8 Man After
エイトマン AFTER
“Detective Hazama uncovers cyborg theft, dies, and a darker 8 Man emerges to protect Sachiko amid cyber-junkie chaos.”
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Detective Hazama uncovers cyborg theft, dies, and a darker 8 Man emerges to protect Sachiko amid cyber-junkie chaos.
Private detective Hazama Itsuru is hired by Professor Tani to investigate a cyborg parts theft which eventually leads him to meet Sachiko Yokogawa, the original 8 Man's love interest. Living her new life working for the Biotecho Corp., Sachiko finds herself involved with a new 8 Man, who appears after Hazama is fatally wounded by an unknow cyborg. Amidst a violent urban background with cyber-junkies creating chaos around the city, this other 8 Man will fight criminals in a more agressive way.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
7.2/10
What 9
viewers
settled on.
75% recommend
Score distribution
Agreement
SplitPolarized
σ 2.04 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.5 ptsRecommenders 8.5 · others 4.0
Yes
8.5
No
4.0
Score over time
2.78Verbosity
Short · 22%
Medium · 33%
Long · 44%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10/10 “I love this anime and first watched it when I was younger, even buying it around age 12 — it's a great movie and the music is fantastic, feeling so unbelievably 80s, which I love. Both the Japanese...”
- 9/10 “I loved every aspect of this anime's narrative story on my first watch today — it did not disappoint, and I dug it very much. The soundtrack was a big part of what kept me watching, and I enjoyed...”
- 8/10 “Despite low expectations from the unusual name, 8 Man delivers an exciting, well-written story about small-time detective Hazama Itsuru, who is turned into a cyborg after nearly being killed and...”
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-1215
A Ova Production · Summer 1993
J.C.Staff.- Format
- 4 × 28′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 1h 52m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Aug 1993 – Nov 1993
- Summer 1993
- Source
- Ova
- media type
- Rated
- R
- 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref.
- BS-1215
- catalog