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Summary: A lean mean killing machine!
Comment: This is a finely tuned entertainment engine that showcases excellent vehicular, 'bot and character designs. The protagonist has a nice normal feel to her: she can't leap fifty feet into the air and she doesn't carry a twelve foot sword--she doesn't even have a sword. She's a photo journalist on the trail of a hot story that just might involve some sort of military screw up. Even the androids, terrifying as they are, are designed with an eye towards making them much more believable than they might otherwise be. They are my favourite animé robots, and I place them amongst such fine company as Gort (The day the earth stood Still), Robbie (Forbidden Planet) and Rotwang's Robot (Metropolis, 1926)
For my Yen, M-66 boasts the best fight scenes of any animé, specifically a nighttime battle between the fearsome female warbots and human military units. That said, the animation quality is on par with other shows from the early to mid 80's such as bubble Gum Crisis and another of my favourites, the Crusher Joe movie. Some may be turned off by the rougher animation quality, but be assured there is an excellent if pared down story from the mind of Masasumé Shirow, the creator Ghost in the Shell and Dominion: Tank Police.
This is the only show that for me actually generated and built honest-to-god suspense during the final, spectacular sequence. Full marks to the killy robo babes modeled after the Dirty Pair's kai and Uri!
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Summary: It's MaGiC
Comment: This is a real gem, 50 minutes of pure joy and brain-massage, ahhhh.
In a nutshell, it's Terminator gone animated, with a cutesy cast and some great fights with the killer robots - keep your overblown plots and twists which don't make sense, this is what entertainment is all about.
I don't care if this is a short film to me it's still good. A journalist gets caught up in mess and now shes the one that is protecting the girl.
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Summary: Black Magic M-66
Comment: Typical anime. Not bad, not amazing though. I still buy it again if i could go back.
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Summary: Masamune Shirow's Golden Touch
Comment: Masamune Shirow scores another home run in Black Magic: M66. This is one of his earlier and sometimes lesser known works, done in collaboration with Hiroyuki Kitakubo (Blood: The Last Vampire). Shirow is probably better known in the U.S. for Ghost in the Shell, Dominion Tank Police, and both versions of Appleseed. All of these were Manga before being brought over to the video media, and all of Shirow's titles make you think, with deep reaching social issues that transcend the animated action.
Black Magic: Mario M66 is the story of a journalist who falls into the middle of a top-secret Government experiment with robotic assassins. One robot malfunctions and goes rogue - and sets off to assassinate it's pre-programmed target. In this case, the daughter of the scientist who designed the assassins. Over the next 50 minutes, the journalist must protect the girl and uncover the secret of the assassins.
Black Magic follows Shirow's tradition of creating a strong female lead character who takes charge of the situation and does her best to save the day. Shirow's women usually breach the gender gap as Law Enforcement officers, Government agents, soldiers, and in this case a hard-nosed news woman who won't take no for an answer.
Black Magic is an excellent, if short, example of Japanese Animation. I highly recommend it's addition to your collection.
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Summary: Combat, androids and great artwork.
Comment: In Black Magic, the anime, two military android assassins are lost. This wouldn't be so bad, but for the fact they are still carrying mission information used for testing. Their target is their creator's granddaughter.
Sybel, a freelance reporter, becomes involved in the deadly cat and mouse game between the robots and the military.
Has the voices of Steven Blum and Beau Billingslea as many of the military, along with lots of violence, nudity and strong language.
Not really anything like the manga, but still fun to watch.
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