Oh Masami Obari, you dog you! As if Fatal Fury wasn't enough of a way for you to spread your masterful storytelling and character designs, you went and made Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer which is easily your most "bouncy" anime to date. Once again I applaud your work, Masami Obari. My life just wouldn't be the same without you.

Yes, Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer is yet another series brought to us by the same man who brought us such classics as Fatal Fury, Gravion, Virus Buster Serge, Samurai Shodown, and yes, even Battle Arena Toshinden. Needless to say, Gowcaizer managed to live up to the quality that all of its little friends reached and even managed to surpass them in some areas.

Most joking aside, Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer was absolutely terrible. Consisting of a whopping three OVA episodes that total nearly two hours, Gowcaizer will test your threshold of pain and make you cry. Details, you ask? Details you will get. Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer is about a bunch of students that have been granted powers by their principal. Their principal has become possessed by a... well, just read on.

Surprisingly, the animation and artwork are actually worse than what was in the movie Fatal Fury, despite the fact that this was created a couple of years later. As is the norm with Masami Obari's character designs, men feature tiny waists, gigantic chests, and really awkward-looking eyes. The women, on the other hand, have even tinier waists, enormous chests, and really, really generic voices. I probably would have enjoyed Gowcaizer more had I watched it blindfolded, but then I'm sure my ears would have bled in that case.

The dialogue in Gowcaizer is about as good as its story, which is to say that its awful. Unfortunately, I did not predict the outcome of the story correctly. I thought that there was going to be some overwhelmingly sappy love theme in the end, where the two main characters announce their love and defeat the last "boss". That would have been better than what was done in this, which made little sense at all. The final encounter that our heroes have is against Masami's favorite thing to fight against: a giant disembodied blob of energy. Luckily for our heroes, they have in their possession an energy source which comes from the blob of energy. By using one large amount of energy against the same exact energy, they manage to defeat it. Believe me, I'm trying to explain it as best as I can.

Numerous plot holes were opened up in the story, thanks in part to the terrible script that the characters sounded like they were forced to recite at gunpoint. However, that's not where the real problem lies in this anime. As I said earlier in this review, this is Masami Obari's "bounciest" anime to date. The creators seemed to go through an immense amount of work to make sure that every breast in every scene is as jiggly as possible. Camera shots start from under the female characters and zoom through their legs or right by their legs in the slowest speed possible. In fact, in one of the female character's death sequence, it shows a close-up of her breast as she dies... and it jiggles! Also, someone needs to explain to me the mechanics that created a robot that gets nosebleeds from watching a woman taking a shower.

I know a lot of times I say that there isn't enough character development in an anime, but in Gowcaizer there is MISPLACED character development. In one particular scene involving yet another gratuitously naked woman that's dying, the man holding her tries to revive her. Cue a flashback of him being a young boy playing a violin in front of an audience while narrating that he was some sort of child prodigy. On the other hand, none of the other characters even come close to receiving THAT much development. One wonders how these people received their powers in the first place (they all have a gem containing the energy from that big energy blob). Oh well, enough ranting. It's now time for me to take a long, long shower. I feel so... dirty.