MegaZone 23...
MegaZone 23 was one of the last remnants of Streamline before its anime distribution business imploded...
MegaZone 23, one of the last legacies of Streamline, is the story of a guy, his bike, and the girl he loves. I wasn't very impressed with the story or the quality of the animation. I used to have the dubbed VHS version of the first part. In the aftermath of the Ultimate Otaku Fall Cleanup, I decided not to keep MegaZone 23 in my archive. I gave MegaZone 23 a 1 out of 5. Although, I didn't really enjoy the MegaZone 23 anime, I did, and still do, enjoy the soundtrack CD. The MegaZone 23 soundtrack CD has 16 tracks and I liked 4 tracks for a total of 25% which works out to a rating of 2 out of 4.
According to the Anime Movie Guide by Helen McCarthy (page 35). ISBN# 0-87951-781-6...Part 1
Tokyo the present: Shogo Yahagi works in a burger bar and is just a normal bike-mad, girl-mad teenager until he finds an unusual motorbike called the Garland and stumbles on a massive government conspiracy. Suddenly his friends are getting killed and he and the Garland are the targets of a huge manhunt. How is the idol singer Eve Tokimatsuri involved? And what will happen to his girlfriend Yui and her two flatmates? In terrible danger, Shogo struggles to uncover the truth of the MegaZone 23, gradually realizing that nothing in his entire life has ever been exactly as it seemed.
Part 2
Charged with a murder he didn't commit, Shogo Yahagi is once again on the run from the military and the police. But this time he's not flying solo - guided by the artificial intelligence EVE and surrounded by a gang of renegade bikers - it's choppers versus mechas to the end!
Part 3
Game master Eiji Takanaka is the hottest player on the virtual circuit, but trouble finds him when he begins working for E=X Corp. Like Shogo before him, Eiji is caught in a deadly war that once again leads to the artificial intelligence known as EVE. But is this the same EVE? Discover the secrets that lie buried beneath Eden City and in the wreckage of the old Megazone.
Re-edited and partly re-written, with some extra footage specially shot in Japan, as Robotech: The Movie, festival screening and one-week US theatrical release in 1987 by Cannon. Original story by Noboru Ishiguro was inspired by the novel Universe by Robert A. Heinlein. First of three parts. The title can be rendered MegaZone 23 or Megazone 23; the preliminary logo design showed a "working title" of Omegazone 23.
MegaZone 23, one of the last legacies of Streamline, is the story of a guy, his bike, and the girl he loves. I wasn't very impressed with the story or the quality of the animation. I used to have the dubbed VHS version of the first part. In the aftermath of the Ultimate Otaku Fall Cleanup, I decided not to keep MegaZone 23 in my archive. I gave MegaZone 23 a 1 out of 5. Although, I didn't really enjoy the MegaZone 23 anime, I did, and still do, enjoy the soundtrack CD. The MegaZone 23 soundtrack CD has 16 tracks and I liked 4 tracks for a total of 25% which works out to a rating of 2 out of 4.
