Which brings to me the question of why the director (Osamu Dezaki) has been so much praised over the years as a genius if this and the preceeding OVAs (better than this movie but neither masterpieces) are, together with the second half of the Versailles No Bara series (a bit worse than the first IMHO), an indication of his writing abilities. He might have been a key animator of the timeless masterpiece Kanashimi No Belladonna, but a key animator is not a writer. That said, it was really nice to hear Mai Yamane singing the intro and outro and the seiyuu performances were excellent, especially the one from the woman behind the main antagonist.
Review of Black Jack: The Movie
Black Jack: The Movie
(1996)
Watchable, but very high on plot contrivances and fallacies
30 May 2022