Review of Memories

It's been many years. This always seemed to me to be the anime industry's love letter to "Heavy Metal" of the 1970's. The same kind of format, with a number or non-related vignettes strung together. Let's look at the pieces and try to determine the whole. Magnetic Rose was technically the finest of the bunch. Best art, animation, acting and direction. I'd definitely recommend this to a modern audience, as I suspect it is the one most likely to have withstood the rigors of time. I found Stink Bomb, well, kind of stinky. OK it was funny in a toilet humor kind of way, for about5 minutes, then it just got draggy. It was a chore to make it through to the end. And I like sophomoric humor. The art and animation are nothing to write home about, and the overacting by the main VA was enough to make one's eyes roll. Yes, it was a bomb alright.

Somewhere in the middle lays Cannon Fodder. The art and animation are a bit above average but not inspired. I liked the character design. The story seemed a little shallow at first, but as it went on, I found a lot of food for thought. The VAs were good, and well directed. In the long run I found that this was the story I liked the most. Even if it wasn't the best produced.

So if you roll it all up into a ball, what have you got? Well, it's much better than your average series of the day, but it wasn't one of the best movies to have come out of the period. If I was grading, this would have been a B back in the day, but 2/3 of this probably has not aged well at all. Still enough good here for 72/100 and a C-. Sadly though, this movie has slid to be little more than a memory for those of us who were around when it premiered.