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Summary: Cool Anime!
Review: I bought this DVD based on customer opinions because I love movies that you can't get enough of, that give you something different and that are fun to watch again and again... "Wicked City" is all of these things. The story centers around two Black Guards assigned to protect a sexed-up, freaky, laviscious blue midget named Mayart who is supposed to be an important go between for a 21st century peace treaty between the mutants of the Black World and the Humans. The mutants, from the wild world of shape-changing demon XXX octopus porn, want the wonder midget dead so they can enslave the Humans. The two main characters, Taki, the human Black Guard, armed with a giant revolver that puts him through walls whenever he pops a cap and a Black World femme fatal mutant with laser Lee press-on nails are assigned to protect the midget. The animation is dated but it isn't bad; it's dark, gothic and slick, part "Speed Racer" and noir "Batman." The characters are good and the bad guy mutants are full of tenticles, eyeballs, claws and snappers. When the good guys meet the mutants, it's eyeballs rolling explosions, and sliced bits and glop everywhere; lots of fun! The story is like a cyber-punk X-Files meets Men In Black in a William Gibson novel starring a midget Howard Stern, an anime Detective Phillip Marlowe and an abused super-model; so be warned... There's a lot of cool ultra-violence and real Horrorshow sex! It's all too much fun; you've got to watch again and again. I loved every second! I take one star away just because it has a bit sappy love story going on and the animation is a bit dated. I give it 4 stars for the story, characters, action and fun! If you like on the edge anime, you'll get "Wicked City" NOW!!
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Summary: Sick, Twisted World
Review: I caught this movie on late night cable about a month ago and it has disturbed me ever since. I lost count in the amount of violence especially towards women. How do you have a woman raped by two men and ten minutes later have sex with the one man she is attracted to and who saved her life. A woman is depicted as a spider who shoots webbing from her genetalia? Movies like this make me wonder more about the persons who create this madness. All I can think of is that they are future rapists and serial killers. My sons love Japanese anime. I pray they never come across this movie.
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Summary: classic!
Review: I first saw wicked city years ago when i was first getting into anime, back when.. cartoon network(?) would do those couple weeks of japanese animation in the summer at night. I remember..I was going to bed but it [...]in and I watched it through.
Wicked city is fast moving action type of anime with a sexual overtones, some demonic shape-shifting, and some people seem to think its quite gorey...though I personally didnt think the gore was overdone...just part of the plot. At it core this film is really a cop movie...a cop movie that goes alot beyond the standard cop movie fare. The anime is a bit cartoonish, but is quite well done...though, I would dare say its more animated-film than anime.
I watch anime movies, but I'm not a fan of hentai and this movie didnt bother me. I've noticed some reviewers take particular qualm with the spider-woman from the black world...but personally I dont get the qualms..I thought it was an inventive additive that worked well within the plot.
To those who have problem with the old guy...I agree he can be a little over the top in an otherwise very serious plot, but thats part of the humor to me...i thought he was hilarious! He's great comic relief and keeps the rather dark film a bit in the light.
To me the film is really a modern take on a classic detective story. I highly reccomend it. To this day its one of my favorite animated films.
I also think its rather approchable as far as anime goes.
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Summary: Great fun, Wicked City Rocks!!
Review: I loved this anime, its definitely one of the best, great story,plot,animation,acting,excitement,humor, and stylish sexuality, a great anime,and is a must have for anime lovers, but be warned, this anime has a lot of sexual content in it, so people out there who get this anime and still live with parents who are weird about what u watch, turn the volume down at times, cause thr is alot of squeeling, lol, or just watch it at someone else's place who dont care.
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Summary: Brilliant anime that pulls no punches
Review: I think many anime fans remember Yoshiaki Kawajiri for his work on the popular Ninja Scroll and his short work on Biohunter, but Wicked City stands at the appex of Yoshiaki's success. The story revolves around Taki, a software worker and Black Guard. After having an extremly close contact with a monster from the Black World, Taki is assigned to guard Josepy Mayart who will be used for signing a treaty for the Earth and the Black World. He goes to the airport to meet Mackie, his new partner, but runs into trouble with two Black World demons. Mackie comes just in time and saves Taki's life. They then meet Mayart, the comic relief of this film. Mayart prooves to be very amusing with his constant whining and complaining to be with women. Even his theme music is hilarious. Mayart is brought to special hotel, only to be attacked by a Black World demon with cool sunglasses. After making his upstairs to Mayart's room and having his way with Mackie, Taki pulls out his huge gun and makes quick work of him. Now the two have to go get Mayart who escaped through the bathroom. They find him at a bathouse being absorbed by another Black World demon. After they take her out, Mackie and Taki head over to the hospital to cure Mayart only to be stopped have way when Mayart spits out a parasite that has its way with Mackie. Taki and Mayart escape to the hospital and Taki is confronted with Black World demons having their way with Mackie. Taki head over to where she is only to be attacked by more Black World creatures. After taking out just about all of them, Taki faces great danger when the main leader's body turns into stone. However, Taki shoots right for the mouth and kills him. After the two report back, they are both fired from the case. After a little romantic drive and another appearence by Mayart, they run into a Black World spider girl that was shown early on. However, Mayart makes quick work of her. Taki and Mackie then awake in a church and get to know each other a little more. While Mayart helps destroy the leader who regenerated himself, Mayart reveals that this whole operation was to make a half-human\half-Black-World child. And Taki and Mackie are the ones to do it. After a sweat battle scene with all three of them against the leader, Taki and Mackie confess their love, head over to confrence and they both get their jobs back. Pretty sweat. Whatever category you can fit Wicked City into, its not your average film. Not your average action film, not your average sci-fi film and definetly not your average hentai film. The animation is that of Goku: Midnight Eye. The character desings are great and who doesn't love the odd design of Mayart. He's just too funny! The dubbing is very well done and is a lot better than that of Carl Macek's other dubbing works on Vampire Hunter D and Fist of the North Star. And I must compensate Carl for the brilliant way he dubbed the song playing on the radio during a slow romantic scene. With comedy, action, monster, secret service, hentai, romance and many elements from shows like the X-Files, this is a must see movie. It's exciting, fast and never gets boring. Highly recommended.
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Summary: WOW. A full-throttle, hardcore masterpiece!
Review: I was lucky enough to see this movie for the first time on the big screen in 1994, when it made its very limited US theatrical run. Part "X-Files" and part bondage film, "Wicked City" has more twists and turns than a roller-coaster and plenty of exciting and erotic thrills. It's also an excellent example of Gothic-inspired horror and dynamic tension, as the action stops and starts again, often unexpectedly and jarringly. The art is also unusually spectacular, unusual because most of the colors are very dark and muted: lots of blues, purples and blacks, which contribute in no small way to the many creepy moments in the film. Highly stylized and slickly drawn, "Wicked City" tells the story of two agents , one human and one Black World Warrior, who must protect the Earth against subversive terrorists from the same Black World. Without giving anything away, let's just say that HIGHLY unusual and violent events follow. This is DEFINITELY NOT for children, and some adults as well...if you have a weak stomach or are put off by violence or blatantly erotic imagery, this flick is probably not for you. However, if you like to be pushed to the limits in your movie-going experience, then by all means, buy this movie...NOW!
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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: In terms of overall production value, "Wicked City" is quite similar to "Demon City". The storyline, animation, and characters are quite watchable, but rather perfunctory and not very inspiring. They would not be in the same category as the great ones, e.g. Akira, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in Shell, and Wings of Honneamise.
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Summary: A successful example of a modern erotic horror/thriller
Review: It seems like the 1990's have seen a slump in creative horror movies. Chainsaw wielding psychopaths and kids running through forests screaming seemed to be the best the genre had to offer. Thankfully, our Japanese neighbors have saved us. For starters this film doesn't just have sex... it oozes it; and not in the titilating Playboy fashion but more in the terrifying, animalistic, black widow sense. Secondly, the plot is highly intelligent: two worlds (ours and the "Black World")whose peaceful co-existance is threatened by radical extremists. A human and a Black World warrior must protect an old man who has helped maintain the peace for two centuries. And still all is not as it seems (surprise, surprise). To be honest this film can be rather gross at times. The twice raping of the female protagonist didn't feel warranted to me and the morphing of a female Black Worlder into a giant female reproductive system made me neausous. Not for the young or the sensitive. But if you can look beyond these, you are in for an original film experience.
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Summary: Prettt good little flick
Review: Personally I thought this was a good movie. Although I have seen better overall I really enjoyed it. It has everything a person could want, mainly the characteristic blood and gore of most anime flicks. While this is a more hentai style movie it have a good plot and story which I enjoyed immensely.
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Summary: My "Wicked City Story"
Review: So, I'm at the movie store, and I'm looking for a new anime DVD. I find this one called "Wicked City." Now, I've seen t-shirts for it, and know that it's a cult classic, and also one of the titles that really popularized anime in America. So, I'm scanning the back of the box. "Graphic horror and pulse-pounding action." That's great, I think. Anime bloodfest like Ninja Scroll. The picture of a woman wrapped around a slimy brown tenticle with the tip poised towards her mouth should have raised a big, giant red flag for me. I guess I didn't notice it, and I payed the man 30 bucks, and went home. When I get home, I read the back of the box again. It turns out, I skipped over the phrase "stylish eroticism." Uh, oh. So, I decide to watch it anyways, with my younger brother. Man, there were times I didn't know weither to laugh or cry about what I was seeing. I guess the defining point of this entire movie, for me, was seeing the demon woman with a vagina so big, it covers her entire torso, and reaches her neck. Her special power was that she could use a siren song to lure men to it, then stuff them inside to kill them! It was then and there that I realized, I WASTED 30 BUCKS. If you take away all the "stylish eroticism", the story is rather decent, but it was impossible for me to enjoy it, since there usually was a character being violated in some way on the screen most of the time. The animation is pretty good stuff, but the three main characters, the male agent from Earth, the female agent from the Black World, and the old man, looked exactly like Jubei, the female assassin, and the old man from Ninja Scroll in different costumes. The non-sexual monsters have fairly good looking character design. The voice acting in the dub wasn't completely and utterly nerve grating, and for that, I'm thankful. I wonder what a voice actress looks like when their character is moaning non-stop because it's been penetrated by a tenacle monster. However, any good points are again ruined all because of that "stylish eroticism." It wasn't an entire waste of money, however. This DVD has become a joke amongst my friends. Different groups of anime lovers and haters alike get together just to watch it, and be horrified by it all. Most of them haven't been able to watch it without stopping it early. This DVD is one of the very few black marks on my otherwise prided DVD collection.
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