Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Full Screen, Surround Sound, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Section 23
• DVD Release Date: May 25, 2004
• Run Time: 180 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001US5XI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,985 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Kintaro Oe, a 25-year-old dropout from Tokyo University Law School, bicycles around Japan "learning about life" like an Asian Along Came Bronson. He takes various part-time jobs, surprising everyone by excelling at everything he does, despite his goofy demeanor. He's lucky he's a quick study, as he spends most of his time ogling pretty women, cleaning toilets, and getting beat up. In this six-part 1995 OAV, he writes code at a software company, helps a corrupt mayor get re-elected, and learns to make noodles by hand. The animation is often sloppy--Kintaro changes appearance frequently--and the artists clearly concentrated on the bouncing breasts and jiggling derrières. Kintaro is a good-hearted and generally agreeable goof, but the slight plots and leering humor of this series will quickly bore anyone but a lecherous adolescent. As Kintaro's enthusiasm is matched only by his libido, it's all very silly and often crass, with his visceral reactions digitally disguised. Rated 17 Up: nudity, violence, profanity, sexual and toilet humor. --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Funny I say, but also perverted., November 26, 2004

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Nakomiah "Damaris" (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Golden Boy - Essential Anime Collection (Vols. 1 & 2) (DVD)

I had no idea how funny it was, I couldn't stop laughing. I like episode 2 and 3. The others are just [...]. Kintaro has the perfect english voice over. Even though he yells too much and has a nasty mind. Some of the women he runs into are just crazy. whats the deal with the chick and her beamo? ( motorcycle) or what ever she calls it. I think kintaro needed to put her in check. Other than that its good.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fan-Service Fun-Fest, February 22, 2006

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Antonio D. Paolucci "Collector of Entertainment" (Beaver Falls, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golden Boy - Essential Anime Collection (Vols. 1 & 2) (DVD)

Golden Boy is one of those shameless anime more out to titillate than anything else, but this is one of the few that does it right. While enjoyable to look at, it's also hilariously exaggerated. It's as if the fan-service in Golden Boy is making fun of fan-service in general. This is mainly because the story, though centering around the more carnal side, has some heart, and the main character, Kintaro Oe, is one of the most fleshed-out characters I've seen in anime of this type.

Kintaro Oe is a free-spirit who hops from job to job in order to gain life-experience and to meet beautiful women. More often than not he leaves without the women, he still does gain his experience and leaves behind his memory in the minds of the people with whom he had associated himself with. Though a ladies' man, Kintaro also has a lot of heart, and wants nothing more than to make the women in his life happy and to prove to them that it is possible to learn a new way of living. All he takes with him to these jobs is his trusty journal, where he shows his skill at art, his mountain bike, and the clothing on his back, and that's all he needs to make his difference in the world.

Golden Boy does suffer from the same problems a lot of earlier anime reversions had, that being washed animation, over-exaggerated voice acting, and echos (those are generally because of inferior sound equipment when recording the voice track). It doesn't take much away, but it's still noticeable. Two of these problems are easily solved by watching Golden Boy in the Japanese audio track.

I'd recommend Golden Boy to anyone who enjoys Go Nagia anime (Cutey Honey, Kekko Kamen), or for fans of fan-service anime like Divergence Eve, Tenjho Tenge, or Ghost Talker's Daydream. I'd also recommend this edition of Golden Boy Essential Anime Collection to anyone who enjoys good anime but doesn't have a lot of money. You get three hours of decent anime for less than twenty bucks. Word of warning, this is definitely a series for those 17+, as it deals with sex-related humor and imagery in every episode.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anime + Comedy = GOLDEN BOY!, October 23, 2005

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Timothy R. Goebeler (Unadilla, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golden Boy - Essential Anime Collection (Vols. 1 & 2) (DVD)

This is an all around good Anime. It has characters that you just have to like, good english dubbing, adult comedy that you understand, and an all around nice guy who just wants to learn and get some action with the ladies. The adult themes such as the bouncing breasts or the suggestive sexual dialog should not stand in the way of enjoying this show. In fact if you look beyond it all you will understand more and like it.

The things that Kintaro Oe takes us through with his many part-time jobs are what everyone who is part of the work force can relate to. When starting out at a new job you are given the peon jobs, or you have to adjust to new surroundings by training, following strict protocol, dealing with unappreciative bosses, and also living with the fear that you will fail. Kintaro also shows to us that you can put your heart into anything, and there is no such thing as an unimportant job...it's all a matter of study!

And with that, I leave you with...STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY!