Super-sexy shape-shifters of the Dark World: My review of Wicked City

Super-sexy shape-shifters of the Dark World: My review of Wicked City

Director Yoshiaki Kawajiri's 1987 anime Wicked City is about a secret agent named Taki and his incredibly beautiful partner named Makie. They are assigned to protect a pint-sized pervert named Giuseppe Mayart who's coming to Tokyo to sign a 500 year old peace treaty between Earth and the Black World, a parallel dimension, which also happens to be where Makie is from.Throughout the film, the agents do battle with a host of weird creatures from the Black world determined to sabotage the treaty. But at the heart of the story is 2 very different beings from different worlds going through Hell together and eventually falling in love.

This animated feature contains explicit content, including a creature that resembles a giant phallus, sodomy, a very graphic rape scene, some profanity. At the same time, these elements are what sets this film and its director apart from other anime directors like Katsuhiro Otomo, Hayao Miyazaki, and others.

The artwork in this film is all hand drawn having been made in a time before CGI and has the director’s style being the long mysterious eyes, especially with Makie who, in my opinion, is the sexiest female in any anime feature.

But I can't stress this enough: this one is for adults only. If you like Japanese Director Takashi Miike's films you should have no problem with Wicked City.