TooKakkoiiforYou_321

I came up to this movie because a character in the first (and only, the second one is terrible, sexy shots of Balalaika's legs permitted) Black Lagoon series mentions the series this movie spawned in the original japanese language in episode 11 as a series he enjoyed when he lived in Japan. Unfortunately, this movie turned out to be a contrived borefest of epic proportions that make the stupid complaints about the unbelievability of what is going on in the first Black Lagoon series (I have no idea what people expects from an animated series) completely disappear because nothing of this movie makes a lick of sense in any way, shape or form. Also there's an overabundance of the typical tropes that you expect from the prison genre, with the usual stuff of a prisoner pretending to be ill to get the attention of a guard, two guys using the railroad to free themselves from the chains, etc. I get it, this was probably cheap entertainment stuff not to be taken seriously, but still it's extremely outdated by today's standards and I don't recommend this movie one bit. I guess I won't look at the following 16 (!) sequels if this is the "quality" of the original.

I'm currently watching the original DBZ series and I have only 20 episodes to finish it, so far I'm enjoying it even with some chinks in it (Gotenks I'm looking at you) and I wasn't bored once through the entirety of the runtime, even during the so-called "fillers" that fill on nothing because they actually make some improvements on the characters and the lore, and yes I'm referring to stuff like the episode on Namek dedicated to Bulma searching for the Dragon Balls underwater which highlights a character otherwise left alone in the grand scheme of events as well other episodes like the one in which my beloved wife No. 18 makes the best impression of the Action Comics No. 1 cover I've seen to this day. So, if a person like me who has a tendency to become bored easily will finish the series this means there's no need to watch this ca$hgrab as well as any of the "manga-accurate" fanedits circulating online, particularly if both are supposedly focusing on making the story of an IP not based on plot and story like Dragon Ball better by unnecessarily cutting content that had no reason to be cut in the first place (no, great Saiyaman, not even you need to be cut). Watch the original DBZ series in japanese with japanese OST and with subs from start to end and it will suffice.

I seriously don't get all this Yasuzo Kobayashi fanservice thrown in the span of two episodes. I already saw the titular sentais and their enemies taking the form of some of the sentais of that person (who I don't like one bit as a stand-alone tokusatsu and anime writer, for the record) but they were sparse, whereas in these two episodes it's been a constant regurgitation of the tokus of the lady and I don't understand the reason why, being this an anniversary series for the whole IP and not just the four (almost certainly terrible) sentais Mrs. Kobayashi wrote. The thematic and the appareance of somebody throwing a kamehameha reminds me of the experience of the horrible Kamen Rider OOO (another Yasuzo Kobayashi failure), and I don't like it too. With the next episode again we're back at the Yasuzo Kobayashi fanservice, so I really don't understand what's going on. Did they hire her as a ghost writer of this show? I SERIOUSLY hope not. Please Toei and/or Akiko Inoue stop this nonsense before it's too late.