Adventures of Kotetsu

Original Title: 小鉄の大冒険
Romanized: Kotetsu no Daibouken
Literal: Kotetsu's Great Adventure

Plot Synopsis

Linn Suzuki (aka Kotetsu), a young girl brought up by an immortal witch, has come to Tokyo searching for her brother, who last worked at the Kuon Detective Agency. She finds Miss Miho Kuon, just as she becomes the target of an assassination attempt by a member of a secret underground guild of sorcerers. She teams up with Miho and the sorcerer, Tetsuya Mikado (who changes his mind when he realizes how cute she is) to battle with Kagari, an angry dryad out to kill them all. If that plot sounds small to you, you're right.

Quick Review

Rating: 3 / 5
Reviewer: Arcane
Review Date: 2001-03-28

Based on a manga by the pseudonymous MEE, Adventures of Kotetsu is a supernatural action comedy directed by Yuji Moriyama, better known for his character design, animation, and screenplay work on Project A-ko. One of the first things you're sure to notice about Adventures of Kotetsu is the massive fan service content and general mature tone of things. That isn't to say that this is a mature story--the whole thing is a total laugh trip--but practically all the jokes are nosebleed humour. On the whole it's quite funny and rather entertaining, and while the visuals are uninspired, there's some cool scroll magic and reasonable swordplay. The two big negatives are that Linn's dubbed voice has the most godawful British accent, and it stops abruptly after only two episodes.

Adventures of Kotetsu, while not highbrow viewing or the best thing ever to come out of Japan, is funny and entertaining enough to leave me wanting more. Unfortunately, as my (anime-hating) father says: "That's all there is, there ain't no more." Damn.

US DVD Review

No DVD exists as of this writing.

Content Guide

Enough nudity and raunch to qualify for a 16-up.

Violence: 2 - A bit of blood, not gory.

Nudity: 3 - Excessive, fairly detailed, and not all female. Get the point.

Sex/Mature Themes: 3 - Raunchy as they come without being hentai. Funny, though.

Language: 1 - Very little.

Notes and Trivia

Based on a comic series of the same name by MEE, not currently available in English.

Kotetsu means "Little Iron," probably after a combination of her being tough and her diminutive size.

Availability

Formerly available in the US from AD Vision on subtitled or dubbed VHS.

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