Based on the longest running manga in history by Takao Saito (I'm sending Takao Saito my Golgo 13 anime cel to autograph btw).Previous to this there have been 2 Golgo 13 live action movies, and 2 animes- one released cinematically in Japan in 1983, and the other in 1998 on video.
Golgo 13 is the world top hitman- just needs one shot to kill someone- all sorts of people hire him- from priests to politicians, to CIA officials, to salarymen, etc. *You can imagine all sorts of stories that come out of that. Somehow the creator has managed to make this kinda plot last for 40 years of the manga's publication. Golgo 13 is so hard he barely moves or says anything, but also he is virtually untouchable. In the 1983 anime though, he gets damaged and bashed about quite a bit, but in the TV series he doesn't get so much as stratched, which, for the 1st 5 episodes so far, has been quite gay. We all know he'll never die, but just to shoot someone at the end and that's that is just really really boring. There's one episode called pretty woman, where this hot blonde hires Golgo to take out her oldman mafia tyrant boyfriend to free her, and dreams of being screwed by Golgo 13 after the job is done, and ends up getting shot herself when she pulls a gun out on Golgo 13 after he just walks away from the job without acknowledging her.
Most TV anime are pretty bad and TV friendly, there's few that are really great like DBZ or whatever, and since the 2000s, most TV anime has been stagnating crap. Specially since CG anime took place over cel animation- I'm not sure why that effects the story and overall quality of the animation but it just does. Golgo 13 is a very origional creation, that makes for brilliant story telling, but the TV series itself is just lacking substance or anything interesting. A reminde of how depressingly shiny and bland Computer animated anime is.
My rating 4.9/10
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