Cyber City Vol. 2: The Decoy
Synopsis
Goggles is a convict turned cop working off several terms of lifetime imprisonment. Obedience is ensured by the time bomb collared around his neck, but no one is sure of his loyalties. When an investigation of stolen body parts leads him to his ex-partner in crime, Goggles is faced with some stark choices. Will he risk death to return to the ruthless criminal life? Or will redemption finally catch up with him in a deathmatch with the military’s ultimate killing machine?
Review
Cyber City: The Decoy is a strange anime; of course it is expected due to the fact that it was directed by one of my favorite directors, Yoshiaki Kawajiri. If you do not know who that is, he is the dude that brought you Ninja Scroll, and X: TV. Now that we got that straighten out, this is definitely not one of Kawakiri-san’s best works. The show is fast paced and continues to zip by until the credits roll.
Even though this show is running two hundred miles per hour, it still is able to leave you a good impression, now that is the crazy part. I mean, I was watching this show and did not even know what was going on for a good starting half of it. The only time I picked up Cyber City was when some guy’s fingers were sliced off by those metal strings that the woman in Audition (a Takashi Miike work) used to saw off the man’s foot (Ouch!), while he was unloading his sub machine gun.
Anyways the quick action was what really kept me in my seat. The story of the government using human body parts to construct powerful cyborgs to whack every criminal out there in the city is just wrong. In Cyber City criminals were used to hunt down criminals. That might sound weird, but if you were a criminal and you were caught, you either were in prison and who know what happens there or you join up with the Cyber Police force to stop crime. These criminal-cops were collared so they cannot run away or else they will end up with no head, which adds more to the fun right? Not. These cops were also timed by their group leader, if the elapsed time limit was over, boom, brains are splattered everywhere.
Cyber City is very interesting. Even though there seems to be no point, and no goal that the show is heading to, it still manages to pull you into continuing to watch it, which is what it all needs, because this show utilizes action more than story. This is a rare case, due to the fact that usually when a show has no attractive story, it does not grasp the fans’ minds, but because of the action that Cyber City possesses it wounds up being an impressive show.
The Breakdown
Fast paced, little story development and lots’ of body parts from dead bodies. Is not that cool?