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Title: Outlaw Star
Genre: Action/Bounty Hunter
Company: Sunrise
Format: 26 episodes
Year: 1998
Jim Hawking and Gene Starwind are mercenanies for hire, completing any task for cash. Their life progresses normally
until they come across a mysterious woman named Hot Ice Hilda. Gene and
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"No food for cat-woman-warrior-tiger?"
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Jim find themselves sucked into a vortex of events. Soon they are being chased by syndicates,
have a partially robotic woman named Melfina following them, and are hurtling towards the sun in an unnamed ship. Is this worth the effort to find the all powerful space
treasure known as the Galactic Leyline? Only Melfina and Gene know the answer to that question. - summary by Otaku Alex
Otaku Alex
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Plot
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C. Development
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Music
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Animation
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Premise
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Mean
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9
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6
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7
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7.4
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Well there isn't much I can say about outlaw star that hasn't already been said 1,000,000 times by other people, so I wont even try to be
original. Let's face it, this is perhaps (other than Tenchi Muyo) the most widely watched animé in America. That being said, the animé is a conbination of every popular genre into one pretty rewarding
piece of work for Sunrise. The characters are MORE than memorable and the storyline is hard to forget (especially episode 23). The ending is mesmerizing in its fluid transitions and encompassing climax
but unfortunately there is a
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"What do you mean I have to be naked?"
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bit to much filler in the animé for my taste.
As I said earlier, the plot is just captivating. Especially with an animé of this caliber, it is hard to distinguish between plot and Character Development
(they are very closely interwoven) and so the two recieved basically the same score. Story elements progress with almost every episode, somehow revealing unknown aspects about the characters. This is mainly
the case with Melfina, who, despite her incessantly quiet attitude, is the textbook example of what charcter development should be. The plot only suffers from occasional filler, but I am willing to let it pass
(you've got to love episode 23).
Animation and music provide no surprises, but at the same time they do not dissapoint, well, animation at least. Everything in the animé is crisp and clear but the
amazingly bright cartoonish style can be somewhat distracting from the animé at times. Music - let's just say it wasn't great. An animé like this is supposed to be accompanied by atmosphere setting music,
not the crappy unfitting songs that they seemed to randomly disperse among the episodes.
And we come to premise. It was hard to judge this because the story goes from start to end, eliminating the need
for premise. Yet, the background that you do get (e.g why was Melfina created) is answered very clearly by the conclusion of the animé. Overall this is a good watching experiance, but if you do not like
over commericialized cartoony-looking animés then this is not for you.
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