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Title (English) Megazone 23

Title (Japanese) Megazone 23

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Fantasy Novel

Notes Length = 91 mins. There are also two sequels.
MEGAZONE 23 (Manga Video, 100 mins, cert.12, £13.99)

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Synopsis

Review I can't find what I originally wrote about this one at all...so here goes. The first MEGAZONE 23 was a Japanese TV series, if I remember rightly. This OVA sequel is set long after the first series, after the sealed spacegoing and computer simulated environment Eden has returned to an Earth scarred by environmental damage. In the first part computer hacker Eiji Takanaka is recruited from the video arcades to work on a confidential project. This part, though nominally set in the far future, vividly evokes the affluent lifestyle of game-crazed kids in today's Tokyo, with hacking, and battles between rival computer networks. There's a clever bit where the hero rides his motorcycle out of his pad and along the corridor and in a seamless sequence is tooling down a motorway minutes later. Reality-or what? As science fiction it's really very interesting- full of ideas about virtual reality and networks and hacking.
Alas, it all falls to bits in the second half with boring battles which are part virtual reality and part not. Very much a curates' egg-borrow it to watch the first half (a separate OVA in Japan) and skip the rest.

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Episodes 3

Release UK:VHS, US:DVD

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 1985-03-09

Production

Broadcaster

Animation

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Megazone 23
Title (Japanese)	Megazone 23
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	Length = 91 mins. There are also two sequels. MEGAZONE 23 (Manga Video, 100 mins, cert.12, £13.99)
Classification	-
Synopsis
Review	I can't find what I originally wrote about this one at all...so here goes. The first MEGAZONE 23 was a Japanese TV series, if I remember rightly. This OVA sequel is set long after the first series, after the sealed spacegoing and computer simulated environment Eden has returned to an Earth scarred by environmental damage. In the first part computer hacker Eiji Takanaka is recruited from the video arcades to work on a confidential project. This part, though nominally set in the far future, vividly evokes the affluent lifestyle of game-crazed kids in today's Tokyo, with hacking, and battles between rival computer networks. There's a clever bit where the hero rides his motorcycle out of his pad and along the corridor and in a seamless sequence is tooling down a motorway minutes later. Reality-or what? As science fiction it's really very interesting- full of ideas about virtual reality and networks and hacking. Alas, it all falls to bits in the second half with boring battles which are part virtual reality and part not. Very much a curates' egg-borrow it to watch the first half (a separate OVA in Japan) and skip the rest.
Credits
Episodes	3
Release	UK:VHS, US:DVD
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	1985-03-09
Production
Broadcaster
Animation
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.