Parasite Dolls
Synopsis
Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with?
In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die…
The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test in Parasite Dolls.
Review
Set in the Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 world comes Parasite Dolls, an OAV about boomers gone wild. This show had the potential to be good right from the start, but never really achieves it from the get go. In this ninety five minutes, three chapters, action flick, we are shown a team of cops called “Branch.” They were a team derived from the A.D. Police specializing in boomer activities. Our main character Buzz who is of course the leader of the team is put into work as cases of boomers going crazy erupts within Genom City.
Parasite Dolls did not float my boat. The pacing was good, but the interest factor was just nonexistent. I mean, as the show starts to appeal to you, they slam the door shut in your face with the end of a chapter. How can it expect viewers to follow the show if they keep on ending it where it gets interesting? One year later? Five years later? Whatever years later? What the hell? Just give me a show that is stable. I do not care whether it is this or that amount of years later, because honestly, who cares how many years later it is in an anime? I certainly do not unless it makes a tremendous difference in how the show will play out.
Maybe Parasite Dolls was a wrong name for this title. There were little surrounding these prostitute boomers. It was only a small part of the show. I will say that this has been a disappointment considering that the Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 team was behind it.
The Breakdown
Another title with robotic prostitutes in it? Wow.