Redline is more concerned with the variety of the world and the animation, and treats its story as if it were a car: plowing forward at breakneck speed without any concern for the madness happening around it. There’s a guy who gets physically stronger every time he cries, because why the fuck not. There’s a scene which involves a cyborg fusing with some Roboworld monstrosity that’s never explained. There’s a subplot about Sonoshee and JP having met before, that’s mentioned once.
Redline has a story, for sure, but everything is so jumbled and confused it’s damn near impossible to figure out why anyone is doing anything.
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Stuff gets weird.Ĭhrist, what a difficult movie to sum up. Also, there’s some ancient monstrosity they’ve dug up called Funky Boy, which kind of plays into the plot. Meanwhile, on Roboworld, the Secretary of Defense and Colonel Voltron prepare an Orbital Disintegration Cannon, to destroy the Redline racers when they arrive, once again raising the question of why any of this is taking place there. JP starts to get to know the winner of the Yellowline, Sonoshee McLaren, better as well as a number of other crazy competitors.
This due to the interplanetary war between the one they’re on, and Roboworld – a fascist robot planet – which the Redline authority has inexplicably decided the race will be held on.Īs … things are happening on Roboworld, the racers are all preparing for the Redline on the demilitarized zone: a moon in between both planets. After barely surviving the qualifying Yellowline competition – thanks to some tampering to his car from his mobster mechanic friend Frisbee – JP is nevertheless allowed to race in Redline when several qualifiers drop out. Contestants compete in extreme competitions with that test the very limits of sanity and physics, and human “Sweet” JP is one of these racers, who has agreed to run a fixed race but ultimately decides to go for victory which would qualify him in the prestigious Redline race. In the … future (?), or maybe just another galaxy, racing is all the rage. Redline is Takeshi Koike’s directorial debut – he would later go on to make a few Lupin III titles – and it plays out like a movie made by a man who’s finally been given creative freedom to do whatever he wants. The only thing this is missing is an extended transformation sequence, but I suppose they must have cut it for time. Now this is what anime is all about: Fast cars, explosions, fan service, pompadour haircuts, robots and cars that turn into giant mechas. Anything goes in Takeshi Koike’s wackiest of races.
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