Dangaizer 3
Some more
Masami Obari, and this time he's credited as
Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Key Animation, Mechanical Design, Series Composition, Original Creator, Background Art, Animation Director. Well, that sure is a lot, but I really don't have a lot to say about this OVA. It's from 1999 and features everything you'd expect from Masami Obari - great animation, great mecha designs and not so great directing. I think he's hit and miss when it comes to directing, because I liked some of his stuff, but here it just didn't work. It probably has something to do with the story, which is a terrible mess that I won't even bother to summarize, because the action scenes are generally well directed, it's when it comes to the storytelling that the direction falls apart with no feeling whatsoever for scene transitions and the storyline basically jumping all over with no sense of order.
It really looks great though, good enough that it helped me not to give a fuck and just enjoy the visuals. The characters look pretty good, and there's some nice facial animation even, and the mecha battles are pretty good, not the best, but they do give a nice sense of the size and bulkiness of the robots, which is good. The mecha designs are done by Obari and they look great of course, not as good as in
Dangaioh, but still great, I really like his style.
There's some fanservice, a lot of tits, some asses, and magical girl style transformations, if you like that stuff. I think Chet Rippo would enjoy the amount of boobs here.
Oh, and it's unfinished lol, it basically ends when it starts getting really interesting, but since no one will probably care for the story that's not such a bad thing.
To conclude this short review:
Yeah, I'll probably watch some more of his stuff, I'm enjoying it in a strange way.
