Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303268040 Format: Animated, Color, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 6303268048 Label: Us Manga Corps Video Manufacturer: Us Manga Corps Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Us Manga Corps Video Release Date: August 06, 2002 Running Time: 109 minutes Studio: Us Manga Corps Video Sales Rank: 108566
Amazon.com: Originally released in 1991, the three-part OAV Detonator Orgun plays like a mixture of several popular sci-fi films. Tomoru, a teenage boy in the 24th century, is haunted by weird dreams partially based on the computer games he plays with his friends. He soon discovers he's telepathically linked to the mysterious mecha Orgun. Meanwhile, at the Earth Defense Force Intelligence Headquarters, Dr. Michi Kanzaki and supercomputer I-Zak decrypt a message from deep space that turns out to be the blueprint for Orgun's physical being. As they make these discoveries, an advanced race of aliens nears the Earth with plans to destroy it. Naturally only the combination of Tomoru, Kanzaki, and Orgun can defeat them. Director Masami Obari (Fatal Fury) handles the action sequences, space battles, and fist fights between giant robots with his usual skill. He's less successful at presenting Hideki Kakinuma's convoluted story, a needlessly complicated mixture of flashbacks, fantasies, quasi-religious mysticism, and warnings about the dangers of tampering with human evolution that is simultaneously too complicated and too simple for its two-and-a-half-hour length. There also seem to be problems with the translation: although Tomoru sees himself as a World War I-style pilot in his fantasies, he refers to his leather jacket as a "Luftwaffer uniform" (the Luftwaffe was the German air corps in World War II). Unrated; suitable for ages 14 and up: nudity, profanity, and violence, largely restricted to robot versus robot conflicts. --Charles Solomon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Amazing!
Detonator Orgun is a amazing 3 part OVA on a single DVD, that has a nice story line and love story. I live in Brazil and the DVD is not Region 1 as stated but Region Free. That was a great surprise since ... Read More
Rating: - A well done anime sci fi
Detonator Orgun is a 3 part OAV that delivers on action, story, and plot. For an anime that debut in 1991, the battle sequences and animation is very impressive.
Rating: - "The sun's coming out...Tomoru!"
Tomoru Shindo exists in the future, but is fascinated by the past. As you can see by his trademark 20th Century Luftwaffe jacket, this resident of City Number 5 dreams of those bygone days when the Earth moved ... Read More
Rating: - Just Short of Greatness
Detonator Orgun is a 3 part OAV series that has a bit of magic to it. An 80's style sci-fi story that shows up late to the party in 1991, it feels both nostalgic and polished. It features an evocative portrayal ... Read More
Rating: - Eat your heart out Mega Man
The only thing I understand about this movie is Tomonu is a teen boy who is haunted in his dream's that is based on a video game he plays with his friends. And that's it, I don't have a clue of what a Orgun is. ... Read More
- Amazing!
- A well done anime sci fi