Cyber City Oedo 808 1
Honestly none of these cop shows belong on the List. They belong in a separate "Shitty police anime OVA from the 80s to early 90s" box. They don't really share the features of other List shows, but seem to be on there because they're super awful, except that the beauty of other things on the List has been insanity, where these cop shows are just really, really bad.
This show is no exception. There's been less blood, but to make up for it, we instead have more swearing than I manage to put into a single angry post spewed in ten minutes. Like I feel like someone pulled up a dictionary of obscenities and just put that down for dialogue. It's boring, repetitive, and it'd be offensive if I hadn't ridden on a public school bus in the seventh grade.
Which is a very important experience to mention in conjunction with this anime, by the way. The whole thing is every much so the kind of thing a seventh grader might dream up and write about, except for the fact that for once in these awful police shows, sex seems to not be a present element at all. Indeed, the only female cast member turned out to be male! Of course the pretty boy was nowhere near as useful as our hardened, pompadour sporting, massive shoulderpadded, bitter, curse-slinging hero.
And for the first time in an anime, I heard someone use the term
, which drew my attention the first time, but the next forty times it was repeated in that minute I no longer responded the same way at all.
But basically crummy 80s-90s future police OVAs are a category entirely separate from the sublime insanity that is The List.