Cyber City - The Final Collection

Awesome anime. Its violent. Not for kids. I enjoyed this show. It has the exploding neck collar idea. Prisoners who get collars put on them so that they act like police, going after criminals and doing what they're told by the higher-up, all for the sake of having their sentences reduced. such a great price for this DVD. An absolute classic.

Awesome movie. Its violent. Not for kids.

First off, I enjoyed this show. It has the exploding neck collar idea that was later used in Battle Royale. Since this show obviously predates Battle Royale, I thought that was cool. Secondly, people complain about the swearing. Personally, that's what I think adds to the fun factor of this show. The swearing is so over-the-top and unnecessary and overdone, you just gotta laugh at it. This show has some great one liners, including, "I'm downloading you straight into hell!" and, "You wouldn't recognize a goddamn vampire if one jumped up and bit you on the end of your ****ing dick." Now how can you not want to watch this show when you know that lines like that are in it? There are three episodes, and 3 main characters. Each episode focuses on one of the three men who are prisoners who get collars put on them so that they act like police, going after criminals and doing what they're told by the higher-up, all for the sake of having their sentences reduced. Each episode has all 3 characters doing a specific assigned mission, but each episode basically has one guy doing the most work, hence the main character for the episode. I thought the first episode was the best, as each episode afterwards got more and more over-the-top unbelievable, and not in a cheesy way, mainly in ways where characters survive against too much unbelievable stuff, more and more suspension of disbelief is required, etc. For example, in the last episode, the main character goes to a structure in space through an elevator connected from earth (the ground) all the way through the atmosphere and into space and to a connected space station. Just that alone outta let you know how unbelievable it gets, but then there's the main character surviving in the elevator shaft after a conflict. But despite all that, the show is still good fun. That said, the last episode didn't feel like a final episode. All it did was get us familiar with the final character in the main trio. There should've been one more where all three character become the focus, where they are all directly put into a big conflict that shakes the foundations of the series, such as going on an assignment to protect the guy who put the collars on them, or finding a way to get the collars off, or none of the above but still giving us something else. But alas, it's not meant to be. Was tempted to give this show 3 stars, but decided it was entertaining enough for 4, especially with the price it currently has, and for the great foul-mouthed lines. Recommended.

Awesome cyberpunk journey, was waiting for the DVD and it was worth it :)

First I would like to say that this is by far some of the manliest anime ever made even though that Kawajiri had only produced 3 OVA's. So from what I could make out about these three installments, the episodes appear to have some elements from Die Hard (Data 1), Predator (Data 2), and Alien (Data 3) all supported on the platform settings of Blade Runner and The Running Man. All set in Cyber dominated in the Japanese capitol metropolis of Oedo (formerly known as Tokyo, and prior Edo). And what better to do those "high risk jobs, nobody else wants" than three mastermind criminals that are serving a sentence weighed more than their lifespan? Rather than violate the terms of your parole and your parole officer waste time with paperwork, their collars that are locked around their necks (as seen in The Running Man) can explode at the detonation of Hasegawa (The Police Lieutenant). Now that's what I call putting your neck on the line. In most anime, you have characters fighting for someone that is personal to them, something to gain. These three men are masterminded criminals born in a utopia dominated by criminals, they don't have anybody to fight for except their freedom by catching other criminals! Which because of their timed collars, they will work even harder in catching them. And like most anime stories, we always have the little guy, fighting against the big bully. Just watch Data 2 of this series and you'll find the bigger guy fighting the even bigger and tougher guy.

Cyber City Oedo 808 is a seminal cyberpunk anime. If you are a youth into the gifs or the webms on the tumbles or the imageboards and you like the cyberpunks you have probably seen some slick hand animated dark pastel computer 80s looking graphical candy. Unless you want to play a byzantine table top game or a somewhat recent AAA video game release where the main character says "You never asked for that" and his prescription glasses explode off his cyberface, you will not see cyberpunk around much for you to scratch that itch. Well here is the long form version of those tumbling pages with detail packed into every frame. If you want to be super reductive it takes elements from the conscripted slave buddy cop genre, traveled to the future and borrowed some of Cowboy Bebop's tropes, an incredibly pedantic way of saying medium brow sci fi, and I guess it throws in profanity relatively gratuitously sometimes?

I'm so glad that I had the chance to buy this amazing series, and at such a great price! Please give this anime a chance. As far as early cyberpunk anime goes, this is top tier stuff. The dub is excellent, the animation is flawless, and, of course, the story leaves you glued to the screen. Enjoy your journey with Gogl, Benten, and Sengoku as you race along with them to fight cybercrime! This is such a good deal, so don't pass it up!

I first watched this anime way back in the mid ninties when channel 4 decided to air a bunch of late night anime shows and it's as good today as it was then....just a pitty no UK anime distributer owns the rights anymore and that this is probably leftover stock from the now dead USMANGACORPS label in the US, so grab it whilst its still available coz once its gone who knows when it will be available again...if ever!

To any fan of 1980's style Anime OVA's, Cyber City is a must have! The English dub is truly outstanding as Central Park Media gives Cyber City a new rocking musical score composed by Rory McFarlane. All three mains protagonists are given unique personalities by their voice actors, turning the original Japanese cast's bland performance into proper 1980's tough guys. The big guy sounds big, the rebel sounds like a rebel, and the "flauncy" guys sounds like Boy George, you can't go wrong!

The story of three criminals who are hired by the government to do the jobs others won't do. This is in exchange for a reduction in their prison sentence. Three individual characters and great stories. I love the fact the dubbing works so well, the voices used makes the characters. Not for kids viewing due to the swearing and violence. Recommended viewing*****

This is classic cyberpunk. If your a fan of that genre, or Kawajiri, then this is a very worthwhile purchase. Make sure your doovde player can play yank dvds though.

be warned this show has a lot of bad language and violence.. the only thing i didnt enjoy was the opening i saw from tv wasnt in this version. but its a hell of a show. 3 episoides of awesomeness