Saturday 6 April 2019

#94: Ai City (1986)

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Director: Kōichi Mashimo
Screenplay: Hideki Sonoda
Based on the manga by SYUFO (Shuuhou Itahashi)
Voice Cast: Hirotaka Suzuoki as Kei; Yuki Ueda as Ai; Mami Koyama as K2; Banjou Ginga as Ii; Ichirō Nagai as Rai Ro Chin; Issei Futamata as Ryan; Jouji Yanami as Ti; Kenyuu Horiuchi as Mister J; Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Kuu Ragua Lee; Nachi Nozawa as Raiden; Seiko Nakano as S; Takeshi Watabe as Aroi
A Cinema of the Abstract Crossover

Fancy something strange and (frankly) batshit from the eighties? Covered HERE on my other blog, full spoilers but not in the slightest capturing the experience of viewing the directorial work of studio Bee Train's founder Kōichi Mashimo, Ai City is what happens when in the midst of a craze for psychic and ESP stories someone decided to make the eventual anime which is as mad as a box of frogs. No way near as difficult as I have heard it be, gorgeous to look at certainly, but I'm not going to suggest it's anything but incomprehensible at times.


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