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5.0 out of 5 stars
Jaw hits floor! Master Anime NEVER gets to DVD!, January 6, 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: Irresponsible Captain Tylor - Collection Boxed Set (DVD)
With the surprising lack of truely masterful anime on DVD (Giant Robo, Golden Boy, You're Under Arrest) I am surprised this is suddenly released! Tylor is perhaps one of the most engaging Japanese 26 episode series ever. Simply summed up, Tylor is 'Star Blazers' gone wrong. The epic begins with a few very disjointed episodes broad brushing the down and out life of 20 year old Justy Ueki Tylor(Just Awake Tylor) who finds happiness in the mere lazy slumming of any normal burnout kid. After some unique circumstances he finds himself in the space corps. and soon is the Captain of the most heinously unorganized mutineering ship in an otherwise perfect fleet... Tylor was one of the few anime series I tried on a whim and got leashed into so rapidly that I couldn't find the scarce VHS tapes anywhere. From a huge cast of incredible secondary characters and situations on all sides of this military conflict right down to the ridiculously lax attitude of the hedonistic Tylor it is a pure gem of anime's history. The transition of people's perceptions and understanding of warfare and command is really beautiful. Each episode shifts attention to characters and detial very nicely, there are love episodes and action episodes, horror, comedy and tragedy focusing on people of all ages and orientations, reflecting the hopes and potentials of everyone involved and how Tylor works into their lives. Tylor begins the series as the most hated man in the military and ends up being the sacred cow of the universe due to a little bit of smarts, a lot of luck and mostly because of his ability to consistantly be himself(even if that isn't the most appropriate thing to be). A little bit of uh-huh and a whole lot of OH YEAH make this a must have DVD collection.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Soooo Irresponsible, August 27, 2002
This review is from: Irresponsible Captain Tylor - Collection Boxed Set (DVD)
This review is partially a direct review of the series and partially a response to other reviews read here. If you don't like a series that goes over-the-top, you won't like ICT. If you don't like blatant denial of probability and how things actually work, you won't like ICT. If you don't like humerous character stereotypes taken to and beyond the extreme, you won't like ICT. I love this show. I first purchased it used on VHS several years ago from a comic store I had some in-store credit with. Irresponsible Captain Tylor is purposefully and blatantly overboard with its wackiness and characters. I guess it is possible to find this annoying, as at least one reviewer on here did, but this characteristic is really the entire point of the series. Tylor's mind-numbingly constant good luck is not a crappy plot gap, it's a cornerstone of the series, as are the niches filled by the characters around him. There's really nothing in this series you could change to improve it, not because it's the best anime ever (though it's one of my favorites) but because changing it would destroy everything it's trying to be. Probably none of this matters or makes sense to you and you're all going to click the little "this reveiw did not help me at all" button underneath, but as far as I'm concerned, you can't find a better comedy anime than Irresponsible Captain Tylor.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The right mix of everything, May 15, 2001
This review is from: Irresponsible Captain Tylor - Collection Boxed Set (DVD)
It's pretty hard to categorize "Irresponsible Captain Tylor," just like it is hard to pin down Justy Ueki Tylor himself. As it says on the cover, he is "either a certified genius or a complete fool, but no one can really tell." The series itself is equal parts funny, sad, thought provoking, sweet, romantic and nostalgic. There is nothing unique about these elements other than perhaps the way they all work together to make one of the best anime series I have ever seen. Each of the characters are rounded out and developed, and you just get to LIKE them all so much that it is sad when the last episode plays. Not because anything bad happens to them so much as you will miss them. I consider this series to be on par with Neon Genesis Evangelion in terms of sheer quality. That's a pretty good recommendation.
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