The only piece of smooth animation in this whole film is an unnamed woman playing with her breasts. For it's 93 minute runtime the film throws fistfuls of anime tropes, racial stereotypes, and plot holes bigger than the main characters eyes. The random titles that pop up throughout the film are jarring and the majority of the characters go unnamed. The film makes many attempts to speak on societal issues and global politics but can't even manage character development. The author of the original comic has no experience with what he is attempting to portray and it shows.
Plot Holes Include: What ever happened to Lino's father? The man in the white suit is human apparently but has black eyes, never addressed. Why did he take off his bullet proof vest to fight a small enemy with no gun in known gang territory? The female love interest has 5 scenes and the majority of them she never speaks or is just a flashback, yet we're supposed to believe they had a connection. The world is supposed to be human, so why is there a talking cat and a skeleton? The enemy is defeated by snow but can survive in the vacuum of space. Who put braces on a cat? The Shakespearean gangster wasn't just shot in the eye, the back of his head was blown out. The whole side plot with the MIB agent Lino never confronts his nature, just gives up.
I guess I should have expected such a lack luster main character to end up back in the exact same position as when the film opened; in a tarnished apartment with only cockroaches to comfort him.
Plot Holes Include: What ever happened to Lino's father? The man in the white suit is human apparently but has black eyes, never addressed. Why did he take off his bullet proof vest to fight a small enemy with no gun in known gang territory? The female love interest has 5 scenes and the majority of them she never speaks or is just a flashback, yet we're supposed to believe they had a connection. The world is supposed to be human, so why is there a talking cat and a skeleton? The enemy is defeated by snow but can survive in the vacuum of space. Who put braces on a cat? The Shakespearean gangster wasn't just shot in the eye, the back of his head was blown out. The whole side plot with the MIB agent Lino never confronts his nature, just gives up.
I guess I should have expected such a lack luster main character to end up back in the exact same position as when the film opened; in a tarnished apartment with only cockroaches to comfort him.