Comments on Anime Classic Reviews: Cosmo Police Justy - 1985

I remember seeing ads for this is some of my Japan...

2009-09-26T06:48:18.735-07:00

I remember seeing ads for this is some of my Japanese mags from the 80's, always looked so cool, thanks to you I finally had a chance to see it & Justy was as awesome as I had hoped!!

I loved this when it came out. It was one of the f...

2009-04-22T02:49:11.024-07:00

I loved this when it came out. It was one of the first OAVs I was able to watch. Is there anyway you can refresh the torrent? The link is not working.

Justy was actually a cinematic movie rather than a...

2007-09-08T16:30:09.253-07:00

Justy was actually a cinematic movie rather than an OAV. This is why the ending credits LOOK like a movie's credits: it was a movie.

It was double-billed with another short movie.... I forget which one.... to make a 90-minute showing.

Anyway Justy should have been a TV series but Studio Pierrot was suffering back then when shows like Bismark and Tobikage sucked up a lot of money and didn't deliver results. At the same time, Dallos was taking a lot of money for the OAV efforts. So Justy got sort of left out.

There are two soundtracks for this anime, both very highly recommended. There are several songs which are BGM in the anime but which had vocal versions that never got used. One is the song "Esper Commando" used when Justy and Astalis head out in Justy's ship. It's an awesome vocal, but it's only a BGM track in the anime.

There is a third album which is mostly drama, once again an effort to try to make more story without any budget to animate it. The anime is a tragedy and the story of the making of the anime is a tragedy too. It's just sad.

I just found out that Hideki Kakinuma did the mech...

2007-08-22T21:03:48.143-07:00

I just found out that Hideki Kakinuma did the mechanical designs for this show. He's known for the original Gall Force mecha designs and also the Invid/Inbit from Robotech/Mospeada. He's one of my favorite mecha designers.