Bio Hunter

The Guyver ('80s) and Wicked City are similar and do manage to hold my attention. This could've been a 20-minute episode.

The wildly creative genius behind 'Ninja Scroll' & 'Vampire Hunter D' vividly unleashes another boldly imagined,dopamine-drenched, supernaturally stimulating, vividly animated B-horror masterclass! The ferociously flesh-flaying, devilishly demented 'Bio Hunter' is a menacingly mischievous, monstrously twisted, hate-fuelled horror hybrid of sinister scientific maleficence run amok! Can the uncommonly brave demon dispatching Bio-Hunters put a stop to the 'Demon Virus'? This genome-altering, deliriously death-dealing, anthropoid annihilating plague that is fatally perverting the populace into gratuitously gore-guzzling, grimly gallivanting ghouls??? Once again, Yûzô Satô's signature hyper-kinetic style proves heroically hectic, far from antiseptic, and frequently apocalyptic, 'Bio Hunter' will nuke your nerves, liquidate your loins, vaporize your viscera, and splatter your grey matter into lifeless brain batter! Hunt down this madly mutated midnight movie masterpiece if you dare!!!!!!

'Maestro, Yûzô Satô's exhilaratingly blood-spattered anime classic 'Bio Hunter' abounds excitingly with doomy, Neo-noir shadowed terrors! Satô creates a fascinatingly lurid realm of eerie, meta-mythical madness, an apocalyptic nightmare of preternaturally psychotronic Psi-Warfare!

It's quite extreme for me how this fil is.

I really like the art and animation, it's high quality and very enjoyable.

In the other hand the story and character writing is so bad and cringe that is hard to watch.

I honestly don't know how it has so many positive reviews.

The rape aspect is very unnecessary and quite cliché for any 80s and 90s Japanese anime, and I´ve started to get really tired f it, as I've been discovering quite a few old animes lately.

This one in particular feels unnecessarily perverted.

The main characters are as bland as they can get, in their design and their dialogue.

There's nothing else at all I could redeem from this film besides the quality of the animation, to the point that it was a drag to watch even with its very short run time.

This is definitely a bit of an overlooked anime. Its not the best of its kind, but definitely worth seeing for fans of both Kawajiri and this style of animation (which basically is him when you boil it down). If you liked any other of Kawajiri's projects you should be able to get into this too. I would place it close to wicked city, Cyber city oedo 808 and goku midnight eye, both style-wise and in its general mood. But you will find some more general elements in it as well. I find it better than wicked city almost as good as goku & cyber city The story is pretty straightforward, and not incredibly complex, but still it works well with he overall dark mood and atmosphere of the film. Soundtrack is imo incredible and well-fitting with the dark animations, characters are also good considering the shortness of it all..and very importantly to me the dialogue isn't too cheesy (from subtitles at least, i don't know Japanese). It doesn't really bother me that it only runs short of an hour, cause it makes it more dynamic i think.

Overall i say 7 out of 10 for this kind of anime

I remember owning this 1995 Anime on VHS tape back in the day, and thus as I had the opportunity to sit down here in 2023 and watch it again digitally, of course I so. However, I have to admit that I had forgotten entirely about the storyline of this Anime, I only remembered it by its title.

The storyline in "Baio Hantâ" (aka "Bio Hunter") was quite good. It is a storyline for a mature audience, given the horror elements and the whole concept of the plot. So I think writers Fujihiko Hosono, Yoshiaki Kawajiri and Naoko Takahashi put together something quite good back then.

Visually then "Baio Hantâ" is adequately holding up still today, though I wasn't overly keen on the way that the faces were drawn in general. But that was a minor detail really. The art style was good and the animation was good.

I sat through an English dubbed version, both back in the late 1990s and again here in 2023. I am not overly keen on dubbing, as I prefer the original language to whatever I am watching. But the voice acting in the dubbing was adequate here, which counted for something.

"Baio Hantâ" is definitely well-worth checking out if you enjoy horror-laced entertainment.

My rating of "Baio Hantâ" lands on a six out of ten stars.