Mezzo DSA

Mikura and her friends are back for more danger then ever in these 13 action packed episodes.

While this series is a lot more tame and toned down to the Forte OVA's. As there isn't a lot of gory violence or sex and nudity (although the directors cut has very explicit content), I am glad while it is telling it's own story it doesn't completely ignore the events of the OVA's and does still acknowledge them by even going as far as showing flashbacks and still keeping the same art style.

That being said though I did have a great time with this series as well and I kinda thought the animation was an improvement.

While the dub actors do change the voices here were still good.

This was based on the movie Mezzo Forte, and a couple episodes contain flashback scenes in the form of clips from that. The story centers around an "A-Team" style group of misfit mercenaries led by an ex-cop who goes by "Pops" and drives a pink VW, rounded out by the obligatory cute-girl-bad-ass and funny-haired engineer-nerd.

In the first couple episodes, the animation is great and the action is top-notch, but that goes way downhill after. The story stays good, but the action becomes nothing more than potential-- I can't help think how much cooler the show would have been with the quality of animation from the first episode.

Characters aren't bad, dialog is generally one of the better parts and is pretty well dubbed. The tone is humorous and irreverent, nothing dark about this. Pops especially gets great lines in the form of goofy metaphors ("A bodyguard should be close and intent like tighty whities... she relaxed and now there's nothing covering my ass!"). The story progresses and deepens toward the end, and while it's not incredibly deep, it's not insulting to your intelligence either.

If you like action with a heavy dose of humor, and you dig the "motley bunch of misfit outlaws" style of anime characters, this should be entertaining enough for you.

While watching Meezo DSA it seems like you are seeing the same action again but those with two or more brain cells will realize that you are seeing the same day from another characters point of view There is lots of retrospective and the story line progresses with these insights Sure the action is great but the alternating view points is what they are pushing. Meezo's back story with the recruitment of of DSA and hope they get together is in the series and so its a more satisfying series than some where peripheral characters are ignored.The threes interactions become more clear as you watch the series and work out interaction which seem to have depth from different angles.