If you crave hard-core superhuman cyborg action, "Angel Cop" will fix your jones in a big way. Otherwise...

Serviceable until Sakano apparently decides that it distracts from the gore.

Angel and Raiden have the only even moderately interesting relationship. Character Development clearly isn't the focus of Angel Cop.

To get a less cartoonish look, the characters' faces are drawn with more lines than is typical in anime. It takes some getting used to. The action sequences, especially with Raiden on his motorcycle are dynamic and smoothly animated. On the other hand, Lucifer is a bombshell when she first appears, but in the later episodes she looks like an angular, hairless, she-gorilla.

Raiden and Lucifer exchange some wretchedly trite speeches about whether history indicates that good will triumph over evil, or power will triumph over weakness. On the other hand, exchanges such as:

"Stop it, you're killing him!"

"Isn't that what you do?"

"Yeah but it's our job."

are worth at least a groan.

The actors are saddled with some truly hackneyed dialogue. For the most part they passed muster, although Lucifer's irate tirades became irksome. The cast otherwise was solid, but no one distinguishes themselves.

Copious profanity, extreme and graphic violence, minor nudity- a very definite R.

Taki calls Tachihara a terrorist while torturing him.

Lines like, "We have ways of making you talk," and, "I'm not here to take you in, I'm here to take you out," could be inserted at random into a hundred other titles. (However, I'll admit that, "If this is justice then I'm a banana," must be original)

After a particularly bloody onslaught, where skulls are shot off and brains left intact, the subtitle refers to it as, "'Colorado-style' shooting." Whoo-boy, those Columbine jokes just keep on comin...

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