Dark Soldier D (1998)

Original title

D

Directed by

Jun'ya Okabe

Genre

science fiction action film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A series of three short acts that do not follow typical manga, anime, or tokusatsu conventions. The story is aimed at adults and has a deliberately harsh and unpleasant tone, while also referencing super robot genre elements.

low-budgetmean-spiritedadult-orientedfragmentedslow-pacedexperimentaldarkcerebral

What happens

Dark Soldier D is a 1998 mecha tokusatsu film created by Buildup Co. (later renamed Buildup Entertainment) and distributed by Bandai. The film is actually made up of three short acts serving as a kind of television format. The series was unique as it didn't follow any type of manga, anime, or tokusatsu archetype. Instead, it served as an antithesis for those motifs. However, the series does pay some homage to the Super Robot genre. Furthermore, the series story is targeted more towards adults rather than children; in addition, the overall story is depicted as being "mean-spirited". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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