Skipper.
At St Ignacio school for girls there are only two clubs worth joining and they are the Debutante Club and the Etiquette Club.
The Debutante Club president Sayaka has grand ambitions of seeing women takeover the world and needs the mecha AI the Battle Skipper robots use, while the Etiquette club have possession of the Battle Skippers and use them to stop crime as the Exstars, so basically a personal fight between clubs run by two heirs to the same family, well one sided as Reika is way more disciplined.
Well this isn't actually that bad, the setup surprisingly works and they avoid cheap fanservice, sadly I can't say the same about the motivations of the villain.
Her motives are admirable but make her out as a hypocrite, her financial and political weight is backed by her father, she makes her man servant do all her dirty work while not lifting a finger and she calls herself and her club Debutantes yet in it's default definition, it is a rich girl's coming of age ceremony by being presented to high society as an eligible maiden for marriage, emphasized by a white ball gown resembling a wedding dress.
So her entire ambition is left in shattered pieces and getting such an AI along with mechs just makes her out as a dictator ready to awaken.
This ultimately makes the Etiquette Club look so much better morally if not by it's members openly preferring the Etiquette Club but by it's effort to make women strong in all aspects, rather than "I have money and contacts"
The dub is poor, which makes the already 2D characters look even flatter which doesn't help.
Final Verdict: It's cheesy enough to work but a poor villain really brings this series down, the man servant proved more confident and would've made a better main villain. I also didn't really find the other characters that memorable bar the man servant and the Kansai speaking AI.
I seem to find a lot of dollar store anime around, so let's do another one.
Fubuki is a gamer and with the mighty power of her panties, she has the power to beat any game. But the evils of the Gulasic Group want to eradicate all technology, can Fubuki with support from her friends, the mysterious Mr Mystery and her power panties save the day?
You know if I had any kind of approval rating it would be dead right now.
Saying that, this anime has some noticeable credits, the character designer of Sgt Frog, sponsorship from Sega and is a spiritual sequel to famous 80s manga Game Center Arashi, yet I cannot really watch this with a shred of dignity, a teenage girl has ultimate game powers from her panties, Japan, why?
Dub is fine, the premise while ridiculous does have a heartfelt message and didn't end up being as predictable as I first thought but still, you cannot unsee this.
You know if Segata Sanshiro was the final boss I'd be speaking a different review right now. Shame on you Sega for missing an open goal.
Final Verdict: It at least passes the test for a crappy anime night but you'll lose alot of dignity watching this.
