Starring: Adam Henderson, Kate Harper, Shigeru Chiba, Ichirô Nagai, Toni Barry Directed By: Noboru Furuse Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Manga Video Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 25, 2003 Running Time: 180 minutes
If you liked the manga, skip this New Dominion Tank Police
I've just watched both versions of Tank Police; Dominion and New Dominion. Despite some poor reviews I saw on the web, I personally enjoyed the first one greatly, laughing aloud frequently. The second version struck me as typical Saturday morning garbage--lacking in humor, personality and utterly boring. I'll go into the differences here:
New Dominion does not follow Shirow's art style, uses a generic rock soundtrack, forgettable voice acting, poor animation and lacks both any ties to the story in Shirow's manga, any visual similarity to the setting (polluted air, organic-looking buildings/city), and completely lacks the over the top humor of the manga, and almost completely misses the personalities created by Shirow. I guess all I can say about it is that it would fit in well with the US Saturday morning line up. But that's not a compliment. Any fan of the manga should give this a pass.
It's ok-but........ The originial Dominion Tank Police was more entertaining-this gets caught up in a bunch of metaphyiscal baloney. And the dvd selling used for 185 bucks!?!?!? You've gotta be kidding-I've got much better anime to spend my money on.
New Dominion Tank Police is slightly better I first got a taste of this series when it was on VHS. I really liked it and disagree with any of the bad reviews. This is better than the original and has a great ending. Just watching this, you seem to fall in love with it. I was hooked after the first episode. This has a climatic ending just like Your Under Arrest The Motion Picture and Angel Cop. Make sure you add this to your collection.
Dealing with the punks in the only way they can understand Not quite as manic or blackly comic as "Dominion Tank Police" and not as darkly lit either, this is still a fun and funny entry in the Anime cannon. The humor is more harmless slapstick here than it was in the first series (no tying thugs to spinning wheels while throwing knives at him stuffing a live grenade in his mouth). Some of the English voice cast were replace, some for the better, some for the worse, an other with no real noticable difference.
New Is Better! New Dominion Tank police is a six episode mini-series continuing adventures of the Tank Police. The character, Leona is fighting and arresting crooks on the streets of Newport. Newport City's mayor disapproves the use of tanks to fight crime. The police chief is angry about the destruction and lawsuits caused by the tanks. The department also goes up against high-tech hackers, a gang of bank robbers, terrorists, an evil corporation and a new deadly robotic tank which is both agile and powerful running rampant in Newport. There was a lot going on in the story but they flowed so well that it was easy to understand and follow. This series has good pacing and character development and this time the Tank Police did some actual police work and tried to solve crimes (something which was missing in the old series). In my review of the old Tank Police series I pointed out the fact that the use of tanks to fight crimes seemed silly to me, BUT this time since the New Dominion Tank Police faced greater threats, the use of tanks felt more justified. It evened the playfield when they went up against villains. The character designs look similar to the old series although some changed a bit and became less attractive and detailed; the Puma Sisters look thin and ugly. The animation quality was also a notch below fluid, but still good. I was very happy that the character named "Buaka" (from the old series) did not return in this new mini-series; because I hated that dope. There was a good balance of story and character development, everything was better fleshed out and contained good action sequences, which contributed to my overall enjoyment of this New Dominion Tank Police. I recommend it to anyone that enjoys action/comedy anime or police stories. Good for teens and adults. Ends on Episode six. I wish they would create more episodes and continue the series because it really made some big improvements over the old Tank Police. I also recommend the anime series called "Daphne in The Brilliant Blue".
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