Armitage III

It's a very strange and inconsistent title. An explosive mix of "Blade Runner" and "Three Hundred Year Old Man."

Unfortunately, the abundance of fan service and the beautiful views of the Martian colony cannot correct the main drawback of this picture. Everything that happens on the screen is poorly mounted, too much timing is given to unimportant scenes, and plot information is constantly being clamped down and not finished.

The narrative changes pace from episode to episode — the first 45 minutes can pass for a feature film in terms of saturation, but the second series of four is most similar to a filler.

Too much attention is paid to secondary things and too little time is spent explaining what is happening on Mars and the relationship of the main characters among themselves. As a result, important information remains behind the scenes and it becomes not very clear where, why and why they are going now. Why did someone decide to help? When did they become friends? Etc.

Unfortunately, it was not possible to assemble a complete narrative here, and as a result, such a good concept with an interesting character design turned out to be stupidly merged.

The full-length is a retelling, they say it adds new scenes, but looking at the rewind, I couldn't find many differences there, except that the scene at the end was done differently.

The anime is generally cool, but I agree with the commentator above, inconsistent.

If there had been at least 8 episodes, or preferably 12, like in Cyberpunk: Blade Runner, perhaps we would have been more imbued with the characters, empathized with them more, and the plot would have seemed more elaborate and successful.

I like drama, intrapersonal conflict.

"If people don't need me, then why did they create me?"

The confrontation between the killer and Armitage could have been longer, with more detective elements. Fights are shown coolly and there are creepy moments with violence against androids, but it's as if there was a bias with brutality somewhere, and little time is shown.

The city of the future itself is very curiously represented. An interesting futuristic world colonized by Mars – wow! It's a gorgeous universe, too bad it's not well developed. I'll bet you 6/10, it's a pity that you didn't reveal such a fascinating world and story.

But the opening is definitely 10/10

The continuation of not the most successful OVA continues to make a good face at a bad game. A few years after the unification of humanity on Mars and Earth into a single state, the rights of robots remain the main stumbling block between planetary centers.

This time, everything revolves around the Bill of Rights of robots, the adoption of which is hampered by earthly capitalists who want to exploit hardware, which is already difficult to distinguish from humans.

All this concerns Armitage and her comrade-in-arms in one way or another, leading to chases, fights and kidnappings. All this is accompanied by a strange animation of walking. You're really amazed at the tenacity of the animators - in 10 years, not learning how to properly animate walking is kind of mystical.

As a result, everything is boring and sad. The graphics are so-so, the plot is full of holes, like Swiss cheese. He wouldn't exist at all if at least someone had asked the question: "Why are we making a loader robot an anthropomorphic sentient being with artificial intelligence? Maybe it would be enough to take a regular loader with a fork and add sensors to it? Will it be cheaper, and no one's rights are violated?"

Seriously, I don't understand this attempt to play on the glory of "Blade Runner," which wins because of Hauer and the beautiful views, but certainly not because of the same leaky script. It could have worked out better if the action had been brought in, and they had done a better job on the picture, but so…

A real cyberpunk classic, it's a pleasure to watch!

With every passing minute, more and more social issues are opening up: ethics between human inventions and their rights, feminism, demography, immigration, and military conflicts. Very curious

I got to know Armitage from this movie when it was shown on Channel one at 4 a.m., I even stayed up all night on purpose, waited to watch it and didn't regret it. Everything was cool for my fragile mind, from the plot to the graphics, the dialogues and presentation left an indelible impression (then, of course, I paid with a burnt back, because the next day we went to the beach with my parents and I stupidly passed out in the sun for an hour due to lack of sleep).
A few years later, I watched both this film and the previous ones and was not disappointed. He hasn't aged for me.