Anime Abandon: Mad Bull 34

Spoony | Aug 28 2011 | more | 
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It’s one of the most jaw-droppingly outrageous anime to ever see the American shores. Prepare for sheer lunacy, people. (Spoony makes a cameo in Part 2)

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  • Anonymous

    So before he was Mayor of Metro City….before he was a Pro Wrestler…Mike Haggar went under an alias and was a New York cop?

    You know I wouldn’t be surprised if that really is the case.

  • Anonymous

    Wow… This MUST be awesome – how you can go wrong with dude like Mike Haggar? And why are you surprised by the fact he survived the explosion? He is the bad dude enough to save the president… and more. He have granades for pubes, how awesome is that?

    Yeah, that little shithead sidekick was really, really badly drawn, but shots in the ass were hilarious.
    From what I see, it isn’t the worst ever (the list is endless) and I will give it a watch. I’m actually curious.

  • Anonymous

    Wot no Film Brain?

  • Anonymous

    I have to see this anime. It’s like testosterone itself made an anime. Wonderful.

    • Anonymous

      good luc I looked it up on ebay and all I found was one VHS tape for $30!!

  • Anonymous

    Wow this was insane and I still would like to see it in it’s whole! 

    On the subject of that Chief guy/thing he sounded like he was mentally retarted!  And that was just depressing! 

    This is how they saw us over seas back then?  Damn!

    Dude, Sage, I don’t know what you’re talking about this looks like the most awesomest anime ever! :DI do recall this anime the most from those old 90s Manga Intertanment ads besides Devilman and Ghost in the Shell. The whole image of an 8 foot tall, Bert Renolds looking motha standing up droppin’ his pants and having a bunch of gernedes types to his pubes sticks with you for some weird reason!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Clark-Cradic/533169744 Clark Cradic

    This shit is so over the top it becomes awesome! :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/ichriechst.sogut IchRiechst SoGut

    Goddamn, this is hilarious! Why haven’t I watched Anime Abandon before?!

  • http://profiles.google.com/supersqualllee squall lee rhodes

    Sage is a pretty funny dude, and this is the best Anime Abandon yet.

    Btw, some of the episodes of this show are on Youtube

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Clark-Cradic/533169744 Clark Cradic

    And the ending just made me “WTF?”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EAHJQLWDK2FA2HUMUXGP2RQ7B4 Alexander Alexander

    Holy shit those guys who beat up the sidekicky had Jatimatics. It’s like they wanted something bizzare on every possible level.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ICDHG7TLTN6JVK6JMK3TKQFXKQ Mike Wallace

    Ha ha! That was freakin’ awesome! Someone remake this with John DiMaggio as “Sleepy.”

  • Anonymous

    Holy Shit!  I LOVE American Gods!

    But seriously, I may not care much for Japanese Animation anymore, but that…was goddamn amazing to me on so many levels (by the way, I’m an escaped mental patient.  You know anyone *sane* who has a Mullet?)

    This show has a level of fucked up crazy that you usually only get when The Ultimate Warrior is around.  The Grenade Pubes alone had me sold!  And the “what you see as you die” moment had me laughing to hysterics. 

    It’s good to be crazy sometimes.  And this was a very fun view for me!  Very great work!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lysander-Darkholme-Price/100002252740861 Lysander Darkholme Price

    OMG WTF…wow…i’m officially convinced i have now seen it ALL LOL…8ft tall cop w/gernade pubes…i’ve seen everything…
    speaking of coffee, i need to go make mine…
    WTF HELL…wow…i’m seriously taken a back and utterly confused at this point because, wow…um, on to part 2 i guess LOL

  • Anonymous

    Grenades attached to pubes – now that is  fucking metal!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lysander-Darkholme-Price/100002252740861 Lysander Darkholme Price

    WTF…they fucking baked the cat :’( fucking awful
    i agree w/the judges, i call slut
    wow…ok we STILL haven’t gotten to the serious mind fuck…what more could there be??
    no really, gernade nads, faux marriage saves dying cop, um…coffee w/plastic explosives in them…decapitation by coffee table…jeeez, what more is there?? no really, i gotta know :P
    WTF green goblin? huh…
    that is one UGLY and creepy looking chief, ugh, what a voice :S
    gee thanks sage, i really needed a preview of my death rattle vision LOL
    MY PILLS, WHERE ARE MY PILLS…
    man slut :P well at least she didn’t leave him blue balled right?
    ok, they get married and try to commit double suicide…wow, can’t say i saw that one coming…
    well, NOW that i’ve been THOROUGHLY MIND RAPED…on w/the evening :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Samuel-Kitchen/100001774158395 Samuel Kitchen

    Mad Bull is what Bald Bull would have been if he had hair.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000604971554 Connor Jordan

    Only in Japanese America do you get a Space Marine Nun-Cop.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000604971554 Connor Jordan

    Correction- Only in Japanese America do you get a Space Marine Nun-Cop with GRENADE PUBES. For fucks sake that revolver does damage like a bolter

  • Anonymous

    Wow.
    Old Anime was awesome,
    nowadays it’s all moeblobs and fanservice.

    I gotta find a copy of this…..

  • Jorge Rafael Sánchez guzmán

    OMG! THIS WAS AWESOME!

    Granades attached to the pubes just to be prepared…CRAZY PREPARED!

    Now i Wonder, if the shots hadn’t hit his ass, they would have hit the pube granades and he would survived LOL

    And I Think that the predator shick actually shot Sleepy, is just that he is so badass that the bulet barley scratched him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michal-Puczynski/1762678166 Michał Puczyński

    That’s a GOOD review. Great work, Sage. Although I don’t undestand one thing.

    You show people get shot, decapitated, torn in half and disemboweled, and yet you can’t show boobs? How does that work? How come a boob or a sex scene is more offensive than a scene where dude’s head is split open?

    Are we mature enough to watch people get killed in the most horrible ways, but still too young and fragile to watch naked people? America’s moral system is seriously fu**ed up.

    • Anonymous

      Don’t forget that the cat scene was also uncensored.

    • http://twitter.com/86TheJehuty M.A Ajab

      Because most people are prudes , get used to it.

    • Anonymous

       It’s both blip.tv and youtube’s guidelines. Yes, it’s hypocritical.

    • Anonymous

      Every country has moral principles that seem backwards to outsiders.

      The Germans have no problem with nudity, but show a drop of blood or mention that Nazis once existed and they may have hung out in Germany at one point, and BOOM!

      The Japanese censor their porn and many sectors get all xenophobic when the Filipinos are involved.

      The Brits and French both still encounter difficulties showing multiracial couples (or anything that might even begin to challenge the mores of centuries of tired anglo-centrism).

      …and so on.

      One culture’s tea time conversation is another’s taboo. As a latin man of color myself, I’ll admit that there is much I find “fucked up” about the moral precepts and cultural quirks about Europe and Asia. The key is to have the humility to realize that one is speaking from their own cultural background, and to realize that what they value would be considered strange to others.

      Long story short: if you want to see screwed up morals….look in a mirror when you accuse others.

      • Jayden Reynolds

        There’s difficulties in Western Europe with interracial couples?

        …Damn. And I figured America was behind much of the world on racism. We’re pretty secure, in media, regarding interracial couples. I realize that America has odd values on sex and violence (personally, I’m very much a “let it all be seen” type, and let parents restrict what children can see), but it actually seems like we’re surprisingly progressive in this area.

      • Big_Woop

        Little late to say this, but that bit- about Brits having difficulties showing  multiracial couples? Uh, no. Not at all.

        • ftidus12

          Look at the media. Look at the nervousness in showing interracial couples in books, television, and film. I’m afraid the cultural zeitgeist in the UK (and the academic sources studying them) disagree with your claim.

          Here, allow me to cite my sources:

          Gender and International Migration in Europe by Rosemary Sales

          Racism in Europe: 1870-2000 by Neil MacMaster

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andre-Aberg/677507600 André Åberg

    hahaha! i watched some Mad bull 34 ! when i was a teen!

    http://www.youtube.com/user/denderfurger?feature=mhee

  • Anonymous

    I…Ithink I love this OVA! <3

  • Anonymous

    Well you have to admit though: this anime wasn’t just bad.

    It was so hilariously, low-quality, nonsensical, wacky and completely balls to the wall batshit insane bad that it helped define a new level of bad so that when aliens will find the ruins of our disgraced culture, this is what we’ll be remembered for.

    And that’s quite an achievement, let me tell you.

  • doresh

    Only real men attach grenades to their pubes.

    American censorship is weird: boobs are bad, but extreme violence is okay (even if said violence inlcude f*cking a girl before AND after chopping her head off, as two other reviewers demonstrated with their Serbian Film review). Here in Germany, it’s the other way around ^0^

    • Anonymous

      Japanese censorship is even stranger honestly… They censor their porn.

    • Jayden Reynolds

      Obviously the best way to go about it is no censorship at all, be it ultraviolence or boobs.

      • doresh

        Funnily, you can easily get uncensored stuff with ultraviolence and boobs. But an uncensored, English version of YGO and Pokemon? Unpossible!

        • Jayden Reynolds

          Because cartoons are for kids, right?

          Right?

          *sigh* They will never learn. By the way, I think Germany’s censorship laws regarding violence are pretty much just as much bullshit as our laws regarding boobs. Maybe it’s because nearly all video games are violent… either way, I view violent media as cathartic.

          • doresh

            You have no idea, man. I swear that the German dub of One Piece even surpassed the infamous 4Kids dub at one point (specifically the Enie’s Lobby arc). 4Kids at least modified the footage, wheras RTL2 just cut the footage to pieces. The less said about the “creative” dialogue changes to avoid anything even remotely similar to “death” or “killed”, the better oO

  • doresh

    Only real men attach grenades to their pubes.

    American censorship is weird: boobs are bad, but extreme violence is okay (even if said violence inlcude f*cking a girl before AND after chopping her head off, as two other reviewers demonstrated with their Serbian Film review). Here in Germany, it’s the other way around ^0^

  • Anonymous

    I really enjoyed that. I love OTT Anime, very funny.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyrone-Salters/100000536336295 Tyrone Salters

    The scary thing is according to Wikipedia (ya I know) the manga is still ongoing

    • http://twitter.com/86TheJehuty M.A Ajab

      Actually , it’s the sequel “Mad Bull 2000″ that’s still going , which started from 1999.

    • http://twitter.com/86TheJehuty M.A Ajab

      Actually , it’s the sequel “Mad Bull 2000″ that’s still going , which started from 1999.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000312873482 Amanda Belaire

    Wow. This is hilarious! I can see me watching this more than once, for sure!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gabriela-Mizerija/100000750048199 Gabriela Mizerija

    SUICIDE BOMBERS ON MOTORCYLES
    oh god xDDDDD
    also…. that sound in the end.. was that the sound of Taima sword from anime Mononoke? *_*

  • Anonymous

    MAYOR HAGGAR, WHY.

  • Jordyn Cheslock

    After watching your review Sage, I decided to look up the manga (the original run that was from the 80′s) hoping that the manga was more…restrained but, I was wrong. Dear God I was wrong. It’s just as batshit as the anime. I will never doubt what you’ve said about this anime, ever again. EVER.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Karolina-Chomicka/1505379654 Karolina Chomicka

      I was just about to do the same… xD It’s hard to believe it could be any worse than the anime 0__o Also it’s pretty damn long…

  • Jordyn Cheslock

    After watching your review Sage, I decided to look up the manga (the original run that was from the 80′s) hoping that the manga was more…restrained but, I was wrong. Dear God I was wrong. It’s just as batshit as the anime. I will never doubt what you’ve said about this anime, ever again. EVER.

  • http://shadowdancersworldo.blip.tv/ Shadowdancer21b

    So what you’re saying Bennett, is that, Through the Fire and the Flames he carries on?

  • http://twitter.com/86TheJehuty M.A Ajab

    I enjoy “Anime Abandon” , it’s really fun to watch.

    I think Sage is a pretty cool guy , he review Direct to Video Animes from the 80s and 90s and doesn’t afraid of anything. :P

    *Ahem* >_>

    The anime itelf looks so crazy , so intense , so batshit insanely bad , it’s enjoyable ! ^^

    and it looks like something you’d watch as a guilty pleasure.

    I can you imagine a B movie trailer to this anime with an awesome voiceover narration:

    “In a city that never sleeps , a city that feeds on the souls of the innocent , a city fueled by crime and corruption , one cop stands to fight crime…with extreme prejudice !

    SEE , OVER THE TOP EXTREME VIOLENCE !

    SEE , UGLY LOOKING POLICE CHIEFS WHO’S FACES MIGHT HAUNT YOU IN YOUR DEATH BED !

    SEE , HELPLESS BLOND WOMEN GETTING RAPED !

    SEE , CYBORG CRIME BOSSES WITH HEADS THAT CAN BE EASILY DECAPITATED WITH TABLES !

    SEE , 7 FOOT TALL CROSSDRESSING COPS !

    SEE , PUBE HAIR ATTACHED JOCKSTRAPS MADE OF GRENADES !

    SEE , ANNOYING SLUTY FEMALE NEWS REPORTERS !

    SEE , HEAVILY ARMED CHINESE ASSASSINS WITH HORRIBLE ACCENTS !

    SEE , SUICIDE BOMBERS ON MOTORCYCLES !!!1

    SEE , THE BASTARD CHILD OF PREDATOR AND GREEN GOBLIN KILLING COPS , AND FLIPPING OFF
    ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER ! and who’s probably might be Tom Servo in disguise.

    THIS SUMMER , MIKE HAGGER IS…MAD BULL !

    It’s police brutality…like you’ve never seen before !

    coming soon.

    • Anonymous

      nice this made me lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Isac-Nordborg/683040630 Isac Nordborg

    I’m guessing the next episode is Ghost in the Shell? I know that “Klirr” sound! Unless it’s a dirty trick that’s likely to be Ghost City featured in GitS. <3

  • Anonymous

    is it wrong that I think this Anime looks cool?

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=626233288 Phil Mason

      Personally, I think not. I want to see this, too. It looks AWESOME. Not “good” per se, but totally, totally AWESOME. Like, Demolition Man AWESOME.

  • http://www.saisasylum.com/ Sai

    I think something broke in my brain when you mentioned it was the same writer for Lone Wolf and Cub. 

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Karolina-Chomicka/1505379654 Karolina Chomicka

      God, it was the same for me. I had to pause and stare at the screen in pure horror for 30 seconds…

  • http://www.facebook.com/JcDent Martynas Klimas

    The Sage is one of the most blatant ads for the “You might be a zombie” Cracked book. And Cracked was pretty blatant about it.

  • http://idigcomics.tumblr.com/ Matt

    That “grenade jockstrap” bit is like something straight out of a No More Heroes game.

  • Anonymous

    well, looks like someone invested in the Bloody Mess perk

  • calbeck

    My brain…is still consuming…67% of bodily processing pow—power…

    …CROTCH GRENADES WHYYYYY

  • http://twitter.com/DoodTheMan Dante Alberti

    Shithouse, the shameful brother of Hagger.

  • http://twitter.com/nymphonomicon Doctor Madness

    This review reminded me why I love OAV so much… Thank you BtS, you are a true hero.

  • Kale Parton

    SUICIDE BOMBERS ON MOTORCYCLES!

  • http://twitter.com/Renerschach Rene Carbonell

    Sorry, an internet hiccup made me post twice, and there is no delete button.
    :-(

  • http://twitter.com/Renerschach Rene Carbonell

    This review was awesome! Hilarious and instructive at the same time.
    “This is the kind of lunacy that you can find scribbled on the walls of (Arkham) asylum” (paraphrased)… classic!
    :-D

  • Anonymous

    … What was with that sound at the very end? Fatal Frame? o.o What in
    the hell does Manga Entertainment have to do with the only series of
    survival horror games that actually manages to TOP Silent Hill?

    … For that matter, what on earth are the other two members of that
    Holy Trinity of crap you mentioned? I almost want to guess Garzey’s Wing
    is one of them, but I don’t know if that one has a connection to Manga
    Entertainment…

  • http://twitter.com/DocArroganto DrArroganto

    Haha that Takashi Miike line was too accurate :D

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