Makeruna Makendo Review

Now for another OVA but this time not a bad one.

Dr Mud has captured monster hunter Makenka and makes him a cyborg but fails to brainwash him enough to keep him in check leaving Makenka to go off on his own trying to figure out how to return to his regular body.
Meanwhile yokai police officer Dolo is trying to persuade Mai to continue her Monster Hunter job but Mai doesn't want to but a chance encounter with her sister Hikari makes Dolo think he can recruit her instead. Later henchman of Dr Mud appear before Mai and Hikari but a misunderstanding leads to a big fight at the end which drags in Makenka.
This is really what an OVA should be doing, there's already a setting that requires very little exposition, there's enough there to want more with it's rich somewhat dated animation and it's actually funny. This anime was based off a video game localised as Kendo Rage in the west rather poorly marketed I might add so it never really grabbed anymore attention but it's OVA was a better attempt at marketing a game than Psychic Force, heck even superior games like Tekken and Street Fighter have had worst attempts at this. Makeruna Makendo is a neatly wrapped up package with it's most disappointing aspect being no more episodes. Dub is non existent but the Japanese dub has some surprisingly heavy hitters of the period.
Final Verdict: This is the first OVA since Cleopatra DC I've actually enjoyed. It's still very 90s but it works for it's time period very well.

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