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A more serious sequel - and not for the best. Unlike the original Dominion Tank Police which was an enjoyable farce, this one plays it more serious and comes out swinging ... like a typical nonsensical 90s action anime OVA.

Once again set in Newport City which, we are informed, has a murder every 30 seconds (which comes to about one million murders per year, I guess they have carpet bombings on Sundays or something) this installment of Tank Police has an ongoing plot involving generic nefarious dealings by a generic evil corporation, which was already cookie cutter at the time this was released. The ... action is passable and makes the whole video entertaining, although the wacky antics of the characters are copypasted from the farcial original and sometimes feel out of place in the supposedly more serious setting.
Being on a retro kick I did enjoy the action and I would have rated this higher if not for the last episode which is probably one of the worst cases of "wrap it up syndrome".

I have a feeling that this OAV wasn't a success and more or less doomed the franchise, given that other Shirow's properties from that time had much longer staying power.