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DIRE AND DISMAL ANIME SHOCK HORROR
(contains spoilers)

I’ve been watching anime since 1970 when “Marine Boy” first came to Western audiences, so I’d like to think I have some experience to draw upon when criticizing this effort.

THE ART: Studio 4°C, who produced this anime, have a “unique style” ), say the fans - but "Tekkon" looks, to me, like one of the ugliest animes ever.
What’s so bad about the artwork?
It resembles the closeups you would see on “Ren and Stimpy”, where the POV goes up one of the MCs nostrils, showing us snot, nasal hairs, and other unsightly things you never planned on seeing.
Studio ... 4°C may have some rep for being daring, taking chances, etc, but this was my first encounter with their output, and I’m not impressed so far. By a roundabout comparison, the composer, Stockhausen, is also said to have a “unique style”, but his work is, for the most part, unlistenable cacophony... which brings us to the soundtrack, voice actors, foleys, etc:

THE SOUND: Music was OK-ish, but be warned - have a remote control to hand if you are going to sit this one out...
The second half of this OVA will have any sane person reaching for the volume control as the mentally-ill half of the two brothers gets captured, and then starts screaming - and he just doesn’t stop screaming.
FFS, Studio 4°C, the little guy was enough of an assh*le without all the screaming. The animal-like noises coming from the TV completely alienated me from what was already a horribly unlikable character.
I started rooting for the bad guys at this point, and wished they would simply euthanize him quickly and (most important of all) quietly.

For what it's worth, I never chose this to watch, my GF recorded it from TV and I was a captive audience (and she didn't like the screaming either).

SUMMARY: Avoid it like a radioactive zombie plague rat with Super-Coronavirus.