Cyber City Oedo 808 has a great title, a cool premise, and plenty of style. It's set 800 years in the future and follows three criminals who get sent on dangerous missions with the dubious promise that successfully pulling off such tasks will lead to reduced sentences. You could almost say it's anime Dirty Dozen, or Suicide Squad (beyond the basic premises being similar, it does admittedly get wildly different afterwards).
There are three main characters, and each gets their own section dedicated to them. It does make Cyber City Oedo 808 feel frustratingly between film and TV series, because you can watch all three parts in just over two hours, but you also don't get much by way of a conclusion; it's sort of episodic and sort of one whole thing, but at the very least, they do probably save the most emotional/dramatic story for last.
It's not outstanding when it comes to narrative/characters, but those aspects get the job done. Thankfully, the world and the visuals/music are aspects that do much of the heavy lifting. It's stylish and entertaining, if a little empty and somewhat shy of greatness.
There are three main characters, and each gets their own section dedicated to them. It does make Cyber City Oedo 808 feel frustratingly between film and TV series, because you can watch all three parts in just over two hours, but you also don't get much by way of a conclusion; it's sort of episodic and sort of one whole thing, but at the very least, they do probably save the most emotional/dramatic story for last.
It's not outstanding when it comes to narrative/characters, but those aspects get the job done. Thankfully, the world and the visuals/music are aspects that do much of the heavy lifting. It's stylish and entertaining, if a little empty and somewhat shy of greatness.