Anime Innovations Tokyo is an initiative to fund innovative and new projects. Tailenders is its second major production, after Cencoroll two years ago. Both resulted in a half-hour movie, but apart from that they’re completely different. By far the most apparent difference is that while in Cencoroll it was the animation that stood out, Tailenders has awesome artwork. Just about every shot in this show looks great and very stylish, with the only downside being some CG that doesn’t blend in well.
Furthermore, where Cencoroll really put in effort in putting forth solid and believable characters, Tailenders doesn’t care about that in the slightest. Here, the characters are simple, hot blooded and trying to look cool. They’re nice to watch, but completely one-dimensional with one-sided voice acting. Instead, the innovation here comes from all of the bizarre and original ideas that it put in its back-story. Seriously, this may be a racing show, but the how and why of just about everything is completely unconventional.
Unlike Cencoroll, which was down to earth in its action, Tailenders lacks any subtlety, and is pretty shallow in its execution and dialogue. Because of that, it just isn’t as good, but it’s still worth the watch for the effort that went into the good parts. And despite the shallow build-up, the ridiculously high-speed did manage to create quite a bit of adrenaline.
| Storytelling: | 7/10 – Dialogue and delivery need more work, but the high speed racing sequences are worth the watch. |
| Characters: | 6/10 – Cool looking, but one dimensional with one-sided acting. |
| Production-Values: | 9/10 – Gorgeous artwork with a unique style. Animation is a bit stiff at times, though. |
| Setting: | 8/10 – Many neat and original ideas. The delivery could be better, but the concept of this movie is really imaginative. |
Suggestions:
– Cencoroll
– Manie Manie: Meikyuu Monogatari
– Wonderful Days
It kinda looks like Redline, though less interesting.
Speaking of which, has Redline surfaced on the internet yet?
where can i watch this ova? i’ve been loking for it like crazy…
This is the definition of epic.
It really hard to find, it turned up on anime season randomly and I wanted to check it out. It could of been a lot better, the ending puzzled me a bit, just wondering what your thoughts where about it.
—SPOILER——
We saw him seem to make it to the end and possible to the terraformer but then we see her in real world and nothing changed. Was that because it will take 100s years before he succeeds or did he fail?
Never watched this before, but just saying you miscounted the total score. Its 75 (30/40).