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1989
MIDNIGHT EYE ゴクウ
Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Synopsis
Goku is a detective who has an "eye of god", a mysterious group gave him this artificial eye that enables him to control any computer.
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Cast
Shigeharu Matsuda Kyôko Terase Ichiro Nagai Mami Koyama Daisuke Gori Norio Wakamoto
DirectorDirector
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
WriterWriter
Buichi Terasawa
Original WriterOriginal Writer
Buichi Terasawa
EditorEditor
Harutoshi Ogata
Studio
Madhouse
Country
Japan
Primary Language
Japanese
Spoken Languages
French Japanese Spanish Italian
Alternative Titles
Midnight Eye: Gokuu, 미드나잇 아이 고쿠, Goku: Midnight Eye
Genre
Animation
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Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★ 8
JUNIMATION II: F*** YEAH!
Yeah, I mean, the animation is incredible….
…loved the world building that seems to take a lot from other good sci-fi, mainly Blade Runner…
…I bet a lot of kids enter puberty with all the nudity here…
…speaking of which, that medusa girl with the peacock feathers and eyes coming off her back was cool both in her look and also in her powers or the titane laser chick…
…Goku is an interesting character and one of the few times I love me some voiceover narration...
…once again, there’s something about the animation back then that’s so special…
…all of it is great and all…
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Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★
JUNIMATION II: F*** YEAH!
Nice follow up that may not be as creative and a lot of its novelty has worn off, but not because it's less entertaining. The new villain may be a little too derivative, but he is still pretty cool-looking. Goku is still a pretty cool character. I really love the fact that this is like a cross between Deckard and Terminator and this film utilizes this “power” really well. In the first film, as it happened midway through the movie, it didn’t do that much with it, but if you were sad that was the case, you’d be pleased. Again, the animation is equally great as last time, and a lot of the stuff I loved…
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Review by street ★★★½
Hell yes bare chest, blazer and tie.
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Review by Gregor Kreyca ★★★★ 4
The hero is cool and shirtless, the babes are hot and shirtless and the villains are mean and sleazy... and also mostly shirtless. Just the way I like it. Leave it to Yoshiaki Kawajiri to press as much style, sex, nudity, action and violence into his Science Fiction Neo Noir short OVA as possible. The plot is nothing special and feels a bit like a pilot/origin story to a longer series. But it's really is the animation and the wild unhinged ideas like a motorcycle stripper who shoots lasers out of her mouth, that make this essential viewing for adult Anime fans.
If you are a fans of this kind of 80/90's Anime, Goku: Midnight Eye and it's follow up…
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Review by Gregor Kreyca ★★★★ 1
Goku II: Midnight Eye is the second part of the sadly very short lived OVA series from director Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Once again the plot is rather simple and secondary to the style, the action, the sex and the violence. I really love the (Tech) Noir atmosphere and the world Kawajiri and his animators have created here. One can see, that no crazy idea was off the table, as long as it fit this wacky concept about a private eye with a stick and a super computer in his left eye who hates wearing shirts and goes around solving cases and helping beautifully damsels in need.
I love the concept and the execution and I wish this series would have lasted…
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Review by threepenny ★★★★ 4
True, the plot synopsis is about a PI who gets a computerized eye and solves crimes in high-tech Neo Tokyo but what its really about is a guy dressed like a Chippendale's dancer who fights a dwarf riding a nude female cyborg motorcycle, decapitates her, and uses her decapitated head to shoot lasers. It's about an elderly wheelchair bound man running a sex ring who leaps out of his chair, sprouts roller-skates, and skates vertically down the side of a high-rise. It's about being hypnotized into suicide by another nude woman who sprouts peacock feathers filled with eyes. In short, it's about all kinds of awesome and cool shit. His super-tech eye is like 10th or so down the list.…
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Review by Sam 🎞🏴☠️ ★★★½
„Attach the lubrication gun.“
Absolutely bonkers cyber punk anime beyond good taste, fucking fantastic 😝
A shirtless p.i. with an eye able to hack every computer, a hypnotizing peacock lady, a motorcycle girl with handlebars, a deadly virus transmitted by fucking swans (literally!), hilarious nonsense 🤪
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Review by Dave Jackson ★★★★
Yum yum yum yum! OVA slippy slop to chow down on! Goku: Midnight Eye is a fucking treasure trove of nonsense. Cybernetic eyeballs, detached heads that blast lasers, lots of violence, lots of nude ladies hypnotising cops into jumping off buildings, and the lead has both a GREAT CHEST-EXPOSING outfit and a GREAT FROZEN facial expression. I love the dark grimy backdrops. I love future Tokyo (2014). I love the cyberpunk-noir mash-up. I love its no nonsense approach. Violence and grime first, questions later.
Side note: My partner pointed out in the end credits song, it kind of sounds like the vocalist is singing, "Farting in the dungeon!" Now that false line is stuck in my head on loop.
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Review by Mike ★★★★½
It's a real shame there aren't a ton of these late 80s cyberpunk seinen anime. these OVAs all have an incredibly specific type of techno-dytopia that borders on the occult and the profane. gratuitous sex scenes and lovingly crafted still life artwork make the animation and art design a joy, not to mention my favorite 80s anime technique of multiple planes of city background art moving in contrapuntal fashion (à la Akira). pairs perfectly with demonic cyberpunk pieces like Demon City Shinjuku
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Review by mosquitodragon ★★★½
Perfectly inhabits that shaded area of the anime Venn diagram where transmuted homage to American pulp tropes overlap with that 1980's anime aesthetic - before the sumptuousness of the Miyazaki / Ghibli golden era kicked in and there was still a slight note of Saturday-morning-cartoon in the look and sound (although obviously elevated well above that).
A tale as old as time, really. Hardened ex-cop turned private investigator becomes caught up in a rash of police suicides. When the conspiratorial force comes at him, he is rescued and given an eye implant allowing him to control any computer in the world with nothing but the power of thought. Shenanigans ensue.
As fashion statements go, wearing a black blazer and skinny…
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Review by Angelica Jade Bastién🪼🩵 ★★★½
Why does a lot of old school anime not let bad bitches be bad bitches that survive and have interiority? Definitely a mark against this but I still had a lot of fun.
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Review by More_Badass ★★½ 2
Oh my god, this literally has a robot stripper modified with handlebars being ridden like a motorcycle mount. If that’s not the most Yoshiaki Kawajiri thing ever, I don’t know what is.
The rest is extra bizarre (ie hypno-peacock-induced suicides) cyberpunk action, with all the uncomfortable Kawajiri misogyny and slick Kawajiri style you’d expected.
