Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01

In the first test of a revolutionary personal battle-suit, the MADOX-01, Ace female test-pilot Elle Kusomoto smashes an attacking tank force and humiliates Lt. Kilgore, Japan's most-macho tank-jockey, in the process.

Kilgore swears he'll get even, and he gets his chance when the prototype MADOX literally falls off the back of a truck in the middle of Tokyo.

Meanwhile, the MADOX, which fell off the back of one truck, off a bridge, and into the back of another truck, has found its way into the hands of college student Koji Sujimoto. Intruiged by the MADOX, Koji makes the big mistake of fooling with it without reading the manual first, and soon finds himself locked in the suit and zooming around downtown Tokyo.

Kusumoto, Ellie Main

Ichiryuusai, Harumi Japanese

1st Lt. Kilgore Main

Sogabe, Kazuyuki Japanese

Sugimoto, Kouji Main

Matsumoto, Yasunori Japanese

Nagura, Shiori Supporting

Ishida, Yukiko Japanese

Onose, Haruo Supporting

Hase, Arihiro Japanese

Uchiyama, Shuuji Producer

Aramaki, Shinji Director, Mechanical Design

Anno, Hideaki Key Animation

Oomori, Takahiro Key Animation

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Jun 13, 2009

Scallion

Recommended

If you find a mysterious box on a truck in your technical college, the best and most obvious course of action to take is to open it. If it happens to contain a suit of powered armor and a manual,only read the passage that tells you how to turn it on and get inside. After that happens, there's no better way to celebrate the activation of your newly-found robot suit by visiting your ex-girlfriend in a crowded tower.

Uh-huh.

Metal Skin Panic Madox-01 (don't you love those old-school robot titles? 'Armored Trooper Votoms', 'Blue Comet Super Powered-Tracer Layzner'...) is another one of those old 80s ... shows with a plot seems more like an excuse for the directors and animators to cram as many cool fight scenes as they can into an hour of programming. It's a tried-and-true formula that produces morsels of crunchy animated entertainment and doesn't attempt to reinvent or blend any genres or push the envelope, and that's just fine. It's not intellectually stimulating or engaging, but it won't bore you to tears with hours of pointless filler or aimless dialog between sparkly-eyed effeminate men wearing goofy outfits in the pouring rain staring at opposite sides of the screen. Who also happen to be ninjas.

Everything is resolved at the end, nothing sticks out and needs to be hammered down. The fight scenes are fun, the animation's good, the English dub is awkward, and the artists seem to take too much pleasure in drawing little X-wing style flip-up targeting computers...

Seriously. There are like, several of them (I counted 5) and they all work with the same weapon. You'd think the company would have added a digital copy of the manual onboard, but... Whatever.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 6, 2020

Thedude3445

Mixed Feelings

I was extremely surprised how little I cared about this. The core premise is great--dude accidentally gets stuck in a mecha suit while he's trying not to get dumped by his girlfriend--but it turns into bunches of chase scenes and not much character development on any end. Still, with animation this nice... it's a real shame that not that much was done with the whole thing. I do NOT think the short length is at fault here because you can do great things in only a half-hour. I think the production went into the mecha designs and fight scenes and they just decided not to ... give much care to characters or story. Which is OK in the short term but certainly doesn't help us remember the movie today.

Half of my runtime was spent remembering that the girlfriend Shiori's name is most likely written as 栞, which means her name means "bookmark." Why did people name their kids after a bookmark...

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Oct 9, 2016

DrPantsu

Not Recommended

Okay lets start this review of right from the start of this OVA.
We're presented with a beautiful scene of the development/testing of an exoskeleton (the Madox). This mecha/scifi goodness got me hyped up for all that is to come. Only to be disappointed by a very mediocre story about a guy, his girlfriend who's about to go study abroad and the Madox. How does this all add up? I don't have a clue! It's like a math assignment Einstein wouldn't be able to solve. I know alot of OVA are pretty horrible due to the fact that it's hard to setup a plot, develop ... the characters and have a likeable story just in about 40 to 55 minutes. But Madox doesn't even try to do any of this! There's OVA that are horribly mediocre and have the most cringy dialogue which still makes it worth the watch but this was just a pain. Like sitting on a medieval torture device praying to God to make it stop.

To be honest there's not even anything to review other than me saying; It's a golden turd. Once the opening scene is over the cast comes off and you're left with a smelly brown mushy turd. Beyond that the 2nd best part was the ending, because 1 I was glad it was over and 2 the ending song was okay. But still that doesn't say much.

Overal I'd give this a 3 out of 10. One for existing, which in itself is actually a sin worthy of being called the 8th sin. Another one for the likeable (but misleading) opening and finally; one more for the ending theme.

Nothing of value was lost, but only my time watching this. DO NOT watch this. And if you still want to; Watch the opening and be done with it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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