Originally titled KO Century Beast Musketeers, (Just KO Beast for the Right Stuff version,)this is a remarkable anime series if only for the simple fact that it was accomplished with a mere handful of people working on it. The Right Stuff US release of this series makes some changes though so be forewarned. Mostly its minor stuff, but one of the main characters is renamed totally as are some side characters. Mekka is renamed Tuttle. (Mekka being a play on Kappa, a Japanese turtle-goblin type creature. and Mekka is a turtle...) At least the Right Stuff DVDs detail what all was changed. Though if you watch the series in Japanese with subtitles the changes can be quite glaring. Animation is good, music is good too, and again Right Stuff opts here to remove the original opening credits and switch things around. English voice dubs are good so it is watchable subbed or dubbed. This is a series divided into three parts/DVDs. 1 covers the first installment of 3 episodes, 2 covers the two episodes of the next installment, and 3 covers the final two episodes that wrap the series up.
If you like anthropomorphics, (furries,) or strange post-apocalyptic settings a-la Gamma world, then you may enjoy this.
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Series DVD one introduces us to the main characters and the setting. It is the far future with the worked mostly gone back to nature. The people are all a sort of were-beast, able to transform into their humanoid beast form under the right conditions. Into this relatively peaceful setting come Humans and an army of robots, attacking key cities and stealing ancient Totem statues for reasons unknown.
This opens with out main hero Wan/Wan (A tiger-morph) defending the Earth Totem from the Human attackers. He and the totem are captured by V-Darn and V-Sion. (And their little demon imp-girl sidekick who just wants to eat someones soul...) Wan is incarcerated with 3 other individuals. Each being royal guardians of a totem. (We never find out what Mekka's totem was if any.) First is Bud/Bado, a suave bird-morph, next is Mei-mer/Mei-ma (A mermaid,) and Tuttle/Mekka a turtle-morph. Some antics ensue soon as one would expect when you put a cat and a bird in the same cage. Elsewhere Dr. Password entrusts his hyperactive granddaughter Yuni with a special sphere which she promptly uses as a ball. Else-Elsewhere V-Darn and V-Sion are reporting in to Czar Master on progress and such. It doesn't take long for Yuni to inadvertently find the 4 captives and set them free by mysterious means. A free-for-all escape follows that culminates in the awakening of the three totems keyed to Wan, Bud, and Mei-Mer. The heroes make their escape with Yuni, though Dr Password is killed but not before setting them to look for the mysterious Gaia. Thus ends EP1,
EP2 follows with the group stopping at Buds home city, and a trip to a dog town to hunt for Gaia that ends in a confrontation with a massive totem under the control of V-Darn and V-Sion who pursue the group through the series.
EP3 finishes with the group entering into Gaia and running into various traps while Mekka and Yuni are taken elsewhere and Mekka learns more of whats transpiring. Another battle takes place with V-Darn at the helm of a huge Totem/Mecha that triggers the awakening of the heroes Totems true form.
DVD 2 Has the group in even worse trouble (though no explanation is given how they got there,) with some bemusing stakes for a game of Mah-jong. From here they head to Atlas City to restock and repair the damaged Totems. V-Darn opts to attack personally while V-Sion works on a Totem she has found and is repairing. Episode ends with Mei-Mer falling ill.
EP2 Has the group taking Mei-Mer to her underwater kingdom and her rather peculiar mother. Wan and Bub set off to find a special treat for the mermaid girl while Czar Master send in a new officer SP Icegal, to hunt the group and Gaia. Another battle ensues and SP Icegals true nature us revealed under all the armor.
DVD three wraps up the whole thing with the heroes in hot pursuit of SP Icegal which leads to Gaia and a three-way battle among other antics.
The last episode binging it all to a head in a spectacular way with many revelations and twists.
All-in-all a fun little series. Omega
If you like anthropomorphics, (furries,) or strange post-apocalyptic settings a-la Gamma world, then you may enjoy this.
************ SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!!! ************
Series DVD one introduces us to the main characters and the setting. It is the far future with the worked mostly gone back to nature. The people are all a sort of were-beast, able to transform into their humanoid beast form under the right conditions. Into this relatively peaceful setting come Humans and an army of robots, attacking key cities and stealing ancient Totem statues for reasons unknown.
This opens with out main hero Wan/Wan (A tiger-morph) defending the Earth Totem from the Human attackers. He and the totem are captured by V-Darn and V-Sion. (And their little demon imp-girl sidekick who just wants to eat someones soul...) Wan is incarcerated with 3 other individuals. Each being royal guardians of a totem. (We never find out what Mekka's totem was if any.) First is Bud/Bado, a suave bird-morph, next is Mei-mer/Mei-ma (A mermaid,) and Tuttle/Mekka a turtle-morph. Some antics ensue soon as one would expect when you put a cat and a bird in the same cage. Elsewhere Dr. Password entrusts his hyperactive granddaughter Yuni with a special sphere which she promptly uses as a ball. Else-Elsewhere V-Darn and V-Sion are reporting in to Czar Master on progress and such. It doesn't take long for Yuni to inadvertently find the 4 captives and set them free by mysterious means. A free-for-all escape follows that culminates in the awakening of the three totems keyed to Wan, Bud, and Mei-Mer. The heroes make their escape with Yuni, though Dr Password is killed but not before setting them to look for the mysterious Gaia. Thus ends EP1,
EP2 follows with the group stopping at Buds home city, and a trip to a dog town to hunt for Gaia that ends in a confrontation with a massive totem under the control of V-Darn and V-Sion who pursue the group through the series.
EP3 finishes with the group entering into Gaia and running into various traps while Mekka and Yuni are taken elsewhere and Mekka learns more of whats transpiring. Another battle takes place with V-Darn at the helm of a huge Totem/Mecha that triggers the awakening of the heroes Totems true form.
DVD 2 Has the group in even worse trouble (though no explanation is given how they got there,) with some bemusing stakes for a game of Mah-jong. From here they head to Atlas City to restock and repair the damaged Totems. V-Darn opts to attack personally while V-Sion works on a Totem she has found and is repairing. Episode ends with Mei-Mer falling ill.
EP2 Has the group taking Mei-Mer to her underwater kingdom and her rather peculiar mother. Wan and Bub set off to find a special treat for the mermaid girl while Czar Master send in a new officer SP Icegal, to hunt the group and Gaia. Another battle ensues and SP Icegals true nature us revealed under all the armor.
DVD three wraps up the whole thing with the heroes in hot pursuit of SP Icegal which leads to Gaia and a three-way battle among other antics.
The last episode binging it all to a head in a spectacular way with many revelations and twists.
All-in-all a fun little series. Omega
