Dog Soldier
ドッグソルジャー
“Retired agent John Kyosuke must rescue kidnapped scientist and recover AIDS cure from arms dealer.”
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Synopsis
Retired agent John Kyosuke must rescue kidnapped scientist and recover AIDS cure from arms dealer.
When an American scientist carrying a cure for the AIDS virus is kidnapped by an arms merchant, John Kyosuke is forced back from retirement. He accepts the challenge to regain possession of the anti-serum. He finds out that some of the people he is after are closely related, which gives his conquest a whole new meaning. (Source: AnimeNfo)
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Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
4.0/10
What 5
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0% recommend
Score distribution
Agreement
MixedMostly aligned
σ 1.41 · some divergence
The polarity gap
Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
2.00Verbosity
Short · 20%
Medium · 80%
Long · 0%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 5/10 “The only faint praise is that the art is passable for an obscure 90s OVA. Everything else—action, plot, characters, animation, soundtrack—ranges from lame to flat-out boring, with the lead a...”
- 4/10 “As someone who enjoys 80's/90's action anime as a guilty pleasure, I found Dog Soldier's art style appropriately nostalgic and had no issues with the soundtrack. However, the anime completely fails...”
- 3/10 “The music and voice cast are fair, though forgettable, and character designs are merely okay. However, this OVA fails to deliver on its ultra-violent premise, instead drowning in repetitive,...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Dog Soldier begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-2122
- Format
- 1 × 44′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 0h 44m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Oct 1989 – Oct 1989
- Fall 1989
- Source
- Ova
- media type
- Rated
- R
- 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref.
- BS-2122
- catalog