Neo Tokyo (1987)
10/10
Leaves you wanting for more
7 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Just like "Robot Carnival" or "Memories", "Neo Tokyo" it's an anthology anime film, that combines some shorts, each one of them with a different animation style. This experimental quality allows the animators of each short to do many things that couldn't be done in mainstream anime, with varying results, but it's always interesting to see something different.

My favorite of the three shorts included in this anthology is the first one, "Labyrinth", directed by Rintaro( The same director of the "Metropolis" anime movie that was released in the year 2001) That short is not only beautifully animated, it also had an incredibly imaginative story filled with unpredictable events and a stylish atmosphere, being whimsical and somewhat creepy at the same time. The other two shorts ("The Order to Stop Construction" and "The Running Man") were quite good too, being very well animated, having atypical and fascinating story lines.

"Neo Tokyo" it's the kind of anime movie that leaves you wanting for more: For me, all the three shorts included in this anthology deserved an entire movie for each one of them.
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