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Power Dolls · review

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Top reader Aug 27, 2019 · 2 min read
↑ Recommended
7 /10

Cool little MSF mecha based on a PC98 series of tactical turn based strategy games. The story is about as generic as you'd expect from a MSF but it does all it needs to: set the stage for some mecha battles. The gamut of the usual war related themes is only hinted at but this is for the best given the limited 2 OVA run of the anime. Art is very standard fare for the 90s but a lot of detail has been put into the mechanical designs and they have been futurized to immerse into the interplanetary setting; unlike the games which depict very contemporarymilitary units alongside the titular Power DOlls. The DOlls themselves are rendered very faithfully, down to the extreme level of loadout options available in the game. It is also fun to see the character portraits in the game fleshed out with surprisingly good facial animations and movement.

There wasn't as much mechanized firefights as I'd have liked given the screentime. The Enemy mechs turned out to be very mook-like but seeing the flakpanzer gepards (but in space) and the spider mechs in the second ova being taken down by the Power DOlls was quite satisfying. One thing to mention though; the second OVA has a striking artstyle change that makes it more reminiscent of how Silent Mobius/Gall Force Revolution looks.

I can confirm that at least some of the soundtrack are tracks from the games (not even rearranged I think, a testament to how good chiptunes were), its pretty glorious cyberpunky synth fusion jazz. Alas the sort of music the average person would dismiss as 80s cheese.

Overall, only people who like the game or love their fix of MSF anime would enjoy this short ova; appreciating how even a tiny bit of the extreme detail in the games was carried over to an anime adaptation helps too.

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