This anime somewhat reminded me of the 1995 anime classic Golden Boy in that the main character, Shidou, spends about ninety percent of this film ogling women and being a complete lecherous slimeball.
The setting is also the same kind of mash-up between 1950’s pop culture aesthetics and super technology as Final Fantasy XV. It doesn’t really adhere to any of the usual tropes from this genre, almost making it’s own version of cyberpunk.
This OVA is VERY atypical for most cyberpunk properties of this era, mostly because the soundtrack, including the opening theme and all other music, is a weird mix of blues and occasional Buddhist chants, setting this apart from pretty much any other anime out there. Teen suicides are plaguing the streets and all roads seem to lead to a new piece of computer hardware called the Echigoya Cyber Helmet. Death Mail is a futuristic iteration of a chain letter of sorts, sent via E-mail into someone’s VR helmet (which are ubiquitous here), that can cause dire circumstances to those that foolishly open it. The film is about a hacker/vigilante who is surprisingly also a womanizing Buddhist monk, his hacker friend, an adult dancer, and a biker gang of teen delinquents called “The Pinkey’s” that all get embroiled in an effort to discover the true origin of so-called “Death Mail”. Song in Loving Homage of Amida Buddha)īased on the PC Engine game created by Wataru Nakajima, Download: Namu Amida Butsu wa Ai no Uta is an exciting, although nigh forgotten, cyberpunk romp directed by Rintaro ( Galaxy Express 999 films, Metropolis, and Harmageddon) and veteran animator Kanada Yoshinori ( Birth, Castle in the Sky, X). AKA Down Load: Namu Amida Butsu wa Ai no Uta (Lit.
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